Chapter 81: Zhongshan Leshi
"PS: This chapter was actually written for four hours, and I really miss writing alternate history, so I can make it up completely by myself."
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The acquaintance with Le Yi was when he accompanied Master Zhao's father on a tour of Lingshou.
Lingshou is the capital of Zhongshan in the old days, so when Zhao conquered Zhongshan, Zhao's father set up Lingshou County, preparing to use this city as the seat of Zhongshan.
And the premise of this is that it must be supported by the local people.
Therefore, Lord Zhao's father came forward to appease the Lingshou people and promised all kinds of preferential treatment, to put it bluntly, it was nothing more than to redistribute the benefits, and distribute the land and wealth that originally belonged to the nobles of Zhongshan to the Zhongshan people, so as to get the support of the Zhongshan people and resolve the contradictions between the Zhongshan people and the Zhao people.
And when the officials of Zhao State rearranged Lingshou's household registration, Le Yi's family was also among them, this young man of the same age as Meng Zhong and others, registered his name and place of origin on the household registration of "Lingshou County" in Zhao State, because he was born in "Zi surnamed Le", so Le Jin, Le Xu and others were quite surprised, because their brothers were also born in "Zi surnamed Le".
You must know that the surname of the child comes from Yin Shang, but all the surnames are descendants of Yin Shang nine times out of ten, such as Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, and Meng Sui, they are "the surname Meng", in addition to them, Wu Ying is "the surname Wu", Xiang Yi is the "surname Xiang", and so on.
After exchanging their names with each other, Le Yi and Meng Zhong and the others quickly became familiar with each other, after all, they had the same ancestor.
"After you have the surname of Naizi, how can you be in Zhongshan Kingdom?"
Meng Hu asked in surprise.
You must know that not only is there at least a thousand miles between the Song Kingdom and the Zhongshan Kingdom, but more importantly, the Zhongshan Kingdom is a country established by the descendants of the Di people, and it is difficult to imagine that the children of the Song Kingdom would actually go to Zhongshan to settle down.
And Le Yi didn't know about this, so he invited Meng Zhong and others to come to the village where their Le clan lived and asked the elders in the clan.
The Zhongshan Le clan where Le Yi is located is also similar to the townships of Meng Zhong, Le Jin and others, and they are also clansmen with the same surname and clan who live together and look at each other and help each other, but the scale is far inferior to the Le clan in the Jingbo area of the Song Kingdom, and there are only about a dozen clansmen in the whole village.
Under the leadership of Le Yi, Meng Zhong and others met with Le Lu, the patriarch of the Zhongshan Le clan, an old man who was sixty years old.
The old man kept the genealogy of the Zhongshan Le clan, and he introduced to Meng Zhong, Le Yi and others the origin of their Zhongshan Le clan, that is, the descendants of the Wei general "Le Yang".
According to Lelu, the ancestors of his ancestor Shangle Yang probably moved north from the Song State to the Jin State in order to escape the military disaster and war after the defeat of the Song State in the "Battle of Hongshui" in the Chu State.
After the three families were divided, "Wei Wenhou Weisi" designated Anyi as the capital of Wei, and so far, Anyi Leshi became a Wei person.
Speaking of the relationship between Zhao and Zhongshan, it really has a long history.
Initially, in the middle of the Jin Kingdom, the relationship between the Jin State and the predecessor of the Zhongshan Kingdom, Bai Di, was quite harmonious, but then, the Xianyu, Fei, Gu, and Qiu tribes in the Bai Di moved eastward, settled in the Zhongshan area and rapidly expanded to the outside world, which made the Jin State feel threatened, and after several frictions, war broke out between the two sides.
However, due to the fact that the strength of the Jin State was far superior to that of the Zhongshan State, most of the initial wars were won by the Jin State.
In the later period of the Jin Kingdom, the domestic "Liuqing Family" began to fight for power, and Zhongshan Kingdom got a chance to breathe, so it joined Qi State and Lu State to jointly crusade against the Jin State.
In order to take revenge on the Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhao Ying, the ancestor of the Zhao royal family and the Jin doctor, led the Jin army to attack the Zhongshan Kingdom and inflict heavy losses.
In the years that followed, the Jin State repeatedly attacked Zhongshan State, forcing Zhongshan State to submit to Jin Stateβand in fact, it was the Zhao clan of the Jin State, the predecessor of Zhao State, that really controlled Zhongshan State.
During this period, Zhao Ying's son, Zhao Xiangzi (θ΅΅ζ θ·), selected a puppet from among the descendants of the Xianyu tribe, who was known as the "Zhongshan Wengong".
At this time, the Wei clan of the Jin State, the predecessor of the Wei State, was very dissatisfied with the Zhao clan's control of Zhongshan State, and after the discussion of the Zhao and Wei clans, the two sides decided to jointly control the Zhongshan Kingdom.
A few years later, Gongzi gave birth to a baby boy for Zhongshan Wengong, known as "Zhongshan Wugong".
In terms of blood, Zhongshan Wugong is a hybrid of the Di people and the Wei clan of the Central Plains, and ideologically, he chose to follow the etiquette system of the Central Plains. [PS: Therefore, after the revival of Zhongshan Wugong, the Zhongshan Kingdom has abandoned many of the traditions of Baidi and imitated the etiquette system of the Central Plains, which is actually not much different from the Central Plains countries. γ
Subsequently, there was a seizure of power within the Zhao State, Zhao Xiangzi's son Zhao Huanzi rose up to expel Zhao Xianhou (Zhao Huan) and stood on his own, a year later, Zhao Huanzi died again, the ministers of Zhao killed the son of Zhao Huanzi, and re-welcomed Zhao Xianhou to come to the dynasty to govern, this several years of civil strife, weakened the strength of Zhao, so Zhongshan Wugong took the opportunity Xianyu stubbornly resisted Zhao and Wei, and united with Qi to completely get rid of the control of Zhao and Wei.
A few years later, Zhongshan Wugong passed away and was succeeded by his son "Zhongshan Huan Gong", who was young and unsympathetic to national politics, so he was attacked by Wei.
At that time, Le Yang was a guest under the seat of "Zhai Huang", the minister of Wei, so when Wei Wenhou decided to crusade against Zhongshan, Zhai Huang recommended Le Yang to be the commander of the attack on Zhongshan, and led the Wei army to attack Zhongshan together with "Wu Qi", who was still in Wei at that time.
[PS: In some historical materials, it may be said that this battle was that the Jin State sent troops to attack Zhongshan, that is because although the Wei, Han, and Zhao families have carved up the Jin State at this time, the Zhou royal family has not yet recognized the princely status of these three families, and it was not until about four years after Wei destroyed Zhongshan that King Weilie of Zhou canonized the Wei, Han, and Zhao families as princes. So before that, the Jin State still existed in name only. γ
It is worth mentioning that Le Yang and Zhai Huang had a grudge at that time, and it is said that it was Le Yang's son "Le Shu" who killed Zhai Huang's son "Zhai Jing" on the battlefield.
This incident occurred during the period of Zhao's internal turmoil and seizure of power, that is, Zhao Huanzi expelled Zhao Xianhou (Zhao Huan) and became independent.
The reason for this incident was that Zhao Ying saw that his eldest son "Zhao Bolu" was mediocre and not enough to take on important responsibilities, so he passed the throne to his youngest son Zhao Wuxian, that is, Zhao Xiangzi.
When Zhao Xiangzi was established, he felt that his father's move to pass on the throne to him was not in line with the "patriarchal law", so he decided to return the throne to his brother Zhao Bolu, so he did not canonize the crown prince, and named his brother's son "Zhao Zhou" as "Dai Chengjun", preparing to pass the throne to the latter.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhou died in front of Zhao Xiangzi at a young age, so Zhao Xiangzi finally passed the throne to Zhao Zhou's son Zhao Huan, that is, Zhao Xianhou.
However, this move caused displeasure among Zhao Xiangzi's own son, Zhao Jia, who expelled Zhao Huan and established himself as the king, the Marquis of Zhao Huan.
The ministers of Zhao considered that it was not Zhao Xiangzi's intention to succeed to the throne, so they united to kill Zhao Huanhou and welcome Zhao Xianhou to succeed him again.
And Zhongshan took advantage of the civil strife in Zhao and led his troops to attack Zhao, hoping to defeat Zhao and get out of Zhao's control.
At that time, the Marquis of Zhao Xian had just recovered his throne, and seeing that Zhao was severely damaged in the civil strife and could not resist Zhongshan, he asked Wei for assistance on the condition of ceding "Zhiyi (now Yongji)".
So Wei sent Wu Qi to lead an army to attack Zhongshan.
It was in this war that Zhai Huang's son Zhai Jing was killed by "Le Shu", who was the general of Zhongshan at this time, and the Wei army returned in vain.
Why did Leyang's son Le Shu serve as a general in Zhongshan Kingdom?
According to speculation within the Le clan, Le Shu probably went to Zhongshan as a Wei pawn escorted along the way when Wei Wenhou's daughter Gongzi married to Zhongshan Kingdom, and then was valued by Zhongshan Wen King because of his outstanding ability and became the general of Zhongshan Kingdom.
It is worth mentioning that the two famous generals who were both Wei attacking Zhongshan, Le Yang and Wu Qi, were both generals who were good at commanding the army, but "private morality" was also criticized.
The so-called "Le Yang sipping soup", that is, during the period when Le Yang and Wu Qi led the Wei army to attack Zhongshan Kingdom, the first successor of Zhongshan Huan Gong, in order to force Le Yang to retreat, used his son Le Shu as a threat, but did not expect Le Yang to be unwilling to abolish the public for private purposes, so Zhongshan Huan Gong killed Le Shu and cooked it into meat soup and gave it to Le Yang.
Unexpectedly, in order to express his loyalty to Wei and Wei Wenhou, Le Yang actually drank the meat soup cooked by his own son, which spread the notoriety of "Le Yang's cruel eater".
Even Wei Wenhou, who had admired Leyang before, gradually distanced himself from it.
But even so, in order to reward Le Yang's merits, Wei Wenhou still canonized Le Yang as Lingshou Jun and made Lingshou a fief for Le Yang.
So far, the Le family has settled in Zhongshan Lingshou.
After more than 20 years, the Duke of Zhongshan Huan, who became the king of the country once, grew up in a difficult situation and was determined to restore the country.
At that time, Le Yang was dead, and Huan Gong was forgiven by Le Chi, the grandson of Le Yang and the son of Le Shu, with a sincere attitude, worshipping the latter as a general, restoring the Zhongshan Kingdom, and uniting the Qi State against Zhao and Wei.
As a result, the Le family became the people of Zhongshan.
Until now, the Zhao State has fallen to the Zhongshan Kingdom again, and the Le family has become the Zhao people again.