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The morning breeze was cool, temporarily blowing away the stuffiness of the weather, outside the Hanyuan Hall of Weiyang Palace, Zhao Heng, who was wearing a new dress embroidered with a Xuanyao cloud pattern, was in the middle of the attendants, full of anxiety and excitement. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This year, Zhao Heng was six years old.

The big tripod outside the gate of the hall was burning with spices, and the feather forest guards with bright armor straightened their backs, standing proudly with halberds, and the breeze blew, and the banner of Zhao Guo fluttered above their heads, and the scorching sun bird was painted on it.

Everything is so solemn, everything is so solemn, this is another ceremony that Zhao Heng participated in after the establishment of Zhao State. Although he didn't understand what it meant, he could vaguely feel that the ceremony he was going to attend this time was very important, and it seemed that he was the protagonist......

He remembered that night, while he was sleeping, his mother suddenly walked into his bedroom and hugged him and cried. Zhao Heng was awakened and wiped away his mother's tears, but he was at a loss, but his mother smiled and said that these were tears of joy.

"Joy and tears?" Zhao Heng was puzzled, and before he had time to think about this problem, he was surrounded by a group of palace maids, measuring his body again, and giving him new clothes, and when the new clothes were made, the ceremony followed.

Now, he is standing here, inside and outside the palace, countless pairs of eyes are looking at him, goodwill, malice, or mixed emotions.

Under the focus of these gazes, Zhao Heng did not show weakness, he tried to stand up straight, wanting to show the maturity that a six-year-old child did not have, as if everything in front of him had long been commonplace.

But in fact, he had goosebumps all over his hands. Children are sensitive, although they have been rehearsed many times before, but when the matter comes, Zhao Heng will still have a trace of fear, want to turn around and flee, run back to Changxin Palace, and pull the corner of his mother's clothes for help.

"Childe." Just when he was a little dazed, a gentle voice sounded, and an official in a crimson court robe squatted down in front of him: "Childe will follow me in later, don't look back." “

It is the confessor Ling Zixia, he is a close minister next to Zhao Heng's father, Zhao Heng is no stranger to him, and his gentle gaze also makes people feel calm.

So Zhao Heng squeezed his little fist, and the eyes behind him were still there, but there seemed to be more of his mother's expectant eyes in them, so that Zhao Heng could overcome his fear, strive to keep up with Zixia's pace, and walk forward under the escort of the honor guard, without looking around, let alone looking back.

The confessor ordered Zixia to be responsible for today's guidance of Zhao Heng, and he walked forward slowly with a very slow pace, not only to ensure that the route he took was straight, but also to put the afterglow on Gongzi Heng behind him, guiding him forward and preventing him from stumbling.

Everything went smoothly with more than a hundred steps outside the hall, but when he arrived at the gate of the hall, a threshold appeared in front of Zhao Heng.

The palace official said to Zhao Heng very early: "Gongzi Gongsun, Qing Doctor, and Shi enter and exit the monarch's gate, and do not practice the threshold." This means that when entering the palace of the monarch, one should pass sideways by one of the thresholds erected in the center of the door, and do not step on it.

The role of the threshold is the boundary between inside and outside, and at the same time, it is also a reflection of the identity of the master, as the main hall of the princes' palace, the threshold of the Hanyuan Hall is a bit too high for six-year-old children......

Zi Xia turned his head to look again, wanting to encourage Zhao Heng to move forward, but what he didn't know was that for Zhao Heng, the most terrifying thing was not this threshold, but the situation after the threshold......

He looked around, and the hall was full of tall bodies, bloated court clothes, swaying jade pendants, and a pair of eyes.

Xiangbang Dong Anyu's eyes were old Longzhong, the eyes of the fierce general Tian Ben scrutinized, and the eyes of the prince of Qin were full of envy...... These more and closer eyes all looked directly at Zhao Heng, as if they had been looking forward to it for a long time, and now they just wanted to see him through from the inside out......

Zhao Heng's footsteps faltered again, and he hesitated to enter until he saw his father's eyes.

Zhao Wuxian sat on the king's couch at the other end of the main hall, his long dark hair was coiled into a delicate bun, fixed by the crown of the prince, and his black eyes were extremely solemn today, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like the person who would be in front of the snowy night furnace, hugging Zhao Heng, and telling the fables such as "Praise the Father and the Day" and "The Dead Sheep". He had already taken off his father's face and put on the mask of the monarch of the Zhao Kingdom.

But through that layer of jade, Zhao Heng could still feel that his father was expecting him to continue to move forward, and under the majestic gaze, there was encouragement and encouragement......

"Don't disappoint your father." This is what his mother has told him countless times, so Zhao Heng lifted his deep coat and walked sideways, although he was slightly clumsy, he didn't drag the mud and water at all!

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Seeing Zhao Heng cross the threshold of the hall without any danger, the small figure slowly walked towards this side, came to his throne, bowed down to the north, and behaved without mistakes, Zhao Wuxian breathed a long sigh of relief.

Don't look at him with a solemn face, but in fact, he is as nervous as Zhao Heng, looking at the short steps that his son has walked in more than 100 steps, it is no easier than his painstaking efforts to seize the position of the princes step by step.

But Wuxian is also relieved that his son finally did not disappoint him, which may also be a key step for him to leave his mother's arms and change from a childish son to a dignified son of Zhao Guo.

Zhao Wuxian smiled and motioned for Zhao Heng to step forward.

After his son came to his side, Zhao Wuxian looked at him carefully again, after all, he was taught by a lady like Le Lingzi, not only did he have a bit of a mother's delicate appearance in his appearance, he was meticulous in his clothes and hairstyle, and behaved decently, but there was still a trace of grievance in his eyes, after all, he was only a six-year-old child.

At this moment, the musicians in the hall also began to play music, and the chimes were struck with a light and festive melody, and the lyrics said:

"The toe of Lin, Zhenzhen Gongzi, Yu Linxi.

Lin Zhiding, Zhenzhen Gong surname, Yu Linxi.

The horn of Lin, Zhenzhen Gong, Yu Linxi! ”

For a time, the bells in the hall rang in unison, and the piano was leisurely. After the performance, it immediately aroused the applause of the ministers, they praised each other, and then congratulated Zhao Hou Wuxian, who was sitting on the king's couch: "The son of the king is also like a unicorn, majestic and magnificent!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Wuxian also pulled Zhao Heng, pointed at him with satisfaction and said to the courtiers: "This is the widow Lin'er, Zhenzhen Gongzi, will Xing Zhao Bang!" “

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In fact, Zhao Wuxian's choice today was made after careful consideration.

Flourishing branches and full of heirs, this is the consistent value orientation of the Chinese, the folk is to inherit the bloodline, raise children to prevent old age, the family of the prince and the prince Qing is to let the clan continue, and the property of Bangyi is inherited.

But there are too many sons, and it is not necessarily a good thing, and which son inherits the family business often becomes a big worry for the older generation.

Human lifespan is limited, and Zhao Wuxian, as a father, has worked hard for more than ten years and laid a large number of rivers, so it is indispensable to consider this problem.

He now has a total of three sons, and the "Zishang" in the Song State is an illegitimate child, and he can only exist as a "Xuanniao Falling Egg and Born Without Pregnancy", plus he is still in infancy, basically has nothing to do with the inheritance of the Zhao State. As for the other two, they are the eldest son Zhao Cao and the son-in-law Zhao Heng.

Throughout the previous history, the inheritance system of the Shang Dynasty was the succession of the father to the son, supplemented by the elder brother and the younger brother. It was not until the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty that the Zhou metric system was used for music, and the primogeniture inheritance system was strictly implemented.

Therefore, regardless of the four noble ranks of the Son of Heaven, the princes, the princes, the princes, and the scholars, those who inherit property and positions must be the eldest son of the wife; If the wife has no children, then the son of the most honorable concubine among the concubines, this is the so-called "the eldest is not virtuous, and the son is noble but not long". Compared with the Shang system, this inheritance system effectively avoided the troubles caused by the brotherly wall, thus maintaining the majesty of the monarchy and the stability of the state.

It can be said that the primogeniture inheritance system is the key to the maintenance of the patriarchal system of the Zhou Dynasty to this day. Since then, except for the occasional "succession and continuation" in the Lu State, and the "brother to brother and brother" from time to time in the Song State, all countries have passed on the basic law in accordance with this basic law. A hundred years ago, when the Duke of Qi Huan convened the princes to meet in Kuiqiu, he also made an alliance and said: "Punish no filial piety, no Yi Shuzi, no concubine as a wife...... which means not to replace the wife of the main house, and not to appoint the eldest son as the heir.

However, Qi Huan himself did not abide by this covenant, and his wives had Wang Ji, Xu Huan and Cai Ji, all of whom had no children. In accordance with the principle of no heir, Duke Qi Huan has set up Gongzi Zhao as the prince, but then he repented, favored Wei Ji, and promised to set up her son Wuwei as the prince.

This ambiguous attitude towards the heir directly led to the fact that when Duke Qi Huan fell ill, the five sons in China opposed Gongzi Zhao's succession to the throne and attacked each other, which was known as "Five Sons Chaoqi" in history. These unscrupulous descendants have beaten the dog's brains out, and even Qi Huan Gong died and didn't have time to collect his body, and when the civil war ended, the maggots had crawled out of the portal with enough food and drink......

Similarly, there is also the Jin Xiangong who abolished the crown prince Shen Sheng and changed the concubine, which led to continuous civil strife in the Jin Kingdom.

Zhao Wuxian did not intend to repeat the mistakes of the two monarchs who thought they were "wise".

"I don't want to be Duke Qi Huan, and Duke Jin Xian...... I don't want to be Zhao Xiangzi in history. ”

The fog of history obscured the truth, so Zhao Wuxian didn't know what the reason for Zhao Xiangzi in history was to give up his five biological sons, but he was very interested in Zhao Zhouqing, the son of his brother Bolu. After Zhao Xiangzi divided the three families, he sealed Zhao Zhou in Daidi and called him "Dai Chengjun", a posture given to him by dividing the country.

After Zhao Zhou's early death, Zhao Xiangzi did not give up, and set up Zhao Huan, the grandson of Bolu, as the heir of the Zhao family. This time and again, not only his five sons were very dissatisfied, but even Zhao Ying's youngest son Zhao Jia also had ideas. After Zhao Xiangzi's death, his younger brother Zhao Jia expelled Zhao Huan and established himself as the monarch, known as Zhao Huanzi. Huan Zi also died more than ten years after succeeding to the throne, and the Zhao clan said: "Zhao Huanzi was not Zhao Xiangzi's idea to be the monarch. So everyone killed Zhao Huanzi's son together, and then welcomed back Zhao Huan and established himself as the monarch, this is Zhao Xianzi.

So the Zhao royal family actually has nothing to do with Zhao Xiangzi......

Originally, when the three families were divided, the Zhao family was the strongest, and Wei Han had to look up to him, but after more than ten years of turmoil in the Zhao family, Wei Wenhou of the Wei family took the lead in completing the reform and catching up. Wei replaced Zhao as the head of the Three Jin Dynasty, so that in the early Warring States period, Zhao was always Wei's younger brother, and the state was also in decline.

What Zhao Xiangzi thinks, Zhao Wuxian doesn't know, but he combines his past and present lives, and feels that the position of the prince is ambiguous and unclear, and it is a taboo for the monarch.

So Zhao Wuxian decided to establish the prince as soon as possible. Hugh must let the position of the prince of the country be vacant, make the courtiers uneasy, and do not let those with ulterior motives have thoughts that should not be there.

Besides, although Zhao Xiangzi's body still has forty or fifty years to live in history, if he is good at recuperating from the prime of life, don't indulge in women and wine, I'm afraid that he can live longer. But just like Zhao Wuxian said to Le Lingzi, when you go on an expedition, no one can say what will happen, King Chu Zhao is a good example, no matter how ambitious you are, you can't beat a little little heart.

As a cautious person, Zhao Wuxian always likes to prepare things thoroughly before taking the next step, in case of accidents, he doesn't want his master's career to be like Alexander the Great, and die.

According to the orthodox theory, although Zhao Cao is old, his mother is Bo Mi and is a concubine, and although Zhao Heng is slightly younger, he is the son-in-law of Zheng'er.

But Zhao Wuxian will not simply follow the etiquette and law, he also has to take into account the ability and future development of his two sons.

"Aman......" Thinking of this son, Zhao Wuxian shook his head helplessly, with a hint of apology in his eyes.

As the eldest son of Wuxi, Zhao Cao enjoyed his father's love exclusively in the first few years of his birth. Until the Liuqing Rebellion, Zhao Ying died, and Zhao Wuxian had to sit in Hebei and couldn't take care of Ludi, so he asked the young Zhao Cao to go to Lu to be the "Zhengqing", with the heart of An Lushi. Seven years have passed since then, and the number of times the father and son have met is counted on one hand, and the last time they met, he came to congratulate his father on being listed as a prince.

Zhao Cao was already a teenager in his teens, tall and thin, and Zhao Wuxian almost didn't recognize him as his son. Because of the long-term separation, the relationship between this son and Zhao Wuxian is somewhat raw, and in the absence of father's love, it has caused a timid character, and because of his weak physique, he has no interest in the matter of arching horses.

But what made Zhao Wuxian even more unhappy was that he was too benevolent and sincere.

In January, Zhao Wuxian asked Zhao Cao to ask the right question, and found that he had a good grasp of etiquette, music, and poetry, but there were many elements of "softness and good Confucianism" in his speech. ”

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ps: The encyclopedia sets the year of Zhao Xiangzi's death in 425 BC, which is based on the "Historical Records. The year of Zhao Xiangzi's reign is calculated in the Zhao Shijia", but before that, the historical records delayed the time of Zhao Jianzi's death by 18 years (the left biography records that Zhao Ying died in 476 BC, but the historical records are wrongly recorded as 458 BC).

In this way, the historical records say that "Xiangzi died in the thirty-third year of his life", which should be 443 BC, which is the exact year of Zhao Xiangzi's death. Zhao Huanzi's seizure of the throne should also be this year, which can be used as evidence in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle": "Jin Jinggong ten and one year, Zhao Huanzi will be [Zhu] Hou's doctor, in order to ally with Yue Ling Yin Song", Jin Jinggong eleventh year, is 441 BC, it can be known that Zhao Xiangzi died at this time.

Therefore, in the novel, Zhao Wuxian's birth and death are set as: 519 BC - 443 BC.

The above refers to Qian Mu's "Pre-Qin Zhuzi Year Examination" 33, Zhao Jianzi's death year examination, and there is only one big chapter tonight.

(To be continued.) )