Although Fan Li relied on the old relationship between Wen Zhong and Ye Gong, he got on the ride of the Chu envoys, and also won Wang Sunyu's love by his own talents and knowledge, but when Fan Li arrived in Yecheng, his mission was carried out. Not so smooth.

After Wang Sunyu expressed his intentions on his behalf, Fan Li was not immediately received.

Perhaps it was because he declined Zhao Hou's invitation many times before, which made Zhao Wuxi feel ashamed, or perhaps he already understood why Fan Li came to Yecheng and deliberately wanted to hang him. Hearing that Fan Li was coming, Zhao Hou just snorted without showing too much urgency.

Fan Li had no choice but to find his teacher Ji Ran again and formally request to see Zhao Hou. Ji Ran is now one of the six ministers of the Zhao clan, and is in charge of financial power. With his mediation, Fan Li has a place among the many envoys waiting to be received outside the Weiyang Palace.

In the past few days, the threshold of Weiyang Palace was almost leveled by messengers who came from all directions. According to the procedure, after the state of Chu, Zhao Wuxi will have to meet Zhao Cao, the son of the state of Lu, and Leyou, the Da Sicheng of the state of Song. These two are close relatives of the Zhao family, and they are also the main battlefield for the wrestling with the state of Wu and Qi next year. .

In the back are Zhongshan and Yan who have been fighting for more than half a year. They need to make a good fight. At the same time, they use "I want to help Zhongshan Jun to be listed as a feudal lord, and the emperor will be named a viscount, so that Zhongshan will break away from the ranks of Rong and Di, and become China." "The bait let Zhongshan continue to be Zhao's horse boy, and at the same time beat the state of Yan to keep them away from the state of Qi. As for the envoys from the Yue Kingdom who came in, they were ranked at the bottom, only ahead of Sishang Xiaobang and the surrounding barbarians. This is enough to see the ranking of Zhao Hou's diplomatic priorities in Zhao Hou's heart.

According to Zhao's ceremonial official, who told the Yue people not to go through the process? If so, then wait slowly. Fan Li had nothing to do with this. Yue State was a vassal of Wu State, so how dare he openly meet Zhao Hou? Now that they have something to ask for, they can only wait silently outside.

This wait was for two days, and it was not until the evening of December 31 that Fan Li was able to carry the gift and enter the Weiyang Palace.

The grandeur of the Weiyang Palace is shocking. Unlike when he first took over the family business, Zhao Wuxi now strives to hold the ceremony in a decent manner, so although the decoration in the palace is not luxurious, it is not cheap.

The towering halls are sparsely built, the floors are sparse, and the buildings are connected with steps. Many vertical temples and palace maids are busy in the snow for tomorrow's founding ceremony. Looking at the Zhao Kingdom's palace rejuvenated under the goose feather snow, Fan Li's mind was full of thoughts, but it was still far away in the south, where his monarch Goujian was living a hard life.

Since Gou Jian successfully escaped and returned to China three years ago, he seems to have changed a person. He is afraid that he will not be able to stand the temptation, and he covets a comfortable life, killing his ambition for revenge. He also hangs a bitter gall in his house, tastes the bitter taste before every meal, and reminds himself: Don't forget the suffering in Wu State!

The misery of being a slave and a maid, and the shame of tasting feces for King Wu's husband, when he thinks of those years, Goujian can't sleep at night, and he still has symptoms of retching.

On weekdays, he does not live in the palace, but wears coarse cloth and eats coarse meals. Every spring and autumn harvest, he goes to the paddy fields with his bare feet to work with the people. The wife of the King of Yue led women to raise silkworms and weaving cloth to develop production.

In addition, at Wen Zhong's suggestion, Goujian also imitated some of Zhao's measures to rejuvenate the country.

The land of Yue Kingdom is actually very fertile, and the climate is suitable. As long as the seeds are planted and rice seedlings are planted, it is easy to obtain a bumper harvest. The disadvantage is that it is sparsely populated.

In the second year after returning to China, Gou Jian announced to all the Vietnamese people to recuperate: "Now the widow can't, the generals and the two or three sons and their husbands will be flanked!"

In the decree, Goujian stipulated that in the country of Yue, middle-aged men were not allowed to marry old women, and old men were not allowed to marry young wives; if a girl did not marry at the age of 17, her parents were guilty; if a man did not marry at the age of 20, her parents would be sentenced. When a pregnant woman is about to give birth, she should report it to the government in time, and the government will send a doctor to take care of the birth. If you give birth to a boy, you will receive two pots of wine and one dog; if you give birth to a girl, you will receive two pots of wine and one pig. If you have three children in one birth, the government will send them to the nurse, and if you have two children in one birth, the government will provide rations...

The above are all decrees that are conducive to population reproduction, so the more people are overjoyed and moved by these actions of Goujian, and the complaints about him losing his teacher and losing his country gradually disappeared. All the hardships that the Yue people have suffered over the years have turned into hatred for the Wu state. Although the number of Yue people is small, they are all working hard, hoping to destroy Wu Xuegui as soon as possible.

However, Goujian is very clear that the country of Yue can only gather more than 10,000 people with the strength of the whole country. How to fight against the country of Wu who dominates the Jianghuai? So he adopted Fan Li's suggestion and bribed the Dazai of Wu State with a lot of money to speak for the State of Yue in the imperial court; he gave wood and craftsmen, and spent Wu State's manpower and material resources to build the Taiwan of Suzhou; at the same time, he spread rumors to alienate the King of Wu and Wu Zixu. Relationship.

But this was not enough. The King of Yue asked Fan Li to personally find beautiful women in the people and send them to the Wu Palace to confuse the husband. At the same time, they could also be sent to the north to make strong aid for the country of Yue...

Fan Li first found a girl named "Zheng Dan" from Zheng Di's daughter-in-law. Although she was young, she was beautiful in appearance and quite talented in dancing, so she was bought by Fan Li.

But Zheng Dan is not his favorite work.

Fan Li turned sideways and looked behind him, she still followed him closely, perhaps because of the cold, perhaps because of anxiety, with one hand gently tugging at the corner of his clothes, Fan Li showed a helpless smile.

"Xizi, pay attention to some etiquette, we will be there soon."

...

Most of the inhabitants of the Yue Kingdom are the indigenous Yuyue people, but there are exceptions. For example, Zhuji Liluo Mountain, where a remnant of the Xu Kingdom fled here decades ago, and survived under the protection of the Yue Kingdom. It has been in the past. Provide beautiful women to the Vietnamese court.

After Fan Li found it, he selected more than ten girls of the right age and brought them all back to Kuaiji for training. Meiyu always shines, and the sharp awl always stands out. He soon fell in love with one of the dozen or so people, a daughter from a family of Huansha. His surname is Shi. Because his family lives in the west of the village, he is named "Xizi". .

She is naturally beautiful, and as she grows up, she becomes more clean and refined, and her beauty is inexhaustible. When others describe her, she is so beautiful that the fish in the river are so fascinated that they sink to the bottom of the water...

Just like even the best beautiful jade needs to be carved, in the heart of Fan Li, who has read countless women, a true beauty must have three conditions: one is beauty, the second is good singing and dancing, and the third is posture.

Although Zheng Dan and Xizi are beautiful, they are not qualified in other aspects.

So these more than ten girls stayed in Kuaiji for three years. During the period, Fan Li tried every means to find the palace maids of Chu Palace to teach them singing and dancing, walking, etiquette, etc. Of course, for Zheng Dan and Xizi, who were mainly trained, there were more than that. Teach them how to compete with other women in the palace, even self-defense assassination...

The beautiful butterfly may have poison on its wings! Dancing lightly, may be able to kill people.

Three years passed by, and when Fan Li returned to Kuaiji from further south after completing the fortification and training, these girls were ready to join the army.

It was night, in the melodious music, the girls danced gracefully and charmingly, but when Zheng Dan appeared on the stage, the girls were all covered by her demeanor, like the stars holding the moon.

However, when Xizi walked out slowly in dark clothes and clogs, the moon and the stars were ashamed and could only retreat to one side...

Fan Li was also lost for a while, and was completely fascinated by Xizi. In his mind, only a poem written by Zhao Wuxi in the Song Palace was left in his mind: A smile will make a city, and a smile will make a country...

Not only does she dance like a goddess, but her gestures have also grown from a splendid girl from a family to a well-trained beauty. Every movement is not deliberate, but she can quite show the graceful beauty of her posture, which is extremely tempting. It is also very decent to treat people and things, but it makes people unable to help but feel a sense of closeness.

Even though Zheng Dan is dissatisfied, she has to say that she is still far from Xizi...

If it wasn't for Fan Li's firm will, he would have almost fallen into a deep depression and couldn't extricate himself.

In the end, Fan Li decided to send Zheng Dan to the State of Gusu in Wu State to please Fuchai and let him relax his vigilance against the State of Yue. A few months later, Xizi was sent to Zhao Wuxi in the north to win a strong aid for the Yue Kingdom.

"Is there a reason why the two women were sent to the two countries separately?" Wen Zhong asked at the time.

"The beauty of Xizi is better than that of Zheng Dan. If Zheng Dan accidentally confided this in front of Fuchai, with Fuchai's character, I'm afraid he would immediately send troops to the north..." Fan Li smiled innocently, and Yueguo sent people north to please Zhao. If you can keep it a secret, try to keep it as secret as possible. If you can't, then you should use the matter itself. It is said that Zhao Wuxi forcibly asked for a more beautiful Xizi, and channeled the anger of Fuchai to Zhao, so that the country of Yue could take advantage of it. machine……

This is not a simple beauty trick, but a series of tricks to win the friendship of Zhao Hou, and add fire to the contradiction between Zhao and Wu...

If only relying on the few hundreds of thousands of Yue people, the revival of the Yue Kingdom would be too difficult. If he wanted to help the monarch realize his long-cherished wish in his lifetime, Fan Li could only pin his hopes on external forces.

Thinking of this, Fan Li raised his head and found that under the guidance of Shuren, they had come around from the side of Weiyang Palace and arrived outside the Sunju Palace of Changle Palace. Because it was a secret interview, they chose here.

The master of ceremonies asked them to wait for a while. During this interval, Fan Li looked back again and looked at the woman he brought, his proud work.

Southerners can't stand the cold, let alone snow. Behind Fan Li, the girl is wearing a thick red leather jacket with a full-length lavender deep dress and a skirt, but this can't hide her slim figure. With a veil on his face, he couldn't hide his beautiful face. At this moment, she was curiously watching the snowflakes falling from the sky in a daze. The white snow fell on the tips of her hair, as white as her face, and there was a bit of frozen pink in the whiteness, like tender peach blossoms that opened in advance. Because of the proximity, the hot air exhaled from her cherry lips was blowing on Fan Li's neck...

Fan Li was stunned again.

Although his teacher Ji Ran shook his head after seeing his plan, he said, "Young Uncle, Zhao Hou is not an ordinary monarch, nor the kind of person you think."

It's useless, Fan Li thought, no matter what kind of person he is, whether it is a hero or a sage, even Liuxia Hui, who is rumored to be in a stable state, as long as he is a man, as long as he knows what beauty is, he will definitely be attacked by him. The woman beside her was bewildered.

The heroic king of Goujian who only aims at revenge and shame, when he first saw Xizi, he almost forgot his ambition and wanted to put Xizi in the palace...

It was only a little bit that Fan Li couldn't bring her north, and only a little bit, Fan Li almost couldn't hold back and took her away halfway. He has experienced many women in his life, either fighting to the death, running wild, or flirting with each other, but he has never felt like this. He was able to love her so much just by respecting each other as a guest and having no skin-to-skin relationship.

Because she is Xizi, has the appearance of sinking fish, and is a wonderful beauty rarely seen in the world?

Perhaps she noticed that Fan Li was looking at her~lightnovelpub.net~ The girl also turned her head to look, her dark eyelashes were condensed with frost, and her big innocent eyes were filled with mysterious mist.

Fan Li was almost absent-minded, and then found that he and the girl were facing each other, and immediately moved his eyes away. I don't know why there was a burst of pain in my heart, because later, he had to hand her over to Zhao Hou...

He took a deep breath of cold air, forced himself to calm down, and continued to walk forward.

As everyone knows, there is a hint of disappointment in the girl's eyes.

The road is at the end, the majestic Sun Residence Hall has arrived, and a pair of auspicious beasts in the town house are looking at her fiercely. She can no longer hold Fan Li's clothes casually. Something to give her a sense of security.

Gently retracting Rou Yi, he retracted his cold reddish hand into his sleeve, Xizi bowed his head in resignation, and sighed in an inaudible voice:

"There are trees in the mountains, and there are branches in the trees, and the heart is happy, but you don't know..."

ps: It is recommended to listen to Kaiser's "Yueren Song" in these chapters, o(n_n)o~ (To be continued.)