"What do they think?" Yan Lu raised his hand and asked with a smile.
"I have all kinds of ideas." Fu Nian paused for a moment before replying with a slightly calmer tone, "Those who are petitioning, those who are arrogant, those who are testing, those who are united, those who are threatening, those who are sensible, and those who are moved by emotion.
, those who lure them for profit..."
"In short, it's hustle and bustle."
"Then what do you think, Senior Brother?" Yan Lu asked back, while making another move.
"I have no opinion!" Fu Nian replied in a serious tone, and pressed a sunspot hard, "There is no one in the world who is not the king! Junior brother, don't lose your duty."
As a disciple of Confucianism, it is the duty of a minister not to criticize a king, and a son not to criticize his father.
Ying Zheng, the first emperor, paid special attention to this point, so he directly abolished the posthumous titles used by the Zhou Dynasty. At the same time, he did not re-enable the temple titles of the Shang Dynasty, and stipulated that the emperor should be called the emperor based solely on algebraic inheritance.
Under such circumstances, as Confucian disciples, Fu Nian and others should abide by their duties and not arbitrarily discuss the emperor's will, let alone attempt to speculate.
Of course, another important reason why Fu Nian didn't want to get involved was because he couldn't care less.
"Don't forget, we have other things to be busy with now."
Yan Lu's eyes jumped when he heard this, and he understood in his heart.
For Fu Nian, being enshrined in Mount Tai is certainly a top priority, but as long as Ying Zheng has not explicitly asked Xiaoshengxian Manor to take responsibility, the most important thing for Fu Nian right now is copying books.
The current progress of this work is still very worrying.
After all, there is no automation in this era, and it must all be done manually. Moreover, it cannot be done openly, and the speed will certainly not be improved.
Even if the efficiency is low, Fu Nian seems to have some stress disorder and delusions of victimization... although the book-burning order has not yet been officially issued.
He was afraid that there would be too few copies left and it would be unsafe. With Quicksand providing unlimited copying paper, he wished he could have hundreds of copies of each book copied.
There is nothing wrong with copying more books. It should be said that it is a good thing. After all, one of the biggest obstacles restricting people's reading these days is that there are too few books.
But endless copying of books is not a problem!
Human hands are not born just for copying books.
Fortunately, Fu Nian only overreacted a little and still had some sense. He also knew to make a small number of copies of all the books in the collection before considering further expansion.
"Senior Brother, the land of Qilu is boiling and filling the sky right now. I'm afraid it would be... difficult for Little Saint Xianzhuang to ignore it!" Yan Lu thought for a moment and reminded him in a subtle tone.
Yan Lu himself has an indifferent character, which does not mean that he necessarily thinks that being indifferent to the world is a good thing.
If Xiaoshengxianzhuang doesn't get involved in the matter of Mount Tai's enshrinement of Zen, can we really just sit back and abide by the rules?
"If you don't follow the rules, you can't make a circle." Fu Nian replied calmly, "Since the king has not spoken, we, the subjects, should remain silent."
Yan Lu grinned, feeling that the Book Burning Order had disturbed the eldest brother's mind.
Follow the rules?
Does what Xiaoshengxianzhuang does have anything to do with obeying the rules?
Of course, it is not illegal to copy books, and it is not illegal to copy books secretly. It is illegal to inquire about the unannounced court policies.
But the matter of the book-burning order was not deliberately inquired by Little Saint Xianzhuang, but was brought up on its own initiative.
So strictly speaking, Xiaoshengxian Village does not actively violate the rules at most.
Obeying the rules obviously does not mean not breaking them.
According to Fu Nian, he had actually crossed the line.
More importantly, for Ying Zheng, the above inequality still holds, so how to characterize what Xiaoshengxianzhuang did depends purely on his mood.
Facing a creature like the Emperor, excessively taking the initiative is seeking death, but blindly passive patience is waiting for death, especially when there are a group of enemies with evil intentions around... or maybe pig teammates.
"Elder brother, don't forget your promise to the eldest son to help Su." Yan Lu reminded him softly.
Fu Nianluozi's movements paused.
What Yan Lu wanted to remind him was definitely not the matter itself, because what he promised was to copy the book, and he was doing it right now.
So what his junior brother wanted to talk about was actually the private meeting they had during Fusu's visit to Little Saint Xian Manor that day...
Yan Lu's voice sounded again, "Senior Brother, the Little Sage's Village cannot avoid the big whirlpool of the world's general trend. I am afraid that the Little Sage's Village cannot avoid the small whirlpool of the Zen Conferment Ceremony!"
"...I understand." Fu Nian put down the chess piece in his hand heavily and responded in a low voice.
Then, the two stopped talking and concentrated on the chess game.
In other words, he seems to be concentrating on the chess game.
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Songhai City, in the small courtyard of Guxun.
It was almost dusk. Gu Xun had an early meal and sat alone in the yard, thinking about what to do next.
After doing some calculations, I found that there were so many threads and no beginning or end at all.
Things about mirages, things about Confucianism, things about snares, and things about the upcoming Mount Tai...
One by one, it seemed like he should ask about it.
But if you ask about them all, then he has too many things to do, and...I don’t know where to start at all.
Everything has to be dealt with, and everything has its difficulties. Even Gu Xun cannot solve it overnight.
"A martial artist... is a martial artist after all." Gu Xun crossed his arms and laughed to himself.
But he didn't care too much.
Even if these things can't be done, they won't be done. After all, they are just insignificant 'minutiae'.
As long as the real big things are done, he won't have to worry about these... anyway.
Just when he was free and thinking, there was a faint sound of footsteps in the courtyard.
Gu Xun turned around and looked over. The person who came was none other than Jing Salamander. However, what she was holding was not her own Jing Salamander sword, but the square white sword Quexie. She was also wearing Quexie's usual clothes.
To highlight your figure, it should even be said that you are simply covering your figure.
Gu Xun was not surprised that she came, nor was he surprised by Que Xiejian or her dress. He just smiled and waved, "It's rare that you are willing to come to see me and come sit here."
"Have you received the information about Daze Mountain?" Jing salamander came over, sat across from Gu Xun, and asked straight to the point.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I received it this morning, but the ones after that have not been delivered yet." Gu Xun adjusted his sitting posture and asked after answering, "What, Luo Wang?
Is there any news from the side?"
Although the Songhai area had been cleansed of the Snare Killers before, there were still many intelligence officers left here, as well as a small number of "own people" deliberately left behind by Gu Xun and the others.
These people work together to maintain the operation of the network in this area.
Of course, it is only the most basic operation, just like a company with only front desk customer service.
However, relying on these people was enough to temporarily fool Zhao Gao, making him still think that everything was business as usual in Songhai.
The information from Luowang will naturally be sent here normally, but the delay is relatively high - the information will only be sent here, but it will not be sent here specifically on an expedited basis.
Logically speaking, Jing Salamander should not have received the news of the end of the Battle of Daze Mountain from Luo Wang so quickly.
Jing Salamander shook his head, "There is news, but it's not from Daze Mountain."
"Luowang is allocating manpower to the area around Boyang, Lu County."
In other words, these two places are near Mount Tai.
Gu Xun was not surprised by this, "Ying Zheng has just started from Xianyang, and the matter of the Feng Chan has already spread a lot, and everyone knows it. The net must have been made with great effort."
From Xianyang to Taishan, if you are a Jianghu person like Gai Nie, you can probably arrive in three or four days at the earliest, but it will take at least a month for Ying Zheng's patrol team to arrive.
As far as Gu Xun knew, the scheduled arrival time at Mount Tai planned by the imperial court was fifty days later, nearly two months.
On the one hand, Ying Zheng's patrol team was actually a mobile imperial court, and they had to stop and inspect the cities they passed along the way.
On the other hand, when the emperor travels, he must maintain dignity.
No matter how excellent the Ying Zheng's horse-drawn carriage shock-absorbing system is, it is still a horse-drawn carriage, and there will still be bumps as expected.
Relieve ≠ none.
Once the speed is increased, the degree of bumpiness will rise linearly, and the travel pressure borne by the patrol team will also rise linearly.
To take a step back, even if Ying Zheng can withstand the fatigue of traveling and traveling, there are many old men who are not young following him. These old guys may not be able to withstand the hardship.
But for such a slow team, only two days after setting off, the news about Mount Tai's Feng Chan spread throughout the world.
How could this be okay?
There are only a few organizations that have the ability to spread the news throughout the Central Plains in such a short period of time.
Quicksand didn't do this.
The imperial court has the ability, but it cannot do it.
The only ones left are the Luowang family.
"This time, Confucianism was successfully caught in a trap." Gu Xun sighed with emotion.
Zhao Gao is a bad guy. Although he has a bad stomach and can't hold in his farts all day long, his abilities and methods are indeed not bad.
As soon as they finished plotting against the peasants over there, they started fighting against the Confucians. There was really no delay at all.
It has to be said that when it comes to dealing with Fangzi Baijia, even Gu Xun has to admit that Zhao Fuling is more professional.
The action efficiency is much better than that of Gu Xun!
"Sure enough, you are using the matter of enshrining Zen to deal with Confucianism..." After hearing Gu Xun's words, Jing salamander murmured softly.
"Are you worried about Confucianism?" Gu Xun asked subconsciously after hearing this. After asking, he knew that he had gone astray, "Are you worried about Yan Lu?"
"Do you think the snare can be successful this time?" Jing Salamander did not answer directly, but asked a question, which can be regarded as expressing his attitude.
Gu Xun shrugged, "I can't say. I don't know Zhao Gao's specific plans."
"However, in my personal opinion, no matter what Zhao Gao plans to do, the probability of success is very high."
"What Luo Wang is good at and likes most is exploiting the internal contradictions and loopholes of the enemy."
"In Daze Mountain, the way to deal with farmers is to quickly explode conflicts within the farmers, and Confucianism..."
Having said this, Gu Xun couldn't help but laugh out loud.
If the conflicts within peasant families are more derived from conflicts of interests and factional struggles, then the conflicts within Confucianism are closer to religious conflicts.
Everyone sees each other as heretics.
If you want to talk about direct conflicts of interest, there are really not many, but at the root, there are irreconcilable conflicts and contradictions in the justice of the existence of one's own faction.
This kind of contradiction, which is filled with more emotional and ideological opposition, is undoubtedly easier to be exploited by people with deliberate intentions.
In addition, the enshrinement of Mount Tai was a major event that Ying Zheng was closely concerned about. With Zhao Gao's understanding of his master, he could easily ignite the emperor's anger on Confucianism.
"You can't escape from the Little Sage Village?" Even though he heard the bad news, Jing Salamander's expression didn't change much and he still asked calmly.
Gu Xun shrugged again, "If it's just an internal conflict within Confucianism, Xiaoshengxian Manor can certainly avoid it."
As a holy land of Confucianism, if Xiaoshengxianzhuang does not want to end up, no one can stop it, and the most it will do is get scolded.
However, Xiaoshengxianzhuang has been dissed within Confucian circles, and has been scolded at least once or twice.
"But sooner or later this conflict will spread beyond Confucianism, just like what happened to farmers in Daze Mountain."
Through the Stone of Fire, the conflicts between the farmers were directly implicated in the empire, attracting the deadly threat of Wang Li's armor-piercing soldiers.
The current situation of the Confucian family seems worse than that of the peasant family.
After all, the farmer was only involved in a stone that Ying Zheng wanted especially, and the Taishan Fengchan associated with Confucianism was directly related to Ying Zheng himself.
"..." After being silent for a while, the Frightened Salamander asked again, "Are you planning to intervene?"
"It's hard to say." Gu Xun replied, spreading his hands, "In principle, I don't want Confucianism to suffer annihilation, but we still have to see how the situation develops next."
"As for the Little Saint's Manor... don't worry too much. The worst thing you can do is save people and lose territory. Can I still let my brother get into trouble?"
Gu Xun felt a little strange when he said this, because Yan Lu, whom he nominally called his brother, looked much older than him... although in fact it was Gu Xun who was older.
Hearing this, Jing salamander showed a gentle smile towards Gu Xun.
She rarely showed this kind of expression, even when facing Gu Xun, she always had a cold expression on her face.
But when she is in a good mood, or wants Gu Xun to be in a good mood, her expression becomes softer.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Her smile at this time was not because she knew that nothing would happen to Yan Lu, but just to let Gu Xun not worry about her - she never felt that Yan Lu was a stranger
Something will happen.
Seeing this, Gu Xun gave her a bright smile, and then asked pretending to be aggrieved, "You came to me specifically just to ask about Yan Lu?"
When Jing Salamander heard this, his smile immediately faded, and he returned to his usual aloofness, and then responded, "I have something else."
"Go and tell Yan Lingji and the others to stop hanging around me."
Unlike Yan Lingji, Jing Salamander has never been prejudiced against or displeased with these 'sisters'. She is as tolerant as possible and tries to live in harmony with everyone.
But recently, Yan Lingji and Hong Lian have been pulling Nong Yu, hanging around her whenever they have nothing to do.
On normal days, she wouldn't bother to care.
But she recently supported her daughter!
These guys are always hanging around, which increases the risk of exposure for her... although there are not many people in the Songhai area who are trying to trap her.
"Ah..." Gu Xun was a little bit blinded after hearing this, and opened his mouth, wishing he could give himself a slap in the face.
I have nothing to talk about when I have nothing to do!
With Yan Lingji and the others' abilities, it is impossible to lock the position of Jing Salamander at all times, so... yes, it was Gu Xun who led the way.
After all, he asked Yan Lingji and the others to inquire about information for him, so he must provide the necessary information.
As a result, no information was obtained, but a lot of chaos was caused.
The key point is that what Jing Salamander said makes sense, he is busy with his business...
Gu Xun could only twitch the corner of his mouth, sneered twice and replied, "Well, I will tell them later, and I will definitely not let them continue to mess around!"
The round eyes of Jing Salamander took a deep look at her husband, and the meaning in her eyes was very clear - you'd better do this!
