『What... situation?』

Seeing that Song Wangyan pointed at him with a bright sword in his hand, even if it was Meng Zhong, he was still a little in control for a moment, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Hui'an.

He didn't believe Hui'an would deliberately harm him.

At this time, Hui Ang showed Meng Zhong a few seemingly helpless smiles, and shook his head to signal Meng Zhong not to panic.

At first, Meng Zhong didn't understand what Hui'en meant, until Song Wangyan gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you afraid?"

Hearing this, Meng Zhong vaguely guessed: Song Wangyan, is this scaring him!

The reason is very simple, because he is a disciple of Zhuangzi, and Zhuangzi has repeatedly refused to send Song Wangyan to invite him to serve as the envoy of the prime minister. With Song Wangyan's domineering personality, do you really think he is not angry? Even if he hasn't treated Zhuangzi because of this, it's nothing to scare Zhuangzi's younger disciples, right?

After understanding, Meng Zhong gradually calmed down and thought about how to respond to Song Wangyan's intimidation.

After a while, he nodded and said, "Boy is afraid because your sword looks very sharp."

When Song Wangyan heard this, he was stunned and said with interest, "You are quite unwilling to say this... What you are afraid of is just the sharp sword in my hand? OK!" After that, he threw the sharp sword in his hand to his follower, and then asked Meng Zhong again, "What about now?"

Meng Zhong replied: "You are still wearing the crown of my Song monarch and the robe of my Song monarch, so the boy is afraid."

When Song Wangyan heard this, he asked with a smile: "You want to say that what you are afraid of is 'Song Jun', not 'Dai Yan', is that right?"

"No."

Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "Even if the king takes off his crown, takes off his robe, and wanders around the people, the boy will still be afraid when he sees it, because you are like this, and the boy is like this." He gestured at the gap between height and physical strength between the two, and then said calmly: "The gap in height and physique alone is enough to make the boy afraid, so why should he threaten with a sword? Furthermore, can bully the small with the big and bully the weak with the strong, really make you feel happy?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings were silent. Hui Ang's expression changed from the initial helplessness to the current funny thing. Song Xiangqiuhe looked at Meng Zhong's calm expression and said in a secret surprise.

As for Wang Yan of Song himself, he did not come back to his senses after listening to Meng Zhong's answer.

After a long time, he asked Hui Ang, "Hui Ang, have you... been taught by this kid?"

"No." Hui'an said with a smile, "This guy answered you, the king, and he said he was afraid of you."

"But that's not what I heard."

That being said, but Song Wangyan had no anger on his face and said to Meng Zhong with a smile: "Boy, for Hui'an's sake, I will spare you. Otherwise, just because you are the disciple of Zhuang Zhou's old guy, I will..." He paused for a moment, and then said without any pain: "I will teach you a good lesson and slapped Zhuang Zhou's arrogance."

Meng Zhong blinked and didn't say anything because he felt that the "hate" of Song Wangyan towards Zhuangzi was actually just a resentment that he could not seek talent.

Look, the previous sentence had to "teach a lesson" to Meng Zhong, but the next sentence from Song Wangyan was to ask Meng Zhong if he was interested in becoming an official.

Perhaps because he was worried that Meng Zhong would refuse and made King Yan unhappy, Hui Ang explained: "King, my brother has been practicing in the world this time. You know, Taoist disciples have never cared about their careers. They only care about their own virtues."

"Well." Song Wangyan nodded and praised: "I know that Taoist disciples have always been like this, far from the Confucians."

It is not difficult to see from his tone that he has a bad impression of Confucianism.

In fact, Song Wang Yan had a bad relationship with Confucianism. When the Confucian sage Mencius passed through the Song Dynasty, Song Wang Yan sent someone to send funds to support Mencius traveling around various countries. In his remarks, Mencius also called Song Wang Yan the "King of Song" and did not blame him.

Even when Song Wang Yan later called himself the king with a "big rebellion", Mencius did not say anything about this, and even said to his disciple "Wan Zhang": (King of Song) It would be fine if he did not practice benevolent government. If he practiced benevolent government, everyone in the world would look up and look forward to him and support him as his monarch. Although Qi and Chu are powerful, what's the terrible thing about it?

From this we can see that the relationship between Song Wangyan and Mencius is actually quite good.

However, in the past two years, the Song Dynasty has attacked Teng State, which has made some Confucian disciples feel unhappy, and rumors of "Jie and Zhou's rebirth" have spread one after another, discrediting the reputation of Song Wang Yan. Song Wang Yan also ignored those Confucian disciples who spoke unspoken because of Mencius, Hui Ang and others.

But in the bottom of his heart, he naturally feels disgusted.

Since Meng Zhong was a disciple of Zhuangzi and was recommended by Hui Ang, Song Wangyan did not care about this son being by his side. He led Hui Ang and Qiu He and the other two to discuss the current situation of the battle while walking in the school grounds.

The matter discussed was very simple, that is, Qi sent an envoy to "mediation" to hope that Song and Teng would stop the war, and at the same time, they promised some benefits to Song in private, hoping to win over Song and betray the alliance with Zhao and turn to Qi, help Qi to restrain Zhao - at least require Song to remain neutral.

Qiu He, who is currently the prime minister of Song, was sent by Zhao. After learning about this, of course he had to dissuade Song from turning against Qi. Otherwise, not only would Zhao Wang Yong's plan to attack Zhongshan be stranded, Zhao would even face the attack of "Qi and Song" countries.

Therefore, Qiu He hopes that the State of Song will destroy Teng as soon as possible. After all, once the State of Teng is destroyed, the troops of Song can be deployed to the north of the "Nanhu (Weishan Lake)" to pose an immeasurable threat to Qi and Lu and Xueyi of Qi. When Qi feels the threat, it is very likely that a war will break out with Song. This disguisedly diverts the pressure of Zhao, allowing Zhao to attack Zhongshan without any worries and remove this fish bone that is like a thorn in the throat.

But as for Wang Yan of Song, although he was reluctant to give up the Teng Kingdom, which was about to succeed, he did not want to break up with Qi. After all, it was still very difficult for Song to face Qi alone, let alone for the purpose of Zhao's attack on Zhongshan Kingdom.

Therefore, Wang Yan of Song hoped that Zhao would attack Zhongshan as soon as possible. In this way, Qi would face the two things of "Zhao attack Zhongshan" and "Song attack Teng" at the same time. Even if troops were sent to provide assistance, Zhao and Song would share the pressure, which would prevent Song from facing Qi alone.

Of course, Song Wangyan himself did not speak, he expressed this meaning through Hui'an.

However, Qiu He was still persuading. Song Wangyan might have been annoyed and suddenly asked Meng Zhong: "Boy, what do you think?"

Song Wangyan's original intention was to interrupt Qiu He's words. Besides, Meng Zhong was also a native of Song and wanted to speak for Song.

Unexpectedly, Meng Zhong said after thinking for a while: "Once in Dingtao, Zheng and Wang were in business together. They were always very harmonious and did a big business. Later, someone asked: How do you two get along well together?

Zheng and Wang replied: I will not do anything that harms his interests, nor will he do anything that harms my interests, and distribute the benefits fairly, so our cooperation will last."

Hui Ann heard this and nodded slightly.

Wang Yan of Song looked at Meng Zhong with a little surprise, and had to say that what Meng Zhong said was far beyond his expectations.

However, he reacted quickly. After hearing this, he laughed and said, "Yes, right, everything must be fair. Only in this way can the cooperation between the two parties last long... Qiu He, what do you think?"

Qiu He frowned slightly and looked at Meng Zhong. Because the other party was Zhuangzi's disciple and Hui'an's righteous brother, he naturally couldn't say anything. He laughed dryly and said, "It's easy to sell, how can it be compared with the major affairs of the country?"

Upon hearing this, Song Wangyan nodded at Meng Zhongnu and asked, "Boy, what do you think?"

Meng Zhong said calmly: "Lao Tzu once said in the "Tao Te Ching" that "governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food", can the matter of cooking be compared with governing a country? From this we can see that some principles can be used to make common sense."

“Um…”

Song Wangyan pretended to be pondering, glanced at Qiu He with a slanted eye. Seeing the latter frowned as if he was thinking hard, he felt secretly happy.

Hui Ang beside him, his eyes were full of sarcasm when he looked at Qiu He.

In Hui'an's opinion, who is his newly recognized younger brother Meng Zhong? He was Zhuangzi's disciple, Huizi's disciples were recruited by him, and he learned the knowledge of the two families. They are both one of the best debaters in the world. Do you want to argue with him?

While he was sarcastic in his heart, Hui Ang also glanced at Meng Zhong. He felt that although he studied the two schools of Taoist names, Meng Zhong's "defense" was more inclined to Taoism, that is, using reason to convince people, rather than using famous people, who just blocked people's mouths with words.

"It seems that Master Zhuang has really put a lot of effort into this."

Hui'an thought to himself.

On that day, due to Meng Zhong's disruption, Qiu He was unable to convince Song Wangyan to attack Teng Kingdom as soon as possible, and he could not express his intention to "encourage Song Kingdom to attack Xue Di" after this.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Meng Zhong. He just said a few fair words, and did not favor Song because he was a Song Dynasty person. Qiu He couldn't blame him for anything.

In the afternoon of the same day, after returning to Hui'an's mansion, Meng Zhong offered goodbye to Hui'an and prepared to return to the army.

However, at this moment, a servant from the mansion suddenly came to report that Wang Yan of Song sent someone to invite Hui'an to the palace to the banquet, and asked Hui'an to bring Meng Zhong with him.

Hui Ang smiled and said, "I guess the king wants to reward you with what you do today."

However, just as Hui Ang was saying this, Song Wang Yan was in the palace, holding a bamboo slip in his hand and reading it.

I saw the bamboo slip that read: Meng Zhong, a native of Meng of Jingbo, was killed in Qi's military service; his father Meng Qu, Jia Shi, died in Wei's military service; his brother Meng Bo, Jia Shi, died in Teng's military service...

“…”

Song Wangyan slowly put away the bamboo slips and recalled the look when he first met Meng Zhong today, when the latter had secretly looked at him.

At first he thought that was the curious look of this son for the monarch, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"Do you want to see what kind of monarch is that your grandfather, father, and brother will all die on the battlefield one after another?"
Chapter completed!