It has been two years since his brother Meng Bo was buried.

During these two years, Meng Zhong continued to study the ideological treatises of Taoism and famous masters with Zhuangzi, but in his spare time, he would repeatedly watch military parades in private.

The Book of War, that is, the Art of War, is the most well-known and well-known contemporary work on the art of war, such as "The Art of War" by "Sun Wu", "The Art of War by Wu Zi", and "The Art of War by Sun Bin".

Sun Wu, a native of Qi, served as a military commander in Wu because of the recommendation of his friend "Wu Zixu", training Wu soldiers, making the Wu army at that time unprecedentedly strong, even Chu could not resist, and was attacked by Sun Wu and Wu Zixu.

Regarding this Sun Wu's friend "Wu Zixu", Meng Zhong had heard some anecdotes about this person.

Wu Zixu was born as a nobleman in the Chu State, and his father, the prince of Chu "Jian", was implicated in the matter of "Prince Jian being framed by traitors", and was destroyed by the ignorant King Chuping.

After that, Wu Zixu angrily defected to the state of Wu and helped the king of Wu to conquer the state of Chu "阖 (hé) 闾 (lǘ)".

On the day of breaking Chu, when King Chuping was dead, Wu Zixu asked the soldiers to dig up the grave and beat the body of King Chuping with a whip, whipping the corpse of 300 corpses to avenge his father and brother.

Later, Wu Wang Lu passed away, Wu Zixu supported his son "Fucha" to succeed to the throne, during the "Wu Yue Hegemony", Wu King "Fucha" not only did not listen to Wu Zixu's advice to kill the Yue King "Goujian" who was defeated by his Wu State, but instead listened to the slander of the traitorous ministers, and gave Wu Zixu a sword to kill himself.

Wu Zixu had no choice but to draw his sword and kill himself, but before killing himself, he asked someone to take off his eyes and hang them at the east city gate, saying that he wanted to see the Yue army destroy the Wu State with his own eyes.

Sure enough, nine years after Wu Zixu's death, the state of Wu was broken by the army of the Yue State, and the state of Wu perished, and the king of Yue, Goujian, succeeded the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Song Xiang, the Duke of Wen of Jin, the King of Chuzhuang, the Duke of Qin Mu, the King of Wu and others, and became the last overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period. [PS: The allusion of "lying on the salary and tasting the gall" is about the king of Yue Goujian. In addition, the "Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons" only refer to the five most representative overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period, but in fact, it was not only five who made hegemonic measures at that time. 】

And Sun Wu, after Wu Zixu was forced to death by Wu Wangfu, he resigned from the position of Sima of Wu State, no longer planned war for Wu State, but lived in seclusion in the countryside and repaired his work on the art of war, that is, "The Art of War".

Wu Qi, on the other hand, was a patriot with a wealthy family, and when he was young, in order to fulfill his ambitions, he worshipped under the disciple of Confucius's disciple "Zeng Zi (Zeng Shen)" son "Zeng Shen" and learned Confucianism.

However, because when Wu Qi's mother passed away at that time, he did not go home to mourn and keep filial piety according to the Confucian creed of loyalty and filial piety, so he was expelled from the portal by Zeng Shen.

From then on, Wu abandoned Confucianism and defected to the state of Lu after completing his studies.

At that time, when the State of Qi attacked the State of Lu, Lu Mugong wanted to enable Wu Qi, but he was worried because Wu Qi's wife was a daughter of Qi, so Wu Qi killed his wife, showed his intentions, and finally helped the State of Lu to repel the army of the State of Qi, but Wu Qi himself was criticized for this.

Due to the suspicion of Lu Mugong, Wu Qi left the state of Lu and defected to the state of Wei, and finally was able to display his ambitions in the state of Wei, and the "Wei Wushu" he trained was known as the strongest army in the world, and Wu Qi also relied on this army to create an undefeated record of "72 battles, 64 victories, and the rest were evenly matched".

Wu Qi is most famous for defeating Qin's 500,000 troops in the "Yin and Jin Battles" with 50,000 Wei soldiers, seizing more than 500 li of Qin's land in Hexi.

I have to say that although Wu Qi is indeed inevitably criticized for his personal "private morality", he can definitely be called a rare famous general in terms of governing the army.

And the art of war written by Wu Qi is "Wu Zi's Art of War".

As for Sun Bin, the most talked about is the grievances and grievances between him and his fellow brother "Pang Juan".

The same is the same brother and the same disciple of Guiguzi, "Su Qin" used the method of agitation to inspire "Zhang Yi", making Zhang Yi a husband who was "angry and the princes were afraid", but Pang Juan was jealous of Sun Bin and deceived him to Wei after learning that the latter was out of the mountain, and was persecuted by "torture" and "punishment". [PS: Bin punishment, that is, digging out two kneecaps, so that people can no longer stand. That's why Sun Bin is called Sun Bin, and his real name is said to be "Sun Boling", and he is a descendant of Sun Wu. As for the punishment, it is to tattoo the face with ink, which is generally a crime committed by tattooing. 】

Later, Sun Bin survived by pretending to be crazy and stupid, until the envoy of Qi "Tian Ji" came to Wei, Sun Bin tried his best to meet Tian Ji and begged the latter to help him escape from the cage, Tian Ji admired Sun Bin's talent, so he helped Sun Bin escape from Wei.

Since then, Sun Bin has become Tian Ji's staff. [PS: Tian Ji, that is, the one in the allusion of "Tian Ji Horse Racing". 】

Later, in the "Battle of Guilin", because Wei attacked Zhao, Qi ordered Tian Ji to lead an army to attack Wei and rescue Zhao.

Later, during the "Battle of Maling", because Wei attacked Korea, after receiving a request for help from Korea, Qi once again implemented Sun Bin's "besiege Wei to save Zhao" tactic, attacked the capital of Wei, and ambushed Pang Juan in Maling Road, Pang Juan hated himself for being defeated by Sun Bin twice, and killed himself angrily.

I have to say that during the period when Wei got Pang Juan, Wei once again showed a momentum of imminent rise, but it was forced to be pressed by the Qi forces represented by Tian Ji and Sun Bin, and then Wei collapsed.

After that, Sun Bin compiled a military book, namely "Sun Bin Art of War".

However, in addition to the well-known "Art of War", "Art of War", "Art of War" and "Art of War of Sun Bin", in the treasury of Zhuangzi, there are actually several other military books that are no less than these three, such as "The Art of War of Taigong" by "Taigong Wang" and "Sima (War) Law" by "Sima 穰 (ráng) Tho (jū)". [PS: "Taigong Art of War", that is, the one that the old man of Huangshi taught to Zhang Liang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, "Liutao" is part of it. 】

Taigong Wang, that is, Jiang Shang, or Lu Wang, commonly known as Jiang Ziya, one of the greatest heroes of the Zhou State to destroy Yin Shang, the ancestor of Jiang surnamed Qi, is a military sage earlier than his grandson, but because Jiang Ziya is also a Taoist figure, his works are also attributed to Taoism.

As for "Sima Sui Tho", that is, Tian Sui Tho, he is a descendant of the Tian clan (Chen clan) of the Chen royal family, and he is also the most skilled soldier in the Qi State after Taigong.

Compared with the three books of "The Art of War", "The Art of War of Wu Zi", and "The Art of War of Sun Bin", Sima Sui Tho's "The Art of War" and Taigong's "The Art of War" have always been treasures treasured by the Qi State, but Zhuangzi was able to collect some of these two military books, even if they are incomplete, it is a very incredible thing.

In fact, these military books are not collected by Zhuangzi, but collected by his close friend Hui Shi, it is said that when Hui Shi served as the minister of state in the Wei State, he liked to read the world's books and treatises, and the collection of books was very large, and later Hui Shi lost his power and was ready to go to Chu, so he asked someone to transfer these books to Zhuangzi, so in the Zhuangzi's treasury, there will be so many miscellaneous books, in addition to Taoist books, there are also famous scholars, Confucianism, soldiers, Legalists and so on.

For example, "Laozi", "Yi", "Zhou Yi", such as "Guiguzi", "Liezi", "Yang Zhu", and "The Book of Law" compiled by Li Kui, the famous minister of Wei, etc., can be said to be very rich.

But whether Zhuangzi read these books or not is unknown.

Meng Zhong did not dare to confirm this, because he knew that although Zhuangzi collected these works, it was not that Zhuangzi did not have prejudices about them, and the best example was Confucianism.

In the past two years, Meng Zhong also encountered a lot of confusion when he was watching those art of war, but he did not dare to ask Zhuangzi for advice, because once when Zhuangzi passed by him, he frowned when he saw him watching the art of war, and it was obvious that he showed an unswerving color.

As for the reason, it is nothing more than that Zhuangzi hopes that his disciple Meng Zhong can "let go" of his brother Meng Bo's hatred, not to set foot in the world, and to pursue the avenue wholeheartedly.

But unfortunately, two years is not enough time for Meng Zhong to forget this grievance.

"Ah Zhong."

Today, when Meng Zhong was reading the "Taigong Art of War", Le Jin walked into his room and told him, "The master told you to go to the main house. ”

"Okay."

Hearing this, Meng Zhong put down the bamboo slip in his hand and stood up.

At this time, Meng Zhong, who was fourteen years old, was close to the height of an adult, and he had never stopped exercising his body in recent years, so his body was also quite strong, but when he was wearing a wide robe and holding a bamboo slip, most people might think that he was just a scholar who was powerless, but few people knew that Meng Zhong actually had martial arts that could compete with Wu Ying, Meng Hu, Hua Hu and others.

After a while, Meng Zhong came to the main house where Zhuangzi lived, and saw that in the main house, on Zhuangzi's seat, there were bamboo slips.

These bamboo slips are the "Getaway" written by Zhuangzi in the past two years, that is, the one that Zhuangzi wrote on his sleeve when Meng Zhong traveled with Zhuangzi for the first time two years ago.

In fact, half a year ago, Zhuangzi had already written "The Wandering Journey", but he himself was not satisfied, so in the following time, Zhuangzi has been deleting, deleting, modifying and revising this treatise until today.

But now, seeing that Zhuangzi's face was filled with a satisfied smile, I thought that this "Getaway" had been revised to satisfy this Zhuangzi, so this master was anxious to summon his most important disciple, Meng Zhong.

Sure enough, after seeing Meng Zhong, Zhuangzi pointed to the bamboo slips and motioned for Meng Zhong to read.

"There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Turned into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Flying in anger, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It is a bird, and the sea will migrate to the south. Those who are in the south of the underworld, Tianchi is also ......"