"What...... Situation?'

Seeing that Song Wangyan was holding a bright sword and pointing at him, even if it was Meng Zhong, there were some six gods without a master for a while, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Hui An.

He didn't believe that Hui Ang would deliberately harm him.

At this time, Hui Ang showed a few seemingly helpless smiles to Meng Zhong, and shook his head to signal that Meng Zhong did not need to panic.

At first, Meng Zhong didn't understand what Hui Ang meant, until Song Wang Yan gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you afraid?" ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong faintly guessed: Song Wangyan, this is to scare him!

The reason is very simple, because he is a disciple of Zhuangzi, and Zhuangzi has repeatedly refused to be sent by Song Wangyan to invite him to serve as an envoy to the state minister. Even if he doesn't do anything to Zhuangzi because of this, but to scare and scare Zhuangzi's younger disciples, it's nothing, right?

After coming to his senses, Meng Zhong gradually calmed down and thought about how to deal with Song Wangyan's intimidation.

After half a ring, he nodded and said, "The boy is afraid, because your sword looks sharp. ”

Song Wangyan was stunned when he heard this, and said with interest on his face: "You are quite unwilling to say this. …… Are you afraid of the sword in the hand of a widow? Good! With that, he threw the sword in his hand to his entourage, and then asked Meng Zhongdao, "What about now?" ”

Meng Zhong replied: "You are still wearing the crown of my Song monarch and the robe of my Song monarch, so the boy is afraid. ”

Hearing this, Song Wang Yan smiled and asked, "Do you want to say that you are afraid of 'Song Jun', not 'Dai Yan', is that so?" ”

"Nope."

Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "Even if the king takes off his crown and robes and mingles with the people, the boy will still be afraid when he sees it, because you are like this, and the boy is like this. He compared the difference between the two in height and physique, and then said calmly: "The difference in height and physique alone is enough to make the kid afraid, so why should you threaten with a sword?" Furthermore, does bullying the small with the big and bullying the weak really make you happy? ”

When the words fell, the surroundings were silent, Hui An's expression had changed from the initial helplessness to the amusement at the moment, and Song Xiang Qiu He looked at Meng Zhong's calm face and was secretly surprised.

As for Song Wangyan himself, he didn't come back to his senses after listening to Meng Zhong's answer.

After half a ring, he asked Hui Ang: "Hui Ang, widow...... Was it preached by this kid? ”

"Definitely." Hui Ang couldn't help but smile and said, "This son answered you, the king, and he said that he was afraid of you, the king. ”

"But that's not what the few people heard."

Having said so, there was no anger on Song Wangyan's face, and he said to Meng Zhong with a smile: "Boy, for the sake of Hui An's face, the widow will spare you, otherwise, just because you are the disciple of Zhuang Zhou's old thing, the widow will ......" He paused, and then said painlessly: "I have to teach you a good lesson and frustrate that Zhuang Zhou's arrogance." ”

Meng Zhong blinked his eyes and did not speak, because he felt that Song Wangyan's "hatred" for Zhuangzi was actually just a resentment that could not be supplied.

No, it was clear that the previous sentence still had to "teach Meng Zhong a lesson", but Song Wangyan's next sentence was to ask Meng Zhong if he was interested in being an official.

Probably worried that Meng Zhong's refusal would make King Song unhappy, Hui Ang explained on the side: "Great King, my brother has entered the world this time, you know, Taoist disciples have never been indifferent to official careers, they only care about their own virtues. ”

"Hmm." Song Wangyan nodded and praised: "Widows know, whether it is Song Qi or Zhuang Zhou, Taoist disciples have always been like this, far from being comparable to those Confucians. ”

It is not difficult to see from his tone that he does not have a good impression of Confucianism.

In fact, the relationship between Song Wangyan and Confucianism was not bad, thinking that when the Confucian sage Mencius passed through the Song Kingdom, Song Wangyan also sent people to send funds to help Mencius travel around the world, and Mencius also called Song Wangyan "Song Wangyan" in his remarks, and there was no derogatory reprimand.

Even when the king of the Song Dynasty called himself the king of the Song Dynasty "rebelliously", Mencius did not say anything about it, and even said to his disciple "Wan Zhang": (The king of Song) will not be able to do benevolent government, if he does benevolent government, all the people of the world will raise their heads and hope for him, and they will support him as their own monarch; Although Qi and Chu are powerful, what is there to fear?

It can be seen that the relationship between Song Wangyan and Mencius is actually quite good.

However, in the past two years, due to the Song State's attack on Teng, some Confucian disciples felt unhappy, so that rumors of "reincarnation" have been spread one after another, smearing the reputation of Song Wangyan, and Song Wangyan is also looking at the face of Mencius, Hui'an and others, and the reputation of Confucianism, so he ignores those Confucian disciples who are open-mouthed.

But in the bottom of his heart, he naturally felt disgusted.

Since Meng Zhong was a disciple of Zhuangzi and was introduced by Hui An, Song Wangyan did not care about this son by his side, and led Hui Ang and Qiu He to discuss the current battle situation while walking in the school grounds.

The matter discussed was very simple, that is, Qi sent a "mediated" envoy, hoping that Song and Teng would stop the war, and at the same time privately promised Song some benefits, hoping to win Song to renegade on the alliance with Zhao and switch to Qi, helping Qi to contain Zhao - at least requiring Song to remain neutral.

And Qiu He, who is currently serving as the minister of state in the Song State, was sent by the Zhao State, and after learning of this, of course, he had to dissuade the Song State from defecting to the Qi State, otherwise, not only Zhao Wangyong's plan to prepare for the attack on Zhongshan State would be put on hold, but even the Zhao State would face the attack of the "Qi and Song" countries.

Therefore, Qiu He hoped that the Song State would eradicate the Teng State as soon as possible, after all, once the Teng State was destroyed, the Song State's forces could be deployed to the north side of the "South Lake (Weishan Lake)", posing an immeasurable threat to the Qi and Qi countries and the Xue Yi of the Qi State.

But what about Song Wangyan, although he was reluctant to give up the Teng State that was about to win, he also didn't want to tear his face with the Qi State, after all, the Song State was still very difficult to face the Qi State alone, let alone for the purpose of the Zhao State attacking the Zhongshan State.

Therefore, Song Wangyan hoped that Zhao would attack Zhongshan as soon as possible, so that Qi would face the two events of "Zhao Vazhong Zhongshan" and "Song Vateng" at the same time, even if they sent troops to help, Zhao and Song also shared the pressure, so as to avoid Song facing Qi alone.

Of course, Song Wangyan himself did not speak, he expressed this meaning through Hui An.

However, Qiu He was still trying to persuade him, and Song Wangyan might have been annoyed by listening to it, and suddenly asked Meng Zhongdao: "Boy, what do you think?" ”

Song Wangyan's original intention was to interrupt Qiu He's words, and besides, Meng Zhong was also a native of the Song Kingdom, and he wanted to speak for the Song Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, Meng Zhong said after thinking for a while: "Once in Dingtao, there were Zheng and Wang who did business together, and the two of them were always very harmonious and made the business very big, and then someone asked: How do you two get along in harmony?"

Zheng and Wang replied: I don't do anything that harms his interests, and he doesn't do anything that harms my interests, and fairly distributes the benefits and gains, so our cooperation will last for a long time. ”

Hui Ang heard this and nodded slightly.

And Song Wangyan glanced at Meng Zhong with a little surprise, and I have to say that what Meng Zhong said greatly exceeded his expectations.

However, he reacted quickly, and laughed after hearing this: "Yes, that's right, everything must be fair, only in this way will the cooperation between the two sides be long-lasting." …… Qiu He, what do you think? ”

Qiu He frowned slightly and glanced at Meng Zhong, because the other party was a disciple of Zhuangzi and Hui An's righteous brother, so it was naturally difficult to say anything, so he laughed twice and said: "How can it be compared with the major affairs of the country?" ”

Hearing this, Song Wang Yan snorted at Meng Zhong and asked, "Boy, what do you say?" ”

Meng Zhong said calmly: "Lao Tzu once said in the Tao Te Ching, "Governing a big country, if you cook a small fresh", can the matter of cooking be compared with governing the country? It can be seen that some truths can be generalized. ”

"Hmm......"

Song Wangyan pretended to groan, squinted and glanced at Qiu He, seeing that the latter was frowning as if he was meditating, and his heart was secretly happy.

And Hui Ang on the side, his eyes when he looked at Qiu He were completely mocking.

In Hui An's opinion, who is his newly recognized brother Meng Zhongna? That is Zhuangzi's disciple and Huizi's substitute disciple, who learned the knowledge of Taoism and Mingjia, and is one of the best debating academics in the world.

In addition to the irony in his heart, Hui Ang also glanced at Meng Zhong, and he felt that although he studied Taoism, Meng Zhong's "debate" was more inclined to Taoism, that is, to persuade people with reason, unlike famous scholars, who just used words to block people's mouths.

"It seems that Master Zhuang has really put a lot of effort into this."

Hui Ang thought to himself.

On the same day, due to Meng Zhong's disturbances, Qiu He finally failed to persuade Song Wangyan to attack Teng as soon as possible, and even failed to say his intention to "instigate Song to attack Xue Di" after that.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Meng Zhong, he just happened to say a few fair words, and he didn't favor the Song State because he was a Song person, and Qiu He didn't accuse him of anything.

In the afternoon of the same day, after returning to Hui An's mansion, Meng Zhong bid farewell to Hui Ang and prepared to return to the army.

However, at this moment, a servant from the palace suddenly came to report, saying that Song Wang Yan sent someone to invite Hui Ang to the palace for a banquet, and asked Hui Ang to bring Meng Zhong by name.

At that time, Hui Ang smiled and said, "Presumably, the king wants to reward you for today's things." ”

However, when Hui Ang said this, Song Wangyan was in the palace, holding a bamboo slip in his hand and reading it.

I saw that the bamboo slips wrote: Meng Zhong, Jing Bo Mengren, Zu Mengshu, Jiashi, died in Qi service; His father, Meng Qu, a soldier, died in the Wei service; Brother Meng Bo, a soldier, died in Teng Gong......

“……”

Song Wangyan slowly put away the bamboo slips, recalling the look in his eyes when he first saw Meng Zhong today, when the latter had secretly looked at him.

At first, he thought it was the prince's curious gaze on the monarch, but now, I am afraid that this is not the case.

"Do you want to see what kind of monarch caused your grandfather, father, and brother to die on the battlefield one after another?"

Muttering to himself, Song Wangyan sat at a low table, his hands and ten fingers crossed on his lips and chin, his eyes closed thoughtfully.