"Teacher, on this trip to the Song Kingdom, you have lost weight." Hao Ren has always felt that he is not a person who cares very much, but now he feels that he has changed a lot, and he feels a little unbearable when he sees Hao Jing lose so much weight that his cheeks are a little deflated.

Hao Jing didn't care about his body. After listening to the words of his apprentice, Hao Jing sighed: "I went to the Song Kingdom this time, and after seeing Zhao Jiaren, I realized that the Confucianism of the Song Kingdom was about to be destroyed. That Zhao Jiaren seems to be a Confucian, but he is more like a vertical and horizontal family, a miscellaneous scholar. ”

After listening to the teacher's words, Hao Ren hurriedly poured tea for the teacher. This is the teacher Hao Jing he knows, Hao Jing who can do anything for the sake of Confucianism.

Hao Jing picked up the teacup and took a sip, then put down the teacup heavily and asked Hao Ren, "Isn't the Great Khan ready to fight the Song Dynasty again?" ”

"Hmm." Hao Ren nodded and replied. The Great Khan actually still has the intention of cutting down the Song, but the boss of Boyan seems to have no intention of doing it now, and Hao Ren himself has the same idea. If the Song army relied on firearms to overwhelm the Mongol army, Hao Ren was probably more unconvinced. Mongolia is also now stepping up its research on firearms, with a large number of craftsmen deployed in this area.

However, thinking of the spear array under the city of Guidefu, and the pikemen of the Song army who pounced on the long-range soldiers of the Mongol army with firearms, Hao Ren felt that his scalp was numb. As a thousand households of the water army, he will soon be promoted to ten thousand households of the water army. As far as Hao Ren's understanding of artillery is concerned, when the artillery is bombarded, the army can steadily retreat. Really let the artillery bombard for an hour, at most a thousand casualties.

Pikemen are different. Thousands of pikemen rushed forward with four-meter-long spears, and the dense array of guns stabbed wildly. As long as there are tens of thousands of combatants on both sides, this thing can cause thousands of casualties in half an hour. If both sides had fought to the end without hesitation, 20,000 people would have died in an hour. Jiangnan was not suitable for large-scale cavalry battles, and the generals of the Mongol army really had no intention of going back to Jiangnan to fight the pikemen of the Song army.

Hao Ren decided not to tell the teacher this cruel truth, he was thinking about how to say something to make the teacher happy, when he heard Hao Jing say faintly: "On the way back, I was even thinking, if only I could kill Zhao Jiaren with a sharp blade." ”

"Teacher, don't talk like that!" Hao Ren almost screamed. He didn't want his teacher Hao Jing to have any accidents at all, and what Hao Jing said greatly stimulated Hao Ren's Mongolian heart. In Mongolian culture, the emissary is very sacred and cannot be violated. However, if the envoy suddenly carries out an assassination, it will deviate from the duty of the envoy. Not only will this messenger no longer have any sacredness to speak of, but even those who sent it will also bear shame. No one will ever trust him or his tribe anymore.

Listening to the emotion in the disciple's voice, Hao Jing smiled bitterly: "I'm just thinking about it." In fact, I also know that the Great Khan is preparing to use troops against the north, and the south will not do it for the time being. ”

"I've heard that, too." Hao Ren nodded in agreement. Haidu in the north rebelled again, and the Great Khan had decided to raise an army to fight against it. Now all we have to do is who will be in charge and who will send troops. A large number of generals and troops had just returned, and it took a while to recuperate, so there was no particularly tense situation.

Hao Ren didn't want to continue to get involved in this issue. He himself has been fighting outside for several years, and what he wants most at this time is to read comfortably at home, eat, and accompany his wife. I didn't want to care about anything related to the war, so Hao Ren asked, "Teacher." When I was reading the Analects recently, I saw that the son is not called a strange force. But I don't know if Confucius didn't believe it, or just didn't say it. ”

When asked this question, Hao Ren really lost faith in religion. Since doing something or not doing something is a failure, then there is no point in pursuing the small gap between doing something and not doing it. What's more, in Hao Ren's own statistics, the loss of not doing things is slightly smaller.

After asking the question, Hao Ren heard his teacher Hao Jing say angrily: "Heaven and man are inducted!" Celestial induction! Read the Spring and Autumn Festival well! ”

Feeling the teacher's anger, Hao Ren didn't dare to speak again. And Hao Jing also felt that he had lost his temper, so he hurriedly put away his angry voice and explained to Hao Ren. Celestial and human induction is the Confucian term for God. The reason why "Spring and Autumn" is a serious disaster is because Confucius believed that there is a relationship between heaven and man, and that human behavior will be felt by heaven, and heaven will respond to people according to the good, evil and evil of human behavior, and the way the world responds to people is to use disasters to rebuke people and make people reflect and change. With the development of Confucianism, it was not until the Song Dynasty that it began to talk about the unity of heaven and man.

"The Son of Heaven is granted by Heaven, and it is related to national affairs and the sense of heaven. And those of us who learn Confucianism have heavenly principles and destroy people's desires. Although there is no heavenly endowment, it can be cultivated by the day after tomorrow, and finally close to the unity of heaven and man. If there are traitors in the court, the sky will be chaotic. There is a group in the court, and the natural wind and rain are smooth. However, there are not only traitors in the court, nor are there only honest officials. Therefore, there are good harvests and disasters, and it all depends on the officials in various localities, as well as the officials in charge of the DPRK and China......"

Hao Jing carefully explained the set of science to his disciples. Seeing that the disciple listened carefully, Hao Jing was first relieved in his heart, and then suddenly remembered what he talked about when he met Zhao Jiaren. At that time, Hao Jing also used the issue of heaven to talk about the immorality of the Song Dynasty.

There were several large comets in the era of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, especially during the Jingding period, and there were also comets that appeared for several months. That scared the people of the Great Song Dynasty a lot. After Zhao Jiaren listened, he chuckled disdainfully, and then said: "Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death." If it should be treated, it will be auspicious, and if it should be chaotic, it will be vicious. If you are strong and economizeal, you can't be poor; When you are ready to move, you can't get sick; If you follow the road and do not follow the path, the sky will not be a disaster. ”

Even after a few months, Hao Jing could still clearly recall Zhao Jiaren's disdainful smile. If that smile was specially made to mock Hao Jing, Hao Jing could face it easily and didn't care at all. However, Hao Jing could see that Zhao Jiaren was not deliberately in it at all. The current Prime Minister Zuo of the Song Kingdom really felt ridiculous about Hao Jing's theory of heaven and man induction, so he couldn't help but show that expression.

Hao Jing had read Xunzi's books, but that was after he was fully adult, and no one in the north at that time had studied Xunzi at all. So reading Xunzi's book, Hao Jing felt that a lot of it was nonsense. No wonder the two apprentices taught by Xunzi are Han Fei and Li Si. Both of these are Legalists, and neither of them can die well.

Like Zhao Jiaren, who took out Xunzi's words as the truth in a grand manner, Hao Jing saw it for the first time in his life.

After reminiscing about what the teacher said, Hao Ren felt that the aftertaste was endless. What kind of karmic reincarnation, this is all in Hao Ren's opinion. If it is really such a reincarnation, Mongolia, which kills people without calculation, must be punished by sword soldiers. If Hao Ren did it himself, he probably wouldn't have any good fortune. And when the others were killed, and when they were cornered, someone who made him tempted saved him. This can only be said to be providential. It was he Hao Ren who was loyal to the country and fought to the death. So Heaven rewarded such a loyal and courageous act.

Thinking of this, Hao Ren sighed: "Teacher, my four Mongolian religions have national teachers, but Confucianism has no national teachers. I think the teacher can be the national teacher. ”

"Who said that Confucianism has no national teacher?" Hao Jing asked the apprentice without hesitation.