Zhu Zhengzhen answered in a clear and crisp voice: "I caught it by fishing."
Liu Qiaoer found it incredible that a child who was only two years old but less than three years old could fish.
Moreover, when she came, Liu Qiaoer also asked the villagers, and they found out that there were not many fish in the river because all the fish in the river had been caught by the villagers.
If there are any, they must have swam down from upstream in the past few days.
When Liu Qiaoer was making the fishing rod, she just didn't want the child to run around. She took a look at the river. The water was clear and not deep, so it would be okay to fall into the water in this kind of weather.
As for fishing, she never thought about what kind of fish a two-year-old could catch.
Well, since there are fish and they are so big, it would be unfair not to eat them.
Soon, the aroma of grilled fish wafted out.
Liu Qiaoer killed the chicken she brought from home, plucked its feathers, buried it under the fire, and made a beggar's chicken.
Seasonings such as salt and honey were also sprinkled on it. When Lou Wei came back from the city and found it, his mouth was watering.
"Miss, the letter has been sent back to the capital, and the message has also been delivered. Are we really going to stay here? Are we not leaving?"
Liu Qiaoer took a look at the green mountains and clear waters and the leisurely wheat fields in the village.
"Since someone wants us to stay, we won't leave..."
Someone wants us to stay here? Lou Wei wondered, wasn't it you who wanted to stay here
In this way, Liu Qiaoer, with her child, a few guards and a wet nurse, actually settled down in this small village.
After living there for about half a month, she received a letter from Cui Boxiao from Lancheng.
It turned out that this was a strategy planned by Cui Boxiao and Marquis Zhenbei. When they were fighting the Huns, Marquis Zhenbei said that the Huns Khan had a son who was a spy in the capital.
Even if the Huns were driven to the northwest, outside the desert, the Dayuan Dynasty would not have peace as long as there was a son.
Yes, how can I allow others to sleep soundly next to my bed
However, because Liu Qiao'er was in the capital and was very busy, the Marquis of Zhenbei did not tell her about this plan.
And precisely because she was not told, once the child was lost, she would be even more anxious and the Hun spies would take it seriously.
There were two children, one was raised in a separate courtyard and the other was raised in the mansion. The real Zhu Zheng was being raised by a wet nurse, while the fake Zhu Zheng was being raised by the Marquis of Zhenbei.
After learning the truth, Liu Qiaoer didn't blame anyone. After all, living in the village was really comfortable.
She rests at sunset and watches at sunrise. Although Liu Qiaoer doesn't have to work in the fields, she still racks her brains to think of what delicious food to eat every day.
The other guards took turns to go around the city to gather information. Lou Wei even went to a restaurant in the city and worked as a waiter in order to gather information.
In the blink of an eye, it was the twelfth lunar month. During that month, Marquis Zhenbei finally sent a message to Liu Qiaoer and the others, asking them to return to Beijing.
Cui Boxiao finally captured the youngest son of the Xiongnu, and all the Xiongnu spies in the capital were also eliminated. Liu Qiaoer brought Zhu Zhengzhen back to the capital.
This year, Zhu Zhengzheng was three years old. After the New Year, Zhu Zhengzheng should be enlightened.
When you are busy, time flies by like running water.
In the blink of an eye, four years passed and Zhu Zhengxing was seven years old.
According to normal history, the years of the Dayuan Dynasty should have been very chaotic, with the common people suffering from the opium addiction. The rich were all selling opium, while the middle class smoked opium and lost all their fortunes and their families.
The court officials of the Dayuan Dynasty were divided into two factions, one wanted to quit smoking, and the other wanted to make money.
In the end, he won the victory in quitting smoking and began to quit smoking, but because of the dissatisfaction of Western countries, he launched an invasion of the Dayuan Dynasty.
However, the court of the Dayuan Dynasty was corrupt and had no good weapons. The soldiers were also corrupted by opium. They were not good in terms of weapons and people, so they were defeated.
The Heyi Tuan in the south rose up in rebellion against the Dayuan Dynasty and became the savior of the common people.
However, the imperial court wanted to crack down on the rebels.
In short, it was a mess, and the savior Zhu Zheng started to attend the Imperial College that year.
However, now due to the intervention of Liu Qiaoer and Cui Boxiao, things are different. The Dayuan Dynasty is strong, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no longer any trouble with opium.
With advanced weapons and excellent equipment, the Zhennan Army defeated the Western countries in the south that wanted to invade the Dayuan Dynasty, forcing them to change their strategy.
Use high-end economy to deal with the people of Dayuan Dynasty.
However, many of the things they sent were no longer rare in the Dayuan Dynasty.
For example, glass, fine salt, advanced cannons, and long-pole guns.
On the contrary, they liked many things from the Dayuan Dynasty, such as ceramics, silk, various wood carvings, and landscape paintings that they had never seen before.
If they wanted to do business with the Dayuan Dynasty through formal business means, they would still suffer some disadvantages because they were not as shrewd as the businessmen in some places in the south.
So they started attacking outgoing fishing boats, and some pirates also emerged.
The army of Marquis Zhennan was doing well on land, but they suffered some disadvantages at sea.
So, those pirates followed the coastline, looking for the weak spots of the Dayuan Dynasty and began to invade, causing great suffering to the fishermen of the Dayuan Dynasty.
The development of maritime defense has become an unstoppable trend in the Dayuan Dynasty.
It was under such circumstances that Liu Qiaoer and Cui Boxiao came to the city known as the first seaport in the country in modern times, but during the Dayuan Dynasty, it was still a small fishing village.
"If we want to develop sea routes, that's fine. Didn't our ancestors make seven voyages to the West? The ships at that time were very big. We just need to increase their carrying capacity and install more cannons."
It is easier said than done by Cui Boyao, because at that time the ships of Western countries were already made of steel, and it was said that they had even built submarines.
Liu Qiaoer had other ideas, "I don't think we need to do too much. After all, if Dayuan Dynasty hadn't experienced those hardships, Zhu Zhengzhen wouldn't have grown up. Didn't Du Zixu say at the beginning that we shouldn't interfere too much?"
Cui Boxiao scratched his head. His hair had grown long now and was tied into a bun on top of his head. He just needed to wash his hair every two or three days, otherwise it would be itchy.
"I see. I just can't bear to part with those exquisite things."
Liu Qiaoer pointed to the bracelet on her hand and said, "At worst, we can put them all in the space. I have a bolder idea. We can take some things overseas to exchange for more advanced weapons."
For example, trains, cars, engines and so on.
Cui Boxiao's eyes lit up: "Okay, let's build a big ship first."
Shipbuilding technology has never been a problem for the Dayuan Dynasty, but the smelting of materials needed for shipbuilding is a problem.
Before they built the ship, what was supposed to happen in history still happened.
The Western countries were jealous of the Dayuan Dynasty and actually formed a Three-Kingdom Fleet to attack the Dayuan Dynasty. The Zhennan Army surrounded them in the south, so they chose to take a detour. As luck would have it, they arrived at the seaside city where Cui Boxiao and Liu Qiaoer were preparing to build a ship.
In Langya County, Qingzhou, Liu Qiaoer and Cui Boxiao were on high alert.