Chapter 72: The only length of Chinese history
When Lu Wu was thinking about the replacement of the monarch of the Jin Kingdom, what opportunities could the old Lu family find in it.
After some thought, he gave up his plan to fish in troubled waters.
Just got a fiefdom, and it is the right way to build it as soon as possible.
If you want to fish in troubled waters, you have to have that strength.
Otherwise, if you touch the muddy water, you won't touch half of the fish, and you should be crushed to death by a behemoth who doesn't even look at it.
The sixteenth day after the wheat harvest.
Lu Wu received a message from Xintian.
The monarch really fell into the pit and drowned, and Zhongying asked the whole country to mourn.
The monarch was very stubborn in wanting to eat this year's new wheat, and while he ordered people to prepare, he sent someone to summon Sangtian Wu, and after some cynicism, he asked Sangtian Wu to be dragged down and hacked to death.
This year's new wheat was cooked, but before the king wanted to use it, he felt abdominal pain, and reprimanded the eunuchs (eunuchs) not to follow, and hurried to the thatched hut himself.
Of course, it is impossible that no one will follow the king, they have stayed outside and waited for a long time, and when they saw that the king did not come out, there was no movement.
A dying man went in and looked: Huh?! What about the monarch???
He searched around first, but when he didn't find the king, he hurriedly called out the Dakito and the Miyagi (Miyagi guards) outside.
The thatched house is actually not big, and I didn't find the monarch after looking around.
Then there is only one answer.
By the time they scooped up the king, the king was already breathless.
Zhongqing and the major doctors rushed to Miyagi after receiving the news.
When they heard that the king's death was so bizarre, the first thing they thought about was whether to block the news, so as not to spread it and become a joke for the ages.
The point is that there are historians present.
The secretaries looked at each other, and looked at the historian with a very ugly face.
All the doctors were left with a wry smile.
They know one thing, the historian will inevitably truthfully record how the monarch died, and the Jin Kingdom has become a joke of the nations, they have witnessed a strange story through the ages, and they have played the role of a clown in it, and they have also left their names in the history books.
Even, some secretaries and doctors will definitely be suspected of having anything to do with the death of the monarch.
In the pre-Qin period of antiquity, there was a tradition of historians.
Generally, it is passed from father to son, son to grandson, and it is succeeded from generation to generation as a historian.
Their professional ethics are not comparable to those of the younger generations in the future.
To record history is to record the truth, and there will be no fooling or compromise. (but will bring their own subjective consciousness)
There was such an incident in the Jin Kingdom.
Zhao Dun pretended to flee before killing the king, but before he could escape from the land of the Jin Kingdom, his cousin Zhao Chuan killed the Duke of Jin Ling.
Since Zhao Dun was the marshal and the ruling party, he was obliged to guarantee the safety of the monarch.
Then there is the contradiction between Jin Linggong and the main sect of the Zhao family, which is well known.
It was Zhao Dun's cousin Zhao Chong who killed Jin Linggong, or Zhao Dun killed Jin Linggong before he stepped down from those positions and people were also within the territory of the Jin Kingdom.
The historians don't care how Jin Linggong bullied the Zhao family, and why Zhao Dun killed Jin Linggong, they will only record Zhao Dun's murder of the king.
Zhao Dun repeatedly explained that he had fled.
But it didn't work.
The historian thought that Zhao Dun's murder of the monarch was a fact.
Zhao Dun killed two generations of historians in a row, in order to force historians to selectively record history.
However, the historian did not give in.
The grandfather was killed, but the father still recorded Zhao Dun's murder.
The father was killed, but the son still recorded Zhao Dun's murder.
After this "son" finished writing, he told Zhao Dun: You can kill me. Only, my son will continue to come; The historians of the surrounding nations already knew about it, and they were already on their way; I sincerely believe that you can't kill people (historians) who dare to record the truth.
Zhao Dun is powerful, and he can't stop the world's mouth.
In particular, the Spring and Autumn aristocracy actually still has to show face, and they really can't kill people who dare to tell the truth and record the truth.
Zhao Dun can only accept the facts.
With the example of Zhao Dun, no nobles in the Jin Kingdom ever tried to force historians to selectively record history, or to become historical inventors.
The nationwide mourning had an impact on the whole country, especially the aristocracy.
On the contrary, the impact on civilians and slaves was not so great.
Of course, now is the world of great controversy, and it will not be necessary to mourn for several years because of the monarch.
Generally, some special people mourn for one year, and nobles mean three months.
In addition, the Jin State sent envoys to the nations to inform the Jin Jing Gong of the news.
The nations that also spoke of etiquette, whether friendly or hostile, would send envoys to attend the funeral of Jin Jinggong.
It means that if the countries originally had a military operation against the Jin State, it should also be canceled.
At the same time, the declining Zhou royal family wants to send a team that meets the specifications to attend the funeral of Jin Jinggong, which is also to witness the ascension of the new monarch of the Jin Kingdom. (Flow of Giving Zuo Meat)
Jin Jinggong's death was abrupt, but it was not so sudden.
The key is that his condition has recurred, and everyone is mentally prepared.
However, everyone thought that he didn't die so quickly, but he died again.
Due to the unexpected relationship, the rotation of the Jin monarch, the secretary of the Qing Dynasty did not have the bloodshed of the previous rotation of the old and new monarchs.
The main thing is that they are not well prepared, and no one dares to act rashly.
In a situation where everyone wanted to move and was uncertain, Zhao Zhuangji obtained Han Jue's consent and sent a samurai regiment to Lao Lu's house to pick up Zhao Wu.
Zhao Wu is related to the Jin State Mansion, and his mother Zhao Zhuangji has also been living in Miyagi, so she should appear at the funeral of the Duke of Jin Jing.
And Lu Wu, he also thought that with the death of Jin Jinggong, the Jin Kingdom would be in chaos for a period of time, which led to the cessation of the construction of the fiefdom and the focus on the security of the fief.
After ten days and half a month, the people he sent out came back one after another to report that the surrounding nobles had no change, and one by one they also felt that a great disaster was coming, and they only paid attention to the defense of the territory.
In particular, the position of Zhongqing has not changed, who was in what position before, and the ass still does not move.
This is very unpopular.
LĂź Wu asked his retainers if they could continue to build the territory.
The retainer replied with a very strange expression, it's not that he can't continue to build, but he just asked Lu Wu again and again, do you really want to continue building?
After all, Lu Wu, who was not from the Spring and Autumn Period, saw that his retainers' expressions were wrong, and he suspected that he had ignored something.
No matter how much fanfare it is, is it?
Lu Wu decided to do something small.
He took advantage of the fact that neither his subjects nor slaves had to go out to work, and he conducted a census of the population in the fiefdom.
This kind of census is different from that of other countries in the Spring and Autumn period.
Not only did he keep track of men of the right age, but he also registered women of the right age, and even set three age groups.
For example, there is a ladder from 11 to 19 years old, another echelon from 20 to 30 years old, and a ladder from 30 years old and above.
After this census, he found that there was no old man over sixty years old, whether a subject or a slave.
Even those over the age of forty are rare.
Actually, this is a very understandable thing.
The living environment, coupled with dietary habits, and even medical conditions, are too lacking, resulting in a generally low life expectancy for people nowadays.
And three months passed quickly.
Because of the influence of the alternation of the old and the new monarchs, the Jin State still existed for the secretaries.
The small and medium-sized nobles fulfilled their "rites" and could not be completely shut down for a long time just because they had a monarch.
The old Lu family naturally did what they should do, so they continued to do it.