The Spring and Autumn period was not far away, so many vassal states still retained primitive military democracies. The Chinese people, that is, the high-ranking citizens, have greater political rights, and sometimes when they encounter a major event of survival, they will invite all the people to the temple in the city to discuss and vote in line to solve the problem.

However, King Zhou Li of the Western Zhou Dynasty did not get the support of the people, so he made a big deal of Shanze patents, and also forbade the people to speak and discuss politics, so as to prevent the mouth of the people, even more than Sichuan. As a national reserve, they simply rioted at the instigation of politicians, knocked King Li out of power, and created an extremely special "republican administration" in history.

As the boundaries between the country and the field gradually disappeared, the lively Greco-Roman citizens' assembly became less popular, and the threshold for public discussion gradually increased. For example, the public discussion of the Zhao family is now only attended by high-ranking retainers at the level of doctors, as well as the sons of the sect master.

In the past, Zhao Wuxian's status was low, so no one invited him to go, but now he can sit at the table, the meaning is self-evident.

This shows that he has officially been unanimously recognized by Zhao Ying, and even the entire family, thanks to the unlucky white elk.

After hunting and capturing the white elk, Zhao Ying's reputation in the Jin State was unparalleled for a while: the envoys of the Song State completely took refuge in the Zhao family, and Le Qi simply stopped staying in the East Gate Pavilion, and moved directly into the Zhao palace with the honor guard and entourage.

And the people of Jiangdu are also praising this miraculous thing, and the scholars who want to come to the door to seek an auspicious view have broken through the threshold, and there are even big businessmen who came to see the excitement from Zheng Guoweiguo...... Congratulatory messages and gifts from various territories of the Zhao clan also came in an endless stream, and together with the arrival of this year's report.

The more this is the case, the more pleasing Zhao Ying looks at his young son without shirts.

But after he calmed down, he pulled all the gifts and flattery into the case a few times, and spread out the calculations handed in from all over the place, that is, the financial report, and after reading it, Zhao Ying couldn't help frowning.

It's not a good year this year! There are locusts in spring, drought in summer, rain in autumn, snow and rain in winter, and everything can be said. In June, in order to support King Zhou to suppress the rebellion, Liuqing bargained for a long time, and finally sent some manpower and material resources to defend the city for the Son of Heaven.

Now the Chengzhou rebellion is still unsettled, and it has also attracted the blatant interference of the Zheng people, and the cowardly Son of Heaven even fled from the royal city in fright. It is conceivable that this expenditure will definitely be indispensable next year, and if the Liuqing Public Council decides to use troops against Zheng Guo, who has violated the hegemony of the Jin State after the beginning of the spring, it will be even more expensive!

It seems that it is time to send a few sons to the local area to experience and see how they can perform well at this time. If you want to become the prince of the world and rule the Zhao family, which has more than ten large counties, you must not only be skilled in bows and horses, but also be able to govern the people and manage your finances!

Moreover, dividing the princes can also have the effect of killing two birds with one stone. As the so-called Son of Heaven founded the country, the princes established their families, and the Qing placed the side room. The feudal son, justifiably speaking, can also solve the big problem that Zhao Ying has always hidden in his heart.

When the youngest son Zhao Wuxian walked into the main hall quickly and came to worship in front of Zhao Yingzuo, he raised his head and glanced at Wuxian.

Today's etiquette, there is nothing wrong with picking it, it seems that this concubine has finally learned it with his heart.

Seeing that everyone was together, Zhao Ying announced the start of the public discussion: "I invite you to come here today, and I want to discuss the matter of Lingyi, the second and third sons!" Pick up the map! ”

I saw the vertical people holding a large pale yellow sheepskin cloth to the center of the main hall, pulling the four corners and spreading them out.

This is a detailed map of the Jin Kingdom, up the south and down the north, drawing the situation of the mountains and rivers and the direction of the rivers. The territory of the Zhao clan was dotted among them, all marked in eye-catching red, but they were not connected, but were divided into several parts by the territory of the other five kings.

Zhao Ying looked at the map, stroked his beautiful beard and thought about it.

As the contradictions with the Fan family and the Zhongxing family became more and more public, he had a trace of enlightenment in his heart.

There is no territory in the country that can be divided, and the six secretaries of the Jin State will have to fight sooner or later! It's time to start preparing for war, and the first thing to do is to integrate internally.

"Doctor Fu Suo, you come to explain one or two to the retainers and the four gentlemen."

Fu Suo, who was kind and kind-eyed and had gray hair, pointed to the map and said: "Everyone, please see, not counting the Zhongyi Xia Palace near Jiangdu, my Zhao family now has a total of thirteen counties, ranking first among the six secretaries of the Jin State. ”

Our family is so a**! Zhao Wuxian, who was sitting at the end of the hall, was taken aback by this ratio, you must know that the counties to which the other five Qing clans belong are not more than ten. The entire Jin Kingdom is added together, and there are more than 60 counties, calculated according to 10,000 households in one county, a family of seven people, and the total population of the Jin Kingdom is about 4 million, and the Zhao family accounts for nearly a quarter of them!

A million people!

However, after Fu Suo's explanation, Zhao Wuxian realized that more than half of this data was injected with water...... Zhao's is quite a bit of a strong taste on the outside and dry in the middle.

It turned out that after the difficulty of the lower palace, all the territory of the Zhao family was lost, and only the lower palace near the national capital and the ancestral sacrifice place of Zhao Cheng were left. From the beginning of the Zhao orphan Wenzi becoming a secretary again and receiving the fiefdom, through the unremitting efforts of Wenzi, Jingzi, and Zhao Ying, he gradually recovered his homeland and took back the cities that Zhao Xuanzi had owned in the era one by one through exchange or other shady means.

But at the same time, the three generations of family heads have also divided many branches of the Zhao family and meritorious retainers, which have multiplied for decades and suddenly become a big trend.

The Zhao clan has already come out of the small sect outside the five suits, that is, the descendants of Zhao Piercing who helped Zhao Xuanzi kill Jin Linggong, and the Handan clan has: Geng, Handan, Han, Lin, a total of four counties.

Lou County is controlled by the branch Knowles, that is, the descendants of Zhao Yingqi, the unvirtuous uncle who committed adultery with his grandmother Zhao Zhuangji......

Zhao Ying's cousin, the elder doctor Zhao Luo, owns the location of the ancestral temple of the clan: Wen County.

Zhao Ying's cousin, Zhao Chao, served as the doctor of Mashou County, and the city was the spoils of war after the fall of the Qi clan and the Yangyu clan of the Jin Kingdom ten years ago. Initially, Ma Shou was given to the Han family, and Pingyang was given to the Zhao family, and due to geographical reasons, the two families, who had always been good friends, exchanged privately.

Zhongmu County was controlled by a retainer Fu Di, who is said to have worshipped under the Confucian sect when he was young and studied for a while.

Therefore, there are actually only five counties directly under the Zhao clan, plus the medium-sized city of Xiagong, and these are not exactly what Zhao Ying said: once the Yi Zai has been hereditary for two or three generations, they will have a strong independence. So once something happens, these fourteen cities dotted with each other can't make a fist! On the contrary, it will be broken by the enemy one by one, and there will even be a situation where the small sect or the governor of the province will turn against the water......

So, it has to be integrated, and that's what we're talking about today.

As Fu Sue spoke, Zhao Wuxian's gaze swept over the map that seemed crude and backward to him, and finally locked on the vicinity of Jiangdu. Liuqing's private estates are scattered around Xinjiang City, like six vertices of a hexagon, firmly limiting the power of the Marquis of Jin to this snail corner land within a radius of dozens of miles.

In the northwest corner of Jiangdu, Zhao's "lower palace" is a medium-sized city with a population of more than 10,000 households, which is equivalent to a small county town in later generations, and there are six or seven hundred townships around it, just like the township of later generations.

It seems that the centralized reform of the Zhao clan will begin with the recovery of the power of these townships. According to Fu Suo, the township rulers of several of them are really unorthodox, and the annual plan is unsatisfactory, so Zhao Ying removed them or transferred them to other places.

And the excuse is also obvious: I want to divide the training of my sons in the countryside next to home, so you should move your position.

This is an unprecedented thing, and usually the Yi Zai and the Xiang Zai are passed down from generation to generation in the same clan. However, the domineering Zhao Ying set a historical precedent, preparing to break the Shiqing Shilu from the Zhao family down, and if the plan is too bad, he will be removed from his post if he says that he will be dismissed, which is quite a bit of the rudimentary form of the bureaucratic system of the Qin and Han dynasties in the later Warring States period.

Counting the one under the jurisdiction of the sergeant Cheng He who was cut off a few days ago, Zhao Ying now has four ownerless townships in his hands, and he happens to have four sons......

Zhao Wuxian couldn't help but perk up, in history, the Zhao family turned the family into a country and changed the patriarchal system of government into bureaucratic centralization, probably starting from this public discussion, right?

He had a real sense of being part of the course of history, and after so many days of waiting, could he finally get his first piece of territory?

However, to his disappointment, the three brothers of Uncle Bo Zhong were subsequently awarded the Tiger Talisman and the Scepter by Zhao Ying, and assigned to the nearby township as the village leader, except for his unsympathetic name.

"Father!" How could Zhao Wuxian miss this great opportunity, so he decisively lifted his robe and stood up from his seat.

The eyes of everyone in the main hall were focused on Wuxian, and the eyes of Zhongxin and Shuqi were particularly unkind. They haven't forgotten that in the winter hunt a few days ago, it was the shirtless who took the limelight and made them seem quite incompetent.

Now, what is this going to make a fuss about?

Wuxian meticulously saluted Zhao Ying and all the retainers: "Why don't you send me to take charge of a township?" The kid also wants to share his worries for his father and the Zhao family! ”

"Ridiculous, your son is not yet an adult, and before the crown ceremony, you don't have the right to govern the people, how can you give you a fiefdom?" But Zhongxin, who had been holding back for a long time, jumped out first to object.

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