Chapter 35: The Seven Kingdoms

In the hall, Bai Zhi led Han Fei to sit down in front of the case.

"Why does the Ninth Prince have time to look for me today? Have you finished all the homework assigned by Senior Brother Xun? ”

Bai Zhi asked jokingly, full of jokes.

Xunzi is rigorous in his studies, and his requirements for these two disciples have always been strict.

Today, Han Fei came to the door, and he was afraid that he secretly ran out with Xunzi behind his back.

Han Fei's face was embarrassed, and he waved his hand again and again.

He hurriedly smiled and turned out a wine jug and showed it to Bai Zhi: "Uncle Shi don't want to make fun of me, I met an old friend in a foreign country, but I took out my best treasure." ”

He stretched out his hand and handed the wine jug to Bai Zhi, showing off: "The most famous wine in Qi country, 'Tulip', is like amber in color and rich in aroma.

In the past, when the teacher was appointed as the Lanling Order, he collected some. Uncle Shi, you have a blessed mouth today. ”

Bai didn't look down at the wine, he stared at Han Fei with a smile: "Stole it?" ”

Han Feijun's face turned red, and he explained: "Stealing wine, stealing wine can't be considered stealing, how can drinking be called stealing?" I'm helping Master clear the inventory. ”

Bai Zhi ignored him anymore, picked up the wine jug, opened the spout, and sniffed the rich aroma of wine, showing a little intoxication on his face.

He said with regret: "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowl with amber light." It's a pity that such a fine wine is not in the best wine bottle, which is a pity. ”

Han Fei's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise with his hands on the desk: "Uncle Shi is really a person who knows and understands wine." ”

After speaking, he flipped his left hand in his sleeve, took out a pair of wine bottles, and showed Bai Zhi as if offering treasures: "This is my treasured blue sea coral bottle, which was originally four. Two of them were exchanged for wine money by me, and the remaining two happened to have a good time with my uncle today. ”

Hearing this, Bai Zhi picked up a wine bottle and looked at it carefully.

Seeing that its whole body is emerald green, the jade color is delicate, and the color of the cup wall is transparent, and it is full of dripping.

couldn't help but exclaim: "But it's a good baby, the ninth prince will really enjoy it." ”

The extravagance of the Korean aristocracy has always been known for a long time.

Isn't this priceless pair of wine bottles a true portrayal of the drunken dreams and death of the Korean upper class, and the prevalence of flashy and obscene winds?

Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.

Compared with the poverty and luxury of the princes and nobles, the people at the bottom are not clothed, and the life of digging in the soil is more like an absurd joke.

Glancing at Han Fei, who was exquisitely dressed and had a refined appearance, Bai Zhi shook his head lightly.

This person has the ambition to strengthen the country, but he is also a representative of the nobility of this era, and he protects the interests of the princes and nobles.

As the proposer and advocate of the concept of centralization, in Han Fei's eyes, the status and interests of the monarch are above all else.

Those rustic people who plough the fields deserve nothing but to be fooled and enslaved.

"Shun Min" is probably his greatest gift to the people at the bottom of this era.

Sighing slightly, Bai Zhi's heart was subordinate.

In the pre-Qin period, the people's view of monarchs and ministers and morality were still relatively simple, and the people of this era emphasized that "the king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart; The king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as an enemy. ”

The king's domination and fooling of the people are far inferior to those of later generations.

It was the emergence of Han Fei's theory of sub-centralization that laid the foundation for the system of "a high degree of centralization of power, and the Son of Heaven can decide the affairs of the world with one word" in later generations, and also opened the prelude to the rule of China's 2,000-year-old feudal dynasty.

But, for this era, Bai Zhi has a better answer.

In this era when centralization has not yet prevailed in the world and the culture of a hundred schools of thought is still prosperous and splendid, the ideal of Baizhi is far easier to realize than that of later generations.

Shaking the wine bottle gently, Bai Zhi asked: "The ninth prince is so generous today, but there is something to ask me?" Let's be blunt. ”

Han Fei no longer laughed, and asked Zhengse: "When I met my old friend in another country, Han Fei was also very homesick. Uncle Shi came from South Korea, I don't know what I saw and heard along the way, can you sue me a thing or two? ”

"Childe, is this an intention to return to South Korea?" Bai Zhi looked directly at Han Fei and spoke slowly.

Han Fei smiled bitterly, hugged his hands and said, "Uncle Shi knows me." After all, I am the son of Korea, and one day, I will go back. ”

Bai Zhi smiled, poured a glass of wine, and placed it in the palm of his hand.

"A few days ago, I read Gongzi's masterpiece and saw that Gongzi was well versed in the art of emperors. I don't know the childe, but I want to ascend to the throne? ”

Taking a deep breath, Han Fei said in a condensed voice: "I don't just want to be able to use what I have learned to help South Korea rise to the top and win the Central Plains." ”

His narrow phoenix eyes flashed with burning ambition.

"Hehe", Bai Zhi chuckled.

The hot-blooded impulse of a young man is always blood-pumping, and it's no wonder that he can create an organization like Quicksand with just one mouth.

But......

Bai Zhi shook his head and said softly: "The Ninth Prince has good ambitions. It's a pity that I walked all the way, only to see that Xinzheng City was full of high-ranking families, countless pavilions, and the rich and luxurious did not hesitate to spend a lot of money for beauty.

However, outside Xinzheng City, there is a famine everywhere, the people are not clothed, the poor are easy to eat, and the tragedies in the world are staged in turn.

If Gongzi really has the heart to change the law to save the country, Bai Zhi wishes Gongzi to get his wish as soon as possible. ”

A doomed change, Bai Zhi has no intention of paying attention.

Compared with the indecisive Han Fei, Bai Zhi admires people like Li Si more.

If there is no cool heart and thunderbolt means, the law changers will only be counterattacked by those with vested interests, and they will be beaten to the core.

Relying on rules and laws to ask the nobles to cut their own flesh, such Han Fei is simple and funny.

Han Fei, who was gloomy, was silent for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "Uncle Shi, Fei will use his own actions to change all this." ”

His tone was firm, and his confused eyes shone again.

Stunned, Bai Zhi raised his glass and signaled.

He looked at Han Fei's firm gaze and said word by word: "It's always good for the ninth prince to have this heart." With this glass of wine, I wish you to change the world in Korea. ”

It's amazing to have a dream.

Bai Zhi had no intention of interfering with Han Fei's choice, and he was incapable of preventing South Korea's predetermined fate.

But he admires this staunch idealist.

Han Fei also raised his glass and drank it all.

He wiped the corners of his mouth and asked Bai Zhi: "It's better to travel thousands of miles than to read ten thousand books, Han Fei is trapped in Songhai all day long, writing books and sayings, but he has never seen the situation of the Seven Kingdoms with his own eyes.

Uncle Shi has traveled all over the world, and I want to know the situation of the Seven Kingdoms very well, but I don't know how Uncle Shi views the current situation in the world. ”

This is a deep question.

Bai Zhiyan said that he was a ranger, but in fact he just fled from Korea to Qi State, and he didn't know much more about the situation of the Seven Kingdoms than Han Fei.

According to the general context of the history of the Seven Kingdoms in his mind, Bai Zhi pondered slightly.

After organizing some language, he spoke: "In my opinion, the current situation in the seven countries can be roughly summed up in eight words: one superpower and many strong, and South Korea is the weakest. ”