Lao Ai's rebellion did not have much impact, and it did not even spread in various places. As soon as his army left Yongcheng, it encountered a head-on attack by Zhao Kuo, and he was captured by Zhao Kang, and then Mengwu invaded Yongcheng and completely ended the rebellion. The officials and soldiers who participated in the rebellion were punished and pardoned accordingly. Unlike in history, the rebellion in the palace did not cause any trouble at all. waves.
The King of Qin no longer needed to call on everyone to kill Lao Ai, nor did he exile Lu Buwei. As for the most thorny problem, Zhao Ji, the King of Qin also had a way to deal with it. The King of Qin did not even ask the officials for their advice, so he sent his biological mother Zhao Ji away. Exiled to Bashu... ordered local officials to supervise Zhao Ji, not allowing her to go out or meet anyone. Afterwards, the King of Qin thought that the entire rebellion was over.
During this rebellion, King Qin showed his iron-blooded skills and courage. He first directly controlled the prime minister and his party members through his confidants, then defeated the rebels, and pardoned Lu Buwei and other ministers who had contributed to Qin. Regarding the issue of his biological mother, the arrangements had been made without the need for others to persuade him. The young King of Qin was not so angry that he lost his mind because of Lao Ai's matter.
Zhao Kuo taught him benevolence and righteousness, Han Fei taught him law, Di taught him headbutt... and the most important thing was that Xunzi taught him to think independently. King Qin always felt that although Xunzi's teaching process to him was the shortest, he was The impact it brought was very huge. Because of Xunzi, every time Ying Zheng encountered something, he would follow Xunzi's teachings, put aside his personal feelings temporarily, and look at things from the perspective of a bystander. to think.
Thinking about these things from Qin's point of view, rather than from his own point of view, was of great help to King Qin. He could face these things calmly and choose the decision that was most beneficial to Qin.
In the ninth year of the Qin Dynasty (238 BC), a lot of things happened in the world. Almost all countries had large and small internal situations. Chu State lost its last virtuous king and even its last virtuous prime minister. .After killing Huang Xie on the charge of regicide and rebellion, Li Yuan immediately proclaimed King Chu's crown prince Han as king and held the funeral of King Chu to commemorate this wise king.
The nobles within the Chu State had long been dissatisfied with Huang Xie. Li Yuan's actions were even supported by some nobles. After killing Huang Xie, Li Yuan successfully gained the support of the nobles and became the leader of the Chu State. Moreover, the King of Chu was too young, so Li Yuan naturally wanted to take charge of the government in his place. However, unlike Lu Buwei, Li Yuan had no restrictions in the country of Chu, and the King of Chu was not taken seriously by him at all.
During the King of Chu's enthronement ceremony, Li Yuan walked in front of the King of Chu several times. It was not until a warrior reprimanded him for this behavior that Li Yuan smiled and slowed down. His actions caused some clans in Chu to The disciple was very angry. Li Yuan also fulfilled his agreement with the nobles. He rewarded these people with domestic land and allowed them to arrange their own confidants to govern the place.
Decades of hard work by the King of Chu and Huang Xie were all destroyed by Li Yuan in four days.
Of course, Li Yuan also had to face pressure from abroad, the most important one being the pressure from Qin.
The domestic Chu aristocrats are divided into two factions. Although both factions are dissatisfied with Huang Xie, their demands are different. Some radical aristocrats are very dissatisfied with Huang Xie's policy of bowing his head towards Qin. They hope that Li Yuan can lead
As the Chu Kingdom regained its lost territory, the other nobles hoped to maintain the current status quo and not break the peace. Li Yuan thought for a moment and decided not to break the current peace.
Lu Buwei sent an envoy to the Chu State, and Li Yuan dedicated the lost territory outside Shouchun recovered by Jingyang to the Qin State. He was eager to improve mutual relations with the Qin State. Of course, the Qin State was also happy to see this.
After many years of war with the Chu State, the relationship finally began to become harmonious. Li Yuan even sent a clan daughter to the Qin State to marry the King of Qin. Regarding this matter, the internal views of the Qin State were also very unified.
acceptable.
The marriage between Qin and Chu has become a tradition.
Yi was a little unhappy. She felt that it was not appropriate for the two of them to get married since they had never met each other and did not know what the other's temperament was like. However, she did not know what politics was... Zhao Kuo did not speak.
Zhao Kuo objected because Zhao Kuo knew how much benefit this matter would bring. Naturally, the queen from Chu State wiped away her tears and came to Qin State. She wanted to visit Yi first and then hold a wedding ceremony with Zheng.
However, the queen's elegant speech was not very good, and Qin's language was even more unclear. There were some problems in her communication with Yi. Yi looked at the daughter-in-law with a smile, and Zhao Kuo acquiesced to the marriage between Qin and Chu.
Naturally, there is no need for Yi to continue to object. This daughter-in-law is very delicate and beautiful. Judging from her appearance, like Yi, she is also a shy girl. She looks very timid.
She didn't understand at first why she had to come here to visit the wife of a minister when she came to Qin. The people accompanying her told her that this was the home of Marquis Wucheng. They had raised the King of Qin, so the King of Qin brought them as husband and wife.
She treated her like her own parents. Only then did the queen realize that Yi still liked her very much. Perhaps it was her fearful look that reminded Yi of the time when she had just gotten married.
Yi smiled and left her to eat, gesturing with his hands to talk to her.
This made the queen determined to learn Yayan well. When the queen was in Chu State, she was very careless when learning Yayan, which led to the current situation. The wedding of King Qin has washed away some of the unpleasantness in these days.
Calm down, King Qin's wedding is not too luxurious, but it can be regarded as a grand event. All ministers came to attend the wedding of the king one after another. It was a little late for King Qin to get married, but it was just the right time.
Getting married is a double blessing.
For some reason, Zhao Kuo suddenly felt relieved. His children had finally grown up, started a business, and had their own family. Yi was very excited and couldn't help crying. Zhao Kuo finally looked like an old father.
He happily celebrated with the ministers, temporarily suppressing all the unpleasant memories in his mind. Zhao Kuo also met the queen. The queen did not seem to be a rude person, but unfortunately, she looked a little
Be silent and speak less.
Zhao Kuo didn't know whether such a character would be compatible with Ying Zheng.
But Zhao Kuo still hopes that they can live in harmony and grow old together. It is very important for a person to choose a lifelong partner. Now their marriage is really mixed with too many political factors, but Zhao Kuo sincerely
I wish them happiness.
Ying Zheng didn't seem that excited about getting married. He just smiled calmly until the wedding was over. Zhao Kuo still pulled Ying Zheng to his side. Zhao Kuo thought for a long time before saying: "I hope you can treat me well."
Your family... No matter what you want to do in the future, your family will be your strongest support... Don't make her sad, don't get angry with her..."
Zhao Kuo drank a lot of wine that day, and he couldn't remember what he said to Ying Zheng. However, Ying Zheng kept these words in his heart and never forgot them.
The re-marriage of Qin and Chu was a very bad thing for all countries. Huang Xie worked hard to create a strategy of alliance against Qin, but it was destroyed in this way. And Lu Buwei needed to stabilize Qin.
In order to maintain diplomacy, he personally sent an envoy to the State of Qi to request the King of Qi to come to a banquet with the State of Qin. Inviting other kings to come was not an easy thing to do, especially for the State of Qin with a bad record.
, this kind of invitation is even more difficult.
But if there is a money-grubbing prime minister, then this is not a problem.
After Lu Buwei gave away enough property, Hou Sheng sat in front of King Qi and began to persuade King Qi to go to Qin for a banquet. In Hou Sheng's words, this banquet was an important measure to improve the relationship between the two parties and could allow them to
Qin became Qi's eternal ally, and could even bring decades of peace to Qi. King Qi was confused when he heard this. Although many ministers objected, thinking that Qin might take the king hostage, but later
Sheng pledged his own life and accused the ministers of accepting bribes from Zhao and Wei.
In the end, King Qi decided to listen to the advice of his confidants. Just as his mother once said, a king must listen to advice and cannot force talented people away.
The King of Qi decided to rush to the State of Qin for a banquet.
Qi and Chu both put down their guard against Qin and decided to sit on the sidelines in the ensuing war and watch Qin better complete its strategy of annexing the three Jin states. Wei and Zhao were now facing tremendous pressure.
, especially the Wei State. After the continuous defeats in these years, the Wei State had a pitifully small territory. It could not find a general who could command the soldiers and could not support its own army. They had been strangled by the Qin State.
The situation of Zhao State is not much better. The coalition forces can no longer transport food and grass to Zhao State. Although Zhao State can repulse Qin's current attacks, every war has caused Zhao State to suffer a food crisis. The people
They fled because of hunger. Zhao State had fewer and fewer soldiers to mobilize and less and less cultivated land. It fell into a cycle of evil deeds. King Zhao also saw this.
He wanted to find ways to solve this problem, including updating agricultural technology, promoting livestock, reducing the burden on the people, and reducing the land of the nobles. King Zhao implemented a series of methods to get Zhao out of the food crisis. In order to deal with the dissatisfaction of the domestic nobles
, Li Mu and his soldiers watched eagerly. Relying on this sharp sword, King Zhao finally completed the preliminary method and exempted some people in the country from military service, allowing them to farm with peace of mind.
In the State of Yan, Prince Dan, who had just returned home, advised his father and suggested that he carry out reforms in the country, use the system of the State of Qin, encourage farming and mulberry, and treat all the people in the country equally. Unfortunately, Prince Dan was a little impatient, and he
In his father's opinion, these suggestions were dissatisfaction with his governance. King Yan was furious and drove Prince Dan out of the palace, and ordered that the prince would not be allowed to enter the palace again without his own summons.
The angry Prince Dan had no way to deal with this situation. He could only make friends with famous talents and brave warriors in various places.
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"Teacher, I heard that King Qin was newly married and invited King Qi to a banquet. People said that King Qi was going to die. What do you think of this?"
The old man stroked his silver-white beard and said with emotion: "The child back then has now married and established a business... The people of Qin invited the King of Qi, and people in the country said that the people of Qin wanted to kill the King of Qi. I don't think this will happen.
...The State of Qin wished that King Qi could live a few more years... and wished that Hou Sheng could live a long life. How could they murder King Qi?" The old man shook his head and just said: "It's a pity that he has a bad temper.
It will lead to the destruction of an ancient vassal state..."
The old man straightened his back and said: "What I know is that human nature is evil, and good behavior is achieved through acquired efforts. Human nature is greedy for self-interest from birth, and along this path
With this kind of nature, there will be competition between people, and humility will no longer be emphasized..."
"Therefore, bent wood must be fumigated and straightened with tools before it can be straightened; metal tools that are not sharp must be polished to become sharp. People's "evil" nature must rely on teachers and teachings.
Then it can be corrected..."
The old man was talking, and the dozens of disciples sitting in front of him were listening attentively. Suddenly, one disciple stood up and retorted: "I heard that Mencius said that people learn because their nature is good.
"
The old man said angrily: "This statement is wrong! This is because you don't understand human nature and don't understand the difference between nature and acquired man-made things. Nature is innate and cannot be learned, nor is it man-made. Etiquette and justice,
It was formulated by sages. People can get it through learning and do it through hard work. It is impossible to learn..."
"I heard that Mencius said that people are good by nature, and they only do evil because they have lost their nature."
"This statement is wrong. If a person's nature is separated from its inherent natural quality when he is born, then he will definitely lose his nature. The so-called good nature means that he does not leave his quality and feels that he is beautiful, and does not leave his
I think he is very good because of his qualifications..."
Xunzi's gray beard was trembling wildly. He pointed at the disciples in front of him and "slandered" the previous Confucian sage's ideas with all his strength. Sometimes, the disciples felt that if the two of them were in the same era, they would be very interesting.
Everyone sat together and quarreled. Oh, no, they were debating. It was obviously very interesting. One disciple stood up again and asked: "Human nature is evil, so where does etiquette and justice come from?"
"All etiquette and righteousness are produced by the acquired efforts of saints, not by human nature. Therefore, if a potter makes pottery with clay, then the pottery is produced by human actions, not by the potter's nature. Carpenters process wood to make pottery.
If it is made of wood, then the wood is produced by the carpenter's human efforts, not the nature of the carpenter."
Xunzi answered several students' questions in succession, and then he began to pant. He was getting old and no longer had the physical strength to speak in silence. Seeing Xunzi panting, the disciples did not dare to ask any more questions.
Xunzi sat on a simple wooden couch and looked at the disciples in front of him. Among the crowd, he called his name to his side. He looked at his name and said seriously: "I am here to accept you as a disciple on behalf of Gongsun Long."
."
"Although the famous school is a useless school, I still hope that you can carry it forward... don't stop here."
After hearing Xunzi's words, Ming frowned, stood up and said: "The logic of famous scholars is the foundation of all theories... We define concepts for everything... How can you say that famous scholars have useless theories?"
When Xunzi heard this, he immediately grinned, nodded and said, "Okay."
The old man slowly closed his eyes.
A strong wind blew by, blowing his gray hair.
There was thunder in the sky, and soon it started to rain lightly.
It seemed as if the whole world was weeping at the departure of the sage.
When the disciples found that the teacher no longer answered their questions, they trembled all over, knelt down in front of the teacher and cried bitterly.
In a courtyard on the outskirts of Qi State, a sage sat on a simple wooden couch and passed away his life peacefully.
That glorious and wonderful life.
But maybe he never left.
Listen, he is beside us.
"The gentleman said: Learning cannot stop. Green is taken from blue, and blue is green; ice is taken from water, but cold is from water. The wood is straight in the rope, and the frame is used as a wheel, and its curves are regular. Although there are some rough edges.
, Those who no longer stand up are just trying to make it happen..."