Seeing that those people were menacing, Shu Qi couldn't help but get nervous, and his hand tightly grasped the hilt of the sword, as if he was facing a great enemy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Li Tan, who was driving, also shouted, asked the horse to stop, looked at it, and said, "It's the private family of Ma Fujun's family." ”

The so-called private subordinates are the cronies and retainers who belong to the private individuals, although from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, the personal attachment is not as serious as in the past, but as the son of the feudal monarch, who does not have hundreds of private armies?

In that year, when Shang Ying lost power in Qin, he once sent his private subordinates to escort his mother back to Wei State, but Wei State hated Shang Ying's words and deceived Wei people without faith, so he did not accept it, so Shang Ying had to take his personal subordinates to launch a rebellion in the fiefdom, and the car was defeated and died. After this, the personal armies of the Qin feudal lords were weakened, but the rest of the kingdoms were still prevalent.

These people were loyal to their own lords, similar to the family members of the Ming Dynasty generals, and were often the most well-equipped with weapons, and were the elite troops in the war.

Zhao Guo is no exception, Zhao Hao to the military merits for the feudal monarch, private armed will not be less, his private bow horse is skilled, experienced in the battlefield, galloping at this moment, although the speed is not fast, but the head of the horse is high, everyone looks dignified, with a kind of awe-inspiring majesty.

More than ten black-clothed men escorting Chang'an Jun stepped forward, and the wings were in front of the carriage, showing the Fujie banner of the Zhao court.

After those private dependents of the horse suit also stopped dozens of steps away, they saw the carriage of horses that the doctor and above had to ride, and there were black-clothed guards accompanying them, and they did not dare to make a mistake, and the tiger ben led by him dismounted and saluted, and asked cautiously: "I don't know which nobleman visited the horse service monarch to seal the city?" ”

Mingyue didn't answer, and glanced at Shu Qi, Shu Qi was stunned at first, and then reacted, then held the sword and said loudly: "Chang'anjun is visiting, and I hope that the second and third sons will quickly inform Ma Fujun!" ”

In the past few days, they also learned from the people who went to Handan to catch up with the market, and learned that Chang'an Jun took the initiative to go to the country and wanted to go to Qi as a hostage, but unexpectedly, this son suddenly ran to Purple Mountain.

Everyone didn't dare to slack off, a few people rushed back to report, and the others let down their guard, put on smiling faces, and opened the way for Chang'anjun in front.

Under their guidance, Mingyue entered the Purple Mountain Xiaoyi.

Although they are all called feudals, they are also divided into several levels, fixed seals, merit seals, shadow seals and false seals.

The so-called fixed seal is to get the monarch's promise, enjoy its fief from generation to generation, pass on for three generations, rest with the country, and the fief is not small, at least a 10,000-household county. This is a high-level feudal monarch, there are very few in the world, Zhao used to have many acting monarchs, comparable to the princes of small countries, but since the change of the sand dunes, the land is no longer feudal. In today's world, Tiandan, the Anping Jun of Qi State, and Wei Ran, the Marquis of Qin, have the largest fiefdom and can fight against the princes, but Mingyue knows that Wei Ran's good days in Taoyi are not a few days away, and after his death, the territory will be deprived by the King of Qin.

The second is the meritorious seal, such as the horse service monarch in front of him, most of the feudal lords of this level are ministers, but the feudal town is not big, but it is a township, but as long as he returns here, Zhao Hao is a real monarch.

As for Yin Feng, most of them are children of the royal family, although Mingyue is favored by the Queen Mother, but according to the laws of Zhao State, people like him who have no size merit can only be listed as a feudal monarch by being a close relative of the king. He was rewarded with a lot of cities, but the land in the cities that was nominally given to him was under the orders of King Zhao, and he gave him Chang'an Jun every year, and that's it.

The worst fictitious fiefdom is that there is no nominal fiefdom, and only the money and grain corresponding to the number of fiefs received.

According to this calculation, in addition to Mingyue's identity as a son, Ma Fujun's status is actually one level higher than that of his Chang'an Jun, so Mingyue's visit is not considered to be a friendship......

The farmland fell behind, the houses and the people on the road were dense, and they had officially entered the township, and at this time Mingyue was surprised to find that this purple mountain town did not even have a wall.

The leading Mafu furniture said proudly: "Don't be surprised, Gongzi originally had it, but Mafu Jun let it be demolished." The lord said that with the protection of our private family, the jackals, tigers and leopards near the Purple Mountain will be hunted and killed, and the thieves around them will not dare to come to die. So he led the people to tear down the wall. ”

"Yes, why does Purple Mountain need walls? The second and third sons are the high walls of the Purple Mountain. ”

Mingyue didn't hesitate to praise them, which made everyone overjoyed.

But Zhao Hao's real purpose in doing this, Mingyue knew it. It was not because the Purple Mountain was approaching Handan Neigi that Zhao Hao was afraid that King Zhao would suspect him, so he knocked down the wall to show that he had no intention of supporting the army and self-respecting.

Thinking about it like this, this Zhao Hao is by no means a simple brave general, but a wise general, who has won the battlefield and mixed up with the court. It's just that with his cautious character, he suddenly came to visit today, will Zhao Hao deliberately give himself a closed door in order to let Zhao Wangdan not suspect him in the future?

Can you achieve your goals?

Although she was carrying the edict of the Queen Mother in her arms, Mingyue couldn't help but worry about whether she was a little reckless when she came this time.

Fortunately, the Mafu family didn't let him wait long, and when the carriage slowly went uphill along the road in the countryside and arrived at a large mansion at the foot of the Purple Mountain, a group of people had already greeted him at the door......

Shu Qi jumped down first, tried to stand up straight, puffed up his chest, after Li Tan's narration along the way, he couldn't wait to see the famous Ma Fujun.

But he didn't know that Chang Anjun, who was arranging his sleeves, wanted to see the person most in his heart, but Ma Fujun's son who was not yet famous, Zhao Kuo!

After slowly getting out of the car, Mingyue looked at it, but saw that surrounded by a group of brown clothes, there was a middle-aged woman with a hanging cloud sideburns and a simple deep coat, and a young man with a weak crown and hair, who was about the same age as him and Shu Qi, was short, hanging his hands, and looked at the two peers with some restraint.

However, after sweeping around, I didn't see anyone who might be Zhao Hao......

"Does Zhao Hao really want to avoid me?"

In addition to being disappointed, the middle-aged woman with a charitable appearance had already pulled the young man, walked a few steps, and bowed: "Ma Fujun's wife, Yi's, has seen Chang'anjun with her son!" ”

Mingyue put aside the doubts in her heart, smiled, stepped forward and hugged her, and said: "Ma Fujun is the elder of the Zhao clan, and the kid should also call him uncle, and call him an uncle, how can an uncle salute his nephew?" This is going to kill the boy, please get up! ”

At the same time, his eyes glanced at the restrained young man on the side, and he couldn't help but think: "Zhao Hao's son? Could it be that he is ......"

……

Zhao ...... Zhao Mu has seen Chang Anjun! ”

After the restrained young man stammered and revealed his identity, Mingyue knew that he was Zhao Mu, the second son of Zhao Hao. That's right, I heard Empress Dowager Zhao say that Zhao Kuo was born in Yan Kingdom, and now he is eighteen or nineteen years old.

"Brothers don't need to be polite."

Helping Zhao Mu up, Mingyue's eyes looked at Mrs. Ma Fujun, not wanting Mrs. Ma to be looking at him.

For the mother of Zhao Kuo, who was written into the "Biography of the Daughters", Mingyue did not dare to be careless, not to mention that in history, when King Zhao Xiaocheng wanted Zhao Kuo to go to the front line, she came forward to admonish and wittily asked King Zhao Xiaocheng to promise that if Zhao Kuo was defeated, the Mafu family could be exempted from sitting together, this move preserved the Mafu family, otherwise, there would probably be many fewer people with the surname Ma in China......

Not only that, today seeing that Purple Mountain has been governed very well, and the former hilly wasteland has become a land of ointment, Mingyue thought that Zhao Hao was good at managing wealth, but Li Tan said that this was mostly the credit of Mrs. Ma Fujun, this woman of Yan Kingdom governed the territory properly when Ma Fujun was busy with government affairs and went out to fight.

Because when she first took over Zishan, the yield per mu here was very low, and she basically couldn't pay much grain, so Mrs. Ma Fujun asked the people to use labor to replace taxes, and took the opportunity to organize them to build roads and canals. She also bought seedlings and seeds at her own expense, and planted mulberry, elm, chestnut and other trees in places where she could not grow grains, and after a few years, this became another source of income for the people of Zishan.

Because of her careful management, there is the landscape and pastoral scenery that Mingyue sees today, and the people in the territory are very grateful to this lady.

The reason why Mrs. Ma Fujun did this was that her husband was enthusiastic about military affairs, but whenever the royal family had rewards, all of them were distributed to military officials and subordinates, and there were dozens of doormen and hundreds of private families at home, and the expenses were very large. Therefore, Yi's must open up sources and reduce expenditure, manage the territory well, and reduce the burden on the family's finances.

Second, her husband once confided in her that although he was the feudal monarch of Zhao and had great military exploits, the past of standing in the wrong line during the change of the Dune Palace has always been a big stain on his resume, and maybe one day, his political enemies will turn this matter over and bring it up again. Therefore, no matter how outstanding the merits are and how rich the grace is, Zhao Hao is extremely low-key, and I only hope that she will take care of this Xiaoyi and not get involved in the intricate struggles in the Handan Palace.

Under the influence of her husband, all people or things that will have an impact on the Ma Fujun family will make this lady more vigilant. And at this moment, what will the sudden visit of Chang'anjun, who has never intersected with her family, bring?

"Uncle." Mingyue seemed to have become a natural acquaintance, and affectionately called Mrs. Yi, which caught her off guard.

"It's really abrupt to come today, I don't know if my uncle and brother can be in the house?"

Yi smiled reluctantly and said, "It's also unfortunate that my husband and eldest son went to the small house on the mountain early in the morning. ”

"On the mountain?"

Mingyue raised her head, Ma Fujun's mansion was at the foot of the purple mountain, and looking up, a winding mountain road led to it, but on the hillside a few miles away, there were indeed some buildings, hidden among the pine and cypress trees.

Yi explained: "The small house on the mountainside is close to the clear spring stream, and every time my husband returns, he will take his eldest son to fish and bathe. ”

Mingyue visually measured that it would take at least half an hour to go up from the foot of the mountain, so it seems that Zhao Hao and Zhao Kuo did not deliberately avoid him? This father and son are very good.

Although Mrs. Yi didn't like people to disturb their family's peaceful life, Chang'an Jun was a royal nobleman and the queen mother's favorite, so she couldn't drive him away, so she had to say: "Why don't you let the old woman go up now and call my husband and eldest son down?" ”

In this way, she can also pass on the news to her husband, so that he can prepare and think about how to deal with this unknown Chang'anjun.

I didn't want Mingyue to laugh: "No need, I haven't climbed the mountain and fished for a long time since the death of the first king." It's still early today, can my uncle have someone take me to the mountain house? ”

In order to avoid Yi's refusal, he took out the silk book hidden in his sleeve: "I have the edict of the Queen Mother, and I must inform Ma Fujun in person......"

PS: Gongsun Martingale returned to Wei with his private subordinate and mother, and Xiang was not subject to flaws - "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period. Senselessness