Spring and Autumn I Am King

On the spacious main hall of the lower palace, several important retainers of the Zhao family, such as the family chief Yin Duo, the middle doctor Fu Sou, and the military Sima You Wuzheng, all stood in the hall. They looked at each other, wondering why the Lord Zhao Yang suddenly summoned them here.

"But for the winter solstice the day after tomorrow?"

When Yin Duo, who had a goatee, heard this, his face darkened. He had a bad premonition about the great court meeting in the future, but after several quarrels in the past half-month, the Lord no longer listened to his unfavorable advice. Replaced by Fu Sou, a middle-school doctor!

Alas, if Dong Anyu was still here, the Lord would definitely listen to him...

While everyone was guessing, they saw at the gate of the hall, with a crown on his head, black and red clothes, and a dazzling array of pendants hanging around his waist, the lord Zhao Yang with a long sword was striding into the hall. All the retainers saluted him one after another, and Zhao Yang bowed slightly to return the salute.

As soon as Zhao Yang took his seat, he announced: "Today I have summoned all the retainers to come, because there is a new family law to be discussed." If a living person is buried, violators will be severely punished regardless of their status!"

As soon as these words came out, His Highness was in an uproar. Some looked resentful, some disapproved, and some looked happy. The complex attitudes of the people towards the burial of the living can be seen at a glance.

A subordinate doctor who had been buried with concubines for generations in his family immediately stood up and questioned: "It is an inherent tradition of the Zhao family to be buried with slaves and servants. Why should I abandon it? speak?"

The retainers in the hall who supported the burial responded for a while. They had already figured out which of the beautiful maids and servants in the family would be buried under Jiuyou to serve and continue to live the life of Zhongming Dingshi. How could they be abolished in one go?

"Don't worry about the world?" Zhao Yang sneered in his heart, he waved his wide sleeves to calm everyone down, and then asked Shu Renkuan to carry up Zhao Wuxi's two scrolls of bamboo slips.

"Read it! Read it to all the retainers, don't miss a word, and let them see how 'unscrupulous' my son is."

Shu Renkuan held the heavy bamboo slip, and secretly complained in his heart, but he read it word by word:

"The boy has no sympathy and worships the head again: Zhao started his business in Jin in the age of Chengzi and Xuanzi, but God did not bless Zhao, which led to the collapse of the Middle Way (referring to the difficulty of the lower palace); fortunately, the great-grandfather Wenzi revived, and the slaughter held Jin. Country; as for the lintel of the father Guangmen, the Zhao family is prosperous here."

The retainers looked at each other and nodded. This gentleman without a shirt can not only hear the music of the musician Gao Zhixian, but also understand his elegant meaning.

"However, the Jin kingdom is now six points, the public transport is unmanned, and the government is in the family. This is the autumn of sincerity and danger! Today, the boy dares to say that if the matter of human sacrifice is not changed, the survival of the lower palace is only a matter of time!"

After the cliché at the beginning, there was such a sensational passage, and the retainers couldn't help but feel refreshed after hearing it. Continuing to listen, their disapproving expressions suddenly disappeared, and some people even had a thin layer of sweat on their foreheads.

Zhao Wuxi pointed out in the article that nowadays the feudal lords and even the six ministers are fighting for two things, one is land, and the other is population. If the land is large and the population is large, the Zhao clan will be able to prevail before the war; if the land is narrow and the population is small, the Zhao clan will be at a disadvantage.

Don't you see, the country of Zheng, living in the land of Kui, has a narrow land and few people. Although in the early Spring and Autumn Period, there was a small tyrant of Zheng Zhuang, who dared to shoot Zhou Tianzi's shoulder in the battle of Kuge, and no one in the Central Plains could **** his edge. Not durable. And Qi has a vast territory and a large population, so it can come from behind and become the first hegemony. Even if he loses hegemony due to civil strife, the base is there, and the monarch will die, and he will hold the seat of the third most powerful country in the world for a long time.

The rest of the Jin, Chu, etc. are not like this. With enough population support, they can dispatch four or five thousand troops to conquer the princes.

Since the population is so important, what are the ways to increase the population? Zhao Wuxi believes that one of them is the prohibition of burial!

"The number of burials killed by princes and nobles after their death was in the hundreds, and the number of burials in the few dozen; the number of burials killed by scholar-bureaucrats after their death was in the tens of thousands, but only a few."

It doesn't matter if each family sacrifices a person for burial every year, but if you add up all the territories of the Zhao family, what is the total number of sacrifices of all the scholars, officials and Chinese people? According to the estimates of the officials and overseas Chinese, the Zhao clan's territories combined, almost a thousand people die every year!

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Before, it was only heard sporadically, and no one had ever counted it, so Zhao Yang didn't care. And now it is not only him, but even many retainers realize that 1,000 people are killed every year, such a large number, even the humble concubines and slaves, it is really hurtful!

Besides, there are more realistic things. For example, what is the average annual population growth of the Zhao family?

There is ready-made data in the hands of the overseas Chinese, and Zhao Yang also vaguely remembers that the five large counties he personally controlled, plus the lower palace, the number of people added last year was only more than 2,000 people. But five thousand.

Comparing the two, all the vassals will understand without any need to say it clearly. It turns out that burial with a living person will slow down the population growth controlled by the Zhao clan by half!

In this way, things become simple. This is a matter of addition and subtraction. It continues to be ignored, and thousands of laborers are lost in vain every year. Or let the burial slaves and servants survive and marry each other, and there will be many more newborns.

Zhao Wuxi exclaimed in the text: "So, while supporting people's sacrifice, while seeking to increase the population in this way, it is like making people fall on the edge of the sword and seeking longevity, and it seems that they want to go to the south, but make the coachman face north. Just like driving, it will only backfire!”

"I heard that the funeral ceremonies of the sage kings such as Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, King Wen of Zhou, and King Wu were extremely simple and did not sacrifice human beings. Is it to follow the example of holy kings and govern, or to ignore such things that hurt the heavens and the law? Father, please choose!"

As for the way to implement this "stop from death" ban, the realist Zhao Wuxi had already planned it for Zhao Yang: first implement it in the lower palace and several surrounding townships, see if the effect and objections are too great, and then push it forward. And spread to other large counties.

He also envisaged the effect of this move: in addition to the opposition of some conservative old nobles, the Zhao family can be praised by enlightened scholars all over the world, gain a good reputation of respecting Zhou Li, and be enslaved by servants, concubines, and savages. Thanks Dade, for the previous exorcism.

Of course, there is one point left unspoken in the text, which is that it will also allow him Zhao Wuxi to gain great political prestige within the Zhao family~www.wuxiahere.com~ and even in Jin and the world.

For those who are not rigid, Wu Xie suggested that they simply use earthen figurines to symbolize living people, or wormwood in the form of human figures to sacrifice themselves. These can be recognized by pinching their noses.

Wu Xie finally lyrical at the end of the article: "The boy is willing to be the initiator!"

When Zhao Wuxi was dictating this, he felt that he was simply the embodiment of justice. Compared with thousands of living people, it was not a big deal to kill Cheng Ji with a plan.

When one family cries, how can one village cry and one county cry?

However, Wu Xie didn't know that at the same moment when he asked Zhao Yang to expressly prohibit the burial in the form of written law. In the far-flung state of Wu in the south, a tragic living sacrifice is kicking off.

The so-called "big tyrant" Wu Wang Helu wanted to bury Teng Yu, the king of Wu who committed suicide because of a steamed fish. Outside the West Changmen of the country, a pond was dug to accumulate soil, and the aragonite was used as a coffin.

Later, he ordered Zhangyou to dance the White Crane Feather in the middle of Wu City, and actually tricked thousands of Yue people into the long tomb passage in one go, pressed the switch, sealed the tomb, and all of them were trapped!

After a long time, Zhao Wuxi, who learned about this matter, realized it more clearly. On the side of the Spring and Autumn Noble Zhongming Ding Food, Poetry, Books, Ritual and Music, there are clusters of blood-stained thorns, which are full of skeletons of commoners and savages...

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