I'm a bully in troubled times

"Am I also like a lunatic?" Jiang Yu held Qi Ranming's waist with both hands, lifted him up, pressed him against the door, and let his feet hang in the air.

Qi Ranming was startled.Due to his body suddenly hanging in the air, he stuck to the door, holding the door with his hands.

"Hold me." Jiang Yu looked into Qi Ranming's eyes, coaxing in a low voice.

Qi Ranming's face turned red, he looked into Jiang Yu's eyes, dawdled for a while, then slowly raised his hand, wrapped it around Jiang Yu's neck, raised his legs, hooked Jiang Yu's waist, so as not to fall down.He buried his face on Jiang Yu's shoulder in embarrassment.

"Isn't it?" Qi Ranming said in a low voice, "When you beat Ji Zhong today, you were crazy."

Jiang Yu kissed Qi Ranming's neck delicately, and said with a low smile, "I can be even crazier."

"Huh?" Qi Ranming made a low nasal sound, full of doubts.And soon he understood.

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Although Ji Zhong only touched Qi Ranming last night, it made him uncomfortable for a long time, but the same behavior, Jiang Yu did it, it was a completely different feeling.Qi Ranming also felt embarrassed at first, but Jiang Yu was always frank and frank, always coaxing and deceiving Qi Ranming to take the initiative.

After a long time, I gradually got the taste of it, and began to eat the marrow to know the taste.

It can be said that Ji Zhong was stealing chickens and losing money this time. Not only did he fail to force the princes and kings to follow him in the crusade against Chu, but he also angered the princes and kings.Moreover, Jiang Yu and Qi Ranming stirred up his opponents in the country and incited many people to oppose him.

The princes and kings were okay, after a few days of trouble, they returned to the country in bad luck.Those opponents kept making troubles in the court hall all day long, questioning his injustice.

Ji Chong hated Jiang Yu to the bone, and wished to eat Jiang Yu apart, but he was powerless.All his energy is now devoted to stabilizing the situation in the royal family.

However, in fact, after this incident, everyone knows that the status of the royal family in the hearts of the princes and kings has once again been greatly reduced.The vassal kingdoms are growing day by day, and the royal family is declining. Ji Chong felt this situation when he was young, and wanted to change it.

However, the land left to him by his father is already riddled with holes, and it is only a matter of time before it falls apart.

For this aspect, Jiang Yu still had a little bit of sympathy for Ji Zhong.Although he has a heart to strengthen the royal family, this is the general trend of the world and the inevitability of history, and it cannot be reversed by Ji Zhong alone.No matter how hard Ji Zhong tried, the final result was nothing more than continuing to hold on to his unfulfilled ambition and watching the dynasty step by step towards strangers.

When Ji Zhong was in a state of desperation to clean up the mess, Jiang Yu went to the palace to say hello to him, and then took the Yan people away.

Ji Zhong was so embarrassing, he didn't bother to do those superficial tricks.This time Jiang Yu was so eye-catching, it was inevitable that more people would pay attention to Yan Guo.

Yan State defeated Qi State the year before last, and aided Song Dynasty last year, and defeated Qi State again.In addition, at the beginning of last year, Yan State began to carry out drastic reforms. Although there were twists and turns, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the reform of Yan State was advancing steadily, and the national strength of Yan State was also becoming more and more powerful during the implementation of the reform. Hair is strong.

The defeat of Qi State last year is the best proof.

This time Jiang Yu showed his sharpness, which made more people realize that in the next few years, more than ten years, or even a few decades, Yan Kingdom may no longer be the one that is huddled in the northeast. There are more vassal states.

Within a few days in Luoyi, so many things happened, and he almost experienced life and death.So on the way back, everyone was very excited, especially Ji Chunshen.Although his situation in Yan Country is quite embarrassing, no one will take his life anyway.In Luoyi, Ji Chunshen was terrified of that lunatic Ji Zhong, for fear that after Jiang Yu provoked him, he would really kill himself.

But Qi Ranming has a long-lost feeling of going home.Although he didn't stay in Jicheng for long, he already had an inexplicable sense of belonging there, and when he thought of it, he felt at ease for no reason.

Jiang Yu was looking forward to returning to Jicheng for the Shangsi Festival.

However, when returning to Jicheng, there was one more person, Zhan Xia.

Zhanxia originally followed Ji Zhong, but now after being rebelled by Qi Ranming, he betrayed Ji Zhong, Luoyi naturally couldn't stay any longer, so he followed his closest brother Qi Ranming back to Luoyi.

The presence of Zhan Xia made Jiang Yu very upset.It's not because this person is too close to Qi Ranming, but because this kid is too ungrateful.He always circles around Qi Ranming every day, and from time to time, he has to come over to talk to Qi Ranming about what he has, which seriously disturbs their two-person world.

Jiang Yu gritted his teeth with hatred, but theoretically speaking, this man was his brother-in-law, and it was not easy to do anything to him. Finally, he thought of a trick and asked Gongsun Ke to get this guy away, so that he wouldn't show up in front of them.Fortunately, Zhan Xia is not interested in anything else, but is crazy about martial arts. After Gongsun Kelu made a few tricks, he pestered Gongsun Kebi to ask for advice every day.

Only then did Jiang Yu regain the world of two with Qi Ranming.

Qi Ranming was amused in his heart, so he let him.

Of course, other aspects are also very free.For example, the tenderness when the two are alone in the carriage...

On the way back, I was in a good mood, apart from my daughter-in-law in my arms, and Gongsun Ke and Zhan Xia, a foolish boy, fighting and messing around, I felt a little bit of stability, so I felt that the time on the road was even shorter.

In late February, Jiang Yu and others returned to Jicheng.

Back in Jicheng, Jiang Yu's first thing was not to prepare for the Shangsi Festival, but to start the funeral of Yan Dinghou, that is, the funeral of Ji Chunshen's father, which must be his posthumous title.

"Zhou Li" has a saying, "The princes will be buried on the fifth day, and the emperor will be buried on the seventh month, and the emperor will be buried on the seventh month." Yan Dinghou died in September last year, and it was five months until February , It's time to be buried.

On the day of the burial, Yan Dinghou's coffin was carried on the hearse. The hearse was surrounded by bushes, painted with chalk, carved with dragon patterns on the shaft, and outside the coffin, there was a black and white ax curtain painted on the coffin, forming a roof shape.The outer and outer coffins are pine outer and outer coffins, with five layers, with shells in the mouth, and seven tripods for burial.

But during the burial, there was one thing that caused controversy, and that was the burial.

In the burial of this era, there are still a large number of people who were sacrificed, that is, living people were buried, or concubines, or ministers, or servants, a few widows, and hundreds of people.

When Jiang Yu helped Xun Bowen preside over Xun Shu's funeral, he decided not to let a living person be buried, but to replace it with figurines.That is their own business, of course no one will say anything.But Yan Dinghou was a prince of a country, and Taizong, who was in charge of sacrificial etiquette, insisted on choosing some palace people to be buried with him.

Of course Jiang Yu disagreed.

Taizong still had a lot of backbone. Although Jiang Yu could be said to be very powerful now, he was not afraid, and he insisted on his own opinion very much.Jiang Yu is not really a courtier playing tricks, and it is impossible for others to behead him if he disagrees with his opinion.

So the two factions fought in the court.

After fighting for several days, of course it ended with Jiang Yu's victory.Among Jiang Yu's supporters, there are a large number of cutting-edge officials who are radical and enlightened. This type of people scoffs at many etiquettes recorded in the Zhou Rites, and even hates the bad habit of human sacrifice.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Yu directly called the courtiers together to abolish the martyrdom system of the people of Yan State, and replaced it with terracotta or wooden figurines.

And so it came to an end.

On February 26, according to Taibu divination, it is suitable for burial.

On the night of the 24th, Ji Chunshen, as the chief mourner, took other royal children, harem concubines and court ministers to hold the last cry in front of the coffin, called Jixi Cry.

After all, the queen mother is the queen that Dinghou Mingmei is marrying, so Jiang Yu still allows her to attend Dinghou's funeral.

On the 25th, the pilgrimage to the ancestors, Ji Chunshen offered the soul and silk to worship the ancestral temple.

On the 26th, the spring was fine, and at the end of February, the weather in Yan Kingdom gradually warmed up.The tender yellow grass leaves emerged from the soil, and the willow leaves sprouted new buds, swaying gently in the early spring breeze in Yan.

But it was still cold when he got up in the morning. In the early morning, Emperor Taizong read out the dispatch book, and set up a memorial ceremony again to tell the dead.Afterwards, Ji Chunshen took the lead, the young prince carried the rope and walked in front of the hearse, and the rest of the royal family and courtiers followed behind the hearse.

The funeral team carried the coffin from the palace to the cemetery where the royal family was buried. The cemetery was managed by a special official named Zhongren.

The tombs of the princes of a country are usually built early.Many princes, kings and emperors of Zhou even started to build their own residences after death even at the beginning of their accession to the throne.Of course, there is no such thing as a mausoleum yet.

On the way to the funeral, Ji Chunshen and his younger brothers all looked sad, crying all the way in grief.Of course, this is an etiquette requirement, and how much of it is true, Jiang Yu doesn't know.

And the little prince's eldest son, Ji Wuzhen, was also crying all the way.Jiang Yu had an impression of this child. Last year when Dinghou left Jicheng to Luoyi to pay tribute, the child had a fever and went to see Dinghou off. Later, the cold wind blew and almost fainted there.

Jiang Yu couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

Seeing that Ji Wuzhen behaved well and did not exceed the rules in the slightest, but she couldn't stop crying, it was obvious that she had received a good education under the young prince's hands.

At the time of offering sacrifices after the burial, Ji Wuzhen's etiquette could not find any faults.

After burial, mourning is required, and ministers mourning for the king are all beheaded.There are many rules about not eating for three days, not bathing in three months, husband and wife not having sex, etc.

In front of people, Jiang Yu of course still abided by the rules.But he didn't take these rules seriously in his heart, especially the one that husbands and wives cannot have sex.

And the rule of fasting for three days is also very strict, and most of the pampered royal family can't bear this hardship. Ji Wuzhen may be because his father fought in the battlefield in the early years and cultivated a tough character, which was eaten by other princes. At that time, he was so hungry that he didn't eat for three days.

Jiang Yu secretly kept the child in his heart, and began to let the child get in touch with government affairs, implying that the little prince could properly take over some state affairs.

Shortly after Yan Hou was buried and kept his spirit, it was March [-]rd, the Shangsi Festival.

Shangsi Festival is also called Spring Bath Day, also known as Girl's Day or Peach Blossom Festival.According to the folklore of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on the Shangsi Festival, one would go to the water's edge to offer sacrifices and bathe with fragrant herbs, which is called 祓禊.

On this day, the royal family, nobles, ministers and ministers will gather by the water to have a banquet, which is called a water feast.And ordinary people will also go outing together on this day.Young men and women take this opportunity to have a tryst and talk about love.

On this day, Jiang Yu rejected the courtiers' invitation, changed into casual clothes, took Qi Ranming with him, and the two of them went out together without bringing anyone else.