"Where's mother?" Su Yunting has been taking Shuyao out to play these days. He is not in a hurry to find a job and is happy to have a leisurely time.
This time he brought Shuyao to watch the wrestling competition.
"Mother thinks it's too noisy and doesn't want to come." Su Yunyan lined up behind Su Yunting with great interest. She had prepared much more than Su Yunting.
She didn't carry a cross-body bag, but instead a cowhide backpack. The backpack was bulging and there was a fluffy little pendant hanging on the strap.
It was a felt doll that looked like a kitten. Su Yunting looked at it carefully before realizing that it was Xiaohua, the child raised by his mother.
Su Yunting: "Don't you like to watch the fun the most, mother?"
If given a choice, A Niang is not very willing to go out, but it also depends on the situation. A Niang would be interested in interesting things like wrestling competitions.
The queue was very long. Su Yunyan took out a bag of fennel beans from her backpack and gave half to her brother and sister-in-law: "Maybe he has something bothering him. I heard from Aunt Lumei that he has blisters in his mouth."
Su Yunting's eyes sparkled. If A Niang could get angry, she must be in a very difficult situation. "No wonder Aunt Lumei has been making bitter melon these days."
The three of them were eating fennel beans while waiting in line. Not long after, a group of strong men dressed in grassland clothes came to the end of the line laughing.
Winter is coming, and some grassland people still like to come to Yunzhou to spend the winter.
Most of these people have relatively wealthy families, or have fought against the Tartars together with Duke Yun.
The military discipline in Yunzhou is strict, but when facing the Tartars, Gu Nanxi's order was to win three points each time.
Therefore, many soldiers who followed the attack on the royal court made a fortune.
This group of people are generous and outgoing, and they just love to drink. Some people can't handle alcohol well, and once they drink too much, they tend to get into fights.
It’s only been a month since winter began, and there are already more than a dozen gang fights happening every day.
Gu Hai saw that this was not going to work. Why were you fighting? Aren’t you just full and have nothing to do? ! When you were hungry before, you didn’t have the time to fight.
In that case, I'll find something for you to do!
So the wrestling competition began to be organized. The government was very considerate and opened the venue, allowing the contestants to practice on the competition field for only two cents a day.
Look, after several months of hard training, it’s finally time to begin!
The wrestling tournament was held in a venue that was once the site of a Cuju competition, with more than 30 competition platforms set up.
The atmosphere was already heating up before the contestants even entered the venue.
Many grassland people heard the news and came over on horseback, braving the wind and snow.
Those young guys working in the tourism industry would not miss this opportunity and began promoting the wrestling tournament in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun a month in advance.
Some ordinary people who originally did not want to go out and just wanted to stay at home and lie on the kang during the winter were made uneasy by these propaganda. But they also thought that they could join a tour group and come to Yunzhou to buy New Year's goods. What a great deal!
Therefore, the tour group business is booming.
Su Yunting had only waited in line for a quarter of an hour when the line doubled in length, including several tour groups.
Those people from the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun who came to Yunzhou for the first time looked left and right, their faces full of curiosity, their eyes almost unable to take it all in.
"Is this Yunzhou? It's different from what my father said! My father said that this place is very desolate and sparsely populated."
"Hey, that was so many years ago! When your father left Yunzhou, this place was not even called Yunzhou!"
"By the way, Manager Xie, if you're not busy helping the master prepare for the New Year, how do you still have time to come to Yunzhou?"
Manager Xie smiled faintly and said nothing.
The new policy of Yunzhou had a great impact on the powerful people in various states, especially Yongzhou.
At that time, the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun were ceded away. The Xie family, a noble family in Yongzhou, did not have time to escape and was slaughtered by the invading Tartars.
Later, the new head of the Xie family decided to cut off the family line in order to survive. He took the initiative to use half of his family wealth to bribe the Tartar generals and let the daughters of the Xie family become wives and concubines. This gave the Xie family a glimmer of hope.
Does the Xie family hate such humiliation?
Of course I hate it, and I hate it so much.
But these noble families are like dodder flowers wrapped around big trees, absorbing nutrients from the trees and strengthening themselves.
The Xie family could not defeat the Tartars, but when it came to conspiracy and political tactics, how could a group of uncivilized Tartars be their match?
After several decades of operation, Yongzhou was actually governed jointly by the Xie family and the Tatars.
At the beginning, when Duke Yun and the Tartars fought with all their strength, the Xie family did not make any statement. It was not until the Xie family learned about the firearm incident that twelve of the sixteen states of Youyun fell into Gu Nanxi's hands that the Xie family turned around and decisively sold out the Tartars.
The Xie family originally thought that they could gain some benefits with this achievement, but they did not expect to be greeted with the new policy of Yunzhou.
This is fucked up!
The Xie family was unwilling to accept this, and the new policy of Yunzhou was difficult to implement in Yongzhou.
Manager Xie was sent out to take advantage of the fighting competition to contact old friends and see if there was any opportunity in Yunzhou.
Manager Xie came over and looked at them coldly. Yunzhou was just so-so. How could he be as great as he boasted?
In a state capital, the government office is not even one-fifth the size of the Xie family's, and the governor's mansion is about the same as an ordinary house. If there wasn't a sign saying "Governor's Mansion", who would dare to believe that this is the Governor's Mansion? !
Manager Xie narrowed his eyes and fixed his gaze on the Su Yunting siblings at the front of the team.
The girl has a rosy face, but she is wearing a light pink jacket and a yellow pleated skirt. Her hair is combed to one side and tied into a bun with only a few velvet flowers inserted in it.
A young girl looks good in anything she wears.
Manager Xie curled his lips. The clothing style in Yongzhou likes to follow that of Kyoto. Expensive clothes are popular nowadays, and girls like to inlay pearls on their cuffs and collars.
But this Miss Su San did not have a single pearl on her body.
Rather than saying it was simple, Manager Xie believed that it was because Yunzhou was poor!
The people of Yongzhou in the tour group were very curious about Yunzhou: "Is that Su Erlang? He looks very handsome! What is his official position now?"
The tour guide smiled and said, "I'm not sure. Su Erlang just came back not long ago, and I haven't heard that he has been assigned an official position yet."
Some people speculated: "Duke Yun has only two sons. The eldest son is still a hostage in Kyoto, while the second son is with Duke Yun. Who will inherit the huge family business in the future?"
"Is there any need to ask? Of course it's the boss!"
"It's hard to say! In ordinary wealthy families, brothers would quarrel over the inheritance of the family business and never talk to each other again. Let alone this kind of wealth!"
"That's exactly the case. Although the eldest son is the eldest son, the second son is in Yunzhou and can definitely win the hearts of the people. It's hard to say what will happen in the future."
Manager Xie looked at Su Yunting who was talking to the girl, with all kinds of thoughts lingering in his mind.
Some things are not a question of whether you want to do it or not, but when you are in this position, there will be many people pushing you forward.
And isn't this what the noble families are best at? (End of this chapter)
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