Chapter 64: Shuangmeng
The Meng family of the King of Shu has a long history and originated from the surname Ji. The earliest recorded ancestor is the son of the Spring and Autumn Guardian Kingdom, the character Gongmeng. Later, he took the character as his surname, referred to as Meng's.
The Meng clan founded the country in Shu in the late stage of the great fission of heaven and earth, and after several crises of the country's severance, it has continued tenaciously to this day, and the reason is inhumane. It has experienced not only the period of the dictatorship of the monarch, but also the puppet period of being hollowed out by the warriors and powerful ministers.
The court structure of ancient Huaxia began in the Xia Dynasty, which was strict and reasonable, and the system of three princes and nine kings had been perfected during the Zhou Dynasty. Even today, among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, there are still three kingdoms of Qin, Wei, and Han that use this system.
Of course, some of these contents have been substantially changed, and the principle of separation of powers between the military, the law, and the government has been established.
Some other states, such as the present-day Shu Kingdom, implemented a more complex court structure, similar to the system of three provinces and six ministries that began to emerge during the Sui Dynasty in Baiya's previous life.
However, the three provinces and six ministries only refer to "government", and there is also a cabinet above it, which is directly responsible to the emperor. On the "law", Shu used the Imperial History Division, the Inspectorate, and the Dali Temple to judge the emperor's relatives.
In terms of "soldier" power, Shu established a system of five military governors and county government soldiers directly under the imperial court.
To a large extent, these superstructures were designed to weaken imperial power, but they embodied the principles of mutual supervision and balance.
The King of Shu is not completely hollowed out, this world is still a world where monarchy is supreme after all. As long as the contemporary King of Shu is diligent and hardworking, he can always grab a lot of power of his own from the cabinet and the military. But if the king of Shu is mediocre and has the intervention of the hundreds of schools of thought and the forces of the sect, the ministers and generals can set up the emperor and let them directly become puppets waiting for death.
The power of the Xianwu Sect has profoundly affected the royal family, but in this world, they are equivalent to national-level nuclear weapons and cannot be overthrown, so the royal families can only learn to adapt.
In fact, this is good for them, at least unlike the world of Bai Ya's previous life, except for the severance of the royal bloodline, there is almost no change of dynasty in this world. The reason makes the royal family very sad, just because it is not necessary.
It doesn't matter if the emperor is mediocre and the court is corrupt...... Zhuzi Baijia and Xianwu Sect will be reshuffled, anyway, there are many children of the royal family, it would be good to change a puppet, there is no need to change the royal family at all, and even the lower-class people can't notice it.
They can only feel "Oh, the new king is wise and powerful, and he knows that the life of the small people is not easy", where do they understand that the upper echelons of the court and the local government have been cleaned, and a whole stubble of people has been replaced.
The Xianwu Sect has the strength to do it, and the hundreds of schools of thought are not afraid to lift the table and clean up the officials of the entire court, because they are the cradle of cultivating officials, and there are more students who have not been officials.
Although these people have a little less administrative experience, when they can let the hundreds of schools of thought start the big reshuffle, the country is already rotten to the roots, and it is completely tolerable to make a little empirical mistake.
Therefore, the Xianwu Sect and the Hundred Schools of Thought are not only the important weapons of the state, but also the sword of Damocles on the heads of the royal family, so that all the royal families attack and suffer, love and hate.
The royal family of this world is not a rice worm of "why not eat minced meat", the king of Shu and his children have been educated to clean themselves and love themselves since they were young, and they will even be kicked out of the palace at a certain age.
On a good night tonight, Meng Mian, the king of Shu, is taking his group of concubines and children to climb high and look far away, watching the lantern street in front of the palace from afar on the Golden Bird Terrace.
Meng Mian has been on the throne for about seven years, only in his forties, in the prime of life, shrewd and capable, a long-sleeved and good dancing king.
He believes in the study of Huang Lao politically, allowing the people to recuperate, and at the same time deliberately making friends with the major immortals in the territory, and his own morality can't find too many ~ faults. After seven years of smooth transition, it is now firmly on the throne.
Meng Mian now has nine children, six sons, and three daughters. Four of them have reached adulthood and are not around now, or they have "gone out on patrol", or they have entered the Xianwu Sect to practice.
The young prince Bai Ya had seen before in "Another Bowl" was ranked sixth, named Meng Min.
Just when Bai Ya was entangled in Feng Yang's reminder, Meng Min was also standing on the Golden Bird Terrace with his brows furrowed, looking worried.
"Nephew, what makes you unhappy?" Meng Min's ears suddenly sounded a crisp and pleasant voice like a lark.
Meng Min turned his head to look and found that it was Wang Gu Meng Tian, and a hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes.
Meng Tian is the youngest sister of his father Wang Meng Mian, and has been worshipping in Qingcheng Xianmen since she was a child. Although the two are a generation apart, there is not much difference in age, Meng Tian is only six years older than him, and he has just turned eighteen this year.
Speaking of Meng Tian, he is the most special child of the former king of Shu.
More than 20 years ago, there was chaos in the southern Xinjiang of Shu Kingdom, and a few small tribes rebelled and wanted to break the soil and open up the country. The contemporary Shu kings adopted the strategy offered by Confucian scribes to pacify one and strike at the other, gradually splitting the unity of the rebellious army.
In the end, he agreed to marry the princess of one of the barbarian kings, which caused infighting among the rebels and completely quelled the turmoil.
But in that turmoil, many people died in Shu, even the Imperial Forest Army was disabled, and the city of Chengdu was very vegetarian, so the barbarian princess was not welcomed in Shu. If you go out on the street, you will probably have tomatoes thrown away.
The barbarian infighting also left hidden dangers, and the princess's clan was quickly defeated by other tribes. The contemporary king of Shu was happy that these barbarians weakened his own strength, so he ignored the princess's pleas, sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, and watched his father-in-law's head being made into a wine vessel.
As a result, the princess was depressed all day long, and soon died, leaving only Meng Tian, who was just full moon at the time.
Because of the background of the concubine, as soon as the court of Shu saw Meng Tian, they would remember the humiliating history of the former king who was forced to marry a barbarian girl, so she was also not welcomed in the palace. And this princess was born with dwarfism, and she belongs to the Lori body type that will never grow up, and even the former king of Shu who is her biological father doesn't like her.
Now that Meng Mian has succeeded to the throne, Meng Tian's situation has not improved. She was sent to Qingcheng since she was a child, and the name of beauty is called "Qingcheng Practice", which is actually to let her get out, and it is best to accompany the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha forever.
This situation did not change suddenly until the birth of Meng Min, the sixth son of Meng Mian, the king of Shu.
Meng Min was born precocious, not only smart, but also very good at being a man, and the court liked him very much. But Meng Min likes to be close to this aunt with Lori's size, and every time there is a New Year's holiday, she will send someone to invite Meng Tian to Qingcheng and return to the palace to celebrate the festival with everyone.
Because more than 20 years have passed since that chaos, and the scars have begun to heal, the palace has not had much resistance to this matter, but praised Meng Min for his kindness and filial piety, which has given him a lot of good reputation.
However, only Meng Min knew that he deliberately curryed favor with this Aunt Lori, not to gain a good reputation.
"Auntie, my nephew is fine, but he is a little unwell!" At this time, seeing Meng Tian asking, Meng Min immediately looked back and smiled.
"Then go back to the palace and rest!" Meng Tian stood on tiptoe, touched Meng Min's hair with a smile, and made it into a chicken nest before stopping.
Meng Min smiled bitterly, this is the price of approaching Meng Tian.
Those who alienated Meng Tian, including Meng Mian, the king of Shu, didn't know that Meng Tian was actually a genius, a real rune array genius, who had just been accepted as a disciple by a rune array powerhouse from the Qingcheng faction!
In the thousands of years of Qingcheng history, there are less than 100 Qingcheng disciples who worship the mountain gate before the age of eighteen, and it can be said that there is only one peerless genius in decades. Among them, the disciples who are famous for the rune array are even rarer.
It's just that geniuses have quirks, perhaps because of the psychological trauma he suffered at an early age, Meng Tian has developed two different personalities.
This former princess is dignified and quiet in front of outsiders, and she is wise and beautiful. In the eyes of those close to him, he is an unscrupulous little demon king, and his personality is tricky and eccentric, and he is better than the troublemaker Feng Yan.
"Then the nephew will retire first!"
Seeing Meng Tian's eyes glowing and his face full of regret, Meng Min withdrew with his legs, and even saved the effort of confessing to his father.
Meng Min got off the Golden Bird Terrace, and the brocade-clothed warrior with the eyes of an eagle owl was already waiting.
"Did you find that person?" Meng Min's face turned grim, and he leaned closer and asked softly.
"Back to the Lord, that person has been brought to the palace by his subordinates, but do you want to meet him now?" the brocade-clothed warrior replied with his head bowed.
"Good...... Slow, let me think again, think again!" Meng Min frowned and rubbed his temples gently.
The samurai's eyes flashed, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, it was rare for his young master to hesitate like tonight, and he couldn't help but secretly keep his mind on the person he brought.
Back at Hongyang Pavilion, Meng Min was still wandering left and right, unable to make up his mind.
"Hehe, Your Highness, it doesn't seem that you are sick, but that you have something in your heart, right?"
Just when Meng Min was irritable, a loud laugh suddenly came from the door, but it was a middle-aged scribe who came to visit Meng Min.
"Let the gentleman be worried!" Meng Min smiled and hugged his fists, and sat opposite the scribe.
"It is within my duty to solve the problems of the lord, I don't know why His Highness did not summon him before?"
"This matter is not humane, it's just a little private matter of mine!" Meng Min sighed, "Mr. is coming soon, it's better to play a game with me!"
"Your Highness's private affairs?" The middle-aged scribe changed color when he heard this, stood up angrily, and shook his long sleeves, "Your Highness is smart, how can you be depressed about a private matter, if you can't believe in Wen, you will retire!"
Meng Min saw the middle-aged scribe striding away, his eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't say anything to save him for the first time, until the scribe was about to cross the threshold, but he sighed quietly.
He didn't keep it anymore, but he was afraid that the two would leave a gap from now on, and it would be difficult to restore the relationship between master and slave in the past.
"Sir, stay, I say it's it!"
The middle-aged scribe smiled and turned around, he was good at everything, but sometimes he had too many things on his mind. Like a sponge, if you don't pinch it, he won't get out of the water.
Meng Min smiled bitterly, this time he was forced into a corner, and he had to say it if he didn't say it. also blamed himself for moving too much, so that the middle-aged scribe found an excuse for the seizure.
"Sir is very knowledgeable, I don't know if you have ever heard of a strange spirit?" a smile appeared on the corner of Meng Min's mouth.