Chapter 3: The Grand Master of the Imperial Court is called Wen Zhong? Yucang Mountain...

Yucang Mountain, Cuiyun Peak, and Huanghua Temple.

This is where Fuli lives now.

Yucang Mountain is located in the southwest of Dai State. It is the highest mountain in Dai State and the location of the ancestral temple of Dai Bo, the king of Dai State.

Hua Jing Yuanjun, who adopted Fuli, was originally the youngest daughter of Dai Bo and a member of the Shang clan. After coming of age, she and her elder sister became concubines and were married to the Crown Prince of the Han clan.

After the death of King Cheng Tang, his eldest son, Tai Ding, who had died young, Prime Minister Yi Yin supported the enthronement of Tai Ding's younger brother, Wai Bing. Wai Bing died of illness after three years on the throne. Unable to make up his mind, Yi Yin enthroned Wai Bing's younger brother, Zhong Ren. Zhong Ren, while he did outlast Wai Bing, reigned only a year longer, passing away in the fourth year.

Wai Bing had no brothers from the same mother, and his sons were all still young. With the frequent succession of Wang Wei, a young ruler taking the throne was not conducive to the stability of the state.

At this time, Taijia, the eldest son of Prince Taiding of King Tang, had reached adulthood. After Yi Yin discussed with the nobles of Boyi, he simply supported Taijia to succeed to the throne.

However, Taijia was stubborn and caused chaos in the government. For the sake of the overall situation, Yi Yin had to exile Taijia.

Ten noble families, led by the Han clan, rebelled against Yi Yin, raising an army under the pretext of restoring order. Dai Bo, a vassal of the royal family, took no action during the Han clan's rebellion, choosing instead to sit on the fence.

Later, the Han family was defeated, the main branch was killed, and the side branches were exiled.

At that time, Hua Jing and her eldest sister became pregnant almost at the same time. The eldest sister had a bad pregnancy and was frightened by the bad news, and gave birth prematurely and died in a hemorrhage.

Hua Jing, two cousins ​​and three cousins ​​were all picked up by people sent by her mother's family.

Dai Bo was eager to distance himself from the rebellion, so he ignored Hua Jing's pleas and asked the witch doctor to prescribe medicine to forcibly abort the fetus in her womb.

It was a female fetus, and her facial features could be vaguely seen. She looked quite similar to Hua Jing.

Hua Jing was deeply shocked. On the one hand, she felt that her father was cruel, and on the other hand, she despised her father's fence-sitting behavior during the Han family's rebellion. She was unwilling to obey her father's order and remarry. Instead, she took her dowry and the servants and slaves that came with it and became a nun in the Huanghua Temple, the ancestral temple.

Dai Bo had other plans in mind. Instead of stopping her, he gave her his eldest daughter's dowry and also gave her a lot of extra money in private.

Three years later, Taijia returned and understood Yi Yin's painstaking efforts. He worked hard to strengthen the government and rectified the government, making the politics clear and the people happy, restoring the prosperity of the previous king's time when people did not pick up things on the streets.

After the government was back on track, Taijia's next step was naturally to settle accounts with those princes of the royal family who refused to help during the Han family's rebellion.

And Dai Bo is one of them.

The reason why Dai Bo agreed to let his youngest daughter become a nun in the ancestral temple was because the Boyi nobles headed by Yi Yin and Wen Zhong reacted too quickly and used too clean and efficient means when suppressing the Han clan rebellion.

At that time, he had already sensed that the situation was not good, and ordered the Dai Kingdom's witch doctor to divine again and again, but the results were always the same: Dai Kingdom's only hope of survival lay in the youngest daughter, Miss Hua Jing.

At this time, people paid attention to "not cutting off the ancestral worship", because most of the nobles were relatives, and they left a way out so that they could meet each other in the future.

Didn’t you see that the Han family and other countries that rebelled were only killed. Although the remaining branches and small clans were exiled to remote places, they were still given a fiefdom?

Although the newly demarcated fiefdom is extremely barren and is constantly harassed by savages, it is still better than the civilians who have no guarantee of food, clothing, or life, right?

As for slaves, there is no need to mention them.

Hua Jing was a daughter of a royal family. She became a nun at an early age and served the ancestral gods in the ancestral temple. She was not implicated when her family was exiled.

In other words, the properties that Dai Bo secretly gave her were not taken back by Boyi.

After Dai Bo and his people were exiled to a remote place, he secretly sent people to ask Hua Jing for their property. Hua Jing only gave them a portion, saying that the rest would be used to purchase incense, candles and sacrifices for the ancestors.

This reason was perfectly legitimate and in line with the moral values ​​of the era. Without saying anything more, the visitor secretly escaped with some of the money he had obtained.

Yes, escaped.

When Fu Li first heard this story, she thought the word "escape" was an adjective, but later she realized it was a verb.

Because she discovered that this world is unscientific.

When she was five years old, Hua Jing told her a story again and mentioned the greatest contributor to Yi Yin's suppression of the Han clan's rebellion - Grand Tutor Wen Zhong.

"Grand Master? Wen Zhong?"

Regardless of whether there was such a position as "Taishi" in the bureaucratic system of the Shang Dynasty, Fu Li only knew that Taishi Wen Zhong was definitely not a real person in history.

"Yes, Grand Tutor Wen Zhong." Hua Jing thought she was just curious, so he explained carefully, "Grand Tutor Wen was a founding hero. The previous king, Cheng Tang, wanted to give him the city closest to Boyi as a fiefdom, but Grand Tutor Wen was of high moral character and was a hermit who disdained worldly wealth and fame.

After repeated entreaties from the late king, he finally agreed to accept a fief to use for the purchase of military equipment. Later, upon the late king's death, he and Prime Minister Yi Yin were both entrusted with the care of the orphan. However, he kept a low profile, rarely appearing in public, and gradually, little was said about him.

Whenever the state was at war, he was always at the forefront, never afraid of hard work. Not only did he make great contributions himself, but he also trained many famous generals for the state.

Fu Li listened in a daze, and had already confirmed one thing in her heart: It turned out that this was the world of "Investiture of the Gods", but she didn't know which version it was.

There are several TV series based on the original novel, and countless TV series and movies that have adapted a character or a story from the original novel. There are even more than one cartoons.

The worst thing is that Fu Li has never seen many of them.

What if this world is a derivative of a version she has never seen? The versions she has seen will not only not help her, but will instead hurt her badly.

Hua Jing smiled and stroked the small tuft of hair on her head, saying, "When you grow up and learn martial arts well, you can travel to Boyi. Maybe you can meet Master Wen."

As a member of the royal family, the Dai family had some connections with Grand Tutor Wen. Fu Li, a disciple of the Dai family's daughter, would surely receive Grand Tutor Wen if he presented Hua Jing's business card.

But now that the Dai family has become a criminal, Hua Jing no longer has the face to associate with his old acquaintances in Boyi.

Fu Li raised her face and smiled at her master, her eyebrows like a crescent moon and her eyes like autumn water.

Speaking of eyes, Fu Li once made a joke that only she knew about.

When she first crossed over, she couldn't see clearly, seeing only black and white. At that time, she didn't know that she had crossed over to become a newborn baby. She just thought that her parents in this life abandoned her because of her eye disease.

It was only later, as she grew older, the world before her eyes became clearer and more colorful, that she finally realized: this is how newborn vision is, and there was nothing wrong with her eyes.

There was only one reason left for her parents to abandon her, and that was a red spot under the outer corner of her left eye.

In fact, in her opinion, the presence of that spot does not affect her appearance.

The irregular five-petal flower, with its dazzling bright red color, falls on the fair and delicate skin. As the eyes blink unconsciously, it seems to come alive, giving it a mysterious beauty.

But the ancients did not think so. From her master Hua Jing Yuanjun, to Su Rong and Su Heng who took care of her, and even her peers Fu Yue, Fu Yao, Fu Guang and Fu Shuang, they all felt regretful when they saw the spot.

——Alas, if it weren’t for this spot, Fuli would definitely be a beauty.

Fortunately, Fuli's heart is an adult, an adult who has been unlucky for many years and has grown up under the care of her family. As a result, her heart is extremely firm and her emotions are extremely stable.

If he were a real child, surrounded by such remarks all year round, it would be strange if he didn't develop an inferiority complex.

I'm afraid that when she grows up, if a man with a straight head and a decent face treats her well, she will be completely devoted to him.

Fu Li didn't care at all. Whenever someone expressed regret, she would smile and say, "I think I'm pretty good-looking now. Master Su Rong has the most skillful hands. She braids my hair beautifully and makes beautiful clothes. I think I'm the most beautiful lady in the world."

It didn't have much effect the first or second time, but after it happened many times, these people at least knew not to express their regrets in front of her.

As long as they don't say it to her face, Fu Li will pretend not to know.

It won't affect her anyway.

When she was ten years old, Prime Minister Yi Yin died of illness. Taijia had already passed away, and the reigning Shang King was Taijia's son Wo Ding.

A new ruler would inevitably introduce new policies. Furthermore, Yi Yin had served as prime minister for far too long, having been both a founding minister and a veteran of the Six Dynasties. Although he was deceased, his influence on the court remained.

Wo Ding was quite dissatisfied with this, so he pardoned many of the guilty officials under the pretext of praying for the prime minister. He did not dare to pardon the culprit Han, but Dai Bo and other princes who were convicted for standing by and watching were among those pardoned.

After suffering ten years of exile, Dai Bo was able to lead his people back to the fiefdom that his father had won by following the previous king. He was so happy that he died not long after returning to Daiyi.

Although the Zhou rituals did not exist in the Shang Dynasty, they were not formed in a day.

Furthermore, this is the world of Fengshen, and the original work is a novel written by people in the Ming Dynasty. The nobles naturally abide by the "primogeniture system".

The one who inherited the Dai Kingdom was Hua Jing's elder brother Qingbi.

Fu Li discovered that the names chosen by the nobles at that time were mostly simple and unpretentious.

The reason why Qingbi is called Qingbi is that when he was born, there was a blue birthmark on his left arm that occupied half of his arm.

This reminded her of a king in the Zhou Dynasty named "Black Butt" because he had a black birthmark on his butt when he was born.

Thinking of the red birthmark on her face, Fu Li secretly felt lucky: Fortunately, she was not from the Shang Bang officialdom, so she did not have to follow the naming tradition of officialdom when choosing a name.

When Dai Bo passed away, Hua Jing Yuanjun, as a returning daughter, should have returned to mourn and offer condolences. However, as a nun, she was not concerned with worldly affairs and no one could find fault with her.

It was an ambiguous matter. The members of the Dai family had just returned from exile. Not only were they penniless, they also did not have much savings.

The new king Qingbi was concerned about Hua Jing and her elder sister's dowry, so he sent people to invite her home to worship her deceased father three times, but Hua Jing refused each time.

Later, Qingbi simply stopped pretending. When he sent someone again, he directly said that the family did not have enough money to bury his father, and hoped that she could use part of her dowry to buy burial items for her father.

Hua Jing gave the money, but not much, and only told the messenger: "In these years, I have spent all my elder sister's dowry on the sacrifices for our ancestors, and even most of my dowry was spent.

You've come here a few times and you've seen that the people in the mountains now grow their own linen and weave cloth, raise silkworms and reel silk. Besides making clothes for themselves, they also take it down the mountain to trade for food to survive."

Her meaning was very straightforward: I really have no money, this is the last time, don’t come to me for money again.

Not only that, Hua Jing also asked the messenger to tell Qingbi: After the tax revenue comes in next year, the incense, candles and sacrifices needed for ancestor worship must be delivered on time, so as not to anger the ancestors and cause the Dai Kingdom to have no one to protect it.

The messenger nodded and left, not daring to say another word.