Chapter 8: Fantasy on the Ondol
Guanzhong is really good!
After getting up, Ying Kai sat on his own clay kang and slowly reminisced about this trip to Guanzhong.
Starting from Dog Hill all the way to the east is Longshan, which is much lower than the tall and majestic Qinling Mountains in the south. It is precisely because Longshan is relatively low that it has become the object of contention between the Zhou royal family, the northern Rongdi and the Qin people.
Once the royal family took possession of Longshan, it had the initiative to fight against Rongdi in the north; On the contrary, if Rong Di occupies Longshan, he will have the initiative to attack Guanzhong, and he will also use Longshan as the boundary to separate the Zhou royal family in Guanzhong and the Qin people in Longxi.
Of course, if the Qin people occupy Longshan, it will be equivalent to opening up the lifeline between the Qin people and Guanzhong.
It can be seen that the importance of Longshan is self-evident.
When the Western Zhou Dynasty was strong, the control of Longshan was firmly in the hands of the royal family.
When the moon is full, it is lost, and when the water is full, it overflows.
Zhou Li Wang Jihu is really a "promising" son of heaven! The originally good Western Zhou world was tossed to the brink of collapse in the decades after he came to power. Moreover, this Zhou Tianzi is also an expert in word making, and in his hands he created an idiom and a major historical event, the idiom is "the road is the goal", and the historical event is "the riot of the people".
What a good man with responsibility! To be able to bear the burden of the decline of the Zhou royal family in your own hands is also to have courage and courage.
It's not good for people to be crazy, but dogs are crazy about bricks.
Of course, there is no good thing for such an arrogant son of heaven, and in the thirty-seven years after he succeeded to the throne, King Zhou Li was driven out of the national capital by the people of Hojing, embarked on the road of exile, and died fourteen years later.
They have all embarked on the road of exile, and King Zhou Li can live for another fourteen years.
In this way, King Zhou Li is still a long-lived son of heaven, reigning for thirty-seven years, and living for fourteen years after exile. This should have a lot to do with the longevity genes of the Zhou royal family, and all Zhou Tianzi have been in power for a long time.
King Zhou Li, who is very capable of tossing, finally left the stage of history, and now it is the turn of the crown prince Ji Jing to perform.
Speaking of which, King Zhou Xuan is also a hard-working child, on the day of the "Chinese riot", because his father King Zhou Li ran fast, he left Haojing early. The angry people turned to look for the prince Ji Jing, the minister called Mu Gong to hide the prince Jing, the people surrounded Zhao Mu Gong's house, and wanted to call Mu Gong out of the prince, Zhao Mu Gong was forced to use his son to pretend to be Prince Jing, the people killed the son of Zhao Mu Gong, and Prince Jing was spared.
After the people calmed down their anger and left, there was no master in the empty palace of King Zhou.
The Son of Heaven has run away, who will take care of the affairs of the Western Zhou royal family?
What's going on?
Then let the crown prince Ji Jing ascend the throne directly.
The ministers thought about it and still felt that it was inappropriate. Because King Zhou Li is still alive and well, people die like lights out, and if they don't die, others really can't put out other people's lights.
Besides, the crown prince Ji Jing is also unwilling, my father is still in the field, if I ascend the throne directly, not only will I be suspected of grabbing power, but also make people feel that they are politically immature.
In this way, King Zhou Li's character is really not good, not only is he an expert in word making, but he is also unconscious. Everyone ran away, and they still occupied the position of the Son of Heaven of the Zhou royal family, which made the prince and ministers very embarrassed.
If the Son of Heaven does not come back, the crown prince is unwilling to ascend the throne, and the affairs of the royal family cannot afford to delay. So the princes unanimously elected to summon Mu Gong and Zhou Dinggong to act as the Son of Heaven, which was known as the "republican administration" in history. Fourteen years later, King Zhou Li died in the land, and Prince Jing grew up in the family of Duke Mu, and Duke Mu, Duke Zhou Ding, and the princes supported Prince Jing to succeed him, that is, King Xuan of Zhou.
Lao Tzu is a hero, Lao Tzu is a reactionary bastard.
This is really wrong for King Zhou Xuan and his father King Zhou Li.
Although the Zhou royal family was already in decline at this time, Ji Jing, the son of Zhou Tianzi after taking office, was able to work hard and appoint virtuous ministers, which made the originally dying Western Zhou royal family survive for many years, and there was a situation of Zhongxing for a time.
Hardship education should really start with children.
After many years of hard work, Ji Jing, the son of Zhou Tianzi, who had grown up in a bloody and turbulent environment, decided to crusade against Rongdi in order to remove the threat to Guanzhong and revitalize the royal family, sending the famous minister Yin Jifu to lead troops to conquer Rongdi in the north.
After all, it is the Zhou royal family, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is a famous minister to lead the army, this battle against the northern Rongdi was won, and the Rongdi tribe above Longshan was swept away for a time.
So when the Qin people's grandson Yingkai and his friend Zhao Boyu went to Guanzhong along Longshan, they didn't meet the imaginary Rong Di all the way.
The first time they came to Guanzhong, the young man Yingkai and Zhao Boyu were fascinated, shocked, and even shocked by the scene in front of them.
It's so good in Guanzhong!
The land is fertile, flat and smooth, and there is no end in sight! Weishui is like a silver belt, surrounding the land of Guanzhong, nourishing the rich Guanzhong.
It was already autumn, and in the fields, the people were working hard, and the golden millet (shǔ millet), and wheat could not be seen.
The autumn wind blew, took a deep breath, and filled my nose with the scent of crops. Looking at this bumper harvest, Zhao Boyu, who has always been very strong, had tears in his eyes.
Why do I always have tears in my eyes?
Because I love this land so much.
"Why are you crying?" Ying Kai asked puzzled.
"Since ancient times, Guanzhong has been rich and peaceful, and when I see it today, it is really the case, when I think that our dog hill is not only barren but also full of wars, not only sad, but also very bitter for the Qin people. What a bitterness! Zhao Boyu said sadly.
Ying Kai knew that the dog hill where the Qin people lived was a poor, barbaric, and ignorant place in the eyes of the people of Guanzhong, no different from Rong Di in the northwest, and of course there was no way to compare it with the wealth of Guanzhong.
Seeing the tears in Zhao Boyuan's eyes, Ying Kai was also deeply moved, and stepped forward to pat Zhao Boyuan and said, "Don't be sad, grandpa said that he would lead me and wait for the Qin people to leave Inuqiu and go to Guanzhong." ”
After listening to Yingkai's words, Zhao Boyu nodded heavily, "I still want a woman in Guanzhong to be his wife." ”
"Huh?" As soon as he heard this, Yingkai wanted to laugh a little, you are a poor boy in the west and still want to marry a woman in Guanzhong, even if you dream it, you have to be a little marginal!
But when the smile came to his lips, he restrained. Because at this time, he, like Zhao Boyu, was in the season of youth, which was the age of dreaming.
Then let's have a big dream of life!
Soon, the two teenagers came to Yucheng, the capital of the famous city of Guanzhong at that time.
This city was originally a fiefdom of King Wu of Zhou to his uncle Yu Zhong, because it is located in the west of Guanzhong, so the city in front of him is also called Xiyu City, and the same as the Dongyu Kingdom in the east, it is a city-state that plays a role in guarding the royal family.
The original intention of the Zhou royal family to establish Xiyu City was to let their families guard the western border for the royal family. But later, as the Qin people released horses in the farther west, the arch guard function of Xiyu City decreased, and the Duke of Xiyu served as a royal official in Haojing, the capital of the Zhou royal family, most of the time, so the arch guard role of this city weakened, and the communication function increased a lot.
It was still early, and Yingkai and Zhao Boyu went down the mountain and walked into this important city in the central and western parts of the country--- Yucheng.