PS: This book is full of 1 million words, and the fattened children's shoes can be slaughtered!

In the past two days, Kan Yizai, who usually fishes for oil and water in the sacrificial incense, has privately handed over a lot of benefits to Zhao Wuxian, in order to excuse him for the crime of bereaving his teacher and being besieged.

On the other hand, probably because of the ferocity of the robbers, they almost broke through the city before, and now the thieves are fleeing, although there is no danger for the time being, but who knows if they will come next month or next year? Looking at the country of Lu, the one who has the strength and courage to rescue is Zhao Wuxian across the day, for the sake of his life, how can he not make friends with his heart?

That's why he made such a move, and today he went one step further, wanting to take his son as a hostage and secretly surrender.

Zhao Wuxian began to think quickly.

The geographical location of Kancheng is not critical in terms of the interior of the Lu State, but if you stand in the perspective of the entire "Great East" area, that is, the area of Haidai and Huaibei, here to the east and south can lead to the small countries of Sishang, Teng, Xue, etc., and can also communicate with the Song State, which is a place where soldiers must fight.

But the political status of this place is more prominent, he is the spiritual center of the Lu State, so he can't be taken by force on the surface, but he can support a ruler close to him in the same way as he treats Zhongdu.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Wuxian agreed.

"What do you want, what do you call a little gentleman?"

The young man replied in a crisp voice: "Si Kou, the kid only won the crown a few days ago, and the word is my ......."

"Son me? Good word. ”

Zhao Wuxian thought, but this person's words are exactly the same as those taken by Zai Yu, which is really a coincidence.

He smiled kindly, "Good! Lose in hake, but gain in herring. Although this time I lost a thief. But I got a young talent, and I was the same age as my son. In the future, even if there is a difference between superiors and subordinates, don't lose the friendship of friends. You don't have to be too inhibited. ”

Having said that, but Kan Zhi? This name Zhao Wuxian had never heard of in his previous life. Accept it for the time being, as for how much ability you have, whether you can throw it into an idle job in the future and wait for death, or if you are lucky enough to pick up a person and entrust it with a heavy responsibility, it depends on the actual performance of this person.

……

The next day, Zhao Wuxian, accompanied by Xiao Zongbo and Kan Zhi, went to the mausoleum of the Nine Princes of Lu to pay respects, and at the same time worshiped the ancestors outside the temple.

The time of the pre-Qin period. Chinese must pray to their ancestors in everything, and it is better to pray in the temple than directly to the tomb, in order to more easily identify the location of the ancestors' tombs, they build mounds or plant trees on top of the tombs as signs. For ordinary people, this mound is called a tomb, and for the emperor and princes, this is the sealed soil.

The sealed soil of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period is generally rammed with earth and stone on the top of the tomb, making it a square cone with a small top and a large bottom, like an upside-down bucket. Because the upper part of it is square and flat-topped, there is no sharp part, so it is called "square up", also called "covered bucket".

"Zhou Li" cloud: Take the Jue as the degree of sealing the mound, and the number of trees. That is to say, the size and height of the enclosure are determined according to the rank of the knighthood and the rank of duty. There is also the type and number of trees planted on it.

The elderly sacrificial official Xiao Zongbo said to Zhao Wuxian: "The tomb of the Son of Heaven is three feet high (one hundred feet in the Zhou Dynasty), and the trees are pine; Half of the princes, the tree is cypress; The doctor is eight feet. Tree to Luan; The tree is four feet, and the tree is acacia; There are no graves. Trees to raise willows. ”

The state of Lu is a prince, so the fiefdom should be twelve feet high. It is equivalent to three meters in later generations, so it does not look particularly tall, and there is no trace of the nine pyramid-like grand mounds that Zhao Wuxian imagined before, and the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang that Zhao Wuxian climbed in later generations, there are still more than 100 meters high after the erosion of wind and rain for 2,000 years.

Xiao Zongbo has another responsibility, that is: "Distinguish the temple and the secret." ”

This sacrificial official has the characteristics of the Lu people, that is, he always likes to show off his knowledge of etiquette: "Si Kou should know that the husband sacrifice has Zhao Mu, Zhao Mu, so don't father and son, far and near, elder and younger, intimate and alien order and there is no chaos." The mausoleum has its own rules, since the ancestor, the father is Zhao, and the son is Mu. ”

That is to say, the tomb of the ancestor is sealed in the center, and the following descendants are arranged in two columns on the left and right, with Zhao on the left and Mu on the right.

For example, the ancestor of Kan Ling, Lu Huan Gong, is in the middle, his son Lu Zhuang Gong is Zhao, and Lu Zhuang Gong's son Lu Zhuang Gong is Mu; Duke Wen, the son of Duke Wen, is also Zhao, and Duke Xuan, the son of Duke Wen, is also Mu...... In this way, in the arrangement of Zhaomu, the father and son are always in different columns, and the grandparents are always in the same column. When sacrificing, it is also necessary to arrange the order according to such regulations, Zhao Wuxian is not a prince of Lu, or even a Ji surname of the same clan, so he can only sacrifice it with the gift of a minister.

However, after going around in a circle, Zhao Wuxian found that the Lu State, which claimed to have inherited the most complete Zhou rites, still had an example of violation in this kind of "national event".

Zhao Wuxian turned around and asked: "The location of the tomb of Duke Min is neither Zhao nor Mu, he is the son of Duke Zhuang and the grandson of Duke Xu, who was established by Qing's father, because the successor monarch of Lu has nothing to do with him, so he deviated from the Zhaomu sequence, I can understand this." But why is the mausoleum of the ancestor Zhaogong like this, and what is going on? Can Xiao Zongbo explain one or two? ”

It turned out that the burial place that was supposed to be Lu Zhaogong was vacant, and his sealed mound was moved to the south of the tomb of the first prince of Lu Guo, which was not normal no matter how you looked at it.

Xiao Zongbo, who was still talking eloquently, suddenly became dumbfounded, and stopped talking.

But Kan Zhi, who had been listening silently along the way, took over the conversation: "Si Kou doesn't know, Zhaogong's mausoleum was built by Ji Pingzi, he and Zhaogong hated each other, the two once fought each other, and Zhaogong swore not to stop if he didn't kill Ji." In the end, Zhao Gong failed and was expelled from the Lu State, he went into exile in Qi and Jin, and finally died outside, and he did not forgive Ji Pingzi until he died. Ji Pingzi also hated it, so he deliberately destroyed the Zhaomu system when Zhaogong was buried, so that Zhaogong could not be buried with the ancestor to vent his personal anger......"

Zhao Wuxian didn't say anything, but Xiao Zongbo was angry: "I can't hide evil for the ancestors and the old ruler, what kind of system is this, it's simply not a son of man!" ”

It turned out that his position as a junior uncle was obtained because of Ji Pingzi, so it was natural for him to cover up his inconsistencies.

Kan Zhi did not admit his mistakes like ordinary Lu Guo boys, but retorted: "I heard that the gentleman does not favor the mistakes of others, Ji Pingzi did not do the right thing, does Xiao Zongbo want to protect his mistakes when Si Kou asks?" ”

So, after the old and the young left the mausoleum, they quarreled, and while arguing, Kan Zhi also peeked at Zhao Wuxian's reaction.

Wu Xian stopped them with a smile, and criticized Kan Zhi with a speech, saying that he did not respect the elderly, but there was no substantial punishment.

Zhao Wuxian has several young and half-grown teenagers, different from Xing Ao, who followed Zigong in Taoqiu, and different from Gongxi Chi's shy and knowledgeable manners, Kan Zhi's desire to express himself is relatively strong. He just argued with Xiao Zongbo regardless of his identity, and in Zhao Wuxian's mind, he probably wanted to show his uniqueness in front of the new lord.

He is a smart person, but he is also a naïve person, a person who is easy to cause trouble.

"Wise and discerning and close to the dead, good at talking; Those who are broad and dangerous are also evil. He who is the son of man does not have himself, and he who is a servant does not have himself. ”

Zhao Wuxian couldn't help but think of this quote from Lao Tzu by Confucius in the Liuxia Ji Courtyard, and he now felt that Kan Zhi was extremely suitable for this statement. But his usual employment criterion is that as long as the defective person is placed in the right place, he can also give full play to his talents, and after returning to the West, he can let Kan Zhi try to be a supervisor-type official.

Although it caused a small quarrel, this worship, Zhao Wuxian still did enough to be the model of the courtiers of the Lu State, and was full of praise from the crown and belt clans in the city.

"If you get on the horse, you will be a brave commander, and if you get off the horse, you will be a gentleman of etiquette." This is the reputation he received from a scholar.

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As mentioned before, Kan Cheng's political status is extremely important and sensitive, so when Lu Hou and Ji's Meng clan heard that the tomb of the ancestor was fine, they breathed a sigh of relief and did not want Zhao Wuxian to stay for a long time. In the reply slip, he praised his merits this time, promised that all the requirements in the good news would be agreed, and he would also investigate the sin of the surrounding provinces for not sending troops to help, and tactfully reminded him that he could go back to the new fiefdom to have a look.

Seeing that the soldiers had finished resting, Wuxian was in good spirits again, and after receiving Lu Cheng's response, he began to walk to Zhongdu with the whole army, and then turned west to Yuncheng.

In mid-October, at the roughly renovated outer Guo of Zhongdu, he saw Zai Yu with a group of officials and Confucian brothers coming to greet him.

Holding on to the car rail, Zhao Wuxian suddenly mischievously thought, if he shouted "son me" in front of Zai Yu and Kan Zhi, the two people who hit the word, who would agree first?

But when he got closer, he found that Zai Yu's face was a little gloomy, and at the same time, he didn't see Zilu in the crowd who threatened to be the first to greet him here after the triumphant victory.

Will Zilu lie, will he not be trustworthy?

Even the Yanghu rebels scoffed at this possibility......

With Zhao Wuxian's understanding of this light chivalrous Confucian warrior, even if it was snowing heavily, he was waiting here with a long sword in his hand, smiling and asking about the details of the battle.

He must have encountered something big, and he could only break his promise.

So Zhao Wuxian warmly invited Zai Yu to go with him in the car, and when the agent's Zhongdu Zai got into the car, he turned his head and asked quietly: "What's wrong, why don't you see Zilu?" ”

Zai Yu wiped the sweat on his cheeks and said, "So that Si Kou knows that Zilu is not in the city, and he and Ziyuan accompanied the master on a long trip yesterday." ”

It's true that Confucius likes to travel around in a car, but his injuries are not all healed, and Zhongdu is also in ruins, so he actually went out? Zhao Wuxian suddenly smelled something wrong.

"Where did Confucius go!" He asked hurriedly.

The articulate Zai Yu was a little stammering and flustered at the moment: "Si Kou, I didn't expect that the master would really go to Feiyi after receiving the call of the traitor Gongshan Buhuo!" (To be continued......)

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