Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 378 Warm water boiled frog

For fame and fortune, Ji Zha is really indifferent.

Father Shoumeng wants to establish it, so he resigns.

Brother Zhufan wanted to let him go, so he resigned.

Zhu Fan died, and his second brother Yu Jili.Yu Ji died, and his third brother, Yi Moli, died.

The barbarian is ignorant and dead, and the country that will be taught will be avoided!

Ji Zha surrendered the country three times!

He had three chances to come to the kingdom of Wu, but he didn't accept it!

Jizha's kindness moved the people of Wu State, and they wanted to support Jizha as the king like the stars supporting the moon.

As a last resort, Ji Zha retired to the mountains and rivers and worked hard all day long to show his firm ambition, which completely dispelled the Wu people's idea.

Qingji doesn't want to force a person like Ji Zha who has the legacy of ancient sages to the point where he hangs his seal and leaves!
"Uncle, you have assisted the widow for nine years, served as the leader of Wu State for nine years, and you are also the elder of the Six Dynasties of Wu State."

Qing Ji stroked his beard and said: "Wu Guo can not be as strong as it is today, it cannot be separated from the great help of my uncle!"

"Your Majesty, all veterans should do this, and it is their duty to do so."

Ji Zha said immediately.

"Uncle, even though that's what you said, you must be rewarded for your merits. My uncle has made great achievements in our country of Wu, and now I want to go back to hermit. I will reward you as my uncle."

After a pause, Qingji pondered for a moment, then said, "Ji Zha listens to the letter!"

"The old minister is here!"

Ji Zha immediately knelt down solemnly.

"From now on, the widow will grant Ji Zha the title of state lord, enfeoff the land in the state, and hereditary succession. I will also give three thousand (two) gold, five hundred pieces of silk, a pair of jade and jade, and ten good horses!"

Hearing this, Ji Zha immediately grabbed the ground with his head!
"Your Majesty confers such a reward, please forgive me for not being able to accept it!"

Ji Zha sighed and said: "How can the old minister dare to take the state as a fief, to receive such a generous reward from the king, and to be hereditary?"

"Please take it back, Your Majesty, and don't shame the old minister!"

Zhoulai was originally Ji Zha's fiefdom.

As the son of King Shoumeng of Wu, Ji Zha has assisted the kings of Wu for six generations. At the beginning, he used Yanling as his fiefdom, so he was called "Jizi of Yanling", but was later renamed Zhoulai.

Zhoulai is located in the north of Bagong Mountain and east of the Huaihe River. There used to be an ancient country called Zhoulai. Because of its small size, it was swallowed by Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period and became the Zhoulai City of Chu.

Since the city is located in the north of the Huaihe River, facing the state of Wu on the border of Chu, it became the outpost of the dispute between Wu and Chu.

In 529 BC, Zhoulaiyi was occupied by the State of Wu, and six years later, the State of Chu regained the lost land.

Only four years later, it was taken away by the state of Wu and became the fief of Jizha.

Zhoulai also has a large population, with about [-] households and [-] people. It can be regarded as a first-class city!
It was because of Ji Zha's popularity that so many Li Shus were attracted to settle in Zhoulaiyi.

However, after Qingji succeeded to the throne, considering that the local ministers of the old aristocratic family had too much power, and also thought that the monarchy system was out of date, they replaced the fiefdoms with Shiyi.

Ji Zha's prefecture came to fief, and it was also converted into a food town, and even Ji Zha was willing to set an example, leading a thousand households of food town by himself, and the original fiefdom was not at all!
It is with Ji Zha's spare no effort to help that Qingji can appear to be very smooth in the process of reforming the monarchy system.

"granduncle!"

Qingji walked down the platform, came to Jizha, supported his arm, and said sincerely: "Uncle, your contribution is comparable to that of all the officials of Wu Kingdom."

"Even in my eyes, my uncle's contribution to the country of Wu is far above that of me!"

"Using a mere state as a fief, I still buried my uncle. If possible, I am willing to give up the throne and invite my uncle to live in it!"

"Your Majesty!"

Ji Zha broke down in an instant, and said in tears: "Don't think about it. The old minister is not blessed, so he can't be in a high position!"

"The old minister's wish is only to find a place to live and live. After this remaining life, I dare not receive such a generous reward from the king. Please take it back!"

Ji Zha is an "honest person" and will definitely not deceive Qingji.

Qingji said that he might abdicate to the virtuous, which is naturally an excuse.

Ji Zha is lofty and remarkable, and treats the lofty king of Wu lightly, but Qingji can't do it!
Qingji is not as virtuous as Ji Zha!
"Uncle, if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your children and grandchildren."

Qingji said meaningfully: "Everyone who goes out to serve as an official is all for the sake of becoming famous and enshrining his wife and son. Now that my uncle is about to retire after a successful career, why don't you think about your children and grandchildren?"

Could it be that Ji Zha really didn't want to leave a legacy for his children and grandchildren?

As the saying goes, learning literary and martial arts is the same as the emperor's family.

Such as Sun Wu, Wen Zhong, Fan Li, etc., have the talents of the heaven and the earth, why did they join Qingji's command and serve the state of Wu?

It's just for the sake of fame and fortune, and for the well-being of future generations.

At the same time, they can also show their strengths.

No one can really have no desires, but there are very few people who are as indifferent to fame and wealth as Ji Zha.

Ji Zha is not for fame and profit, so why bother?
"Your Majesty, although my country of Wu has many fiefdoms, all of them belong to food towns. There are few fiefdoms, and even those who have fiefdoms are only temporary."

"The feudal land of Zhoulai is very large. Besides, the veterans really don't dare to think of hereditary succession, so please take back the order, and don't beat the veterans!"

Ji Zha begged again and again, asking Qingji to take it back.

It's understandable that he would have such an idea.

Because at this time, the state of Wu was indeed full of emperors, but basically they all had food.

Even the fiefdoms of the ministers of the old lineages of the original Wu State were changed to Shiyi, and it was not the kind of real hereditary replacement and sharing weal and woe with the country.

The Ze of the Gentleman, beheaded for five lifetimes!

Wu Guo has made the latest explanation on the latest monarch system.

If a Shiyi, which was entrusted to the king, is still the kind of mediocrity after five generations of inheritance, the Shiyi will be taken back by the country!

Qingji forced the ministers of the old family of Wu to make changes!

In the state of Wu, there are also fiefs who have fiefdoms instead of food towns, such as the leaders or monarchs of some Baiyue tribes, such as the six counties in Lingnan.

However, this is only temporary. Once Wu's control over the six Lingnan counties is strengthened, Qingji will gradually weaken their power and status, making Wu's feudal monarchs exactly the same, or even completely deprived of them.

Boiled frogs in warm water!
After being the Taizai of the Wu Kingdom for so many years and Qingji's uncle, how could Ji Zha not understand Qingji's thoughts?
During the six years of Qingji's reign, he never entrusted any monarch. Even Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and others who made great contributions to the state of Wu and destroyed the country were only rewarded and given a lot of food. Yap only.

manor?

Don't even think about it!

Therefore, compared with the monarchs of other countries, Qingji seems a bit mean and ungrateful.

(End of this chapter)