All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 219 Give in to others

"This thing is said to be from the Shang and Zhou dynasties."

Zhao Mingcheng showed off the oracle bone in his hand. "The inscriptions on it are clear. If we can decipher its meaning."

Li Qingzhao, who was sitting on a chair drinking, frowned slightly and said, "This is clearly the traditional Chinese medicine dragon bone."

"You don't understand!" Zhao Mingcheng was a little angry when his hobby was doubted. "This is the way of gold and stone..."

"Alright, alright." The slightly drunk Li Qingzhao waved her hand. "How much?"

When talking about money, Zhao Mingcheng touched his nose in embarrassment.

Although he was the second generation, he had been suppressed by Cai Jing for many years and his income had dropped sharply.

He also liked gold and stone, and spent an inordinate amount of his wealth on them.

"Ninety strings of cash."

"What?" Li Qingzhao was immediately furious. "Ninety strings of cash to buy a piece of Chinese medicine dragon bone? Are you crazy?"

"Don't worry, don't worry." Zhao Mingcheng waved his hands repeatedly. "Although it is 90 strings of cash, they didn't take the money."

Li Qingzhao didn't understand what this meant.

"I said I didn't have any money." Zhao Mingcheng said proudly, "The store owner said it's okay, I can pay after I take office. Or, he can go to Jeju to open a store, and I can help take care of it."

Li Qingzhao was also speechless. He hadn't even officially taken office yet, but he had already started using his status to gain benefits.

I have been in Qingzhou for more than ten years, but I have made no progress in self-cultivation.

As they were talking, a servant came in to report, "The deputy envoys of the two routes of Jingdong to suppress bandits and recruit bandits have sent a visiting card."

"What kind of recruiting envoy is this? It's just a temporary assignment."

Although he had been away from officialdom for more than ten years, Zhao Mingcheng was still very clear about the twists and turns inside.

This so-called recruiting envoy is totally a nobody and has no right to meet him, the prefect.

When the servant was about to leave, Zhao Mingcheng stopped him and said, "Since you are interested, let him come and see it."

When the servant left, Li Qingzhao was puzzled, "Why do you want to see me?"

"Nothing more than coming to pay respect to the mountain gate." Zhao Mingcheng sat on the chair holding the dragon bone, and looked at it carefully with a smile on his face. "Since you are here to pay respect to the mountain gate, you must not be empty-handed."

Now I understand that this is a gift from someone else.

These years in Qingzhou really drove him crazy with poverty.

I was unable to buy many of my favorite calligraphy and paintings, jade artifacts, ancient bamboo slips, clay seals, military talismans, and even bronze artifacts from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Now that he has recovered, it is natural that he must make up for all previous losses as quickly as possible.

"What if someone asks you to do something?"

"Agree first, whether it can be done or not is another matter."

From this perspective, he is not as ethical as Governor Murong.

Qingfeng Town was firmly in Chen Ran's hands. Zhao Mingcheng had bought the Chinese medicinal oracle bones but had not paid for them, so he naturally reported it to him.

His thoughts changed quickly and he made a decision immediately.

After sending a visiting card, don't come to the door immediately, but come the next day.

This was already very fast. After all, Zhao Mingcheng was just passing through Qingfeng Town on his way to Jeju and it was impossible for him to stay here for too long.

The meeting was just standard courtesy, and it was a step that Chen Ran was already very familiar with.

Zhao Mingcheng was a bit of an exception. No one expected that this temporary official, who was not of high rank and was also a military man, was so familiar with the comings and goings in officialdom.

After completing the process, Chen Ran took out his gift.

Zhao Mingcheng originally thought it was some gold, silver or valuables, but he never expected it to be just a thin booklet.

His expression suddenly fell.

"I heard that the governor likes things related to gold and stone." Chen Ran pretended not to notice his sullen face and smiled as he tapped the booklet. "What a coincidence. I also like these things and have done some research on them. This is the context of the oracle bone inscriptions that I translated."

Hearing this, Zhao Mingcheng became interested.

He turned the booklet and looked at it. "Huh?"

At first glance, there is indeed some trick to it.

"People are ignorant and only think these oracle bones are Chinese medicine." Chen Ran came over to explain, "In fact, in my opinion, these are treasures used to record texts during the Xia and Shang dynasties."

"Zhizhou, please look at this word"

All these materials were copied by him from the modern world and translated by archaeological experts.

With the technological power of the modern world and the large-scale centralized use of wisdom, the translation ability is certainly far beyond that of Zhao Mingcheng working alone.

At the beginning, Zhao Mingcheng didn't take it too seriously.

But afterwards, I became more and more fascinated, and the more I watched, the more I liked it. "Good, good, good, it really is a good thing, I am not alone~~~"

"Chen Zhaotao, do you have a courtesy name?"

"My name is Zihou."

"A gentleman is not an instrument, but a man of great virtue. Very good, very good~~~" Zhao Mingcheng was much more enthusiastic. "Zihou, I like your gift very much. If you need any help in the future, just send someone to send a note."

Chen Ran agreed with a smile, and then took out a bottle of wine. "This is a bottle of storax sent by a friend in Tokyo. I heard that Master Yi An likes fine wine, so I came here to give it to him as a gift."

"It's Stork." Zhao Mingcheng sighed with emotion, "I have been away from Tokyo for many years and haven't drunk this wine for a long time."

She turned around and told the maid beside her, "Go and ask the lady to come over and tell her that there is an honored guest."

Suhexiang wine is not a fine wine that can be bought casually. It is actually a medicinal wine made with Suhexiang pills and is a treasure of the imperial palace.

It is naturally not found on the market, and is usually only bestowed by the government.

Chen Ran's bottle of storax was given to Ma Zhi by the government. After returning to Dongjing City, Ma Zhi kept in touch with Chen Ran through letters and occasionally sent him some gifts, and this storax wine was one of them.

It is true that Li Qingzhao loved wine. She herself wrote about it in her poems. Her three major hobbies were "composing poems, drinking, and collecting calligraphy and paintings."

It's not just good wine, it's even to the point of being an alcoholic.

Of course, one of her hobbies is missing, and that is gambling, and her favorite is playing mahjong.

Not long after, the greatest female poet of all time appeared in front of Chen Ran.

"The distinguished guest brought styrax? Then I must try it~~~"

'I met the historical figure Li Qingzhao, who was a woman of extraordinary talent and talent, unparalleled among women. She was free and easy, and loved wine, gambling, and collecting. However, her country was in ruins and her family was in turmoil. Her husbands fled the city one after another, and she was blamed for the consequences. She wandered for half her life and died in misery.'

'Note: You can modify two of the words.'

“It really triggered it.”

Chen Ran sighed in his heart, "This is God's will!"

For a moment, I was a little dazed.

Fortunately, he was determined and quickly came to his senses and bowed, "Meet the Madam."

Li Qingzhao's personality is free and easy, and she doesn't shy away from saying, "Those who bring good wine are good friends, please take a seat."

She also liked collecting bronze and stone inscriptions, and was very satisfied after reading the booklet that Chen Ran brought. They poured some wine, and the three of them chatted and laughed while discussing bronze and stone inscriptions literature, feeling as if they had met too late.

Chen Ran said goodbye and left. After leaving the post station, he changed the words "died in misery" to "died in peace".

"Since this is God's will, I can't go against it."

Zhao Mingcheng went to Jeju to take up his post, while Chen Ran continued to plan the expedition to Zengtou City.

However, every now and then he would take out a few oracle bone inscriptions translated by the modern world and write a letter to Zhao Zhizhou.

At the same time, he would write letters to Li Qingzhao to discuss poetry and send gifts.

The gifts given to Li Qingzhao were basically alcoholic beverages.

The Song Dynasty was an era of massive explosion in food culture. The emergence of iron pans and stir-frying replaced the previous practices of steaming, boiling, roasting and even eating raw, and a variety of dishes emerged one after another.

At the same time, varieties of fine wines also appeared on a large scale, and almost every place had its own special wines.

Chen Ran kept buying fine wine from passing merchants and traveling, and sent it to Li Qingzhao in bottles and jars.

Li Qingzhao never thought that Chen Ran would have other thoughts. In her opinion, she was already at this age, how could that be possible.

I just treated Chen Ran as a good friend with similar interests and wrote back to him very frequently.

We can't be hasty about wielding the hoe. Li Qingzhao's character is not one that can be easily manipulated. The first thing to do is to please her.

The preparations for sending troops to Zengtou City have been completed. Before the expedition, Yang Zhi proposed to divide the troops and launch surprise attacks on various villages in Zengtou City.

After careful consideration, Chen Ran rejected the proposal.

"Zengtou City has many horses and cavalry, and has strong mobility. Moreover, there are vast pastures and flat terrain. It is too difficult to launch a surprise attack."

He finally decided to fight head-on and headed straight for Zengtou City, forcing the Zeng family to gather their strength and fight to the death.

"Their family's wealth and clan members are concentrated in Zengtou City. If we attack them, they will be rescued."

This time, about 4,000 soldiers were sent out, and most of them were equipped with bows, crossbows and arrows.

Chen Ran regarded it as a rehearsal before fighting against the Jin people. After all, there were many Jin people in Zengtou City.

When thousands of soldiers and even more civilians came, the people of Zengtou City did not believe that they were here to fight them.

Of course, it was not their own ability that enabled them to build such a huge foundation in a foreign country. It was because they had the support of bigwigs in the court behind the scenes, and they made a huge fortune by selling horses.

With the support of the big guys, local officials dare not interfere in the seizure of land, forced relocation of people, etc.

As for the heroes of the world, those who are few in number can only come to steal horses.

If there are a lot of people, they can pull out thousands of people from Zengtou City, so they are not afraid of any more people.

Precisely because he is well connected with both the black and white worlds, no one in the Zeng family believes that anyone would dare to attack them.

Only when they were sure that they were really heading for Zengtou City did they hastily gather people and prepare for the battle.

The head of the Zeng family was named Zeng Nong, a Jin man from Liao.

As you can tell from his name, he is not from the Wanyan tribe that is now sweeping across the Liao Kingdom.

In fact, the Jin people had many different tribes. The Wanyan tribe was one of the stronger ones and had successfully unified the various tribes of the Jin people.

Zeng Nong originally went to the Central Plains to do ginseng business. Later, he used the century-old ginseng as a stepping stone to get in touch with the big boss, who took a fancy to his horse breeding skills. This is how he gradually established the foundation of Zengtou City.

Afterwards, he kept calling on his own people to come over, and gathered a powerful force.

He had five extremely brave sons, and he also hired two coaches who were said to be braver than ten thousand men. Under extreme mobilization, he could mobilize five to seven thousand troops.

Chen Ran came too suddenly, and Zengtou City was in a hurry to pull out only three or four thousand people.

However, most of them were just there to make up the numbers, and the real core was only a cavalry team consisting of hundreds of Zengnong people.

The two sides set up their battle formations, and someone from the Zeng family stepped forward to ask, "Who are you and why are you here to attack Zengtou City?"

No one responded to him, only the sound of many flags fluttering in the wind echoed.

"Are you blind? Can't you see such a big flag?" Lu Zhishen muttered a few words, and he was itching to rush out for a duel.

But as soon as he made a move, Chen Ran's eyes swept over him.

When large-scale troops are fighting, military discipline must be strict. Chen Ran will not allow such things as disobeying military orders and running out to fight alone to happen again and again.

After a short rest, the sounds of war drums and horns rang out, and a large group of people began to move forward in a mighty manner!

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