It is not too difficult to govern a country, but it is very difficult to ensure the inheritance of a tribe or nation. The most difficult thing in governing a country is the question of succession, but to ensure the inheritance of a nation, there are many aspects to consider.

If a nation is not brave, it is only a matter of time before it is enslaved and destroyed by foreign races, and it is precisely because of this experience that I can write a poem like "Fighting" (if I live in an era of war, others rush to the front line, I can only shout and cheer on the side); If a nation does not have its own speculative tradition and metaphysical thinking, it is only a matter of time before it is assimilated and dissolved by other races.

Although Xiong Jing kept saying 'I am a barbarian' and did not practice the Zhou system but the Ao system, in fact, the Chu people were bred by Chinese culture, and there is no need to change this. Without such publicity, there is no way to change the political system of the Chu State.

It's just that bravery can be awakened, but the tradition of speculation needs to be cultivated little by little. This had to make Xiong Jing think of Gongsun Long's writings again, although he couldn't describe them accurately and appropriately, he could feel the language world that Gongsun Long was pursuing.

How many things in the world can exist independently of the material world? Very little, very little.

It is well known that numbers can exist independently of the material world. Numbers do not need matter, they are an independent and self-consistent being, and their charm makes Archimedes still painstakingly calculate when he is executed, 'he cannot leave the world with incomplete formulas';

Metaphysical rational logic is another independent and self-consistent existence, which can not only exist independently of the material world, but also distort human cognition of the material world through rational logic. The most obvious example is the lawyer's argument, the criminal is obviously guilty, but he can use logical facts to prove the criminal's innocence without fail, creating a completely correct false world;

In the end, life itself may remain independent of the material world. Survival and existence are two different things, just as mating and having sex are two different things. The former is the friction of flesh and flesh, and the latter is the mingling of spirit and spirit. This is a self-consistent existence outside the independent material world, just like the name of Gongsun Long, the number of Archimedes, and the innocence of lawyers, all of which can construct a completely correct false world out of thin air.

No matter how advanced the technology is, no matter how sophisticated the weapons are, the soldiers are brave, they will still be destroyed after all. Because they depend on the material world to exist, but the material world is always changing. The self-consistent existence outside the material world is eternal and solidified, and the metaphysical system established thousands of years ago can still be seen and touched vividly thousands of years later, its height is the height of a nation, and its existence is the existence of a nation.

Thinking of this, Xiong Jing couldn't help but feel that he was at the end of a great era again. After two thousand years of greatness, those who are gradually and gradually swallowed up by foreign civilizations can only look up, and even if they look up, they still can't understand it.

They may have forgotten that they had devoured the Xianbei people, the Jurchens, the Mongols, and the Manchus by virtue of their existence outside the independent material world, so they turned a blind eye to the fact that they were being devoured. Of course, it is also possible that it is the rule of traitors for 2,000 years, and after the disappearance of those who write books and talk and those who pretend to be good at talking, they are no longer able to create a material world that is higher than that of foreign civilizations, and can only sit and wait for the fate of being devoured.

If, if you can't change the fate of the present, then you must change the fate of 2,000 years later. Xiong Jing thought so, at this time it was very quiet in the main bed, and the cool breeze of early summer blew in from outside the door, blowing the curtains in the Ming Hall slowly fluttering. Chang Jiang stood quietly, after so many years, he knew that the king could not be disturbed at this time, maybe the king was thinking about something whimsical, he thought like this.

"What else is going on today?" After a long time, Xiong Jing asked.

"Zhu Ao and Xiang Hou want to meet the king to discuss horse breeding and navigation." Chang Jiang agreed, this is Xiong Jing's schedule.

"What else?" Xiong Jing asked again, both of which are big things.

"There is also Gong Yin Dao, he wants to meet with the king, discuss, discuss the matter of the Thunder God's weapon. Also," Chang Jiang lifted the Gong Yin knife again, "...... The thing of building a boat, the thing of an exhaler. ”

"Yes." Xiong Jing nodded. Sulfur finally arrived, not much, but at least it was possible to test gunpowder. Perhaps Zaofu had already built two twelve-pounder field guns and flintlock pistols according to his drawings. Boat building is also a big deal, there are not many boats launched this year, but there are many boats launched next year. The steam engine is a steam engine, and the craftsmen don't know what steam is, they only know that this machine always spits out rustic gas when it moves, so it is called a steam engine. Because of the availability of boring machines, the construction of a house that reaches the level of a watt steam engine does not only use a steam engine to pump water, it can also do other work -

Gear involute Xiong Jing really can't be counted, but without gear involute there is no gear? Of course not. The history of gears is much older than the history of gear involutes, just as the history of human eating is much older than the history of chopsticks. Zaofu had bronze ball bearings, had primitive gears, and the steam engine could be used in many ways.

"There is also a military academy sacrificial wine, and Lu Yangjun wants to meet the king." Chang Jiang talked about the military academy, "Lu Yangjun asked when the king would be able to arrive at the military academy. ”

"Military Academy ......" Xiong Jing scratched his head. The military academy opened last year, and when the food was released this year, Xiong Jing once promised Lu Yangjun to sit and discuss the Tao for the military academy students, but he kept dragging it out, and he didn't know what to talk about with the military academy's honorable men.

"Wei Jia, the envoy of Zhao, asked to see him, saying that King Zhao had given the king of Xiangzhou as a food town." Chang Jiang finally talked about Zhao Envoy.

"Zhao Guo is not well-intentioned." Xiong Jing sighed. More and more information from Zhibisi showed that the Qin State was about to launch a war against the Zhao State. Attacking Zhao is a realistic consideration, since the Chu State has been reinstated, then the Zhao State cannot be reinstated, if the Zhao State is reinstated, as soon as Chu and Zhao form an alliance and then pull the Qi State, it will not be so easy for the Qin State to dominate the world.

"The King?" Chang Jiang said so many arrangements, and he didn't know if Xiong Jing would see or not. If so, who will be the seer?

"Zhu Ao, and Xiang Hou." Xiong Jing Road. Xiang Yan was sealed Hou last year and sealed in Xiang County. This seal is different from the contracting of the Zhu clan and the sealing of the honorable scholars, Xiang County is already the private property of the Xiang family, and it is the feudal state of the independent Chu State, and the property rights are very clear. Another general, Lian Po, was also sealed, and he was sealed in the northern city of Daliang. If Chu Wei did not renew the Lend-Lease Alliance after twenty-five years, then Beicheng would be recovered by Wei.

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"Oh, Mazda! Oh, great strongman!

When I keep the virtue of goodness in your heavenly house, follow the sincere Holy Spirit, and never forget prayer, reverence, and diligence, that you may protect it with eternal strength.

Whoever falls at the feet of an evil tyrant is a man of bad character, filthy language, and a wrongdoer! At the end of the world, the spirits of other sinners will receive the hypocrites with filthy food. They will surely fall into hell, the cave of lies......"

In the Mulingguan Post House, the expelled envoy Ganu chanted the scriptures semi-devoutly, hoping to obtain the blessing of the god of light, and cursed the hypocrite, Hu Tansuozhi. That day, when Hu Tanshao went to bed again at the post house, Canu saw the wooden box in his arms. He didn't tell him about it, because he was suddenly ill.

His illness was sudden. On the night when he was driven out of Yingdu and boarded the Pawn Wing War Boat, he was sweating profusely, and he could no longer get up in the morning to pray normally. When the Winged Warboat sent them to Muling Pass after three days of rowing, the horsemen who carried them ashore knew that they had lost consciousness, even though Ganu had recited the Sutra of Light countless times.

"Hao, Haoma, Haoma......" shouted softly in a daze.

"What? What do you want? Canu hurriedly approached and asked.

"Haoma, Haoma......" the bowl rider shouted as he struggled with all his strength, but the sound was like a mosquito's chirp. Fortunately, Canu half understood, and he hesitated for a second, then opened the wooden box and squeezed the hemp juice for him.

"Oh, Ahura Mazda!" The effects of the medicine soon took effect, and Ben Bo Rider finally uttered a complete sentence. He reluctantly worshiped the fire burning in the room, and then looked at Canu and said, "Canu and half, my parishioners, can you help me?" ”

Whenever the congregation wants to meet Mazda, they always drink a dime of Haoma juice to stimulate their last potential. Canu's eyes were a little moist, and he could not have imagined that the wise, holy Honpoon would die before his eyes.

"Yes," he forced a smile. "I swear in the name of Ahura Mazda to do everything you want me to do."

"Okay." Ben Bo Qizhi also laughed strongly, and he immediately said: "Tell Kang Motian everything that happened to us in Chuni, and don't hide a single thing. Chuni is different from any other eastern country, the king of Chuni knows almost everything, but Chuni's religion is very primitive, they also worship fire, and the main god is Mithras (the sun god). ”

When the Honpo rider said, 'What they worship is also fire,' the flame kept shining brightly. During the two months of waiting for Xiong Jing to return to the capital, he observed the sacrifices of the witches of the Chu State from the newspapers and from the court before the ancestral temple Sheji, and what surprised him the most was that the Chuni people were also a fire-worshipping people, and they claimed to be the descendants of the fire god Zhurong, which gave him an idea:

"If possible, there should be a mission in Chuni so that all Chuni people serve Ahura Mazda. It can even be told that the Chuni religion was also inspired by Ahura Mazda.

Don't worry about the king of Chuni, the king cannot rule over everything of his subjects, especially faith. As long as the Chuni believe that their presiding god is one of the gods of Ahura, they will believe in light. As long as we can preach like the saints of our ancestors, Mazda will be able to come down to this land......

When one-fifth of the Chuni believe in the light, the king of Chuni will be helpless. Perhaps, the Chuni will be our hope for freeing ourselves from the rule of the Mahatula......"

Opposite the Macedonian army, the Sogdianas were powerless; In the face of the Greek gods and Greek philosophy, just as Alexander did not really bother with the Indian wise men who stamped his feet in front of him, the Greeks who ruled Sogdiana had no reverence for Zoroastrianism, and even despised this primitive and backward religion.

Ruled by the disgrace of the nobler Westerners, in the East, which had always thought that he was more inferior than himself, and unable to recover the last bit of self-esteem, the spirit of this bowl was completely broken, and he was going to die. But before he died, he sensed that he might be able to use the power of the Chuni to get rid of the Greeks and free the Sogdianas again, if the Chuni were really noble and the king of Chuni could really conquer the whole world.