Spring and Autumn I Am King

Intentionally planting flowers but not blooming, inadvertently clinging to the willows, Zhao Wuxi's retainer group has always hoped that the lord will have children to calm people's hearts. [Full text read..] But Zhao Wuxi's only concubine did not move. They were anxious and even began to persuade Zhao Wuxi to take concubines. good news.

A big stone fell in Zhang Mengtan's heart, and he hurriedly congratulated: "Congratulations to your lord!" As a retainer, he could feel at ease, and as a friend, he was sincerely happy for Zhao Wuxi.

Wuxi smiled and said, "I may have a concubine's eldest son. Meng Tan has to work hard. If you give birth to a daughter, you and I may be able to get married."

Changed to an ordinary retainer, and heard the lord make such a promise, he couldn't help but be overjoyed? But Zhang Mengtan was not, he pondered for a moment and then resigned: "If the lord wants the eldest son to succeed the general in the state of Lu, let him marry the daughter of the Marquis of Lu, or the daughter of the Meng family and Ji family. Suitable."

Zhao Wuxi was a little boring. Zhang Meng talked about everything well, but he was too calm. He waved his hand: "Let's wait for him to be born, and it won't be too late to say when he is the age of the crown."

Zhao Wuxi also knew about Bo Mi's pregnancy a few days ago. The joy and anxiety of being a father mixed in his heart, which made him not only happy, but also unavoidable to think about his future children.

He can foresee that in the future, he must have many sons and grandsons. How to arrange these sons and how to make them contribute to the Zhao family in this world of great competition? No one is a completely independent individual, everyone must contribute to the clan, this is the law of the times!

Now that he knew that he would have children, he would have one more choice for dealing with the state of Lu. Even if Zhao Wuxi brought five counties back to Jin as a minister, the old Zhao family's branch in the state of Lu would not be the same. Open up rightly. No matter whether the new general is three years old or five years old, in short, he must firmly occupy this seat, supported by Zhao Yang and Zhao Wuxi in Jin State, and the little Zhao An who is guarded by his retainers is like a rock.

He is his heir, with the blood of the Profound Bird of Destiny flowing on his body.

He was his successor, and Zhao Wuxi knew that he might never be accepted by the xenophobic Lu people. But what about a young general who grew up in the State of Lu, spoke the Lu dialect since he babbled, studied ritual and music in Qufu, and made friends with the scholars of the State of Lu? He will win the love of Lu people. It is the medium for the Zhao clan to indirectly rule the state of Lu in the future.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Zhao Wuxi can successfully return to Jin and allow Zhao to enter the new field.

Because of the appearance of Zhao Wuxi, the contradiction between the six ministers intensified. The filth of Lu, Qi and Wei also deepened. The entire land of Jinlu has become a huge powder keg, and it only needs a fuse to trigger the war. Maybe next year, maybe in the year after.

"I still need to endure at least one autumn harvest..." If Zhao Wuxi is allowed to choose, the sooner the war comes, the better, but the enemies are not puppets, and they will also judge the situation.

Although the road to return to Jin is far away, Zhang Mengtan is full of confidence in this. It is not difficult to penetrate the Wei Kingdom and connect with the Jin Kingdom, not to mention Song and Cao Youbang to help. No matter what happens inside Jin, at least abroad, the situation will become more and more in favor of one's own side.

Those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough to plan for a corner, and those who do not plan for the world are not enough to plan for a moment. So at the end, he asked with concern: "If the lord becomes minister in Jin in the future, will he also implement the shogunate system?"

"In Jin, this is not necessary."

Knowing the future trend, Zhao Wuxi analyzed Zhang Mengtan: "The feudal lords are different from the feudal lords in different regions. The customs are different. From the beginning of the uncle Qin, the State of Lu has always paid attention to the respect of relatives, the practice of clan politics, and the emphasis on patriarchal etiquette. The music has collapsed, but it is still in the decline stage of the patriarchal feudal system. The power of the ministers is still strong, and the influence on the people is difficult to eliminate."

Although scholars continued to emerge, and military landowners began to sprout, it would take ten or twenty years to dissolve this social structure. Even the efforts of generations.

"In the Jin state, Xiazheng was used, and Xinjiang was dominated by Rong Suo. It developed a unique national condition and folk customs among the Rong and Di, and experienced the incident of Quwo replacing the wing and Xian Gong Tu and exterminating the Gong Clan. As a result, the Gong Clan declined. Strong. The Liuqing has begun to turn the family into the country. The doctors and retainers are gradually no longer hereditary, but scholars are appointed as officials. The atmosphere is more liberal and enterprising than the state of Lu. Criminal law, county system, state soldiers, Yuantian, Yangshi, various reforms It is also deeper than the state of Lu, and it can be said that it is the demise stage of the patriarchal feudal system."

Zhang Meng said: "I understand that the shogunate politics implemented by the lord is formulated according to the national conditions of Lu. Those who practice in Lu may not be able to practice in Jin. If they can kill Jin, they only need to thoroughly implement the county in the whole country. You can make it, right?"

Wu Xie smiled and said, "Those who know me, Meng Tan also!"

Zhao Wuxi was sure that this shogunate system was not necessary to implement in Jin. Lu was the stepping stone for him to enter the troubled times, but Jin was the stage for the victory and defeat of the Spring and Autumn hegemony.

Jin will sooner or later become a country, a centralized country! Otherwise, there is only one way to go, there is no middle option!

The fact that Zhao Wuxi would have an heir spread throughout the shogunate under his intentional propaganda, and in the next few days, Zhao's retainers were beaming with joy. Until a dark and rainy morning, the Confucian disciples who were serving in the shogunate seemed to be affected by the weather, and their faces suddenly became a little gloomy.

They hurried to the official office, and then left one after another on leave.

Gong Xichi just came out of the boring palace, and he didn't even have time to take off his robe, so he went straight to the horse. The dove chief came out of the garden with a coat of bird feathers, followed by a group of pigeons chirping and following; and Fan Xu, the big farmer who had just returned from the inspection of the spring ploughing, had red eyes and ran out on foot before he even had time to take a sip of water.

In the end, only Zai Yu, who was going to take up the post of county magistrate in Feiyi, walked into the General's Mansion full of worries and asked to see Zhao Wuxi, and reported the news to him.

"Master, Master, he is leaving..."

…

His house is deep in an alley in the inner city. It survived the war. It faces south and north. The courtyard is not large, and the loess is the wall. This morning, the old man dressed in coarse cloth, wearing a bamboo hat and holding a withered yellow bamboo stick walked out the door and gently closed the door of the inner room.

There are three houses in the courtyard. In previous years, the disciples who were studying were full. The sound of chanting the ritual music in the early morning would become louder and louder, and finally turned into a chorus to wake up Li Lu. Nowadays, the house is empty, few people live there, and most of the disciples have been recruited by the generals and shogunate to be the grass-roots officials.

There was a vegetable garden in the corner, but no new rapeseed was sprinkled. There is jerky, but there is only a pile of jerky and feces left in it. He no longer cares about these things. In the past few months, his daily life has been taken care of by his disciple Yan Hui. Wife and a pair of children are in Zouyi. There are food fields, respectful neighbors, and several disciples to help, so don't worry.

Pushing the door and entering the alley, a two-horse carriage was waiting here. Yan Hui had a drinking scoop on his waist, holding a bamboo slip in one hand while reading in the morning light, while the other hand gently stroked the horse to soothe its unease.

Zilu with a long beard stood beside him with luggage on his back and a sword on his waist. When he found out that the Master had finally come out, he respectfully bowed: "Master, are you leaving? The weather is bad today. Do you want to? Wait a few days until the spring rain stops?"

Confucius looked back at the completely empty home, then looked up at the hazy sky, took a deep breath, and smelled a trace of reluctance and shake: "No need, let's go."

…

He stayed out of the door, and thought hard for several months, until after the beginning of spring, he realized something. After the decision to go, he specially circled the entire city of Lu.

He looked at Qufu from the tower, how much wind and rain this five-hundred-year-old ancient city has experienced. The ancient well in Liluli, the mottled rammed-earth corners, the blunt weapon chopping marks on the city gate, the market square where the boys play...

Confucius liked this and it was chosen by the Duke of Zhou. The city built by Boqin.

What outsiders see is the narrowness of the city of Lu and the gadgets of the people of Lu, but after living for a long time, they can feel the heavy rituals and music and the different human feelings.

Although the ancestor of Confucius was from the Song Dynasty, he had long been rooted in Lubang, although he was from Zouyi. But he has regarded Qufu as his hometown.

Now, Confucius is leaving, leaving the city where he has lived for decades, and the home he is familiar with...

No, I'm no longer familiar, and Confucius hadn't gone out for a few months, when Confucius suddenly discovered that the city had changed so much that he couldn't recognize it.

In the early morning, Qufu had already woken up. The most lively cities were the east and west cities. With Zigong's support for commerce, the quantity and variety of goods circulated from the states of Cao, Song, Jin and even Wu were larger.

In the past, the administration of Lu State was chaotic, the monarch had no authority, and Sanhuan had no consciousness, so he did not have his own coinage. In the market, two strings of ten sea shells were generally traded as "one friends", or knife coins were used. However, whether it is knife coins or sea shells, they are all produced by the state of Qi, which is equivalent to the state of Lu's economy being stifled by the state of Qi, and also losing a lot of currency exchange difference.

Now it's good, the merchants no longer let their ministers carry large baskets of shell coins to trade, but use Zhao's Yuan coins circulating in Xilu. It is round on the outside and square on the inside. It is both beautiful and practical, and it has different denominations to suit different occasions. Under the forced promotion of the shogunate, it is only a matter of time before the Qi knife coins are quickly eliminated from Qufu and spread throughout the country of Lu.

However, apart from the lively two cities, due to the weather, no one moved around in the rest of the place. Only the soldiers on duty were vigilantly observing every move in the city on the wall. Since Zhao Wuxi took over in Qufu, a group of eunuchs with a Western accent have taken over the defense of Qufu's various gates, patrolling the streets on horseback, so that the law and order is surprisingly good. And the palace was replaced with elite military pawns. Their name was Zhao Wuxi, the palace armor dedicated to the Marquis of Lu, but it was actually a killer to hold the monarch hostage.

In the past, the arrogant doctors who rode in wide cars, wore Luzheng, and wore high crowns were hard to see on the streets. They were not members of the public family, but bureaucrats of the shogunate, who took over the work of the doctors with their salaried salary.

The bureaucrats went in and out of various official offices, and posted notices made of paper at the gates of the city. The General’s House has been issuing new orders in the past few months. One after another, Confucius did not object to the first two, but the latter two contradicted Confucius' beliefs, especially the so-called military merits granting fields, which he knew meant that it was impossible for Ida to be revived in Lu.

From Confucius' point of view, the benefits created by Zhao Wuxi are far from enough to offset the "badness" he brings. The people of Lu will gain short-term benefits, but lose long-term propriety and righteousness.

"Why did I think that Zhao Wuxi was a man in my way? In fact, like his father who cast the punishment cauldron, he is a utilitarian king who tends to punish harshly and overstep etiquette..."

In short, looking at the changes in Qufu, Confucius knew that the ritual and music that supported him to stay here had completely collapsed, and this country would become more and more unfamiliar.

This is a brand-new state of Lu, and his old gu is no longer needed.

It's better to leave, go to a wider world, and perhaps have the opportunity to find the true meaning of Tao, the origin of ritual.

(To be continued.)

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