On the spacious main hall of the lower palace, several important retainers of the Zhao family, such as Yin Duo, the head of the family, Fu Suo, the middle doctor, and the military Sima Post Wuzheng all stood in the palace. They looked at each other, not knowing why the Lord Zhao Ying suddenly summoned them here.

"But for the winter solstice pilgrimage meeting the day after tomorrow?"

Yin Duo, who had a goatee, heard this, and his face was slightly gloomy. He had a bad premonition about the big court meeting the day after tomorrow, but after several quarrels in the past half a month, the lord could no longer listen to his contrary advice, and maybe after the winter solstice, his position as the head of the house may be replaced by the middle doctor Fu Suo!

Alas, if only Dong Anyu were still here, the Lord would definitely listen to him......

Everyone was speculating, but they saw the gate of the palace, with a crown belt on his head, black and red clothes, and a dazzling array of group pendants hanging around his waist, and the lord Zhao Ying, who was carrying a long sword, was striding into the palace. All the retainers saluted him, and Zhao Ying bowed slightly.

As soon as Zhao Ying sat down, he announced: "I have summoned all the retainers here today because there is a new family law to discuss. He paused for a moment and continued: "My son has no suggestion to prohibit the burial of living people in the territory of the Zhao family, and violators will be severely punished regardless of their status!" ”

As soon as these words came out, His Highness was in an uproar for a while, some people looked indignant, some people didn't think so, and some people showed joy on their faces. The complex attitudes of the people towards the burial of the living are clear.

A doctor who had been buried as a concubine for generations in the family immediately stood up and questioned: "It is the inherent tradition of the Zhao family to be buried with slaves and maids. ”

The retainers in the palace who supported the martyrdom responded for a while, and they had already planned which beautiful maids and subordinates in the family to be buried after death to serve under the Nine Shadows, and continue to live a life of Zhong Ming Dingshi, how could they be abolished in one go?

"What's wrong with the world?" Zhao Ying sneered in his heart, he waved his wide sleeves to quiet everyone down, and then asked Erren Kuan to pick up Zhao Wuxian's two rolls of bamboo slips.

"Read! Read it to all the retainers, and not a word will be missed, so that they may see how 'unworldly' my son is. ”

Zhuren Kuan held the heavy bamboo slip, secretly complaining in his heart, but he read it word by word in his mouth:

"The kid has no mercy and worships the head again: Zhao's family started a business in Jin in the world of Chengzi and Xuanzi, but God did not bless Zhao, resulting in the collapse of the middle way (referring to the difficulty of the lower palace); Fortunately, his great-grandfather Wenzi resurrected and ruled the Jin Kingdom; As for his father's light lintel, Zhao's family is prosperous. ”

The retainers looked at each other and nodded, this careless little gentleman can not only hear the musician Gao's string song and know its elegant meaning, but his words are also quite smooth.

"However, now the Jin Kingdom is six points, there is no one in the public car, and the government is at home, and this sincerity is in danger of survival! Today's kid dares to say that if the matter of human martyrdom is not changed, the survival of the lower palace is only in the evening! ”

After the opening cliché, there was such a sensational paragraph, and the retainers couldn't help but feel refreshed after hearing it. Continuing to listen, their disapproving expressions suddenly disappeared, and some of them even had a layer of fine sweat on their foreheads.

Zhao Wuxian pointed out in the article that now the princes are fighting for each other, and even the six kings are fighting for two things, one is land, and the other is population. With a large land and a large population, the Zhao clan will be able to win before the war; The land is narrow and the population is small, and the Zhao family will fall behind.

You don't see, Zheng Guo, who lives in the land of Yu Juni, because the land is narrow and there are few people, although in the early Spring and Autumn Period, there was Zheng Zhuang Gong Xiaoba, who dared to shoot Zhou Tianzi on the shoulder in the battle of Xiangge, and no one in the Central Plains could grab its edge, but it did not last. And the state of Qi has a vast territory and a large population, so it can come from behind and become the first hegemon. Even if he later lost hegemony due to civil strife, the base was there, and the monarch died again, and he held the seat of the third most powerful country in the world for a long time.

The rest of the Jin, Chu and others are all like this, and they have enough population support to send four or five thousand troops to subdue the princes.

Since population is so important, what are some ways to increase it? Zhao Wuxian believes that one of them is the prohibition of burial!

"The martyrs killed by the princes and the Qing clan after their deaths are more than hundreds, and few dozens; The number of martyrs killed by the scholars after their deaths was dozens or few. ”

It is nothing to bury a handful of people in each family every year, but if you add up all the territories of the Zhao family, what about the number of martyrs of all scholars and countrymen? According to the estimation of Ji Zhiqiao, the total territory of the Zhao clan almost kills about 1,000 people every year!

Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, and I only heard about them sporadically before, and no one has ever counted them, so Zhao Yingman doesn't care. And now not only him, but even many retainers realize that killing a thousand people every year, such a large number, even if it is a lowly concubine and slave, it is really hurtful!

What's more, there are more realistic things, for example, what is the average annual population growth of the Zhao family?

Ji Zhiqiao has ready-made data in his hands, and Zhao Ying also vaguely remembers that the five major counties he personally controlled, plus the Xia Palace, increased the number of mouths last year, and the number of mouths increased last year was more than 2,000 people, and the entire thirteen counties of the Zhao family plus one piece was only 5,000.

As soon as the two were compared, there was no need to say it clearly, and all the retainers understood that the burial of a living person would slow down the population growth controlled by the Zhao clan by half!

In this way, things become simpler, it is a matter of addition and subtraction, and it is to continue to ignore it, losing thousands of laborers every year. Or let those martyred slaves and maids survive and marry each other, and there will be many more newborns.

Zhao Wuxian exclaimed in the article: "Therefore, while supporting human martyrdom, while pursuing the increase of population in this way, it is like making people bend down and seek longevity, and it is like wanting to go to the south but making the coachman drive towards the north, which will only be counterproductive!" ”

"The kid heard that the funerals of Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, King Wen of Zhou, and King Wu were extremely simple, and there were no martyrs. Whether to follow the example of the Holy King and rule, or to ignore such hurtful things, the boy dares to ask his father to choose! ”

As for the way to implement this "stop from death" ban, the realist Zhao Wuxian had already planned for Zhao Ying: first implement it in the lower palace and several surrounding towns to see if the effect and opposition are too great, and then extend it to other large counties.

He also envisioned the effect of this move: apart from the opposition of some conservative old nobles, the Zhao clan would be praised by the enlightened scholars of the whole world, gain a good reputation for respecting the Zhou rites, and be grateful to the slaves and concubines and savages for their death.

Of course, there is still one point that is not said in the article, that is, it will also make Zhao Wuxian gain great political prestige within the Zhao family, and even in the Jin Kingdom and the world.

For those who are stubborn, Wuxian suggests that they simply use clay figurines to symbolize living people, or artemisia grass tied into human form to be martyred, which can be recognized by pinching their noses.

At the end of the article, Wuxian finally lyricalized: "The kid is willing to be the initiator!" ”

When Zhao Wuxian dictated this, he felt that he was simply the embodiment of justice, compared to the tens of millions of living people, it was not a matter to use a trick to pit that Cheng Ji to death.

When a family cries, how can a township cry and a county cry?

However, Wu Xian did not know that at the same time that he asked Zhao Ying to prohibit the burial in the form of written law. In the distant southern kingdom of Wu, a tragic living sacrifice is kicking off.

The king of Wu, known as the "big tyrant", in order to bury his Wu Guoweng lord Teng Yu, who committed suicide because of a steamed fish. Outside the gate of the west of the country, the pond accumulates soil, the aragonite is the coffin, the inscription is in the middle, and the treasure of the gold tripod jade cup, the silver bottle and the pearl shirt is innumerable.

Later, he ordered the advocacy to dance the white crane feather in Wu City, and actually deceived thousands of Yue people into the long tomb in one go, pressed the mechanism, sealed the tomb, and pitted it!

It was a long time later that Zhao Wuxian, who learned about this, realized it more clearly. On the side of the Spring and Autumn aristocratic bell ringing and dining, poems, books, rituals and music, there are clusters of blood-stained thorns, which are full of bones of commoners and savages......

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