Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Wen Xinhou and His Spring and Autumn Period
"He's a face-saving man, but he's not suicidal......" Emotionally righteous God doesn't quite accept this statement, but does not deny that it is possible.
"I agree with the other reservations of proving innocence by death. You're a kid who thinks too badly of people. Zhao Zheng, Marquis of Changxin, seemed to be dissatisfied with Ge Tianming, and also seemed to want to defend Marquis Wenxin, who had never met and was similar to his current status, and was a little emotional. But his sanity did not make him overly excited, and he presented his opinion as objectively as possible.
"Reputation is not all a person has, it is not worth trading for life. Perhaps he was implicated in a treason, and as a person of status, he felt that it was his fault that such a thing happened. Suicide is a commendable feat, but exile is detrimental to dignity, which is the standard of the world for a nobleman and a gentleman. Although it was not necessary for every nobleman to meet the standards, the Marquis of Bunshin was a model who had to determine his actions according to secular standards and educate the world by himself. You can only blame yourself for all the faults and judge yourself. Only in this way can he preserve his dignity without violating the law of the land, and he can also save the people he implicates from exile. 'Death for the sake of the confidant', for the sake of the monarch he believed in, for the country for which he had worked hard, and for the queen mother who had been taken care of by him, it may be the best outcome to die like this. β
For the sake of ideals, for the sake of other important things, Zhao Zheng will also do seemingly radical or incomprehensible behaviors. It's like deliberately putting on makeup to hide your special appearance, and you obviously live a superior life, but you pretend to be the higher but not the highest level among your peers. Law-abiding extralegal organizations, clean showbiz personnel, historians who shoot costume dramas. Ideals and reality are not the same, so hide the ideal with reality and complete it without seeing the light. If the two happen to be in sync, then even at the expense of life, it will be done with it.
"I heard the Empress Dowager mention that the Marquis of Wen Xin died for me. said that I don't need him anymore, and he can't live, and he can't get over this face. The Queen Mother also said that she was afraid that she would not be able to let him live. But I didn't think so! Zhengshen's hand trembled involuntarily, and Zhao Xin'er, who was closest to her, quietly held his hand. Zhengshen was quite surprised by Zhao Xin'er's behavior, but miraculously calmed down, he turned over his hand and took the initiative to hold Zhao Xin'er's hand in his palm. Women's hands are so small and cute, mothers too, and so are hearts, as long as you hold them in your hands, you can feel at ease. There is no threat in the hand that does not make people unconsciously let their guard down, just thinking about protecting her from harm and forgetting what they are afraid of. The two sat side by side, both wearing the wide robes and large sleeves of the sacrifice, and the richly decorated dresses, the sleeves of the dresses covered the clenched hands, and no one saw anything except Zhao Xin'er.
"That's Wen Xinhou thinking too much."
"Older people, who have been through too many things, will always think a little more." Zhao Xin'er felt that Zhengshen held her hand tighter, and quietly moved in the direction of Zhengshen.
"You surnamed Zhao, all of you are so naΓ―ve. As an adult, don't you know that the human heart is sinister? He was afraid that the monarch would not trust him, and it was better to die himself and leave a good reputation than to be killed. β
"How many hearts have you seen in a child's heart, and you dare to say sinister?"
"Your Ge Tian clan is also surnamed Ying, and you have the same blood as our Zhao clan. Ah Zheng, he is not our surname. Zhengshen seriously stated the bloodline that Ge Tianming should have known, but now he deliberately forgot. However, Ge Tianming ignored the first emperor who had become a god and was bent on refuting Zhao Zheng.
"I, Ge Tianming, am only twelve years old, but Zhuge Liang and the Ge Tianclan of the past generations together have outlived any human being. Unfortunately, the memories of each generation of Ge Tian and each reincarnated generation have been inherited by me, and I can build a database. It has nothing to do with the family, the bloodline! The human heart is not fun at all, and you can't live without manipulating others. Zilong is also so naΓ―ve......" Speaking of this, Ge Tianming consciously lost his words, but he didn't want to hide anything, so he just stopped talking.
Sure enough, he was too irritable, and when he saw Xiaoyu and thought of Zilong, he couldn't help but be irritable. And this mess of blood relations, kinship, wrong, all wrong! But what can I do? I can't do anything, I'm just a bystander, I can't forget what I see, and I have inherited my memories even from reincarnation...... Yes...... It's really irritable, why is it Ge Tian's, there's nothing good except for the special surname, no, even the surname is not good, people don't know if they say it, they will always be called Tianming, like a character in a cartoon. It's right to call Xiao Ming, although the textbook or something is not interesting, but it is more serious...... Ge Tianming let his mind run freely like this, and for a while he forgot where he was and what he was doing.
"What do Wang Ji and Xiang Zi think of that week?" Empress Zhao Xin'er seemed to sense that Ge Tianming was not going to continue, and threw the conversation to Zhou Yu and Xiang Ziji, who had not joined the conversation, she seemed to be a little tired, leaning on Zhengshen's arm and resting for a while. Zhengshen took Zhao Xin'er in his arms, shook off the fox fur on his body, and wrapped Zhao Xin'er in it, so as not to catch a cold after she accidentally fell asleep.
Wang Ji Zhou Yu said that he wanted to ask Xiang Ziji to answer first to show respect, and leaned towards Xiang Zi's side on the grounds of fear of cold. After thinking about it, he said that this issue was too complicated, and he didn't understand it very well, so he didn't dare to talk about it casually. Zhao Xin'er insisted on talking about it casually, and Zhengshen also said that he would not blame him for saying it badly. After thinking seriously for a while, he handed in an unexpected answer.
"I don't know about other places, according to the habits of our Chu people, if we are defeated, we will commit suicide. Wen Xinhou has a certain responsibility for this matter, this is the same as fighting, whether it is all his own fault or not, defeated, or made a mistake, he will commit suicide to apologize. That's what a warrior is! β
"Those who commit suicide are cowards!" Ge Tianming habitually refuted other people's opinions, but this time he seemed to be thinking about other things, and he was not interested in continuing the debate, and he didn't care if this sentence would offend this "Western Chu Overlord" who had committed suicide. Ji himself, who once committed suicide, has a lot of criticism about this sentence, but unfortunately he doesn't read much and doesn't know how to refute it, the monarch Zhao Xin'er is here, and he can't use force. When his brain was not enough, it was God who saved the scene for him:
"There is some truth in what this posterity said. The Qi people also have this custom. Wenxin Hou ancestor was too public, and later it wasn't the Tian family who defeated them Jiang surnamed Lu, so he could only go to Weiguo to ask for the protection of the Zhou royal family, and then he became a patriot. If you lose the country, you will not have a household registration, and if you don't have a household registration, you can't cultivate the land, so you can only engage in business and become a businessman. I heard this from my mother. Whether it's true or not, I can't say. β
Finally, Zhou Yu also expressed her own opinion, as a rich second generation, her views are different from others. "I have always lived in a privileged environment, I can't remember my previous life, I was a relative of the country, I have military power, and I have made military achievements, I don't think I will have a bad time. If I am allowed to sleep in the open and leave my hometown to go to a cold place that is inaccessible, even if it is only for half a day, I will not go. Treat others with himself, Wen Xinhou's standard of living will not be worse than mine, I am still unwilling to be too far away from home, how can a person like him be exiled? Moreover, people who have lost their country once have found an ideal country. He has given everything for the country he wants, and when he is about to be exiled and forced to leave the country he loves, he may feel that it is better to say goodbye than to leave. β
"That's right. He was also old at that time, and his legs and feet were not good, not to mention the living conditions, it was difficult for him to walk a long way. Regardless of what he has done and what the future generations will say, it doesn't matter what his purpose is. In my opinion, he is faithful. The current Qin Empire is not only my ideal, but also built on the original ideas and plans of Marquis Wen Xin......"
"Ideal country? This reminds me of Plato, although I don't know much about it, and it is said that the translation is not very accurate. β
Zhao Xin'er interrupted the topic again, and Zhengshen was not angry, which surprised Ge Tianming: how could a monarch like the First Emperor tolerate a woman who more than once, obviously, deliberately diverted the topic, and was even willing to solve her doubts? Isn't it true that an emperor who becomes a god is different? But that one was not so good-natured, and he could not become a god...... It's all destiny, so there's no destiny. I don't believe it! Absolutely not believe! Unbelief......
As Ge Tianming expected, Zhengshen really put down the original topic again and took Zhao Xin'er's words: "You can also say the same." β
"But does it really exist? Ideals are the pursuit of people, while the country is realistic. β
"Not all countries are realistic, the country of poets and the country of literary and artistic works all exist with personal ideals, as if ...... in a dream" Unexpectedly, Zhao Zheng also joined Zhao Xin'er's side. Ge Tianming was also refuted by Zhao Zheng, a reason that he didn't understand, joined the discussion: "Governing the country with ideals will only feel that the reality is too far away like Qu Yuan, and take the boulder in his arms as an ideal and sink to the bottom of the river." β
"Others sacrificed their lives for the ideal country like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu."
"However, Shu did not unify the world. Wu...... There is no ......" Zhou Yu suddenly joined the discussion, and for Ge Tianming, it was beyond the calculation: Xiaoyu actually quit his mobile phone! He also talked about his past life...... However, there is one thing that must be clarified. Even small fish can't ......
"It's not Shu, it's Han. Zhuge Liang's country has always been the Han Dynasty, but the Son of Heaven changed from the emperor to the first emperor. Although according to Shu, the country name is Han, and the surname of the Son of Heaven is Liu ......" The country name is Han, and the surname of the Son of Heaven is Liu...... As if trying to convince himself, Ge Tian kept repeating this sentence. He had long realized that this would not work, and he had known it since he was still Zhuge Liang. However, it must not be admitted. The difference between Liu Bei's Han and the Han family exists but cannot be recognized......
The weather seems to be getting colder. For a while, no one spoke. The emperor and empress snuggled together and did not seem to feel cold; Zhou Wangji wore an extra fox fur with a collar neck; Ge Tianshi rejected Changxinhou's fox fur, calmed his head for a moment, and led the topic back to the right path:
"It's easy to know what he really thinks. Now that he's still alive, just ask him directly~"
"Can you ask about things that haven't happened?"
"Yes, just change the way and pretend to ask him to do a case study."
"Can you ask for the time being, the current Wen Xinhou, to say the least, is seventy or eighty, can you still analyze the case?"
"He should be eighty-five this year, his legs and feet are not very sharp, and his brain is quite useful."
As he was talking, someone came to report, saying that the Marquis of Wenxin wanted to see the queen. The empress asked the emperor's opinion, and without changing places, she met with Marquis Wenxin in the main hall. The emperor and empress both wore ceremonial robes, dressed in neat crowns, and sat upright in front of the screen. Asked the third lady and the nine concubines to come and accompany them.
Zhengshen said that it was inconvenient for the ministers to meet, and asked Xiang Zi to take Ge Tianshi and Zhou Wangji to the side hall to avoid, Xiang Zi saw that Zhou Wangji was not used to sitting for a long time, and it was a little difficult to walk after standing up, so he remembered that Wang Ji Zhou Yu was not a person of this era and was young, seeing her struggling, how could he bear it? He picked up Zhou Yu with one hand and let her sit on his shoulder; remembered that Ge Tianshi came with Zhou Yu, and threw Ge Tianming's belt up with his other arm and held it around his waist; I walked easily on the familiar road and arrived at the side hall.
Zhengshen specially instructed Zhao Xin'er to call the middle father when he saw Wen Xinhou later. Zhao Xin'er asked the reason, and Zhengshen's reply was: Marquis Wenxin is now 84 and does not serve in the court, so it is not appropriate to be commensurate with an official title. The elderly man is called "Father", and he is called "Zhongfu" when he ranks "Zhong". This is the same as Qi Huangong, calling Guan Zhong "middle father", and he does not mean to recognize him as his father.