Even if you use a vertical silver needle without bait or hook, those fat carp will hit it repeatedly, causing the fish float to float up and down and stagger around.
This will not be the case in Chang'an Junfu. The carp here have learned to be smart. Without bait, no fish will bother with the broken needle that shines with silver light.
The First Emperor wore a light yellow fat robe that was loose and not close to the body. For a king, such clothes were somewhat inappropriate and not suitable for wearing in front of others.
The imperial robe, cut according to the figure of the First Emperor and perfectly suitable for the First Emperor, would show the Emperor's majesty, but this robe would show the First Emperor's laziness.
Normally the First Emperor would not dress like this unless it was to achieve a certain purpose, such as getting closer to a certain talent.
Nowadays, it is because it is comfortable to wear like this. Mianfu is both power and restraint.
After the initial period of discomfort since the Prime Minister's Office was asked to handle most of the government affairs, the First Emperor now feels extremely relaxed.
A small part of the power was given away, and most of the constraints were lost. You can go to bed early every day, or you can find a few concubines in the harem to have children.
The First Emperor touched the fishing rod lightly, closed his eyes and stretched his body in the warm sun. He raised his arms and slid down his sleeves. He stretched out and took a comfortable breath.
"This kind of indulgent life really makes me addicted."
Ge Nie, who came closer at some point, saw the First Emperor's appearance, his stern face twitched, and he had the urge not to do anything for the First Emperor.
[So lazy, how is it different from the young master?!]
Ta Ta ~
His steps were deliberately heavier, making two distinct soft sounds on the grass.
The First Emperor moved his arms forward very naturally, and then stretched them upward. He repeated this several times, then turned back and glanced at Gai Nie.
"Why are you disturbing my practice?"
"...Mao Heng has arrived at the house. Your Majesty, would you like to see him?"
"not see."
The First Emperor responded very quickly and continued to do arm raising exercises. After doing four more sets, he inadvertently turned around and found that Genie was still there, speaking in a bad tone.
"Why don't you leave? Is there anything else?"
"Your Majesty told Nie Yan a few days ago that when Xunzi's disciples enter Xianyang, they should be seen in person."
The First Emperor frowned and put down his hands.
"Did I say this?"
Gai Nie's face was expressionless, but his answer was decisive.
"Your Majesty said it himself."
"No, why don't I remember."
"Your Majesty, don't you want to be as lazy as Lord Chang'an?"
The First Emperor's face suddenly dropped.
"I am not the King of Qi, and you are not Zou Ji. Anyone who stabs me in the face will not only not get a reward, but will also be hated by me."
Gai Nie's face drooped, but his tone also changed from like a pool of stagnant water to a slight splash of water.
"If Your Majesty does not depose Nie, please follow your preamble."
Seeing the firmness of the seal order, the First Emperor somewhat understood how his younger brother felt when he was forced to become an official.
It was indeed what the First Emperor said to meet Xunzi's disciples, in order to win people's hearts and buy horse bones for a large sum of money. But now, the First Emperor doesn't want to see him anymore.
He originally thought that he alone was responsible for ensuring the operation of the Qin State, and that he had to do everything personally. But since becoming the director of the Xiangbang Mansion, he found that nothing would go wrong without him.
Recently, I looked through the words and deeds of Ying Chengxuan handwritten by Xunzi, and he agreed very much with what Ying Chengxuan said in it - Qin will continue to operate as usual without everyone, and no one in the world is irreplaceable.
"Leave such small matters to the prime minister and the two prime ministers to do it. Report the names of the official positions they have arranged, and I will do the final review."
Gai Nie was unmoved and bowed slightly.
"Your Majesty, please keep your promise."
"There are at least thousands of Xunzi's disciples. How can I see them all?"
"Your Majesty, please keep your promise."
The First Emperor pondered for a moment.
"When Xunzi's disciples arrive, I will see them all."
[I said I’d see you when we get to Xianyang, but I didn’t say we’d see you soon after we get there.]
Having no reason to dissuade him anymore, Gai Nie pursed his lips, glanced at the slightly sullen Emperor Shihuang, turned around and left, as fast as a shooting star.
[If the young master is not the king, the Qin Kingdom will be over sooner or later!]
The First Emperor changed to a relaxing posture and lay down again. Under him were tiger skins and bears skins that he had plundered from Chang'an Palace...
The warm sun was shining low in the west, and the leisurely Emperor Shihuang picked up the fishing rod again, picked up the silver needle and swung it around again before throwing it into the pond. He was thinking about what he heard from Gai Nie about Lu Buwei's words about those who wish to take the bait.
"If I had known this, I would have become King Wen of Zhou."
Step~
Step~
There were footsteps again.
Before the people arrive, the sound arrives first.
"Zhang Han pays homage to His Majesty."
Zhang Han, who was wearing bone-corroding skull armor, bowed his head to the armrest and stood ten steps away from the First Emperor to salute.
"Has the person been found?"
"yes."
"My safety will be in your hands, Zhang Han."
Wow~
Zhang Han knelt down, his armor making a soft sound.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Zhang Han said in a deep voice:
"only!"
The First Emperor holds a fishing rod.
"The power of the original secret guard was handed over to the shadow secret guard, who was in charge of the official position, and who was in charge of the shadow secret guard. Zhang Han, I have given full power to you in Xianyang Palace. Don't betray my trust."
The First Emperor paused slightly.
"I hope that your shadow guard can be like what Zhuzi said: like a maggot attached to a bone, like a shadow following you, and like me personally."
Zhang Han shouted in a low voice:
"Handing has lived up to His Majesty's expectations!"
The First Emperor nodded slightly and waved his hands.
"Go down and don't disturb me while I'm fishing."
Zhang Han hesitated for a moment and said softly:
"I still have something to report to Your Majesty."
"explain."
"Concubine Chu has been in and out frequently recently and has had close contacts with many old ministers. The queen is going to Yongdi to visit the Queen Mother and will leave tomorrow. Gan Shangqing has held two banquets in the past three days, and all the attendees are high nobility."
The First Emperor held the fishing rod in his hand, and the fish floated smoothly on the water without any obvious shaking.
"Leave it to them."
"only."
Xunzi's house.
Mao Heng, who was tired of his travels, saw his teacher, whom he had long thought to be dead, sitting safely in front of him. The middle-aged man couldn't help but blush.
He wiped away the tears from his eyes, took out a wooden hairpin from his clothes with holes in it, inserted it into his head to fix his hair, bowed and bowed.
"Student Mao Heng, I met the teacher."
Xunzi stood up and returned the courtesy.
"Please get up."
From that day on, people continued to bow and worship in this house.
"Student Fuqiubo, I have met the teacher."
"Student Lu Jia, I met the teacher."
"Student Gongsun Ni, I have met the teacher."
"Student Chen Xiao, I met the teacher."
"..."
Xunzi returned the courtesy as usual every time, and then said a gentle greeting. Within half a month, he said 334 greetings, and the Chang'an Jun's Mansion was overcrowded.
Most of his disciples are not well-known today. In this era, there are two giants of Legalism, Han Fei and Li Si Zhuyu, and other students are like pebbles, infinitely suppressed.
But if we look at the entire history, many of the Xunzi disciples who came to Xianyang were very famous.
Mao Heng.
Mao Sui's nephew in the idiom "Mao Sui recommends himself" is a beginner in the late Qin and Han Dynasties, a native of Handan, Zhao State, and the founder of the ancient poetry "Mao Poetry".
He studied "Poetry" from Xunzi, and his poetics was passed down from Zixia. He once wrote "The Biography of Mao's Poems", referred to as "The Biography of Mao", and taught it to his nephew Mao Chang. The world called him "Da Mao Gong" and called him
My nephew Mao Chang is called "Little Mao Gong".
Fuqiub.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, he was an important figure in the history of the development of Old Confucianism and New Confucianism. According to the records of Jingning County Chronicles and the prefaces of county chronicles of previous dynasties, Fuqiu Bo once lived in seclusion in Hexi with his two cranes.
He was proficient in the management of "Poetry" and taught it to Liu Jiao, Shen Peigong, Bai Sheng, Mu Sheng, kings of Chu Yuan in the Qin Dynasty. When Qin burned the book, his disciples, King Chu Yuan and others, left.
Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, visited Lu and summoned the Confucian scholars. Fuqiubo and his disciples Shen Gong and others met with the Han emperor in Nangong. When Lv Zhi came to power, Fuqiubo traveled west to Chang'an. When the king of Chu Yuan heard about it, he sent his son Liu Yingke and his classmates Shen Gong and Bai Sheng.
Musheng and others went west to Chang'an and studied under Fu Qiu Bo.
Lu Jia.
A native of the Chu State, he followed Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, as an aide during the conflict between Chu and Han. Because of his eloquence and eloquence, he often went on envoys to lobby various princes. He was deeply appreciated by Liu Bang and was known as an "eloquent arguer".
During the reign of Liu Bang and Emperor Wen, he sent two envoys to South Vietnam to persuade Zhao Tuo to surrender to the Han Dynasty and stabilize the situation in the early Han Dynasty. After Queen Lu's death, he persuaded Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and others to work together to kill Lu and bring order to the chaos. They wrote "Xinyu".
When Taoism was flourishing in the early Han Dynasty, he was the first person to advocate Confucianism. In response to the specific era and political needs of the early Han Dynasty, he based on Confucianism and integrated the thoughts of Huang Lao Taoism and Legalism.
He put forward the idea of "practicing benevolence and righteousness, prioritizing the law, combining etiquette and law, and governing by doing nothing", implemented the thoughts of his teacher Xunzi, and laid the ideological foundation for the rule of the early Western Han Dynasty.
Gongsunni.
The author of twenty-eight chapters of "Gongsun Nizi", he is a master of music theory and is known as Gongsun Nizi in the world.
Chen Xiao.
When he was more than seventy years old, he was recommended to the Xiaocheng Emperor Liu Ao by the clan ministers Liu Xiang and Huangmen Shilang Yang Xiong because of his high moral integrity and his ability to rectify the frivolous and vulgar social atmosphere.
Middle doctor.
The most important student was Xunzi, and there are countless outstanding disciples.
There is a reputation of a family with two sons and two emperors and masters.
Two sons: Han Feizi and Gongsun Nizi.
Two families: the poet Mao Heng and the ideological and political diplomat Lu Jia.
There are two prime ministers: Li Si, prime minister of Qin, and Zhang Cang, prime minister of Han Dynasty.
The two emperors' teachers were: Fu Qiubo, the teacher of King Yuan of Chu, and Chen Xiao, the teacher of Emperor Xiaocheng of Han Dynasty.
When the nobles indulged themselves in the new tower, waiting to see how the First Emperor would end up, they did not know that many talented people who could leave their names in the history of Qing Dynasty had entered Xianyang.
But they didn't know that Li Si, who was the Zuo Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty, knew about it.
At first, he didn't know that Xunzi, his master, lived in the Jun's Mansion in Chang'an, just one step away from him several times. But with so many brothers from Jixia Academy entering Xianyang, how could Li Si not react?
But he didn't make any move. He pretended not to know, and still only went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to work every day, and never entered the Chang'an Lord's Mansion.
He did not dare to see Xun Qing because he plotted to kill his senior brother Han Fei.
A long time ago, Xun Qing asked someone to tell him that Li Si was expelled from the house and no longer recognized Li Si as his disciple.
On this day, Zhang Cang, who was fair and fat, found Li Si's home while Li Si was taking a bath. He smiled kindly and said slightly reproachfully:
"Senior brother, the teacher has arrived, why don't you go?"
From Xunzi's mouth, Zhang Cang already knew the news of Han Fei's birth, and knew that it was Han Fei who asked for death, and it was not Li Si who was jealous of his ability and plotted his life. The fat man Zhang Cang, who knew the truth, was heartbroken about Li Si.
This time he came to look for Li Si. It was the second time he stepped into Li Si's house after advising Li Si that day. He planned to leave the third time tomorrow.
Facing Zhang Cang, who had always been on good terms with each other in Jixia Academy and was the youngest of the trio, Li Si put down his airs as Prime Minister Zuo and showed a hint of weakness in front of others for the first time.
"Junior brother, what is your identity?"
There was a wry smile on the corner of the mouth.
"The teacher has already kicked me out of the school."
"But what the teacher said himself?"
"It's the teacher who entrusted me with the instructions."
"Then how can we confirm that what he says is true?"
"He is a close friend of the teacher, and this is absolutely true..."
"Senior brother, I don't want to listen to your explanation. Among the three of us, Cang is the most stupid. Today, senior brother, please be stupid for once."
Fat people are prone to night sweats, and Zhang Cang himself knew that. He wiped the sweat from his hands hard on his body, and then used his round and chubby hands to grab Li Si's skinny hand.
The palms of their hands met, and the fat hands that had just been dried were once again covered with sweat. They pulled hard, but Li Si remained motionless.
"Brother!"
Zhang Cang's tone was a little hasty.
Li Si took out his hand, looked into the bronze mirror under Zhang Cang's anxious eyes, straightened his face, and straightened his clothes.
"Junior brother is right."
Zhang Cang's face turned anxious and he smiled broadly.
Li Si turned around and followed Zhang Cang to the outside.
"The teacher has not said it himself, who knows whether it is true or false!"
The two people in a hurry thought that the carriage was too slow, so they galloped along the galloping road and arrived at Chang'an Jun's Mansion in a short time.
Zhang Cang dismounted first and looked at Li Si with encouraging eyes.
Li Si stared at the Chang'an Junfu, which he had come to often and should have been familiar with for a long time, but was very strange to him today. He gritted his teeth, crossed his horse's back with one leg, and rushed in ahead of Zhang Cang.
As a senior, there is no reason to let your junior lead.
Li Si passed by the Jun's Mansion in Chang'an all the way to Xunzi's house, and met many classmates.
Some of them he should call him senior brother, some he should call him junior brother, but he didn't say hello to anyone, and no one greeted him.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Everyone looked at Li Si with confusion, the top student of Jixia Academy and the official Zuo Prime Minister of the Qin State. He refuted everyone in the Jixia Academy class and became famous.
Li Si held his head high, his face tense, and stopped when he came to the door of Xunzi's house. He straightened his clothes first, then took a deep breath, and knocked on the door with trembling hands.
"Enter."
Zhiqua~
Li Si gently opened the door and saw the teacher sitting in front of the case at a glance. The teacher's appearance did not change much from when he left Jixia Academy.
"Student Li Si, I met the teacher."
He shouted loudly, bowed at ninety degrees, and bowed, his body and mind trembling slightly.
Zhang Cang waited at the door, holding his breath, and sweat began to appear on the fat man's face.
Both of them were waiting for two words, two extremely simple words that echoed hundreds of times in this room - please get up.
"You are no longer your disciple."
Xunzi's words were very gentle, but Li Si almost fell to the ground.
Li Siqiang held himself up and said in a harsh voice:
"I am so stupid that I don't know when the teacher will kick me out. What others say cannot be true."
Xunzi's face suddenly became serious.
"If a person has no faith, he will not be established."
Zhang Cang's already fair and chubby face became even fairer. He knew that this was the teacher admonishing his senior brother. Pretending without knowing it was deception and a bad behavior.
Zhang Cang can understand it, and so can Li Si.
"Li Si was taught."
Prime Minister Zuo of the Qin Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, and finally he knelt on the ground with a plop and kowtowed to Xunzi nine times.
"I would like to express my gratitude to the teacher for teaching me and solving my doubts. I have nothing to repay except nine knocks."
Nine kowtows are the highest ritual.
He stood up, shook his head and was about to leave.
"There are three more prayers."
Xunzi's voice was still soft.
Three bows and nine kowtows are the Confucian apprenticeship ritual and the Jixia Academy apprenticeship ritual.
Li Si suddenly turned around and bowed three times.