After walking in the palace, Zhou Bian went back. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoLunch is a bowl of small rice, the taste is average, and dinner is a whole grain cake with a bit of chicken broth. There is no meat, which shows that just like this dilapidated building, the overall food of the royal family is also very poor, as a royal family is still so poor, Zhou Bian couldn't help but scold, I didn't think that the landlord's family had no surplus food. But eating is still second, close your eyes and swallow it, and sitting is the biggest problem, you can only sit on your knees, as a modern person who has crossed over, how can you get used to it, you will be numb after a while, and your numb legs will not be able to stand up straight after eating.

The ancients regarded eating as a major event, so the slaves did not dare to speak when they waited for the master to eat, that is, they wanted to ask the master what he needed and asked in a whisper, and Qiao'er was naturally the same. Zhou Bian couldn't bear it, so he teased for a while, but Qiao'er still bowed his head and said nothing, and Zhou Bian had no choice but to give up.

Seeing that it was dark, to be precise, this was Zhou Bian's first day in the Zhou Dynasty, and it didn't count if he fainted yesterday. The food is not good, the housing is not good, and it is still a decaying Zhou royal family, there is no electric light, no Internet, and the orphans and widows are still bullied by the ministers. Zhou Bian tossed and turned on the bed but couldn't sleep, and there was one voice in his heart over and over again, that is, "I want to go back!" ”

Besides, after sending Zhou Bian away yesterday, the Taishi arched his hand to the Queen Mother in the house and said, "After the Tengu Eclipse Day yesterday, the subordinates took a hexagram for the king and Wang Zibian respectively, one murderous and one auspicious, which one does the Queen Mother want to listen to first?" ”

The Queen Mother just wants to have an auspicious thing, "Then listen to the auspicious hexagram first, but I don't know who it is?" "The Queen Mother has a faint worry, Wang Zibian has been able to get out of bed, is it the king's bad luck?

Sure enough, the Taishi responded, "Wang Zibian has a lot of luck, Qiangua, ninety-two, see the dragon in the field, and see the lord." The Queen Mother is a good fortune, if my Da Zhou can prosper or improve slightly, it will be on Wang Zibian. ”

The Queen Mother muttered, "Is that really the case? He let out a long sigh. Seeing that the Queen Mother didn't believe or didn't have much hope, the Taishi also sighed. Since King Ping moved eastward, the royal family is really not as good as the generation, how many Zhou people have wanted to struggle but were eventually wiped out. Taishi remembered Prince Fangcai's unfamiliar salute, and couldn't help but ask himself, "Is it really you?" ”

Zhou Bian naturally didn't know about this, and he didn't want to know, because he only had one thought in his heart, go back, go back to the 21st century, where is his time. So Zhou Bian has been thinking about how to go back.

In the early morning of the next day, another maid, Ling'er, came to serve. Zhou Bian has two full-time maids, Ling'er is more active, and Qiao'er is more well-behaved. Just stretched out his hand, Ling'er helped put on his clothes, knelt on the low couch, and pulled his hair back, the evil old society, but it was good to have someone to serve. Staring at the bronze mirror on the small table in front of the low couch, there was a vague shadow of a young man in it, Zhou Bian couldn't stop it, is this himself, do you want to live like this?

Zhou Bian was in a daze until a little girl's voice came from outside. The little girl's pace was brisk, followed by the trotting steps of the messy maid. "Brother Prince, I heard that you were evil the day before yesterday, are you okay now?" Speaking of a little girl about seven or eight years old, she walked in, dressed in ayara, long pink carved jade, with cute big eyes, which made people feel pity when they saw it. Zhou Bian hurriedly stood up and wanted to touch the cute little girl's head, but found that he was only a little taller than her. The little girl was very happy when she saw Zhou Bian's affectionate actions, and turned back to the maid who came with her, "I said, Brother Wang loves me the most, and he will never do evil to me." Yesterday I went to the temple to pray for the blessings of my two brothers. ”

Zhou Bian was a little moved, and affirmed that he had just forgotten something, but after promising that he had not forgotten his sister, the little girl easily forgave him. It turned out that this girl's name was Ji Zhu, or Wang Ji Zhu, and she was Zhou Bian's half-sister, in fact, at this time, the princely states had called the daughters of the princes princesses, and the Zhou royal family was still stubbornly a little awkward. Zhou Bian didn't have a sister in his previous life, so he quickly fell in love with this innocent and cute little girl.

When Ji Zhu first came, it was the hour, and in the blink of an eye, Ji Zhu still hugged Zhou Bian's arm and chirped, saying which of his clothes was the best-looking, saying that the queen mother was still in a bad mood, saying that he actually met a mouse in the temple, etc., Zhou Bian could only hum and agree, and dealt with it casually. Suddenly, a maid came over to report that Master Taishi had arrived at the door and wanted to see Wang Zibian. Ji Zhu had no choice but to get up and walk out when she heard it, and when she was about to go out, she didn't forget to turn around and tell Zhou Bian to have a good rest, so that Zhou Bian felt a good warmth in his heart, how could he have a sister himself.

Zhou Bian politely asked the Taishi to sit down, although this politeness was already in place in Zhou Bian's opinion, but the Taishi felt very strange, after all, after more than 2,000 years, people's understanding of etiquette is also very different. Judging from yesterday, this Taishi should be the queen mother's biggest support, and he didn't have a big deal when he came this time, but he just said that Zhou Bian was already big, and his body was big again, and many things should be clear, and he wanted to talk to Wang Zibian.

And Zhou Bian also took this opportunity to learn about the situation in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, so he only deduced that he had a headache for a long time and forgot many things, so he asked from what era he was born in and what the situation was. Fortunately, the Taishi knew that this prince had been sick in bed for a long time, and he was not too surprised, but he felt that after this prince was sick, he suddenly talked a lot, and he cared about many things. Although the Taishi had some doubts, he believed in his hexagrams, but he did not have any doubts, after all, the ancients feared heaven and earth and ghosts and gods, and children suddenly opened the spiritual wisdom since ancient times, so the Taishi carefully recounted it for Zhou Bian.

I didn't know, I was startled when I asked, and after the Taishi said, Zhou Bian found out that the situation he was currently in in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was much worse than he imagined.

One hundred and fifty years ago, in the last years of King Jing of Zhou, the prince and the prince fought fiercely for the throne, and the prince retreated to Diquan, and then defeated the prince dynasty for many years with the help of the Marquis of Jin. King Jing was reluctant to return to Luoyang, so he begged the Marquis of Jin to help rebuild the royal city in Diquan, which is now known as Chengzhou. This Diquan was originally a rebellion by the Yin people in order to prevent the surrender of the Wu King, and in order to facilitate the control, a piece of land was specially set aside for the Yin people to live, which was located dozens of miles east of Luoyang. And the royal city that King Jing hastily repaired this time is naturally not too big and not too luxurious, and the royal family has continued to be poor for more than a hundred years, so the palace that Zhou Bian sees now is naturally relatively dilapidated, and it can't even be called a palace, that is, in the palace, there are not small palaces like in later generations, but simple small courtyards.

And Luoyang City is the real royal city, after the princes of the beacon fire play, the son of King Ping moved eastward to live, and at this time Luoyang is also called Henan, because it is located in the south of the Yellow River. After a few decades after the rebellion of the prince's dynasty, King Kao of Zhou named his younger brother the Duke of Zhou, and the fief was in Henan, at this time the last prince of the Zhou Dynasty, the Duchy of Zhou, after which the king of Zhou was equivalent to living in the last prince of his own country.

Taishi said indignantly that this test of the king to seal the Duke of Zhou is also because of the collapse of etiquette, the princes do not take the Son of Heaven in their eyes, and the Son of Heaven can't save face to deal with the princes, so he has to seal a prince to socialize for himself, anyway, everyone is a prince, and it is just a matter of not being respected. It means that, anyway, Zhou Bian understands it this way, sadly, Eastern Zhou, he still looks arrogant when he is so desperate.

However, the tragedy of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty did not stop there. King Jing of Zhou retreated to Diquan when there were two important ministers, Liu and Shan, who had a lot of power, at the end of King Jing, the Zhou people had to kill Liu's advisers under the coercion of the Fan clan of the Jin Kingdom, and since then the Liu family has declined, while the Shan family has been more developed since then, and even once able to control the king. The king of Kao Feng Zhou also has the meaning of dividing the power of the single clan. After the blows of the kings of the past dynasties, this single clan has gradually decayed, but the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and now the head of the single clan Shan Xiong is still the Taibao of the Zhou Dynasty, ranking the third duke. So now the power of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is divided into three shares, the king of Zhou, that is, he has only one piece of Cheng Zhou, and the Duke of Zhou, who now controls Luoyang City in the west of Cheng Zhou, and the Taibao clan, and Gongyi in the east. From the point of view, it seems that the royal family is the weakest.

At noon, the Taishi stayed and ate with Zhou Bian, and at this time, the meal was not like sitting at a table in modern times, but one person and a few, and there were maids waiting to eat. Because there are ministers here, this meal is much grander than yesterday's, and according to the Zhou rites, he first rushed to the west to worship the first king before eating. This time, there is a tripod on the two small tables, this is the first time Zhou Bian has seen bronzes so closely, these are all national treasures now, Zhou Bian couldn't help but straighten his eyes. The food was not very rich, the meat was only a small piece of pork and chicken, but it was placed in a ding, with a capacity of about two liters, and the royal family really wanted to save face this week. The staple food is still millet and coarse grains, it seems that there is no rice and noodles at this time, although the staple food is very rough, but it is not very difficult to swallow, and Zhou Bian has always been a picky eater, so he quickly ate his stomach.

After filling in the stomach, sorting out his thoughts, Zhou Bian continued to ask in the afternoon, and although the Taishi felt a little strange, he didn't show it, maybe because Zhou Bian was a master, so the Taishi has been patiently explaining. Perhaps in Taishi's view, Zhou Bian has changed a lot after the solar eclipse, so that Taishi is imagining, maybe Zhou Bian is the hope of the Zhou Dynasty, after all, whose eight-year-old child can ask so many questions.

At this time, the king of Zhou was also the principality of Zhou, and there was only a large piece of the palm, including Luoyang, Chengzhou, Gongyi, Mengjin and Wenyi, which is now the size of a county. The royal family is the weakest, with only a few hundred guards guarding the palace, but the Shan family has 2,000 men and horses, and there are only 3,000 soldiers in Luoyang City. That's the case with the entire Great Zhou, Zhou Bian couldn't help but sigh, this is dancing on thin ice, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is located among the great powers, and other countries can wipe themselves out by pulling tens of thousands of people casually, or the kind that is easy and happy. Fortunately, the princes restrained each other, and no one dared to do this vote first.

Among the princes, it was Wei who was the strongest after Li Kui's change, overpowering the group, followed by Qi and Chu, Yan and Zhao again, Han again, and Qin the weakest, of course, there were several small countries weaker than Qin, such as Lu, Zhongshan, Song, Wei, etc., which belonged to the kind waiting for others to annex.

It would be very strange for anyone to see this scene, a knowledgeable old man and an eight-year-old boy, discussing this domestic and international event. In his opinion, Wang Zibian can be so of great use, and he is more and more convinced of his hexagram. In Zhou Bian's opinion, he didn't notice how strange his words and deeds were.

In the blink of an eye, it was getting dark again, and after sending off the Taishi, Zhou Bian fell into a deep depression, he didn't come to be a prince, but jumped into the fire pit, sad, Dongzhou, sad, himself! Is he just getting old here, no, Zhou Bian is more and more determined to find a way back.