Chapter 253: Father's Kindness and Son's Filial Piety
Zhiyao is newly married and cannot stay away from home for a long time.
It's not that I'm worried about becoming a father, it's just that doing so will offend my wife's parents' family, and then it will appear to be callous.
This kind of operation of caring about everyone at the expense of one's own family has always been praised. It is hard to say whether there are too few relevant examples, or what the situation is. The rigid condition for leaving one's name in history is to do something that is beneficial to the most people.
Under Zhiyao's initiative, so many new ingredients were discovered, especially oil extracted from soybeans and rapeseeds. Is it qualified to leave a name in history?
There is a saying that "food is the most important thing for the people", but due to the focus of the historians of Zhu Xia civilization, they may not actually record that.
In the history of Zhuxia, there were so many people looking for food. How many people were officially recorded in the history books because they found new ingredients and invented people's livelihood?
Zhang Qian? He was seriously recorded in history as first sending an envoy to the Western Regions. What he brought back was purely mentioned in passing.
What about the rest? Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty who developed tofu? He was recorded because he repeatedly tried to rebel but failed, and got a short story about his family ascending to heaven.
So, who else?
After Zhiyao understood the situation, he immediately came to the conclusion that even if he did nothing, he would leave his name in history.
There is nothing you can do about it, just your birthplace, and then you become the head of the Zhi family. In view of the status and power of the Jin family, historians will definitely mention Zhi Yao's name when recording this period of history.
What is Zhiyao's pursuit of historical positioning? It must be to accomplish some great deeds that no one before has accomplished, and then leave a pivotal position in the history books. And this is not easy. It not only requires searching up and down, but also
You have to work hard to do it.
All because becoming the king of a country is actually not a big deal in the long history books.
Not to mention being one of the kings of many vassal states, how many emperors will there be in the unified dynasty in the future, and how many emperors will be of a familiar level?
Zhiyao, who had been away for two months, returned to "Xintian", the capital of the Jin Dynasty, and was really shocked when she saw her old father again.
In just two months, Zhishen has actually lost a lot of weight, and his energy seems to be a little sluggish.
"Sir?" Zhiyao looked at the retainers present with a very unkind expression.
Several retainers were glanced at fiercely by Zhiyao, and each one of them either lowered his head or smiled bitterly.
Zhishen first asked all the retainers to go down, and then said to Zhiyao: "The Wu army has gone north and arrived at Ailing to confront a hundred thousand Qi troops. Qi State has repeatedly sent envoys to come, crying and begging me to send troops to help."
Zhiyao already knew these things, and also knew that Zhishen agreed to Qi's request after consulting with several "qing", and an "army" was already gathering.
This "army" was not created by the Zhi family alone. Several high-ranking families gathered some troops, and then recruited small and medium-sized families to pay the taxes. It seemed that people were running around recruiting every day, and the result was an "army", which was really a bit
What's that?
In a private war, a family will often recruit more than an "army" of troops, but when it is the turn of the national war, everyone is stingy. Do you understand?
What's more unusual is that Zhishen didn't consult Zhiyao this time. It's not that Zhiyao thinks that Zhishen needs his consent for anything he does, it's just that this is the first time in a long time that Zhishen didn't consult Zhiyao about the use of troops.
At the same time, Zhishen did not tell Zhiyao after coming up with the idea, and did not mention it again until Zhiyao got home. Looking at Zhishen's somewhat guilty and uneasy expression, it all showed how cute Zhishen was.
It's as if the identities of Zhishen and Zhiyao have been reversed. Zhishen feels that it is a reckless act not to discuss with Zhiyao anything, and hopes to be forgiven by his elders.
In fact, Zhishen is a timid character who relies heavily on those he trusts. Before he took over the rule of the Zhishi family, he relied on Zhizhuo. After taking over the rule of the Zhishi family, he relied on Zhiyao. It was inevitable that he would make his own decision for the first time.
Uneasy.
However, Zhishen's appearance made Zhiyao feel so distressed that her eyes turned red.
People, when they were children, they thought their fathers were so powerful. But as they grew older, they suddenly realized that their fathers were no longer the heroes they were when they were children. Not only did people become more cautious as they got older.
Why did my father become so cautious? Who can delve into the inner meaning? Either my heart will be blocked, or I will burst into tears and howl.
Zhi Yao gave Zhishen a big smile with red eyes and said, "Your Excellency, you are very responsive."
Later, Zhi Yao analyzed it from various angles, explaining in different ways how beautiful and awesome Zhishen was.
Zhishen was stunned for a moment after hearing this. If Zhiyao didn't have red eyes, he would almost believe that he was pretty powerful.
"Yao, maybe you are worried about your father..." Zhishen softened his heart when he saw Zhiyao acting like that. He obviously wanted to say that the eastward expansion strategy mentioned by Zhiyao was the correct one.
Zhiyao had no intention of asking Zhishen to apologize, even to admit her mistake tactfully, so she cut it off and said: "My child Meng Lang, from now on I must learn from adults."
Zhishen was not happy to be interrupted, but became even more guilty and said: "No. What Yao said is absolutely true. If we don't advance, our family will retreat, and if we retreat, we are in danger of overthrowing."
Have you really figured it out?
Zhiyao observed Zhishen carefully, mainly looking at his eyes, but he still felt uneasy from the window of his soul.
This is Zhishen's intention to compromise and forcefully convince himself that everything should be based on Zhiyao's ideas, and then continue to feel depressed.
Zhiyao, on the other hand, found that coaxing was of no use to Zhishen. After being silent for a while, she changed the subject and talked about agricultural construction east of "Handan", imagining how many acres of farmland would be reclaimed and the output; she mentioned "Ye".
"The various production facilities in the city tell Zhishen with one data after another that the number of weapons and equipment is increasing every day.
With food and military equipment, coupled with the population base of the Zhi family, the Zhi family in Zhiyao's mouth is undoubtedly very powerful.
"The new army started from my family. They fought against the princes many times without losing any of them. The other families just follow mine. My family has already taken one step ahead, and it is difficult for other families to catch up..."
Nothing can more intuitively explain what it means to be powerful than individual data. When Zhiyao talks about those data, it is far more straightforward than when Zhishen looks at the data on paper.
Grain-producing areas have been built, military equipment has been mass-produced, there is a new army as the core force, and there is such a population base? How can such a Zhi family be considered strong if it is not strong?
How many years has it been since Zhiyao started struggling? Although the Zhishi itself has a strong foundation and the merger with Zhongxing made it fatter, those efforts were not in vain.
Let’s put it this way? The Zhi family without Zhi Yao would be very strong, but it still wouldn’t surpass the Wei family. There were too many Zhao families, let alone the Zhi family alone that could withstand the combination of other high-ranking families.
Give Zhiyao another ten years to wait for the completion of the second five-year plan. Although some other families such as the Wei family and the Han family will become stronger, Zhiyao will really not be afraid of them joining forces by then.
"My child is not a reckless person, nor does he have any desire to destroy the family. Expanding eastward is just an act of obeying God's destiny. If you don't want to destroy the country and provoke criticism, I just don't do it," Zhiyao said.
Zhishen looked at Zhiyao who looked serious, and of course he didn't believe it.
There is a saying that "no one knows his son better than his father", which may not necessarily be true. Generally speaking, fathers can still understand their children.
There are no long-term friendships among Jin's noble families at all. Even if there is no deep conflict of interest, they just hinder the progress of others. How many noble families have become ashes?
So, someone with a gentle personality like Jishen will not become ruthless and want to destroy his competitors when necessary.
There is also a saying called "white lie". Zhishen doesn't know this sentence, but he feels happy that Zhiyao is willing to coax him.
"I can only do my best to defend the city. The development of the family and foreign diplomacy are all carried out by Yao. How can I hold Yao back?" Zhishen enlightened himself in his heart, and the knot in his heart was slowly unraveling.
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However, Zhiyao thought that her discernment was not bad, and she was able to detect the changes in Zhishen's mental state, which made her feel happy and sad at the same time.
Zhishen, who was in a different mental state, mentioned Wu's invasion of Qi again... It didn't seem right? The Qi army had just captured "Ai Ling", and "Ai Ling" was a city of Lu in terms of sovereignty. The Wu army
Going north directly to "Ai Ling" means fighting the Qi army on the land of Lu, which does not mean invading Qi.
In short, the Wu army went north to fight with the Qi army at "Ailing". Without Qi's request for help, Jin had to take action, otherwise it would be giving up its hegemony in the Central Plains.
"Either you don't do it, or you do it to the extreme. How could they..." Zhiyao tried her best to control her mouth, but she couldn't help but feel bitter in her heart.
Zhiyao himself felt that the people of the Jin generation sitting in the ministerial position were not good enough.
Things similar to this year have happened many times in the history of the Jin State. Which time did not lead to the outburst of all the "Qings"? And there were several times when the Jin State was just about to lie down with one breath, but it still held back the breath.
He gritted his teeth as hard as he could and held on forcefully again and again.
Zhiyao really felt that the "gentles" of this year were not good enough and could not even copy their homework.
If you want to react, simply dispatching a legion would be the worst option, even worse than simply turning a blind eye.
If there is only one legion, should we intervene when we get there? If we do intervene, it will be very dangerous with only a small number of troops. If we lose, we will be disgraced. The next time we fight against the Wu army, there will be problems with our confidence and will.
Therefore, the person who made the decision was Zhiyao. Either he really didn't take any action, or else he just pulled up the three fully-formed regiments and marched to the battlefield in a furious manner.
Zhi Feng did this kind of thing many times when Jin was at its weakest. He successfully scared the Chu army several times and gave up. If he couldn't intimidate the Chu army to retreat, he would just risk his life. If he couldn't win, he would just drag on. He showed absolute strength.
Strong will.
As for the competition of wills, the Jin Kingdom has never lost since it became hegemonic. How come future generations... that is, the "lords" who have had their turn in this term have forgotten it?
Of course, Zhiyao will not overturn the decisions they have made. She just needs to think carefully about how to wipe her butt clean once something she doesn't want to happen happens.
