Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 10 Laws of the Gentlemen

  Beimang Mountain, also known as Pingfeng Mountain, Taiping Mountain and Jia Mountain. The height of Beiman Mountain is not too high, only about 300 meters above sea level, but it is relatively long. Vein, Xiaoshan offshoot.

There are mountains and rivers in Beiman Mountain, and the waters of Yi and Luo run through Luoyang City from west to east. Therefore, this area has always been the main activity place for the descendants of Yan and Huang. Since ancient times, Yan and Huang have settled here, multiplying and developing continuously. .

  The Cui family built a manor at the foot of Beiman Mountain.

  The aristocratic families in the Han Dynasty liked to build manors, and often regarded a manor as an important stronghold for family inheritance. The Cui family is no exception. The construction has already started when Cui Lieguan worshiped Situ in the previous dynasty, and now Cui Yi and Cui Hou are still adding and repairing, and the scale is quite large.

  Fei Qian estimated that the entire land was at least the size of twenty basketball courts, and there were craftsmen coming and going behind the manor. In ancient times, the land could be as big as it wanted. In modern times, at least tens of billions of land would not be able to handle such a large piece of land.

  Cui Hou also had a bright face, and introduced the layout of the entire manor to Fei Qian.

   It is said to be a manor, but it is actually more like a fortress.

  Cuijiazhuang, well, it can be considered that Cuijiazhai was built on a cliff of Mang Mountain in the north. Many cave dwellings were dug on the cliff, and they were all closed with wooden fences and guarded by some guards. They should be used to store some materials. At the foot of the mountain, a thick wall was built to enclose a large area of ​​land, and the mountain stream on the mountain passed through the village, and a deep ravine was dug outside the wall. Water storage function.

  The whole village is divided into more than ten parts, including the main residential area, ordinary residential area, ancestral hall area, workshop area, vegetable garden area, garden, storehouse area, market, etc., each with its own duties, complete planning, and complete functions.

  After the suspension bridge is the narrow Zhaimen. The gate entrance of the entire manor is comparable to the city gate. It is thick and strong, and there are main walls on both sides of the entrance. There is also a shooting platform set up in the gate, which is modeled on the watchtower of the city wall. At this time, several guards with bows and arrows are patrolling the top of the platform.

In order to defend against foreign enemies, the streets in the village are deliberately built with twists and turns, and there are many forks. If it is not Cui Hou who leads the way, unfamiliar outsiders will definitely not be able to find where the courtyard of the main house is. .

   Fei Qian was amazed, and did not hesitate to give a lot of appreciation.

  Cui Hou waved his hands very modestly, and at the same time, he introduced more interestingly how the construction was at the beginning, how much manpower was used...

  The construction is indeed very good. Half of the walls on both sides of the street are made of stone and half of which are yellow mud, which takes into account the functions of convenience and sturdiness. In addition to the mountain and stream water in Chuanliu Village, there are also many large water tanks to prevent fires. After all, houses in the Han Dynasty still had wooden structures such as wooden beams and wooden doors.

The main living area of ​​the Cui family is almost a mixture of gardens and military fortress buildings. The outer walls are all made of blue bricks, which is obviously different from the houses inhabited by civilians on both sides of the street. Brick carvings, stone carvings, and wood carvings are everywhere. Among them, the craftsmanship is exquisite and the styles are different. There are also three-storey turrets at the four corners of the courtyard, with slanted eaves raised.

   It is not easy to build such a Zhuangzi, which shows the strong financial resources of the Cui family.

  The farming structure of the Han Dynasty was basically like the Cui family's manor. Usually, the manor is used as a trade market and a place for exchanging items. Most of the people living in the manor are some property class, while farmers or helpers usually live in thatched huts outside the manor. If there is an enemy invasion, all of them will gather Go to the manor and guard against the wall.

  The small Cuijiazhuang model is actually the epitome of the entire Han Dynasty, and even longer, the Chinese feudal farming era. Except for a few dynasties, such as the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty, which were still able to send troops to defend against the enemy, most of the other dynasties were constantly defending, allowing nomads to wreak havoc outside the walls like locusts.

   Entering Cui's house, Cui Hou didn't take Feiqian to the side hall, but took Feiqian to the small hall in his own small courtyard, where the guests and the host were seated.

   The corners of Feiqian's mouth turned up slightly, exchanging the collection of books for the protection of the master, the effect was reflected.

  The Han Dynasty was an era that paid attention to etiquette and equality.

  What kind of places correspond to what kind of characters and specifications. In the main hall of Cui's house, Fei Qian's qualifications are not enough, even if he takes Fei Qian there, Fei Qian would not dare to be so rude.

Originally, Fei Qian was worried that Cui Hou would take him to the side hall. Going to the side hall also meant that it was a serious family banquet. Cui Yi was going to attend, so Fei Qian had to face Cui Yi directly. According to the etiquette, one has to leave the table and get up to answer. This is not only uncomfortable in terms of etiquette, but more importantly, it is very troublesome to be in an extremely passive position.

Now Cui Hou brought Fei Qian to his small courtyard and small hall to entertain, which means that today Cui Hou is the host, and Cui Yi, the elder of the Cui family, will not show up. The standard of the banquet has dropped to that of friends. It is a more casual peer-to-peer banquet, rather than a formal banquet that pays attention to etiquette.

Originally, the Cui family planned for Cui Yi to come forward. Firstly, Cui Yi has the status of an elder, and secondly, he is also an official of the former dynasty. Min's biography.

  The Cui family thought that Feiqian was just a side branch of the Fei family, and didn't get much attention from the main family, so such a powerless side branch family couldn't cause much trouble.

  But I didn’t expect Fei Min’s letter to include a special mention in addition to greetings, thanking the Cui family for their invitation and hospitality to Fei Qian, and expressing that he would invite the Cui family to be a guest if he had the opportunity.

Although the meaning is not clearly stated, such a letter from Fei Min has already revealed that Fei Qian is not an insignificant person who does not receive the attention of the main family as the Cui family expected before. To save face for Fei Min, it changed from a matter of a single person to a matter between the Cui family and the Fei family.

The position of admonishing doctor is not higher than that of Sangong, but Fei Min is the current official, and the biggest official of the Cui family, Situ Cui Lie is only a former official, and he is still deceased, so it is not that big in comparison The advantages.

  Based on weighing the pros and cons, Cui Yi did not come forward directly, but asked Cui Hou to entertain him, treating it as a pure invitation between friends.

  In this kind of small courtyard and small hall, there is no need to be as serious as a formal banquet. After Cui Hou sat down, he took off the crown and put it aside, and gestured to Fei Qian.

   Interesting, or is it a more casual bare-headed banquet? Fei Qian smiled, and took off his crown, thinking to himself, in fact, the ancients were also very funny, just such an action of taking off the crown actually implies that I am eating and drinking at will today, not talking about other meanings.

   Sure enough, with the arrival of dried fruit cakes, wine and juices, and all kinds of beef and mutton, Cui Hou never talked about business, but only talked about those romantic nights and street anecdotes for fun.

The Cui family is not simple, Liuli's profit is huge, but the Cui family was not motivated by the interests to do some desperate things, but let it go when it is time to let go like now, without showing any awkwardness or other negative emotions, I don't know The affection looks like a very sincere and warm friendship.

  The banquet lasts from afternoon to dusk, and the food and drink are full.

  Although the wine of the Han Dynasty is the same as the fermented glutinous rice of the later generations, it is slightly sweet and sour, and the alcohol content is low, but drinking too much will still make you intoxicated. Fortunately, I don't know whether Fei Qian's body has a strong anti-drinking function, or the drinking skills honed in the office from the later ages. Don't look at the flushed face, big tongue, and wobbly appearance. Most of them were submerged by Fei.

  The banquet came to an end, Cui Hou called the maid and prepared to let Feiqian go to the guest room to rest.

  In the Han Dynasty, a more decent banquet was eaten from noon to sunset, and then usually rested directly at the host’s house at night, so as to draw a successful conclusion to the whole banquet.

  Eat well and sleep well, then it is considered a treat. Basically, the guests didn't rush back overnight. Going back overnight is just as embarrassing to the host as leaving the banquet in the middle.

Fei Qian was staggered and walked towards the guest room with the help of the maid. After walking a few steps, he came back shaking, took out a scarf from his bosom, stuffed it into Cui Hou's hand, and said with his tongue out, "Brother treats you... No, no, no, little brother, brother will soon...will leave Luoyang, this party is my little brother, I got it by chance...special gift for brother to be here, parting,..."

  Before he finished "the" completely, Fei Qian spread out on the ground and fell asleep.

Cui Hou suppressed the drunkenness, tried to keep his eyes open, opened the scarf and took a look, the drunkenness disappeared immediately, he was surprised, called Fei Qian several times, seeing that Fei Qian was so drunk and lethargic that he couldn't wake up, so he had no choice but to Repeatedly emphasizing that Fei Qian should be taken good care of, then he took the towel and went to see Cui Yi without even having time to change his clothes.

  Cui Yi used to sit quietly for a while at dusk, when Cui Hou disturbed him, and seeing Cui Hou smelled of alcohol and his clothes were stained with wine, he couldn't help but want to teach Cui Hou a lesson.

   "Father, please do it slowly! Please, Father, take a look at this first!"

  Cui Yi took the scarf, swept it lightly, his drowsiness disappeared, and he frowned and said, "How did you get this thing?" Didn't you kid steal it while Fei Qian was drunk?

  Cui Hou hurriedly recounted what happened just now.

   "My son, it's not easy!" Cui Yi twitched his beard, "If this method is true, tsk tsk, it seems that my Cui family has fallen behind... Anyway, the Cui family will accept it!"

"After I write a copy, you quickly call the master craftsman in your family to test it according to this method, so as to see how effective this method is." Such a precious original must be properly preserved, Cui Yi straightforwardly ordered, and started working overnight , and no matter what kind of sleep.

Not to mention Cui Yi and Cui Hou's busyness, Fei Qian was supported by two maids to take a rest at this time, while walking staggeringly, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, the same thing would be different in different occasions Effect.

  If it is forced to take out this party, not only will it not be rewarded, but it will also be ridiculed. The law of the jungle of the aristocratic family has no warmth at all.

Now under the care of his master, Fei Min, Fei has temporarily obtained the equal status to Cui Hou. Regardless of how long this temporary position can last, taking it out under such circumstances means a gift of friendship. The Cui family must follow the rules of reciprocity among the nobles, otherwise they will lose their reputation among the nobles.

  The gentry family is such a contradictory yet unified group.

Since we are leaving Luoyang, the cleaner the better, of course. Besides, Fei Qian’s prescription for Cui Hou is only a little bit better than the Han Dynasty colored glaze formula, mainly because the lead material is more pure, and the colored glaze produced is as good as it is. It will be more shiny and translucent.

  Fei Qian even thought that if the Cui family could continue to conduct in-depth research and discover better formula ratios, it would be the Cui family's ability. Fei Qian, who was a little bit drunk, was thinking about it while being staggered to the guest room with the help of the maid. Suddenly, a red light came from the sky.

  At this time, the setting sun was like blood, reflecting the blood red of Luoyang City.

  (end of this chapter)