The funeral of Jin Dinggong was well organized, and there was no shortage of everything needed. For this, the official must thank Zhishi.
According to the wishes of the rest of the Qing family, they did not want to give Jin Dinggong a glorious funeral.
Of course, because there are historians recording every word and deed, the words are not so straightforward, and the discussion on some funerary objects seems rather careless.
Zhiyao would not leave any stain on this kind of thing, and insisted that it should be handled in accordance with the established specifications.
If the public family has difficulty in raising money, the Qing family can provide it, or the Zhi family can provide it entirely.
People nowadays believe that death is just another beginning and that they will go to another world to live or struggle again. They also believe that the burial objects given by the living can be used by the dead. This is why so many burial objects are needed.
Things are pretty good here in the Jin State. Living human sacrifices have been abolished early and will be replaced by pottery figurines or wooden figurines. In terms of funerary objects, princes and officials have their own specifications. What is a little different is that the "Qing" of the Jin State will have
Other countries do not receive such burial objects as chariots.
First, the prince ascended the throne as the king, and then there was the funeral of Duke Ding of Jin. The process alone took three or four months, and most of the time was used to prepare various matters and wait for the envoys from the princes to arrive to actually do the work.
It only takes two or three days.
After a period of busy work, the matter of entertaining envoys from various countries naturally cannot be left behind.
The Jin State no longer has a model of diplomatic relations with which country corresponds to a certain high-ranking family. This alone can prove that the Jin State has lost its hegemony.
The Jin State did not have the official position of "dianke", so the "Yuanrong" could only decide who should contact the envoys of which country, and those who got the assignment temporarily gained the right to exercise diplomatic relations recognized by the country.
The Zhou royal family had "dianke", who was mainly responsible for establishing diplomatic relations.
The "Dian Ke" of the Zhou royal family will not go to the vassal states as envoys. The reason is that the vassal states themselves are the countries that were enfeoffed by the Zhou royal family. The core of diplomatic relations is country to country. The countries that can have diplomatic relations with the Emperor of Zhou will only be foreign countries.
, the feudal country cannot be regarded as a foreign country of the Zhou royal family.
That's why the Emperor of Zhou always sent ministers as envoys to certain vassal states, instead of sending dignitaries to conduct diplomatic relations.
Because Zhishen is a "Yuanrong", the Zhishen family can naturally take the initiative to choose the countries they want to have diplomatic relations with, and they chose Wu and Qi.
Wei Ju made no secret of his desire to contact the Chu State, and proactively requested the Wei family to establish diplomatic relations with the Chu State.
Zhishen gave the power of diplomatic relations with the Lu State to the Zhong family, and then took over the right to establish diplomatic relations with the Song State. The other countries were further divided among the Wei family, the Han family, the Zhong family and the Hu family.
Looking at the pattern of carving up, only the Wei family took away the diplomatic rights of the Chu State, while the slightly more important diplomatic rights of other countries were obtained by the Zhi family, which is enough to explain the current political structure of the Jin State.
Speaking of the political situation, it is more straightforward to say that whoever is more powerful will take advantage of it. The envoys from the State of Lu must have brought the situation back and recorded it in the "Spring and Autumn Annals" to become a fragment of history, which will be used by later generations when the "Spring and Autumn Annals" are passed down.
To prove the unbearable side of Jin State's law of the jungle.
Of course, with the existence of Zhiyao, Jin State's "Jin Cheng" will definitely be passed down to future generations. Can other history books such as Lu State's "Spring and Autumn", Chu State's "梼杌", etc. be passed down to future generations?
When people see it, the situation is really hard to say.
What about history books? When Zhiyao really annexes all the countries and brings the world under his rule, there is a high probability that they will be sealed or even burned.
Why do you do that? You definitely don’t want it to spread to the world and let the survivors of other countries continue to miss a certain regime!
As for Zhiyao forcing historians to distort the history of various countries, and even make up history like writing novels? Don't underestimate the integrity of contemporary historians, they would definitely rather die than obey.
Today, Zhiyao invited Kan Zhi to his home as a guest.
However, Sima Ranju did not attend the funeral of Jin Dinggong at all. He left "Xintian" early and headed east. He would first go to "Ye" to carry a batch of military supplies, and then go to "Tan" to continue his exploration of Qi.
The meeting between Zhiyao and Kan Zhi did not discuss any official business at the beginning. They chatted for a short while and Kan Zhi started to talk formally when the atmosphere became harmonious.
"There are many doubts about the death of the late emperor, and he may have been killed by the Tian family. The Tian family was in power and disrupted the government, harmed the clan, and did many misdeeds. There is no doubt that the Tian family is a traitor." Kan Zhi said.
Those words can also be applied to Jin's high-ranking families. They didn't mention any benefits to Jin... or the Zhi family. No matter how nice the words are, what's the use?
Kan Zhi added: "The Zhi family has been attacking the Tian family for a long time, why has there been no move to advance?"
The Zhi family occupies many cities in the Qi State, including the fiefdoms of the Tian family, but there are very few fiefdoms belonging to the Tian family, and it is more the Dukes of Qi who are unlucky.
Seeing that Zhiyao was still smiling and not answering, Kan Zhi turned to thank the Jin State for helping Qi State rescue the siege in "Ai Ling", and then talked about many things about the friendship between Jin State and Qi State.
As a Qi person, Kan Zhi could not help but mention the aspects of Jin's learning from Qi's statecraft. Qi people like to talk about this point, and when he mentions Jin, he loses Qi's Yahui argument.
The early Jin people accepted what the Qi people said, but in the middle stage, they tolerated the complete rise of the Jin state, and gradually used practical actions to tell the Qi people to stop saying that Jin could achieve hegemony only by learning from Qi.
But what? When Jin people try to talk things over with Qi people, Jin people always fail to talk to Qi people.
There is nothing that can be done about it. Jin State really learned from Qi State before it rose to prominence. Later, Duke Huan of Jin also imitated Duke Huan of Qi in pursuing the great cause of "Nine-Union Princes". After he had done it, how could he not let others talk about it? Changed
The Chengqi people can say whatever they like, while the Jin people use invasion to vent their anger on the Qi people.
Zhiyao listened quietly to Kan Zhi's story about history, with the attitude of saying what you like and I'll listen.
Later, Kan Zhi made himself very bored and simply asked: "I don't know if I can invite Zhi to come. What can I tell you?"
Calling "Shixia" is not a contemptuous name, but Kan Zhi's name is a bit personal.
Kan Zhi could call Zhiyao "Crown Prince", or he could call his official position "General", but the official title should be called with the prefix of the country.
Zhiyao confirmed that Kan Zhi had finished talking nonsense, and he was probably feeling embarrassed inside, so he said, "The invitation for my subordinates to come this time is because of the borrowing of troops proposed by Young Master Ren."
The words were so good, but in fact, the young master Ren was very young and did not have the strength to take action. He was elected to ascend the throne and become the king of Qi, but the real people who spoke the words were some noble families of the Qi state.
Take Kan Zhi as an example, he is actually a figure who was promoted by the Qi Dukes. What is interesting is that he and Prince Ren have known each other for a long time, and the two of them have a very good personal relationship.
Kan Zhi was refreshed when he heard that Zhiyao was really showing off.
"The Zhi clan certainly has troops to borrow, but I don't know what Qi will do in return for me?" Zhiyao asked.
Kan Zhi replied: "I will definitely repay you with grass!"
These words made Zhiyao a little stunned.
The "knot of grass" in the idiom "tie of grass and ring" is the contribution of the Jin people to the Xia Dynasty, and the protagonist is Wei Ke of the Wei family; the protagonist of "tie of ring", Yang Zhen, was not born until the Eastern Han Dynasty.
So, the idiom of knotting grass and ring is not complete yet. Kan Zhi responded to Zhiyao with "tying grass". It would be a bit ridiculous to know the background story of the idiom.
If nothing else, the Zhi family has been invading Qi State. They are considered enemies of Qi State and have absolutely no favors.
As a result, Kan Zhi wanted to "knot grass" to retaliate? Could it be that Zhi's invasion of Qi became a kind of favor???
Zhiyao guessed that Kan Zhi should not be an ignorant person.
Then, it is very interesting that Kan Zhi uses the word "Jie Cao".
"Tian Qi's regicide must be recorded in "Qi Taishi" like this?" The "Qi Taishi" mentioned by Zhiyao is the history book of Qi State.
In this "Qi Taishi", the chapter belonging to the Jiang family and Lu family has been revised a lot, and even deleted.
Kan Zhi replied: "Exactly."
Again, don’t underestimate the integrity of today’s historians. They are responsible for recording history and will only record what happened, without adding their own speculations or caring about why that “fact” happened.
For example, Cui Zhu committed regicide because he was cuckolded. He tried to reason with the historian, but the historian still only recorded the fact that Cui Zhu committed regicide. Then, Cui Zhu argued with arguments that he was cuckolded first before killing Duke Zhuang of Qi. At least
The reason for the incident should be recorded, but the historian refused. Cui Zhu killed one historian after another, but still could not change it.
As for the fact that Cui Zhu committed regicide because of being a cuckold, it was because the Taishi of Lu State heard about the records in the Spring and Autumn Annals that later generations knew what had happened, and "cuckolding" became a shame for men.
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Of course, the idea of "cuckolding" has become widespread in the Internet age. Not many people knew about it in the past, and people throughout the ages did not think there was anything wrong with wearing a green hat.
Like Cui Zhu's regicide, Tian Qi is recorded as a regicide.
However, the historians of Qi State also did not record the detailed process, only the results.
Zhiyao raised the topic of asking for territory.
Kan Zhi did not dare to agree and proposed other ways to compensate, including promising that the Qi State under the rule of Gongzi Ren would be the most loyal ally of the Zhi family.
In that case, wouldn't there be nothing left to say?
But Zhiyao later invited the historian to come over.
Kan Zhi did not dare to speak casually when he saw the historian present.
Why did Zhiyao invite the historian to be present? He just wanted to play tricks, but he didn't want to leave any trouble with his words.
"It's okay for the Zhi clan to send troops," Zhiyao said.
Kan Zhi was overjoyed, looked at the historians present cautiously, and asked Zhishi what he wanted.
But Zhiyao said: "There is no monarch in Qi State now? This matter can be discussed later."
For such a few words, the scene of inviting historians to record it really confused Kan Zhi.
What Kan Zhi didn't understand was that Zhiyao wanted history to clearly record these two sentences.
When the time comes, it will be clearly recorded in the history books that Kan Zhi of Qi invited the Zhi family to send troops to Qi State on behalf of Prince Ren. From now on, Zhi family's military actions in Qi State will have legal support.
Don't underestimate this point. Without this point, everything Zhi does will be controversial. With this point, whatever happens later will be defined as a national policy mistake of Qi State in the contemporary era, and any consequences will be his own fault.