Zhuangzi followed behind Hui Shi and soon came to the Wei state. Bayi Chinese =≠=.≤8=1≤Z≥=.≤COM

Today's Wei State is very different from the Wei State a few years ago, but it is the same as the Song State many years ago. Because of the war, the population has decreased sharply, and there is a lot more wasteland in Wei, and there are many more dilapidated houses in the villages.

Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, Zhuangzi's heart was very touched. But he didn't say it, and he didn't bother to debate with Hui Shi. If you say what you feel, Hui Shi must argue with you, saying that there is a reason for this, and it should not be like this. Isn't this all nonsense? So! Zhuangzi was too lazy to speak, so as not to waste saliva.

The decline of the Wei State made King Wei Hui have no heart to sit in the Wei Palace, looking at the faces of the hereditary nobles who were officials all day long. When he saw these people, he was angry.

These hereditary nobles, regardless of whether the Wei State was defeated or not, were bent on how to get more money and how to pay less taxes. Such! They can live in peace.

So! King Wei Hui often does not go to the court to discuss matters, but! With a few personal guards "micro-service private interview", go to the people to visit the truth.

The current state of Wei is obviously defeated. But! There are quite a few officials who are afraid of being scolded by him for telling the truth, so! They all talk nonsense with their eyes open.

So! King Wei Hui can only go out for a walk in person, so that seeing is believing.

This day! He hid in the crowd, staring around.

Just as he was frowning, Hui Shi appeared in front of him. Hui Shi didn't see him, and walked straight by. Behind Hui Shi was followed by a middle-aged man in shabby clothes.

When King Wei Hui saw it, he immediately had a feeling! Who is this man? Isn't this person Zhuang Zhou Zhuangzi?

Oh, yes! Didn't I ask Hui Shi to invite Zhuangzi?

This is not? Hui Shi invited Zhuangzi?

Hey! This Zhuangzi? Why do you look so old? He should be about the same age as Hui Shi, right?

And also! The Zhuangzi I have seen before is not only young, but also not so shabby in terms of clothing.

See! His clothes were still patched.

See! His shoes were not new either, they were a pair of leather shoes made of tree bark. It may be that it was a journey, broken, and could not be worn, so it was tied with hemp silk.

Zhuangzi was a shoemaker, and he tied the soles of his shoes to the instep of his feet with hemp silk to keep the soles and uppers separated.

Seeing Zhuangzi's dress, King Wei Hui was surprised and angry.

He resented Hui Shi for not being able to do things like this, and since you asked you to invite Zhuangzi, why didn't you buy him a new set of clothes and a new pair of shoes? Although our Wei State is in decline, it is not so poor?

Again! We are inviting Zhuangzi to come to Wei as an official to assist the widow in governing the country?

"Sir!" King Wei Hui walked a few steps, picked up Zhuangzi, and asked, "Mr. He's evil?" ”

When Zhuangzi looked back, he was also shocked.

He didn't expect to meet King Wei Hui here.

Isn't that pretending?

Isn't this to cheat you out of more money? Dressed like this?

Zhuangzi thought that only in this way would the world know that he Zhuangzi was a poor ghost.

Pauper! It's his latest image!

He wants to be the image spokesperson of the poor ghost.

No! Not the image spokesperson of the poor ghost, but! The image spokesperson of this era!

This era is such an image! Poor!

Silk silk is only worn by a few people, and the vast number of people in the world are dressed like him.

Zhuangzi said: "It's poverty! Poor! It's not annoy! Poverty refers to material things, while exhaustion refers to the state of mind. Talented and virtuous people can't carry out their ideas and can't save the world. physical and mental exhaustion; Clothes are broken, shoes are torn, this is poverty, not exhaustion. ”

"Oh!" King Wei Hui nodded and asked, "Why is Sir so poor?" ”

Hui Shi heard someone talking behind him, turned around and came back, and saw that it was King Wei Hui, and he was so frightened that he couldn't do it. was about to report to King Wei Hui, but he saw Wei Hui Dynasty staring at him with a black face, and glaring at him fiercely.

"Zhuang Zhou's family has a wife and children, how can they not be poor?" Zhuangzi said, stretching out his hand and signaling. He had six children.

"My wife is pregnant again!"

"Six babies? Pregnant again? King Wei Hui also made a gesture and asked in disbelief.

I thought: Can this Zhuangzi and his wife really have children? As the king of a country, the widow doesn't have such great ability as him? There are queens and so many concubines in the widow's harem, how many sons and princesses have been born?

"King!" Hui Shi stepped forward and bowed his head, not daring to look at King Wei Hui's face.

"The widow asked you to do something? You? You see? You? King Wei Hui pointed to Zhuangzi's body and asked. That means: why don't you buy him a new set of clothes and a new pair of shoes?

"King!" Hui Shi said aggrievedly: "Your Majesty wants to buy new clothes and shoes for Zhuangzi, but he? He doesn't accept it, huh? ”

"Why doesn't he?" King Wei Hui shouted.

Hui Shi hurriedly explained: "Zhuangzi said that if you save this silver, you can buy more food. There are six babies at home, and they can't support them. You can still wear these clothes and shoes, so you don't need to buy them. ”

King Wei Hui looked at Zhuangzi in disbelief, meaning: Hui Shi did not lie?

Zhuangzi nodded.

King Wei Hui said: "With Mr. Hui's talent, he can support the people of the world, where will it be difficult to even feed his family?" ”

Zhuangzi said: "I was born at the wrong time! King!. ”

"Born at the wrong time?" King Wei Hui hurriedly said: "Didn't the widow let you come to Wei as an official a long time ago?" To assist the widows? You? ”

Zhuangzi said, "Great King! When I say I was born at the wrong time, I mean that I was born at the wrong time. How did I come to be born in these troubled times? ”

"Then you hurry up and come to Wei to be an official? Show off your talents, isn't it? King Wei Hui hurriedly said.

Zhuangzi said, "O king, have you not seen the jumping ape? They live in tall woods such as Nan, Zi, Yu, and Zhang, and jump freely by grabbing small branches. They are the masters there, and even the archers Yi and Fengmeng dare not underestimate them.

But when they live in dwarf shrubs such as spine, thorn, citrus aurantium, and wolf, they must not walk carefully. And! I also have to look left and right, fear in my heart, and tremble in my body; It's not that you tighten your body and become inflexible, but! The living environment is different, and it is not possible to fully display talents here.

Now that the Great Zhou is in decline, the princes are competing for hegemony, and the world is in chaos. This is born at the wrong time, the princes are not fighting for hegemony, and there is no place to live! ……”

Zhuangzi once again refused to come to Wei to be an official, believing that if the princes continued to compete for hegemony, they would not be able to govern the world well. What can we do if we govern the Wei State well? In this chaotic era of princely hegemony, no vassal state can become strong. When you become strong, others will worry about you competing for hegemony.

So! will find ways to weaken your overall national strength.

Let alone! A vassal state is really strong, even if he doesn't want to be hegemonic, he is forced to get involved in the war of hegemony.

In this troubled world, he didn't want to get involved in the war. So! He compares himself to an ape, he just wants to live in the forest, he doesn't want to come out to be an official. He just wants to be a free man, and he doesn't want to come out as an official. Because! Being an official can't save the world.

I was born at the wrong time, so! I can only be poor.