Chen Baisong and the others went to Huangzhou. Now Zhu Yuanzhang is guarding Hanyang. Zhu Yuanzhang is a natural general. He has a military intuition that no one else can achieve no matter how hard they try. Among the generals, Lin Yuan actually valued him the most.
But it also means worrying. He has already sat in this seat. Once Zhu Yuanzhang leads his soldiers to find a new way, he can only stomp his feet.
But Lin Yuan is also willing to believe in Zhu Yuanzhang.
Now is the chance for Lin Yuan to learn more about Zhu Yuanzhang.
Lin Yuan first asked Zhu Yuanzhang to send people to patrol to determine the daily curfew time of Hanyang.
In addition, several departments were added, each of which was in charge of the scholars brought by Lin Yuan, and the generals assisted by the side.
He didn't want his civil officials and military generals to be as tit-for-tat as An Feng.
That is not conducive to the healthy development of the political arena.
"Sir." Zhu Yuanzhang handed Lin Yuan the list of the generals assigned, and he said, "These people are all old people who follow me, and I know their temperament."
Lin Yuan took a sip of tea and said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "Sit down."
Zhu Yuanzhang sat down with kindness.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, this time guarding Hanyang with Lin Yuan was a good job.
Everyone can see Lin Yuan's preference for Chen Baisong, and the reason is very simple. Chen Baisong is his grandma. The two have known each other for a long time and understand each other. Lin Yuan is sure that Chen Baisong will not betray him.
But for others, Lin Yuan may not be so sure.
But Zhu Yuanzhang rarely got close to Lin Yuan.
Sometimes, the future will be brighter only if the superiors trust him and treat him as their own.
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally also hoped to gain Lin Yuan's trust.
But he knew that he was different from Chen Bosong.
Chen Baisong is the elder brother, and he met Lin Yuan halfway through. Yang Zian and Li Congrong still occupy the title of righteous brother, but he is not the only one.
So Chen Bosong and the others are Lin Yuan's own people.
Zhu Yuanzhang occasionally thinks that if he is Zhao Zilong, in order to be successful, let alone seven in and seven out to save Adou, even if he is in ten and ten out, he will go out for the rest of his life, and there is still a chance to go.
Lin Yuan smiled at him: "Drink tea."
Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the teacup and took a sip absentmindedly.
Lin Yuan said: "When Huangzhou is defeated, I will let Brother Li be stationed in Huangzhou. You and Bai Song will follow me to attack Anfeng. What do you think?"
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "If your lord goes on an expedition, you will be invincible."
Lin Yuan sneered: "You don't need to say these compliments, I know how much I have and how much I have. You all know me and my temper for so many years under my hands."
Zhu Yuanzhang stopped talking, and he didn't know what Lin Yuan wanted to say. The safest thing was to keep his mouth shut.
Lin Yuan said: "I used to say this, and it seemed that I was too arrogant. Now, when I say this, it is considered to be in line with the trend. When I sit in that seat one day, I will make you a king of different surnames."
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't dare to look directly at Lin Yuan, but a huge wave had already set off in his heart.
People who follow Lin Yuan all want to get the power of the dragon, but everyone knows that the king with different surnames is easy to say, but there have been few since ancient times. This is undoubtedly a huge temptation, no one can resist, and Zhu Yuanzhang naturally also cannot.
Lin Yuan: "I do what I say, as long as you live up to me, I will live up to you."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked into You Ming's eyes, and naturally wanted to show his loyalty at this time.
After Zhu Yuanzhang was sent away, Lin Yuan began to look at the financial statements of Gaoyou and other places. The quarterly statements were sent to Lin Yuan. The income and expenditure of the property were clearly written. The ancients had the wisdom of the ancients. Lin Yuan After proposing the simplification of financial reports, they came up with a new way to simplify and transform on the original basis, and Lin Yuan looked at it very easily.
But it still takes a lot of time.
Lin Yuan sometimes felt that he was a person looking for trouble by himself. He should have officials who specialize in property management, but those officials were taken away by him to manage people's livelihood, and he preferred to check these financial reports by himself.
People die for wealth and birds die for food. No matter how loyal the people below are to him, they may be in front of huge interests.
Gaoyou and other regional reports that are already on track look good every season.
Although it has not been equal to the previous expenditure, people have become self-sufficient, and the economy has started a virtuous circle. Because of the increase in factories, the gap between the rich and the poor is not large. The rich are the original rich, but the poor are already living Much better.
After reading the report, Lin Yuan asked people to pack up and prepare to go out for a walk.
As soon as he crossed the rockery, he was hit by someone running towards him.
Lin Yuan frowned. There shouldn't be rough people where he was. When he looked down, he understood—
The person who bumped into his arms was a woman. She was under the age of 20. She had a pair of deer-like eyes, her eyes were moist, her skin was as delicate and white as jade, her lips were red, and she was small but exquisite. , she knelt down in a panic and pleaded guilty.
Lin Yuan: "Get up and be more careful in the future."
The woman's shoulders were shaking, she wanted to look up at Lin Yuan, but she didn't dare.
"Put away your little thoughts and spend your energy where it should be spent."
After Lin Yuan said this, he lifted his foot and left here.
Only the woman was left on her knees.
She looked at where Lin Yuan left, biting her lower lip, she couldn't fail, her parents and relatives were all in Dadu, if she failed, she would never see them again.
As long as this Nan Wang is still a man, she will definitely be able to occupy a place by his side.
Lin Yuan thought that this hairy girl was just an episode, but he didn't expect that he would always "run into" him on various occasions. Her desire was so obvious that she could see through it at a glance.
Now Lin Yuan doesn't think that women will long for him because they love him. He is no longer a human being. He is a combination of power and wealth. People approach him to get some benefits from him.
The heights were so cold that Lin Yuan sometimes felt that he couldn't tell what was true love and what was false.
He also wished he had someone to sleep with.
But this also seems to be a luxury.
The human heart is difficult to control, and it is difficult for him to say whether he will one day be influenced by his emotions.
According to Lin Yuan's own plan, he doesn't need heirs, but luckily he doesn't like children very much either.
The little girl's name was Yubi, and she would always come to Lin Yuan's side.
Even Yang Shaowei would occasionally say, "That little maid is deeply in love with adults."
In the eyes of these men, it is normal to accept one or two women, and both men and women yearn for powerful people.
There are also many good-looking young people who are also willing to rely on strong, middle-aged men.
The worse the world is, the weaker the moral concept, and the more open the social atmosphere will be.
Yubi was also noticed by Lin Yuan.
This weak, deer-like woman, she seems to be by Lin Yuan's side all the time, paying attention to Lin Yuan, her eyes are full of love that can be seen at a glance, and it is difficult for everyone with strong love. ignore.
Lin Yuan couldn't ignore it either.
But he didn't feel anything.
There are all kinds of women around him, seductive as sweet, gentle as red sleeves, self-improvement and self-reliance. They don't think about anything other than admiration.
Lin Yuan sometimes felt that he was probably indifferent.
It's just that he hadn't discovered it before.
But Lin Yuan ignored Yubi, and Yubi always found a way to meet Lin Yuan by chance.
Lin Yuan felt bored, so he said to his subordinates, "transfer her away. If anyone can appear by my side, what's the use of me asking you?"
Women are always more likely to be underestimated. People think that Yubi is a lovely girl. She is young and beautiful. Nan Bodhisattva has never had a female companion since he came to Hanyang, so he feels that he has opened up for Yubi. The door of convenience can be a good one.
After all, it is one of their responsibilities to be their master, Namei.
Behind the heroes, there are always the words "red sleeves and fragrance".
Erliang whispered while waiting for Lin Yuan to wash up: "Young master is now in Hanyang, and the people below are always worried that you will not take care of the young master. When they were in Gaoyou, there were sisters like Hongxiu who served him. Now they are in Hanyang. If they don't get it, they won't get any benefit."
Lin Yuan: "..." It seemed that they all cared about his bed.
Erliang laughed and said, "Young master, I think that Yubi is really good-looking and has a good temperament. It is also suitable for him to serve the young master."
Lin Yuan wouldn't be angry with Erliang. Erliang had been in a relationship with him for so many years. Lin Yuan sighed and said, "Erliang, why did you defect?"
Er Liang was taken aback: "... This, how can this be called a mutiny!"
"Sharing the master's worries and giving the master Namei is our responsibility as servants." Er Liang was very aggrieved, "If you were a woman, I would definitely find the innocent son of the family to offer it."
Lin Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "If you are an eunuch, you must be Zhao Gao's role."
Erliang covered her crotch, her face was blue and white: "Young master, I am married to a wife, because the young master cuts the meat of the Erliang, I am afraid that I won't be able to keep my daughter-in-law, and I will wear a cuckold in the future, I will cry. Nowhere to cry."
"Okay, let that Yubi serve me." Lin Yuan took off his clothes and lay on the bed, and said to Erliang, "Don't make me feel boring."
Twenty-two laughed twice.
Lin Yuan rested his head in his hands and looked at the beam of the bed, wondering who this Yubi was in his hands.
Now it seems that it is not the court, but Fang Guozhen's people. Now that the court is over, Fang Guozhen must find a way out.
Either find someone to take refuge in, or stand on their own.
But in today's world, apart from him and Anfeng, the people who stand on the mountain themselves are all small and troublesome, and they really occupy the mountain and become the emperor of the land.
Since he sent someone over, let him laugh at it.
Even if it's not Fang Guozhen's person, it's a piece of bait, and it's time to see if any fish are hooked.
Lin Yuan turned over and closed his eyes, brewing drowsiness.
In the early morning of the next day, Yubi was sent to Lin Yuan and became Lin Yuan's personal maid.
Lin Yuan didn't ask her about her background either. Erliang said that she came from refugees, but she thought about it. If women came from refugees, most of them would stay in Gaoyou. The servants who followed Lin Yuan were all old servants of the Lin family. Lin Yuan is nostalgic for the old, and the clothes are not as good as the new. He also doesn't want to get acquainted with the new. The old knows him better, knows his temperament, and knows what he hates, so he won't step on his bottom line.
What's more, the old servants are not too afraid of him, there is awe, but it has not reached the point where Lin Yuan will be scared to death with a glance.
Yubi is a delicate person, she is good at observing words and expressions, what Lin Yuan wants doesn't have to be said, she will naturally offer it.
It would be fine if she had been serving Lin Yuan, but she just arrived by Lin Yuan's side, which only means that she was raised like this since she was a child.
If you observe people, how to do what they like, she has research.
Moreover, Yubi has a good relationship with the servants. The servants all believed that she would become Lin Yuan's woman, so they were willing to hold Yubi either intentionally or not.
Yubi became an anonymous hostess in Lin Yuan's house.
She herself was probably blinded by this atmosphere.
After all, Lin Yuan has a good temper and smiles at others. Even if she occasionally does something wrong, Lin Yuan never scolds her.
Sometimes when the two of them looked at each other, Yubi would blush and heartbeat. She found that there was no woman beside Lin Yuan, not even a maid for relief. Lin Yuan lived extremely self-disciplined.
But it is such a person who is more likely to be drawn into the temptation of alcoholism.
"My lord, this is the new fruit wine." Yubi came in a lot, she knew how to walk the best, and she looked graceful. She brought the wine to the table in front of Lin Yuan, and persuaded softly, "You can taste it. taste."
It was probably due to Lin Yuan's indulgence during this period of time, and Yubi was much more courageous.
Lin Yuan is not worried about the poison in the wine. The poisons of this period are not colorless and odorless, and most of them have a pungent smell. If they are used to poison people, they will not put them in the wine. Lin Yuan sniffed the aroma of the wine and said with a smile: "This wine is good, you sit and we drink."
Probably because Lin Yuan's smile was too gentle, Yubi sat down like Zhongxie.
But after sitting down, she realized that she was not qualified to sit, but standing up at this time seemed to be disobeying Lin Yuan's order again, so it would be better to just sit like this.
Lin Yuan asked her, "Do you still remember where you are from?"
Yubi had already prepared the draft, and quickly said, "This servant is from Hezhong Prefecture."
Yubi held her breath, waiting for Lin Yuan to continue asking.
But Lin Yuan didn't ask any more, but drank for himself.
Lin Yuan's face was drunk, and he took off his clothes and went to bed again.
Yubi just waited, waiting for Lin Yuan to stop moving on the bed before she walked over cautiously.
She untied Lin Yuan's clothes, exposed Lin Yuan's chest, and took off Lin Yuan's pants.
But the drunk man couldn't act, Yubi cut a small slit in her waist, letting blood fall on the quilt.
Opening the wound here is not as conspicuous as it is on the hand, and the scab will basically heal the next day. This is a method she learned before, but she didn't expect it to be useful one day.
After all, she had never had a relationship with anyone, and Yubi didn't know much about men and women.
She only knew that if it fell red, it was done.
She lay beside Lin Yuan, covered with a quilt, and stripped herself completely.
Yubi didn't sleep all night, she just kept her eyes open, thinking about her family.
She had known for a long time that she would have such a day. When she was a child, she was more beautiful than she is now. Her parents and brothers thought she was a rare commodity, and when she was old, they never promised her, thinking that one day the family could rely on her to rise to heaven.
But in Dadu, are there less beauties
Huanfeiyan is thin, Han people, Mongolians, and Hu people, women have their own beauty and style.
When she got older, her beauty was dusted, not as bright and beautiful as when she was a child.
Her father and brother sent her to her foster father's house to be a maid, hoping that she could climb onto the master's bed, or at least become a concubine.
There are not many women in the house, and all of them want to climb higher. When she went there, the sisters in the same room taught her a lot of things.
But the foster father didn't touch her, he said she was beautiful, that her beauty was the beauty of a child, the whole body was the most beautiful, but the eyes were the most beautiful.
So she took her as a righteous daughter.
Yubi always thought that she would be offered to the emperor by her adoptive father.
As long as she is favored by the emperor, her father and brother will be satisfied, right? Will praise her as a good daughter, a good sister, and her mother will be proud of her.
But she was not dedicated to the emperor.
She waited year after year, holding on to expectations every year until that year passed.
When her adoptive father told her to let her go to Haozhou, she was not without fear. She grew up so big and never left Dadu. She only ate the food of Dadu, and only saw the scenery of Dadu. She knows every street, and she also knows which pastry shop has delicious desserts.
But she dared not ask her foster father to let her stay, because she knew that this was her only use.
But she's not the only girl sent to Haozhou by her adoptive father.
There are more than a dozen people walking with her, all of them are very beautiful, small family jasper style, ladylike style, and dusty women, they have everything, they know what they are going to do, and the expressions on their faces are full of resignation. the taste of.
Yubi also accepted her fate.
They just want to protect their family members or the people they value. Their weaknesses are all held by their adoptive father. Even if they die in Haozhou, they cannot betray their adoptive father.
But when they arrived in Haozhou, they tried every means possible, and in the end, only Yubi became a maid and had the opportunity to contact Lin Yuan.
And most of them, after running out of money, can only find work to support themselves.
It's not that no one wants to stay in Haozhou.
Yubi still remembered that before she left, the sisters were sitting together, and a little sister said, "I want to stay here... My parents don't love me, neither do my brothers, they pushed me out to die, I don't want to. Listen to them, I can work here by myself, find a man to marry in the future, and live my own life."
No one spoke at the time.
But when Yubi left the next day, she didn't see the little sister.
I don't know whether she was smothered to death or strangled to death, whether she died tragically.
Yubi left numbly.
Their life and death are not controlled by themselves, just like duckweed, they can only drift with the waves.
Yubi turned to look at Lin Yuan's profile.
If she is not the daughter of the foster father, if he is not the king of Nan.
How good would that be.
She will be a husband and a child, and like all ordinary women, she will be worried and proud of her husband and children.
But she had no choice.
She has such a face and such a family, so it was decided that she could only walk this way, from the beginning to the end.
When Lin Yuan got up, he looked beside him, Yubi was pretending to be asleep, she pretended to be natural, Lin Yuan just stared at her face like that, he knew clearly that he had nothing to do with Yubi, such a young A girl born in the wrong era is destined to be called a victim of the era.
Lin Yuan sighed silently.
In the end, if you can save her life, then save it.
When the world was peaceful, a girl like Yubi could probably be an ordinary person.
"Sir?" Yubi opened her eyes at the right time, she looked at Lin Yuan in horror, and then looked at her body under the quilt, she lowered her head and began to sob, "Slave, slave drank with your lord last night, how unexpectedly I don't know when..."
Lin Yuan showed great pity and pity, and he said softly, "Don't panic, I will give you a name."
Yubi raised her head in amazement, her name
Lin Yuan: "Although I can't let you be the wife I'm marrying, I can let you be my concubine. I'm afraid I'll hurt you."
Yubi hurriedly sobbed and said, "Don't feel wronged, as long as you can follow the adults, even if you don't want to be named, just be a servant, the slave will be satisfied."
Lin Yuan stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on Yubi's face, and coaxed, "Don't cry, go wash up quickly."
Yubi became Lin Yuan's concubine, and the only concubine.
This time, Lin Yuan's backyard was shaken - although Lin Yuan's backyard was either a cook or a servant, but as soon as they were shaken, plus Lin Yuan's intention to indulge, Nan Bodhisattva accepted a beautiful woman, and the news of his love spread out.
In the absence of entertainment, this is big news.
Although the beauty is a concubine, her status is not high, but she is followed by the most powerful person, even if it is a maid, she can reach the sky.
So many families in Hanyang began to send beauties to Lin Yuan.
Whether it was his own daughter or one bought from outside, the housemaids, as long as they were beautiful, were all given to Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan also smiled.
He still lacks female officials. These women, no matter what their backgrounds, must know the characters. If they are not proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, they must have a rough understanding. In this era of illiterate people, regardless of gender, Lin Yuan who can read is useful. .
Yubi gradually calmed down after the initial fear and worry.
Lin Yuan treated her gently, and she was the only concubine. He pity her weak, cared about her body, and refused to do things with her.
In Yubi's eyes, who are used to seeing men's inferiority, it is the expression of loving her, loving her, respecting her and respecting her.
In Yubi's eyes, Lin Yuan is a kind person who can only be found in the book. He is gentle and gentle, modest and courteous, and elegant, and she is willing to use all beautiful words to describe him.
She can always receive gifts from Lin Yuan, whether they are expensive or cheap, every time Lin Yuan sees her, he will bring them to her.
Yubi sometimes was alone, she would take out all those gifts and put them on the table, watching in a daze.
She wanted to forget Dadu, her parents and brothers, her foster father, and her sisters who were still in Haozhou, so she could only be herself and do what she wanted to do.
As she watched, tears fell.
She had no choice, never had.
No one cared about her thoughts, no one cared about her needs, she was just an insignificant pawn on the chessboard.
Her life is in the hands of others, and she has no right to say no.