Chapter 270: A Fiery Heart
Zhao Kuo found a very important problem.
Zhao Zheng, who has lived in Zhao since he was a child, has not been discriminated against, and has not been bullied, obviously has more sense of identity with Zhao State. Zhao Kuo seemed to have heard in his previous life that Zhao Zheng was bullied in Handan because he was a child, and after the destruction of Zhao State, he slaughtered the nobles of Handan. And now, he is not disgusted with Zhao Ren, and even he can't find any playmates in the Qin Kingdom, he just plays with Zhao Kuomenke's children every day.
This made Zhao Zheng inevitably contaminated with the atmosphere of Zhao State, revealing a kind of bravery, heroic, and nosy in his bones, just like a Handan man who came to Xianyang to do business, and disdainfully pointed at Xianyang, and did not regard this place as his home. However, the child is still young, and Zhao Zheng, who was born in the 48th year of King Qin, is only seven years old now, and this sense of identity will slowly take shape.
Zhao Kuo no longer took Zhao Zheng to visit his real father and eldest father, Ying Yiren came a few times, and sent gifts to Zhao Zheng, and that Yangquanjun also came to confess his guilt, it seems that he was reprimanded by An Guojun, and he looked very scared, Zhao Kuo did not get angry with him anymore, accepted his apology, and apologized to him for his rudeness, and the two reconciled.
However, Zhao Kuo and this Yangquan Jun are really not very compatible, this Yangquan Jun, curious about rare treasures, exaggerated, either talking about beauties or talking about treasures, which makes Zhao Kuo have a very bad sense of him, just a few times, and then avoid it.
The new policy in the Qin State, the promotion is very rapid, with the efforts of the ministers, the Qin State soon completed the innovation of the old official position, the new official system appeared, many military disciples from the school, have poured into the political high-level, serving as the subordinate officials of the three princes and nine secretaries, Changshi, Cheng and other important positions. This is a completely new change for the Qin State. Han Fei thought that the "competitions" often held in Qin were very good systems, so he proposed that this system be applied to the position of the three princes and nine secretaries.
It is probably more than political achievements, to see who has done more, who has done the best, who has made breakthroughs in the field in charge, and so on.
King Qin also became busy, no time to visit Zhao Kuo again, Zhao Kuo is also happy to have such a free time, he took this opportunity, he once again in his courtyard to run the school, teaching disciples, to his surprise is that King Qin directly vacated the largest school room in Xianyang to him, this was originally a place to train officials, King Qin asked them to build another school for them elsewhere, and this school room is complete in all aspects, it was directly given to Zhao Kuo.
There were not too many disciples who followed Zhao Kuo to the Qin Kingdom, but more than fifty people followed, and the rest of the disciples returned to their own countries.
In the Qin State, there were indeed a lot of people who wanted to become Zhao Kuo's disciples, and after Zhao Kuo moved into the new school, hundreds of people poured in. Zhao Kuo sat on the top and looked at the disciples around him, compared to the carelessness of the original disciples, the new disciples of the Qin State had solemn faces, holding pens and bamboo slips, looking at Zhao Kuo seriously, no matter what Zhao Kuo said, they would write it down and engrave it into their bones with rigor, making them more like soldiers than disciples who came to study.
Zhao Kuo's education method has always been relaxed, he doesn't like lifeless classes, and he doesn't like overly serious classes, the classroom is originally a communication between teachers and disciples, everyone can put forward their own ideas, occasionally Zhao Kuo in order to enliven the class, will say a few jokes, those Qin disciples usually hesitate for a long time, see those old disciples laughing, this is very difficult to squeeze out a smile, haha smirk for a moment.
Zhao Kuo looked at these disciples, but his face was a little solemn.
"Why did you come here to study?"
He asked an irrelevant question.
"We want to be officials."
These disciples were honest and didn't lie, Zhao Kuo nodded at this time, and said: "I know why you have a straight face, such a serious, this is because the law is serious and solemn... You will all be the ones who will do the law. But people, people shouldn't be like this, people have to learn to laugh, to live happily, you are law enforcement people at work, you can be serious, but on weekdays, you are a person, people can't have only one emotion! β
So, Zhao Kuo's first lesson was to teach these future officials to laugh.
He didn't continue to stay in the school, he took these disciples out of Xianyang, and even took them to Taoshan to watch the scenery there, and also organized several football games for them to play and play.
Zhao Kuo's move caused a great sensation in Xianyang, and the ministers of the Qin State were incomprehensible, since the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, the Qin State has been deliberately curbing everything that has nothing to do with farming and warfare, like what kind of poetry, is it beneficial to agriculture? Is it good for war? If not, then don't do it, dare to talk about poetry and be sentenced! Play? Is play good for farming? Is it good for war? No? Then don't play! Sentencing for daring to waste time!
Is a child born with a disability? Raise him, will he be able to farm? Will he fight? No way? Then fall to death, he will drag the hind legs of the Qin State.
The Qin people never waste energy to do other things, Zhao Kuo now takes his disciples to play, and even teaches them some useless things, which naturally caused the incomprehension of the ministers, and the Yushi Wang Yi was the first to impeach Zhao Kuo to the King of Qin, and he accused Zhao Kuo of not fulfilling his duties and leading everyone to commit the crime of wandering, and he could be arrested. The King of Qin did not agree, and rejected the proposal of the imperial historian on the grounds that Wu Chengjun had just come to the Qin State and did not know the laws of the Qin State, but he also sent someone to hurriedly invite Zhao Kuo to the palace.
Zhao Kuo took those disciples, on the peach mountain to watch the beautiful scenery, in the spring, the whole peach mountain is red, like the world in the painting, such a beautiful scenery, will make anyone have touched, Zhao Kuo led the disciples to roam here, said seriously: "The law is emotionless, of course, the person who enforces the law must also strictly follow the law without emotion to enforce the law, but the person who executes the law cannot be emotionless." β
"In the face of the indiscriminate killing of innocent criminals, the officials should angrily accuse him, in the face of the victims in need, the officials should have compassion, in the face of those who need to be educated, the officials should be patient, teach them what to do and what not to do..."
Zhao Kuo finally brought them back to Xianyang, and as soon as he returned to Xianyang, he was invited to the palace by the king of Qin.
King Qin smiled and invited Zhao Kuo to sit beside him, and then he asked, "Is your family still healthy?" Zhao Kuo nodded, the two chatted for a while, and then King Qin talked about business, he said: "I heard that you took the disciples of the school to Taoshan, if you want to travel, of course no one will dissuade you, but those officials, they should spend more energy to learn the law... Learn law enforcement..."
"I took them to Momoyama just to teach them to enforce the law."
Zhao Kuo said seriously: "Since I came to the Qin Kingdom, I haven't heard any laughter, of course, you have also said: It is enough to be able to hear the sound of breathing." But what I do know is: if the country blindly rules the people through power, and constantly drives them to do things through interests, then such a country will not be long, when Taoshan was on the mountain, Xunzi once said this. β
"You agreed with it at the time."
"I can understand that the Qin State currently bases all its systems on farming and warfare, which gives the Qin State a strong fighting power, and also makes the Qin State have the strength of a king in the world. But the Qin State can't go on like this forever, sooner or later, the people will be disgusted with such a system, they will be disgusted with this kind of life, and when there is no profit to drive them, they will definitely lose their sense of identity with the Qin State. β
King Qin said helplessly: "What you said can be implemented after the king of the world, and when the Qin State has no enemies, it can properly give the people laughter, but now, this is impossible." β
"Are you worried that such a move will affect the national strength of the Qin State?" , Zhao Kuo said: "Qin laws can be appropriately modified, those cruel punishments can be reduced, and the people can be given time to breathe." Zhao Kuo thought for a moment, and then said: "After the farming is busy, it can be organized by officials from all over the country to carry out appropriate entertainment activities." Hearing the entertainment, King Qin frowned and hesitated.
Zhao Kuo shook his head helplessly, and said: "Don't worry, the tug-of-war, football, that is, the games such as Juju that I mentioned in the horse service book, are all conducive to war, which can increase the cohesion of the people, and even the organizational power, you can let the local set up a football team to play, which will not affect the nongsang, and the people have their own entertainment activities, which is also another form of exercise... You won't believe me when I say it, so please come to my house and I'll let you see for yourself. β
In this era, there is already a juju, of course, the juju has been there for a long time, and now it is called a juju, but this is completely two games with football, and juju can probably be regarded as freestyle football, a person a juju, and then play a flower, and football is still different from a team sport like football. The King of Qin called LΓΌ Buwei, Wang Di, Meng Fu and others, and rushed to Zhao Kuo's mansion, which was large enough to be used as a football field.
As soon as they came here, King Qin and his ministers were a little stunned, looking at the two tall door frames, as well as fishing nets. They saw that there were a lot of people gathered here, and two groups were drawn according to different costumes, and they only had one keju, and after the game began, the tall and tall Di began to dribble the ball, at first, these people still looked at it with critical eyes, but when they looked at it, they were fascinated.
King Qin is okay, but the old general Meng Fu couldn't help but clap his hands and shout, he watched these people hit each other, and bypassed the opposite defense by dividing the ball, watching them cooperate with each other, and finally won the victory, which made Meng Wei thoughtful, he couldn't help but look at Zhao Kuo in the distance, at this moment Zhao Kuo was waving his hand excitedly, as a fan, the happiest thing is to see a football match in 252 BC.
The only downside is that football is easy to kick.
King Qin squinted his eyes, and then asked with a smile: "What do you think of Wu Chengjun's proposal?" β
Meng Fu nodded and said, "Yes, this kind of game values the cooperation between groups, confrontation.... I think so. β
Lu Buwei said seriously: "I've calculated, a game is less than an hour, and it doesn't affect Nongsang, but I'm worried that after the promotion of this kind of game, people everywhere will be addicted to fun and no longer work hard." King Qin squinted his eyes, looked at the excited Zhao Kuo in the distance, and said, "What impact can the people have if they play a bow in their spare time?" β
"Then let's settle it like that."
"Yui!!"
Sure enough, as Zhao Kuo thought, King Qin still agreed to his proposal and began to promote this kind of game in various countries. This is the first time in the Qin State that the government encourages the people to play??? The Qin people were stunned, but when they heard that this was a game created by Wu Chengjun, they still had some expectations in their hearts, and soon, the officials of Xianyang were the first to organize the people to play football, and the officials didn't know why they wanted to take them to play football, but this was a royal order, and they couldn't disobey it.
From the countryside to the county seat, everywhere you can hear the people running back and forth, kicking the football into the door frame hard, everyone hugging each other, and the serious officials acting as referees, standing not far away, scoring for them. Stopping those foul behaviors, the promotion of football games, in the Qin State is extremely smooth, every family goes out to watch the game, and those selected elites are even more hard to play on the field.
Occasionally, the people would gather to play football after a busy day's work.
The officials did not stop it, as long as it did not affect the agricultural mulberry.
The Qin people, who have been strangled for too long, are instantly addicted to this only legal game, the efficiency of the Qin State is very high, and the King of Qin has ordered it in less than half a month, and the promotion has begun in various places, and the people gathered happily, and the faces of the officials also smiled. A joyful atmosphere was spreading in the Qin Kingdom, and the original dead silence was quickly broken, and the people were happily talking about yesterday's game and working hard while farming.
This kind of change in the Qin State is not something that everyone is happy to see.
Many people feel that Zhao Kuo has ruined the foundation of the Shang monarch's century-old system, and let the people indulge and play, and sooner or later the Qin State will have to pay a serious price!
And Zhao Kuo didn't pay attention to these words, he just mingled in the people who watched the game, cheering with the people, listening to the laughter around them, watching those young people frantically signaling to the people around them after scoring goals, and watching them hug each other warmly. Those sad, stiff faces finally had a smile, and the suppressed fiery hearts finally began to beat again.
All this made Zhao Kuo so happy.