I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 93 Zhi's Guard

Any form of alliance between the two countries requires the princes to come or send representatives to watch the ceremony. At the same time, as a witness, it will make the alliance more formal.

The state of Jin and the state of Wei are about to form an alliance. Although it is a form of alliance under the city, it still needs witnesses.

In the past, the princes who wanted to form an alliance would send people to "Luoyi" to report to Zhou Tianzi, and invited Zhou Tianzi to send a minister to witness.

Now?Few of the feudal princes would report to the Emperor Zhou when the alliance was held. Some ceremonies that required the presence of an envoy from the Emperor Zhou would send someone to "Luoyi" to invite.

"Qi, Zheng, and Song are all spectators." Bo Landao explained.

This thing is a little messed up.

The nobles from Qi State, Zheng State and Song State were all defeated by the Jin Army in the "Battle of Iron". The Qi Army surrendered because of the flag and did not end up as prisoners, while the nobles from Zheng State and Song State became the Jin Army's captive.

Let the captives come to be the spectators of the alliance, Jin is humiliating them severely!
However, whoever asked them to interfere in the civil strife of Jin State, no matter how great the humiliation was, the nobles of Qi State, Zheng State, and Song State had brought it on themselves.

The Huimeng platform has been built. It looks like a pyramid from the outside, but it is not a spire. There is a platform on it, and a climbing ladder is built on the front.

Now, the Huimeng platform is surrounded by troops, and a tripod moved from the Weiguo palace is placed on the raised platform in front of the stool.

The three-legged cauldron was already burning, and because of the grease, a puff of black smoke rose into the sky.

Judging from the fluttering banners, all the troops from the Jin Kingdom surrounded the Huimeng Platform.They stood with their heads held high in the attitude of victors, their faces were full of pride, and they looked very majestic!

After all, they conquered the capital of one country, especially the coalition forces of four countries. They should be proud.

Today's alliance ceremony has nothing to do with Zhiyao, Zhao Bolu and other juniors. The person presiding over the ceremony is Zhao Yang, and the representative of Jin is Zhibi.

On the side of Weiguo, of course, the new king is the representative of Weiguo, and some etiquette that should be performed is performed by Qu Yuan.

Why not someone from the Duke of Qi to perform the ceremony?This is Weiguo's plan to maximize the value of Qu Yuan, who is over 90 years old.

To put it bluntly, no matter how domineering Jin people are, what can they do to such an old Qu Yuan?Once there is something wrong with Qu Yuan, how will the people of the world accuse Jin if it is spread?

Zhiyao looked at the back of the expo road leaving, and turned her gaze to the side of "Puyang" that opened the city gate.

Youwei's team was leaving the city, and the size seemed to be about [-] people, so that apart from the big flags, the flags seemed to be very few.

In the past few days, the state of Jin has negotiated the content of the covenant with the state of Wei.

As a victorious country, the Jin Council won the thirteen cities of the Wei State, but these cities were not connected together. A few of them were in the northwest of the Wei State, and more were in the northeast of the Wei State. It is equivalent to the Jin State The forward bridgeheads on the south bank of the Great River were obtained in two positions respectively.

Weiguo had to hand over a large amount of money and population, but he couldn't pay it all at once, so he played with installment payments.

How should the spoils obtained from Wei be distributed?What Zhiyao knew was that the Zhi family had obtained nine of them, and the Zhao family had obtained four.

In addition, the four cities acquired by the Zhao clan were concentrated in the northeast of Weiguo, while the Zhi clan acquired cities in both directions.

Zhiyao knew that this was about how to distribute the estates of the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, and the Zhao family decided to focus on managing the north, but the Zhi family had to take care of too many directions.

He planned to have a chance to have a good talk with Zhibi, and if possible, find other families to replace the fief, and the main object of negotiation was the Wei family.

A family cannot and should not divide its fiefs too widely, lest there be too many places to defend, and it will take a long time to gather an army.

Zhishi's old nest is in the "Zhi" land. What's more embarrassing is that Zhishi doesn't have many fiefdoms in the west of Jin State, and the fiefdoms are mainly concentrated in the central part of Jin State.

"In fact, we can abandon the fief in the west and negotiate with the Wei family to replace their fief in the northwest. This way, the Zhi family's fief can be more concentrated." Zhiyao knew very well that the old Zhi family could not abandon the 'zhi' land.

Weiguo's team has arrived, and someone from them has come to communicate to Zhibi what kind of posture they need to enter the arena.

The answer given by Zhixuan was that, except for the frame of the king of a country, no car from the state of Wei could enter the arena.

To put it bluntly, it was another humiliating act.

It's just that the Jin State's humiliation of the Wei State was not thorough enough, otherwise the king of a country would have to enter the arena on foot, and even put away the flag.

The state of Wei agreed to the request of the state of Jin, and only one vehicle carrying Nanzi and Wei Junyu entered the arena. They stopped near the Huimeng platform and waited for further instructions from the people of Jin.This is also a set of etiquette methods of the alliance under the city, not that Zhixuan wants to humiliate Weiguo so much.

Zhiyao saw Nanzi who got out of the car with Wei Junzhe in his arms.

At this stage, the status of women is neither high nor low. Nanzi is wearing a plain formal suit, and her face is not covered by a veil.

Because today is an unfortunate day for Weiguo, Nanzi didn't have any hairstyle, and he certainly didn't have any hair accessories. He just looked disheveled.

Many aristocrats of the Wei Kingdom didn't have their hair tied up today, they also had disheveled hairstyles.Why is this so?To put it bluntly, the defense of the country was defeated!
The four-year-old Wei Junzhe obviously didn't understand what was going on today, even when he was hugged by Nanzi, he still seemed very active, and would play around with his immature and crisp voice from time to time.

As long as the etiquette is not disrupted, of course the Jin side will not take care of a four-year-old monarch, but when the congratulatory speech is read later, the guards had better let Wei Junzhe keep quiet.

"She looks really white, and her facial features are also a beauty. Why does Zhou Xun appear in my mind when I look at Nanzi?" Zhiyao admits that Nanzi is quite attractive even from the aesthetic point of view of modern people.

And this is on the premise that Nanzi hasn't been well-dressed, if it is well-dressed?

There are quite a lot of famous women in the Spring and Autumn Period, and their status generally needs to be higher, but their reputation is not very good in later generations.

You know the lords of Fenghuo Opera, right?Zhiyao inquired again and again, wondering that people in the Spring and Autumn Period didn't know that such a thing had happened.

Therefore, people in the Spring and Autumn Period did not know that there was such a thing. From which book did Sima Qian, who was born in the Western Han Dynasty, read it and recorded it in "Historical Records"?
According to the rumors, King You of Zhou smiled for Bo Baosi, lit the beacon tower, and teased the princes. He still teased the princes many times, which led to the invasion of foreign enemies and the princes did not save Emperor Zhou.

Relevant historical data show that Quanrong really broke through Gaojing and killed King Zhou You, and no princes really sent troops to rescue King Zhou You during this period. It is guesswork whether the princes themselves were unwilling to rescue King Zhou You.

The warning of the allusion is very correct. It is actually the same as "The Wolf is Coming". If you don't witness it with your own eyes, just remember the lesson. Ordinary people really can't do it if they want to go deeper.

The version Zhiyao read about Gou Rong's attack on Hao Jing said that the Zhou royal family was constantly attacking and killing. .

In the eyes of later generations, Nanzi is considered to be in the same position as Baosi and Xia Ji, and it is up to one to judge whether it was processed by certain jokes.

The ceremony of the alliance under the city was going on, including Zhiyao, Zhao Bolu, Wei Ju and Han Geng could only stand under the alliance platform and listen to the movement, and did not have the opportunity to witness the entire process of the ceremony with their own eyes.

About two quarters of an hour later, Zhizhu came down from the top platform of the Huimeng platform with the alliance book in his hand.

The ceremony came to the stage of throwing books into the cauldron and burning them to the heavens, and then Zhixuan would read a speech to everyone.

At this stage, Zhiyao found the opportunity to come to Nanzi who was holding Wei Junzhe.

"I've met Marquis Wei, madam." Zhiyao saluted.

Nanzi had already noticed when Zhiyao was approaching, even if he hadn't seen Zhiyao before, he knew who was coming at the first time.

"Gongsun Yao is fine." Nanzi replied.

Zhiyao and Nanzi looked at each other, and said: "In troubled times, Jin and Wei cannot help themselves. The current situation is like this, what will happen to the future of Wei?"

With a smile on his face, Nanzi said: "Qi is in trouble, and the ritual vessel was obtained by Gongsun. I don't know how Gongsun will deal with it?"

Zhiyao was also laughing, very gracefully, and said, "You should return it yourself."

"Is that so?" Nanzi stretched out his hand to grab Wei Junzhe who was about to reach out to Zhiyao, and said softly: "If Jin is still an uncle, how dare I disrespect him?"

Therefore, Wei Guo was also forced to oppose Jin.It's purely Jin's own failure, and then there is Qi's persecution of Wei, right?
Zhiyao was dissatisfied with Nanzi's statement, and said: "Wei is a small country, and we cannot be ourselves. This is the difficulty of defending the country. If Cao serves me, he must survive; if Cao does not serve me, Cao will not survive."

Now it is Song State who wants to annex Cao State, and Jin State has not made any statement.The danger of Cao Guozhi's extinction is actually because he did not receive asylum from Jin State.

"Guard guard Jin must be sincere." Nanzi gave a formal reply, but then said after a pause: "I only hope that if Wei is in trouble, Jin can help me."

This still does not believe that the civil strife in Jin will end soon, and even does not believe that the only four royal families remaining in Jin can live in peace.

Nanzi looked at Zhiyao with piercing eyes, lowered his voice, and said, "If the Zhi family is in charge of the guard, the guard will not rebel."

Divide country from family?
In the past, the high-ranking families of the Jin State had corresponding diplomatic relations, and the protection fee was also fixed by the responsible high-ranking family.

Now the state of Jin has changed. For example, the Fan family and the Zhongxing family are almost gone, and the diplomatic relationship with the outside world must be re-established.

The Wei State used to listen to the Fan family, but now Nanzi hoped that the Jin family in charge of the diplomatic relations of the Wei State would be the Zhi family, and agreed that even if they did not respect the Jin country, they would not betray the Zhi family.

It sounds a bit complicated. To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than family interests above national interests.

Zhiyao can't answer Nanzi immediately, she needs to communicate with Zhibi...

(End of this chapter)