I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 1 My name is Zhiyao
"So, my surname is Ji, and my family used Xun as their family before they were a hundred years old, but now they use Zhi as their family?" Zhiyao felt very complicated.

Of course, to think that "Yao" is a girl's name must be a modern person.

In fact, "Yao" has a very good meaning. To put it bluntly, it means "beautiful jade", which can also be regarded as describing beauty and preciousness.

What year and month is it now?It was 501 BC, an era in which "surnames are unified by their ancestors; clans are divided by their descendants", and it was also an era when princes and generals had seeds.

What does it mean that "the surname is unified by its ancestors; the clan is not divided by its descendants"?The general meaning is: the surname is a sign of where the ancestors of the family came from, and the surname is a sign of where the descendants of the family are differentiated.

To put it simply, the surname cannot be changed, and the surname can be separated from the big clan to become a small clan, and the fiefdom or official position is the clan.

Zhiyao is not a native of Spring and Autumn, he comes from later generations.

After more than 500 years, the cognition of many things is different, including customs, logic of thinking, and values.

Zhiyao is six years old this year, and he has already understood his situation.

how to say?Zhiyao has a grandfather who is serving as the "Yuanrong" of the Jin Kingdom. The family is extremely large and there are many fiefdoms, but the situation does not seem to be very good.

The so-called "Yuan Rong" is a title for the military and political power of the Jin Dynasty, not an official official title. The official official title is "Zhengqing".

Since Zhao Wenzi (Zhao Wu) made two military alliances with Chu State, Jin State's hegemony seemed to be stabilized, but it seemed to be going downhill, which made it difficult for the world to see clearly.

What the world knows is that although the throne of "Yuan Rong" in the Jin State was won by Xun Li, it was Zhao Yang, the grandson of Zhao Wenzi (Zhao Wu) and the son of Zhao Jingzi (Zhao Cheng), who had the final say in the Jin State.

Why did Zhiyao know that?This refers to his father Zhishen's daily sighs.

The head of the family has just become "Yuan Rong", but the next generation of the family's heirs are grimacing every day. Those who know the situation can immediately judge that the family's situation is not good.

"Gongsun, the sheep has been skinned and cleaned. Please show me how to cook it."

Zhiyao's ancestors belonged to the Gong family, so there is nothing wrong with calling him Gongsun.

Of course, the Dazong of the Xun clan was transferred to the Qing clan as a public clan, and the Zhi clan was the minor clan of the Xun clan, so many things have changed.

A family is divided into concubines and concubines, and the Zong and Zhou Dynasties paid great attention to this.If the family is of male origin, the heir of the head of the family is the eldest son, and the remaining two generations can be called sons; the third generation can be called whatever they want, generally they are called grandsons.

What is it like to be a son of a nobleman in Spring and Autumn?There will be no shortage of manpower, but the quality of life is really a bit worrying, especially in terms of food.

"I'm here!"

Zhiyao, who is only six years old, of course still has small arms and legs. He does not have bare feet, but wears a kind of clogs. Every time the clogs take a step, they will make a "dong dong dong" sound when they take a step.

Clogs?It appeared very early in Zhuxia, and it is not unique to foot pot chickens. Modern slippers evolved from clogs.

Of course, there is the word "slipper" here in Zhuxia, and it was said in the Qing Dynasty: drag, drag.Slippers are shoes without heels.Drag it at will, whichever is light.

There are many things that only the six-year-old Zhiyao can participate in, and he is not the only one from the old Zhi's family, there is another one named Zhixiao.The only thing he can do now is to improve the food.

Zhiyao used her soul wear to understand what was going on.

The mother's womb was in a state of confusion most of the time until it was two years old, especially extremely lethargic. Ninety-nine percent of things fell asleep because of thinking about things.

Zhiyao was able to walk unsteadily when she was eight months old, and her vocal cords were fully developed to speak. The lethargy was not relieved until she was two years old.

This is also a matter of course. After all, the soul is the soul, and the body is the body. The body that carries the soul has not been well developed.

In order not to shock the world too much, Zhiyao endured it for more than five years.

Since the family did not develop in a good direction because of grandfather Zhixuan becoming a "Yuanrong", on the contrary, it became extremely dangerous. Zhiyao felt that his grandfather and father should see his precocious maturity so that he could interfere in the affairs of the family. position and layout.

There is no time to enjoy it, but the family is facing the danger of extinction, what is it called, right?
Many maids and male servants followed Zhiyao nervously, and carefully observed that none of the maids or male servants dared to step on the path that Zhiyao had walked.

Why is that?Now is an era when princes and generals have seeds. Although the class has not been completely solidified, the difficulty of going from bottom to top is beyond imagination!
Servants are people, but they are not people, at least in the eyes of the nobles, they are just living tools.

If servants dared to step on the path of nobles, they were severely punished.

What if a servant accidentally stepped on the shadow of a nobleman?He will definitely be sent a three-company sentence of "It's hopeless, pull it out, and execute it".

So, when Zhi's servants saw Zhiyao, who was only six years old, running extremely fast, their hearts were in their throats.

They only dared to control the distance and follow around, fearing that if the little master accidentally fell down, they would be dragged out and flogged if they were punished lightly, or their heads would be cut off if they were punished severely.

"Danggui, wolfberry, astragalus..." Zhiyao came to the kitchen and opened a wooden cabinet.

Are there Chinese medicinal materials in the Spring and Autumn Period?Yes, but very few species have been found.

In the era when medical skills were underdeveloped, there were very few medicinal materials used to treat diseases, and even fewer people mastered the methods of cooking with medicinal materials.

At present, the country with the most developed medical skills is Qin State. When the king or important minister of a country is sick, he will seek medical craftsmen sent by Qin State, and Qin State will usually agree out of courtesy.

Angelica is a perennial herb with a height ranging from forty centimeters to one meter.The root is cylindrical, branched, with many fleshy fibrous roots, yellowish brown, and has a strong aroma.Stems erect, greenish-white or purple, with deep grooves, smooth and glabrous.

Lycium barbarum, the name of the second tree, has spines like the thorns of wolfberry, and stems like the strips of wolfberry.

Astragalus is a perennial herb with a height of [-] cm to [-] meter.The main root is thick, woody, often branched, off-white.The stem is erect, the upper part is much branched, has fine ribs, and is covered with white pilose.

They are all local products of Zhuxia, but they are distributed in different places.

Like goji berries, right?It was purchased by Zhiyao from a merchant in the state of Qin when he visited the market in "Xintian".

The angelica and astragalus were found in the wild by Zhiyao when he went to "Yuan", secretly ordered people to transplant them, and brought them back to the mansion of "Xintian" to plant them.

That "Xintian" was relocated from "Jiang" in 599 BC when the then King of Jin (Jin Jinggong) followed Han Jue's suggestion.

At the beginning, the new capital of Jin State was still called "Jiang", the original old capital was renamed "Gujiang", and later the new capital was called "Xintian".

The reason why Zhiyao needed to be sneaky was that "Yuan" belonged to one of the fiefdoms of the Han family. It was located in the south of the state of Jin, very close to the royal family of Zhou, and adjacent to the state of Shan.The single country is the Gongqing state of the Zhou royal family, and its territory is not as large as a modern county.

At present, all the resources of the nobles' fiefs, except for the copper mine, are privately owned, and no grass or tree can be moved without permission.

"There are no radishes..." Zhiyao felt it was a pity.

Regardless of whether it is white radish or carrot, it took until the thirteenth century for it to be introduced to Zhuxia from Persia, and of course not in the Spring and Autumn Period.Or there is, but Zhiyao doesn't know.

"Bring wine." Zhiyao ordered.

The head of the family is not here, the eldest son is not here, and the eldest brother is also not here, so Zhiyao has the final say in the family.

There are not only many servants who have been with Zhiyao for a long time, but also retainers.

The retainer Taihu glanced at a maid and motioned to do so.

Zhiyao was instructing people to put the chopped mutton into the gui (guǐ).

What is a gui?It has a round mouth, two ears, and three legs.Of course, more is that there is no such thing as "three legs", just a flat bottom.

Now the three-legged bronze gui has not started to burn the fire, and it is filled with cold water.

Mutton has a strong fishy smell. It is best to put it in cold water and then start to burn. When the soup is slowly heated, a froth will appear. Then skim off the froth on the surface, and then add ginger and cooking wine. up.

Does Spring and Autumn have cooking wine?Just to see if it will work.

What the maid brought was osmanthus wine, to put it bluntly, it was wine made from mashed osmanthus.

Zhiyao just stood and directed, not because he didn't want to do it himself, because he didn't have much strength in his small arms and legs, and if he did it himself, Taihu would dare to order the "scholar" who followed him all the time to pull the servants and the cook out to bury him. up.

"Scholar" is really "scholar", which can be understood as nobles who are not nobles. They generally exist as warriors, serve real nobles, serve as guards, or serve as grassroots officers of the army.

To be a master, you just need to move your mouth, right?

After a long wait, Zhiyao has already started to wander in the sky.

"I heard that the doctor of Handan (Zhao Wu) came to 'Xintian' to complain to the king about the bullying of Zhong Junzuo (Zhao Yang)? The two families from the same clan have recently become more and more at odds with each other. I also heard that Fan Both Clan and Zhongxing support Handan Zhao? From this point of view, civil war is about to break out in the Jin Kingdom, and I don’t know if my family will be involved.”

In the long history of the Spring and Autumn Period, every country has a history of civil wars, but there is no vassal state like Jin that breaks out civil wars every once in a while, but most of the time it can maintain its hegemony.

Shi Jishe, the head of the Fan family, and Zhong Xingyin, the head of the Zhongxing family, were both "Qing" of the Jin State. In particular, Zhong Xingyin and Zhao Yang jointly built the second "Xing Ding" of Zhu Xia.

What is this "punishment tripod"?It is to cast some criminal laws in words.

The first person to do that was Prince Qiao of the state of Zheng, also known as Zichan, one of the pioneers of Legalism.

On the Jin side, Zhao Yang and Zhong Xingyin followed suit and cast Zhuxia's first iron punishment tripod.

Historical Records: Fu Jin State made a drum of iron to cast a punishment tripod.

According to the Zuo Zhuan, a drum of iron was entrusted to the state of Jin to cast a punishment tripod, and it was written by Fan Xuanzi (Shi Gai) as a punishment book.

Then the law of the state of Jin was completed by Shigai, and Zhao Yang and Zhong Xingyin cast the criminal law formulated by Shigai on the iron tripod.

The Fan family is the surname of Qi, and people call their clansmen with "Shi" as the prefix. It is mainly Uncle Du Xie who served the state of Jin. fan.

"I also heard that Kong Qiu has become the central capital of the Lu State, gained the trust of Lu Jun Song, and governed the capital?"

Therefore, Zhiyao knew that she and Confucius lived in the same era!

That's Confucius!The founder of the Confucian school, later known as the most holy teacher.

When Zhiyao found out that she and Kong Qiu lived in the same era, she was really a little excited, but the excitement was inexplicable and it was difficult to explain clearly.

The gui was already emitting aroma, and when the lid was lifted, the mutton was off-white, which seemed ordinary.

The aroma is Chinese herbal medicine mixed with the smell of meat, and there is no heavy mutton smell.

Zhi's family has a big business, because the family of Jin Guoqing is Biliehou, as the Zhi family who has a dignified position in Jin, he can use a tripod to hold food when eating!
More importantly, even if Zhi's family is big and successful, if Zhiyao doesn't work hard to improve the food, the food at home will either be boiled, stewed, or barbecued.

Zhiyao personally put an appropriate amount of salt into the bronze gui, thinking that it would be enough to stew for another quarter of an hour.

There is a salt pond in the state of Jin, but that salt pond is controlled by the Zhi family and the Wei family respectively.

In many countries without salt ponds, they usually purchase salt from Jin or Qi, and most of them purchase from Qi.

There is no other way, the salt produced in the Yanchi of the Jin State is already in short supply just to supply the country, let alone sell it to other countries?Therefore, Jin's hegemony is only to collect protection fees from other countries, unlike Qi, which has the benefits of salt and iron and an extremely developed textile industry, can engage in economic plundering of other countries when it dominates.

Zhiyao actually dislikes the salt produced by her family. It looks gray and black, not fine grains, but about the size of sand and pebbles.

He wondered when he would find an opportunity to go to the salt pond in person to study the improvement of salt production.

"Gongsun, 盨 (xǔ) is also heated."

What the hell is it?It is made of bronze, with an oval mouth, a lid, two ears, and ring or quadruped feet.

Zhiyao asked someone to bring the wheat flour that had been ground earlier, and said, "Bring honey."

In fact, it is best to have white sugar, the problem is that there is no white sugar in the Spring and Autumn Period!
Zhiyao needs to do this in person, because honey is currently one of the strategic resources, and it is quite difficult to collect.

Why is honey a strategic commodity?Because many bronzes need to be made of wax.

In the early Spring and Autumn Period, many countries had the technology to make tripods, but the most difficult thing was to collect beeswax.This is that the territory ruled by many princes is so large, and they don't have the technology of beekeeping. The beeswax they get depends on nature. If they can't collect enough beeswax, how can they make the bronze tripod?
Therefore, a certain country has created a big tripod, and they can immediately achieve a deterrent effect just by inviting other countries to visit: Take a good look, my territory is very large, and I can collect enough beeswax to make a big tripod Woolen cloth!Don't mess with me!

Zhiyao poured some honey into the pottery bowl, then poured some boiled and cooled water, and slowly stirred it with bamboo chopsticks to dilute it.

Kneading noodles is not something that can be done with the strength of small arms, it needs adults to do it.

Taihu watched Zhiyao pour the prepared honey water on top of the wheat flour, and got a hint to knead the noodles.

That is Laozhi's family, or do you think that any family has bronze gui and bronze gui?Even if there were, who would directly burn them with fire.

Some oil was poured into it and started to heat up. After the noodles were reconciled, the wheat cakes could be made.

"Pancakes, there is no vegetable oil, animal oil is also fine." Zhiyao thought.

From ancient times to the Spring and Autumn Period, animal oil dominated, and vegetable oil did not appear until the Warring States Period.

"Zhou Li. Tianguan. Yingren" said: For those who use animals, lambs and dolphins in spring, the food paste is fragrant; smell of mutton.

Therefore, the term "oil" in the Spring and Autumn Period should be called "ointment".

The reason why vegetable oil was not widely used until the Warring States Period was that technology developed and newly invented tools could be used to grind oil.

How to make wheat cakes?Zhiyao doesn't need to teach this, people in the Spring and Autumn Period can cook wheat cakes themselves, but ordinary people can't eat them.

"Yao, what are you doing?"

Zhiyao, who was concentrating on watching the pancakes, turned around when she heard the sound, and saw that her father Zhishen's face was not so good-looking.

"The ancestors and the adults are all working hard, Yao can't bear it, so he cooks delicacies for dinner."

Zu, of course, refers to the grandpa Zhibi.

The adult is Zhishen, the father.

Chunqiu's father can be called an adult, and he can also be called a big man, and the folks generally use Afu.

In fact, until the Ming Dynasty, "adult" means father, and later evolved into a respectful title for officials.

In addition, even nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period only had two meals, and three meals a day did not exist.

Of course, the nobles always eat pastries and snacks when they are hungry, and it is usually time for meals in the afternoon.Ordinary people will suffer no matter how hungry they are.

Therefore, Zhu Xia had things like afternoon tea a long time ago, and treated them as common things, without deliberately creating any special sense of ritual.

Now Zhishen can be regarded as knowing what Zhiyao has been collecting all kinds of ingredients for a while, and after a daze, a feeling of licking the calf appeared in his heart, and his face softened.

"Follow me." Zhishen said softly.

What can Zhiyao do?He had to follow suit.

The aristocrats talk about etiquette, the juniors should say hello in the morning, and the elders should also say hello to the elders before dinner at night.

Zhishen is also a junior, unless he is not at home, otherwise he will take Zhixiao and Zhiyao to greet Zhibi every day.

Laozhi's family is really a big family, but the concubine is not only not qualified to ask for peace, but also lives in a different area from the concubines, and it is even more uncommon for them to eat together.

In addition, when eating, the men in the family are the only ones, and women do not eat with men.

At present, there are many grandchildren of Zhixuan, but Zhixiao and Zhiyao are the only descendants.

On the premise of a big family and a big business, the Zhi family’s mansion located in "Xintian" occupies a very large area, and the buildings do not see any grandeur such as pavilions, pavilions or carved beams and painted buildings. The most gorgeous thing is that most of the materials are made of wood, and the roof is even more beautiful. There are only tiles; more buildings are thatched houses, some are just thatched walls, and some are thatched walls covered with mud.

Are there brick houses in Spring and Autumn?Although bricks appeared in the "Liangzhu Culture" four to five thousand years ago, due to the relationship between productivity in the Spring and Autumn Period, no one would be extravagant enough to build brick houses. house.

garden what?Even if it didn't exist until the unification of Qin Dynasty, how could it be popular in the Spring and Autumn Period.It was not until the Song Dynasty, when the garden culture came into being, did it engage in various tricks in the pursuit of enjoyment.

If there is no special person to guide the way, even if it is her own home, Zhiyao may get lost.In this way, we can know how big the Zhifu of "Xintian" is.

More realistically, although the right to use the Zhifu in "Xintian" belongs to the old Zhijia, the land ownership belongs to the monarch.

Zhiyao was thinking along the way, if there was a chance, she would have to renovate her home. Anyway, she could fire pottery pipes as a premise. It would not be too difficult to get a reservoir and then get running water. Take a bath in the bathhouse, too.

Why didn't Zhiyao think about researching agricultural irrigation equipment, such as waterwheels and water mills?Of course, the old Zhi family is currently dominated by Zhixuan, and Zhiyao is still young, especially since he is not the heir of the third generation!
Of course, the Zhi family has only confirmed who the second-generation heir is now, and it is not time to choose the third-generation heir.

Zhiyao, who is still young, can do some things at home, and do some work outside the house, and be careful to end up with a "community death".

"The superior general (Zhong Xingyin) and the lower military assistant (Shi Jishe) are relatives to the doctor in Handan. The Fan family, the Zhongxing family and the Zhao family are in a difficult situation, which makes it difficult for me to do things." Finished, said such a sentence.

Zhishen said: "In this way, the Fan family, the Zhongxing family, and the Handan Zhao family are enemies with the Zhao family, the Wei family, and the Han family?"

At present, the Zhao family, the Han family and the Wei family have not formally formed an alliance, but the three families are so good that they are almost wearing the same pair of pants.

If it was 50 or [-] years earlier, people would only call the Xun family, and they would not call the Zhongxing family.

In addition, the Zhi family and the Zhongxing family were originally a family. However, Zhiying officially broke up with the Xun family when he served as the Yuanrong of the Jin Dynasty. Then Zhongxing Wu and Zhiying reconciled. There is not much love left in Jishe's generation.

Therefore, the Zhi family's ancestor is Zhiying, not Xun Xi, and the Zhi family and the Zhongxing family are already two families that have no actual relationship.

Knowing that the conflicts between several families are likely to erupt to the point of fighting each other, Zhibi is only slightly worried, without a sense of urgency.

Zhiyao thought to herself: "Although the Zhi family and the Zhongxing family don't have much love, how can there be any eggs under the overturned nest? Now, although the grandfather is Yuan Rong, it is Zhao Yang who has the final say in the state of Jin. Once the Zhongxing family is finished , Zhishi's life must be even more difficult."

However, Zhiyao's age is really too young. In the first five years, she was trying her best to understand the "world" of spring and autumn. It was not until she was six years old that she was a little "unique".

He really needs to find a way to protect the interests of Lao Zhi's family, or even if it's his turn to take over the management of the family, don't kick Zhi Xiao away and take over a super mess.

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