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Back then, Zhou Huan Gong once said: "I Zhou moved eastward, Jin Zheng Yanyi, Zheng Xianjun Wu Gong and Jin Wen Hou worked together, Hu Zhou room, and assisted King Ping......"

It can be said that the Zhou family was able to gain a foothold in the East, to a large extent, it was realized by relying on Jin and Zheng as the two pillars, and later Zhou Zheng turned his face, and Zhou Tianzi only had the powerful Jin State to rely on.

The prince led the Rong people to invade the Zhou capital, and the king of Zhou Xiang ran out, seeing that the city of the king of Zhou would be reduced to a land of thorns, thanks to the king of Jin Wen, the prince was captured and killed, and the rebellion of the prince belt that lasted for more than 20 years finally subsided.

What's more serious is the rebellion of the prince dynasty, if it weren't for the Jin State to send the secretary and the commander to help, I am afraid that now it occupies Chengzhou, and it should be the prince belt wearing the crown of the Son of Heaven. After the chaos, the Zhou family was in ruins, and the Jin State also tried its best to organize several alliances, calling on the princes of the world to have money and contribute powerfully, at least not to let the royal family lose face.

Although this is the obligation that the overlord should fulfill in the alliance of practicing the land, although the ministers and doctors of the Jin State have not less insulted the royal family and forcibly occupied the land, but Zhou Tianzi still has a little gratitude to the Jin State, and hopes that this relationship can be maintained forever - unlike the precautions and constraints of Qi Huan Gong back then, Jin Naiji's surname has not replaced the heart of the Zhou family, and it is a strong reinforcement worthy of dependence.

However, to this day, the Zhou Chamber is still surviving, and the Jin Kingdom will no longer exist......

Zhao Wuxian's disposition of Jin Houji was to let him sacrifice his land, and then rush back to Quwo's hometown and live in a secluded town, although he retained his name and community, but what is the difference between this and the death of the country?

Therefore, the Son of Heaven and Liu Dan Ergong have mixed feelings, but they can't change this fact, the royal family is already a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and it is difficult to protect itself, so they can only do it according to Zhao's wishes, hoping that Zhao Qing can continue to assume the role of the Jin State afterwards, support the Zhou family, and maintain order......

In this expectation, the Zhao family's listing as a prince has also entered the next stage: agreeing on the country name and title.

In this matter, although the royal family wants to take care of it as much as the princes at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, and decided to hand it over to the feudal princes again, and must accept it unconditionally, but a sad reality is that the royal family can't interfere in this at all, and everything has to be decided by Zhao Qing, who is in Wen County......

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At the end of November, light snow fell again in Hanoi County, which covered the banks of the river like catkins.

With the Han family giving up the state, Yewang and other places, Hanoi County has been completely connected, and the transportation from Yecheng to Wendi is also much easier, so this winter, Zhao Wuxian basically spent time in Wen County with his wife.

There is the ancestral temple of the Zhao family, you can worship and clean it in person, and you can also communicate with the Zhou room on the other side of the river as soon as possible, forcing them to agree to what Zhao Wuxian wants.

On this day, Xiaoxue Chuji, a plum forest in Wen County - because Ji Huan had lived here for a long time, she loved flowers and trees, so Zhao's palace not only has peach blossoms, but also other trees and flowers. There are not many plum trees, only the shore is sparse and sparse from the hundreds, at this time the snow presses the branches, the bright red plum blossoms are waiting to be released in the branches facing the severe cold, which makes people look forward to the spirit.

In the small pavilion by the plum forest, there are four or five waiters, waiting in a circle, and there are two people, an old man and a strong man, sitting on both sides of the case, wearing thick fur clothes, sitting in the pavilion drinking and watching the plums.

The weather was cold, and Zhao Wuxian couldn't help but tighten his clothes, exhaled a breath of white air and said: "The winter is scorching, and the wind is blowing." The people are not grainy, what harm do I have alone? There are Jiahui in the mountains, Hou Li and Hou Mei. Waste is a thief, I don't know how it is...... Although it is said that next year's spring wheat should be able to have a good harvest, but this snow has also made it more difficult for Hedong to provide relief, in addition to food, it is also necessary to provide a large number of winter clothes. ”

"Under the rule of the sovereign, it is better than under the rule of the Marquis of Jin and the Wei family." Dong Anyu's silver hair on his head is a few points whiter than the snow on the ground, and his body is much older than a few years ago, he has stayed in Taiyuan for more than ten years, and developed the bitter cold land into the Central Plains of the Northern Kingdom.

Besides, the glory of the Zhao family and the listing of princes is also the long-cherished wish of this old man for many years, and Zhao Wuxian hopes to join hands with him to witness this scene.

After sighing about the falling snow and winter plums, the conversation between the two began to get to the point.

"The country name will be 'Zhao Guo'." Zhao Wuxian got straight to the point.

"It couldn't be better." Dong Anyu was very pleased, as an old minister of the Three Dynasties, he had a deep affection for this clan name.

And the meaning of the word Zhao is not bad, Dong Anyu also studied this, he said: "Zhao, there is the righteousness of speed, super-soaring." When Shao Hao was a famous official with a bird, all the clans under him also took the bird as the family emblem, the Xuanniao clan, the division also, the Bo Zhao clan, the division to the person, the Zhao family, should be the Xuanniao clan, and held the position of the division in Shaohao's state...... The 'Xiao' in the word should mean the Xuanniao, and enshrined on the god on the right, and the left is a fast-moving human figure to show the clan function, after all, whether it is Fei Chang, Zhongyan, or Ji Sheng, Zhao Zaofu, they are all the emperors who drive for Emperor Yin Zhou......"

Zhao Wuxian's head, the name of the country of the Zhou Dynasty, or with a fief or a clan name, "Zhao" meets the specifications, not to mention that this word has a long history and meaning, so he decided to continue to use it.

In addition, although his name is "Dai Jin", in fact, the Jin Kingdom has no entity, and the name of Sheji will still continue in Quwo Town, and he will take the name of Jin and put it on his head, which is not right, and he is like an unsightly thief.

"I'm not a thief, I'm a thief who occupies the dove's nest." Zhao Wuxian laughed, Dong Anyu also laughed, and the laughter of the two echoed in the plum blossom forest.

Zhao Guo...... Zhao Guo...... "After laughing enough, Dong Anyu read the future country name, and for a while the old minister was inexplicably excited.

He trembled and bowed down to the side of the temple and said, "Xianjun Wuzi, have you seen it?" The ups and downs of the Zhao family, from the princes to the vassals of the emperor, to be sealed in Zhao City, for the doctor, and then it took hundreds of years, and finally achieved the position of the secretary of the great country, and now, the Zhao family will be listed as the princes, the establishment of the Zhao State, the descendants of such a light lintel, the ancestors of the Zhao family can rest in peace! ”

The wind blew from the river, rolling up the remnants of snow and red plums, making a crack in the thick clouds over Wenxian, and the sun shone down, as if Zhao Ying was laughing......

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At the same time that Zhao Wuxian made the decision to set the national name, in the hall of Wen County, his retainers were also expressing their opinions and discussing the issue of titles.

With the Zhao family listed as a prince, the retainers will also rise to the top and add officials to the knighthood, so they are all very happy, and the opposition within the Zhao family is weak.

However, even among the supporters, there are huge differences, and they have been arguing for several days on the issue of titles alone, mainly arguing whether Zhao Guo should be a prince or a marquis.

"The fifth-class lords of the princes in the world, dukes, marquis, uncles, sons, and males, the dukes are the most expensive, and the lord should be the duke!" This is to persuade Zhao Wuxian to be the vanguard of the princes Shi Qi is talking, this incident he can say that he has made great contributions, first led the Tongluo Palace Change, killed the prince of the Jin State, scared the Marquis of Jin Wu to commit suicide, so that the Jin State Office weakened to the extreme, and then went to the court to forge auspicious rui, and dug out two tripods as evidence that the Zhao family should be listed with Qin, and now, he strongly advocates that the Zhao family should be called the prince.

Zixia and the Confucian disciples Zai Yu, who were familiar with the etiquette system, sneered at this barbarian of Chu who did not understand the rules: "The three princes of the Son of Heaven are called dukes, the king is called duke, the rest of the big countries are called marquis, the subordinate states of Jinai are called uncles, the barbarian kings are called sons, the small countries are Cai, and the kings of Wei are called men. ”

According to the Zhou ceremony, the public is an honorific title, and those who are not noble cannot be added. At that time, the core area of Zong Zhou was between Ho and Luo, which was for Wang Ji, and the land in Ji was given to relatives and nobles with the same surname, and these people were also Wang Shi, so they could be called dukes - for example, Duke Zhou, Duke Zhao, Duke Bi, Duke Yu, Duke Yu, etc. There is also the "two kings and three kes" after the kings of the previous dynasty, the most famous is the Yin descendant Song Gong, in addition to the Xia descendant Qi Gong (姒 surname), the former's title has continued to this day, and the latter was cut off because of the use of Yi Li.

Of course, more princes were sealed in distant territories outside of Ji, playing the role of "shielding the royal family", these princes because most of them were military feudal, like the scouts of the Son of Heaven, so they were called "Hou", but when they died, they could also be posthumously called "Gong" to show favor. Therefore, the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period, regardless of the size of the country and the level of their titles, often called them all dukes after death, such as the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Wen of Jin, the Duke of Lu Huan, etc.

The title of the duke is the highest, and the lower one is the earl. Different from the title of the overlord "Bo Chang", it is a kind of feudal state in Jin, and in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Cao, Wu, Zheng and other states were named uncles, and later Wu Guo Cao Guo Zheng Guo moved to outside Wang Ji, but still continued the name of Bo. Qin is also regarded as a feudal uncle of Jinai, but with the eastward migration of the royal family, it gradually developed into a large country in the west, in addition to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there are also Yuan Bo, Mao Bo and other Inner Bo, Bo is lower than the prince.

As for the sub-country, it is generally used for the barbarian country that is different from Zhuxia, Chuzi, Yizi, Juzi, etc., and the male country is very rare, only a few such as Xu Guo and Su Guo, which have all died out now......

In the eyes of Zixia and the disciples of Confucius, if the Zhao family wants to be truly listed as a prince, they should not reach out and ask for any title they want like a barbarian, but should follow certain rules, otherwise they will be like nouveau riche in the countryside, which will make people laugh.

Zhao Wuxian thought about it again and again, and finally accepted the opinions of Zixia and others.

"Zhao Guo should be the Hou State, Hou Wei Northern Xinjiang, Xiongzhen Yongji, shield the royal family from the invasion of Rong Di!"

However, when his wife Le Lingzi asked, Zhao Wuxian confided the truth:

"Zhao Gong didn't have Zhao Hou to speak, and then ......"

He smiled disapprehantly: "Whether it is a duke or a marquis, it is just a temporary title, why care too much?" ”

Compared with these names, what Zhao Wuxian really cares about is the attitude of another secretary of the Jin State towards him as a prince, whether he refuses to surrender, makes Zhao Wuxian lose face, provokes conquest, or obediently bows his head in exchange for more benefits, the life and death of the Han family are all in Han Hu's thoughts!

ps: On the issue of the title of the Zhou Dynasty, refer to Chen Enlin's "The Fifth Rank of the Princes of the Zhou Dynasty as Seen in the Literature of the Pre-Qin and Han Dynasties", which is the article that explains these issues most clearly. There are two more shifts in the evening (to be continued.) )