"You mean, the Ruo Ao family started its inheritance six hundred years ago and lasted for dozens of generations. It once dominated the Chu Kingdom and almost killed the King of Chu Zhuang?"
Hei Fu did not expect that from the time of death to the rooster's crow, the person who accompanied him through the long night in this wilderness would be Li Xian's story about the Ruo'ao family.
Just now, after Hei Fu and the others captured the tomb robber, they immediately interrogated him, hoping to find out the fact that the tomb robber had colluded with Chaoyang Lili Prison Gate. However, the leader of the tomb robbers, the red-faced and short-bearded thief, was very stubborn and would not even say anything about beating him to death.
, so angry that Dongmen Leopard wanted to kill him with a halberd.
But the tomb robbers are not monolithic, especially the young man from Chu State named "Xing" who was forced to join the tomb robber gang. He hated the beatings and abuses he received from the tomb robbers, so he told everything he knew as if he was pouring beans.
Xing also confessed that tonight, on the first day of the week, Chaoyang Lili Prison Gate will personally drive an ox cart to meet them and help move the stolen goods...
So Heifu discussed it with a few people and decided to let Dongmen Bao and Xiao Tao drag the five tomb robbers to hide behind the mountain and seal their mouths. Heifu and Li Xian pretended to be the tomb robbers.
He looked like he was holding an iron shovel, sitting on the edge of the tomb, and asked the Chaoyang Lili prison gate to "wait for the rabbit"...
It was late and cold in the night, and time passed very slowly. Anyway, Heifu was crossing his arms and shivering when he was idle, and chatting to pass the time. He asked Li Xian about the origin of the tomb owner, "Ruo Ao".
Li Xian was not surprised that Heifu didn't know about the Ruo Ao family. After all, it had been more than fifty years since the Chu Kingdom withdrew from Jianghan. Times had changed, and the common people only recognized who the officials in front of them were. Except for them, the little nobles of the Chu Dynasty still talked about their old feelings.
Who will remember the feudal princes of the past?
He told Heifu that the Ruo Ao family was the descendant of "Ruo Ao", the fourteenth generation king of the Chu State. After the Chu State became queen, the Ruo Ao family gradually grew and became the most powerful clan in the Chu State. Later,
The Dou family and the Cheng family were also divided, and many commanders and commanders were produced, who held important military and political positions for a long time. How could they fight against Tutu (Ziwen), become a minister, and become a great heart... It is a pity that these people are only Heifu.
Don't know anyone.
After listening patiently for a long time, Li Xian finally talked about a person he knew: King Zhuang of Chu, who had already made a name for himself without making a sound.
Only then did Hei Fu realize that the reason why the King of Chuzhuang did not fly for three years was precisely because the Ruo'ao family had lost power and had sidelined the King of Chu. It is said that the Ruo'o family had six private soldiers at that time, and together they occupied
He took half of the Chu army.
In the end, the King of Chuzhuang went to war with the Ruo'ao family, and finally won the victory. Only then did he go north to fight for hegemony and aspire to the top.
"The Ruo'ao family perished after that?" Heifu asked.
"How can it be."
Li Xian waved his hand and said: "The King of Chu thought that the Ruo Ao family had been loyal to the Chu State for several generations, so he left a line of descendants and sealed them in Anlu. At that time, this place was still called Yun County, and the Dou family became Yun County.
male."
When the Chu and Wu wars broke out, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu led their troops to defeat the Chu army and invaded the capital of Ying, Ruoao had another chance.
At that time, King Chu Zhao fled to Anlu, and Douxin, a descendant of the Ruo Ao family, followed him and made some contributions to protect King Chu Zhao. Therefore, when the merits were rewarded after the fact, King Chu Zhao promoted Douxin to be the right Yin.
His position is below Ling Yin and Sima, but above ordinary county officials.
These deeds are all engraved on the tripod touched by the tomb robber. This large tomb is exactly the tomb of Yun Gong Douxin. No wonder the standards are so high. Not only are they buried with chariots and horses, but also tomb-suppressing beasts, which can compete with
The princes stand shoulder to shoulder.
Hearing this, Heifu was slightly startled: "Wait a minute, if Ao is Duke Yun, what does it have to do with the family of Zuo Wei Yunman in that county?"
"Yun's family?"
Li Xian was stunned, subconsciously spat, and said disdainfully: "How is it possible? Ruo Ao is the grandson of Wang Mi of the Chu Kingdom, and is the Duke of Yun. Although the Yun family claims to be a noble, it is just a remnant of the ancient Yun Kingdom.
Just like my Li family, he was just a high official and a minister of the Ruo Ao family. I am not bragging, my Li family was in charge of the classics for the Ruo Ao family, but what about the Yun family? I was just in charge of the stables and gardens, carrying shoes for the Ruo Ao family.
Not even worthy!"
It can be seen that the Yun family has prospered in recent years and has become the biggest local snake in Anlu. Li family, who was equal to him at the time, is a little jealous. Heifu smiled and did not expose it. For him, he was the same as Yun family.
It's troublesome enough to have feuding clans, but it's nice to hear that these old nobles are not monolithic.
In the more than two hundred years after King Zhao of Chu fought against Xin, although the Kingdom of Chu had undergone several changes and was even reformed by Wu Qijin, the essence of aristocratic rule remained unchanged.
Ruled Anlu.
Time seems to have stood still, just like the stagnant classes and society in Chuland. It's just that the nobles' lives are becoming more and more luxurious, squeezing countless wealth and decorating their palaces.
But the outside world, especially the Qin State in the north, is undergoing earth-shaking changes!
Until one day, a general of the Qin State named Bai Qi led his army to sweep across the Yangtze River and Han Dynasty. He raised Yanying in one battle, burned Yiling in another battle, and the king of Chu fled in panic in the third battle. Qu Yuan sank into the river in grief and anger... Chu State is here
The rule that lasted for hundreds of years collapsed overnight.
Descendants of the Ruo Ao family in Anlu also fled in a hurry. From then on, the Ruo Ao family's deeds became a thing of the past. Even Douxin's tomb became a pile of weeds because no one was eating blood.
Folks only left the legend that the Ruo Ao family had a large tomb in Anlu, but no one knew where the tomb was.
Unexpectedly, the legend turned out to be true, and by some strange combination of circumstances, they found it today.
Speaking of this, Li Xian couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Ghosts are still asking for food. How can the ghosts of the Ruo Ao family be discouraged? Unexpectedly, the words of the ancestors of the Ruo Ao family have actually become true! The Ruo Ao family
After the separation, even Douxin can no longer enjoy blood food, which is really sad and lamentable!"
As the saying goes, things harm their own kind. After being a noble, although he is now only a pawn, Li Xian still feels sorry for the decline of the Ruo Ao family. The noble family that has been passed down for six hundred years is now unable to survive on a bloody diet.
Is there anything more shocking than this?
But Heifu's heart was not shaken at all.
…
When Li Xian sighed, Hei Fu nodded on his face, but he didn't agree in his heart.
"If the Ao family declines, it will decline. What is there to regret?"
Perhaps because of the influence of his previous life, or perhaps because of his status in this life, Heifu has never been interested in aristocratic rule from the beginning to the end.
Miss the "aristocratic spirit" of the Spring and Autumn Period? Prick up your ears and listen! In addition to the elegance of the aristocrats boasting about themselves and the bells ringing, how do the national customs of various countries praise this kind of life?
"Wei Feng" said: A big rat has no food for me! A three-year-old girl, I am not willing to care... The aristocratic feudal system from top to bottom makes the nobles of all sizes exploit the peasants in turn, and the savages are even more like
A pig-dog-like existence.
"Bin Feng" said: How can one die without brown clothes? The peasants have been busy for a year, but all the silk and fox skins have been sent to the nobles to "clothe their princes", but they can't even afford brown clothes.
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Let’s look at the tomb of Dou Xin of the Ruo Ao family in front of us. The country is really huge, the family is rich, and the burial is rich. Inside the coffin, there are treasures, bells, tripods, pots, guios, horses, clothes and quilts, and the burial objects are incomparable.
After all, these things are not all the blood and sweat of the people under his rule. Although the Chu State also has laws, they are in name only in the territory of the feudal king.
Unlike the aristocratic stories that Li Xian heard from his elders, Heifu also heard his mother tell stories about his "eldest father" and "eldest mother", but from a commoner's perspective. In the eyes of the common people, compared with
During the time of the Chu State, Anlu under the Qin State was still very miserable, but life was slightly better than before.
Today's Qin State is not yet under the rule of Qin II. Although the laws and regulations are strict, there is still a limit to everything.
Peasants no longer have to pay tribute to the nobility, large and small, in turn. They only need to pay the grain rent and oral tax to the Qin county magistrates in a unified manner, and perform one month of corvee every year. Although the labor is heavy, at least it will not be as bad as in the past.
A nobleman was hot-headed and organized people to build cities and hunt tigers and leopards during the busy farming period.
Because the Qin Dynasty attached great importance to farming, Liju was organized into a production brigade. The people could borrow oxen and iron farm tools from the officials to cultivate their own land. They did not have to worry about the kings and grandsons riding horses and chasing foxes and rabbits.
You can be tyrannical on your own land, but you don't have to pay any price. Although merchants are low-level, they will not be restrained by some young master, eating for free, buying and selling by force.
While Qin's laws restricted the freedom of the common people, they also restricted the wanton behavior of the old nobles.
Qin's laws prevented the nobility from controlling local places, and at the same time opened the door to class mobility for the common people.
The appointment of officials by the government is no longer based on family lineage, but on the mastery of laws and regulations, and on true talent and learning. Coupled with the military merit and title system, people who were destined to be farmers and common people forever in the past seem to have a hope...
After decades, the people of Anlu County still speak the pronunciation of Chu, but they no longer think of themselves as Chu people, but as Qin people.
They began to forget the Ruo'ao family who had ruled this place for hundreds of years, but began to remember the Qin laws and regulations that related to life.
This patriarchal aristocratic era, which lasted for more than a thousand years, experienced the collapse of rites and music in the Spring and Autumn Period, the baptism of fighting in the Warring States Period, and was crushed by the all-pervasive Qin laws. Together with the tripod, the symbol of the nobility, it became shaky...
Times like this are an opportunity for little people like Hei Fu to emerge.
Heifu knew this very well.
The time traveler is the sharpest awl of this era. It only needs to be put in your pocket to stand out...
But now, he has put himself in the system and is looking for any opportunity to rise.
Just as Heifu and Lixian were having many thoughts about Ruo'ao's story, a rooster crow could be heard from a house in the distance.
The rooster's crow has passed, and the holiday has arrived.
The sky is still dark, but there is a faint light on the painted road in the direction of the sun...
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A gust of cold wind blew. Sitting on the bullock cart, the prison guard shivered in the morning sun and suddenly became much more awake.
After he separated from Chang last night, he didn't sleep all night, tossing and turning, always worried that the matter would be exposed.
There have been too many accidents in the past few days.
The excavation of the grave should have gone smoothly, but we encountered a rare heavy snowfall.
On the first day he took office, the director of the pavilion, Heifu, came to inspect Chaoyangli, which was quiet inside and outside...
Without any warning, Lidong's quarrelsome public servant Quji was suddenly arrested by Huyangting on the charge of missing money in the county?
All kinds of things intertwined in these two days, making Bo Wu very nervous.
He also knew that because he was greedy for money, he colluded with the tomb robbers to rob the tomb, purchased tools for them, and transferred the stolen goods. He had violated the law and must be severely punished!
Therefore, it must not be exposed!
It's a pity that he failed to persuade Chang. Now that everything is done, he can only bite the bullet and drive the bullock cart to meet the tomb robbers as promised.
What else can he do now? He can only pray that the black man doesn't find anything wrong and quickly transfer the last batch of stolen goods tonight and send those tomb robbers away.
The share he got was enough to sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and he became rich overnight. This is why the prison gate would rather take the risk of cooperating with Chang than take the initiative to report him to the government.
The reward is much richer.
So Bo Wu sped up and hurried on. When he arrived at the agreed place, he saw torches burning in front of the mound and two figures waiting for him behind the cemetery.
Boyu stopped the oxcart and took a closer look. He saw a lot of lacquerware and bronze wares piled beside the cemetery...
"It seems that the tomb has finally been opened. It's not bad. It was opened on time."
He felt relieved and walked towards the two figures while smiling and saying: "Chang, I have harvested so much tonight. I'm really ashamed. I really shouldn't be so embarrassed just because the pavilion chief, Hei Fu, walked around in the morning sun."
Let you stop..."
At this time, the two figures also came over, and one of them swung his torch forward. The hot flames and the smell of smoke made Bo Wu close his eyes, and he couldn't help but curse: "What are you doing?"
"What to do? Of course it's to find out who the culprit is." There was a hint of playfulness in the voice, but it wasn't open-minded!
Bo Wu was frightened and wanted to escape, but his retreat was blocked by another person. He was caught in the middle and had to avoid the approaching torch while trying his best to open his eyes and look at the person in front of him.
But I saw this man wearing red and crimson clothes, looking at Bo Wu with a smile, as if he was looking at the ladder of promotion and wealth.
"Chief of Huyang Pavilion...how...could it be you..." Bo Wu's face suddenly turned pale and he couldn't believe his eyes.
The person who came was none other than Hei Fu. He stood in front of Bo Wu, dangled the rope in his hand and said with a smile:
"In the prison gate, we meet again everywhere in life! We meet again!"