The dispute between ghosts and gods involves the dispute over regional customs, and it is also a run-in dispute between the new and old military officials in the army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Gan Ling, Ma Lin, Yan Xing and others did not necessarily agree with the decision to use troops in the Niu Auxiliary Army and consult Wu Bu ghosts and gods in everything, but Xu Huang's sentence just now, "This Qiang Hu custom, how can it be a way to win" stirred the nerves of Gan Ling and other cool people.

In Liangzhou, Hu and Han live together, there are many Qiang-Hu sinicization, and there are not a few Han people living in the border areas who are contaminated with Hu Feng, but they are also Han people, and they are Liangzhou people, but they are extremely disgusted by the Central Plains people who regard them as half-Hu and half-Han or even Qianghu people, and the difference between the customs of Liangzhou and Zhongyuan Prefecture is like a ravine, faintly cutting off the exchanges between them who are also Han people.

This is also why every time there is a war in Liangzhou, above the court, there will often be a theory of abandoning Liangzhou, and the people of Liangzhou, whether Qianghu or Han are strong, have a very low sense of belonging to the Han court.

Xu Huang is a native of Hedong, the land of Hedong, in the Warring States period, was very early to incorporate into a piece of territory of Qin, Qin's law of criminal names spread in the land of Hedong, Han inherited the Qin system, with the king, the way of hegemony and rule the world, the atmosphere of Legalism in Hedong is still strong.

"Goshawk" Zhidu, "to the eagle strikes Mao Zhi as the rule" of righteousness, "dare to doubt" Xianxuan, these famous former Han cool officials are Hedong people, although Confucianism is prosperous in this dynasty, and the study of the weft is prevalent, but the way of criminal law in the land of Hedong is still handed down, many Hedong scholars such as Hedong Wei are also Confucianism double cultivation, there is a family tradition of criminal name learning.

Xu Huang served as a county government official, and also slightly dabbled in the Confucian classics and the Legalist art of criminal names, Confucianism followed the attitude of "respecting and staying away" towards ghosts and gods, while Legalism made a clear attitude against superstitious witches and ghosts, and advocated that "those who are engaged in the principle of marriage cannot succeed." ”

Therefore, when Xu Huang faced the criticism of Ma Lin and Gan Ling, he did not retreat, and said bluntly:

"The rites in the army, the sacrificial society, the pulling of the society, the provocation of the drum, and the blessing all have rules to follow, and Huang has no objections, but this witch and woman's words, how can they be used for military decision-making, and I can't agree with it, as for the three generations of antiquity, the age is long, how can it be purely based on the old news and the law is ancient?"

Seeing that Yan Xing also wanted to speak out and debate, Xu Huang also said:

"I heard that when the Warring States were fighting for power, Yan and Zhao attacked together, Yan Guo's wizard turtle Bu several times, all of them were auspicious, Yan army was attacking Zhao in a big way, and when Zhao's army went out, it was also turtle Bu Zhaoji, the result was that Zhao Shengyan was defeated, if there is really the power of witches and ghosts, could it be that the spirit turtle of Yan country is not as good as the spirit turtle of Zhao country?"

"Another example is the Yue Wang Goujian, the customs of the Yue people, the good ghosts and gods Wu Bu, the war with livestock, prisoners of war to sacrifice the heavens and the earth ghosts and gods, what is the result, the defeat of the country, sitting in the mountain of Huiji, humiliated in the Wu Palace, to if he returns to the country and abandons the turtle, the Ming decree and the pro-virtuous ministers, the birth and gathering lessons, what is the result, the husband is sent to capture, and swallows Wu. It can be seen that the ghosts and gods of Guice are not enough to win, and the left and right are not enough to fight. However, it is foolish. ”

Xu Huang was both civil and military, citing the old events of Yan Zhao and Wu Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the discussion was reasonable and well-founded, Yan Xing was also silent for a while, Ma Lin wanted to refute, but he couldn't give a more convincing example, so he could only give up and look at Yan Xing instead.

Yan Xing, who was at the top, sat like a mountain, quietly watching the debate between the new and old military officials in the army about ghosts, gods and witches. He promoted Xu Huang to an important position in the Houtun team rate, naturally hoping that he could convince the public, and it was particularly necessary for him to show his skills in front of Ma Lin and Gan Ling at the right time, and the courage could be seen from his solitary rescue of people.

It's just that this scene can't be too stiff, Xu Huang is no better than Zhou Liang, and using Ma Lin and others to give Zhou Liang a moderate beating, which is conducive to his ability to work in peace. And if there is a gap between Xu Huang and everyone due to controversy, it will add to the snake and spoil the calculation in Yan Xing's heart.

Therefore, at this time, it is time for Yan Xing to make a statement. Yan Xing also doesn't believe in turtles and ghosts, but how can the times be like this, even in the later generations, the theory of ghosts and gods will not disappear with the rise of ism, after all, the secret of life and death has never been able to crack since ancient times, and the fear of death, as long as it is a person, he is inevitable.

In the army, it is necessary to prohibit the matter of witchcraft, and at special times, it is necessary to help it. Superstition is not good, and it is not appropriate to completely abandon it, and later generations such as Meng Guan of the Jin Dynasty, Wang Shichong of the Sui Dynasty, and Di Qing of the Song Dynasty have all used this kind of witch and ghost theory to boost the morale of the army and achieve a great victory.

So Yan Xing thought seriously for a while before he slowly opened his mouth to solve the game.

"There is a saying in "Liutao", 'You will know the way of heaven, geography, and personnel.'" , "Sun Bin Art of War" also said that "the time, the place, and the people, the three are not allowed, although there is a central victory", and someone once said that "a general, who does not know astronomy, does not know the geographical advantages, does not know the strange door, does not know the yin and yang, does not look at the formation map, does not know the strength of the army, is a mediocre talent". The art of Qimen Yin and Yang is unpredictable and incomprehensible, so among the soldiers, there is also a branch, called the Yin and Yang family. ”

"Those who are soldiers of the Yin and Yang family, go with the times, push the punishment virtue, fight with the fight, because of the five victories, fake ghosts and gods and help. There are five categories of subdivisions: soldiers, turtle signs, wind horns, criminal virtues, and soldiers, although military affairs are personnel, but the art of using soldiers is not without one or two places to learn from. ”

Hearing Yan Xing say this, Ma Lin, Gan Ling, Yan Xing and the others nodded hurriedly, and Xu Huang thought about the deep meaning in Yan Xing's words before he nodded.

He still knows some of the schools of the Yin and Yang family.

In the former Han Dynasty, although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", he did not "burn poetry and books and clarify laws" like the Qin Dynasty, and adopted the extreme proposition of banning a hundred schools, which also benefited from the good tradition of cultural tolerance left behind at the time of Wenjing.

Although the other schools of the Confucian family, because Emperor Wu regarded the familiarity of the Confucian classics as the main condition for being an official and regarded Confucianism as an official academic, all of them, who were not scholars outside the Five Classics, were disqualified from serving as scholars. However, the academic thought of the Han Empire still followed the path of "broadening the road of art and extending the learning of a hundred ends", which also allowed other schools of thought to continue to develop.

Among them, the doctrine of the military family is included.

By the time of Emperor Cheng of the former Han Dynasty, the "Book of Seven Strategies: Book of Soldiers" recorded by Ren Hong, an infantry captain, had already included many works of military schools, and the Yin and Yang family of soldiers was one of them.

In the states and counties of the empire, there were many branches of the military doctrine, so that on the eve of the battle of Kunyang, this Wang Mang was able to gather a total of hundreds of people from 63 families of the art of war from all over the world to serve as military officials for his hundreds of thousands of troops.

Among these hundreds of military officials, there are naturally those who specialize in studying the book of soldiers.

Yan Xing, who sat at the top, combined the views of the two worlds, slowly explained the development process of the Bing Yin and Yang family, and demonstrated the example and rationality of the combination of the Bing family and the Yin and Yang family. Seeing that everyone kept nodding their heads, Yan Xing smiled slightly, and then changed his words, and talked about the superstitious witch divination in the army at the moment.

"However, although the soldiers of the Yin and Yang family are good at soldiers, turtle zhaozhan, wind horn, criminal virtue, and army expansion, although they are useful, they are not the decisive factors in determining the war, Mencius said, 'The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people', in the final analysis, the factor that determines the outcome of the war is the people, not the gods and ghosts!"

"In "Liutao", it was also said that there are nine things for the detainees, 'If the law does not work, it will be infringed; There is no virtue and the number of the sun and the moon is used; does not obey the strength or weakness of the enemy, fortunately in the way of heaven, without wisdom and waiting for the atmosphere; Less courage and hope for heavenly blessings; Returning to the enemy without knowing the terrain; Cowardly dare to strike and wait for the turtle; Soldiers do not recruit ghosts and gods; Set up an ambush and let it go against the road.'" All heavenly ghosts and gods, do not see them, do not hear them, cannot ask for them, cannot cure victory or defeat, cannot control death and life, so they will be lawless. ”

Speaking of which, Yan Xing had already explained the dialectical view that he understood that the power of witches, ghosts, and gods could be relied on and could not be relied on, and it was also worthy of this situation.

Seeing that everyone was contemplative and had their own thoughts, Yan Xing also stopped talking, and did not say the following words, facts speak louder than words, since Niu Fu is so dependent on worshipping Wubu ghosts and gods, then the next battle also just confirms whether the ghosts and gods he worships really have the divine power to determine the battle situation.