Chapter 262: Surprised and Inexplicable
Lu Zhe looked at the golden ribbon on the long case representing the county marquis and the golden seal of General Zhengnan, because there were so many things that had happened in this month, so many that it was dizzying.
The threat from the north has been lifted at this stage, although there is a legacy, but it is not harmful, now Lu Zhe should come to relieve the huge pressure that has been pressing on his heart, and think about how to plan next.
In fact, Lu Zhe has been recalling what has happened in the past nine months, what he missed and what he has done wrong.
This reflection and memory, Lu Zhe, who has matured a lot, really "tasted" a lot of tastes.
At the beginning, after suppressing the Yiling rebellion, what LΓΌ Zhe should have done was to immediately send people to Xianyang. When he fought with Baiyue to take control of Nanjun, what he should do was to send people to Xianyang.
If Lu Zhedu sent people to Xianyang at the two most critical points in time, then the next thing should be that Xianyang sent people to come.
According to the normal rules, send people to Xianyang, if Lu Zhe can do nothing and wait for Xianyang to react, then it is a great achievement to suppress the turmoil and restore the stability of Nanjun with his own strength, and when the time comes, the promotion to the rank and the rank of the lord will not be less at the stage when the first emperor controls the Qin State.
If the Qin State reacted quickly and sent a new commander or reinforcements, it might be possible to regain its rule over Nanjun? At that time, Lu Zhe could also listen to Xianyang's arrangement, but the people of the Six Nations would definitely riot again, and it was difficult to say who would lose and who would win.
People who travel through basically don't understand some doors, and the popular point is that they don't have too many scruples about doing things. One is that the thinking is not like the ancients, and there is no constraint; The second is that they are accustomed to doing their own thing, and they don't think too much about doing things.
At that time, LΓΌ Zhe did not send people to Xianyang in accordance with the procedures and rules, but immediately unified Nanjun and carried out a strong centralization of power in military and civil affairs.
It may be ridiculous to say, but Lu Zhe at that time didn't think about self-reliance at all. At that time, all I thought was fear, yes, I was afraid, I was afraid that Baiyue would invade again, and I was afraid that one would be accidentally killed by the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. At that time, he did not have so much prestige, and in an environment full of no sense of belonging or even resentment towards the Qin State, he would definitely not be able to live today without exercising autonomy.
Waiting for Lu Zhe to rely on a series of means to win over the natives of Haonan County to form a balance with the people of the Six Kingdoms, it was already two months after the Yiling turmoil. At that time, the whole South was in chaos, whether it was to survive or whatever, it could only go on according to the established facts.
It's too late to say anything now, the Qin State didn't react quickly, and Lu Zhe was incompetent and didn't go against the sky to rely on himself and the remnants of the school to suppress hundreds of thousands of people from the Six Kingdoms to create an environment of loyalty to the Qin State. It's really too late to say anything.
After sighing, Lu Zhe prepared to take his own soldiers to Zhao Wan's camp.
Of the 500 people from Xianyang, the Zhao family accounted for only 50 people, and they were originally followed with other people from Xianyang, and the battalion officers were given new orders to rearrange the place.
When Lu Zhe came, the group belonging to Zhao Mansion had just settled down, and he did not recklessly break into the camp belonging to Zhao Wan, but stopped and waited.
A steward who seemed to be a more high-status steward in the Zhao Mansion immediately informed Zhao Wan when he saw Lu Zhe coming.
Lu Zhe, who already knew some of the etiquette now, left some time for Zhao Wan to prepare again, after all, he was no longer the one who didn't understand anything. He waited a quarter of an hour before looking at the steward.
The steward really asked inside again, and when he was sure, he humbly asked Lu Zhe to enter the account.
Lu Zhe, who was very sorry for his life, did not enter alone, it was Yijia who took the two of them to "open the way", in fact, to determine the situation in the tent. Lu Zhecai walked in.
This tent is different from the military tent, and when you walk in, you will see the curtains, and these silk curtains are transparent, but they do not obstruct the view. To Lu Zhe's surprise, he had just walked out of the overlapping curtain area and saw four maids kneeling on the ground and no more than fourteen years old, holding wooden buckets, wet cloths, dry cloths, and hand towels.
They crawled over when Lu Zhe approached. After stopping and bowing together, someone helped Lu Zhe take off his boots, carefully put his feet into the wooden barrel with a damp cloth and wash them, and then wiped them with a dry cloth. The problem of his feet was solved, and Lu Zhe's face was covered with a wet cloth for a short while, and he could smell a kind of incense on the wet cloth, but he couldn't smell what kind of incense it was. Finally, a maidservant carefully wiped her armor with the handkerchief. A set of procedures looks extremely formal at first glance, probably this is the procedure of the scout of the aristocracy?
In fact, commoners also have similar etiquette, the wife will prepare warm water, dry cloth, and wet cloth when her husband comes home, the water is for the wife to soak her husband's feet, the wet cloth is applied to the face to remove fatigue but there is no incense, and the dry cloth is naturally to wipe the feet.
Lu Zhe had never enjoyed similar treatment, neither before nor now, and he was slightly surprised by this set.
The four maidservants retired after their work, and the steward was ready to sit in the garden and drink tea, and he respectfully invited Lu Zhe to sit down in the position of the lord and ask for tea diligently.
Lu Zhe, who was sitting on his knees, carefully checked the situation around him, and the furnishings in the tent were very simple, and the cabinets and other things were basically in the corners of the tent, making the space in the tent look very large. He saw an incense burner on each of the four corners of the wooden cabinet, and the four maidservants were constantly fanning it with fans, and there was a smell of sandalwood in the air.
Just as Lu Zhe was observing the tent, the curtain of the inner tent was opened, and he turned his head to see two maids in white dresses walking in front, followed by Zhao Wan in red dresses.
Zhao Wan, who is wearing a long skirt similar to a pleated dress, looks very dignified, she has been holding down her lower abdomen with her hands when she walks, her long hair is coiled into a waterfall shape, and there is a step shake on her head in addition to the hosta, you can clearly see that both hands and wrists are each wearing two gold bracelets with jade, the slightly low cheeks show a pointed chin, under the neck is a sleek pearl necklace, and the jade belt around the waist makes the waist appear slender, because the swing hangs down two jade pendants that obviously suppress the skirt, When I walked around, I didn't know that the jade that had folded several layers collided with each other, making a crisp jade sound.
Whether it was in Yangzhou, or went to Xianyang, Ang or became the lord of the three counties, Lu Zhe's living environment has never seen a girl in costume, and Zhao Wan, who looked at the "jingling" sound and stepped on small steps, was a little stunned.
When Zhao Wan came to the front of Lu Zhe, she made a squatting salute, greeted "Lu Hou" softly, and kept squatting salute.
This is the first time in Lu Zhe's life that he has experienced such a simple and formal occasion, and his eyes have not been taken away since Zhao Wan appeared. It's not the first time he's seen Zhao Wan, he had seen it in a hurry when he was making tea with Zhao Gao in Zhao's mansion, Zhao Wan was dressed simply and plainly at that time, and now Zhao Wan is dressed up, but ...... The powder on that face and a little bright red on the lips are really awkward to look at.
"No need to be polite, sit." Lu Zhe retracted his mind and watched Zhao Wan salute again, and the two maids next to him held the corner of the skirt on one side and helped Zhao Wan to sit down slowly.
Zhao Wan herself has delicate facial features, and she was originally a beauty, but the makeup of that geisha really made Lu Zhe very disgusted, so she subconsciously frowned and was seen by Zhao Wan.
"Lu Hou, don't you like Wan'er?" The voice was a little soft, but Zhao Wan was bold, and when she saw Lu Zhe frowning, she asked directly.
"It's not the first time Zhe has seen a girl," Lu Zhe found that Zhao Wan was calm, so what else did he have to hide: "I prefer to see you look without makeup." β
Zhao Wan was stunned, her makeup was only made by a noblewoman, and it was a particularly grand dress. Seeing her future husband as a noble girl is the makeup that a wife should have, but she began to prepare carefully as soon as she was stationed in the camp, but she didn't expect to get such a sentence in exchange.
With the thick rouge and the red lips on the spot, Lu Zhe really couldn't see what Zhao Wan's expression was, but he saw Zhao Wan lower his head again, in order not to make the atmosphere embarrassing, he explained: "When Zhe first saw the girl, he was very impressed, and he already admired her. To be able to be husband and wife with the girl, Zhe is naturally very happy, and please don't think about it. β
Zhao Wan seemed to feel relieved? In fact, she was not too happy after knowing that she would be married to Lu Zhe, after all, she didn't even know who Lu Zhe was before that. Later, she knew who Lu Zhe was from all aspects, and she was not curious that a figure who was originally a military marquis could own the land of three counties in less than a year.
From the perspective of a little woman, she doesn't know what politics is, she only thinks that such a man is a strange man, Zhao Wan's original resistance is gone, and she even has a little expectation. After all, they are all about getting married, and marrying a man who can start from scratch and have a business in a short period of time is a good choice?
In this year, a woman does not have much choice for her husband, and after her parents make a marriage contract, unless there is a big change, it is destined to be fulfilled.
After the Qin State sent troops south, Zhao Wan thought that the marriage contract was dissolved, but she was disappointed for a while, but she didn't expect that the marriage contract had not been contacted. Although she didn't know what her father's considerations were, she also understood that this matter would not be simple, and later Zhao Gao explained the reason to Zhao Wan, but it was too complicated to say in a few words.
"Is the government order okay in Xianyang?" Lu Zhe was speechless.
Zhao Wan leaned over and saluted: "Father is fine." After a short silence, she asked the maid to bring a vegetable oil and a basin of water, "Since the husband doesn't like this makeup, Wan'er will remove it." β
"......" Lu Zhe was stunned by the title, and the feeling in his heart was as strange as it was.
Zhao Wan asked the maid to wash her face with vegetable oil first, and then wash her face with warm water in front of Lu Zhe, and after a series of things, she quickly cleaned the rouge. After she recovered her makeup, she looked up and found that Lu Zhe was looking at her directly, and smiled very naturally.
ββ¦β¦ Is this called demure and generous? Lu Zhe had to admit that this was the most unpretentious and natural woman he had ever seen. (To be continued......)