Many things in the Jin Kingdom are different from those of the princes. Not only is the army's establishment larger than that of other countries, but some etiquette and laws have also changed early, including how to handle funerals.
In many countries, their funeral cycle is very long. They strictly abide by the Zhou rites and mourn for three years. Under special circumstances, it must last at least three months.
It's hard to say when the Jin Dynasty broke the "ritual" of three years of mourning. After the first example, almost no one in the royal family or other nobles observed the three-year mourning period anymore.
Under special and special circumstances, such as the Zhi family's funeral, there is a funeral in "Xintian" and a mourning ceremony back to "Zhi". Not counting the time consumed on the road, there is a series of various funerals.
The process only lasted fifteen days.
Because of his beautiful posthumous title and the fact that the "Qing" position in the Jin Kingdom was higher than that of the princes, the materials for the coffin must have been used in the best possible way, and the burial objects were also extremely particular.
Speaking of which, the current nobles may have prepared burial objects for themselves when they were middle-aged, and the tombs and other things have been selected long ago, and they are definitely not done in a hurry after someone passes away.
There are all kinds of bronze "underworld vessels" and pottery items, the variety is terrifying, and there are also some jade items.
In addition, princes are eligible to be buried with chariots, and the distinction depends on how many chariots are buried with them.
For example, weapons, armor, etc., even if they reach the level of a prince, they are also eligible to be used as funerary objects.
Among all the funerary objects, various jade "underworld objects" and chariots are of high standard and are symbols of power and status.
In the era of "everything is dead as it is alive", the number of living people buried with people according to their status was actually one of the "standards". However, the Jin State abolished the burial of living people very early, and used pottery or wooden ones.
A dummy is used instead, but the dummy is not a one-to-one comparison with the real person.
When nobles are handling funerals, only the monarch is qualified to urge them, and no one else will urge them in any way.
On the day of Zhizong's burial, the people who should be there will definitely be there, such as the envoys sent by the monarch, Zhao Yang, Wei Chi, Han Buxin, Hu Jie and other well-known people, even some who have enmity with Zhizong but are still there.
People who don't have deep hatred will come.
After the funeral, the people who came to attend the funeral left one after another.
Because now is not the time to talk about things in detail, everything will be explained in simpler terms. Not only the envoys sent by the monarch, but also Zhao Yang, Wei Chi and Han Buxin all interviewed Zhishen.
"Zhao Meng's intention is loosened, and the rank of minister may be maintained at six. He was appointed as the superior military commander for his father. As expected, Hu Jie will be appointed as the lower military commander, and the lower military commander will be competed by all the families." Zhishen has already taken off his mourning clothes and put on colorful clothes.
Simple everyday clothes.
The funeral has passed. Unless it is required by some ceremonial occasions, there is no need to wear mourning clothes anymore.
Next, Zhishen, Zhiyao, Cheng Xiao, Fuguo and others will all have to live in the thatched hut next to the cemetery for a while. If there is any big event and they want to leave, at least one of Zhisong's people needs to be left behind.
direct descendants.
As for cemeteries, every family has one, ranging in size from large to small. Normally, irrelevant people are prevented from getting close to it, and specialized people are arranged to maintain it. To exaggerate, the people who specialize in maintaining the cemetery can form a village.
During this period, people with Zhi family basically appear to have slow thinking.
Like Zhiyao, when she heard what Zhishen said, she would have a big reaction in the past, but now she is just in a daze.
If there is almost no contact and there is only a blood relationship, there may not be a strong sense of grief when the elder passes away.
When the elders who love you so much are gone, how heartless can you be to feel nothing at all?
Recently, Zhiyao can't help but recall her interactions with Zhisong, and when she was emotional, she would only realize that she was crying when she reacted.
Emotional injuries can easily make people mentally exhausted, and they will no longer care about many things. Even though they know that something is important, they are still not willing to use their brains to think about it.
"Yao?" Zhishen knew Zhiyao's condition, and he was very sad. As the head of the family, he had to shoulder the corresponding responsibilities and obligations in a timely manner.
This person has passed away, and the living should always consider the living.
Zhiyao heard what was being said just now, and said in a somewhat depressed tone: "Zhao Mengji's 'Yuanrong' is a foregone conclusion. Even if there are all kinds of plans, my family can stop it with silence."
During Zhisong's funeral, Zhishen had already gone through the process to assume the position of head of the family, and announced Zhiyao as the crown prince on the spot.
Because it complied with the process, no one objected to Zhishen becoming the head of the family. Most people had been waiting for Zhiyao to be the crown prince for a long time, and they were even less likely to object.
As for what to do next, Zhiyao had relevant considerations when Zhisong was still alive, and the plan has been being written.
From the generation of Luan Shu, the Jin Kingdom entered an era of rampant conspirators, followed by all kinds of demons.
"Compared with Luan Shu, Han Qi, and Shi Yang, although some things were handled roughly, Zhao Yang at least still had a basic public spirit. Now that the Fan family and the Zhonghang family have been removed, Zhao Yang knew very well that there should be no more chaos, especially among the four existing ministers.
If there is internal strife in a family, the best it can do is use force to suppress others." Zhiyao didn't waste many brain cells. He could only draw relevant guesses by looking at Zhao Yang's recent actions.
It is the monarch's wish to maintain the six ministerial positions. The monarch also wants the Zhi family to unite with the Wei family to maintain a balance with the Zhao family and the Han family.
Zhao Yang saw that the Hu family had really returned to the country, and the monarch's attitude was resolute, so Wei Xi replaced Zhizhu and left immediately. He didn't want to make the situation too stiff at the beginning of the change of power. On the one hand, he must have tried to compete with other families.
Intention is included.
"The Hu clan is no longer Zhu Xia, and it will take time to return to Zhu Xia." Fu Guo was talking about some of the clothes and customs of the Hu clan, including concepts and so on.
Now, to tell whether one is a member of Zhuxia, one has to look at the other party's compliance with "etiquette". Even if one is originally a member of Zhuxia and learns various behaviors from foreigners, he is no longer a member of Zhuxia. On the contrary, the foreigners are willing to abide by Zhuxia's rules.
All kinds of "rituals" are acceptable.
On the other hand, Fuguo decided that the Hu family had been away from Jin for too long. Nearly 100,000 people from the clan returned to Jin. The number of people they could deploy was pitifully small compared with other high-ranking families. They then used alien fighting methods to win over Jin.
National chaos will probably lead to a very tragic end.
Zhiyao was reminded.
The Fox family followed Bai Di and Lin Hu. Not only did their clothes and customs become alienated, but they also lived a herding life. They would definitely be targeted by the Zhao family after they returned home.
Nowadays, foreigners have too many names, and they are not collectively called "Hu".
More than 300 years later, during the rise of the Xiongnu, the ethnic groups who lived in pursuit of grass were collectively called Hu people. (There are related stories)
"I heard that the Hu family brought back a large number of horses, and based on their friendship with Bai Zhai and Lin Hu, they will continue to obtain good horses in the future. Under such circumstances, it will be difficult for the Zhao family to ignore the Hu family!" Zhi said
While Yao was thinking about it, she thought about whether she should talk to Mrs. Hu about the sale of good horses before Mrs. Hu had a problem.
Zhiyao didn't know if the Hu family had returned to the Jin Kingdom in the original history. Regardless of whether there was or not in the original history, the Hu family's fate was almost doomed.
The core members of a family get together to discuss how to deal with the situation and talk about other families' affairs. In fact, they are all diverting each other's attention from the fact that Zhizong has left.
"Buying a horse?" Zhishen was a little confused.
The Lao Zhi family is a very large family, and although the quality of the horses may not be very good, their holdings are still quite large.
Nowadays, horses are not only used to pull carts. Horse-drawn plows are also used in farming in the north to serve dry fields. On the contrary, because there are relatively few paddy fields, the number of cattle is smaller than that of horses, and each family does not
How do you value an animal like a cow?
Among the countries in the Central Plains, the State of Jin did not have a ban on killing cattle. Many countries actually did not have such a prohibition. The country with a relatively large size and a related ban was the State of Lu.
The Lu State did not have a good horse breeding farm due to its geographical location, and their number of paddy fields was actually a bit more. Especially after being targeted by the Qi State, the number of horses they held was relatively sparse, so they had to open up more
paddy fields, which led to a higher emphasis on cattle.
In addition, Chu and Wu both had their own horse breeding farms and did not rely entirely on trade to obtain horses.
Why can't the southern separatist forces after Chu and Wu no longer breed excellent war horses? This is a long story.
"Although I have many horses, they are not suitable for riding." Zhiyao saw that everyone still didn't understand. He talked too much before the results were achieved. In addition to not being able to understand, they also hesitated a lot and did not explain the attempt to form a cavalry.
come out.
Just look at Fuguo's attitude towards the Fox family.
When the alienated Fox family returns home, their family will not be short of people on horseback. However, according to the Jin State’s impression of aliens, those who ride horses are not necessarily cavalry. There are very few who can shoot arrows on horses. Real large-scale battles will still happen.
Dismounting to fight is equivalent to a kind of mounted infantry.
Because the advantage of the foreign cavalry is only in riding on the road, their performance after the actual war started was too disappointing, and it was really difficult for the other countries of Xia to take them seriously.
Speaking of which, the impressive cavalry did not come from the achievements of foreign races, nor did it come from the Qin State that once played cavalry very well, but from the Zhao State after the Hufu cavalry and shooting, especially Li Mu's frontier cavalry.
Therefore, Bai Qi's use of cavalry on the grain-cutting road was just a reminder to others. The person who really made everyone understand that cavalry can also be very fierce on the frontal battlefield was Li Mu!
Time passes day after day.
After three months of mourning for the core members of the Zhi family, and with repeated overt and covert urgings from the monarch, Zhishen took Zhiyao back to "Xintian".
During those three months, Zhiyao talked a lot with Zhishen. The core topic was that no matter what other families were like, the Zhi family should maintain internal unity and do their best to tap the potential within the family.
To put it bluntly, in terms of conspiracy, the Zhi family may not be able to defeat the monsters of other families, so they should strive to make the Zhi family more powerful and strengthen their military force as much as possible.
To this end, Zhiyao formulated a five-year plan for the Zhi family, including the expansion of the standing army to 5,000 people, the development of agriculture in various places, including the expansion of industrial bases, and many other aspects.
"As long as we are strong enough, my father and I won't be brainless, we can withstand the first blow if we react slowly when encountering emergencies, and then we can beat the opponent to death with absolute strength!" Zhiyao doesn't care about simple and rough things at all.
