Chapter 146: Snow in the City(1/2)
"The emperor has already been convinced, and the powerful ministers are not convinced. It is also necessary to knock and remind them." Qi Xuan looked at her son's iron-blooded face. Thinking of the teachings she taught him back then, she suddenly felt that her son was better than her. He became proud, but after all, he was a little worried and said, "But this knock should be taken care of."
Qi Zhuji nodded, "These people cannot control the army, no matter how they do, they are useless. If they don't know the truth, they will naturally suffer."
Qi Xuan couldn't help laughing at himself when she thought that even the prince died in the royal palace of the bad rice prince and even the emperor was forced to imprison himself in the quiet courtyard of Huxin.
It seems that I am indeed old.
Lin Yi, Qi Zhuji... These young people will not be dragged on their behavior at all. If they want to do it, they will definitely do it thoroughly.
"Then there is no place to ask me to help except to rest and not interfere in these things so as not to cause trouble?"
He looked at Qi Zhuji who was starting to eat, and a look of love appeared in his eyes, "Father and son soldier on the battlefield, after all, I am your father, after all, I am a prince, I just let me rest and not let me help you with some effort?"
"Can't you be idle?"
Qi Zhuji laughed, but then became serious again, saying, "You seem to have a good relationship with the people who stayed in the South Heavenly Courtyard. Why don't you try to vent their anger this time so that they won't get involved."
Qi Xuan frowned slightly and said seriously: "Okay, those people are considered emperors at least. Since the emperor is imprisoned in the Qingjingyuan in Huxin, if these old people from the Nantianyuan were killed by you, it would be bad to spread their reputation. They are suspected of taking the opportunity to eliminate the emperor's confidants. Although the emperor is imprisoned, he will be orthodox in one day."
Qi Zhuji hesitated for a moment and said seriously: "If you can, take this opportunity and if you can borrow a view of the collection of books in the Nantianyuan, that is the best."
If it is someone else, he is not easy to say it clearly, but naturally he has nothing to hide from his father. "Although the Demon Sect went to the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is just like he fled from the Southern Dynasty to the Northern Wei Dynasty before. If it appears again, it will be a complete transformation. Lin Yi practiced special skills and he has the opportunity to compete with the Demon Sect. However, he has encountered some obstacles in his practice recently. He wants to borrow as many relevant practice books as possible. We can find people to be able to reconcile the rest of the practice areas and academies, and give some benefits to exchange, and can second the collection of books. However, the remaining people in the South Heaven Academy were originally the emperor's lineage, and they are hostile to us and the Chen family, but it is difficult to deal with."
"They are not stupid either. They probably know in their hearts that the Demon Sect is a real enemy of the Southern Dynasties. If the Demon Sect is not eliminated, the Southern Dynasties will not be safe. They just ask them to bow their heads openly, but it is impossible." Qi Xuan nodded, "Don't worry, I will find a way to do this. If it really doesn't work, I will let people around the emperor do this."
Qi Zhuji looked at him seriously and suddenly felt mixed feelings in his heart, but a complicated smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he deliberately said: "It's true... You are up and down in the Jiankang dynasty, and you have so many connections. It would be strange if you can't even handle such a small matter."
"You little bastard." Qi Xuan laughed, "I dare to make fun of me."
"I may not live at home these days. I am acting in secret. If I show up in public, it will cause some trouble to my father." Qi Zhuji lowered his head and started eating again, and whispered intermittently: "But I should come back every few days."
"There's no hurry." Qi Xuan waved her hand, but suddenly thought of something and said seriously: "In fact, when it comes to the collection of books, in addition to the old bookstore of Qiyun College, the collection of Nantian College, and those famous practice areas and colleges, there are actually many places with a lot of books, some of which are even far more than those famous practice areas."
Qi Zhuji was slightly stunned.
Qi Xuan didn't even play the puzzle, and directly stretched out her finger and pointed at one point.
Qi Zhuji followed his fingers and immediately reacted.
"You mean these Buddhist temples?"
The place where Qi Xuan pointed his fingers happened to be two pagodas in a temple not far away.
"The Buddha Sect likes to collect books the most."
Qi Xuan looked at Qi Zhuji and said, "You don't know that you have no contact with these people... In fact, in addition to constantly custodying and collecting various Buddhist scriptures, they don't like gold, silver, jewelry, and various classics, even calligraphy, paintings, and poetry books."
Speaking of this, he felt it interesting and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "No, when the relic tower was completed, the number of scriptures and books and books that were worshipped and sealed in the relic tower was really beyond my imagination."
Qi Zhuji frowned deeply and said, "So before, we were like Lin Yi, and didn't like these Buddhist temples very much. We always felt that these monks consumed a lot and dragged down the Southern Dynasty. However, since the collection of books in these temples is also amazing, can we find a way to borrow their collection?"
"If the emperor opened a golden mouth, most of these temples would be willing to offer a collection of books. But it would be difficult for the emperor to speak now." Qi Xuan smiled, looked at her already-made son with a deep sense of meaning, and then said: "There are so many temples, so open some gaps first. You should know how to go with the flow. Since you come back, you will immediately hit those people. When you hit them, let them do some effort?"
Qi Zhuji thought for a while and said, "Good idea."
...
The new Situ Jiji sat in a carriage and passed by the old bell tower in Jiankang City.
There is an alley on the left of the old bell tower, all of which are gambling shops, and alleys on the right of the old bell tower are antique shops and pawn shops.
Money in a gambling house is easy to come and go. People who lose big and big will be eager to take away valuable things from themselves. If they are eager to be good, the price will be cheap and pawn shops will make a lot of profits. People who win big and big and big will always sell money at will, and these people will easily buy expensive and unpractical things, such as antiques.
After a while, those who are unlucky or who are lucky and have no control will easily lose and end up resisting their lives.
So there are many people in these two alleys who are red-eyed and willing to work hard.
These people are often as weak as wild dogs.
But since such a business exists, those businessmen will naturally take on more businesses, which are willing to pay a lot of money, but are more difficult to run.
When the new Situ Jijiu's carriage passed by the old bell tower and passed by the entrance of the alley on the right, there was an antique shop in the alley and someone opened the curtain and walked out.
This is a young old man wearing a fur coat and an ordinary appearance.
The old man slowly walked through a narrow alley and circled around for a few times, but happened to meet the carriage at the next intersection.
The old man rubbed his hands and let out a breath of white breath.
Situ Jijiu in the carriage narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Don't use people in the court, it's better to use practitioners outside, but you must be strong enough."
The old man raised his collar and felt a little cold. He didn't say a word of nonsense, but just said, "I understand."
This time it is destined to be a loss-making business, but to do big business in Jiankang City, you must be cared for by big people, especially this kind of life transaction, which is even more impossible to hide in the dark and be fine.
The most outstanding businessman like him naturally knew very well that even those practitioners who took the job before were worshipped by those big men. Some people were originally unaware of the rules and should not exist in Jiankang. Some practitioners killed people, but they were just like doing odd jobs, earning more of their needs for practice.
Although the person who came forward this time was already a member of the third rank of the court, he knew very well that this member of the third rank was just a leader who was behind the scenes.
If you can't do this business well, it's not a question of whether you lose money or not. If you spend so many years of savings, it's still a matter of whether you can save the head.
Jiankang is the center of the entire Southern Dynasty, and in the past many years, everything in the south was better than the north. Even if it was equally rich, there would always be a better place for money in the south and more interesting enjoyment. Therefore, many foreigners will always come to Jiankang, some of whom even came from the Northern Wei Dynasty and from those unknown border areas.
There are always some people who have some skills but are not appreciated.
Some people have the opportunity, but they messed up themselves and provoked some noble people, so they never have the chance to climb up again.
These people have them in every city of the Southern Dynasties, not many, but there are many such people in the whole world, and many cities add up.
To find what is suitable for it, what is available is the ability of the businessman.
...
"It should snow some days."
A foreigner was sitting in a shop in Jiankang City, looking at the tiles of the streets and alleys outside with emotion, looking at the sky outside, and couldn't help but say.
There were six or seven diners in this noodle shop except him, but no one answered his words.
The two guys in the noodle shop listened to the accent of the foreigner, but they didn't even have the interest to please them.
The accent of this foreigner seems to be from Xinhui County. Xinhui County is the southernmost border of the Southern Dynasty, near the sea. It is not that the shopkeepers in Jiankang City are well-informed and able to distinguish the accents of various places, but the accents of Xinhui County are very unique, and it seems that the pronunciation of each character is like "di" or "hard".
People in the Southern Dynasty all called themselves southerners, but people in the Jiankang area always liked to call these southernmost counties the Southerners.
In their opinion, these people are good at doing business, but they are all good at doing small businesses. When they come to Jiankang, they poach like an ant moving, and constantly stealing the money they should have made back.
The most hateful thing is that even if it is expense, these southernmost people always like to spend the money they earn without leaving it in Jiankang.
Of course, these southernmost people who make money are hateful, but those who cannot make money are naturally more despised by them.
Many people in Jiankang City like to eat noodles in the morning. Even many wealthy families like to eat noodles in the noodle shop, and even cover a few more toppings. When you are in a good mood, you have to drink some wine.
But after the morning when I was eating noodles, it was almost noon and I went to the noodle restaurant to eat noodles, which was a big deal.
At this time, the bowl of noodles is not enjoyable for the people in Jiankang City, but only the function of filling the stomach.
If you only order a bowl of clear soup noodles and eat some pickled vegetables, then in the eyes of the diners and shops in these noodle shops, you will naturally be a useless man who has not accumulated much money by the end of the year.
The clothes of this foreigner were worn and thin. In such a cold weather, it looked uncomfortable. Moreover, in addition to the obvious southernmost accent, this person's accent was also mixed with Jiankang's accent. In their opinion, it was really a rough man who wanted to pretend to be elegant.
So it was impossible for them to understand the mood of the foreigner at this time.
The reason why he has an accent in Xinhui County is that he is a native of Xinhui County. In fact, he has been in Jiankang since childhood. He has only left Jiankang for a long time and has been in Xinhui County for a long time, which makes his accent not look like on both sides.
He was a practitioner of the Taoist sect in the previous dynasty. During the previous dynasty, he killed the official because he fought with an official and then fled. When he arrived in the new dynasty, he originally thought he could return to Jiankang and live again, but among the many Taoist sect practice places that Xiao Yan abolished, his master was his sect.
Many of his fellow disciples died in that turmoil, and many of those who lived, like him, became wanderers who were hiding their names in the world.
The southernmost border counties are very warm.
He hadn't seen the frost on the roof tiles that didn't melt even after sunrise, let alone snow.
Those snowflakes, as white as salt, have become things he buried deep in his memory like his past in this city.
At this time, he felt the snow that was about to come and ate the clear soup noodles that tasted in his memory, but the things in the surrounding streets and alleys changed, and the people in his memory were no longer visible. How could he not sigh?
For people in Jiankang City, Xinhui County is often heard of, but many people have never heard of some border counties farther southwest, such as Jiaozhi County.
Jiuzhen County is still further southwest of Jiaozhi County. Many people from the Southern Dynasties even don’t know that there are such border counties on their territory of the Southern Dynasties.
People in Jiuzhen County even look and height are significantly different from those in Jiankang.
Their normal men are half a head shorter than men in Jiankang. The cheekbones on their faces are taller, but their foreheads are wider.
This kind of appearance is not pleasing to the Jiankang area.
Moreover, the hair accessories and clothing of people in Kowloon County are even more out of place.
They are used to shave off all the hair on their foreheads and on both sides of their ears, and then tie the hair on their heads into a sky-high braid.
The clothes they wore seemed even more weird to the Jiankang people, with only half of their sleeves and both arms exposed.
Most people in Jiankang City don’t go to such remote border counties, so of course they don’t know that places like Jiuzhen County are very hot all year round, and they don’t have winter, so of course they don’t need to wear such long-sleeved clothes.
In an inn not far from this shop, a cultivator from Jiuzhen County lives.
Although this practitioner is also thin, with his cultivation, even in this cold winter, he does not need to wear such long-sleeved clothes.
Just to avoid being too noticeable, he was wearing the most ordinary cotton jacket and wrapped around his head in cloth.
He dressed like this, but he felt uncomfortable all over. Occasionally, he saw his own appearance in the reflection of the pond, so he simply covered his face.
What is snowing?
To be continued...