In the eleventh year of the chapter of the king of Chu (478 BC), spring. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The culture of Chu is the same as that of the Central Plains, but it has its own characteristics, for example, this month, although it is "Zhou Zheng", but the name of the calendar is unique: January is called "Qu Xi", February is called "Yuan Xi", and March is called "Jing Corpse......

This year's Qu Xi, that is, the first day of spring and January, it stands to reason that the streets should be extremely deserted in this kind of annual festival. However, in the west market of Yingdu, there was a crowd of people, and it seemed that something interesting had happened, and the people of the entire Yingdu were all rushing over there.

The pattern of the cities of Chu has always been the east is noble and the west is cheap, and the east temple is the west market. The west is the place where the common people live, the place of the market, the fish and dragons are mixed, but this is also the most lively place in Yingdu and the place where the news spreads the fastest.

When the lively Chu people arrived, they saw several black-clothed officials standing in front of the stone square in the west city center, and behind them was a team of soldiers with spears and halberds......

Seeing that the people had almost gathered, the black-clothed official cleared his throat and said in a loud voice:

"Listen to the second and third sons, whoever can move this big wooden rafter to the west gate, the government will reward ten gold dollars! Look, this is the Ten Gold Battle! ”

The official asked the assistant officer next to him to bring a plate, on which were ten pieces of yellow and bright Yingzhen, he grabbed them with his hands, and then let them fall on the lacquer plate so that everyone could see clearly, and the gold wars hit each other and made a crisp and pleasant sound, which made everyone in the audience red-eyed.

Jin Zhan is the gold coinage of the Chu State, "Zhan" is a unit of monetary weight, a war is a catty (250 grams) made by Chu, which can be exchanged for ten fine cloth, or a thousand ant nose money, enough for a Chinese family for a year......

Ten gold medals is already a huge amount of money that the untouchables in Xishi can't earn in their lifetime!

The rafters were two feet high, and the calves were thick, not too heavy, and an adult could move them with a little effort. And the West Gate is half a mile away from the West Market, it seems that this requirement is very simple, but no one stands up, and there are even more lively laughter on the periphery. Isn't it true that these officials and nobles have nothing to do in their days and come to entertain the common people?

The more and more people in the city gathered, they discussed, but no one stepped forward to move the rafters, and the officials on the stone workshop were a little anxious, but the officials were still silent, and after half a moment, he gave his hand again and said: "Don't be suspicious of the second and third sons, I am the official of Zuo Yin, and today's matter is to act on the orders of Zuo Yin." ”

"Zuo Yin? Could it be Bai Gong? ”

After that, the crowd was buzzing and whispering, they may not know who Zuo Yin is, but they know that Bai Gongsheng, this is the most capable king and grandson of Chu for more than a hundred years, recovering lost territory for Chu State, and destroying the hateful Wu State, which has a high reputation among the people.

"Bai Gong's words must be believed?" Some of the elders were skeptical, it was common for the Chu State government to change its orders overnight, and after Bai Gong came to take office as Zuo Yin, he didn't do anything for more than half a year, which was completely different from the forge ahead in the east.

Gao Yu waited for a while, and then said: "In this way, if anyone can move this wood to the west gate, Zuo Yin will give fifty gold!" ”

Fifty gold! Everyone thought they had heard it wrong, and this was already a number that could make people rich overnight.

There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and no matter how many doubts there are in his heart, how to dissuade the people around him, a dog butcher with greasy hands on it happily stepped forward and responded loudly: "Let me try!" ”

Gao Yu nodded and asked him to do it, but when he saw the dog butcher bend down, the thick wooden rafters were already easily on his shoulders, and then he turned and walked towards the crowd, shouting to get out of the way.

Everyone hurriedly gave way to a passage, and then they slowly followed behind the dog butcher and those officials of Zuo Yin's Mansion, and walked towards the West Gate, not for anything else, just to see if Zuo Yin's words counted.

At this moment, not only the West Market, but also the entire Yingdu Xicheng was alarmed, and a thick human wall was formed on both sides of the street.

Unconsciously, the west gate of Yingdu has arrived, and there are already a group of black-clothed officials waiting here, and there is a high-crowned secretary on the city tower, which is Sun Sheng, the king of Zuoyin.

Seeing that the west gate was about to arrive, the dog butcher suddenly quickened his pace, strode like flying, and stopped as soon as he ran to the door, planted the wooden rafters to the ground, and then stood with the rafters in his arms, panting, staring at the amnesty who followed behind, which means: I have moved here, this fifty gold, do you give it?

All the voices disappeared, and everyone in Yingdu stared at Gao Yu with bated breath, and Gao Yu glanced at Bai Gong at the head of the city, Bai Gong nodded at him, so Gao Yu immediately asked people to hand over a whole box of gold to the dog slaughterer!

For a while, the dog slaughterer was overjoyed, and the surrounding people of Yingdu were also stunned, shocked and shocked, and regretful.

The dog butcher was not in a hurry to go, he sat cross-legged on the ground, opened the wooden box, counted the gold pieces one by one, and put them in his mouth from time to time to bite them, and looked at the color under his eyes, and when he had counted them all, he immediately bowed down to Gao Yu to thank him.

Gao Yu hurriedly avoided it, and pointed to Bai Gong at the head of the city and said, "If you want to thank Bai Gong, thank Bai Gong!" ”

"Thank you, Bai Gong!" The dog slayer bowed down to the head of the city.

"You earned the fifty gold yourself, why thank you?"

Bai Gongsheng made a gesture of hands, let him get up, his eyes swept to the dense people in the West Gate, and announced loudly: "Second and third sons, I am Sun Sheng, the king of Baigong, who is appointed as Zuo Yin in Yingdu, and leads the state affairs for the king and Ling Yin. In the past, there were many repetitions of government orders, and the people of the Republic of China did not eat meat, so the decrees could not be enforced. From today onwards, what the government says must count, and the promulgation and implementation of the new law is also a matter of today, one is one, two is two, and the order must be carried out, and there will be no deception! ”

"From today on, the state of Chu will continue to change the old system, adopt new laws, reward for merit, punish for guilt, as long as the people are diligent in farming and brave in battle, they can also have a title, and as long as they are talented, they can also start from small officials, slowly promote, and enter the court!"

"Is that true?"

Everyone had already woken up from the shock of the fifty gold swords, but for what Bai Gongsheng said, it was still like a dream in the clouds.

In the state of Chu, the nobles eat sorghum meat, the common people are as cheap as pigs and dogs, there is no punishment, there is no reward for merit, the princes and grandsons of the princes are full of courts, but people of insight are excluded to foreign countries, this is the norm......

Without the imaginary cheers and excitement, Bai Gongsheng was slightly disappointed, it seems that in Yingdu, even if he is dormant for half a year, he is destined to not be able to respond as much as in Huainan. But he also knows that the matter of changing the law cannot be achieved overnight, and he only hopes that today's amnesty and suggestion of "Ximu Lixin" can make a good start for the next reform......

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The crowd at the west gate of Yingdu gradually dispersed, and today's events will spread throughout the capital at an extremely fast speed, even Jianghan, Zuo Yin Baigong's first decree is so maverick, but it also gives people the impression that he "believes in his words".

However, at the west gate, where the street was empty, there was still a richly decorated carriage stopping, and an old man with gray hair in the carriage frowned, looked at the big log that had been placed next to the door, and fell into deep thought.

"Father, you said that Bai Gong's change can be done?" The handsome young man in the same car asked, he was the son of the old man.

"Bai Gong's move is to let those lowly commoners and poor people also have the power to climb up, sit on an equal footing with the feudal monarchs of the public family, and compete for the positions that are not much......"

The old man sighed, for him, this is an unacceptable thing, he said to the young man metaphorically: "This is like the "Yang Chun" and "White Snow" that you play on weekdays, and the music of "Xiali" and "Ba Ren" that the laymen like in the western city are mixed together, so that the music will change and the tune will be ......chaotic."

"Yang Chun" and "White Snow", according to legend, were composed by Shi Kuang, the music official of the Jin Kingdom, and later introduced to the Chu State, and was deeply loved by the upper nobles, but there were very few people in the entire court and the opposition who could play well, this old man was the husband of Ji Mi, the princess of the Chu State, Le Yin Zhongjian, even if it was him, he did not dare to claim to be skilled.

Only his son Zhong Ziqi is one of the best qin rhythm masters in the entire Chu country, playing the movement, as if he can really see the spring of all things, the meaning of the gentle wind, and hear the awe-inspiring cleanliness and the sound of snow and bamboo......

Zhong Jian now uses the qin music as a metaphor that the different classes of the Chu State must not be mixed, Zhong Ziqi thought for a while: "What my father said makes sense. ”

"There are ten days in the sky, there are ten ranks of people, the upper and lower are in order, and it is natural and righteous, how can the eater be ranked with the meat eater? Now that the king is young, Ling Yin is sick, Sima and Ye Gong are outside, and the authority has fallen into the hands of Bai Gongsheng, he is so messing around, and the country will be in chaos! ”

Zhong Jian, as a very senior elder in the office and a representative of the conservatives, was worried, so he said to his son Zhong Ziqi: "Ziqi, you will go to Zuo Yin's Mansion with me tonight, visit Bai Gong, and persuade him to stop changing the law!" Otherwise, there will be great trouble! ”

PS：

The original source of the Boyazi period is the "Liezi" of the Warring States period

Boya is good at drumming and piano, and Zhong Ziqi is good at listening. Boya drum and piano, aiming at the high mountains. Zhong Ziqi said: "Good! Majestic as Mount Tai! Aiming at flowing water, Zhong Ziqi said: "Good! It's like a river! "What Boya reads, Zhong Zi will get.

Boya swims in the yin of Mount Tai, dies in the rainstorm, stops under the rock, the heart is sad, is to help the piano and drum it. At the beginning, it was the operation of the rain, and it made the sound of the collapse of the mountain. Every time the song is played, the bell is full of fun. Boya sighed and said, "Good! Wonderful! The son listens to the husband's ambition, and imagines my heart. Where am I fleeing? ”

The age cannot be verified at all, but it can only show that the two died before Liezi, that is, at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. As for what woodcutters and the like, they are all made up by later generations through these two paragraphs, anyway, they are all made up blindly, and whoever makes it up is the same, so in July's novel, Zhong Ziqi is the son of Zhong Jian and Ji Mi!