Zhao Kuo suddenly spoke. Xiang Xian was startled. He stopped moving towards King Han, but looked at Zhao Kuo with a smile. Zhao Kuo looked at him and said with a smile: "You are the general of Chu State, Lord Chun Shen."
So I asked you to come to the rescue of South Korea to let the world know that Chu will help its allies... to consolidate the alliance. If the alliance collapses, wouldn't you violate your mission?"
"What are you..." Xiang Xian looked at Zhao Kuo, not knowing what he had in mind.
Zhao Kuo looked at Xiang Yu and said with a smile: "Before I rushed to South Korea, I didn't care about the alliance proposed by the Chu State. I only thought it was a strategy for the Chu State to realize its ambitions... But
, I saw a lot of corpses on the road to Xinzheng. They did not die of starvation or disease. They killed themselves, gave up looking for food, gave up their lives... This kind of despair, I once
Zhao Guo has seen it."
"If he knew that allies would come to help him...even if the reinforcements were besieged in Xinzheng, they would probably be able to save a lot of people." In Zhao Kuo, Xiang Xian could see something similar to Xunzi's.
It seems that when I accompanied Xunzi to Qi, Xunzi looked at the people on the road and always said words that were difficult for him to understand. There was a look of pity and pain in his eyes, and he was worried about the country and the people.
But today's Zhao Kuo is very much like Xunzi at that time. Xiang Xian's eyes widened and he looked at Zhao Kuo in front of him blankly.
Zhao Kuo looked at King Han. King Han listened to their conversation with an incomprehensible smile on his face. Zhao Kuo suddenly walked towards him. Looking at Zhao Kuo approaching him, King Han
Suddenly feeling a little uneasy, he immediately ordered: "Catch him!" The surrounding warriors suddenly raised their crossbows, and a warrior approached him with a short sword. Zhao Kuo remained indifferent and walked towards these warriors proudly.
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The Korean warriors looked at Zhao Kuo in front of them in fear. The dagger in his hand was trembling. Zhao Kuo just stared at the King of Han above and walked directly into the middle of the Korean warriors. However, the warriors backed away.
Dare to let his weapons touch Zhao Kuo, under the cold light of the dense crossbow arrows, Zhao Kuo approached the King of Han step by step. When the King of Han saw the warriors who did not dare to attack, he shouted: "If he gets closer again, then he will be killed."
Shoot his disciples!!"
Zhao Kuo stopped and looked at the warriors who aimed their crossbows at his disciples. He shook his head and sighed in broken Korean: "I led them to save South Korea. The second and third sons are all from South Korea."
Warrior, Bai Qi is wreaking havoc outside and bullying innocent Koreans. The crossbows of the second and third sons dare not aim at Bai Qi, but they want to shoot my disciples? Don’t the second and third sons feel ashamed?" Zhao Kuo’s eyes were like sharp blades, piercing towards him.
Those Korean warriors.
"Boom~~", the young Korean warrior angrily dropped the crossbow in his hand, suddenly pulled out the dagger, angrily thrust it into his chest, blood spurted out, and he fell to the ground dead. The Korean warriors' faces were a bit expressionless.
In grief, they all pointed their daggers at themselves. Zhao Kuo was shocked and hurriedly shouted: "No! No!!" However, before he could stop him, the warriors used the daggers originally aimed at Zhao Kuo to end the fight.
own young life.
The warriors fell heavily to the ground, and the smell of blood filled the palace.
This incident in the palace scared everyone. Zhao Kuo still stretched out his hand to dissuade him, and remained completely motionless. Most of the warriors who had surrounded Zhao Kuo with crossbows were already lying on the ground at this moment.
On the ground, blood even flowed to Zhao Kuo's feet. Did he commit suicide because he was unwilling to hurt Zhao Kuo and could not fulfill King Han's order? Or did he commit suicide out of shame because of Zhao Kuo's questioning?
Perhaps, they took Zhao Kuo's question as an insult.
People of the Warring States Period can die, but they cannot be humiliated.
Not all the warriors died so tragically. There were still a few people standing. They were not very old. They might have been temporarily transferred to guard the palace. They looked at the corpses of their colleagues around them and were trembling all over. They had no idea.
What happened, and they didn’t know what to do. Their fellow comrades died, but they could no longer live with the shame. They pointed their daggers at themselves, but they didn’t have the guts to stab them, and they cried in fear.
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"Catch them and don't let them commit suicide." Zhao Kuo ordered.
After hearing Zhao Kuo's instructions, Yang Duan and the others quickly stepped forward and subdued these Korean warriors who had no fighting ability at all. Zhao Kuo then raised his head and looked at King Han. Xiang Xian was completely confused.
Until now, I still don’t understand what happened. Zhao Kuo just said a word and let these warriors commit suicide due to humiliation? The most shocked one was King Han. King Han’s eyes widened and he looked at the people in front of him blankly.
Zhao Kuo, where are my warriors?
Zhao Kuo stepped on the bloodstains and walked in front of King Han.
Zhao Kuo lowered his head and looked down at King Han in front of him. King Han raised his head and looked at Zhao Kuo. He was a little angry. He had always been aloof. He didn't like this feeling of being looked down upon. He also
He stood up and wanted to scold the rude Zhao Kuo, but even if he stood up, he was a head shorter than Zhao Kuo and could only look up at Zhao Kuo in front of him.
"If I had known that Bai Qi's army was coming, I didn't want to let the people flee into the city, but I summoned soldiers from all over the country to Xinzheng...making the defenses in various places useless. Let me ask you, if there were thousands of people in various cities in Korea,
With a defensive force and powerful crossbows, can Bai Qi kill the people in the city with less than 10,000 soldiers?" Zhao Kuo asked. At that moment, King Han became furious. He pointed at Zhao Kuo in front of him,
He said angrily: "How dare you not call me by my honorific title?"
"Boom~~", Zhao Kuo punched King Han in the face. At that moment, King Han's face seemed to bloom, and blood splattered from his nose. King Han howled and fell down. Zhao Kuo bent down and grabbed him.
Zhao Kuo's disciples, and even Xiang Xian of Chu State, were stunned at this moment. Mr. Ma Fu... just punched the King of Han??? Xiang Xian rubbed his own
His eyes looked at Ma Fujun in disbelief.
Although it is a period when etiquette has collapsed, etiquette among nobles is still very important. I have heard of someone killing the king, but I have never heard of someone insulting the king, let alone directly beating him with his fist... This is something they know
Is that benevolent and righteous gentleman a fool? Zhao Kuo felt furious at this moment. Looking at the idiot in front of him who had killed countless Koreans, smelling the pungent smell of blood in the air, his eyes were extremely cold.
King Han was really scared. Looking at the angry young man in front of him, he felt dizzy. Since his father's death, no one had dared to treat him like this again, but he could not reveal his timidity in front of everyone.
He trembled and said: "If everyone in the world knew about your actions! Everyone would despise you. Even King Zhao cannot tolerate you! How dare you be so rude to the king of a country?!"
Zhao Kuo remained calm, but looked at King Han in front of him and asked coldly: "I have never cared about my reputation, and I don't care what the people in the world think of me, let alone how people will talk about me in the future.
But, for an immoral king like you, people will laugh at you in the future!" King Han suddenly felt cold all over. He lowered his voice and defended: "I...I am not an immoral monarch..."
Zhao Kuo grabbed King Han, pressed him on his seat, and sat next to him. Then he looked at the people below and looked at the surprised disciples. Zhao Kuo said seriously: "Mencius said:
If the monarch treats his ministers as brothers and sisters, then the ministers should treat the monarch sincerely; if the monarch treats his ministers as dogs and horses, then the ministers will treat the monarch as ordinary people; if the monarch treats the ministers as insignificant, then the ministers can
Treat the king as an enemy."
"But I am not a minister of King Han. What I want to tell you is the attitude towards others. For good people who are kind and benevolent, I hope that the second and third sons can treat them sincerely regardless of their humble status. But for the cruel and cunning evil people
, I hope that the second and third sons can treat them as enemies no matter how high their status is. Treat kind people with benevolence and righteousness, and treat unscrupulous evil people with the dagger they wear."
"I never despise the farmers who work on the land. If a farmer who is covered in mud all day does a good deed, then he is more worthy of respect than a king who is in a high position but harms the people. If he is a craftsman, he can
I can respect a person who raises orphans and widows, and uses his little food to help others. I can respect him as a king. Some people are born to be kings, and some people grow up in the cultivated fields. This is a person.
What cannot be decided.”
"But we can decide things that are more important than this. A person with a humble background can also become a saint through his own actions, increase his talents through learning, help those in need, be upright and kind, and be able to resist submission and cruelty.
enemies, this is what Xunzi said that everyone can become a saint..."
The disciples listened carefully to Zhao Kuo's words. Even Xiang Xian made a show of listening attentively. He always held the lineage theory of Chu. Regarding Xunzi's statement that everyone can become a saint,
He was very contemptuous, but at this moment, after seeing King Han's actions and looking at the warriors lying in a pool of blood, he felt a little shaken in his heart. He found that he no longer dared to refute this rhetoric.
Got it!
These disciples who came to Zhao Kuo originally came to learn war and law from him. However, at this moment, listening to Zhao Kuo's teachings, they seemed to have put their own thoughts behind and just listened carefully.
, Yang Duanhe picked up the pen and wanted to record it. Although the King of Qin sent him here to record the laws, not these moral preachings, but for some reason, he just wanted to write it down, without having to send it back to Qin, just stay with him.
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Seeing Zhao Kuo suddenly start lecturing, King Han looked at him and then at the disciples. He felt it was a great shame and humiliation! He was a dignified king, but he was beaten in the palace, and there were such a villain, and there were so many people.
Do you want to learn morality from him? Do you want to learn how to commit a crime and assault a king?!
"Because the evil person has a high status, he dare not dissuade, stop or punish him. How can such a person be said to be an upright person? It is also wrong to kill such an evil person without going through the law.
No, the law I am talking about can restrict everyone, so that a monarch like King Han cannot harm the country at will. There is a country where there are wise kings for several generations. As long as a generation of tyrants appears, they will be killed.
If you kill your brothers and sisters, change the laws arbitrarily, and persecute the people, the efforts of generations of wise kings will be in vain."
"The role of the law is this. It is a tool for rulers to rule. But the ruler I am talking about is not the monarch of the country. All the people in a country who receive the favor of the country are the people in this country.
He is the ruler, and the quality of the law depends on its help to the ruler. The will of the country is not the will of the king. Is Shang Yang's law only beneficial to the king?"
"Looking at Shen Buhai's theory and Shang Yang's theory, Shen Buhai's theory serves the king, regards the king as the center of the reform, and regards the king as the will of the country, while Shang Yang's theory is beneficial to the entire Qin State and will
The entire Qin State is regarded as the ruler of the country, so Shen Buhai's teachings made Korea weaker and weaker, while Shang Yang's teachings made Qin stronger and stronger. This is the misunderstanding of rulers by the people of the world."
"The king is only the leader of the country's will. If the king fails to see this, but treats himself as a country, acts arbitrarily, and establishes a system that is not beneficial to the country and only benefits the king, then this is the beginning of the country's decline.
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Han Fei raised his head, with sparks burning in his eyes, and quickly recorded Zhao Kuo's words. Not all Zhao Kuo's disciples understood Zhao Kuo's theory, but after Zhao Kuo compared Korea and Qin, they
Looking at the bruised and bruised King Han, he nodded subconsciously. What the teacher said seemed to make sense. Han Fei's heart suddenly became brighter. All systems and laws should serve the country.
Serve the people of the country, not the king.
Han Fei suddenly felt that he understood a lot. What he hesitated about before and what bothered him disappeared without a trace. After Han Fei recorded it, he bowed in the direction of Zhao Kuo. The other disciples may not have felt so much.
, but seeing Han Fei all bowing to meet him, they also hurriedly followed Han Fei in bowing. Zhao Kuo looked at King Han aside and said to him: "I know that you have a way to contact Bai Qi. Please send someone to tell him.
Bai Qi..."
"Tell him that I have been held hostage by you. If Bai Qi does not leave South Korea, you will kill me."
King Han looked at him in fear and said: "I have no way to contact Bai Qi..."
Zhao Kuo raised his fist.
"I will do as you are told!" King Han screamed in fright, and Zhao Kuo lowered his fist. He looked at the corpses in the palace, sighed, and said to Han Fei: "Take them out for burial.
...I never thought that my words could force them to death..." He looked at King Han next to him and said, "You want to learn from me how to govern the country?"
King Han looked at him in fear and shook his head.
"Don't refuse. I still think we should discuss ways to govern the country with you. Your previous approach was wrong."
In the first month of the fifty-seventh year of King Nan's reign, Bai Qi attacked Han, and Li Zifa sent troops to assist Han. However, he wanted to capture him. He punched the king and said "no virtue".——"Ma Fuzi"
ps: I drank too much yesterday. I'm really sorry. Now the water I drink smells like alcohol and my stomach hurts...