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During the filial period of the previous king, Empress Dowager Zhao, as the mother of the country, must set an example.

Not only did she have simple food and clothing, she was not allowed to be extravagant in lighting. She only asked the palace maids to light up the candles by her side until she heard that Zhao Wangdan and Luling Jun came to greet her, and then she asked the palace maids to light up the copper branch candle that consumed a lot of wax oil.

The bronze branch lamp is shaped like a large tree with dense branches, six feet tall, carved with Kuilong patterns, like fifteen lamp plates on the branches ignited fire one after another, the air was filled with oily wax smell, and the dark palace was also filled with light.

Mingyue stood beside Empress Dowager Zhao, and through the light, she saw two uninvited guests clearly.

Walking ahead is Zhao Wangdan, and Mingyue seemed to be able to see his fate: five years later, the Battle of Changping began, and King Xiaocheng of Zhao made a series of wrong decisions, and he had an unshirkable responsibility for that tragedy...

Zhao Dan knew nothing about this. He wore a king's Xuandou top and a vermilion lower skirt, all painted with a series of seals, and the rusty edges of brocade were of great value. He did not have a Wang Mian on his head, and his eyes were filled with the unique smugness of a nineteen-year-old young man, and his steps were also very big, so that the two temple people holding a pheasant tail barrier fan behind him could not catch up, so they could only trot...

As for the young man in regular clothes who followed behind, the seventeen-year-old concubine Lu Lingjun, who was depressed and looked unfavorable, and was completely a follower and foil of Zhao Wangdan.

"I have met my mother and ask me how I am!"

The two walked to Queen Mother Zhao and bowed to her and greeted her. However, King Zhao only used a bow and bow, while Lord Luling needed to bow down.

On this side, the Empress Dowager bowed to her eldest son who had become the king. Due to the court etiquette, Mingyue had to endure the unhappiness in her heart and bowed to Zhao Dan to the ground. The King of Zhao seemed to enjoy his younger brother's contempt for him, and happily accepted it with his hands behind his back.

When Mingyue's waist was almost bent to ninety degrees, her lowered eyes just met Zhao Tong, the Luling Jun, who was looking up.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but he found that Zhao Tong blinked and gave him a wink?

...

Although Zhao Wangdan was in the name of visiting Chang'an Jun, he simply asked Mingyue a few words and ignored him. The coldness in his attitude was revealed, and Mingyue could feel it no matter how dull it was.

After that, Zhao Dan sat opposite Queen Mother Zhao and excitedly told her about her experience of learning how to govern the country with the Grand Tutor of Zhao and Tai Bao in the past few days. She was very flirting and every move, like a big child who showed off the test papers to her mother in later generations.

Mingyue knew that he would not go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble. King Zhao had only asked the Queen Mother this morning. He originally needed to come again tomorrow morning, but he rushed over to the evening after taking food. It was definitely not to talk about family matters. Eighty percent, it was related to the fact that Qin attacked Zhao and Zhao asked for help from Yu Qi. It can be seen that although this King Zhao was underage, he was very concerned about state affairs and the world affairs. He could not wait to show his strength in the Zhao court...

But when facing Empress Dowager Zhao, Zhao Dan became harsh and cowardly. Whenever he brought the topic to the brink of Qi's qualities, he did not dare to speak out, and swallowed it back again. He also glanced at Chang'an Jun from time to time, as if he was disgusting him as the intrusion...

Mingyue felt a sense of ingenuity in her heart. Just when the scene was a little awkward, Luling Jun opposite him came to relieve the scene.

"Zheng'an, the king and the queen mother talk about state affairs. How about you and I go out for a walk?"

Mingyue was discomfortably caught by Zhao Wangdan, and she wanted to leave here, so she stood up and said goodbye to the Empress Dowager and King Zhao.

When facing the boring story of King Zhao, Empress Dowager Zhao kept smiling slightly and not reacting much. At this time, she told Mingyue with great concern: "It's still cold outside, so I'll wear more clothes."

Mingyue felt warm in her heart and agreed with a smile: "Stop it."

Queen Mother Zhao raised her face: "Don't go far, just walk around the terrace and garden. If you don't come back, you won't turn off the palace lanterns for your mother!"

“Weiwei…”

However, just as Mingyue turned around and left Lulingjun, he found that Zhao Wangdan glared at him again!

Although King Zhao withdrew his gaze for only a moment, this time Mingyue understood his emotions.

That's right, the bright black and white eyes of the young king were shining, and it was clearly jealousy!

...

"It's better to be outside. In the palace, if there are too many people, it will be too stuffy."

Mingyue was thinking about the garden path next to Fengtai, and her heart was uneasy. Zhao Tong, the Luling Jun walking in front of him, suddenly said this.

Mingyue couldn't tell whether he was trying to make any decisions, so she could only say it perfunctorily.

If the memory is not wrong, Chang'an Jun had some unhappiness with Zhao Wangdan, who was still the crown prince when he was young. The two pretended to be happy in front of Empress Dowager Zhao, but secretly had a tense relationship. Instead, he was closer to Zhao Tong, born to the palace maid. Compared to the unpretentious playboy prince, Zhao Tong, who was a gentleman, was like a brother.

But people can change. After being named Luling Jun, Zhao Tong followed Zhao Wangdan all day long to accompany him to study and study politics. Who knows who he is close to now? Just now, should Mingyue come out, should he rescue Mingyue or create an opportunity for King Zhao to speak privately with the Empress Dowager?

Zhao Tong, who was foolish on the outside and wise on the inside, seemed to have noticed Mingyue's thoughts, shook his head, and sighed: "There are differences between legitimate and illegitimate children, and the superiors and inferiors are orderly. The legitimate son is the king, and the concubine son is the lord and the lord is the branch, and the position of the monarch and minister has been determined. Like me, if I do not rely on the trunk of the tree, the branches and leaves will wither early."

These old-fashioned words were very inconsistent from a seventeen-year-old boy's mouth. But Mingyue was not too surprised. In my memory, Zhao Tong was originally a precocious child, a royal family, especially a concubine's son who lived carefully in the palace, which was not easy.

Zhao Tong seemed to want to explain something to him, but Mingyue was no longer the former Chang'an Jun. He saw many people in his previous life calling him brothers and secretly making trouble in the officialdom. He had to be careful and be wary of Zhao Tong.

Unlike the Spring and Autumn Period, the rituals and music were completely destroyed, and the conspiracies and tricks of the perpetrators emerged one after another. The betrayal of the kings and princes also became common. Born in such an era, Mingyue did not believe in the simple and simple nonsense of the ancients.

The atmosphere fell silent again. Four palace servants were carrying copper palace lanterns to illuminate the road in front and behind. When they passed by a tall eaves like birds, Luling Jun suddenly pointed to it and said, "Jun Chang'an, do you still remember this place?"

With the moonlight and lights, staring at the outline of the eaves, a past scene emerged in front of the moon, and it also brought a slight pain on the back. This is the memory from the body...

"At that time, you and I were only eleven or twelve years old. Brother Wang claimed to be noble prince and refused to play with us. This garden became the battlefield for you and me. He chased him here and once climbed up the eaves of these two floors, and you fell down... After you came down, you were fine. I was severely punished by the angry empress dowager. There were scars left by wooden sticks on her body..."

When he was a child, Zhao Tong often served as a scapegoat for Chang'an Jun. He said this as an interesting story in his childhood, but Mingyue thought of another thing.

"According to my mother's plan, if I don't go to Qi State as a qualifier, it will be Luling Jun's turn to go to a foreign land..."

Luling Jun is also the son of King Huiwen of Zhao. He also has a mother, so he will definitely be reluctant to leave.

For a moment, Mingyue felt a little ashamed and embarrassed to be cold to Lulingjun. Following the topic, the two began to talk enthusiastically about interesting things about their childhood. The cheerful laughter of the two boys echoed in the empty garden, as if they had restored their former brotherhood.

As we chatted, the topic turned to the book Lulingjun was reading recently.

...

As a concubine, Luling Jun also knew himself. He just wanted to be a casual lord, and when he became an adult, he went to the fiefdom to live in half a seclusion, or lived in the prosperous city of Handan, and talked with scholars from Zhao State and foreign Confucian scholars...

That's right, Zhao Tong likes Confucianism very much. Two years ago, influenced by Kong Chuan, a Confucian scholar in Lu who entered the palace to teach King Huiwen, he became out of control. He devoted himself to studying all day long, and even attracted a lot of fun.

As a modern man born under the Red Banner, Mingyue is not very interested in Confucianism. When Zhao Tong talked about poetry, books, rituals, music, and praises his exquisiteness, he yawned a little and couldn't help but retorted:

"But Confucianism is useless in this chaotic world. Don't talk about governing the country. Don't you see, Lu and Zhongshan countries, any country that value Confucianism will either be weak or civil strife in the end."

"I heard from the eunuchs that Zhao State had once admired Confucianism several generations after Zhao Xiangzi, but its national strength did not improve much. It was not until King Wuling and the previous kings abolished customs and rituals, advocated fame and law, and respected military merits that they could rise in Jizhou. Therefore, in this great struggle, when it comes to enriching the country, one must rely on the Legalists, and one must rely on the military to strengthen the army."

This is one of the simple conclusions that Mingyue came to after studying the history of the Warring States Period in her previous life. If she wanted to change the end of the Battle of Changping five years later, in his opinion, she could only rely on these two things!

Zhao Tong has always been gentle and does not compete with others. Only in this way can he get along well in the cracks between the palace. Seeing Mingyue disagreed with Confucianism, he did not argue or refute, but just smiled:

"What Chang'an Jun said is a bit reasonable. Lu Mu Gong used Confucian scholars and destroyed the country, and Zhongshan, Xianyu, lost his country because of his fondness. However, Confucian scholars are divided into eight types. Since Confucius' death, there are Confucian scholars of Zi Zhang, Confucian scholars of Zi Si, Confucian scholars of Yan, Confucian scholars of Meng, etc. Recently, a school of Confucian scholars of Xun's family has emerged. The leader is Mr. Xun Zi, a great scholar in Zhao. Among the eight Confucian scholars, there are indeed pedantic and unreasonable people, but they are not all pedantic people..."

When Mingyue heard the name of Xunzi, she felt aroused, but before he could ask, Zhao Tong mentioned the benefits of Confucians as he knew them.

"The Confucian school, whose ancestors talked about Yao and Shun, King Wen, and also studied under Confucius. Their thoughts were encompassed in "Poetry", "Book", "Rite", "Book", "Book", "Book", "Music", and "Spring and Autumn". If there were no Confucians who compiled the documentary books of the three generations, and the Spring and Autumn Period, and today's nine-class schools, there would be no basis for what they said and done. What I admire most about Confucians is the seriousness of studying literature."

As he said that, Zhao Tong turned around and asked a confidant temple man who was following behind to come over. He took a bamboo slip wrapped in cloth from him, and stuffed it into Mingyue's hand without saying a word.

"Zhao Xiangzi, the founding leader of our Zhao State, has a minister named Zhang Mengtan. Zhang Mengtan once said something, "I will never forget the past, but the teacher of the future." I think it makes sense. Anyway, Chang'an Jun is idle in recuperation. Please go back and read this book, and maybe you can get some different gains from the wisdom of the ancients..."

Mingyue couldn't refuse, so she could only take the heavy bamboo slips and was about to hand them to the temple man behind her to collect them. Unexpectedly, Luling Jun walked up to him, grabbed his wrist, suddenly exerted force, and put his head in his ear, and said in a voice that others could not hear:

"Chang'an Jun, after seeing it, remember to burn it. Remember, be careful! Be careful!"

Mingyue was shocked, and Luling Jun had already stepped back. Under the moonlight and the palace lantern, the young man with no appearance was just like when he met in Fengtai's bedroom just now. He looked at Mingyue and shook his head gently.

Now Mingyue knows that the behavior of this gangster is indeed of a deep meaning!

...

Half an hour later, in the dim palace, a faint candle was lit, reflecting a pair of flickering eyes and the face of the young boy, but what was inconsistent with his age seemed to be too serious.

Wearing a deep garment, Mingyue blew out the fine firewood used to light the fire in his hand. Until now, he still could not master the necessary skills of making fire with flint very well. He could only borrow fire from the charcoal basin - this was the excuse that he felt cold tonight and asked the palace maids and temple people to add it, and then drove everyone out.

He needed a space to be alone, and he carefully looked at the Jianshu that Luling Jun sent him mysteriously half an hour ago.

Just now, after walking around the garden, Mingyue returned to Fengtai's bedroom and happened to meet Zhao Wangdan strode out from inside with a angrily stalking back to Longtai, and before leaving, he glanced at him coldly.

Mingyue did not dare to be negligent. After bowing and seeing King Zhao leave, he walked into Queen Mother Zhao's bedroom and found that the Queen Mother was also a little angry. Seeing Mingyue back, he even pulled him to sigh and complained that King Zhao's "unkindness" was "respectful".

Mingyue knew as soon as she heard this, that King Zhao must have said something that shouldn't have said, which made the Empress Dowager unhappy.

"From the way, you will be the only son in my mother."

Empress Dowager Zhao was obviously an angry word, but Mingyue did not agree, but instead excused Zhao Wangdan. He said that Brother Wang was also responsible for his shoulders and was worried about the country. Mingyue's filial and respectful attitude comforted the Empress Dowager a little, allowing the old mother to sleep peacefully...

The reason why he was so cautious was because the series of hints before Luling Jun made Mingyue more vigilant.

Although King Zhao did not take charge of the rule, his future authority was huge and his status could not be shaken. Even the Lord Luling could only protect himself and rely on King Zhao Dan. There would be no shortage of people who wanted to please the new king. In the empress dowager, those temple people who seemed to be depressed and delighted were not reliable.

Mingyue didn't know how many pairs of eyes were staring at him, and how many ears were listening to his words...

Only when he is alone in the darkness can he feel a little safe.

"Born in the royal family, although it avoids becoming hungry in troubled times and filling in gullies, it is not all a good thing." After sighing, Mingyue began to study the books given to him by Luling Jun under the weak candlelight.

After opening the silk cloth on the outside, a bamboo roll was exposed.

The cut narrow bamboo slices are called simplified bamboo, and they are woven into a book. The Book of Documents says, "Only the ancestors of Yin have books and scriptures." The book of simplified bamboo has been invented in the Shang Dynasty and has been passed down for thousands of years. The craftsmanship has become more proficient and is the main text carrier of the Warring States Period.

It is not as light as the lightness of later books. The bamboo slips are held in the hand and the moon simply spreads it on the table. It took a lot of effort to untie the twine knot on it so that it can slowly unfold and see the clues...

The yellow-brown bamboo slips have been killed by the green, and the ink is inscribed with thick ink on the handwriting - Zhao's seal characters. Fortunately, Mingyue inherited many of Chang'an Jun's memories, including the ability to read and write. Otherwise, Luling Jun would give him this thing to a glare for the blind man to see.

After scanning two lines of text similar to the preface of the opening, Mingyue understood it. This is the first volume of "Zuo Shi Chunqiu".

"The Spring and Autumn Period of Zuoshi", also known as "The Spring and Autumn Period of Zuoshi", is a historical book that supplemented by Zuo Qiuming, a historian of Lu State, based on Confucius' "The Spring and Autumn Period" and recorded the history of the Spring and Autumn Period. It is also a classic work regarded by Confucians in the Warring States Period as a classic. It is known as the "The Book of Gongyang" and "The Book of Guliang". The famous works of Zhu Zhiwu's retreat to Qin Shi and Cao Gui's debate in later middle school textbooks are all from this book.

This book has been passed down to more than two thousand years later. Mingyue also read it during her lifetime, but she just glanced at the translation. Now she rereads it. With the writing skills in Chang'an Jun's memory, it is not difficult to understand. But what is the deep meaning of this book Luling Jun gave him?

With deep doubts, Mingyue unfolded the book a little...

Soon, among the black words written in thick ink, a bright red mark suddenly jumped into my eyes!

That was a whole paragraph, marked with a pen!

After seeing clearly what was told in that paragraph, Mingyue felt something pressing against his chest from the inside, making his breathing tightly!
Chapter completed!