Chapter 9 Too much deception
Thanks to Zhou Bian's several relief to farmers outside the city, Zhou Bian's reputation among the Chinese people is also very high, so the Taishi took action and quickly found all the people, all of whom were strong men, and they were all engaged in carpentry work, which made Zhou Bian very satisfied. Zhou Bian www.biquge.info's idea was to design according to the modern factory process, so he divided these people and the royal family's own carpenters into several groups, processing several parts of the carriage, making wheels and axles with better skills, and almost doing car bodies and simple carpentry work, but fortunately, the royal family still had enough wood to make dozens of cars.
After the division of labor, everyone began to be busy, and Zhou Bian and several carpenters in the palace studied how to strengthen the car body, of course, mainly the axle part, so as not to break it in a short time after selling. However, Zhou Bian had never done this before, and after telling everything he knew, there was nothing to teach, so he had to hand over the entire factory to the head of the royal carpenter, a young man named Shen Bufa, the son of the Sikong Lord Shen, who must have been influenced by his father since he was a child, and liked carpentry and the like. This Shen is also very clever, and he soon understands the way of factory management.
Two days later, seeing that Shen Bufa managed the entire factory in an orderly manner and all the work was on the right track, Zhou Bian no longer went to the factory, but stayed in the palace and pondered how to continue to train the guards.
It was a cloudy day, Zhou Bian was bored watching the square train for Zhou Mi, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart, always feeling that something bad was going to happen today, but he couldn't think of anything wrong with it, so he had to give up. At this time, his own personal guards had increased to 30 people, all of whom were hand-selected by Zhou Bian after he ascended the throne. Fortunately, they set an example for Zhou Mi, and the newcomer quickly adapted to the training, and Zhou Mi had been promoted by Zhou Bian to the captain of the guard, so Zhou Bian didn't have to worry about the training.
The weather is cold and gloomy, which makes people feel very unhappy, maybe it should be an accident today, just when Zhou Bian was a little restless, a guard ran in from outside the palace, and when he saw Zhou Bian, he hurriedly ran over, looking very panicked. "King, it's not good, the Taishi has been beaten."
Hearing this, Zhou Bian was shocked, no wonder he felt unhappy when he got up in the morning, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to support the guard, "Tell me quickly, what's going on, who hurt the Taishi, and how is the Taishi doing now?" ”
The guard gasped for breath a few times before he said intermittently, "It's the people of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty who robbed the grain, and the Taishi stopped it, so they injured the Taishi, and the chief manager, they are behind, and they will be there immediately." "This chief is the overseer.
After the guards finished speaking, Zhou Bian immediately pulled his hand out of the way, shouted Zhou Mi, and took the guards to run outside the palace.
After leaving the gate of the North Palace, I saw dozens of people in the palace, dejected, some with blood on their bodies, holding two carriages slowly towards the palace, the horses pulling the carriage were gone, so they had to be pushed by people. Zhou Bian stepped forward, and the first person lying in the car was Taishi. I saw a blood mark on the forehead of the Taishi, as if it had been smashed by a blunt object, the Taishi's eyes were closed, no matter how he screamed, he didn't react, Zhou Bian reached out and touched the pulse, fortunately it was relatively normal, it seemed that he should just be in a coma. ran to the second carriage again, but jumped out of the carriage first, and when he saw Zhou Bian, he knelt down and cried, "King, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty bullied me too much!" ”
Seeing that it was Jian Jia, Zhou Bian hurriedly helped him up and asked, "Slow down, what happened?" ”
"King, today the old slave bought a batch of grain from Luoyang, and went to distribute it with the Taishi, but unexpectedly rushed out of a team of soldiers from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and robbed it without saying anything, the Taishi went to stop it, but was knocked unconscious, the old slave was useless, so he could only hide first, seeing that they snatched the grain, and even did not let go of the horses in our carriage, and even snatched away several farmers' farming cattle, killing and wounding several people. O king, the old slave is powerless! ”
Zhou Bian blurted out with doubts in his heart, "Ah, you have already started to plough the land with oxen?" "It seems that the development of technology at this time has exceeded my imagination.
After speaking, Zhou Bian couldn't help but blush, he seemed to have mistaken the focus of attention, and hurriedly asked, "How many soldiers are there in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty?" ”
"There are only a few dozen of them."
"Okay, let's talk about the rest later, first send the Taishi and the injured guards to the palace for treatment." So saying, he commanded him to continue to the king's palace.
After returning to the palace, I heard the imperial doctor say that the imperial master was fine, and Zhou Bian left. I was about to discuss with someone, only to remember that the Taishi had passed out, and the young master had gone to Luoyang again, alas, it seemed that he was still too dependent on them, so he turned around and went to Tai** after thinking about it.
The Queen Mother's face was normal, "Wang'er, before your brother Wang died, he was still saying that you should bear with it, have you forgotten?" ”
"Queen Mother, they have gone too far today, if my royal family doesn't care, who knows what they will do in the future? Will our mother and son still watch my royal family being bullied by the public office in the future, and even what will they do if they want to drive our mother and son away? In the past, there was the Jin Kingdom to help, but now who among the princes is willing to help my royal family? ”
Looking at Zhou Bian's resolute gaze, it took a long time before the Queen Mother spoke, "It's just that my son is still young, so let's wait for the young master to come back." ”
"Queen Mother, if you wait for the young master to come back, the grain, cattle and horses they stole have already arrived in Gongyi."
"What does the king want?"
"I'll go to Sima Tu and lead the troops to chase after me. We will rob them as they rob them. ”
The Queen Mother pondered for a moment, and finally nodded, "As long as Wang Er doesn't go in person, it's fine." ”
After the Queen Mother's nod, Zhou Bian got up and went out, summoned Zhou Mi and others, and wanted to find Sima Tu. Unexpectedly, he searched the entire palace, and sent people to Sima Tu's house, but he didn't find anyone, Zhou Bian was anxious, so he had to find a few centurions, and recruited the palace guards who were not on duty, and saw more than three hundred people, and there were people arriving one after another, Zhou Bian couldn't wait, and he announced that he was going to set off to intercept the soldiers of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, but as soon as the words fell, the people below coaxed most of them to run, and Zhou Mi and others couldn't stop them, it seems that they were defeated by the Korean soldiers last time they had a phobia.
After a while, in addition to his own personal guards, there were dozens of people standing sparsely in the audience, Zhou Bian couldn't, and the familiar son chief happened to be on duty, so he had to take these people to the south of Chengzhou City, where the barracks of Chengzhou's division were located.
Unexpectedly, the situation in the barracks was not much better, several centurions actually ignored Zhou Bian, Zhou Bian glared angrily one by one, some lowered their heads guiltily, some regarded it as invisible, and even some held their heads high, a picture of how can you bear me, so angry that Zhou Bian jumped up and scolded for a long time, it seemed that he really had no prestige. After a while, a centurion hesitated to stand up, and after saluting the king, he pulled up the team and followed Zhou Bian, seeing that someone came forward, and several other centurions laughed at him, which made Zhou Bian angry, and secretly made up his mind in his heart that if he received great power in the future, he would definitely take care of these soldiers.
And the centurion who stood up was named Pang Xing, a native of Luoyang, who came back from Mengjin and the young master, and it seems that he still has some courage. Seeing that the time was about to run out, Zhou Bian had no choice but to give up and take more than 100 people to the east gate.
I didn't take a few steps, but I heard a voice shouting, "King, please stay!" ”
Zhou Bian turned his head to see that it was Jian Jia. "The king, the queen mother knows that the king went out of the city in person, and now he can't kneel in the ancestral temple, won't the king go to say goodbye to the queen mother first?"
Zhou Bian had no choice but to lead the team to the ancestral temple again.
The ancestral temple was still very dim, bypassing the layers of curtains, Zhou Bian saw the Queen Mother kneeling in the middle at a glance, and hurriedly knelt down in front of the Queen Mother, "The child is not filial, and the mother is worried!" ”
"When a king goes on an expedition, he must first worship his ancestors and ancestors. Now that the Taishi is gone, everything is simple, you just kowtow a few times. The Queen Mother said slowly. When Zhou Bian heard this, he had to kowtow first.
"The king is going, and the palace knows that it can't be stopped, so he kneels here to pray for the king's blessing and ask for the blessing of the ancestors. The Queen Mother's tone was very firm, Zhou Bian was stunned for a moment, and then his heart was full of emotion, and he kowtowed to the Queen Mother and got up without saying a word and left.
Walking out of the ancestral temple, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw one hundred and ten people standing in front of the ancestral temple, all of them with a sad look on their faces, and Zhou Bian suddenly felt like crying in his heart. Calming down, Zhou Bian shouted, "Everyone, the Queen Mother can't kneel down in the ancestral temple, pray for us, and hope that we will return triumphantly, the heart of the Queen Mother is comparable to the sun and the moon, how can you repay my Queen Mother, my Great Zhou?" ”
Zhou Mi and the others hurriedly took the lead and shouted, "Da Zhou will win, Da Zhou will win!" Then a hundred and ten people shouted.
After everyone shouted a few times, Zhou Bian then shouted, "Everyone, the honor and destiny of my Great Zhou are tied to you, this king will live and die with you, and share wealth and prosperity, I hope you will prosper my Great Zhou together with this king." Everyone, please strengthen my big week! ”
With that, he turned around and knelt down to the ancestral temple. One hundred and ten people behind him also knelt down, and after everyone kowtowed three times with Zhou Bian, Zhou Bian got up again and shouted, "Everyone, let's go!" ”
The group headed for the east gate. Zhou Bian was anxious, from the time the Taishi was injured and the guards reported back to the present, it has been an hour, although the Eastern Zhou soldiers are driving the grain, grass and horses, and walking very slowly, but after a long time, they don't know whether to catch up or not, so they have to urge everyone to speed up the pace, Zhou Bian also followed the team, and did not lag behind.
At the same time, in the young master's mansion, an entourage ran into the mansion and whispered to the young master, the young master looked at Sima Tu, who was pointed at by several palace guards with swords, nodded slightly, and the entourage ran out of the mansion again.