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At the foot of Mount Tai.

"Is this the grave of the gentleman?" Lu Di looked at a barren mound and said in surprise.

The gentleman in Lu Di's mouth refers to the hundred miles of long river, when he fell into Tai'anyi, the first person to stand up and help himself establish Taishan Academy!

Dongmen Wuze nodded, his expression indescribably sad.

As a disciple of a hundred miles of long river, he was deeply ashamed that he was not by his side when the master died. After his death, he himself was imprisoned, and he did not keep filial piety for him.

Seeing this, Lu Di was extremely angry, a person who had made great contributions to the Qi country, and no one took care of his tomb after his death, which made Lu Di absolutely unacceptable, and he loudly reprimanded Tai'an Yi Ling: "Why is Mr.'s grave so barren? What do you eat in Taean Eup? ”

Tai'an Ling fluttered in fright when he heard this, and his mouth trembled, and he didn't know what to say.

Mo Zhai, the corrector of the Taishan Academy next to him, said in a deep voice at this time: "Your Majesty, before the death of the Baili Master, he said: He came from the earth and returned to the earth naked, don't bury him thickly, don't bury him with him, and don't let people add new soil to his grave every year, because he doesn't need it."

"He needs the scholars to forget him, just as he needs the people to forget the existence of air"

"For forgetting does not cause suffering to the living by his death."

"The Master does not want the living to suffer, at least not because of him"

"Therefore, for the Master: forgetting is the best remembrance."

"As his disciples, we respect his will, and we will carry it forward!" Speaking of the last sentence, Mo Zhai's tone was extremely firm, just like the green pine standing on the stone of Mount Tai.

Lu Di was silent when he heard this: Forgetting is the best commemoration! He squatted quietly in front of his short grave in the hundred-mile long river, looking at the fluffy grass and the rocks, and suddenly he couldn't help but shed tears.

He remembered the scene when he saw the hundred-mile long river for the first time at Sun Wu's wedding banquet, remembered the meticulous care and care when he lived in his house in Wuyanyi, and remembered the days when he and he played against him under the peach forest after the completion of the Taishan School Palace......

Thin burial! Master, you deserve our burial, deserve it!

Forget! Master, you deserve our remembrance, deserve it!

How many years in a blink of an eye, how many emotions and thousands of words in my heart, finally turned into the pantothenic acid in Lu Di's nasal cavity that could no longer hold back, and turned into the broken tombstone holding the hundred-mile long river.

The rest of the crowd also cried silently.

This is a great sage, a pure sage!

Perhaps, as the "Getaway" said, "To the man has no self, the god has no merit, and the saint has no name", and the sage of the hundred miles of the long river is "nameless, meritless, and selfless", he has not appeared in the official history, but there are some records in some barnyard official history.

But in Lu Di's era, a bright galaxy has been drawn, he doesn't want the living to remember him, will Lu Di follow his will?

No! He asked Zuo Qiu Ming to write a biography for the Baili family alone.

After Tai'an Lu Di gave the meritorious soldiers a reward, Ling Huazhou had full authority to arrange for the over-2,000 soldiers of the major battalions to unload their armor and return to the field, and returned to Linzi with only the elite division.

Outside Linzi City, the subjects who welcomed Lu Di back to the national capital lined up for nearly fifteen miles.

Lu Di was very disgusted by this practice, but he knew that Qi was now the first country in the world, and he was the first uncle in the world, so he naturally had this treatment to enjoy this.

Wu Zixu, Pu Yuhou, Yu Ying, Gongsun Xia, Yan Yu, Xian Zhang, Ran Yong, Yi Duo, Gao Chai...... The top figures in the court of Qi such as Fen Huang are all impressively listed.

Lu Di rode in a military chariot and slowly walked over with a mighty army that had won a great victory.

Suddenly, someone shouted, "Zieber! ”

Then countless people followed and chanted for Ziber to rise. Its sonic boom was thirty miles.

Listening to everyone's cheers, Lu Di couldn't help but glance at Wu Zixu, and said in his heart Wu Zixu's trick is wonderful!

Let some people who still want to pout themselves as kings temporarily shut their mouths.

Sure enough, some of the Qi doctors that Wu Zixu beat with this move were a little caught off guard, and they had to join the ranks when they listened to everyone's chanting.

Lu Di took the civil and military forces not to return to the city first, but went to the ancestral temple, put the newly won Zhuan Guoding and Qi Guoding into the ancestral temple, and then sacrificed.

After reciting the prayers and vows, Lu Di led the civil and military forces to circle around the front of the national tripods that Qi had won a few times, and said some old things about the death of the country, as well as the revelation of the Qi country.

The reason why Lu Di did this was to warn himself not to be proud, and secondly, to warn his ministers not to covet comfort and to have a sense of urgency at all times.

After doing this, Lu Di returned to Linzi City with Wenwu.

Linzi Palace, a busy scene at this time.

Seven or eight children were running around in the palace, and the temple people who took care of them looked at them nervously, afraid that one of them would accidentally bump into them.

Xizi Shi Yiguang looked at this scene from afar and fell into deep thought, she looked at Zheng Dan, who was still spinning, and said, "Sister, have you heard?" The husband brought back the two women. ”

Zheng Dan let out a sigh when she heard this, paused for the weaving work in her hand, and then continued her weaving.

Seeing this, Shi Yiguang hated that iron could not become steel, and she stepped forward to stop Zheng Dan from continuing to weave: "Sister, you know how to weave cloth and weave cloth, our family does not lack cloth, what is lacking is the heart of the monarch, do you understand?" ”

Zheng Dan smiled when he heard this: "Sister, you are just too idle to think nonsense, when will your husband not have us in his heart?" ”

"If there were us, he wouldn't have brought the two women back," Shi Yi said in a light qi.

Zheng Dan shook his head slightly: "Ah Dan, do you remember what I told you?" ”

"Don't fight, because fighting will only disgust your husband"

Shi Yiguang pouted when he heard this: "Sister, the cake is so big, if you don't fight for it, will the cake take the initiative to fall into your bowl?" ”

"Sister, we don't have to fight, but you have to think about Wen'er and Gui'er."

Speaking of this, Shi Yiguang stared at Zheng Dan's eyes tightly, as if he wanted to discover his sister's true thoughts through subtle observation.

Zheng Dan had no words and continued to spin her cloth. Shi Yiguang stomped his feet angrily when he saw this.

Lu Di has been fighting abroad for the past few years, and you in the harem are fighting for me, but you come and go. Especially Shi Yiguang and Fuji Yu.

The two even started talking directly.

According to common sense, Shi Yiguang, as a dowry lower than a concubine, is not qualified to argue with Mrs. Fujiyu.

However, since Teng Yu beat Wu and was destroyed, there have been calls in Qi to abolish her for the following reasons: first, she is the daughter of the dead country, and second, she did not give birth to a son-in-law.

And the one who has the highest voice for Mrs. Lizheng is Zheng Dan, because Zheng Dan is a person who shares hardships with Lu Di, and there is absolutely no flaw in his loyalty to Lu Di.

Most of these supporters were recruited by Lu Di in Wuyue. Of course, there are also people who oppose it, they oppose it because they support Yayu, one is noble, and the other is deep and righteous to Lu Di, and he is a childhood sweetheart.

Most of the people who support Yayu are people from Xiao Yi Guo, Zou Guo, Xu Guo and so on.

Of course, there are also people who support Fujiyu, most of whom are people from Wu State, such as Yan Yan. He thought that Mrs. Zheng could only be Fujiyu, and he also said that the future prince of Qi could only be the son of Fujiyu, otherwise the land of Wu annexed by Qi would be in danger of being lost.

After his words came out, there was an undercurrent surging inside and outside the court.

Lu Di is now thirty-five years old, and there are already a lot of children, but there is no prince in Qi for a long time, and the courtiers are naturally panicked.

The monarch is about to return to the palace. Gong Bo's happy day shouted in Linzi Palace.

Tengyu, Yayu, Zheng Dan, and Shi Yiguang were all overjoyed when they heard this, and they threw down the guys in their hands one after another, and began to bathe and change clothes and put on makeup under the operation of the palace maid.

And when the boys heard this, they all obediently stopped messing around, and went back to their own homes to find their own mothers.

The mighty guards escorted Lu Di into the palace, and as soon as he entered the palace, Lu Di saw Fuji Yu and a large family waiting for him.

"The concubine visits her husband"

Lu Di laughed: "No courtesy." After laughing, he hugged the little girl behind Fujiyu: "You are the widowed Xiaoyue'er, right?" ”

The girl stared at the crooked crescent moon and looked curiously at the strange bearded man in front of her: "How do you know?" ”

Lu Di was even more happy when she saw her daughter so cute: "Because the widow is your father!" Haha......"

Lu Di kissed her beloved daughter's tender face, and then put her down.

Then he looked at Lu Wen, his second son, oh not to be exact, the third son: "Wen'er, your body is a little stronger than the year before last!" ”

Lu Wen's face blushed timidly when he heard this. Lu Di knew that he didn't blame him, and then looked at a young boy with a tiger head and a tiger brain: "You are a calf, right?" ”

"It's the father, I'm the calf." Yayu's son was not afraid of Lu Di, and opened his mouth to come back.

Lu Di looked at him, then stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and praised, "Yes, better than when your father was as old as you." ”

When Lu Heng heard his father praise him, the laughing little tiger teeth leaked out.

Seeing Aiko like this, Yayu shook his head and was even a little worried. Aiko is so in the limelight, I really don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing?

"Dove, did you listen to your mother?" Lu Di pinched the chubby Lu Guidao.

Lu Di didn't know Lu Di and cried on the spot, Lu Di was very embarrassed, he was also fighting outside for three years and never went home, it was normal for his son not to know him.

Seeing this, Zheng Dan hurriedly went to comfort him, and Lu Di looked at a somewhat sturdy boy at this time: "You are a mandarin duck, right?" ”

The boy nodded, then called out to his father timidly. Lu Di went up and picked him up and said, "What about your mother, and your brother Yuan'er?" ”

Mandarin duck is Zhong Lichun's twin milk name for Lu Disheng.

Yang Er timidly said that his mother took his brother to collect mulberry in Wuyanyi.

Lu Di nodded, patted his little shoulder to encourage him, and finally looked at the second daughter Lu Yan, who at this time inherited the demeanor and appearance of her mother Xizi, and was already a lovely girl.

Lu Di took out a beautiful pearl necklace from her arms and hung it around Lu Yan's neck, then pinched her Qiong's nose and smiled: "Our Yan'er is now a big girl, I don't know which stinky boy will be cheaper in the future?" ”

Lu Yan's face blushed when she heard this, and she said coquettishly: "Father! ”

Lu Di finally nodded, took the children's little hands, and walked towards the palace.

The banquet is a family pleasure, which is not a big deal.

At night, Lu Di rested in the Fuji Yu house, and Teng Yu said that he wanted to take Nanzi's daughter and Lu Tang into the palace to live, and Lu Di readily agreed.

The next day, hundreds of officials congratulated. Lu Di first listened to the report of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and then listened to the report of the Great Sect's Mansion, and finally nodded with satisfaction.

Nowadays, although the Qi State has been fighting for many years, fortunately, the promotion of advanced farming methods and iron tools, as well as the import of a large number of war slaves, have not caused the phenomenon of barren fields. On the contrary, a large amount of barren land has been reclaimed, and the wind and rain have been good in recent years, so the grain harvest has been bumper year after year.

According to Wu Zixu's report, the grain in the treasury is now old and has not yet been eaten, and new ones have been collected.

Lu Di was very happy about this, but he did not reduce his taxes because of this, because he knew that there were still many big things that Qi had not done, and it would take money and food to do these big things.

An increase in grain production will inevitably lead to an increase in population. The population of Qi has grown explosively, and according to Wu Zixu, there are now 5 million people on the register.

Lu Di was still not satisfied when he heard that the population was five million, after all, the territory of Qi now has three provinces in the future, oh to be precise, most of Shandong, all of Jiangsu, most of Anhui, and some of Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Zhejiang and other provinces, the total population of such a large territory is less than the population of a Central Plains city in later generations, do you think Lu Di will be satisfied?

Think about the mere Zhao State during the Warring States Period, his population, a Changping Battle can mobilize 450,000 soldiers, which means that the Zhao State has a population of at least 4.5 million, but what about the great and prosperous Qi State now?

However, looking at the excited expressions of the ministers, Lu Di was not good at pouring cold water.

The population of five million is actually quite a lot, because Wu Zixu counted the extremely high class of the gentry, not the ronin and slaves. If you add them, the population will exceed 10 million.

10 million, even if Lu Di conscripts 1 out of 10, that is 1 million troops.

A million troops swept the world.

However, with Lu Di's temperament, even if he knew that the Qi State had a population of 10 million, he would not easily launch a war with millions of troops.

Because few of the wars fought by millions of troops recorded in the history books of later generations were victorious in the end, Lu Di would not do it, which was too risky.

The food population is also selected by the appointment of officials, because the continuous expansion of the land of Qi has caused a temporary shortage of officials. This has led to the problem of corruption in the administration of officials due to the lack of strict selection of personnel in the use of personnel. Although many people were checked by the patrol press of various ministries, and many people were also cut down by Wu Zixu, there were always fish that slipped through the net.

Lu Di also has a headache about this, this is a thousand-year-old disease, even if it is more than 2,000 years later, there is nothing to be done.

On the one hand, Lu Di could only give orders to the Tai'an School Palace and the Lixia School Palace, so that they could strengthen the cultivation of talents, especially in virtue, and on the other hand, after the corrupt officials were arrested, they set up a monument in their hometown, and let the scholars go to his monument to spit in front of his monument after sacrificing the ancestral gods every year, so as to deter future generations.

approved some old matters that had not been resolved for a long time, and talked about the latest situation outside the country, and finally Lu Di looked at Wu Zixu: "Xiangguo, your enemy and widow have not forgotten, at the end of August this year, the widow took you to Chu State for revenge." ”