readx;?“ How come the city wall is not as magnificent as Yecheng......"

"yes......"

Although he is a puppet in the deep lock palace, Hou Luhou of Wei is more knowledgeable than those who are subordinate to the group of thieves in the thief army, because they are worried that the territory of Zheng Guo, which has just ended the war, is not safe enough, this time they detoured to Yecheng and came from the territory of the Zhao family. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info so I saw the newly built high wall of Yecheng, and then compared it with Cheng Zhou, I was a little disappointed.

How do they know that the inner Guo city wall of Yecheng was designed and supervised by Lu Ban himself, although it is not long, it is the first brick-covered city wall in this era, and there are more designs beyond the times such as the urn city, and the rammed earth wall built by the process 20 years ago naturally cannot be compared......

"The road is not as wide as Yecheng, doesn't it mean that the road is as straight as an arrow?"

"Although the paint on the door is freshly painted, but the color is not good, how can the dignified son of heaven decorate the façade with such inferior products?"

"I see that the soldiers who welcomed them along the way were wearing new armor on the outside, with their heads held high, but they were wearing tattered brown clothes on the inside, which is too shabby......

"The people also have a lot of dishes on their faces, and they want to come to the city to be no more prosperous than Ye and Chaoge."

When they were about to reach the city gate, the two of them hugged the leather silk they used to meet, and whispered there as they walked.

As an elder, Zheng Bosheng, who was walking in front of them, turned his head and glared at the two of them.

"What do you think Zhou is like?"

As the closest and closest country to Zhou, Zheng knows this "eldest brother" best.

Since the fight against King Huan of Zhou, the Zhou royal family has been short of money and food, no soldiers and no generals, and even the city is only left around more than 20 Luoyi, and it has been occupied by Zheng Guo, Jin Zhuqing, and barbarians.

It is said that the people under the rule of Zhou Tianzi were less than 300,000, and they were divided into layers and sealed, and the direct Wang Tian was only 350,000 mu, which was not as good as a military landlord with ten years of experience in the Zhao family. There are not many of the six divisions of the Son of Heaven left, there are 15,000 people, but in fact there are only more than 6,000, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the weapons and armor are in disrepair.

As for the city wall and the like, the city of Cheng Zhou in front of them was originally rebuilt after the rebellion of the prince dynasty, when the Zhou royal family could not take out a silk to repair, in the previous generation of Liu Gong Shan Gong's bitter pleading, can only be called on the princes of the world by the secretaries of the Jin State to raise donations......

Of course, the princes are not happy, in the end you pull thousands of stone meters, I sent a few people, here to move some bricks and wood, put together to have Chengzhou City, during the construction of several times also stopped work, if you are careful, you can even find that the city wall is not square, but skewed, because it was originally intended to be built very large, but in the end the circle is getting smaller and smaller, and the wall is getting shorter and shorter, and the east gate that welcomes guests is relatively tall, but it can not be compared with Yecheng.

Maybe in the future, Zhao's Yecheng is the center of the world?

Zheng Bosheng drove away this idea, when he prevaricated and built Cheng Zhou, his father Zheng Dinggong also had a share, Wei and Lu were also indispensable, and today I feel that Cheng Zhou is not high enough to lose the face of the surname Ji, isn't this a slap in the face?

At this time, Uncle Zheng found that Zhou and Zheng really had a relationship of both prosperity and loss, if the branches died, how long could the leaves struggle? He regrets it very much now, why did his father support Cheng Zhou's rebels for a little land, but in the final analysis, it was Zheng Zhuanggong's arrow that shot the king's shoulder, setting a precedent for the princes to rebel against Zhou......

But what's the use of regretting? So Zheng Bo could only persuade the two juniors: "Be cautious, save a little face for the Son of Heaven and the two countries of Weilu!" “

Wei Hou and Lu Hou's faces were crimson, and they also remembered their mission, so they could only walk towards the city gate with their heads down, where Shan Gong had come to greet him by the order of the Son of Heaven, and he was still complacent about the pomp and circumstance he had temporarily arranged, not knowing that two of the three princes already had a light heart......

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After the incident when they entered the city, Wei Hou and Lu Hou's interest was gone, and they just wanted to finish their work early and return to the country early, hide in the deep palace to be warm, and not be bound by Cheng Zhou's outrageous red tape.

"The winter solstice is the end of the year in the Zhou calendar, and it is just right to see the Son of Heaven on this day." Shan Gong Liu Gong had already set the date with King Zhou, and now there are still a few days, and the three monarchs have to live in the pavilion given by the Son of Heaven outside the gate of King Wen's Temple.

Chengzhou is an administrative city full of temples, and the temple of King Wen and King Wu is undoubtedly the top priority, during this period there are countless ceremonies to the three monarchs to do one by one, just wearing all kinds of clothes, meeting all kinds of kings and ancestors, so that they are tired enough.

Staying left and right, finally arrived on the winter solstice, early in the morning, Zheng Luwei three princes put on clothes, wore crowns, went to your temple to put down the gifts, but took the dragon ink car hanging on behalf of the princes, officially entered the palace.

The palace is more magnificent than Wei and Lu, and the palace of the Zhao family in Yecheng is under repair, so the two monarchs of Wei and Lu finally did not make a comparison.

Just enter the palace gate, is a long Yong road, after the Yong road, in front of an open square, the bluestone paved floor is swept spotlessly, the snow is also removed, the edge of the square is a slip of the palace, dark red walls, brown roofs, the eaves are neat beasts.

However, although it is magnificent and magnificent, it only lacks a little aura, and is a little more old-fashioned and old-fashioned......

Lu Weizhijun, who was accustomed to the new pattern of Qufu and Diqiu, even Zheng Bo felt a trace of uncomfortable depression.

They didn't have time to think about it, and they were greeted by Shan Gong in the main hall where King Zhou was located.

In the vast hall, the crows and crows were crowded, but there was no noise at all, and the single prince who led the way breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, these days he put the three princes outside the palace and waited, they were not idle, they have been busy rehearsing etiquette!

Speaking of shame, after the rebellion of the prince's dynasty, many ceremonial officials and historians ran with him, and they also ran together with various classics and bamboo books, and there was no matter of the princes for decades, so that the royal family even had to check how to receive it.

Fortunately, Zhao Qing, the chief director of this matter, also took this into account and sent Gong Xichi, who was proficient in etiquette, to assist, which allowed Cheng Zhou to clarify the order of etiquette. However, it took a lot of effort to find someone to join the scene, because most of the nobles in the Zhou room were swept away twenty years ago, especially the young and strong doctors, most of whom had rebelled against the party and ran away, and those who could be found now were either too old or too immature. In addition, the king of Zhou did not want to manage the government, the court meeting has been idle for a long time, this hall has been neglected for many years, most of the officials do not want to participate in such a grand event, even the small court meeting has not participated, at the beginning of the mess and noisy like a market, and finally under the guidance of Gong Xichi, it has a little appearance.

This made Liu Dan Ergong very ashamed, and now Zhou is also rude, and the ceremony is in Lu?

No, no, the current etiquette and music atmosphere in the Lu country is not very good, and the most familiar with Zhou rites in the world is still Confucius and his disciples.

In any case, this winter solstice pilgrimage can finally be opened.

In "Seeing the king, he said to ask for the chapter." Long Yang Yang, and Ling Yang Yang. In the voice of "Zhou Song, Zaijian", Zheng Weilu Sanjun held a silk cushion of Guiyu in his hand, followed Shan Gong, walked through the hall sandwiched by the ministers of the Zhou family, and walked towards the nominal ruler of the whole world, Zhou Tianzi.

Entering the hall is the first worship, under the signal of the celebrant, the three of them said in unison: "Minister Zheng Sheng, General Lu, Wei Xuan...... Meet the King! “

After a while, a middle-aged male voice who tried to make himself look powerful came: "Three uncles are here, and one of them will be praised." Uncle will enter it, and one person will receive it. ”

After thanking the Son of Heaven, the three monarchs slowly got up, and took ten more steps, only then did they see Zhou Tianzi's appearance clearly:

He looked to be in his fifties, and was dressed in a dark robe embroidered with thirteen chapters, and wore a royal crown, black on the outside and vermilion on the inside, and the twelve branches of pearl and jade curtains hung down in front of his forehead, covering the deep wrinkles, but not the gray hair and dry beard......

The hall is decorated with a screen embroidered with an axe-like pattern, and the left and right sides of the screen are jade tables, and the Son of Heaven stands with his back to the screen.

King Kuo of Zhou is also a hard-working man, he is the son of King Jing of Zhou, the younger brother of Wang Zichao and King Mourning of Zhou, and the throne has nothing to do with him. However, after the death of King Jing of Zhou, the prince dynasty and the king of Zhou mourning both claimed that they were orthodox, and the Zhou family was divided, and it was not long before the king of Zhou mourning was killed, and the Shan and Liu Er clans supported the prince to ascend the throne, relying on the support of the Jin State to win the civil war, and made a little interesting son of heaven in Cheng Zhou, which became a ruin, during which he also fled because of the domestic turmoil, and the princes basically ignored his existence.

This time the Three Monarchs Dynasty Zhou is probably the most important thing he encountered after returning to Cheng Zhou.

However, for the real reason why the three princes came to the court, the timid Zhou Wanglu was actually quite apprehensive.

Fortunately, it is about to come to light.

After the three princes passed the second bow, they had to take the first ten steps in the past, and successively presented their own bundles and guiyu, along with the tribute list of their respective states, in fact, they were some local specialties, what Lu country's Rong Shu, Lu Min, Wei Guo's silk bamboo, Qiu clothing, Zheng Guo's painted pottery, etc., are basically symbolic.

However, for King Zhou, this is already an unprecedented honor, he stroked the jade silk according to the etiquette, and said with a red glow: "To one person will receive it." ”

At this point, the audience has come to an end, and the three kings stand on the right side of the temple, facing north, and they will next appear one by one to inform the Son of Heaven of their intentions......

It was at this time that the scene fell into a little embarrassment.

Weihou Luhou looked at each other, looked at the older Uncle Zheng together, Uncle Zheng was also helpless, his face was red and white for a while, he sighed, and took the two juniors together, stepped forward, bowed, as if reciting lines, and said in unison:

"China lost its uncle, treachery and evil breeded, first there was the chaos of the three Huan of the Lu State, the chaos of the Jin Qingzhi, Fan, and the Bank of China, and then the collusion of Qi and Wei with Wu Chu, disturbing the world, coveting the fierce and dividing the Xia. Lu Wei led the guests of the land to go into exile, and the people of Zheng Guo Qinwei had no choice but to be thieves...... At this time when my summer is endless, fortunately, Zhao Qing of the Jin Kingdom rose up in Jitu, protected my surname Ji, Hongji in difficulty, and the ministers did not die in Qi and Wei, and did not fall into Wu Chu's ferocity, and it really depends on Zhao Qing's virtue ......"

"In the past, Qin Xianggong had a meritorious role in protecting the king of Ping, and his descendants returned to the land of Qishan, so they became princes. Today, Zhao Qing's merits are mighty in China, far superior to Qin Xiang, Zhou Shuyun, meritorious ministers, Shejue, Cexun, Liye, ministers, etc., dare to invite the king of heaven to make Zhao listed as a prince! “

(To be continued.) )