The three families of Meng, Xi, and Bai are the oldest aristocratic families in the Qin Dynasty. They were founded as early as the period of Qin Mu Gong.
The founders of the three families are nominally Meng Mingshi, Xiqi Shu, and Bai Yibing.
In fact, the Meng family was founded by Meng Mingshi's father, Baili Xi, a famous virtuous minister in history.
As for the Xi family, the ancestors of the Bai family were founded by Xiqi Shu, Bai Yibing's father, Uncle Jian. The Xi family and the Bai family were the same family at the beginning.
At that time, Duke Xian of Jin wanted to attack Guo State, but he had to pass through Yu State, so he gave good horses and jade to the king of Yu State to use the way.
At that time, a minister of Yu State called Baili Xi to stand up and oppose.
At that time, there was also a minister named Gong Zhiqi, who also tried to stop him.
It is absolutely impossible to say this. The relationship between Guo and Yu is like lips and teeth. If you lose your lips, you can't save your teeth. The Guo State was destroyed, can our Yu State survive?
This is the origin of the idiom "lips are dead and teeth are cold".
The king of the State of Yu refused to listen and said that it would be inappropriate for the State of Jin to give me a treasure and not use the passage.
Therefore, after the Jin State took advantage of the road to destroy the Guo State, it came back and destroyed the Yu State along the way.
This is the origin of the idiom false Yu destroys Guo.
The State of Yu was destroyed, and Baili Xi became a slave of the State of Jin.
Later, the Qin and Jin Dynasties got married, and Baili Xi was sent to the Qin State as the dowry of Qin Mu Gong's wife.
Although he was over seventy years old, Baili Xi, who had unfulfilled ambitions, did not want to be a slave for the rest of his life, so he fled to Chu.
Duke Mu of Qin heard about Baili Xi's talent and thought it was a pity that such a talent went to Chu.
So he negotiated with the Chu State and was willing to exchange five black sheepskins for Baili Xi.
Because Bailixi was a slave at this time, and five sheepskins were exchanged for one slave, Chu had no reason to refuse.
When Baili Xi entered Qin for the second time, Duke Mu of Qin went to greet him personally and asked Baili Xi for advice on how to govern the country.
Bailixi refused, saying that he was a minister of the country's subjugation and had no face to talk about governing the country.
After Qin Mugong's repeated requests, Baili Xi finally spoke up and talked freely with Qin Mugong for three days.
Presiding over the state affairs and serving as the prime minister of Qin, he has the reputation of "all his plans are improper and his actions will be successful".
Duke Heng of Qi gained Guan Zhong and became the overlord; Duke Mu of Qin gained Baili Xi and established his hegemony.
After Baili Xi entered the court, he recommended his good friend Uncle Jian to join the court.
Duke Mu of Qin, assisted by Baili Xi and Uncle Jian, attacked Quanrong several times to intimidate Bashu.
Defeated Jin in Yaoshan, captured Duke Hui of Jin alive, imprisoned Duke Huai of Jin, and helped Duke Wen of Jin return to his country and succeed to the throne.
Emperor Zhou sent a banner and recognized Qin's dominance. As a result, Baili Xi and Uncle Jian's status in Qin rose to an extremely high level.
Two people govern.
Their sons Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, and Bai Yibing served as generals. All three of them were generals with great military exploits in Qin.
Father and son partner Yun Wen and Yun Wu have an irreplaceable position in the Qin State.
The five people made Qin rise for a while, making Qin Mugong the second overlord among the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, after Qi Henggong.
The three families of Meng, Xi, and Bai were founded under such circumstances. During the period of Qin Mugong, the three families were so arrogant that even the royal family, the Ying family, did not dare to look down upon them.
During that period, the three families of Meng, Xi, and Bai made great contributions to the development of Qin.
Therefore, Qin Jun promised many privileges to the three families in return. The three families were the only aristocratic families under the royal family.
However, as time goes by, the three families of Meng, Xi, and Bai, which started fighting, no longer have the fighting spirit.
The extravagant and comfortable life sapped the fighting spirit of the three families, causing them to gradually become idlers who relied on their ancestors' inheritance to eat and drink, adhering to the Qin State and sucking blood.
During the period of Qin Mugong, Qin became the most powerful country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the three families of Meng, Xi, and Bai pushed Qin Mugong to the position of overlord.
It became a stumbling block to the development of the Qin State. It used national power to support the family, so that during the period of Qin Xiaogong, the Qin State was blocked by the Wei State in Hangu Pass and could not get out, and was in danger of annihilation.
Therefore, Qin Xiaogong supported Shang Yang's reform, which caused the power of the three major families to suffer a devastating blow for the first time.
With farmland being taken away and state-owned resources being taken back, if the three companies do not make changes, they will become weaker year by year and disappear into history.
However, a hundred years of extravagance and licentiousness, a life of reaching out for clothes and opening mouths for food, have long ago made the three families lose sight of the bravery, bravery, and passion of their ancestors Meng Mingshi, Xiqi Shu, and Bai Yibing.
The three companies, which did not require hard work and relied on exploitation to be happy, did not have the soil to breed such astonishing talents as their founders, Baili Xi and Uncle Jian.
They only know how to eat, drink and have fun, and were regarded by Shang Yang as a chicken to scare the monkeys. The three companies that were targeted were about to perish in the Qin State that implemented the policy of farming and war.
It actually allowed the three families to find a point of change from what they were good at eating, drinking and having fun, the terrace.
The Qin State had only one public entertainment facility, which was the balcony.
Almost all the concubines in Qin's tower came from three families.
Each of the three families is good at it, and the concubines they train have their own magical powers. They use their best skills to play with women and train them into the way that makes male guests happy.
Almost all the aristocratic families in the Qin State depended on the Gan family's business.
The Meng, Xi, and Bai families also ate with the Gan family, but they did not rely on the Gan family. They relied on training and selling concubines to support themselves.
This is in line with the laws of Qin. Concubines are objects, not people.
Relying on Qin State's only entertainment industry supplier, three companies with a long history in Qin State accumulated a lot of wealth and came back to life from the edge of destruction.
Although it is difficult to return to the time when the three ancestral families dominated the Qin Kingdom, they have become the leading family among the aristocratic families.
Except for those families that are based on military exploits, such as the Meng family where Meng Tian belongs, the Li family where Li Xin belongs, and the Wang family where Wang Jian belongs, they look down on the actions of the three families of Meng, Bai, and Xi.
All the other aristocratic families were envious of the three families' business of selling concubines and wanted to get involved.
It's just that the three families work together and firmly control all the business in Qin State except the capital, no less.
The reason why Capital Tower did not do it was because after experiencing Shang Yang's concentrated firepower attack, the three families learned to make a fortune silently, and did not want to be too presumptuous under the nose of Qin Jun and recruit students.
There were also times when some aristocratic families pooled their money and tried to join forces to compete with the three major aristocratic families, but they were completely defeated.
The money they had gave them the capital to break the situation, but the concubines they trained could not break the concubines trained by the three families.
Compared with the children of the three families who have a hundred years of experience in playing with women, and compared with the three families who were the first to establish a systematic training model for concubines by focusing on the resources of the building, they do not know how to train concubines at all.
All the aristocratic families have long been curious about the training methods of the three families.
One is for profit.
The second is for desire.
At this time, all the aristocratic families were panicked by Ying Chengyu and wanted revenge.
At this time when Gan Luo was captured and the Gan family was suppressed, the three major families stood up to fight against him.
The three major aristocratic families used the excuse of announcing the training methods to invite the heads of the major aristocratic families to come to the Bai family to meet, and all the heads of the invited aristocratic families came.
The three families bought a large mansion in an area of Xianyang farthest away from Xianyang Palace, and connected the exterior walls of all the mansions to form a huge courtyard that could accommodate a thousand people.
There is no plaque hanging on the door of the large courtyard, and there is no inscription on the plaque. It is completely blank.
But all the heads of the aristocratic families who came here knew that this was a new pavilion, a new pavilion built by the three major aristocratic families in Xianyang.
The tower is a government institution, and there can only be one in each city. Therefore, the new tower can never be made public, and naturally it will not be seen in the light.
And this kind of secrecy is very useful to nobles from aristocratic families who are angry about being monitored on the balcony, galloping, ups and downs, up and down, and must be careful not to say the wrong thing.
Even if you can't learn how the three families make money today, you can at least indulge in some fun.
Most of the heads of aristocratic families who have been nervous recently think so.
There was no one looking at the door or guarding the door in front of the dusty mansion.
The door looks like two simple wooden doors, which are the wooden doors found in ordinary homes in Xianyang.
The old wooden door was wide open and not closed.
Since noon, there has been an endless stream of people entering this large mansion, which looks nothing like luxury.
People wearing black linen gowns walked in one after another. From their appearance, these heads of major aristocratic families looked like ordinary people in Xianyang.
But as long as they see their faces, everyone can conclude that they are definitely not the expressions that ordinary people should have.
The wax festival has passed.
In Xianyang, a city with extremely strict control, most people's faces are numb and their steps are hurried.
No common people would have such dull faces and excited eyes as they did.
In order to keep a low profile, none of them came on horseback, and no one came in a car.
Well, at least no one drove the carriage to the door of the new balcony. Most of them got off the carriage a hundred meters away.
This cannot be hidden from the eyes and ears of the patrolling city defense troops, and they did not intend to do this in the first place.
In Xianyang, as long as the First Emperor wanted to know, there was nothing he didn't know.
They do this just to show that they have no intention of causing trouble.
The shabby appearance of the new building is an attitude, as is the long linen gown worn by untouchables.
Attitude is important.
As all heads of aristocratic families knew, it was taboo to come to the new building and would displease the First Emperor.
Business at the government offices was bleak, and everyone came here to have fun.
Although as long as you don't pay for it in the new building, you won't violate Qin's laws, and having sex for nothing is not considered prostitution.
But this touched the First Emperor's money.
And this is also the attitude that major aristocratic families want to show.
Your Majesty, if you don't tidy up the balcony and deal with the thorns, we won't dare to play on the balcony.
Darkness swallows light.
The curtain covered the sky.
Xianyang entered a secret night.
The curfew forced everyone, both idle and non-idle, to stay indoors.
City defense troops patrolling at night appeared on the streets of Xianyang.
The two old wooden doors on the new balcony were closed, and inside there were four concubines with bulging muscles divided into two groups, one group of two.
They groaned and struggled to push the two wooden doors on the left and right that should not be so heavy.
Winter~
The two old wooden doors on the left and right made a dull clanging sound of gold and iron when they were closed, instead of the rustling sound of wood rubbing against each other.
Bang~
A large lock locked the wooden door shut inside.
In fact, this doesn't mean much, because the two wooden doors are made of refined and compacted bronze.
Even if it is not locked, it will take the combined efforts of four Qin army warriors to push the door open.
A room inside the new building.
The butler walked in respectfully, bent ninety degrees to Meng Jiakun who was sitting peacefully, Bai Fei, and Xi Shu performed a cumbersome etiquette that had long been abolished in the Qin State.
He said respectfully: "For the three gentlemen, the door has been locked."
Meng Jiakun's eyes were shining, and he stood out in a dark room with only one candle lit.
Like a wild cat watching the movements of mice, ready to pounce and catch them at any time.
"How many people are coming?"
Without receiving the order to stand up, the butler kept bending at a right angle, lowering his head and looking at the ground.
Said: "No one from the Meng family came, no one from the Li family came...except for these eight families, everyone who sent the invitations came."
"Humph, I don't know how to appreciate it!"
Xi Shu snorted coldly, anger flashing in his eyes.
"The three ancestors of Meng Mingshi, Xiqi Shu, and Bai Yibing fought in all the wars of that generation. They only produced a few generals and fought many battles. How dare they be so arrogant in front of the three of us!"
Bai Feitan smiled and asked Xi Shu to calm down, then waved his hand to ask the housekeeper to go down.
The butler, who was frightened and had no choice but to listen to Xi Shu's anger, and who was afraid of being killed and silenced, said "Wei" gratefully and left at a slightly faster pace than usual.
"Aren't they always so arrogant? That old guy Meng Ao thinks that his hard work is great, and he scolds everyone he sees. Under such a rude leader, the Meng family doesn't even look down on the Wang family of Wuchenghou. , what’s the surprise if you don’t come?”
The First Emperor would say something like "Meng Ao" to Duke Meng, and Bai Fei would say "Qi Zhu".
No one among the three people present was surprised. The rebuttal was obviously not the first time they heard it.
"Brother Xi needs to change his temper. Fighting with these common men who only know how to fight and act cruelly has completely insulted the noble status of our three families. They are just a bunch of ants who don't know whether they will live or die tomorrow."
Meng Jiakun stood up with his support on the table, and the thick darkness was stirred up.
The long years seem to have made Meng Jiakun, the head of the Meng family of this generation, forget about it.
The nominal founders of the Meng, Xi, and Bai families, Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, and Bai Yibing, are all generals, and the three families are also generals.
"My mentality is unbalanced." Xishu reflected on himself: "A group of ants who only know how to fight and kill but not manage will lose power sooner or later. At that time, I will sell all the women among them to the frontier buildings and let them be Those barbarians stabbed him to death!"
"That's the reason. After the old thief Ziwei Yang's reform, a large group of generals emerged, and many of them look down on our three families. After their generals die, won't those wives and concubines be left to us to play with at will?"
Bai Zhu said that his mouth was dry and he took a sip of hot water to moisten his throat.
He said with a ferocious smile: "We give them a way to survive. Since they don't come, they will wait for the day when the family will be destroyed and we will rejoice and cry at our knees. The one who should be angry should not be Brother Xi, but Qi Zhuhe who follows. Those bastard little bastards.”
The thick night was stirred again, like a bottle of black ink being knocked over.
Meng Jiakun looked back, his two cat eyes flashing with cruelty, excitement, joy, and impatient impatience.
"Let's go, everyone is here. Today is the day when our three great families will return to the top of the Qin family. We have to thank that Shuzi for this. If he didn't capture our good nephew, how could we have this opportunity. "
After saying this, he couldn't help laughing.
Bai Fei, Xi Shu also laughed out loud.
"Hahahahaha..."
