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Chapter 133 A Hundred Chengs of Gold and Jade Returning the Mistakes (Part [-])

In the ninth month of the Wuyin year, the emperor of Zhou ordered Wei Si, Han Qian, and Zhao Ji to be marquises, which is well known in the world.

At the same time that Han, Zhao, Wei, Zheng, Zhou, and Yue conquered Qi and won great victories, the Zhou rituals that lasted for nearly 600 years basically lost their sanctity.

The alliance outside the city of Linzi was attended by the doctors of the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei, and Tian Hao, the patriarch of the Tian family of Qi, had come forward.

But in the end, it is the doctors and the princes.

The alliance between the doctor and the marquis... This is something that has never happened before in the world.It's not that the Six Ministers have come forward to form an alliance with the king of a weak country before, but the fact that a doctor has come forward has never happened.

And this thing that was considered insulting enough to trigger a bloody revenge 200 years ago was taken for granted at this time.

Jingguan, where the corpses of [-] Qi people piled up, has not been taken back, because the Tian family does not allow it, and does not want it.Dead people are supposed to be useless and waste money to recycle them, but Tian can use these dead people to the extreme.

The Qi people blamed the resentment of dying in the country and not returning their souls to Qi Hou Ludai.

Guan Zhongqihuan's strategy of officials, mountains and seas has been completely destroyed by the feudal nobles, and the Marquis of Qi has no money, so he can't afford to recover those corpses.

The corpses of [-] Qi people were exchanged for what Tian wanted and what Sanjin wanted.

Marquis Qi understood why the Three Jins attacked Qi, and the Tian clan also knew, so Qi Hou, who had just served as a guard in Qufu for the King of Yue, came to the army of the Three Jins again, and went to Luoyi to pay homage to the Emperor Zhou, and asked the Emperor Zhou to seal him The three families were marquises, in exchange for the Jin people to retreat.

The Jin people did not want the cities, fields, and slaves of Qi State like the Yue people, but let Qi State sign the Linzi Treaty.

There are two contracts:
Acknowledge the independent status of the Gongsun Society, and no further crusade against Linqiu is allowed. Whether the Gongsun Society brings Linqiu into Zhao or Wei, Qi State must not interfere.

Qi State abandoned the plan to rebuild the Great Wall and demolished part of the city wall. It is forbidden to repair the section of the Great Wall from Pingyin to Mount Tai within the next 30 years, otherwise it means breaking the contract.

As for the secret agreement, that is not something that Marquis Qi is qualified to participate in.

No one knows what the three sects and the Tian family had secretly discussed.

They are not enemies, on the contrary they have a common enemy - Zhou Tianzi's authority.

In this way, after a hundred years, on the surface, the emperor of Zhou once again realized the authority of the emperor and was convinced that he was still the emperor.

Qi Hou, Wei Hou, Zheng Bo, Lu Hou, Song Gong, Jin Hou, Han Zhao and Wei Sanzong went to the emperor together.

The three families of Han, Zhao and Wei presented Jiahe, and Zhou Tianzi ordered the musicians to play "Guihe" and "Jiahe" in harmony.

Qi Hou admitted that he had violated the Zhou rituals, and thanked the Jin Hou and the Han, Zhao and Wei Sanzong for correcting his mistakes in time. He expressed his gratitude to the three schools for their crusade. The three families were enshrined as marquises in return for this work.

Zhou Tianzi's land was completely surrounded by the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei, and the only relative who could rely on Ji, the Marquis of Jin, could not protect himself.

The Duke of Zhou drove the chariot for the King of Yue last year, and the Duke of Zhao was far away in Yandi.

Apart from the three Jin states, Zheng Guo, which borders on the other side, is full of civil strife, and the first thing that challenged the authority of the emperor was the arrow that Zheng Bo shot at the shoulder of the emperor Zhou...

The people of Chu who could challenge the hegemony of the Three Jin Dynasties called themselves kings and enshrined the county as a public. They didn't care about the system of the emperor of Zhou at all, and even started their family by destroying the concubines.

During the reign of King Kang of Zhou, the five kings of Qi, Lu, Wei, Jin and Chu assisted King Kang. As a result, King Zhou Kang deliberately ignored the existence of Xiong Yi when he rewarded the ceremonies and jade. After 500 years, the King of Chu was still worried about this matter and expected them to maintain the authority of the emperor. It's a dream.

Zhou Tianzi has nothing to rely on.

Even Qihou, the biggest victim, has come forward to ask for the seal, and Zhou Tianzi can't even if he doesn't want to.

Besides, nursery rhymes spread, saying that when Tang Shuyu granted Jin the Golden Harvest, Zhou flourished ever since.But now the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei also have Jiahe, which is really the destiny and cannot be violated.

Zhou Tianzi wants to talk about the destiny, and the destiny is the basis for him to be the emperor, so at least on the bright side, he talks about it more than others.

Now that the power of the three families has been established, and the Jiahe incident has given Zhou Tianzi enough, it is logical to be entrusted with the title of Marquis.

There is no way to fight in Middle-earth, and the monarchs and nobles who come to the pilgrimage seem to have forgotten all kinds of hatred.

Zheng Bo, who had a blood feud, congratulated Han Zong, Qi Hou, who hated breaking the country, congratulated Wei Zong, and Wei Hou, who had a grudge against the country, praised Qi Hou for knowing his mistakes and being able to correct them...

This time the princes seemed to be going to pay homage to Emperor Zhou, but they were actually acknowledging the hegemony of the Three Jins in the Central Plains.

In particular, Zheng and Song, who were fighting for hegemony between Jin and Chu, used this attitude to tell Chu: We think the three Jins are stronger...

It was late autumn when the news reached Chudu.

In the Palace of Chu, Xiong Dang, who has just ascended to the throne for several years, is entertaining the officials.

What Xiong Dang took over from his father, King Jian, was a seemingly powerful state of Chu.

To the north, the reason for helping the Song Dynasty to establish the city was to make the Song State rebel against Jin and pro-Chu; West has formed a threatening trend against Pakistan.

It seemed that the situation was very good, but Xiong Dang looked at the officials present at the banquet and knew that it would be difficult for him to be the King of Chu.

Ling Yin is the most noble official in the state of Chu. Among the more than 30 Ling Yins so far, only one is not a royal family member, and the rest are all royal family members.

When King Wen destroyed Shen and captured Peng Zhongshuang, in order to fight against the hereditary position of Mo Ao of the Qu clan, he supported the prisoner Peng Zhongshuang as Lingyin to fight against his close and distant relatives.

Peng Zhongshuang has no family influence, so it is a sword that can be used against relatives.

However, it is still impossible for the old nobles to recognize this term.

Reusing foreign ministers means strengthening the royal power, especially the appointment of Peng Zhongshuang, who has no foundation, is more like silently declaring that he wants to reform, wants to fight against his relatives, and wants to strengthen the royal power.

So after Peng Zhongshuang resigned, Mo Ao's power began to weaken, but the highest post of Ling Yin was still monopolized by the old nobles, and it was impossible to let go.

Countless coups, defections, and attracting other countries to attack...the successive kings of Chu no longer have the strength to reform.

In history, the next Ling Yin who is not a relative of his own will not be able to use Wu Qi until decades later after the civil strife in Chu, the crisis of succession, Chen Cai's restoration of the country, the unstoppable San Jin, and the extinction of many nobles in the Yuguan World War I.

The palace musicians played, Xiong Dang looked at the officials below him, forced a smile.

Lingyin, Sima, Mo Ao, Sibai, Left and Right Sima, County Duke, Shangzhu Kingdom... all the ministers with real positions or honorary officials all have the surname Mi.Qu, Jing, Dou, Yang, Zhao... which one is not the royal branch of Chu?Which one is not a powerful family?

The policy of internal elections from relatives and external elections from the old has prevented the state of Chu from being weakened like the state of Jin and even being divided among three families. their consent.

Want to use my private soldiers?Okay, first decide how many fiefs you will give me.

Want to use soldiers from our county?Okay, first decide how you will reward me if I win the command.

Want to strengthen the royal power and expand the scope of direct jurisdiction?I'm sorry, I think you are tired of being a king, let's change it.Don't you see that you have more troops under your direct control than the private soldiers in my fief?
Shen Gong was dissatisfied, and defected to civilize the enemy country, causing Chu to be shocked three times a day and never have peace; When the Wu people were defeated, they didn't even have the courage to go to Ye County, where the Chu people belonged. Instead, they fled to Zheng Guo. Because Ye Gong was the son of Shen Gong, and Shen Gong was often cheated on the battlefield, so he would rather flee abroad than escape. Go to a big county in the country to escape...

The political situation of the state of Chu is in chaos.

Since Xiongdang's grandfather, King Xianhui, the King of Chu has hoped to use the domestic scholar class and the foreign tourist class to fight against these deep-rooted big families and powerful vassals. The power of class, but the result is drinking poison to quench thirst: the new family rises and becomes part of the old aristocracy.

Xiong Dang, who had just ascended the throne, was very ambitious and was extremely dissatisfied with this situation.

His posthumous title after death was not very good "Sheng", but unlike the records in the Central Plains, the posthumous title recorded by the three generations of Mohists who had close ties with the Chu people was "Sheng Huan".

The two different posthumous titles may be just the difference caused by transcription and transliteration, but the two posthumous titles reflect the person's life aspirations are completely different.

Now that the news of the three Jin feudal lords came, Xiong Dang was not shocked, it could only be said to be reasonable.

He knew that the problem of Chu State was not outside Xiao Qiang, but inside Xiao Qiang.

He also knew that he had to do something to keep Chu's hegemony.

The essence of Chu has the dangers of Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain, and Bashu is weak.Unless it is a battle to destroy the country, it is difficult for the Jin people to break through.

But if you want to maintain your hegemony, you must ensure the offensives in the Zheng, Song, and Huaibei regions.Once Song and Zheng rebel against Chu and Jin, Chu's right wing will be fully exposed. At that time, the Jin people can bypass the danger of Funiu Mountain, pass Song Zheng from the right wing, and attack Chen Cai, so that the Chu people will lose these conquests for hundreds of years. An identified strategic advantage.

At the banquet, the music was melodious, and the nobles of the Chu Kingdom, wearing curly trains and high crowns, did not have too much serious etiquette, chatting and laughing.

Women also showed their faces at the banquet, including the concubine of the King of Chu, and no one felt that there was anything wrong with it.

Since King Zhuang decided to get rid of barbarians and enter Xia Dynasty, the state of Chu gradually began to reform, but the cultural reform could not be completed overnight.

Chu people value witchcraft, and the unique high crown of Chu State, which evolved from the bird feather crown of the great witch, is still the most obvious difference between the nobility of Chu State and the nobility of the Central Plains.

Extremely high crowns such as the Tongtian crown in the Han Dynasty evolved according to the Chu system.

This was originally a wizard's decoration, and the ancestor of the Chu people, Ji Lian, was the son of Lu Zhong.Lu Zhong's wife had dystocia, so she gave birth to six sons by cesarean section, including Peng Zu, Kun Wu, Ji Lian and so on.

And Lu Zhong is the Chongli direct lineage of the legendary Jedi Tiantong. It can be said that the Chu people's habit of attaching importance to prostitution and witchcraft has been deeply rooted in their bones.

Chu people attach great importance to shamanism, but because of the legacy of the matrilineal clan era among the people, most shamanism are women.觋 is a specific name for wizards by Chu people, but 觋 rarely appears in historical records, but Chu people often record witches.

Regardless of witch doctors, women in Chu State not only offered sacrifices, but also mastered medical skills. This folk status also affected the court.For example, it is common for Chu people to persuade women such as Fan Ji and Deng Man to participate in politics.

"Historical Records" once recorded: Zhuang Wang wanted to appoint Youmeng as his prime minister, but Youmeng directly said that I would go back and ask my wife.King Zhuang didn't think there was anything wrong, and asked your wife what she thought three days later... Apparently even the King of Chu is used to the high status of women.

In addition, the Chu people were originally a clan alliance, and they also called themselves barbarians. The Zhou ritual restrictions of the Central Plains countries did not pay much attention to the Chu people.

At the time of King Zhuang, King Zhuang's concubine Ji poured the wine in person. Only then did the lights go out and was touched, and there was a wonderful meeting that has been sung throughout the ages.Even after a hundred years, the court etiquette of the Chu people is still open, and there are not so many dogmas.

The nobles of Chu State have long been accustomed to discussing state affairs in such a cheerful and detached environment.

After Xiong Dang's concubines poured the third round of wine for the ministers, Xiong Dang finally proposed to send troops and ask why Song Zhengyuan rebelled against Chu.

He needs the support of the nobles.

Speaking of the matter of questioning Song Zheng, Shen Gong Qu Yi couldn't help but think of his concubine Qu Jiang who left home to become a Mohist, and sighed: "Although Song is weak, Mo Di is still there, and Shangqiu is also a great city in the world. Jiu Gong If you don't go down, it will hurt the spirit of our army, and I'm afraid that the Sanjin will come to the rescue."

When Xiong Dang heard this, he was half surprised and half cautious and said: "The hero who retired from the army of ten thousand times in the past is still here today?"

　Shangzhu State is the honorary position of Chu State.Da Sima may be Shangzhu state, but not every Da Sima is Shangzhu state.Honorary officer, not real official.One of the main lines of Chu's internal affairs is the battle between the royal power and the nobles.Starting from King Zhuang, the fight continued until the country was destroyed, but they still failed to win.

　　
　
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