Although the family deliberately concealed it, there was no secret in the village, and after a long time, the extraordinaryness of this child slowly spread out.

This day was Liu Jizu's third birthday, and in the afternoon, Liu Laohan and Liu Zhu were packing up farm tools and preparing to work in the field. Mr. Tian, who had never been in contact with him, suddenly came to their house.

Mr. Tian is dressed as a literati, with a thin figure and elegant manners, his name is Tian Fengnian, and he is nearly seventy years old. I heard that he was a famous literati in Xinzhou City, and he moved to a neighboring village two years ago. Although he was successful, he was not interested in fame, and was obsessed with learning and teaching, and was highly respected in the local area.

Liu Laohan and Liu Zhu both knew him, but they had never dealt with him, and when they saw him coming, they hurriedly saluted and let him enter the hall and sit down.

Mr. Tian saw that although the Liu family was poor, they were neat and neat, and although the utensils were rough, they were all clean, and it was comfortable to look at. Mr. Tian nodded and said with a smile: "Your home is so clean!"

Liu Laohan was very happy when he heard Mr. Tian's praise, "I won't tell you the truth, our house was not so clean before." Since his step-ancestor could speak, he thought the house was dirty, so he asked us to clean it up, and now he also helps clean it up. ”

"Oh! That's really rare!" Mr. Tian was even more surprised, he said a few more polite words, and then went straight to the point, "I heard that your baby is very smart, can you show me, if it is suitable, if you are also willing, you can follow me to read and read." ”

Liu Laohan and Liu Zhu were happy at first, but they were a little worried, Liu Laohan asked: "Of course it's good to be able to study with Mr., but he is only three years old, can he do it?"

"Three years old is a little too young, but I heard that your baby is not ordinary, just call to see it, if not, just wait, but I'm old, I don't know how many years I can live!"

When Liu Laohan heard this, he hurriedly called Liu Zhu into the house and called Liu Jizu up.

Liu Jizu was taking a nap, and he was dragged off the bed by his father, saying that a teacher was coming and asked him to hurry up to meet the guests.

Liu Jizu had just fallen asleep, and although he was reluctant, he still yawned and rubbed his eyes and walked out of the back room.

Mr. Tian had already observed him, and he was even happier to see him up close. I saw that this little child looked like Liu Zhu for three points and his mother for seven points, but he inherited all the advantages, with a full forehead, bright eyes, and big ears, which was a blessing. The clothes on the body were changed from the old clothes of adults, some of them were worn, and they were patched, but they were very clean. There is also a dark red wooden bead with silver lines tied around the neck with a red rope, which is probably the lightning strike wood that the villagers say. He is still small, but he is obviously different from children of the same age, he walks very steadily, and he does not have the ignorance of children.

Liu Jizu came out to see Mr. Tian, and he didn't need to be instructed by an adult, and immediately saluted the outsiders decently.

Mr. Tian nodded and asked, "I heard that you are very smart, would you like to study with me?"

When Liu Jizu heard this, he first raised his head and looked at Mr. Tian carefully for a while, and then suddenly had an idea in his heart, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Mr. is above, please accept the disciple's worship!"

When Mr. Tian saw it, he was overjoyed, thinking that this kid was indeed a little unusual, he would do this at such a young age, and he helped him up while laughing.

Liu Laohan and Liu Zhu were a little embarrassed, Liu Laohan rubbed his hands and asked timidly: "Mr. Tian, I heard that you have a self-set museum there, and the tuition fee is very expensive. You have also seen the conditions of our family, and we can't afford to pay a few pennies a year, so I don't know if we can afford it?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I took the initiative to come to you, and I should not charge a penny. But the master set the rules, and the restraint is still required, and the etiquette cannot be abolished, and the knowledge cannot be passed on lightly. Well...... How about you send me a load of firewood every month?" Mr. Tian thought that there was a firewood forest in the village not far from here, and it was very convenient to cut firewood, so he made such a request.

Liu Laohan and Liu Zhu were overjoyed when they heard that they were just chopping an extra load of firewood every month, and hurriedly saluted and thanked Mr. Tian.

Mr. Tian was not polite, accepted the courtesy, explained a few precautions to Liu Jizu, and made an appointment to go back to school tomorrow.

Liu Laohan and Liu Zhu didn't go to the fields in the afternoon, and were busy preparing various things for Liu Jizu to go to school in the afternoon.

Early the next morning, Liu Zhu's daughter-in-law tidied up Liu Jizu, dressed neatly, and went to Mr. Tian's house with a schoolbag.

After Liu Jizu could speak, he learned that their village was called Dongwang Village, a small village along the Mutu River, located in the middle of the Taihang Mountains, under the jurisdiction of Dingxiang County, the capital of Xinzhou. Mr. Tian lives in Xiwang Village, which is separated by a stone bridge only by the Mutu River.

Although Liu Jizu is young, his legs and feet are sharp, and he has already run around him, and he ran to the door of Mr. Tian's house after a while.

Mr. Tian's family is a famous family in Xinzhou, and many of the ancestors and children of the clan are officials. He originally lived in Xinzhou City, but he didn't like the hustle and bustle of the city, and after his wife died a few years ago, he traveled everywhere to find a place to retreat.

On the day Liu Jizu was born, he happened to travel here, and he liked that it was located in the middle of nowhere, the villagers were simple, the scenery was beautiful, there were mountains and rivers, and the fields in the river valley were quite fertile. And on the same day, he also heard about the strange birth of Liu Jizu in the neighboring village, and he was very interested. He thought that this was an extraordinary life, just to see what he had done, so he bought land and built a house here, and moved here the next year to live permanently.

Liu Jizu looked around and saw that Mr. Tian's house was very remote, and there were no people far away. Behind the house is a large field with the Mutu River on the left and a small forest on the right, a little far from the rest of the village.

He made up his mind and knocked on the door, and in a moment an old man of fifty or sixty years old came and opened the door. When the old man saw the villain Liu Jizu, he grinned happily with his missing front teeth, "Oh, hey, isn't this Liu Jizu of the old Liu family! It's not easy to come to study at such a young age!"

When Liu Jizu saw it, it was Lao Liaotou, a servant of Mr. Tian's family, and he also pretended to salute the old man.

The old man was even happier, and hurriedly let him in.

Mr. Tian's house is a two-entry house with a small garden, and Mr. Tian lives in the west wing of the front as soon as he enters.

The old man let him in, pointed to a table, and said, "Sir, you will sit here." ”

Liu Jizu put away his schoolbag and sat upright waiting for the teacher to come to class.

After a while, three more children came to the school. The three children all knew him, and they were the children of relatively well-off families in the neighborhood, and they were all seven or eight years old. When they saw Liu Jizu, who was only three years old, they were very curious, and surrounded him, touching his head this one, pinching his face, and teasing him.

Liu Jizu was about to lose his temper with these presumptuous little boys, when Mr. Tian coughed and paced in. When the three children heard this, they immediately returned to their places, and they all stood up to salute Mr. Tian.

Mr. Tian sat them down and began to teach them, "My last hall was in Xinzhou City, and you are the fifth class of students I teach, and the first class of students I teach here, and maybe your last class of students." I hope you can restrain yourself, study hard, and learn happily. As Confucius said, "Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy." 'Listen, I only discipline, I don't care about the church, how much you can learn depends on your personal creation, if you don't obey discipline, I will have to send you home.' ”

Several of the children stood up and saluted.

Mr. Tian waved his hand, asked them to sit down, and said slowly: "Today, I will enlighten you and talk about our Chinese civilization inheritance and outstanding figures. This is my husband Yi Fuzi, Wang Fuzi, Zeng Fuzi and others summed up, I will summarize it briefly, although I dare not say that it is right, you have the right to know a rough idea first, so that you can have a plan. Then let's read and read again, and you have to listen carefully.

Before the advent of civilization, people and animals, like animals, also lived in nature, hunting for a living, although it was a wool to drink blood, but to enjoy the nature of nature, this is also happy and worry-free. But the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, for various reasons, man finally distinguishes himself from the beasts, thinks that he has wisdom, or more wisdom, and leaves the original natural paradise, and can only rely on lifelong labor to make a living, so that civilization was born.

The Chinese civilization has a long history, but because there is no record of the history before the appearance of writing, most of it is passed on by word of mouth, and for some other purposes, there are many exaggerated and untruthful points, including Pangu, Nuwa, and Fuxi have evolved into characters in myths and legends, which is extremely difficult to verify. After the appearance of writing, it has been much better, and what we learn now is mostly compiled from the records of the ancients, but after all, it is very old, and it is inevitable that there will be fallacies, and you must be aware of this.

The origin of the word Huaxia is unknown, and some gentlemen say that the Chinese, the beautiful clothes, the summer, and the big also. It is said that we have the beauty of Chinese costumes and the great etiquette, so it is called Huaxia, and we are considered civilized to distinguish it from the barbaric Siyi. There is also a gentleman who said that Huazhi, Huaye, refers to Xiyue Huashan, Huashan is the root of Huaxia, and the earliest civilized tribes may have arisen around Huashan. Xiazhi, Xia Ye, refers to the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Yellow River is our mother river, and many of the earliest tribes are on both sides of the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

The tribes around Huashan are called Zhuhua, and the tribes in the lower reaches of the Yellow River are called Zhuxia, which together are Huaxia. But it is not easy to put together, it is a very long process, and the people who have made outstanding contributions to this are the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, so we still regard the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor as the first ancestors of Chinese civilization.

Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor sowed a hundred grains, made clothes and crowns, built boats and cars, and composed music rhythms, united with the Yandi tribe to conquer Dongyi and Jiuli and unify China, becoming the leader of the Yanhuang tribal alliance.

It may be that the Yan Emperor of the Shennong clan tasted a hundred herbs and prospered medicine, and made good use of fire to make utensils, after the defeat of the Yellow Emperor in the Battle of Hanquan, the Yandi tribe and the Yellow Emperor tribe united to defeat the Chiyou Jiuli tribe, thus gradually forming the prototype of the Chinese nation.

Therefore, the Chinese people still call themselves 'descendants of Yan and Huang', and of course there is also the leader of the Jiuli tribe who was jointly defeated by the two emperors of Yan and Huang, Chi You. He was good at farming, good at metallurgy, making five soldiers, and revitalizing writing, and was defeated by the Yan and Huang Emperors in the Battle of Zhuolu. Part of the Jiuli people integrated into China, and part of them moved to the south, and he also made great contributions to Chinese civilization.

These three people, or three tribes, competed with each other and fought endlessly before the unification of China, and they all tried to be strong in order to become stronger. In addition to regular warfare, they used their respective advantages to form their own secret organizations in secret places as an auxiliary to the war. The three secret organizations assisted their respective clans in their conquest and competition in various forms. ”

Liu Jizu was stunned when he heard this, what Mr. Tian said earlier is more systematic and novel than the knowledge he learned in his previous life, but there is still a point of fit, and it is not difficult to understand. But what I said later didn't match the history in my memory at all, so I couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly sat up and pricked up my ears to listen carefully.

"The Yellow Emperor built the Xuanyuan Cave somewhere in the current Qinling Huashan, the Yan Emperor built the Shennong Valley somewhere in the present-day Daba Mountain Shennongjia, and Chiyou first built Jiuli Village somewhere on the eastern coast, and later moved south to a place in the East China Sea after his defeat and changed its name to Jiuli Island.

At the beginning of their establishment, these organizations were involved in a wide range of duties, including the deduction of combat skills and tactics, the development of advanced weapons and equipment, the development of advanced technologies such as medical technology, the collection of all kinds of knowledge, the spying on the enemy's intelligence, the protection of their own leaders, the implementation of special tasks, and so on.

But after the unification of China, the meaning of the existence of the three organizations disappeared. But the three organizations were already extremely powerful thanks to the full support of their respective clans, and they were reluctant to disband. Therefore, due to different reasons, all three organizations broke away from their original tribes and became independent secret organizations.

The mission and purpose of the three organizations had to be adjusted as a result, but in the early years of independence, due to the large number of grievances accumulated by the respective positions of the three organizations and the years of conquest, they were still fighting each other, but the way of fighting was slowly changing. During this period, the fighting techniques originating from the battlefield began to transform into various martial arts after a long and systematic improvement.

After a period of fierce fighting, they realized that they had to change and unify the way they competed, otherwise all three parties could be demoralized or even die. For this reason, they carried out the first meeting at the top of Taiping, Dongyue, which was the 'Taiping Alliance'. They agreed to compete with each other by raising new tribes to participate in the world's strife, and to see who would be the strongest and eventually become the new chief, and so on for a long time.

First, the Xia tribe rose with the support of Xuanyuan Cave, and Xia obtained water conservancy and city building technology, and gradually became stronger. Their leader, Yu, also became more and more famous because of his meritorious work in controlling the water, and later became the leader of the tribal alliance. Yu changed the way of producing the leaders of the tribal alliance, which had been practiced for many years, and changed it to a hereditary system. He passed the position of leader to his son Qi, established the Xia Dynasty, and began the era of 'family under the world'.

Xia used water conservancy and city building technology to operate water conservancy, build agriculture, build palaces, and build cities, and the tribal alliance gradually became a city-state, and the national Zuo lasted for nearly 500 years. Xia passed to Ji, the qi was about to run out, and the Shang clan, which was supported by Jiuli Island, seized the opportunity and became stronger. They acquired the technology of commerce and bronze smelting, and the leader Tang defeated Xia Wei with the assistance of Yi Yin and others, and established the Shang Dynasty.

Merchants are good at metallurgy, trade, heavy industry and commerce, civilization continues to develop, and the country has lasted for more than 400 years. When Shang reached the king of Zhou, the number of qi was also exhausted, and the Zhou people, who had the support of Shennong Valley, took advantage of the situation, they obtained more advanced agricultural technology, and the leader of the Zhou tribe, King Wu, inherited the will of King Wen, and with the assistance of the Duke of Zhou, the Duke of Zhao, and the Duke of Tai, defeated the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty.

The Zhou people were good at farming, administering benevolent government, establishing patriarchal law, practicing feudalism, dividing well fields, making ceremonies and making music, and the country lasted for nearly 800 years. After the Zhou destroyed the Shang, it was divided. Among them, the Zhou State is the most powerful, and the monarch is the co-lord of the world, called the Son of Heaven, who has the four seas and implements the primogeniture inheritance system. The brothers of the Son of Heaven, sons other than the eldest son, meritorious officials, in-laws, allies, vassals, and descendants of the defeated Shang clan were made princes. Zhou Tianzi divided the land outside the Zhou State to them, such as the Zhou Gong Feng Lu State, the Zhao Gong Feng Yan State, the Tai Gong Feng Qi State, and the Shang descendants Feng Song State.

Therefore, the princes have a country, called the king, which is divided into five classes, namely, the prince, the prince, the uncle, the son, and the male. There is a sealed soil between countries, and trees are planted on both sides, which is called the establishment of a feudal land. The princes have certain obligations to the Son of Heaven and must assist the Son of Heaven in leveling the world. The princes also practiced primogeniture, and his brothers, vassals, and other sons were made doctors.

The doctor also has a fief, and the doctor's fief is called Caiyi, which is to establish a family, and the head of the family is called the family king. They were to assist the princes in governing the country, and they also practiced the system of primogeniture. The doctor's brother and other sons became scholars, and the scholars were no longer divided, and they assisted the doctor as retainers.

Therefore, there is no Hengtian, and they can only rely on their skills to eat, so they must cultivate themselves. Although the scholars were the lowest level of nobility in the Zhou, they were also able to obtain a better education, including erudite scribes, brave warriors, skilled warriors, resourceful strategists, and alchemists who were astrological and so on.

The Zhou was divided into two periods, the Western Zhou and the Eastern Zhou. The Western Zhou Dynasty was the era of the Son of Heaven, and the so-called 'Lile Expedition came from the Son of Heaven'. During this period, each vassal state developed independently, and the three secret organizations also cultivated and developed their own forces, and the world was relatively peaceful. But with the passage of time, the Zhou state slowly declined, and the vassal states slowly became stronger. When it came to the period of King Youwang in the Western Zhou Dynasty, because of problems such as the succession to the throne, the descendants of the Jiang family united with the dog Rong to break through the national capital Hojing.

King You was killed, and the Western Zhou Dynasty ended. The son of King You ascended the throne with the help of the descendants and was the king of Zhou Ping. King Ping moved his capital to Luoyi, which is now Luoyang, which is east of Hojing, and has been considered to be among the world's middle of the world since ancient times, and even called 'China'. Songshan Mountain to the east of Luoyi was also established as Zhongyue, and since then the pattern of the five mountains has been formed, which basically demarcates the general scope of Chinese civilization, and of course this boundary has been greatly expanded now.

Since the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, at the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the territory under the control of the Zhou State has decreased, the Rong Di has continued to invade, the royal family has declined even more, but the vassal states have become stronger, and they have slowly become the protagonists of the times. The patriarchal system, the Jingtian system, and the feudal system were destroyed because of the 'bad etiquette and happy collapse', and this period was named Spring and Autumn because of the "Spring and Autumn" compiled by Confucius.

Since then, the troubled times have begun, and the world has been in constant dispute. These three secret organizations also began to become active, and although they fought with each other, they all considered themselves to be the authentic sects of China. In the face of foreign invasion and the new situation in which Chinese civilization was in danger, the three organizations held the second alliance in the Songshan Sanhuang Village, and adjusted the way of the contest to 'fight the alliance with foreign countries'. They agreed to maintain the Chinese civilization by supporting each of the princes, resisting Rong Di on the one hand, and seeing who could dominate the Central Plains on the other.

This time, the first Qi Huan Gong supported by Jiuli Island won, with the assistance of Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya and others, he developed the economy, enriched the country and strengthened the army, and was the first to play the banner of 'respecting the king and destroying the country', the princes of Jiuhe, resisted Rong Di, maintained the Chinese civilization, and the first to establish the hegemony.

Then there was the Duke Wen of Jin supported by Xuanyuan Dong, with the assistance of Xianzhen and Zhao Yu and others, he selected and appointed meritocracy, reformed and strengthened the army, and joined Qin Qi outside, and the An-Song system Zheng, and King Qin defeated Chu and became the second overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period.

The third universally recognized overlord is the King of Chuzhuang supported by Shennong Valley, who assisted Wu Ju and his uncle Ao and others, and became the third overlord with the assistance of Wu Ju and Uncle Ao.

During and after that, there were Song Xianggong who wanted to dominate the Central Plains, Qin Mugong who dominated the West, and Wu Wang Lu, who had defeated Chu, and Goujian, the Yue King who destroyed Wu, and they also joined the process of fighting for hegemony, but their influence was not as good as the previous three overlords, so the last two hegemons are controversial.

These four princes are also assisted by many talents such as Mu Yi, Baili Xi, You Yu, Meng Mingshi, Wu Zixu, Sun Wu, Fan Li and Wen Chong, but the origins of these people are no longer simple. Some of them are still cultivated or sent by the three organizations, and some are descendants or disciples of those who were sent many years ago. Some have even gone through many generations, and have long since broken away from these three organizations and become hereditary doctors in the vassal states. Of course, there are many others who have nothing to do with the three organizations at all. As a result, the battle for supremacy gradually became chaotic and gradually broke away from the control and expectations of the three organizations.

In the late Spring and Autumn period, this trend intensified, the world became more chaotic, the methods of struggle of various countries became more cruel, and the situation faced by the three organizations also changed dramatically. In the past, only about half of the talents were not cultivated by them, but now most of the people who are active in the political arena of various countries are not directly related to them and are not under their control.

The ancestors of these people, many of whom were directly cultivated or indirectly related to these three organizations, became doctors in various countries by virtue of their respective merits, and began to cultivate their own forces and talents, and slowly became stronger. Later, some doctors even replaced the original princes and became the new monarchs, and also appeared on the stage of history.

The more influential thing is that the Tian family, the doctor of the Qi State, replaced Jiang Qi, and the three doctors of the Han State, Zhao, and Wei of the Jin State divided the Jin State, and the Warring States period began from then on. This period was named after the "Warring States Policy" compiled by Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty. The battles of the Warring States period were different from those of the Spring and Autumn Period, which were extremely cruel, with many people killing people, rivers of blood, mountains of corpses, and moral degradation.

At this time, the attitudes of the princes and doctors towards these three organizations also began to change. On the one hand, they still want to continue to use the power of the organization to fight their opponents, on the other hand, they also begin to fear the strength of the organization, and they are more worried that they will help other vassal states, so all vassal states have made demands on them.

At that time, there were mainly seven vassal states, namely Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin, which were the 'Seven Heroes of the Warring States'. Their demands are nothing more than to get more talent in their own country and prohibit them from providing support to other countries. But this is a request that the three organizations cannot agree to and cannot do. Because in order to increase the probability of winning the competition, they did not put their eggs in one basket, but placed bets and arranged people in multiple vassal states.

Moreover, since independence, the organization has never been attached to any vassal state or organization. Therefore, in the early Warring States period, the three organizations were banned, attacked, and even encircled and suppressed one after another. They were all weakened to varying degrees, and only temporarily survived because they were well-organized, secretive, remote, and powerful. ”