"The old and decrepit Five Virtues have always been said, and it was originally prepared for King Qi Min and King Yan Zhao......"

On the carriage, the gray-haired Zou Yan sighed and talked about the past with his nephew Zou Zheng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was more than 20 years ago, in the thirteenth year of King Min of Qi (288 BC), the two rivals of King Ji of Qin and King Min of Qi suddenly put aside their suspicions, exchanged states with each other, and agreed to jointly call the emperor, Qin Wangji was the Western Emperor, and King Qi Min was the Eastern Emperor!

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were endless people who claimed to be kings, but it was unheard of to be called emperors. Although King Qi Min soon gave up being emperor under Su Qin's persuasion, the idea of becoming emperor again had been lingering in his mind.

King Min of Qi was ambitious and wanted to fulfill his father, King Xuan of Qi's ambition to "conquer Qin and Chu, visit China and raise the four Yi". Kicking away the old Zhou Dynasty and becoming the Eastern Emperor who surpasses ordinary kings is equivalent to changing the dynasty, and many institutional changes will definitely have to be made at that time.

In order to cater to King Min of Qi, Jixia Xuegong, as the official adviser of the Qi State, was also indispensable to run for the future imperial movement.

At that time, the gentlemen of Jixia showed their abilities, first Confucianism wrote a book called "Zhou Guan" in the name of the Duke of Zhou, dedicated to King Min of Qi, as a reference for the new official system of the Eastern Emperor's court. As a representative of the Yin and Yang family, Zou Yan was not to be outdone, so he put forward the theory of five virtues to find a theoretical basis for King Min of Qi to be the emperor and replace the Zhou Dynasty......

However, the good times did not last long, and before these theories could be put into practice, King Qi Min rebelled and left one after another because of his perverse behavior.

There was a scholar named Hu Yu in Linzi, the capital of Qi, who bluntly criticized the negligence of King Min of Qi and was killed by King Min on the execution ground of Tanqu, and since then the people no longer obey King Min in their hearts; There is a man named Chen Ju in the clan of Qi State, who was also executed by King Min outside the East City Gate because of his outspokenness about state affairs, and the clan of Qi State has since been separated from King Min.

Zou Yan couldn't bear it anymore, and heard that King Yan Zhao was looking for talents and reusing Guo Kui and Le Yi, so he decided that King Yan Zhao was the master of his claim, so he defected to Yan without hesitation.

His Five Virtues Theory, which did not come in handy when he was in the Qi Kingdom, was slightly modified and used in the Yan Kingdom.

Zou Yan boldly proposed that dynasties are more prone to rise and fall, and it is the five elements that play a cyclical operation in them. The Yellow Emperor and other five emperors were Tude in the era, Mude in the Xia Dynasty, Jinde in the Shang Dynasty, and Huode in the Zhou Dynasty. Obviously, there is a relationship between the dynasty that replaced it and the previous dynasty that "the five elements are mutually restrictive". Then push it down further, and the new dynasty that replaced the declining Zhou Tianzi must be "water virtue......

His rhetoric is completely tailor-made for Yan Guo! Because Yan is located in the north, the north belongs to water, which just corresponds to water virtue!

At that time, King Yan Zhao gathered the world's talents and occupied almost the entire territory of Qi, and the three most powerful countries in the world were Qin, Zhao, and Yan, and even Su Qin proposed to make Qin the Western Emperor, Zhao the Middle Emperor, and Yan the Northern Emperor.

Although the idea of the three emperors came to an end with Su Qin being split by a car in Linzi, but the country of Yan was so strong, it was inevitable that King Yan Zhao would not have ambitions, so Zou Yan's doctrine was in his arms, and he immediately greeted Zou Yan with a broom sweeping the ground, built a stone palace to invite him to give lectures, and worshipped him as a teacher......

Looking back at this moment, it was the most glorious time in Zou Yan's life, and at that time, he was also full of hope that Yan Guo could dominate the world.

Zou Yan sighed again: "It's a pity, King Zhao died early, and his son King Hui began to repeat the mistakes of King Min of Qi's defeat, suspicious of Le Yi, appointed horsemen, lost Qi land, and imprisoned Zhongliang......"

King Yan Hui did not have his father's ambition and did not value Zou Yan, plus some villains made trouble, so Zou Yan was arrested. At that time, Zou Yan was very aggrieved and cried in the prison, it was summer, but it was snowing heavily. Zou Yan was imprisoned, and many people were upset, coupled with this strange scene, so everyone pleaded for Zou Yan. Seeing this, King Yan Hui had no choice but to release Zou Yan......

Although he survived, Zou Yan was already disappointed in the Yan Kingdom, and in the snowfall in June, he left the Yan Kingdom with his disciples and nephews in discouragement, and began a journey around the world.

Originally, I still wanted to be able to meet one or two Ming monarchs, and continued to peddle my own ideas, but who expected to look at it, most of the kings of the world are faint monarchs, they are extravagant, do not talk about virtue, and disaster Li Shu, even if there are one or two virtuous people, they will die quickly, and the descendants will not be good, and people will die.

Zou Yan was indignant after repeated frustrations, he felt that King Qi Min and King Yan Hui were mediocre and misguided the country, Zou Yan learned from the pain, so he added another stroke to the five virtues, expanding it to more than 100,000 words, inheriting the records of disasters in "Hong Fan" and "Spring and Autumn", and even the concept of heavenly punishment in the "Book of Ink", believing that the monarch's attitude towards governance can affect the change of weather......

"The disaster of drought and flood is the response of politics and religion. The gentleman is wise and virtuous, and the wind and rain are smooth. ”

Zou Yan's purpose is no longer to use the five elements of yin and yang to explain the composition of this universe, but to use them as the theoretical basis for the five virtues, so that the monarch will have a fear mentality, so as to restrain perverse behavior......

For a while, all the ministers in the world were using Zou Yan's theory to exhort the king to cultivate virtue, and Zou Yan's reputation became louder again, and he was once again invited back by Qi Wang Tian Fazhang to make him a national elder.

Zou Yan has no interest in academics, and he is not even willing to fight for the sacrificial wine of the Xue Palace, he thought that the second half of his life would be spent peacefully in his hometown, but who expected to visit Anping Jun's Mansion today, and happened to meet Chang'an Jun, the proton of Zhao State.

This son is indeed as his nephew said, he is very smart, and the "three states of matter" is unique, which makes Zou Yan very surprised, but something is wrong in the back, Chang'an Jun peels off the mysterious rainfall cause and analyzes it thoroughly, which makes Zou Yan afraid!

That's right, it's fear!

"Confucius wrote "Spring and Autumn" and the rebellious ministers and thieves are afraid, but if someone publicly says that most of the things contained in the Spring and Autumn Period are Confucius's personal opinions, or even not facts at all, will there be rebellious ministers and thieves afraid?"

Zou Yan took this matter very seriously.

In the same way, if thunder, rain and dew, drought and floods are all said to be natural phenomena and accepted by the kings and generals, then Zou Yan's "five virtues have always been different" and "natural and man-made disasters" that have been peddled for more than ten years will not become a big joke!

In the past thirty or forty years, Zou Yan has experienced several failed admissions, and now the theory of the five virtues has gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and accepted by the monarchs of various countries, and their Yin and Yang family has also relied on this to become more and more prominent scholars of the Qi State, and he himself has even been invited by the King of Qin, how can he give up halfway because of the nonsense of a proton of the Zhao State?

So Zou Yan straightened his face and said to Zou Zheng: "Although Chang'an Jun kept saying that he came up with the yin and yang changes of the three states of matter based on the old Yin and Yang Five Elements Theory, in fact, this statement has always been contrary to the old five virtues!" Rain, dew and thunder are originally heavenly things, and they try to explain it with human wisdom, abandoning the role of heaven's will and people's hearts, which is really arrogant! ”

Zou Yan's impression of Chang'anjun suddenly became extremely bad, Zou Zheng broke out in a cold sweat, and he didn't know how things could have come to this point, so he said sneeringly: "Actually, Chang'anjun's words are not completely unreasonable......

"Old decay doesn't care whether what he says is reasonable or not, whether it is true or not."

Zou Yan is very cold, for him, the theory of the five elements of yin and yang is to serve his five virtues and always serve the political theory, as for the facts? Unimportant! What Chang Anjun is talking about today can dig up his roots and kill him!

"If this statement is dispersed, it will definitely be detrimental to our faction......" But Zou Yan tried to get Chang Anjun to give up the "fallacy", but was politely refused, this son looked respectful and harmless, but he was extremely resolute......

After thinking about it, Zou Yan made up his mind: "You go and tell the disciples and protégés in the school palace that anyone who holds this theory is the enemy of our generation, and you can beat the drum!" ”

He thought coldly: "I want to see if I want to see if there are many people who believe in my Zou Yan or a weak crown!" ”