Lingshou, in a quiet side hall of the palace, there are no civil and military officials, only the concubine of the king of Zhongshan with a high crown and the general Gongzi Kuan with a high crown.

King Zhongshan admired Confucianism, so he liked Confucianism. Childe Kuan is stubborn and insistent, so he is still brilliantly armored.

Looking at the layers of dried and clumped blood clots on the armor, the King of Zhongshan arched his hand: "Brother has worked hard. "Corporal Lixian, not only to the courtiers outside, the Confucian scholars in the poor countryside, but also to his family.

Gongzi Kuan replied: "My brother is a minister, and I should do my best." ”

"How's the war going to the south?"

Gongzi Kuan replied: "The method of killing the defenders to make the defenders fear and fight to the death, and using cities one by one in exchange for exhausting the enemy and dissipating the enemy's spirit, finally stopped the Zhao people in front of Shiyi." And being able to hold off the enemy also gives our soldiers hope for victory again, and the morale slowly recovers, and between the two sides, we should survive on the southern front until winter. ”

King Zhongshan breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you can hold out until winter, no matter how strong the Zhao army is, it can't launch a full-scale attack in winter, so that a winter can give me a chance to change the entire situation." ”

Gongzi was stunned: "What is the king going to do?" ”

King Zhongshan shook his hand: "This is not the court, you and I are just brothers, let's call me brother." ”

Gongzi Kuan replied lightly: "The monarch and the minister are often -"

A trace of pain flashed in King Zhongshan's eyes: "Forget it, if a group of corrupt Confucians, let's fool those ignorant people, this so-called Gangchang is humble and humble, and it really hurts our family's family relationship." ”

Gongzi Kuan silently stopped making a sound.

The king of Zhongshan stood up and paced behind his back, and began to examine himself. Historically, this King of Zhongshan is a Ming monarch, and his Confucianism is also quite successful.

He didn't notice what era it was, it was an era with war as the main theme, especially an outlier like him, who was sandwiched in the middle of the Chinese cultural circle, and was excluded by Chinese culture at any time. His father, the first Zhongshan Wangcuo, was on the iron foot tripod, clearly engraved with a warning to the subsequent descendants, and the enemy was on the side, thinking of danger in times of peace.

The enemy wants to attack them, and with the weak character of the soldiers, the lips of the Confucian will not be able to deal with the enemy.

"I've been wondering why the implementation of Confucianism in governing the country has led to such a huge and disastrous outcome. These days, while I am working on the front line, I am constantly thinking about what I have done, and when I take back the books and Confucian classics on the street, and compare them with the classics such as the Analects of Confucius in my original collection, I find that the classics on the street always feel strange. In the end, I compared the two together, and I finally found the answer. ”

Gongzi Kuan is also always thinking about such a question, why did the Confucian Society make his country rich in just three years, although everyone knows the etiquette, but it has made his country bloodless and ineffective. He couldn't find the reason, and when he heard his brother say that he had found the answer, he immediately became interested, knelt up straight and asked hopefully: "Your Excellency, no, brother, what kind of answer have you found?" ”

King Zhongshan stopped and said word by word: "I found that the famous classics sold on the street are almost half a sentence. They are all the first half of the Analects, but not the second half. ”

Gongzi Kuan wondered: "Isn't that a fragment?" And who else can't see it? Who else can understand that? ”

The king of Zhongshan shook his head bitterly: "For example, in the Analects of the First Book of Benevolence, the original full sentence was "Although the old country is big, the warlike will die; Although the world is safe, forgetting the war will be dangerous. "However, he only printed the last sentence, and although the kingdom is great, the belligerent will surely perish." Isn't it still a complete word? Doesn't it make sense? The most terrifying thing is that this sentence is exactly what happened to the previous situation of Zhongshan Kingdom. And the latter sentence, although the world is safe, forgetting the war will be dangerous. "It's not in the books on the street.

In other words, our entire Chinese people have accepted the theoretical idea of no war, which is very suitable for our current situation, but the latter warning is actually closer to the national conditions we were in at that time. It is not in line with what our father taught us: "The enemy is on the side, and be prepared for danger in times of peace." "Yes."

Then he muttered bitterly: "This is a conspiracy, I can be calculated by others, and the calculation is so skillful." ”

Gongzi Kuan inhaled the cold air one by one, and then said: "Daijun raised the price of grain two years ago, it must be within a conspiracy." ”

King Zhongshan nodded: "Let almost all of our grain flow out, there is no reserve, and let my treasury and people be nominally rich and sufficient, but in fact, it is all useless money, just a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron." ”

"And who can do that?"

King Zhongshan pointed to the north: "There is only Zhao Xing who can print such exquisite books and periodicals in the world, and only Zhao Xing can cast money endlessly in the world." ”

"Immediately fight the world, and the literati govern the world, these were the words of the businessman back then." Then smiled bitterly: "I firmly believe now that the businessman is Zhao Xing." Then he sighed and had to admire: "He used this irrefutable truth to make me believe in his friendship with Zhongshan." Through practice, the goal has indeed been achieved. But it is only half of the purpose, because the scriptures that let us use as the basis for governing the country are half of them. No wonder once when the two of us were communicating, he once proudly said that half of the treatise on ruling the world is really his evil heart. ”

Childe's heart slowly sank to the bottom of the ice cellar.

The King of Zhongshan grabbed his brother's hand: "This time you are about to face Zhao Xing, from the fact that this person used a set of tactics that people can't argue with three years ago to make Zhongshan fall, it can be seen that his scheming is deep." This time you face him, I don't expect you to annihilate him, let alone expel him from Zhongshan, as long as you can stop him, fight me for a winter, and then I will carry out a complete internal change within us. ”

Gongzi Kuan grabbed his brother's hand back: "Brother can't be reckless, at this critical time, there must not be any internal turmoil in us, otherwise the entire Zhongshan will collapse in a blink of an eye." ”

The King of Zhongshan shook his brother's hand: "Don't worry, I didn't defeat Confucianism, I didn't drive away Confucianism, we can't afford that kind of consequence, that kind of ideological confusion, I just fill in the second half of each sentence of the missing Analects within half a year, and let the Confucian students do their best to propagate and teach the people." Then he sighed: "Confucianism is the holy science of governing the world, but the premise is that you must not understand it halfway." ”

Gongzi Kuan, stood up firmly, he was going to face such a cunning Zhao Xing, for the sake of Zhongshan, he decided to do whatever it takes.