"Kangding, the capital of Guizhou, will benefit for a long time. These are His Majesty's original words carved on the stone in Yishan Mountain. I'm afraid you only heard it from the fifth doctor Yang Huan before you met His Majesty. You will learn and apply it now."
There was a sound from behind. Heifu turned around and found that the fat man behind him was not leaving anymore. He was sitting on a big rock, panting.
The fat man who spoke was of course Zhang Cang. I don’t know whether it was because he was in his forties or because he ate too many sweets. He was fatter than when Hei Fu left Xianyang. In future generations, he would still be a fat man weighing two hundred pounds. The round moon
His face grew bigger, but fortunately he had a rather bold beard, which covered his fat chin.
The carriages and horses could only reach the foot of the mountain, but could not cross the ridge. Along the way, Zhang Cang was already out of breath from exhaustion just by keeping up with Hei Fu.
Hei Fu did not rush him and let the group rest in the ravine. He laughed with Zhang Cang and said: "Otherwise, what else can I do? Do I have to imitate Linzi and Jibei guards and offer dragons and turtles?"
?I don’t want to deceive you.”
"Deceiving the emperor? How dare they deceive the emperor?"
Zhang Cang sneered and said: "Don't your majesty know that most of the so-called auspiciousness is fake? It's just that Duke Huan of Qi likes to wear purple, and a country likes to wear purple; King Ling of Chu likes to have a slim waist, and many people in the palace starve to death. It's just a matter of following the example! If your majesty
If you don't want all the counties and counties to offer auspiciousness, you only need to severely punish one or two people and say, "Young Master, I don't like auspiciousness." Then within a day, no ministers will dare to offer auspiciousness; in less than a month, no one in the world will dare to return
Say auspicious words!"
To put it bluntly, a slap in the face can't make a difference. The emperor first acquiesces, and then the officials rush to show off their limits.
Zhang Cang pointed at Hei Fu with his fat finger and said: "In my opinion, you think that Shou's flattery is too rough and you want to teach them a lesson. Sure enough, His Majesty praised them greatly after hearing what you said. It's really a judgment call.
"
He then became serious again: "But although what you said is also flattery, you are right. The way of heaven is related to the people's hearts. What God sees comes from what the people see. What God hears comes from what the people in Guizhou hear. The truth is
The auspiciousness is the praise of the people, not the Linfeng and the Five Spirits."
Heifu knew that Zhang Cang was an "atheist" and was deeply influenced by the words of his teacher Xunzi: "Heaven behaves in an orderly manner, and it does not exist for Yao and does not perish for Jie." In Zhang Cang's view, auspiciousness, disasters, and disasters are all lies.
For humans, heaven and earth naturally have their own laws. If they are regulated, they will be good, and if they are chaotic, they will be misfortunes.
Therefore, in front of Hei Fu, Zhang Cang bluntly pointed out the ridiculousness of offering auspiciousness to the whole country to build momentum for the emperor's enshrinement.
But is there any way to speak out and give advice like Fusu did? His Majesty the Emperor is in high spirits, and being a critic will not do any good to Heifu.
So he stopped the topic and turned to ask Zhang Cang: "Your Majesty is about to be enthroned, and the auspiciousness is over. There is no need to mention it again. Let's talk about another thing."
"As far as I know, everyone who studies is very enthusiastic about being granted Zen status. Your senior brother, Fu Qiu Bo, a great scholar in Jiaodong, has always been unwilling to be an official. But when he heard that His Majesty was granted Zen status, he even regretted that he was too old to be able to do so.
Seeing the grand occasion. Confucian scholars and officials were discussing eagerly in the palace at the foot of Mount Tai. They hoped that the process and etiquette for enshrining Zen would be formulated by themselves so that their reputation would last forever. But it was you, Zhang Zihu, a disciple of Xunmen who was proficient in etiquette, music and etiquette, who deliberately asked for it.
Why are you deliberately avoiding the mission of offering sacrifices at the Yin-Yang watershed of Mount Tai?"
Zhang Cang wanted to speak, but looked at the official Feng Chang who was urging them to leave, and then whispered: "I will tell you when we get to Qi Great Wall."
Before consecrating Mount Tai, there was a complicated process, which required worshiping all the surrounding mountains and rivers. Of course, the emperor could not do it all himself, so he sent ministers to do it on their behalf. What Heifu and Zhang Cang took their turn was the "Yin and Yang of Mount Tai"
The sacrifice of "Dividing Water".
On the yang side of Mount Tai, the Wen River flows to the west; on the yin side, the Jishui River flows to the east. The streams in the Yang Valley all flow into the Wen River, and the streams in the Yin Valley flow into the Jishui River. The dividing line between the north and south valleys is the Great Wall of Qi in front of them.
The Great Wall of Qi was built in the rolling Taiyi Mountains. Although there are flat valleys along the line, most of them are mountains. The Great Wall is either built with rammed earth or made of bricks and stones. It is built according to the situation of the mountains. Although the buildings are not tall
, but connected together, like a stone snake circling and extending along the mountain, it is indeed spectacular.
"It extends from the defense gate near Pingyin to the east, passes through Shimen, Jiagu, Mulingguan, and ends at the Jimo seaside, nearly a thousand miles from east to west."
Zhang Cang finally climbed up the Qi Great Wall and looked far into the distance. Feizhai, who had not left Xianyang City for a long time, couldn't help but cheer.
But Hei Fu laughed at him and said that if he went to Shuofang, in the north of Saibei, in the clouds, and saw Meng Tian connecting the Great Wall of the Three Kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Qin with the "Great Wall", that would be spectacular!
The Great Wall of Qi also played a role in defending Jin and Chu in the past, but now it has lost its military function and has become a useless stone wall.
Heifu also has a theory: "What is within the Central Plains cannot be called the Great Wall. It can only be called a defensive barrier, which hinders business and travel. And only what is standing in the desperate situation outside the Great Wall, resisting the foreign invaders and protecting the people on the frontier, can be called the Great Wall!"
"Wei Wei, as you said."
Zhang Cang sent Feng Chang's officials to prepare for the complicated sacrificial ceremony, and he said to Hei Fu: "You just asked me why I have so little interest in Feng Chan?"
"Let me tell you, because this Taishan Fengchan is not something that existed in ancient times at all, but a lie made up by people from Qilu!"
…
"Is Feng Chan a fake?"
Heifu was stunned. He didn't know much about the doorway here, but everyone around him repeatedly told him that Feng Chan existed since ancient times.
Zhang Cang's senior brother Fuqiu Bo, a great scholar in Jiaodong, tirelessly said that ancient emperors such as Wu Huai, Fu Xi, Shennong, Yan Emperor, Huang Emperor, Yao, Shun, Yu, etc. all held Zen ceremonies.
But today, on the Great Wall near Mount Tai, Zhang Cang exposed this lie.
"Although Uncle Fuqiu is my senior brother and a kind-hearted elder who took good care of me back then, he only learned the superficial knowledge of Master and did not get the true essence!"
Then, Zhang Cang began a logical and rigorous textual research to prove that "Feng Chan" did not exist in ancient times.
"I was in charge of the world's books in the Yushi Mansion, and I searched through all the historical books I could find. I found that the Emperor of Zhou once asked people to study the system in the four mountains, but Mount Tai was only one of the four mountains, and there was nothing special about it. Until the time of Confucius,
Although various countries have offered sacrifices to their respective mountains and rivers, no one has ever mentioned Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, and even the Analects of Confucius has never mentioned it. At most, it was the Marquis of Lu and the Ji family who traveled to Mount Tai, but it was just a small sacrifice of the Lu State.
"
"It was not until the past two hundred years, especially after the construction of Jixia Academy, that the theory of granting Zen has sprung up. At first, I only dared to say that Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, and King Zhou Cheng granted Zen. Later, I became bolder and bolder, and gradually said Fuxi, Shennong,
Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang also granted Zen status and passed through Mount Tai. Now, many more 'ancient emperors' have appeared out of thin air who are older than Fuxi and Shennong. There are as many as seventy-two kings in total, such as the Wuhuai family..."
"Did those ancient emperors really come to Mount Tai to pray for Zen? Why are there no records in the history books? They had to be rediscovered in modern times!"
After hearing this, Hei Fu did not comment, but smiled and said: "Fuqiu Bo said that in "Guanzi", Guan Zhong advised Qi Huan Gong not to do the matter of enshrining Zen. He counted the seventy-two kings who had enshrined Zen in Taishan. How to explain this?"
"It's also fake."
Zhang Cang rolled his sleeves and said: "Although the knowledge in "Guanzi" is extensive, this book was written by Jixia scholars under the guise of Tuo Zhong. The text is relatively easy to understand, and it is not as simple as the articles in the Spring and Autumn Period. It mentions
The fact that Duke Huan of Qi intended to grant Zen status was a fiction by Mr. Jixia, not a fact."
"This kind of relying on the past to explain the present is not an isolated matter. Take the abdication as an example. The abdication of Yao and Shun is also non-existent in ancient times. It was advocated by Mohists and Confucians of the Zizhang family. They made up ancient events and wrote "Tang Yu Zhi"
"Tao" and other articles were spread among the countries, believing that only abdication could end the chaos. As a result, King Kuai of Yan was fooled and abdicated, which led to great chaos in the Yan country... My master said at that time that Yao and Shun's abdication was just a lie.
, This is the biography of a shallow person, the theory of a crude person!"
"Stop it, stop it."
Seeing that Zhang Cang was about to start a lengthy criticism, Heifu quickly asked him to stop:
"Today we will only talk about the title of Zen, not the abdication. Please explain the former clearly."
Fatty Zhang spread his hands: "That's the truth, what else can you say?"
In short, based on his research and understanding of the Jixia gentlemen, Zhang Cang knew that this group of Qilu Confucian scholars and scholars would dare to make up anything in order to promote their political ideas. Fengchan did not exist since ancient times, but in the past two
For hundreds of years, the people of Qi and Lu, especially the people of Qi, have made up their minds.
That's why Qi Huangong came up with the idea of conferring Zen, and at the same time, he also chose to confer Zen in Mount Tai.
"Is Mount Tai high? Is it so high that once you climb it, you will feel that all the mountains in the world are small?" Zhang Cang asked Hei Fu.
Heifu shook his head and said with a smile: "People who think so may be because they have gone to too few places and have not enough experience..."
In terms of altitude alone, Mount Tai is actually not high at all. It is not as high as Mount Hua, let alone Helan Mountain that Heifu saw outside the Great Wall. It is even less comparable to the snow-capped mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the west of Qin State.
But in the eyes of the people of Qilu, Mount Tai, located at the junction of Qilu and Lu, stands out among the plains and hills. This is the highest mountain in the "world".
Why did Zeus and the Greek gods live on Mount Olympus? Because it was the mountain of the Greeks.
In the same way, the place of Zen is not in Huashan, not in Songshan, but in Taishan. This is just because, in the past two hundred years, the cultural center of the world has been in Qilu, in Jixia Academy. Therefore, the regional gods, mountains and rivers of Qilu are said to be
It has become the belief of the whole world since ancient times.
This is what the gentlemen of Jixia have prepared for the King of Tian Qi who they think is most likely to ascend to the throne of emperor and come to the world to care for the barbarians. It is a coronation ceremony prepared for the future unification of the country.
Later, the declining state of Qi lost this qualification, but the theory of Feng Chan was spread by more and more scholars from Jixia, spread throughout the nine states, and finally became the truth!
"Emperors who have been appointed since ancient times have never become Zen?" This lie, which has been emphasized countless times, has been accepted by intellectuals all over the world, and they stubbornly believe that it is true. Even the arrogant Qin Shihuang Emperor has to accept this lie in turn.
theory.
Heifu agreed with Zhang Cang's words and sighed: "When the truth is false, the false is also true."
He was not stupid enough to ask Zhang Cang why he knew that the Feng Chan story was a modern fiction but did not tell Qin Shihuang the truth?
Because the emperor doesn't need the truth.
Just like the auspiciousness presented by the ministers, it can't make a difference with a slap. Whether the ancient emperor's Feng Chan is true or false is no longer important. The important thing is that the scholars all over the world think it is true, and Qin Shihuang also needs to use Feng Chan to package the empire.
, let your achievements be "recognized" by heaven and earth.
The Qin State has always adopted doctrines. As long as it is beneficial to its rule, it will not hesitate to use it. This is the case for the Legalists, the Mohists, the Five Virtues of the Yin and Yang School, and the Confucian Zen.
If you are really the Son of Heaven, and you are destined by destiny, then there must be signs of being appointed, that is, the appearance of Fu Rui. Only with this visible proof can you be qualified to become a Zen monk. And only by carrying out the Zen Zen ceremony can you be qualified.
"Blessed by heaven" to rule the world...
Qin Shihuang needs to make the world recognize this fact through conferring Zen, which is good for unification.
So even though Zhang Cang knew everything about Feng Chan in his heart, he was still happy to see it come to fruition.
What's more, Warlock Fang also emphasized in Qin Shihuang's ears that whether looking west for the Queen Mother State or east for immortals, enshrining Zen is an indispensable part of immortality...
After saying this, Zhang Cang shook his head and said: "So in the end, maybe your Majesty will be the first person to be granted Zen status in ancient and modern times!"
"I understand why you want to stay away from this matter."
Heifu said with a smile: "Although Confucian scholars claim that the title of Zen has a long history, this is actually the first time to grant Zen. There is no precedent at all. There are three hundred people, seven or eight schools, and at least seven or eight opinions. If you guessed correctly,
When you and I go back, those Confucian scholars probably still won’t be able to come up with a practical sacrificial plan... It seems that this troublesome matter of Mount Tai’s enshrinement of Zen has just begun!”
…
Heifu's guess was not wrong. When he and Zhang Cang finished their errands on August 14th and returned to the palace at the foot of Mount Tai, they found that the lively atmosphere of the Confucian Confucians discussing the Zen ceremony was as if blown by the cold wind on the top of the mountain.
After a while, it became lonely and silent. The ministers and officials were all trembling with fear, not daring to express their feelings, and could only signal each other with their eyes...
"Fifth doctor, what happened?" Hei Fu asked knowingly.
The fifth doctor, Yang Zhen, was worried about this matter and sighed:
"Young Master Zao didn't know something. Yesterday and today, the Confucian scholars were discussing the Zen Ceremony, and everyone held their own opinions. There were more than ten kinds of opinions. More than 300 people were noisy and finally even started to fight. In anger, His Majesty ordered