Chapter 98: Promise
The moon of the Suzuki, the day of Jiyou, is the day chosen by Guanyi. This day just avoided Wushen. On Wushen, "The ox is to marry the weaver daughter, but if it fails, it will be abandoned three times" is extremely unlucky as a wedding day. It is different from the wedding of the previous year. The wedding of the previous year is celebrated together. The whole country sent her daughter to her, and nobles and merchants gathered together, and Yingdu was full of traffic.
Even if the envoys were sent to various countries, they were officials with lower status, and were no longer the kind of people like the Prince of Xiangbang. There were few noble merchants and merchants. At this moment, they were trying to avoid evading the enemy. The King of Chu had to come for the wedding, and he could not help but give a gift, but there were fewer left and right servants who followed Yingdu to Yingdu than the last time.
Before the wedding, Ying was not as prosperous as the last time, and there was not much joy in the Chu Palace. Wang Yin, Lang Yin, Sigong, Siyi, Sifu, gathering fences, gathering rice, and gathering, it was not as busy as the last time - this was not a weekly wedding, it was a Chu-style wedding. It was not the palace officials who presided over the wedding, but the witches of Chu State.
The war with Qin was related to the survival of Chu, while the dispute between Chu Li and Zhou Li was related to the survival of Chu people. The fall of Chu was not the king's order, but the Chu people in Chu became Qin people from then on. Only when Chu people believed that they were Qin people from now on, the Chu people would die.
In human history, there are many examples of the demise of the country, and there are many examples of the demise of the country; similarly, the existence of the country, and there are many examples of the demise of the country, and there are many. The demise of the country can restore the country, but the demise of the people cannot restore the people. Xiong Jing did not want the Chu people to become the latter because the latter is the most deadly.
However, he originally didn't want to be driven by Confucian scholars to fulfill the ideal of Confucian scholars to restore Zhou. In the increasingly fierce debate, the Chu people and Zhou people gradually became disagreeable and eventually had a complete opposition, which was something Xiong Jing had not expected. His original intention was to cut off the humanistic thoughts of Confucius, including Confucius, after Confucius, because the Zhou rituals without the martial tradition were like rootless trees that could not survive.
After arguing, the Chu Li and Zhou Li evolved into an opposition between God and man. The Chu people, the Yue people, the Song people (Shang people), the Wu people, the Ba people, and the Miao people were originally all god-governed tribes, and the Zhou people and the Zhou people were tribes ruled by human-governed tribes. For the Chu people, the will of the gods and the promises between God and man are the law and cannot be violated; for the Zhou people, the will of the emperor, the princes, the officials, the scholars, and the fathers, their will is the law and cannot be violated.
These are two ways of rule that are incompatible with water and fire. In the eyes of the real Chu people, the Zhou people were blaspheming the gods. They stole the position of the gods and issued orders in the name of the gods to satisfy their own selfish desires. In the eyes of the Lu people, the direct successor of the Zhou people, the word "Chu Ci" cannot be found in "Chu Ci", and the father stole the sheep and his son actually testified. There is no king or father, which is a real barbarian. Regardless of whether the Lu people are independent or not, the Chu people and the Lu people have actually been divided and cannot be saved.
On the day of the wedding, Xiong Jing never expected the consequences to be so serious. This was the result that Confucius' eighth generation grandson, the true spiritual leader of the Lu people, faced this result. Fortunately, heresy is more hateful than aliens. Under the threat of the heresy of the Zhou people in Qin, he was willing to talk to his students.
"What do you want to do with the king?" Kong Qianqiang looked at his good student with a spirit.
"Students don't want anything. Students only hope that the dispute between Chu and Zhou will be temporarily put on hold, and the people of Chu and Lu will fight against Qin together." After ordering the Chu ceremony, Xiong Jing was no longer the king of Chu, but Da Ao of Chu, and he never humbly called me.
"I also agree." Like Xunzi, Kong Qian no longer dared to consider himself Xiong Jing's teacher. Although the Zhou people's inheritor Shangren was also a Shenzhi tribe, and although Confucius' ancestors were merchants rather than Zhou people, Confucius had already said: 'I'm from Zhou'.
"Hey!" With so many helplessness, Kong Qian sighed, "I never thought there would be today."
"Students also thought of the present." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "But the students knew that the Qin people would perish."
Kong Qian's words were just a double talk, which was both teachers and students, and the world. Xiong Jing's first sentence was to answer teachers and students, and the next sentence was to answer the world. Kong Qian was a little dissatisfied with the latter sentence, and he said: "How many people can avoid migrating to the sea? There are millions of people. Today, the countries cannot defeat the Qin people and survive the country, how can they destroy Qin in the future?"
"The demise of Qin State lies in its own corruption, not its attack on the nations." Xiong Jing explained. He didn't care anymore, but it didn't matter completely. He knew that the Qin people would destroy themselves.
Kong Qian also had a kind of indifference. The division of Chu and Zhou made him desperate. The political tradition of the Zhou people was cut off from then on. He was completely indifference. He heard Xiong Jing’s words, and he asked strangely: “Self-corruption?!”
"Yes." Xiong Jing answered with certainty. "The Qin people take the law as their teachings and officials as their teachers. Officials are the king and father of Qin. The world knows how Qin officials behave. The Qin State will rule the world by countless Qin officials. The king can do whatever he wants for his own selfishness and follow his superiors. Why can't Qin officials be corrupt and abuse the law for his own selfishness?"
"However, Qin's law is strict..." Confucians did not enter Qin, and Kong Qian did not know much about Qin's law, but knew that Qin's law was strict.
"It was because of the harshness that there was an internal struggle." Xiong Jing was originally a king, but he was no longer a king. Standing outside the king, he saw it very thoroughly. "The King of Qin suppressed officials, officials suppressed the people, the people suffered from Qin and rebelled, and the officials promoted the fire, and even gathered troops to rise up..."
Once the prisoner is in charge, he will die, and once he is released, he will be in chaos. This is the routine of the rule of officials, and Qin State was destroyed in this routine. The reason why it did not perish before was because Guandong was still there - Qin State's tattooed heads were miserable, but their losses could be supplemented by looting the common people of Guandong. Unifying the world means that the Qin State's Guizhou State no longer has the place to plunder its own losses. If Guandong does not rebel, Guanzhong will also rebel.
Some people say that Zhao Zheng will do what he should do after unifying the world... Zhao Zheng, who ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, has become accustomed to the Qin war machine with high fuel consumption. There are still remnants of the nations outside the world that have not been eradicated. How can he control it?
As for the restoration of the Afang Palace, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, and the unification of Zhao Zheng’s eternal foundation for the Qin State, shouldn’t we be praised by future generations? We unified the world because of our pursuit of grand achievements, and could not enjoy the fruits of our own hard work after we succeed. What is this?
Kong Qian suddenly saw a glimmer of hope. "The king's intention is..."
"If the Qin people still govern the county after one day, they will die in one lifetime." Xiong Jing said with great affirmation.
Kong Qian smiled, and he drank the tea on several tables and said, "It's true, I can see it."
"The teacher will definitely see it." Kong Qian got old, and Xiong Jing hoped that he could see this day.
"However, will the king want to be in the world?" Qin State will perish, and there will be someone to rule the world without a master. Kong Qian had previously placed hope on Xiong Jing, but unfortunately the dispute between Chu and Zhou made this hope extremely slim.
"Students don't know." Xiong Jing couldn't answer what happened more than ten years later. He said politely: "If the people of Chu do not practice the rule of the king and father, but practice the rule of the gods of the Shang Dynasty, do the teacher agree?"
"How can there be no king in the world?" Kong Qian regretted that he had asked this question.
The Zhou people opposed the rule of gods, which was their helplessness that they could not inherit the legal system of merchants, but in the eyes of Confucianism, this was a huge progress. Because man finally became man and no longer shackled by God's will. Xiong Jing's view now is completely opposite to Confucianism. Only gods will not fall, and people will always fall. If there is no restraint, they will fall from generation to generation. This is not his view with the concept of later generations. This is his complete summary of his view of the history of the Chu people, from the founding of the country to more than 800 years.
Hearing Kong Qian's sigh, he unintentionally hurt Kong Qian, saying: "After there are kings and fathers, there are kings and princes; if there are kings and princes, there are emperors. The King of Qin wants to become the kings and fathers of the world and the emperors of the world, what is wrong with the King of Qin?"
With a stern face, Kong Qian left without saying a word. Xiong Jing got up and took him to the steps himself, and then helped him into the carriage with Kong Qi, watching his carriage drive away from the road door until he disappeared.
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As the sky became darker, firewood piles stood up again on the thatched court. This time the firewood piles were bigger and taller. The wedding was still at dusk. When Xiong Jing moved to Xiaoyi, the city south of the city to welcome his wife. His clothes were not the mysterious clothes of the Zhou people, but the crimson clothes of the Chu people.
‘In the past, King Zhuang of Chu had fresh crowns and a red dress, and had a wide range of robes to govern the country.’ The Chu people were very fond of bright colors. The nobles were mostly red in clothing, and the common people were mostly brown in clothing. Mi Xuan did not wear the Zhou people’s wedding clothes, so the Chu people’s wedding clothes were naturally worn by the Chu people. The Chu people’s wedding clothes were red, and Xiong Jing, who came out of the palace to welcome the bride, felt that this wedding clothes turned him into a big rooster - mainly because there were a large bunch of colorful bloodshots on the fresh crown. Gong Yin and Wu Shi said that this was indeed dressed up, so he could only go out in a hurry.
When he arrived at Xiaoyi, he found that Mi Xuan's wedding dress was also red and had a crown on his head, so naturally the bush of chilly feathers were indispensable on the crown. Xiong Jing wanted to laugh at her when he came into the car, but she actually started crying.
"King..." The woman was tearful and her father and mother could not persuade her.
"I'm here." In front of Mi Chang, Mi Ren and others, Xiong Jing couldn't take the woman into his arms, so he could only hold her hand to comfort her.
"Xuan'er, get married today, don't ask the king... Da Ao to wait for a long time." Mi Ren stepped forward and advised. Like everyone else, he was not used to Da Ao's name. "If it's auspicious time..."
The small universe is very close to the palace, so naturally I will not miss the auspicious time. Mi Xuan, who was crying, wiped her tears into the car. At this time, the ancestors in the room felt that their mother was about to go out, and she burst into tears with a loud cry. Mi Xuan had already stepped into the car with one foot and retreated after hearing the sound.
"Your father, Ni'er." Mi Ren said hurriedly, holding his hands in a row, making a move to hold the child. Mi Xuan then got into the car, and Xiong Jing took her out of Xiaoyi to the palace.
The wedding was not in the main hall, and in the thatched court, the court was filled with people watching the ceremony. In addition to guests from all over the country, there were also nobles and common people from Yingdu. The day was dusk, and the carriage got off the car outside the gate of the palace. The soldiers, wujie, and the temple people stood by the road, staring at Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan who were walking hand in hand. When the two walked through the gateway of the long Great Wall into Yingdu City, the people on the city shouted: "Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao. Long live the Queen Ao, long live the Queen Ao..."
Mi Xuan knew that the Queen of Chu was renamed Da Ao, and Queen Ao was herself. She was startled by such cheers, and her weak legs almost made her squat down and pant on the spot. Xiong Jing quickly held her body hard, but she thought of an unknown word two thousand years later: glory shoulder to shoulder.
"Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao. Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao..." First, the city gate was cheering, then the court of the Thunder Gate was cheering, and finally the whole city was cheering at this rhythm. The dusk was about to fall, and Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan stood in the gate cave. Everyone looked over, not understanding why the two of them were deterred.
"The king promised me." Mi Xuan looked at the man beside him.
"I must promise you." Xiong Jing looked down at her, and her makeup was completely ruined after crying.
"Can't die!" Mi Xuan's tears flowed out again. Although she could not make detailed instructions like a man, her heart could feel that it was a grand wedding, but her husband seemed to be arranging his funeral.
"Oh." Xiong Jing sighed in his heart, and he said with a heavy emphasis: "I will never die if I protect my destiny!"
"Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao. Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao. Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao..." With countless cheers, taking advantage of the last light in the world, Mi Xuan looked at her husband and looked at his handsome face. However, the light was always short, and it seemed that night fell in an instant. In the gap of cheering, the north wind whistled at the top of Yingdu City, endless.
She lowered her head and wiped away her tears, and finally walked forward side by side with her husband, accepting this unparalleled glory. However, in her heart, she would rather be unknown in the small city, and would rather be the wife with the most ordinary face of Chu than enjoy this glory, because it means that her husband will die on the battlefield one day.
"Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao! Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao! Long live the Great Ao, long live the Queen Ao..."
Seeing the two people moving forward, the cheering people became even more enthusiastic. The common people were not Confucian scholars or court officials. Compared to marrying a Zhao queen, they would rather Xiong Jing marry a Chu woman to be their queen.
The fire on both sides of the road began to ignite, and the firewood on the court began to ignite. When the two arrived at the court, cheered and stopped. The witches' singing echoed on the court. They danced around the fire in order to lead the gods from heaven to earth and witness their union.
Standing in the center of the court, in front of the gods of heaven and earth and the people in the court, Queen Xiong Jing raised the hand that was tightly clenched with Mi Xuan and shouted: "Taiyi bless me. Xiong Jing, the Great Ao of Chu State, tells the gods of heaven and earth: I am willing to marry Mi Xuan as my wife for my life and never betray her."
"Taiyi bless me. My daughter, the daughter of Mi, told the gods of heaven and earth: I would like to marry Xiong Jing as my husband, and I will never betray you forever." Mi Xuan felt a little timid, but her voice quickly became louder and resounded throughout the court like her husband.
"Long live! Long live! Long live Ao! Long live! Long live Queen Ao..." When Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan were bleeding, the crowd burst into cheers again, and the shouts rose into the sky with Mars flying out of the firewood pile and were blown away by the north wind.
At this moment, when the wind blows to the north, the night has fallen in Rongyang, which has fallen a moment ago. Wang Jian nodded slightly on the river bank and said in a deep voice: "Digest water!"
"The General has an order: divert water!" The orders passed one by one, and the sound of water quickly rang out in the distance. The sound was thin at first, and half a quarter of an hour later, when the earth dike collapsed, it immediately became huge, and gradually it sounded like rolling thunder. Wang Jian, who looked far away, could see that the white tide was like a charge of Qin army arrays, running towards the brightly lit Daliang City.
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Chapter completed!