Spring and Autumn I Am King

On January 1, Qufu was full of frost, and the weather showed no sign of warming. Zhao Wuxi put on the imperial robes of a gentleman, and entered the palace early in the morning. When he returned at noon, he found that peach stems had been hung outside the mansion.

The peach stem is a peach talisman, made of peach wood, please Wuzhu engrave a blessing spell on it, and hang it at the gate of the house to change it every year to expel evil spirits and bless the safety of the house.

This mansion was not very auspicious in the first place. It was originally owned by the Dongmen clan. The family was overthrown by Sanhuan in the political struggle, and it declined. When Lu Zhaogong was the descendant of the Dongmen clan, the descendants of the Dongmen clan were the cronies of the monarch. tribe was expelled.

Then it fell into the hands of Yang Hu. After Zhao Wuxi overthrew Yang Hu, the land was given to him. It was basically empty for the past few years, and it was not used until after he officially entered Qufu. Zhao Wuxi was busy outside for Ding Lu, and everything in the mansion was presided over by Bo Mi, so he was well organized. Needless to say, this peach stalk was naturally asked by the careful hostess to hang it up. She has been working hard to make Zhao Wuxi feel like returning home in accordance with the customs of Jin.

The state of Lu used the Lu calendar and celebrated the New Year as early as November, entering the eleventh year of the Luhou Song Dynasty. However, Zhao Wuxi and Bo Mi, as Jin people, still follow the Xia calendar for many customs in the mansion, not to mention that Qufu is set for the first time in November, how can they have the heart to celebrate the New Year? But now it is different. Zhao Wuxi's career in Lu State is booming, like cooking oil on fire, he will hold a banquet in the mansion tonight to entertain retainers and guests.

After entering the mansion, Zhao Wuxi asked the soldiers to put a large copper tripod weighing several hundred kilograms in the main hall, and asked the maid to greet his concubine Bo Mi to watch. The only family member in the country of Lu shared.

Zhao Wuxi was called, and Bo Mi came very quickly. If it hadn't been hindered by more and more servant girls following along, she would have even wanted to pick up her deep clothes and run.

A few years have passed, and Bo Mi is in her late twenties, but she has inherited Xia Ji's fine genes, and she has always kept the appearance of fifteen or sixteen years old. Petite and slim. And her face is beautiful, she is a rare beauty, and she is also beautiful without makeup. Because today is the Lunar New Year, she did a little makeup. He probably knew that Zhao Wuxi didn't like heavy makeup like lime smeared on the wall, so he just brushed his eyebrows and put on lipstick, but he didn't rub the thick lead powder like some noble women in Lu State.

But it was this little change that made her even more picturesque. Called Wu-shirt to shine.

"General, what kind of tripod is this?"

Zhao Wuxi patted the cauldron and said with a smile: "Of course it's my cauldron, Zhao Qing's cauldron! It has the inscription of the book on it."

Bo Mi, who was wearing the hairstyle of a noble woman, tilted her head and looked for a while in front of the big copper tripod, where the characters were simple and simple, and the meaning of the words was used, but she still didn't understand one thing.

"I still don't know much about the concubine. How big is the general's fief?" Bo Mi was a little ignorant, but fortunately, she knew that Zhao Wuxi had entered the palace this morning, and he was once again accepting the order and receiving the fief.

"I can't explain it for a while. I'll just point it to you on the map."

If it hadn't been explained by a special person, Zhao Wuxi wouldn't have understood what the tongue-in-cheek Zongzhou grammar in the book on Tong Dingce was talking about.

It was as laborious as moving a bronze tripod. Seven or eight people carried the map into the hall, but they saw that on the wooden board with a square foot, the mountains and rivers of the state of Lu were made of soft clay, whether it was Jishui, Sishui, or Taishan Mountain or Mongolia. Qufu city. The small towns on the edge are marked on the sand table.

The terrain of the State of Lu is ups and downs, and there are many hills, so the traditional flat map is no longer applicable. At Zhao Wuxi's request, a group of Ji Qiao's mathematics disciples entered the palace and searched for a map. They cooperated with the people of Lu State, and based on their knowledge, they made a map with contour lines, and further asked the pottery craftsmen to make sand tables. The pottery urn of Lu can shape the anthropomorphic pottery embryos as if they were the real thing.

So there is this thing.

The ancestors of the later generations "use mercury as the sea of ​​hundreds of rivers, starve each other, and have astronomy on the top and geography on the bottom", and should be the founder of the Chinese sand table. The founding hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Qiong, used white rice piles to integrate mountains and rivers, and the distribution of roads. He told Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu, about the situation in Longxi. He was the first person to use the sand table for war.

But on this historical line, even if there are still them in later generations, they can only pick up Zhao Wuxi and pick up the wisdom of the skilled craftsmen of Lu.

...

After the vertical man and his concubines stepped back, Zhao Wuxi and Bo Mi stood in front of the sand table, leaning down and looking down at the mountains and rivers. Bo Mi's eyes widened curiously. After his younger brother went south to Wu State, Zhao Wuxi was his god, and she was also his important listener and admirer.

Zhao Wuxi caressed the girl's lubricated hands and pointed on the sand table.

"This square city is Qufu, and you and I are in the city right now." Qufu was made larger than the rest of the city, and it was extremely conspicuous in the center of the map.

The two of them intertwined their fingers and pointed to the west.

"There are two rivers here, one is Surabaya and the other is Soo."

"My concubine knows that when you dig ice in the twelfth lunar month, you will go to Zhusi." The ice cubes felt cold after touching them. Now they have been sent to the ice cellar, and they will be used one after another in February.

"They are entwined and run southward, and they are considered monogamous by the Lu people." Speaking of this, Bo Mi felt a burst of happiness in her heart. Although she could only be a concubine, she was satisfied with her husband.

Wu Xie pointed to the green line representing the river: "Of course, the eastern border of my fief is Zhusi..."

"It's so close to Qufu, but it's only half a day's trip..." Bo Mi's family had lost its seal when she was young, but she also knew common sense, generally, the area within a day's journey from the capital was not sealed.

"If it's not too close, how can you keep an eye on Qufu, the Marquis of Lu, and the unreasonable thoughts of the Xiao Xiaos?"

The **** touched the remaining veins of Taidai in the north. The pottery skills were vivid, and the trend and height of the mountains were well restored. They even decorated with a small pine branch, making people feel at the scene.

"This is the northern border of my fief. It is at the foot of Mount Tai, separated from Meng's Yuyi by a stream. The scenery of Mount Tai is beautiful. When I marry a spiritual son, and when Lu is more peaceful, I will take you to play. "

"Wei..." Originally, Bo Mi was still very afraid of the future old woman, but now her heart has been settled a lot. She has already got what she wants and can feel at ease.

"The fief goes west to south, and it extends to the southern and western borders of the State of Lu, adjacent to Wei, Cao, Song, and Qi. Although the area is not large, only a few hundred kilometers, but the south is the danger of Kangfu, and the west has the benefits of Puji. And Onozawa has become my inner lake." Zhao Wuxi said lightly, but Bo Mi was shocked.

Her eyes swept back and forth on the entire sand table several times: "The general's fief, a full one-third of Lu Guoda! Among them, there are thousands of cities and towns..." She counted them carefully. .

"Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen...marked on the map. There are nineteen towns in total!"

"That's right, the nineteen towns do not include those small towns with a hundred households and ten houses. Those without owners are directly owned by me, and those with owners have to be vassals or transferred. Nineteen towns are larger than the previous Xilu. It has doubled. It is also more than the Handan clan of the Jin state. The mouth count is more than 300,000, which is the number of people under my control, and it is slightly inferior to the Han clan."

In fact, after Gongshan was defeated and fled, Fei Yi was also under Zhao Wuxi's control, but he was too greedy to eat it all in one go, so he decided to make it the "direct jurisdiction" of the Marquis of Lu. In fact, he sent one of his men to manage it.

Do you want to let Zaiyu move his position?

Think about it later, his hand touched Bo Mi's beautiful face: "How much?"

"More... When the Xing clan was at its peak, it was only three towns, with only 20,000 to 30,000 people."

Then there's her waist. The girl was pulled closer: "Is it big?"

"Big..." Bo Mi blushed, and quickly added: "What a big piece of land, the general is really amazing..."

She stopped Zhao Wuxi's further harassment and said breathlessly: "I hope the general will not be blamed, the concubine does not understand political affairs or military warfare, but the Xing family also entered Jin as a foreigner, and there may be some of them. commonalities.”

"Well, you said."

Bo Mi's eyes flickered with worry: "After the decline of the Xing clan, my father was drunk all day. He sighed, his prosperity was also booming, and his death was also sudden. The general was in Lu for three years, and he got such a large territory. OK. But I'm worried..."

"I'm worried that I'll betray my relatives for a few years before I'm proud, and be kicked out of the country by the Lu people?"

Zhao Wuxi smiled and gently stroked her flat belly: "Don't worry, I'm no longer the impulsive young man in the lower palace, who stole the government of this country with the long sword in my hand, but I will use some points in governance. Poems and books. I will design a system. Let the doctors of Lu Guoqing be obedient, get through this crisis-riddled day, and let Zhao's rule in the Lu country continue!"

As he spoke, he kissed the past and kept asking for it, but Bo Mi, who used to respond violently in the past, has been half-pushing today: "General, I can't do it today..."

"Nothing, nothing, don't worry..."

...

**After that, they showered and changed clothes together. Zhao Wuxi sent Bo Mi to prepare for the evening banquet.

The customs of the New Year have already taken shape in the Spring and Autumn. According to the rules of the Jin Kingdom, today, the guests will be entertained with the wine brewed after the autumn, and the lambs will be slaughtered and distributed to the low-level retainers, and the guests can gather on the high hall and raise their glasses together. Master, shout in unison, Shou Wujiang!

He himself went back and looked at the big copper cauldron named "Zhao Qingding". When Xilu was in distress and lacked metal, Zhao Wuxi would be the first to get a sacrificial vessel such as a dinggui. Time has melted, casting weapons, and casting coins are better than placing them on temples as decorations, or burying them in the ground.

But this cauldron will not suffer this fate, as the end of the inscription says: the descendants and grandchildren will be preserved forever. The golden stone is immortal, this thing is to be handed down, so Zhao Wuxi will keep it, and if he wants to melt it, he will grab the ritual utensils of other people's temples to melt, such as... Weiguo? The country is rich and terribly weak.

But that's at least when it's summer and autumn.

Zhao Wuxi touched the concave inscription with his fingertips, recited the above paragraph silently, and chewed the taste of it carefully: "Your Excellency ordered Zhao Qing to be entrusted to Lu. The mountains and rivers of tin, the vassal of Tutian!"

The most urgent task is to make a long-term plan for Zhao's Lu Kingdom!

At the same time, in Ji's mansion, with white cloth still tied on his head, Ji Sunfei, who was dressed in sackcloth, also read the copy of the plan with red eyes.

"East to Susi, west to He, south to Kangfu, north to Taidai..."

When the book of policies landed, Ji Sunfei was stunned. One-third of the Lu Kingdom fell into the hands of Zhao Wuxi, and the Ji clan, which had the most fiefs in the past, only had the small snack town by the Yishui River. Unable to feed, there are countless people who have betrayed the Ji clan these days.

His ten-year-old younger sister, Ji Ji, was ignorant. She had her hair **** in sheep's horns, and she was also wearing a coarse cloth of sesame to keep filial piety to her father. She opened her eyes and asked Ji Sunfei's clothes.

"Brother~www.wuxiahere.com~What is this?"

Ji Sunfei squatted down and held down his sister's hand, and said viciously: "Enemy, this is the evidence of Ji's enemy, he took away my father's position as a minister, took my Feiyi, and finally forced my father to death. , you have to keep it firmly in mind! Our enemy, he is extremely powerful, but he will perish in the end!"

He hugged his sister to prevent her from seeing his tears: "But you and I can't destroy him just by praying to Haotian for disaster, Amei, you have to grow up quickly, and you have to help Axiong to avenge his father together. !"

In a shabby room deep in an alley in Qufu, in front of Confucius, who had not left the house for a long time, Liu Xiaji also dropped a volume of silk books.

"Zhao Wuxi's name is Lu Qing, and he actually specializes in Lu Quan, why don't you just ignore Zhongni?"

PS: Tomorrow's update will be later (to be continued.)

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