Chapter Forty-Eight: The Invasion of Zhai is over

readx;? On the fourth day of the second month, King Mu retired in Huze [Pingyang Huize County. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info 濩音 obtained, Junqiu, now Yangcheng County, Jincheng, Shanxi], where King Mu shoots birds and hunts animals.

Soon after, the army remained in Shanxi, and King Mu himself returned to the Central Plains and came to the upper reaches of the Wei River (upper reaches of the Wei River).

Weishui is one of the oldest rivers in China. The source is Yangcheng Mountain, Dengfeng County, Henan Province, from Changge County to the old road through Yanling, Fugou two counties south to Xihua County west into Yingshui. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Cai River was changed to the Jialu River because it was seized by the Yellow River. In the Ming Dynasty, it was also known as the Shuangye River.

On the twelfth day of February (Ding Chou Day), on a rainy day, the priest came from the south of the capital to pay homage to Zheng and brought a hundred pieces of Guiyu from the Kun Kingdom, a hundred good horses offered by Zhai (夋翟, Kui surname, Guo Ye, Yin Jun, that is, Di Guo, or Zhai Guo) [four horses driving the same car as one horse], and Bi Guo offered a good horse (porcelain).

King Mu asked the king of Di why he came to give gifts on a rare occasion. The monarch (viscount) of Di Guo replied that he met with Xu Guojun (baron) in Wei, and knew that Xu Guo was coming to offer a gift, so he also came to offer a gift.

According to the Zhou rites, the baron should offer jade, and Xu Guojun was the baron, but he wanted to reduce the burden on the people, so he only brought some livestock such as lambs.

The priest excused himself with the order of the Son of Heaven: no livestock was used for the gift, only jade silk. Xu Guojun did not dare to refuse, and sent someone back to China to get silk and jade. The priest also ordered Mao Gong (class) to offer beautiful jade. On this day, King Mu and King Xu were drinking on the Wei. King Mu said, "I don't want the country to be good, but I want the people to be peaceful." This feast, don't have so much etiquette. Xu Guojun did not dare to refuse, so he was promoted to the position of wine leader, wanting to have a good time. King Mu rewarded the king of Xu with sixteen horses. Xu Guojun withdrew from the position of wine leader, and then worshiped the empty head [empty head, head to the ground]. Then Xu Guojun was promoted to the same seat. In the evening, King Mu sent the king of the kingdom away.

On the twenty-eighth day of the third month (癸海日), King Mu took a bird boat and floated in the big marsh [swamp, pond. There is a boat word under the dragon, the boat is in the shape of the dragon bird, and the green finch boat of Wu is now the image of it.

On the fifth day of the fourth month (Gengwu Day), King Mu drank alcohol on the Wei. He ordered the priest to stay in Nanzheng, receive and thank the princes from all walks of life.

On the sixth day of the fourth month (Xinwei Day), King Mu returned to the north, returned to Shanxi, and fished in Yanze and ate fish in Sangye.

On April 12 (Ding Chou Day), King Mu planned the road of Zhou Wangyuan's garden, east to Fang [its land belongs to Zhao State, and there are mountains in the land], west to Junqiu (Hui Ze), south to Sangye, and north to cover the forest. Including rivers and dense forests, within a radius of 50 miles, there are four Yu Hou (officials in charge of the mountains), the names of these four officials, East Yu said: Tutai, West Yu said: Oak Hill, South Yu said: Fuqiu, North Yu said: Xiangqi. In addition, there is also a royal Yu, who is responsible for the management and supervision of the four marquis, as the supervisor.

On April 15 (Gengchen Day), King Mu stayed in Junqiu (Huize) again and hunted between the forests.

On the third day of the fifth month (Wuxu day), King Mu led a large army to the west, and before leaving, he ordered Yu Hou and other officials to summon people to cut down wood as firewood for the people. On this day, King Mu turned north and entered Bingdi, where King Mu played Go with the sage Jing Gong, and it ended in three days.

On the 19th day of May (Jiayin Day), King Mu found a large number of mulberry forests near his residence, which could be used to make silk silk, which was equivalent to currency at that time, so King Mu ordered the construction of a Fan Palace near his residence to supervise the mulberry pickers. King Mu was very happy and drank in the mulberry forest. King Mu appointed Sang Yu [the official of the mountains in charge of mulberry picking], and anyone who entered and left the mulberry forest was forbidden to harm the mulberry tree.

On the 19th day of the sixth month (Jiashen day), King Mu rested at his residence.

On the twenty-fifth day of June (Gengyin Day), King Mu continued to lead his army westward, arrived at and stayed in the sacrificial country [the feudal state of the priest, the feudal state of the Duke of Zhou] was sacrificed.

On the twenty-seventh day of June (Renchen Day), the priest and King Mu drank, which was a poem of the song (Hao) Heaven [it may be that King Mu is playing outside all the year round, and the sacrifice has the meaning of admonition, but it seems to have no effect]. The Son of Heaven named the song of the sacrifice to the prince: There is a platform in Nanshan. Then the feasting continued.

On the second day of the seventh month (Ding You Day), King Mu ordered the construction of the Nanshan Terrace (a certain place in the sacrifice country, located in Shanxi) according to the name of the song of the priest, thinking that the western palace was also used as a summer resort. Therefore, the rules of the priest not only did not come to a good effect, but was cleverly set up by King Mu and added a hedonistic project.

On the sixth day of the seventh month (Xin Chou Day), because the weather was very hot, King Mu did not plan to continue to travel west, relying on the fast horses, and turned back to the platform of Nanshan to escape the summer, the climate here is pleasant, King Mu lived in the platform of Nanshan, listening to the music and dance offered from all over the country, and in the far west, the people of the six divisions were still stationed there.

At this time, there was a man named Xuanhu [Yinle], who was a man of gods recorded in history, who was considered to have some Taoism, was left and right by the king, and observed the feng shui complexion. King Mu valued him very much because of his spells, and ordered him to divinate the king from time to time, and often sent the guards around him, got along with him very closely, and affectionately called him by his real name: Yin Gong.

King Mu happened to see a tiger in the deep grass, King Mu liked to collect rare birds and beasts, but the tiger was missing, and the seven elite people (accompanying guards) ran back and forth, not only to protect King Mu, but also to consider catching the tiger, inevitably a little helpless. At this time, the Rong people who came to join King Mu, named Benrong, asked to go and fight the tiger, and declared that they would keep the tiger alive to sacrifice to King Mu. After some fighting, Ben Rong really caught the tiger, and King Mu was overjoyed and ordered the captured tiger to be locked up in Sheng. In the Analects, it is said that "the tiger is out of the sheng"], and he ordered people to transfer it to a dangerous place in the territory of the kingdom of Yu in the east. Now Xingyang Chenggao County is]. King Mu rewarded Benjon with forty horses for hunting, and rewarded him with the prison that his princes had sacrificed. Ben Rong bowed again.

On the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month (Renyin Day), King Mu accompanied the chariot where the tiger was imprisoned, and only a few retinues arrived at Queliang in the area of Junqiu (Yangcheng County, Jincheng, Shanxi). On the ninth day of the seventh month (Jiachen Day), King Mu changed to take the waterway and sailed on the boat in Xingshui [now Xingze, Xingyang City, Zhengzhou, Henan] and played Guangle.

On the 15th day of the seventh month (Gengxu Day), King Mu went west again and rested in the Fan Palace.

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month (Bingchen Day), King Mu hunted in the dense forest north of Fan Palace and returned with a full load.

On the ninth day of the eighth month (mid-autumn Jiaxu day), King Mu went east again, arrived at Queliang, repaired the books that had been damaged by beetles in the feather forest, and stayed in the household.

At this time, the people of Bi Guo (Xianyang, Shaanxi) came to report that Bi Guo was harassed by Zhai. It turned out that Bi Gong was the patriarch after the death of Zhao Gong at the beginning of Zhou, but at this time it was already in decline, but as the ancestral tomb of the early Zhou Dynasty, it still has special political significance, so King Mu can not ignore it, and Zhai Zhai is also a courtier of Zhou, and his monarch is named a viscount, but he invades other princes without authorization, no matter what, the world will be in chaos.