Chapter 515: Li Bai is not a romanticist at all, he is a realist!
On the bed curtain, the second emperor took off the crown that symbolized the supreme power of the Qin Empire.
The black bird that was singing with its neck raised fell to the ground, covered in dust. It was ultimately a waste of time.
He rested his arms on either side of Ba Qing's body, the fire in his heart still growing, demanding that he release it immediately.
Ba Qing's lips were stained with a moist luster, as if they were transparent.
Lying on the bed, her entire body posture was in full view.
"What a goblin ."
Ying Chengjiao's fingers lightly stroked Ba Qing's white swan-like neck. The touch was smooth, and his mood, which he had smoothed out with his inner strength, was like a meteorite hitting a lake.
Ying Chengjiao had seen many beauties.
Greengage and lilac, a pair of twin lotus flowers that are still young but have mature charm and beauty, work well together and have a mutual understanding.
The Yue women were heroic and valiant, more handsome than beautiful, sharp on the outside but strong on the inside. Under the sharp edge of the sword, there was a hint of tenderness, which only Ying Chengjiao had seen and tasted.
The three daughters of the Lu family: Lu Changgui is gentle and lovely, speaking softly and slowly; Lu Zhi is smart and capable, and the natural murderous look in her eyes is even more terrifying; Lu Shi... is still a child.
Ping'er, a girl with a sweet appearance but a very decisive heart, can be either salty or sweet. She is willing to please the Second Emperor in whatever flavor he wants.
Yu Ji, haven’t seen her yet.
The second emperor had a stamp-collecting mind towards wise ministers and generals, but he was much less attentive towards beauties.
First, "Yellow Emperor" is not perfect.
Second, from childhood to adulthood, Ying Chengjiao has seen countless beauties, too many to count.
Beauty has a very broad meaning, including purity, charm, coquettishness, and contrast, each with its own charm.
From the concubines in the Xianyang Palace, to the prostitutes in the pavilions, to the princesses and concubines of the fallen kingdoms of the six major kingdoms, Ying Chengjiao can be said to have seen all the most beautiful women in the world.
He simply didn't believe that there was such a thing as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Even intelligent AI cannot design a beauty that can make everyone give a thumbs up and say that she is the most beautiful woman in the world.
When I first traveled through time, I was thinking about catching Poppy and playing with her, but as time went by, this thought gradually faded away.
But she is just another beauty.
When outer beauty can be chosen at will, we lose the motivation to pursue it and instead begin to appreciate its inner beauty.
No one is born with noble sentiments. Most people, after their vulgar desires are satisfied, begin to pursue unattainable things and people.
Ying Chengjiao, who had a high resistance to female beauty for a long time, was fascinated for the first time in all these years and felt a sense of being moved.
The sleeping beast in my body has awakened.
His hand fell on Ba Qing's collar, grabbed a corner of the collar, and his fingertips touched the collarbone.
"You come by yourself, or I come."
The clothes she wore were very local.
The upper body of the garment is black in base color, and on the upper part of the sleeves, there are squares embroidered with copper coin patterns in the middle. The color of the copper coins is gold, and the color of the squares is red. It is a long garment with a round collar and a large collar.
The same pattern is on the left and right chests, except that it has changed from square to long.
Originally, the high-quality clothes in Ba and Shu only had gold and red.
Gold symbolizes sunshine and red symbolizes the red sun.
The countries of Ba and Shu believed that the sun gave them life and food.
The Central Plains people believe in heaven.
The people of Ba and Shu believe in the sun.
In the lands of Ba and Shu, only the superiors can wear the colors gold and red.
Ever since the Qin State occupied Ba and Shu, the clothes of the people in the two countries have been black.
Black is the most noble color.
The sun they believed in lost to the water.
The lower body is a knee-length blue pleated skirt, which the locals call a small flower seedling embroidered batik dress and which only nobles can wear.
Ba Qing's breathing became a little rapid, the mountains and hills shook, and she grabbed Ying Chengjiao's hand.
Her plump long legs are slightly arched, and her skirt slides down to reveal her snow-white skin.
"Your Majesty, is he so gentlemanly in bed?"
Ying Chengjiao suddenly said:
"You can speak Qin language."
What Ba Qing just said was in standard Qin dialect, which only the old Qin people could speak.
"What are you talking about?"
Snow legs loaded, Ba Qing licked his lips.
"Your Majesty, Ba Qing can say whatever you want to hear. Don't be so polite."
Ying Chengjiao narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Is that polite?"
"You're so polite!"
"How about this?"
The woman's hair was untied, and her three thousand strands of black hair fell down.
Her delicate head shook, her long black hair fluttered in the wind, every strand of hair swaying in Ying Chengjiao's heart.
She leaned over, her red lips pressed against each other, and her dragonfly lightly touched the water.
In an instant, this cool, soft spark directly detonated the powder keg in the second emperor's heart.
Long gowns with round collars and large collars, and dresses embroidered with small flower sprouts and batik.
Ba Qing leaned over to the Second Emperor's ear and chuckled.
"You're still too polite."
"What's considered rude? Like this?"
Ba Qing was about to speak when her pretty face turned pale and she begged:
"Your Majesty, please be gentle."
"You were suddenly attacked, yet you were able to maintain your charm skills. You are the most accomplished person in charm skills that I have ever seen."
Ying Chengjiao's words were bland and uninspiring, far less powerful than his hands.
Ba Qing frowned and said while enduring the severe pain:
"Your Majesty is the most noble man Ba Qing has ever seen. He can remain calm even in bed. I'm afraid any other man would have eaten Ba Qing clean long ago."
Ying Chengjiao said calmly:
"A table of delicacies from land and sea is placed in front of me and the people. The people eat in an ugly manner, but I can sit aside and humbly give way to them. Is it because they are not as noble as me? No. It is because they cannot eat delicacies from land and sea on a regular basis, but I can eat them every day. Comparing my thoughts with the people is like comparing my cultivation with that of farmers. Both are unequal. No one is born noble, but those so-called vulgar desires have been fulfilled. I think that the nobler the person, the more vulgar he is. People who don't love money must have enough money."
Ba Qing pulled open Ying Chengjiao's clothes and drew circles on them with her green jade fingers.
"Your Majesty, do you want to teach Ba Qing here today? Mei Gong is real, but Ba Qing is also real. What is your Majesty afraid of?"
"I just want to remind you of one thing. The reason why I am still in the Yuan Yang body is not because I can't break it, but because I have been too busy recently and can't find the time to break it."
Ba Qing lowered her head slightly. Even though she knew that the Second Emperor couldn't see her eyes, she still tried to hide the mockery in them.
Can't find the time?
You are almost thirty years old. A man gets married at fourteen. How come you haven’t found the time to break the marriage rules in these ten years?
You are afraid that the Yellow Emperor will lose his virginity and all his martial arts skills!
"Ba Qing doesn't understand what your majesty said. Ba Qing is still in the body of Yuan Yin."
"You chose this yourself."
In this huge palace, there was no third person except the two people on the bed.
There were no more eunuchs to watch and protect the safety of the King of Qin.
The Second Emperor couldn't get used to it.
Outside the hall, the Yue girl, who was sharp-eyed and sharp-eared and skilled in martial arts, had a cold expression on her face and a confused mind.
The words of Longxi Hou Li Xin kept echoing in my mind.
"Your Majesty is getting married, what are you doing here? Why don't you stay in the palace?"
If I had known this, I wouldn’t have come out!
The Vietnamese girl thought bitterly, and then she sighed softly, there was no way she could fight for it.
Compared with Ba Qing, her identity as the goddess of Baiyue is nothing.
Among all the empresses in history, except for the First Emperor who gave the position to the maid Afang, the rest of the empresses had powerful maternal families.
Nobles marry each other, and even kings marry each other. Marriage can be said to be the most reliable relationship in this era.
The Yue girl had heard Ying Chengjiao talk about Ba Qing before, and knew how much her husband valued this woman and how much power this woman possessed.
The two areas of Ba and Shu were nominally Qin territory, but in reality they obeyed orders and not declarations.
Qin had been away at war for many years, and few people from Ba and Shu joined the army.
Unlike the six kingdoms, Ba and Shu recognized the status of Qin and never thought of rebelling. They gave Qin money, food, and taxes.
But if it’s human, then it’s very difficult to deal with, there is no such thing.
The household registration lists submitted by Ba and Shu showed very few people.
According to the Qin State's conscription mechanism that required each family to send at least one person, it was impossible to recruit even a thousand people.
But the Qin State could not say anything, because the Qin officials sent there had checked and found that there were indeed so many people, and slaves and concubines were not counted as human beings. Ba and Shu hid all the people from the two places in the name of slaves and concubines.
If you fight for the sake of human affairs, it's not worth it.
The Ba and Shu regions are all mountainous areas, which are easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are many places where one man can block the pass and ten thousand men cannot break through.
Qin's victory was inevitable, but a pyrrhic victory was also inevitable.
They attacked Ba and Shu because they had few people, and after the battle, they had even fewer people.
It is still not certain whether the enemy can be defeated this time, and Qin State certainly will not do such a losing deal if it wants the people of Ba and Shu to actively join the army.
Anyway, the grain paid by Ba and Shu according to their land is not small, the logistical supplies are sufficient, and they also regard themselves as Qin people, so let's do it.
When King Huiwen of Qin wanted to conquer the States of Ba and Shu, he was originally after their land and grain.
It was for this reason that Ying Chengjiao placed high-yield grain planting in Ba and Shu.
Except for Ba and Shu, no other part of the Qin State dared to conceal the truth from the First Emperor.
Ying Chengjiao reached an alliance with Ba and Shu in the name of Lu Buwei of the Lu Chamber of Commerce. The two sides had a cooperative relationship rather than a master-servant relationship.
The Jiange was truly majestic and towering, and one man guarding the pass was truly enough to stop ten thousand. Ying Chengjiao was completely troubled when he saw it, and he would never be able to take it down without paying a price.
Li Bai is not a romantic at all, he is a realist!
The masters of Ba and Shu, after the destruction of Ba and Shu, were initially the Fang family and the widow Qing of Ba.
They are the two most mysterious merchants above the four or five major merchants.
In the past, when Lu Buwei became the prime minister, he sent several old stewards of the former trading company who were still in the government to secretly enter Bashu.
A year later, several old deacons returned one after another and finally lifted the veil of mystery surrounding the Fang family of Bashu and the widow Qing of Bashu.
The old deacons confirmed from many sources the extremely detailed fantasy story of the Shang clan, which made Lu Buwei and Ying Chengjiao deeply moved.
However, what surprised them even more was that Fang and Ba Guafu Qing were actually the same person, and Ba Guafu Qing was Fang's daughter-in-law!
The Fang family is a Taoist priest.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi was the most extravagant state in the world. The emperor, his ministers, the wealthy and powerful all sought immortality, and alchemists took advantage of the situation to flourish.
At that time, the Fang clan lived on the coast of the East China Sea, making a living by fishing and hunting, and had no surname.
Because he often collected rare treasures from mountains and seas and sold them to wandering alchemists to make elixirs, people called him Haiyaoshi.
One year, the autumn tide rose sharply, and a white-haired old Taoist priest's boat hit a reef and was trapped on Zhifu Island for half a month.
At that time, the Haiyao clan met a wandering alchemist who wanted to buy giant turtle eggs for a large sum of money. However, the tide was raging and no one dared to go out to sea.
The tribe leader was in a hurry and called all tribe members to discuss the matter urgently. They agreed that whoever could obtain the turtle eggs would be the tribe leader in life and the tribe god in death.
A young man in the tribe who was very good at swimming stood up with a loud voice. The whole clan saw him off warmly. The young man sailed out to sea in a small boat, and was submerged in the surging white waves in an instant.
Three days later, the young man returned and not only collected a rare turtle egg, but also brought back the dying old alchemist.
Ten days later, the old Taoist priest recovered. When he was offering sacrifices to the sea god, he suddenly called out to the young man:
"You are the water boy of the sea god! You have fallen into the mortal world, but you are not afraid of having your whole family feed the sea!"
The tribesmen were horrified and begged for a way to escape. The old Taoist priest said only one thing: "If this boy follows me to serve the sea god, your tribe will be blessed in the future!"
Fifty years later, the great alchemist who was regarded as the state teacher by Duke Jing of Qi came to Zhifu Island to seek immortality.
The Haiyao tribe responded and the entire clan became sailors.
When they reached Zhifu Island, the white-haired alchemist summoned the sailors of the sea medicine tribe to offer sacrifices to the sea at the bow of the ship.
After sending away the young servant, the great Taoist priest bowed deeply to the tribesmen:
"I am the one who went to the sea that year! My clan is so lucky!"
While cheering, the clan members gladly accepted the great alchemist's arrangement for the clan's destiny - if all the young men became alchemists, and the rest of us practiced as alchemists, then the Fang family would prosper!
From then on, the Haiyao family became a family of alchemists and a clan engaged in the elixir business.
At that time, the custom was to use one's occupation as a surname, so the Fang family came into being in the State of Qi.
The Fang family has had alchemists with great supernatural powers in every generation, as well as big merchants who monopolize the raw materials for elixirs.
By the time the Warring States Period began, the Fang family's alchemists had spread throughout the world and had become mysterious guests of honor in the courts of various countries.
When the Tian family replaced the Qi family, the tenth generation of alchemists from the Fang family had already firmly become the god of the Qi alchemists.
The so-called God is the first god worshipped by the people of Qi, and there is no such god in any of the Central Plains countries.
At that time, the three major coastal countries in the world - Qi, Wu, and Yue - all had a strong tradition of worshiping gods and practicing witchcraft. Their unique customs were also very different from those in the Central Plains.
The Fang family flourished and alchemists became popular.
However, no one noticed that all the members of the Fang family who were not alchemists mysteriously disappeared from various countries.
More than ten years later, large ships emerged from the mountains of Ba State.
Loaded with cinnabar, it went down the river to the Yunmeng Lake in the east, and then went north to Zhifu by sea. The big flag on the bow was flying the Fang family flag.
The fourth generation Fang family alchemist, who has become the Lord of Heaven, traveled around the world and discovered a huge secret.
There is natural cinnabar between the mountains of Bashu and the waters of Shu. If you can monopolize it, you will not only be the richest man in the world, but also the most powerful god!
Dan is cinnabar, commonly known as cinnabar, which is an indispensable material for alchemists to refine elixirs.
The so-called Danxue is the cinnabar mine.
The Fang family started out as a Danxue family and grew rapidly. As early as the reign of King Zhuangxiang of Qin, they were the richest people in the world.
To this day, people in Ba and Shu cannot do without the Fang family for food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Five to six out of ten people in Ba and Shu work for the Fang families.
