Intentionally planting flowers and flowers, unintentionally planting willows and willows, Zhao Wuxian's retainer group has always hoped that the monarch can have children to calm people's hearts. But Zhao Wuxian's only concubine room did not move, they were anxious, and even began to persuade Zhao Wuxian to take concubines in a big way, who expected that only a few days after the last persuasion, they suddenly got such good news.

Zhang Mengtan landed on a big stone in his heart, and hurriedly congratulated: "Congratulations to the lord!" As a retainer, he can feel at ease, and as a friend, he is really happy for Zhao Wuxian.

Wuxian smiled: "I may be able to have an eldest son, Meng Tan also has to work hard, if I give birth to a daughter, you and I may be able to get married." ”

Changed to an ordinary retainer, and was overjoyed to hear such a promise from the sovereign? But Zhang Mengtan was not, he pondered for a moment and then resigned: "If the lord wants the eldest son of Shu to succeed as a general in the Lu State, it is more appropriate for him to marry the daughter of the Marquis of Lu, or the daughter of the Meng family and the Ji family." ”

Zhao Wuxian was a little bored, Zhang Meng was good at talking about anything, but he was too calm, he waved his hand: "And when he is born, it will not be too late when he reaches the age of the crown." ”

Zhao Wuxian only found out about Bo Mi's pregnancy a few days ago, and the kind of mixture of joy and apprehension of being a father in his heart made him happy and inevitably think about his future children.

He can foresee that his future self will inevitably have many sons and grandchildren, how to place these heirs, and how to let them contribute to the Zhao family in this world of great contention? No one is a completely independent individual, everyone has to contribute to the clan, this is the law of the times!

Since he knew that he would have an heir, he had one more choice for the disposal of Lu State, even if he Zhao Wuxian took five counties to Jin as secretary. Before the world was set to one, the old Zhao family's branch in Lu Guo was also opened justifiably. It doesn't matter if the new general is three or five. In short, it is necessary to firmly occupy this seat, with the support of Zhao Ying and Zhao Wuxian in the Jin Kingdom. The little Zhao who was guarded by the retainers was like a rock.

He is his heir, and he has the blood of the Destiny Bird in his veins.

He was his successor, and Zhao Wuxian knew that he might never be accepted by the xenophobic Lu people, but what about a young general who grew up in the Lu country, spoke the Lu dialect since he learned to speak, studied etiquette and music in Qufu, and traveled with the Lu Guoshi doctor? He will win the love of the Lu people and be the medium for the Zhao clan to indirectly rule the Lu country in the future.

Of course, the premise of all this. It was Zhao Wuxian who was able to successfully return to Jin and was able to let the Zhao family enter Xintian.

Because of the appearance of Zhao Wuxian, the contradictions between Liuqing intensified, and the filthiness between Lu, Qi and Wei became deeper and deeper. The entire land of Jinlu has become a huge powder keg, which only needs a fuse to trigger, and the war may be next year, maybe the year after.

"I still need to endure at least one autumn harvest...... "If Zhao Wuxian chooses, the later the war comes, the better, but the enemies are not puppets. They will also assess the situation.

Although the road to return to Jin is far away, Zhang Mengtan is full of confidence in this, as long as the integration of Lu is completed, the east and west and Zhao will join forces. It is not difficult to penetrate the country and connect with the Jin country, not to mention the help of Song and Cao Youbang. No matter what happened within the Jin Kingdom. Abroad, at least, the situation will become more and more tilted in favor of one's side.

Those who do not seek the overall situation. It is not enough to seek a corner, and it is not a plan for eternity. Not enough for a while. So at the end, he asked with concern: "If the lord becomes the secretary of the Jin Kingdom in the future, will he also implement the shogunate system?" ”

"In the Jin Kingdom, it doesn't have to be like this."

Zhao Wuxian, who knew the general trend of the future, analyzed Zhang Mengtan: "The princes and the princes have different regions and different customs. From the beginning of the uncle, the state of Lu has paid attention to the respect of relatives, implemented clan politics, and paid attention to patriarchal etiquette. Nowadays, although the etiquette and music have collapsed, it is still the declining stage of the patriarchal feudal system, and the power of the emperor is still strong, and the influence of the people is difficult to eliminate. ”

Although scholars continued to pour out, and military landlords began to sprout, it would take ten, twenty, or even several generations of efforts to dissolve this social structure.

"And the Jin State Qi Xia Zheng, Xinjiang to Rong Suo, in Rong Di surrounded by the development of a unique national conditions and folk customs, and experienced Qu Wo Dai Yi, dedicated to the public to slaughter the Gong clan incident, so the Gong declined, Liuqing strong. Liuqing has begun to turn the family into a country, doctors and retainers are gradually no longer hereditary, but appoint scholars as officials, the atmosphere is more free and enterprising than the Lu country, the criminal law, the county system, the state soldiers, the field, the soldiers, the various reforms are also deeper than the Lu country, it can be said that the patriarchal feudal system is the stage of extinction. ”

Zhang Meng said: "I understand that the shogunate politics promoted by the sovereign is formulated according to the national conditions of the Lu State. If you can dominate the Jin country, you only need to thoroughly implement the county system in the country, is that so? ”

Wuxian smiled: "Those who know me, Meng Tan also!" ”

Zhao Wuxian was sure that there was no need to implement this shogunate system in the Jin Kingdom, Lu was the stepping stone for him to enter the troubled times, but the Jin Dynasty was the stage for the Spring and Autumn Hegemony to win or lose.

Sooner or later, Jin will turn into a country, a country with centralized power! Otherwise, there is only one way to fall apart, and there is no middle option!

The news that Zhao Wuxian would have an heir spread throughout the shogunate under his intentional publicity, and in the next few days, the Zhao family retainers were all overjoyed. Until one dim and rainy morning, the disciples of Confucius who were working in the shogunate seemed to be affected by the weather, and their faces suddenly became a little more gloomy.

They hurried to the official office and left one after another.

Gongxi Chi had just come out of the palace, and he didn't even have time to take off his dress, so he ran directly on his horse; After Zigong finished his official duties, he drove in person, and there were two people in the car who were full of anxiety; The chief of the princess, who kept pigeons for the general, came out of the garden with a bird feather, and followed behind him with a flock of pigeons chirping; And the big farmer Cheng Fan, who had just returned from inspecting spring ploughing, had red eyes, and he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water, so he ran out on foot.

In the end, only Zai Yu, who was going to Feiyi to take up the county order, walked into the general's mansion with a heart and asked to see Zhao Wuxian, and reported the news to him.

"Lord, Master, he's leaving......"

……

His house is deep in an alley in the inner city, which survived the war, it faces south and north, the courtyard is not large, and the loess is the wall, which shows the poverty of the owner. Early in the morning, an old man wearing coarse cloth clothes, a hat, and a withered yellow bamboo cane walked out of the door. Gently close the door of the back room.

There are three houses in the courtyard, which are full of students who have been studying in previous years. In the early morning, the sound of the recitation of the liturgy grows louder and louder, and finally it becomes a chorus that awakens the lilu. Now the house is empty. There were few people living there, and most of the disciples were recruited by the shogunate to be grassroots officials.

There was a vegetable garden in the corner, but no new rapeseed was sprinkled, and there were chicken stalks, but there was only a pile of chicken feathers and dung in it. I don't care about these things anymore, and in the past few months, his daily life has been taken care of by his disciple Yan Hui. His wife and a pair of children were in the city, where there were food fields and neighbors who respected him. There are also a few disciples to help, so there is no need to worry.

Pushing the door into the alley again, a two-horse carriage was waiting here, Yan Hui pinned a drinking scoop to his waist, pinched the bamboo slip in one hand, read it in the morning light, and gently stroked the horse with the other hand to soothe its uneasiness.

A bearded Zilu stood beside him, carrying his luggage. With a sword pinned to his waist, and when he found that the master had finally come out, he saluted respectfully: "Master, are you leaving?" The weather is not good today. Do you want to delay for a few days and wait for the spring rain to stop? ”

Kong Qiu looked back at the completely empty home, and then looked up at the gloomy sky. Taking a deep breath, he smelled a hint of reluctance and vacillation: "No need. Let's go. ”

……

He didn't come out of the door, and thought hard for months. It wasn't until after the beginning of spring that I realized something. After deciding to go, he specially circled the entire Lucheng.

He looked at Qufu from the city tower, how much wind and rain this 500-year-old city has experienced, the ancient wells in Lilu, the mottled rammed earth corners, the blunt weapon chopping marks on the city gates, and the market where the children played......

Kong Qiu liked this capital, which was chosen by the Duke of Zhou and built by Bo Yu.

Outsiders see the narrowness of Lucheng and the small utensils of the Lu people, but after living for a long time, they can feel the heavy etiquette and music and the different human touches.

Although Kong Qiu's ancestors were from the Song Dynasty, they had long been rooted in Lubang, and although he was from Shanyi, he had already regarded Qufu as his hometown.

Now, Kong Qiu is leaving, leaving the capital where he has lived for decades, leaving his familiar home......

No, he was no longer familiar with it, and after not going out for a few months, Kong Qiu suddenly found that this capital had changed a lot, and it became unrecognizable to him.

Qufu has already woken up in the early morning, and the most lively is the east and west cities, which are in the morning and the city, and are dominated by merchants from all over the world. With Zigong's support for commerce, the number and variety of goods that circulated from the states of Cao, Song, Jin, and even Wu were much larger and more varied.

In the past, the administration of Lu was chaotic, the monarch had no authority, and Sanhuan had no consciousness, so there was no own coinage, and the market generally traded with two strings of ten seashells as "one friend", or with knife coins. However, whether it is a knife coin or a sea shell, it is produced by the Qi State, which is equivalent to the economy of the Lu State being strangled by the Qi State, and it has also lost a lot of currency exchange differences.

Now it's good that the merchants no longer let the ministers carry a large basket of shell coins to trade, but use the Zhao Yuan coins that circulate in Xilu. It is round on the outside and square on the inside, both beautiful and practical, and there are different denominations to adapt to different occasions, under the forced promotion of the shogunate, it is only a matter of time before the Qi knife coin is quickly eliminated from Qufu and spread throughout the Lu country.

However, except for the lively two cities, because of the weather, there were not many people moving around in the rest of the place, only the soldiers on duty watched vigilantly from the walls to observe every move in the city. Since Zhao Wuxian became the master of Qufu, a group of Yi soldiers with a Western accent took over the defense of various gates in Qufu, patrolling the streets with horsemen, so that the law and order were surprisingly good. And the palace was replaced by elite soldiers, and their palace armor named Zhao Wuxian was dedicated to Lu Hou, but in fact it was a killer weapon to hold the monarch hostage.

In the past, it was difficult to see the doctors who were arrogant, riding in a wide car, wearing a reckless, and wearing a high crown on the street, and they were replaced by black-clad and black-hatted officials in a hurry. They were not members of the public household, but officials of the shogunate, who took over the work of the doctors.

The bureaucrats went in and out of various government offices, pasted paper notices at the gates of the city, and the general's palace continued to issue new orders in the past few months, what county system, what pavilions, what written laws, what military merits were awarded...... New things one after another, the first two Confucius did not oppose, but the last two were contrary to Kongqiu's beliefs, especially the so-called military merit granting Tian, which he knew meant that Jing Tian could no longer be revived in the Lu State.

In Kong Qiu's view, the benefits created by Zhao Wuxian are far from enough to offset the "disadvantages" he brings, and the people of Lu will get short-term benefits, but lose long-term etiquette.

"Why did I think Zhao Wuxian was a man of my way in the first place? In fact, he, like his father, was a utilitarian ruler who was inclined to punish harshly and transgress etiquette......"

In short, looking at the changes in Qufu, Kong Qiu knew that the Lile that supported him to stay here had completely collapsed, and the country would become more and more unfamiliar.

This is a brand new Lu country, and there is no need for his old goo.

Let's leave and go to the wider world, maybe there is a chance to find the true meaning of the Tao and the origin of etiquette.

(To be continued.) )

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