"Dongmen Bao led 500 people to guard the east side of the temple, Li Xian led 500 people to guard the west side of the temple, and Xiao Tao led officers with bows and crossbows to guard the street. No one was allowed to pass!"
After giving the orders one by one, Hei Fu said to everyone: "Second and Third Sons, today the king ordered Anlu to lead the army, Lang Zhongling, and Zhongche Mansion guards to guard the king's carriage together. What an honor it is, even though they are guarding the outermost perimeter.
, but don’t be careless!”
"promise!"
All the military officers straightened their backs and shouted loudly, feeling proud because they had won this job on their own.
Yesterday, the King of Qin still stayed in the army and had sheep and pigs slaughtered. The three armies had a great feast, and the morale of the Qin army was greatly boosted. Then the King of Qin also inspected the military appearance in each camp. At Li You's suggestion, there was one more program than usual.
It's the "Ball Ball" performance of the Nanjun Corps.
With the King of Qin watching, Heifu also went into battle in person to compete with Li You's personal guards. The King of Qin saw that everyone was wearing armor and facing each other in formations on the field. It really seemed like a military struggle, so he became interested and even offered some advice.
They added a bonus:
Zhao Gao sent a message on behalf of the king: "Anlu and Li You will fight in close combat. Whoever can win on the court will inspect Huaiyang tomorrow and guard the king's garrison!"
The Qin army, from officers to soldiers, all regarded King Qin as a god, and the players on both sides suddenly gained unlimited strength. So Heifu experienced the most difficult game in half a year. The score was stalemate and the fight was extremely fierce. In the end
After paying the price of several collision injuries, Anlu almost won.
So today, the King of Qin led hundreds of officials and generals to inspect Huaiyang City. In addition to the Langzhong Lingjun and the Zhongche Mansion Guards on the inside, Anlu Yiyi was also able to clear the city outside.
After Hei Fu arranged for everyone to guard everywhere, he hurried to the location of Shun Temple. Along the way, Lang Wei and Zhongche Mansion Guards all recognized him. Hei Fu was summoned by the King of Qin and personally awarded him the crown of He.
Although his title and position are still not high, he has become a rising star.
The Shun Temple is located in the west city of Huaiyang. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Yu Shun was granted this place by King Wu of Zhou Dynasty to worship Yu Shun, so this temple was built. Therefore, the building looks simple and has a history of at least seven or eight hundred years.
Nowadays, the outside of this place has been surrounded by Lang Wei and Zhongchefu Guards. The temple gate and roof tiles have been renovated. This was the first stop for King Qin after entering Huaiyang.
"After all, Qin's destruction of Chu was compared to Yu Shun's expulsion of Sanmiao just the day before yesterday. It would be unreasonable not to offer sacrifices..."
When Heifu walked to the temple gate, Feng Chang arranged for the music officials to play Yu's music "Da Shao", which just came to an end, and then came a long and difficult to pronounce memorial poem:
"Shun Zhao had two prefectures in ten, sealed two mountains in ten, and dredged the river. Xiang used punishment as punishment, and he had five punishments, whipping as official punishment, beating as teaching punishment, and gold as ransom... Qinzai, Qinzai, only punishment.
What a shame! Liu Gonggong went to Youzhou, Fang Huandou went to Chongshan, three seedlings fled to three dangers, and Gun was killed on Yushan. The four sins were accepted by the world! This is the power of Yu and Shun!"
Today, the King of Qin once again put on the official crown robes and was offering sacrifices in the temple. Behind him, in addition to officials such as Feng Chang, were two Confucian scholars wearing Confucian crowns and loose Confucian robes.
Li You couldn't get into the temple, so he only stood in the temple corridor and said, "He is a Confucian scholar from Xue County."
Xue County is one of the four counties established by the King of Qin in the newly conquered Chu-Huaibei region. They are Chen County, whose administrative seat is Huaiyang; Sishui County, whose administrative seat is Liu County; Donghai County, whose administrative seat is Tan County;
There is also Xue County, which governs Lu County.
Xue County is actually the original hometown of Lu State, as well as Teng, Xue, Zou and other places. Zou Lu is the stronghold of Confucius and Mencius, and the place with the most Confucian students in the world. However, Qin has always disliked Confucian students, but how could they follow King Qin
Entering the house from behind? This is a strange thing.
Heifu asked, and he said with some contempt: "Confucian people are rhetorical and eloquent. Instead of talking about laws and regulations, they talk about benevolence and righteousness. They are arrogant and willful and self-righteous. However, they have high vision and low hand. They are unwilling to do small things but cannot do big things. Why?
If you don't obey the rules, this is what Han Fei calls 'Confucianism and legal chaos'."
"Although he claims to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, in fact he is lobbying everywhere and begging for official salary, and offering sacrifices to anyone who gives him a mouthful of food. Before Qin conquered Chu, these people were working in Chu State. Now that Chu State has been destroyed, they hurriedly came to surrender.
Qin. If they are used to govern the country, the country will be weak and chaotic. It is okay to use them to manage etiquette. After all, the etiquette of ascending and descending and the detailed etiquette can occasionally come in handy. Most people will not be able to master it in their lifetime. Therefore, the king ordered him to
As doctors, I assisted Feng Chang in hosting this sacrifice, but these Confucian scholars thought they were going to be reused by the king. Look at their expressions, how proud they are!"
Li You's father, Li Si, was a Legalist and was not on good terms with Confucianism. Especially the traditional Lu Confucianism was almost like fire and water, so Li You ridiculed Confucian students a lot. This was also the view of most grammarians and military officers in Qin towards Confucian students. King Qin
That is to say, use them as decorations.
The sacrifice was going on, but Heifu saw Ji Ying coming in a hurry, so he quickly went over and asked, "What happened?"
Ji Ying said: "A young Confucian scholar was caught at the street corner, saying that he came to answer the call of the king..."
"The sacrifices have already started, why did you come?"
Heifu felt that there was a fraud and told Li You about it. Li You frowned slightly: "The king did recruit three Confucian scholars, but only two came, and one person has not yet arrived. Let's go and have a look.
"
When they came to the heavily guarded street entrance, they happened to see a Confucian scholar in his twenties, wearing a wide robe and long sleeves, explaining to Dongmen Leopard that this was really a scholar's encounter with soldiers.
Menbao twisted his arm and put it down. He searched his body, but only found a roll of bamboo slips.
At this time, the young Confucian scholar also saw Li You, and Hei Fu came over. Seeing that they looked like military officers, he shouted that they were wronged.
Li You even felt that there was a problem: "Who are you? A child with a yellow mouth, but you pretend to be an old Confucian! What do you want!"
"The villain is the eighth generation grandson of Confucius, a disciple of Confucius, a great scholar from Lu, and his uncle Sun Tong."
…
Li You knew very well that Kong Yu was the third Confucian scholar appointed as a doctor by the King of Qin, and he was also the most important person among the three.
First of all, because he is a descendant of Confucius, he naturally has family knowledge and reputation passed down; secondly, Kong Shen, the father of Kong Yu, served as the prime minister of Wei for nine months, and was also given the title of feudal lord of Wei. He was quite famous in Wei and Lu.
; Thirdly, Kong Yu was indeed knowledgeable about classics and history, had excellent literary talent, and was good at discussing the past and present.
But he himself was not called, but sent a disciple. What does that mean?
Heifu also took the bamboo slip, glanced at it a few times, and then showed it to Li You. This was a letter written by Kong Yu to the King of Qin.
Kong Yu said in the letter that he was frightened when he heard that the King of Qin was summoned, and wished he could come immediately to help the King of Qin in offering sacrifices. However, he was mourning his mother and could not leave his thatched cottage at home, so he ordered his disciple Shusun Tong to come to pay homage to the King of Qin...
Li You and Heifu looked at each other in confusion. They felt that this was an excuse and Kong Kun just didn't want to come.
"What a proud Confucian scholar, he is worthy of being the queen of Confucius." Li You sneered.
Seeing Li You's face darken, Shusun Tong broke out in a cold sweat. In fact, his teacher said, "In the past, Confucius traveled around the world but did not enter Qin. How could his descendants enter it?"
Tong knew that this was a way to die, so he persuaded him to write a letter and delivered it himself, hoping that he could use his clever tongue to eliminate the anger of King Qin.
But don’t let the Qin King see you, and you will be blasted away by the Qin people outside!
So he rolled his eyes, bowed his hands respectfully towards the two of them, and said, "Master, I have one more thing to say. I must tell the King of Qin personally. This involves Qin getting the world upright!"
Li Youben didn't believe it, but what the little Confucian scholar said was true, and he couldn't figure out what the King of Qin meant, so he frowned and asked Heifu to search Shusun Tong carefully, and then went to ask the King of Qin for instructions.
After Li You left, Heifu had people take off the young Confucian scholar's tall crown and broad robe, and searched it from inside to outside. What's amazing is that although Shusun Tong was stripped naked and stood on the street, he was still naked.
There was no displeasure at all, but instead he kept laughing and talking, and he spoke very fluently. No wonder Ji Ying and the others could understand it just now.
"Where are you from?" Heifu always felt that the name "Shusun Tong" seemed to him, and he seemed to have some impression. Maybe he was another historical celebrity.
"The villain is Xue Ren."
"Why did the people of Xue say what the people of Qin said?" Heifu threw the clothes back to him. After checking, it turned out that the Confucian scholar had no weapons and he should not be an assassin.
"I once followed my master in Daliang and lived in the residence of the Prime Minister of Wei. I often met Qin envoys passing through Wei and talked with their servants. Over time, I became familiar with them."
He smiled and said: "The villain thought at that time that Qin would come out and conquer the world, and we might all become subjects under the rule of King Qin. There is no harm in learning Guanzhong dialect as early as possible."
This is a clever Confucian scholar, quite different from the pedantic Taoist Confucian scholar in Heifu's impression.
At this time, Li Youye sent someone over to tell Hei Fu and the others that the king had finished the sacrifice and asked him to escort Shusun Tong over.
It was a pledge rather than an invitation. It seems that the King of Qin was still a little angry that Kong Yu didn't answer the call.
"I'm sorry." Hei Fu smiled at Shusun Tong and handed him over. Then he asked Dongmen Bao and others to pinch the thin Shusun Tong from left to right, and directly carried him to the entrance of Yushun Temple and pressed him to the ground.
, just a few steps in front of King Qin's feet.
King Qin was more than eight feet tall, and with the crown, he looked even more towering. He looked at Shu Sun Tong with his hands behind his back, his shadow shrouded him, and he said lightly:
"I heard that the Marquis of Lu had summoned him, and Confucius set off immediately without waiting for his chariot and horses to be harnessed. His color was as bright as a feather, and his feet were as short as a feather. It seems that although Confucius was after Confucius, he had completely forgotten the words and deeds of his ancestors.
After the second purification, the emperor was called, but he was so negligent and sent a young disciple to deal with me?"
King Qin, who didn't like Confucian scholars, felt even more disgusted at this moment. He wanted to wave his hand and let Hei Fu and the others drag Shusun Tong down again. Unexpectedly, Shusun Tong hurriedly bowed his head to the ground.
shouted:
"How dare you disobey the Emperor's call? However, I am mourning my mother and cannot make the trip. However, I am also grateful for the king's conquest. I read the words of Confucius in my family and ordered me to remove them from the annals of history and share them with the Qin State.
Serve the relevant matters to the king! This is related to the legitimacy of Qin’s victory in the world!"
Seeing Shusun Tong say this, the King of Qin gave him another chance and nodded to him to speak.
Shusun Tong bowed his head again and said: "When my master returned to his hometown for mourning, he ordered us to repair the old house, but we found some ancient bamboo slips in the old house. They were actually family letters from hundreds of years ago! They were written by Confucius himself!"
"Is this happening!?"
The King of Qin was not interested in Confucius, and just wanted the Kong family to be his yes-men and decorations. He did not show anything. On the contrary, the two old Lu Ru behind him who had just been elected as "doctors" by Zhuo were very surprised. Such a big man
How come they don’t know about this? But they can only continue to listen.
Shusun Tong raised his head and smiled and said: "It is recorded in the family letter that in the twentieth year of Duke Zhao of Lu, Confucius was thirty years old. At that time, Duke Jinggong of Qi and Yan Ying came to Shilu. Duke Jinggong asked Confucius: 'In the past, Duke Mu of Qin established a small place in the country.
, can such a country and monarch be called a hegemon?'"
"At that time, Confucius said to him: 'Although the Qin State is small, Duke Mu's ambition is great. Although it is in a remote place, his conduct is upright. He will be praised for hundreds of miles, and he will be given the title of senior official. He will converse with him for three days and teach him how to govern. In this way,
If we take it, Qin will not only be able to dominate, but even be a king!"
"It turns out that Confucius predicted the affairs of King Qin and the world as early as three hundred years ago! And the king has inherited the hegemony of Duke Mu, and will start the rule of kingship in Jiuzhou!"
After Shusun Tong finished speaking, King Qin had not said anything yet, but the two old scholars behind him were dumbfounded, while Li You and others were stunned, a little surprised.
"This guy."
Heifu lowered his head, suppressed his laughter, and cursed secretly. He finally knew what kind of person Shusun Tong was.
