Chapter 222 The Year of the Book of Horse Clothes
The war is finally over.
The coalition forces were not able to defeat Qin. Apart from Zhao, Wei ceded several important cities and completely lost the power to take the initiative to attack Qin. Qin firmly occupied Nanyang and important sections of the road to support South Korea. Chu ceded all cities bordering South Korea and lost the power to attack the Sanjin area. South Korea paid the most painful price. Qin directly established Sanchuan County on the land ceded by South Korea.
This directly threatened the capital of Wei State, Daliang.
Only Zhao State did not pay any price. Qin State seemed strong, but Qin State insisted on this war. When fighting with the coalition forces, Qin State paid a heavy price and it took some time to restore its national strength. Therefore, facing Wei Wuji, who still retained his strength and Zhao State, who had spared his strength, Fan Ju did not force him anymore. The "brother country" should have been friendly.
General Jingyang brought his army back to the Chu territory to fight and quickly pacified the rebels in the country. These rushing troops in the country were not opponents of the Chu elites who fought bloody battles with the Qin army on the front line. Although these elites of Chu were not opponents of the Qin people, the long-term war made them very strong. Jingyang did not advance and fought steadily. In less than two months, he finally eliminated the endless rebels.
The King of Chu ordered that taxes and labor service be pardoned or reduced in various places, which calmed the outbreak of public grievances. The King of Chu even welcomed all the warriors returning to Chu like a hero. He walked out of Shouchun happily with the nobles in the city. General Jingyang lowered his head, looking particularly depressed. However, the King of Chu grabbed his hand and loudly told everyone General Jingyang's contributions on the front line to resist Bai Qi's achievements.
The King of Chu took out his family's fortune and rewarded the army that returned from expedition well. From generals to soldiers, they received rewards from the King of Chu. Even Chunshen Jun, who was seriously ill, came to the banquet of the King of Chu? He apologized to everyone in front of him and begged General Jingyang for forgiveness? Jingyang naturally had no idea of blaming him? Speaking of which, Chunshen Jun had nothing to blame at all.
In the past? Jing Yang despised Chunshenjun's character because Chunshenjun blindly tried to please Qin? He did not dare to fight with Qin at all? Faced with the rude and arrogance of the Qin people, Chunshenjun just wanted to compromise and give his own gifts to the King of Qin and Fan Ju, and acted as a flattering look? But at this moment? Jing Yang really understood the weak person in front of him. He finally understood why Chunshenjun had to keep tolerant.
Chu was not an opponent of Qin. Because of the previous crushing defeat, Chu did not have enough food or enough weapons? Chunshenjun had talked to everyone many times before. He always emphasized that what Chu should do is not to fight against Qin head-on? Instead, constantly accumulating strength and increasing its power? Joining the countries to attack Qin together. However, everyone's words were regarded as timid. It was as if he was just saying it to cover up his cowardice.
But now, Jingyang truly understood Chunshen Jun's idea. The Chu State, without grain reserves, could not engage in a head-on battle with Qin State, because too many recruits of soldiers would affect farming, and not enough grain reserves would cause Chu State to fall into a vicious cycle. There was not enough weapons, so that the Chu people could only go to the battlefield with empty hands or with farm tools. It was really a bit of a dream to defeat the Qin people.
Therefore, when facing Chunshenjun, Jingyang only had guilt and regret on his face. Jingyang has always been a war-holding faction. He tried the timid insulting Chunshenjun and persuaded the King of Chu to regain the territory of Chu. He was a little afraid to look at Chunshenjun's eyes, and did not dare to look at the person who replaced his crimes. Huang Xie took the initiative to hold Jingyang's hand and said with a smile: "Now, I can drink with you."
The King of Chu looked at the ministers at the banquet and did not blame anyone. He smiled, as if he had completely forgotten the shame of defeat. The ministers were the same. They listened to the songs and danced, and they were so happy that the shadow of defeat was thrown away. Soon, the State of Chu began to implement a series of systems to restore national strength, including forcibly distributing oxen, encouraging farming and sericulture, releasing slave servants, etc.
In addition to these things, Huang Xie had his own ideas on the issue of "The Book of Horses" which caused a greater sensation in the local area.
Huang Xie chose to make public the "Horse Costume Book" that was rampant in China. He found that the more he banned such books, the greater the influence of this work. Therefore, Huang Xie and others collected a lot of Ma Fujun's works and revised it. During this period, he was surprised to find that the "Horse Costume Book" had become thicker again. It turned out that it was because Zhao Kuo used some new remarks when teaching his disciples. Huang Xie immediately listed these and produced the official version of "Horse Costume Book: The King's Seventh Year".
Then a large number of dissemination began. This version revised by Huang Xie deliberately reduced the concept of unity, but vigorously promoted the idea of benevolent politics, and even combined the recent system of Chu State with it.
As if the Chu State was about to follow the example of Ma Fujun in implementing benevolent government, they immediately changed the tax rate and reduced the frequency of corvee labor. They wrote this matter very much. The Chu people, who were still angry and sad, finally saw a little dawn. They were excited again and began to devote themselves to farming.
The true meaning of "The Book of Horse Costume" and the system he mentioned finally exuded influence in various countries. Qi, which attaches the most importance to theory, naturally would not miss this book. The King of Qi collected the original manuscripts recording Zhao Kuo's words and deeds from Zhao State, and also collected the Qin version of "The Book of Horse Costume" of Qin State, the deleted and revised version of "The Book of Horse Costume" of Qin State, and the Huang Xie version of "The Book of Horse Costume: The Seventh Year of the King" of Chu State, and produced a very thick set of Qi State, which checked for shortcomings and filled out the gaps and combined four copies into one.
Suddenly, these books began to spread on a large scale. After Zhao Kuo arrived at this era, in order to prevent his memory from gradually declining, and to teach Han Fei, he told Han Fei all his experience in his later generations. Of course, this is very cumbersome. Basically, he said whatever he thought of and what Han Fei asked, including the imperial examination system, the selection of filial piety and integrity, and even civil servant examinations.
It also includes political contents of autocracy, constitutionalism, republic, etc. He named all the countries in later generations and directly told them to Han Fei. Although Han Fei thought what the teacher said was a bit absurd, he still recorded it. After talking about the law, politics, diplomacy, history, military, etc., Zhao Kuo also talked about astronomy, geography, several simple scientific principles proposed later, as well as some mathematical concepts.
However, Zhao Kuo's science has always been very poor. He only proposed in this regard that the place where we live is a sphere, the moon surrounds the earth, the earth circulates the sun, the gravity, the land and oceans on the earth, the law of leverage, and water vapor that can be used as power, machinery and life, and these are the junior high school knowledge he can think of... Zhao Kuo is very poor. What he said later can almost say a few words. Han Fei is very powerful because he summarized these.
He classified it according to different theories. The beginning was the core unified theory, followed by political system, law, diplomacy, history, military, etc., and science, mathematics, astronomy, geography, logic, etc., which he himself did not understand, and there were miscellaneous articles. The miscellaneous articles were content that Han Fei thought was unimportant, such as basketball, football, and other five-character poems, lyrics, music, musical instruments, comics, acting, Peking Opera...
Therefore, when these manuscripts were circulated to Qin, the King of Qin would be so surprised, and Fan Ju had no desire to compete at all. Zhao Kuo almost summarized his experience for two thousand years.
Fan Ju compiled these into "The Book of Horse Costumes". The Qin people's rigorous and rigorous are that they will not make up random things and respect Zhao Kuo's original works. But even so, Fan Ju still removed the things that were too shocking, such as people electing kings and taking the people as the masters in the future. Fan Ju felt absurd when reading them. He did not expect that even people like Ma Fujun would admire the ancient times and want to restore the ancient Chinese discussions and the wise king abdicated.
As for astronomy and geography, this era is much more free, and anyone can express their own views on the world, so there is no deletion.
It was just because the Qin people valued ghosts and gods that the atheism proposed by Zhao Kuo was deleted.
As for the miscellaneous articles, haha, what football do we Qin people play?
But even so, the "Horse Costume Book" involves too much content, covering almost everything, seriously provoking all the theories. This makes many schools angry. Most of them are studying one field. How about you, is this to catch us all in one place?
If an ordinary person writes such a book, he will definitely be rejected by everyone, or be directly considered a madman, because the content in his book cannot be accepted at all. However, the author of this book is not an ordinary person, and the person who says these words is Ma Fujun, who is a wise man, and everyone admires it. Therefore, after the five versions of "Ma Fujun" were circulated, the influence he should have finally burst out.
In 265 BC, all countries stopped the war in unison, and their goals were all placed on the "Mafu Book". Different people could always see different things from the book. The King of Qin saw the unification in the book, Bai Qi learned to attack the heart from the book, Qin officials learned the rule of law from the book, and Huang Xie learned to govern the country from the book. Is it feasible that the wise men in the country began to study the systems proposed by Mafujun?
Some generals began to study the war theory proposed by Ma Fujun, the Mohist school began to study what steam was said as power, and the machinery he proposed. Some scholars began to test the law of leverage, and some were preparing to explore the world based on the map given by Ma Fujun... Of course, the most unexpected thing was that some people began to play the games in the miscellaneous chapters of "Ma Fu Book", which were quite popular.
Zhao Kuo seemed to suddenly see a brand new world for the people of this world, refreshing all cognitions.
But this also caused public anger. Many scholars and many sages began to criticize the "Horse Costume Book", so books such as "Criticism of Horse Costume Book" and "On Horse Costume Book" were born, which specializes in studying and criticizing Zhao Kuo. For a time, even the common people of various countries knew that there was such a magical book... King Zhao was not willing to fall behind when he learned about the affairs of various countries, so he hurriedly found Han Fei and made the most authentic version of "Zhao Ma Fujun Book".
This version of the horse costume book was also accepted by South Korea and Wei. Yan was the lazy one. They directly found various versions of the horse costume book... They did not produce it anymore, nor did they express that they accepted that version. The "Horse Costume Book" which gradually became more comprehensive has become popular everywhere and has become a must-read book for nobles. If they had not read "Horse Costume Book", they would not know what to hype when chatting with friends.
But even though the amount of dissemination is amazing, there are still voices of opposition and doubt. No one or no one fully accepts the knowledge of "Mafu Book", including Han Fei, and he does not recognize some of the remarks made by the teacher. These things are too advanced. Therefore, today, some people recognize some of the theories, some use some of the knowledge, and some completely deny them.
Ma Fujun became famous again in various countries. This time, it was no longer because of his benevolent actions or a powerful enemy he defeated. This time he became famous for his doctrine. He had become a sage recognized by everyone and was classified as a miscellaneous family. However, the number of people who regard him as an enemy and criticize his doctrine is increasing day by day. In various places, a large number of scholars rushed to Zhao State.
Scholars from all walks of life began to rush to Mafu in a mighty way. Some wanted to discuss knowledge with him, some wanted to make him admit his mistakes, and some wanted to learn from him.
It is said that a "debate" broke out between Chu Mo and Chu Ru. No one knows why they debated, but the content of the debate was Ma Fujun, which is no longer a secret. After a debate, scholars from both sides won the Confucianism for the first time. Six disciples were seriously injured by Chu Mo, twelve disciples were slightly injured, while only five disciples were slightly injured. This is surprising, because in the long-term debate between the two sides, Confucianism rarely gained an advantage.
Later I learned that there were many Gongyang Religions among this group of Confucian scholars. What is even more difficult to understand is that these people were sent by Xunzi. You should know that Xunzi scolded all the Confucian scholars very much, and Gongyang Religions was not spared.
Xunzi once said: "The hat is crooked and its words are dull. Xue Yu's limp and Xue Shun's quick departure. This is the slut of Zi Zhang's school. She is neatly dressed, serious in her face, and doesn't speak all day long as she is holding something. This is the slut of Zi Xia's school. She is lazy and afraid of things, has no shame and is keen on eating and drinking. She always says, "A gentleman does not have to engage in physical labor at all." This is the slut of Zi You's school."
But now he sent "bad scholars" to stop Chu Mo, which is really difficult to understand.
Unfortunately, Xunzi was able to stop some people. After several versions of "Horse Costume Book" were spread everywhere, Xunzi was powerless.
Chapter completed!