Spring and Autumn I Am King

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At the beginning of November, after Shendi forced Chu to accept the alliance under the city, Zhao Wuxi got everything he wanted in this war: the surrender of Chu and the relinquishment of the king's title, and Xiong Zhang also promised that he would go north to meet Zhao Wuxi on Zhengdan next year.

In addition, half of the Chu State occupied by the Zhao army was also completely included. With a wave of Zhao Wuxi's hand, he divided these newly conquered sites with a total population of nearly one million into five counties: Runan County to the south of Rushui; Chen Guohe Hu, Dun and other places are designated as Huaiyang County, and Chen State, as a puppet state, must also obey the orders of the Huaiyang County Governor; the place where the tigers are comfortable is Huainan County, and the Cai State must also obey Huainan's dispatch. As for the territory inside and outside Fangcheng, the Xichuan area of ​​Danyang to the west is included in the territory of Shang Jun Zhao Yi; Wan and Shen within Fangcheng are Nanyang County; Xu and Ye to the north of Fangcheng are Luyang County...

After preliminarily demarcating the ownership of the counties and counties in Xinjiang, Zhao Wuxi began to let the army retreat northwards, via Luyang to Luoyang, or via Chen State to Song and Lu. And he himself took the Chinese army to Yexian...

"Junhou, Yexian is in front."

It was a cold day, the north wind had already swept the earth, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses hurriedly got under the eaves of Ye County. This is already the territory of Zhao State. Although the Chu people in Yedi are still dissatisfied with the Zhao army occupying this place, Chu Jun and Ye Gong both agree to cede it. What can they do? Can only suffer in silence.

Zhao Wuxi was not very worried about this, as long as he ruled for ten or twenty years, it could be completely digested here. He also has to thank Ye Gong and Shen Zhuliang for the water conservancy project and the thoroughfare built here. It is foreseeable that Wan and Ye will gradually resume prosperity and provide convenience for the Zhao army to go south again in the future. At that time, it will not only cede land and seek peace So simple.

However, problems also follow. The territorial expansion of the five counties means that at least 50,000 northern troops must be stationed. In addition, the administration of these places is paralyzed. After all, military control is only temporary. It is necessary to implement county rule as soon as possible. Need a lot of talent.

Therefore, on the way back to his teacher, Zhao Wuxun met and cared for local elders every time he passed by, and asked them to recommend some talents.

As long as those local clans are willing to recommend people, even if they are children of their own family, it means that the local forces are willing to cooperate with Zhao. This is the first step in establishing domination, splitting families and fighting tyrants and the like, and it's not yet time.

However, Zhao Wuxi also attaches great importance to the appointment of the scholars of Chu State. These people were unhappy before and could only go abroad. Now there is no need. Zhao State will recruit talents and tempt them to go north to Yecheng and enter the Linzhang Academy. , or as a local clerk, and became part of the interest chain of the Zhao bureaucracy.

However, this kind of large-scale recruitment often attracts a mixed bag of people. No, as soon as Wu Xie entered Yexian, a group of people came to recommend it. Zhao Wu Xie stood on the carriage and looked at it. It was none other than the group of disciples known as "Gentlemen Ru" who followed Confucius, and several of them were among them. An acquaintance, such as Youruo, who looks and looks like Confucius...

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Youruo is about the same age as Zhao Wuxi, who is nearly forty years old, and is considered a highly respected person in the "Gentleman Confucianism", but he is not as good as Yuanxian and Qidiaokai.

Originally, they had a good life in Ye County, and they ate the rice sent by Ye Gong all day long. Although they are exiles far from home, it does not affect the group of people who have high self-esteem.

Unexpectedly, the Baisheng Rebellion broke the livelihood of this group of parasites. Lord Ye cut off the food supply to them on the grounds of lack of food. This group of gentlemen and Confucian scholars suddenly fried the pot, and they were all regarded as officials. For the dung, at this time, for the sake of fighting rice, they all asked to be Ye Gong's staff.

Unexpectedly, Lord Ye didn't want it. A group of people put their hot faces on their cold butts and could only come back in despair.

In the past two years, they could only live on the relief of Confucius and Yan Hui. Yan Hui is truly knowledgeable and has made a name for himself in Wan Ye, with nearly a hundred disciples. And Confucius, Ye Gong did not dare to be disrespectful, and Zigong, a rich man, had never interrupted his worship to Confucius, so he still had some money, silk and food. Confucius couldn't bear to watch a group of disciples who had no way out starved to death, and a group of people could barely make ends meet.

Then, the State of Zhao attacked Chu, the Chu army was defeated, and they retreated from Fangcheng. In Yexian County, Zhao soldiers, who were regarded as "tiger and wolf teachers" by gentlemen and Confucians, entered a more strict period of military control.

Because Confucius was the teacher of the imperial commander Zigong, who held the economic lifeline of Zhao State, and also the father of Mrs. Kong's wife in Changle Palace, the generals of Zhao State who occupied the place did not dare to neglect him, so they made a special trip to send food and married the concubine Shu His father-in-law, doctor Yu Boya, also personally came to visit.

However, there are some really tough people in the Confucian Confucian gentlemen. Yuan Xian and Qi Diao Kai claimed to follow the example of Boyi Shuqi and would rather die than eat Zhao Su (in fact, they have been indirectly helped by Zigong for many years), He actually ran away with the refugees from the state of Chu, and now he is nowhere to be found. I don't know if he died in a military disaster, or in some barren mountain and wild ridge to become a savage.

Only a few people can really make the decision to run. Most people are really scared after two years of poverty. They didn't have the courage to run, so they stayed near the Confucius house in the name of "protecting the master" to avoid military disasters. Also watching the situation.

With the defeat and defeat of the Chu State, and the loss of half of the country, the general trend of the world is in Zhao, and it is already very clear!

As a result, the gentlemen and Confucians who finally honed two pairs of tricks and saw the situation clearly, under the leadership of their new leader Youruo, shyly approached Zhao Hou, who was passing by.

"In the past, Beidi and Nanman invaded, and China was inexhaustible, but Duke Huan of Qi could not control it. Although Duke Wen of Jin defeated Ziyu in Chengpu, he was still unable to spread his voice to Jingman, the concubines of Hanyang, and Chu Shi. This is very big. The district doctor of Shen Zhuliang District, Yexian County has taken the title of county magistrate. After the revenge of King Zhao of Zhou's southern expedition, he is in control of the borders, and as for the South China Sea, it is simply to put the people upside down, and saving me is like fire and water!"

Youruo changed his attitude when he followed Yuanxian and others to cast aside Zhao Wuxi as the minister of Lu, and scolded him for stealing the country and thieves, blowing Zhao Wuxi and Zhao Jun into the sky.

The gentlemen and Confucians behind him, who rely on hunger and poverty to recognize their timidity and greed, also kept nodding their heads like chickens pecking rice, while carefully observing Zhao Wuxi.

Seeing that this monarch wears a monarch, wears red robes and yellow robes, wears jade and mingluan, and has an extraordinary bearing, surpassing hundreds of millions of people, he is angry and the princes are afraid, and he lives in peace, and the world is breathless. They secretly wondered how they had become blind back then, and they didn't devote themselves to their door like Zigong Zaiyu and others, so they missed the opportunity to be in the court...

Seeing this scene, Zhao State's generals and officials held back their laughter, while Zhao Wuxi shook his head, making Youruo stop, and then asked:

"Didn't the second and third sons be full of moral articles back then, almost attacking the widow as Jie Zhou? Why is the former arrogant and the latter humble?"

These words were sharp, You Ruo couldn't go on, her face blushed, and the Confucian scholars behind her also lowered their heads.

On the other hand, Marquis Zhao seemed to let them go down the steps and sighed: "Yes, life is alive, power, fame, wealth, how can you ignore it? The second and third sons are here to seek an official position, right?"

Being revealed by Zhao Wuxi, he always likes to beat around the bush in his work, and he is also called a gentle and polite group of scholars who are shy and dare not speak.

Still with thick skin, he smiled and said, "Uncle is right, we are here to seek an official!"

He turned his head and said confidently to the Confucian scholars: "What's there to be ashamed of? The Master will be uneasy without the appointment of the monarch for three months, and the scholars who study lose their official positions, just like the princes lose their country! Now the uncle has been cancelled. Shiqing Shilu, this is the luck of our scholars! It is natural for us to be an official if you study well and become an official in the world! Being an official, earning a salary, honoring the ancestors, and benefiting the people is naturally our yearning and pursuit.”

"Education and excellence lead to an official career?"

Zhao Wuchun smiled and said, "That's right, scholars want to be officials, just like farmers who want to farm the land. This is the norm in this world. It's just that farmers rely on farm tools for farming, and scholars want to be officials because of their talents. I just don't know, the second and third sons have been with Confucius for many years, and what talents have they learned apart from literacy and hyphenation?"

The Confucian scholars present were immediately excited, and they all showed their signature talents, either proficient in a certain poem and able to memorize it like a fluent; There are also people who are good at funerals...

Zhao Wuxi listened, disapprovingly.

But think about it, in Confucius, the talented and ambitious Zi Gong, Zai Yu, Ran Qiu, Fan Chi, and Yan Gao had already taken refuge in themselves twenty years ago; Confucianism was also reused by Duke Ye and became the Wu Ben of the Chu army; no matter how bad it was, Yan Hui, Zizhang and Zeng Shen, who were the best in virtue and learning, were also regarded as learned people in Chu State, and established a school; One raised a Confucian banner in the school; Zeng Shen even opened a school in Langya, fooling his eldest son, Zhao Cao, into being a Confucian...

In short, under Confucius’s school, as long as those who have a bit of success, those who have made official careers, and those who have established a career, it is self-evident what kind of waste these remaining people are.

He was a little too lazy to waste time with these people, and said slowly: "Poems and books, etc., can be sold all over the country with an engraving at any bookstore in Yecheng, and it has also been incorporated into school textbooks. Nowadays, even elementary school students Even teenagers can recite the famous poems by heart. When they go to the university in the prefecture, any college student can interpret the meaning. As for the Linzhang Academy, the highest school, Zixia, Zizhang, Gongyang and others have long since begun to write poems. Books make notes and become the words of a family. The little knowledge of the second and third sons can only be compared with the elementary school students of Zhao State.

Zhao State not only has martial arts, but also culture and education. Twenty years of culture and education are not false, especially in Yecheng, Zhao Wuxi has created a young and vigorous literate class before you know it, and those talents are the relying on Zhao Wuxi's confidence to rule the world.

In the end, Zhao Wuxi bluntly told them that to be an official in Zhao State, one of the first things is necessary, that is, to understand the "Zhao Law", Zhao officials all take the law as a teacher! If any of the Confucian scholars present had studied it, they would stand up.

For a time, no one came out, and the Confucian scholars looked at each other in dismay, not expecting such a request. This group of people has been advocating morality and etiquette all day long, and they despised the law. In the past ten years, it has not been once or twice that Zhao Guo’s law has been scolded for disregarding human relations, so why would they take the initiative to learn it?

Seeing this, Zhao Wuxi couldn't help but sneer: "I have heard people say that the so-called gentlemen and Confucians are all useless and useless people. When I see them today, it really is..."

As soon as these words came out, the Confucianists were so ashamed that some people were about to retreat, but they were still cheeky and anxious.

"Uncle! Although we are of no great use, did you not hear about the horse bones in Qin Mu Gong's daughter-in-law market in the past?"

Of course, Zhao Wuxi knew that it was because someone persuaded him that year that he sent someone to save the life of Zheng Ren Deng Yi, but in the end he picked up a treasure, not only for him to improve Zhao's legal system, but also for him at a critical moment. Take the blame, where can you find such a good minister?

But can you group be compared with Deng Xi?

Youruo saw that Zhao Wuxi was silent, thinking that he was persuaded, and quickly said: "Now that the uncle has first established the world, there must be many scholars in Chu who are hesitating whether or not to join. It’s small, but it hurts the enthusiasm of the scholars in the South! It’s better to accept us in the name of winning talents. After all, I’ve only heard that birds can choose wood, how can wood choose birds?”

"It's not a coincidence." Zhao Wuxi laughed loudly: "My branch is a sycamore tree, a golden jade branch, and I'm very picky. Now learn from the ancients, and teach the ancients to harm the present. The officials with few people are supposed to take orders for the people and govern the locality. How can they let you corrupt? Of course, the few people with horse bones want, but you have a pile of rotten bones, what is the use of them? ?"

He waved his hand and said in disgust, "Blast all these people out!"

...

"Has the scholar outside the door gone?"

Half an hour later, Zhao Wuxi, who was going to sleep in the old mansion of Ye Gong, ran out of food and asked Wu Lin, the captain of the Yulin guard.

"Mostly walked away with their heads down and dejected. The rest of the people, headed by You Ruo, are still waiting outside the door." It was freezing cold and the night was approaching. But even if the nose is running, he still refuses to leave.

"Okay." Zhao Wuxi laughed: "After being humiliated by the widow, he didn't pretend to be arrogant and walked away. This shows that these people still have one talent, that is, for the official salary, they can endure hardship, and they are shameless. , the spine is broken, and the kneecap can't support it."

Wu Xie stretched his back. After all, he was not young, and he was tired from traveling and traveling. Sometimes he had to visit the army in person. He had been exhausted these few months.

"Let the attendants heat the charcoal in the house, let the widows rest for a while, and report back in half an hour. If there are still people waiting outside at that time, throw them a sheepskin fur and bring them in."

He murmured: "Hundreds of useless people are Confucian scholars, and they are not suitable for officials. It's good to be a dog, isn't it just a fight to eat Lumi? The widows are also a lot of their share! Appoint these remaining people as Small officials, dispatched to Yunzhong, Shanggu, Shangjun, and Western Liaoning. These remote places are mixed with Rong and Di, and there are few literate people. Let them teach the Central Plains characters and languages, and by the way, spread Wang Hua among the barbarians, Rong and Di~www.wuxiahere. com~ Brainwashing is also good!"

"only!"

After Wu Lin was ordered to leave, Zhao Wuxi lay down for a while, but couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and for some reason, scenes from the past jumped out of his mind and reflected in front of him.

Lu State, Zhongdu, Bamboo Forest.

Zilu, Zeng Xi, Ran You, and Gong Xihua sat there.

Self-cultivation, family order, governance of the country, and peace in the world...

Now, the ideals he blurted out that day have been realized one by one, but what about the old man who once listened and expressed his admiration with a smile? What is he thinking now?

Zhao Wuqi said to himself, "I came here for Ye County this time, not for his disciples and grandchildren..."

Tomorrow morning, Zhao Wuxi will go to see the old Confucius. This is the second meeting between the two after a lapse of twenty years...

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