Ouyang and the five of them galloped quickly, and finally arrived near Qi Siyi.

The name of the period is very good, it doesn't seem like a place name at first glance, but in fact, this is not a place that suddenly appeared in a parallel world, even in Ouyang's world, there is also a "period of thought".

Ouyang can remember such a place because of Qi Siyi, who once had a generation of famous faces - Sun Shuao.

If you are not familiar with Uncle Sun Ao, then let's memorize another text: "Shun is in the acres, Fu Shuo is in the plate building, Jiao is in the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu is in the Shi, Sun Shu Ao is in the sea, and Baili Xi is in the city." Therefore, the heavens will descend on the people...... Then he was born in sorrow and died in peace. ”

Utterance, "Mencius, Confession, II".

In this well-memorized text of "Born in Sorrow, Died in Peace", Sun Shuao was regarded as one of the sages by Mencius, the "sub-sage", and gave an example.

Sima Qian also listed Sun Shu Ao as the first person in "Historical Records: The Biography of the Followers".

So why is his historical status so high? Because of his merits, it can be said that his merits are in the future.

At that time, the Huai River floods were frequent, Sun Shuao was appointed to preside over the water control project, for which he poured all his family wealth, lasted three years, and finally built the first water conservancy project in Chinese history - Shaobi.

This Shaobei, by means of the Huai River ancient road to discharge floodwater, build a pond to irrigate the mulberry, so that it can not only discharge the flood, but also benefit the people of Li who farm on both sides of the Huai River. Later, a large number of water conservancy projects such as Anfengtang were built, and in Ouyang's time, 2,600 years later, they are still playing a role today.

Because of this, Sun Shuao was appreciated by King Chuzhuang and became a civil official beside King Chuzhuang.

Because of his outstanding political and military talents, Sun Shuao later became Ling Yin, that is, the head of the civil officials of the Chu State, equivalent to the prime minister, assisting the king of Chu Zhuang to dominate the south and became one of the "Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons".

"Further on, it's time to think about it. Qu Tian pointed to a small village in front of him and said.

This fat man looked fat, but he didn't expect his movements to be quite flexible, riding a horse or something, and he was much more skilled than everyone else along the way, and he deserved to be one of the top three nobles.

"I didn't expect it...... I was able to see the legendary Qi Sipi. Ouyang looked at the quietly flowing Huai Shui next to him, and felt a little emotional.

When he was a teacher, he liked to talk about some strange things with his classmates, and he had already heard of it.

Qi Sibi is Shaobei.

"Does Mr. Ouyang also know about Qi Sipi?" Xiong Zhong asked with some surprise.

"What, am I really like such a lonely and unheard person?" Ouyang asked with a smile, then pointed to Huaishui and said, "The masterpiece of a generation of famous ministers Sun Shuao, if I don't know, it is estimated that this Huaishui will swallow me." ”

Wang Sheng looked at Huaishui with a solemn expression, and couldn't help but want to pull out his bow and arrows.

"What are you doing?" Gongsun Chao grabbed Wang Sheng.

"I don't know what Uncle Sun Ao is, and I don't know what Qi Sipi is, I'm afraid that Huaishui will swallow me!"

Ouyang hid his face and didn't want to look up, Xiong Zhong was quite understanding, a few people dismounted to let the horses rest a little, taking advantage of this gap, Xiong Zhong briefly introduced Qi Sipi and Sun Shuao to Wang Sheng.

Sun Shuao's most famous achievement is Shaobei.

This place is very special, it is a place where "three rivers compete for the stream", the terrain is undulating, and the rivers and lakes in the region are dense. Therefore, floods are frequent.

Shaobi was originally a low-lying land, so Sun Shuao mobilized hundreds of thousands of peasants to build embankments and weirs to connect the mountains in the east and west, and dug canals to attract river water, creating an artificial lake. There are sluices that can regulate the amount of water, which can not only prevent water but also irrigate the fields, thus revitalizing the economy of the Chu State.

At that time, there was a heyday in the Chu State of "the rich and the people were happy, the family was happy, the style was in the court, there were no moths, and the harvest was rich".

It is worth mentioning that Sun Shuao was also ordered to go to Louyi to carry out irrigation projects, but unfortunately, the irrigation projects in Louyi were taken away by the nobles, and the rest of the fields were cleared by the people themselves.

After Xiong Zhong briefly introduced, he also glanced at Qu Tian, who could only nod awkwardly and leaned towards Ouyang's side.

He was a little afraid that Wang Sheng, an "angry youth", would do something to him.

As a result, Wang Sheng was quite insightful and said: "No matter how good this period is, it is just fattening the fields of the nobles. ”

This made Ouyang Gao glance at him, but Sun Shuao's political achievements were more than that, and he immediately explained something else.

At that time, King Chuzhuang was extremely ambitious, and his personality was even more fond of big things.

Once, during the war, the chariots recruited by the Chu State were too small, and the king of Chu Zhuang issued a death order, asking the whole country to transform the chariots into tall cars.

When Sun Shuao learned of this, he immediately advised that if he acted forcefully with "orders", then he would arouse the resentment of the people, merchants, and nobles, which was disrespectful to them. It is better to call on officials and people with status to take the lead, and when they travel to run errands and transport goods, they all use tall cars to gradually change customs in turn. So people started to switch to high cars.

On another occasion, King Chuzhuang thought that the original "ant-nose money" was too small and would lose the dignity of a big country, so he reminted a large coin, ordered the market to replace the big money, and forced it to pass.

As a result, the people could not adapt to the big money, it was inconvenient to use, and complaints were everywhere, which caused chaos in the market.

According to the actual situation of the market, Sun Shuao believed that "convenience for the people is the most important", reported to King Chu Zhuang, and persuaded King Zhuang to resume the use of small money while using big money, and solved the chaos caused by the exchange of large money in only three days, and the market gradually prospered again.

On another occasion, the king of Chu Zhuang insisted on attacking the Jin state, which the ministers all thought was inappropriate, which would bring disaster to the settled country and allow other countries to take advantage of the situation.

But King Chuzhuang didn't listen, and said ruthlessly: "If anyone dares to persuade those who don't send troops, they will be killed!"

The ministers did not dare to persuade him, and Sun Shuao said to the ministers: "I heard that if you are afraid of whipping and dare not stop your father from doing what he should not do, he is not a filial son." If you are afraid of killing your head and do not dare to prevent the king from doing what you should not do, you are not a loyal servant. ”

So he found the king of Chuzhuang, and did not directly mention the attack on the Jin Kingdom, but said: "King, there is an elm tree in my back garden, and there is a cicada on the tree, and it is chirping loudly, and it wants to eat and drink, but it does not know that there is a praying mantis behind it and stretching its neck and preparing to prey on it. When the praying mantis was about to prey on the cicada, it didn't know that there was a yellow finch behind it with its head stretched out and was about to peck at the mantis. When the yellow finch was about to peck at the praying mantis, he didn't know that a child under the tree was aiming at the yellow finch with a slingshot. When the child was about to hit the yellow finch with a slingshot, he did not notice that there was a deep pit in front of his feet and a hole in the dirt behind him.

These are all about the sake of immediate interests and ignoring the harm after the fact. This situation is not only inaccessible to insects or ordinary people, but also to the fact that as a king, sometimes they do not consider the problem comprehensively and will only focus on the present. The king now only knows about embezzling the land of the Jin Kingdom, but he didn't expect to cherish the lives of his soldiers, and he didn't expect the consequences and disasters of the war. ”

After hearing this, King Chuzhuang felt that it was very reasonable, so he listened to Sun Shuao's admonition, so he decided not to go to Jin.

Sun Shuao risked killing his head and skillfully used the fable of "the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch follows" to persuade King Zhuang to wake up, give up a senseless war, and eliminate a war disaster for the people.

In addition, Sun Shuao was also an outstanding military strategist, he chose the provisions suitable for the Chu State, established it as a military law, and formulated clear regulations on the actions, tasks, and discipline of each army, and applied them to training and actual combat.

Later, the Chu army built a city in the land of complaint, and because he used people properly, planned carefully, and prepared sufficient materials, the task was completed in 30 days. In the following year, the state of Chu and the state of Jin fought in Yi, he assisted King Zhuang to command the battle wittily and flexibly, as soon as the chariot was dispatched, he instigated the Chu army to storm bravely, and quickly approached the Jin army with a blow, so that it was caught off guard, panicked and scattered, fled to the north of the Yellow River, and the position of the overlord of the Central Plains turned to the Chu state.

Under Xiong Zhong's supplementary explanation, Ouyang introduced Sun Shuao's various deeds in one go, and after looking at Wang Sheng, he found that he was not interested in other things except for the allusion of "the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind".

"What's the situation? As for you, you won't be hated to this extent because of your hatred of the nobles, right?" Gongsun Chao said to Wang Sheng with a depressed face.

Qu Tian was also a little indignant at this time: "You must know that Uncle Sun Ao was poor but died young, and after his death, his wife and children only had to carry firewood to survive, and they were extremely poor. ”

"Didn't anyone help them?" Wang Sheng asked.

"Well, there is!" Qu Tian thought for a while and said, "At that time, the servant was similar to a singer, named Youmeng, and he was very sad to see such a scene, so he spent a year imitating Uncle Sun's voice and appearance, and sang a song of "Song of Generosity" to King Chuzhuang. ”

"What's wrong with this song, is it so valuable?" Wang Sheng continued.

"This song is worth a city. Gongsun Chao then explained, "Through this song, Youmeng told the King of Chu that corrupt officials cannot be worthy of being believable, and Qing officials can be worthy of being be. Corrupt officials can't be because their reputation was too bad at that time, and they deserve to be able to make a fortune and start a business and enjoy the happiness of the whole family. Qing officials can be Qing because they can have a clear name at that time, and it is not worth being because their children and grandchildren are all poor, wearing rags and doing hard work, people think that those who are officials are rich, but they only know that Sun Shu Ao has made Ling Yin, but they don't know that Sun Shu Ao has never taken a penny cheap. ”

"So what was the reaction of the King of Chu at that time?" Wang Sheng asked.

King Chuzhuang was very moved after hearing this, and then gave the period to Sun Shuao's son. Qu Tian said.

"So, King Chuzhuang still hasn't changed the atmosphere of this country in the end, corrupt officials are still greedy, and officials still want to do it, otherwise you wouldn't be so fat. ”

"You guy, if you don't talk to me, we can still be friends!" Qu Tian angrily stretched out a finger, wanting to point at Wang Sheng, and finally put it down, probably considering that he couldn't beat the other party.

Wang Sheng shrugged his shoulders and explained: "Actually, I can understand what you said, it is indeed very good for the country, but for the benefit of the country and the people, this 'people' is actually still a nobleman, what good can the common people do?"

Seeing that Wang Sheng was debating with Gongsun Chao and Qu Tian, Xiong asked in a low voice, "Mr. Ouyang, this guy, why has the ideological realm become so high all of a sudden." ”

"I don't know, maybe I was stimulated by something, maybe it was because of my early life experience and what I saw and heard along the way, so I have a lot of feelings. Ouyang shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.