After thinking silently for a moment, Ji Chang looked at Nangong Shi, "Nangongzi, if I disobey the king's order and do not implement the order to redeem the grace, will it attract the king's attack?"

As soon as Nangong Shi said this, before Nangong Shi could answer, the third son of King Wen, Ji Xian, took the initiative to cough lightly and walked out a few steps. "Father, directly refuses to promote the king's order, and it is very likely that the emperor will be attacked. From Wending, Da Shang realized that our strength was expanding rapidly. If it were not for a reasonable reason to send troops, we, the Xibo Marquis Kingdom, would not have developed steadily to the present."

"And after several generations of development, even if we have already had the strength comparable to Da Shang, we would clearly refuse such a normal and well-intentioned king's order, which would allow Da Shang to master the righteousness. The princes in the world would only watch us jokes, or there would be a group of princes following Emperor Xin to attack us."

After saying this, Ji Xian retreated back to his original position.

He said it openly, but Ji Xian really understood the meaning. He was extremely eager to implement the order of grace in his heart.

Even if he is the third son of the legitimate son, with Bo Yikao and Ji Fa under pressure, he will not gain any power in the future. He can only follow the arrangements based on the mood of the next Xibohou.

Now? Master the title of righteousness and openly inherit the authority of the Xibo Marquis State! This good thing must be supported!

Even if many people say that Ji Xian has no talent, he is far inferior to his second brother Ji Fa and his fourth brother Ji Dan. The current Xibo Hou Kingdom is under the leadership of his father, Ji Xian is also a relatively marginal figure. But Ji Xian himself does not think he has no talent!

He always felt that he was not satisfied with his talent!

Why can the second Ji Fa and fourth Ji Dan take power and become the right-hand man of their father? Ji Xian has always had a bad relationship with those two people.

In history, Ji Fa still relied on Ji Dan after he succeeded to the throne, becoming a super important official in the capital, while Ji Xian was exiled to serve as a small prince in the country.

After his death, Ji Dan successfully took over all the power and took the initiative to exercise the power of the emperor.

When Ji Xian, Ji Du and Ji Chu joined forces with Wu Geng to launch a rebellion, they were easily suppressed by Zhou Gongdan... After the suppression, Ji Xian and Wu Geng were directly executed, Ji Du was exiled, and Ji Chu was demoted to the common people.

This is enough to witness the relationship between the brothers!

The three brothers born by Ji Dan and his mother and father were exiled and demoted to common people, and only Ji Xian was executed!

Now, Ji Xian doesn't know his future fate, but the good or bad relationship between him and the second and fourth brother is also something that many people know.

Supporting the order to promote the favor is not only to share the authority of the next Xibo Marquis, but also because the second and fourth brothers are too valued by their father. It was fine when the father was there. Once he was gone, no matter whether Bo Yikao succeeded to the throne or Ji Fa succeeded to the throne, he would still not be reused...

As Ji Xian said, Ji Chang's fifth son Ji Du also jumped out and said with a worried look, "Father, although my Xibo Marquis State has developed very fast, the king is also a king with great martial arts. If he conflicts with Da Shang now, I am afraid that the prospects of our Marquis State will be worrying."

Let’s not say that we want to support the order to redeem the favor, but only consider the prospects of the Marquis and are full of filial piety and righteousness.

After this person also expressed his opinion and walked back to the queue, Nangong Shi, an important minister who was one of the four friends of King Wen, nodded awkwardly, "The two young masters said it well. Emperor Xin was very good at Wenzhi and martial arts, and he was not inferior to the Marquis. Now is not the time to start a war with the Da Shang!"

Now is the beginning of the Battle of the Gods, and King Wen Ji Chang still has many years to live, but he never dares to launch a rebellion until he dies. This is enough to prove that he still has a full understanding of the strength of the Xibo Marquis and Da Shang.

You said that the Shang Dynasty kings had weak control over other vassal states and could not interfere in the specific affairs of the vassal states at will? This is right, and there are also mistakes.

The Shang king could not interfere in the specific affairs of the vassal states at will. The leaders of the vassal states had sufficient governance over their own people and were also effectively loyal to their army. If they wanted to fight abroad, they could lead their troops to fight. In addition to having to pay tribute to the Shang Dynasty and fulfilling various obligations, they had great autonomy.

But two very clear historical facts also prove that the Great Shang Dynasty's restraint on the vassal states was also very powerful.

After Ji Chang's father Ji Li took over as the throne of Xibo, he cultivated water conservancy and expanded his army. He actively married the great Shang nobles, continuously expanded his military strength to the outside world, and developed the Xibo Marquis State into the leader of the Western princes. However, after he was afraid of Emperor Xin's grandfather Wen Ding, he was put on a house arrest and died of hunger strike by Wen Ding.

Didn’t the Da Shang Dynasty have strong control over the Xibo Hou State, and would Ji Li be imprisoned?

Even Ji Chang would have been imprisoned by Emperor Xin for a period of time in history.

The Da Shang did not manage the various vassal states in depth, and the power was not large, but there was still a certain amount of power, and the king's orders issued still had great deterrence.

He disobeyed the king's order openly and few dared to do that. After all, the prestige accumulated over the six hundred years of the Great Shang Dynasty was not a small part of it.

After pausing, Nangong spoke, "Why not be as obedient as we are on the surface, but still the same as before in private? The Marquis is in his prime and there are some things that are not in a hurry."

At first glance, this method was pretty good. On the surface, he promised not to implement it privately and not to delegate power. When King Wen returned to heaven, the next Xibo Marquis could inherit the complete Xibo Marquis and continue to maintain the prestige and strength of the Western vassal state without decentralizing power to his brothers.

But Ji Chang smiled bitterly on his face. Not only him, Ji Chu, who came later, had strange eyes.

A few breaths later, Ji Feng also left the line and bowed to Nangong Shi, "The general may not know that when my brother and I came, we had already learned that the king's envoy took the initiative to spread the news of the favor order in our Qizhou, saying that the king was all kind, just to make us wait for our brothers and we have no worries in the future. This order has also received a lot of praise from the people."

"Especially many young sons from noble families say that this is the king's greatest good policy!"

"If my father now had agreed to the order to redeem the favor on the surface, no matter whether it would be implemented in the future, as long as he agreed, the news would probably spread throughout the Xibo Marquis State and the Da Shang... At that time, the whole country agreed to his father. The situation would probably develop to an uncontrollable level."

You promised not to do it? Di Xin is not a fool, so he can of course operate external moves.

Ji Chang has been promoting "good governance" and promoting Zhou rituals over the years, and he has become a moral model for the whole world.

If such a moral model agrees to something, the whole world will know about it, but then regret it afterwards? This will greatly harm the character of a moral model. How can a moral model in the world be arbitrarily broken trust in the world?

There is also the matter of the sacrificial order. Do you think it is only related to Ji Chang's family? Which of the slave owners and nobles in the entire Xibo Marquis State has not had several sons? All the non-primary sons will be eager to sacrificial order!

As long as Ji Chang agreed on the surface, more than half of the slave owners and nobles below would implement the order of mercy in the following years. At that time, both the administrative officials and the army would think that King Wen would implement it? Will they take sides in advance and make friends with their favorite young masters in advance?
Chapter completed!