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Chapter one hundred and sixty-six punch the king

"General Xiang Xian!"

Zhao Kuo suddenly spoke, Xiang Xian was stunned and stopped moving towards the King of Korea, but he smiled and looked at Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo looked at him and said with a smile: "You are the general of Chu. The reason why Chunshenjun asked you to rescue South Korea is to let the people of the world know that Chu will help its ally... in order to consolidate the alliance. If the alliance collapses, wouldn't you violate your mission?"

"You are..." Xiang Xian looked at Zhao Kuo, wondering what he had in his mind.

Zhao Kuo looked at Xiang Yu and said with a smile: "Before I had never arrived in South Korea, I didn't care about the alliance proposed by Chu. I just thought it was just a strategy that Chu wanted to realize its ambitions... However, I saw many corpses on the road to Xinzheng. They were not starved to death or sick. They killed themselves, gave up looking for food, and gave up their lives... I have seen this kind of despair in Zhao."

"If you know that there are allies who will come to help me...even if the reinforcements are besieged in Xinzheng, they will probably save many people." On Zhao Kuo, Xiang Xian could see a look similar to Xunzi. When he accompanied Xunzi to Qi State, Xunzi looked at the people on the road and always said something difficult for him to understand. He had a look of pity and pain in his eyes, worried about the country and the people.

But now Zhao Kuo looks very much like Xunzi at that time. Xiang Xian widened his eyes and looked at Zhao Kuo in front of him in a daze.

Zhao Kuo looked at King Han. When the King Han listened to their conversation, his face was just a mysterious smile, calm. Zhao Kuo suddenly walked towards him. Seeing Zhao Kuo approaching him, the King Han suddenly felt a little uneasy. He immediately ordered: "Catch him!" The warriors around him suddenly raised their crossbows, and a warrior approached him with a short sword in his hand. Zhao Kuo was indifferent and proudly walked towards these warriors.

The Korean samurai looked at Zhao Kuo in front of him in fear, and the short sword in his hand was trembling. Zhao Kuo just stared at the King of Han above and walked directly into the middle of the Korean samurai. However, the samurai retreated and did not dare to let his weapons touch Zhao Kuo. Under the cold light of the crossbow arrow, 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, then shoot his disciples!!"

Zhao Kuo stopped and looked at the warriors who pointed their powerful crossbows at his disciples. He shook his head and sighed in broken Korean language: "I led them to help South Korea. The two and the three sons are all Korean warriors. Bai Qi is rampant and bullies innocent Koreans. The two and the three sons' crossbows dare not aim at Bai Qi, but they want to shoot my disciples? Don't you feel ashamed?" Zhao Kuo's eyes were like sharp blades, stabbing at the Korean warriors.

"Dong~~", the young Korean warrior angrily threw down the powerful crossbow in his hand, suddenly pulled out the short sword, inserted it into his chest angrily, and blood gushed, falling to the ground and died. The Korean warriors' faces were a little sad, and they pointed the short sword at them one after another. Zhao Kuo was shocked and hurriedly shouted: "No! No!!" However, before he could stop, the warriors used the short sword originally aimed at Zhao Kuo to end their young life.

The warriors fell heavily on the ground, and the smell of blood filled the palace.

This incident in the palace scared everyone. Zhao Kuo still looked like he stretched out his hand to dissuade him, and he remained motionless. Most of the warriors who had surrounded Zhao Kuo with powerful crossbows were lying on the ground at this moment, and blood even flowed to Zhao Kuo's feet. Did he commit suicide because he was unwilling to hurt Zhao Kuo and could not fulfill the order of the King of Han? Or did he commit suicide in shame because of Zhao Kuo's questioning?

Perhaps, they took Zhao Kuo's questioning as an insult.

People in the Warring States Period could die, but not be humiliated.

Not all the warriors died so sadly. There were still a few people standing, not old, and they might have been temporarily transferred to guard the palace. They looked at the bodies of their colleagues around them and were trembling all over. They had no idea what had happened and did not know what they should do. The Tongzes died, but they could not continue to live with shame. They pointed their swords at themselves, but they had no courage to stab them, and they cried in fear.

"Catch them up and don't let them commit suicide." Zhao Kuo ordered.

Hearing Zhao Kuo's orders, Yang Duan and them quickly stepped forward and subdued these Korean warriors who had no combat power. Zhao Kuo then raised his head and looked at King Han. Xiang Xian was completely confused. He still didn't understand what was going on. Zhao Kuo just said one sentence and made these warriors commit suicide due to humiliation. What was the most shocking was King Han. King Han widened his eyes and looked at Zhao Kuo in front of him blankly. Where was my warrior?

Zhao Kuo walked to the King of Han along the bloodstains.

Zhao Kuo lowered his head and looked down at the King of Han in front of him. The King of Han raised his head and looked at Zhao Kuo. He felt a little angry. He had always been high above him. He didn't like this feeling of being looked down upon. He also stood up and wanted to scold the rude Zhao Kuo. However, even if he stood up, he was a head shorter than Zhao Kuo, and he could only look up at Zhao Kuo in front of him.

"If I had known that Bai Qi's army had come, I didn't want the people to escape into the city, but summoned soldiers from all over the country to Xinzheng... Let the defenses in various places be useless, I ask you, if there were thousands of defensive forces in various cities in South Korea and strong crossbows, could Bai Qi kill the people in the city with less than 10,000 soldiers?" Zhao Kuo asked. At that moment, King Han was furious. He pointed at Zhao Kuo in front of him and said angrily: "How dare you not call me a respectful title?"

"Boom~~", Zhao Kuo punched King Han's face. At that moment, the King Han's face seemed to have blossomed, and blood was splattering everywhere. King Han howled and fell down. Zhao Kuo bent down and grabbed his neck and lifted him up. Zhao Kuo's disciples, even Xiang Xian of Chu, were stunned at this moment, Ma Fujun... He just beat King Han and punched him... Xiang Xian rubbed his eyes and looked at Ma Fujun incredibly.

Although it was a period of ritual collapse and music, etiquette among nobles was still very important. I heard that someone killed the lord, but I never heard that someone was insulting the lord, let alone punching him directly... Is this still the kind and righteous gentleman they knew Ma Fujun? Zhao Kuo felt angry at this moment, looking at the stupid guy in front of him who 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 passed away, no one has 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 knows your actions! Everyone will despise you, and even King Zhao cannot tolerate you! How dare you be so rude to the king of a country?!"

Zhao Kuo was still calm, just looking at the King of Han in front of him, and asked coldly: "I never care about my reputation, I don't care how the people in the world view me, let alone how people will talk about me later. However, if a king like you is as virtuous as you, later people will sneer you!" The King of Han suddenly felt a chill all over. He lowered his voice and defended himself: "I am not a virtuous monarch..."

Zhao Kuo grabbed King Han, pressed him on his seat, and sat beside him. Then he looked at the people below. Looking at the surprised disciples, Zhao Kuo said seriously: "Mencius said: The king should treat his subjects as brothers and sisters, and then the minister should treat the king sincerely; the king should treat the ministers as dogs and horses, and then the minister should treat the king as ordinary people; if the king regards the ministers as insignificant, then the minister can treat the king as enemies."

"But I am not the minister of King Han. What I want to tell you is the attitude towards others. For good and righteous people, I hope that Ersan can treat them sincerely regardless of their humble status. For cruel and cunning evil people, I hope that Ersan can treat them like their enemies regardless of their high status. Treat kind people with kindness and righteousness, and treat unvirtuous evil people with short swords."

"I never underestimate the farmer who cultivates the land. If a farmer who is muddy all day long does a good deed, he will be worthy of respect than a king who is in a high position but harms the people. If a craftsman can raise the orphans and use his few food to help others, I can also regard him as a king. Some people are born as kings, while others grow up in the farmland, which is something that people cannot decide."

"But we can decide something 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 not surrender to the enemy of cruelty. This is what Xunzi said that everyone can become a saint..."

The disciples listened to Zhao Kuo's words seriously. Even Xiang Xian put forward a speech that was very cautious. He always held the theory of bloodline of Chu and was very despised by Xunzi's statement that everyone could become saints. However, at this moment, when he saw the actions of King Han and looked at the warriors lying in the pool of blood, his heart was shaken. He found that he could no longer refute this remark!

These disciples who came to Zhao Kuo were originally here to learn war and the law from him, but at this moment, listening to Zhao Kuo's teachings, they seemed to have put their thoughts behind their heads. They just listened carefully. Yang Duanhe picked up a pen and wanted to record it. Although the King of Qin sent him to record the law, not these moral preachings, for some reason, he just wanted to write it down and didn't have to send it back to Qin and stay by his side.

The King of Han looked at him in fear and shook his head.

"Don't refuse. I still feel that it is time to discuss with you the way to govern the country. Your previous method was wrong."

In the fifty-seventh year of King Nan, in the first month, Bai Qi attacked Han, and Li Zi sent a soldier to assist Han, but he wanted to capture him. He beat the king with a punch and said "no virtue".———"Ma Fuzi"
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