Chapter 322 Mourning
On the morning of the third year of junior high school, Yi Feng sat in the study all morning, and after New Year's Day, he had been invited to socialize, but he didn't want to cater to these boring social engagements. He was about to leave Beijing, and his roots were still in Youyan. However, during lunch, the two women Chen Wu and Xiao Sumei who brought to the capital were both depressed and unwilling to talk more. Yi Feng guessed that it was because he had been staying in the study all morning and forgot all the reasons for what he had promised them before.
A few days ago, Yi Feng promised Chen Wu and Xiao Sumei, and agreed to take Chen Wu to Beijing to pay homage to his aunt, Mrs. Xuanhua, Chen Huier, and also agreed to set up a family banquet at the Zhao Palace to invite the princesses who were now scattered in the palace and the mansions of various meritorious ministers. He also promised Xiao Sumei, saying that he would accompany her to pay homage to his aunt, Princess Jin, and to pay homage to the uncles and brothers of the Liang Dynasty, who were in Beijing. However, Yi Feng was too busy these days and forgot all of them.
"Ah, Your Majesty summoned me to the palace in the afternoon. I want to take you to the palace together. After I meet Your Majesty, I will accompany you to see Concubine Chen." In order to break the cold atmosphere, Yi Feng remedy, "After returning from the palace, I have to go to the King of Jin's Mansion. At that time, Mei Niang will accompany me and greet the King of Jin and Concubine Xiao. Well, I will take a day to go tomorrow, so I will simply ask the mansion to hold a lively banquet. Then call the relatives and friends from both sides of the Chen family and the Xiao family to come and have fun. What do you think?"
The expressions on Chen Hua and Xiao Sumei's faces became softer and she smiled. Yi Feng called Zhang Zhongjian. He had been staying in King Zhao's Benefactor during his stay in Beijing. He was invited by Yi Feng and temporarily held the position of Yi Feng's temporary housekeeper of the King Zhao's Mansion. Although Zhang Zhongjian had a beard and outstanding martial arts skills, he was also very skilled in handling many affairs of the King Zhao's Mansion, and he managed the King Zhao's Benefactor in an orderly manner. Yi Feng asked him
He agreed to arrange tomorrow's banquet matters at once. As the son of the richest man in Yangzhou, Zhang Zhongjian is good at literature and martial arts, and is more skilled in calculations. Now he is the chief manager of the Zhao Palace, not trying to take the opportunity to take advantage of the power of Zhao to find an official position. From Youzhou, he followed Yi Feng all the way to Daxing, Zhang Zhongjian had long been impressed by the young Zhao King. He had discussed with King Zhao's business of going to Tianzhu to sell Wuzigang. He had already discussed with him that he had already discussed the business of going to sea to trade Wuzigang in the Uzgang.
The detailed situation was written in the letter and sent it back to Yangzhou. His father quickly returned the letter, saying that it was feasible to go to Tianzhu to sell Uzigang and then process and build Damascus scimitar. His father also said that last year the court issued a new ban on building large ships, and to go to Tianzhu, there must be large ships. In this regard, King Zhao had to rely on King Zhao. Originally, the Zhang family also operated marine trade. The imperial edict of the court last year became a rope stuck on their necks. Although the Zhang family had some relationship with the King of Jin who was in charge of Yangzhou, they had not had a deep friendship. The Zhang family sent a lot of money to the King of Jin every year, but they did not receive much attention. This made Zhang Zhongjian's father feel uneasy and always wanted to find a more reliable backer. Now the King of Zhao is very favored by the emperor and is also the emperor's grandson, but he has such a relationship with his son, so Zhang's father was very happy. He asked his son to have a good relationship with King Zhao.
Whether it is possible to make money by trafficking in Wuzigang in Tianzhu, it is not important. What is important is that the Zhang family can continue to build sea ships and operate sea trade business. Zhang's father also mentioned two things in his letter, which made him be careful. First, he has now heard that King Zhao has become the chief supervisor of Youzhou. He is in charge of the northern part of Hebei and the land on the frontier. The east side of his jurisdiction is the sea. The Zhang family wants to divide their shipbuilding workshops into some craftsmen and build a new sea ship shipyard on the beach under King Zhao. Second, Zhang's father knows that King Zhao is in his hands.
Holding a very advanced sucrose refining technology, the Zhang family wanted to do the sugar sugar business with Zhao Wang. The Zhang family recruited people to build a sugarcane garden on the Ryukyu Island opposite Fujian. Plant sugarcane. After harvesting sugarcane, it was made into general sucrose and then provided it to Zhao Wang Huaihuang sugar to extract it into better frosted sugar and snow sugar rock sugar. Then they obtained a part of the share and sold it through the sea trade. This is a relatively huge plan. One must have money, two must have people, and three must have power. The Zhang family is not short of money, and the Zhang family is not short of people, and not too small.
The Zhang family lacks the powerful people who can cover them. Otherwise, no matter how big the business is, the government can take away everything from them with just one official document. The Zhang family also bought a small amount of snow sugar from Huaihuang. After transporting it overseas, the sales result was very gratifying. It is a very popular product. The only people in the Indians who can extract sugar so beautifully and beautifully are the most popular. However, the frosting sugar they extracted is not a little worse than the snow sugar and rock sugar they extracted.
Once the Huang sugar was transported overseas, it immediately became a favorite of the nobles and royal tycoons, and it was the favorite commodity of those vendors. The Zhang family's caravan manager reported to Zhang Zhongjian's father that if there was enough sugar to sell, the Zhang family's sea trade profit would be ten times that of today, or even more. The Zhang family wanted to make this business bigger and stronger, but one had to increase the sea boats and two had to have enough commodity. The Zhang family owned a shipbuilding workshop, but the only way to refine this sugar was Huaihuangyou, and Huaihuang's sugar workshop belonged to King Zhao.
Zhang's father was very business-minded. He did not simply think about how to get more sugar from Huaihuang, but thought of a win-win plan for cooperation. He found a way to build a larger sugarcane garden and master more upstream raw materials, so as to cooperate with King Zhao to extract more snow sugar. In this way, one controls the supply of raw materials and the other masters core technologies, and is inseparable from each other, so the business will last for a long time.
The Zhang family has begun to prepare for the plan to reclaim sugarcane gardens on Ryukyu Island, but they are still facing a problem now. That is, there are still many indigenous people on the Ryukyu Island. Although the Zhang family has many guards, they lack sufficient weapons. Therefore, Zhang's father hopes that his son can get support from King Zhao. The best result is that King Zhao agrees to the entire cooperation plan and sends an army to enter Ryukyu with the Zhang family's reclamation team to sweep away some indigenous people for them and allow them to build a reclamation plantation smoothly. It is best to help them build some trestles, train some armed guards for the Zhang family, and provide some weapons and armor.
The Zhang family's plan was indeed good. After hearing Zhang Zhongjian mention it, Yi Feng began to think carefully. But he did not reply to Zhang Zhongjian immediately. This was a very huge plan. Yi Feng could not only believe their one-sided words. He had to have his own investigation and then make a judgment. Therefore, he neither agreed nor refused. He just asked the Zhang family to provide him with more detailed plan content, and he needed more time to consider it. Although Zhang Zhongjian was anxious, he could only calm down and wait, while waiting while serving Yi Feng as the temporary housekeeper of the Zhao Wang Mansion.
After Zhang Zhongjian took the task of organizing a banquet tomorrow, he came to the front hall again.
"King, someone from the Duke of Qichun County came to report that Duke Xi has passed away!" Zhang Zhongjian said.
Yi Feng was stunned for a moment, but he didn't remember who Qichun County Duke was, and then remembered the word Da Xi, and finally thought of who it was. The Qichun County Duke was named Da Xi Changru, who is currently the chief general of Jingzhou. He is a famous general of this dynasty. When the Turkic invaded in the second year of Kaihuang, he led 2,000 subordinates to encounter more than 100,000 Turkic troops. Da Xi Changru's army was outnumbered. At that time, his subordinates were afraid, but Da Xi Changru was passionate and looked even more heroic. Da Xi's army was attacked by the Turkic army and beaten.
After scattering, they gathered and retreated. After three days of fighting, the arrows were gone, the swords were broken and the spear was broken. He still led his subordinates to fight bloody battles, fighting with the Turks, using fists as weapons, and using teeth to kill the enemy. Even the bones on his hands were exposed. They killed tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers. Finally, the Turkic people surrendered greatly and found that most of the reinforcements of the Sui Dynasty were coming, so they had no choice but to rescue them. Da Xi Changru suffered five traumas, including two of which were killed. His soldiers were killed in the tenth battle.
This battle was extremely fierce, but it brought about the indomitable and mighty force of the Sui army. After the war, Da Xi Changru was promoted to Shangzhu Kingdom, and his fallen subordinates were all posthumously awarded the official ranks of three levels. After that, Da Xi Changru had been in the northwest for a long time, and the Hu people changed their qualities when they heard about it, and they did not dare to approach it easily.
Wei Shikang, the chief general of Jingzhou, one of the four major general managers, passed away last year. The emperor specially ordered Da Xi Changru to succeed him. However, Da Xi Changru was seriously injured in the battle that year and had not healed for many years. After receiving the imperial edict, he fell ill in bed before he could take office. He had submitted several memorials, asking the emperor to remove him from his official position and selected another official to serve as chief general manager of Jingzhou. The emperor never agreed and sent many famous doctors to treat him, saying that he would take office after he recovered. On the day of the dynasty meeting, Yi Feng also saw the chief general manager and even talked with him in person. That day, he saw that he looked very good, but unexpectedly, he died in just a few days after the transfer.
Yi Feng sighed and said, "General Da Xi is young and has a strong moral character and is extremely brave. He has a strong strategy for joining the army. He is the president's army and brigade, and each has the merit of fighting against insults. He used to fight against 100,000 infantry soldiers. His army wiped out all the arrows and had courage. He always wanted to admire him infinitely. Unexpectedly, such a famous general left, which was a pity and a pain. He asked the flag guards to prepare their chariots and horses, and I went to pay my respects immediately."
When Yi Feng arrived at Xi's mansion, there were relatives and friends coming to mourn everywhere, and there were many people and the atmosphere was chaotic. Officials, nobles and followers from various prefectures also came and went. Although Da Xi Changru had never been in office, he died in office as the chief general of Jingzhou, and he was also the state of the state. Therefore, as soon as the death was reported to the palace, the emperor immediately ordered the Ministry of Rites to be responsible for handling the funeral. He also personally chose the word "Wei" for Da Xi Changru, and issued an order for his son Da Xi Hao to inherit the title of Duke of Qichun County and specially appointed Da Xi Hao as the pillar country.
Such a famous general died of illness, and basically all civil and military officials, generals and nobles in Beijing were present.
Da Xi's family is extremely mourning. (To be continued, please search Piao Tianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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