The major events that occurred in the ninth year of Lu Xianggong have already been described earlier, and now some events that are not very influential are recounted.

The first incident occurred in the Song Kingdom, and in the spring, a major fire broke out in the city of Shangqiu.

Shangqiu was the capital of the first city, and later Dayu sealed the ancestral deed of the merchant here, and the merchant was named after it. King Wu sealed Song Weizi in Shangqiu after conquering Shang, and after the rebellion of the three eunuchs was quelled, the Duke of Zhou ordered the Song people to continue the sacrifice to their ancestors in the past dynasties.

After nearly 500 years of construction and operation, Shangqiu has become the leading megacity in the Central Plains. In a city of this size, there are countless events that take place every day.

There were a few days in the spring of this year when the wind was particularly strong, and a family accidentally set fire to the firewood house while cooking, and the flames became more and more powerful with the help of the strong south wind. The strong winds constantly blew ignited firewood and flammable materials into the neighboring houses, causing the surrounding houses to burn as well. As a result, the fire quickly spread from a small hut to a block, and it was getting worse and worse.

At that time, Dasicheng was Lexi, and he immediately summoned the officials to the square in front of the Taimiao. He put the doctor in charge of cleaning up the streets. He knocked down the hut in a place where the fire did not reach it, covered the outer walls of the house with mud, and collected a large number of utensils for holding earth and water, ropes, and shovels and pickaxes. Burr estimated the manpower needed for the various tasks and then distributed the work, storing water, mud, painting walls, demolishing houses, patrolling streets and alleys, helping the victims evacuate and bringing the looters to justice.

Lexi also ordered the great Situ Huachen (Hua Yuan's son) to recruit servants to complete the work; and ordered the magistrates of the small towns outside the city to gather together the servants and send them to the city; ordered the right division Hua Yue (another son of Hua Yuan) and the left division Xiang Xu to make his subordinates perform their duties; ordered the chief priest to prepare torture instruments to punish those who took advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble; ordered the Great Sima Huangyun to mobilize chariots and troops to prevent foreign invasions; ordered Dazai to guard the treasury; ordered the palace guards and the chief eunuchs to guard the palace; Ordered the ceremonial officials to sacrifice Pan Geng outside the west gate.

In the end, Lexi asked officials above the middle school doctor level not to participate in specific disaster relief work, and not to be blindly commanded by the fire scene, so as not to interfere with the fire fighting.

Soon it was reported that a few people who looked like big nobles appeared somewhere, pointing fingers at the people of the disaster-stricken country, and as a result, unnecessary casualties were caused. Lexi was furious and immediately rushed to the place of the accident. He saw several "fat old men" dressed in fancy clothes, dog-like, and beardless, gesturing to the firefighters, who were surrounded by piles of belongings, and people were braving the fire to go in and out of valuable objects. Two men in tattered clothes were crying over a burned corpse, while the rest looked at the burning house.

But those people turned a blind eye to the life and death of the civilians, and one by one they stamped their feet and pulled the ducks and shouted: "Hurry, get in!" There is a reward for rescuing your belongings! ”

Lexi recognized these people, they were several big eunuchs of the ancestors, and they used their power to hack the officials a lot of money, so they bought these houses in front of them in the city.

Lexi yelled at the civilians: "Don't go in!" It's all out! Then he flew up and kicked the eunuch on the very edge of the big crotch, as a result of which several people fell like dominoes. Seeing that the situation was not good, the eunuchs got up and planned to slip away, but Lexi ordered left and right: "Escort them to the Governor's Office for processing!" If you kill for money, you should be punished for killing for money! As a result, those men were beheaded a few days later, and their heads were hung in the market, where they were endlessly humiliated and spurned by the countrymen.

Due to Lexi's super command ability and the concerted efforts of the Song people, the fire was finally controlled in a certain area, and it took two full days to be extinguished, and there was no major evil in the city, but still one-fifth of the city was burned. The Song people began to clean up the ruins and transport garbage out of the city gates. The rulers provided relief to the victims and helped them rebuild their homes. The effects of this catastrophe were quickly eliminated.

Later, Jin Mourning asked the weak soldiers: "The widow heard the people say: 'There was a fire in the Song Kingdom, and then I knew that there was a way of heaven. What does this mean? ”

Shi Weak replied: "In ancient times, Huozheng (the official who sacrificed to Mars) used celestial phenomena to determine the time when spring plowing began. On the day of the beginning of cultivation in the Xia Dynasty, Great Mars (Antares) began to rise in the east at dusk; However, after the Shang Dynasty, the appearance of Great Mars became later and later, so people found that on the night of the start of farming, the quail Mars (Liu, Xing, Zhang Sansu) was in the middle of the south, and the south wind was prosperous; At this point, the state will begin to tightly control the use of fire.

"It is said that the fire of the Tao Tang clan resided in Shangqiu, and he sacrificed to the Great Mars, observing the trajectory of the Great Mars to determine the season. One of the ancestors of the merchant was named 'Xiangtu', and Xiangtu inherited his business, so Shang was the main sacrificial country of Great Mars. Merchants observe and study the signs of misfortune and begin with Mars. Therefore, based on their previous experience, they thought that they had mastered the Heavenly Dao. ”

Jin Mourning Gong continued to ask: "Is this experience inevitable? ”

The weak replied: "No, it lies in the way of governance." When there is turmoil in the country, the heavens will not send an omen, and it is impossible for the people of the world to make predictions. ”

In the summer of this year, Lu Xuan's wife and Lu Chenggong's mother, Mu Jiang, died after years of house arrest.

As mentioned earlier, Mu Jiang colluded with her lover Uncle Sun Qiaoru in a vain attempt to subvert the office, and even did not hesitate to depose Lu Chenggong to make the Uncle Sun clan dominant; Later, Gongsun Yingqi blocked the foreign aid of the two, which made the conspiracy of Uncle Sun Qiaoru bankrupt. After his uncle and grandson Qiaoru were expelled, Mu Jiang was placed under house arrest in the East Palace.

At the beginning of his house arrest, Mu Jiang divined a hexagram for his future, and the hexagram was the eighth hexagram of "Gen" (which became "Sui"). The soothsayer said: ""Sui" is out, you had better leave the country of Lu as soon as possible." ”

Mu Jiang said: "I still don't want it." The hexagram "Sui" says: 'Yuan Henry Zhen, no blame. 'Yuan is the head of the body, Heng is the meeting of praise for the guest of honor, the benefit should be in the office, and the chastity is the one for words and deeds. Only by being courteous and faithful can we be 'blameless', and we must not defile our words. I was a woman, but I took an active part in the rebellion; Being in a lower position and not practicing benevolence cannot be called 'yuan'; if you are not appeased to appease the country, you will create turmoil, and you cannot be called 'Heng'; after defeat, harming others and harming oneself cannot be described as 'profit'; and abandoning one's position to please the doctor cannot be described as 'chastity'. With the four virtues, you can "Sui" without blame, I don't have the same, how can I follow the "Sui" hexagram? How can I be blameless if I have taken on myself? I'm going to die here of old age, and I'm not going to leave again. ”

The doctors didn't want to see Mu Jiang again, and they didn't want to think about the unbearable past; Mu Jiang lived alone in the East Palace and never appeared in front of the doctors.

Later, Ji Wenzi cut down the six trees she planted with her own hands to make a coffin for Lu Xianggong's biological mother, and Zang Wuzhong thought that Ji Wenzi had retaliated too much. He said: "If Mrs. Xuan can't be buried, not only the Xianjun and Lu people, but even the Qi people will resent the master." In that case, it's better to let the Jiang family go back to the Qi country! She has been punished enough, and what harm can she do to the country of Lu? ”

Ji Wenzi was also afraid of criticism, so he planned to send Mu Jiang back. But Mu Jiang was already heartbroken, and she said, "I won't leave." I can still be buried next to the ancestor when I die in the Lu country, and I can only be buried alone when I return to the Qi country. ”

As a result, Mu Jiang's funeral was so shabby that even Qi Linggong couldn't stand it; He sent some valuable utensils to make her funeral goods not look too shabby.