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Chapter 344: Crystal Glasses

After the decree, Fang Xie has to face an endless general meal, the generals of the left avant-garde, the officials of the Ping Shang Dao, take turns to fight, today in the drunken fairy building, tomorrow in the Yonghe Building, the famous restaurant in Yongzhou City, in just half a month, Fang Xie almost ate once.

The customs of the southwest region are similar to those of Jiangnan, but the flavors of the dishes are very different. Jianghuai cuisine pays attention to a light, and the elements of the phase are pure to pursue the realm of a dish like a landscape. The taste of southwest cuisine is very strong, and the taste is biased towards the words sweet and fragrant, which has some meaning of Sichuan cuisine in the previous life, so Fang Xie didn't feel awkward at all, but liked it very much. In the previous life, any small roadside restaurant could fry a few Sichuan dishes, and if it was authentic or not, it would not be wrong to put it aside, anyway, the name would not be wrong after all.

He had been socializing for half a month, and Fang Xie was afraid that his fat would come out, so he added half an hour to his cultivation time every morning.

Later, he really couldn't withstand the offensive of Jiuchi Roulin, so Fang Xie pushed all today's invitations on the grounds of physical discomfort, and planned to visit Yongzhou City with Shen Qian Fan and Mu Xiaoyi. Speaking of coming to Yongzhou for more than ten days, I really haven't taken a good look at this big city in the southwest.

Compared with the rules of Chang'an, the buildings in Yongzhou City are a little scattered. In Chang'an City, the workshops are built as neatly as knives cutting tofu blocks, but here everything seems to be very casual. Relatively speaking, Fang Xie prefers this kind of city that looks a little messy.

Chang'an City is so big, but if you don't look at the signboards of the shops on both sides of the road, it seems that you will always walk on the same street. There are mountains and rivers in Yongzhou City, and the officials still seem to retain the legacy of the Shang Kingdom, and they don't like to live in trouble, but live in the house at the foot of Yihe Mountain in Yongzhou City. In Chang'an, officials took pride in living near the Taiji Palace, while in the original Shang Kingdom, officials were proud to live far from the palace.

It seems that the latter seems to be a bit indifferent to fame and fortune, but in fact it is more luxurious and corrupt. Yihe Mountain is not big, and it should be regarded as a branch of Cangman Mountain according to reason. Yihe Mountain is actually two mountain bags, there is a low slope in the middle that is not a mountain beam, these two low mountains are more than ten miles apart, one is surrounded by the imperial city in the east of Yongzhou City. The other is in the south of the city, occupied by officials.

The officials of the Shang State were so corrupt that no one put their minds on government affairs at all, and a group of officials got together to recite poems for fun. Even when the dynasty was in power, it was often the emperor of the Shang State who sat on the dragon chair to make a pair, and the officials below who came out first were rewarded for the neat lower couplets.

A dynasty of hundreds of years has emphasized literature over military force to the point of shocking. When Nan Chen still existed, the Shang people still had blood in their bones. Several attacks by Chen's army were defeated by the Shang army, and at its most glorious time, the Shang army once counterattacked and invaded the territory of Chen's territory for 1,700 li, which was only 200 miles away from Laoyang City, the western capital of Chen's state.

It was also after that war that the civil officials felt that they could not revive the status of the generals so that they could overpower them in the imperial court, so they jointly concocted incriminating evidence, framing more than a dozen generals for trying to join forces to rebel, and the emperor of Shang was angry and killed those generals who returned with their military exploits. The civil officials clapped their hands and celebrated, praising the emperor as the first emperor of the ages. Since then, the literary style of the Shang State has become more superior, and the status of the military generals, which is not high, has plummeted.

This is also for what the Great Sui army will be so powerful when it attacks the Shang State. So much so that when Luo Yao, the general of the left avant-garde, arrived outside Yongzhou with 20,000 tired divisions, the hundreds of thousands of merchant troops guarding Yongzhou opened the door and surrendered without even fighting.

The defenders were more than 100,000, and the besieging side was only 20,000 or tired divisions, and the victorious side was actually the latter...... This has the most to do with the fact that the merchant army does not have soldiers. The Shang royal family did not trust the military generals and only trusted the civil officials, so the people who were in charge of the military power later were actually a group of bachelors who were the most proficient in reciting poetry.

It is not terrible for literati to lead soldiers, but it is terrible for literati who can only compose poems to lead soldiers.

It is precisely because of this corruption that the status of the literati is high, so they will enjoy it the most, and the buildings at the foot of another mountain in Yihe Mountain are all official residences. After Luo Yao guarded the southwest, he used some old officials of the Shang Kingdom, and none of these people's original things were confiscated. Later, some of the newly appointed civil officials were tempted to move to those vacant houses in Yiheshan, and Luo Yao didn't ask, and within a few years, this official mansion was full of people again.

The left-avant-garde people have always looked down on civilian officials and have only scoffed at such behavior.

Fang Xie and the three of them walked along the street and looked all the way, and the memories of the days when they took refuge in Nanyan couldn't help but come back to their minds. The customs of Nanyan are almost the same as those in Yongzhou, so it is inevitable that there is some familiarity in my heart.

"People here seem to have a laid-back temperament."

Mu Xiaoyin pointed to the people fishing by the river, and then to the people who gathered together to play chess under the big tree.

Fang Xie nodded: "It's only been more than 20 years since the Shang Dynasty was destroyed, and people's living habits haven't changed much. Luo Yao deliberately ignored those civil officials, creating an illusion that he respected literati, but in fact, this kind of captivity method is the easiest to wear down people's fighting spirit. At the beginning, the Shang State declined from a strong country, Luo Yao just maintained this trend, allowing the literati to only care about relaxation and enjoyment, so in the past twenty years, the first to admit that they are Sui people are those literati who have been preaching their integrity. ”

"Actually......"

Fang Xie said as he walked: "The most threatening to the country in all dynasties and dynasties was not the warriors, but the literati. Because literati are inflammatory and influential. ”

"In a village, there are 300 people, and if there is a martial artist and an old gentleman in the village, people will respect that old gentleman more. The warrior needs to kill more than three people to make these three hundred people afraid of him and listen to him, and he is not willing. And the old gentleman only needs one sentence to convince the villagers to obey. ”

Shen tilted his fan and said, "You mean, isn't Luo Yao very beautiful with both hands?" If they don't kill the literati and let them be pampered, these influential literati live well, so they will also preach a beautiful life, and the people will feel happy. Then Luo Yao created some incidents from time to time to kill a group of people to keep people afraid of him...... Good means. ”

"It's a good idea."

Fang Xie said lightly as he walked: "It is precisely because this method is so beautiful, so I don't believe that Luo Yao is loyal no matter what. This is no longer a general's mental trick, but a ...... Imperial Mind. ”

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When they were about to walk to the foot of Yihe Mountain in the south of the city, Fang Xie and the three of them ate something on the side of the road. After eating, I began to shop more leisurely, walking into the roadside shops from time to time, and after half an hour, Mu Xiaowaist and Shen Tianfan had a lot of things in their hands. Rouge gouache, jewelry jade.

Naturally, they couldn't hide Luo Yao's shopping, and it was estimated that it wouldn't be long before Luo Yao knew what they bought and ate.

Ju Bao Zhai is a shop specializing in antique treasures, which is said to have a history of 200 years. The city of Yongzhou changed hands after the country changed, and it did not let this store fall. With the stabilization of the southwest, Jubaozhai's business is getting better and better. Because of the integration of the north and the south, the sales of things that were originally difficult to circulate have become better.

Fang Xie The three of them walked into Jubaozhai and walked around the room casually.

The owner of Jubao Zhai is a man who looks to be in his fifties, with a goatee, and his eyes should not be very good, and he always squints when he looks at people. Fang Xie entered the door, and the clever young man immediately shouted that the distinguished guest had arrived. The boss then walked out from behind the counter, greeted him politely, and then ordered the young man to serve tea.

Tea is not just a casual person will serve, in the antique industry, you must have the eye to see things, and you must have the eye to see people. Although the boss's eyes are not very good, he has never seen things, and he has never looked at people.

"What do you want to see?"

He personally brought the tea and led them to the side of the hospitality.

The sandalwood tables and chairs, and the three-legged bronze incense burner on the table are also antiquities worth a lot of silver. Tea is also good tea, but it is not the flower tea that northerners are used to drinking. People in the north drink tea with a strong taste, while people in Jiangnan like to taste a faint aroma of tea.

Fang Xie picked up the teacup and sniffed it, praised the good tea and said with a smile: "There is nothing specific to buy, so I just walked around here casually, and if there is anything that catches my eye, I will accept it." ”

"And what do you have any special preferences?"

The boss asked with a smile.

"I'm from the north, but because I'm coming to Yongzhou, I haven't had time to find a workshop in the north to make something."

"Doing something?"

The shopkeeper shook his head: "I'm really sorry, our things here are genuine." ”

Fang Xie smiled and waved his hand: "No, it's not for you to cheat but to make a strange price, something that no one has ever done before." I received a few pieces of good crystals a while ago, can you find a craftsman with good craftsmanship to polish these crystals, I can write out the process and you can do it, and the price is negotiable. ”

"What are you going to do?"

The boss asked curiously.

Fang Xie gestured: "Glasses, you should know the clairvoyance, the things commonly used by the generals in the army, but they are all bought from the merchants of Eastern Chu." I'm going to do this with a clairvoyant, but with a little more detail. ”

Fang Xie said it in detail, and the boss frowned and pondered for a while and said: "The craftsman is not difficult to find, but the requirements you require are indeed fine, and it must be transparent to the point that it is as if there is nothing in front of you, this is a fine work, not something that can be done in a while." ”

"No hurry"

Fang Xie smiled: "I want to stay in Yongzhou for at least a month, if I can do it, I will ask someone to send the crystal over." ”

"Crystals are rare."

The boss had to re-examine Fang Xie a few times: "As far as I know, only the Fire Nation south of Mengyuan is produced, and it is said that Cangman Mountain also has but it is extremely rare, and these things are basically ...... in our Great Sui."

He stood up and saluted respectfully: "May I ask what your lord is called?" ”

Fang Xie was stunned, and said in his heart that this person was thoughtful.

"I'm here, from Chang'an."

Hearing these words, the boss's face changed, and he was about to salute but was stopped by Fang Jie: "Don't salute, I don't want to trouble too much...... In addition, there are other things to tell you. ”

As he said this, Fang Xie dipped his finger in the tea and wrote a Wu character on the table.

No one in Yongzhou City knew the road, and no one could have thought that Jubao Zhai had been bought by the goods all over the world many years ago, and now the people in Jubao Zhai are all Wu Yiyi's subordinates. The locals thought that the proprietor of Jubao Zhai was too old to go back to the old house in the countryside to recuperate, and handed over the business to the shopkeeper to take care of. In fact, as early as five or six years ago, the proprietor of Jubao Zhai was replaced by Sanjin Hou.

Seeing this Wu character boss's face changed slightly: "What do you command?" ”

"It's nothing."

Fang Xie smiled: "Explain your things as soon as possible, the reason why I am looking for you is that I know that there is no goods in the world, and I can't do things that can't be done." What's more, my every move in Yongzhou is being watched, and it is impossible for my people to enter and leave Yongzhou at will. ”

"But according to the orders of the lord, the proprietor sent someone to give an account a long time ago. When the adults arrive in Yongzhou, Jubao Zhai will obey his orders. ”