PS: There is one more chapter before 12 o'clock

Yecheng Zhao Palace is not luxurious, and there is no gold and jade ornament, but it is full of internal organs. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe central hall is spacious, it is a place for Zhao Wuxian to entertain guests, the table is placed from the head of the hall to the end of the hall, and the wine and food are served by the maid of the erection in an endless stream.

According to the etiquette system, on the night of the wedding, the male family should "summon the township party members for wine and food", and the township party officials should come to congratulate them with gifts. In addition to Zhao Guangde, Zhao Yi and other clan peers, Dong Anyu and other family ministers, all of whom are ministers and doctors from the Central Plains, among them, there is even a monarch!

This wedding banquet is also an important diplomatic occasion between the envoys of the princes and the Zhao family, stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, presumably in this big day, Zhao Qing will not easily refuse the request of the guests.

The Zhao clan has a wide territory, so the singing and dancing music performed at the wedding banquet also has a unique style: the Baidi woman from the Bai people dances the dance and beats the drums and swims in; The bell music of the Lu country is thick and old-fashioned, and it makes people sleepy to listen to; Then there is the "Sound of Sangjian Pushang" sent by Wei Hou, because it is a big day, so Zhao also did not refuse.

Halfway through the feast, a band from Cao Guo walked to the center of the hall and began to play Cao Guo's dance music "Floating".

"The feathers of mayflies, the clothes are beautiful. The worries of my heart are ...... to my return."

"The wings of the mayfly, the clothes. The sorrows of my heart will be relieved ......"

Dancers from the Cao Kingdom wore long, narrow sleeves, like a pair of transparent and slender wings, and they fluttered in the hall, their postures delicate and moving, gathering or scattering, rising or falling. As the name suggests, the dusk ceremony is held at dusk, and the dance is also like mayflies that like to fly in groups at sunset and fall to the ground after death, which is eye-catching and thrilling.

After the song, the hall was full of applause, and the guests were not infected by the faint sadness in it, but still laughed happily, but it was mixed with a discordant sad cry......

Everyone straightened up and looked towards the location of the cry, only to see that it was very close to Zhao Wugao's main seat.

Zhao Wuxian also put down the wine cup and asked, "Cao Jun, why are you sad and crying?" ”

The person who lost his voice and cried was Cao Boyang, who took refuge in the Zhao clan after the change of Taoqiu four years ago, his body was a lot fatter than in the past, and he got up with difficulty at this time, wiped the snot and tears on his face with his wide sleeves and said: "Hearing Cao Di's dance music today, sadness comes from it for a while, and it cannot be broken, so he shed tears, which made Zi Taijian smile......

He paused slightly, and then said hurriedly: "Back then, I was bewitched by Gongsun Jiang and made a betrayal of Zhao, but fortunately, Zitai remembered the old friendship and sheltered me in Chaoge, and the brocade clothes and jade food were never cut off, and I was asked to hunt whenever I had time." But although Jizhou is good, it is not the place where the grave of the ancestor is located. I also hope that Zitai will let me go back to Taoqiu and restore Cao Guosheji, and from then on, only the Zhao family will be the head of the horse, and the tribute to the Jin State will be doubled! ”

The guests were surprised by Uncle Cao's boldness, and at the same time curious how Zhao Shangqing would react.

Zhao Wuxian groaned slightly, then laughed, and said: "Although I am the secretary of the Jin State and the monarch of the country, I have not reached the level of deciding the fate of a country with a single sentence. This matter should be reported to the king, and then the doctor of Cao Guo will be summoned to discuss the long-term, today's wedding banquet, don't talk about national politics, musicians, music, and the second and third sons will drink again! ”

Seeing that Zhao Wuxian didn't want to mention this matter, everyone had a plan in their hearts, and they also put on a smiling face and picked up the wine bottle, but Cao Boyang had been holding back in a foreign country for four years, and with the strength of the wine, he also let go today.

He staggered to the center of the hall, and despite his status as a prince who had not yet been deprived, he fell to the ground with his head bowed, and pleaded with tears: "Zitai, for the sake of you and my old friends for many years, even if you don't let me return, you can let my son return to Taoqiu, Uncle Cao Zhen's society can't be left unworshipped, and Cao Guo can't be without a king for a day!" “

This is to be shameless, Zhao Wuxian's happy day was disturbed, and he suddenly lost his mood, his face was gloomy, and everyone in the hall trembled. Zhao Qing was furious, and he didn't know how many families would be wiped out, or if there would be 100,000 corpses and a hundred miles of blood......

"Cao Jun has said it, since Gongsun Jiang died and Cao Jun went to the country, Taoqiu has been thriving in the past few years, according to me, Cao Guo is not indispensable without a king!"

A word startled a thousand waves, everyone's eyes turned to the back of the hall, a doctor in a brocade dress and a short beard sat behind the desk, his appearance was polite, but his mouth was a sword, it was Duanmu Ci who is now in charge of Cao Guo's government affairs and is known as "Tao Zhu"!

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Zigong saw that Zhao Wuxian's face sank like water, and understood that he didn't like Cao Bo to make such a request at this time, and it was inappropriate to refuse in person, so he stood up and took the conversation.

When Cao Jun was there, he blackmailed and deprived Cao Guo of his bone marrow, separated the children of Cao people, and offered himself the pleasures of lewdness, and took this for granted, and proudly said to Gongsun Jiang: These are the property interests that Cao Shuzhen passed on to the widow! You regard the life and death of thousands of people in Cao Kingdom as no different from the life and death of rats. In this case, as the biggest scourge of Cao Guo, it is you Cao Jun! Now there is no monarch, but Cao people can get their own things, doctors for government, hundreds of industries, businessmen come and go, farmers work, women do mulberry and hemp weaving, everyone can get their own benefits, so Cao Guo can not only be without a monarch for a day, even if there is no monarch for a hundred generations, there is nothing wrong with it! ”

"You, you, you......"

Cao Boyang was half angry, he didn't dare to resent Zhao Wuxian, so he had always regarded Zigong as a usurper who stole his throne, but verbally he was beaten by Zigong's sharp mouth......

He simply stomped his foot and shouted, "Zitai...... Shangqing, doctors, if you don't kill this person, the world will be chaotic, I'm afraid that everyone will preach this words of no king and no father! ”

Facing the strange gazes of everyone present, Zigong only felt that he had walked to the edge of the cliff, not only would he be regarded as a beast by the people with countries and families in the world, but also deviated from the way of the master's monarch and minister, father and son, and became a heretic among Confucianism.

"A Confucian without a king and a father," Yuan Xian and others seem to call him, as ...... said.

He has already followed the theory that Shi Kuang said that "how can he make a person wanton with the people", and the people can expel the faint monarch on their own, and leap forward, to a new realm of "a small country and a country with few people, and autonomy without a king".

But fortunately, in the middle of the hall, Zhao Wuxian's eyes are supportive and trusting.

Therefore, Zigong was also bold and preached his theory, and he bowed respectfully to Zhao Wuxian's position: "In ancient times, people in the world loved their monarch, compared him to his father, and intended to be Qingtian. If there is a monarch as virtuous as the king, he should be so. ”

Then he puffed up his chest and pointed at Cao Boyang and said: "However, now the people of Cao State resent their monarch, regarded him as an enemy, called him a '****', was expelled, and even cut off Cao Shuzhen's society, which was originally the result he deserved!" ”

Seeing that Cao Bo in the hall was already embarrassed by Zigong, the seemingly neutral adjudicator was almost time to appear.

Zhao Wuxian clapped his hands and said, "Since the two of you have a dispute, I can only judge it on behalf of the widow." According to the old practice, when Wei Xiangong was expelled by the countrymen, and Lu Zhaogong was expelled by the Ji family, they all came to ask the Jin State to adjudicate, and the Jin State adhered to the principle that it should be judged according to the etiquette law, but the actual situation should be left to Wei, Lu's doctor and the people themselves to decide. Now that Cao Jun is expelled, he can't return to the country and restore because of my words, it still depends on whether the Cao people are willing or not, otherwise even if you forcibly send troops to send you back, the Jin army has just left, and the tragedy of the bloody Cao Palace will be staged again, but it is not beautiful. ”

Seeing that Uncle Cao was really hesitant, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, the restoration needs a momentum that does not hit the south wall and does not give up, and he has to be optimistic about the timing, otherwise it will not be so easy.

"After the autumn harvest is over, hold a public meeting in Cao State, so that doctors, businessmen, hundreds of workers and other propertied people, and those who have the right to discuss the government will gather in the Miao Society to discuss the future of Cao State, and Cao Guo has a monarch or no monarch, it will be decided by this public discussion!"

Zigong immediately bowed: "Obey the orders of Shangqing!" ”

Cao Boyang could only thank him and accept the result.

After this dispute, the orchestra and flute continued, Cao Bo was sullenly drinking wine and eating food, and he had no intention of appreciating the dance and music, and Zhao Wuxian no longer paid attention to this useless and worthless gentleman, and after accepting everyone's congratulations, he got up and changed his clothes.

However, he walked into a dark room at the back of the hall, and Duanmu Ci, who was still in the hall with a lotus tongue, was already waiting here.

Zhao Wuxian raised his hand falsely: "You did a good job today, the affairs of Cao Guo should almost be decided, can you be sure of Taoqiu's public discussion after the autumn harvest?" ”

Zigong was confident: "In the past few years, the servants have been preaching the evil of Cao Bo and Gongsun Jiang, and the wrong things they have done have been constantly mentioned and amplified in the hearts of Cao people, and they are afraid of retribution, Cao people will never accept Cao Bo's restoration." Doctors, businessmen, and representatives of hundreds of workers and heroes have lived four years of freedom, and they don't want to have a monarch to hinder their heads anymore, so Cao Bo's idea of letting the prince return to the country and succeed to the throne doesn't work, after this public discussion, Cao Shuzhen's society is dead! ”

"Well done, I don't plan to let Cao Jun and his family return to Cao Guo."

Zhao Wuxian praised him and said: "Taoqiu's republican administration has done a good job, which is suitable for Cao's national conditions, and is also suitable for developing commerce with a relaxed and free policy. , At least in the next ten years, Cao and Taoqiu will be in charge of you, and within Cao Guo, you can rest assured that you will be self-governing. ”

Zigong thanked him happily, but Zhao Wuxian patted him on the shoulder, his hand was slightly strained, and his voice became low in vain: "But you have to grasp the proportion!" I will never let this kind of government flow outside the Cao Kingdom! ”

Duanmu is awe-inspiring, even Shangqing, who single-handedly created the current situation of Cao State, also regards the republic as a flood beast? He didn't dare to think about it, and immediately bowed down and said: "The servants understand that after the Cao State has no king, there are people in the world who have families and families, and they are afraid that they will kill me and then quickly, and the life and death of the gift, the rise and fall of the Taoqiu Republic, are all in the thought of the lord." ”

Although the current Cao State is still nominally independent, it is actually no different from a large county controlled by the Zhao family, with the Zhao garrison, Zigong will submit the government and the details of the plan to Yecheng every month, so that Zhao Wuxian can see it, and when it comes to big decisions, Zhao Qing has to nod to do it.

But on the other hand, Cao Guo is also a unique special zone, a whim of Zhao Wuxian, and a long-planned experimental field. He really wanted to see what kind of sprouts this different seed would emit, of course, he would not let it grow freely, surrounded by the deep-rooted feudal princes, without the protection of the Zhao family, Taoqiu's "republic" would be wiped out in an instant!

Zhao Wuxian stared at Zigong for a while, and then changed to a smiling face like a spring breeze and said, "It's good if you understand, get up." ”

Zigong stood up respectfully, as the power controlled by the Zhao clan became greater and greater, the friendship between the two of them when they first met in the past was gradually replaced by an insurmountable relationship between monarchs and ministers, and he couldn't say whether it was good or bad.

Zhao Wuxian was about to return to the banquet, but when he saw that Zigong wanted to stop talking, he turned around and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Only ...... The servant had an idea, but he didn't know whether it was suitable or not, so he wanted to ask the lord to make a choice. Zigong has a smiling face, people will change, and when they get to a certain position, they will automatically adapt to change. He no longer talks about the businessman who walks freely in the countries, and his words and deeds involve the interests of more than 100,000 people in Caodi.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

Zigong raised his eyes and said seriously: "Taoqiu wants to follow the example of Wei Guo and build a canal between Surabaya and Jishui......" (To be continued. )