"The things that can be made are not really something worth cherishing." Sima Ji spoke to remind the woman with shiny eyes, so he could not be confused by this glass, and asked, "Yan'er isn't crying."

"No, I'm very obedient!" Qiaoxi moved to Sima Ji and sat down, and said softly, "These glasses are so beautiful. I was confused for a while. Your Highness should not blame you."

What's so beautiful? Sima Ji looked down and didn't feel it at all. There were too many impurities and it was not transparent. If you look closely, it was green. Is this related to beauty? He grinned and looked strange, "Is this title unchanged? What kind of highness? What kind of slaves are all their own family members. Why do you speak like an outsider when you speak? Don't talk like this in the future. I don't care about the title."

"Husband, Qiaoxi understands!" A hint of shame flashed across Qiaoxi's face and nodded sweetly.

"Come and let your husband hug you!" Sima Ji opened his hand and hugged the woman in his arms. Since giving birth to a daughter, Qiaoxi's status in the Yan Prince's Mansion naturally rose. Giving birth to children is a way out for women in this era.

Don’t even say that Qiaoxi is an ordinary woman. The honor and disgrace of the Jia family is actually in Jia Nanfeng’s own belly. Jia Nanfeng is now in power, but as long as he does not give birth to a legitimate son, as Sima Yu grows up day by day, Jia sooner or later will not be able to sleep. But today’s results are caused by Jia Nanfeng himself.

"If we want mercury, we have already done it. Your Highness, have you returned to Longhu Mountain?" Several Taoist priests who came from Longhu Mountain asked for a visit at this time, saying that they had completed the task assigned by Sima Ji and now they wanted to go back to practice Taoism.

The same is true for mercury. In ancient times, mercury was still a medicinal material, and it was not difficult to obtain mercury. It was also very simple to prepare mercury, which was to heat cinnabar to obtain mercury and sulfur. Cinnabar can often be seen in the alchemy recipes for Taoist priests, and it can be seen to be common.

These Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain obviously thought that practicing Taoism was much more important than here. If Sima Ji's usual personality of killing donkeys, he might agree with it. But today, the King of Yan was in a good mood. He did not have the idea of ​​killing donkeys for a while, but instead began to keep it.

Sima Ji, who was pretending to be dead in Youzhou, naturally didn't know that Luoyang was in trouble recently. Although the earthquake in the capital was not serious, it also made Luoyang's court officials busy for a long time. By the time Sima Ji learned that this matter was submitted, the disaster relief had already been completed and Luoyang had recovered to peace.

If disasters occur in ordinary places, it may not cause any shock, but the capital is different after all. The emperor ordered places where earthquake disasters in various states were pardoned and exempted from taxes.

"When I left Luoyang, all the houses that collapsed in the cracked city walls had been repaired, and the earthquake did not cause any serious damage. The Secretary of the Shangshu, the Secretary of the Central Committee, and the Secretary of the Central Committee have already drafted a document, and Your Highness is no longer there in person." In the Yan Palace, He Long, the Dongyi Captain who had just returned from Luoyang's report, introduced the situation in detail.

"Oh, the people should be like this!" Sima Ji hesitated for a long time and said with regret. He was indeed a little regretful. If Youzhou also suffered a minor disaster, would there be Youzhou on the list of tax exemptions? In this case, can it be reduced a little bit of burden? But? The tax revenue of the feudal country will definitely not be less, and the King of Yan is too poor.

Not thinking about these troublesome things, He Long just said something that has been bothering Sima Ji. The Guanzhong civil war had just ended and the earthquake in the capital had just passed. Normally, it was a bit uneasy for the people, but he actually transferred 10,000 Guanzhong troops into the Western Regions. He remembered that when Jia Nanfeng was in power, there seemed to be no incident in the Western Regions.

This is true. There is indeed nothing wrong in the Western Regions, but Luoyang ordered the strengthening of the military power in the Western Regions. Of course, it cannot be said that nothing is wrong, because the Western Regions are undergoing annexation, and after the end of the Han Dynasty, a temporary power vacuum appeared in the Western Regions. As a result, dozens of major and large regimes in the Western Regions carried out fierce annexation with each other, forming a confrontation between the seven countries.

The root cause was that the Huns' power plummeted, creating a power vacuum on the grassland and then had an impact on the surrounding areas. However, the Central Plains was the core of the Jin Dynasty after all, and they were still keeping a close eye on it. The number of small countries in the Western Regions has long been affected. The current situation in the Western Regions is just a preview of the internal Jin Dynasty decades later.

Is it because the Western Regions are unstable? Sima Ji thought for a moment and felt that the possibility was not high. The most chaotic time in the Western Regions was the Three Kingdoms era. After the Jin Dynasty unified the world, wars of course also existed, but it has been eliminated a lot. The situation in the Western Regions is somewhat like the late Three Kingdoms, where several major countries confronted with some small countries and were in a state of balance.

This situation should not allow Luoyang to increase the military power in the Western Regions. It seems that there is only one possibility. Luoyang simply wants to weaken the military power of the Qin King Sima Jian, so that Sima Jian's Guanzhong army will not pose a threat to Luoyang.

Chang'an and Luoyang are not far apart, and the Guanzhong army is the strongest military town besides the Central Imperial Army. King Sima Jian of Qin hid in Guanzhong and did not come out, so Jia Nanfeng could not always let it go. Because the example of the King of Chu was first, it was impossible to trick the King of Qin into Luoyang, so we had to think of other ways.

Thinking about it this way, this is to use the order of the court to let the Guanzhong army go to the Western Regions and weaken the military power in Sima Jian's hands. There are not many troops transferred away. It can be said that it is a sausage-cutting tactic, within the allowable scope of King Sima Jian of Qin.

From this move, it seems that Jia Nanfeng was cautious and had no intention of forcing Sima Jian to force Sima Jian, but his purpose was still only one, secretly reducing the vassal states and weakening the military power of Guanzhong.

It is indeed a pity to think about this. It is indeed a pity that so many military and town strong men are flirting with internal control in the hands of the Eight Kings Rebellion. It is better to be able to separate a little and consolidate the existence in the Western Regions than to kill each other in the Central Plains in the future.

If 10,000 troops were allocated and Sima Jian agreed, maybe Jia Nanfeng would use the same trick again every once in a while. This is all wrong. I don’t know how long the tacit understanding between Luoyang and Chang'an can be maintained.

"The Guanzhong Civil Rebellion has been suppressed, otherwise the Qin King might not agree to let the Guanzhong army go to the Western Regions." Sima Ji asked He Long. After all, the other party had just returned from Luoyang, and many things were clearer than him, the King of Yan.

"It has been suppressed, Your Highness the King of Qin has calmed down the civil unrest!" He Long's answer was concise. Obviously, in his eyes, the civil unrest in Guanzhong was not worth mentioning and did not have much impact.

Sima Ji nodded. He seemed to remember that Zhou Chu's final death was related to Guanzhong. King Liang Sima Tong and Zhou Chu had a bad relationship. In the end, friendly troops were surrounded as if they were as strong as mountains. He used a move to the Changgong military strategy in the Jin Dynasty, and saw Zhou Chu's entire army being wiped out.

Now the King of Qin has not died in Luoyang without understanding, and has been in charge of Chang'an and staring at Guanzhong. The advantage is that Guanzhong, which has been unstable in history, is not so easy to cause trouble one after another. Sima Jian has been in charge of Guanzhong for many years and is well aware of the Guanzhong army under his command. It is not necessary to be like King Zhao of Liang later, who temporarily commanded the Guanzhong army without any understanding of the situation.

"I don't know who was the general who led his troops into the Western Regions!" Sima Ji only remembered at this time, who was sending troops? After asking for a long time, he didn't ask the point, which was embarrassing.

"The general who led the army was Zhou Chu. The court proposed to use Zhou Chu as General Anxi!" He Long was also very unfair, and you didn't ask...

Cough cough... Sima Ji coughed again, and it was him that he thought that Zhou Du died in Guanzhong, but he didn't expect that Luoyang would directly take Zhou Du to the Western Regions. He quickly waved his hand as a cover-up, "The lieutenant was exhausted, don't rush back to Pingzhou. I will hold a banquet for you tonight and rest in Jicheng for two days."

"Thank you, Your Highness, I want to stay here for two days when I see Jicheng prosperous. He Long stood up and bowed. The changes in Jicheng are indeed too big, and it is definitely a drastic change compared to a few years ago.

If we follow the current trend, this place will become a handful of northern cities in time.

"General is a mistake!" Sima Ji looked very modest. The few northern cities were never in the eyes of the King of Yan. He felt that Jicheng had the potential to be inferior to Luoyang, but it had not yet been realized.

As a prince who did not allow Shi Chong to be beautiful before, Sima Ji had the conditions and qualifying to be corrupt in front of He Long. The crowd watched the dance of the Persian dancer, and his eyes were filled with intoxication. It was so lively.

Just after the banquet, Sima Ji brought a group of maids to the garden of the Yan Prince's Mansion. Although today is not a full moon, what is important is the atmosphere and guidance from all over the world.

Just at this moment, many female relatives suddenly chuckled and exclaimed, pointing at the dark sky, destroying the atmosphere. Sima Ji felt strange, walked out of the pavilion and looked up. In the dark sky, a white meteor slowly passed through the sky with its tail flames, coming from the northeast, and crossing the sky. I believe that many people will see such a clear meteor today...

He Long, who followed Sima Ji, was no exception. He saw this rare wonder in a century and was shocked to speak. "Today's big star has been spreading across the sky since the Northeast. It's really rare to see in a century. Is there any sign?"

What are the signs? Sima Ji suddenly felt that He Long was fussing. Isn’t it just a meteor? Besides, the northeast direction in the sky can be called Northeast in the universe? Just as he was about to speak up and pretend to be a pussy, his face suddenly solidified, as if he was thinking of something.
Chapter completed!