The time entered the twenty-ninth year of King Qingji of Wu, that is, in 485 BC, the ninth lunar month.

Qingji, who was still patrolling in the Central Plains, suddenly received an urgent report-

Taishi Jizha, who was far away in Jinling, was critically ill.

Lives hang by a thread!

Qingji didn't dare to slack off, and took the patrol team to Jinling, the eastern capital of Wu State, all the way.

When Qingji saw Ji Za again, Ji Za was already lying on the sickbed, angry like a gossamer, and he saw that he had run out of oil and dried up, and his life was not long in coming.

"Uncle. The widow is back. ”

Qingji knelt on the edge of Ji Zha's hospital bed and held Ji Zha's trembling hands.

"King, I heard that you are still far away in the Central Plains, why did you come to Jinling?"

"My uncle is sick, how can there be no reason for the widow not to return?"

"Alas, my lord, birth, old age, sickness and death are the normal conditions of human beings. The old minister belongs to the end of his life, and you don't have to be sentimental, king. ”

Jiza smiled.

He was an open-minded man by nature.

Three times to give up the country, fame and fortune, by the world called "the most virtuous man".

Although Ji Za has suffered a lot of setbacks in his life, he can still face everything with a good attitude and has never been cynical.

This is probably the secret of Jiza's longevity.

Ji Za, who is over 90 years old, is an incredible age in modern times with a developed medical level.

Not to mention this era?

Ji Za is definitely an old birthday star!

"My Wu country has lost a great sage, a widow has lost an arm, and a good teacher has lost an ancestor. Uncle, how can you let the widow not be sentimental? ”

Qingji sighed and said.

Qingji has been in power for nearly 30 years, and when he returned to China to seize the throne in his early years, he relied on Ji Za to quickly stabilize the political situation and make people's hearts follow.

It was also with the great help of Ji Za that Qingji was able to successfully carry out the first change in Wu, which made Wu's national strength flourish day by day and had a significant improvement.

Even after Ji Zai stepped down as Dazai, he only took a back seat, and was also responsible for teaching the princes to study for Keiji, preaching and receiving karma to solve doubts, and from time to time to go to the Jixia School Palace, teaching his knowledge to the scholars, writing books and sayings......

Ji Za's achievements in this life have made many people look up to him.

"Uncle still has an unfulfilled wish?"

Qingji asked.

"The king is not far away, rushing back to Jinling from the Central Plains, how dare the old minister disturb you? If you say that you wish, the old minister does not have it, just a few last words, and please listen to the king. ”

"Uncle Zu, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"After the old minister died, he wanted to be buried at the foot of the mountain in Yanling, and the funeral was simple, with the specifications of ordinary doctors or even ordinary people, there was a tombstone, and the king was asked to complete it."

"Uncle, you ......"

Qingji was a little embarrassed.

According to Qingji's idea, a hero like Ji Za should be buried with him in the tomb of King Wu and worthy of the Taimiao.

This is the honor of Jiza as a courtier.

However, Ji Za seems to look down on it.

What's even more excessive is that Ji Za actually asked himself to be buried under the mountain of Yanling Shun with a thin instrument.

Why?

Jizha is known as "Yanling Jizi".

In order to avoid the throne, he plowed to Shun Mountain, and in the twenty-fifth year of King Zhou Ling (547 B.C.), King Wu Yu sacrificed and then sealed Ji Za in Yanling.

It is true that Qingji later sealed Ji Za in the state, and Ji Za stayed in Jinling all year round.

But in Ji Zha's heart, he must have regarded Yanling as his hometown.

"The widow is right."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Ji Za thought for a while, and then said: "King, the life span of the old minister ends here, and he can't accompany the king to see the unification of Kyushu in his lifetime. ”

"However, before the old minister died, he wanted to know, how will you govern Huaxia in the future, the king, if you rule the world? What kind of system is used to govern China? ”

"Is it to implement the county system entirely, or to implement the feudal system like the Zhou royal family?"

Qingji shook his head and said, "Uncle, I won't tell you, this question was considered by the widow, but it didn't answer after all." ”

"Why does my uncle teach widows?"

After all, this is a major event related to the future of the Wu Kingdom.

It is conceivable that now, as long as Qingji does not collapse in the middle of the way, and if he dies first, it is only a matter of time before Wu State wants to sweep away the princes and dominate the world.

Therefore, it is necessary for Ji Za to take precautions and plan for Qingji.

"The county system and the sub-feudal system have their own advantages."

Ji Za said slowly: "Over the years, every time the king establishes a new county, he will send Gongzi Fan, Gongzi Zhang, Gongzi Xi, Gongzi Hong and other sons with both civil and military skills and outstanding ability to the local government to serve as feudal officials. ”

"The king trusted them, so he gave them special privileges, so that the princes were different from the ordinary county guards, except that they did not have the right to make diplomatic relations, collect taxes, and levy troops, and the power of the princes in the county was no different from that of the king."

At that time, the old minister had already guessed that the king might love his son and wanted to implement the feudal system. I don't know, did the old minister guess wrong? ”

“……”

When Qing Ji heard this, he smiled and said, "Uncle, I won't tell you anything, the widow does have the intention to implement the sub-feudal system. But, not at home, but in a land outside the territory. ”

"The newly established county of Wu is a mixed bag, and it needs a strong figure to sit in charge."

"Ordinary people, even if they are capable, the widow may not be trustworthy, but the widow's son is different, at least they dare not turn their backs on the widow and damage the interests of the Wu State during the widow's lifetime."

Ji Za asked: "If the queen is the queen, can the prince control the princes?" ”

"I can't help it, but it doesn't hurt."

Qingji said slowly: "Uncle, the idea of the widow is to implement the county system in the country, and in the land outside the territory, the feudal system is implemented and the princes are divided. ”

"Like the ancestor Taibo and the Shang Dynasty's Jizi, how much foundation can be created depends only on personal ability. The rest is left unattended. ”

Taber and Miko are both very capable and virtuous characters.

After Taber and Zhongyong avoided Jingman, they settled in Merry.

The indigenous inhabitants believed that Taibo was virtuous, and there were more than 1,000 families who followed Taibo, and supported him as the local monarch, respectfully called him Wu Taibo, and called himself "Ju Wu".

Zi's surname, named Xu Yu, Yin Ren, he is the son of Shang King Wending, the younger brother of Shang Emperor Yi, and the uncle of Shang King Emperor Xin.

Jizi official Taishi, because of its fief and Ji, so called Jizi, he and Weizi, Bigan are equally famous, known as the "three sages of the end of Yin".

When the Shang and Zhou dynasties changed, Jizi took advantage of the chaos to flee to Jishan, where he lived a life of idle clouds and wild cranes for a period of time.

After King Wu destroyed Shang and built Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, who was eager for talent, visited Taihang, found Jizi in Lingchuan, and earnestly asked for advice on the principles of governing the country.

Jizi taught the statement of "Hongfan Jiuchou" to King Wu, and was known as Jizi Mingyi in history.

King Wu of Zhou wanted to invite Jizi out of the mountain, but he did not want to be a submissive citizen of Zhou, so he refused to go out of the mountain again, and King Wu had no choice but to leave.

Afraid that King Wu would come to invite him again, after King Wu left, he quickly led his disciples and a large number of old and old people from a group of merchants to leave Jishan and go east.

It is said that when they arrived at the shore of the Yellow Sea, they took a raft and drifted eastward.

A few days later, I landed on an island, and because I saw the beautiful mountains and rivers, the grass in the sky, and a bright scene, I called that place "North Korea".

Since then, more than 5,000 people led by Miko have settled there.

Later, when King Wu of Zhou knew that Jizi was far away from the East, he sent someone to Korea to make Jizi the king of Korea, and invited Jizi to return to his hometown to visit......

Qing Ji's idea of dividing the princes is probably with the lions of the animal kingdom, and when the young male lions grow up, they will be driven out, so that they can set up their own doors and reproduce their own races.