I will not be king in the Spring and Autumn Period

While Li Ran and Kong Qiu were talking, they were escorted by Zhong You to Jiangcheng.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Confucius said:

"If you go directly to find Fan Yang right now, I'm afraid you'll startle the snake. Now that the state of Jin is in mourning, it's better to go directly to the Lingtai Palace to mourn the late emperor, or to confront Fan Yang directly in the hall, and use this to coerce him. To preside over the overall situation of Lu State. So, is there still a glimmer of hope?"

Hearing this, Li Ran felt that this method was very good, so he couldn't help but nodded.

Therefore, one of Li Ran and Kong Qiu, as the Taishi of the Zhou royal family, and the other as the emissary of Luhou, came outside the Lingtai Palace and asked to enter the palace to express their condolences.

"Luoyi Taishi Li Ran and Lu Guo's envoy Kong Qiu came to express their condolences."

The two announced their names outside the palace, and after a while, several palace officials came out to greet them immediately, and hurriedly welcomed the two of them into the palace.

"Hey! It turned out to be Dr. Ziming, the Taishi of Luoyi! It's been many years since I left Zhengyi last time! Today, Dr. Lao Ziming took the pains to come to Jin Kingdom to express my condolences. I'm really ashamed, I'm really sorry Ashamed!"

Entering the main hall, the person presiding in the hall is none other than Fan Yang.

Seeing that it was Li Ran who came, Fan Yang couldn't help but immediately stepped forward to greet him with a bow.

Why did Fan Yang recognize Li Ran?
In fact, Li Ran and Fan Yang did meet once.

When Zheng Xiangong was established, Zichan was once in a desperate situation because of his oppression by Fengduan.Just after the Fengduan Rebellion subsided, Fan Yang went to explore the reality of Zheng Guo in the name of congratulating Zheng Guoxin.He also had a debate with Zichan about "whether ghosts can kill people".

And Li Ran was on the scene at that time, and he could tell at a glance that Fan Yang was definitely not a kind person.However, since the childbirth doctor was taking care of everything at that time, the two of them didn't communicate too much that time.

"Hehe, Fan Zhongjun is being polite. Speaking of which, Li Ran would like to thank Fan Zhongjun for saving his life!"

When Fan Yang heard this, he couldn't help waving his hands and said:
"Dr. Ziming said so, it is a shameful old man. In the past, Dr. Ming was trapped by the prince. I am ashamed that I couldn't come to rescue in time!"

Obviously, the reason why Li Ran mentioned this matter in public, and took the initiative to show weakness to him, was actually to silence Fan Yang's mouth first, so that it would be inconvenient for him to mention this matter later.

After all, the conversation waiting for a while is the focus of their must-do priorities.

This is like a negotiation. If this matter is mentioned by Fan Yang later, Li Ran will inevitably fall into a passive position at that time.

Now that the goal has been achieved, Li Ran couldn't help but smile:
"Even so, Li Ran still has to keep it in his heart!"

Fan Yang smiled and said:
"Hehe, there is no need to say polite words. Come, Doctor Ziming, please come to the hall!"

As for Kong Qiu, Fan Yang didn't know him well, and he only heard that he was sent by Marquis Lu, so naturally he didn't pay much attention to him.

Kong Qiu was also used to this kind of encounter, so he didn't take it seriously.Only let Zhong You wait outside the hall.

Fan Yang brought the two of them into the palace, Li Ran in front and Kong Qiu in the back, and bowed before the spirit of Duke Qing of Jin to show his respect.

Afterwards, Li Ran got up, looked around, and couldn't help but recall the scene when Duke Jin Ping was still alive, when he used to sophistry Lingtai Palace.

Thinking back to those days, Duke Ping of Jin, Yang Tong He, Han Qi, Nv Shu Qi, all these vivid faces could not help but be faintly visible in the hall.

It has been 20 years, and with the passing away of these famous ministers and monarchs of the older generation, Li Ran couldn't help but feel sad for a while.

And just after Li Ran got up, and when Fan Yang was about to return the gift, Li Ran was straight to the point with him:
"Fan Zhongjun, it has been more than a hundred years since Duke Wen ruled Jin, and it is still the country of Fang Bo! Now, with such a big incident happening in Lu State, Jin should have fulfilled its responsibility as Fang Bo, right?"

When Fan Yang heard the words, he was obviously well prepared. He only looked around at the ministers of the Jin Kingdom, and couldn't help but smile embarrassingly:
"Hehe, I have heard about the matter of the State of Lu for a long time. However, this matter is too complicated, and there are different opinions. The old man thinks that this matter is the internal affairs of the State of Lu. Intervene."

As the saying goes, when soldiers come to block, water comes to cover, Li Ran is obviously well prepared for Fan Yang's rhetoric:

"It's just that the Ji family is now overtaking the emperor in the state of Lu. This is well-known to the world! There is a saying in "Poetry": 'If you don't pretend to be a thief, you rarely do it'. Now Ji's status as a doctor, Ba Yi Dance in the court of the Ji family, such an act of transgression, is it tolerable, which one is not tolerable?"

When Fan Yang heard the words, he said very lightly:

"Although the Ji clan disrespected etiquette, how could the Marquis of Lu have blamed the Ji clan for this matter? As the saying goes, 'The change of evil is like a fire that ignites the original. Extinguish it?' Therefore, it is not the responsibility of the emperor to disobey the minister?"

(Evil spreads and grows like a prairie fire. If you don’t extinguish it early, you will soon be unable to face it. Will you be able to extinguish it again?)

Faced with Fan Yang's sophistry, Li Ran couldn't help saying angrily:

"Fan Zhongjun's words are wrong! The Ji family has been the Lu government for a long time, how dare the Marquis of Lu accuse the Ji family of this matter?"

When Fan Yang heard it, he couldn't help but sneered again and said:

"Isn't that enough? Marquis Lu neither questioned nor reprimanded, but directly led people to attack the Ji clan. As we all know, at that time, the Ji clan was just asking for Gou's life. Imprisoned in Feiyi, or exiled from the five chariots, but they are all rejected by Luhou, is this the etiquette of being a king?"

"In the end, even the Meng family and Uncle Sun family of the Lu Kingdom chose to help the Ji family and abandon Lu Hou. Lu Hou knew that he was wrong and ran away. Their Ji family had no intention of driving Lu Hou away! Why are you now? Are you blaming Ji Shi?"

Hearing this, Li Ran couldn't help but secretly sighed:
"The ruler of the Lu Kingdom is now on the run, and the Ji family is taking over the throne. What is the proper way? Even if you, Fan Yang, don't blame the Ji family, you won't be so biased and speak for him, right? The appearance of eating... is really ugly, and it really doesn't make any face."

Fan Yang has been speaking for Ji Sun Yiru, and he is obviously prepared for all kinds of criticisms at this moment.Seeing that he had gained the upper hand again, he couldn't help but continue to take advantage of the situation and say:
"Marquis Lu launched a temporary attack, but the Ji family was lucky enough to escape. According to Yang Yang, this is probably because the Ji family has received the favor of heaven, right? If not, how can the Ji family survive to this day? Could it be that it was Lu Hou's?" Those soldiers took off their leather armor and played there with their quiver?"

"Both the Uncle Sun family and the Meng family used to have conflicts with the Ji family, but at this moment, both of them are also on the Ji family's side, and now the common people support him, and Huai Yi is also attached to him. After receiving the help of Qi State, Lu Hou has not succeeded for so many years!"

"The Marquis of Lu doesn't care about the people's livelihood and the people's livelihood, but just because he doesn't like the Ji family, he made such an attack. On the contrary, the Ji family's power has reached its peak. Now the Ji family of Lu State has the same power as the princes. Even so, he is still Give Lu Hou enough face, let him be preserved in Yunyi. Although the Ji family did not personally serve the monarch, but imagine that the difference between Lu Hou now and in China is not that big? So, why does this kind of thing make us Jin Will the country intervene again?"

Li Ran saw that Fan Yang's rhetoric was exactly the same as what Huang's father said when he met the alliance.

Li Ran also knew that what he said was indeed justified, and it might not be easy to refute it.

Although he already knew the result, but now that he heard his sophistry, he could still say such "righteous words", Li Ran couldn't help but say it for a while.

This Fan Yang is indeed an old fritter who has experienced ups and downs in the officialdom, and he really deserves the word "brazen".

"Fan Zhongjun's high-sounding arguments... I'm afraid... it's hard to convince the public..."

Seeing that Li Ran seemed a little stage-frightened, Fan Yang said hypocritically again:
"People in the world don't understand the details, and it is normal for some people to be unable to understand it. Doctor Ziming, now that the matter has come to this point, in Martingale's foolish opinion, it is better to let the people of Lu solve it by themselves. It is also a big problem for outsiders to intervene rashly." Not right!"

Li Ran shook his head helplessly:
"Since that's the case, now that Ji Sun Yiru seems to intend to send troops to attack Yunyi, how should he explain it?"

In fact, Ji Sun Yiru had already informed Fan Yang of his intention to attack Yunyi.

So he was already prepared for this:

"That Yunyi was originally the territory of the Meng family of the state of Lu, but now it is forcibly occupied by the state of Qi. Isn't it only natural that he wants to take it back for the Meng family?"

"But...Fan Zhongjun was just saying that the Ji family still saved face for Lu Hou. And Lu Hou is now in Yunyi, and Ji Sun Yiru sent troops to attack, so how could he have any face? Could it be that serving the monarch, Is it to let him have nowhere to go?"

At this moment, Li Ran seemed to have caught Fan Yang's language problem, but Fan Yang sneered again, as if he was just waiting for Li Ran to fall into the trap.

"Hehe... Ji Sunyi sent his retainers to Yunyi in this way. Firstly, he came to take back the lost land of the Lu Kingdom. Secondly, he is probably also intending to welcome Luhou back? Why should Dr. Ziming be so In a hurry? According to the old man, it is better to wait and see what happens!"

After hearing this, Li Ran couldn't help but take a deep breath!
Vicious!It's really vicious!
As soon as Fan Yang's words came out, the meaning was that if the Ji family really intended to return Lu Hou, but the side where Lu Hou was located in Yunyi was still stubbornly resisting, then... Can the Ji family directly say that Lu Hou was killed? What about the one hijacked by the rebels?Is it possible that the Ji family has become the party of "justice" instead?

After hearing this, Li Ran couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

At this time, Fan Yang said generously in front of the public:
"As the saying goes, 'there is no beginning, but there is an end.' I am afraid that the hardships that Luhou is going through now are inevitable, right? If the Ji family can take the initiative to send Luhou back to the country, this can be regarded as Luhou's worst. It's a good ending. If that's the case, then how dare we wait for outsiders to intervene? Therefore, regarding the matter of the State of Lu, please forgive me for the State of Jin.

(Mi...final: The monarch also has an original intention when he begins to accept the mandate of heaven, but rarely can he maintain it all the time and have a good death)