That afternoon, Cheng Yu was teaching Fusu to study in the inner study room when Dongdong's knock on the door suddenly sounded.
"Is there a problem?"
Cheng Xi stopped explaining and asked casually.
"Master Hou, the person has been delivered."
Zhong Qian stood outside the door, bowing slightly.
"I understand, I will wait until the class is over before going."
"Here."
Wearing a brocade robe with a black background and red stripes, a child's bun, and a handsome face, little Fusu is sitting in front of a bookcase.
Hearing this, he raised his head and said in a childish voice: "If uncle has something to do, please go and deal with it first. My nephew is here to read."
"Haha, there's nothing wrong with going later."
Cheng Xi touched Fu Su's head and continued to explain the Confucian classics and meanings among the hundreds of scholars. Fu Su listened carefully with a straight face.
As for the classics and meanings of various schools of thought, Cheng Yu was certainly not proficient in it, but there was no problem at all being a teacher to a young child.
The meanings of the scriptures in this era are all vague and careless, and there are many directions for understanding. If you are not careful, you will misinterpret the meaning of the sages.
Cheng Xi's teachings naturally included his own private scriptures and meanings. Let Fusu take the lead first, so that he would not be so easily influenced by other Confucian disciples in the future.
The main reason for the subtle meaning of words is that the ancient writing medium was too precious and the information had to be condensed.
Perhaps there is also the reason why the powerful class wants to monopolize knowledge and deliberately does not provide translation.
Even with the advent of papermaking and printing, it will still take a long time to change this situation, but it must be changed.
Unifying the world is not only the unification of territory, but also the unification of culture.
The doctrines of various schools of thought must be translated according to the will of the State of Qin, and there will no longer be any small talk or big talk.
Small words and great righteousness can easily be misinterpreted by unscrupulous descendants of later generations according to the interests of their own class or the interests of contemporary rulers.
Only one vernacular explanation was given, and all other explanations were destroyed.
Although this cannot completely eliminate misinterpretation, the difficulty of misinterpretation has undoubtedly reached its highest level.
When the entire society is on the offensive against the interpretation of a certain sentence, how difficult is it to misinterpret it?
Moreover, if it is translated into vernacular and punctuated, you can basically understand the meaning as long as you are literate.
The requirements for teachers are greatly reduced, and students are not easily misled.
It can be foreseen that all schools of thought will face disaster in the future.
It is fine for the hundreds of scholars who have a unified understanding of the classics and meanings of their own school, but it is difficult for the hundreds of scholars who have more than one sect.
Among the hundreds of scholars, Confucianism has the largest number.
However, the State of Qin only recognized one interpretation of the classics. It is foreseeable that various Confucian factions will inevitably fight for orthodoxy...
Because other interpretations of the classics would be regarded as heresy and all would be burned.
However, Confucianism's arms could not hold back Qin's thigh, so they could only strive to become the orthodox interpretation.
Book burning incidents in history still happen.
In addition, the so-called burning of books and the entrapment of Confucianism are actually two things. Burning books is burning books, and entrapping Confucianism is entrapping Confucianism.
However, these two events were both radical cultural measures taken by Qin Shihuang to maintain the rule of the Qin Dynasty, so later generations often referred to these two events together.
Burning books and harassing Confucians is often regarded by later generations as one of the evidences of Qin Shihuang's cruelty, but in fact there was a reason.
Burning books was something he had to do, and humiliating Confucians made Qin Shihuang angry.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of schools of thought emerged one after another, and various ideas and cultures appeared like a spurt, presenting a situation where a hundred schools of thought contended.
For future generations, the contention of a hundred schools of thought will obviously bring more benefits.
It is precisely because of this special background that many ideas such as Confucianism, Mohism, Legalism, and Taoism began to appear.
These ideas are undoubtedly the treasures of ancient Chinese culture and one of the roots of our civilization.
But at that time, there may be great disputes between different ideas, and they may even be hostile to each other and wish to kill each other.
As a result, the cultural differences between countries will become larger and larger, and their independence will become stronger and stronger.
Coupled with the inconvenience of transportation at that time, the language, writing and culture of different places were different.
By the Warring States Period, several powerful vassal states almost had their own writing systems.
The relationship between these words is a bit like the relationship between English, French and Spanish today. They are all from the same language family, but they are very different from each other.
The deep gaps between characters, languages, and cultures have also caused deep gaps between the seven kingdoms, especially between the Qin Kingdom in the west and the Six Kingdoms of Shandong.
The six kingdoms of Shandong looked down upon Qin for a long time, and almost regarded Qin as a barbarian.
After Qin Shihuang unified the world, he also realized how much negative impact cultural differences would have on national unification.
Therefore, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he immediately began to unify writing, weights, measures, and currency, hoping to gradually eliminate this difference.
But in the process, Qin Shihuang soon discovered that he had simplified the problem.
All differences in words, weights, measures, currencies, etc. are actually cultural differences in the final analysis.
The most direct manifestation of cultural differences is the difference in thinking.
Differences in thinking cannot be resolved by simple violence.
The Qin army could destroy the armies of the six Shandong kingdoms, but it could not use force to destroy all kinds of different ideas, and it could not use force to unify different ideas.
Qin Shihuang was like a master with an invincible iron fist, but could not find a physical enemy.
It was not until 213 BC, eight years after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, that Qin Shi Huang found this enemy because of a special banquet.
This year, Qin Shihuang held a banquet in Xianyang.
At this banquet, the servants of the Qin Dynasty
Zhou Qingchen praised Qin Shihuang's great achievements. This is actually normal. After all, it is not unusual for a leader to hold a celebration banquet and as a subordinate to stand up and flatter him.
But while Zhou Qingchen was praising him, Dr. Chun Yuyue stood up and criticized Zhou Qingchen for being too flattering.
And using Zhou Qingchen's words, he began to use the topic to criticize the county system implemented by Qin Shihuang.
Chunyu Yue proposed that the Qin Dynasty should follow the example of the previous Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties and continue to implement the enfeoffment system.
The so-called doctorate is not what we call a doctorate today, but an ancient official position.
In the Qin Dynasty, officials who were in charge of classics and knowledgeable about history were called doctors.
Chunyu Yue's opposition was just the beginning. Next, the debate surrounding the enfeoffment system and the county system began to ferment rapidly.
Almost the entire top brass of the Qin Dynasty was involved in this.
As the supreme ruler, Qin Shihuang was naturally aware of the seriousness of this problem for the first time.
The system of prefectures and counties is the cornerstone of the Qin State's maintenance of unity. If the quarrel continues, won't it shake the cornerstone of the Qin State's rule?
Once the enfeoffment system is re-implemented, the Qin Dynasty will definitely repeat the mistakes of the Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, in the eyes of Qin Shihuang, this argument was meaningless. He had long been determined to implement the county system.
However, the emergence of this controversy made Qin Shihuang aware of another problem.
Why didn't a well-educated man like Chunyu Yue understand his thoughts?
In other words, why do these people know the benefits of the county system but still firmly oppose it?
Soon, Qin Shihuang found his answer.
The answer is that there is something wrong with the books these people read.
These well-educated people studied many books from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
These books from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods naturally advocated the enfeoffment system.
People who read these books will naturally firmly believe that enfeoffment is the truth.
The more books you read, the stronger this idea becomes!
Therefore, this is not a simple battle of interests, but an ideological war.
After finding this answer, Qin Shihuang naturally knew who his real enemy was!
In Qin Shihuang's view, it was basically impossible to change the beliefs of these learned people through debate or other methods.
Even if it could be done, the cost would be too high, so high that even Qin Shihuang could not bear it.
The simplest way is to directly burn those books that advocate enfeoffment, so that these ideas will lose their seeds.
Then ban everyone from discussing these ideas, so that this kind of ideas lose the soil for their existence.
In this way, with the passage of time, this kind of thinking will naturally become less of a problem.
Therefore, Qin Shihuang first ordered to burn books.
However, the books burned by Qin Shihuang were all those advocating enfeoffment.
For example, Qin Shihuang basically burned all the history recorded by various countries, leaving only the history recorded by the Qin State.
Another example is the so-called "Poetry", "Book" and other classics, which also contained a lot of content advocating the feudal system, so they were also chosen to be burned by Qin Shihuang.
As for those medical, divination, agricultural and other classics, as well as the ideological contents of hundreds of schools of thought that have nothing to do with the enfeoffment system, they have actually been left behind.
In addition, Qin Shihuang actually did not get things done.
Even the books he burned, most of them are in the Xianyang Royal Library, leaving copies for future generations to refer to, but they are not allowed to be circulated among the people.
Unfortunately, what Qin Shihuang never expected was that just a dozen years later, when Xiang Yu invaded Xianyang, a large fire burned a large number of ancient books, causing many ancient books to be lost.
Qin Shihuang probably never thought of this pot at that time.
It’s really not surprising that Xiang Yu lost to Liu Bang. What’s wrong with burning? Burning a library with countless ancient and modern books...
The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, but because of Xiang Yu's ignition, the Han Dynasty did not inherit countless classics, and they were naturally lost to later generations.
In addition, Qin Shihuang also acted very simply in terms of laws.
In the past, the laws of various countries were basically burned clean.
In the future, anyone who wants to learn law will always go to the officials of the Qin Dynasty to learn.
In this case, what everyone learns and implements is naturally the law of the Qin Dynasty.
This is what is called book burning in history.
As for cheating Confucianism, it is actually more like a helpless misunderstanding.
In the second year after the book burning incident, many educated people were very dissatisfied with Qin Shi Huang because Qin Shi Huang acted too radically during the book burning incident.
It happened that Qin Shihuang was refining the elixir of immortality at that time, and the alchemists in charge of refining the elixir ran away early because they knew that they could not refine the elixir of immortality at all.
Before fleeing, these people slandered Qin Shihuang, saying that Qin Shihuang was too arbitrary and domineering.
Those so-called learned men also took this opportunity to attack Qin Shihuang.
Qin Shihuang became furious and ordered a thorough investigation.
In the end, more than 460 people were found to be involved in the crime, and Qin Shihuang directly ordered that all of them be executed.
This is what is known in history as cheating Confucianism.
But the so-called entrapment of Confucianism does not actually mean that Qin Shihuang cut off the Confucian inheritance and killed all Confucian students.
Qin Shihuang killed only those who deceived and opposed him.
The real burning of books and entrapment of Confucians in history is like this.
From a cultural perspective, the burning of books and the entrapment of Confucians was naturally a catastrophe, which directly led to the discontinuation of many classics from the pre-Qin era.
But from a historical perspective, this incident maintained the unity and integrity of the country.
Of course, the Great Qin Empire had too many loopholes, and these things were not enough to save the building from collapse.
Therefore, for thousands of years, the controversy over burning books and humiliating Confucians has never stopped.
Looking at this issue from different angles, the results are completely different.
This debate will probably not stop in the future, let alone have any results.
…
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the course ends.
Cheng Xi let Xiao Fusu play by himself, then he took a carriage and went to a Sanjin Villa in Nancheng, Xianyang.
As soon as he stepped through the door, Zhao Gao greeted his luggage.
"Greetings to the Marquis."
The two of them bowed respectfully and bowed their hands.
Cheng Yu waved his hand and led Zhao Gao, Zhong Qian and Zhong Qian into the other courtyard and to the main room in the backyard.
There are net guards guarding both the inside and outside of this villa. The main room in the backyard is densely guarded with sentries, both open and covert.
Before he stepped into the room, Cheng Xiu curled his lips and looked around with a playful smile on his face.
"Haha, she is indeed the daughter of the Wolf King. She is indeed wild and difficult to tame."
Zhan Ri whispered: "Would you like me to go in first, so as not to bump into the Marquis..."
"No, the fight between trapped beasts is quite interesting."
After saying that, Cheng Xi strode towards the door, followed by Zhan Ri and the others immediately.
As soon as Cheng Xi opened the door and walked in, he was immediately attacked.
Two arms were locked towards Cheng Liao's arms, one golden hairpin was piercing Cheng Liao's neck, and the other was piercing Cheng Liao's right chest.
Although the speed is not slow, it lacks killing intent and smells more like kidnapping than assassination.
Sizzle...
Just when the Wolf King's daughter was about to succeed, two electric currents burst out from Cheng Yu's body.
Ding ding, two golden hairpins fell to the ground, and the two daughters of the Wolf King fell to the ground paralyzed. Cheng Yu didn't even pause, and walked straight to the chair at the head of the hall to sit down.
At the door, two women with similar looks but completely different temperaments sat slumped on the floor paved with bluestones.
The two women have high nose bridges, eye sockets that are deeper than those of Central Plains people, but lighter than those of Westerners. Their eyebrows are slender, and their skin is not rough like that of grassland people at all, but is whiter than that of ordinary Central Plains people.
The most eye-catching thing is the color of the eyes of the two people. The right eye is gold amber and the left eye is ice blue. They are the same color as the eyes of Hu Hai, the eighteenth son of Ying Zheng in the anime.
The two women's black hair was tied into thin braids and hung on their backs. They had exquisite and well-proportioned figures. One was wearing a slightly cool jade white dress, and the other was wearing a cool fiery red dress.
The former's temperament is like the snow lotus on the snowy mountains, cold and aloof, pure and pure; the latter is like the rose in the mountains, sexy, charming, wild and enchanting.
At this moment, the two women were like an angry, unruly she-wolf glaring at the adult who was looking down at them.
Zhanri, Zhao Gao and Zhong Qian stood at the door and did not enter the room.
"Zhao Gao come in, you two will wait at the door."
"Here."
Zhao Gao stepped into the room, Zhan Ri and Zhong Qian immediately closed the door, turned around and stood with their backs to the room.
With a thought in his mind, two golden ropes shot out from his toes, neither fast nor slow, like two golden snakes crawling on the ground.
The two women wanted to escape, but they were so numb that they couldn't use any force. They could only watch as they were bound by golden ropes from head to foot and held high.
Cheng Xi supported his head with his right hand, crossed his legs, and said with a sullen expression: "We should get to know each other when we meet for the first time."
"I am Ying Chenglong, what about you?"
Although the two women were rebellious, they realized that Chenglong's identity and strength were beyond their ability to resist, and they did not hold on any longer.
On the grassland, the strong are respected and the winner takes all. If you think you can afford the price, just hold on.
The woman in a jade-white dress said coldly: "The daughter of the Wolf King, Hu Yu."
The lady in the fiery red dress said coldly: "The daughter of the Wolf King, Hu Ji."
"Very good. Seeing that you are still somewhat knowledgeable, I will reveal a piece of news to you for free."
"Do you know why your wolf clan was defeated so miserably?"
The two sisters Hu Yu and Hu Ji were silent when they heard this. They were not as strong as others and had nothing to say.
"Because Touman wanted to become the new Wolf King, he made a deal with Qin."
Cheng Xi said with a smile but not a smile.
The two sisters Hu Yu and Hu Ji recalled a series of anomalies that had occurred since the wolves gathered their troops and went south to fight. After the war started, the war ended...
It suddenly dawned on me that no wonder the wolf clan's advance was not going smoothly, and those Qin soldiers were like prophets of the future.
He always appears at the most appropriate time and place, and every time he appears, he is quite deadly.
It would be logical if there was a high-level wolf clan leader who was the leader of a large tribe.
There is basically no decision-making made by the wolf clan that the leader of the large tribe does not know.
Their father died, they were captured, and the wolf warriors lost tens of thousands of their most elite warriors...
At this thought, the two sisters wanted to eat Tou Man alive.
"Touman is a werewolf."
"Do you know what a werewolf is?"
"He is even more ruthless than a ruthless person. He may become an enemy that cannot be ignored in the future."
"Of course that will be in the future, at least now Touman is nothing in the eyes of Qin."
"It's a pleasant surprise that you two sisters fell into the hands of our Qin State by chance."
"Therefore, I intend to give you two sisters a chance. It just so happens that our Qin royal family is also two brothers..."
"If you two sisters can pass the test set by me, then the elder sister will enter the palace and the younger sister will follow me."
"There will definitely be a chance to take revenge in the future, what do you think?"
Chenglong's expression was quite indifferent throughout the whole process, as if he just wanted to give it a try instead of doing it carefully.
Regarding Hu Yu and Hu Ji, what they said was more true than false. They only concealed the most critical part, which was extremely confusing.
Although we want the two sisters to enter the palace and the mansion, we cannot give the two sisters the illusion that they are begging for them, and we cannot let the two women enter too easily.
Only by letting the two women work hard and achieve the goal with great difficulty will the two women cherish it and be measured in the future.
Who would cherish something that is easily obtained?
As the daughters of the Wolf King, the two sisters are naturally extraordinary women. They instantly realized that there was no better outcome.
If the two sisters hadn't been able to provide legitimate legal support for Qin's intervention in grassland affairs, there's no telling what tragic end would have been waiting for them...
Now that we have the opportunity to change our destiny and take revenge, how can we not seize it?
Although the two women are extraordinary women, they still don't know how deep the world's tricks can go...
The two sisters looked at each other and said in unison: "We are willing to accept the test."
"very good."
Cheng Yu smiled and slowly put the two girls down with a thought in his mind.
At this time, the paralysis effect on the two women had passed, and the two women were able to stand firmly on the ground.
"The first test I will give you is to do as the Romans do."
"First, your Chinese dialect is not good enough and you need to continue learning."
"Second, your hairstyle and clothing must be in line with those of the Central Plains. You are no longer allowed to leave your hair open or braid it."
"The third person is in Qin, you must understand the laws of Qin."
"I will send people to teach you. You are not required to master them all, but you must understand the basic laws."
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"Half a month, limited to half a month."
"If you fail to meet my requirements in half a month, you will be sold to Baihua Pavilion."
After saying that Cheng Cheng stood up and left, Zhao Gao bent down and opened the door for Cheng Cheng.
After Cheng Yu left, Hu Yu asked cautiously: "Excuse me, sir, where is Baihua Pavilion?"
Zhao Gao clasped his hands in the sleeves of his broad robe and said with a sinister smile: "Humph... It's a favorite place for men to spend time."
"Although Baihua Pavilion has a good name, it is a place where anyone can go to have fun, and business is extremely prosperous."
The two sisters immediately understood where Baihua Pavilion was, their faces turned pale, and an unparalleled sense of urgency lingered in their hearts...
This chapter has been completed!