Spring and Autumn I Am King

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Confucius looked at Zhao Wuxi quietly. It had been a long time. It was probably after the last heated debate with Robber Zhi under the walls of the Central Capital. He had not argued with anyone for so long, so tired.

He originally thought that he and this little gentleman who had seen each other very late would be like with Lao Tzu, only chatting and laughing and teaching the elders to the younger generation, and there would be no disputes.

such a pity…

However, unlike Shaozhengmao and Robber Zhi, it was an inexorable battle of ideas, but for Zhao Wuxi...

It's just a battle of positions, and gentlemen are harmonious but different.

But is it really so?

From Zai Yu's remarks, Confucius had already caught a glimpse of the huge differences between him and Zhao Wuxi, and the subtle differences in ideas were projected on the political affairs, perhaps because water and fire were incompatible.

Just when he was throwing his trump card and wanted to hear what Zhao Wuxi thought about the candidate he and his disciples had thought about and agreed upon, he saw Zhao Wuxi clasping his palms in admiration: "Great! Doctor Liuxia will definitely be able to manage Xuju well."

Confucius breathed a sigh of relief, but when Wu Xie suddenly changed his voice, he had to forcibly lift his spirits again.

"I just don't know, did he seal this town directly because of his merit, or just keep it temporarily?"

Confucius choked for a while.

In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Tianyi was given to the doctor as Shilu. It is also called "mining land", "fiefdom" and "food town". The canonization includes the land and the people on the land. The conferred person has jurisdiction over the people in the fief and levies rent and taxes. In theory, it is hereditary for life.

Liu Xiaji is a gentleman. But he has little credit, and he is a distant branch of the public family with five clothes. He was even deprived of his position because of his younger brother Robber Zhi. For no reason, a 5,000-household large town was awarded. Those of the Lu country who were waiting eagerly for the feudal fiefs should not be indignant, and they all exploded their nests?

Therefore, it can only be the second, in the name of the doctor to guard the king.

In the Jin State, mergers became more and more violent, and the fiefs of the ministers were also shaken. It was not unusual to change several owners in ten years, and gradually began to turn the fiefs into counties. The county magistrate is called a doctor, but he is a bureaucrat who can be appointed and replaced at any time, and his position is higher than that of the provincial governor and Sima. But they are no longer their lords, but their bosses.

The situation in the state of Lu is similar. After the three-huan quarters, few people have the luck to obtain a hereditary fief. For example, the former Yuncheng doctor was a temporary guard, so it would be more appropriate to call him a guard doctor.

"Just for your sake."

Seeing that what he expected was not bad, Wu Xue breathed a sigh of relief and said: "A large town of 5,000 households can't be managed by the doctor alone, and Sima Sima has done nothing. He was driven away together before, and only some **** chiefs, The assistants maintain law and order. As a doctor, you can govern under the bow, but Sima must be able to take on important tasks and cannot be arbitrarily assigned across hundreds of miles. In order to avoid the recurrence of Xuju's enemy. The boy is quite familiar with Xuju's defense and would like to recommend it. A Sima candidate, can it be?"

Since Liu Xiaji is only temporarily guarding it. Nasugu Sima is not his retainer, just a subordinate who has no life to depend on. With this. Zhao Wuxi can play a lot of tricks. His meaning is obvious: I can make Liu Xiaji Jinxu a doctor, but I have to listen to the military affairs. Can we all take a step back?

Confucius gave Wu Xie a serious look again: "It's okay, but it's up to the emperor to decide."

I don't have the final say on this matter, you can talk about it, but whether it works or not depends on the candidate.

Wu Xie respectfully saluted: "I recommend Ran Qiu, who has made great contributions to the level of thieves, Ziyou!"

…

"When the epidemic is eliminated, Zhao Bing will be evacuated, and Dr. Liuxia will go to political affairs, and Ran Qiu will be in charge of military affairs. The matter will be settled like this, Zhongjun, do you think it is feasible?"

Zhao Yang threw back the spear that Confucius had just thrown back: "This is the internal affairs of Lu, you can ask my son, what can I do?"

"Weiwei..." Ji Sunsi hurriedly bowed his back and looked at Zhao Wuxi with a look of help.

In Ji Sunsi's view, Zhao Yang is far more terrifying than Yang Hu. He was like a big mouse who saw a raccoon slave under Yang Hu's lewd power. In front of Zhao Yang, he was even more terrified. It was Zhao Xiao Shi Kou can discuss some things.

As for the more unbearable Shusun Zhouqiu, he kept a flattering smile and hardly said a word during the period.

Therefore, today is completely the battle between Zhao's father and son and Confucius.

After the incident, Shusun Zhou Qiu even scolded Confucius fearfully and said, "If Zhao Qing is angered, he will attack Zhao soldiers who have defeated even the Qi people. How should we deal with it?"

Confucius said: "Jin government has many branches, the six ministers can't be single-minded, Zhao Meng is also busy returning to the country, how can there be time to crusade the state of Lu? What's more, as the ministers of the king, if we do not strive for profits for the state, we will suffer Bullying, the country will not be the country!"

Lao Tzu told him that we should not strive for contention, but Confucius felt that he could not do it now.

He was very disappointed with the performance of Ji Sunsi and his uncles today, while Erqing completely became a clay statue, the person who painted the promise and sealed it. It was not until the end of the meeting that the Lu people agreed to the fact that both sides took a step back.

"People who fight for crumbs are not enough to conspire with them!"

…

For Ji Sunsi, he is very satisfied that today's banquet confrontation can be negotiated like this.

The Zhao family agreed to withdraw from Dayi Xuju, which relieved their nerves. Although the candidate was unsatisfactory, it was Liu Xiaji, whom the Marquis of Lu trusted more, but he was the Duke of Lu after all. As for Sima Ranqiu, who came in, although he was a minister of Zhao Wuxi, wasn't that a student of Confucius? No matter how you think about it, you always listen to Confucius' words.

But Confucius was a little gloomy.

"I beg you, a town of a thousand houses and a family of a hundred vehicles can be slaughtered, but I don't know its benevolence."

This is his evaluation of his disciple Ran Qiu.

He can ensure Ran Qiu's ability in government affairs, but virtue... Confucius can't be sure either.

His disciple is a man of cautious character, so Confucius encouraged him to act decisively. Now it seems that there is not much change, but the object of request for instructions has changed from Confucius to the master Zhao Wuxi.

Come to think of it, Ran Qiu was only a small two Sima in Zhongdu back then, with twenty or thirty people under his command. But after arriving under Wu Xie, he was trusted. Reuse it, and the job rises all the way. Let Ran Qiu not be able to serve his life with all his heart.

"Ziyou, diligent and loyal to the monarch. With five hundred people to fight thousands of thieves, and many meritorious deeds, you should be promoted to Sima of Dayi!"

Now Zhao Wuxi has recommended him as Sima Xuju. Judging from this disciple's gracious and repaying temperament, Confucius can't be sure who he will listen to in the future.

Anyway, Ziyou's essence is still good, although his speech is sloppy, but his behavior is honest, so he will not become an unworthy person like Zai Yu.

So for Zhao Wuxi's recommendation. In terms of emotion and reason, Confucius had no reason to refuse.

Just as Confucius lowered his head to think, he heard a deep question, Zhao Yang did not know when, bypassed Ji and his uncle, and stood directly in front of him.

"I heard that Confucius has a saying that a gentleman is humble and does not fight. Why is it so hard to fight today that even the sleeves are pulled up. Where is the gentleness of the Confucian?"

…

Zhao Yang ignored Ji Sunsi's flattery. He had seen such people a lot, and he was still glancing at Confucius in recent years. I have never seen such a daring person, as if Zheng Zichan, who was fighting for success at the Pingqiu meeting, was resurrected!

He was unhappy and appreciated. There are also deliberately making things difficult, so there is this question.

Confucius stopped and replied: "A gentleman has nothing to fight for. If there is, it must be fighting for the country. But even if it is a fight for the country's affairs, it is first to bow and humbly, and then toast each other after the end. It's a battle of gentlemen."

Just as he had received orders in the face of danger, and got up to take on the challenge of Zhao's father and son, Confucius, as the host of the banquet, once again took the wine from the pot, washed his hands, and filled the copper bottle with wine slurry with a wine jug. To the north, it is dedicated to Zhao Yang.

Here, the tall old man from the State of Lu put away the tit-for-tat, hiding his face modestly behind the sleeves of his wide robe, and sprinkled his tendrils with the wine.

"Hehe Shiyin, Minju Erzhan, I only know the power of Zhao Qing today."

Over there, Zhao Yang lost the arrogance he had before, and he raised the bottle with both hands and drank a full bottle.

"What Confucius has done today is enough to be the backbone of the country. Just as the "Poem" said: Only the gentleman is happy, and the foundation of the state!"

Although these two giants couldn't be friends, they didn't hate each other as they did in history. Is this a good thing? Zhao Wuxi, who was silently watching, couldn't tell.

…

After promulgating the reward for Zhao Wuxi and resolving the matter of Xuju, the mission of Confucius was completed.

As for the cities of Xilu, which Zhao Wuxi had already penetrated, although it was not in line with the etiquette for doctors to join forces with doctors, it was a last resort when the army of Qi was under pressure. Luhou additionally acknowledged this, and now it has become a fait accompli, and it is too late to go back on it.

Since Zhao Wuxi didn't send troops to garrison and expel the doctor, then Luhou and Sanhuan could still hold their noses and pretend they didn't see it, waiting for the powerful Zhao Yang to leave.

But Confucius could not let it go.

So before he left, he asked Zhao Wuxi seriously, "Xiao Sikou, Yang Hu, is he really dead?"

Master, your hatred for Yanghu is really enduring. In history, after thousands of years, he will have to make a name for himself by dipping in your light.

So Wu Xie also answered very seriously: "Dead, my retainer Kan Zhi saw it with his own eyes, and I even sent him a word at that time."

"What?"

"People in the world should not learn from Yanghu. The two rebelled against their lords and wanted to kill their monarchs, so that they could accompany ministers to carry out the country's life."

Zhao Wuxi's remarks may have followed the example of King Ling of Chu. When King Ling of Chu led the vassals, he attacked the state of Wu and captured Qingfeng, the former official of Qi state, in Zhufangyi of the state of Wu. Ling Wang, who loves to show off, was overjoyed, so he tied him with five flowers, UU reading www.uukanshu.com paraded through the streets with an ax and tomahawk on his back, and forced him to say this: "Don't follow the example of Qing Feng of Qi, he is a traitor, kill him Killing his monarch, weakening the monarch's orphans (Qihou Chujiu), and arrogantly arrogantly making alliances with doctors!"

Qing Feng, who was articulate at that time, did the opposite, shouting out the scandal of King Ling of Chu while parading through the streets: "Second and third sons, don't imitate King Gong of Chu's Shuziwei (King Ling of Chu), who killed his brother's son and usurped it. The monarch is still trying to gain hegemony and make alliances with the princes!" King Ling of Chu was so embarrassed that he quickly had Qingfeng's mouth gagged and killed.

So Confucius was very curious for a while, how Yang Hu would answer.

After today's confrontation, his attitude towards Zhao Wuxi has quietly changed, and even the rhetoric of "cultivating one's own body, balancing the family, governing the country and the world", which is in line with the aspirations of Confucius, seems to be the same as that of King Ling of Chu's divination back then: "Yu Still have the world? (Can I gain the world?) "Close.

"Can Yanghu respond?"

Zhao Wuxi showed a look of recollection: "It is said that Yang Hu was dying at the time, and he couldn't even pronounce it, but I think what he wanted to say should be... A man can't eat five cauldrons in life, and he can cook five cauldrons when he dies!" ( To be continued..)

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