Chapter 2127 The Flower War (35)

The twenty-fifth hexagram of the sixty-four Xiantian hexagrams of the Zhou Yi is the Wuwu hexagram, and the idiom "Wuwang disaster" comes from this hexagram.

"Wuwang" means to act rashly and move arbitrarily, while "wuwu" means not to act rashly and move arbitrarily, but still cause thunder and lightning and bring disaster.

This is not called unlucky. Man’s calculation is not as good as God’s. You can decide that your behavior is not inappropriate, but it is not so in the eyes of others.

During the Changping War between Qin and Zhao, there was a general named Zhao Kuo, who was good at "talking about war on paper". At that time, the veteran general Lian Po relied on the mountain dangers to build a solid barrier and prepare to use the exhaustion strategy to make the Qin army retreat without a fight.

But the Zhao nobles could not wait any longer.

First, the weather in Zhao State is cold and the land is not fertile, so it is impossible to store much food.

Second, the envoys of the State of Zhao went to King Qi Min to borrow grain, but King Qi Min ignored the situation and did not lend the grain to the State of Zhao.

He may have thought of a "snipe and clam fight, the fisherman will gain", and waited for Qin and Zhao to exhaust their national strength in the war, and then Qi would send troops to attack the two countries.

It may also be because he still remembers what happened to Su Qin. It was precisely because of this Yan man's powerful temptation that King Qi Min made enemies everywhere and became the target of public criticism.

Su Qin studied under Gui Guzi of Qi State, but it was Duke Wen of Yan who first appreciated him. Even Su Qin and Zhang Yi had times when they felt depressed.

Talent is a very complicated issue. Those who are "used for me" will be more powerful, while those who are "used for the enemy" will bring disaster. When King Qi Min reused Su Qin, Su Qin had already obtained the seal of the Six Kingdoms, and also obtained a "

People in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period did not have the "loyalty, righteousness, and courage" advocated by later Confucianism. They were all "wolf-hearted". Wu Zixu's father was the teacher of the prince of Chu, and he was involved in the dispute over the throne.

After being killed, Wu Zixu fled overnight to the Wu State next door to the Chu State. The talented Wu Zixu was quickly reused by the King of Wu, and Wu Zixu also used the army of the Wu State to attack Chu and avenge the King of Chu who killed his father and brother.

hatred.

It was an era of blood revenge. For revenge, one could ignore human ethics and morality. But did Qi have such hatred for Su Qin? No, it was just that Su Qin had received the favor and entrustment from King Yan in advance. He pretended that he had an affair with the queen, and was betrayed by Yan.

When the king found out, he ran away to Qi to seek political asylum. King Xuan of Qi really believed it and gave a great minister everything he deserved, hoping that the whole country would obey his command.

If King Xuan of Qi did not treat Su Qin kindly and bossed him around, then Su Qin would not have any uneasy conscience when he harmed Qi.

This is like the beauty in the beauty trap who falls in love with the person who is being framed and spied on. Her emotions are so complicated that she can only die to apologize.

If Su Qin did not go to Qi State, he could enjoy all the glory and wealth in Yan State.

But when he succeeded in joining forces, went north from the Chu Kingdom, and returned to his hometown of Luoyang, the relatives who looked down on him in the past were all crouching on the ground and did not dare to look up. This made him sigh with emotion: The same person became rich, but his relatives were afraid of him.

When I was poor and humble, even my relatives looked down upon me. If I had two hectares of fertile land in Luoyang back then, how could I wear the seal of the Six Kingdoms now?

So he distributed a large amount of gold and rewarded it to his relatives and friends. When Su Qin went to Yan State, he borrowed money from others for travel expenses. Now that he was rich, he paid back a hundred times.

After arriving in the Yan Kingdom, the King of Yan did not like Su Qin at first because of his unpleasant reputation.

But compared with its strong neighbor Qi, Yan was too weak. Only by weakening Qi could Yan have a chance, so Su Qin went to Qi and persuaded the King of Qi to attack the wealthy Song.

The Song Dynasty also suffered an "unwarranted disaster". It just occupied a sacred land and was extremely rich.

The reason why Qi State's attack on Song State became a target of public criticism was firstly because by annexing Song State, Qi State would become richer and more powerful than it is now, becoming a threat to other countries. Secondly, because although the etiquette and music were severely broken in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period,

Alliance meetings are still very important, and the Song State was the host of many alliance meetings. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Song State was one of the Five Hegemons. Its status as a hegemon allowed it to hold alliance meetings, and it became a "neutral country" during the Warring States Period.

Su Qin's plan was so immoral that it was no wonder that he would "invite" the car to be broken and abandon the market, thus saving King Xuan of Qi's trouble. King Xuan of Qi did not listen to Mencius, abandoned his tyranny and followed the king's way, and the country of Qi was also in his hands

It was in decline. He made many mistakes, but he made Jixia Academy prosperous and became the biggest factor in the "Hundred Schools of Thought Contention".

Only when you are full can you have the strength to quarrel. There are many scholars in Jixia Academy who are at the end of their lives and have come to Qi State to make a living. Their small sect does not have the strict organizational structure of the Mo family, nor is it as rich as the Yin and Yang family.

, building a tomb for a prince may require a lot of effort from the country, plus the burial objects, tsk tsk.

King Xuan of Qi was famous for cherishing talents. If King Xuan of Qi ordered Su Qin to be killed, although he would be relieved, he would still be stigmatized. What would the people in Jixia Academy think of King Xuan of Qi?

A qualified maidservant, when she learns that the lady is going to poison the master, will pretend to fall and spill the poisoned wine. The master will be very angry and punish the maidservant, and the wife will come back to her senses, even if she is poisoned.

It also takes courage to kill someone with poison. In this way, the harmony between husband and wife is preserved, but the maid will inevitably be beaten. Su Qin is the maid who was beaten.

In order to give King Qi a reasonable reason to kill him, Su Qin asked King Qi Min to announce that he secretly helped Yan State to engage in espionage activities and framed Qi State. In this way, King Qi Min could issue a reward order and lure the assassin in the name of reward.

His assassin appeared, and that assassin not only had no fault but also merit. But when the assassin came out to collect the reward, he was dead. King Yan also knew what Su Qin had done to repay his kindness. It could be said that killing two birds with one stone was killing two birds with one stone.

When the Zhao envoy borrowed food, King Qi Min might have been thinking: How do I know it's not you "smart guys" who are trying to trick me again?

Honesty means being honest and trustworthy, trustworthiness means being down-to-earth and trustworthy.

After the destruction of rites and music, people's hearts become unpredictable. There is no integrity, no elders and young children, no etiquette and justice, only all kinds of fraud and interests.

In the end, King Qi Min did not lend food to Zhao's envoys, and Zhao had no way to continue fighting a war of attrition with Qin. They abolished Lian Po and replaced him with Zhao Kuo, who chose to switch from defense to offense, planning to fight with Qin.

The decisive battle of Qin.

At that time, the general of the Qin army was not Bai Qi. Later, Qin spies heard about Zhao's change of generals, so they secretly changed their own generals. Bai Qi fled after pretending to be defeated, and Zhao Kuo sent troops to pursue him. Then he

He fell into the trap and fell into the ambush of the Qin army.

The twenty-fourth hexagram of the Book of Changes is called Fu. If you go out, you will come back. If you go without returning, it is definitely a bad omen.

The twenty-sixth hexagram is called Big Animals. Don't let "virtuous" people like Su Qin stay at home to fend for themselves, but recruit them to the court for food and salary to show their virtues as animals.

Just like Su Qin said, if I have two hectares of fertile land in Luoyang, why do I need the seal of the Six Kingdoms?

A well-fed man doesn’t know a hungry man is hungry. If a person is not hungry to a certain extent, you don’t know what he can do. The beggar Zhang Si had a dispute with other beggars over half a steamed bun. Zhao, the leader of the village, drove them away. Zhang Si

Si cursed, and then they were hung up and beaten.

In his previous confession, he also said that someone gave him money and sweat medicine and asked him to cut off his braids. When he got to BJ, he recanted his confession in front of the Minister of Military and Aircraft, and then died.

It's possible that Mr. Zhao was falsely accused, and he was in trouble. If he didn't go out and let the beggars fight in front of his house, they would disperse after a while, and they wouldn't hold grudges in their hearts and wait for an opportunity to retaliate.

One year before the soul-calling case occurred, Wu Shaoshi, the governor of Jiangxi, was called "Old Bodhisattva", which meant that he was as calm as a Bodhisattva.

Wu Shaoshi was over 70 years old and a master of law. When the whole country was busy arresting the pigtail-cutting demon gang, he only verbally warned his government officials to pay attention to suspicious travel, but no one was arrested. When Qianlong faced Wu Shaoshi

He seemed very restrained and did not urge him to take anyone.

By October, the soul-calling case had become a hot topic. Wu Shaoshi "told" Qianlong to set up a dragnet to strictly investigate those who changed their surnames to Yi, and sent capable police officers to temples, nunneries, ancestral halls, libraries, and deep mountains and old forests to search and arrest them.

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Did he really do it? Of course not. Instead, he carefully reminded Qianlong that this case might be false and he didn't want to investigate this misinformation case at all.

But his son Wu Tan could not withstand the pressure put on him by Qianlong. He was the inspector of Jiangsu Province, and just like Gao Jin, he did not report any cases. Then he was scolded by Qianlong as "an ungrateful person", and then he did nothing.

According to the case, there were eleven temples outside Suzhou built with donations from lay people, and 70 monks in these temples were arrested.

The monks did not go out, but they also encountered "unwarranted disasters". They belong to the Mahayana Wuwei sect. The Mahayana sect wants to save all living beings. Master Xuanzang, who went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, was honored as "Mahayana Heaven".

This school emphasizes inaction and emptiness, is close to the southern school of Zen, does not establish writing, and denies Buddhist statues and temples, so it is also called the Wukong Sect. Perhaps Xuanzang gave his great disciple the Monkey King and the Monkey King the name "Wukong"

"That's how it came about.

Most of the believers in this sect are water transport sailors on the Grand Canal, and they generally have nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect. However, the synagogue of the Mahayana Wuwei Sect is often the place where sailors stay. Some people provide vegetarian food, and as long as it is a free meal, people will eat the vegetarian food.

These sailors formed an association because of their common beliefs, and then they became a cult banned by the imperial court.

The final result was that Aixinjueluo Hongli not only did not punish Wu Shaoshi for being passive and sabotaging his work, but also promoted him to become the Minister of Punishment.

His son Wu Tan was included in the punishment list. Although he was exempted from the crime six months later, he will be shamed for his actions in the soul-calling case for the rest of his life.

After a brief hesitation, Nick did not follow the boy who beat him.

He had to first figure out why the note appeared in his room, and theoretically he should be under house arrest and not allowed to leave the hospital, so he followed the panicked crowd and left.
Chapter completed!