I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 433 One emperor and one courtier?

When everyone's eyes fell on Gongsun Kunxie and Yuan An, the changes in the expressions on the faces of these two people were not uncommon.

For example, Gongsun Kunxie, who is originally a country of the nature of "Famous Nine Qings", did not show too strong inappropriateness.

The reason is that we have to mention the origin of Gongsun Hunxie - in the history of China, especially during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, a primitive nation that repeatedly appeared in the Qing history records: Yiqu.

Before the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Yiqu was originally a branch of the Qiang Rong, who lived in Guyuan Grassland, Ningxia, and Liupanshan and Longshan for generations.

During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the Yiqu people and the descendants of the Di people who lived in Longdong—Guifang were neighbors and attacked each other endlessly; Armed conflicts broke out in the country, and they continued to encroach on the territory of the country of Bin.

Around the time of the Yin, Shang and Kangding years, the northern barbarians invaded southward, and Zhou Zugugong: Danfu led his tribe to leave Bindi and move southward to Qishan.

The Rong and Di tribes seized the opportunity to occupy most of the vacated Longdong area, and used it as a settlement where the tribe lived for generations.

In the last years of King Wen, Jiang Taigong sent his envoy Nan Gongshi to Yiqu, and King Yiqu presented chicken and rhinoceros to King Wen, and King Wen presented these things to King Zhou of Shang.

Because Yiqu and Jizhou get along harmoniously and intimately, while Guifang (猃狁) is opposed to Shang and Zhou, so every time there is an armed conflict, Guifang will flee because of failure.

Over time, Guifang people gradually migrated to the Hetao area, while Yiqu people took the opportunity to move inward.

Over time, Yiqu people gradually occupied the Dayuan area in eastern Longdong (Qingcheng, Ningxian, Zhenyuan, etc.).

This piece of land is fertile and the natural pasture with lush water and grass, because of the arrival of Yiqu people, the local animal husbandry has achieved unprecedented development;

The population of Yiqu has also increased significantly, and it has settled down from a nomadic state and has become a rare "settled herdsman".

In the intermingling with the descendants of the local Zhou people, the Yiqu people learned farming techniques and the culture of the Zhou people, and imitated the Zhou people to build castles and villages, thus developing into the "Yiqu people" which is different from other Qiang Rong. Or 'Yiqu people'.

So far, the nation of Yiqu has been formally formed in history.

After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, Yiqu people surrendered to Ji Zhou.

After suppressing aliens many times, but met with fierce armed resistance, the Zhou Dynasty began to gradually change its strategy, adopting a policy of appeasement, and placed the five Rongs, namely: Yiqu, Yuzhi, Wuzhi, Quyan, and Penglu, in Dayuan land.

Among the five Rongs, only Yiqu is located in the center of Dayuan, facing the Jingshui River in the south. This area is suitable for farming and animal husbandry, and the land is fertile. The people of Yiqu soon became powerful through this.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the dog army rebelled against the Zhou Dynasty, and the soldiers approached the city of Gaojing, and killed King You in Lishan. King Ping of Zhou was afraid of Rongdi and moved his capital to Luoyi in a hurry.

This is the reason why the capital of Zhou moved westward and the emperor of Zhou lost his dignity.

At that time, Yiqu people took advantage of the turmoil in the Zhou Dynasty, blatantly declared their separation from the rule of the Zhou Dynasty, formally established a county, and established the capital of Yiqu in Xigou Village, Jiaocun Township, Ning County.

From then on, in Chinese history, it also officially had the name of "Yiqu Country".

Not long after the establishment of Yiqu Kingdom, troops were sent to annex Penglu, Yuzhi and other Xirong tribes, and the territory was greatly expanded.

Its national boundary extends from Xihaigu Grassland in the west to Qiaoshan Mountain in the east, Hetao in the north and Jingshui in the south, covering an area of ​​nearly [-] square kilometers.

Compared with China in later generations, [-] square kilometers may not be large, but in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods when there were many princes, it was already considered a big country.

During the political turmoil of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the people of Yiqu, or the country of Yiqu, directly participated in the political and military competitions among the countries of the Central Plains, especially during the period when the Seven Heroes stood side by side;
Especially in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, they had repeated military contests with the strong Qin Dynasty for more than [-] years, and became the main opponent of Qin State's dominance of Xirong at that time.

The people of Yiqu are strong and brave, "death in battle is auspicious, and the end of illness is ominous", so they fight bravely and prefer to die rather than surrender - this is why Yiqu country can be half agricultural and half animal husbandry. An important reason for Nian Guozuo.

All the people of Yiqu country are soldiers, and when there is a war, young and strong men will go to the battlefield, so that there are more women than men in Yiqu;
Moreover, the ancestral law of the Yiqu people stipulates that after the twelfth generation of the same clan can intermarry, after the death of the elder brother, the younger brother can marry his sister-in-law as his wife.

It is not difficult to see from this that although the Yiqu people are not as disobedient to human relations as the "wives, fathers and wives" of the Huns, they also retain the characteristics of nomads to a certain extent.

After settling in the Longdong Plateau, the Yiqu people began to engage in farming, and gradually developed into a half-agricultural and half-herding people.

Before King Zhou Xiang (before 650) came to the throne, Yiqu further developed its power in the east and south after annexing the northern lands, and first pointed the spearhead at Qin.

In the first year of King Xiang of Zhou (651 BC), Yiqu State took in Jin people and Yu was sent as an envoy to Qin State in order to ease the tension between the two countries.

After Yu Yu came to Qin State, Duke Mu of Qin entertained him with high officials and asked him about the way of governing the country.

Yu Yu said: "The superior has pure virtue to meet the subordinates, and the subordinate has loyalty and trust to serve the superior. The government of a country is like the rule of one's own body. If you don't know how to rule, this is the rule of a true sage."

Duke Miao was very appreciative, so he summoned Yuyu to surrender by means of alienation.

After that, Qin used the rest of his plans to attack Yiqu in the north, "Yiguo Twelve, opened up thousands of miles".

After the defeat of the war, Yiqu learned a lesson, recharged its batteries and built a city to defend itself.

In the 11th year of King Kao of Zhou Dynasty (430 BC), Yiqu aggressively attacked Qin from Jingbei to Weinan, forcing the Qin army to withdraw from the lower reaches of the Weihe River. The next 30 years were the most powerful period of Yiqu.

Its land reaches northern Shaanxi in the east, Hetao in the north, Longxi in the west, and Weishui in the south, with an area of ​​nearly 20 square kilometers.

King Zhou Xian (before 352), Qin sent troops to attack Wei, and captured Wei Xihe County and Shang County in one fell swoop;

Since then, the state of Qin, which has further expanded its borders, has begun to have friction and disputes in Yiqu again.

The Qin State took advantage of the internal turmoil in Yiqu and sent troops to attack Yiqu, and pacified the civil strife in Yiqu. Yiqu surrendered to Qin, and the two sides fought and made peace after that.

In the 42nd year of King Zhou Xian and the 11th year of King Qin Huiwen (before 327), Yiqu officially became a territory of Qin State with the country as Qin county and the king as Qin minister.

Although the State of Qin did not station troops, pay taxes, or dispatch officials in Yiqu's 'county', it was theoretically able to rule over the people of Yiqu.

In the third year of Zhou Shenliang's king and in the 20th year of Qin Huiwen's king (318 BC), Yiqu broke away from Qin's control by taking advantage of the melee among the Central Plains countries, and joined forces with the five Kanto kingdoms to attack Qin.

In order to eliminate worries for the future, the state of Qin used tricks to win over Yiqu, sending thousands of beautiful horses and hundreds of beauties to the king of Yiqu, but the people of Yiqu were not fooled, and they still attacked Qin.

In the end, the Yiqu people, together with the countries in the Kanto, defeated the Qin soldiers and recovered a considerable part of the lost "ancestral land".

In the first year of King Zhou Nan and in the 24th year of King Qin Huiwen (314 BC), Qin State won a complete victory in the Central Plains battlefield, and then mobilized heavy troops to invade Yiqu from the east, south, and west, and captured 25 cities of Yiqu successively. It has almost shrunk to several counties.

In the eighth year of King Zhou Nan (306 BC), King Zhaoxiang of Qin ascended the throne as Lord Qin. Because of his young age, his mother, Queen Mother Xuan, was regent.

The Empress Dowager Xuan of Qin is the Miyue-Mibazi who is familiar to the later generations.

After the regency, the Empress Dowager Xuan changed her strategy of conquering and attacking Yiqu positively, adopting a policy of softness, win-win, and corruption, in order to fall into the ambition of King Rong.

Later, he wrote to ask King Yiqu to live in Ganquan Palace for a long time, and entertain him with a generous life.

So much so that King Yiqu had an affair with Queen Mother Xuan and had two sons, which made King Yiqu completely relax his vigilance against Qin.

Until the 35th year of King Qin Zhaoxiang (272 BC), the Empress Dowager Xuan lured and killed King Yiqu in Ganquan Palace, and then sent troops to attack Yiqu. Yiqu Kingdom perished and its territory was incorporated into Qin Kingdom.

Yiqu country was destroyed, and then it was included in the land of Qin, and gradually became the state of Qin and the Central Plains;

By the time the First Emperor Yingzheng swept Liuhe and ruled the world, the people of Yiqu had become part of the Chinese nation.

As for why you mentioned "Yiqu", a nation that has almost disappeared, or basically dissolved in China, when referring to Gongsun Kunxie's life experience, it is because Gongsun Kunxie is the only one after Yiqu people gradually integrated into the Chinese nation. Yiqu nobles who can serve as high-ranking officials in the Huaxia regime.

——Gongsun Kunxie, originally the prince of Yiqu.

If he had not become the Duke of the Han family, Gongsun Kunxie could also go to Beidi and Longyou to become the king of the local Yiqu remnants.

Just like the Han Dynasty had Loufan County, and the Xiongnu had Loufan Division: the people of Yiqu were also distributed in the area where the Han Dynasty and the Huns joined hands in the northwest.

The Yiqu people in the territory of the Han Dynasty had long been incarnated as Zhuxia, and became an extremely important group of the Han Dynasty: an important part of the Northern Knights.

The Yiqu people in the grassland still regarded themselves as "Yiqu people" and split into several tribes, all of which belonged to the barbarians of the Xiongnu.

Back to the present: it is Jiuqing who is more symbolic than actual, so Gongsun Kunxie is very open about official positions.

On the contrary, Yuan An, as the emperor Taizong who had been active in the court during the reign of Emperor Taizong, and was overwhelmed by his rival Chao Cuo for a long period of time, the veteran of the three dynasties obviously did not expect Liu Sheng's idea, and actually fought against Liu Sheng. To a veteran like himself.

Yuan Ang couldn't have imagined that Liu Sheng had a long-standing grudge against himself as a servant...

"Since I inherited the great rule, there has been a common view inside and outside the court: when the crown prince becomes the emperor, the crown prince's officials should also enter the court as ministers, and most of the old officials left by the previous emperor should be raised in the village."

"——I have always hated this kind of talk, I hate this kind of talk that tells all the truth, but inexplicably instructs people to do things according to their own wishes."

"When it comes to family and country affairs, one should not rush for success, let alone make major changes without thinking."

"As the saying goes: Governing a big country is like cooking a small dish. Every ingredient and seasoning needs to be carefully carried out."

Just when all the officials and ministers were thinking, Liu Sheng's rather puzzling words resounded in the hall, causing all the officials and officials to be stunned.

When he raised his head, he saw that Liu Sheng was still smiling faintly, and his gaze swept over Yuan Ang's body as if nothing.

"Private servant, an old official who was prominent above the court when Emperor Taizong was in power."

"Emperor Xian Xiaojing also said: If there is something that you don't know how to deal with, then you should leave it to Yuan An to handle it. There will always be no mistakes."

"But now, Yuan Qing has been in the position of a servant for many years, I'm afraid it's a bit overkill..."

Hearing Liu Sheng's words, all the officials and ministers in the hall knew the elegant meaning after hearing the Xuanyin, but at the end they gave Yuan Ang another look, and then bowed their heads indifferently.

At this moment, the scene that is being staged in the Xuanshi Palace has appeared countless times among the monarchs and ministers of the Han family in the past few decades.

As for such a scene, someone once summed it up like this: the birds are exhausted, the good bows are hidden, the cunning rabbits are dead, and the running dogs are cooked.

To put it more aptly, in fact, it should belong to later generations: once the emperor, a courtier...
"The duties of a servant are nothing more than driving the emperor's chariot and chariot."

"With Yuan Qing's talent, to be a groom who drives for me is really a little bit too condescending."

"——Yuan Qing, you should go to a position where you can give full play to your talents, so as to show your great ambitions."

"I just don't know, where does Yuan Qing's heart belong?"

When Liu Sheng said this, even if Yuan An was being dull, he already understood what Liu Sheng meant.

What's more, Yuan An is not only not dull, but he is also one of the smartest people in the court!

After all, this Yuan An and Yuan Taifu was able to flirt with the Lu family before the outbreak of the Zhulu Rebellion, and was willing to go for the bull and the horse;

Waiting for the princes and ministers to punish Zhulu together, they can quickly become the vanguard to sweep away Zhulu, and they are not even affected by the political label of "Zhulu's lackeys" at all.

Zhu Lu was in chaos, and Yuan An became the right-hand man beside Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and other veterans;
As a result, as soon as the Dai Wang arrived in Chang'an, Yuan An became a counselor and think tank for His Majesty Emperor Taizong Xiaowen to sweep away Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and other veterans who had power.

Emperor Taizong established Crown Prince Qi, Yuan Ang remained calm;
It is rumored that the king of Liang will be established, and Yuan Ang's heart is like still water.

It was not until King Huai of Liang fell to his death from a horse and Jia Yi and Jia Changsha died of depression that Yuan Ang told Emperor Taizong "behind the day" that the crown prince is the foundation of the clan society.

After selling a favor to the prince, Yuan An kept a low profile until the death of Emperor Taizong. It was not until Emperor Xian Xiaojing ascended the throne that he became active in the court again because of the conflict between himself and Chao Cuo...
"Your Majesty takes pity on the old man, and I am so grateful."

"It's just that in the past few years, it's really a bit..."

"interesting······"

"If suddenly I can no longer serve His Majesty's chariot, I'm afraid I won't be able to get used to it for a while..."

Yuan An's words were beautiful, but he still couldn't hide the deep meaning behind them.

——I have been a servant for so many years, and I have worked as a coachman for His Majesty. I have no credit but hard work.

To dismiss me so suddenly, I feel a little bit uncomfortable.

Perhaps in Yuan Ang's view, Liu Sheng should rely on his "old friends and confidantes all over the world" connections, his relationship with the Empress Dowager of the East Palace, and his professional skills of being good at making friends with all parties in the court for many years. Will hesitate to myself.

But it's a pity: Liu Sheng's dislike for Yuan Ang has a long history...

"If you can't get used to it, then get used to it slowly."

"—There will always be such a day~"

"If my servant is really allowed to die on the road driving for my imperial chariot, then I will no longer have the face to walk out of Sima Gate on the imperial chariot."

"Qing is old too~"

"At such an age, if you don't take advantage of such a good opportunity to return to your hometown to be honored, when will you wait?"

Hearing Liu Sheng's words, all the officials and officials who had lowered their heads to pretend to be ostriches raised their heads one after another, and looked at Yuan An who was still stubborn with different expressions.

If before, everyone thought that Liu Sheng just chose the softest persimmon among the nine ministers, and if he pinched it, it would not affect the court, then after Liu Sheng said this, everyone's heart has already been pinched. Roughly.

——Yuan An, I'm afraid I did something to annoy the present!
Moreover, this matter that annoyed Tian Zisheng today was probably a big mistake of principle.

If not, Liu Sheng, such a young and mature king, would not have said such a rude sentence in front of all the officials and officials in the Chang Dynasty: You are old too...
(End of this chapter)