Qin Official

"Dongmen Bao led 500 people to guard the east side of the temple, Li Xian led 500 people to guard the west side of the temple, and Xiao Tao led the bow and crossbow officers to guard the street. No one was allowed to pass!"

After giving the orders one by one, Hei Fu said to everyone: "Second and Third Sons, today the king ordered Anlu to lead the army and guard the wing of the king together with the Lang Zhong Lingjun and Zhongche Mansion Guards. What an honor it is, even though they are guarding the outermost perimeter. , but don’t be careless!”

"promise!"

The military officers straightened their backs and shouted loudly, feeling proud because they had won this job on their own.

Yesterday, the King of Qin still stayed in the army and had sheep and pigs slaughtered. He had a great feast for the three armies, and the morale of the Qin army was greatly boosted. Later, the King of Qin also inspected the military appearance of each battalion. At Li You's suggestion, there was one more show than usual, which was the "Ball Ball" performance of the Nanjun Corps.

With the King of Qin watching, Hei Fu also went into battle in person to compete with Li You's personal guards. When the King of Qin saw that everyone was wearing armor and facing each other on the field, it really seemed like a military struggle, so he became interested and added a bonus to them:

Zhao Gao sent a message on behalf of the king: "An Lu and Li You will fight in close combat. Whoever can win on the court will inspect Huaiyang tomorrow and guard the king's garrison!"

Everyone in the Qin army, from officers to soldiers, regarded King Qin as a god, and the players on both sides suddenly gained unlimited strength. So Heifu experienced the most difficult game in half a year. The score between the two sides was close and the fight was extremely fierce. In the end, after paying the price of several collision injuries, Anlu almost won.

So today, the King of Qin led hundreds of officials and generals to inspect Huaiyang City. In addition to the Lang Zhong Lingjun and the Zhongche Mansion Guards on the inside, Anlu Yiyi was also able to clear the outside.

After Hei Fu arranged for everyone to guard everywhere, he hurriedly walked to the Shun Temple. Along the way, Lang Wei and Zhongche Mansion Guards all recognized him. Hei Fu was summoned by the King of Qin and personally gave him the crown of Hei. Although his title and position are still not high, he has become a rising star.

Shun Temple is located in the west city of Huaiyang. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Yu Shun was granted this place by King Wu of Zhou Dynasty to guard Yu Shun's ancestral worship, so this temple was built. Therefore, the building looks simple and has a history of at least seven or eight hundred years.

Nowadays, the outside of this place has been surrounded by Lang Wei and CRRC Guards, and the temple gate and roof tiles have been renovated. This was the first stop after King Qin entered Huaiyang.

"After all, Qin's destruction of Chu was compared to Yu Shun's expulsion of the Sanmiao just the day before yesterday. It would be unreasonable not to offer sacrifices..."

When Heifu walked to the temple gate, Feng Chang arranged for the music officials to play Yu's music "Da Shao", which just came to an end, and then came a long and difficult-to-spoken memorial:

"Shun Zhao had two prefectures in his tenth year, and granted him two mountains in his tenth year, and dredged the rivers. Xiang was punished with a pardon, and he was punished with five punishments. Whipping was used as an official punishment, beating was used as a teaching punishment, and gold was used as a ransom... Qin Zai, Qin Zai, only punishment. What a shame! Liu Gonggong was in Youzhou, Fanghuan was in Chongshan, three seedlings were running in three dangers, and Gun was killed in Yushan. The four sins were accepted by the world! This is the power of Yu and Shun!"

Today, the King of Qin once again put on the imperial robes worn only on formal occasions, and was offering sacrifices in the temple. In addition to officials such as Feng Chang, there were also two Confucian scholars wearing Confucian crowns and loose Confucian robes behind him?

Li You couldn't get into the temple, so he only stood in the temple corridor and said, "He is a Confucian scholar from Xue County."

Xue County is one of the four counties established by the King of Qin in the newly conquered Chu-Huaibei region. They are Chen County, whose administrative seat is Huaiyang; Sishui County, whose administrative seat is Liu County; Donghai County, whose administrative seat is Tan County; There is also Xue County, which governs Lu County.

Xue County is actually the original hometown of Lu State, as well as Teng, Xue, Zou and other places. Zou Lu is the headquarters of Confucius and Mencius, and the place with the most Confucian students in the world. However, Qin has always disliked Confucian scholars, but how could they follow the King of Qin and enter the palace? This is a strange thing.

Heifu asked, and he said with some contempt: "Confucian people are rhetorical and eloquent. Instead of talking about laws and regulations, they talk about benevolence and righteousness. They are arrogant and willful and self-righteous. However, they have high vision and low hand. They are unwilling to do small things but cannot do big things. Why? If you don't obey the rules, this is what Han Fei calls 'Confucianism and law chaos and prohibition'."

"Although he claims to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, in fact he is lobbying everywhere and begging for official salary, and offering sacrifices to anyone who gives him a mouthful of food. Before Qin conquered Chu, these people were working in Chu. Now that Chu has perished, they hurriedly came to surrender. Qin. If they are used to govern the country, the country will be weak and chaotic. It is okay to use them to manage etiquette. After all, the etiquette of ascending and descending and the detailed etiquette can occasionally come in handy. Most people will not be able to master it in their lifetime. Therefore, the king ordered him to As doctors, I assisted Feng Chang in hosting this sacrifice, but these Confucian scholars thought they were going to be reused by the king. Look at their expressions, how proud they are!"

Li You's father, Li Si, was a Legalist and was not on good terms with Confucianism. In particular, the traditional Lu Confucians were like fire and water, so Li You ridiculed Confucian scholars a lot. This was also the view of most grammarians and military officers in the Qin State towards Confucian scholars, and the King of Qin used them as decorations.

The sacrifice was going on, but Heifu saw Ji Ying coming in a hurry, so he quickly went over and asked, "What happened?"

Ji Ying said: "A young Confucian scholar was caught at the street corner, saying that he came to answer the call of the king..."

"The sacrifices have already started, why did you come?"

Heifu felt that there was a fraud and told Li You about it. Li You frowned slightly: "The king did recruit three Confucian scholars, but only two came, and one person has not arrived. Let's go and have a look. "

When they came to the heavily guarded street entrance, they happened to see a Confucian scholar in his twenties, wearing a wide robe and long sleeves, explaining to Dongmen Leopard that this was really a scholar's encounter with soldiers. Menbao twisted his arm and put it down. He searched his body, but only found a roll of bamboo slips.

At this time, the young Confucian scholar also saw Li You and Hei Fu coming over. Seeing that they looked like military officers, he shouted that they were wronged.

Li You even felt that there was a problem: "Who are you? A child with a yellow mouth, but you pretend to be an old Confucian! What do you want!"

"The villain is the eighth generation grandson of Confucius, a disciple of Confucius, a great scholar from Lu, and his uncle Sun Tong."

…

Li You knew very well that Kong Yu was the third Confucian scholar appointed as a doctor by the King of Qin, and he was also the most important person among the three.

First of all, because he is a descendant of Confucius, he naturally has family knowledge and reputation passed down; secondly, Kong Shen, the father of Kong Yu, served as the prime minister of Wei for nine months, and was also given the title of feudal lord of Wei. He was quite famous in Wei and Lu. ; Thirdly, Kong Kun was indeed knowledgeable about classics and history, had excellent literary talent, and was good at discussing ancient and modern times.

But he himself was not called, but sent a disciple. What does that mean?

Heifu also took the bamboo slip, glanced at it a few times, and then checked it with Li You. This was a letter written by Kong Yu to the King of Qin.

Kong Yu said in the letter that he was frightened when he heard that the King of Qin was summoned, and wished he could come immediately to help the King of Qin in offering sacrifices. However, he was mourning his mother and could not leave his thatched cottage at home, so he ordered his disciple Shusun Tong to come to pay homage to the King of Qin...

Li You and Heifu looked at each other in confusion. They felt that this was an excuse and Kong Yu just didn't want to come.

"What a proud Confucian scholar, he is worthy of being the queen of Confucius." Li You sneered.

Seeing Li You's face darken, Shusun Tong broke out in a cold sweat. In fact, his teacher said, "In the past, Confucius traveled around the countries but did not enter Qin. How could his descendants enter it?" Tong knew that this was a way to die, so he persuaded him to write a letter and delivered it himself, hoping that he could use his clever tongue to eliminate the anger of King Qin.

But don’t let the Qin King see him, and he will be blasted away by the Qin people outside!

So he rolled his eyes, bowed his hands respectfully towards the two of them and said, "Master, I have one more thing to say. I must tell the King of Qin personally. This involves Qin getting the world upright!"

Li Youben didn't believe it, but the little Confucian scholar's words were conclusive, and he couldn't figure out what the King of Qin meant, so he frowned and asked Heifu to search Shusun Tong carefully, and then he went to ask the King of Qin for instructions.

After Li You left, Heifu had people take off the young Confucian scholar's tall crown and wide robe, and searched it from inside to outside. What's amazing is that although Shusun Tong was stripped naked and stood on the street, he was still naked. There was no displeasure at all, but instead he kept laughing and talking, and he spoke fluently. No wonder Ji Ying and the others could understand it just now.

"Where are you from?" Heifu always felt that the name "Shusun Tong" seemed to him, and he seemed to have some impression. Maybe he was another historical celebrity.

"The villain is Xue Ren."

"Why did the Xue people say what the Qin people said?" Heifu threw the clothes back to him. After checking, it turned out that the Confucian scholar was indeed weaponless and should not be an assassin.

"I once followed my master in Daliang and lived in the residence of the Prime Minister of Wei. I often met Qin envoys passing through Wei and talked with their servants. Over time, I became familiar with them."

He smiled and said: "The villain thought at that time that Qin would come out and conquer the world, and we might all become subjects under the rule of King Qin. There is no harm in learning Guanzhong dialect as early as possible."

This is actually a witty Confucian scholar, who is different from the pedantic Taoist Confucian scholar in Heifu's impression.

At this time, Li Youye sent someone over to tell Hei Fu and the others that the king had finished the sacrifice and asked him to escort Shusun Tong over.

It was a pledge rather than an invitation. It seemed that King Qin was still a little angry that Kong Yu didn't answer the call.

"I'm sorry." Hei Fu smiled at Shusun Tong and handed him over. Then he asked Dongmen Bao and others to pinch the thin Shusun Tong from left to right, and directly carried him to the entrance of Yushun Temple and pressed him to the ground. , just a few steps in front of King Qin's feet.

King Qin was more than eight feet tall, and with the crown, he looked even taller than the sky. He looked at Shusun Tong with his hands behind his back, his shadow shrouded him, and he said lightly:

"I heard that the Marquis of Lu had summoned him, and Confucius set off immediately without waiting for his chariot and horses to be harnessed. His color was as bright and his feet were as short as jué. It seems that although Confucius was after Confucius, he had completely forgotten the words and deeds of his ancestors. The emperor has called me, but he is so negligent and sends a young disciple to deal with me?"

King Qin, who didn't like Confucian scholars, felt even more disgusted at this moment. He wanted to wave his hand and let Hei Fu and the others drag Shusun Tong down again. Unexpectedly, Shusun Tong hurriedly bowed his head to the ground. shouted:

"How dare you disobey the Emperor's call? However, I am mourning my mother and cannot make the trip. However, I am also grateful for the King's conquest. I read the words of Confucius in my family and asked me to remove them from the annals of history and share them with the Qin State. Serve the relevant matters to your Majesty! This is related to the legitimacy of Qin's victory in the world!"

Seeing Shusun Tong say this, King Qin gave him another chance and nodded to him to speak.

Shusun Tong bowed his head again and said: "When my master returned to his hometown for mourning, he ordered us to repair the old house, but we found some ancient bamboo slips in the old house. They were actually letters from home hundreds of years ago! They were written by Confucius himself!"

"Is this happening!?"

The King of Qin was not interested in Confucius, and just wanted the Kong family to be his yes-men and decorations. He did not show anything. On the contrary, the two old Lu Ru behind him who had just been elected as "doctors" by Zhuo were very surprised. Such a big How come they don’t know about this? But he could only continue to listen.

Shusun Tong raised his head and smiled and said: "It is recorded in the family letter that in the twentieth year of Lu Zhaogong, Confucius was thirty years old. At that time, Qi Jinggong and Yan Ying came to Shilu. Jinggong asked Confucius: 'In the past, Duke Mu of Qin established a small place in the country. , can such a country and monarch be called a hegemon?'"

"At that time, Confucius said to him: 'Although Qin is a small country, Duke Mu has great ambitions. Although it is in a remote place, his conduct is upright. He will be ridiculed for hundreds of miles, and he will be given the title of senior official. He will talk to him for three days and teach him how to govern.' If we take it, Qin will not only be able to dominate, but be a king!"

"It turns out that Confucius predicted the affairs of King Qin and the world as early as three hundred years ago! And the king has inherited the hegemony of Duke Mu, and will start the rule of kingship in Jiuzhou!"

After Shusun Tong finished speaking, King Qin had not said anything yet, but the two old scholars behind him were dumbfounded, while Li You and others were stunned, somewhat unexpected.

"This guy."

Heifu lowered his head, suppressed his laughter, and cursed secretly. He finally knew what kind of person Shusun Tong was.

"He's also shameless!"

ps: There are two more chapters tonight