Spring and Autumn I Am King

Doctor Gaoyu Yutuo said: "The robbery Zhi (zhi) has been raging in Leize and Dayeze for several years. The terrain in this area is complicated. Pushui and Jishui are injected into it. There are many lakes and depressions. People. So the fugitives gathered, headed by Robber Zhi. He had thousands of followers and he ran rampant around Dayeze, invading and violent feudal lords. In the towns that he passed, the big country defended the city, the small country protected the city, and all the people suffered. But inside the Lu State Disputes are forced by Qi State to oppress them, so they are unable to attack."

"Robber Zhi?"

Zhao Wuxi knew that this was the leader of the robbers hundreds of miles around Onozawa. Few people in later generations knew this name, and it turned out to be from this era.

But Wu Xie thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of his deeds. I just remember that someone in the Warring States period commented that Robber Zhi was "a good soldier in the world"!

"I don't know what kind of person he is. Linqiu is not far from Onozawa, and the land of Puyin, Weiguo, between Lishan, Lei Ze, and Onozawa is also a place that I am determined to win, so I can't guarantee that I will be with you in the future. He is dealing with him, and he must start conscription as soon as possible after returning to the city, and prepare for theft prevention this winter!"

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From Linqiu to Qufu, the journey takes at least five days, and it takes three hundred miles to travel. After Gaoyu, it is Yuncheng, an important town in the State of Lu, which is only one-third of the distance.

Although it is almost mid-autumn, Yundi is close to Pushui and Onozawa, and the climate is arid and humid, so it is still very hot. The autumn tiger is photographed, Wu Xie and others are wearing wide dark clothes and wide sleeves. Sauna, Wu Xia's horseman Yu Xi, the guard Mu Xia and the others were also sweating, but they still kept their armor. Look around cautiously.

After the attack on Taihang, the military officials felt guilty and remorseful. A complete set of experience in guarding has been summed up, so now there are spearmen and swords and shields among the hundred people. There are also crossbowmen, all of them are selected elites, enough to form the special formation that Zhao Wuxi taught them.

Zifu He, who can speak and know Taoism, played a guest role as a guide, and he introduced: "In the winter of the fourth year of Duke Chenggong, in order to strengthen the defense, the state of Lu built a city named Yun in the west of Jishui and Pushui, and north of Daze, and the land was close to Cao and Wei. When something happens, the army often gathers here. To prevent the invasion, this is the origin of Yuncheng."

Zhao Wuxi nodded, Yundi is also a traffic point, Pu and Jishui Roads connect Qi, Lu, and Cao three countries.

He stood on the horse-drawn chariot with flags and decorated coats of arms and looked around, but he saw that the land of Yuncheng was full of swamps. According to legend, Da Yu judged that this place was "Juetian only in the middle and lower", and it was relatively thin.

However, after the industrious rectification and hard work of the ancestors of the Western Lu country, it has become very suitable for farming. Because the climate in spring and autumn is warmer and humid than in later generations, Yuncheng, which has abundant rainfall, is especially suitable for rice cultivation.

On the fields several miles east of the road. Between the bleak wild trees and the overgrown weeds, the ditches that divert water meander southwards and flow northwards.

It was not the first time for Zifu to pass by here. He sighed with emotion: "When there were no disasters in previous years, every autumn harvest. Walking on the noon road, looking around, all eyes are full of heavy rice ears undulating with the wind. It's golden and lovely, but now there are foxes and rabbits in the wild. It's almost desolate."

In Chengxiang, Zhao Wuxi, who even set his own example to go to the ground, felt a pity: "Such a good canal and such a good field should be a paradise on earth. Now it is so deserted! This field is overgrown with weeds and bushes. Because the Qi people have destroyed a lot of fields by crossing the border, the autumn harvest may be delayed, but it is not too late to make up for it.

Although Zifu He agreed, he also sneered: "Doctor Yuncheng ignores the affairs of the city except for the increase of taxes, how can he worry about this? Well, this is all because of the bad governance of Dr. Yuncheng!"

Indeed, on this once prosperous noon road, there are now local farmers with their bare feet stepping in the paddy fields, ox carts of scholars, and even more refugees.

From time to time, you can see groups of people in ragged clothes, helping the old and the young, or hobbling on the road, or sitting on the side of the road to rest, or scattered in the fields and bushes, bending their heads and hooking their waists, carefully looking for whether There is food, and most of them just picked up voles, wolfberry, and even grass-roots wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and some people died of hunger on the side of the road.

Qi Wan, a native of Song, was also in the guard. Looking at the hungry and green-eyed Lu people on the side of the road, he also felt a little bit of fear. The domestic situation in Song was relatively stable, except when his father talked about the Huaxiang Rebellion 20 years ago. Except for starvation once, they can barely survive at other times.

"It turns out that there is such a big difference between the lords under the doctor and others!"

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the power of the clan was still relatively strong, but there were more and more single-family farmers in the Lu country. Whenever the war started, the world was in chaos, and they were the most vulnerable. If the city doctor is cruel and unkind, or cannot organize decent relief, the refugees have to rely on themselves to get food and drink. At this time, they may choose to join a big clan and become a scoundrel, or they will be displaced from a foreign land.

Zifu He Yi was filled with indignation: "The honest ones are begging, or looking for some wild vegetables in the fields to feed their stomachs, the dishonest ones will rob or steal, and when they are extremely hungry, I am afraid that even the honest ones will change. Over time, some of them will be reduced to pirates. The nearly 10,000 people under the robbers of Ono Zezhong have come this way! If it is not dealt with as soon as possible, sooner or later, chaos will occur and even spread to surrounding counties. "

Wu Xie said: "Indeed, it is time to open the government treasury for disaster relief, attract refugees, organize them to return to their villages, weeding and reclamation, and preparing for winter and spring ploughing.

Zifu He sighed: "Of course it can be done under Zitai's rule, but although this is a good plan, it cannot be used in Yuncheng."

"Why? Yuncheng is an important town in the west of Lu State, and it is also a must for merchants to trade to Taoyi. Corn is certainly not scarce. Now that the war is over, a small part of the grain is allocated to allow the common people to survive until the autumn harvest, isn't it? very good?"

"Having said that, but Dr. Yuncheng refuses to open the position! I have persuaded me once when I passed by a few days ago, but it was useless."

Zhao Wuxi was stunned. Although he was "contemptuous of meat eaters", as long as he was a doctor with some knowledge, he would not tolerate the loss of population in his territory. What kind of cramping did this Yuncheng doctor have?

Zifu He took the opportunity and said, "Zitai doesn't know anything. Yuncheng was often captured by Qi in the past, and fell once last year. It was later returned by Qi people, but fell into the hands of Yanghu. He appointed I asked Sun Zhi, my uncle from the party, to guard the Qi army for Doctor Yuncheng."

"Uncle Sunzhi, is it the son of Shusun's concubine?"

"However, this person is a good soldier, but he doesn't know how to govern the city. He is forced to levy violently all day long, and the tax is two and a half acres. He also requires every Chulu person to have a piece of armor and clothing to hand in. He is a close friend of Yanghu. , short-sighted, if you get enough here, you will be changed to a lord. So you don't care about the life and death of the people..."

Zhao Wuxi was silent. In his previous life, he had seen the scene of refugees fleeing from the famine on film and television, and the tragic scene in front of him was even worse than that. There was an unbearable look in his eyes, but he was in the boundary of Yuncheng. These people were the subjects of Dr. Yuncheng, not his. They could only leave some food and tell them that they could walk several dozen miles to the west. Qiu live.

Why did you lend a hand. It is also considered that many of the potters of Lu State who produce porcelain for the Zhao family are from Yuncheng, and it is difficult to say that these refugees have their relatives.

"Isn't Linqiu from Qi?" Many Yuncheng farmers are very ignorant of the huge territorial changes that have taken place in Pubei in the past few months. They are honest people who never leave Lilu in their lives. If it were not for military disasters and famines, they would not be looking for food everywhere.

Feng Rin said to them in the accent of the country of Lu: "Now that there is the border of the country of Lu, you can go there with confidence. When the time comes, there will be porridge to drink, and there will be land points!"

After seeing and hearing on the road. Zhao Wuxi had a bad impression of Yuncheng's uncle Sun Zhi, but he had some kind of ulterior motive. After entering Yuncheng to take a bath and rest for a while, he still went to meet this person with Zifu He.

Uncle Sunzhi was originally a minister of Luhou's office, but he was not reused. After joining Yanghu, he became a doctor. At the banquet, Zhao Wuxi saw that his eyes were higher than the top, the halls and courtyards were ornately decorated, the porcelain wares were neatly displayed on the table to show off, and Zhao Wuxi even saw that his shoes were inlaid with pearls and jade.

Upstarts, this is Wu Xie's definition of this person, and there is a little doubt about Yanghu's way of employing people.

"Isn't it because the nobles and people of the state of Lu are dissatisfied with Yanghu, so as long as the people who take refuge can use it, they don't choose food when they are hungry?"

Shusun Zhi said nothing about the current situation of Yuncheng, but complained that the rampant robbers had led to the reduction of taxes.

"Yuncheng faces the danger of robbery in the south, and the Qi people in the north, and it is really difficult. The robbers are in the caves and pivots, driving people, cattle and horses, and taking women. "

Shusunzhi also hated Robber Zhi, and even told the untrue rumors such as eating people's livers, but he didn't realize that he was one of the sources of the rampant robbers in the south of Yuncheng.

Zhao Wuxi didn't say a word, but said to Zifuhe after the banquet: "If the emperor is good, the princes are greedy, the princes are greedy, the officials are contemptible, and the officials are contemptible, and the common people steal! I understand this sentence today."

After returning to the living room, he briefly recorded what he saw today on the pamphlet: "Yuncheng can be pictured!"

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After leaving Yuncheng, Wu Xie and his group continued eastward. After crossing Pushui and Jishui eastward from here, they would pass through the northern end of Onozawa. After walking for two days, they would reach Zhongduyi after another seven or eighty miles. !

In Zhongdu, Zhao Wuxi couldn't get around this place, whether it was the path this time or the psychology of his past and present life.

Not only Zhao Wuxi~www.wuxiahere.com~ After two thousand years, all Chinese people will not be able to bypass it, bypassing the ruler of Zhongdu.

Those who revere him would like to put every word of that man into his mouth and chew it a thousand and eighty-hundreds of times, and regard him as the most holy teacher, King Wan Shisu; those who despise him would like to kill him and then hurry up, eat his flesh raw, and treat "Old Master Kong". Two" denounced it as the source of evil for all the bad things that have happened in history.

In short, it is an extremely complex emotion.

But in the words of Senior Brother Zigong Yan Hui, it is a huge hill that "looks high, drills hard, looks ahead, and suddenly follows". He just lives in this era, no matter what you are Emotions cannot be bypassed!

Standing on the bow of the wooden boat at the Jishui Ferry, listening to the chirping of the wild geese flying south, he thoughtlessly thought: "August is high in autumn, it is the time to climb mountains and overlook the world. Since we have come to the Spring and Autumn Period, we will not climb a mountain. Climbing this hill of nuns is a waste of life!" (To be continued. . . )

ps: Thanks to book friends Xunlang, Big Brother Feilong, and Jiutian Yanyu for their rewards!

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