After talking, Guo Shao became very interested in Mrs. Chen.
Not only because she took the initiative to ask for the betrothal gift, but also because of her business in Youzhou, Liao, and had hatred against the Khitans, etc.... This information quickly turned into a thought in Guo Shao's mind: to inquire about the geographical and military information of the Liao Kingdom through the trade exchanges of the Chen family.
But after all, I don’t know much about Mrs. Chen’s background, and some business deals are not important, but Guo Shao is still more cautious if it involves military and national affairs.
He didn't mention anything else for a moment, but discussed the betrothal gifts and bid farewell to each other.
...Guo Shao returned home and told Yulian what happened today so that she could feel at ease.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, what Yang said next to Guo Shao was shocked. She said: Chen Jiali, isn’t Zhou Ehuang’s cousin?
Is Zhou Ehuang the eldest daughter of Zhouzong of Southern Tang?Guo Shao couldn't help asking.
Yang nodded and said: Yes, Zhou Ehuang is very famous in the Southern Tang Kingdom. Her name is Zhou Xian, and Ehuang is her name.Before that, when there was no war in Huainan, Zhou Ehuang repaired the "Rich Shop and Feathered Clothes" in Yangzhou, and even sent someone to write letters to me to talk about this song.
When talking about Zhou Ehuang, Guo Shao certainly knew that he was the famous Zhou Hou!
However, the king of Southern Tang is still Li Jing. Zhou Ehuang had just married Li Jing's son and was far from being granted the title of queen.
This woman is not only famous in this era, but also very famous a thousand years later. Even people like Guo Shao who only knows history in textbooks and films know... Of course, the Great Zhou Dynasty is not as famous as her sister Xiao Zhou Dynasty; the little Zhou Dynasty is famous in later generations but not what she wants. It was because she was humiliated by Emperor Taizong of Song and painted for memorial purposes. She was really humiliated by Emperor Taizong of Song for thousands of years.
After hearing this, Guo Shao sighed: I really don’t know that you have contacts with the people in the Southern Tang Palace.It is said that Zhou Ehuang is both talented and beautiful, can sing and dance, and can write poetry. Since she can write letters to you to talk about music, then Yue'e (Yang's family) is also famous in the Southern Tang Dynasty?And she is also a talented woman?
Yang's cheeks turned slightly red and he said softly: If I had no fame at all, how could I be sent by those people?But his fame is not as great as Zhou Ehuang.Of course, I also understand the rhythm of singing and dancing... but the master is not good at this. When I see me, I will make me so hard that my whole body is as if I have no choice but tossed. How can I have the strength to dance and play music?Besides, who will I jump to show and who will I play?
After hearing this, Guo Shao sighed and said: In this way, I have really wasted your talents and your talents.I don't know much about the rhythm and dance, I'm just a vulgar.
Yang smiled and said: It doesn’t matter, the master’s talent is not here.Those talent and music are just things to play with in their spare time. People who know how to play with are reluctant to avenge me; when Yangzhou is attacked, they even send me to me like a plaything... The soldiers' army has half lived and died, and the beauty is still singing and dancing under the tent.What's the point?
She was right. Guo Shao is indeed not very interested in singing and dancing talents now, and it takes too much time and effort; his love for beauty itself is an exception, which is completely biological instinct.
With that free time, he was always worried about the Northern Expedition and how he would deal with him if Zhao Kuangyin gained power in the future.
However, Guo Shao was still very interested in Mrs. Chen, so he said: Could Chen Jiali be of the same name and surname?Since she is Zhou Xian’s cousin and a relative of Zhou Zong, the minister of Southern Tang Dynasty, how could she be a businessman?
Yang said: The Chen Jiali I know is from a merchant family.She is not Zhou Xian's cousin, and I can't figure out what kind of relative relationship she is now... In short, Zhou Xian's uncle's family is Chen.The Chen family is a large number of people. They used to migrate from the north to Yangzhou to settle down, with many branches; Chen Jiali's family is one of them.
Although the Chen family married the ministers, the tribesmen below were not all rich and noble.If Chen Jiali's family can become a big businessman, it is considered a lineage with a good and prosperous family.Merchants are nothing. The major salt and iron merchants in the Southern Tang Dynasty are all royal nobles. Who would think that if they can have money, how did the money come from? As long as it is clean, it is enough.
Guo Shao nodded and said: Since it is a big family, as long as I confirm that the Chen family is a relative of Zhou Zong, the minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, there should be no problem with Chen Jiali.The Southern Tang Dynasty was hostile to the Great Zhou in the past because the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty often had the ambition to attack the Central Plains in the north; but now Huainan has changed control, and the Southern Tang Dynasty has no strength to threaten the Great Zhou, and its relationship has improved very quickly.
A while ago, I learned in the court that the official had written a letter to Li Jing, the lord of Jiangnan, and advised him to move the capital from Jinling, "I have made up the righteousness of Jiangnan, but I am worried that the future generations will not be able to accommodate the lord of Jiangnan. You can build a city god and rectify the key points when I was alive.’The two countries are in harmony, and the Southern Tang Kingdom no longer needs to be enemies with the Great Zhou.
After hearing this, Yang said: Didn’t the official in the Southern Tang Dynasty be called Zhou Duan?He is from the Zhou family and may also know Chen family. Why don’t the master ask Zhou Duan?
Guo Shao thought it was good, so he sent someone to the outer court to find his personal soldiers to Xuzhou to send a message, because Zhou Duan is now placed in Xuzhou (Zhongwu Jieduan Zhenjie).
Guo Shao had wanted to establish a staff office in Xuzhou, but it had not been implemented. Zhou Duan is now unemployed. I heard that he lived in Xuzhou well and showed no sign of running away.
He came to Jingniang again, asked her about buying the market holes, and handed over the matter of inquiring about the merchant Chen family to Jingniang to find a solution.
...A few days later, Zhou Duan rushed to Tokyo and after meeting, he said that the Chen family did have a female named Chen Jiali, who was very beautiful, so she was famous among the big families in Yangzhou.
Guo Shao thought: The head of the Shen family died and got married. It was better to continue marriage with Li in the three families and less trouble; but he insisted on reuniting Mrs. Chen, and he could guess that Mrs. Chen was beautiful and matched what Zhou Duan said.
Many news can be twisted together, and Guo Shao thinks Mrs. Chen’s identity is more credible.
At this time, he thought of the simplest and most direct way and asked Yang: Have you ever met Chen Jiali?
Yang said: I met several times when I was in Yangzhou.
Guo Shao immediately decided to let Yang and Mrs. Chen recognize each other directly. If they knew each other, then Mrs. Chen would be more reliable... He cleared his thoughts again: If Mrs. Chen was Zhou Xian's cousin of the Zhou Dynasty, he would be a famous, surnamed and identity person in the Southern Tang State; the Southern Tang State had no rival relationship with the Zhou Dynasty, and even the monarchs of the two countries were gradually getting better and more like a pair of pants. The Zhou Dynasty emperor Chai Rong also helped Li Jing come up with ideas and took the initiative to indulge Li Jing in repairing fortifications for his descendants.
The monarchs are like this. The Chen family, a large family that moved south to Yangzhou, had no need to be hostile to the Zhou Dynasty.
Since the Chen family was a large clan of the Southern Tang Kingdom before, they had nothing to do with the Khitans far away from the north.
In this way, Guo Shao can cooperate with Chen's multinational business group with his status as a senior military general.
In order to make friends, Mrs. Chen did not hesitate to lose profits to show goodwill, but Guo Shao had no reason to turn it off at all.
Guo Shao immediately instigated Yang and Mrs. Chen to have a letter exchange.
By mid-March, Mrs. Chen sent an invitation letter to Guo's mansion; she asked Guo Shao to bring her concubine Yang to her Tokyo villa as a guest, and she would prepare a banquet for hospitality.
Guo Shao answered happily, and went with the flow and wanted to take this opportunity to reach substantial cooperation with Mrs. Chen.
Mrs. Chen’s residence in Tokyo is located in the west of the inner city, between Zhengmen and Liangmen, and on the bank of the Bian River.
In comparison, there is not that lively. The west side of the city is only very prosperous near Xihuamen, but it is very quiet after crossing the Bian River south... because the inner city's handicraft area, commercial area, and hostel area are all in Dongcheng.
Guo Shao took a team of people and took a bus over. He saw that there were mainly residential buildings and few bustling commercial streets.
For a moment, I felt that Mrs. Chen was very good at choosing places, and the land price was cheap, so she wanted to have a quiet environment.
When I arrived at the mansion, I saw that the door was open, but there was only one person inside, that is Aunt Sun.
There was no warm welcome atmosphere at all, and there seemed to be no few people in the deserted yard.
Aunt Sun did not call General Guo, but said: If you are visiting your old friends, I will be in a farewell way.Please, distinguished guests.
Guo Shao called his followers to come in together, and then he saw two servants in the gatehouse leading the horse and leading the guards to tie the horses.Guo Shao followed Aunt Sun with Jingniang and Yang.
Aunt Sun led the way and said: This house is the wife's private property, and there are not many people; it is not convenient for the wife to go out to meet her.The etiquette is a bit negligent and inappropriate, and I hope the guests will be content with them.
Guo Shao smiled and said: Yue'e and I are not very honored to be invited by Mrs. Chen, so we don't have to pay too much attention to those common etiquettes.
After passing the screen wall, I saw a courtyard full of flowers and plants, and the big houses in front came into view between the treetops.
Aunt Sun brought Guo Shao and others to the hall, and saw that the room was very spacious, so spacious that it was a little empty.
But it is clean enough to be spotless. The floor is not like the floor tiles laid in the corridor, but wooden boards; chairs and tables are also unpainted wood.
The monotonous and simple colors make the place look quiet, elegant and simple.
It is really rare for merchant mansions in this world to look like this.
Aunt Sun invited Guo Shao to sit down and stood beside him.Seeing that there were cushions next to several cases, but there were no stools and chairs, Guo Shao and Yang had to find a place to kneel down. Jing Niang stood beside her and didn't want to sit.
The invitation letter said that I would hold a banquet to entertain, but now I don’t have any dishes, wine, and even tea.Guo Shao naturally couldn't help asking others what they wanted to eat, so he chatted with Yang for a few words, pretending not to care.
At this moment, I heard a cool and soft voice saying: General Guo and "Madam Yang" have been waiting for a long time. I waited for the spring water to boil, which took a while.
Guo Shao turned his head to look at him and saw a woman wearing a plain skirt coming from the inner door, holding a wooden tray and sand teapot.
However, there was a scarf covering her face, but it was useless. The translucent gauze could not cover anything. As expected, the pretentious person always had to take something to look.
Oh, Mrs. Chen, I really saw you in Tokyo.Yang said in surprise, how did you serve tea yourself?
Not only because she took the initiative to ask for the betrothal gift, but also because of her business in Youzhou, Liao, and had hatred against the Khitans, etc.... This information quickly turned into a thought in Guo Shao's mind: to inquire about the geographical and military information of the Liao Kingdom through the trade exchanges of the Chen family.
But after all, I don’t know much about Mrs. Chen’s background, and some business deals are not important, but Guo Shao is still more cautious if it involves military and national affairs.
He didn't mention anything else for a moment, but discussed the betrothal gifts and bid farewell to each other.
...Guo Shao returned home and told Yulian what happened today so that she could feel at ease.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, what Yang said next to Guo Shao was shocked. She said: Chen Jiali, isn’t Zhou Ehuang’s cousin?
Is Zhou Ehuang the eldest daughter of Zhouzong of Southern Tang?Guo Shao couldn't help asking.
Yang nodded and said: Yes, Zhou Ehuang is very famous in the Southern Tang Kingdom. Her name is Zhou Xian, and Ehuang is her name.Before that, when there was no war in Huainan, Zhou Ehuang repaired the "Rich Shop and Feathered Clothes" in Yangzhou, and even sent someone to write letters to me to talk about this song.
When talking about Zhou Ehuang, Guo Shao certainly knew that he was the famous Zhou Hou!
However, the king of Southern Tang is still Li Jing. Zhou Ehuang had just married Li Jing's son and was far from being granted the title of queen.
This woman is not only famous in this era, but also very famous a thousand years later. Even people like Guo Shao who only knows history in textbooks and films know... Of course, the Great Zhou Dynasty is not as famous as her sister Xiao Zhou Dynasty; the little Zhou Dynasty is famous in later generations but not what she wants. It was because she was humiliated by Emperor Taizong of Song and painted for memorial purposes. She was really humiliated by Emperor Taizong of Song for thousands of years.
After hearing this, Guo Shao sighed: I really don’t know that you have contacts with the people in the Southern Tang Palace.It is said that Zhou Ehuang is both talented and beautiful, can sing and dance, and can write poetry. Since she can write letters to you to talk about music, then Yue'e (Yang's family) is also famous in the Southern Tang Dynasty?And she is also a talented woman?
Yang's cheeks turned slightly red and he said softly: If I had no fame at all, how could I be sent by those people?But his fame is not as great as Zhou Ehuang.Of course, I also understand the rhythm of singing and dancing... but the master is not good at this. When I see me, I will make me so hard that my whole body is as if I have no choice but tossed. How can I have the strength to dance and play music?Besides, who will I jump to show and who will I play?
After hearing this, Guo Shao sighed and said: In this way, I have really wasted your talents and your talents.I don't know much about the rhythm and dance, I'm just a vulgar.
Yang smiled and said: It doesn’t matter, the master’s talent is not here.Those talent and music are just things to play with in their spare time. People who know how to play with are reluctant to avenge me; when Yangzhou is attacked, they even send me to me like a plaything... The soldiers' army has half lived and died, and the beauty is still singing and dancing under the tent.What's the point?
She was right. Guo Shao is indeed not very interested in singing and dancing talents now, and it takes too much time and effort; his love for beauty itself is an exception, which is completely biological instinct.
With that free time, he was always worried about the Northern Expedition and how he would deal with him if Zhao Kuangyin gained power in the future.
However, Guo Shao was still very interested in Mrs. Chen, so he said: Could Chen Jiali be of the same name and surname?Since she is Zhou Xian’s cousin and a relative of Zhou Zong, the minister of Southern Tang Dynasty, how could she be a businessman?
Yang said: The Chen Jiali I know is from a merchant family.She is not Zhou Xian's cousin, and I can't figure out what kind of relative relationship she is now... In short, Zhou Xian's uncle's family is Chen.The Chen family is a large number of people. They used to migrate from the north to Yangzhou to settle down, with many branches; Chen Jiali's family is one of them.
Although the Chen family married the ministers, the tribesmen below were not all rich and noble.If Chen Jiali's family can become a big businessman, it is considered a lineage with a good and prosperous family.Merchants are nothing. The major salt and iron merchants in the Southern Tang Dynasty are all royal nobles. Who would think that if they can have money, how did the money come from? As long as it is clean, it is enough.
Guo Shao nodded and said: Since it is a big family, as long as I confirm that the Chen family is a relative of Zhou Zong, the minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, there should be no problem with Chen Jiali.The Southern Tang Dynasty was hostile to the Great Zhou in the past because the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty often had the ambition to attack the Central Plains in the north; but now Huainan has changed control, and the Southern Tang Dynasty has no strength to threaten the Great Zhou, and its relationship has improved very quickly.
A while ago, I learned in the court that the official had written a letter to Li Jing, the lord of Jiangnan, and advised him to move the capital from Jinling, "I have made up the righteousness of Jiangnan, but I am worried that the future generations will not be able to accommodate the lord of Jiangnan. You can build a city god and rectify the key points when I was alive.’The two countries are in harmony, and the Southern Tang Kingdom no longer needs to be enemies with the Great Zhou.
After hearing this, Yang said: Didn’t the official in the Southern Tang Dynasty be called Zhou Duan?He is from the Zhou family and may also know Chen family. Why don’t the master ask Zhou Duan?
Guo Shao thought it was good, so he sent someone to the outer court to find his personal soldiers to Xuzhou to send a message, because Zhou Duan is now placed in Xuzhou (Zhongwu Jieduan Zhenjie).
Guo Shao had wanted to establish a staff office in Xuzhou, but it had not been implemented. Zhou Duan is now unemployed. I heard that he lived in Xuzhou well and showed no sign of running away.
He came to Jingniang again, asked her about buying the market holes, and handed over the matter of inquiring about the merchant Chen family to Jingniang to find a solution.
...A few days later, Zhou Duan rushed to Tokyo and after meeting, he said that the Chen family did have a female named Chen Jiali, who was very beautiful, so she was famous among the big families in Yangzhou.
Guo Shao thought: The head of the Shen family died and got married. It was better to continue marriage with Li in the three families and less trouble; but he insisted on reuniting Mrs. Chen, and he could guess that Mrs. Chen was beautiful and matched what Zhou Duan said.
Many news can be twisted together, and Guo Shao thinks Mrs. Chen’s identity is more credible.
At this time, he thought of the simplest and most direct way and asked Yang: Have you ever met Chen Jiali?
Yang said: I met several times when I was in Yangzhou.
Guo Shao immediately decided to let Yang and Mrs. Chen recognize each other directly. If they knew each other, then Mrs. Chen would be more reliable... He cleared his thoughts again: If Mrs. Chen was Zhou Xian's cousin of the Zhou Dynasty, he would be a famous, surnamed and identity person in the Southern Tang State; the Southern Tang State had no rival relationship with the Zhou Dynasty, and even the monarchs of the two countries were gradually getting better and more like a pair of pants. The Zhou Dynasty emperor Chai Rong also helped Li Jing come up with ideas and took the initiative to indulge Li Jing in repairing fortifications for his descendants.
The monarchs are like this. The Chen family, a large family that moved south to Yangzhou, had no need to be hostile to the Zhou Dynasty.
Since the Chen family was a large clan of the Southern Tang Kingdom before, they had nothing to do with the Khitans far away from the north.
In this way, Guo Shao can cooperate with Chen's multinational business group with his status as a senior military general.
In order to make friends, Mrs. Chen did not hesitate to lose profits to show goodwill, but Guo Shao had no reason to turn it off at all.
Guo Shao immediately instigated Yang and Mrs. Chen to have a letter exchange.
By mid-March, Mrs. Chen sent an invitation letter to Guo's mansion; she asked Guo Shao to bring her concubine Yang to her Tokyo villa as a guest, and she would prepare a banquet for hospitality.
Guo Shao answered happily, and went with the flow and wanted to take this opportunity to reach substantial cooperation with Mrs. Chen.
Mrs. Chen’s residence in Tokyo is located in the west of the inner city, between Zhengmen and Liangmen, and on the bank of the Bian River.
In comparison, there is not that lively. The west side of the city is only very prosperous near Xihuamen, but it is very quiet after crossing the Bian River south... because the inner city's handicraft area, commercial area, and hostel area are all in Dongcheng.
Guo Shao took a team of people and took a bus over. He saw that there were mainly residential buildings and few bustling commercial streets.
For a moment, I felt that Mrs. Chen was very good at choosing places, and the land price was cheap, so she wanted to have a quiet environment.
When I arrived at the mansion, I saw that the door was open, but there was only one person inside, that is Aunt Sun.
There was no warm welcome atmosphere at all, and there seemed to be no few people in the deserted yard.
Aunt Sun did not call General Guo, but said: If you are visiting your old friends, I will be in a farewell way.Please, distinguished guests.
Guo Shao called his followers to come in together, and then he saw two servants in the gatehouse leading the horse and leading the guards to tie the horses.Guo Shao followed Aunt Sun with Jingniang and Yang.
Aunt Sun led the way and said: This house is the wife's private property, and there are not many people; it is not convenient for the wife to go out to meet her.The etiquette is a bit negligent and inappropriate, and I hope the guests will be content with them.
Guo Shao smiled and said: Yue'e and I are not very honored to be invited by Mrs. Chen, so we don't have to pay too much attention to those common etiquettes.
After passing the screen wall, I saw a courtyard full of flowers and plants, and the big houses in front came into view between the treetops.
Aunt Sun brought Guo Shao and others to the hall, and saw that the room was very spacious, so spacious that it was a little empty.
But it is clean enough to be spotless. The floor is not like the floor tiles laid in the corridor, but wooden boards; chairs and tables are also unpainted wood.
The monotonous and simple colors make the place look quiet, elegant and simple.
It is really rare for merchant mansions in this world to look like this.
Aunt Sun invited Guo Shao to sit down and stood beside him.Seeing that there were cushions next to several cases, but there were no stools and chairs, Guo Shao and Yang had to find a place to kneel down. Jing Niang stood beside her and didn't want to sit.
The invitation letter said that I would hold a banquet to entertain, but now I don’t have any dishes, wine, and even tea.Guo Shao naturally couldn't help asking others what they wanted to eat, so he chatted with Yang for a few words, pretending not to care.
At this moment, I heard a cool and soft voice saying: General Guo and "Madam Yang" have been waiting for a long time. I waited for the spring water to boil, which took a while.
Guo Shao turned his head to look at him and saw a woman wearing a plain skirt coming from the inner door, holding a wooden tray and sand teapot.
However, there was a scarf covering her face, but it was useless. The translucent gauze could not cover anything. As expected, the pretentious person always had to take something to look.
Oh, Mrs. Chen, I really saw you in Tokyo.Yang said in surprise, how did you serve tea yourself?
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