Spring and Autumn I Am King

In order to send an envoy to Lu, Han Hu missed the festival at home and Zhengdan in the Xia Li, which was enough. [..] But fortunately, he has old acquaintances from other places. Zhao Wuxi held a banquet on the eve of the Xia Li Zhengdan, inviting retainers, guests, and friends, and Han Hu was naturally among them.

Zhao Wuxi's Great General's Mansion is very large. To go to the hall and courtyard in the center, you have to pass through three gates on the way. The buildings are mostly masonry and wooden structures, carved beams and painted buildings, military soldiers stand with halberds, and beautiful concubines bow their heads. Well, all of this shows that Zhao Wuxi is not a nouveau riche like Yanghu. With the blood and culture of the Zhao clan in the Jin Kingdom, he already has the momentum of a noble family.

It's no wonder that some people now call Jinyang Zhao's family Xi Zhao, and Zhao Wuxi, who is far in the east, is called Dong Zhao...

And this banquet was also grand enough and decent enough. The table was placed from the main hall to the open-air courtyard. Inside were high-ranking guests and important officials, and outside were some new ministers and scholars who were attached to it. Candles have been lit on the entire mansion, making the surroundings bright as day, making this place the most dazzling beacon in Qufu, Lu City. Presumably tomorrow, the scholars and officials of Qufu will receive a red-backed silver-painted cardboard invitation for themselves. Post, was invited to participate in today's banquet and boasted.

The whole feast was full of Jin taste. The chefs who made the dishes and the Yong people who seasoned were all invited from Jin. Most of the ingredients are Jindi cuisine. In recent years, the increasingly popular pasta has become the protagonist. It is served on beans and plates by beautiful maids. Then these women waved their long sleeves and danced a Jindi dance that combined the dance of the Di people.

Qi's beautiful Jiang, Jin's advocacy of women, Xiuwan and more appropriate, Chanjuan and dance are very famous. The dance of flying dragons and columns danced like a giant, and it turned like an echo, causing the Jin people present to applaud again and again.

Even the wine in the big tripod is the mellow wine from Jin, not the weak and sour wine of Lu.

At this point, Zhao Wuxi, the master, came up to toast everyone.

"The Duke of Zhou warned the guards and the people of Lu in the "Jiu Gao": Don't drink alcohol often, only during festivals and festivals. Don't drink too much. But as long as the country can be stable and the common people have no worries of dying in vain, you are eating and drinking. It’s okay to be drunk and full. The second and third sons helped Yu to pacify the rebellion in Lu. It can be said that they have made great contributions to Lu. Tomorrow will be Xia Li Zhengdan again, so it’s very happy to gather tonight! If you don’t get drunk, you won’t go home!”

"The great general's longevity is boundless! Zhao Shilu and the country will end!"

Everyone present was overjoyed, and the retainers left the state of Jin with Zhao Wuxi, and no one defected. After arriving in the country of Lu, they fought every year, and their partners fell one by one, and there were fewer and fewer familiar faces. Fortunately, all this has finally paid off. After Zhao Wuxi was ranked as Zhengqing and slaughtered the country of Qiancheng, everyone could finally take a breath. So they were extra relaxed tonight, and began to persuade each other to drink, especially the Jin people gathered together to drink with the Lu people present.

The folk customs in Jin are far more open than those in the state of Lu, and the people of Jin are more forthright and wine than the people of Lu, and they are very open at banquets. Gong Xihua, Ran Qiu, etc. "do not sit if the seats are not upright, do not eat if the cutting is not upright, if you eat r, there must be sauce, if there is no sauce, you will not eat", in the face of the overbearing Jin people, the people who keep drinking sip A little uncomfortable for a while.

But after being poured through, the people led by Zi Lu were angry. He was originally to thank Zhao Wuxi for saving the three of them, master and apprentice, more than a month ago. Afterwards, the justice of the case of the chief justice came to the banquet. The former hero of the Wei Kingdom was ridiculed for being low in alcohol. Is this still good?

So he didn't care about etiquette, and fought with Tian Ben and other Jin people.

Not everyone has the fighting power of Zilu. At a young age, Kan Zhi was incapable of drinking, and he was defeated and retreated after a while. He didn't want to get together with Zilu, Zigong and other Confucian disciples, so he walked over to Han Hu with a wine cup.

Kan Zhi looked at the handsome Han Hu, who was kneeling on the seat with a face like a peach blossom, and almost thought he saw a drunken beauty for a while. In my heart, I think this sissy is probably the most invincible drinker among the Jin people present.

"Is Han Zi also able to drink?" He asked with the gall of wine, rather teasingly.

"I dare not claim to be able..." Han Hu glanced at Kan Zhi, knowing that he was one of the Lu people most used by Zhao Wuxi. He behaved very modestly, but after a while, he drank Kan Zhi directly. on the ground.

"Isn't Han Zi claiming that he can't drink more?" Kan Zhi's face was sour, the Jin wine was too mellow, and he couldn't stand it, but Han Hu had already drank two buckets in a row, and he was the same as nothing else, but his face was even more pink a bit.

Han Hu said: "I really can't. In the Xiqi Palace, in front of the monarch, you are drinking wine. Yousi is next to you, and the censor is behind. I am afraid, but I will get drunk after a fight. If there are distinguished guests at home, my grandfather and father will call. I accompany the wine, I carefully kneel beside me, stand up from time to time to raise a glass to wish the guests a long life, then I will be drunk if I don’t drink two buckets.”

He raised the bottle and continued to take a sip, then said lightly, "But if old friends suddenly meet and tell each other their sincerity, I'll probably be able to drink three or four fights..."

...

After saying that, Han Hu ignored the drunken Kan Zhi and turned his eyes back to the banquet.

Apart from the warriors such as Zilu and Ran Qiu, who were still fighting fiercely, the rest of the weak Lu people had been beaten to the ground, while the strong Jin people were still standing in a group.

Tonight is Xia Li Zhengdan, Lu people are here as a foil, Jin people are the protagonists, Han Hu looked at those fellow villagers, and now he can name a few important retainers of Zhao Wuxi.

The red-faced Tian Ben is a reckless man with a flat nose, which makes him so angry that he can't wait to whip him a few times. After he got drunk, he started to go crazy with alcohol, and he took off his shirt and danced in the banquet. Unfortunately, it was the dance of ordinary people, not the dance of aristocratic tigers. His posture was ugly, and his laughter made people shudder. Through the candlelight, you can see that the sweating back is full of scary scars, whips, arrows, and sharp instruments...

Tall and tall, standing next to Zhao Wuxi like a mountain, Mu Xia was dressed in regular clothes and unarmored, but he was the only guest on the table with a weapon: he had a sharp sword in his hand, and there was a large wooden table under the seat. The shield can rise up at any time and block Zhao Wuxi's fatal blow. He was awake when everyone was drunk, and he didn't leave the table when everyone was running around in the hall, but guarded Zhao Wuxi earnestly.

Yu Xi, who was still as thin as a spear, attacked the concubines who came to persuade him to drink, and no one stopped him. No one knew that this tall and good-looking white horse rider was once a lowly gouger in Zhao's stable. .

The most inconspicuous Wu Jing just ate in silence, refusing all the behavior of drinking, especially Yu Tian Ben did not say a word. The prudent man was already a brigade commander, and he was ordered to garrison Yuncheng, and he had to rush back to Xilu overnight.

Zhao Wuxi became Zhengqing, got a large fief, and became a fat man in one bite. The first problem that appeared was the lack of troops. He could only divide the remaining soldiers into two, half stationed at the border of Qilu, and the other half brought to Lucheng to suppress the disobedient. When the military pawns took time out, the semi-professional city soldiers took on the task of defending their hometown and taking over cities and towns around the country.

Yang Tongrong went to Heyi, Huhui went to Xuju, neither of them are here. Both of them are relatively old, and they have both been appointed as division commanders... In addition to the division of Guanting, they will be transferred to Feiyi. Ran Qiu, the teacher of robbers and refugees, Liu Xiazhi, who was a veteran of the Luwei border, had a total of four teachers under Zhao Wuxi.

In addition to the elite soldiers of the division directly under his command, he has unknowingly gathered the combat power of the first army stipulated in the "Zhou Li"...

The state of Lu is now a two-armed system. Han Hu does not know the details of the deployment of troops, but he can find out how many divisions and commanders of the "right army" of the state of Lu, established by Zhao Wuxi in the name of the general, have been appointed. He could roughly guess that Zhao Wuxi's strength was more than half of Han's. Counting the more than 10,000 "Left Army" temporarily assembled by the doctors in the east of Lu State during the war, it has even faintly surpassed.

What if he was given a year and a half to complete the integration, and Song Guo was indirectly used? The strength of this "Dong Zhao" is probably catching up with the Wei family!

He thought to himself, "If Wei's horse of a thousand miles found out, it would definitely jump with anger..."

This is called Han Hu awe-inspiring.

He has not been idle this month, but has been paying close attention to Zhao Wuxi's every move in politics and in the military. He found that in order to successfully take over the regime of the state of Lu, Zhao Wuxi, while appointing a large number of Lu people's retainers as civilians, was intentionally inclined to appoint Jin people's retainers in military positions.

It is this kind of intentional and unintentional distinction that makes today's banquets between Jin and Lu people have a clear-cut secret fight.

Maybe in their eyes, what they are fighting for is not the wine in the bottle, but the status in the eyes of the lord!

Han Hu thinks this is very interesting. The faint competition between the two sides is actually aimed at one goal: how will Zhao Wuxi reward those who have made meritorious deeds after this bumper harvest?

"When things are accomplished, they will be sealed, and the heroes will be honored", this is the normal state of the feudal system of feudal lords, officials and scholars. Han Hu was in Jin state, so he knew this truth. For example, Zhao Shuai, Hu Yan, Dianjie, Xuchen, Wei Jie, who followed Duke Wen of Jin and went abroad for many years in exile, who did not want anything and did not seek anything in return?

Of course, Jie Zitui was probably an exception, but the rest of the people were rewarded after returning to China, but unfortunately the rewards were uneven, causing Wei Wei and Dianjie to be strongly dissatisfied.

The reason why Han Hu stayed in the state of Lu all the time and didn't go back, he would rather miss the two festivals, the La Festival and the Zhengdan Festival, which were extremely important to the Han family, was to see how Zhao Wuxi would treat Lu!

Dividing the credit, or dividing the spoils~www.wuxiahere.com~ This is the first hurdle. If it is not done well, not only will the retainers be disappointed, they will lose their enthusiasm for progress, and the scholars and officials of Lu who assisted Zhao Wuxi will also be full of resentment. . At that time, although there seemed to be an army of people, even though his name was Lu Zhizheng, Zhao Wuxi was nothing to worry about.

Because a country that is unstable internally, and a clan that is strong from the outside and works **** the outside, will be destroyed in an instant...

Han Hu originally thought that at the banquet today, Zhao Wuxi would definitely announce the award, and the retainers and the scholars and officials of the Lu country who were close to the Zhao family were eagerly looking forward to it! Tian Ben took off his clothes, was there any intention of taking credit? Yu Xi's hand was teasing the maidservant, but her eyes were fixed on the chief!

For Han Hu, this was a great opportunity to judge Zhao's future for his grandfather, and he didn't want to miss it, so even though he drank three times, his eyes were still as bright as snow! (To be continued.)

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