Chapter 24 Chapter 24 The First Month of the Qin Calendar

"The minister's cloth, ploughing in Nanyang, living in troubled times, not seeking to reach the princes......" The old ministers in the palace told their hearts, in this eventful autumn, with this sick body, barely supported. Whether it was an old minister with frost-stained temples or a land that replaced the monarch, they never imagined that they would become famous all over the world for this example of loyalty and righteousness. It's just that "feeling the special encounter of the first emperor", for His Majesty personally, there is no reason for the old minister to be loyal to him. The kindness of the first emperor has not been repaid but the middle way has collapsed, and the old minister's repayment can only be pinned on the successor of the first emperor, the current majesty. His Majesty's personal wishes, under the deeds of the first emperor and the old ministers, seem insignificant.

The emperor who is soft-spoken is somewhat similar to the righteous emperor. However, His Majesty's "Han", although regarded as orthodox by people thousands of years later, was indeed a self-reliant puppet court, and did not obtain the status of the original Han Emperor according to the right of inheritance, nor did it obtain power through the formal ceremony of the previous emperor Chan Rang. Emperor Yi's "Chu", although it has been brushed aside in the history books, can not exist when talking about the general history of this land, but Emperor Yi is orthodox, he inherited the country with the blood of King Huai's grandson, and was supported by the princes as Emperor Yi, and there is no legitimate reason to deprive him of his position of power. In this regard, Lao Chen can't think in this direction, and Ge Tianming will definitely not admit it after reincarnation.

"Xiaoyu~ I'm back~ Let's play together~ Is it okay to "Book of Songs"? I remember you played one of them on the piano before~" The leader of the Ge Tian clan returned to Zhou Yu's side with several girls of his age.

"Cai Ge." Zhou Yu plucked the strings and played a short section of the iconic melody.

"Yes, yes, yes~ That's it! They said they could sing it and they could dance. I've also learned this one, we can try to match it~"

"Well, you can try." The girl in men's clothes retuned the tone, the timbre of the five strings was peaceful and free, without the restraint of King Wen, nor the fighting spirit of King Wu, but the five notes were wrong, and it became a tune of its own.

In the ensemble of five strings and bone flutes, the girls dance with oxtails and sing poems to welcome the new year.

"Bi Cai Gexi, not seen for a day, like March.

He is depressed, and he doesn't see it for a day, like three autumns.

Pi Cai Aixi, not seen for a day, like three years old"

In the first month of the Qin calendar, the emperor and empress were busy with various sacrifices and meeting with the children of the local wealthy families and clans who came to congratulate them, and they lacked skills. Xiang missed the queen and offered taxes, tribute, and ten men and ten women to the queen. Xiang Zi, one of the wealthy families of Chu who came to see him, was left to help by the emperor because of his outstanding appearance and outstanding arm strength, and because he was a relative who had taken care of the queen. It is said that Xiang Zi was born with a vision and had heavy pupils, the same as the legendary Shun. The people in the palace took the opportunity to contact Xiang Zi to secretly look at his eyes, Xiang Zi himself noticed it, and he was unhappy, but because of the queen's bad face, he could only pretend not to know. I thought I could see the strange appearance of one eye with two black eyes, but in fact it was not so peculiar. Xiang Zi looked no different from ordinary people, and his eyes were a little terrifying, making people dare not look at him for a long time. Only the queen knows that Xiang Zi really has double pupils. Xiang Zi is not one eye and two eyes, but a pupil in the pupil, and the queen also found out before coming to the Qin Empire, sleeping and eating with Xiang Zi for a long time.

There are also good people who heard about Xiang Zi's divine power and asked him to lift the sacrificial tripod to take a look. But before Xiang Zi planned to go to the Ding, Lang Zhong, who got the news, ordered Zhao Gao to rush to the scene and told a story to the good people and Xiang Zi: "My ancestor King Wu is powerful, and he tried to raise the Ding with Meng, and he died of shame." The son is powerful, and wants to be evil from the martial king? Listening to the story of the martial king lifting the tripod, as well as Lang Zhongling's unspoken meaning, Xiang Zi dispelled the idea of lifting the tripod, and apologized to Lang Zhongling and thanked Lang Zhongling for his kind words. The good deeds and onlookers were also ordered by Lang Zhong to accept a bundle of firewood for each person to worship the temple as a punishment for instigating Xiang Zi to raise the crown, and took it as a warning not to do anything again. Xiang Zi also took the initiative to hand over a bundle of firewood to worship the temple. The sacrificial tripod also has another commemorative significance, the first emperor heard that the first emperor ordered people to engrave the four words "Xiangzi lifting the tripod" on the tripod to commemorate this event and warn future generations.

The concubines and concubines offered by the Xiang family also filled the vacant positions in the palace and joined the busy team, and it was rumored in the palace that these people would get positions because of the queen's relatives, but they were not convinced but did not dare to offend. Lang Zhongling treated these concubines and concubines equally, and did not neglect them because they were foreigners, nor did he favor them because they were relatives of the queen. For Lang Zhongling, as long as it can be used now, as for things like origin, kinship, and previous experience, there is no need to consider it at all.

Among the people who met in the pilgrimage, there was another one that stood out from the rest. It was an eight-year-old boy who had brought a Zhou Wangji to Xianyang, who was none other than Ge Tianming, the leader of the Ge Tian clan. This is the first time that Ge Tianshi has come to the court since the founding of the Qin Empire, and it is also the first time that Zhou Wang Ji has entered the court since the first emperor ascended the throne. With great excitement, the historians recorded this historical event of great historical significance in detail, and even wrote poems about it in order to educate the world in the future. Although this history does not exist, these accounts cannot be passed down to future generations, and they themselves are not aware of it.

Ge Tian received the equivalent of the courtesy of the small marquis of Shufang, and the prince of Zhou received the courtesy equivalent of the princes, and they stayed after the consent of the first emperor to participate in the sacrifice together. Zhou Wang Ji is good at five strings, although it is Wang Ji, there is no paper, Wu Erwang, only Tao Tang, no nostalgia for the glorious deeds of the Zhou royal family, only do not know. Ge Tian's single-hole bone flute was something that the Qin people had never seen. The general bone flute is made of slender crane leg bones with multiple holes, and the position of the holes is determined. Ge Tian's bone flute is different, there is only one hole, and the change of tone requires skill. Even in this day and age, it's a stunt.

The eldest son, Fuxu, assumed the responsibility of the heir, and the eighteenth son was the deputy, assisted by Zhisu Neishi and Lang Zhongling. Zhisu Neishi Mengtian and Lang Zhong made Zhao Gao not good. As Shang Qingyi's eldest brother, emotionally and kinship, it is impossible for Meng Tian to get along happily with people who are not in harmony with his brother. Zhao Gao also looked down on this kind of person who grew up lying on the merits of his ancestors and relied on his family to get status, although he felt that Meng Tian was still useful, but people didn't want to be close to him, and he wouldn't want to stick it himself. In official affairs, these two people are serious and capable, and they will never abolish their public affairs for personal reasons, which is compatible, and this is the only one.

Zhao Gao is absolutely rational and will not change his judgment because of emotional factors, and is even a little impersonal and too strict. Meng Tian is emotional, and will always be influenced by emotions, such as dispatching supplies, and he prefers to agree to allocate them, so that those who need them do not suffer due to lack of supplies, even if the situation does not allow it at that time. In Zhao Gao's opinion, Meng Tian is too irrational and has few words, making it difficult to get along with. In Meng Tian's opinion, Zhao Gao is harsh and speaks harshly, not like a good person. has been unable to understand each other like this, coupled with Shang Qingyi's attitude, the gap between the two is getting bigger and bigger. In the history books and various costume dramas, the conflict between the two was so big that one had to die, and in the end, Zhao Gao took advantage of the dead First Emperor and killed Meng Tian and his younger brother Yi.

Meng Tian and Yi are loyal ministers, and Zhao Gao is a traitor, this is a matter of closing the coffin, and almost everyone knows it as common sense. However, when you are really in it, you live in the same world as these "loyal ministers" and "traitors", and after talking about some topics in the same palace, you become "indistinguishable from loyalty and traitors". It is not possible to simply say who is right and who is wrong, who is traitorous and who is loyal, but two people with different ideas have encountered a major disagreement, unable to communicate, unwilling to reconcile, and the person who can mediate for them has died and has become the source of the conflict, and finally ends in a tragedy in which one dies and the other does not last long.

The eldest son Fuxu, recorded in the history books as the son of Fusu, is a model of loyalty and filial piety, and also a tragic figure. However, in Zhao Xin'er's eyes, the eldest son is Fuxu, the first son of the elder brother, and also his own son. Although pedantic, although cowardly, he is very rational and polite. The eighteenth son, recorded in the history books as Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, is the role of a faint king, and by the way, the people who follow him are all positioned as traitors. Now, he is not Qin II, nor is he called Hu Hai. He was only the eighteenth son, the eighteenth of the many sons and daughters of the First Emperor. Neither heirs, nor outstanding performances and features that can be named. Even if the first emperor favored him, there was no need to choose a name, and the eighteen sons were enough. This somewhat emotionally unstable and more childish eighteen sons, with a docile personality, do not like to study, and are not obedient, but they are not as unbearable as later generations said. As the child of the first emperor, he did not fall behind in what he should learn and do, but his personality was not likable and he did not agree with the views of Confucianism. But the First Emperor liked the child's character, saying that he was like him, like a stubborn little piglet. It was precisely because the behavior and thinking of the Eighteen Sons were different from those of Confucius's followers that those Confucian scholars were pushed to the side of Fuxu. Ke Fuxu, as a filial son, is only filial to his father's right match, not filial to his mother. As a believer in Confucianism, it is understandable for him to do this, there is a difference between his concubine and his mother, his mother is his mother, that's all, it has nothing to do with whether he gave birth to himself or not. For this reason, his biological mother, Mrs. Qian, often wept secretly in no one's place, and Zhao Xin'er didn't say much in her eyes, so she could only send her when she sent a message to Fuxu, or asked her something she wanted to ask when she met Fuxu courteously. Although it's for business, at least I can say a few words to my eldest son.

Zhao Zheng, Marquis of Changxin, as the empress's half-brother, presented three treasures to the empress: a feather fan, a short sword, and a brush.

The feather fan is based on the leg bone of the white pheasant as the fan bone and the pheasant tail as the fan surface, and the appearance is similar to the feather fan in Zhuge Liang's hand in the general impression, which is not very common in this era or Zhuge Liang's era; The handle of the fan is wrapped from the inside to the outside with three layers of thick to thin nets woven with five-colored hemp rope, and a pearl is tied with a five-colored ribbon at the bottom. The two blades of the short sword have been opened, and the blood drainage groove has been chiseled, and the sword spine has a fluorite powder painted Toad Palace, and the pattern is covered with a layer of polished diamond, which is usually put away with a brocade bag lined with yellow cowhide. The pen barrel of the brush is very special, it is made of the other leg bone of the white pheasant with the Jingshan jade hollowed out inside, there is a relief on the inner wall of the white jade, it is hooked with gold and silver wire, and it is colored with ore powder, it is a picture of the mythical story of the goddess of the Yanyue Society of the King of Chuxiang. The tip of the pen is made of rabbit hair, pure white without a trace of variegation, the tip of the pen is dyed with red nitrate, and the vivid red is like a flame burning in the snow, and the snow around it will be covered with snow if it melts.

Shangqingyi, who was next to the first emperor, privately told the empress that the brush was purchased by his brother Zhisu Neishi Mengtian. Meng Tian asked Shangqing to pass the word for him, asking the queen to take care of the eldest son more and not to make the elders and young out of order. The queen only said that the sons of the first emperor were treated as her own, and it was right to take care of them, and all children were treated equally.

Zhou Wangji, who came with Ge Tianshi, hit Xiang Zi at first sight, Xiang Zi managed the musical instruments, and Zhou Wangji was in charge of the rehearsal of the music. Ge Tianshi complained about this, and he couldn't get out of his busy business for a while. Ge Tian was in charge of the ceremonies and other matters of the sacrifices outside the palace, and temporarily lived in his home in the territory of the Marquis of Changxin. The Marquis of Changxin was busy with the affairs of the territory, and he had to take care of the Ge Tian clan and manage the sacrificial vessels, so he did not enter the palace for the time being. The Queen Mother temporarily stopped hooking up with all kinds of men she met in the palace, posed as a mother, and helped the queen share some trivial matters. The originally inseparable pair suddenly separated, and the people in the palace were a little unaccustomed to it, only the First Emperor seemed to be relieved for the time being.

At the end of the first month, something happened that surprised the first queen and other crossers: Wen Xinhou returned.