Qin Official

"Confucius said that if you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening. My master also said in "Encouragement to Learning" that learning is inevitable. When I was young, I studied etiquette in Lanling. This year, I have been established as a Shishizhu Shishi, in charge of With regard to the atlas of the Six Kingdoms, I can be considered well-read by virtue of my position."

Among the four histories in the Yushi Mansion's collection room, Shishizhu Shishi has the smallest authority. Because the Qin people had little interest in the books of the Six Kingdoms, they just snatched them and put them in the treasury, and no one cared about them at all.

As the younger brother of Tingwei Li Si, Zhang Cang was a world-famous scholar, but he recommended himself to become this official. He did not seek fame or fortune, but out of his love for knowledge.

It was such a scholar who had a wealth of knowledge, and he said sincerely to Heifu:

"But the more I learn, the more I feel inadequate. If you don't know enough, you can reflect on yourself. So when I die, if I can really do what Hei Fu said, I will use books as a coffin, use the code as a coffin, and carry a cart full of slips and slips. This life is enough to go down to the underworld..."

This was originally an inspirational and touching message to encourage students to learn, but looking at the fat guy in front of him sitting behind the case, chewing the brown sugar he gave him as a snack while saying this, Heifu felt that the scene was serious. Can't get up.

Hei Fu had wanted to make friends with Zhang Cang for a long time since he heard his name in Humo Township, Yangwu County, Wei District four years ago. Now he finally came to Xianyang and after reporting to the doctor's office, he immediately visited. Zhang Cang.

Zhang Cang is a very high-spirited person, and he keeps a low profile in Xianyang. He does not get involved in political disputes and buries himself in books. Even though Hei Fu also belonged to Li Si's party and worked as a transfer agent, which was the reason for the Zhang family's cover-up of Zhang Er's wife, he was still very indifferent to Hei Fu, a stranger who came to visit rashly at first.

The thing Heifu used to break Zhang Cang's defense line was actually the brown sugar he brought all the way into Xianyang...

"Zhang Zihu has three good qualities."

Hei Fu's old friend Zhang Han and Zhang Cang had a close friendship. He once told Hei Fu about Zhang Cang's hobbies: "Books, women, and delicious food."

"He is so addicted to books that he can stay home for a month. But within this month, he can't live without women. According to him, if he doesn't take care of women for a day, his skin will crack and his muscles will cramp..."

"In addition, the reason why he grew so fat is because he likes to eat sweets, honey, jelly, and even human milk..."

Hei Fu had no books and the woman gave Zhang Cang a gift, so he simply gave him fifty pounds of brown sugar as a meeting gift.

It should be noted that sweetness is a rare taste these days, and there is not so much honey to eat. Zhang Cang has long been tired of eating sweets, so Hei Fu gave him brown sugar, which was just what he liked. He was overjoyed and drank half a catty that day. After that, he would bring some when he came to work at the Imperial Palace every day. When he was taking a break, his hands would be sticky after eating them. He would wash and wipe them carefully before touching the books he regarded as treasures.

"Obviously he is a sweetheart, but living in Xianyang is really hard for him."

Heifu was a little amused. His cousin Yan went to Weibei to rent a store and open up the brown sugar market. He wondered if Xianyang could be turned into "Sweet Yang" after thousands of years.

It was also through this opportunity that Hei Fu became friends with Zhang Cang, and he happened to live next door to Zhang Cang. The two got to know each other very quickly, and Zhang Cang also discovered that this Guizhou descendant who got into Xianyang by virtue of his military exploits, Although he deliberately showed the appearance of a country man coming to the city, his conversation was quite extraordinary, and he even made some surprising remarks inadvertently.

For example, he and Zhang Cang proposed the idea of ​​​​"abacus", which made Zhang Cang deeply convinced.

After Zhang Cang recovered from the shock of almost being buried alive by books, Hei Fu also chatted with him about the hottest topic of the past two days.

"The king ordered the prime minister, the censor, the court officials and the various ministers to discuss the emperor's title. Zihu has a reputation as a scholar. He was not summoned by the prime minister, the censor, the court officials, and the court officials to inquire?"

Zhang Cang said: "The Prime Minister on the right is not familiar with me. As for the Prime Minister on the left, he prefers Confucianism and mainly consults those Confucian scholars with Ph.D. who have been conquered."

The prime ministers of the State of Qin are divided into left and right. Among them, the right prime minister is the right one. Since Changping Jun resigned, Wei Zhuang has been in charge. The left prime minister was promoted from Yushi Dafu to Wang Wan just this year.

One of these two people was from Legalism, and the other was a Confucian sympathizer. Neither of them would come looking for him, an unconfucian and lawless guy.

"Liu Ting sent someone to ask me..."

Zhang Cang didn't hide anything and said with a smile: "But I just sent the classics that Tingwei needs. Tingwei has his own smart staff to discuss it."

Although he is Li Si's junior brother, the friendship between the two has a feeling of "the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water". Maybe it was because Li Si was very cautious and didn't want to give the King of Qin the impression of being a "party", so he rarely visited Zhang Cang, or maybe it was because of the death of another sect member, Han Fei?

Hei Fu came to Zhang Cang for a purpose.

Even if he wants to present the correct answer, there must be a process of solving the problem when doing the test paper. Since it is such a serious matter, we cannot talk nonsense, but must take into account the traditions of three generations, and even trace the deeds of Fuxi, Huangdi, and Shennong in ancient times...

With his background and experience, if he rashly gave his honorific title, people would definitely be suspicious: How could this guy, a martial artist from Guizhou Province, know this?

"I heard it while chatting with Zhang Xueba" should be a good excuse.

At this time, under Hei Fu's advice, Zhang Cang started to talk eloquently.

"There were five emperors in ancient times. Some people say that the five emperors are Pao Xi, Shennong, Huangdi, Yao, and Shun. Others say that the five emperors are Taihao, Yandi, Huangdi, Shaohao, and Zhuanxu, to name a few. But no matter what, they are all the same. The ancient holy king."

"However, this is just a comment made by modern Confucian scholars. I read ancient books and found that the merchants never mentioned the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. The emperor recorded in the bronze inscriptions was the aloof 'Mingming God', which can also be said to be the emperor. "Xuan Xuan" "The ancient emperor ordered Wu Tang, and he ruled the four directions" in "Birds". In "Long Hair", "There are generals of the Ao family, and the emperor established his son and gave birth to businessmen". This is all true, but the Yin and Shang kings also called themselves emperors, because The Lord of Shang was not only in charge of military affairs, but also in charge of sacrificial affairs. He was both a human king and a divine witch, and regarded himself as the incarnation of the Emperor of Heaven. Emperor Yi and Emperor Xin are examples."

Seeing that Hei Fu was a little confused after hearing this, Zhang Cang explained: "Di Xin is King Zhou."

"When King Wu destroyed the merchants, the Zhou people had a very different view from the merchants. They only called themselves the emperor and regarded themselves as herdsmen on behalf of heaven. Heaven listens to the people, and heaven sees the people. Therefore, they only dare to call themselves kings, not emperors of heaven."

Zhang Cang chewed another piece of candy: "However, when the rites collapsed and the princes became kings one after another, and the title of king was no longer enough to show nobility, the title of emperor became a higher-level title. At this time, someone wanted to Proclaimed emperor..."

"What Zihu means is that someone has proclaimed himself emperor in the past?"

Heifu was a little surprised. He really didn't know the history of these side sects.

Zhang Cang said: "Wei Ran, the prime minister of Qin during the reign of King Qin Zhao, was the first to advocate the idea of ​​becoming emperor."

It turns out that when the two powerful powers of Qin and Qi stood side by side, Qin Prime Minister Wei Ran adopted the strategy of calling Qin and Qi both "emperors" to win over the Qi state. He built a royal palace for King Qin Zhao in Yiyang, asked King Qin to establish himself as the "Western Emperor", and sent an envoy to King Qi Min to deliver the title of "Eastern Emperor" to King Qin Min, and agreed that the five kingdoms would attack Zhao and divide the Zhao country..." However, the proclaiming of emperor ended hastily. King Qi Min proclaimed himself emperor for more than a month before he was persuaded by Su Qin to give up the title of emperor. With the East Emperor gone, the West Emperor was attacked by the world, and he had no choice but to go. "

"But although Su Qin seems to be thinking about Qi everywhere, his real purpose is to assist King Yan Zhao to defeat Qi."

While talking, Zhang Cang personally took out a silk book from the stone room. Heifu took a look and found "The Book of the King of Yan" written on it.

"This was obtained from the treasury of the State of Yan. Some say it was a letter written by Su Qin to King Yan Zhao, while others say it was written by his younger brother Su Dai..."

"Is this the original? Su Qin's handwritten letter?" Heifu was a little surprised.

Zhang Cang said: "I don't know, I hope so."

After Hei Fu took it, he felt that although the Yan characters on it were a little difficult to understand, he could vaguely feel that Su Qin was a good dancer among Qi, Qin, Zhao, Wei, Han and Chu when he died for Yan. Thrilling!

Zhang Cang pointed to the sentence above and read: "Qin is the Western Emperor, Zhao is the Middle Emperor, and Yan is the Northern Emperor. They are established as three emperors to order the princes..."

"Su Qin wanted to make Qin, Zhao, and Yan emperors and destroy Qi together. In the end, although the five kingdoms conquered Qi, the three kingdoms did not proclaim themselves emperors after all. It is said that King Qin Zhao suddenly gave up."

"Why?"

Hei Fu had almost forgotten his original intention of coming to the stone room to find Zhang Cang. Being immersed in what happened decades ago, he even understood why Zhang Cang was addicted to books.

The classics of the Qin State were hidden in the Mingtang Room, but Zhang Cang was also a frequent visitor there. After thinking for a while, he directly recited to Heifu the original words of King Qin Zhao recorded by the historian...

"The king said, if it is not true, how dare you use its name? If Qin has merged with the princes, even if he does not call himself emperor, the countries will still submit to Qin. If not, even if Han, Wei, and Chu are facing Qin today, they will rebel again in the evening. Qin, what’s the use of having an empty name?”

"The king said that only after Qin destroyed the six kingdoms could he claim the title of emperor! This hundred-year wish did not begin with being alone, nor would it end with being alone! Even though he died alone, his son survived, and his son gave birth to grandsons, and grandsons gave birth to sons. It cannot be achieved in three generations. Then there will be six lives, and if six lives are not enough, there will be ten lives. One day, the world will be unified and unified under Qin!"