Spring and Autumn I Am King

In the attic of a restaurant called "Forgetting to Return", two youths with weak crowns sat relatively empty seats.

They are very close. Generally speaking, the people who come here are nothing more than the children of the doctor who want to enjoy the sensual pleasures, and they are also chatting about the affairs of the wind and the moon, but if someone listens to the conversation between the two, I am afraid they will be shocked. .

What the two of them were discussing turned out to be the current situation in the Song Kingdom, and even the general trend of the world!

Zhao Wuxi was already very familiar with the situation of the Song Kingdom. He said: "It has been five hundred years since Wei Ziqi was enshrined in the Song Kingdom, and it has experienced more than 20 monarchs. Song is the only duke state today, and its status is detached. In all major alliances or conquests, except for hegemonic and powerful countries, the Song state is generally listed before the other princes.”

Song's strength is not weak, there are thousands of chariots and three armies. After a long-term war, he destroyed the surrounding states of Su, Biaoyang, Xiao, Dai and Pengcheng, and became a vassal of Teng and Xue. Therefore, Zhao Wuxi defected to Song Guo, and it was not a matter of grievance about his identity.

"The current reigning Song Gongluan (Song Jinggong, prefix Man) is also very friendly to me, the exiled son of the Zhao family. The reason is that at the beginning of his succession, the Song Dynasty suffered a three-year drought. Taibu said: It must be Only by offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, Yun Zhongjun can bring down showers. At that time, Duke Song said: "The reason why I asked for rain was to make people live, but now I want to kill people for the rain, no! If ghosts and gods must If a living person offers sacrifices, then please blame me →!”

Zhang Meng said with a smile: "It's a benevolent lord, which coincides with Zitai's order to stop martyrdom."

Wu Xian said: "That's right. Duke Song said that I was a benevolent person like him, so he rejected the proposal of the Song Dynasty to detain me in retaliation for Jin. My brother-in-law, Ziming, encouraged me to say it. I asked the Duke of Song to be sealed in a town of a thousand houses and become a doctor of Song. With him talking about the matter, he would definitely be allowed. But I thought about it and thought it was not right. For the long-term, I cannot stay in Song."

The reason for Zhao Wuxi's unwillingness to stay in Song for a city of a thousand houses is very simple. If he has no ambition, he just wants to be a comfortable little lord. Then, with the knowledge and skills of later generations, being an idle doctor in the Song Dynasty can also be rich and honorable for a lifetime.

But he, like Jin Chong'er who was exiled back then, had raging ambitions after he left the cage of Jin. He couldn't wait to spread his wings and fly. However, the public family of the Song Dynasty is too strong, the monarch is benevolent and stable, the people are loyal to the public office, and there is no stage for him to display.

Gongzu is the title of relatives who are closely related by blood to the monarch. At the same time, the power distribution model "Zun Zun" based on "Kinqin" gave Gongzu a strong political status and became a privileged aristocratic class.

Zhao Wuxi snapped his fingers and said: "The Duke clan of the Song country is the strongest of the Dai clan and the Huan clan (the descendants of Duke Dai of Song and Duke Huan of Song). The Dai clan mainly includes Hua, Huang, Le, Ling and other branches, and the Huan clan mainly There are branches such as Xiang's."

Affected by the "Shiqing Shilu" system, the public family often controls the state affairs from generation to generation. Today, all the princes in the Central Plains have their monarchical power down. The situation in which the power of the ministers rose, and thus formed a situation in which the main and the weak were strong. Needless to say, the state of Jin, the state of Lu, has three Huan dictatorships. "Lu is like a small marquis, inferior to the family of Sanhuan." In Zheng State. The "Seven Mu" also held the state affairs of Zheng State.

But the Song state is a bit special, although the political disputes between the clans are fierce. But the distribution of power is more balanced. The Duke of Song still held a lot of power. When the Chu State Dazai commented on the Song State, he said: "The lords only serve their lords in the Song Dynasty."

"Under the Duke of Song, there is the Duke's clan as the Sixth Minister."

At the beginning of the division of the Song Dynasty, only one army was set up, which was led by the monarch; Duke Xiang of Song expanded his army into two armies before the Battle of Hongshui in order to achieve hegemony. After the war, Song Chenggong expanded his army into three armies.

Wu Xie has long been familiar with the names and clans of the six ministers of the Song State: "Nowadays, Le Daxin is the right teacher, Xiang Chao is the left teacher, Xiang Yu (tui) is the great Sima, and my uncle Le Mix (hun, Ziming) succeeded as Da Sicheng, Song Gong's half-brother Gong Zichen was the Da Si Tu, and Huang Yuan was the Da Si Kou. Generally speaking, the right division is the ruler of Song."

Zhang Mengtan said with a wry smile: "But the right teacher, Le Daxin, is an anti-Jin faction, and he has some festivals with Zhao Qing..."

It was the fifteenth year of Duke Yuan of Song, and the ruler of the Song Dynasty, Le Daxin and the princes, met with Huang Fu. At the meeting, Jin Qing Zhao Yang ordered the feudal lords to lose millet to Zhou Tianzi, who had just pacified the rebellion in the prince's dynasty and had no food, but Le Daxin gave up. Why should a guest, not a subordinate, take this responsibility?"

He was then refuted and reprimanded by Zhao Yang and Shi Jingbo. In addition, he was used by the Han family before to use a white wolf with empty gloves to take away the prefectures and counties that once belonged to Le Daxin. Le Daxin was already full of Jin. resentment and hatred.

Wu Xie analyzed: "Le Daxin is an old official of Duke Song and Yuan Dynasty, and he has a lot of power. He has a fief in Xiaoyi, a big city with hundreds of thousands of households. They kissed Qi Qiu Jin, and said that the death of Le Bo was done by Fan Yang alone, and had nothing to do with Qi Hou. They demanded to renege on the covenant with Jin and join Qi, and they even advocated that I should be detained!"

Thinking of the difficult and embarrassing situation when he first arrived in the Song Kingdom, Zhao Wuxi also had lingering fears, but fortunately, he made good use of the contradictions of the various forces, and he was long-sleeved and danced among them, and finally stood firm!

At this time, Zhao Wuxi paused for a moment, glanced out the window, and said in a low voice: "Zhang Zi, please look, the second largest force of the Duke clan in Song is the brother of these two."

Zhang Mengtan looked around and saw two young doctors with dark clothes and wide sleeves entering the yard. They also found a pavilion and sat down to relax and play.

"This is the Xiang brothers from the Huan family, there are five people in total, the eldest son Xiang Chao is Zuo Shi, Xiang Yu is the big Sima, he is also the favorite minister of Song Gong; Sima Geng, who is the young Sima, is a disciple of Confucius; The two are Ziqi and Ziche, who have just been crowned, and have no duties yet, they are my friends and come to feast every day."

"These five brothers are the confidants trained by Duke Song, who hold the military power in the office, and their strength should not be underestimated. The Xiang family is now a hot and powerful family, because of the relationship between Zigong and Sima Geng. They are very friendly to me and help me. I am based in Shangqiu. And their relationship with Le Daxin and Fifth Young Master is equivalent to the new minister of Song Gong and the old minister of the previous dynasty. There are contradictions."

"Finally, it's my uncle and brother. Le Ziming, who succeeded Da Sicheng, and Da Si Kou Huangyuan. They both belong to the Dai clan. Compared with the above two families, they are less powerful, but they advocate the reconciliation of Jin and Song Dynasties. , to reshape the main force of the alliance."

After listening to Zhang Mengtan, he pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "The Duke of Song and the six ministers of the clan are so powerful that although there are contradictions, it is not impossible to reconcile them, not to mention that the ruling pleasure is still close to each other. Therefore, as an outsider, Zitai, Be a little doctor at most, and there is no chance at all to hold real power."

Wu Xie took a sip of the wine cup and replied, "Exactly, I have lost my duty as a pedestrian. Although I tried to persuade Duke Song to stay in the Jin League, he was independent from Jin and Qi. I don't trust any country's plans anymore. Staying here will not help me return to Jin. So I think, like Duke Wen of Jin, if one fails, I will go to other countries to find opportunities."

He sincerely bowed to Zhang Meng and said, "Wu Xie's wisdom skills are shallow. If Zhang Zi was there to assist him a few months ago, he would not have reached the point where he is today. However, I am still determined. Dare to ask Zhang Son, will the plan be released?"

Zhang Meng talks about what he is best at. In fact, it is still resourcefulness and situation, he bowed slightly to Zhao Wuxi. Then the words that he thought of along the way came out of the tray.

"King Wu and Duke Zhou enfeoffed more than 100 feudal lords. Initially, the territory was not very large. The larger ones were more than a hundred li in radius and the smaller ones were fifty li. Since King You was murdered in Mount Li, and King Ping moved east to Luoyi, it has been nearly three hundred years. After that, the feudal lords used the strong to bully the weak, and there was no need to ask the emperor for instructions when using the army.

He dipped his finger in the wine and drew a map of the world's situation on the black table.

Zhao Wuxi pondered: "After the death of Duke Xiang of Jin, Zhao Xuanzi did not agree with the reason for making the son Le as the heir, because he was the son of the previous ruler, but he could not get the protection of the big country, but stayed in the small country, which shows that he is very unpromising. ."

"It's the same with me. Now Jin relies on the dangers of the Three Rivers, Qi backs on the East China Sea, Chu is in the middle of the Yangtze River, Huaihan, Qin embraces Yongzhou, and Wu rises in the South. They rise in the four directions of the Zhou Dynasty for the sake of the world. The top five! Besides Jin, should I choose the other four powers to defect to? Zhang Zi thinks, what about Wu and Chu?"

Zhang Mengtan shook his head and said, "No, after the Chu State's rebellion against the king of Chuzhuang and the Dou clan, most of the positions of Ling Yin and Sima were held by princes and grandsons, and they never fell into the hands of outsiders. Besides, the king of Chu was cruel to the scholars and officials, and Chu The state-owned materials can’t be used yet, let alone those from other countries? Didn’t Wu She and Bo Shi were innocently killed, and Wu Zixu and Bo Xi were expelled, so they couldn’t go.”

"The state of Wu is strong and prosperous, and foreign scholars such as Wu Zixu, Sun Wu, and Bo Xi are easy to use, but they are too far away from the state of Jin, and if something happens, they can't come back in time. Let me draw an analogy. Ji went into exile, one of them chose Liang State, which was close to Jin State, and the other chose Bai Di, which was farther away. In the end, Duke Hui of Jin returned to China to take the throne first. Therefore, Wu Chu is not desirable."

Zhao Wuxi nodded and continued to ask: "So, do you want to choose Qin and Qi? They and Jin are neighboring countries. Historically, Jin Huigong, Jin Wengong, Fan Wenzi, and Fan Yang all came to Qin first and then later. Only returned to China, and Luan Ying also returned to China with the help of Duke Qi Zhuang."

Zhang Mengtan shook his head and said, "Although Qi and Qin are relatively close to Jin, they are now Jin's enemies. After Zitai goes, there are only two options. One is to learn from Fan Wenzi and assist Qin and Qin. Qi, make a lot of trouble for the state of Jin and force Zhibo to recall you; the second is to learn from Luan Ying and use the power of the enemy to risk returning to China to fight Fan, Zhongxing, and even the ministers and the people of the country. Being a sword in the hands of others is not only dangerous, but also dangerous. It's hard to succeed."

Zhao Wuxi looked at the map Zhang Mengtan had drawn on the table and said, "That's right, and I don't want to embarrass my father, and I don't want to be an enemy of the Zhao clan. Since these four powerful countries have all been excluded by Zhang Zi, there is only one left. Small and medium-sized country, you must have already thought about where to go for me in your heart, so don’t make me want to eat it anymore, please say it.”

At this moment, Zhang Mengtan seemed to be a strategist of Yu Fan Lunjin. He got up and said: "Zheng is also an enemy of Jin, and the Si clan in Qimu is in power, and the power has never fallen into the hands of non-gong clan. Back then, the prince of Chu, Jian, went into exile. When he went to Zheng State to become a doctor and tried to plot against Zheng, he was executed by the people of Zheng and could not go."

"The princes of Si Shang, such as Cao, Zhu, Ju, Xue, Teng, etc., are too young, and they will only wrong their identity if they go there."

"Weiguo... Although Weihou looks dull, he can play the domestic doctor round and round, and it is too close to Jin. It is the front line of Jin and Qi's confrontation, and it is easy to be affected by war."

As for Zhou Shi, who had just settled the civil strife, neither of them mentioned it, so it was assumed that there was no such thing; Bei Yan lived in a corner in the Spring and Autumn Period and rarely participated in the alliance of princes, and went to watch the snow and count the sheep.

At this point, in Zhang Mengtan's mind, the country that Zhao Wuxi should defect to the most has also come to light.

Zhao Wuxi's eyes were sharp, his hands clenched into fists, and he knocked heavily towards the northeast of Huaisi and south of the Taiyi Mountains, and gave Zhang Mengtan the answer.

"Lu Kingdom!"

He took out a silk book from his sleeve~www.wuxiahere.com~ and said to Zhang Mengtan: "To be honest with Zhang Zi, Yanghu is now trying to replace Ji's clan, so he has called for heroes from all over the world. This is what he gave me. Letter, invite me to Lu country to be his henchman, maybe promise a town of a thousand houses!"

Zhang Mengtan nodded and said: "Ten years ago, this country was still under the dictatorship of the Three Huans, but now it is upside down, with the minister Yang Hu in charge of the country's life. In this unstable and turbulent country, the old imperial authority has collapsed. The new power has not yet been established, which is a good place for Zitai to display!"

If Wu Xie remembers correctly, in the past few years, there will be political turmoil in the state of Lu, so that Confucius, a scholar with no background, can become a major pirate and take charge of the country's life.

Isn't this the best stage for careerists to gain power and watch the fire from the other side? (To be continued..)

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