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This year is a warm winter, just after the second day of the first month of January, the weather began to warm up, but the snow in the Chengzhou royal city has just melted, and the entire city palace is covered with plain white again.

When the people woke up in the morning, they learned the news of the death of the Son of Heaven. For the Zhou people, there are two worlds inside and outside the palace walls, on one side is the bell ringing Ding food, the lights are red and green, and on the other hand, there is no clothes and no brown, it is difficult to survive the winter. So after learning this bad news, the Chinese people who had been numb to life for a long time just sighed, obeyed the nobleman's instructions to hang a white cloth and black cloth at the door of Lilu, and continued to devote themselves to the struggle of life with a blank face, but the low sound of elegiac chorus could be faintly heard from the palace.

"The South Mountain is fierce, and the wind is blowing. The people are all good, and I am alone! ”

"The law of the South Mountain, the wind is blowing. The people are all gone, and I am alone! ”

This poem "Lyco" is used to express the sadness of the death of parents, the basis of Zhou is the patriarchal system, the ministers and small sects all regard the monarch as a father, and the death of the monarch's father is like the collapse of a mountain, so as far as the eye can see, the entire palace is plain white, wearing filial piety cloth, and the guards wearing kudzu hemp stand quietly on the palace wall with a halberd, and inside and outside the hall, hundreds of ministers, royal families, and ministers and doctors are sobbing at the same time.

However, most of them are pretending to be sad, and the only one who is sad is probably only the crown prince of King Zhou Jing.

Tears poured down from Prince Ren's eyes and dripped on the cold floor. Although King Zhou Jing is mediocre, he is his biological father after all, and now the burden of the entire Cheng Zhou is on the crown prince, and in a few days, he will become the new son of heaven.

However, before Prince Ren could cry enough, Liu Gong, the ruler of Cheng Zhou, knelt down and moved in, and said this and this in Prince Ren's ear with a sad face.

The prince didn't care about crying anymore, and his eyes widened and said:

"The 30,000 troops of Zhao have arrived in the north!?"

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Beibi, that is, Pi Mountain, is located in the north of Luoyang, 100 miles from east to west, very famous. Not only is it a natural barrier, but also because of the excellent feng shui here, it is an ideal place to bury bones. The trees on the hill are lined up, green as clouds, Dengfu looks far away, the victory of Yiluo Erchuan, take in the bottom of the eye; In the evening, the lights of thousands of homes in Luoyang are like stars in the sky. Therefore, later generations have a saying: "Born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, died and buried in the north", Bai Juyi also sighed in the poem: "The tomb of the north is high". This is the burial place of the kings of Zhou since King Ping moved east, and even the newly deceased King Jing of Zhou, his mausoleum is also located here.

However, before the Son of Heaven had time to go out of the funeral, the north was dusty, and a large army drove from Mengjin, waving the banner of Zhao State, and approached the north gate of Luoyang.

There are more than 30,000 people in this three armies, and their appearance can frighten Cheng Zhou's monarchs, and the prince didn't care about crying and mourning, so he hurriedly gathered the ministers to discuss how to deal with it.

"Liu Gong, Shan Gong, and Erqing think that Zhao Jun is here for what?" Prince Ren is already an adult, but his father has just died, and he has not had time to ascend the throne to encounter this kind of thing, it is inevitable that he will be a little at a loss, so according to the last words of King Zhou Jing, he wants to get some advice from Liu Gongdan.

"Since the meeting of Huangchi, it is also common for Zhao Jun to cross the border from Chengzhou." Shan Gong glanced at the prince and muttered.

"Then why didn't you receive a request to borrow the Tao in advance?" The prince didn't believe it, and looked at Liu Cheng, who was the ruler of Cheng Zhou and had dealt with Zhao many times.

Liu Cheng hesitated, and just at this time a retainer of the Liu family came over and whispered to him, Liu Gong turned his worries into joy, and announced to everyone: "The envoy from Zhao Hou's side said that he learned that the Son of Heaven had died, and he came to mourn. ”

According to the Zhou rites, the Son of Heaven collapsed, and the princes had the obligation to come to the capital to mourn, and they would also provide some money for burial to help the royal family tide over the urgent need.

This should have been a pleasant thing to see, but the prince didn't believe that Zhao Wuxian was a prince who abided by Zhou etiquette, not to mention ......

"My father died yesterday, but the Zhao army has already crossed Mengjin today, crossed the mountain, and approached Chengzhou, tens of thousands of people, at least half a month ago, assembled and prepared. If Zhao Hou is going to mourn, he can bring a small number of entourage, why should he carry a large army? If you cross the border without taking the road in advance, what is the difference between this and directly declaring war on the Zhou room? ”

Prince Ren gritted his teeth: "Zhao Wuxian annexed Lu and Wei, and last year he was called the king outside the Saiwai, and his heart to slaughter the world is known to women and children, and there are rumors that there are still Hou Fei Hou and Wang Fei Wang at the Huangchi meeting earlier, and now he is picking up the army when the ancestor dies, I am afraid that there is a heart of disobedience!" “

Prince Ren's worries are not superfluous, although Cheng Zhou is still the nominal state of the Son of Heaven, but after a series of events such as the arrow shooting the king's shoulder, King Xiang of Zhou hunting in Heyang, and the rebellion of the prince's dynasty, the former Hehe Zong Zhou has long since declined, the royal family has been swept away, there is a lack of money and food, no soldiers and no generals, and even the territory is only a corner of Yiluo within a radius of two hundred miles. Mo said that compared with the big vassal states of Zhao and Chu, it was inferior to the medium-sized states such as Song and Yue.

In the whole world, there is no longer a mountain calling long live, the shore of the land, no more ten thousand countries coming to the court, and even the tribute has been interrupted for more than a hundred years.

Fortunately, in the past hundred years of hegemony, the four powerful countries of Qi, Chu, Qin, and Jin also have an unwritten tacit understanding, that is, they generally respect the Son of Heaven and do not offend easily. Seizing a corner of Luoyi may not have much benefit, but it may trigger a group of great powers to attack it, and the pros and cons are clear at a glance.

Therefore, although the Jin Kingdom coveted the royal land, it could only steal it little by little by driving Lu Hun Rong into Yiluo; Qin Mugong has always been eager to go eastward, but he would rather go to Zheng to risk than invade Luoyang; King Chuzhuang is so indispensable, and he will give up his offense after winning the championship, because Wang Sunman said "in virtue is not in Ding". After all, they can't ensure that they are able to compete with the world, and it is better to hold the banner of respecting the king in their own hands.

The Zhou royal family has survived unharmed under the watchful eye of tigers and wolves, thanks to this delicate balance between the four great powers of east, west, north and south.

But now, this balance has been completely broken by the Zhao State, the name of the Qi State has disappeared from the map, and the homeland has been divided into three; The state of Qin was weakened and is still licking its wounds; The state of Chu was also busy dealing with the state of Wu, and the northern affairs could not be intervened. At this time, if Zhao Wuxian was evil to the guts, embezzled Luoyang, and perished into Zhou, no one could stop him......

But although the prince was young, he was not afraid of things, and immediately ordered: "Send people to the city to defend, now the first king has collapsed, and Yu has not yet ascended the throne, at such a critical time, if you don't understand the purpose of Zhao Hou, you must not open the door!" ”

Liu Gongshan was shocked, they couldn't even say anything, they were not like Prince Ren, the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, the two of them knew very well the terrible things about Zhao State, and described the strength of Zhao Jun vigorously.

Prince Ren, who had never left Luoyi, was unwilling and said: "Don't I have six divisions in Chengzhou!" ”

"Book Kang Wang's Message": "Emperor Zhang's Six Divisions, No Damage to My Ancestors", the Sixth Division is the division of the six armies under the command of Zhou Tianzi, composed of the countrymen of Kyoto's six towns, and fought for the expansion of the Zhou Dynasty from the beginning of King Wu's war. Although the six divisions of the cloud were actually seventy or eighty thousand at their peak. Under the leadership of Duke Zhou and Duke Zhao, together with the Eighth Division of Yin, they fought from the west to the seashore, from Jianghan to Yanhao, and had almost no opponents.

However, to this day, the Saturday Division, which had made many military exploits in the past, is in decay like this dynasty, leaving only a former establishment and almost no combat effectiveness.

Shan Gong said with a bitter face: "After the rebellion of the Prince Dynasty, the six towns were in ruins, and even the six divisions could not be recruited, and now there are less than 6,000 people, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the weapons and armor are in disrepair, how to resist the Zhao army......"

Liu Gong also has this opinion, they think that even if they count the soldiers of Liu Dan's two families, they can only make up 10,000 people, and there is no way to resist at all, so it is better to open the city gate and welcome Zhao Hou into the city.

The two of them were trying hard to persuade him, but Prince Ren was trembling, he had a premonition that if Zhao Wuxian was allowed to enter the city, even if the Zhou family did not die, it would be a catastrophe comparable to the difficulty of Lishan, and he was afraid that he would not be spared.

He paced back and forth in the hall, and suddenly thought of something, and said eagerly: "In the treasury, there are still many old armor soldiers. ”

"Chengzhou and Wangcheng are narrowly populated, and together they have a population of 100,000! Soldiers, countrymen, workers, farmers, and ministers can all distribute blades to help the rest and defend the royal family! ”

As if grasping a life-saving straw, he was so excited that he didn't care about Liu Gongdan's opinion, he called his close ministers when he was the prince, and followed him to the temple of civil and military affairs in a panic, intending to ring the bell to summon the people in the city to King Qin.

It wasn't until Prince Ren left the hall that Duke Liu ended his pleading, stood up, brushed his dusty clothes, and sighed to Duke Shan: "Duke Shan, the prince's behavior of abandoning the ministers and wanting to rely on the common people and poor people reminds me of an old man. ”

"Who is Liu Gong referring to?" Shan Gong was the head of the family a few years ago, much younger than Liu Cheng, but he also vaguely guessed what Liu Cheng was referring to.

Liu Gong seemed to have made up his mind, and said coldly: "He, he is very much like a prince who is an enemy of you and my father!" ”