At the end of September, the weather gradually became colder, and at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, in the newly opened fields, the wheat that had been sown was only budding, and the local soldiers still had to rely on military rations sent from the mainland. Once the winter comes, the grain route will be cut off, so only one-third of the people can be left to defend it, and the rest will be withdrawn to the interior for the winter.

The soldiers and people of Longxi have been taken by Li Xin and Meng Yi and withdrew to Longxi County at the beginning of the month, and the soldiers of the North will also leave in early October.

At this time, Wu Shiyan came with the news he learned from the envoy of the Yue Clan, saying that Mao Dun had killed Touman and established himself as Shan Yu in Juyanze.

Heifu didn't think it was strange, but he was curious if the process was the same as in history, but Gongzi Fusu was particularly surprised:

"Kill your father!?"

Gongzi Fusu was a little unbelievable, there were people in this world who could do such a beastly thing, and he labeled Mao Dun, who was about the same age as him, a "very evil person".

"If you are in Qin, Mao Dun's move will become the target of everyone, and everyone can punish him, how can he be a new single?"

Although it was not uncommon to kill his father and seize the throne in the Spring and Autumn Period, such as King Chu Mu killing King Chu Cheng because he could not stand. But as time goes by, filial piety becomes more and more important, and although there are many differences in many aspects, the hundred schools of thought are surprisingly consistent in their treatment of filial piety.

Needless to say, Confucianism, no matter which school, puts filial piety in a very high position.

Even the Mo family believes that "the unfilial father of the courtier" is the cause of the turmoil in the world, but they only advocate loving their own parents at the same time, but also love other people's parents, so that others will love your parents. Only by loving each other can we benefit each other.

Gongzi Fusu was deeply influenced by Confucianism, and naturally he was also cautious of filial piety, even if he was a little estranged from the emperor due to the death of his mother and uncle, and often spoke out and admonished, contradicting Qin Shi Huang. But he is usually very filial to his father, and he never delays greeting him in the morning and evening. At this point, even Qin Shi Huang couldn't find fault with it, he didn't like Fusu's compassion, but he appreciated his filial piety very much.

Even in Qin, where the Legalists were in power, filial piety was very important. At that time, Shang Ying once listed filial piety as one of the "six lice" that poisoned the country, but after Shang Ying's death, Qin began to encourage his children and grandchildren to fulfill their filial piety.

If a 60-year-old man denounces his son for unfilial piety and asks for a death sentence, the government does not need to forgive, and the unfilial son should be arrested as soon as possible, don't let him run away!

When Heifu first arrived in Xianyang, he also saw a case, saying that it was Shi Wu Bing in a certain east gate who was not filial to his parents, and even kicked his father with his foot. His father asked that C be cut off and exiled to a remote county in Shu County, so that he could not return to his hometown for the rest of his life. The government accepted it, and according to his father's notice, C was exiled and sent to Chengdu......

Therefore, in Qin, unfilial piety is a big crime and must bear legal responsibility. Qin Shi Huang didn't want to be charged with "unfilial piety", and finally welcomed his mother Zhao Ji back to Xianyang from the palace.

Talking about filial piety with Fusu about Maodun's murder of his father, Heifu listened to Fusu's words, but remembered that Fusu in history was given death because of a crime of "unfilial piety......

"The Father told the Son to die, and the Son had to die?"

This is probably Fusu's values, if the historical story is true, Fusu received the will and committed suicide without saying a word, and he didn't even suspect that it was fake.

Should he be honest, or stupid? Or, Confucianism's promotion of filial piety has penetrated into his bone marrow?

Fusu and Mao Dun are the same age and the eldest son, but they are two completely different types of people.

Ruthless and soft-hearted, black and white-handed......

When they encounter the loss of their heirship, they make diametrically opposite choices.

Seeing that Fusu was still indignant at Mao Dun's actions, Heifu smiled and said: "The Huns are vulgar and old, the head man is defeated, and he has lost the hearts of the people. ”

"A son kills his father, and he marries his stepmother, like an animal."

Fusu shook his head: "It's really hateful and pathetic. ”

But then he said helplessly: "Although Qin is convicted of unfilial piety, the folk atmosphere is not good, the Qin family is rich, and the son will be separated when he grows up; The family was poor, and the son joined his family when he grew up. Lending your father a ploughing tool will give him an expression of gift; The mother took a dustpan and a broom, and stood there and rebuked. Breastfeeding the child without avoiding the father-in-law; When the daughter-in-law and the mother-in-law are not on good terms, they turn against each other. ”

"Ignoring and despising one's parents, if this kind of behavior is allowed to continue, it is no different from the Huns."

In the Qin state, there were two men who did not divide the family, and the land tax was doubled, which led to the extinction of large families and the emergence of small peasant families. Separated families are naturally estranged, taxes are heavy and land is poor, each family is only enough to feed and support children, and the elderly often push each other, like the black husband and their family are really not many people who love each other.

Writing filial piety into the Qin law is also a means to force these poor and weak families to regain the responsibility of providing for the elderly.

How else could it be? Can you still count on the state to help you provide for your old age? This is something that future generations will not be able to do, from "only one is good, the state will help the elderly" to "the pension cannot all rely on the government", in the end, you still have to rely on yourself, you can't count on others.

After saying that, Fu Su Chao Heifu arched his hand: "Qin has the crime of unfilial piety, but there is no righteousness to provide for the elderly, which is really a big shortcoming." On the contrary, General Wei opened the Invalides House in Beidi County, so that the lonely and widowed veterans could live and be raised, which is really a good governance, and this policy should be promoted in the inland counties! ”

"It's not right."

Heifu secretly said, this son, seems to have a great opinion on the Qin Dynasty's "filial piety by the rule of law", but this kind of social problem can't be blamed on the law of Qin, which dynasty and generation are the same, the evil of human nature.

It was about the laws of the country, and Heifu couldn't discuss it in depth with Fusu, so he coughed, skipped the topic, and talked about things that were more closely related to them.

"General Li and I are just a division of the army, so we beat the Huns and fled, and the king of the Yue clan was already frightened in his eyes. He really wanted to make peace with the envoy of Qin, even if he was a vassal of the Great Qin, he was willing to call His Majesty a minister, and had promised to kill Mao Dun and sacrifice his head, but now Mao Dun had set up his own Shanyu, and the king of the Yue clan sent an envoy to explain the reason to Wu Shi Yan, and promised to send a son to Helan to meet His Majesty with us in Xianyang......"

Fu Su bowed his head: "Coming to the court in a deserted costume is a big deal." ”

Qin Shi Huang has always disliked the collection of tributary states, at most he annexed them first, and then set up "subject states" under the county, which is actually only equivalent to a small tusi.

But the Yue clan is different, this is a big western state, since the Zhou Dynasty, has never entered the Central Plains, the emperor should also be happy.

Heifu said: "The king of the Yue clan also promised one thing, from next spring, Hexi will be opened, so that the Qin merchants can have direct access to the Western Regions, unimpeded, and he will also send all the Qin merchants who were previously seized back to ......."

A year and a half ago, Heifu persuaded Wu Shilu to try to open up the "Jade Road" and explore the Western Regions in the name of finding the Western Queen Mother. Wu Shi Lu sent a caravan to detour through Longxi and Qiangdi, go to Huangzhong, and go northwest along the Qaidam Basin.

The merchants bribed the Qiang chieftain all the way, recruited guides, but were not embarrassed, and finally walked for a few months before they arrived at the country called "Wusun" from the Qilian Pass, which was located in the Dunhuang area of later generations, with a population of 100,000 in Wusun, and the same as the Xiongnu, it was a nomadic country.

They spent the winter in Wusun, and in the spring of this year, they originally wanted to continue to the west and go to the "Loulan" in the mouth of Wusun, but it happened that the Yueshi attacked and plundered Wusun, and this group of Qin merchants was captured and taken back to Zhaowu City and detained for more than half a year.

It happened that Qin had launched a war against the Xiongnu, and the Yue clan watched from the sidelines, seeing that Qin was so powerful, and the Xiongnu were like a devastating one, they did not dare to kill those merchant envoys, and this time they were also sent back, and a lot of cattle and sheep gifts were also given......

The population of the Yue clan is only more than 200,000, tens of thousands of people who control the strings, and it is a semi-settled nation, without the depth of the Xiongnu, and does not want to attract the conquest of the Qin Dynasty's army.

"It would be a good thing if the Western Regions could be connected without a fight." Fusu has some slight complaints about Qin Shi Huang's search for immortality and immortality, and in his opinion, there is no need to resort to force if something can be resolved peacefully.

"False ways are unreliable after all."

Heifu shook his head and said: "What those merchants brought back is not only the situation of Wusun, Loulan and other states, but also inquired about something, it turns out that from Wusun, there is a road leading directly to Juyanze, from Juyanze to the quicksand desert, and there is a road to Helan and Hetao!" ”

"I have a plan for that."

Fu Su bowed: "General, please speak." ”

Heifu said: "Mao Dun is a person who can sacrifice his wife and horse for tolerance, extremely forbearing, and killing his own father, which is really the ambition of a wolf." Its behavior is quite similar to Goujian, if it is not removed, let it dominate the Huns, I am afraid of becoming a hidden danger. ”

"It's better to send troops to attack Juyanze again, to destroy the remnants of the Huns, so as to prevent future troubles; Second, it is also possible to set up outposts and trading stations in Juyanze, so that the Central Plains can have one more road to the Western Regions without having to go to Hexi. ”

Of the two reasons, the former is more important.

Out of disgust for Maudun's father-killing behavior, Fusu didn't have much objection, but said:

"Maodun still has a force of 10,000 horsemen, and Ju Yanze is thousands of miles away, separated by quicksand desert, the previous battles, many horses died, and now it is about to enter winter, the soldiers are difficult to travel, it is difficult to transfer, I am afraid that the loss is too great......"

In this attack on the Xiongnu, the greatest loss of the Qin army was not the soldiers, but the war horses, which were much more delicate than people, and the horses accumulated in the border counties for several years consumed most of them. Fortunately, a lot of Xiongnu horses were robbed, otherwise the cavalry of the Qin army would have to wait several years before they could be equipped with one man and two horses.

Heifu said: "What Gongzi said is very true, the army has withdrawn one after another, and it is cold in winter, and it is indeed inappropriate to use soldiers. ”

"But the envoy of the king of the Yue clan said that Mao Dun will spend the winter in Juyanze, and will not lead his troops to migrate north until the snow melts next year. Our army can be combined with Beidi, Longxi, Shangjun, Shuofang, and Yunzhong to ride. At the beginning of January, when it was warm and cold, he rushed to Juyanze! Annihilate the remnants of Maudun and the Huns! ”

Of course, Heifu, who is the first to do everything, will not go in person, and when he goes to Xianyang and explains this matter to Qin Shi Huang, he will strongly recommend Li Xin as the commander......

Fusu listened to it and didn't say anything for a long time, but just looked at Heifu a little strangely and said:

"The general is really obsessed with killing Maudun......

Is it seen? Heifu also knew that he was chasing after Mao Dun three times and twice, and he would kill him quickly, which was indeed a little obvious, but he couldn't care about these anymore, and said with a smile:

"I just think that it is just that the cultivation of virtue and the elimination of evil are exhausted, that's it!"