Chapter 34 Chapter 153 Peaceful Exploration

In order to weaken the power of the Guogao family, several generations of the Qi family have supported the Cui family and the Qing family, which can be said to be very effective. The Guogao family was effectively weakened, and the Cui Qing family emerged suddenly.However, what the Duke of Qi did not expect was that the Guogao family had not killed a monarch for hundreds of years, and the Cui Qing family had already killed two monarchs in less than ten years. Facts have proved that the old aristocrats are usually conservative and rigorous, and will not easily do too outrageous things; while the new aristocrats are often aggressive, ruthless, and disowned by their relatives.

Therefore, support upstarts must be cautious. Duke Zhuang of Qi was killed, and Cui Zhu and Qing appointed Duke Zhuang's younger brother, Jiang Chujiu, as king, Duke Jing of Qi.Qi Jinggong is the grandson of Gongsun Ao. After King Jing of Qi was established, Cui Zhu summoned the ministers to make an oath in the ancestral temple of Qi State. The oath was as follows: "Whoever does not get close to the Cui family and the Qing family will die." But Yan Ying didn't say that. He said: "I, Yan Ying, If I don’t get close to people who are loyal to the king and benefit the country, please punish me.”

For Yan Ying, although Cui Zhu was unhappy, there was nothing he could do. The big thing is done, and everything is going well.Cui Zhu suddenly remembered one thing, that is to leave a good name for himself.So he called the Taishi of Qi. "Hey, let's write the matter like this: Duke Zhuang of Qi raped a woman from a good family and was killed by the angry crowd." Cui Zhu instructed. "I'm sorry, I've written it a long time ago, and I'll show you." The Taishi of Qi State handed over the bamboo slips recording the history. When Cui Zhu took it over and looked at it, his face changed, because it read "Cui Zhu kills his king" impressively.

"Change it." Cui Zhu ordered. "to not fix." "Don't change it? If you don't change it, I'll kill you." "Do you dare? The monarch does not dare to kill Taishi." Taishi is tough enough, but he is telling the truth, and the monarch is not qualified to kill Taishi. "I want to kill him." Cui Zhu didn't care about it. "It won't change even if you kill it." "Kill." Cui Zhu ordered his men to kill Taishi. The profession of Taishi belongs to the family business.Therefore, after the Taishi of the State of Qi was killed, it was his brother's turn to be the Taishi of the State of Qi.

"How do you write it?" Cui Zhu called Taishi's younger brother and threatened him. "Cui Zhu killed his lord," Taishi's younger brother said without blinking. "You, you don't want to live anymore?" Cui Zhu was a little annoyed. "Do you think Taishi's family has soft bones?" What Cui Zhu didn't expect was that Taishi's younger brother was also tough. "I kill you." "Kill me and write like this." "kill." Cui Zhu also killed Tai Shi's younger brother. Now, it is the turn of Taishi's younger brother's younger brother.

"Have you seen what happened to your two brothers? How are you going to write it?" Cui Zhu asked.He specially let Taishi's younger brother's younger brother see the bodies of the two elder brothers. "Cui Zhu killed his lord," said Tai Shi's younger brother's younger brother, staring at Cui Zhu without fear. "You, you want to die too?" "If you are afraid of death, don't be a grand historian. If you have the guts, do it." This one was even tougher. "You, are you really not afraid?" Cui Zhu felt a little guilty, he felt that he was overwhelmed by his aura.

Taishi's younger brother's younger brother ignored him, but looked at him contemptuously. "Come here, kill, kill him." Cui Zhu couldn't take it any longer, and ordered Tai Shi's younger brother's younger brother to be killed. Taishi has four brothers in total, if the fourth brother is killed, it will be a whole family of beheaded. Therefore, when the fourth child arrived, Cui Zhu felt a little sure. "How are you?" Cui Zhu asked. "Cui Zhu killed his lord," said the fourth child. "Why, why bother? Life is too short, so why be so serious, huh? Aren't you afraid that your family will die? As long as you listen to me, you can choose gold, jade and beautiful women, how about it?" Cui Zhu decided to lure.

"Cui Zhu killed his lord." The fourth child did not answer him, but repeated this sentence. "Is your family not afraid of death?" Cui Zhu was still not reconciled. "Cui Zhu killed his lord." This is still the same sentence. "Oh." Cui Zhu sighed, he admitted his failure. "Can't I take it? You can go." The fourth child picked up the bamboo slips that Cui Zhu threw on the ground and left. As soon as he left Cui Zhu's house, he saw the brothers from Nanshi's family coming. "Fourth brother, how are you? I'm here, and my brother is preparing behind." The visitor said.

The Nanshi family is a different branch of the Taishi family. Once the Taishi family is extinct, it will be the turn of the Nanshi family to be the Taishi.I heard that all the Taishi brothers were killed, and the Nanshi family sent people here, and they were going to write the same. Therefore, the history of Qi State is recorded like this: Cui Zhu killed his king. Why is the history of Spring and Autumn so wonderful and so real?Because we have many, many great historians.In a sense, the history of the Spring and Autumn Period is written with their blood and lives.Compared with them, the historians of later generations should be ashamed.

The historians of the Spring and Autumn Period are immortal, they are really immortal. This year was the sixth year of Duke Zhuang of Qi (548 BC). Cui Zhu and Qing Feng reached a close cooperative relationship. The two agreed to support each other like the country and the Gao family. Therefore, Cui Zhu became minister on the right, and Qing Feng became minister on the left.So far, Qi State has replaced the position of Shangqing with the left and right, and further emptied the Guogao family in form. What happened in Qi State happened in summer. After the autumn harvest, the people of Jin State gathered the coalition forces of twelve countries to attack Qi State.

"Everyone, I'm really unlucky. I just became the king and I encountered this kind of thing. What should I do?" Qi Jinggong hurriedly called a cabinet meeting to discuss the current severe international situation. "It's easy to say, let's send people to ask for peace, and push all the previous affairs on Duke Zhuang. He is a dead man who can't speak, so push it all on him." Cui Zhu came up with an idea, and he had already thought about it. So, it was done. Later generations like to blame the dead for bad things, and affirm the present by negating the predecessor, which is all learned from Cui Zhu. That's what he said, but Cui Zhu didn't have the courage to ask for peace with the Jin army. He knew that Fan Gai must kill him when he saw him.Therefore, this glorious task was handed over to Qing Feng. Qing Feng had no choice but to bite the bullet and come to the United Nations Army garrison.The United Nations Army has finished mobilizing and is preparing to set off. Qing Feng knew what to do, he brought two things: artists and gifts. What are you doing with an artist?Let's talk about gifts first. Qing Feng did not go to see Jin Pinggong first, but went to see Fan Gai and Zhao Wu.Of course, carrying gifts in large and small bags. "Two marshals, I am here to surrender on behalf of the Qi State. We offended the Jin State a few years ago, but it was all done by that old dude of Qi Zhuanggong. Now we have killed him and installed a new monarch to set things right. We will continue to Si Ye wants to rejoin the United Nations, and under the leadership of the Marshals of the Jin Kingdom, he will march forward bravely for world peace. So what, the two Marshals have worked hard, we have prepared a little trick, it is not a respect, ah, it is not a respect." Qing Feng Xian put all the responsibility on Qi Zhuanggong, and then directly took out the gift. Fan Ji and Zhao Wu are not interested in who is responsible, they are interested in gifts.The two immediately accepted the gift, looked at it, and smiled, the gift was not bad. "Then what, we also know that this matter was definitely not done by the people of Qi State, but by a small group of people such as Duke Zhuang of Qi. As long as the people of Qi State know their way back and return to the arms of the United Nations, our arms will be open But, that being said, the two of us can feel your sincerity, but the brothers below may not understand." Fan Ji is an old fritter, and his words are very artistic, meaning that he only gives us gifts, afraid of everyone have opinions. Qing Feng laughed when he heard this, and Cui Zhu had explained to him before coming here that the people of Jin are corrupt as long as they are officials, and it is not enough to just manage the generals of the Chinese army.So, when I came, I prepared a gift according to the head, and I also made a few backups.At that time, Qingfeng thought Cui Zhu was a little nervous, but now it seems that Cui Zhu was right. "Marshal, even if our country of Qi is not as powerful as yours, we don't even understand this. Don't worry, Marshal, I have prepared enough gifts to reward all the chiefs. Then what, please give us a roster." Qing Feng quickly said. Fan Gai and Zhao Wu were also polite, and called people in to prepare a roster. These people were: six ministers, five officials, thirty leading generals, military officials, heads of various departments, and local magistrates. Qingfeng sent people to deliver more than one hundred gifts one by one. The people of Qi State were tossing hard enough, while the people of Jin State "opened their faces after the three armies". When the gifts are in place, things will be easy to handle. It has been like this since ancient times. Afterwards, Fan Gai and Zhao Wu personally took Qingfeng to see Jin Pinggong, who also had gifts, which were sacrificial vessels and musical instruments.The presents are enough, and the six ministers swarmed to say good things for Qi, basically blowing Qi into hype. There is only one bad guy named Qi Zhuanggong, and the others are all sages. "My lord, in order to express our sincerity, I specially brought a group of men and women, and now they have lined up in two rows outside your big tent, please review." Seeing that everything went well, Qing Feng used the last trick . "What?" Jin Pinggong didn't understand what it meant, but it doesn't matter, just look at it. Duke Ping of Jin led Liuqing out of the big tent, and there were two rows of Qi people outside, both male and female, all wearing the clothes of Doctor Qing, but the clothes for surrender, all of them lowered their heads, waiting for Jin Ping The public was surrendered. It turned out that Qing Feng brought the artists of Duke Zhuang of Qi from the harem of Qi State, which is equivalent to the Central Song and Dance Troupe of Qi State.Let these people dress up as high-ranking officials of the Qi State and perform live performances of surrender here. "Hahahaha, you Qi people are so talented." Jin Pinggong couldn't help laughing, and all the officials burst out laughing. Qing Feng also laughed, he knew that world peace has come again. So, don't underestimate the power of artists, they often change the world. Since then, artists have toured and performed in the United Nations Army, which is considered a labor force. The world is at peace. Fan Ji decided to retire, firstly because he was getting older and the symptoms of dementia became more and more obvious, and secondly because he had to make room for his son, who would never be able to be a high-ranking official or get into that circle, which would affect his future career develop.Besides, Fan Ji felt more and more that he couldn't get along with those little bastards. Everyone's ideas were completely different, which is the saying "there is a generation gap". Therefore, Fan Ji applied for retirement.Mr. Jin Ping pretended to hold back a few words, but agreed. Now, the six ministers of the state of Jin are: Zhao Wu and Han Qi, the commanders of the middle army, Wu and Wei Shu, the commanders of the upper army, Fan Yang and Zhiying, the commanders of the lower army.These are the six major families of Jin. According to the unwritten rules of the state of Jin, as long as the seniors have been commanders of the Chinese army, the juniors will naturally enter the Qing series.Looking at the current Liuqing, the Fan family, Zhao family, Zhi family, Han family, and Zhongxing family all meet this condition. If Wei Shu can become the commander of the Chinese army in the future, it means that the Liuqing of Jin is completely hereditary. No chance either. The current reality is that the abilities of the six ministers are generally not high, but people with high abilities and popularity such as Shu Xiang, Zhang Hou, and Ji Yan are unlikely to become ministers. It is no longer clear which generation of the national leadership team this is. It can only be said that the current national leadership team is the second, third or even fourth generation rich.The biggest characteristic of this generation of leadership team is that they have never really fought a battle, and they all grew up under the superior conditions of the family.For them, fighting for hegemony is a meaningless word. They have everything that is popular, hot and spicy, so why fight for hegemony?Risking your life to fight against the Chu people, what are you trying to do? Let's put it this way, this generation is a generation of pleasure, not a generation of fighting, let alone a generation of entrepreneurship. "Everyone, a peaceful life is infinitely better, why go to war?" Zhao Wu, the new head of the Chinese army, raised this question at the Liuqing meeting. Everyone drank tea and had singing and dancing. "Yeah, let's have a good time, but why go to fight? We hate war." Everyone said so. "Then, I suggest that we launch a world peace plan." Zhao Wu suggested. "I'm on the sofa." Han Qi agreed. "I'm on the bench." Bank of China Wu agreed. "Me, I'm the floor." Wei Shu supported. "I love it." Fan Yang responded. "I'll do it again." Zhiying applauded. "What about you?" Zhao Wu asked the artists who were singing and dancing. Everyone did not speak, but all smiled. Pure emoji follow up. The words are not these words, but the meaning is just that. This is an important meeting of the Six Ministers, although this meeting has not been recorded in history. The new official took office with three fires, and Zhao Wu decided to light one fire. In accordance with the principle of "addition when you are in office, subtraction when you are in office; subtraction when you are in office, and addition when you are in office", the first thing Zhao Wu did when he took office was to reduce the tribute of the princes. Since Xun Yan and Fan Gai successively served as the commanders-in-chief of the Chinese army, they have continued to do additions. The exploitation of the princes has become more and more serious, and the tribute quotas of the princes have increased year by year, which has caused complaints from the United Nations.Later, Zheng Guo's Zichan wrote a letter to Fan Gai, condemning and admonishing the high tribute quota. Because the letter was well written, Fan Gai made a gesture and reduced the quota by a part, but it was still high. In Zichan's letter, there is such a sentence: "Would it be better to let people say that Zi's son begets me, and say that Zijun begets me?" What's the meaning?Would you like everyone to say "Lao Fan gave us a good life" or "Lao Fan made a good life by oppressing us"? In fact, rulers of all dynasties should ask themselves this question with conscience. When Zhao Wu took office, because he had no military exploits and only survived through the years, he needed to do something to get the princes to support him. After much deliberation, this was the most popular thing to do. "Actually, the state of Jin is not short of such things. It is enough for everyone to express their wishes. From now on, we will give less things, and the usual etiquette will be in place. The princes will get benefits, and the state of Jin will gain face. Isn't it a win-win situation?" Zhao Wu said to The six ministers said.Everyone thinks it makes sense. Once this was done, the whole world cheered in unison.The princes all said: "Marshal Zhao is really a good man, he has done a practical thing for us." From then on, the envoys of the princes traveled more frequently to Jin. Zhao Wu has a further peace plan, which is to start peace negotiations with the Chu people, and the two camps will live in peace in the future.For this matter, he successively found Uncle Sunbao of Lu State and Xiang Xu of Song State, and said to them: "There has just been a civil strife in Qi State, and the Cui Qing family must not be interested in causing trouble in the world. The two I have a good relationship with Ling Yin of the Chu State, so I might as well find an opportunity to sit down with the people of the Chu State in the future and talk about it, and abandon force from now on, so that everyone can live a peaceful life." Why didn't Zhao Wu look for Zheng Guoren?Because Zheng Guo people do not have such a status. Both Shusun Bao and Xiang Xu applauded this suggestion, who wouldn't want to live a peaceful life? But the specific implementation is different. Lu people are used to "erasing everything to sleep with you", so although they support it, they don't have much initiative; besides, this plan doesn't mean much to them. The Song State is different, their foreign policy is "independence", they seek an independent status, and the completion of this matter just helps their status.On the other hand, Song State is close to Chu State and is the main victim of the hegemony between the two superpowers. Therefore, the benefits of Jin-Chu peace to Song State can be seen. Therefore, Xiang Xu worked very hard on this matter. Xiang Xu first went to the state of Jin to discuss the peace model with the six ministers. After discussion, the six ministers of Jin formulated a peace plan. The specifics are: first, the Jin and Chu countries recognize each other's hegemony and the other's sphere of influence; Second, in addition to worshiping their own leader, the vassal states of both sides also worshiped another overlord. Xiang Xu took this plan and went to Chu State. The people of Chu State were at a disadvantage at this time. Of course they were very satisfied with this equal plan, so they immediately agreed. After the two superpowers agree, the big situation is basically settled.However, there are still two countries that need to be persuaded separately, one is Qin and the other is Qi.Qin State agreed, because they were also seeking peace with Jin State, but Qi State was unwilling at the beginning, because they felt that they would lose face, and it was fine to worship one country, but it was too embarrassing to worship two countries up.However, after discussion, Qi still agreed. In the tenth year of Jin Pinggong (548 BC), Zhao Wu took over as the commander of the Chinese army, and in the 12th year of Jin Pinggong (546 BC), in two years, Xiang Xu of Song State actually got things done. The 26th year of King Ling of Zhou, the 12th year of Duke Ping of Jin, the 14th year of King Kang of Chu, the second year of Duke Jing of Qi, the 31st year of Duke Jing of Qin, the 27th year of Duke Xiang of Lu, the 30th year of Duke Ping of Song, the 20th year of Duke Jiang of Zheng, and the 20th year of Duke Jing of Wei. In the year of AD, in June of this year, princes from all over the world will gather in Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, to witness the arrival of world peace. In the short time before the arrival of world peace, we must seize the time to introduce what has happened in Chu over the years.