Chapter 194: Surrounding Qin and Saving Chu (Thanks to the Alliance Lord from the World)
Before the carriage arrived at the suit, it was blocked halfway.
The road from Handan to Horse and Fu is no longer as bumpy as before. According to the specifications of the Zhao horse and carriage, this road has been renovated again. It was not the King of Zhao who renovated this road, but the nobles of Handan. In order to ask the Ma Fujun in time, they used their retainers and spent a lot of supplies to create this avenue that can accommodate two horse and carriages at the same time. The Zhao people called it "seeking talents."
The nobles from all over the State of Zhao often travel to Mafu to meet Mafu, ask for advice, or want their children in their families to stay with Zhao Kuo, and they are more interested in fame and reputation, just to meet Mafujun so that they can brag about their deep friendship with Mafujun to others. No matter what purpose these people come, Zhao Kuo will not neglect them.
Zhao Kuo instilled his thoughts of benevolence into them without getting tired of him. He did not expect that his words could awaken their conscience and turn them into wise men who care about the people and worry about the country and the people... However, it is enough to make them better to the people. These noble people who left Mafu Township seemed to have changed their individuals. After returning to their fiefdom and their hometown, someone actually gave their property to their villagers, making them look like they had gained a lot of feelings from Mafujun.
Wei Wuji walked down from the carriage. He looked at the dozen carriages in front of him and couldn't help but shake his head, took out his wine bag, and started drinking. He looked at the surrounding area seriously. A new town appeared outside the township of Mafu. To be precise, this was a new school room. The Zhao people called it the Handan School Room. A short courtyard wall surrounded the school room, leaving only two narrow doors, which were open and no one was guarding it there.
There were many carriages parked outside the door, and the riders gathered together and chatted.
Wei Wuji took his disciples into this brand new school room. It was said to be a school room, but in fact it was no different from a village. The school room was a field-shaped road, with courtyards located on both sides of the road, neatly and symmetrical, with a quite Qin architectural style. Wei Wuji walked drunk on the road and saw several young people facing each other, discussing while walking.
"It is impossible for Qin State to achieve what the teacher said is a king of the world. The power of Qin State is because of their military merit system. If they unify through killing, then hatred is inevitable. The people of various countries will still find ways to resist his rule... If he does not kill, the military merit system will collapse, and Qin State will no longer be powerful, and may even be directly destroyed..."
"Didn't the teacher say that? The head level is not important. The important thing about the military merit system is the title. To be precise, it is the benefit of the promotion of the title. The cultivated land of various countries is concentrated in the hands of nobles. This can be distributed to the soldiers who fight to stabilize the military merit system and reduce killings?"
"If you don't kill, how can you calculate your military merits and how can you improve your title?"
Several people were talking and walked over to Wei Wuji. Wei Wuji looked at the disciples in surprise, drank another sip of wine, and said to his left and right with a smile: "If it weren't for the busy state affairs, I would have wanted to stay here to study with Ma Fujun..." A disciple joked: "If you stay here, you would probably be drunk during the lecture time and be scolded by Ma Fujun as a rotten wood, and then drive you out!"
Wei Wuji laughed.
Walking further, there were more strange disciples I met. Some disciples were writing bamboo slips, some were practicing swords, and several disciples were throwing fruits into the sky, then watched the fruit fall in a daze, and murmured: "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 surrounded by a group of disciples to answer their confusion.
"Senior brother, why did the teacher say: Dharma is traitor and is unkind?"
"When the people are united, they will cover up their mistakes. This is called goodness, which makes the people alienate and separate and supervise each other. This is called traitor... They will not allow the people to protect each other's crimes because of their kindness, allow their sons to sue their fathers, and allow their retainers to sue their masters... The law is inhumane, so the teacher said: The law is not good." Han Fei's stuttering is gradually getting better. When explaining the teacher's truth, he said it very well.
The strange title of senior brother was revealed by Zhao Kuo inadvertently. He always pointed at Han Fei and said: Everyone learns from your senior brother! So Zhao Kuo's disciples also adopted Zhao Kuo's statement, and recognized Han Fei as the senior brother. After him, there was a lot of controversy because almost all of them were introduced at the same time. Therefore, the other disciples of Zhao Kuo called each other junior brothers and refused to admit that they would have to go to each other late to enter school.
"Senior brother, do you think the teacher is right?" someone asked.
Han Fei said seriously: "The wise monarch kept his subordinates and people, and acted completely in accordance with the law and was based on precautions. Therefore, he did not forgive death row prisoners, did not lenient criminals, pardoned death row prisoners, forgive criminals, and had sentiments. This is called the loss of power!" He paused and said: "Using laws to govern the country is just a matter of formulating and promoting it. The laws do not favor the powerful, the ink rope does not accommodate and bend, and the laws should be punished. The wise cannot escape, the brave dare not fight, the punishment of the crime does not evade ministers, and the reward of the common people does not miss it."
"So there is no comparison to law to correct the faults above, to investigate the evil below, to govern chaos, to judge fallacies, to reduce redundancy, to correct mistakes, and to unify the norms of the people. There is no comparison to law in rectifying officials, to deter the people, to eliminate lust and laziness, and to prohibit fraud and hypocrisy."
The disciples listened and couldn't help but nodded. Zhao Kuo said something simple on weekdays. If everyone didn't understand, they would come to find the senior brother. The ordinary senior brother Han Fei could always answer their confusion. This cute senior brother seemed to have his own opinions on everything. He was the only one among the disciples who dared to debate with Zhao Kuo. A few days ago, the two started arguing over the severity of the criminal law.
Han Fei believes that only the most cruel criminal law can only serve as a warning and prevent others from breaking the law easily.
Zhao Kuo believed that the criminal law was too cruel and would take away the power to repent and become a human again.
Han Fei retorted: Those who commit minor crimes may not be punished severely and give them a chance to correct their mistakes. However, for those who kill others, if they are not sentenced to severe punishment, who will give the victim a chance to become a new person?
Zhao Kuo was moved by Han Fei.
Han Fei saw Wei Wuji, stopped, leaned over to salute Wei Wuji, and the disciples hurriedly saluted. Wei Wuji returned the salute, and Han Fei took them away. Wei Wuji sighed and said with emotion: "Just because of what he said just now, he can serve as the prime minister of Zhao State." Wei Wuji was feeling emotion, and saw a child staggering over. The child was very delicate. He seemed to be chasing Han Fei. Wei Wuji bent down and picked up the little guy.
This child was not afraid of being alive. 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 guests around him also came over. Looking at the cute little guy, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand to tease him. Unfortunately, Wei Wuji searched all over his body, but he couldn't find anything to eat for the little guy. If he had known, he would have brought some food... The Emperor of the Ages had been waiting for a long time, and after he found that Wei Wuji would not give him a gift, he immediately burst into tears.
When Wei Wuji walked into the largest courtyard, Zhao Kuo was chatting with a middle-aged man. When both of them saw Wei Wuji, they both got up to pay their respects. Wei Wuji returned the gift, and then sat in front of Zhao Kuo in depressed mood. Zhao Kuo looked at his messy beard and asked in surprise: "Is this..."
"Your son grabbed it for me..."
Zhao Kuo pointed to the middle-aged man beside him and said to Wei Wuji: "This gentleman is the imperial physician order of Shangjun, called Zu... is the disciple of Mr. Bian Que..." Wei Wuji had also heard of Bian Que, so he hurriedly saluted the middle-aged man again. Zu is an elegant middle-aged man who looks very gentle. He looked at Wei Wuji for a moment before he said with some concern: "Xinling Jun... Have you felt weak recently? Sleepy and have no appetite?"
Wei Wuji was stunned, nodded just now, and asked in fear: "How did you know?"
"I see that you are pale and sweating constantly..." As he said, he glanced at Zhao Kuo, approached Wei Wuji again, and asked in a low voice beside him: "Are you...unhuman?"
Wei Wuji was shocked and widened his eyes.
After sighing, he said, "You need to stop drinking... If you drink like this, you will vomit blood and feel severe abdominal pain. In the end, there is no way to treat it again... I will prescribe some medicine for you, please don't drink anymore..." As he said, Zhao Kuo nodded. Wei Wuji's drinking day and night was indeed a bit too violent, which is very harmful to his body.
Wei Wuji lowered his head, pondered for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Not hindrance... I will drink less."
Zhao Kuo then said, "I found Zu, because I wanted him to help me, gather famous doctors, organize a medical book... to teach more doctors in Zhao..." Zhao Kuo said his thoughts. Wei Wuji listened carefully and chatted for a while. Zu understood that Wei Wuji had something important to come to Zhao Kuo, so he did not continue to disturb him. He said goodbye and left. Zhao Kuo ordered Zhao Fu to arrange his accommodation.
Wei Wuji then told Zhao Kuo about his own affairs. Wei Wuji had heard a long time ago that there were two talented and virtuous people in Zhao State who were not political. One was Mao Gong hiding among gamblers and the other was Xue Gong Yin in the hotel. Wei Wuji wanted to see these two people, but these two people hid and refused to see Wei Wuji. When Wei Wuji found out their hiding address, he quietly walked to date the two people. They both thought it was a pleasure to know each other and were very happy.
Most of the nobles of Zhao State looked down on Wei Wuji's approach. Some people said: I heard that Mr. Wei was an unparalleled wise man in the world. Now I heard that he was doing something wrong and dating that group of gamblers and hotel guys. The man was just an ignorant and reckless person.
Wei Wuji ignored it.
Chu sent people to Zhao State for help, and King Zhao asked Wei Wuji about his opinion, but Wei Wuji asked King Zhao not to send troops for the time being, because Zhao State did not recover from the war two years ago. Wei State sent Mao Sui as a general to help Chu State, but Qin people said they wanted to avenge Wei State. Pingyuan Jun sent people to let Wei Wuji be the commander and lead the troops of Zhao State and Wei State to rescue Chu State.
Wei Wuji did not want to lead the Wei army to fight in Chu. He even directly told his disciples: Anyone who dared to report and convey to the envoys of Wei will be executed.
The two disciples he accepted in the past, Mr. Mao and Mr. Xue, came to find Wei Wuji and said to him: The reason why the young master was highly respected and famous in Zhao State was just because of the existence of Wei State. Now because of the Qin State's attack, the Wei State is in a very critical moment, and there is no general to command the Wei State's army. When Wei State is in a critical moment, you don't care about it. If Qin State breaks through Daliang and flattens your ancestor's ancestral temple, what kind of face does the young master have to live in the world?
Wei Wuji was moved and met King Zhao again and told King Zhao about the idea of Wei. King Zhao felt that Chu had helped Zhao in the past, but now that Qin wanted to destroy Chu, he should not be indifferent. So he decided to use Wei Wuji as his general and lead 50,000 soldiers from Zhao to Shangdang and attack Qin. Wei also wanted to send 50,000 soldiers to use Wei Wuji as the commander. In other words, Wei Wuji was preparing to lead Zhao and Wei 100,000 troops to resolve the crisis of Chu.
Listening to Wei Wuji finishing these things, Zhao Kuo fell silent.
Wei Wuji smiled and said, "Don't you be optimistic about me? Do you think I will die at Bai Qi's hands?" Zhao Kuo still did not answer. He just said seriously: "The Qin army gathered in Nanyang. If you want to save Chu, you can lead the army to attack Shangdang... Try to avoid Bai Qi's edge and force Qin to end the war..." Zhao Kuo said, and stopped again, and he said, "But the war will not end..."
"Do you really think that Qin can unify the world?"
"Unless the six countries unite, they are no match for Qin at all... Qin has already led the various countries in terms of system."
"Even if Zhao State has a wise man like you, can't you surpass Qin State?"
"How could Qin's hundreds of years of efforts be surpassed by me alone? The systems I want to implement in Zhao were all implemented first by the Qin people... In Zhao, it cannot be taken seriously... Qin regards my thoughts as truth, applies my system to the country, and regards my ideals as its own strategy... I want to protect Zhao people, but only Qin can realize my ideals and implement the system I proposed... Isn't this ridiculous?"
"Hahaha, yes... I followed your doctrine and wanted to implement the reforms I wanted to implement. At the beginning of Zhao State, Qin State had completed most of the time..." Wei Wuji grinned and was about to pick up the wine bag to drink, but Zhao Kuo took the wine bag from him.
“You need to quit drinking.”
ps: Although I haven't recovered yet, it's much better than yesterday. I have a severe cold, don't worry too much.
After infusion, I will come back to update.
Chapter completed!