Chapter 194: Surrounding Qin and Saving Chu (Thanks to the Alliance Lord from the World)
The carriage was blocked halfway before it reached the horse service.
The road from Handan to Mafu is no longer as bumpy as before. According to the specifications of Zhao's carriage, this road has been renovated again. It was not King Zhao who renovated this road, but Handan.
In order to be able to consult Lord Ma Fu in time, the nobles mobilized their retainers and spent a lot of materials to build this avenue that could accommodate two carriages passing side by side at the same time. Zhao people called it "Qiu".
virtuous”.
Nobles from all over the Zhao Kingdom would often go to Mafu through this road to meet with Mafu, or to ask for advice, or to want their children to stay with Zhao Kuo, and most of all to gain fame and reputation, just to be with him.
Ma Fujun met him so that he could brag to others about his deep friendship with Ma Fujun. No matter what the purpose of these people coming, Zhao Kuo would not ignore them.
Zhao Kuo did not tire of instilling his thoughts on benevolent government into them, nor did he expect that his words would awaken their conscience and turn them into wise men who cared about the people and cared about the country and the people... However,
, it is enough to make them treat the people better. These nobles who left Mafu Township seemed to have changed themselves. After returning to their fiefdoms and hometowns, some people actually gave away their property to them.
A native of his own country, he acted as if he had gained a lot of impressions from Ma Fujun.
Wei Wuji got off the carriage. He looked at the dozens of carriages in front of him. He couldn't help but shook his head. He took out the wine bag and drank. He looked around carefully. Outside Mafu Township,
A new township appeared. To be precise, it was a new school. Zhao people called it Handan School. A short courtyard wall surrounded the school, leaving only two narrow doors.
, the door was open, and no one was guarding it.
There were many carriages parked outside the door, and the drivers gathered together, chatting.
Wei Wuji took his disciples and walked into this brand new school. It was said to be a school, but in fact it was no different from a village. The school room was a field-shaped road, with courtyards on both sides of the road, neat and symmetrical.
It has quite a Qin architectural style. Wei Wuji walked drunkenly on the road and saw several young people who were discussing it as they walked.
"It is impossible for the Qin State to realize what the teacher said about the one king of the world. The Qin State is strong because of their military merit system. If they use killing to unify, then hatred will be inevitable, and the people of all countries will still
Find a way to resist his rule...If he doesn't kill, the military merit system will collapse, and the Qin State will no longer be strong, and may even be directly destroyed..."
"Didn't the teacher say that? The head is not important. The important thing in the military merit system is the title. To be precise, it is the benefits brought by the promotion of the title. The cultivated land in various countries is concentrated in the hands of the nobles. These cultivated lands can be distributed to
Soldiers fighting in order to stabilize the military merit system and reduce killings?"
"If you don't kill, how will you calculate military merit and how will you improve your title?"
Several people were talking and walked past Wei Wuji. Wei Wuji looked at the disciples in surprise, took another sip of wine, smiled and said to the people around him: "If it weren't for the busy state affairs, I would have stayed here to study with Ma Fujun.
"Now...", one of the disciples joked: "If you stay here, I'm afraid you will be scolded by Ma Fujun because you are drunk during lecture time, and then you will be kicked out!"
Wei Wuji laughed.
Walking further inside, you encounter more strange disciples. Some disciples are writing bamboo slips, some are practicing swordsmanship, and even a few disciples are throwing fruits into the sky, and then looking at the fruits blankly.
After falling down, he was still mumbling: "Why is this..." Wei Wuji could only say that Ma Fujun's teaching method was really strange. There were not many disciples. Wei Wuji even saw Han Fei being taught by
A group of disciples gathered around to answer their questions.
"Brother, why does the teacher say: Dharma is evil and not good?"
"When the people unite, they will cover up each other's faults. This is the so-called kindness. When the people are separated and supervise each other, this is the so-called treachery... Don't let the people cover up each other's crimes because they are friendly to each other, and allow the son to sue his father.
, allowing retainers to sue their masters...The law is unkind, so the teacher said: the law is not good." Han Fei's stuttering is gradually getting better, and he explains the teacher's principles clearly and clearly.
This peculiar title of senior brother was accidentally revealed by Zhao Kuo. He always pointed at Han Fei and said: Let’s learn from your senior brother! So, Zhao Kuo’s disciples also adopted Zhao Kuo’s statement.
Han Fei was recognized as the senior brother. After him, the controversy became more serious, because almost all of them entered the school at the same time. Therefore, the other disciples of Zhao Kuo all called each other junior brothers, and they were unwilling to admit that they entered the school later than each other.
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"Senior brother, do you think what the teacher said is right?" someone asked.
Han Fei said seriously: "A wise monarch takes care of his subjects and the people, acts completely in accordance with the law, and is based on precautions. Therefore, he does not pardon the prisoners on death row and does not show mercy to the criminals. He pardons the prisoners on death row and forgives the criminals. The law is merciful. This is called the loss of power!"
", he paused, and then said: "Ruling the country with laws is just to formulate and implement them. Laws do not favor the powerful, and the ink rope does not bend. The wise men cannot escape what the laws should punish, and the brave men dare not fight, and the punishment is
Crimes will not be avoided by the ministers, and rewards and merits will not be ignored by the common people."
"Therefore, there is nothing better than the law to correct the faults above, to investigate the evil below, to control chaos, to judge fallacies, to eliminate redundancies, to correct errors, and to unify the people's standards. It regulates officials, intimidates the people, eliminates promiscuity and laziness, and prohibits fraud and hypocrisy.
There is nothing like punishment."
The disciples listened and couldn't help but nodded. Zhao Kuo usually spoke in brief terms. If people didn't understand, they would come to their senior brother. The ordinary senior brother Han Fei could always answer their confusions.
This seemingly cute senior brother seems to have his own opinions on everything. He is the only one among the disciples who dares to argue with Zhao Kuo. In the past few days, the two of them had an argument over the seriousness of the criminal law.
And a quarrel broke out.
Han Fei believes that only the most cruel criminal laws can only serve as a warning to prevent others from breaking the law easily.
However, Zhao Kuo believed that the criminal law was too cruel and would take away the power of those who had made mistakes to repent and start a new life.
Han Fei retorted: For those who commit minor crimes, we can not give them severe punishment and give them a chance to change. But for those sinners who kill others, if they are not tried with severe punishment, who will give the victims a chance?
What about the chance to start a new life?
Zhao Kuo was persuaded by Han Fei.
When Han Fei saw Wei Wuji, he stopped and leaned towards Wei Wuji to salute. The disciples also hurriedly saluted. Wei Wuji returned the salute, and Han Fei led them away. Wei Wuji sighed with emotion: "It's just because of what he just said.
, he can serve as the Prime Minister of Zhao State." Wei Wuji was sighing when he saw a child staggering over. The child looked very delicate. He seemed to be chasing Han Fei. Wei Wuji turned around
waist, and picked up the little guy.
The child was not afraid of life. After being picked up by Wei Wuji, he just stared at Wei Wuji curiously.
"Is this Kuo's son?" Wei Wuji asked with a smile. Several diners came over and looked at this cute little guy. They couldn't help but stretched out their hands to tease him. Unfortunately, Wei Wuji searched all over his body.
He didn't find anything to feed the little guy. If he had known better, he would have brought some food... The Emperor waited for a long time, and when he found out that Wei Wuji didn't give him a gift, he burst into tears.
When Wei Wuji walked into the largest courtyard, Zhao Kuo was chatting with a middle-aged man. When they saw Wei Wuji, they both stood up to greet him. Wei Wuji returned the greeting, and then sat down in front of Zhao Kuo gloomily.
Zhao Kuo looked at his messy beard and asked in surprise: "Is this...?"
"Your son was caught by me..."
Zhao Kuo pointed to the middle-aged man on the side and said to Wei Wuji: "This gentleman is the emperor's imperial physician, called Zu... he is the disciple of Mr. Bian Que..." Wei Wuji had also heard of Bian Que.
He quickly saluted the middle-aged man again. He was an elegant middle-aged man who looked very gentle. He looked at Wei Wuji for a moment, and then said with some worry: "Mr.
Do you feel tired? Lethargic, loss of appetite?”
Wei Wuji was stunned for a moment, then nodded and asked with some fear: "How did you know?"
"I see that your face is pale and you are constantly wiping sweat..." Zu said, glanced at Zhao Kuo, then approached Wei Wuji, and asked in a low voice next to him: "Have you... been inhumane lately?
"
Wei Wuji was shocked and his eyes widened.
Ashinaga sighed and said: "You need to stop drinking... If you continue to drink like this, you will vomit blood and feel severe abdominal pain. In the end, there will be no way to treat it... I will prescribe some medicine for you.
, please stop drinking..." He said, Zhao Kuo also nodded, Wei Wuji's drinking day and night is indeed a bit too violent, which is very harmful to the body.
Wei Wuji lowered his head, pondered for a moment, and then said with a smile: "It's okay... I will drink less."
Zhao Kuo then said: "I found Zu because I wanted him to help me, summon famous doctors, compile a medical book... and teach more doctors in Zhao country..." Zhao Kuo will
After speaking out his thoughts, Wei Wuji listened carefully. After chatting for a while, he understood that Wei Wuji came to Zhao Kuo for something important, so he did not continue to disturb him and left. Zhao Kuo ordered Zhao Fu to arrange his accommodation.
Wei Wuji then told Zhao Kuo about his affairs. Wei Wuji had long heard that there were two talented and virtuous people in Zhao who were not in politics. One was Mao Gong who was hiding among gamblers, and the other was Xue Gong who was hiding in a hotel.
There, Wei Wuji wanted to see these two people, but they hid and refused to see Wei Wuji. When Wei Wuji found out where they were hiding, he quietly walked to socialize with these two people. They both enjoyed getting to know each other, and they were very happy.
Happy.
Most of the Zhao nobles looked down upon Wei Wuji's behavior. Some people said: I heard that Mr. Wei was an unparalleled great sage, but now I heard that he was doing random things, associating with those gamblers and hotel clerks. Mr. Wei is just an ignorant and reckless person.
Just people.
Wei Wuji ignored it.
The State of Chu sent people to ask for help from the State of Zhao. King Zhao asked Wei Wuji what he thought, but Wei Wuji asked King Zhao not to send troops for the time being because the State of Zhao had not recovered from the war two years ago. The State of Wei originally sent Mao Sui
As a general, he helped the Chu State, but the Qin people said that they wanted to take revenge on the Wei State. Pingyuan Jun sent people and wanted Wei Wuji to be the commander-in-chief and lead the armies of Zhao and Wei to save the Chu State.
Wei Wuji did not want to lead Wei's army to fight in Chu. He even directly told his disciples: Anyone who dares to deliver the message for Wei's envoys will be executed.
The two disciples he had accepted in the past, Duke Mao and Duke Xue, came to find Wei Wuji and said to him: The reason why your son is highly respected in the Zhao State and famous among the princes is just because of the existence of the Wei State. Now because of the attack of the Qin State, the Wei State is in a difficult position.
When Wei was in danger, there was no general to command the army of Wei. When Wei was in danger, you didn't care. If Qin broke through the beams and razed your ancestors' ancestral temples, how could you still have the dignity to live in the world?
Wei Wuji was moved and met with King Zhao again to inform King Zhao of Wei's thoughts. King Zhao felt that Chu had helped Zhao in the past, and now that Qin wanted to destroy Chu, he should not remain indifferent, so he decided to use Wei Wuji's
As a general, he will lead Zhao's 50,000 soldiers to Shangdang to attack Qin. Wei will also send 50,000 soldiers with Wei Wuji as the commander. In other words, Wei Wuji is ready to lead Zhao and Wei's 100,000 soldiers.
army to solve the crisis in Chu State.
After listening to Wei Wuji finish these things, Zhao Kuo fell silent.
Wei Wuji smiled and said: "Don't you think highly of me? Do you think I will die in Bai Qi's hands?" Zhao Kuo still did not answer. He just said seriously: "Qin's army has gathered in Nanyang. If you want
To save the Chu State, you can lead the army to attack Shangdang... Try to avoid Bai Qi's sharp edge and force the Qin State to end the war..." Zhao Kuo said, then stopped, and he said: "But the war is
It won't end..."
"Do you really think Qin can unify the world?"
"Unless the six countries unite, they will not be Qin's opponent at all...Qin is already ahead of other countries in terms of system."
"Even if the State of Zhao has a wise man like you, there is no way it can surpass the State of Qin?"
"How can Qin State's hundreds of years of hard work be surpassed by me alone? The systems I wanted to implement in Zhao State were implemented first by the Qin people... but they could not be taken seriously in Zhao State.
Qin State regards my thoughts as truth, applies my system to the country, and regards my ideals as its own strategy.... I want to protect the Zhao people, but only Qin State can realize my ideals and achieve my goals.
Isn’t it ridiculous to implement the system I proposed...?”
"Hahaha, yes... I follow your teachings and the reforms I want to implement have just begun in Zhao State, but Qin State has completed most of it..." Wei Wuji grinned and was about to pick up the wine bag again.
He came to drink, but Zhao Kuo snatched the wine bag from his hand.
"You need to stop drinking."
ps: Although I haven't recovered yet, I'm much better than yesterday. If you have a bad cold, don't worry too much.
I'll come back and update once the infusion is finished.
Thanks to the leader who came from the secular world... and to all the book friends who support Lao Lang.
