Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 147 Dare to Raise My Taxes? (3200 words)
Seeing that Linzi was getting closer and closer, the sailors became more and more motivated. They waved their oars in unison, and their wings flew towards Linzi like an arrow off the string.

While paddling the boat, the sailors sang Yuedi folk songs.

It's just that today's song is not as complicated as the previous few days, but a simple one.

"Waiting for people, Xiyi! Waiting for people, Xiyi!"

When Zaiyu heard them singing, he couldn't help asking Fan Li who was beside him: "What is this song about?"

Fan Li just shook his head with a wry smile: "These guys are asking for a reward from me."

Zai Yu was stunned, "How did you know they were asking for rewards from you?"

Fan Li said: "It's because they sang "The Song of Waiting"!"

"What's the point here?"

Fan Li replied.

"When Dayu asked to marry the Tu Shan family, he only asked Emperor Yao for a few days of marriage leave, and then went to control the flood.

Later, when he was controlling the water, he passed by Tushan again, so Tushan wanted to meet him, but felt shy, so he composed this "Song of Waiting for People".

After that, the sisters who accompanied her to marry Dayu when she got married were asked to stand on the hillside of Tushan Zhiyang and sing to him.

The so-called waiting for people Xiyi means: I am waiting for you!

Tu Shan's "Waiting Song" is a tactful expression of his longing for her husband.

This group of boys sang "Waiting Song", which is also euphemistically expressing the hard work of following me to the north, and the wife and children at home must miss them very much. "

Zaiyu laughed and said, "Uncle Shao, it seems that this time you won't reward them."

"Who said it wasn't."

Fan Li stood up with a smile, and shouted at the flag bearers.

"I have already felt the sorrow of your wives and children. After completing the mission and returning to the Yue Kingdom, I will go to the king to ask for rewards for you, so that you can properly compensate them!"

All the sailors laughed and cheered when they heard the words, and they rowed more vigorously than usual.

Zigong was still thinking about the origin of "Song of Waiting", he exclaimed.

"I always thought that concubine marriage was a rule established by Zhou Gong. I didn't expect that as early as Dayu's era, there was already a custom of sisters dowry."

Zai Yu didn't care much about Taoism.

"Didn't it not only be when Yu Shun married the two sisters, Ehuang and Nvying, when Yu Shun married?

The former master said: Shang inherited Xia's etiquette system, so what was reduced and what was added can be known.

Zhou also inherited Shang's etiquette system, and what was abolished and what was added can also be known.

If there is someone who will inherit Zhou in the future, even after a hundred generations, it can be known in advance.

It can be seen from this that all customs, etiquette, and systems have their origins, how could they be born out of thin air? "

When Zi Gong heard this, he suddenly realized: "No wonder Master once lamented and said:

I can tell you about the rites of the Xia Dynasty, but the few historical materials preserved by its descendant Qi State are not enough to prove my words.

I can tell about the rites of the Yin Dynasty, but the historical materials preserved by its descendant, the Song Dynasty, are also very few, which are not enough to prove my words.

This is all due to the lack of written materials and people who are familiar with Xia Li and Yin Li.

If enough, I can get proof.

Now it seems that it is so! "

Concubine marriage in Zhou Lizhong also means not marrying with the same surname.

In addition, it is also required that when the princes ask other countries to marry their "wife", the other two countries with the same surname should send out women from other countries to marry with the "wife". These two women with the same surname are called 'Madame'.

Regardless of whether it is the first wife or the concubine, the concubine is the dowry when they get married.

姪 is the elder brother's daughter, that is, the wife's niece, and Di is the wife's younger sister.

Therefore, when a prince marries a wife, he will marry nine women at the same time, and never marry again.

When the master talked about the concubine marriage in the Zhou rituals, he explained to them that the reason for doing this is to follow the principle of respect and respect in the Zhou rituals.

If the wife has a niece and a younger sister to accompany her, no matter which one of the three has a child, they will be happy with each other and treat the child as their own, so that they can share honor and disgrace without envying each other.

And no matter which one of the three unfortunately dies of illness, the other two will do their best to raise each other's child and ensure that the child can grow up smoothly.

The reason for setting up the first wife and the second wife is to check and balance the various forces in the palace of the princes, to forcibly divide the harem into three small groups, and to prevent the power of any country from becoming bigger in the harem.

As for the rule that the princes will never marry again, it is to allow the dowry concubines to also have the opportunity to be favored, to prevent them from breeding dissatisfaction, and to maintain the Zhou etiquette of harmony and harmony.

Of course, when talking about Zhou Rituals, the master always picks up good things to say, and either doesn't mention the bad aspects, or doesn't teach them directly.

When Zaiyu first listened to the lesson of concubine marriage, he felt that Master Zhou really thought of Duke Zhou too perfectly.

Although this concubine marriage system seems to make the princes' palaces harmonious, in fact, isn't it to prevent the two countries from getting too close after getting married, and then threatening the ruling position of the Zhou emperor?
The two countries have married well, but if you insist on adding two concubines from countries with the same surname to the harem, don’t you want to muddy the water in the harem and make the first wife and the concubine fight each other for their son?
The wife of the first wife and the wife of the wife both have their own small groups, and the mother's family as the backing support. Once it is time to establish a new monarch, it is almost a certainty that they will enmity with each other.

The three wives are all women in the official family with strong backgrounds. In order for their son to become the king, the means they use are not as simple as poisoning and playing tricks in ordinary palace fighting dramas.

The wives really went back to their mother's house and cried to the king's father, asking him to uphold justice for them.

And any father with some strength, who wouldn't want to help his daughter and grandson to the top?
One country establishes a new king, and the three countries follow behind to worry about it.

The civilized ones put diplomatic pressure on their son-in-law, while the brutal ones directly sent troops to interfere with the establishment of the reserve for the sake of the future of their daughter and grandson.

So, Duke Zhou’s move is really an iron-eating beast ordering takeaway—the bamboo shoots (damaged) have arrived home.

He Zaiyu can see the essence of this matter clearly, and the smart people in the world can also see through it.

As for the master, most of the old man sees through but does not explain.

Because the master has always wanted to return to the ancient rule of Duke Zhou, where rites and music prevailed, it is only natural to make the princes weaker and maintain the status and authority of the emperor.

However, this detrimental move of Duke Zhou could only be implemented in the Western Zhou Dynasty when the Emperor Zhou gained power.

The princes couldn't beat the emperor again and again, so they had to hold their noses and admit it.

And when the Spring and Autumn Period when the Emperor Zhou couldn't get up, the princes naturally became crazy one after another.

In today's world, which monarch still pays attention to whether or not to marry a wife, how to marry how he likes, and how many he wants to marry.

As for whether the emperor doesn't care about it?
The military strength of our princes is enough to set up three armies and six armies. How many armies does the emperor have?
Faced with this situation, Master could only stare blankly.

Jae Yu couldn't help but think of the headlines published in "Ren Pao" last week.

"Zheng Jun stormed Luoyi, and the Son of Heaven patrolled the aunts"

This title seems unremarkable, but it is mainly to take care of the face of the emperor and the mood of the master.

What kind of emperor's hunting tour is to flee in a hurry.

Zheng Guoren's offensive was also fierce enough, they beat up Tianzi Zhou and beat him to the point where he couldn't find his way at all.

In half a year, most of Chengzhou's territory fell into the hands of Zheng Guo.

However, the people of the state of Jin have finally done some personnel work. Yan Mei, the doctor of the state of Jin, has led his army into Chengzhou and built a city in Xumi for defense.

With the help of the state of Jin, I believe that the emperor of Zhou will not be able to go hunting in Guju for long. In three or two months at most, the emperor will be able to return to his loyal Luoyi and continue to sing and dance.

But after being beaten up by Zheng Guo, Zhou Tianzi's family fortune is probably not left at all.

As for the master, the old man really looked south to Wang Shi for another year, and Wang Shi only had one company left.

This month's "Ren Pao" manuscript has been reviewed by Zai Yu. In his personal column, the master grabbed Zheng Guo and exported it frantically.

And the most exciting part of the column is nothing more than the master's freestyle for Zheng Guozheng.

The master listed all kinds of evidence of the crimes after Si Yu took over as the ruling secretary, and compared him with the former ruling Zi Chan and Zi Taishu, and the criticism of Si Shi was worthless.

Because the content in it is too exciting, and it is also in line with the current foreign policy of Lu Guo's pro-Jin and enemy Zheng, so as soon as Zaiyu saw this column by Master, he knew that this issue of "Ren Bao" would be a hit.

Before that, he specifically asked the craftsmen in the paper workshop to reprint and reprint.

Sure enough, before departure, the palace sent people to order a large number of this issue of "Benevolence News" in advance.

According to the news from Yan Hui, Yang Hu suggested that the monarch distribute this issue of "Benevolence Report" to every city in Lu State, and post it in a prominent place in front of the city gate, so as to publicize Zheng State's inhumane behavior and make people People in the country know the hateful things about Zheng Guo.

Zaiyu was thinking about these things, and when he came back to his senses, he found that Da Yi had already docked.

He was about to get up and disembark when he suddenly saw a dozen or so fully armed soldiers from Qi State surrounding the ferry.

They held bronze spears and shouted: "Everyone, don't disembark first, you can come down after we have checked all the goods!"

Zaiyu had never encountered such a situation before, he couldn't help turning his head to look at Fan Li and Zi Gong, and asked.

"What is this for?"

Fan Li smiled and said: "It seems that you have never done business before. This is the daily customs inspection of Qi State. The purpose is to prevent merchants from smuggling prohibited goods, and also to prevent enemy countries from pretending to be merchants to launch surprise attacks."

"an examination?"

Zaiyu watched with great interest the soldiers of the state of Qi and the officials of Guanjin who had boarded the deck.

The soldiers guarded around the big wing to maintain order, while the small officials went down to the cabin and began to inspect the goods one by one.

The goods that Fan Li and the others brought on this trip were mainly tin ore and silk fabrics produced in Yuedi, and when Zaiyu and Zigong boarded the ship, they also brought a box of books printed by the workshop.

After checking one by one and confirming that nothing wrong was found, the petty official returned to the deck to report.

"everything is normal."

After the leading soldier listened to the report, he asked, "Which one of you is in charge here?"

Fan Li quickly smiled and saluted: "If there is anything, just tell me."

Hearing this, the armored soldier nodded and said, "As usual, according to our country's tariff law, all goods will be drawn once every hundred, and you will keep enough goods to pay the customs duties, and then you can unload the goods."

　Voting is a quality, a spirit, and even a reader's soul.

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)