It's autumn again in the rainy season every year, and the autumn rain is shrouded in humid air, and most people can only stay at home at this time, and only a few people will work outdoors in clothes and hats.

Affected by the rainy season, the flow of people in the North Market of Nanling has decreased, the streets are no longer crowded, and most of the shops have opened door-to-door delivery services for the sake of business.

"No, these are for the Gongfu, those are for the Xiao Mansion, and the other ones are also wrapped," the bare-chested Fan Xu kept instructing the guys, and finally pointed to a basket of meat: "Wait and take it to Brother Liu's mansion." ”

The meat is dog meat, and Fan Xu is that Fan Xu.

After the end of the battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang led the people to surrender, although he himself did not mix with a half-official position but also became a third-class baron, some of his subordinates continued to stay in the army, Fan Hao and a few people were separated from the establishment, some people who broke away from the establishment returned to their hometowns, and some were followed by Liu Bang.

Those who chose to stay by Liu Bang's side basically became retainers, Fan Xu was one of Liu Bang's retainers, and his current status was one of the elders of Liu Mansion.

Fan Xu also had his own business while serving as the elder of Liu Bang's family, he resumed his old business in Pei County, and restarted the business of slaughtering dogs and selling meat.

In the pre-Qin era of ancient times, dog meat was actually one of the main meats in society, after all, pig raising began to prevail from Yang Sui and Li Tang, and pigs were not raised on a large scale before that, and pork was actually rejected as an unhealthy meat.

"Pull the car over."

"Great!"

The car is a carriage, the horse is a horse, Fan Xu's dog meat shop has four or two carriages, his shop is also one of the largest dog meat shops in Nanling City, there is a large dog village in the suburbs outside the city, enough to be slaughtered in the village outside the city. The entrails were cleaned before being transported into the city.

Now no one will jump out and say that you can't slaughter dogs or anything like that, and there are no dog lovers, whether it is the ancient pre-Qin era or the two Han Dynasty after that, people have dogs.

The breeding speed of dogs is not slow, and it is not too difficult to raise, the low cost of raising is the main trend, and then dog meat is generally considered to be a big tonic meat, so compared to other chickens, ducks, geese and other meats, people with a little condition will basically take dog meat as the most selected meat on the table, and then it will be chicken, duck, goose and other meat.

Meat shouldn't be so little. After all, the forests and mountains were not destroyed in ancient times, so the meat of wild boars, deer and other animals should also be meat on people's tables? If this is the way it is understood, it is absolutely wrong.

The meat of wild animals is one of the optional meats of people, but the number of wild animals in the mountains and forests is not the same thing, especially around the city there are not so many wild animals imagined, basically the more prosperous the area, the less wild animals, only some non-prosperous areas will have so many wild animals.

Game meat is of course one of the meats of choice, but don't forget that there is no good way to preserve it now, and hunters can go into the mountains and forests to hunt. But they don't always sell their prey before the meat goes bad. If the prey is not sold before the meat spoils, it can only be discarded, so the hunter sells most not the meat of the captured animals, but the fur of the animals.

Before there is a good means of preservation. Wild meat will never become the main meat on the table, and only a very small number of dignitaries will realize the requirement to catch live wild animals, but that often means that the difficulty of hunting and even casualties in the hunting process is very costly.

As the first animal to be tamed by humans. Dogs are domestic livestock, and the species in the land of China is a canine family called the Chinese pastoral dog...... That is, the earth dog, and other canines have not yet been introduced to China. Therefore, there are absolutely no small dogs such as shepherd dogs and Pekingese, and dogs are not regarded as a kind of pets except for guarding the yard and using them to slaughter and eat meat.

When it comes to pets, if there is no changed history, cats were actually introduced to China at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and cats were not regarded as domestic cats, only some bobcats and leopard cats, these two types of cats are also very ferocious felines. However, because history was changed beyond recognition by Lu Zhe, and the Chinese ethnic group had contact with Parthia at least 200 years earlier, the tamed cat was given to the imperial royal family as a gift through the Parthian envoys who came to Nanling.

There are more than one kind of cats sent by Parthia and Bactria in Central Asia, there are the most traditional Persian cats, which are pet cats in the true sense of the word, and there are desert cats from India, which are given as a national gift.

There were seven pairs of Persian cats sent by the Parthian Empire, and all of them were given by Lu Zhe to the women of his harem. The Persian cat is a long-haired cat, with a very cute face, and an elegant factor in its movements, which is very popular with women. They have been in China for half a year, and their numbers have increased after repeated littering.

The cats that were born were given to the daughters of some officials by the women of Lu Zhe, because of the scarcity of the number of people who have Persian cats in the family, and because they are flowing out of the palace, the families with Persian cats in the family definitely have the conditions to be soothing, and the families with Persian cats are also regarded as close to the royal family...... At least it was close to the princesses, and for a time the family with Persian cats as pets became the object of envy.

Desert cats are not really pets anymore. The desert cat from India does not have a simple head, let alone a gorgeous long hair, and although it walks with the grace of a feline, its movements actually look a little fierce.

That's right, the desert cat is not an animal for fun, it has a slender body and a fierce nature, whether it is to treat the owner or feel that the creature is threatening, it will attack at the first time, especially for rats with a natural predation**, so it can only be regarded as a beneficial rat trap.

The Persian cat that can be used as a pet has become the favorite pet of the noble ladies, and the market is a gorgeously dressed woman holding a Persian cat to show off on various important occasions or parties, and the desert cat is not a woman who will find guilt in her arms because of its nature, so those concubines of Lu Zhe will not be stupid to give the desert cat to the noblewomen as a gift.

The unfavored desert cat was basically raised in Miyagi as a "mousetrap", and then Ji Bu, who returned to Nanling, found the fierce nature of the desert cat to beg, with Ji Bu as the first person to "eat crabs", the ladies loved to hold the Persian cat and show off their honesty, and Ji Bu came to a man's show.

The desert cat is definitely not an animal that can settle down, what kind of trick is it for Jibu to hold the desert cat? It is often a desert cat that does not like to be held for a long time. Then there was a burst of cat hysterical roaring, paws were also scratching, and the mouth with sharp tiger teeth was biting, in the face of this situation, Ji Bu was calmly pulling the desert cat, and it looked a little weird Ji Bu was triumphant, and even thought that this could show the identity of the general.

I don't know what kind of thinking it is. Because of the cat's claws and sharp mouth, Ji Bu specially ordered someone to make a cuirass and arm armor, wearing something like that and holding a desert cat that has been struggling.

With Jibu as a start. To the back of the people who think they are qualified enough, they will find an opportunity to ask Lu Zhe to ask for a desert cat, at first Lu Zhe didn't think much about it, the desert cats that have been bred again and again are indeed a bit too many in Miyagi, and then the maids in Miyagi don't know how much they hate the extremely destructive desert cats, and even hate desert cats more than rats, all because desert cats like to grind their claws very much, and they don't know how many wooden pillars and door frames they have scratched, and some people will ask for it.

In fact, it's not just desert cats that scratch at things like pillars and door frames that sharpen their claws. Persian cats also love to do this very much, the difference is that Persian cats look cute, and desert cats have no capital to sell cuteness at all, so a resulting destruction is considered cute. The other is hated.

The "cat plague" brought by Parthia and Bactria caused countless pillars, door frames and other things to be completely unlucky, but countless people ignored the troubles caused by the two types of cats, and only saw that scarcity is expensive. And because it flows out of Miyagi, it is regarded as a kind of glory - this is a human being.

"Go and lock up those dogs again."

"Okay."

Fan Hao didn't take the live dog to take it to Liu Bang to slaughter and eat. In addition to a few live dogs, Fan Xu will also go to the chicken shop before going to Liu's Mansion. The chicken shop is not a chicken shop, and he didn't go to the chicken shop for the meat. It is to hand-select the cockfight for a kind of entertainment.

When Liu Bang was in Zhongyangli, Pei County, he was a person who did not do his job, and his favorite thing was cockfighting and lackeys in addition to being idle.

Cockfighting, of course, is to enclose a space for two fierce fighting cocks to fight.

A lackey is not a curse, it is a kind of gambling in which dogs are numbered, dogs are raced, and people choose a dog to bet on, win or lose the bet.

Liu Bang recently had a new idea and is trying to put it into practice. Gathered with him were the big clan from Changsha County and the Shu clan from Jiujiang County.

The Yong clan was one of the families that had a relatively high level of mastery of war elephant training in the imperial official system so far, and they were the Tu Overlords in the south of Changsha County before they were subsumed under Lu Zhe's rule, and they were related to Min Yue and Gui Yue among the Hundred Yue.

The Han army carried out hunting and arresting Baiyue at a large level, and the Yong clan played the role of executioner and "savior" in it. The so-called executioner is naturally to act as a leading party or lure some Baiyue people into the ambush circle to kill or capture, and the savior is a little difficult to explain, in fact, it is Yong Benliao who selectively let some related Baiyue relatives "set things right" or something.

The Shu clan of Jiujiang County came from the big clan of Shu County, and they were the first clan to take refuge in Lü Zhe's attack on Jiujiang County, and they made some efforts in the Battle of Jiujiang, and then made the right bets when Lü Zhe and the Xiang clan competed.

The Shu clan had a precondition for Lü Zhe's surrender, and asked Lü Zhe to entrust the management of Jiujiang County to the Shu clan, and Lü Zhe did give the autonomy of Jiujiang County to the Shu clan in accordance with the prior agreement.

The Shu clan was only in power for four years in Jiujiang County, and then it was not Lu Zhe who settled accounts after the autumn to let the Shu clan hand over power, in fact, Lu Zhe occupied the Yangtze River basin and the south already had the capital to dominate, and the back showed the atmosphere of dominating the world, there are many smart people in the Shu clan, they controlled Jiujiang County before they did not see that Lu Zhe had the hope of dominating the world, and mastering Jiujiang County may be to accumulate strength to participate in the competition, and the situation in the world is clear behind it, so naturally he can't do that.

When Fan Hao arrived, he saw Liu Bangzheng talking to Ning Benliao and Shu Dao while beckoning a group of servants to drive the two desert cats into a fight.

And it seems that whether it is the tabby cat or the black cat, they don't give Liu Bang much face, let alone waving their claws and biting each other, they even sniffed after getting close to each other, and then it turned out to be the tabby cat licking the black cat!

"Isn't that right?" Liu Bang's face was weird, and his right hand kept touching his chin: "They are so fierce, shouldn't they attack each other after getting close to each other?" Isn't it two cats, one male and one female! ”

Li Feng used to be Liu Bang's adviser, and now he is Liu Bang's bookkeeper, and when he heard Liu Bang's question, he replied with a smile: "I have specially checked it, it is a male and a female." ”

Fighting cats? Liu Bang's idea is very genius, and what people can't think of, what he wants is novelty and rarity.

The two cats in the field were actually not owned by Liu Bang, the cats were brought over by Ben Liao and Shu Dao, and Liu Bang spent a lot of saliva in order to persuade the two.

"I've tried, it's time to get down to business, right?" He looked rough and his voice was hoarse: "King Wei chose the south as a fief, and he will lead the army to set off in half a year." The south side is full of mountains and forests, not to mention 30,000 troops and 110,000 paramilitaries, one or two hundred thousand heavily armed soldiers can gain a firm foothold there, and open up a large territory. ”

It is talking about the division of the empire that has been widely concerned recently, and the division is divided into inner and outer seals, and there is nothing to say about the inner seal, but the outer seal has received the most attention.

Wei Gui and Qin Wang Fusu are the two feudal kings in the outer feudals, they will drag their families and mouths as the feudal kings of the empire to go out to "start a family" by themselves, Wei Zhi chose to go to the south, but Fusu chose to go to the northwest.

The south chosen by Wei Ji was actually on the Thai side in the later generations, and it was obviously after detailed consideration that they would choose that side, and only they knew what the consideration was.

Fusu also had their own considerations for choosing the northwest side, but because the Imperial army regarded too many known areas as their own territory, they could only wait if they wanted to develop in the northwest direction.

Lu Zhe had already said a long time ago, not only the old royal family could choose to go out to establish their own feudal state, but the nobles were also qualified to go out.

No matter how low Liu Bang's title is, he is also a nobleman, and he is obviously qualified to go out to "fight the country", it is not a matter of a day or two for Ning Benliao and Shu Dao to discuss with Liu Bang, and as Lu Zhe's agreement a long time ago is about to be actually implemented, it is time for them to make up their minds. (To be continued......)