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During the period of filial piety of the first king, the Empress Dowager Zhao, as the mother of the country, must lead by example. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Not only is her food and clothing simple, but she is not even allowed to be extravagant in lighting. Only let the palace maid light a small candle and wait, until she heard that Zhao Wangdan and Lu Lingjun came to greet her, so she asked the palace maid to light the copper branch lamp candle that consumed a lot of wax and oil.

The bronze lantern is shaped like a big tree with dense branches, up to six feet high, carved with dragon patterns, like fifteen lamp discs of branches, burning flames one after another, the air is filled with a smell of oil and wax, and the dark palace room is also filled with light.

Mingyue stood beside the Empress Dowager Zhao, and through this light, she saw the two uninvited guests clearly.

Walking in front is Zhao Wang Dan, Mingyue seems to be able to see his fate: five years later, the Battle of Changping began, this King Zhao Xiaocheng made a series of wrong decisions, and he has an unshirkable responsibility for that tragedy......

Zhao Dan didn't know anything about it, he was wearing a king's Xuanduan blouse, with vermilion bottoms, all painted with a series of crests, and the brocade rust edge was worth a lot. With no crown on his head, and a smug look in his eyes that is unique to a nineteen-year-old youth, his stride was so great that the two temple men behind him holding pheasant tail fans could not catch up, and could only trot......

As for the young man in regular clothes who followed behind, it was the seventeen-year-old concubine Lu Lingjun, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, his appearance was not good, and he was completely Zhao Wangdan's follower and foil.

"My son has seen the queen mother, and I ask the queen mother how she is well!"

The two walked in front of the Empress Dowager Zhao and saluted her, but Zhao Wangdan only had to salute, while Lu Lingjun needed to bow down.

Here, the Queen Mother owes herself to return the salute to her eldest son, who has become the king. Due to the court etiquette, Mingyue also had to endure the unhappiness in her heart, and she gave Zhao Dan a long squeeze to the ground, this King Zhao seemed to enjoy his younger brother's worship of him, and he happily accepted it with his hands behind his back.

When Mingyue's waist was almost bent to ninety degrees, the lowered gaze just met Zhao Tong, the head of Lulingjun.

I don't know if it's an illusion, he found that Zhao Tong blinked and gave himself a look?

……

Although Zhao Wangdan came to visit Chang'anjun in the name, he simply asked Mingyue a few words, and then ignored him anymore, and the coldness in his attitude could be felt by Mingyue no matter how wooden she was.

After that, Zhao Dan sat opposite the Empress Dowager Zhao, and excitedly told her about the experience of learning how to govern the country with the Taishi and Taibao of Zhao State in the past few days.

Mingyue knew that there was nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, King Zhao only asked the Queen Mother this morning, and he only needed to come again tomorrow morning, but he rushed to come after eating at night, not to talk about family life. It can be seen that although this King Zhao is not yet an adult, he is extremely concerned about state affairs and world affairs, and he can't wait to show his strength in the Zhao court......

But in the face of the Empress Dowager Zhao, Zhao Dan was very inward-looking, and every time he brought the topic to the edge of Qi Guo's demand, he didn't dare to speak out, swallowed it back again, and glanced at Chang'anjun, who glanced down from time to time, as if he was disgusted with him and was in the way......

Mingyue secretly had a bad feeling in her heart, and just when the scene was a little embarrassing, Lu Lingjun opposite him came to solve the scene.

"Chang'anjun, the king and the queen mother are talking about state affairs, how about you and I go for a walk outside?"

Mingyue was glanced at by Zhao Wangdan and felt uncomfortable, and had the heart to leave here, so she got up as promised and said goodbye to the Queen Mother and King Zhao.

Empress Dowager Zhao always smiled slightly in the face of King Zhao's boring narration, and did not react much, but at this time, she instructed Mingyue with great concern: "It's warm and cold outside, put on more clothes." ”

Mingyue's heart warmed, and she agreed with a smile: "Save it." ”

Empress Dowager Zhao made a straight face: "Don't go far, just go around the pavilion and the garden, if you don't come back, you won't put out the palace lights for your mother!" ”

"Only ......"

However, at the moment when Mingyue turned around and left with Lu Lingjun, he found that Zhao Wangdan glared at him again!

Although it was only for a moment, King Zhao withdrew his gaze, but this time, Mingyue understood his emotions.

That's right, the black and white eyes of the young king flashed with jealousy!

……

"It's better outside, in the palace, it's too boring when there are too many people."

On the garden path next to Fengtai, Mingyue has been thinking about the eyes of King Zhao, and uneasiness has emerged in her heart. Zhao Tong, the Luling Jun who was walking in front of him, suddenly said such a sentence.

Mingyue wasn't sure if he meant something, so she could only say yes perfunctorily.

If the memory is not wrong, when Chang'an Jun was young, he had some unpleasant trouble with Zhao Wangdan, who was still the crown prince, and the two pretended to be happy in front of the Empress Dowager Zhao, but secretly had a tense relationship. On the contrary, he is closer to Zhao Tong, who was born to the palace maid, and compared to the prince who has no one in his eyes, the gentle Zhao Tong is like a brother.

But people can change, after being named Luling Jun, Zhao Tong followed Zhao Wangdan's ass all day long, accompanying him to study and study politics, who knows who he is close to now? Just pulled Mingyue out, is it to relieve Mingyue, or to create an opportunity for King Zhao to talk to the Queen Mother in private?

Zhao Tong, who was foolish on the outside and wise on the inside, seemed to be aware of Mingyue's thoughts, shook his head, and sighed: "There is a difference between the concubines and the concubines, the dignity and humility are orderly, the prince is the trunk, the concubine is the branch, and the position of the monarch and the minister has been decided." Like me, if you don't cling to the trunk of a tree, the branches and leaves will wither early. ”

These old-fashioned words, coming from the mouth of a seventeen-year-old boy, were very disobedient. But Mingyue was not too surprised, in her memory, Zhao Tong was a precocious child, and it was not easy for the children of the royal family, especially the concubines, to live carefully in the court.

Zhao Tong seemed to want to explain something to him, but Mingyue was no longer the original Chang'anjun, in his previous life, he saw a lot of people in the unit, who called him a brother and a brother, and secretly fought in the officialdom of the knife. He had to keep an eye on Zhao Tong and be wary of Zhao Tong.

Unlike the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States period was completely depleted, the intrigues and tricks of the strategists emerged one after another, and the treachery of the prince and prince became commonplace. Born in such an era, Mingyue didn't believe in the simple and simple nonsense of the ancients.

The atmosphere was silent again, and the four palace people carried copper palace lamps to illuminate the road in front and back, and when they passed under a towering eaves like a bird's head, Lu Lingjun suddenly pointed to it and said, "Chang'anjun, do you remember here?" ”

Through the moonlight and light, staring at the outline of the eaves, a scene of the past appeared in front of Mingyue's eyes, and there was a faint pain in his back, which was a memory from the body......

"At that time, you and I were only eleven or twelve years old, and Brother Wang, who claimed to be a noble prince, refused to play with us, and this garden became the territory of you and me, where we competed and chased, and once climbed the eaves of this two-story building, and you stumbled and fell...... After you come down, you are fine, but I was severely punished by the angry Queen Mother, and I still have the scars left by the wooden stick on my body......"

When he was a child, Zhao Tong often acted as a scapegoat for Chang Anjun, and he told it as a childhood anecdote, but Mingyue thought of another thing.

"According to the queen mother's plan, if I don't go to Qi as a hostage, it will be Lulingjun's turn to go to that foreign country......"

Lu Lingjun is also the son of King Zhao Huiwen, and he also has a mother, so he must be reluctant.

For a while, Mingyue was a little ashamed, and she was embarrassed to be cold to Lulingjun, and along the topic, the two began to chat enthusiastically about the interesting things when they were children, and the hearty laughter of the two teenagers echoed in the empty garden, as if they had restored the brotherhood of the past.

chatted and chatted, but the topic turned to the book that Lu Lingjun was reading recently.

……

As a concubine, Lu Lingjun also has self-knowledge, he just wants to be an idle feudal monarch, and when he becomes an adult, he will go to the fiefdom to live a semi-secluded life, or live in the prosperous city of Handan, and chat with the scribes of the Zhao State and the foreign Confucian scholars......

That's right, Zhao Tong likes Confucianism very much, and two years ago, he was affected by the Confucian scholar of Lu Guo who entered the palace to give lectures to King Huiwen, so he was out of control, buried himself in reading all day long, and even received a lot of fun.

As a modern person born under the red flag, Mingyue is not very interested in Confucianism, and when Zhao Tong talked about poetry, books, rituals, and music, and praised its subtlety, he yawned a little, and couldn't help but retort:

"However, Confucianism is useless in this troubled era, don't talk about governing the country, you don't see it, Lu country, Zhongshan country, but any country that reuses Confucianism will either be weak or civil strife in the end."

"I have heard the eunuch decree say that Zhao also admired Confucianism in the generations after Zhao Xiangzi, but the national strength has not improved. When the king of Wuling and the first king abolished the vulgar rites, still had the name of the law, and admired military merits, they could rise in Jizhou. Therefore, in this world of great contention, if you want to talk about a rich country, you still have to rely on the Legalists, and if you want to talk about a strong army, you still have to rely on the soldiers. ”

This is one of the simple conclusions that Mingyue came to after studying the history of the Warring States period in his previous life, and if he wants to change the outcome of the Battle of Changping five years later, in his opinion, he can only rely on these two things!

Zhao Tong has always had a gentle personality and does not argue with others, so that he can meet the source left and right in the cracks of the court, seeing that Mingyue disapproves of Confucianism, he does not argue and refute, but just smiles:

"There is some truth in what Chang'an Jun said, Lu Mu used Confucianism to cut the ground, and Xianyu Zhongshan died because of good Confucianism, which is all true. However, Confucianism is also divided into eight kinds, since the death of Confucius, there are Zizhang Confucianism, Zisi Confucianism, Yan's Confucianism, Meng's Confucianism, etc., and recently there is a school of Xun's Confucianism, led by Mr. Xun, a university scholar of my Zhao State. Among the Eight Confucians, there are indeed those who are broad and misguided, but not all of them are pedantic......"

Hearing Xun Qian's name, Mingyue's heart moved, but before he could ask, Zhao Tong talked about the benefits of Confucianism again.

"The school of Confucianism, the ancestors of Yao Shun, King Wen, and Confucius, its ideas are contained in "Poems", "Books", "Rites", "Yi", "Music" and "Spring and Autumn". If there is no Confucian scholar to sort out the literature and classics of the three generations and the Spring and Autumn Period, today's nine streams and ten schools, there is no basis for what they say and do. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Tong turned around and asked a cronie from the temple who was following him to come over, took a bamboo slip wrapped in cloth from his hand, and stuffed it into Mingyue's hand.

"Zhao Xiangzi, the founder of our Zhao State, has a minister named Zhang Mengtan, Zhang Mengtan once said a sentence, called 'the past is not forgotten, the future is the teacher', I think it is very reasonable. Anyway, Chang'an Jun is idle when he is recuperating from his illness, this simple book, please go back and read it, maybe you can get some different gains from the wisdom of the ancients......"

Mingyue couldn't refuse, so she could only take the heavy bamboo slip and was about to hand it to the temple people behind her to collect. Unexpectedly, Lu Lingjun walked up to him, grabbed his wrist, suddenly exerted his strength, put his head to his ear, and said in a voice that no one else could hear:

"Chang'anjun, after reading it, remember to burn it, remember, be careful! Be careful! ”

Mingyue was startled, Lu Lingjun had already withdrawn and retreated, under the moonlight and palace lights, his unattractive young man was just like Fang When he met in the Fengtai Dormitory, he looked at Mingyue and shook his head gently.

Now Mingyue knows that this brother's behavior really has another meaning!

……

Half an hour later, in the dim palace room, a faint lamp and candle were lit, reflecting a pair of flickering eyes, and the face of a young man, but the expression seemed too serious for his age.

Dressed in deep clothes, Mingyue blew out the fine salary used to light the fire in his hand, until now, he still could not master the ancient necessary skills of using flint to make fire, so he could only borrow fire from the charcoal basin - this was his excuse to feel cold tonight, let the palace maid and the temple people add it, and then drove everyone out.

He needed space to be alone, so that he could take a closer look at the brief book that Lu Lingjun mysteriously stuffed to him half an hour ago.

Just now, after going around the garden, Mingyue returned to the Fengtai Dormitory, just in time to meet Zhao Wangdan striding out of it angrily, driving back to Longtai, and glanced at him coldly before leaving.

Mingyue didn't dare to slack off, after Chang Yi sent King Zhao away, he walked into the palace of the Empress Dowager Zhao, and found that the Queen Mother was also a little angry.

As soon as Mingyue heard it, she knew that King Zhao must have said something that should not be said just now, which made the Queen Mother unhappy.

"In the future, you will only have one son as a mother."

Empress Dowager Zhao was obviously angry for a while, but Mingyue did not echo it, but excused Zhao Wangdan, saying that Brother Wang also had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders and was worried about the country. Mingyue's filial and respectful attitude comforted the Queen Mother a little, allowing the old mother to sleep peacefully......

The reason why he was so cautious was because of Lu Lingjun's previous series of hints, which made Mingyue more vigilant.

Although King Zhao was not in power, his future authority was huge and his position was unshakable. Even Luling Jun can only protect himself and rely on Zhao Wangdan, there will be no fewer people in and out of the palace who want to please the new king, and in the palace of the Queen Mother, those temple people and palace maids who seem to be low-eyed and pleasing to the eyes are also unreliable.

Mingyue didn't know how many pairs of eyes were staring at him, and how many ears were listening to his words......

He could only feel safe when he was alone in the dark.

"Born in the royal family, although it avoided starvation and filling the ravines in troubled times, it is not all a good thing." After sighing, Mingyue began to study the book that Lu Lingjun had given him in the faint candlelight.

When I opened the silk cloth of the bread booklet, a bamboo roll was revealed.

The long and narrow bamboo piece of cut is called Jane, and it is called the book after being woven into a book with twine, "Shangshu" says, "only Yin ancestors, there are books and classics", the book was invented from the Yin Shang period, and has been handed down for thousands of years, and the craftsmanship is perfect, and it is the main text carrier of the Warring States Period.

Compared with the lightness of the books of later generations, the bamboo slip was heavy in his hand, and Mingyue simply spread it on the table, and took a lot of effort to untie the twine knot on it, so that it could be slowly unfolded and see the clues......

The yellow-brown bamboo slips have been killed, and the handwriting engraved on the Yin is a thick ink color - Zhao-style seal characters. Fortunately, Mingyue inherited many of Chang Anjun's memories, including the ability to read and hyphenation, otherwise Lu Lingjun gave him this thing, just to flatter the blind man.

After scanning two lines of text similar to the opening preface, Mingyue understood, this is the first volume of "Zuo's Spring and Autumn".

"Zuo's Spring and Autumn", also known as "Spring and Autumn Zuo's Biography", is a historical book supplemented by Zuo Qiuming, a historian of the Lu State, based on Confucius's "Spring and Autumn", and records the history of the Spring and Autumn Period. At the same time, it is also the Warring States Confucianism as a classic of the hand-me-down, and "Ram Biography" and "Gu Liang Biography" and called the Spring and Autumn Three Legends, the later generations of middle school textbooks on the Candle Wu retreat Qin Division, Cao Di polemics and other famous articles are from this book.

This book has been passed on to more than 2,000 years later, Mingyue also read it before her death, but she just looked at the translation, and now she rereads it, relying on the writing skills in Chang'anjun's memory, it is not difficult to understand, but Lu Lingjun gave him this book, what is the deep meaning?

With a lot of doubt, Mingyue unfolded the brochure a little more......

Soon, between the black characters written in thick ink, a red line suddenly jumped into his eyes!

It was a whole paragraph, marked with a pen!

When he saw clearly what that passage was about, Mingyue felt that something was pressing against his chest from the inside, making him breathe in vain!

"Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan!?"