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In the evening of that day, Meng Zhong followed Zhao Xiangfeiyi to the latter's mansion.

In fact, Meng Zhong was invited to the Feiyi mansion to attend a banquet before this, but there were other ministers from Zhao State or celebrities from Handan at that time. The number of people was not large, and the number was small, about a dozen or twenty people each time.

Although those people also tried to win over Meng Zhong, Meng Zhong always felt that he was out of place with these people, so after two trips, Meng Zhong simply refused politely.

However, today, Fei Yi was having a banquet for Meng Zhong alone.

It was said to be a banquet, but in fact it could only be considered a small gathering. The two sat next to a table, made a few common dishes, burned a pot of wine with a fire, and chatted while drinking - just like when they were at Zhao Bao's mansion in Yangwenjun.

Compared to the banquets with many guests, Meng Zhong actually prefers gatherings with fewer people, especially not likes some people who are out of touch with the presence of some people.

The situation in Zhao Xiang Feiyi's mansion is similar to that of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao. Feiyi's son and grandson all live in the fief "Feiyi", which is the south of the military camp belonging to the Xinwei Army. It is a fief with few people in the town, not prosperous, but very quiet.

When he came to Feiyi Mansion this time, Meng Zhong met Feiyi's wife, an elderly but kind old woman, said to be a native of Zhao State. Although her hair is gray now, from the outline of her face, Meng Zhong is still willing to believe that this old woman must have been a beautiful woman when she was young.

The old woman personally made some dishes, some side dishes that even Meng Zhong felt familiar with, such as bean stew, bean soup, etc.

According to Fei Yi, when he had not made a fortune, his family was very poor. After eating, he only had some beans, or dried fish, dried meat, etc. that were dried outside. He also felt very tired at the time, but now he is in a high position and is used to the big fish and meat he eats every time he invites guests. Instead, he misses the side dishes at home.

When Meng Zhong heard this, he felt a little moved because he thought of Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao. Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao was also a minister in charge of power in Zhao State, but his favorite wine was still the wine brewed by his own home, and he said it had "the most mellow taste" - and when Meng Zhong drank it, it was actually similar to other wines.

I think what Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao tasted was not entirely the taste of wine.

When serving wine and food for Feiyi and Meng Zhong, the old woman introduced Meng Zhong in a nagging way that the ingredients for these dishes came from her own home: the dishes were grown by Feiyi and her personally, and the meat also came from the poultry she raised in the mansion.

At the end, Fei Yi was a little impatient and urged the old woman to say, "I have something important to talk about with this kid. What are you doing here?"

The old woman was not angry, but just looked at her husband with anger, and then asked Meng Zhong to eat more wine and left.

However, after the old woman left, Fei Yi said all the things she had said just now or had not had time to say. In short, she told Meng Zhong that the ingredients for these dishes were all from her own.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong couldn't help but smile and said, "Fat Xiang, your relationship with Mrs. Zun is so good..."

Fei Yi was stunned for a moment, and then he also stroked his beard and laughed.

Soon, the wine kettle on the stove showed some wine fragrance. Seeing that Fei Yi was pouring wine himself, Meng Zhong sat up first and poured a bowl for Fei Yi and himself. Fei Yi nodded secretly, and the appreciation in his eyes became even stronger.

After taking a sip of wine, Meng Zhong asked Fei Yi: "Fei Xiang, Anping Jun Zhao Cheng, Fengyang Jun Li Du, have they been waiting for an opportunity to regain power?"

Fei Yiyi took a sip of wine, wiped the wine from his beard with her sleeve, and said in a deep voice: "How much do you know about the reform of Master Zhao's father's Hu clothing and riding and shooting?"

"I only know that it is imitating the Hu people's clothing..."

"There are also organizational structures." Fei Yi said in a deep voice: "Many of our Zhao State's national system continues Jin State. The army of Jin State was originally clan system, so there were "Six Ministers of Jin State", which refers to the six families of nobles and officials with the largest domestic power in Jin State. In fact, it was not limited to the six families... The king of Jin State sent troops to attack wherever they were, so they asked these officials to lead their clan troops to go to war. After winning the battle, Jin State also rewarded these families of nobles and officials. Over time, the power of the nobles and officials became increasingly large, and the office became weaker... Therefore, three families later divided the three families of Jin, Wei, Han, and Zhao defeated the Zhi family, expelled the Duke of Jin State, and met the Emperor Zhou to become princes."

"..." Meng Zhong nodded.

"In this regard, the former prime minister of Wei, Li Kui, tried to get rid of this situation. He compiled a code of law, advocated the abolition of the hereditary family of the noble family, advocated the 'eating and salary', called those who had no merit and salary', and called those who had no merit and salary', and advocated the 'eluent people', and advocated the 'smuggling and people from all directions since the robbers and salary'. With the support of Wei Wenhou, Wei took the lead in carrying out reforms, gathered a lot of land from the descendants of the noble family of the noble family who had no merit and salary, and used these land to support Wei Wuzhang..."

"I see."

Meng Zhong suddenly realized.

He had talked to Le Yi about this earlier, and both of them knew that the foundation for the powerful Wei Wushu was not entirely Wu Qi, but the treatment given to Wei Wushu by the State of Wei, such as rewards for land, houses, tax exemptions, etc.

It has been more than a hundred years since Wei Wenhou, and the Wei State has trained at least 500,000 or 600,000 Wei Wushang. Let me ask, where did the Wei State get so much land to reward these Wei Wushang?

Now that after hearing Fei Yi's words, Meng Zhong suddenly realized that when the former prime minister of Wei, Li Ju, had already recovered many titles and land from the noble families of noble families who had no merits and salaries, so that the Wei royal family had a part of the abundant land to reward Wei Wuzhang.

"But my Zhao State..."

When he said this, Fei Yi shook his head.

It turns out that unlike the Wei State after Li Kui's reform, Zhao State still continued the system of Jin State, which led to the increasing rights of the noble family of officials and officials, and it was difficult for the Zhao royal family to effectively restrict the former.

What’s more important is that as the family of nobles and officials became increasingly stronger, almost every time the royal power changed, a civil strife broke out in Zhao State.

For example, Zhao Zhufu’s great-grandfather “Zhao Jinghou” and his cousin “Zhao Chao (or Zhao Shuo)” rebelled.

Then Zhao Zhufu’s grandfather, "Zhao Chenghou", and his brother "Prince Zhao Sheng" competed for the throne and launched a rebellion.

When Zhao Zhufu's father's father "Zhao Suhou" succeeded to the throne, Zhao Suhou's "Prince Zhao Chang" and "Prince Zhao Fan" rebelled and rebelled.

It is clear that Zhao Jinghou, Zhao Chenghou, and Zhao Suhou were all new kings who succeeded the throne with justification, and they also received support from a large number of people and defeated the rebels. But why do some people in Zhao still rebel?

After all, this is actually the confrontation between the new nobles of Zhao State and the old nobles. The old nobles were unwilling to lose their land and power, and tried to rebel through their brothers who supported the new king to rebel, so that their family could be avoided from being purged by the new regime.

And this is the result of the imperfection of the country's legal system - the family of nobles and officials wanted to inherit power, while the Zhao royal family had to concentrate their power. In this case, the two were of course in conflict.

The situation of Zhao Zhufu's generation was a bit special, because Zhao Suhou was too strong, resulting in the five countries of Wei, Qin, Qi, Chu and Yan uniting to try to divide Zhao. In this case, the new forces headed by Zhao Zhufu had to unite with the old forces of Zhao Guoqing and the family of Zhao Guoqing to fight against the division of the Central Plains.

Therefore, there were no rebellions among Zhao's sons in the generation of Zhao's father, because the Zhao royal family compromised with the old aristocratic forces.

This can be fully proved when Zhao Zhufu advocated the reform of "Hu clothing, riding and shooting".

The reform of Hufu and Casualty and Casualty began in the first month of the 19th year of King Yong of Zhao. In other words, it had been nineteen years since Zhao Zhufu succeeded to the throne of Zhao State. However, when Zhao Zhufu decided to implement the reform of Hufu and Casualty, it was still strongly opposed by ministers headed by Anping Jun Zhao Cheng, Zhao Wen, Zhao Jun, Zhao Zao and other ministers led by Anping Jun, and almost made Zhao Zhufu give up this reform. Fortunately, Fei Yi strongly advised and supported him, Zhao Zhufu insisted on convincing his uncle Anping Jun, Zhao Cheng, so that the reform could be implemented.

"At that time, wasn't it because the Chinese people refused to change to wearing Hu's clothes?"

Meng Zhong asked in confusion.

Hearing this, Fei Yi said with a smile: "Why did the Hufu riding and shooting reform be successfully implemented after Zhao Cheng, the father of Zhao, convinced him to persuade him to persuade him to do his best?"

"Uh..." Meng Zhong was stopped.

Fei Yi is right. Zhao State itself is a mixed-ethnic country. There are many non-Central Plains ethnic groups in China. Even if some Chinese people have objections to Hufu, it is definitely not enough to affect the king.

Let’s take a step back, if the public’s opposition was really high, then, why did the reform be implemented suddenly after Zhao Zhufu persuaded his uncle Anpingjun Zhao Cheng?

To put it bluntly, the resistance to opposing this reform did not come from the people's people at all, but from the old aristocratic forces including Anping Jun Zhao Cheng, Zhao Wen, Zhao Jun, Zhao Zao, and Fengyang Jun Li Dui. These people did not want to lose their power.

"Will the reform of Hufu riding and shooting have such a big impact?"

Meng Zhong frowned and asked Fei Yidao.

Fei Yi nodded and explained: "The biggest change in Hu clothing riding and shooting is one of the war horses..."

According to him, the previous military organization model of Zhao State was no different from other Central Plains countries, namely, the chariots were mixed with infantry, but after the Hu clothing cavalry system was determined, the chariots were eliminated in large numbers, and the saved war horses were organized into cavalry, and this cavalry was in the hands of Zhao Zhufu.

Look, the Zhao general "Niu Jian" who remained silent on the matter of "one country and two kings", is Zhao's father's confidant beloved general.

As a new cavalry on the battlefield, he was firmly grasped by Zhao Zhufu - to be precise, the royal family of Zhao - which weakened the old noble family in disguise.

And secondly, it is the source of troops.

After the reform of Hu clothing, cavalry and shooting in Zhao State, the relationship between Zhao people and other foreign races in the country was greatly narrowed. A large number of foreign races such as Di, Loufan, Xiongnu, and Linhu State went to Zhao State to join the army, which enabled Zhao Master's father to get the support of foreign soldiers and the royal power was further strengthened, which also meant that the power of the domestic family of nobles and officials was further weakened.

In short, the "Hufu riding and shooting" reform advocated by Zhao Zhufu did not almost completely solve the old aristocratic forces that "no merit and gain" like the "Li Kui Reform" of Wei, but it also greatly enhanced the power of the royal family, so that before Hufu riding and shooting, Zhao Zhufu, who needed to beg Anping Jun Zhao Cheng to support the reform, can now face Zhao Cheng, Li Dui and others with confidence.
Chapter completed!