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Chapter 67 The Age of Heroes

After two years of enrollment, there are more than 4,000 scholars in the normal school. Although everyone understands that after the master's school is completed, many people still hope to be successful and become officials in the future, and at the least they can be officials. However, the reality is cruel. The king said in person that he can only be a village teacher or a retainer, with a clear future and no hope in life.

On that day, there were hundreds of people like Liu Ji who took off his robe and left school, and at least half of them were absent-minded, but they had no way to go and didn't know who to join. The last half were given up. They had already made a name for themselves and could get out of school. They would probably starve to death in a few days if they dropped out of school. Whether they were a village teacher or a retainer, they could always have food to eat, so why bother?

"The unspoken thought he wanted to have a good talk with you." After Xiong Jing came out of the Grand Sima Mansion, he summoned Kong Qian, a teacher-school priest, and Zuo Yinmeng Zhengqin, who was almost mad in the "Chicken Second Classics".

"Please give me advice." After many twists and turns, Kong Qian was discouraged. He had no hope of implementing civil governance in Chu. However, due to the etiquette of the king and his subjects, he had to act like a minister in front of Xiong Jing. Meng Zhengqin, who was beside him, did not speak at all. The king actually wanted to destroy the "Jiu Zhizhi". He felt that there was no need to speak with the king anymore. This time he came here, he was coaxed by Zhaoshu and Song Yu.

"The official positions in the world are originally for the people. For example, the people are originally interested in and dislike, and know good and evil. Therefore, the 'consideration is controlled by the matter, and not punish the punishment'. After the king's rule, the law and punishment are all the kings. What the king says is the law. The intention of the officials to defeat is to judge, and the intention of not being frank is to be false..."

"Does the king want to be treated by others?" As soon as he talked about the Dharma, Meng Zhengqin immediately returned to normal and asked this question.

"Of course, it is to practice the rule of man. Should we practice the "Chicken Second Class"?" Xiong Jing smiled. "The rule of the king is mostly determined by the king. Is this the rule of man or the rule of law? Now the Chu State is changing, is one person legislative or the people legislative? Zuo Yinsi was defeated or the people convicted? "

"The king said that all people are noble." At this level of discussion, few people can understand it. Kong Qian is one of them, and Meng Zhengqin is inferior to him.

"The public clan is most important for military merits and bloodshed. If it is not for such a public clan, should one be respected as scholars?" Xiong Jing nodded slightly. He knew that Kong Qian was not as stupid as other sour scholars. "The most evil thing in a country is not for public clans and nobles, but for powerful people. In the past, Jiang Yi, who was a tiger-powered man, was granted the title of "I wish to try my best on the yellow spring and ants" by his ancestor King Xuan. Many Chu soldiers would not be given the title until they died!

The Chu State abolished the king's system and implemented the Ao system. Laws are derived from the public, and punishments are determined by the public. It is not expensive to shed blood, and it is not important to eat wealth without wisdom and skills. How can it not be?"

Those who bleed were soldiers, those who wisely were craftsmen, those who paid food and taxes were farmers and merchants, and scholars had almost no status. Such a social hierarchy was worse than that of the Qin State. The scholars of Qin State could be legal officials, and those who blew up the Chu State should be punished. Kong Qian sighed: "After the king, if you do this, the whole country would be killed, and the literary spirit would no longer exist, and the people would suffer."

"When Ao was implemented, the State of Chu was indeed uninformed." Xiong Jing agreed, "However, summoning you here is a so-called two things."

"Please tell me." Kong Qian sighed.

"First, many prides of the grassroots, even if they are not rudes, the children of the down-and-out princes have long been ignorant of etiquette and law. Kong Qing was present to teach him that this teaching was not to be loyal to the emperor, but to teach them to discipline themselves; not to teach them to be kind, but to teach them to keep etiquette."

"King..." Kong Qian wanted to laugh, "Since the State of Chu is the most important thing to shed blood, why do we teach etiquette and law to praise the scholars and etiquette?"

"Confucius's etiquette is available to avoid praise for the unrestrained and unrestrained body; Mencius's benevolence is not desirable. If you do not receive any reward without any merit, you will receive any reward without merit. How can the establishment be preserved? Therefore, Kong Qing must teach them to be polite." Xiong Jing suddenly pulled out his sword and bounced it for a moment before saying: "The sword blade is a bloody praise for the scholar, and the sword sheath is Confucius' etiquette. The sword of Chu still needs to be equipped with a sword sheath, so that the sword blade can be preserved and immortal."

"I ask the king to kill people by the king." Xiong Jing said, Kong Qian understood, because he understood, he took the opportunity to seek the system of the king by the king.

"If the honorary scholars kill people but do not die, they are said to the common people. Among the honorary scholars, they will kill people without laws and die." Xiong Jing said in a deep voice. "In the future, the honorary scholars will have the law of honoring scholars, and the common people will have the law of honoring scholars. If the praises scholars are guilty, the praises will be made to discuss the crimes. If the common people are guilty, the common people will be made to discuss the crimes."

"But the common people don't know." Kong Qian was very regretful.

"Just about to be unaware of it." Xiong Jing smiled. "If the people fear power but do not have virtue, if these people practice benevolence and righteousness, they will be unruly and wait for an opportunity to cause chaos; if they commit murder, they will prostrate themselves and be convinced. If they have virtue but do not fear power, how dare the people who praise the people who praise themselves? If they do evil, they will die. Instead of killing, it is better to be virtue."

"I know, please tell me about the two." Kong Qian's heart ignited some new hope.

"The two are Baiyue." Xiong Jing stood up and said, "Our Chu abolished the king's system and implemented the Ao system. What is the Ao system? It is not a belligerent to think that the Ao system is the clan alliance system. If there is no king, there will be no country. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the ancestor Xiong Qu once proclaimed the king, but this king was only for verbal talk. He was not a king of a country, and there was no king's system in the country. Only the ancestor Wu called the king was the real king. At that time, the Chu State had become a king and could be called a country.

The Chu State does not implement a royal system, and the political system should be the same as Baiyue. Since it is the same as Baiyue, why don’t the Chu Yue clan join forces on this?"

The words of alliance shocked Kong Qian and Meng Zhengqin. The proposal was first heard of whimsical thoughts, but when they thought about it, they felt that it was natural. When they reacted in this way, Xiong Jing was stunned at the bell and tripod not far away. The new policy of Chu State, abolishing the king's system and implementing the Ao system, is essentially disbanding the country and then implementing the clan alliance system, which goes back to the state system before King Wu of Chu.

In the theory of later generations, this system is called military democracy, which is a political system in which the original commune disintegrates into the formation of the state. Any nation has implemented such a system, "All cultural nations have experienced their own heroic era during this period (Selected Works of Marx and Engels, Volume 4, P159). The heroes produced in this era will later become kings, and eventually establish a monarchy and form a country.

When and who became the leader of the Xiong clan alliance is no longer a testament, but it is undoubtedly King Wu who completed the clan tribe and the last shot of the country. King Wu was hard and good at fighting. He reigned for fifty years. With his military merits and power, the rest of the clans were suppressed, and the king system was officially formed here. The history after King Wu was the history of the rising rise of the king system and the declining clans. The light of the Ruoao clan was actually the last echo of the clan alliance system. Once the Ruoao clan was defeated, the Chu State entered the era of monarchy.

Similarly, once all the generations of Ruoao's family died when they were defeated, the Chu State became in a slump. In the following history, the Chu State had no real hero, because the heroic era had ended, and the Chu State could only have one hero, that is, the King of Chu.

In the era of King Wen, King Wen was unable to return to the capital because of his defeat in the war and eventually died outside the capital. In the era of King Zhuang, King Gong was drunk and unconscious on the night of the Battle of Yanling. If it were the era before King Wen, he would have been abandoned by the clans and the regicides followed one after another, but no regicide happened. Fortunately, King Gong was not an unaware of himself. Before his death, he was still thinking about the defeat and escape in the Battle of Yanling. The posthumous title he gave himself was either "ling" or "Li", revealing his regret for fifteen years. It ironically that the ministers forgot the heroic era and brave tradition of the Chu people earlier than him. They went against his will. The posthumous title was not "ling" or "Li", but "Gong".

Thinking of the Chu people's past and the poor Gong Wang, Xiong Jing reluctantly came to his senses and sighed unconsciously - a big tree was cut off and sawed open. After it was built, the house was demolished hundreds of years later and planted it again. Can it still survive again?

"The king wants to join Baiyue?" When Xiong Jing was out of sight, Kong Qian and Meng Zhengqin looked at each other, and both of them were a little excited. Baiyue is the real barbarian. If he could educate Baiyue, it would be a great achievement.

"Why do you say it is a union?" Xiong Jing said unhappily, "Chu State is already a clan, and Baiyue is also a clan tribe. Since that's the case, why can't it be united? Since it is united, Baiyue should implement the Chu system, and the barbaric Baiyue warriors who have not been educated should also be aware of etiquette and understand etiquette. As with the honorary scholars, it is not to teach them how to be loyal to the emperor, but to teach them how to discipline themselves."

"Kong Qing, is this possible?" After pausing for a while, letting Kong Qian understand his meaning, Xiong Jing asked.

"It's feasible, it's feasible." Kong Qian replied repeatedly. "However, in the land of Baiyue, miasma is rampant..."

"They will send Jiashi to Yingdu to receive education." Xiong Jing interrupted. The miasma of Baiyue will dissipate in autumn and winter, but this is Baiyue's secret, and he cannot tell others.

"I heard that I am not in his position and do not plan his own affairs..." Kong Qian started to hold on again, he wanted an official.

"Your official position will be determined by the court's discussion. If you are not accused of the imperial court, you will not lose your identity as the Kong clan." Xiong Jing didn't care. After Kong Qian left, he looked at Meng Zhengqin who was still holding the book "The Book of Chicken" and said: "The law will also change. The laws of people vary from clan to clan. The crime will be discussed by the clan, and it will no longer be judged by the Zuo Yin Mansion. Zuo Yin Mansion can guide and suggest that if the clan does not obey, there is no right to interfere."

"I dare to ask the king, if there is no law, how can his crime be discussed?" Meng Zhengqin was confused.

"There is no sin to be a crime, and the40s say that he is no sin to be a sin." Xiong Jing said: "The law is not written, and it is based on the customs and rules."

"However, the people are evil..." Meng Zhengqin refuted, which made Xiong Jing not understand whether he was going to argue or debate.

"The people's evil habits should be carefully discussed with the people, rather than just promulgating laws to rule the crime with the law." Xiong Jing felt that saying this to him was probably playing the piano against a cow, and what he pretended to be in his mind was probably written. "You go back to your house and go back to see how our Chu State was law before King Wu and how to convict him. After reading it, we will see the unscrupulous ones."
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