The Great Xing Alliance in Huangchiyi is noisy and noisy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This drama finally stopped after more than ten days of playing and singing, and the Jishui River outside the Yi, with the princes' cars and boats far away, once again restored a piece of tranquility.

On this afternoon, the weather was crisp and pleasant, and a young man in a single suit sat in a pile of weeds and rocks by the water's edge with a fishing rod in hand. He seemed to be fishing, and with a slight flick of his wrist from time to time, the bait in the water also moved, and after a while, the float made of goose feathers floating on the surface of the water sank and sank, as if a fish had been hooked.

But the scholar did not seem to come for the fish, and was indifferent to this, and still closed his eyes as if he were asleep, and sat still and motionless, so that the thin dragonfly took him as a clay wood sculpture, and flew to rest on the blue scarf.

"Ziyu, Ziyu!" It wasn't until there was a call from the shore that the dragonfly flew away in panic, and the young man opened his eyes and took away the fishing rod, and the hook on the rod was actually straight......

"Ziyu, it turns out that you are here." It was a young man in Chinese costumes, fourteen or fifteen years old, who was very familiar with the youth.

When he approached, he pointed to the young man's straight hook and laughed: "You are fishing with a straight hook here, do you want to learn from Taigongwang and catch a King Wen of Zhou?" ”

The young man smiled shyly, bowed to the young man, and said in a very slow and slow voice: "Don't joke gentlemen, you are foolish, you dare not compare with Taigongwang, and the only master in this world is in Huangchi, and there are capable ministers and generals under his command, and it is useless to participate." Sitting here is just for the sake of righteousness, sincerity, and self-cultivation. ”

The young man's name was Zeng Shen, a native of Dongwu City, Lu State, and his father was Zeng Dian, the eldest disciple of Confucius. The young man who came to look for him was the eldest son of Zhao Hou Wuxian, Zhao Cao, the general of the Lu Shogunate.

How did these two young people with vastly different statuses get together?

Zeng Shen was born in the fifteenth year of King Zhou and is now twenty-one years old. In the years in Zhongdu, he began to learn poetry with his father, although his talent was not as good as Yan Hui and other geniuses, and he was considered to be foolish, but he was very studious, and often studied hard at the desk, and was praised by Kong Qiu.

When he was a little older, he followed Confucius to travel around the princes, Zeng Shen stayed at home to serve his mother, he ploughed in the suburbs of Qufu, and once encountered heavy rain and snow and could not return, because he missed his parents, and made the song of Liangshan. It happened that Zhao Cao was traveling accompanied by the ministers of Lu Guo, and when he saw this scene, he asked him to get in the car to avoid the rain and snow.

In the car that day, there were only a few words, Zeng Shen's quality and wisdom left a deep impression on Zhao Cao, he was alone in Lu State, and there were no friends of his peers, so he often summoned Zeng Shen to the meeting for banquets and drinks in the future.

After that, Zeng returned to China, let Zeng Shen serve Confucius for himself, Zeng Shen left Lu State with his father, and stayed in Yedi for several years, during which he worshiped Confucius as a teacher, was diligent and studious, and had a true transmission of Confucianism. Until three years ago, because Zeng Dian died, he visited Confucius, returned to his hometown to guard filial piety, and just after the end of the filial piety period, Zhao Cao called him to be a teacher who taught poetry and books.

Don't look at Zeng Shen's youth, but he is no less than several disciples of Confucius in terms of academic attainments, and what is even more rare is that because he grew up in the Lu State under the rule of the Zhao family, he has some different feelings. He felt that the "cultivation of Qi and Zhiping" that Zhao Wuxian had said in Zhong Zhong was particularly kind, so he combined it with the things taught by Confucius and integrated them into the "Eight Eyes", that is, "Gewu, Zhizhi, Righteousness, Sincerity, Self-cultivation, Qi Family, Governing the Country, and Leveling the World".

"Those who want to be clear and virtuous in the world will rule their country first; Those who want to rule their country must first gather their families; Those who want to gather their families must first cultivate their bodies; Those who want to cultivate their bodies must first correct their hearts; Those who want to correct their hearts must first be sincere; If you want to be sincere, you should know it first. Enlightenment is in Gewu. After knowing things, knowing and then sincerity; Sincerity and then the heart, the heart is right and then the body, the body is cultivated and then the family, the family is together and then the country is governed, and the country is governed and then the world is peaceful. As a result, this set of theories has been transformed from Zhao Wuxian's personal ambition to a complete set of feudal ethics and morality.

This is the first combination of Confucius and Zhao Xue, and the interesting thing is that as the son of Zhao Wuxian, Zhao Cao is also very interested in this set of Zhao Pi Confucian theory, in recent years, he is good at Confucianism, mostly influenced by Zeng Shen. The relationship between the two is also a teacher and a friend, and when there is something that he can't understand, Zhao Cao often asks Zeng Shen, and he also brought Zeng Shen with him at this meeting in Huangchi.

The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and the two are not people who talk much, if they have nothing to do, they often have nothing to say for a day, and they read their own books. Although Zeng Shen knew that Zhao Cao was called by Zhao Hou today, there must be something important, but since he didn't say it, he didn't ask. Zhao Cao also took the fishing rod from the attendant's hand and sat not far away to accompany Zeng Shen to fish.

But because there was something in his heart, Zhao Cao couldn't concentrate, as soon as the fish bit the bait, he lifted the fishing rod, and he couldn't catch the fish, and he was a little angry, and because of the pain in his buttocks, his hands and feet moved, and a small pebble kicked into the water, and the fish in the water were driven away.

"No more fishing!" Zhao Cao found that today's things had been running around in his chest, and he couldn't calm down at all, so he threw the fishing rod and asked the attendant to go far away and not let people come.

He sat next to Zeng Shen and said to him: "Ziyu, there is something I want to ask you, I hope you can share my worries for me." ”

Zeng Shen said: "Gentleman, please speak." ”

Zhao Cao thought about it, didn't know where to start, and finally sighed: "My seal of the general of the Lu State was taken away by my father!" ”

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"What!?"

As soon as these words came out, Xiao was Zeng Shen's steady temperament, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

Since Zhao Wuxian stole the state politics of Lu more than ten years ago, in order to facilitate his words, he set aside Lu Hou, set up the shogunate, appointed himself as the general of the country, and became the ruler of real power. After that, the Zhao family shifted the focus back to the Jin State, and could not let go of the Lu State, so they let the eldest son Zhao Cao take over the position of the general of the Lu State, and Zhang Meng talked about the auxiliary government. This model has been very stable for ten years, and seeing that Zhao Cao is about to become an adult in a few years, why does Zhao Hou want to deprive him of this position?

Do you want your sister-in-law or young son to do it? For Zhao Cao, this is too unfair! No wonder he was so distraught.

"Who is the general of the Nalu country?"

But Zhao Cao did not have any grievances on his face, he just said: "There is a reason for this, my father declared that Lu Guo will abolish the shogunate, cancel the post of general, and Lu Guo will no longer have a secretary, and Kan will be appointed as Lu Xiang for a term of five years, and he will be rotated at the end ......of the year."

Zeng Shen had some understanding, but there was still a question, that is, where would Zhao Hou put his eldest son? If it is just deprived and not given, it is still a bit excessive, Hugh said Zhao Cao, I am afraid that Zhao Guo and Lu Guo will also have many grievances for him.

"What about the gentleman?"

Zhao Cao smiled helplessly: "Father wants me to go to Langya." ”

It turned out that at the court meeting in the morning, Zhao Wuxian, Dong Anyu and Zhang Mengtan agreed on one thing, that is, on top of the twelfth rank of Zhao State, another high lord was added, called "Fengjun".

The feudal monarch was a minister of the Zhao State, and his status was equivalent to that of the county guard, and he could do the things of the lord in the local area, establish his own shogunate, and have relatively independent economic powers. However, its territory is also the sacred and inalienable territory of Zhao State, and Yecheng can grant the territory, or take back the territory and revoke the feudal monarch.

And Zhao Cao was named Langya Jun to govern the previous Ju State. Its territory is north to Jiegen, south to Yushan, west of Quqiu, east of the sea, with Langya as the capital, probably the former coastal area of Ju, and the hilly area west of Ju is under the jurisdiction of Lu.

In addition to Zhao Cao, there are also three feudal monarchs.

Two years ago, the conquered Huaibei land was divided into two, the west of Surabaya is Xu County, Zhao Yan is Xu Jun, its territory from Surabaya in the east, Cai Guo in the west, Pi County in the north, across Huaishui in the south, Zhongli and Shandao two fortresses are also under the jurisdiction of Xu. However, Zhao Yan is only three years old, and when he becomes an adult, he will be sealed, and there will be more than ten years. Although it was only a feudal monarch within the Zhao State and not an independent prince, it was enough to make the Xu people rejoice, because Xu Cheng fought a big defeat, and the old and young relics of the Xu State had a much lighter voice in the Zhao State.

To the east of Surabaya was Donghae County, Zhao Guangde was the Donghai Jun, and his capital was Zhongwu, who had previously contributed greatly to the military campaign to suppress Huaiyi, and also had some prestige in the local area. Naturally, like Zhao Cao, Zhao Guangde also stepped down from the ruling position of Zou and handed over the three powers.

And with the merger of the Wei State into the Zhao State, Zhao Yi was no longer the secretary of the Wei State, and the Marquis of Zhao asked him to go to Shangluo in the west to fill the military vacancy after the Han family left, because Shangluo was also called the land of Shangyu, so it was called "Shang Jun". Its territory is the narrowest, equivalent to only two counties, bordering Sanchuan County to the east, Taihua Mountain to the north, Qin to the west, and Chu to the south. However, this is also the most promising feudal monarch to expand his territory.

This is the four great feudal monarchs of Zhao State, all of whom are children of the Zhao family, because Zhao Hou legislatively announced that the feudal monarch is only awarded to the children of the same surname, and those with different surnames are feudal monarchs, and Zhao Chen will attack them together!

For Dong and Post, Zhao Hou also has a sub-seal, but they are only county monarchs, not county monarchs, post Wuzheng is sealed in Qiuyou County, Taiyuan County, Linzhong Mountain, Dong Anyu is sealed in Wudi County, Jibei County, Linyan Kingdom.

After listening to it, Zeng Shen said after a little silence: "Back then, the feudal children of the Duke of Zhou were shielded from Zhou, and today Zhao State also practices feudal things, but whether it is a feudal monarch or a county monarch, it is only arranged in the border land......"

Seeing that Zhao Cao was still worried, Zeng Shen knew what he was worried about, so he comforted him: "Gentleman, this is a happy event." “

"Where does the joy come from?" Zhao Cao was puzzled.

The secretary of the country of a thousand times, or the little feudal lord in the desolate land on the seaside, which is more important? Zhao Cao won't be unaware.

It's not that he is attached to those powers that he has never actually held, but he grew up in Qufu and has feelings for it, thinking that he will always stay in Lu country, but his father suddenly changed himself to a strange seaside, and people will be a little unhappy.

And he can't figure out his father's intentions, is this because he is dissatisfied with himself? Thinking that his personality and hobbies always failed to satisfy his father, Zhao Cao couldn't help but feel a little sad, he was actually very envious of his two younger brothers.

Zeng Shen said with a smile: "Although Shen is stupid, he can also see that this is the prelude to Zhao Hou's desire to change the country of Lu from a foreign country to a county!" In less than ten years...... No, in less than five years, the State of Lu and the State of San will inevitably be merged by the State of Zhao and razed to a county! In the name of feudalism, the practice of collecting the country, the uncle's means are really clever. Since then, the entire Central Plains has almost been connected, which is not a happy event for Zhao State? And the gentleman can also become the minister of Zhao State from a foreign minister, father and son are related, and the monarch and minister are righteous, isn't it far better than before? ”

PS: Chapter 2 in the evening (to be continued.) )