111 Autumn Hunt (1)
——Autumn hunting is the practice of the Bao family. At this time of the year, the Hi family will organize people to go hunting in the deep mountains near Baoyun Mountain.
In the past, it was a barren jungle, and there were many demons and spirits in it, which was quite dangerous, but there were also many important resources for cultivating immortals. At that time, the Ji family was not a prince, but a relatively powerful local clan, they organized the cultivators and warriors in the area of Bao Kingdom, and everyone collectively went into the mountains to hunt, in order to obtain the resources needed - the Ji family also slowly became the leader of the local immortal cultivators through such organizational activities, and then became the lord of the Bao country.
However, after thousands of years of exploration, there are no more spiritual objects there, at least not on a large scale. And this kind of hunting has also become more of a kind of entertainment and habitual ritual, and the participants are mostly mortals - once a year, it is still headed by the Xi family, and all the big families in Baonan City are basically the whole family going out to play there for ten days and a half.
If you look at the habits of Huang Chang's previous life, it is equivalent to a large-scale happy carnival, when men can go into the mountains to hunt and adventure, and women can also communicate and play near the camp - there are even more women participating in this autumn hunt, after all, it is into the mountains, men usually have no taboos, and they just leave. And women are timid after all, especially those daughters of rich and noble families, they don't need to go into the mountains to beg for a living, and they won't go to that kind of place when they are idle - after all, there are still extraordinary powers such as demons and spirits in this world, even if they have been trampled on many times in the mountains, it is possible to give birth to some monsters, for martial monks, it is called chance, for ordinary people, it is still quite dangerous.
Therefore, the Ji clan organizes a large-scale autumn hunt every year, on the one hand, to commemorate the glory of the ancestors, and at the same time to win the hearts of the people; on the other hand, it is also to prevent trouble: regularly sweep the deep mountains near Baonan City, if there is really any demon spirit, it is better to find it as soon as possible and deal with it as soon as possible, so as not to delay the time, but it will become a big disaster; at the same time, it is also to take the opportunity to exercise and review their own armed forces, so as not to make Wen Tian martial arts and lose combat effectiveness because of the peace of the place and the long-term inactivity of sword soldiers.
Huang's father had also participated in autumn hunting before, and even took Huang Yang once. But at that time, he went as a staff member, providing logistical support. Although you can also take a quiet look at the excitement and have fun with it. But after all, I am going to serve people, and I have responsibilities on my body, and I can't relax.
And there is a hidden feeling in Huang Yang's heart - he had not yet entered the government at that time, and he purely followed his father to "rub" and play, and there were many children of such officials' families. Most people know what they know, and they don't care about it. The Hi-Kim family won't say anything more in this regard.
But as the saying goes: "The king of Hades is easy to see, but the little ghosts are difficult", the big people above don't care, but the miscellaneous officials below are used to being bad. Huang Yang was unlucky, that time he met a more serious and very bad moral officer on duty, and took him out as a typical example, and said something unpleasant, and asked his father to pay the fee, which made him quite embarrassed.
That time gave Huang Yang a lot of stimulation - if it was an ordinary farmer's child, his skin would be thicker, and his patience would pass. But Huang Yang is a scholar with strong self-esteem, and he is deeply ashamed in his heart. So when he was a teenager, he went with his father once, and never went again. Even if he later followed his father into the officialdom of Baoguo, as a subordinate, he could also go to the paddock with him, and he often gave the opportunity to his brother-in-law or colleagues, but he never went there again.
In his heart, he probably thought that one day, he would go to Zheng'er Bajing as a guest of the Ji clan - he originally planned to spend decades inheriting his father's business and slowly be able to survive that status. Now, however, that opportunity is just around the corner.
The sticker sent by the concubine family is inlaid with gold and silver, which is the highest grade. The entire Huang family can go over, including the family warriors, servants, and so on...... When you get there, there will also be separate camps and hunting grounds, which is equivalent to treating the Huang family and other families in the Bao Kingdom equally.
The Huang family itself is thin, and it is a bit difficult to put together such a mess. But they can also find someone to help – which is also a common occurrence during autumn hunts. In fact, at this time of year, all the families who receive the invitation post of the Hi-family will become lively, and many of them will join forces to organize a large force to show their power on the autumn hunt. So that Feng Jun's family can see that he has the ability to become a political force.
The Great Zhou Dynasty is the standard "feudal" dynasty model: the Ji family is the great monarch, and the Xiao clan is the feudal concubine. In addition to directly administering Baonan City and the surrounding area of Baoyun Mountain, the Ji family also had to delegate a lot of power to other places and hand it over to those affiliated families to protect and manage, that is, the so-called "establishment of the Ping Domain".
——Sealing the earth and building a screen is feudalism.
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Some of those families were established by immortal cultivators, while others were just descendants of warriors. But in any case, they were able to get a seal from Him, on the one hand, they must have been more loyal to Him, at least at that time. But the Xiuxian family actually doesn't attach much importance to the loyalty of mortals, because there is extraordinary power in this world, one or two masters can decide the outcome of a war, and no matter how many mortals there are, the role they can play in it is still limited.
Whether the Ji clan can maintain its strength or not depends on the quantity and quality of those Fayuan-level clan elders in Baoyun Mountain, and it has little to do with the loyalty of outsiders. Therefore, when the Hi family chooses the Ping Domain, the first thing to do is to see how strong you are, and whether you have the strength to rule and stabilize the place. As long as this can be shown, even if it is a little rebellious, the Ji clan is not intolerable, anyway, the key core is only one or two people, they just need to envelop these two people.
With the ups and downs of the world, the ebb and flow of the tide, similar to the Ji clan, these immortal cultivators can still maintain stability for a long time. But ordinary small families may not have this ability. The foundation established by the ancestors has been ruined by the descendants of the unscrupulous. Or even if there are no major mistakes, it is normal for generations of heirs to be relatively mediocre and slowly fall.
The Ji family usually does not interfere with this, you decline, you perish, then change the family, as long as you can maintain the stability of the place, the Ji family does not care who rules there - its suzerain, the Great Zhou Dynasty is also similar to its subordinate princes, the Xi family just follow suit.
Naturally, there is death and life, and new forces are constantly rising. They will naturally try their best to replace the old families through various means, get the recognition of the Hi family, and become the new Ping Clan. And these changes are often shown in the autumn hunt.