Heaven and earth are the inns of all things.
Time is the passer-by of a hundred generations.
Life is like a dream, how much joy can we have?
Since coming to Pei County, Su Che put aside the affairs of the Mohist school and started his retirement life early. He no longer studied various new things with those Mohist disciples, but started to be a street urchin in Pei County, hanging out all day doing nothing.
He suddenly turned from a Mohist saint into a street urchin. Such a transformation was a bit big and a bit sudden, but fortunately, his current status was very honorable and no one dared to say anything. At least in this small piece of land of Pei County, Su Che, the Marquis of Pei'an, was a first-class existence.
Many people did not understand why this Mohist saint was obsessed with pleasure, but they just felt it was a pity and did not jump out to admonish Su Che.
Su Che naturally had his reasons for doing this.
There is no point in continuing to immerse oneself in the world of Mohism and research new things for the First Emperor.
It would be better to develop some new capabilities before the Qin State is destroyed. This is the top priority.
What is the most powerful ability of the rogue emperor Liu Bang?
Nothing else.
The ability to see into people’s hearts!
Can show a person's ability.
And it can also put this person in the right position to further amplify this person's talents.
For a leader, nothing is more important than this.
And what Su Che wanted to study and learn was exactly this kind of skill.
He also knew that this skill was difficult to achieve.
But it doesn’t matter, there is still a lot of time and Su Che still has a lot of time.
You can study it slowly.
…
Less than a month later, on this day, Su Che brought his new friends to the Lu family to congratulate them.
These friends are all talents that Su Che has worked hard to discover during this period of time.
In the future, most of them will be famous.
But now, they are just a group of unknown people.
This group of people are: Xiao He, Cao Shen, Zhou Bo, Fan Kuai, Xiahou Ying, Wang Ling, Zhou Chang, Yong Chi, Shen Yiji, Zhou Cheng, Wang Xi, Xue Ou, Zhou Wei, Zhao Ou, Zhuang Buzhi, Chen Cong, Zhu Bi, Liu Bi, Liu Xi, Liu Xin, Liu Guang, Liu Ze, and Mao Shizhi.
Pei County was a county under the jurisdiction of Sishui County, one of the 36 counties of Qin.
Looking at the whole world, it can be said to be an insignificant existence.
But in such a place, there are so many talented people.
Later, Liu Bang became emperor and granted fiefs to his meritorious officials. A total of 143 people were granted titles of nobility, including 23 who were from Pei County.
Those twenty-three people are exactly these twenty-three people!
The Liu family members were of course slightly inferior to those talents, but Su Che still brought them to play together and let them join this circle.
It’s simple. These people are our own people and are related by blood, so they are bound to be a little closer after all.
If you want to accomplish great things, you must make good use of outsiders, but you must also make good use of your own people. If you only use outsiders and don't use any of your own people, that naturally won't work.
Even if our own people are slightly inferior, we must still take them with us.
As for the Lu family, they are a wealthy and powerful family that has just arrived in Pei County. As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. What's more, Su Che was the Marquis of Pei'an bestowed by the First Emperor himself, so the Lu family can't compare to him at all.
The brothers were all a little surprised as to why the eldest brother came here specifically to congratulate them.
But Su Che's idea was very simple - the time had come, and Emperor Gaozu was coming to marry his Empress Lu!
Even though Su Che knew.
In the original history, the Lu family has always been a major concern for Liu Bang. If it were not for the support of the group of meritorious officials who destroyed the Lu family, the world might have belonged to the Lu family in the future.
But even so, he still came here.
Although Su Che also knew that in history, Empress Lü would poison and force to death Liu Bang's other descendants, and turn his favorite Concubine Qi into a human pig.
Even so, he still came here!
The reason is very simple.
Different times, different circumstances.
People change.
Lu Zhi was born into a wealthy and prestigious family like the Lu family, and she married Liu Bang, but it was not that Liu Bang married into the Lu family.
Getting married and marrying into the wife's family are completely different concepts.
If Liu Bang had married into her family's family, Lu Zhi could still rely on her own Lu family and enjoy everything that the Lu family had.
But since she is getting married, the Lu family can only provide limited help.
The Liu family’s conditions were okay, but the Liu family was the Liu family, and Liu Bang was Liu Bang.
Liu Bang's conditions were not good.
Historically, after Lu Zhi married Liu Bang, he still continued to be a street scoundrel like a teenager, free and unrestrained, hanging out outside all day long, leaving all the housework and farm work to Lu Zhi.
But Lu Zhi never complained about anything, nor did she take the initiative to divorce - in this era, the status of women was not low, and there was no such thing as not being able to divorce.
Xia Ji, one of the four great beauties of the Spring and Autumn Period, remarried seven times and became queen three times.
Even Jiang Ziya's wife wanted to divorce him because she was disgusted with the fact that Jiang Ziya's business was not profitable.
This is how the story came about: when Jiang Ziya was seventy years old and became prime minister, his wife came to him to reconcile.
The Book of Rites described the relationship between husband and wife at that time as follows: "The way of husband and wife is to be together if there is righteousness, and to separate if there is no righteousness."
This is basically the same as the relationship between modern couples. If they are in love, they stay together. If they are not, they get divorced.
It was not until the Han Dynasty, when Confucianism became dominant, that the rule that women could not divorce at will gradually emerged.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a great ritual scholar named Dai De.
He carried forward Zhou Gong's "Book of Rites" and wrote another book "Da Dai Li Ji", in which he formally proposed the "Seven Reasons for Divorce and Three Reasons for Not Divorcing" for men.
The seven reasons for divorce are: "disobedience to parents, childlessness, adultery, jealousy, serious illness, talkativeness, and theft."
The three things you should not leave are: "having something to take but nowhere to put it, mourning for three years, being poor at first and rich later".
"Seven Reasons for Divorce and Three Reasons for Not Divorcing" has influenced China for more than two thousand years. In the feudal society after the Qin and Han Dynasties, women had no right to divorce their husbands, and the initiative in marriage was in the hands of men.
But there are conditions for a man to divorce his wife, which are the so-called "Seven Reasons for Divorce".
The "three no's" are clauses to protect women.
If your wife has lived with you through hard times, you cannot divorce her when your husband becomes wealthy.
However, in this era, there are no such rules.
But even so, Lu Zhi still played the role of both father and mother, never mentioned divorce, and always worked hard and without complaint.
As the time of the collapse of the Qin Empire drew closer, Liu Bang released these people when he was escorting them to labor service, and took them to live in Mangdang Mountain.
Then, Lu Zhi not only had to take care of the family, but also had to take care of Liu Bang who had gone into the mountains to hide. She had to bring some food from time to time to prevent Liu Bang and this group of people from starving to death here.
Later, Liu Bang gradually became prominent and began to compete with Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu. As a result, Lu Zhi's family was arrested again and imprisoned for several years. Liu Bang once again showed his rogue nature and did not care about the life and death of his family at all.
After enduring all the hardship and suffering, Liu Bang thought that the Lu family was too powerful and wanted to change an heir and kick out the original shareholder of the Lu family. This approach was really heartbreaking.
It can be said that if Liu Bang had not behaved so irresponsibly, there would not have been the cruel Empress Lu later, and she would not have been forced to completely favor the Lu family.
Empress Lü gave her best years to Liu Bang.
Finally, Liu Bang took over the world with his three-foot sword. However, Lu Zhi's face had become old and wrinkled, and her hands were covered with calluses.
She finally got the greatest reward for her hard work and became the queen of the world.
At this time.
Her son was everything to her.
It was no longer possible for Liu Bang to kick this son out.
The original Lu Zhi has become a cold-blooded and ruthless Empress Lu!
It’s precisely because Su Che knows this.
so.
He also knew that if he treated his wife, Lu Zhi, who was fifteen or sixteen years younger than him, in a different way, he would definitely not repeat the same mistake!
At this moment, Su Che, after coming here with his brothers, couldn't help but sigh at the grandeur of the Lu family.
This era is still quite chaotic.
Although the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period eventually ended with the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the unified world was not peaceful, and was even more chaotic than before.
It was during such turbulent times that Lu Gong offended someone in his hometown, so he fled to Pei County with his family and settled down there.
In order to get to know the local people better, after the house was built, Lu Gong invited local celebrities to visit his home.
The invitation was naturally delivered to the residence of Marquis Pei'an.
However, Lu Gong did not have any expectations. The entire Pei County was someone else's fiefdom. How could such a big shot condescend to come to him?
Who would have thought.
This big shot really came.
All I could hear was the servants of the Lu family shouting: "Marquis Pei'an! Congratulations on the money!!!"
When Lu Gong heard this, he was startled and quickly stood up and went outside to greet him.
This sentence, whether it is the former or the latter, is quite weighty.
Although the gift of ten thousand yuan is a lot, most people would not give such a high gift. But compared with this gift, the former is more important. It comes from the lord of the entire Pei County, Marquis Pei'an!
Lu Gong never thought that such a big shot would actually come.
Not only Lu Gong was frightened, but everyone sitting here was also frightened - the Marquis of Pei'an was coming!
As a native of Pei County, the story of Pei Anhou is well known to me! !
Marquis Pei'an was extremely intelligent since he was young and showed extraordinary abilities.
During the Enlightenment period, the "Nine-Nine Technique" was improved, and the improved Nine-Nine Technique was promoted throughout the world and was found to be very useful.
Later, while he was studying, Marquis Pei'an went to the Jixia Academy and became a disciple of the Confucian sage Xunzi. He then delved into the teachings of Mohism and developed textile machines, curved plows and other items, which were promoted throughout the country, earning him countless wealth.
Even though he had earned a huge fortune, Marquis Pei'an did not indulge in pleasure, but instead donated most of his wealth to poor families.
When the world situation was settled, King Ying Zheng of Qin once again extended an olive branch to him, but was still ruthlessly rejected by him!
After the State of Qi was destroyed, the King of Qin did not go to meet the princes and ministers of Qi, nor did he go to meet the expelled King of Qi, nor did he go to meet the soldiers and generals of Qi who had made great contributions. Instead, he went to meet the new saint of Mohism first!
After meeting with the King of Qin, no one knew what the two talked about. Anyway, in the end the King of Qin did not punish him, but instead made him the Marquis of Pei'an!
Maybe... even the King of Qin admired his character after a conversation!
And now, the famous Marquis of Pei'an has come here.
Who dares not to stand up?
All the guests stood up the moment they heard the name !
When Su Che brought the twenty or so brothers here, he saw everyone standing up and couldn't help but laugh: "Everyone sit down, don't be nervous, don't be nervous!"
When everyone heard this, they did not sit down foolishly. Many people came over to pay their respects. For a moment, it seemed that the protagonist had changed from Lu Gong to Su Che.
Su Che was not surprised. He also knew how much influence he had in Pei County now!
After exchanging greetings with Lu Gong.
As expected, in line with the development of history, Old Man Liu married his daughter, Lü Zhi, who was fifteen or sixteen years old at the time, to him.
When Su Che saw the still somewhat immature Lu Zhi, he couldn't help but feel a little curious.
The Empress Lu who would be so cruel and terrifying in the future would also have the ignorant face of being inexperienced in the world now.
This further verified Su Che's guess.
After marrying Lu Zhi, the next days were for him to continue hanging out on the streets and making more friends. In addition to the twenty-three marquises of Pei County, there must be other talents, and Su Che needed to discover these people himself.
In addition, Su Che also had to give his new wife a good 'CPU' and let her understand one thing clearly -
Now that she has married into the Liu family, she is a member of the Liu family from now on. Everything revolves around the Liu family. The Lu family is no longer her home. They are now a brand new family, and everything revolves around him!
At this time, Lu Zhi was still easy to be 'CPU', quite well-behaved, and completely agreed with Su Che's opinion.
Su Che originally thought it might be a little difficult, but he didn't expect it to be so simple...
This made him feel quite boring and he had no sense of accomplishment!
At this moment, Su Che didn't know whether Liu Bang, who was observing everything in secret, felt like he was being cheated on, or had a different kind of excitement?
Anyway, the cold-blooded and ruthless Empress Lu, who was despised by him in every way, could be so well-behaved at this moment.
Time flies.
In the blink of an eye…
The Qin Dynasty's chariot has come to an end.
That day.
The First Emperor died while on tour.
As soon as Ying Zheng died.
The minds of many people in the world immediately became active.
If Ying Zheng had not died, it would have been difficult for these people to come up with those bold ideas.
But now, Ying Zheng is dead.
The vast Qin Empire lost its most important master.
When Ying Zheng was dying, he felt that his end was near, so he ordered Zhao Gao, the official in charge of the imperial carriages, to draft a will and send it to his eldest son Fusu, who was in Meng Tian's army in Shangjun, asking him to return to Xianyang to preside over the funeral, which was actually to inherit the throne.
The will was sealed after it was written, but before it could be handed over to the messenger, Qin Shihuang's condition worsened and he died in Shaqiu Palace.
However, this edict was never sent out. Zhao Gao and Li Si conspired to kill Fusu and enthrone Hu Hai as the second emperor of Qin.
In the autumn of the first year of Qin II Hu Hai's accession to the throne.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted out those words that shook the world and resounded through the ages:
"Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?"
What followed was a rebellion that spread like wildfire.
At the same time, Su Che, who was far away in Pei County, couldn't help but smile after hearing the news. He said slowly: "The time has come!"