I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 233 I am a friend of the Wei family
Today's Zhou Tianzi is not easy. During the court meeting, the monarch and his ministers basically talk about trivial matters. Which village has a dispute this time, and what will happen to the people in which area tomorrow.

National affairs?The feudal vassals played their own games, and some of them didn't even ask the emperor of Zhou to stamp the change of monarchy.

Of course, there are also princes who report to the emperor of Zhou when there is a change of monarchy, and only ascend to the throne after obtaining permission.

It's just that the indispensable procedures are not taken seriously compared to before. No wonder many people opened their mouths and shut up and said a few words of courtesy and joy.

What's even more tragic is that after the finances were exhausted, the Zhou royal family couldn't even play games for self-entertainment.

The army has become an extremely extravagant thing in the Zhou royal family, and the number of troops in charge of the Emperor Zhou is not even as large as the private armed forces used by the big merchants in "Luoyi" to protect the business teams.

Several generations of Zhou emperors hated the state of Jin very much, and repeatedly made trouble for the hegemony of the state of Jin.

Although the Jin State was only superficially obedient to the Zhou royal family, at least it maintained the face of the emperor of Zhou. Afterwards, the two sides were a little bit torn apart. In fact, everyone was hurt, and generally speaking, the Zhou royal family was even more uncomfortable.

Why?Because at least the state of Jin has abundant martial arts virtues, but the royal family of Zhou has only the ancestors who have been corrupted and have little face left.

The decline of the Zhou royal family made Han Geng go to "Luoyi" to return to the social circle of his friends. He didn't think "Luoyi" had anything to mention.

When Zhong Wu heard that Zhou Tianzi sent an envoy to thank Zhishen, his expression became dull.

Except for Zhiyao and Han Geng, the rest of the people didn't know that among the gifts Zhishi gave to Emperor Zhou was the ritual utensils of Zhongshan Kingdom, they only thought that Emperor Zhou was a courtier who was getting worse from generation to generation, and even licked his courtiers when he was greeted.

Then again, it is not shameful to lick the "Yuan Rong" of the Jin Kingdom, and many people are not qualified enough to lick it.

They entered the territory of Zheng State via "Wang Ye" and "Huang".

A few years in the morning, you can see farmland everywhere on the border between Zheng Guo and the Zhou royal family, and you can see a "state" ten or twenty miles apart.

Now?The State of Zheng made a strategic contraction of the State of Jin. The land that used to be farmland was overgrown with various weeds, and every "state" was abandoned.

"When will the Wei family go south?" Zhi Yao asked Wei Ju.

Zheng Guo himself was discouraged, the nobles were relocated, and Li Shu was also taken away. They are creating strategic depth. The question is how old is Zheng Guo?

Wei Ju glanced at Zhiyao with a strange look, and thought, "No way, man! Why don't you just open your mouth to ask such an important matter?"

That's right, any family's plans for the future can be regarded as strategic goals, and outsiders can ask.

Zhi Yao understood the meaning from Wei Ju's eyes, and said with a smile: "If Qi is like this, how can the Zhi family live up to the good intentions."

To make it clear is to expand in which direction, it is not a secret, to ask is to show magnanimity.

Wei Ju smiled wryly, and said, "It's hard to be stable inside, maybe it takes five years old?"

Do you think that everyone is Zhishi, who can quickly digest after swelling a large circle, and can go into battle again with light clothes?
Open your eyes and see, the rest of the Jin family, which one is not moving forward with heavy burdens, even if the opportunity is obviously good, they are overwhelmed and unable to move forward.

Hu You's chariot was right next to him, and he interjected, "My family wants to ask for Bai Zhai next year, if you are interested, you can come."

Han Geng answered immediately and said, "There must be the Han family."

Is it so obvious?

This year they favored Zhiyao's field, and next year it will be their turn to favor Han's and Hu's.

Zhiyao is quite indifferent.

The Zhi family is training new troops, and they need to test them in actual combat from time to time, otherwise they won't be able to train elites just by training.

Moreover, it is only a small-scale use of troops, even if there is no need to test the new army, how can a family not fight all year round, it will be raised as a pig, and it is very likely that it is not as good as a pig.

After all, there are often large-scale defeats in history. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops are dealt with within two or three days. If tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of pigs run away, it will take more than two or three days to catch them, right?
Zhiyao said that she would support her, and the rest of the people must not be left behind.

Suffering is still suffering for Zhao Bolu. They lost about [-]% of their territory, and about half of the population remained. Production could no longer keep up with consumption. If they used troops from time to time, it would definitely make the situation worse.

They went to a place called "Jing" first, and were really shocked by the courage of Zheng Guojun and his ministers.

This "Beijing" can be regarded as a big city, but Zheng Guo still gave up if he said he would give up.

"The city of Zheng Guo has Guo Guo outside, and at least three floors." Zhiyao stood on the inner city wall, scanning the city.

In fact, the city is not completely deserted.

After Zheng Guo abandoned the city, many savages came to the city to search for things, and many savages settled in the city abandoned by Zheng Guo.

The Jin army came over and scared the savages inside after entering the city. They ran as soon as they could, but if they couldn't run, they trembled and waited for disposal.

Based on the idea that mosquito legs are also meat, Zhiyao would catch them if other families don't want them, and arrange to bring them back to the country immediately.

Wei Ju was the first to follow.

The Wei family is also very short of manpower now, many places need labor force, so naturally if you catch one, you will get one.

Not to mention, there are many savages in the abandoned "Beijing", and it is not clear how many escaped. There are more than a thousand people who have been caught, and they are usually the kind who drag their families along.

Because a lot of people said they didn't want it beforehand, Zhiyao and Wei Ju certainly wouldn't be polite, even if someone later regretted it, they still don't want to get a share.

With this lesson learned, they went to a certain place later to catch wildlings and the like, and no one turned a blind eye to them anymore.

In this way, before they went south to fight Zheng Jun, they caught people when they saw them, and the number of people caught increased again and again. A considerable part of them were not savages, most of them were Zheng people, and there were people from other countries.

"We are not from Zheng, and we are not enemies of Bo Guo." This man had a full Song accent, and he looked more confused than scared.

Zi Gong had a headache.He himself felt extremely complicated when the Jin army went south and arrested people when they saw them.

Capturing savages, right?In fact, there is no violation of the law in any country, and it does not even constitute a lack of morality.

In some respects, arresting wildlings is a very correct thing to do. It can reduce local lawlessness and supplement the labor force of various families.

To put it bluntly, no matter where the savages are, they themselves are an unstable factor. Petty theft is common. If it is worse, it will be robbery, and if it is more daring, it will be a group to attack a certain noble's village.

Why no one cares?One of the nobles' self-sweeping is one of them. The second is that some savages can be caught, and more savages flee after hearing the news. Using troops for a long time will cause great consumption to any family, and they think it is not worthwhile to do it.

Another point is that the captured savages will definitely run away if they have the opportunity to be single, which will lead to a bit high cost of control.

Therefore, even if the Jin State repeatedly launched campaigns to arrest savages, it was basically treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. During the crackdown period, the savages hid in the mountains and forests.

The state of Jin with abundant martial virtues is like that, and other countries can be imagined.

Zigong, who has been given the right to deal with it, has dealt with more than one incident of mistakenly arresting a merchant, and had to release him again.

As for the casualties during the arrest?No one wants to see it, compensation or something... don't even think about it!
What age do you think it is?How can an army be subservient to an individual.

Get rid of all the mistakes if you don't make mistakes, you can't be held accountable if you play one hand, and it's impossible to spread your bad reputation, which is actually not bad.

The person who suffered an indiscriminate disaster?What they wanted to say afterwards, they didn't dare to babble for the time being anyway.

During the process, Zigong ran into a caravan from the State of Lu, and the fellow villagers would inevitably feel more emotional when they saw the fellow villagers, so he apologized and lost money.

This kind of double standard is not a trivial matter, it reached Zhiyao's ears and summoned Zigong over.

"Why is there no such thing as equal treatment?" Zhiyao asked.

Zigong said truthfully, "I am from Lu."

Zhiyao was silent for a while, and said: "Your actions, the people of Lu are hardly grateful, and the people of other countries are even more angry."

How could Zigong not know.

Zhiyao said again: "The army is a murder weapon, and it is a mistake. How can there be an apology?"

Zi Gong still understood this truth.

Not to mention the age when the etiquette collapses and music is broken, even if it is the era of etiquette, when encountering such a thing, there will be no second choice except to make the mistake and make the mistake.

When it comes to the army, the monarch must be cautious and cautious. Why is it the turn of a retainer to apologize to others when the army makes mistakes?

Zhiyao said: "If you go to 'Xinzheng', if Mr. Zheng cuts off the three cities, you will be punished; if you go to Lu, persuade Sanhuan to temporarily abandon 'Ailing', so that the Qi army can regain it."

In this version of history, there is no such thing as Zigong traveling around the world, and the redeemed Mailu people returning to the country did not seek rewards from the country.

Whether the above-mentioned things will happen, no one can say.

This time Zigong came to Zheng State to deal with the affairs of the Lu State caravan. It seemed that he was kind and righteous to his fellow villagers, but what he was consuming was the various costs of Jin State.

Afterwards, the rest of the people who learned about Zhiyao's treatment of Zigong did not think that Zhiyao was embarrassing Zigong, but thought that Zhiyao was showing mercy.

"At that time, the city can be won and abandoned, and everyone will share the benefits." Zhiyao said to everyone.

This is good!
Everyone seemed very happy, but Wei Ju was a little out of his mind.

What Wei Ju was thinking was that if Zheng Guo could agree to such a thing, it meant that Zheng Guo would not dare to refuse Jin Guo. Would the Wei family really want to give up such a good opportunity and hold back the temptation not to expand south?
Zhiyao, who has been paying attention to Wei Ju, saw that appearance and thought in her heart: "Zheng Guo is now afraid of both ends. He is afraid that Jin State will be greedy, and Chu State will kill Zheng State. Compared with Jin State's possible insatiable greed, Because of the existence of Bai Gongsheng, Chu State is even more malicious towards Zheng State, and Zheng State will definitely admit to Jin State again and again, until he can't bear it. How can the Wei family hold back when Zheng State is like this?"

Maybe, just maybe, Zheng Guo won't endure it forever, and will definitely explode one day.

The Wei family will get a lot of benefits from expanding to the south, but the key is that the part they got before is not stable.

For things like expansion, it really doesn't mean that the more the better in a short period of time, you might be exhausted yourself!

How much energy and time does it take to digest even if it is not exhausted?
After a series of thinking, Zhiyao decided that the rapidly expanding Wei family is a good Wei family, and she is willing to be this good person.

　Title of the book "Chongzhen: I am the King of the Prosperous Age"

　　Introduction: Traveling to become Emperor Chongzhen, the changes of oneself have torn apart the last pride of Ming Dynasty, and the death knell seems to have sounded.

　　Every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood, the mountains and rivers ravaged by Jianzhu deeply stabbed Daming.

　　It seems that a prosperous and powerful country has really become a distant dream.

　　The building will collapse, the society will be broken, so let me turn the tide!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)