After a night of long talk with Bingzhu, Hui Ang and Meng Zhong became quite familiar with each other and gradually adapted to the titles of "Brother" and "Brother".

Although Hui'an was nearly thirty years older than Meng Zhong, in terms of seniority, the former was Huizi's nephew and the latter was Zhuangzi's disciple. They were indeed of the same generation, so it was impossible to call them brothers.

After getting familiar with it, Meng Zhong felt that Hui'an was a cold-faced person. I remember that when he first met Hui'an outside the mansion yesterday, he saw that the important minister beside Song Wangyan looked cold, and he was quite imposing, and less friendly.

But after getting familiar with each other and being honest with each other, Meng Zhong felt that Hui'an was actually a very easy person to talk to.

Of course, this is because they have a close relationship with each other. If it were someone else, I believe Hui An would not be so heart-warming.

According to their exchanges, Meng Zhong felt that Hui'an learned a lot, as if he involved the academics of Taoism, name, law, Confucianism, and Mohism. However, the most purest one is not Taoism or famous scholars, but Confucianism and Legalism.

I have to say that this surprised Meng Zhong.

After all, from the perspective of closeness and alienation, Hui An should also gather Taoism and name it two schools of thought, rather than Confucianism or Legalism.

Hui Ann explained: "Taoism governs the country and governs a peaceful and prosperous era, and Taoism is mainly about 'governing oneself'. You are also a Taoist disciple, so I believe you can understand the meaning of Brother Yu."

Meng Zhong nodded slightly.

Of course he understood that the Taoist idea of ​​governing the country, that is, "doing nothing can do nothing", is based on "governing people", that is, requiring both the monarch and the ministers to have certain moral norms. The higher the morality of the monarch and the subjects, the more the Taoist idea of ​​governing the country can be reflected. But on the other hand, the Taoist idea of ​​governing the country is difficult to realize. For example, in the current chaotic times, wars occur frequently between countries for annexation of land. In this case, Taoist ideas are difficult to be accepted by the monarch, and even if they are accepted, they are difficult to be regarded as a strategy for governing the country.

To put it bluntly, Taoist thought is not suitable as a tool for royal power to rule subjects.

And suitable as tools of rule are Confucianism and Legalism.

Confucius' Confucianism originated from the Zhou rituals and was itself for the aristocrats to rule the common people. However, it advocated "benevolence and righteousness", advocated that those who were superiors were kind to those who were inferior, while those who were inferiors had to cater to and supported those who were superiors, and the essence of the rule was to rule the monarchy.

"If the punishment is not punished, the etiquette is not given to the common people." This sentence has fully explained the essence of Confucian thought of governing the country.

As for the Legalists, although the Legalists once advocated that "a prince violates the law and (with) the same crime as the common people", their essence is to maintain the rule of the monarchy.

Moreover, Legalists must be supported by the monarch in order to display their ambitions to govern the country.

Once, the prince of Qin (Ying Si) committed a crime. Shang Jun Wei Yang said, "If the law is not done, he will be punished by the superiors." He decided to punish the prince heavily to show the majesty of the law. Although he was persuaded by others to punish the prince's teacher "Gongzi Qian", but in the end, the prince, the prince who later succeeded to the throne, later, King Huiwen of Qin, the first thing he did after he ascended the throne was to kill Wei Yang, so that Wei Yang, an important official who once ruled Qin, fled in panic, but no Qin man dared to take it in.

This is the fate of the Legal disciples losing the support of the monarch.

However, in comparison, Legalism still has specific and feasible theories for governing the country. Unlike Confucianism, from the Confucius period to the Mencius period, there were basically no strategies for governing the country except for the normative slogans of "benevolence and righteousness" and "ethics and morality". Mencius was also the Central Plains countries that had begun to implement the "famous field system", and Confucianism was still advocating the "well field system" that was outdated for hundreds of years, which was seriously out of touch with social needs.

Therefore, Hui Ann's proposal is to "rule the country with law and govern people with Confucians", which generally prefers a moderate governing strategy.

Hui Ang thought that the ideas of other Taoists, Mohists and famous masters were not suitable for use in the current secular world, so he gave up. After all, the ideas of Taoists and Moists are too ideal, and the ideas of famous masters are as wild as they are. Most of them can only be used for knowledge and increase their knowledge, but they cannot make the country stronger.

After communicating with academics, Meng Zhong also asked Hui'an about his doubts: "Brother, I'll dare to ask, is the king attacking Teng's Kingdom in order to put pressure on Qi?"

Hui Ang was a little surprised after hearing this, but she didn't hide it. She nodded and said, "The king does have this plan."

Meng Zhong felt relieved when he heard this and asked again: "Since that's the case, Song State, Zhao State, and Qin State, must have had an alliance in private?"

Hui Ang was stunned when he heard this, looked at Meng Zhong and asked curiously, "Is it the Master who told you?"

Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "The Master did not tell me, it was just my personal guess."

Hearing this, Hui Ang felt even more surprised and asked, "How did you guess?"

Meng Zhongbing explained: "Qi is a strong country, and our Song is a medium country. If a medium country violates the taboo of a strong country, we must have some support. Today, only Qin is the strongest. Since our Song Dynasty wants to invade Qi, we must have obtained some promises from Qin. Otherwise, this move is not in line with our Song Dynasty's interests. As for Zhao, if the Three Jins are united, even if Qin makes a promise to our Song Dynasty, the King of Song will not dare to offend Qin rashly. Obviously, there is a country in the Three Jins who secretly has a private agreement with Qin and our Song Dynasty..."

Listening to Meng Zhong's explanation, Hui'an stroked his beard and secretly praised.

He believed in Meng Zhong's character as a disciple of Zhuangzi. Since this son said he had guessed it, it was what he guessed it, and there would definitely be no falsehood.

A 14-year-old boy, who was in Jingbo, could guess the private alliance between Qin, Zhao and Song countries. This talent surprised Hui'an and couldn't help but secretly praise himself: He is worthy of being a disciple of Zhuangzi!

After thinking about it, Hui Ann reminded Meng Zhong with a serious expression: "These words come out of my mouth and you will not be revealed to others." After that, he saw Meng Zhong nodding and continued to say: "The alliance between Zhao State and our Song State has been formed for a long time, not at present...... In the third year when the king expelled Huang Xi (Song Tichengjun), the monarch of Zhao State "Zhao Yu" died, which is what the world calls "Zhao Suhou". During his lifetime, Zhao State's Marquis fought fiercely with Wei, Chu, Qin, Yan, Qi and other countries for years without being at a disadvantage. He was a hero. After his death, the monarch of Wei State "

Wei Yong joined forces with the four kings of Chu, Qin, Yan and Qi to try to destroy Zhao. At that time, Zhao Yong, the new king of Zhao, first succeeded to the throne, sent envoys to negotiate with the king, and promoted the "Zhao Song Alliance". During this period, Zhao Yong sent people to persuade Yue to attack Chu, bribed Loufan to attack Yan and Zhongshan, and then wooed Han, causing the situation of "Zhao, Han and Song" against the enemy "Wei, Qin and Qi" and finally won victory, defeating Wei's conspiracy to unite with the four kings to attack Zhao... Therefore, the Zhao Song Alliance was formed early."

"South Korea?" Meng Zhong looked surprised and couldn't help asking: "How could South Korea form an alliance with Zhao and Song? Isn't South Korea from Qi?"

"You only know one thing, not the other." Hui Ang explained, stroking his beard, "At that time, my uncle Huizi served as the prime minister of Wei State. He promoted the "Qi and Wei Kings". Qi and Wei State formed an alliance and defeated Zhao State. Han was afraid of being annexed by Wei State, so he formed an alliance with Zhao State to resist Qi State. At that time, the monarch of our Song State was Huang Xi, who was attached to Qi State, so he was attacked by Zhao and Han State... Later, Qin State attacked Wei State with fierce momentum, and Wei State reconciled with Han State and united with Qi State to resist Qin State."

"I see."

Meng Zhong suddenly realized, and then he asked again: "When will Qin State form an alliance with Zhao and Song?"

Hui Ann shook his head and explained: "Qin and Zhao have an alliance, but there is no alliance with our Song State. However, the three parties have some tacit understanding in private... Qin State's goal is to make Wei and Han surrender, Zhao State's purpose is to prompt Qi and Qin to confront each other, while Song State, or the king's intention, is to take the opportunity to annex the Wei State and part of Qi's territory." Speaking of this, he saw Meng Zhong's face showing confusion, and he enlightened: "A Zhong, the so-called alliance between countries is just a piece of bamboo slips that can be torn at any time. The only thing that can really promote alliances is profit. Qin State does not want Qi State to compete with him. Zhao State hopes that Qin and Qi countries will stalemate with each other, while our monarch hopes to eat Qi State. In other words, Qin, Zhao, and Song State all target the "Qi State". Whether there is an alliance is not important."

After a pause, Hui Ang said again: "Two years ago, the State of Song attacked Teng. As you said, it was to put pressure on Qi. But in fact, it was Zhao who wanted us to do this because Zhao was preparing to wipe out Zhongshan."

"Zhongshan? Zhongshan Kingdom?" Meng Zhong asked curiously.

"Yes!" Hui Ang nodded and said, "Zhongshan Kingdom is located in the hinterland of Zhao. In the past, Qi was frequently instructed to attack Zhao. Therefore, King Yong of Zhao wanted to destroy Zhongshan Kingdom in one fell swoop so as not to be constrained by Qi again. In order to prevent Qi from obstructing this matter, Zhao asked our Song Kingdom to put pressure on Qi, so our Song Kingdom sent troops to attack Teng Kingdom and put on the stance of threatening Qi."

"This..." Meng Zhong frowned and said, "Isn't this being used by Zhao State?"

"Yes." Hui Ang sighed melancholy, and then enlightened Meng Zhong: "But everything should not be focused on the present. Zhao State wants to attack Zhongshan and ask our Song State to restrain Qi State. It seems that our Song State was used by him. But you think that after Zhao State wiped out Zhongshan, the two countries of Zhao State can form a cross-border attack against Qi State. At that time, our Song State will follow Zhao State to attack Qi State and can also make profits... There is also Yan State, Qi State was in the territory of Yan State that year.

The king of Yan felt deeply hated that Zhao, Song and Yan would join forces to attack Qi. Even if Qi was a powerful country, how could it stand by the attacks of Zhao, Song and Yan?... In the meantime, Qi had to ask for help from Chu, or Han and Wei, but whether it was Chu, Han and Wei, there were Qin for us to restrain us, because Qin did not want Qi to stand in a two-legged relationship with him. Do you think Qi would have the principle of not destroying it?"

After hearing Hui'an's words, Meng Zhong was shocked.
Chapter completed!