Chapter 898: Luoyi
Since King Ping moved eastward, Luoyi replaced Feng and Hao and became the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. After moving eastward, the Zhou royal family became more and more powerless in its control of the vassal states, and gradually reduced to decoration. Ji Lang, the fifth-generation monarch after moving east, is worried every time he thinks of the prosperous ancestral era of the royal road in the past.
Ji Lang knew that he was not a good king. Among the princes and kings, he has a reputation for being greedy and stingy. But he knew it was just appearances. It is an indisputable fact that the territory and resources of the royal family are constantly eroded by the princes. He was aware of this before he succeeded to the throne, and after he ascended the throne, he also tried to work hard, but the good intentions of the Zhongxing royal family did not succeed, but his uncle Ji Yu united several doctors of the country, caught him off guard, was driven out of Wangji, and had to go into exile.
Fortunately, Zheng Guo and Yu Guo contributed and sent troops to drive away Ji Rong, so that Ji Lang was successfully restored. But this was not without a price, in order to reward the two countries for sending troops, Ji Lang had to give part of the royal family's originally small land to Zheng and Yu. The territory and power under the direct control of the Zhou royal family have been weakened by another point.
Through this major blow. Ji Lang's ambition disappeared suddenly, and he honestly nested in Wangji's one-third of an acre, and became a puppet with peace of mind. Congratulations to the victorious in the strife of the nations, and come back with a tribute by the way.
The gods and men will be in the kingdom, which makes Ji Lang worried. The rise of the Great Zhou is not less auspicious. For example, the well-known "Fengming Qishan" is its representative. Ji Lang was very worried, does this mean that the Kingdom of Yu is going to rise up and replace the Zhou royal family?
However, Taishi Guo, who had gone to Xin Di to "worship the gods", was unimpressed by Ji Lang's worries, and said: "If a nation is going to rise, the man of God will come and observe the virtues of the country, and if a country is going to perish, the man of God will also come down to observe and record the sins of the country." You know the virtuous king of the Duke of Yu, tyrannical and greedy, the man of God descended on the kingdom of Qiu, it must be the latter, and the kingdom of Yu is going to perish! ”
Ji Lang was not at ease with Taishi's judgment. He knew very well in his heart that although Gong Yu was not a good person, he was similar. Among the vassal states, the feudal kingdom that the royal family can barely command is only the kingdom of Yu. Ji Lang is responsible for a lot of bad things that Gong Yu did.
In this way, Ji Lang seemed even more worried. Trying to get Tai Shi Guo to go to Xindi to worship the gods again. But I heard that the man of God had left Xindi and came to Wangji Luoyi.
Ji Lang originally wanted to escort the gods to Wangji with a grand ceremony, and in the name of the gods' arrival in Wangji, he summoned the princes and kings to Wangji, and took this opportunity to express to the princes and kings that Tiande was in Zhou and re-established the authority of the royal family. This abacus played well, but the godman walked and disappeared, and Ji Lang had to dispel this idea. The whereabouts of the god man are strange, in case he also came to inspect Zhou De, found that Zhou De was at a loss and announced to the princes and kings, the days of the Great Zhou Dynasty would be impossible to live immediately.
The news of the arrival of the man of God reached the ears of the princes, and everything was normal on the surface, but secretly there was a turmoil. This effect of the country has been targeted by many major countries......
The dark tide of the world is surging. Li You didn't know anything. Except for rest and sleep time, he is basically running all the way. The state of Lu is in Shandong, and the place where he appears is close to the area of the state of Qi, while Wang Ji Luoyi is in Luoyang, Henan. This thousand-mile distance, there are no airplanes and high-speed trains, only ox carts and carriages. But the speed made Li You desperate. Fortunately, his strength has been slowly recovering, and Li You is running his true qi and walking on his two feet. On the first day, he had only walked about fifty miles. The second day, 100 miles, the third day, 200 miles......
Five days later, Luoyi was in sight. In this thousands of miles of land, Li You did not walk in a straight line, but followed the road and ran wildly, passing through dozens of large and small countries, which made Li You greatly surprised.
After approaching Luoyi, Li You no longer hurried, but took a day off and rested his appearance. Luoyi, as Wangji, although not as brilliant and grand as the former Hojing, is also the nominal residence of the Son of Heaven, and pays attention to Zhou etiquette. Li You, who eats and drinks, looks like a homeless person, and it is not easy to blend into a royal city like Luoyi. But Li You didn't want to make a big move in Luoyi like he forced himself into other cities.
"Luoyang ......"
Standing on the edge of the Yellow River, looking at the city called Luoyi in the distance. Li You shouted out a name that did not exist in this era. In fact, Luoyang and Luoyi are completely different things. At this time, Luoyi was not located in the location of Luoyang City in later generations. Even, at this moment, the Yellow River, the water flow is clear to the bottom, and the banks are lush, how can it not be as turbid and dangerous as in later generations.
Li You has feelings for this place. Everything he went through was actually the starting point here.
"Born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, died in the north." Li You looked at the vast mountains and plains in the distance and sighed.
Li You changed into the costume of the time. The identity was also forged by a scholarly family in the Qi Kingdom, and he traveled to study in the world. This time, I came to Wangji to learn Zhou Li.
Qi Henggong, who was assisted by Guan Zhong, has been in the ascendancy over the years, and his hegemonic position among the eastern princes has been in the ascendancy. The people of the country with great national strength naturally have all kinds of conveniences when they travel the world. This is also one of the reasons why Li You is pretending to be a native of Qi.
"Strange, why doesn't there be a breath of Chiyou?" Li You couldn't feel Chi You's breath. In the Xunfu world, Chiyou's strength has also been further improved, and the induction power that the two of them have left in each other's spiritual imprints has also been further strengthened. If there is no accident, at a distance of about 100 miles, the two will be able to feel each other's existence. But at this time, Li You was already in Luoyi, but he didn't find the breath of Chiyou.
"That's weird......" Li You exhaled slowly. There are many possibilities for this to happen. The biggest possibility is that Chi You is not nearby, which is also the most optimistic one for Li You. Otherwise, if Chi You encountered some accident, the aura of power had disappeared, and he would not be able to find it.
But considering the news circulating in the vassal states, Li You believed that this possibility was very small. Chi You came to this world, and the movement he made was not small, and if he lost his strength, it was impossible to have such great ability.
"It's also possible that he still has the power of the black stone on his body, and his aura is masked. He could not be contacted for a while. Li You speculated.
Unable to find Chiyou's breath, Li You finally decided to go to Luoyi first. This royal capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty still has a lot of attraction for Li You. Although it seems that this royal capital is much smaller than some of the ordinary military towns he saw during the Western Jin Dynasty.
But after all, it is the royal capital Luoyi.