『PS: This chapter has been written for four hours. I really miss the time when writing the superficial history, I can write it entirely by myself.』

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My acquaintance with Le Yi was when I was traveling with Zhao Zhufu on a tour of Lingshou.

Lingshou was the capital of Zhongshan Kingdom in the past. Therefore, after Zhao State conquered Zhongshan, Zhao's father set up Lingshou County and prepared to use this city as the capital of Zhongshan.

The prerequisite for doing this is that it must be supported and supported by local people.

Therefore, Master Zhao's father came forward to appease the Lingshou people and promised all kinds of generous treatments. To put it bluntly, it was nothing more than redistribution of interests and distribute the land and wealth that originally belonged to the nobles of Zhongshan to the people of Zhongshan, so as to gain the support of Zhongshan and resolve the conflict between Zhongshan and Zhao people.

Just when the officials of Zhao State reorganized Lingshou's household registration, Le Yi's family was also among them. This young man, who was about the same age as Meng Zhong and others, registered his name and origin in the household registration of "Lingshou County" in Zhao State. Since he was born from the "Zi Le family", Le Jin, Le Xu and others were quite surprised because the two brothers were also born from the "Zi Le family".

You should know that the surname Zi comes from the Shang Dynasty. Any surname Zi is probably descended from the Shang Dynasty, such as Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, and Meng Sui. They are the "Zi Meng Family". In addition to them, Wu Ying is the "Zi Wu Family", Xiang Liao is the "Zi Xiang Family", etc.

After communicating with each other's names, Le Yi, Meng Zhong and others soon became familiar with each other. After all, they all produced the same branch with their ancestors.

"How could you be in Zhongshan after your surname is Naizi?"

Meng Hu asked in surprise.

You should know that not only is the distance between Song and Zhongshan, but more importantly, Zhongshan is a country established by descendants of the Di tribe. It is hard to imagine that the son of the Song State's surname would actually go to Zhongshan to settle.

Le Yi was not sure about this, so he invited Meng Zhong and others to the village where their Le clan lived and asked the elderly in the clan.

The Le family in Zhongshan where Le Yi is located is similar to the townships of Meng Zhong, Le Jin and others. They also live together with the same surname and clans, hoping for each other and help each other. However, the scale is far less than that of the Le family in the Jingbo area of ​​Song State. There are only about a dozen clan members in the entire village.

Under the leadership of Le Yi, Meng Zhong and others visited Lelu, the clan leader of the Le family in Zhongshan, an old man who was 60 years old.

The old man kept the genealogy of the Le family in Zhongshan. He introduced to Meng Zhong, Le Yi and others the origin of the Le family in Zhongshan - the descendant of the Wei general "Leyang".

According to Le Lu, the ancestors of his ancestor Le Yang probably lost to the Chu State after the "Battle of Hongshui" in the Song State. In order to escape wars and wars, they moved north from Song State to Jin State. After several turns, they finally settled in "Anyi" - let's call it "Anyi Leshi".

After the three families divided Jin, "Weis, the Marquis of Wei" designated Anyi as the capital of Wei. At this point, the Leshi of Anyi became a member of Wei.

Speaking of the origins between Zhao and Zhongshan, it has a long history.

At first, in the middle of Jin State, the relationship between the predecessor of Jin State and Zhongshan State, Baidi, was quite harmonious. However, the tribes of Xianyu, Fei, Gu, and Qiu in Baidi moved eastward, settled in the Zhongshan area and expanded rapidly, which made Jin State feel threatened. After several frictions, war broke out between the two sides.

However, since Jin State was far superior to Zhongshan State, most of the initial wars won by Jin State.

In the late Jin Dynasty, the "Six Family" in China began to fight for power internally. Zhongshan Kingdom got a chance to breathe, and together with Qi and Lu, they jointly attacked Jin.

In order to retaliate against Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhao Yang, the ancestor of the Zhao royal family, led the Jin army to attack Zhongshan Kingdom and severely injured him.

In the following years, Jin State attacked Zhongshan State and forced Zhongshan State to surrender to Jin State. In fact, the Zhao clan of Jin State, that is, the predecessor of Zhao State.

During this period, Zhao Yang's son Zhao Xiangzi (Zhao Wuxiu), selected a puppet from the descendants of the Xianyu tribe, who was "Zhongshan Wengong".

At this time, the Wei clan of Jin State, the predecessor of Wei State, was very dissatisfied with the Zhao clan controlling Zhongshan State. After discussions between Zhao and Wei clans, both sides decided to jointly control Zhongshan State. For this reason, Wei Wenhou married his daughter "Prince Qing" to Duke Wen of Zhongshan.

A few years later, the young master Qing gave birth to a baby boy for Duke Wen of Zhongshan, namely "Duke Wu of Zhongshan".

In terms of blood relationship, Duke Wu of Zhongshan was a mixed race between the Di people and the Wei family in the Central Plains. In terms of thought, he chose to imitate the ritual system of the Central Plains. [PS: Therefore, after the revival of Duke Wu of Zhongshan, the Zhongshan Kingdom had abandoned many Bai Di traditions and imitated the ritual system of the Central Plains. In fact, there was no big difference between the Central Plains countries.]

Subsequently, a power seizure occurred in Zhao Xiangzi. Zhao Huanzi, the son of Zhao Xiangzi, rebelled and expelled Zhao Xianhou (Zhao Huan) and became independent. A year later, Zhao Huanzi died again. The ministers of Zhao State killed Zhao Huanzi's son and welcomed Zhao Xianhou to rule again. The civil strife that lasted several years weakened the strength of Zhao State. So Wu Gong of Zhongshan took the opportunity of the Xianyu tribe to resist Zhao and Wei stubbornly, and joined forces with Qi to completely get rid of the control of Zhao and Wei.

A few years later, Duke Wu of Zhongshan passed away, and his son "Duke Huan of Zhongshan" succeeded to the throne. Duke Huan was young and did not care about the country's affairs, so he was attacked by Wei.

At that time, Leyang was a disciple under the seat of "Zhai Huang", the prime minister of Wei. Therefore, when Wei Wenhou decided to attack Zhongshan, Zhai Huang recommended Leyang as the commander of the attack Zhongshan, and led the Wei army to attack Zhongshan together with "Wu Qi" who was still in Wei at that time.

[PS: In some historical materials, it may be said that this battle was caused by Jin's troops to attack Zhongshan. That was because although the Wei, Han and Zhao families had divided the Jin states at this time, the Zhou royal family had not yet recognized the status of the princes of these three families. It was not until about four years after Wei destroyed Zhongshan that King Weilie of Zhou enthroned the three families of Wei, Han and Zhao as princes. When Jieshi, Wei, Han and Zhao were recognized by the world. Therefore, before this, Jin State still existed in the form of name-name and death.]

It is worth mentioning that Le Yang and Zhai Huang had a grudge at that time. It is said that Le Yang's son "Le Shu" killed Zhai Huang's son "Zhai Jing" on the battlefield.

This incident happened during the period of Zhao's chaotic seizure of power, that is, Zhao Huanzi expelled Zhao Xianhou (Zhao Huan) and became independent.

The cause of this incident was that Zhao Yang saw that his eldest son "Zhao Bolu" was mediocre and was not enough to take on important responsibilities, so he passed the throne to his younger son Zhao Wuxiu, namely Zhao Xiangzi.

When Zhao Xiangzi became his heir, he felt that his father's move to pass the throne to him was not in line with the "parental law", so he decided to return the throne to his brother Zhao Bolu. So he did not enthrone the crown prince, and he also named his brother's son "Zhao Zhou" as "Daichengjun", preparing to pass the throne to the latter.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhou died in front of Zhao Xiangzi at a young age, so Zhao Xiangzi finally passed the throne to Zhao Zhou's son Zhao Huan, namely Zhao Xianhou.

However, this move aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhao Xiangzi's biological son Zhao Jia, who expelled Zhao Huan and proclaimed himself the king, namely Zhao Huanhou.

Considering that Zhao Huanhou's succession was not Zhao Xiangzi's original intention, the ministers of Zhao State united to kill Zhao Huanhou and welcomed Zhao Xianhou to succeed to the throne again.

The Zhongshan Kingdom took advantage of the civil strife in Zhao and led its troops to attack Zhao, hoping to defeat Zhao and break away from Zhao's control.

At that time, Zhao Xianhou had just recovered his throne. Seeing that Zhao State was seriously injured in the civil strife and could not resist Zhongshan State, he asked Wei State for assistance on the condition of ceding "Zhiyi (now Yongji)".

So Wei sent Wu Qi to lead his army to attack Zhongshan Kingdom.

It was in this war that Zhai Huang's son Zhai Jing was killed by "Leshu", who was the general of Zhongshan Kingdom at this time, and the Wei army returned without success.

Why did Leyang’s son Leshu serve as a general in Zhongshan Kingdom?

Even the patriarch of the Zhongshan Le clan could not explain this. According to speculations within the Le clan, Le Shu probably went to Zhongshan as a Wei soldier escorted along the way when Wei Wenhou's daughter, Prince Wen, married to Zhongshan Kingdom. Since then, because of his outstanding ability, he was valued by King Wen of Zhongshan and became a general of Zhongshan Kingdom.

It is worth mentioning that both the two famous generals of Wei State who attacked Zhongshan State, Leyang and Wu Qi, were both generals who were good at commanding the army, but their "private morality" was also criticized. Wu Qi was stigmatized as "killing his wife and seeking generals", while Leyang was also stigmatized as "leigh sheep and sucking soup".

The so-called "Leyang sips soup" is when Leyang and Wu Qi and the other two led the Wei army to attack Zhongshan Kingdom. At that time, Duke Huan of Zhongshan, who had first succeeded to the throne, used his son Leshu as a threat to force Leyang to retreat. Unexpectedly, Leyang was unwilling to abolish his official duties, so Duke Huan of Zhongshan killed Leshu and cooked it into meat soup to give it to Leyang.

Unexpectedly, in order to express his loyalty to the State of Wei and Wei Wenhou, Leyang drank the meat soup made by his own son, and thus became famous for "Leyang's cruel food".

Even Wei Wenhou, who had previously admired Lei Yang, gradually became distant from him.

But even so, in order to reward Le Yang for his contributions, Wei Wenhou still enthroned Le Yang as Lingshou Lord and regarded Lingshou as Le Yang's fief.

At this point, the Le family settled down in Lingshou, Zhongshan.

After more than twenty years, Duke Huan of Zhongshan, who became the king of a country that was destroyed, grew up in difficulties and was determined to restore the country.

At that time, Leyang was dead, and Duke Huan was forgiven by Leyang's grandson and Leshu's son "Lechi", with a sincere attitude. He appointed the latter as a general and prime minister, restored Zhongshan Kingdom, and united with Qi to fight against Zhao and Wei.

Therefore, the Le family became a native of Zhongshan.
Chapter completed!