Who is Shi Gaoyi? He is a member of the Fan family and a senior official in the Jin Kingdom.
When Zhisong was dealing with the civil strife, he originally wanted to recommend Shi Gaoyi to take over the Fan family. He received the support of Han Buxin and Wei Chi, but was strongly opposed by Zhao Yang.
Later, Zhizong pushed Liang Ying's father to take over the Zhongxing family. This was to make concessions to each other, but Zhao Yang objected.
The Liang family is a small sect of the Zhao family. Logically speaking, although Liang Ying's father and Zhao Yang are not at odds with each other, Liang's taking over the Zhonghang family is fundamentally beneficial to the Zhao family. Zhao Yang refused even this proposal. It is conceivable that he would be dissatisfied with the destruction of the family.
He was so determined to get rid of the Fan family that he even did not hesitate to let the Zhi family swallow most of the Zhongxing family.
After the Zhao family decided to destroy the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, Shigaoyi was protected by Zhishuo for a while. After the "Iron War" was over, Shigaoyi was allowed to find a way out on his own.
Shigaoyi and Shijishe were of the same generation, but they were not of the same father or half-mother, they were just cousins.
Shi Gaoyi, who was not a core member of the Fan family, could become a titled official in a city? It can be expected that he must be very capable.
Of course Zhiyao knew who Shigaoyi was, and also knew why he appeared in the place "Zhongmu".
"I have met the eldest son of the Xun family." Shi Gaoyi was polite, but he seemed to be in a bad mental state.
Zhiyao returned the gift and said, "The doctor has worked tirelessly, and Zhishi will be rewarded generously."
What do you mean?
Shi Gaoyi saluted again and said: "It is a blessing to have a lineage."
So, the Zhi clan gave Shigaoyi a promise, willing to keep one of the Fan clan's lineages in exchange for Shigaoyi's efforts to persuade the Zhi clan to be responsible for the non-resistance of the Fan clan cities in the war zone?
There were other ways to solve the problem. Zhiyao really didn't want his army to be wasted in the battle with the Fan family, so he contacted Shi Gaoyi again and received an eager response.
Thanks to Shigaoyi's efforts, a considerable number of Fan cities in the war zone that the Zhi family was responsible for agreed not to resist, on the condition that the Zhi family retained a branch of the Fan family and at the same time retained considerable self-protection strength.
Not only did Shijishe not know about those things, but Zhao Yang was also kept in the dark. What would happen if they found out later, Zhiyao and Shigaoyi made the matter a fait accompli. It can only be said that Zhiyao's tactics were very powerful.
It cannot be said that Zhishi and Shigaoyi are acting together.
After all, in the war zone that Zhi was responsible for, Fan did not allocate troops to fight a third party. While Zhi benefited, no one was cheated.
The third party is unhappy because Zhishi can easily get things done, but they have to pay a huge price and may not be able to get things done.
Their dissatisfaction can only be caused by their inner dissatisfaction, and the quarrel only serves to further demonstrate their incompetence.
"The prince has shown his ability to subdue others without fighting, which is far more powerful than attacking a city and conquering the ground." Zilu truly admired him from the bottom of his heart.
Zigong said with a sad face: "Master Kong didn't want to stay in Jin, so he traveled around again without saying goodbye, which is disrespectful!"
Zi Lu only found out about this when Zigong told him about it. He frowned and said, "The Zhao family is the Zhao family. It is not polite for Master Kong to treat the Zhi family like this!"
Zigong smiled bitterly and said: "Because of this, there are only more than three hundred people accompanying us."
Clam!?
Confucius took more than 3,000 disciples out of the country of Lu. The first time he visited Zhishi, more than 400 disciples stayed in Zhishi. This time, he left more than 2,000 disciples, but only more than 400 were willing to follow Confucius to continue traveling to other countries?
There is a relationship with Confucius' personality that is a bit broken. It is more likely that the disciples promised Zhiyao to do something, and they thought it would be irresponsible to leave before completing it.
Zilu asked: "Master Confucius, can you say anything?" This was to ask what Confucius said to so many disciples who stayed in Zhishi.
"Teacher Confucius has no other words." Because of this, Zigong's beautiful image of Confucius was subverted.
Disciples abide by their promises and are loyal to others when entrusted by others. This is a good moral character in any era.
No matter how unhappy Confucius felt, he should actually express his appreciation for his disciple's integrity. He took the people who were willing to leave without saying anything and left without saying goodbye, especially before saying goodbye to Zhiyao. This was not only rude, but also showed a moral flaw.
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But then again, how can a living person have no temper at all? He really has no temper at all. He is either absolutely weak and incompetent, or he lives like a stone man without any emotions or desires.
Zigong came here this time mainly to find Zhiyao for a report. He passed by the city where Zilu had just taken over and met him for a chat.
"The prince is here, Zhong You will explain it to you." Zi Lu was very worried, frowning and continued: "The prince does something virtuous, and the merits will be felt in the future, but the benefits can be seen in the present day."
Contemporary "Confucians" like to spread knowledge, but most "Confucianists" still have basic requirements for family background. Even Confucius's disciples are all permanent property owners.
What class do people with permanent property represent at this stage? They are not the working people anyway.
What Zhiyao is doing is to benefit the public, giving many people who are poor and have no personal freedom the opportunity to change their own destiny.
Although Zhiyao is only doing this within the Zhi family now, the current era is the era when one has to take care of one's own family affairs and cannot meddle in the affairs of other families casually.
Both Zilu and Zigong have good backgrounds, but they hope that they can benefit more people and are "comrades" with Zhiyao. As for saying that they have not reached the level of complete like-mindedness, if they have the same general direction, can't they still seek common ground while reserving differences?
Later, Zigong found Zhiyao at a place called "Hengzhi".
This is a city on the edge of the mainland, and it is also a fief left to Shigaoyi after the Zhi family negotiated with the Wei family. However, Shigaoyi will need to change the prefix for a long time in the future. According to customs, it can be called Hengyi.
Mao Gaoyi, or change it to Fan Gaoyi based on the nature of a large area.
Of course, since Shigaoyi's fiefdom is in the place of "Hengzhao", he must not be able to bypass the Wei family, so there was a negotiation between the Zhi family and the Wei family.
The current situation is that the Wei family also got involved in the deal between the Zhi family and Shigaoyi, which enabled the Wei family to take over many of Fan's cities without any bloodshed. Of course the Wei family was happy with this.
Zhiyao was surprised when she saw Zigong arriving and asked, "What's the matter?"
When Zigong saw that Wei Ju, Shi Gaoyi and others were present, he just saluted and greeted them without saying anything.
"You guys can do your own thing." Zhiyao knew that there must be something big going on, otherwise Zigong wouldn't come over.
When he came to a place where there was no one else, Zigong said: "'Yuanrong' led his army to fight with Zheng's army and Fan's army at the Shaoshui line. Our army was defeated miserably in the ambush."
This news made Zhiyao a little confused.
As the "Yuanrong", Zhao Yang called on all the noble families to send troops, and even the small and medium-sized nobles in the country also paid taxes. He took three legions that were not full to a place called "Wild King". The original intention was to deter the troops who had not retreated.
The Chu army also put pressure on Fan, and then tragedy struck.
Zhiyao came back to her senses and asked, "How is my father?"
Zigong did not dare to delay and immediately replied: "The Lord is fine."
Knowing that her father was fine, Zhiyao put down her worries and said, "Why is that so?"
If things don't change, Jin's three less-than-full legions will stay in the "Wild King" without moving. And the "Wild King" is not actually a front line, and the alien tribe alliance called Cao Zhongrong next to them is also targeting them.
Can't pose any threat.
"One day, 'Yuanrong' said that the Chu army was entering, and there was also the Zheng army, so he had no choice but to lead his army south," Zigong began to say slowly.
The thing is that Zhao Yang didn't know where he got the news. He got the information that the Chu army, Zheng army and Fan family were converging. He forcefully ordered to go south without giving the other "Qing" a chance to confirm.
At that time, all the nobles, including Zhishen, only thought that Zhao Yang wanted to use public weapons for private use, that is, to use the troops needed to deal with the national war to help the Zhao family attack Fan's city. They must be unhappy and unhappy, and each family head
That will definitely affect your own army and make it somewhat unmotivated.
Then?
They crossed "Yuan" to the west bank of Shaoshui and were ambushed. There were ambushes from the west, south and east at the same time. Unexpectedly and because the army was already disorganized, they retreated towards "Yuan" after a little resistance.
Those families with strong organization did not suffer heavy losses, including the Zhi family, the Zhao family, the Wei family, the Han family, the Hu family, and many other families that suffered complete losses in this wave.
"Sure enough, the Chu army went north?" Zhiyao really didn't understand what Chu's son Lu was thinking.
Zigong said: "Although I haven't seen the banners of the Chu army, there is no doubt that it is the Chu army."
In this way, the Chu army did go north, but it was disguised as the army of Fan or Zheng.
Zhiyao was speechless and asked: "But Yuan Rong asked my father to mobilize his troops?"
Zigong replied: "Not only my family, but also the Wei family."
When the situation evolved into this, Zhao Yang, as the "Yuan Rong", was completely embarrassed. From another perspective, it was not an opportunity to annihilate the enemy in the wild.
So, what exactly is going on?
Is Zhao Yang planning to use the armies of each family to attack the Fan family on behalf of the Zhao family, or is he really informed of the alliance's northward movement in advance?
If Zhao Yang really knew that the coalition forces were heading north, how did they encounter an ambush on the west bank of Shaoshui?
"Isn't it Zhao Yang who is trying to kill someone with a borrowed knife this time?" Zhi Yao thought it was possible, but it was unlikely because it was too obvious and too despicable.
In any case, it is a fact that the army commanded by Zhao Yang suffered a disastrous defeat.
To put it bluntly, if it was really Zhao Yang's plan, he would have killed a thousand enemies and suffered a loss of one thousand and two. This single defeat could completely destroy Zhao Yang's majesty.
The more detailed process of defeat can only be known after Zhiyao goes there.
He found Wei Ju behind him. It may be that the people from the Wei family have not come over yet, and they did not get any news from Wei Ju about leading his army to "Yuan".
"The army was defeated miserably on the west bank of Shaoshui?" Wei Ju showed an expression of disbelief.
Zhiyao only told the results that had already happened, but did not tell her relevant guesses.
Perhaps it was a coincidence that Zhiyao had just come over to inform Wei Ju about the disastrous defeat of his army on the west bank of Shaoshui, and then Wei's retainers arrived.
Wei Ju received confirmation from his retainer, but he still had a confused expression on his face and murmured: "It's really puzzling."
Yes, Zhiyao was also confused by the development of the situation.
