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In the cold weather, the fleeing ministers of the Zhou royal family arrived at "Puyang" through various roads.
Most of them walked into the route of the Han family's fiefdom, then went north along Shaoshui, turning in the middle to the boundary of the modern Taihang Mountains, passing through "Hukou" and entering the "Han family", and then arrived at "Handan" to settle first.
Some ministers showed their identities, received courtesy from the Han family, and were protected by the Han family sending troops to reach "Handan".
More ministers resented that the Han family did not come to help, and there were no longer dozens or hundreds of servants around them. Not to mention ensuring the quality of life, even if they were not starved to death or eaten by wild beasts, they still chose to move forward arduously.
They came to the king of the Yuan Kingdom to ask for help. It could also be an action to accuse the Yuan Kingdom for not sending troops to rescue the Zhou royal family when they were in trouble.
At this stage, after the Chu army broke through "Luoyi", a small number of Chu troops wanted to return home after seeing the situation, and more Chu troops were still wreaking havoc in the territory of the Zhou royal family.
The murder of Emperor Zhou was certainly a major event, but for the ministers, an even bigger issue was the urgent need to regain their lost territory.
The emperor is dead? If there are no heirs, the worst option is to choose from among the sons who are closely related by blood.
If the ministers had no fiefdoms, they would not even be able to survive and wait for death.
Facing the ministers of the Zhou royal family who have lost their territory, some nobles may entertain them, but it is impossible to keep them in vain for a long time, let alone recruit the ministers to become their retainers.
In an era when rites and music have collapsed, no matter how destitute the ministers are, they are ministers directly subordinate to the emperor. Their status is too special, unlike the princes or grandsons of vassal states who can serve other countries and be accepted if they are really incapable of doing so.
To put it simply, it is too taboo to recruit the emperor's close ministers, and those who are ambitious and want to accept them will worry about loyalty issues.
Similar situations occurred in the past dynasties. After the dynasty reached the end, people with royal blood relations were in an embarrassing and desperate situation. The best outcome was to remain anonymous and become an ordinary ordinary family. (When Liu Ye defected to Cao Cao,
Cao Cao is a Han official)
Some families in the Yuan Kingdom treated the fleeing Zhou royal ministers kindly, but when it came to the officials directly under the state, a different situation occurred.
The times are about to change, and the old rules have not completely disappeared. The new rules are in the stage of being adapted. The original country has undergone many changes, but each family still retains a lot of autonomy.
How the family of the Yuan Kingdom received the ministers of the Zhou royal family was a private matter.
It was directly stated or implied that those who held positions in the country were not allowed to receive ministers from the Zhou royal family, and they did not have to do anything to make things difficult, just pretending that those people did not exist at all.
The Zhou royal family has been in decline for a long time. Too many ministers have lost their ambition in drunkenness and dreams, and have even become ignorant.
There is no shortage of smart people in any group. After they discovered that the officials of the original country ignored them, they immediately knew that the situation was not good after a little thought.
Liu Qing was one of the more sober ministers, but he felt desperate just because he was sober enough. Faced with a group of people discussing, he did not say a single word during the whole process.
"The original emperor received your favor and did not care about protecting the emperor. Now he is even more neglectful of us."
"No, Zhi's gift of wealth and the emperor's title are nothing but transactions."
I also talked about etiquette earlier.
Later, everything was uncovered nakedly.
If the second statement spreads and is accepted by the world, Zhuxia will enter another era, and everyone will know that the original country can be purchased with goods.
Are countries also goods? This "truth" is nothing surprising in Europe. The problem does not work in the land of Zhuxia, and it should not exist.
Are there people in Zhuxia who regard the country as a tradable object? In fact, there are.
An anonymous person who played the "Candlelight Ax Shadow" game with his brother said that he was familiar with this trick. He successfully bought most of the people with money and then used killing methods to eliminate the die-hard elements. Not only did he successfully steal his nephew's empire,
, and also allowed the scholar-officials to selectively forget.
Of course, that anonymous person will not do things too roughly. Isn't it just to set up some messy official positions with no real power and pay more wages to employees? If you can't buy it with money, you have to give up your power in exchange. In the worst case, you will end up with the scholar-bureaucrats.
We share the world.
Biquge
After a whole set of routines, the anonymous person not only became a king, but also had a historical position as a wise king. Even the opponents of the bloody purge and the descendants of his brother did not make any splash in the history books, and were ignored after being lightly written.
"How can I meet with Mr. Yuan?"
"It's useless to show your identity, and it's useless to give someone a message, so what can you do?"
"The original country had no intention of rescuing, and the Zhou family died just like that after six hundred years?"
Their original idea was very good. Immediately after seeing Zhiyao, they not only asked the Yuan Kingdom to send troops to help regain the territory, but also asked for the surrender of some princes of the Chu Kingdom for execution.
Why not ask Zhiyao to hand over Chu Junzhong to them? They are just down and out. There may not be many smart people, but it doesn’t mean that everyone’s brains are flawed.
When many ministers thought about the end of the Zhou royal family, they felt chilled from the depths of their souls.
They survived by fleeing. Most of the ministers did not have time to bring much belongings with them, so they were destined not to be accepted by any family. Without any skills, they might be able to get some people's polite hospitality in a short period of time.
Sustaining eating and drinking will become a problem for a long time.
Liu Qing suddenly heard someone suggesting that he should defect to the State of Lu, and his face became dull for a moment.
Can they defect to the State of Lu? To put it bluntly, it is possible for the State of Chu to accept ministers from the Zhou royal family, but it is impossible for the State of Lu, which has long claimed to be a "gentleman's country", to do so.
It's not because the Lu State is now in danger, it's simply impossible.
Those ministers who wanted to defect to the State of Lu were a bit stupid.
If the Yuan Kingdom did not destroy the Lu State before because it needed to fight the allied forces, and now the Yuan State does not destroy the Lu State, it may have other plans. No matter what the reason is, it is not a good intention to go over and be used as firewood.
Let me tell you the truth again, even if the original country has no ill intentions towards the Zhou royal family, it is still impossible to take in the ministers of the Zhou royal family.
A long time ago, the State of Chu accepted the princely dynasty that launched a rebellion, purely because they wanted to slap the Emperor of Zhou in the face and disgust the various princes, mainly the State of Jin at that time.
This time, the Emperor of Zhou died at the hands of the Chu army. How could the ministers defect to Chu?
Around late winter, news came from afar related to the Zhou royal family. It was about the Yuan army intercepting the Chu army in the Man clan's old territory and seizing the Jiuding from the Chu army.
The Yuan army that successfully captured Jiuding did not go to the territory of the Zhou royal family, nor did they go directly north to enter the Yuan Kingdom. Instead, they marched eastward and wandered around Zhengdi, once approaching the border area of the Song Dynasty, and then headed to "Puyang".
"March.
Liu Qing stood in front of the restaurant under the seal and looked at the people of the Yuan Dynasty who were cheering heartily. Behind him was a group of Zhou royal family members who were kneeling in pain. He really felt that there was only a threshold, and they became two completely different worlds.
"The Yuan Kingdom is like the rising sun, and the afterglow of the Zhou Dynasty has already set..."
