I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 5 With the Sages

The expanse in all directions, with Zhou Luo as the middle, is called Luo Yi.

"Hori is a thousand and seven hundred and twenty feet away, and Yu is seven or seven miles away. Do you think the world is the largest?" Zhiyao looked at the dilapidated city and couldn't help but think of Zhou Gongdan.

Before the Zhou royal family moved eastward, Zhou Gongdan chose to build the city in the southern suburb of Qiuzhao, which is south of the Dahe River and north of the Water River.Later, the Zhou royal family moved east and chose this place as the new capital.

This is in the middle of two mountain ranges. There are continuous mountains in the north and south and mountains in the east. It is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is a large plain in the middle, and there are big rivers and rivers. It is very suitable for farming. No wonder Zhou Gongdan chose such a place to build the king's city.

In fact, the entire "Luoyi" is divided into two parts, with the river as the boundary, the royal city to the east, and "Chengzhou" to the west.

Of course, the royal city is the city where the emperor of Zhou, ministers, nobles, and people live; while "Chengzhou" has temples such as Taimiao, Ancestral Temple (Wenwang Temple), and Kaogong (Wuwang Temple).

The city that Zhiyao entered was the royal city, and the city walls looked very dilapidated just outside the city, but when entering the city, one could feel the decline of the Zhou royal family even more.

The time has come to 501 BC, and it has been 270 years since King Zhou Ping moved his capital. Shortly after the Zhou family moved eastward, he lost the ability to control the princes of the world. Ren's Zhou Tianzi made mistakes several times, which made the Zhou royal family's face less and less useful to the princes.

"These people are much worse than my family." Zhiyao said.

The Chinese people in the royal city not only look disheveled, most of their clothes are also patched everywhere.Most of them looked decadent in spirit, not at all as vigorous as their ancestors.

The absurdity of the people of the royal family of Zhou has been spread all over the world. Not only did they rebel against Emperor Zhou, they successfully expelled Emperor Zhou, and later there is a record of forcing Emperor Zhou to pay debts so that he hid in Zhangtai and dared not come down.

The people of the country created the allusion of "struggling with the people for profit" when they expelled Emperor Zhou;It can be regarded as one of Ji Zhou's contributions to Zhuxia culture.

Zhiyao said that the people of the Zhou royal family are more miserable than the people of the old Zhi family. There is a good reason for it. The free people of the old Zhi family may not be able to eat and wear warm clothes, but at least they have hope in spirit, unlike the people of the Zhou royal family who seem to have numb eyes Like the walking dead.

The buildings in the majestic royal city look very old, and the roads at the entrance and exit of the city are even more potholed. It is not enough to show that the Zhou royal family is really declining, and even the Zhou royal family has given up treatment?
As long as the Zhou royal family still wanted to rise up, they didn't have the money to repair the city walls. Repairing the roads was a matter of manually transporting soil, so that the main roads would not be potholed.

just right?It may be that the people of the Zhou family had too brilliant a record in the past. They regarded disobedience to the order of the emperor as an honor, so that the Zhou royal family rarely recruited people from the country to accept gifts. It looks more like a mob.

Lao Zhi's family had property in "Luoyi". To put it bluntly, they rented land from the Zhou royal family and officials, and built houses by themselves to do business in order to earn money from "people in the world".

The Zhao family of the Jin State was good at herding, the Han family was good at making bows and arrows, the Wei family was good at making armor, the Fan family was good at making pottery, and the Zhongxing and Zhi families who were also from the Xun family were good at weaving.

Every high-ranking family has its own strengths, and of course they focus on their specialty products when doing business, and basically control those industries. Of course, the Laozhi family's shop in "Luoyi" sells cloth.

Because it is related to cloth, the Xun family (including the Zhongxing family and the Zhi family) has always been in fierce competition with Qi. In the past, Jin's hegemony was stable and it could suppress Qi from competing with other countries. If Jin is considered to be incapable, Xun's business in various countries will be suppressed by Qi State.

"Inquire about the posthumous Boyang." Why did Zhiyao ask for it?It's just because Laozi's reputation with the Zhou royal family is basically bad.

What did I do?When he was in charge of keeping the history of the library...that is, when he was the administrator of the royal library, the classics he was in charge of were brought to the state of Chu by the Prince Dynasty, so he was dismissed from the post of keeping the history of the library.

Good guy!
That is a classic!Many of them are orphans, treasures that will never be lost if lost.

Then, the state of Chu was sworn enemies with the royal family of Zhou because of the reason of "aspirations for the crown".

The most terrible thing is that the prince launched a rebellion in the future. After he succeeded, he occupied "Luoyi" for five years and declared himself king, and then fled to Chu after his defeat.

After the defeat of the Prince Dynasty, he took away a large number of royal family classics.

The "librarian" at that time was Lao Tzu, and the Zhou royal family couldn't punish Wang Zichao for some reason, and they couldn't punish Lao Tzu! ?

Lao Tzu, who was implicated, then went to Qin State, and returned to his hometown from Qin State not long after. After the rumors passed, he would often go to "Luoyi" to exchange knowledge with old friends. Woolen cloth.

Zhiyao found out where Lao Tzu was, and what needed to be done was to send retainers to meet him first, so as not to run over without notifying him, even at the historical stage when rituals and music were broken, he would still appear to be quite unnoble.

One day, when it was time for Zhiyao to meet Lao Tzu, out of respect for learned people, Zhiyao dressed up carefully, brought a sincere gift and went to visit.

The founder of the Taoist school is 70 years old this year, and he lived auspiciously to ignore the malicious intentions of the Zhou royal family and come to "Luoyi" to visit friends at will.

"Zhi Yao, I have met Danzi." Zhi Yao knew very well that Lao Tzu was not just the founder of the Taoist school, he did not know too much knowledge.

The contemporary bigwigs who are recognized by the world generally add a word "zi" after their clan or name to show respect.

In addition, Chunqiu cannot be called by surname directly, otherwise it would be like pointing at the nose and scolding.

At the same time, there is only one person in the world who uses the surname as a prefix, that is, Zhou Tianzi, and the rest are called surnames.This custom lasted until the time of the first emperor, so the first emperor was called Zhao (surname) Zheng before he became emperor, and Ying (surname) Zheng after he became emperor.

There were a few more people at the scene.

Zhiyao waited for Lao Tzu to return the gift, and then looked around curiously, wanting to see who Confucius was.

They are more curious about Zhiyao.

The second son from the royal family of the state of Jin, his status is more noble than [-]% of the people. He looks so young and looks like a jade, especially when he looks extremely noble, which is really enviable and jealous.

Confucius is very easy to recognize. There is only one person present who is tall and burly, but looks gentle.

There was only one person who was close to two meters tall, and since Zhiyao had greeted him just now, they would definitely stand up and return the salute, which immediately made Zhiyao recognize who was Confucius.

"I can start a sect by myself, of course it's impossible to ask for a teacher..." Zhiyao thought.

Seeing Zhiyao staring at him, Confucius was puzzled and said, "You, why is that so?"

This is a very contradictory person. He fears and loves the powerful, but he does not despise sentient beings. He has been engaged in the career of teaching without discrimination several years ago.

Compared with most people, Zhiyao can be called the word "gui". After all, he is the descendant of the noble family of the Jin State, and his grandfather is currently the "Yuan Rong" of the Jin State.

Zhiyao said: "I'm also known as the capital slaughterer in the country."

At this moment, Confucius showed a surprised expression, thinking: "So my reputation has already spread to the overlord country?"

Zhiyao said again: "I heard that Duzai has three thousand children. I don't know if it is true?"

This made Confucius look terrified, thinking: "Did Gongsun of the overlord country come to question me on behalf of Zhengqing?"

It is no wonder that Confucius was terrified. He was disliked by the nobles of Lu State when he spread knowledge in the country, and he was deliberately targeted again and again. As a result, the countries also had a very bad reputation.

There is no way, the nobility of nobles comes from blood, and they can be princes for generations because they hold knowledge. There is such a heterogeneous among nobles who spread knowledge to "sluts", shouldn't they be rejected and condemned?Not sending someone to kill it is already tolerable.

That "slut" includes many classes, and in the Spring and Autumn Period it specifically refers to non-nobles.

Lao Tzu said: "You, why are you here today?"

This is Laozi's worry that Zhiyao came here to target Confucius.

Heaven and earth conscience!

Zhiyao didn't kill Confucius to cut off Confucianism, she just thought that Confucius was good at teaching students, and wanted to ask Confucius to help teach the fifty children she brought over during the "Luoyi" period.

In addition, as the first person to recruit disciples on a large scale, did Confucius produce some teaching materials?
Zhiyao didn't have too many teams to train, and wondered if he could buy teaching materials from Confucius.

"I want to emulate Zhongdu Zai." Zhiyao said.

what?
Confucius, Lao Tzu and everyone were stunned.

Zhiyao didn't talk too much about the truth, and said that a family cannot lack talents. When I came to visit Laozi, I saw Confucius was there, and learned that Confucius had three thousand children and wanted to gain experience from him.

Lao Tzu said with a strange expression: "Master Zhi is very prosperous!"

Confucius looked excited, probably thinking that someone could understand him.

Want to do big things, right?How can there be no like-minded people.

It doesn't matter if there are no like-minded people, you can cultivate a group of disciples yourself!
"Qiu here, ask the posthumous title of Boyang in 'Li'." Confucius said to Zhiyao sincerely with joy on his face: "'Li' is the most important thing. If you don't know 'Li', you can't teach. You can be the same as you." Please."

Is this... makes sense?
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