For example, if you help the stall owner interpret your divination, you will not only save yourself the cost of a drink, but also get a lot of rewards. Under the greeting of the stall owner, several saints were eager to give it a try, but they all kept their status and did not take the initiative to walk out of the crowd.
Waiting for the stall owner to come and invite you.
At this time, an old man with some age spots on his face walked out of the crowd wearing a ragged feather coat. He snatched the tortoise shell from the stall owner and said to the stall owner: "I'm here to relieve you.
Divination."
Seeing that he was so old and just an ordinary person with no status, the stall owner hesitated for a while and wondered whether he should invite him to interpret the divination.
But the old man winked at him and whispered in his ear: "I only charge you ten shell coins.
The old man's divination is very accurate."
When the stall owner heard that he only charged ten shell coins, he immediately became happy and without hesitation, he asked the old man to interpret the fortune for him.
The old man, wearing clothes made of bird feathers and animal skins, sat on the ground. He glanced at the pattern on the tortoise shell. Even though Su Wu was far away from there, he still saw the cracks on the tortoise shell that had been burned.
You must be clear - it is a crossed stroke and stroke. From a distance, it looks like the word "fierce".
Su Wu secretly thought that the result of the stall owner's divination must be bad.
However, the reality was beyond his expectation——
The old man looked at the tortoise shell with a smile. His fingers rubbed the intersecting cracks on the tortoise shell. Under that crack, a horizontal stripe parallel to the cracks appeared. Suddenly, the cracks on the tortoise shell appeared.
The meaning of the texture has completely changed!
The cracks artificially created by the old man and the cracks caused by the previous flames together formed the character "Shi".
And under the character "Shi" are some lines originally found on tortoise shells, which looks like the character "吉"!
Turn bad luck into good luck!
But, would this interpretation of divination still be accurate?
Could this old man be a liar?
Su Wu was whirling with his thoughts when he saw the old man stand up and said to the stall owner: "Can a virgin come to explain such a divination?
It’s an ‘auspicious’ sign.
The wine you brew must be rich and sweet!"
The stall owner took the tortoise shell from the old man and saw that it was as the old man said. There was a word "lucky" on the tortoise shell. He was overjoyed and took out nearly twenty shell coins and gave them to the old man.
Then, the stall owner opened the seal of the pottery jar and scooped out a cup of wine to taste. It was as rich and sweet as the old man said!
The old man drank another free glass of wine at the stall owner and then walked to the next stall.
He repeated his old trick and successfully asked the second stall owner to hand over the tortoise shell to him for divination at the price of ten shell coins. Su Wu saw that the lines on the tortoise shell were light and almost non-existent. He and Qu learned that in this way,
The divination often indicates that something is mediocre and there will be almost no progress.
If it should be above wine-making, it means that the level of wine-making is bland - which is also close to failure.
However, the old man said: "Your wine must be very clear, almost like water, comparable to sweet springs, it must be sweet and mellow!"
The owner of the second stall was equally overjoyed. He opened the seal and tasted the wine. It was indeed sweet and mellow, just as the old man said!
Su Wu was surprised that the old man's predictions were so accurate, and the conclusions were often very different from what the "Zhenren Nuo" around him said, so he asked him to stay where he was and went to the third stall where the old man went.
After the old man interpreted the divination and said that the wine from the third stall owner must be sweet and rich, he bought a glass of wine from the stall owner to taste it - it did have some sweetness, but it was not much different from the wine he drank before.
difference.
The old man's divination is indeed very similar to the wine sold by the stall owner.
Later, he followed the old man to drink wine from the fourth, fifth, and sixth places. In fact, the quality and smell of the wines from the four places were basically the same. It was just that the fortune tellers displayed on the tortoise shells when the old man got them were often different.
Various differences.
The divination results given by the old man are always the same as before. They are all auspicious and good divination.
Su Wu roughly understood from this that the quality of the wine brewed by the stall owners was only related to their craftsmanship. They all made a living by making wine at the gate of the city. Their crafts and brewing skills were very different from each other, and the quality of the wine was also quite similar.
Can't tell a clear difference.
And the results of their divination every time before drinking wine, in fact, according to the divination of real people, the results must be different, or even very different.
So, maybe divination is actually dispensable when it comes to brewing wine.
Divination cannot affect the "factual quality" of wine pulp, but it can affect people's subjective evaluation of wine pulp.
Or maybe the divination is deeply related to the quality of the wine, but the old man who looks ordinary and seems to be more of a liar than a chaste person, reversed the divination without Su Wu being aware of it, thus affecting the true quality of the wine.
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No matter what, the old man finally reached the stall where Qu and Su Wu were.
He still explained a good hexagram to the stall owner.
The stall owner happily opened the seal and after tasting the wine, he brought a glass of wine to the old man and asked him to taste it for free.
The old man received his reward, looked around with the glass of wine, and then turned his attention to where Su Wu and Sui were.
He held the wine cup, walked to Su Wuqu with a smile, and sat down on the floor.
"How do you two friends?" The old man had a sincere smile on his face. He raised his wine cup and gestured to the two of them, "My name is Chang and I am from the Zhou Kingdom. I wonder where you are from?"
Hearing the sound, Qu looked at Su Wu.
He had seen all the divination done by the old man before, and now he was willing to argue with the old man. However, he would not speak rashly when his master was around.
"We come from the 'Hungry Land', my name is Wu. This is my servant, named 'Qu'." Su Wu responded to the old man.
Xingdi is a big clan near Yindu, with "Xing" as its surname.
Su Wu did not tell the old man the truth.
They came from Ge Chang, but Ge Chang's entire clan had already surrendered to the Zhou Kingdom. Without knowing the old man's specific identity, they rashly told the truth. Maybe the other party would follow the clues and learn more about the situation, especially since the old man's name was 'Chang'.
', If the old man's surname is 'Ji', then the identity of the other party is almost ready to be revealed.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It turns out to be Wu Yuqu from Hungry Land.
Let's drink together, noon, Qu." The old man picked up the wine cup again, and after drinking half a cup of wine, he sighed with an intoxicated face, "The wine is sweet, but not too intoxicating, so it is loved by people.
If it were more intoxicating, more people would love it.
People who live under the gaze of the sky are in too much pain. Drinking such a drink can make people numb for a while. But the reality has never changed in any way because of drinking.
Therefore, Zhou State prohibited brewing and drinking.
Only after leaving the Zhou Dynasty can you secretly drink a glass of wine."
"People already know the sweetness and intoxication of wine, so how can they resist it? The Zhou Dynasty's prohibition on alcohol can only be banned for a while, but it cannot be done forever, right?
Moreover, the common people of the Zhou Kingdom cannot drink, but the nobles of the Zhou Kingdom can drink wine in private, right?" Su Wu smiled and asked the old man.
The old man chuckled and said, "You see clearly.
Some things can never be completely banned, but if those in power do not do things to ban them, that would be a dereliction of duty on the part of those in power.
People are originally ignorant and chaotic. Only education can help them escape from beasts like monkeys and roe and truly grow into adults."
"How can people be born ignorant and chaotic?" Qu couldn't help but say, "We are born with the spirit of heaven and earth, and we are born different from wild beasts.
The acquired education only makes people smarter, but it cannot make people essentially different from when they were babies."
"Are you capable of offering sacrifices since you were born? Do you know how to ask the heavens for divination?" Chang, a native of Zhou, asked him.
He frowned and shook his head.
"Did the heaven allow you to suddenly know how to perform sacrifices and become a pure person?" Chang Zai asked.
He still shook his head.
"Then why do you think that you were born with the spirit of heaven and earth?"
"Because only humans have become chaste beings. Beasts like pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep have never become priests. Because of this, it means that we are born in accordance with the will of God." Qu responded naturally.
Zhou Guorenchang shook his head and laughed, and asked him again: "Why did the gods of that day look like hundreds of wild beasts at first, but gradually grew into human shapes as they were sacrificed again and again?
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Qu's face froze when he heard this, and he suddenly didn't know how to answer Zhou Guorenchang's question.
He tightened his eyebrows, his thoughts were racing, and this question attracted all his attention - yes, why did the gods of heaven initially have the characteristics of cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and various beasts, but after sacrifices again and again, they became
Turned into human form?
If people were born adhering to the spirit of heaven, they should also look like cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs, possessing the characteristics of various beasts!
On the contrary, does that mean that the gods of heaven are actually born to uphold the aura of humans and are gradually taught by humans?
Man has enlightened heaven?!
As soon as this idea flashed out of his mind, he was immediately filled with fear. He was frightened by his sudden thought and did not dare to think further!
At this time, the man from Zhou State spoke up and expressed his opinion: "Humans are actually just one of the thousands of animals in the world. In fact, there is nothing unique about them.
But because of "enlightenment", humans are distinguished from other animals and gradually become different.
And because people are different, geniuses will choose people. Among the crowd, there began to exist people who specialized in offering sacrifices to heaven.
The gods of heaven were no different from humans at first, and were just one of the thousands of animals in the universe. However, people worshiped them, so they grew rapidly and gradually became more important than people.
This kind of offering is actually a form of enlightenment from man to heaven.
Therefore, I believe that there has never been any way of heaven—"
Zhou Guorenchang turned his gaze to Su Wu, his eyes sparkling: "Humanity is the road that tolerates everything, what do you think?"
There has never been any way of heaven. There is only one way in the world, which is the "way of humanity"!
Su Wu was shaken by the words 'Chang', and there was a gleam in his eyes - he had now confirmed that this person from the Zhou Kingdom, Chang, was none other than Ji Chang, who was revered as 'King Wen of Zhou' in later generations. , the King Wen who evolved the 'Sixty-Four Hexagrams of King Wen'!
With a smile on his face, he looked at Chang and said: "So you are doing divination and explaining the divination for the wine stall owners, in fact, to educate them?
What divination is, it never really matters.
What is important is the soothsayer, the teacher?"
"Although heaven is powerful and controls the authority of the human world and makes everyone in the world surrender to it, it is only powerful, and its consciousness is still as ignorant as a wild beast and chaotic as a child. It cannot take into account many aspects of the human world and cannot completely "Control." Chang said with a smile, "We have educated the heaven that we have today, but it tries to completely control us and feed on us. It can be seen that the nature of nature is evil and cannot be changed after education.
Therefore, we must take the initiative to master those aspects that God cannot yet take into account, and use our education to replace God’s control over the human world.
But people today believe too firmly in the sky, and it is actually impossible to replace the sky immediately.
Therefore, we need to use the name of heaven to gradually erode the control of heaven over the human world, and even make everything easier in the end.
This so-called ‘Tao of Change’ is the principle I follow now, and it should also be the right way of humanity today.
The way of humanity is the way of education.
Although heaven is powerful, it is not omniscient. How can it know how to make wine?
People have learned the art of making wine, but they have to rely on the quality of the wine pulp in sacrifices to heaven. Doesn't this mean that they have transferred their authority to the sky and let it be controlled by the sky?
Nowadays, heaven does not take into account industries like brewing, and has no control over them for the time being.
But once Heaven pays attention to an industry like wine-making and orders them to offer living people as sacrifices, wouldn't it mean that when the wine is unsealed, they will kill people as sacrifices?
Therefore, we must take advantage of this moment to use the name of heaven to grasp the power that it has not yet grasped.
Starting from today, people will think that there is a Zhou Guozhen named "Chang", and his divination about the brewing industry is quite correct. And then day by day, "Chang"'s position as a worshiper in the brewing industry will gradually become unshakable. At this time, the sky
It is completely impossible to try to erode the brewing industry again.
Because at that time, they believed in ‘Chang’ more than ‘Heaven’ itself!”
The old man's thoughts were clear and his words were strict. His eyes shone with wisdom. After he explained his idea, Su Wu was very impressed.
This kind of divination and interpretation of divination can be used in the brewing industry today, in farming in the Ming Dynasty, and then in wars, and in the end - heaven will even become a 'false heaven'
', and the 'heaven' presided over by humanity will become the true heaven!
However, this method also has a key point that needs to be overcome.
Su Wu's mind was flashing with thoughts, and he asked Xiang Chang: "You may be familiar with brewing, so you can judge the quality of the stall owners' brewing, and provide corresponding divination explanations.
But if you make such a divination interpretation in an area that you are not familiar with, how can others believe you if you make a mistake?
No one can guarantee that he is completely correct and will always be correct.
You always make mistakes, and sometimes, even one mistake can cause all your previous efforts to fall apart."