The master of the Lu State directly belongs to the Earl of Dazong, and the lord is the next doctor. The duty of the master is to "assist the Zongbo", display the sacrificial position and sacrifice, inspect the dishes on display, advise and assist the ministers in performing the small rituals of the sacrifice, and punish those who neglect the rituals.

Last November, Confucius was promoted to the rank of Master because of his humble background and his lack of popularity in the clan office, which was largely made up of princes. When he had nothing to do, he took the young people in the country to learn etiquette, and for this reason he accepted many disciples, and when the princes and doctors died, they had to run to preside over the funeral, and his power and prestige have not improved much.

It wasn't until a diplomatic engagement from a neighboring country that Confucius became famous!

I also heard about Zhao Wuxian at that time, and for this reason, he also collected a lot of history and information about the State of Yi, after all, it is only more than 100 miles away from Kanyi of Lu State, and maybe in the near future, it will become Zhao Wuxian's neighbor.

The country of Yi was originally the ancient country of Xia Shang, surnamed Cao, from the Zhurong tribe of the Central Plains, and the ancestor traced back to the Lu Zhong clan. Zhu Rongneng "shows the light of heaven and earth", so most of his descendants are Roujia Caishi, and they were very prosperous in the Xia Shang period. His surname is Hou Bo of Xia, and Dapeng and Fengwei are Hou Bo of Yin Shang, which is equivalent to the status of Qi and Lu in the Zhou Dynasty.

However, in the Zhou Dynasty, most of the descendants of Zhurong with the eight surnames who were different from the Zhou system were weakened and perished, except for the Chu State with the surname Mi rising again in the south, only the two Dongyi states with the surname Cao and Ji surnamed Ju were left north of the Huai River. In Shandong, they are the second only country after Qi and Lu, and the best among the small countries in Sishang.

The totem of the country is the spider, and the capital of the Duke of Wen is in Zoucheng, so it is also called the country of Zou.

Yi and Lu are both long-term enemies. It was also influenced by the culture of Lu and came to later generations. It even became a circle called "Zou Lu Culture", and Mencius was also a Zou person.

But in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The state of Yi has always been regarded as a foreign race, and when it came to the Duke of Qi Huan, because of the help of Qi to fight for hegemony, it was recognized by the Zhou royal family and named "Yi Zi". Its land is surrounded by Lu on three sides, so "the sound of the strike is also heard". The southern part is adjacent to Xiao Yi and Teng, and the population is similar to that of Cao, with about 300,000 troops, but it is claimed to have 600 times the strength of Lu, which is two-thirds of Lu's.

The Lu army was placed in the princes of the Central Plains and often played the role of fish belly. However, its national strength is stronger than that of Yi and Ju, and it is the head of the Hou State adhering to the Zhou rites, and its international status is higher. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jun Yi went to Lu many times to form an alliance to meet with him, hoping to get better with Lu. However, these "Dongyi" were precisely the main direction of the Lu people's territorial expansion, so they often used the excuse of "cutting Yi" to increase their troops. In a short period of more than 200 years, the Lu State invaded the State of Yi more than a dozen times, and successively seized a large amount of land and population of the State of Lu.

The defensive war against Lu was first won and lost, and then it showed a trend of collapse. As early as the time of mourning for the Duke of Lu, there were several cases of the doctor of the State of Yi defecting to the State of Lu with the leader, and the same was true of the Duke of Yizhuang.

The decline of the country is even more disparity with the power of the Lu State. Seeing that the Lu people could not be defeated in a head-on battle, they could only often intersect with the powerful countries of the time, such as Jin, Qi, Chu, and Wu, to seek protection. So that the state of Lu could not easily annex them. For example, more than 20 years ago, at the Pingqiu meeting where the princes of Jin Pinggong were summoned. The State of Yi once united with the State of Ju to complain: "Lu Dynasty attacked me every day, and I almost died." I don't pay tribute to the lord of the alliance, and Lu is also the reason. A handful of snot and a handful of tears complained to the Jin people.

Although the Jin State intended to maintain the international order, after all, the hegemony gradually declined, and the whip was beyond the reach, and the imprisonment of Ji Pingzi did not have much effect. Therefore, under the continuous pressure of Lu, the state of Yi could only pay tribute to seek peace, so as to survive.

Zhao Wuxian couldn't help but laugh after learning the specific situation, Lu Guo was bullied by Jin, Qi, and Chu all day long, and their sense of superiority was also found in these small countries.

So in the spring of this year, Di Guo sent people to the court to hire, and at the same time gave Confucius an opportunity to brush up his prestige.

The origin of this incident is a miraculous funeral a few years agoAbout that incident, Kan Zhi's Kan City is relatively close to the country of Yi, so he knows very clearly, at that time he couldn't help but laugh and told Zhao Wuxian these jokes about these "Yi people".

"Gong Yi Zhuang died a few years ago, and his death was peculiar. It is said that once, Zhuang Gong had a banquet with Yi Shugu, the doctor of the State of Yi. During this period, Yi Shooting Gu came out to relieve himself, and the guards begged him for wine and meat to eat, but he was chased and beaten by the drunken Yi doctor with a small stick, and the two had a grudge. After a while, it was the turn of Duke Zhuang to go for a walk in the courtyard to sober up, and when the people saw that the king had come out, they knew that he was anxious and clean, so they deliberately wet the courtyard, and told Zhuang Gong that this was 'Yi Shooting Gu Xuanyan'......"

Wuxian almost squirted out the slurry water in his mouth, what the man meant by this was that the water stains in the courtyard were soiled by the doctor, and the doctor was also unlucky to be deducted such a black hat.

Kan Zhi said: "Gong Zhuang is anxious and clean, how can he tolerate this kind of thing, so he ordered to arrest Yi Shugu, but he didn't catch it for a long time. Gong Zhuang was even more furious, and when he returned to the dormitory, he sat down on the couch by himself, and because he sat too heavy, he probably rolled on the sidelines, and accidentally fell into the charcoal stove by the couch and burned, and soon died because of the festering of the burned skin. After his death, he was buried with a funeral ceremony, buried with five cars, and five people were martyred, and the prince of Yiguo, who was still a boy, was able to succeed to the throne......"

This is actually a national funeral caused by open defecation, it seems that Gong Zhuang is a person with a violent temperament and a heavy habit of cleanliness, and can be included in the top three of the strange death laws of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the death of Jin Jinggong has to fight.

When Di Ziyi succeeded to the throne, he was still young, and he couldn't even wear the Xuanyi of the crown ceremony, so he could only be regent by the Qing doctor, and he stayed until this spring, when he was already about the same size as the shirtless before he was ready to wear the crown.

He attached great importance to this, so he sent a doctor to ask Lu Guo, a master of playing with etiquette, for advice, and he didn't look for anyone else, but found the new "wanton master" Confucius through Meng, and asked about the etiquette of holding the crown ceremony.

At that time, in the Zongbo Office of the Gonggong Palace, in front of a group of ceremonial officials, Kong Qiu talked eloquently, and asked his disciples to practice this etiquette together, which taught the people of the country a good lesson.

"The crown ceremony of the prince is the same as that of the crown prince of the king, and when he is crowned, he must stand on the east steps in front of the lobby, and then stand in the guest seat and toast to the lowly person to show that he has become the king of the country in his father's place. The cloth crown, leather and knight were crowned three times. Each time it is more and more honorable, it is to encourage him to achieve something. From then on, he can be in charge of the government as the crown. ”

First, the people of the country nodded when they heard this, and then the people of the Zongbo Department were also convinced by Kongqiu. When it comes to playing with gifts, he is really impeccable.

Confucius later commented: "Even the eldest son of the Son of Heaven is no different from the common people in the connotation of the crown ceremony." Because there is no one in the world who is born noble, but who is honored in the day after tomorrow. Therefore, the crown ceremony must be held in the ancestral temple, with the naked etiquette to carry out, with the joy of the bell chime to moderate, so that the crowner can feel his own humility, in order to show that he does not dare to trespass the ancestral etiquette! ”

His last sentence was extremely heavy, and the etiquette collapsed. This is what Kong Qiu decided to correct and make up for after seeing and hearing for a few months as a reckless master!

The doctor was very satisfied, promised to crown the monarch in accordance with the etiquette taught by Confucius, and invited Confucius himself to preside over the ceremony on behalf of the country.

Confucius resigned on the grounds that he had official duties, but he still sent Yan Hui and Min Ziqian, two disciples who were good at etiquette, to help in the state of Yi. Zilu came back from Yangguan Sima to report on his work, and was also sent by Luhou to escort the envoy back to China, which laid a good reputation of "no promise" in the country, and Kong Men successfully brought the scope of influence out of the country this time.

This incident is enough to make the nobles of the Lu State celebrate each other, and the Lu people look down on these "Yi people" who use Yi rites on the one hand. On the other hand, I hope that Zhou Li, who is good at it, can influence them. In the past, the results were not great, such as the public use of Yi Li when the Duke of Yi Zhuang died, and he was also buried with human martyrdom, but this time the new successor to the throne seems to be very interested in Zhou Li. That's good news.

In addition, the state of Lu had just recovered from the civil strife, and Yang Hu was still entrenched in Guancheng. The thieves were tossing in the southern part of Onozawa, so Sanhuan really didn't want to be an enemy of the country anymore. After all, the other party also has six hundred times of armament. The rabbit is in a hurry and bites, so let's talk about it first.

This time, the court of the state of Di. Confucius carried forward the reputation of the Duke of Zhou of Lu and gave the Marquis of Lu a prestige, so he was rewarded by the monarch and promoted him to the rank of junior Zongbo. Sanhuan, especially the Ji family, because he was in the honeymoon period with Confucius, had no objection to this, but rejected Lu Hou's intention to award the title of Doctor Kongqiuzhong.

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The small Zongbo of the Lu State is generally set up with three people, one is in the Yang of Mount Tai, one is in the Gongling of Kancheng, and one person lives in the city of Lu, who is the deputy of the great Zongbo. The state-owned great rites are to assist the great uncles, and the small rites are the officials in charge of the ceremonies, in charge of the establishment of the kingdom of sacrifices; In charge of the prohibition of the five rites, as well as the difference between the animals and ritual utensils used, the power is a little greater than that of the master, and his status is already close to the position of Zhao Wuxian's little secretary.

So Kong Qiu's career began to take off gradually, according to the news that Zhao Wuxian got from Feng Rin's secret letter, after the employment incident of the State of Yi, the great uncle who was born in a public family and had a vegetarian meal began to rely on Kong Qiu for everything.

There are many subordinate officials under the small uncle, including 8 sergeants, 16 sergeants, and brigade corporals, mansions, historians, Xu, apprentices and other personnel. Min Ziqian, Ran Yong, Ran Geng and others were also recommended by Liu Xiaji, who was in the opposition, because of their meritorious service to the country, and also entered the Zongbo Department as grassroots officials.

With the assistance of his disciples, Kong Qiu was like a tiger with wings, and with the secret support of Lu Hou, his courage became bigger and bigger. Many substandard and transgressive etiquette in Dr. Lu's family have been changed, and the spearhead is gradually pointed at Sanhuan!

For example, in early summer, Meng sacrificed his ancestor Gongsun Ao in the temple, and after removing the sacrifices, he ordered the musicians to sing the poem "Yong".

"There is Yongyong, and it will be su. Xiang Wei Pi Gong, the Son of Heaven Mu Mu. Yu recommended Guangmu, and gave each other wanton! ”

After the vocal music was heard by Confucius, who came to watch the ceremony, he immediately went to the hall to disperse the musicians, and the ceremony ended, and when questioned by the angry Gong Zhiyang, Confucius said: "The two sentences on the poem "Yong", 'Xiangwei Pigong, the Son of Heaven Mumu', such words, even the princes can't use them, how can they be used in the temple of the Qing family? ”

He also criticized Mengsun He Ji and Nangong Yue, who had been his disciples, for not knowing etiquette and living up to the expectations of their father Meng Xizi. In the face of the justified and well-founded little Zongbo Confucius, Meng's family wishes were all refuted, and Mengsun He Ji himself had nothing to say, under the mediation of Zifu He, Meng bowed his head and admitted his mistakes, canceling these rude and transgressive behaviors.

The Ji family gloated and vigorously supported Kong Qiu in this matter, so there were many fewer arrogances like "Eight Hundred Dancing in the Court" in the Three Huan, and Lu Hou's prestige was raised again and again in the courtesy.

But the Ji family never expected that Kong Qiu, the little sect uncle, turned out to be the right thing and not the wrong person, and the next time he would be targeted, it would be him Ji's!

This time, just when Ji Sunsi was unwilling to increase Zhao Wuxian's power in the west of the Lu State and confronted him faintly, his heart was stabbed in the sore spot by a letter from Confucius, and he suddenly became in a hurry. (To be continued......)

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