Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 208 4.4 What did you do before returning from Nanyang?

Volume Four

4.4 What did you do before returning from Nanyang?

Noon on June [-]th, Wanfu Tower.

"I've met His Highness Yongchang, I've met His Highness Yongjing!" Outside the suite belonging to Princess Yongchang on the third floor, Zhou Yang first glanced at Dongfang Bing, who was standing at the door with a serious expression as a "welcoming guest", and then asked the host who was already sitting at the banquet. The two princesses who were guests bowed and saluted, "I don't know what the purpose of recruiting the generals to come today."

"Sit down, if you dare to act like a monster again, be careful of me interrupting your legs with Bing'er's hooves!" Princess Yongchang glared at him angrily, and threw a big pot at Dongfang Bing, "Didn't you already let go? Are thousands of households really short of children? Why, there have been more than a dozen banquets in the past few days, from Qi Duke's Mansion to Zhujin Tower, plus Wu Jinshi is the same year, Wu Juren is the same year, and there is even you in the west of the city called 'Shilipu' In this village, why can’t I eat the banquets of this Palace?”

"The last general dare not!" Sighing softly, Zhou Yang took out the invitation card from his arms, and handed it to Dongfang Bing respectfully for her to pass on, "After all, for the last general, Master Feng Tang, the Shenwu general, is already hopeful and unattainable." Even though he is such a big shot, His Highness can allow the eldest son of the Feng family to act as a messenger, how can I have the courage to do so--ugh!"

"Hmph!" Princess Yongchang pushed away the chair, picked up a cup of Zhuangyuanhong and walked up to him. She put her left hand around his "slender waist" and poured it into his mouth as soon as she raised her right hand, not caring about the man who was already covering his face with his hands. Princess Yongjing, "Is this why you dare to quarrel with me? You are quite courageous. I ask you to drink it, but you dare not to drink it?"

"Guo Rong!" Zhou Yang angrily turned his back on the guest, hugged Princess Yongchang, and dragged her into the inner room. From the corner of his eye, he noticed that Dongfang Bing had already led Princess Yongjing out, and then he lowered his head to occupy Tiantian. After a long while, he was willing to let go and said, "The wine is good, but it is such a good wine that I should share it with the princess."

"What a pity for a table of good food." Princess Yongchang pushed him away angrily, turned around and sat on the edge of the bed, "Okay, if you have any doubts, just tell me, I will tell you as long as I can answer, I don't know I owe you something from my previous life. You obviously have a higher status than you, but you eat it up to death."

"There is no need to talk about status between men and women." Zhou Yang leaned directly on the bed, pulled her to his side and smiled, "For example, now, as long as you know that you are a woman and you are lying in the arms of your man, Everything else doesn't matter."

"Are you asking? If you don't ask -" Princess Yongchang shouted in annoyance, but before she could finish her words, her lips were sealed. When she was finally let go, that familiar feeling had already entered her eyes. Clothes.

"Why?" Zhou Yang said lightly.

"Why?" Princess Yongchang, who wanted to drive someone's strange hand out of her underwear, paused for a moment, then asked back as if nothing had happened, but she no longer cared about the strange hand in her arms.

"General Shenwu Feng Tang is a die-hard son of the Supreme Emperor, but Feng Ziying has fun with all the children of Wu Xun. Whether it is the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion or the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion, he can drink and eat meat." Zhou Yang said angrily to a certain sweet cherry He applied a little force and saw the beauty in his arms frowning before continuing, "Is this really normal?
In matters in the imperial court, taking sides has always been more important than right or wrong. In theory, he should be the son of the Supreme Emperor's confidant, but he has contacts with the entire martial arts group. I can understand the thoughts of various families. It is just a matter of betting on multiple parties. Anyway Wu Xun originally rested with the country, and whoever sat on the dragon throne would rest with him.

But what about you?My Princess, after all, the Supreme Emperor has been around for a long time. Sooner or later, this world belongs to His Majesty, but you can let Feng Ziying be your messenger. If you say that there is no problem in this, do you think Your Majesty will believe it?Or are you confident that no one around Feng Ziying is dishonest? "

"As long as Feng Ziying doesn't talk nonsense, I haven't told anyone else." Princess Yongchang frowned and glared at him before saying, "I originally thought that Bing'er would just tell you, but then because of her We couldn't arrange anything, so Feng Ziying happened to come to visit with something, so I asked him to do it for me. I didn't expect you, a mere member of a thousand households, who obviously shouldn't know so much, to see so many problems with just one invitation."

"Rong'er, please remember that as an intelligence leader, there is absolutely no room for 'unexpected' or 'I thought'. You must absolutely ensure that there will be no problems. Otherwise, if you are 'accidental', you may lose everything. Zhou Yang looked at Princess Yongchang seriously and said, "It may even cost you your life."

I still don't understand why you are so biased towards the Supreme Emperor?Although His Majesty has many shortcomings, he is indeed a wise king. After I came back from overseas, I could hardly hear the voice of the Supreme Emperor for such a long time. Obviously, most of the officials in the imperial court have recognized it. Even you yourself said that Yizhong Prince after all" "Shut up! "Princess Yongchang suddenly broke away from his arms and pushed him aside, "Who gave you the courage to make irresponsible remarks in front of me?Just because you dare to alienate the family ties of the Tian family and speak arrogantly, I can - you dare! "

Zhou Yang was too lazy to beep with her, and directly pressed her on the big bed, followed by continuous sounds of tearing cloth and struggling. But dozens of breaths later, a little white sheep appeared, and Princess Yongchang's cheeks turned red. Wrapped in bedsheets and huddled in the corner of the bed, he could only let the person who knocked him down do all kinds of things.

"Do you know how to speak now?" It wasn't until Princess Yongchang gave up her struggle and let herself fumble that Zhou Yang took her into his arms again and said, "With your head, it's impossible that you don't know what I mean. If you still dare to embarrass me, , be careful of sleeping on your stomach in the next few days!”

"You—" Scared Princess Yongchang hurriedly covered the peach, stared at him in embarrassment and said, "Let me tell you first, not everything can be known to you, just ask!"

"Your purpose." Zhou Yang said lightly, "When you took over the intelligence system from Prince Yi Zhong, the relationship between father and son must have been at the highest point, right? Everyone knows that you were close to Prince Yi Zhong, but now you are not. Being able to have face with both the Supreme Emperor and His Majesty at the same time is definitely not because of family ties, can you say that?"

"I would rather know what you were doing before returning from Nanyang?" Princess Yongchang raised her head and looked at him with a very complicated tone, "These things will never be understood by the children of wealthy businessmen. What do you mean? These things, even if the people of the royal family can think of them now, I am afraid they cannot even make up for the top leaders."

"Do you still remember the Western firearms, artillery and even warships I told you about?" Zhou Yang had actually considered this issue for a long time and had to make up a reasonable identity for himself. "I have been working with the red-haired people since I was 12 years old. He worked as a coolie on a merchant ship, then worked his way up the ranks, and eventually became the captain of the escort of that small caravan.

When I came back, it wasn't because I was "caring about my motherland", but because that small caravan was completely annexed during the conflict with other caravans. After all, I was the middle-level leader of the original caravan, but the later caravans didn't accept it. I fought my way out of any race other than red-haired people and got on a merchant ship of the Zhou Dynasty. You should be able to guess the rest. "

"How can a mere guard captain know so much knowledge that even the royal children may not understand?" Princess Yongchang became even more suspicious.

"Western countries are basically pure aristocracies, and ordinary people will never have the opportunity to rise in eight lifetimes." Zhou Yang "hesitated" for a moment, but still said, "The leader of my original small caravan was also A baron from the Red-haired Kingdom, his little daughter—well, one year older than me."

"You are really -" Princess Yongchang couldn't help laughing and said with a sarcastic face, "There are some methods. It seems that your guard captain was also for this reason, right? You didn't forget it even after you returned to the Zhou Dynasty. My old wife, the widowed grandma in Rongguo Mansion, didn’t give you much help at the beginning - ah!"

"I will not be sorry to my woman, let alone use any of them in vain!" Zhou Yang raised his hand and slapped a peach on one side, "Although I did gain a lot from the palace judge at the beginning, this year, I have He also gave her countless rewards.”

"Yes, the eldest grandson of the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion will probably be named Zhou in the future." Princess Yongchang smiled and did not dwell on the topic again, "It seems that you also learned these knowledge from the eldest lady of the Baron Mansion. ? Can I ask, where is this young lady now? "

"Currently, conflicts in Western countries have a bottom line. Most of the time, the people below are the ones who die. Unless the nobles die on the battlefield, they will generally not be implicated." Zhou Yang said lightly, " When the little caravan was finished, she had already followed her father back to the Red Hair Country, and the gold and silver she had saved over the years was enough for her family to continue to prosper for three to five generations."

"Is this happening?" Princess Yongchang was really surprised, because since the Qin and Han dynasties, nobles of all dynasties and generations in China have basically lost this kind of "benefits." "I have always thought that they are just ordinary people. Even people who drink hair and drink blood, it seems that at least in this aspect, they still have some etiquette."

"Okay, it's your turn!" Zhou Yang was too lazy to give him popular science about how miserable farmers in the West were in this era. "For example, if you just rely on the part of the intelligence system left by Prince Yitada, you will never be able to obtain such information. Status, because many things of the royal family can theoretically be inherited only by the dragon throne, the power in your majesty’s hands cannot be worse than yours!”

(End of this chapter)