Chapter 222: The Year of the Book of Horse Clothes

The war is finally over.

The coalition forces were also unable to defeat the Qin state. In addition to Zhao, Wei ceded several important cities, completely lost the right to attack Qin, Qin firmly occupied Nanyang, and Chu supported the important section of Korea, Chu ceded all the cities bordering Korea, lost the right to attack the Sanjin region, and Korea paid the most painful price, Qin directly set up Sanchuan County on the land ceded by Korea.

This directly threatened the capital of Wei, Daliang.

There is only Zhao State, and it did not pay any price, Qin State seems to be strong, but in this war, it is not easy for Qin State to insist on it, and the war with the coalition army, Qin State has paid a painful price, and it will take a while to recover its national strength. Therefore, in the face of Wei Wuji, who still retains his strength, and Zhao Guo, who still has the strength to fight, Fan Ju did not persecute anymore, and the "brotherly state" should have been friendly with each other.

General Jingyang returned to the territory of Chu with the army to fight, and quickly pacified the rebels in the country, these miscellaneous troops in the country in a hurry were not at all the opponents of the elite of the Chu State who fought with the Qin army on the front line, although these elites of the Chu State were not the opponents of the Qin people, but the long-term war made them very strong, Jingyang did not rush forward, fought steadily, and it took less than two months to finally eliminate the endless rebels.

The king of Chu ordered that taxes and servitude in various places be pardoned or reduced, which calmed the outbreak of popular resentment. The king of Chu even greeted all the warriors who returned to Chu like a hero, he took the nobles in the city, and walked out of Shouchun happily, General Jingyang lowered his head, looking particularly depressed, but, the king of Chu grabbed his hand and loudly told everyone the merits of General Jingyang on the front line and the merits of resisting Bai Qi.

The king of Chu took out his own family background, and rewarded the army that returned from the expedition, from the generals to the soldiers, they were all rewarded by the king of Chu, and even Chunshenjun, who was seriously ill, also came to the banquet of the king of Chu, he pleaded with everyone in person, and begged for the forgiveness of General Jingyang, Jingyang naturally had nothing to blame him, speaking of which, Chunshenjun had nothing to blame at all.

In the past, Jingyang despised Chun Shenjun's personality very much, because Chun Shenjun blindly flattered the Qin State, and did not dare to fight with the Qin State at all, in the face of the rudeness and arrogance of the Qin people, Chun Shenjun just wanted to compromise and give his own gifts to the King of Qin and Fan Ju, and make a flattering look, but at this moment, Jing Yang really understood the weak person in front of him, and he finally understood why Chun Shenjun had to keep forbearance all the time.

Chu is not the opponent of Qin, because of the previous fiasco, Chu did not have enough food, not enough ordnance, this point, Chun Shenjun has told you many times before, he has always emphasized that what Chu should do is not to fight hard with Qin, but to continue to accumulate strength, increase power, and unite all countries to crusade against Qin. However, his words were taken as cowardice by everyone, as if he was only saying it to hide his cowardice.

But now, Jingyang really understands Chun Shenjun's thoughts. The state of Chu, which has no grain reserves, cannot engage the Qin state head-on at all, because too many conscripted soldiers will affect farming, and not enough grain reserves will make the state of Chu fall into a vicious circle, and there is not enough ordnance, so that the Chu people can only go to the battlefield empty-handed, or with farm tools, and want to defeat the Qin people, which is really a bit wishful thinking.

Therefore, when facing Chun Shenjun, Jing Yang's face only had guilt and remorse, Jing Yang has always been the main battle faction, he tried to insult Chun Shenjun's timidity, and persuaded the king of Chu to recover the territory of Chu. He didn't dare to look into Chun Shenjun's eyes, and he didn't dare to look at this person who had replaced the crime for himself. Huang Xie took the initiative to hold Jingyang's hand and said with a smile: "Now, I can drink with you." ”

The king of Chu looked at the ministers in the banquet and did not blame anyone, he smiled, as if he had completely forgotten the shame of defeat, and the same was true of the ministers, they listened to the song and danced, and they were so happy with each other, and the shadow of defeat was left behind. Soon, the state of Chu began to implement a series of systems to restore national strength, including the forcible distribution of cultivated cattle, the encouragement of farming, the release of slave retainers, and so on.

In addition to these things, on the issue of "Ma Fu Shu", which caused a greater sensation in the local area, Huang Xie had his own ideas.

Huang Xie chose to make it public, and he found that the more he banned this kind of book, the greater the influence of this work, so Huang Xie led people to collect a lot of Ma Fujun's works and revised them. During this period, he was surprised to find that the "Book of Horse Clothing" had become thicker again, it turned out that Zhao Kuo used some new remarks when teaching his disciples, and Huang Xie immediately listed these and produced the official version of "The Book of Horse Clothing: The Seventh Year of the King" of the State of Chu.

Immediately began to spread in large numbers. This version revised by Huang Xie deliberately reduced the concept of great unification, but vigorously advocated the idea of benevolent government, and even combined the recent system of the Chu State with it.

As if the state of Chu wanted to emulate Ma Fujun to implement benevolent government, and then revised the tax rate, reduced the frequency of forced labor, etc., and wrote about this matter, the Chu people, who were still angry and sad, finally saw a little light, and they regained their vitality and began to devote themselves to farming.

And the true meaning of "Ma Fu Shu", the system he mentioned, has finally exuded influence in various countries, Qi Guo, which attaches the most importance to doctrine, will naturally not miss this book, Qi Wang collected the original version of Zhao Guo's manuscript that recorded Zhao Kuo's words and deeds, and collected the Qin State version of "Ma Fu Shu", Qin Guo wrote and walked in Chu State's deleted version of Chu Wen "Ma Fu Shu", Chu State Huang Xie's version of "Ma Fu Shu: Wang Seven Years", made a set of quite thick, check and fill in the gaps, and combine four copies into one Qi State version of "All Ma Fu Shu".

Suddenly, these books began to spread widely, Zhao Kuo rushed to this era, in order to prevent his memory from gradually declining, but also to teach Han Fei, he told Han Fei all the experience of his later life, of course, this is very cumbersome, basically what to think of and say, Han Fei asked what to say, including the imperial examination system, filial piety, and even civil service examinations and other ways to select officials.

It also includes the political content of absolute monarchy, constitutionalism, republic, etc., he named those countries in later generations with ancient names, and told Han Fei directly to listen, although Han Fei felt that what the teacher said was a little ridiculous, but he still recorded it, after talking about law, politics, diplomacy, history, military and other aspects, Zhao Kuo told about astronomy, geography, and several simple scientific principles that would be proposed later, and some mathematical concepts.

It's just that Zhao Kuo's science has always been very poor, and he only proposed in this regard that the place where we live is a sphere, the moon surrounds the earth, the earth surrounds the sun, what gravity, there are land and oceans on the earth, the law of leverage, and water vapor can be used as power, machinery is convenient for life or something, these are the junior high school knowledge he can think of... Zhao Kuo is very bad, what he said, almost everyone can say a few words later, Han Fei is very powerful, because he summarized these.

He classified them according to different doctrines, starting with the core unified theory, followed by political system, law, diplomacy, history, military, etc., and then science, mathematics, astronomy, geography, logic, etc., which he himself could not understand, as well as miscellaneous articles, which were what Han Fei thought was unimportant, what basketball, football, etc., as well as five-character poems, words, songs, musical instruments, comics, acting, Peking opera....

Therefore, when these manuscripts circulated to the Qin State, the King of Qin would be so surprised, and Fan Ju had no heart to compare at all, and Zhao Kuo almost made a summary of the experience of two thousand years.

Fan Ju compiled these as "Ma Fu Shu", the Qin people are rigorous, and the advantage of rigor is that they will not make up nonsense, and will respect Zhao Kuo's original work, but even so, Fan Ju still removed those things that are too appalling, what people elect the king, and the people will be the lord in the future, Fan Ju felt absurd when he read it, but he didn't expect that even people like Ma Fujun would actually admire the ancients, and wanted to restore the kind of things that the people of the country discussed in ancient times, and the Ming Jun made Zen.

As for astronomy and geography, this era was much more free, and anyone could put forward their own views on the world, so there was no deletion.

It's just because the Qin people value ghosts and gods that the atheism proposed by Zhao Kuo was deleted.

As for the miscellaneous, hehe, what kind of football will we Qin people play??

But even so, there are too many contents involved in the "Book of Horse Clothes", covering almost everything, and seriously provoking all doctrines. This makes a lot of schools angry, most of them are delving into one field, you are good, this is to catch us all??

If an ordinary person writes such a book, then he will definitely be rejected by everyone, or directly considered a madman, because the content of his book is not acceptable at all, but the author of this book is not an ordinary person, and it is Ma Fujun who said these words, Ma Fujun is a sage and is admired by everyone. Therefore, when five versions of the "Book of Horse Clothing" were circulated, it finally broke out with the influence he deserved.

In 265 B.C., all the countries invariably stopped the war, their goals were placed on the "Book of Horse Clothing", different people, can always see different things from the book, the king of Qin saw the great unification from the book, Bai Qi learned from the book to attack the heart, Qin officials learned the rule of law from the book, Huang Xie learned to govern the country from the book, and the sages in the country began to study the systems proposed by Ma Fujun, is it feasible?

Some generals began to study the theory of war proposed by Ma Fujun, the Mohists began to study what Ma Fujun said about water vapor as power, and the machinery he proposed, some scholars began to experiment with the law of leverage, and some people were ready to explore the world according to the map given by Ma Fujun... Of course, the most unexpected thing is that some people started to play the games in the miscellaneous chapters of "The Book of Horse Clothes", and these games are still quite popular.

Zhao Kuo seemed to suddenly see a new world for the people of this world, refreshing all cognition.

But this also caused public anger, many scholars, many sages, began to criticize the "Book of Horse Clothing", so the birth of "Criticism of the Book of Horse Clothing", "On the Book of Horse Clothing" and other books dedicated to the study and criticism of Zhao Kuo, for a time, even the common people of various countries knew that there was such a book... When King Zhao learned about the affairs of various countries, he was not far behind, and hurriedly found Han Fei and got the most genuine "Zhao Guoma Fujun Book".

This version of the Mafu Book was also accepted by Korea and the Wei State, and the Yan State was the laziest, and they directly found various versions of the Mafu Book... did not remake it, nor did he say that he accepted that version. The "Horse Costume Book", which gradually became comprehensive, became popular everywhere and became a must-read book for aristocrats, and if you haven't read the "Horse Costume Book", you don't know what to brag about when chatting with friends.

But even if the amount of dissemination is amazing, the voices of opposition and questioning are still endless, no one, no one at all accepts the knowledge of "Ma Fushu", including Han Fei, he does not agree with some of the remarks put forward by the teacher, these things are too advanced, therefore, today's people, some recognize some of the theories, some use part of the knowledge, and some deny it entirely.

Ma Fujun once again became famous in the world, this time, it was no longer because of what benevolent and righteous actions he had done, or which strong enemy he had defeated, this time he was famous for his doctrine, he seemed to have become a sage recognized by everyone, and was classified as a miscellaneous family, but the number of people who regarded him as an enemy and criticized his doctrine was increasing day by day, and in various places, there were a large number of scholars rushing to Zhao State.

Scholars of various factions began to rush to Mafu, some to discuss knowledge with him, some to make him admit his mistakes, and some to learn from him.

It is said that a "debate" broke out between Chu Mo and Chu Ru, and no one knows why they debated, but the content of the debate was Ma Fujun, which is no longer a secret, after a debate between scholars on both sides, it was unprecedented, Confucianism actually won the victory, Chu Mo had six disciples seriously injured, twelve disciples were slightly injured, and Confucianism only five disciples were slightly injured, which is surprising, because in the long-term debate between the two sides, Confucianism can rarely have an advantage.

Later, I learned that there were many ram Confucians in this group of Confucians. And what is even more incomprehensible is that these people were actually sent by Xunzi, you must know that Xunzi scolded all the Confucians lightly, and the Ram Confucians were not spared.

At the beginning, Xunzi once said: "The hat is worn crookedly, the words are plain and tasteless, Xueyu's lameness, Xueshun's fast walking, this is the cheap Confucianism of Zizhang's faction." Neatly dressed, with a serious complexion, and not speaking all day long as if he was holding something in his mouth, this is the cheap Confucianism of Zixia's faction. is lazy and afraid of things, has no shame and is keen on eating and drinking, and always says that "a gentleman does not have to engage in manual labor", which is a cheap Confucianism of the Ziyou faction. ”

And now he sent a "cheap confucian" to stop Chu Mo, which is really incomprehensible.

It's a pity that Xunzi was only able to stop some people, and when several versions of the "Mafu Book" were spread in various places, Xunzi couldn't do anything.

The sages saged their swords and hurried towards the horses with swearing.