Chapter 12: Horse Clothes
"Childe, the name of this mountain is called Purple Mountain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Mingyue looked in the direction pointed by Shu Qi, and sure enough, twenty miles northwest of the road, a big mountain faintly appeared, perhaps because of the sun, looking at it from a distance, it looked purple and gloomy, covering it.
Four years ago, King Zhao Huiwen gave 100,000 acres of land around Purple Mountain, along with more than 1,000 households, to Ma Fujun Zhao Hao as a fief.
Purple Mountain is the remaining vein of Taihang Mountain, and it is also the highest point in Handangi, which is magnificent and beautiful, and the mountain stretches for dozens of miles, which is the natural barrier of Handan. Being able to seal this place to Zhao Hao shows King Huiwen's preference and trust for Zhao Hao.
As soon as she thought of this, Mingyue found that she didn't know enough about Zhao Hao, and couldn't help asking, "Shu Qi, how much do you know about Ma Fujun?" ”
Shu Qi is just a fifteen-year-old boy, and he has a lot of things related to swords, but how can he know everything? I had to shake my head.
"Chang'anjun wants to know about Ma Fujun, but you can ask the villain."
I didn't want to, sitting in front of me listening to the conversation between the two teenagers along the way, but the emperor who didn't say a word suddenly answered.
Mingyue stared at the broad brown back and thick, uncrowned, brass bun that he remembered as a young man in his early twenties, with two small whiskers on his lips and a little cunning in his eyes. He asked, "Are you?" ”
"The villain Li Tan is the son of the Handan heirloom, and now he is the royal in the palace, and his father followed Ma Fujun in his early years, so the villain's deeds of Ma Fujun are quite clear."
"Okay."
Mingyue smiled: "As long as it doesn't affect driving, you can just say it." ”
"No."
Li Tan's royal horse skills are not false, and while speaking, he also manipulated the eight bridles, so that the horse turned a corner and headed towards the purple mountain in the northwest. When the vehicle returned to the straight road, he said slowly: "Ma Fujun is a distant branch of the Zhao clan, and when it was passed to him, he was just an ordinary scholar, who had participated in the battle to destroy Zhongshan, and had made meritorious contributions, and was promoted from tun chief to captain. When the King of Wuling died, he and Wang Zhujun went out to the Yan Kingdom together......"
Looking at Zhujun, it is the title that Le Yi got after returning to Zhao later, everyone knows that Le Yi is the minister of King Yan Zhao, but few people know that he was Zhao Chen as early as the period of King Wuling, and he has some friendship with Zhao Hao.
But for this history, Li Tan deliberately mentioned it, because King Wuling died in the Dune Palace Change, until now, the Zhao court is still taboo about this matter. Mingyue can only guess, that Le Yi and Zhao Hao, could it be the party of Zhang Yi, the son of Anyang Jun? was forced by the powerful ministers Gongzi Cheng and Li Dui to flee to Yan Kingdom?
Li Tan said again: "Ma Fujun's ability, even if he arrives in Yan Kingdom, he can't hide, at that time, King Yan Zhao built a golden platform and recruited talents, so he worshiped Ma Fujun as the Shanggu County Guard, garrisoned the border fortress, and defended Donghu, at this time, Ma Fujun was only about thirty years old. ”
Mingyue couldn't help but praise: "At the age of thirty, you can be the head of a county, Ma Fujun is really young and promising." ”
In the Warring States Period, which hot-blooded man did not have the ideal of making meritorious contributions? Li couldn't help but show envy in his speech, and continued: "When Fengyangjun (Li Dui) fell, after the first prince was in power, Ma Fujun heard about the new policy of the Zhao court, and he was united, so he hung the big seal of Shanggu County in the mansion, and returned to Zhao with his wife and eldest son. ”
Shu Qi also praised with a sword: "Occupy a high position and do not forget the mother state, Ma Fujun is really a loyal man!" ”
Li Tan said: "Don't be too happy too early, Ma Fujun was a feudal official when he was in Yan State, but when he returned to Zhao State, he only became a Tianbu official because he had no way......
Shu Qi was speechless for a moment, the Tianbu official is the small official who is responsible for collecting the field endowment, and he has a hundred stones in the sky, compared with the Shanggu County Shou, it is really a heaven and an underground!
"Hateful!"
There, indignant at the cold reception of the faithful, he angrily raised his scabbard and struck the railing, looking childish.
Mingyue smiled, sure enough, Zhao Hao was indeed inseparable from Gongzi Zhang, who tried to usurp the throne when the Dune Palace changed, otherwise it would be unreasonable to be treated so coldly.
Li Tan said again: "Although Ma Fujun has not been reused, he has scrupulously adhered to his duties and did not dare to slack off in the slightest. Once, when collecting rent and tax in the towns around Handan, Pingyuanjun's retainers were unwilling to pay and were not ashamed to speak, so Ma Fujun acted according to the law and killed nine Pingyuanjun's retainers! When Pingyuanjun came back and saw seven headless corpses, he was furious and threatened to kill Ma Fujun to avenge his retainers......"
Fengjun has always been a big tax evader, and Mingyue secretly calculated that his nominal fiefdom wealth, because of Empress Dowager Zhao's preference, is estimated to be free to pay taxes.
Shu Qi was already attracted by Li Tan's narration, and when he stopped talking, he asked again and again: "What happened later?" ”
Li Tan let go of an ox cart on the opposite side, glanced at the two aristocratic teenagers behind him, but saw Shu Qi's childish temperament, and his eyes were full of expectation. But Chang Anjun's face did not change, but instead glanced back at him, his eyes were majestic, which provoked Li Tan to quickly turn his head, not daring to peep at Gongzi again.
Coughing lightly, he said: "Later, it was Ma Fujun who tied himself up, went to Pingyuan Jun, and said to him, Jun is a noble son in Zhao State, and now if you take the lead in disobeying the law, the national law will be weakened, and the national law will be weakened, and the national law will be weakened, and the princes will send troops to invade the Zhao State, and the princes will send troops to invade the Zhao State. ”
"On the contrary, if the monarch takes the lead in abiding by the law, it will make the whole country united, and if the country is strong, the Zhao family can be passed on for hundreds of generations, and as the prince of Zhao, the people of the world dare to despise it? That's all he says, if you want to kill the Plains King, kill it! ”
Shu Qi bowed his head: "Not humble or arrogant, this statement is reasonable." ”
Li Tan said again: "After Pingyuan Jun heard this, he was not angry, and he thought that Ma Fujun was very talented, so he recommended him to the first king." The first king promoted Ma Fujun to take charge of the taxes of the whole country, and the national taxes were fair and reasonable, the people were rich, and the treasury was full......"
"The prince of the plains is also a virtuous son, and the first king will finally get a good minister! This is the blessing of Zhao Guo! Shu Qi was very happy and felt that this was a happy ending for all.
However, Mingyue's sense of Pingyuan Jun has improved a lot all of a sudden, this feudal monarch who carried a cauldron in the Battle of Changping, although it is indeed as some descendants say, "Li Ling Zhi is faint", but after all, he still understands the general situation. That's right, he is greedy, lustful, extravagant, and short-sighted, but when he meets a real talent, he can also abandon his previous suspicions and recommend him to the top, he may make mistakes, but he also knows that mistakes can be corrected, and he is very good.
The most important thing is that he has been loyal to Zhao from beginning to end, unlike Tian Wen, who swelled too much, and in turn destroyed his own country and cut off all his back roads.
No one is perfect, maybe that's it......
However, in such a comparison, King Zhao Huiwen's mind and strategy made Mingyue even more awe-inspiring, with the identity of Zhao Hao's son Zhang Chao Party, he could still be reused by him, and he was even sealed as the land of the Purple Mountain in Jinei.
Perhaps it is the undoubted generosity of King Zhao Huiwen that has made the two generations of the Zhao family work wholeheartedly for the Zhao State......
He single-handedly promoted Lian Po Lin to be like this pair of cloth generals, and let Pingyuan Jun and Zhao Hao as the Zhao clan, and mixed with different opinions, this hand court balance play is really good, unconsciously, Zhao recovered from the chaos, turned into the strongest, and the population of the territory has also increased a lot.
Mingyue secretly stuck out her tongue, glad that she didn't meet this inconspicuous male lord, but if King Zhao Huiwen lived for five or six more years, maybe the Battle of Changping would not be the end of history, Zhao Wangdan is really a tiger father and a dog.
After thinking about it, Shu Qi had already pestered Li Tan, asking him to continue to talk about the past of Zhao Qin's "Battle of Maiqiu" after Zhao Qi's "Battle of Maiqiu".
The battle of Yan and Yan, that was Zhao Hao's famous battle, and it was also the biggest victory achieved by the six states of Shandong in the past hundred years against the Qin State alone, from which the feudal status of "Ma Fu Jun" came.
It was Mingyue who stopped Shu Qi, who was madly worshiping Zhao Hao's heroic deeds, and asked Li Tan to concentrate on driving.
Because as they spoke, they had already driven into the countryside under the Purple Mountain and entered the territory of Mafu Jun......
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The administrative division of Zhao State was generally to set up some counties in the border areas, such as Dai County, Yanmen County, etc., while the interior was a county directly under the jurisdiction of Handan, the population of the county was generally more than 10,000 households, and the center of the county was the city.
Under the county, there are townships ranging from 100 to 1,000 households, and this purple mountain is a township.
It can be seen that Ma Fujun's family has managed the vicinity of Purple Mountain very well in the past four years.
Although the scenery of Purple Mountain is beautiful, the land is densely hilly, so it is somewhat difficult to cultivate on it. However, what caught the eyes of Mingyue and the others was the farmland opened up on the edge of the hills. This year's year is good, the spring rain is abundant, the winter wheat in the field is lush, and the wind blows, and the tender green wheat seedlings are undulating. In those bare fields, millet and soybean have also been planted, and the farming is over, and there are only three or three farmers in the fields hoeing, singing simple folk songs while hoeing, and there is also the strength to sing, indicating that they can eat enough on weekdays.
As for the rugged areas where grains cannot be planted, there are also some economic trees such as elm, mulberry, and chestnut that have grown up, and they are lush and green.
And the field road they walked, although not as wide as the official road to Handan, was not narrow, and could accommodate two cars in parallel, which can be seen that it has been widened recently. In addition, the ditches at the edge of the fields are also scattered, and the stream water flowing down from the purple mountain is brought here to irrigate the crops, these things are not done by the farmers on their own, and they can only be done by the government or the feudal monarch.
"Ma Fujun's family is very good at running their own territory industry." Mingyue thought so.
At this moment, the sharp-eyed Shu Qi said to Mingyue: "Childe, someone is here in front!" ”
Mingyue looked around, but saw that in the township, there was a group of men and horses running slowly, most of them were horsemen, there were as many as twenty or thirty horsemen, all of them were fully armed, walking on the field road, and the target was directed at their group!