In the two years of enrollment, there are more than 4,000 scholars in the school, although everyone understands that the school is to teach after the completion of the school, but there are still many people who look forward to being able to get ahead, and in the future, they can become ministers and officials, and even if they are not good, they can also be officials. How can the reality be cruel, the king himself said that he can only be a village teacher, or a retainer, the future is clear at a glance, and there is no hope in life.

On that day, there were hundreds of people like Liu Ji who took off their robes and dropped out of school, and at least half of the remaining more than 3,000 people were absent-minded, but they had no way out and didn't know who to go to; The last half is dead-hearted, I can be admitted to the teacher school and feel that I have found to be ahead, I am estimated to starve to death in a few days after dropping out of school, whether I am a township teacher or a retainer, I can always have something to eat, why bother tossing again?

"I don't think I'm going to have a good talk with you." In the Ming Hall, after Xiong Jing came out of the Great Sima Mansion, he summoned Kong Qian, who was a teacher and a priest who was in despair, and Zuo Yin Mengzheng, who was almost crazy with the "Chicken Times".

"Please advise the King." After several tosses, Kong Qian was disheartened, he had no hope for the implementation of civil rule in the Chu State, but because of the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, he had to act like a courtier in front of Xiong Jing. The Meng Zhengyu beside him didn't speak at all, the king wanted to destroy the "Chicken Times", he felt that there was no need to speak with the king, this time he came by Zhao Huang and Song Yu.

"The official positions in the world are owned by the people. For example, in the case of justice, all the people have the heart of likes and dislikes, and they know good and evil, and they are based on 'deliberation and control, not punishment'. After the royal system, the law and punishment belong to the king, and what the king says is the law, and the meaning of defeat is the judgment, and it is ...... not to be false."

"The king wants to be ruled by pedestrians?" As soon as he said the Fa, Meng Zhengyu suddenly returned to normal and asked like this.

"Naturally, it is the rule of pedestrians, do you want to do the "Chicken Times"?" Xiong Jing smiled. "The Code of the Rooster, the code of the royal system, the law is mostly set by the king, is this the rule of man or the rule of law? Now that the state of Chu has changed, one person legislates or all the people legislate? Zuo Yinsi was convicted or Wan Min was convicted? ”

"The king's so-called all the people are noble." When the words are discussed at this level, there are very few people who can understand them. Kong Qian is one of them, and Meng Zhengyu is inferior to him.

"The clan is valued for military merits and bloodshed, if you don't respect the clan like this, should you respect the scholars?" Xiong Jing nodded slightly, he knew that Kong Qian was not as stupid as other sour Confucians. "The worst of a country's system is not respected by the princes and nobles, but by the powerful. Jiang Yi, the former fox fake tiger might, was sealed in Anling by King Xuan of the first monarch with just one sentence of 'willing to test Huangquan and mole ants', how many Chu soldiers and soldiers, bleeding to death, can not be knighted!

The state of Chu abolished the royal system and carried out the Ao system, the law was issued by the public, the punishment was discussed by the public, it was not expensive to shed blood, and it was not wise and skillful to eat Lu, how could it be? ”

It is the armor who sheds blood, the craftsmen who are wise and skillful, the agricultural merchants who pay the grain and taxes, and the scholars have little status to speak of. Such a social hierarchy was worse for Confucianism than for the Qin state, and the scholars of the Qin state could also be law officials, and the scholars of the Chu state should be punished for being officials. Kong Qian sighed: "Your lord, if you do this, the whole country will be killed, the culture will no longer exist, and the people will suffer." ”

"When the Ao system was practiced, the state of Chu was indeed uncivilized." Xiong Jing agreed, "Ran Zhaoqing came here, the so-called two things. ”

"Please, the king." Kong Qian sighed.

"First, there are many reckless people, even if they are not reckless, the children of the down-and-out clan have long been ignorant of etiquette. Kong Qing should go to the military academy to teach them, this teaching is not to teach them to be loyal to the king, but to teach them to discipline themselves; not to teach them to know kindness, but to teach them to observe propriety. ”

"The Great King......" Kong Qian wanted to laugh very much, "Since the Chu State is precious for bloodshed, why does it teach the etiquette of the scholars?" ”

"The gift of Confucius can be used, so as not to let the honorable man wander; Mencius's benevolence is really not advisable. If you do benevolence, you will receive mercy without merit, how can the establishment exist, and how can you stand up for humility? Therefore, they do not want Confucius to teach them etiquette. When Xiong Jing said this, he suddenly drew his saber and flicked it before saying: "The blade of the sword is the reputation of bloodshed, and the scabbard is the etiquette of Confucius." The sword of the Chu State still needs to be contained in a scabbard, so that the blade can be preserved and immortalized. ”

"The minister asks the king to abolish the system of killing people." What Xiong Jing said, Kong Qian understands, and it is precisely because he understands that he took the opportunity to abolish the system of honorable scholars.

"Honorable people kill people and don't die, which is the words of the common people. Among the honored people, those who violate the law and kill all die. Xiong Jing said in a deep voice. In the future, the honorable people have the law of the honorable people, the common people have the law of the common people, the honorable people are guilty, and the honorable people will discuss their crimes, and the common people will discuss their crimes. ”

"But the common people don't know." Kong Qian has no regrets.

"I don't want them to know." Xiong Jing smiled. "The people, those who are afraid of authority and not virtuous, if they do righteousness, they will be undisciplined and wait for an opportunity to cause trouble; If you kill, you will throw yourself to the ground and be convinced. Huaide is not afraid of the people of prestige, how dare the honorable people kill indiscriminately? If he kills indiscriminately, he will also die. Instead of killing, it is better to be Wilder. ”

"The minister knows, please say the two again." Kong Qian had some new hope in his heart.

"The two are for Baiyue." Xiong Jing got up and said. "My Chu State abolished the royal system and practiced the Ao system, what is the Ao system? It is not a pretense to think that the Ao system is the clan alliance system. There is no king, there is no country, the Western Zhou Dynasty was the first king Xiong Qu once called the king, but this king only exists in the tongue, not the king of the state, and there is no royal system in the country. Only the first king Wu called the king the true king, and at that time the state of Chu became a kingship and could be called a country.

The state of Chu does not practice the royal system, and the political system should be the same as that of Baiyue. Since it is the same as Baiyue, why don't the Chuyue clan form an alliance with it? ”

The words of the alliance shocked Kong Qian and Meng Zhengyu. This proposal was whimsical at first, but when I thought about it, it felt natural. They reacted like this, and Xiong Jing looked at Zhong Ding not far away. The new policy of the state of Chu, abolishing the royal system and implementing the Ao system, is essentially to dissolve the country, and then implement the clan alliance system, which goes back to the national political system before King Wu of Chu.

This system, later in later theory, was called military democracy, and it was a form of government in the process from the disintegration of the primitive commune to the emergence of the state. Such a system has been applied by any nation, and 'all cultured nations have experienced their own heroic age in this period) (Selected Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 4, p159)'. The heroes of this era later became kings, and eventually established monarchies and states.

It is impossible to know when and who will become the leader of the clan alliance, but it is undoubtedly King Wu who completes the final kick of the clan tribe to the country. King Wu was tough and warlike, and his reign lasted for 50 years, and under the accumulation of military merits, the rest of the clans were suppressed, and the royal system was officially formed here. The history after King Wu is the history of the rise of the royal system and the decline of the clan, if the light of the Ao clan is actually the last echo of the clan alliance system, once the Ao clan is defeated, the Chu State will enter the era of monarchy.

In the same way, once all the people of the generation at the time of the defeat of the Ao clan died, the state of Chu became devastated, and in the history after that, there was no real hero in the state of Chu, because the era of heroes was over, and there could only be one hero in the state of Chu, and that was the king of Chu.

In the era of King Wen, King Wen was not allowed to return to the capital because of his defeat, and finally died outside the capital; In the era of the Gongwang after King Zhuang, on the night of the Battle of Yanling, the Gongwang fled in horror because the commander was drunk and unconscious. If it was the era before King Wen, he should have been abandoned by the clan and the countrymen, and the monarch killers would come one after another, but there would be no monarchicide. Fortunately, the king of the communist is not a person who does not know it, he still remembered the defeat of the battle of Yanling before he died, and the nickname he gave himself was either 'spirit' or 'li', revealing his fifteen-year-long remorse, ironically the ministers forgot the heroic era and brave tradition of the Chu people earlier than him, and they went against his will, and the nickname was not 'spirit' and 'li', but 'gong'.

Thinking of the past of the Chu people and the poor Gongwang, Xiong Jing barely came back to his senses, and unconsciously let out a long sigh - a big tree was cut down, sawed and built into a house, and after a few hundred years, the house was demolished and planted again, can it still survive again?

"The king wants to merge with Baiyue?" When Xiong Jing came out of his mind, Kong Qian and Meng Zhengyu glanced at each other, and both of them were a little excited. Baiyue is the real barbarian, if you can educate Baiyue, it is a great achievement.

"Why do you say yes?" Xiong Jing said unhappily, "The Chu State is already a clan, and Baiyue is also a clan tribe, since this is the case, why can't they be united?" Since it is united, Baiyue should practice the Chu system, and the barbaric and uneducated Baiyue warriors should also know etiquette and understand etiquette. With the honorable soldiers, it is not to teach them how to be faithful to the king, but to teach them how to discipline themselves. ”

"Kong Qing, is this feasible?" After a pause, let Kong Qian understand what he meant, Xiong Jing asked.

"It's possible, it's feasible." Kong Qian replied again and again. "However, in the land of Baiyue, miasma is rampant......"

"They will send their own armor soldiers into Yingdu to be taught." Xiong Jing interrupted. Baiyue's miasma will dissipate in autumn and winter, but this is Baiyue's secret, and he can't tell others.

"The minister is not in his position, and he does not seek his government......" Kong Qian picked it up again, he wanted to be an official.

"The official position of the Qing will be determined by the court, and if you don't want to urge Ling Yin, you won't lose your identity as a member of the Kong family." Xiong Jing was unimpressed. After Kong Qian left, he looked at Meng Zhengyu, who was still holding the book of "The Book of Chickens", and said: "The country has changed, and the law has to change. The law of people varies from clan to clan, and their crimes are discussed by the clan, and are no longer judged by Zuo Yinfu. Zuo Yin's Mansion can guide and suggest, if the clan does not obey, it has no right to interfere. ”

"Dare to ask the king, if there is no law, how can his sins be discussed?" Meng Zhengyu was at a loss.

"If they say they are guilty, they are guilty, and if they say they are innocent, they are innocent." Xiong Jing said: "The law is unwritten, and it is made according to customs. ”

"The people are vulgar...... Meng Zhengyu argued, which made Xiong Jing wonder if he was going to raise the bar or debate.

"The wickedness of the people should be carefully consulted with the people, not just by decree to rule the law." Xiong Jing felt that talking to him about this was probably playing the piano to a cow, and what he had in his head was probably all written law. "You go back to the house, go back and see how my Chu State acted as a law and how to convict before King Wu, and I'll see you again after reading it."