In the attic of the restaurant called "Forget to Return", two weak-crowned teenagers sat opposite each other.

They are very close, generally speaking, they come here to be nothing more than the children of the master who want to enjoy the joy of dogs and horses, and they are all talking about the wind and moon, but if someone hears the conversation between the two, I am afraid that they will be surprised.

What the two of them were discussing turned out to be the current situation of the Song Kingdom, and even the general trend of the world!

Zhao Wuxian was already extremely familiar with the situation of the Song Kingdom, and he said: "The Song Kingdom has been five hundred years since Weizi Qi was enthroned, and has experienced more than 20 monarchs. Song is the only dukedom today, with a transcendent status, and all major alliances or conquests, except for hegemons and strong countries, the Song state is generally listed before other princes. ”

Song's strength was not weak, with thousands of military vehicles and three armies. After a long war, it destroyed the surrounding five kingdoms of Su, Yanyang, Xiao, Dai and Pengcheng, and vassalized Teng and Xue, becoming the state second only to Qi, Jin and Qin in Zhongxia, and the head of the Huaisi princes. Therefore, Zhao Wuxian's defection to the Song State is not considered to have wronged his identity.

"The reigning Song Gongluan (Song Jinggong, the character Touman) is also very kind to me, the expelled Zhao son. The reason is that at the beginning of his succession, the Song Kingdom was in drought for three years, and Taibu said: It is necessary to sacrifice ghosts and gods with living people before Yunzhongjun can rain showers. At that time, Song Gong paused and said: The reason why I begged for rain was to let people live, but now I want to kill people for the rain in turn, no! If the demons and gods must be sacrificed alive, then please condemn me! ”

Zhang Mengtan said with a smile: "It's a benevolent monarch, which coincides with Zitai's order to stop martyrdom." ”

Wu Xian said: "That's right, the Duke of Song said that I was the same benevolent person as him, so he rejected the proposal of the Song government to detain me in retaliation against the Jin State. He also agreed that I should live and come and go in the Song Kingdom at will. My uncle Zi Ming instigated me to ask the Duke of Song to be sealed in a thousand-room city and be the doctor of the Song Kingdom, and he was there to talk about it. It will be allowed. But after thinking about it, I felt that this matter was inappropriate, for the sake of the long-term. I can't stay in the Song Kingdom. ”

The reason why Zhao Wuxian was unwilling to stay in the Song Kingdom for the sake of a thousand-room city was very simple, if he had no ambitions. I just want to be a comfortable little lord. Then with the knowledge and skills of later generations, being an idle doctor in the Song Kingdom can also be rich and prosperous for a lifetime.

But like Jin Chong'er who was exiled back then, he had a bear ambition, and after breaking away from the cage of the Jin Kingdom, he couldn't wait to spread his wings and fly. However, the Song family was too strong, the monarch was benevolent and stable, and the people were loyal to the office. There is no stage for him to perform.

Gong clan is a kinship title that has a close blood relationship with the monarch. At the same time, the power distribution model "Zunzun", which was based on "kinship", gave the clan a strong political status, and then became a privileged aristocratic class.

Zhao Wuxian snapped his fingers and said: "The Song family is the strongest in the Dai and Huan clans (the descendants of Song Daigong and Song Huan Gong), the Dai clan mainly has Hua's, Huang's, Le's, Ling's and other branches, and the Huan clan mainly has Xiang's and other branches. ”

Influenced by the "Shiqing Shilu" system, the princes often controlled the state politics for generations. Nowadays, the princes of the Central Plains all have their monarchical power downward. The situation of the rise of the power of the secretary, and the formation of a situation in which the lord is weak and the minister is strong. Needless to say, the Jin State is autocratic. "Lu Ru Xiaohou, inferior to the family of Sanhuan." In Zheng Guo, "Qi Mu" is also in charge of Zheng Guo's national affairs.

However, the Song State was a bit special, and although the political struggle between the clans was fierce, the distribution of power was relatively balanced. And the Duke of Song still held greater power, and when the Dazai of the Chu State commented on the Song State, he said: "The princes are the only ones who do things in the Song Dynasty." ”

"Under the Duke of Song, there are princes serving as the six secretaries."

At the beginning of the division of the Song Kingdom, there was only one army, which was commanded by the monarch; In order to gain hegemony, Song Xianggong expanded his army into a second army before the Battle of Hongshui. Since the right division, the son of the son is "the left division to listen to the government"; After the Battle of Chengpu. Song Chenggong expanded the army into three armies.

Wuxian has long cherished the name and ethnicity of the six secretaries of the Song Kingdom: "Now, Le Daxin is the right teacher." Xiang Chao is the left division, Xiang Wei (tui) is the great Sima, my uncle Le Lu (hun, the character Ziming) succeeds the great Sicheng, the half-brother of the Song Gong Gongzi Chen is the great Situ, and the emperor is the great sikou. Generally speaking, the right division is the ruling power of the Song state. ”

Zhang Mengtan smiled bitterly: "But the right master is an anti-Jin faction, and he still has some holiday ...... with Zhao Qing."

It was the fifteenth year of the Song and Yuan Dynasty, and the ruler of the Song State and the princes met with Huang's father. At the meeting, Zhao Ying, the king of Jinqing, ordered the princes to send millet to Zhou Tianzi, who had just quelled the rebellion of the prince dynasty and had no grain, but Le Daxin did not do it, he argued: "The Song State does not lose the Su, and the Song State is a guest of the Zhou family, not a subordinate, why should he bear this responsibility?"

He was then refuted and reprimanded by Zhao Ying and Shi Jingbo, and was used by the Han family to come out of the white wolf to take away the states and counties that once belonged to Le Daxin, and Le Daxin was already full of dissatisfaction and hatred towards the Jin Kingdom.

Wuxian analyzed: "Le Daxin is an old minister of the Song and Yuan Dynasty, with strong power, he has a fief Xiaoyi, which is a big city with hundreds of thousands of households, and he is also friendly with the four younger brothers of Song Gong, and these five people have become party members. They hated the Jin Dynasty, said that the death of Lebo was committed by Fan Ying, and had nothing to do with the Marquis of Qi, and demanded to renounce the alliance with the Jin State and take refuge in the Qi State, and they once advocated that they should detain me! ”

Thinking of the difficult and embarrassing situation when he first arrived in the Song Kingdom, Zhao Wuxian also had palpitations, fortunately, he made good use of the contradictions of various forces, danced among them, and finally gained a firm foothold!

At this time, Zhao Wuxian's words paused slightly, glanced out of the window, and lowered his voice: "Zhang Zi, please look, the second largest princely power in the Song Kingdom is the brother of these two. ”

Zhang Mengtan looked over, and saw two young doctors in deep clothes and wide sleeves coming into the courtyard, and they also found a pavilion to sit down and rest and play.

"This is the Xiang brother from the Huan clan, there are five people in total, the eldest son Xiang Chao is the left master, Xiang Wei is the big Sima, and he is also the favorite minister of the Song Duke; Sima Geng, who served as the little Sima, was a disciple of Confucius; The two people over there are Ziqi and Ziche who have just crowned, and they have no duties yet, and they are friends with me, and they come to the banquet every day. ”

"These five brothers are the cronies cultivated by the Duke of Song, and they hold the military power of the public office, and their strength cannot be underestimated. The Xiang family is now powerful and prosperous, and because of the relationship between Zigong and Sima Geng, they are very friendly to me and help me gain a foothold in Shangqiu. Moreover, there is a contradiction between them and Le Daxin, the fifth prince is equivalent to the new minister of Song Gong and the old minister of the previous dynasty. ”

"Finally. It's my uncle, Le Chu Le Ziming, who succeeded Dasicheng, and Dasi Kou Huangyi. They both belong to the Dai clan. Compared with the above two, the power is smaller. However, it was the main force advocating reconciliation between the Jin and Song dynasties and reshaping the alliance. ”

After listening to this, Zhang Mengtan pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "The power of the Song Duke and the Liuqing of the Gong clan is so strong, although there are contradictions, it is not irreconcilable, not to mention that the ruling family is still close to Qi, so Zitai, as an outsider, is at most a small doctor." There is little chance of holding real power. ”

Wuxian took a sip of the wine cup and replied: "Exactly, my duty as a pedestrian has been lost, although I tried to persuade Song Gong to continue to stay in the Jin League, but he has the intention of being independent of Jin and Qi and no longer trusting any country. Staying here won't help me much to return to the Jin Kingdom, so I think I have to be the same as Jin Wengong, if one place fails. Go to other countries to look for opportunities. ”

He sincerely bowed to Zhang Mengtan and said: "Without mercy, if Zhang Zi had been by his side a few months ago, he would not have fallen to the point where he is today. But I still have no ambition. Dare to ask Zhang Zi, will Ji An come out? ”

Zhang Mengtan is best at resourcefulness and situation, and after he bowed to Zhao Wuxian slightly, he trayed out the words he thought along the way.

"King Wu and Duke Zhou divided more than 100 princes, and the initial feudal territory was not large, the big one was more than 100 miles away, and the small one was 50 miles away. Since King Youwang was killed in Lishan, King Ping moved east to Luoyi. It has been nearly three hundred years. After that, the princes bullied the weak with the strong, and they did not need to ask the Son of Heaven for the use of the army. The Lile expeditions were all from Hou Bo, so the hegemony flourished. There are only a few countries destroyed, and now there are only dozens of states left. ”

He dipped his finger in the wine and drew a map of the situation in the world on the black desk.

Zhao Wuxian pondered: "After the death of Duke Xiang of Jin, the reason why Zhao Xuanzi did not agree to establish Gongzi Le as the heir was that he, as the son of the first monarch, could not be protected by a big country, but stayed in a small country, which shows that he is very unproductive. ”

"It's the same with me, now Jin relies on the danger of the three rivers, Qi is backed by the East China Sea, Chu is entrenched between the Great River and Huai Han, Qin is in Yongzhou, and Wu is rising in the south. They rose in all directions of the Zhou Room for the top five in the world! Aside from the Jin Kingdom, should I choose the other four great powers to defect? Zhang Zi thinks, what about Wu and Chu? ”

Zhang Mengtan shook his head and said: "No, after the rebellion of the Chu State from the Chu Zhuang Wang Ping Dou clan, most of the positions of Yin and Sima were held by princes and princes, and they never fell into the hands of outsiders. What's more, the king of Chu was cruel to the scholars, and the state of Chu could not use it, let alone from other countries? Aren't Wu Hao and Bo Shi innocently killed, and Wu Zixu and Bo Yao not expelled, so they can't go. ”

"The state of Wu is strong, and foreign scholars such as Wu Zixu, Sun Wu, and Bo Yao are easy to be reused, but they are too far away from the Jin country, and they can't return in time if something happens. Let me make an analogy, when Jin Huigong and Jin Wengong were in exile because of Li Ji, one of them chose Liang Guo, which was close to Jin, and the other chose Bai Di, who was farther away, and in the end, it was Jin Huigong who returned to China first to succeed to the throne. Therefore, Wu Chu is not advisable. ”

Zhao Wuxian bowed his head and continued to ask: "So, do you want to choose the Qin State and the Qi State?" They and Jin are neighbors, historically, Jin Huigong, Jin Wengong, Fan Wenzi, and Fan Ying all returned to China after arriving in Qin first, and Luan Ying also returned to China with the help of Qi Zhuang Gong. ”

Zhang Mengtan shook his head and said: "Although the Qi State and the Qin State are closer to the Jin State, they are now the enemy countries of the Jin, and after Zitai goes, he can only choose two paths." The first is to learn from Fan Wenzi, assist Qin and Qi, create big trouble for the Jin Kingdom, and force Zhibo to recall you; The second is to learn from Luan Ying, with the help of the power of the enemy country, risk returning to China to fight with Fan, the Bank of China, and even the Zhuqing and the people, and be a sword in the hands of others, which is not only dangerous, but also difficult to succeed. ”

Zhao Wuxian looked at the map drawn by Zhang Mengtan on the desk and said, "That's right, and I don't want to embarrass my father, and I don't want to be an enemy of the Zhao family." Since these four powerful countries have been excluded by Zhang Zi, and only small and medium-sized states remain, you must have thought about where to go for me in your heart, so don't hang my appetite anymore, please speak up. ”

Zhang Mengtan seemed to be incarnated as a lupine scarf strategist at this moment, he got up and said: "Zheng Guo is also the enemy country of Jin, and the Si clan in the Seven Mu is in power, and the authority has never fallen into the hands of non-public clans. At that time, the prince of Chu was exiled to Zheng State as a doctor, and tried in vain to plot against Zheng, but he was killed by Zheng people and could not go. ”

"The princes of Sishang such as Cao, Di, Ju, Xue, Teng, etc. are too young, and if they go, they will only wronged their own identities."

"Patriotic ...... Although Wei Hou is mediocre on the surface, he can also play the domestic doctors around, and it is too close to the Jin State, it is the front line of the Jin and Qi conflicts, and it is easy to be affected by the war. ”

As for the Zhou room, which had just pacified the civil strife, neither of them mentioned it, so they didn't think there was such a thing; Beiyan lived in a corner in the Spring and Autumn Period, rarely participated in the alliance of princes, and went to watch the snow count sheep.

At this point, in Zhang Mengtan's mind, the state that Zhao Wuxian should go to the most has also come to light.

Zhao Wuxian's eyes were bright, his hands were clenched into fists, and he knocked heavily on the northeast of Huaisi and south of the Taiyi Mountains on the case, and gave the answer for Zhang Mengtan.

"Lu Guo!"

He took out a silk book from his sleeve and said to Zhang Mengtan: "Don't hide it from Zhang Zi, Yanghu is now trying to replace the Ji family, so he summons heroes from all over the world, this is a letter he gave me, inviting me to go to Lu State to be his henchman, maybe promise a thousand rooms!" ”

Zhang Meng talked about the head of the chin and said: "Ten years ago, this country was still the dictatorship of Sanhuan, but now it is an axe and a rebellious one, accompanying the minister Yang Hu to hold the country's life. In this unstable and turbulent country, the old princely authority has collapsed, but the new power has not been established, which is a good place for Zitai to exert himself! ”

If Wu Xian remembers correctly, in the past few years, there will be earth-shaking political turmoil in the Lu State, so that Kong Qiu, a scholar with no background, can become a great priest and take charge of the country's life.

Isn't this the best stage for careerists to seek power and watch the fire from across the strait? (To be continued)

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