Pang Xuan and Ju Xin were not convinced by Le Yi's talent, and came to see Le Yi to ask questions.

Pang Xuan first asked him about the Art of War, and saw that Le Yi answered like a stream, and Sun Tzu's Art of War was at his fingertips, and his depth of knowledge was far higher than his own. Pang Xuan couldn't help but feel ashamed, knowing that the art of war was not as good as Le Yi, so he asked Le Yi about his family and governing the country.

Le Yi said: "Even the horizontal and vertical, the art of entanglement." Today, under the seven heroes, only the Qin family is dominant, and the princes in order to resist Qin, they specially adopt a strategy of combining and longitudinal, with many enemies and one also. Qin wanted to fight against the six countries, and used the anti-middle, breaking one of its six countries and uniting with it, which is called Lianheng. The study of combining vertical and horizontal is the current situation in the world, and there are many deceptions and repetitions, which is a technique that wants to make the world strife and chaos. If the world is one, the art of the vertical and horizontal family is useless. This is not to be taken below. ”

When Pang Xuan heard Le Yi's words, he was surprised in his heart, he never thought that Le Yi would have such insight, and he had not yet comprehended this level when he learned this technique. He didn't ask anymore, and asked Le Yi how to govern the country, and Le Yi said: "Governing the country lies in reassuring the people, the monarch is benevolent, and the people are cultivating and living, so that they can get abundant taxes and make the country rich and strong." ”

Pang Xuan nodded secretly, and when he heard this, he said to Le Yi: "I think that the way to govern the country lies in the law." If Qin used Shang Jun to change the law, the country became rich and strong. The law of the Shang monarch is severe and harsh, and the people are afraid of it, so they dare not violate it, so that the people can abide by the law and the country will be stable and prosperous. In the next place, if you want to make the country rich and strong, you should use severe punishment and strict laws. ”

Le Yi asked, "I want to hear the way." ”

Ju Xin said: "For example, the fire is violent, and many people are afraid of it, so there are very few people who die from the fire." The water is soft, and the people are relentless, so many people die in the water. The law is severe, and the people are afraid of it, so they all obey the law. The law is lax, and the people are reckless, so they do not abide by the law. If the state does not work by law, how can it be rich and strong? ”

Willing to hear this, Rong Rong Xie Ju Xing said: "These incisive words are very profound!" I have always thought that if you govern the country with benevolence, you can enrich the country and strengthen the army, but I have never seen this, and I am disrespectful and disrespectful. ”

The three of them talked for a long time, each with their own knowledge, and Le Yi's knowledge was better than Pang Xuan and Ju Xin, and Pang Xuan and Ju Xin were convinced. Le Yi also received a warning and reminder from the study of Legalism in the drama Xin, and since then, he has studied Legalism, and later became a Legalist figure for a while.

The three of them met and talked about it, and they admired each other and felt sorry for each other. When Zhao saw it, he said to the three people: "You and the other three people, each with their own talents, are all young heroes of Zhao Di, as the saying goes, learn to become literary and martial arts, and the goods are with the emperor's family." May the three sons be able to serve the princes in the future, show their talents and learning, and glorify the lintel. ”

The three of them were all in high spirits, and Pang Xuan asked Le Yi: "Dare to ask, after completing your studies, where do you want to serve?" ”

Le Yi said: "In the next Zhongshan country, naturally they should serve the motherland. It's just that at this time, the school has not yet been completed, and the parents at home still need to take care of it, so it is not enough to consider this. ”

Pang Xuan and Ju Xin both said: "King Zhao is wise and martial, advocating Hu Hu riding and shooting, and the two of us have already agreed that after they become adults, they will serve in Zhao State." Why don't you go to Zhao Guo too? Isn't it more promising than in Zhongshan? ”

Le Yi said: "Thank you two for your good intentions, I'm afraid it's too early to mention the matter of serving the princes at this time." ”

Pang Xuan said: "The three of us are all of the same age, and they are all like-minded, why don't we agree that after a few years, we will join the princes together to see whose knowledge is the most useful." How is it? ”

The drama said: "That's very good. But I wonder if Brother Le is willing? ”

Le Yi said: "Thanks to the two of you, although you have this ambition, but after hearing the teachings of the ancestors, you should be humble in the world, if you want to make a difference, you still need the time and fate." Now I have made an agreement with the two of you that after I have completed my adult studies, I will join the princes together, and as for what will happen later, it is not now predictable. ”

The three of them talked to the end, they all felt happy, and before they knew it, Lefeng had prepared wine and food for the three of them to eat. Since then, Pang Xuan, Ju Xin and Le Yi have also often corresponded and become inseparable friends.

Xiaofeng and Ding Hu have already come from Qi through Zhongshan Kingdom, stopping and stopping along the way, watching the characters and customs, walking very slowly, and arriving at the capital of Zhongshan for more than a month.

Xiaofeng said to Ding Hu: "I once heard what my master Feng Ying said, saying that there is a heroic Le Feng in Zhongshan State, and a few years ago I came to Mangdang Mountain to look for a work cloth sword, but I regretted that I had no chance to return. Now to Zhongshan country, you can visit Lefeng, with the sword of the cloth to let it see, in order to make up for its regrets. ”

Ding Hu said: "Zhongshan is so big, and I don't know where Lefeng lives?" I am not familiar with life here, how can I find it? ”

Xiaofeng said: "I heard that my master once said, after Lefeng is a happy sheep, the happy sheep, a famous general of the Wei State, has been enshrined in Zhongshan Lingshou, such as Lefeng is the queen, presumably living in Lingshou." Let's go into the city first to investigate, if you can get to know Zhongshan Guo and Zhao Guohaojie, it is also a good thing. ”

So the two entered Lingshou City, looking for an inn to rest, and the next day, they rode horses to watch in Lingshou City, and by the way, they visited Lefeng's residence.

Lefeng's former residence in Lingshou City, Lefeng practiced martial arts to avoid the noise of the market, so he moved to a quiet place outside the city to live, and the old house in the city has been leased to others to operate business.

Xiaofeng and Ding Hu rode to the city, and saw a plaque in front of a merchant, which has been mottled for a long time, but there is a music word on it that can still be recognized, Xiaofeng is very happy, so he stepped forward to ask the store, can he know that Lefeng is this person.

The house rented by this store is the old house of Lefeng, and when he saw Xiaofeng asking, he said: "The guest officer is an outsider!" I don't know here. This was originally the residence of Lingshoujun. It's been hundreds of years now. Everyone in Zhongshan knows it. ”

When Xiaofeng looked again, he found that the neighborhood here was originally rebuilt from a mansion, so he hurriedly asked the shopkeeper: "Who is this mansion?" What is the name of your place? ”

The shopkeeper said: "You don't know, this Zhongshan Lingshou County, once for the Wei State to conquer, the Wei general Le Yang who destroyed Zhongshan, was sealed in Lingshou by the King of Wei, here within a mile, was originally the Lingshou Jun's mansion, and later because the family lost power, the house was dismantled, and it became a neighborhood, which is called Le Yang Fang. ”

Xiao Feng was very happy when he heard this, and said to the shopkeeper: "The former generation of Leyang is a famous general, and I have heard of it below. But I wonder if his descendants still live here? ”

The shopkeeper said: "The descendants of Le Yang have been almost five or six generations now, and they have nearly lost their princely position decades ago, which is equal to commoners." In this Leyang Mansion, there are only a few houses left for future generations, and the house I rented is Leyang's great-grandson Lefeng. ”

Xiao Feng said happily: "I just came to visit Lefeng, I don't want to be so coincidental." Dare to ask the store, where is Lefeng? ”

The shopkeeper said: "Lefeng likes to be clean, not like the city, and has moved out of the city a few years ago." What are you looking for him? ”

Xiaofeng said: "Lefeng is old with Zaixia, I haven't seen it for many years, I think about it very much, and I want to take it for a while." ”

The shopkeeper said: "You go out of the south gate of the city, look at the southeast direction of the road for five or six miles, and you will find a fork in the road, one looks south, the other looks east, and you follow the road to the east for another five or six miles, enter the mountains, and you can find Delefeng." Now he is frail and sickly, and he lives at home all the year round. I only come to the city once every month or two. ”

Xiaofeng explored the place where Lefeng lived, very happy, when it was already noon, he and Ding Hu ate wine and dinner in the wine shop in the city, there was a blind old man in the wine shop, holding a huqin, and he played and said that he was often the same, similar to the storyteller of later generations, the people who ate in the wine shop, but listened to his rap and drank at the same time. The blind old man had a wooden plate in front of him, and if the diners were pleased to hear it, they would look at the wooden plate and throw coins into it as a reward.

Seeing this, Xiaofeng was very peculiar, so he and Ding Hu chose a place to sit by the window, ordered wine and food, and listened to the old man's rap while drinking.

I saw the old man rapping:

Wei general Le Yangzi

Three thousand military vehicles cut down the mountain

Tightly encircled Lingshou and did not enter the army

The general slandered the book

……

The old man raps the story of Leyang and Zhongshan.

Le Yang was originally a Wei person, Wei Wenhou wanted to cut down Zhongshan, and after the guarantee of Zhai Huang, the prime minister of Wei, he used Le Yang as a general, and Le Shu, the son of Le Yang, happened to be a general in Zhongshan, and Le Shu once shot Zhai Huang's son. But Zhai Huang believes in Le Yang's personality, so he does not avoid these suspicions and protects him.

Le Yang led his troops to attack Zhongshan, and the soldiers surrounded Lingshou, because the army of Zhongshan was still strong, and he could not attack for a while, so he took a delaying strategy, wanting to paralyze the king of Zhongshan and then take the opportunity to use troops. When the Wei court heard about it, it was in an uproar, thinking that Leyang would betray Wei if he did not enter the army, so they played Wei Wenhou and said that Leyang collaborated with the enemy and asked for Leyang to be dismissed. But Wei Wenhou has always trusted Le Yang and kept these documents slandering Le Yang. Don't let Leyang know, and still strongly support Leyang.

And the king of Zhongshan saw that Le Yang led his troops to attack, so he killed Le Yang's son Le Shu, chopped into meat sauce to make meat cakes, and gave Le Yang to taste, Le Yang in order to show his loyalty to Wei, actually ate his son's meat in front of the envoy of Zhongshan State.

When Wei Wenhou heard this, he said to the minister: "Le Yang actually ate the meat of his own son for the sake of the widowed country. This should be a virtuous person in the world! ”

But the minister said, "Le Yang even eats his son's meat, and who else in the world does not dare to eat his meat!" Wei Wenhou listened silently.

Subsequently, Le Yang led his troops to attack the city, pulled out the city and destroyed the Zhongshan Kingdom, and established a great military exploit for the Wei State.

Although Wei Wenhou rewarded Le Yang for his exploits and sealed it in Lingshou, he thought that Le Yang was cruel and had no love between father and son, and was always suspicious of Le Yang. Le Yang was no longer reused, and after his death, the family slowly lost power.

Xiaofeng listened to the story of the blind old man singing about the sheep, and couldn't help but feel deeply, thoughtfully, Ding Hu saw this and asked: "The story of the sheep that this old man sang, who is the sheep?" ”

Xiaofeng said: "The famous generals of the former dynasty are also." However, when he eats the flesh of his son, there is no father-son affection. Because of the cruelty of man, even if he achieves meritorious deeds, he should be despised by the whole world. ”

Ding Hu was silent after listening.

After the two finished the wine and dinner, Xiaofeng asked Ding Hu to throw hundreds of dollars into the wooden plate in front of the blind old man, and generally only gave a few coins, and the more were dozens, Xiaofeng gave hundreds, and the old man heard that the sound in the wooden plate was very loud, and hurriedly sat down to thank him. Xiaofeng and Ding Hu have already walked out of the store, crossed the horse and went out of the city, looking for Lefeng.