It's the winter solstice of another year.

According to the tradition of the Lu country, every winter solstice, the monarch and the secretary do not ask about national affairs, but listen to music for five days, and the people can also rest at home without production. In times of peace, there is also a celebration ceremony in the temple of the Miao Society and Zhou Gong, during the peak period, the court is on vacation for three days, the secretary does not listen to the government, the people are closed for three days, and the businessmen return to their hometowns for reunion.

But I don't know when the people of Lu have only cared about paying tribute to their dead relatives every time they have the winter solstice.

The year before last, he fought endlessly with Qi, Wei, and Zheng, the Yanghu Rebellion the year before last, the invasion of Lu by Qi last year, and the chaos caused by Confucius and Sanhuan this year......

Now, more than half a month after the battle in Qufu City has ended, the corpses in Sushui Surabaya have been cleaned up, but there are many more graves on the shore.

After the doctor's death, the coffin was doubled, the tomb was sealed with tall soil, and the surrounding area was planted with evergreen pines and cypresses in autumn and winter. After the death of the soldier, the coffin was heavy, and the sealed soil was only a few feet high, and there was a tree. After the common people died, there was no coffin, and they were buried in a straw wrapped in a poua mat, only a small grave bag with a few weeds stuck on it.

On this day, the people who wore plain clothes and linen to pay tribute to their relatives and friends began to return, but they met a convoy from the west between Susi.

There are festivals, flags, guards, and horses, which is a group of envoys who come to Lu to ask for help.

The leader is a young gentleman with red phoenix eyes, white deep clothes, looks like a crown of jade, and behaves elegantly. The young women passing by rarely saw such a handsome gentleman, and they couldn't help but be stunned, and then looked closely and frowned.

It turned out that the gentleman was in the same car as a dwarf, as small as a dwarf, and ugly as a ghost. A man with a garlic nose covered with black spots and a sharp and unpleasant voice.

It's like a flawless jade with a black and ugly stone next to it. No matter how you look at it, it feels awkward.

The short man looked disgusted by passers-by, but the gentleman with the crown and belt in the car did not. On the contrary, he was kind and pleasant, and he was polite.

"Ziju, on the winter solstice, Japan should be at home, sacrifice, and reunite with your family, but in this cold winter, I want you to accompany me to envoy Lu State, it's really ashamed."

The short-looking and ugly man hurriedly bowed: "Where is this gentleman, Duan Gui is a retainer of the Han family, and it is his duty to travel with the gentleman." ”

It turned out that the dwarf was named Duan Gui. The words are reckoning, and the "gentleman" in his mouth is the grandson of Jinqing Han, Han Hu!

While the two were chatting in the car, they did not forget to look at the style of the suburbs of the capital of Lu from afar, it had only snowed for the first time a few days ago, and the scorched earth and flesh were buried in the soil and melted into the snow, and there were no traces of war. Only the occasional cluster of mutilated arrows picked up by getting out of the car indicates that there was a fierce fight here.

"Gentleman, I think the chaos in Lu has been decided, and people are at peace." Duan Gui has been silently observing since he entered Lu. said to Han Hu.

"Where can you see the sub-moment?"

Duan Gui said: "Not to mention the peace of Xilu, it seems that there is no threat of war." Let's just say that Qufu, the center of this chaos, is still in turmoil. The hearts of the people are undecided, and I am afraid that there is no time to properly bury the corpses. Paying tribute to the deceased is something that can only be done when the living no longer worry about their own safety. ”

Han Hu pondered: "So to speak. Zhao Zitai has already controlled the situation in Qufu? In this case, we will not send charcoal on a snowy day, but only add fire to the boiling oil. ”

……

Han Hu remembered the past, which was the same as the crisis on the eve of the winter solstice three years ago. At that time, Zhao Ying had a stroke, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, at that time, the Han family did not support Zhao Wuxian, but wanted to support his nephew Zhao Bolu to take the throne, but in the end, the Zhao family turned the corner, but the Han family was not a person inside and outside.

After the winter solstice, Zhao Wuxian became a pedestrian and sent an envoy to the Song Kingdom, but he was plotted by the Fan family, Song Qing Leqi was assassinated, and Zhao Wuxian also drowned Fan's grandson in the river on impulse, causing him to be expelled from the country.

The elders of the Han family thought that since Zhao Wuxian was expelled, his life was over, and it was possible to return when Zhao Ying's seniority was ranked as a general in the Chinese army, and it was ten or twenty years later, so they were no longer at ease about it.

Fortunately, in that crisis, Han Hu happened to be in the state and county, and under the persuasion of Zigong, he gave Zhao Wuxian 200 crossbows as a favor, which was a great favor for him.

Who would have thought that only three years later, he would be able to lay such a big foundation between Lu and Song, which is really jaw-dropping.

After sweeping through Xilu and seizing the southern land of Weiguo Pu, Zhao Wuxian's forces were already on a par with the Handan clan, the small sect of the Zhao clan, almost half of the Han clan...... If Fan Ying Huangquan had knowledge, he would definitely be angry and come back to life, right?

Compared with Zhao Wuxian's rapid progress abroad in the past three years, the Jin Kingdom has been sinking day by day.

After the expulsion of Zhao Wuxian, the split situation of the six Qing dynasties became more and more intense, and sometimes Han Hu felt that he was actually in six states. The ruling Zhibo is bent on making profits for himself, the Zhao family, Fan and Zhongxing are like fire and water, and Han Wei is slightly inferior in strength and can only protect himself. Under such circumstances, the administration and diplomacy of the Jin State could not be carried out smoothly.

The evil result is that in the face of the strong pressure of the Qi State, Wei Guo and Xian Yu rebelled one after another, Yiyi fell, and the Qi people were about to seize hegemony.

At this time, it was the wanderer of the Zhao clan of the Jin State who saved the situation.

Last year's war between the Zhao clan and the Qi State can be said to have turned the tide, and the prestige of the Zhao clan, which was originally only a mid-stream strength in China, was in full swing, and the scholars rushed to it.

But the Jin State still couldn't keep up with Zhao Wuxian's rhythm, and the defeat of the Qi State was a great opportunity to regain hegemony, but the Jin State was spent in ridicule and sluggishness. This relieved the Qi state and began to exert diplomatic efforts, and in May the Lu and Qi states met in Jiagu, and the Jin people did not get the news until July. Before he could react, was he punishing Lu Guo? Or summon Lu Qing to question? The news of the civil unrest in the Song Dynasty came again.

Song Guole is Zhao's in-law, so Zhao Wuxian went non-stop.

At this time, it happened to be the critical moment when the Zhao clan of the Jin State moved their main capital to Jinyang, and they could not transfer troops south to help. Han Wei's ability was limited, and he had no idea of going on an expedition at all. The rest of the three Qings had a deep gap with Zhao Wuxian, and they were not even willing to do anything to contain Zheng and Wei.

Zheng Guoyou is a famous general who makes good use of soldiers, and even the Han clan and the Zhi clan dare not underestimate him. They don't believe it, Zhao Wuxian can really win a hundred battles?

It really made him win. By October, the dust had settled on the Song civil war. The Wu people who came from the gap did not get much benefit, leaving a few soldiers to help the Xiang clan stabilize a few cities and then hurriedly evacuated. Sicheng Le and his daughter-in-law Nanzi became the biggest winners. They are all Zhao Wuxian's in-laws and allies.

But the Jin State is embarrassed, as the nominal overlord, it was absent from this shocking event in Zhongxia from beginning to end, which has never happened since the Duke of Jin Wen!

The Marquis of Jin, who has always been "governed by the six kings, sacrificed by the widows", couldn't help it, and it was a question to invite the ruling magistrate.

At that time, Han Hu had just won the crown, and he listened to the whole process in the hall.

The Marquis of Jin said bitterly: "When the first monarch was the Duke of Wen, the state of Chu besieged the Song Dynasty, and he spoke first. Report to rescue the sick and take the power of the tyrant, so what is it? So the three armies of the Jin State were raised, and Chengpu defeated the Chu general Ziyu in a battle, and then practiced the alliance of the earth, the Son of Heaven gave his uncle, and the Jin Dynasty was hegemonic. Since then, for more than 100 years, whenever the princes are in trouble, the Jin State has no different compassion for safety. Prepare for the culprit. Not to mention, the rebellion of the prince dynasty, the rebellion of Huaxiang, and the expulsion of Lu Zhaogong, these things will be the master of the Son of Heaven and friends every time, and the Chinese generals have also personally participated in them. Why did you ignore the Song Rebellion this time? ”

Zhao Ying had just fought a small battle with Dai Rong in the north and had just returned. At this time, he also said coldly: "Twenty years ago, there was civil strife in Northern Yan, and the Marquis of Qi asked Jin to send troops to quell the Yan rebellion. Jin State Xu Zhi let Qi State do it for him this time. As a result, the Jin Kingdom lost Northern Yan forever. Now the princes have rebelled against Jin, but Song and Lu Shijin. If it weren't for the fact that my son was still thinking about the Jin State and resolutely sent troops, the Song State would now be an alliance of the Qi people! ”

Knowing that he was at a loss, he could only admit his mistake to the monarch, Zhao Ying took the opportunity to propose, seeing the rabbit and releasing the dog, it was not too late, although the situation in the Song Kingdom was peaceful, but Zheng, Wei, and Qi were not dead, and the Jin Kingdom must take action!

"Handan guards, it's better to let Handan Wu Shuai Shi attack the guards, contain the guards and Qi people from the north, and also take revenge on the defense of the country and the rebellion by the way."

Handan is a small sect of the Zhao family, although it has been out of the five suits, but the last time Zhao Ying won a big victory, the Marquis of Jin in order to encourage him, but also specially announced that Handan will always be a branch of the Zhao family, and no longer according to the rules of the fifth generation of the gentleman.

Zhao Ying asked Handan to defend it, and the Marquis of Jin did not have any loss, so he allowed it.

After Han Hu returned to the palace of the Han family, he told his grandfather Han Buxin, who was sick in bed, everything he saw today, and Han Buxin was surprised.

"No, this doesn't look like Zhao Meng's means."

……

Han Buxin has aged a lot in the past two years, he is over sixty years old, and the Han clan has always been a weak body of elegant gentlemen, unlike the Wei family's group of martial artists with developed limbs, and they began to get sick with their legs and feet as soon as they entered the winter.

The son is in Pingyang, the head of the family, and he can only let his grandson come back to assist.

He said on the couch: "Drive Handan, the disloyal dog, swallow the cunning rabbit of the country, Handan and the country will be damaged, but the Zhao family can benefit from the back, it is really a good move." However, this is not Zhao Meng's style, there must be a master behind him, and I don't know if it is Dong Anyu, or Fu Suo, or the newly acquired retainer? ”

Han Hu said: "I heard that among the high-ranking retainers of the Zhao family, there has recently been a 'Mr. Wuyou' wearing a mask and wearing black, it is said that he is from Qi, but it is actually the ...... that Zhao Qing brought back from the Lu State last time."

"What Mr. Wuyou, I guess it's Yang Hu!"

Han didn't believe in scheming, he had long been suspicious of Yang Hu's death, and he knew Zhao Ying just like he knew his own nephew and his younger brother. This tenacious Huqing has been full of ruthless tactics recently, perhaps it was suggested by this person.

Han Buxin said: "Zhao Mengchun is prosperous, his son is brave and difficult, and now there are more yang goods to help, it is like a tiger with wings!" When Ji Za visited Jin that year, he was surprised when he saw Zhao Wenzi, Han Xuanzi, and Wei Xianzi, and said that the politics of the Jin Kingdom would be attributed to the three families...... But forty years have passed, but his prophecy is far away, and the only thing that has come true is that the Zhao clan is getting stronger and stronger......"

It is said that the population and cities controlled by Zhao Wuxian in the Lu State are almost half of the Han family, can it not be impressive? Now, with the help of Song Guo's ally, the future of the Zhao family is really unimaginable......

Fortunately, fortunately, the Han family is not Fan and Bank of China, they can choose whether to be friends or enemies.

He sighed and said: "I can't revitalize the Han family, I am ashamed of the ancestors, but fortunately, the Zhao and Han families have been world friends for more than a hundred years, and now they can be said to be both prosperous and lossy, the stronger they are, the safer the Han family will be." Therefore, there must be no gaps, from now on, the position of the prince of the Zhao family, the Han family will never interfere again! ”

Han Hu was silent, although he also agreed with his grandfather's decision, but ......

"Grandfather, what about my sister? What about Bruw? ”

PS: There is one more chapter in the afternoon (to be continued.) )