A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 572: Bronze Tree Blood Relatives, Discussing the Qiyang Grand Meeting

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In the conference hall, the emperor and the head of the family have not yet arrived, and the disciples are talking to each other with the tribesmen nearby. After all, this is the first time that the disciples have gathered together since the Bai family became emperor.

Here, they will no longer be ranked by title, official position, and military merit, but by age and prestige.

The seats in the main hall are not arranged in the way of sitting on the left and right during court meetings, but in a circular format with a circular platform in the middle as the center.

Just like the debates among scholars in the pre-Qin period and the Salt and Iron Conference in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After all, Mr. Bai, who has chaired countless meetings, is very familiar with arranging seats.

Facing south, there is only a high platform with only three seats, one one step lower than the other.

Obviously this will be the seat of the three heads of the Bai family, the head of the family, the prince, and the grandson. These are the three heads of the family.

Now here, only Bai Wen is sitting on the lowest seat, constantly talking to the uncles and brothers around him.

The closest people to this seat are several old people who are dying. They are the eldest sons of the Bai family, and most of them are contemporaries of Emperor Wu Bai Shu.

Next are the slightly younger old men, but they are all over sixty years old. Bai Ming is among them, and he is the chief among them. Most of them are contemporaries of Emperor Jing Bai Kai.

After that, there are the contemporaries of the emperor Bai Qian, the prince Bai Ran, and the white king Bai Wen.

There were hundreds of people gathered together, and 90% of them were descendants of the Bai family who had the divine seal.

Only a few princes who are really important because of the disappearance of the divine seal may be present by Bai Qian.

In addition, in addition to some people sitting in the seats and talking, there were also quite a few Bai family members surrounding the high platform in the center of the hall, admiring the sacred objects in the middle.

They are the "Ancestor Baizhan's Sword", "Doctor Bai's Seal", "The King of Zhou's Seal of Viscount Bai", "Jade King Seal", "White Duke Seal of the Han Dynasty" and "Bai King Seal of the Han Dynasty".

In the middle is a bronze locust tree cast from bronze, one meter high, with more than a hundred bronze birds of various shapes and species standing on its branches.

This was cast by Guangxin Gong Baiqing when he was still alive. It means "all disciples have the same roots", so it is called "a hundred birds share the same locust tree".

"This is the locust tree made by our ancestor Guangxin Gong. It is extremely beautiful and wonderful."

"In the past, I had only seen it in classics. When I heard its description in the school, I was deeply moved by it. Today, the head of the family moved it out of the exhibition. Even though I died, I have no regrets."

"Look, these birds have different expressions and shapes, and they are very vivid. Look at this one, with its wings spread out and about to fly. It looks so much like me."

"That's right. Our ancestors' expectations for us will never be let down. The Bai family will live forever."

"The Bai family has lived for ten thousand years."

Led by a group of young Bai Shizi who were around eighteen or nineteen years old, the Bai Shizi who surrounded the bronze tree were inspired by it and shouted this desire.

Even Bai He, who had always been calm, was now blushing. He was holding a pen, lying on the ground regardless of the image, and kept sketching the appearance of the bronze tree in the scroll.

Not long after, a lifelike ink painting appeared in front of everyone.

Everyone came up and compared it with the real bronze tree in front of them, and they all exclaimed in amazement.

"Uncle Sixteen, the painting is like the real thing. When it appears on the paper, it will appear white."

Bai He chuckled and passed the picture album in his hand to the disciples.

Seeing this, Bai Ming, who was sitting firmly in his seat, couldn't help but smile, causing another old man beside him to say:

"Fifth brother is very good at teaching his children, and I admire him. Do you have any secrets?"

When Bai Ming heard this, he turned around and imparted his educational philosophy, causing the elders around him to pay close attention and nod their heads.

While the people were playing around and the atmosphere was lively, in a remote part of the hall, there were several princes named Bai who did not have the divine seal and were out of place.

Sit where you are, close your eyes and relax.

But there were also some people with the surname Bai who came forward, and the disciples did not distance themselves from each other, but took more care of them.

Bai Chao, who was also in the queue, rolled his eyes and walked forward with a smile, wanting to talk to them.

At first they were talking and laughing, but after a while, these people sneered at the white tide, turned their heads and ignored it, or closed their eyes to meditate.

Just because of the many dissatisfaction with the family in his words, they couldn't listen to him.

Bai Chao, who had a gloomy look on his face, was asking for trouble and had no choice but to return to his seat and sulk alone.

"Clap clap clap!"

A sound of clapping came from the door of the palace.

The disciples turned around and saw that it was Prince Bai Ran who arrived accompanied by Emperor Bai Qian. The one holding his palm was Bai Qian.

"My brothers (nephews, we, etc.) have met Your Majesty (royal brother, head of the family)."

The polite voices of different titles came and went one after another.

The two men in plain clothes, Bai Qian, walked to the seats. Bai Qian, who usually rarely smiled, looked at the disciples present with a friendly smile:
"Since today is a family meeting, there is no distinction between monarch and minister, but the distinction between relatives and strangers."

Everyone saluted again and said, "We have met the head of the family."

Bai Qian, still smiling, pressed with both hands:
"Uncles, nephews, please excuse me and please take your seats."

After speaking, he took the lead and sat down. The rest of the Bai family members who were still elsewhere returned to their seats and sat down.

"Sixteenth uncle, twenty-third uncle, twenty-fourth uncle, are you in good health? I am very busy with political affairs and rarely visit you, so please don't blame me."

After taking his seat, Bai Qian first greeted the three elders not far away.

"I'm sorry, my master, I'm worried about you. We have no worries about food and drink. I haven't been able to see my ancestors recently."

A joke made Bai Qian laugh: "That's good. If you have any requests in the future, you can send people to the palace to find me, or to find the two juniors Bai Ran and Bai Wen."

"Thank you, Master."

Then he turned to Bai Ming:

"Fifth uncle has been doing well recently. Is there anything happy about him? I came in just now, but you smiled the most happily when I saw you."

Although his hair and beard were gray, Bai Ming's face showed a rare ruddy color, and he replied energetically:

"The head of the family saw the joke. Just now I was discussing with Lao Ba, Lao Twelve, and Lao Fifteen about strategies for raising children, and talked about the excitement, so I laughed."

"As wonderful as it is, Fifth Uncle must not forget about my nephew. Find a time when Fifth Uncle comes to the palace, and I will also listen to your wise words."

"Since the master of the house has called me, I can be there at any time."

Afterwards, Bai Qian visited some brothers of his generation who had been out of town all year round, and encouraged some juniors. After nearly an hour, he was finally ready to get down to business.

“I held a family meeting today for two main purposes.

First, since Emperor Yuan established the country, brothers and sisters in the family have rarely seen each other. Now the world is temporarily peaceful, Xia's national power is at its peak, and there are still invasions from all over the world.

Therefore, I am taking advantage of this rare opportunity to call you all back to Qiyang to gather together so as not to alienate the relationship between us.

You have also seen that in order to hold this meeting, I moved out several heirlooms from the family's secret vault.

Just to let us not forget the foundation of the Bai family and the aspirations of our ancestors.

So I plan to have everyone worship together at the Jie Tai Temple after today’s meeting, and then go out to worship at the White Temple and the Ancestral Temple.

After paying homage to the ancestors of all generations, the tribesmen who leave the town can stay in Qiyang for a month to have a good rest and interact with their brothers and sisters before returning to the town. "

After hearing Bai Qian's first purpose of the meeting, everyone praised it and passed it all.

This time the royal family meeting not only happened in advance to the princes of Jinxia Palace, but also in Qiyang City at this very moment.

The descendants who came with them were also holding a grand gathering, and the venue was chosen to be Juxian Tower.

The gathering was divided into two places. There were not only the heirs of the princes, but also the children of the ministers of the Xia court and the children of the aristocratic families of the Xia state.

Among them, the men are in the left building and the female relatives are in the right building. Each has his own thing to do and talks about.

Now that the first easy issue was unanimously approved, Bai Qian was about to raise the second issue.

"Everyone, you should know about the recent Bai Ce rebellion and the previous Bai Wenxian rebellion."

As soon as Bai Qian's words came out, the originally relaxed atmosphere in the venue suddenly became tense.

“I have heard about the two cases mentioned by the head of the family, which are simply shocking and unheard of in the family history.

These two people, as well as the disciples and party members who conspired with them, deserved their death. They have tarnished the name of the Bai family and deserved their death. "

Bai Ming stood up first and expressed his strong dissatisfaction to the disciples around him.

"Yes, especially Bai Ce, who pretends to be the Bai family's son. We are ashamed to be associated with him."

It started with Bai Ming, and then there were mostly verbal and written criticisms of him.

Only Bai Chao, who was ranked last, felt something was wrong.

When the mood of the disciples calmed down, Bai Qian said again:

"I am also heartbroken about this matter. You must know that Bai Ce is a rare military general in the family and has made many contributions to the country and the family.

But why did he eventually become a stranger?

If this problem is not resolved, I am afraid there will be the next Bai Zhi and the next Bai Wenxian. "

"What does the head of the family think?"

An old tribesman asked first.

Bai Qian, with a look of regret on his face, said:

"This is all because of greed."

After looking at the tribesmen around him, Bai Qian continued:
"The reason why there was no such situation before the Bai family became emperor was because the Bai family members all gathered together. If there was anything wrong, they would be criticized by their brothers and they would not dare to do it.

Therefore, whether it is running the family or the country, successive families rely heavily on their brothers, just because they do not avoid relatives when promoting talents.

And if the tribesman lacks ability, the family will not grant him an official title. Even if the family supports him for life, it is better than going out to cause trouble.

It harms the name of the family.

But since Bai became emperor, things have changed, and there have been more temptations. With the position of emperor, who among the people in the world cannot be tempted.

Even if I, the son of the Bai family, have the top family school in the world, I am still an ordinary person.

Furthermore, in order to show that the head of the family was not partial, Emperor Yuan originally ennobled all the Bai family members according to their relatives, including princes, princes, and princes.

However, greed is not enough. As time goes by, more and more tribesmen are outside. There are very few tribesmen who are infected by the family. Most of them have only studied in Bai Zong for three or four years. How can it be enough?

Therefore, it is not surprising that the White Book Rebellion occurred. "

"Since the head of the family has convened this meeting, he must have some countermeasures."

Bai Qian stood up suddenly and said suddenly:
"That's right, after many days of hard thinking and combining the wisdom of ancestors from past generations, I finally have a preliminary method."

"Please give me some advice, Master."

(End of this chapter)