Chapter 330: The Four Great Families, Showing (2nd Update)
Zhang Xitai frowned, Yan Hua's words were a little rude, and for people who knew each other for the first time, making a request seemed like a provocation.
Although Zhang Xitai knew that Yan Hua was a bit cynical, he was not bad at heart, as long as he got his approval, he would be very good to that person, but he couldn't be so rude.
"Yan Hua ......" Zhang Xitai called Yan Hua, with a little pleading in his eyes, everyone is a friend, just give him a face and don't stir up trouble.
Yan Hua naturally saw what Zhang Xitai meant, pouted a little dissatisfied, and finally gave Zhang Xitai face, waved his hand boringly and walked over and sat on the stool.
"Forget it, let's just treat it as if my son didn't say it."
Zhang Xitai looked at Ji Junyue and smiled awkwardly, pointed at Yan Hua and introduced: "Please don't be embarrassed by Ji Xiaogongzi, Yan Hua is a little temperamental, but he is a very good person, Yan Hua is sixteen this year, and he is the son of the governor of Fenyang City." ”
Then he pointed to Weisheng Liyao and Zhang Xianli, who had already sat down, and said: "This is Weisheng Liyao, eighteen this year, from Shangzhou, and this is Zhang Xianli, seventeen this year, and is the son of the Yizhou prefect." ”
Ji Junyue didn't bother with Yan Hua, the child, and glanced at them one by one with Zhang Xitai's introduction.
Yan Hua was dressed in a light blue brocade robe, and his dress looked relatively rich, and his white and tender face gave birth to a pair of fine peach blossom eyes, which gave people a bewitching feeling of peach blossoms in full bloom.
However, his facial features are not feminine, with a bit of innate vitality and sunshine in the fineness, and the combination of the whole facial features with different charms gives people an indescribable charming state.
In addition, his eyebrows and eyes are a little cynical, which makes him even more popular with girls, and although he is only sixteen years old, his figure is very strong and tall, close to one meter eight, which is enough to make people shine.
As for Weisheng Liyao......
Ji Junyue set her eyes on the young man in a purple robe, his appearance was not ostentatious, nor was he handsome, it was a very comfortable and unobtrusive appearance, and it was not ugly.
Maybe it's because of the gentle and elegant temperament around him, which makes his appearance more of a sense of safety and warmth, which makes people unconsciously want to make friends.
However, the gentle and elegant smile on the corner of his lips is more of a superficial mask, not a smile from the heart, so it is enough to see that this person is not as gentle and soft and harmless as his temperament and the feeling he gives people.
Behind those deep eyes with an elegant smile, there is more reason and calmness.
Microbiotic ......
Ji Junyue muttered this surname secretly, although Zhang Xitai did not introduce the identity of Weisheng Liyao, but Ji Junyue already had a guess.
didn't pretend not to know, and said directly: "Are you from a microbiological family?" ”
The surname Weisheng is very rare in the Nine Shadows Continent, and it is from Shangzhou, in fact, there is no need to ask, Ji Junyue has already been able to determine nine points in his heart.
Most of the reasons for the openness of the Qin people, the bold etiquette and the respect for martial arts, are because the founding emperor of the Qin State, Qin Wudi, was a martial arts person himself, and he single-handedly established the Great Qin State after the uprising with a group of martial arts people, so the folk customs of the Qin State are relatively open compared to other countries.
This is probably also the reason why the ministers in the court oppose her as a woman participating in politics and taking power, but no one dies, as long as the women of the Qin State have the conditions and like them, most of them will have some martial arts, and there is almost no regulation for women to enter the court.
Most of the people who followed Emperor Qin Wu to fight the country at the beginning unloaded and killed the donkey after Emperor Qin Wu sat down in the country, leaving only a few loyal ones, including the four great families that were famous at the beginning, Zhensun, Zuoqiu, Weisheng, and Ziche.
The reason why these four families are famous is that in addition to the fact that they originally came from some families in martial arts, it is also related to their rare compound surnames.
At the beginning, the heads of these four major families were able to retreat from the dragon because they knew that the torrent was brave and retreating, and their own family power was also strong, so after Emperor Qin Wu sat down in the country, they could retreat with their whole body.
Emperor Wu of Qin divided the heads of the four major families into first-class uncles, and each gave them fiefdoms, three cities and twelve counties, and four directions in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the Qin State, so the four major families left the capital and went directly to their respective backs after receiving the reward, becoming a scattered force in the four directions of the Qin State.
It stands to reason that unless the prince is the prince, he will not be given a fief, but because the first-class uncle canonized by Emperor Qin Wu at that time was only granted for life, not hereditary, so he gave four fiefdoms.
The fiefdom of the Weisheng family is in Shangzhou, if Weisheng Liyao is not a member of the Weisheng family, no one will believe it.
Ji Junyue asked so directly, everyone looked at Weisheng Liyao, even Yan Hua and Zhang Xianli also looked at him.
They have always speculated that Weisheng Liyao is a member of the Weisheng family, but Weisheng Liyao has been silent to be mysterious to God.
But this time, Weisheng Liyao didn't remain silent and pretended to be deep, he looked at Ji Junyue and smiled gently, and nodded generously in acknowledgement.
"I am indeed a member of the Weisheng family, and now the head of the Weisheng family is my grandfather."
Because the people of the Weisheng family are very low-key, especially after Qin Lanxue ascended the throne, ordinary people almost don't know about the affairs of the Weisheng family in the past two generations, only the people who occasionally pay attention to the four major families in the court know some.
When Ji Junyue first came to the Qin State, he carefully investigated the power of the Qin State and had a certain understanding, although the four great families were slowly defeated over time after the death of the first family head with a title, there was no longer the glory of the heyday.
However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and even if the four great families are down, they are still a force that cannot be easily moved on the Qin side.
After all, the four major families each controlled three cities and twelve counties, and they all raised their own private soldiers, and each family had more than 20,000 people on the surface, but in fact there were more than 30,000 people in secret.
The two emperors after Emperor Wu of Qin didn't think about taking back this back cover, but the four great families were distributed in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions of the Qin State, and the imperial city of Qin was wrapped in a large area.
Once the four great families join forces, the Qin State will definitely be in chaos, even if the final suppression is successful, it will affect the national strength and give other countries a chance to take advantage of it, so the emperors of the two generations have not been able to make up their minds to clean up the family, but only monitor the private army in their hands, which is always controlled at about 20,000 people.
It wasn't until Qin Lanxue ascended the throne and became a puppet emperor that the Qin State became a three-party government, and the four great families slowly became presumptuous again and began to expand their troops, reaching more than 30,000.
Among the four major families, Zhensun and Zuoqiu Shangwu also made contributions by force back then, and until now for more than 100 years, they still maintain their connection with martial arts.
Although Weisheng and Ziche were also born in martial arts, they were more resourceful, and they were more likely to help Emperor Qin Wu as strategists and military advisors.
Now because of the three parties in power, although it is more impossible for the court to destroy the family, it has chosen to join forces, and the Zhuan Sun family has taken refuge in the Huangfu family, and the Zuoqiu family has an in-law relationship with the people in the rivers and lakes, maintains neutrality, and continues to be alone in this big dye vat.
The Ziche family served the Qing Dynasty, and as for the Weisheng family, they married the Du family, the richest man in the Qin State, and remained neutral like the Zuoqiu family.
Now that people from the Weisheng family are participating in the imperial examination, this move seems to reveal something worth pondering.
Thinking of this, Ji Junyue smiled casually: "As far as this son knows, the people of the Weisheng family have been hiding from the world for many years, and no one in the family has entered the court as an official. ”
No one thought that this noble prince who looked full of nobility would ask such a sensitive question, you must know that this question involves the affairs of the court, it is not an ordinary chatter, and the general exit needs to be cautious, he actually said it in such a grand manner, and asked with a casual attitude, which is really surprising.
Zhang Xianli knew Ji Junyue's identity, so after listening to her words at this time, he was slightly surprised, and then he thought deeply, speculating about the deep meaning of her words, could it be that he intended to recruit the Weisheng family?
Zhang Wenhe, who had already passed the word and walked in and sat down, didn't understand what a few people were talking about, so he could only blink and look at it with curious and puzzled eyes, but because he sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, it was difficult to ask out loud even if he was puzzled in his heart.
Because Zhang Xitai participated in the imperial examination, he often lived in the city, and he naturally had more contact with things than his father and younger brother, and he had also heard people from the Weisheng family who took the exam together, even the four great families of the year, so although he didn't think as clearly as Zhang Xianli, he also knew that this topic was sensitive.
He opened his mouth, thinking about how to defuse the cold and delicate atmosphere that might ensue next.
When Yan Hua heard this, he also put away the cynicism rarely, frowned, and looked at Ji Junyue with an unkind face.
"Ji Gongzi, has this topic been said a little too much, although we are people who have just passed the autumn season, but the affairs of the court are not something that can be discussed at will, so as not to cause trouble and hurt yourself, this topic is still good to be revealed."
Listening to Yan Hua's undisguised cold words, Zhang Xianli glanced at the unkindness and coldness in his eyes, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he wanted to scream but couldn't make a sound, which was really exciting.
You must know that sitting opposite is the general who is in charge of 200,000 troops, and it is rumored that he will strangle the heads of more than ten leaders of the enemy army with a team of 100 people.
What's more, the other party still has a more useful and powerful identity, that is the queen who can be in charge of the country with the emperor, as long as she wants to, Yan Hua alone is not enough to kill......
Ji Junyue glanced at Yan Hua sideways, although that glance was only a faint glance, it made Yan Hua suddenly feel an invisible coercion on his body, which instantly overwhelmed him, and his face turned white.
In the face of this sudden accident, Yan Hua's pupils shrank and listened to the frantic heartbeat, his heart was shocked, and he looked at the young man opposite in disbelief and disbelief.
Although the suffocating coercion on his body disappeared because the young man's gaze had been removed, as if he were hallucinating, the frantic heartbeat reminded him that all this was real, and the young man really made him chill all over his body with just one glance......
Ji Junyue didn't pay attention to him after glancing at Yan Hua, but looked at her silently and secretly examined her Weisheng Liyao, waiting for his answer.
Seeing this, Weisheng Liyao glanced at the beads of sweat on Zhang Xianli's forehead, as well as Yan Hua, whose face was a little pale, and a certain guess in his heart became a little thicker.
Then he smiled lightly at Ji Junyue again, and said in an extremely calm tone.
"Indeed, now that Your Majesty has been in charge of the government, although my Weisheng family has not eaten the king's fortune, but I have also received the king's fiefdom, I should bear the king's worries and do my best for the monarch and the country."
These words undoubtedly show the position and thoughts of the micro-living family, and if such words are spread, it will definitely bring a catastrophe to the micro-living family.
Except for Zhang Wen, who did not understand politics and had never been in contact with the affairs of the court, everyone else had a change of expression.
Zhang Xitai and Yan Hua looked at Weisheng Liyao's eyes with a little more worry, Zhang Xianli breathed a sigh of relief, but there were more doubts in his heart, and he looked at Weisheng Liyao suspiciously, wondering if he had seen something.
Even though Zhang Xi'an is not very involved in politics, he often heard a lot of things when he came to the city with his brother, and since he knew Ji Yue, the general, he naturally knew that the current court power was almost three parties against the imperial party.
And the emperor's chances of winning are very few, this Weisheng Liyao so directly and generously admitted that he wants to be loyal to the emperor in front of so many people, this heart is too big, don't you know what to be afraid of? ……
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In the last chapter, I forgot that Feng Ye was sent by Junjun to investigate the failure.,I actually wrote him out when I was in Minglanju.,Now it's changed again.,Remove him.,Everyone remembers when he's not in Minglanju~Haha~
Junjun is going to start recruiting talents for the Qin State along the way, roar~