Chapter Three Hundred and Ninety-two [Break the Earth and Seal the Marquis]
It is not that simple to get a qualified horseshoe. If you don’t use the steel frying method for a day, even a famous contemporary swordsman like Feng Quejin will have a headache. But don’t underestimate this thing. The technical content of horseshoe is far greater than that of saddles and stirrups. It is not entirely a new invention that can be obtained by breaking the window paper with a flash of inspiration. A set of qualified horseshoes actually represents the rapid development of iron smelting technology. It is basically unimaginable before steel-like metals appear.
The steel that will really shock the world has not yet appeared, but Bai Dong is working in this direction. Bai Zuo’s real hobby is to live a small life and make small inventions. When the interest comes, push this era to see if it can develop according to its own ideas? It is not actually what Bai Dong likes to lead the army to the front line. If it is not for fleas this time, even if Qin needs to win this battle, he may not agree to lead troops. Dance of guns and sticks is always something that rough people do, and those who are in the army only love to attack and plot.
"We can finally go home..."
Bai Dong was wearing a brocade robe, with a hand stove on the table beside him, a brazier was placed under his feet, drinking fragrant tea, and eating snacks. He looked carefully at Ying Quliang's Feiying's letter, and smiled slightly on his face.
The siege of Zhao State was lifted, and Zhao Hou had already flew to write to Liyang for thanking Lao Qin for forming a brotherly country with Lao Qin; this Qin State's biggest enemy is still very weak in the future and will be bullied by Wei State at any time, but also be careful of Zhongshan State in the north. Choosing to form an alliance with Qin State is the best choice and a helpless choice.
The Warring States Period was a very unique era. Perhaps because of the reasons for experiencing too many wars, these vassal states were all like the undefeated little strongmen; shortly after Pang Juan withdrew from Handan, the counties and counties of the fallen Zhao State were successively recovered. The Zhao army, which had been defeated to the point of being miserably, seemed to have suddenly emerged from the underground, and could gather 200,000 people in a few days! Even Long Jia, who had been through many battles, felt pressured. This ability was cultivated by a long-term war. Without such ability, the country had long been destroyed and he was not qualified to get a piece of the pie in the Warring States Period.
"The Zhao people are not simple, but they should have such ability, otherwise they would have been destroyed long ago." Bai Dong raised the Junshu in his hand and smiled and said to Ying Shu: "The letter also mentioned Tian Yinqi. This time I was able to transport 30,000 Wei prisoners. In fact, Qi has also made great efforts. When you return to Qi, you will also help me thank him."
"Thank you for Qi?" Ying Shu smiled unconsciously. She was going to live and die when she married Qi. She was even more dying when she met Tian Yinqi, a strange man with hidden illness. But in terms of status, she was the wife of Qi. Although she was not as close to Lao Qin, she would still be very happy to hear people saying that Qi was good.
"The fleet that escorted the captives of Wei State this time was the Qi Navy. Although there were not many ships, they were just sending you back to their marriage, but it was very meaningful to appear when Qin and Wei were fighting. My senior brother and Wei Ying were not fools, otherwise Pang Juan might not be able to return to Daliang faster if he rushed. It would not be so easy for more than 100,000 Qin troops to retreat calmly." Bai Dong smiled and said, "From this matter, Tian Yinqi is still brainy, much better than the 'Little Duke Huan of Qi'."
"He doesn't have a brain. He wants something."
Ying Shu looked at Bai Dong calmly, and Yue Baobao in her arms also stared at her father with wide eyes: "Tian Yinqi is also building a fleet, and she also said she would ask you to help him train sailors. Qi's fleet also wanted to go to the sea to see. I guess he wanted to find the old gods on the sea, don't you?"
"Haha, no matter what he wants to do, I will support it. Qi State is born with the conditions for navigation, so it is not a bad thing to look at the sea. It is best if Yue State and Chu State come to participate. Everyone is fighting in the same pot. What's the point?"
Bai Dong nodded with a smile. This is Tian Yinqi. This is Qi State. Even if he had not come to this era, Tian Yinqi was obsessed with sailing all his life. Of course, at that time he was just obsessed with seeking immortals on the sea. He did not know that there was a more magical continent on the other side of the sea than on the sea. If he could discover this continent in the Warring States Period, the help to China would be immeasurable...
The Age of Discovery represents a spirit, which is what China lacks the most. Holding on to the incomplete and keeping the incomplete is not the right way. Only by refining the incomplete and picking up the incomplete will Bai Dong be very interested.
When the Qin army appeared again in Shangyu Mountains, the entire Qin State was shocked. Ying Quliang's rewards from Jun Shu flew in one day, and the seals urged Bai Dong to return early in order to accept his reward.
This will be the most solemn ceremony of title for the Qin State in a century. It is obviously beyond the system, but Ying Quliang doesn't care. This time he is not going to discuss with Bai Dong, and is going to directly sign him "Xi Jun"!
Qin is not a duke, but the Ying family has long called itself a duke, and the duke is a vassal and a marquis. This will be scolded to death by the people of the world in the early Spring and Autumn Period, and other countries will organize coalition forces to attack. But who will be the bad news of Qin now? Even Wei was defeated, and Qin Baizi became the "Sub-Sage Sage of Military Arts" praised by the world. Who would have long lives?
A three-foot-high platform was erected in front of the Liyang Palace, with three animals and five rituals complete. Pigs, cattle and sheep were wearing big red flowers. Ying Quliang fought behind the pig's head with a smile and waved to Bai Dong, who was crowned with a sharp crown. All the ministers were dizzy. The dick of the earth and the title of marquis was a ceremony to split the earth and make a letter to the king, please respect the ancestors of heaven and earth, and check the origins of the persons who were enfeoffed one by one. If the ancestors of the five generations were not nobles, then this marquis would not be granted, and they had to accumulate great achievements first!
Bai Dong's contribution is great, but it is far from the level of Guan Zhong and Baili Xi, let alone his ancestors. The Yongqian Bai family is a nobleman, but Bai Dong's line is really not a good family. It is not only a commoner, but also a side-line of a commoner. It is simply a commoner among the commoner. Bai Wugeng recognized Bai Dong as his uncle, but Bai Dong still could not be the patriarch of the Yongqian Bai family. This is the reason.
Now that the Zhou royal family is declining, it is a joke to write a letter to ask for such procedures, but the procedure to ask the ancestors and descendants is not spared, right? Everyone turned their attention to Du Zhi. As Bai Dong's business partner and political best friend, Du Zhi is now promoted step by step and has replaced Gan Long, who has stepped down as the Grand Sikong. Gan Long was originally the leader of the civil officials. Grand Sikong is all part-time. Now that he is old and weak, who will do his disciples who are so burdened? Moreover, the Du family is not less money than the Gan family. Ying Quliang can be more shameless when facing Du Zhi when he needs to fight Qiufeng.
Du Zhi shrank his neck: "Look at what I do?"
"Nonsense, you are the Grand Sikong who is in charge of etiquette, virtue, sacrifice and all kinds of fortifications. Half of the old Qin must listen to you. Who do you think? Now that the king wants to break the rules and split the land and make a marquis, I am afraid that the Qin State will be laughed at by all countries. Even if you can't stop it, you Grand Sikong must act like a show. Let the people of the world know that it is not that Qin State does not comply with etiquette, but that Bai Zuo has made too great contributions, so that it is the exception."
Zhao Feng and Du Zhi have the best relationship. When this guy polishes people, he doesn't look like a mathematician with only numbers in his eyes. He is simply even older than the old fried dough sticks in the market.
"Let me touch your bad luck?" Du Zhi stared at Zhao Feng, as if he saw a big fool. This is the difference. Look at our teacher, the congratulations are ready, and he also carefully sorted out the genealogy for the Bai brothers. It is said that Bai Wugeng cooperated well, and the genealogy of the Yongqian Bai family was wrong! At that time, the Emperor Gaozu of the Bai family married an exiled noble woman in Zheng State. He did not do a good job in the inspection for a while, so he treated it as a concubine and married into the Bai family. The woman in Zheng State died of difficult labor, so she was not well-known!
At that time, the time was when the old Qin was poor and weak, and the whole country was fighting with the Rong people. The Emperor of the Bai family first married Teng's concubine and then took the right wife. It was time to start with the beginning. This noble woman in Zheng State should be the right wife! What a painful misunderstanding? Fortunately, the emperor is very careful and can correct the situation. These two idioms are also from "Baizi's new words". Du Zhi feels that it is particularly suitable to use them here.
This is the first time that Bai Dong and the Baijiazhuang tribe members knew that they were so tall. What was Zheng State? It was a country that was once powerful in the Spring and Autumn Period. The descendants of the emperor, Miao, who had a strong roots, were destroyed by South Korea more than ten years ago, and were much more noble than the "local" aristocrats like the Ying family!
The time when this "grandma" was left in Qin State should be the period when Zheng State destroyed the country and restored the country. Unfortunately, the grandmother of the Bai family died of labor due to difficulty. Otherwise, during the period when Duke Kang of the Restoration of the Country, he would probably have been able to get his throne back. The Emperor Gaozu of the Bai family would not be able to properly uphold the family immediately. That is a serious crime of violating etiquette!
When Ying Quliang saw the senior doctor Gan Long talking and sighing, everyone in Baijiazhuang was stunned. Even Bai Dong was stunned. He heard that Uncle Long said that this grandmother was actually the daughter of the maid of the Bai family, and she was attracted to be Teng concubine because she was born beautifully. God is pitiful. This grandmother was born and raised in Qin. When did she go to Zheng State? However, Zheng State has now destroyed the country and there is no evidence of death. Ying Quliang and Gan Long insisted that she was a nobleman of Zheng State. Bai Wugeng used the name of the clan leader to guarantee that the old Qin ministers were all human beings. Will they not understand the principle of flower sedan chairs? Even if there was no sedan chair in this era, it was the same? (Taking people as animals is a matter in later generations. In the pre-Qin period, there was no sedan chair in the sedan chair)
He smiled bitterly and looked at the surprised mother and Uncle Lao Long, and glared at Cao'er who was smiling but had a suspicious look on his face. Bai Dong actually wanted to interrupt Gan Long's endless performance. The second brother is kind, but he doesn't have such a thick face. What is Xijun or Xijun? He actually doesn't have much interest. It may not be a good thing to call him in the country. Wei Yang later broke the soil and made him a marquis and called Shang Junli. What's the result? Bijiu grabbed him and lowered his voice and said in his ear: "Sister Bu said that the Lord is so proud of the Bai family for you, a good brother, and for the flea girl... Don't do it randomly..."
"For fleas?"
Bai Dong's heart moved and immediately understood Ying Quliang's painstaking efforts. His husband, who was not caring enough about his wife, was not ashamed as his second brother, who was his uncle.
Old Gan Long made a generous speech for more than half an hour and told a temporary story to be an ironclad case. After hearing this, even Bai Dong felt that this was the fact! Bai Yue grabbed his son's hand and said nothing, and was very grateful to Ying Quliang's arrangement. Although she didn't care about the title of marquis and wealth, she had to think about the fleas for her daughter-in-law. The fleas are still kept in the dark. If it is necessary to expose that matter, it should be cleared out all obstacles. Now her son and the king are doing this.
Old Gan Long finally finished speaking. With Bai Wugeng's passionate performance, the Bai family tree changed drastically. Bai Dong's lineage was stern and became a direct nobleman. Ying Quliang nodded with satisfaction and signaled to the doctor that you have done a good job and can take a break. He looked at Du Zhi and said, "Du Sikong, please give me a letter!"
The Emperor's Book? Bai Dong Fenghou actually sent a letter to the Emperor. This has not happened in many years! The ministers were talking about it for a while.
Since countries have become strong, there have been many people in China who have been granted marquis, but no one can get the true recognition of the Zhou royal family. This is because many countries are just marquis or even viscounts, so where can they be qualified to be granted marquis? This is different from rewarding a piece of meat, which is the last face of the Zhou royal family!
Ying Quliang seemed to be intentionally trying to make the hearts of the ministers beating wildly, and it was not so scary that Sky was not happy. He took out the Book of Emperor Emperor until now. In this way, Bai Dong was not only the first person to be appointed as a marquis in the country after Baili Xi, but also the first domestic marquis in China who was recognized by the Zhou royal family after King Ping moved eastward!
Looking at Du Zhi walking onto the stage with a smile on his face, Zhao Feng felt that his teeth were itchy and he wanted to bite this guy hard. He was still a good friend. He didn't know how to reveal some news in advance? Who is this... (To be continued)
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Chapter completed!