The storyteller who walks the rivers and lakes

Chapter 148

On the spacious official road, a carriage rattled southward.

A melodious and melodious flute sound came from the carriage, passed to the green grass that had just sprouted by the roadside, and passed to the green willows by the small river.

On the shaft of the chariot, A Niu, who was driving, waved his whip from time to time, making a crisp sound.The sound of the whip, the sound of the wheels, and the sound of the flute are mixed together, and there is a different kind of harmonious beauty.

At the end of the song, Nan Shanyue, the amorous son who was in the same car with Lu Fei, couldn't help but say hello.

"I didn't expect Brother Lu not only to be amazing in poetry, but also to be so proficient in music theory! No wonder Concubine Xue will be dumped by Brother Lu!"

Along the way, the two talked about many topics.

Although Lu Fei does not know as much as Nan Shanyue about the affairs of the Jianghu, but when it comes to talking about the mountains, Lu Fei will not show any timidity.

What's more, Lu Fei still has countless martial arts stories from previous lives in his mind. As long as he changes the background a little, and puts the time in a certain period of time in this world, he can immediately become famous for being knowledgeable about the past and the present.

Well, although these really count as meaningless nonsense, they can naturally draw in the relationship between two people. Isn't this the art of getting along with people?

"I don't know what purpose Brother Lu has for going south this time?" Nan Shanyue asked.

Lu Fei shook his head and said, "This time, I just want to travel around the rivers and lakes and increase my knowledge, so there is no specific purpose."

Nan Shanyue tapped the palm of her left hand slightly with the folding fan with her right hand, and said with a smile, "That's just right! Why don't Brother Lu and I go to Chengzhou together?"

Lu Fei looked over with some doubts, and said, "Cheng Zhou? I don't know what happened to Brother Nan when he came to Cheng Zhou?"

Chengzhou is a very special place in the Great Qin Dynasty.

Because Cheng Zhou was the capital of the Zhou Dynasty!
As for now, Chengzhou County is the seat of the Zhou family, one of the nine great families.The nine great families in Jianghu are the Baili family of Pinglu, the Wang family of Weinan, the Wu family of Jiangdong, the Qi family of Lujun, the Lu family of Jiuyuan, the Gongsun family of Yingdu, the Shangguan family of Tianshui County, the Fan family of Nanping, and finally the Zhou family of Chengzhou .

The Zhou family of Chengzhou has been passed down for more than 1000 years. After the Great Qin destroyed Zhou, they did not exterminate all members of the Zhou royal family. Instead, they were still allowed to live in the original capital of Chengzhou, and they were rewarded from time to time.

However, those imperial cities have already been demolished. Although the descendants of the Zhou royal family have rebuilt many magnificent buildings, they dare not really build them like the previous imperial palaces. It would be courting death.

After rebuilding their homeland, the descendants of the royal family of Zhou changed Ji's surname to Zhou's surname. With their strong capital, they established a huge martial arts family that lasted for thousands of years.

It can be said that among the nine great families, only the Zhou family has the longest duration and is also the most unfathomable one!
It's just that Lu Fei doesn't agree with the way of being the first emperor, he believes more in cutting grass and roots!

This may be because the positions of the two sides are different, and the situation of looking at things is naturally very different...

Moreover, the practice of enforcing the survivors of the previous dynasty is not exclusive to the Great Qin Dynasty. At the beginning of the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, wasn't it also entrusting the survivors of the Great Shang as kings?
It’s just that when Daqin was established, it learned the lessons of the Dazhou’s system of enfeoffing princes, directly abolishing the existence of vassal states, and instead divided states and counties. This approach also strengthened the centralized rule and the stability of the entire dynasty.

Daqin is very strict in this regard.

It's not just that people with foreign surnames don't have enfeoffments, even the Daqin royal family doesn't have any fiefdoms.

Moreover, in some respects, Daqin's requirements for the royal family are even stricter than those of the martial arts family...

Just like for everyone in the royal family, from the time of the first emperor, the royal family beyond three generations must leave Xianyang, exempt from all royal treatment, and go out to support themselves.

And these people, only when they are talented, can they receive additional resource supply from the local imperial government office.If you can cultivate to Yuanshen, then you can lead your family to move back into Xianyang City and receive royal treatment.

Such an approach may seem unreasonable to many children of aristocratic families where the family is the first, and it will also restrict the development of the family to a certain extent.

But the royal family is different from ordinary families after all. Such an approach can not only reduce the waste of royal family resources, but also stimulate the enterprising spirit of the clansmen, continue to work hard towards that goal, and gradually grow into the real cornerstone of the royal family!

Hmm, that's a bit of a stretch.

Lu Fei restrained his divergent thinking and listened to Nan Shanyue's words.

"Brother Lu, I don't know. From the first day of March every year, the Cheng Zhou Clan will hold a Cheng Zhou martial arts meeting. All young martial artists of the martial arts world can participate. It can be said to be a grand event in the entire Jianghu."

Lu Fei nodded suddenly.

Although he is in Beiyan, he has heard of the name of Zhou Wuhui.

Indeed, as Nan Shanyue said, the Chengzhou Martial Arts Conference can be said to be a grand event in the world, and it is also the best stage for many young martial artists to gain fame.

Every year at the beginning of the martial arts competition, there are countless heroes from all corners of the country, in order to be able to make a blockbuster in this martial arts competition.

In fact, this Wuhui of Zhou itself was just a means for the Zhou family to attract customers to their family, but after a long time, it developed into a prosperous world for the whole world, which was unexpected by the Zhou family who founded the Wuhui at the beginning.

The development route of the martial arts family and the martial arts sect is still very different.

The aristocratic family relies on the blood of the family to maintain the relationship between members. Although this can ensure the loyalty and unity of the family members, the cohesion is stronger than that of those sects.

But how many people can a family have?How many of them can practice martial arts?How many people can really be called geniuses?
Every time the martial arts sect recruits disciples, what they recruit are young heroes from the entire Jianghu.The two are naturally not the same.

It is also because of this that these big families in the martial arts have a tradition of attracting customers.

Although the Zhou family belonged to the royal family of the former dynasty, their status was beyond words, but due to many reasons, at the beginning, there were not many members of their clan.

When the former head of the Zhou family found that the Zhou family had completely fallen into a bottleneck in development, he thought of a way, found another way, and founded the Cheng Zhou Martial Arts Association to recruit those who have no family or small sects in the rivers and lakes. Among them, talented and potential young warriors joined the Zhou Clan and were carefully cultivated.

This method not only solves the constraints caused by the lack of talents and potential youngsters, but also because the disciples cultivated from an early age are much more reliable in terms of loyalty than the disciples recruited with a lot of money in the later period, it kills two birds with one stone.

Moreover, apart from being retainers, they can also recruit these people as sons-in-law and marry the Zhou family's children. This will not only have a greater chance of giving birth to some talented offspring, but after decades, those people can also fully integrate into the family. The Zhou family, becoming a member of the Zhou family, came and went, and their Zhou's strength naturally rose steadily!
(End of this chapter)