Spring and Autumn I Am King

Thanks to the book friend Princess Shikibu Murasaki for the reward!

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So, in this humble little pulp shop, the two of them made a verbal oath of "I have no rebellion, I have no strong Jia". Zhao Wuxi attached great importance to this, and also asked Zigong to go to his territory to become a township in the future, make blood an alliance, and discuss the specific details.

After all, the young Duanmuci is not the top giant in the world who can compete with the lords in the next few decades, and his knowledge is limited. For this oath, he felt that he was hugging Zhao's thigh and taking advantage of it.

However, Zhao Wuxi felt that he also took a big advantage and was investing in a potential stock in the future, and Zigong's business methods and contacts in various countries were beyond words.

This is indeed a win-win deal.

Duanmuci took over the Zhao family's talisman that Zhao Wuxi gave him. The talisman was cast in bronze and was in the shape of a bamboo knot. Small words were engraved with Jin seal on it. It was a tax-free duty for goods transported by land and water in Jin. Pass. The inscription also strictly stipulated the scope of water and land transportation, the number of ships, the carrying of cattle and horses and related conversion methods, and the prohibition of the transportation of copper, iron and leather and other armaments abroad.

With it, Duanmuci will be able to travel unimpeded in the Jin state from now on, and there will be no need for continuous exploitation. Even in Wei, Lu and other places, those scholar-bureaucrats were afraid of Zhao and did not dare to charge him tariffs.

However, Duanmu Ci also had doubts: "The gentleman said he wanted to provide goods for the proprietor, but I don't know what it is? Ci has heard that the territory of the gentleman is only a small township with hundreds of households, such as corn, and the profit is not large."

Zhao Wuxi smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry about Zigong, don't you have to go to Lu State first, and you'll find out when you return when the wheat is ripe!"

Duanmuci's heart moved, could it have something to do with the potters from the State of Lu bought by the gentleman of the Zhao family? But pottery is not a good deal, not to mention Fan's specialization (que).

He was perplexed, but he also made a deal with Zhao Wuxi for the first business after the cooperation between the two, which was related to the excellent species "Rong Shu".

"Rong Shu? There is indeed one in the state of Lu. In the past, Duke Huan of Qi attacked the mountains and the army, cut off the orphaned bamboo, and returned it. He also sent Guan Yiwu to the temple of Duke Zhou to dedicate it. Since then, it has been distributed in Lubang. I didn't expect the gentleman to know about it."

When Zhao Wuxi entrusted Duanmu Ci to go to Qilu and other places, he helped him buy some local Rongshu seeds and shallot seedlings, and he naturally got Zigong's answer.

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At this time, in Fan's craftsmanship, Fan Jia, the grandson of Jin's ruling state, was holding a well-crafted white pottery to observe.

He frowned and said, "Are you sure, that person really calls himself a gentleman of the Zhao family?"

The little artisan who was kicked out by Zhao Wuxi in the morning had his face swollen and knelt in front of Fan Jia and cried, "The little man definitely heard right, he is still holding Zhao's talisman. "

"This is really weird. Then why did the concubine of the Zhao family buy a potter, just to get along with me, the Fan family? Or, there are other plans?"

The craftsman Zuoling and Fan's family chief asked, "Gentleman, those potters should not have been escorted out of the city yet. Do you want me to wait..."

A mocking smile appeared on the corner of Fan He's mouth, and he waved his hand and said: "It's okay, there are only a dozen potters from Lu, and for my lacquer pottery market, which is the focus of the Fan family, they are just one of the nine bulls! That's it! Zhao's concubine wants to buy it back to make toys, let him go! Is it possible that he can make a big wave?"

"However, I can't let him have no losses, the second and third sons, sent someone to the Sikou Office and the Pan Palace to sue him, saying that Zhao Wuxi openly made a scene in the market and beat my Fan's craftsman during the beginning of the ban! This time, even if there are people in the court who will protect him and won't punish him severely, it's good to be disgusting and disgusting to him!"

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When Zhao Wuxi and Duanmuci came out of the pulp shop, it was already noon, and Wenshang Jiameng also came back, saying that the ox, horse and carriage had been arranged properly.

Zhao Wuxi had to give him some hard expenses. By the way, he introduced Duanmu and gave him his acquaintance. Among businessmen, if you have a network of contacts, you will have an opportunity.

When saying goodbye to Zigong, Zhao Wuxi also asked him something.

"I heard that according to the law of the state of Lu, the people of Lu are ministers and concubines to the princes, and those who can redeem them can take money from the government after returning to Lu. I don't know if this is true?"

"Gentlemen are erudite, and yes, this is the rule set by Dr. Zang Wen Zhong in the past."

Zhao Wuxi said in his heart that if this is the case, he said, "Zang Wenzhong deserves to be called the Three Immortals by later generations, with such benevolent and righteous regulations, that Zigong redeemed the concubine of the State of Lu, who was originally from Qufu, and will accept the government after returning to the State of Lu. reward?"

Zigong's face turned slightly pale: "Of course not. Although the gift is not very rich or noble, it does not worry about food and clothing. The ransom is for righteousness. If you also accept the ransom, isn't it for profit?"

Zhao Wuxi laughed out loud.

Duanmuci was very surprised and asked, "Why is the gentleman laughing?"

"I laugh at Zigong's absurdity."

Duanmuci was puzzled: "Why?"

Zhao Wuxi replied, "I won't tell you the reason first. When Zigong returns to Lu, he will ask your master for advice!"

Before leaving, Zhao Wuxi also arranged for two clever young riders to leave with Duanmuci.

Jia Ji is a corporal of the light knights, from Jiali, the youngest son of the head of the Jia clan. As for Yu Pian, he was originally a man in the Stable Garden of the Lower Palace. He was restored to his freedom by Zhao Wuxi, and even after he was promoted to the status of a citizen, they also learned Yu Xi and adopted the homophonic "Yu" as their clan.

Of course, in addition to the messengers, they were also the supervisors placed by Zigong's side. Although after the slave redemption incident, Zhao Wuxi could trust Zigong's character and reputation, but he had to leave behind.

Because if Zhao Wuxi remembered correctly, in the original history, the relationship between his cheap father Zhao Yang and Confucius was like water and fire.

The festival between Zhao Yang and Confucius has to start from ten years ago. At that time, Zhao Yang, who had just been appointed to the Xiaqing, built a fortress on the coast of Rushui in the south, and collected a drum of iron from the local people.

This was the first large-scale collection of iron tools from the people in the Spring and Autumn Period. After returning to China, Zhao Yang used this drum iron to cast an iron tripod, on which was also cast the punishment book formulated by Zhao Xuanzi a hundred years ago.

Thus, Jin's first written law was born.

At that time, written law was still a new thing leading the fashion of the times. Naturally, scholars who yearned for three generations of simple life would criticize it. Kong Zhongni, a critic of Lu State when he was out of office, took the lead in attacking.

His first sentence was sensational: "Is Jin going to subjugate the country?"

After that, there were a lot of eloquent comments, which roughly meant that the state of Jin did not abide by the good feudal order handed down by the first emperor Tang Shuyu and the overlord Jin Wengong, but made some written law. Who would respect the orders of the nobles if everything was based on a fixed criminal law? Since then, the state of Jin has become noble and disorganized, so why is it a state?

Moreover, he believed that Zhao Xuanzi's punishment book was formulated by Zhao Dun during the search of Yizhi (621 BC). That is the system that came into being when the monarch of Jin was in chaos, but how could it be used as the current state law a hundred years later?

This is the second contest between the forerunners of Confucianism and Law in the Spring and Autumn Period ~www.wuxiahere.com~. The first time was when Zheng Guo's ruling Zichan issued a penalty book, which was severely condemned by Jin's virtuous uncle.

Interestingly, at that time, Confucius stood on the side of Zheng Zichan, his idol, and approved of his pioneering act of issuing punishment documents. But 20 years later, it was the other way around, and I don't know if he was getting older and becoming more conservative, or whether he was wrong to people.

From then on, Zhao Yang looked at Confucius, and Confucius looked at Zhao Yang, with a little bit of a different meaning.

Zhao Wuxi also knew that in the original history, in the next twenty years, due to various reasons, the conflict between the two intensified, and eventually evolved into a situation where Zhao Yang had to kill Confucius and then quickly.

And Confucius also quickly transformed into a thousand-year-old Zhao Hei, whoever the Zhao family approves, he opposes, and whatever the Zhao family opposes, he approves...

However, the hatred between the two is not that deep yet. Judging from Zigong's words, it seems that Confucius and his disciples strongly agreed with Zhao Wuxi's first advocating the "stop from death" decree, and even had some changes in their attitude towards Zhao.

It was already late. After saying goodbye to Duanmu Ci, who was full of doubts, Zhao Wuxi rushed back to the Zhao family's mansion, intending to visit Zhao Guangde again, so he obediently returned to Chengyi to "think about it".

In the carriage, he changed his short coat, short brown, and put on dark clothes. He just entered the courtyard, but he met Wei Ji's chariot.

Wu Xie's current relationship with Wei Ji is also the same.

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