The scale of Jiangning County is actually not large, at least much smaller than Jinling in the later Song and Ming dynasties.
The layout of the city is also simple, the county and the Jiangnan East Province government office area is in the central location, the west is the market business square, the north is the common people's residential area, and the east is the "rich area" where the city's bureaucracy and aristocracy are located.
At the eastern end of the city, there is a spacious and quiet alley, where the residence of Yang Qi, the highest local military administrator, is located in the Jiangnan Eastern Provincial Disposal Envoy and Soldier and Horse Xuanfu Envoy.
Yang Qi was originally an observer of the Jiangnan Dongdao and had no real power, but after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the emperor fled the imperial capital in a hurry, and the imperial court existed in name only, and the restraining force on all the provinces in the world was reduced to an unprecedented degree.
Yang Qi took advantage of the situation, wrote to the imperial court, and said generously and bluntly, willing to lead hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Jiangnan to swear to fight against the thieves to the end, defend the Tang Dynasty, go to the soup and go to the fire to do their best, and then it has been cloudy.
In fact, this is also a false empty declaration, anyway, anyone with a discerning eye knows that An Lushan's rebels will not be able to reach Jiangnan for the time being, and the so-called "bow to the end and die" is at most to keep their own territory.
Li Longji received Yang Qi's loyalty on the way to escape, and it is said that he was moved to tears, and personally issued an edict to canonize Yang Qi as the Jiangnan East Province disposal envoy and the soldiers and horses Xuanfu envoy, with full authority to control the military and political affairs of the east and west of Jiangnan, and strive to ensure that Jiangnan does not fall into the hands of thieves.
Yang Qi's justifiable "duty to defend the land" thus became the de facto emperor of the Jiangnan area, integrating political and military power, and his prestige was prominent.
As for how Kong Sheng became the "soft rice eater" of Yang Qi's family, the reason is not complicated.
It's nothing more than that after the funeral of Kong's mother, Yang Qi remembered some old feelings and adopted Kong Sheng in the mansion.
To be honest, Yang Qi initially wanted to promote the marriage of his daughter Yang Xueruo and Kong Sheng.
Although Kong Sheng did not inherit the talent and learning background of the famous Confucian family, some of them did not learn and did not have skills, and it was impossible for them to grow into the great Confucians of the world.
But seeing that Kong Sheng was born with brute strength and was brave and ruthless, Yang Qi secretly had a deeper thought in his heart.
The future situation is complex and difficult to speak, whether it is the Tang Dynasty to exterminate the anti-thieves, or the anti-thieves to take over the country, it will be a chaotic era in a few decades.
In troubled times, there is a hero, the military power comes out of the power, the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, and those who have grand plans should chase the Central Plains For the local real power faction on the separating side, this is not an opportunity to change his life against the sky, with the expansion of power, Yang Qi's ambition is also secretly expanding.
He's watching, and he's gathering momentum.
And if he is herding horses in the Central Plains, whipping the world, or separating Jiangnan and establishing himself as the king, his subordinates will naturally need to work hard for him.
Therefore, he had the intention of cultivating Kong Sheng for the future.
Of course, this kind of ambition is categorically unspeakable, and can only be hidden deep in the heart.
Yang Qi took great pains to hire the Saiwai Ranger to teach Kong Sheng swordsmanship and martial arts, hoping that he could succeed in his studies, at least as a pawn for the Yang family.
If that's the case, there's some value in giving him his daughter; But the result made Yang Qi extremely disappointed, although Kong Sheng is good at martial arts, but he has no longevity and perseverance, and he also learns martial arts for three days to fish and dry nets for two days, and he only knows how to walk the streets and alleys to drink and fight all day long, which has brought a lot of trouble to the Yang family.
Yang Qi gradually lost his patience, and decided that Kong Sheng was incomprehensible, and the idea of sweeping him out of the house became stronger and stronger.
The door of Yang's mansion was wide open, and 10 sword-wielding domestic slaves stood on both sides, standing solemnly.
Although he is known as a house slave, he wears the standard armor of the Jiangnan Army, only wears a helmet, and is indescribably majestic and murderous.
It is said that the scale of this honor guard is already arrogant, after all, Yang Qi's grade is still a little worse, and he is not a prince.
But in this Jiangning County town, who dares to point fingers at Yang Qi, most people, including local officials, mostly pretend not to see anything.
Seeing Kong Sheng coming, the guards didn't pay attention to him, just glanced at him with extremely disdainful eyes, and let him walk into the house.
In the Yang Mansion, from Yang Qi and his wife to the slaves' families, no one took Kong Sheng in their eyes.
Kong Sheng's mood had already calmed down, and on the way here, he had made up his mind to leave the Yang Mansion to fend for himself, so he naturally turned a blind eye to the disdainful looks of these house slaves.
Along the way, there are actually few people in the city who give him a good face, but what is this Even if Kong Sheng was a stupid pig and a toad covered with abscesses, what does it have to do with him Kong Shengjing ran to a side room in the first outer courtyard of the Yang Mansion, which was his residence in the Yang Mansion.
Judging from the place where Yang Qi placed him, Kong Sheng secretly sneered in his heart, which is the posture of recruiting a son-in-law, which is clearly a sign of the death of a captive slave.
But Kong Sheng won't care about these things anymore now, he is about to push open the door to pack his things, and then leave calmly, cutting off any relationship with the Yang family.
A peach-eyed and apricot cheek maid with a pair of bright big eyes stood at the shadow wall at the entrance of the courtyard and shouted coldly: "Kong Sheng's soft egg" was called a "soft egg" one after another, Kong Sheng was a little helpless, and glanced up at the little girl.
It seems that this "soft rice eater" is really a parasite that everyone in the Yang Mansion rejects, and the treatment is so bad that even the people in the Mansion call him around, and you are embarrassed to call yourself the uncle of the Yang Mansion Kong Sheng settled down, knowing that this maid is called Cotton Cotton, her family's surname is Mu, she entered the house at the age of 5, and she is the personal messenger of Yang Xueruo, the daughter of Yang Mansion.
If the domestic slaves and maidservants are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the red cotton can be regarded as the "senior staff" and "core person" among the slaves.
"Cotton Tree Girl, what is the matter with calling something" Kong Sheng bowed his hand to the Cotton Tree roughly, in his opinion, this is already more polite and civilized.
Hongmian waved his hand angrily and said: "My lady and young lady called you to go to the inner hall to discuss matters, come with me" Hongmian turned around and left, she didn't even bother to say the word "please", which shows that Kong Sheng, the so-called uncle, is too unworthy of his name.
Kong Sheng hesitated slightly, but still followed behind Hongmian and walked towards the inner courtyard.
The inner courtyard of the Yang Mansion is the inner house where Yang Qi and his family live, and servants and house slaves are never allowed to enter without permission.
Kong Sheng was adopted by Yang Qi into the mansion for so long, and he never entered it once.
That's enough to say a lot.
Yang Qi "summoned" him and talked to him a few times, all in the outer courtyard, and simply gave two hasty orders, and then brushed his sleeves away.
The layout of the mansions of the magnates in the Tang Dynasty was basically a template.
The front yard of the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard are located on the same central axis, and are connected by a corridor with mullioned windows to form a quadrangle, while the buildings in the courtyard are symmetrically constructed on the left and right sides of the central axis.
The inner courtyard is just a general name, in fact, it is a comprehensive system of multiple courtyards and garden buildings, the number of courtyards, the scale of the garden, and the value and status of the owner are about the same.
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For the Yang Mansion, the whole building group is distinctly divided into primary and secondary, high and low, with a grand and varied outline.
The overall style is stretched and simple, solemn and generous, and the color is simple and bright.
Kong Sheng's clear and calm gaze sometimes fell on the back of the tiled house and the kiss of the owl, and sometimes on the back of the delicate body of the red cotton girl who had not yet grown, and his mind was like a light horse, and he probably guessed that it was nothing good for Mrs.
Yang Qi and her only daughter to summon him for the first time.
What Cotton Tree led him to was actually the single courtyard where Yang Qi's daughter Yang Xueruo lived.
When you enter the brown-red archway, you will not be greeted by a regular shadow wall, but a green bamboo forest swaying in the wind.
Walking out of the bamboo forest on the cobblestone path, at the door of the hall, Hongmian turned around and said coldly: "Wait, the slave family will go in and report" Kong Sheng was noncommittal, almost habitually and subconsciously clasped his hands and arms in front of his chest, and wantonly looked at the quiet and extremely stylish furnishings in the courtyard.
"Come in, remember, you must not be presumptuous and rude when you see Mrs. and Miss" After a while, Hongmian came out to call, but whispered a few words with a cold face.
Kong Sheng smiled indifferently, and didn't care about the rude pride of the red cotton, and walked into the hall of the eldest lady of the Yang Mansion's own living room.
From the perspective of modern people, in fact, the interior furnishings are very simple, a flower shadow screen lives in the hall, the ground is covered with a soft carpet, behind a low agarwood table, two four-legged and eight-legged stools, there are two dignified and solemn women, one old and one young, naturally Yang Qi's wife and daughter.
Yang Qi's wife, Zheng, has a face like a full moon and a plump body, which is in line with the popular aesthetic values of the moment.
She wore a wide-sleeved cardigan with dark and light colors, a long skirt, and a noble lady's signature fallen horse bun, with a fair complexion, but there was a seeming indifference between her eyebrows and eyes, which was intimidating.
Sitting next to her is Yang Xueruo, a delicate melon seed face like a hibiscus out of the water, eyebrows like distant mountains, bright eyes and bright teeth, and the half-arm tunic skirt of the underskirt contrasts her graceful and slender body to the fullest.
There was an obvious coldness in her dignified demeanor, which was obviously deliberately done in the face of Kong Sheng.
Kong Sheng didn't look at it much, and hurriedly gave a salute.
Although the Tang people were open, and the defense of men and women was not as strict as that of the later Song and Ming dynasties, the ladies and ladies of the powerful families were high, and any contempt would lead to a stormy suppression. oshow7 t1706231537: