Chapter 249 Zigong went north

At this time, Tian Qi, who is currently the left prime minister of Qi, won the hearts of the people of Qi after borrowing grain from a big dou. He also killed Gongzi Jiang Cha and supported Gongzi Yangsheng, becoming the real number one clan of Qi.

However, Qi was not completely controlled by Tian Qi, and Tian Qi's desire did not end there. He had greater desires, but Qi also had Gao, Guo, Bao, Yan Si and Tian family, and the offices were in power. Especially Bao family, whose head Bao Mu was the right prime minister, was just one less than Tian Qi, who was the left prime minister. Although there was no one in the Yan family as the prime minister, it was not much different. Yan family was born in the early days of Duke Ling of Qi. His fiefs had 5,000 families. According to the military system of Qi, each household was one person. This was equivalent to five thousand soldiers and horses.

The head of the family was the famous Yan Zi. Yan Zi had a very high reputation in Qi State. Cui Zhu, a powerful minister of Qi State, killed Duke Zhuang of Qi because Duke Zhuang of Qi and his wife. No doctor dared to go, only Yan Zi dared to attend the funeral. Yan Zi was still pillowing on Duke Zhuang of Qi in pain, and got up and jumped three more. Cui Zhu's disciple persuaded Cui Zhu: "You must kill Yan Ying (Yan Zi's name)."

Cui Zhu, a man who even dared to kill the king, said: "The people of China have expectations for him, and killing him can win the hearts of the people."

Then Cui Zhu established Duke Jing of Qi. In order to prevent the doctor from being dissatisfied, he summoned the armies to besiege the Taigong Temple, forcing the doctor to take blood to form an alliance, and expressed his loyalty to him. Once a doctor refused to follow, he would be killed, and in just a moment, seven doctors had been killed. When Yan Zi was at the time, everyone was worried about Yan Zi.

But Yan Zi was not panicked at all. Yan Zi calmly raised his glass and sweared: "I am only loyal to the king and the country. Anyone who is accomplices of the tiger will not die well if he helps the evil and abusers." After that, he drank it all.

Cui Zhu was so angry that he was embarrassed, but at this time he did not dare to kill Yan Zi, but just asked Yan Zi to swore again. But Yan Zi refuted Cui Zhu's request righteously. Cui Zhu couldn't help but point his sword at Yan Zi, but in the end Cui Zhu still did not dare to kill Yan Zi and let Yan Zi leave calmly.

It can be seen that Yan Zi's prestige in Qi State was a powerful minister who dared to kill the king and killed seven doctors at once, but did not dare to kill Yan Zi. Although Yan Zi is dead now, Yan Zi has left a rich legacy for the Yan family. No one can guarantee that once the Yan family puts the banner of "clearing the king" and many Chinese people will transfer their favor to Yan family because of their favor for Yan Zi, and follow Yan family to have something similar to "clearing the king" together.

But Tian Qi is not an ordinary person, otherwise it would be impossible to lead the Tian family to become the largest clan of Qi. He quickly came up with a poisonous plan - the "Western" movement of the disaster waters

Tian Qi put his ideas on Lu. Lu can be said to be the feud of Qi, not only in war, but also in politics. Doctors who failed in the political struggle in Qi often fled to Lu, and Lu also provided asylum for them. The situation of Lu is similar to that of Qi. Doctors who failed in the political struggle all fled to Qi and were accepted by Qi.

Therefore, when Tian Qi decided to launch a war against Lu, there were not many people opposed it. In this war, Tian Qi was also preparing to consume the strength of the other four clans. For this reason, Tian Qi did not want a big victory, preferably a bad victory, so Tian Qi made great preparations from the beginning to make Lu prepare. This news also spread to the Han Dynasty shortly after Tian Qi made great efforts.

After hearing this news, Confucius immediately summoned his disciples and said to the disciples with a sad face: "Lu State is where our ancestors' tombs are located, and it is the country that gave birth to our parents. Now Lu State is so dangerous that you don't stand up?"

As soon as Confucius finished speaking, his eldest disciple Zilu stood up suddenly and said, "Teacher, I will resign from my master and return to Lu State."

Confucius shook his head and said, "You can't be too impatient and you will only be bad."

Zilu had no choice but to sit down, and he knew that Confucius was not wrong with saying this.

Immediately afterwards, disciples Zi Zhang and Zi Shi asked to go one after another, but Confucius refused. At this time, Zi Gong stood up and said, "Teacher, I'll go."

Confucius thought for a while, and finally nodded and said, "Zigong be careful."

"I'm asking the teacher not to worry too much," Zigong said with a firm face.

After Zigong said that, he went back to pack his luggage. Zigong originally wanted to say goodbye to Yang Zilu, but considering Yang Zilu's entanglement over the past few days, he was afraid that Yang Zilu would not let him go. So he packed everything secretly and drove a donkey cart out of the city at dusk. The donkeys continued along the way, and Zigong walked for more than a hundred miles from Kuaiji City to Linggu. After walking for a night, he finished it.

Although he was extremely tired from walking overnight, both mentally and physically, Zigong still did not enter Linggu City to rest and then head north. Instead, he bypassed Linggu City and came to the dock. He happened to see a passenger ship docking on the dock and was greeting guests. Zigong was overjoyed. He walked forward, said a few words, and then agreed to the ship's fees.

Zigong had just taken the donkey cart on the boat, and waited for the guests to get them to set off north. At this moment, there was a sound of horse hooves like thunder outside the pier, and more than ten fast horses rushed towards him. Everyone was wearing white feathered black iron helmets on their heads and red battle robes on their shoulders. When they saw this equipment, the people on the pier knew that it was the Yulin Army of the Han Kingdom, and it was also the inner guard of the palace.

Because the ordinary Yulin Army only has white feather white battle robe, while the inner guard is equipped with white feather red battle robe, and the inner guard has only 500 people, and is responsible for guarding the palace and will not leave Kuaiji City under normal circumstances.

Before the people arrived, the voice had already been heard, "Mr. Zigong, please go slowly, the Lord has something to keep."

Zigong was shocked when he heard this. He now put all his body and mind on Lu, and was willing to accept Yang Zilu's recruitment. He was very anxious. Although he knew that paying a lot of money to the boatman to cross the river might have exposed his identity. But now he did not pay a lot of money to the boatman to cross the river and asked him to cross the river in advance. With the current situation, sooner or later, he was searched by the inner guards of the Yulin Army.

Zigong gritted his teeth and took out a cloth bag from the bag. The cloth bag fell on the boat board and made a crisp sound. The originally tied cloth belt also loosened, revealing the golden gold inside. The four pieces of gold were neatly placed together. "As long as the boatman starts the boat now, this gold worth 20,000 yuan is yours."

Upon hearing this, the boatman's face changed slightly, and he looked at Zigong and said, "It seems that you are the Mr. Zigong who sent the inner guard of the Yulin Army to find you."

Although Zigong had expected that the boatman might have estimated his identity, Zigong could not help but change his face slightly when he heard the boatman say this. Zigong avoided the boatman's problem and said with a forced smile: "When I arrive at the north shore, I will give the boatman two more gold, plus there is a total of 30,000 yuan here. I believe that you can do nothing enough for the boatman to enjoy your old age. Why bother to blow wind and rain on the river?"

Upon hearing this, the boatman laughed and said, "I am a rough man, but I also know what the country said, "Only if a country has a country, the country will be strong. Isn't the family still strong? Although 30,000 yuan is not small, since you are the one hunted by the country, I will not greed for this money and harm the country."

When Zigong heard this, he didn't know whether it was better to admire me or the atmosphere. But seeing that the inner guard of the Yulin Army was getting closer and closer, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and pull out the bronze sword from his waist, pointing at the boatman and saying, "It's rude that as long as the boatman crosses me across the north shore, Zigong will give me another gold to apologize."

When the boatman heard this, although he looked fearful, he still gritted his teeth and said, "Although I don't know why you were hunted by the monarch, since you can ask the monarch to send the Yulin Army's inner guards, it is definitely not a small matter. Although I am afraid of death, I cannot ruin the country for fear of death. After I die, the monarch will definitely treat my wife and children well."

After hearing this, Zigong said that it was really hard to stab with a sword. After all, Yang Zilu was just recruiting herself, but she killed the boatman because of this. Then again, what's the use of killing the boatman? Zigong has followed Confucius for many years, but he has never learned how to row, especially this kind of passenger ship with sails, which is obviously not something that Zigong can solve.

At this moment, the Yulin Army had already arrived at the dock. The boatman looked at the bronze sword that was only a few inches away from him, gritted his teeth, and shouted: "Zigong is here."

After saying that, the boatman closed his eyes and waited for death, but after a while, the expected sting did not come. Instead, he heard Zigong sigh and said, "If there is such a righteous man, it is true that he will be destined."

The boatman opened his eyes when he heard this, but Zigong took back the bronze sword and knelt on the board. The boatman hesitated for a while and asked, "Why don't you kill me?"

"Why do you want to kill? So what if you kill you?" Zigong asked without raising his head and his eyes opened.

The boatman couldn't help but speak in silence.

Not long after, a rapid footsteps sounded, and a group of dusty Yulin Army guards boarded the boat. One of them looked at Zigong carefully and said with relief: "It's Mr. Zigong."

Zigong didn't look up when he heard this, but just sat there quietly and closed his eyes to rest.

An inner guard walked towards the boatman and thanked him. The inner guard then said to Zigong: "Please wait, sir, the Lord will come soon."

When Zigong heard this, he was stunned. He opened his eyes in surprise and looked at the inner guard and asked, "Didn't you take me back?"

The inner guard said calmly: "This villain doesn't know. The villain just acts according to the orders, and the orders just let the villain keep the gentleman and wait for the Lord to come up. As for everything else, it's not something that the villain can know."

Zigong frowned, but couldn't think of what Yang Zilu was thinking, so he stopped thinking about it. Anyway, Yang Zilu came, and the answer was solved.

ps: Depressed, now I am really in debt. Today I only have three thousand updates, and I owe 15,000 words. I have to work hard tomorrow to achieve...

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