Spring and Autumn I Am King

The Spring and Autumn period is not far away, so many vassal states still retain the original military democracy. Chinese people, that is, senior citizens, have greater political rights, and sometimes they will invite all Chinese people to public meetings at the temples and temples in the city, and the polling team will solve the problem.

However, King Li of Zhou of the Western Zhou Dynasty did not get the support of the Chinese people, so he made a big deal of Shanze patents, and also prohibited the Chinese people from speaking and discussing government affairs. As a result, the people of the country quit. As the national reservists, they had their own fighting armour at home. They simply went to a riot under the instigation of politicians, and knocked King Li out of power, creating a very special "republican administration" in history. .

With the gradual disappearance of the borders of the country and the wild, the public meetings of the people, which are as lively as the Greek and Roman citizens' assembly, have decreased, and the threshold of public meetings has gradually become higher. For example, Zhao's public discussion is now only attended by senior vassals at the doctor level, as well as the sect masters.

In the past, Zhao Wuxi had a lowly status, so no one invited him to go there, but now he was able to sit at the table, the meaning of which is self-evident.

This shows that he has officially obtained the unanimous approval of Zhao Yang, and even the whole clan's retainers, thanks to the unlucky white elk.

After hunting the white elk, Zhao Yang's reputation in Jin was unparalleled: the envoys of the Song state completely joined the Zhao family, and Le Qi simply stayed away from the Dongmen Pavilion, and moved directly into the Zhao family with the guards of honor and entourage. in the palace.

And the people of Jiangdu are also preaching this miraculous thing one after another. The scholar-officials who want to come to the door to get auspicious look have stepped over the threshold, and there are even big businessmen who came from Zheng Guoweiguo to see the excitement...Congratulations from all the territories of the Zhao family And gifts, also in an endless stream, arrived together, and this year's plan report.

The more this is, the more pleasing Zhao Yang's eyes are when he sees his youngest son Wu Tie.

But after he calmed down, he took all the gifts and flattering words to the case a few times, and spread out the top plans handed in by various places, that is, the financial report. After reading it, Zhao Yang couldn't help frowning.

The year is not good this year! There are locusts in spring, severe droughts in summer, Dalin in autumn, snow and rain in winter, everything can happen. In June, in order to support the King of Zhou in suppressing the rebellion, Liuqing negotiated for a long time, and finally provided some manpower and material resources to defend the city for the emperor.

Today, the Chengzhou rebellion is still unresolved, and it has also attracted the outrageous interference of the people of Zheng State. The cowardly emperor even fled the royal city in fright. It is conceivable that this cost will be absolutely indispensable next year. If the Sixth Council decides to use troops against Zheng who violated the hegemony of the Jin state after the spring, it will cost a thousand dollars a day!

It seems that it is also time to send some sons to the local area to experience and see how well they can perform at this time. If you want to become the heir and govern the Zhao family with more than ten large counties, it is not only skillful in bowing and horses, but also able to manage the people and manage money!

What's more, it can also achieve the effect of killing two birds with one stone. As the saying goes, the emperor establishes a country, the princes establish their families, and the ministers set up side chambers. The feudal son, justifiably named, can also solve the big problem that Zhao Yang has been hiding in his heart.

When the youngest son Zhao Wu Xie walked quickly into the main hall and came to Zhao Yang's seat to worship, he raised his head and glanced at Wu Xie.

Today's etiquette, there is nothing wrong with picking it up, it seems that this son of a **** has finally learned it by heart.

Seeing that the people were all gathered together, Zhao Yang announced the start of the public meeting: "Today I invite you to come here, and I want to discuss the matter of the lands, two or three sons! Bring the map!"

I saw the vertical people walking to the center of the main hall with a large pale yellow sheepskin cloth, pulling the four corners to spread it.

This is a detailed map of Jin State, which goes up to the south and down to the north, depicting the situation of mountains and rivers and the direction of rivers. The Zhao family's territory was dotted all over the place, and they were all marked with striking red, but they were not connected, but were divided into several parts by the territory of the other five ministers.

Zhao Yang looked at the map, stroked his beautiful beard and pondered.

As the conflicts with Fan and Zhongxing became more and more public, he had a clear understanding in his heart.

There is no more territory to divide up in the country, so sooner or later the six ministers of Jin will fight! It's time to start preparing for war, and first and foremost, integrating the interior.

"Doctor Fu Sou, come and explain a few things to the retainers and the four gentlemen."

Fu Sou, with kind eyebrows and good eyes, pointed at the map and said: "Everyone, please see, not counting the Zhongyi Lower Palace near Jiangdu, my Zhao clan now owns a total of thirteen counties, ranking first among the six ministers of Jin State. ."

Our family is so ****! Zhao Wuxi, who was sitting at the bottom of the hall, was taken aback by this ratio. You must know that the counties to which the other five clans belonged did not exceed ten. The entire Jin state together, there are more than 60 counties, according to the calculation of 10,000 households in one county, a household of seven people, the total population of Jin state is about 4 million, and the Zhao family accounts for nearly a quarter of them!

One million people!

However, after Fu Souyi's explanation, Zhao Wuxi realized that more than half of the data was filled with water... Mr. Zhao seems to be strong on the outside and dry on the inside.

It turned out that after the disaster of the lower palace, all the Zhao family's territory was lost, and only the lower palace near the capital and Zhaocheng, the ancestral sacrifice site, were left. Since Wenzi, an orphan of the Zhao family, became a nobleman again and acquired a fief, after the unremitting efforts of three generations of Wenzi, Jingzi and Zhao Yang, he gradually regained his homeland and exchanged the cities and towns once owned by Zhao Xuanzi one by one, or other The unseen means were brought back.

But at the same time, the three generations of patriarchs also enfeoffed quite a few branches of the Zhao clan and meritorious retainers, and after decades of reproduction, it was a big deal.

Zhao Clan's small clan that has already gone out of the five suits, that is, the descendants of Zhao Chuan who helped Zhao Xuanzi to kill Jin Linggong, the Handan Clan owns: Geng, Handan, Han, and Lin, a total of four counties.

Louxian is controlled by the branch Lou, that is, the descendant of Zhao Yingqi, the immoral uncle who committed adultery with his grandmother Zhao Zhuangji...

Zhao Yang's eldest cousin, the high-ranking doctor, Zhao Luo, owns the location of the clan's ancestral temple: Wen County.

Zhao Yang's concubine Zhao Chao served as the doctor of Ma Shou County. This city was the spoils of war that were divided up by six ministers after the fall of the Duke Qi clan and Yang Tong clan of the Jin state ten years ago. At first, Ma Shou was distributed to the Han family, and Pingyang was distributed to the Zhao family. Due to geographical reasons, the two families who had always been friends exchanged privately.

Zhongmu County is under the control of a retainer, Fu Xian, who is said to have worshipped under Confucius’s school when he was young and studied for a period of time.

Therefore, there are actually only five counties directly under the Zhao clan, plus the middle-sized city of Xiagong, and these are not the same as Zhao Yang said: once the sect leaders have inherited two or three generations, they will have a lot of strong independence. So if something happens, the fourteen cities that are dotted all over can't be squeezed into a fist! On the contrary, they will be defeated by the enemy, and there will even be situations where Xiaozong or Yizai will turn against the water...

So, it must be integrated, which is the subject of today's public debate.

Following Fu Sou's remarks, Zhao Wuxi's eyes swept across this rough and backward map in his opinion, and finally locked on the vicinity of Jiangdu. The private towns of Liuqing were scattered around Xinjiang City, like the six vertices of a hexagon, firmly confining the power of the Marquis of Jin within the snail corners of dozens of miles around.

In the northwest corner of Jiangdu, Zhao's "Xia Palace" is a medium-sized city with a population of more than 10,000, which is equivalent to a small county town in later generations. township.

It seems that the centralization reform of the Zhao family will begin with the recovery of the ownership of these townships. And according to Fu Sou, there were several township chiefs who were really indecent, and their annual plans were unsatisfactory, so Zhao Yang dismissed them or transferred them to other places.

And the excuse is also obvious: I want to divide my sons' hometowns for training, so you should move your positions.

This is an unprecedented thing. Usually, the chiefs of towns and villages are passed down from generation to generation in a clan. But the tyrannical Zhao Yang has set a precedent in history, preparing to start from the Zhao family, UU reading www. If uukanshu.com breaks Shiqing Shilu, if the plan is too bad, saying that if you are dismissed, you will be dismissed.

Taking into account the place under the jurisdiction of the sergeant Chenghe, who was cut off a few days ago, now Zhao Yang has four unowned townships, and he happens to have four sons...

Zhao Wuxi couldn't help but feel refreshed. Historically, the Zhao family turned the family into a country and changed the patriarchal system into a bureaucratic centralized power. Probably, it started from this public meeting, right?

He has a real sense of participating in the historical process, and after so many days of waiting, can he finally get the first piece of territory he has been dreaming about?

However, to his disappointment, the three brothers, Uncle Bo Zhong, were given tiger talismans and scepters by Zhao Yang and were assigned to nearby townships.

"Father!" How could Zhao Wuxi miss this great opportunity, so he decisively lifted up his robe and stood up from the seat.

Everyone in the main hall focused their attention on Wu Xie, especially Zhong Xin and Shu Qi's eyes were not good. They didn't forget that in the winter hunt a few days ago, it was Wu Xie who stole the limelight, making them seem quite incompetent.

Now, what is this **** going to make a fuss about?

Wu Xie meticulously saluted Zhao Yang and the other family officials: "Why don't you send me to take charge of a township? The kid also wants to take care of his father and the Zhao family!"

"It's absurd, you are a child who is not yet an adult. Before the crown ceremony, you have no right to rule the people. How can you give you a fief?" However, Zhong Xin, who had been holding back for a long time, jumped out to object.

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