Chapter 55 Identity
But thankfully, although Peng Yue's political mind is very poor, his personality is very commendable. His disgust for Xiang Yu far exceeded Wang Zhu's imagination, and he has basically reached the point where he would rather be broken than to be completely broken.
Peng Yue said tragically, "I would rather die than surrender to Chu! Xiang Yu is not the lord of killing the world!" Wang Zhu almost jumped up happily, struck while the iron was hot, and said without regard for the consequences; "Then please don't hesitate and surrender to Qin immediately. The general will join the franchise when the Qin King is at a disadvantage. The Qin King will definitely treat the general with the world."
Peng Yue said angrily, "You must be a spy from Qin. I will tell you that the tyrannical Qin is more like a tiger and wolf than Xiang Yu and has no faith." Wang Zhu said excitedly. "The general is not a wise man. The tiger and wolf may not have no faith. The wolf pack is united and loyal. He will never stop fighting with his friends until death. He will never leave his wife and children. The general only sees the cruelty of eating meat, but does not see the cohesion, wisdom, courage, loyalty, family affection, and friendship. This is also a matter of being completely covered, and a leaf is blocked from seeing Mount Tai. The Qin State may not be as useless as the general said."
Wang Tian opened his sword and unsheathed again, furious and shouted in a tone that he would never allow Wang Zhu to continue talking: "It's a lot of nonsense, the world of tyrannical Qin is so great that it is as good as you said. I'll ask you, who is the person you are talking to tyrannical Qin like this, and what is your intention?!"
Wang Zhu shouted in a tone of two decibels that surpassed Wang Tian’s tone; “General Peng, whom I am, is the Qin King of Qin, whom everyone hated in the past!!”
As soon as he said this, Peng Yue looked down on the world and saw that life and death were invincible, and he couldn't help but take two or three steps back in surprise before he stood firm and said sternly, "What did you say? You are your King of Qin!"
Wang Zhu regretted it and almost dared not admit it because he saw the powerful hatred in Peng Yue's tone and eyes.
"Yes, I am the King of Qin today. What does the general want? If you want to kill me, you can do it now. The time is rare, don't hesitate. Even if I am blind, I will misjudgment!" Wang Zhu took the risk and took it a chance. Anyway, it was a dragon's pond and tiger's den, and he would have a life of death.
"Come, come!" Wang Tiankai's face turned yellow and his words changed a little, and he began to summon his younger brother who was wandering outside the tent again.
"Slow down!" Peng Yue glared at him with a angrily look, thinking that he could blow the whistle in a mess, and he couldn't even get the basic situation. He was so anxious that he could snatch the sky and the earth, making people laugh. It was so muddy that he couldn't put on the wall. "You said you are the King of Qin!" Peng Yue stepped over, grabbed Wang Zhu's neck, and said viciously; "My family of thirteen, the eldest brother, the second sister-in-law, the father, the mother, and the uncle and the aunt were all dead at the hands of the tyrannical Qin. Don't let me swallow you alive." Peng Yue said as he shook his whole body, his eyes were moist, and his eyes were blurred. Unexpectedly, the great enemy who had been waiting for so many years came to his eyes today: "Say, you are really Qin Ershi, how can you prove it!"
Wang Tiankai wondered, "General, are you confused? Didn't your family encounter a mountain torrent and a boat overturned and drowned when they were fishing? What's the matter with the tyrannical Qin?" Wang Tiankai blurted out without hesitation, and regretted it after he finished speaking. Isn't this the general unable to go down the stairs in person?
Peng Yue threw Wang Zhu out and said sternly with confidence. "In August that year, a tyrant Qin official came to my house to collect taxes. My father and uncle had no choice. Even though they knew that the flood season was coming, they still made an appointment to go into the water to fish. That was the way to die. Everyone knew in their hearts that it was a life-threatening death, but it would be even more impossible to live without going. In the Qin Dynasty, they would be a serious crime. Not only could they do it for imprisonment and corvee labor, but they would also cause the whole village to be convicted of the whole village. My family would be killed by harsh policies." Wang Tiankai was aroused by Peng Yue. "The severe punishment and law have indeed forced countless people to death. It turns out that we are right to raise an army to rebel against Qin."
Wang Zhu suddenly sighed, "The harsh government is more powerful than the tiger! Although the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries and stopped the bloody killings that lasted for two hundred years, it did not stop the tyranny. Although the First Emperor had made great achievements and worked hard to govern, he did not complete the transformation from the Qin State to the Qin Dynasty. Although the Legalist Shang Yang looked forward in everything, he also had certain disadvantages. The First Emperor was as wise as the sea, but he did not have the experience of governing a great empire in the thousands of miles. Moreover, the Qin State's highly centralized system and the ruling class system were too complex, and it did not form an effective restriction on officials, which caused some officials to dereliction of duty. The Legalist's laws and regulations became a breeding ground for these treacherous crimes. This was not the original intention of the First Emperor to unify the world!!"
Wang Zhu talked to himself, tears filling his eyes, as if he was telling the so-called "tyrannical Qin" to the people of the world. Qin Shihuang, the greatest politician in Chinese history, was definitely not a single man or a reckless man. His ideals and revenge were correct, but he did not have good things, or it could be said that he had no time to perfect it. So the Qin Dynasty, a newly formed but not perfected, quickly sailed to the shallows, hit the reef, and sank. If Qin Shihuang could live for more than ten years and realize the fact that the Legalists were too fierce and domineering, and the Qin State added some Confucian gentleness to form a political pattern of Legalism, Confucianism and Taoism, perhaps the fate of the entire China, and even the Chinese nation in the next three to four thousand years, would be rewritten.
People can try to think about it. If the Chinese nation has been living in Shang Yang's reforms and has been in the magic of politics, then the steam engine, constitutional monarchy, and industrial revolution should all appear in China. The Legalists did not complete the transformation in the Qin Dynasty, Taoism failed in the Han Dynasty, and Confucianism, a corrupt political system that encouraged regression, took the opportunity to sweep China, occupy China, and stood tall in China for three thousand years without falling. Let China retreat and become rigid, for thousands of years, only revolve around the Four Books and Five Classics. Just like before Mr. Huang Yi came out of nowhere, people around Jin Yong and Gu Long's martial arts novels were the same.
Without the Legalists and Shang Yang looking forward and reforming the spirit of new reform, the progress of the entire Chinese nation is very limited. How to make progress is also drawn in the category of Confucianism.
There is a qualitative difference compared to the European Industrial Revolution.
Wang Zhu's mind had tens of thousands of thoughts when Peng Yue grabbed his collar. If the fate of the Chinese nation ushered in the most glorious page from there, it would undoubtedly be the "Hundred Schools of Thoughts" and "Shang Yang's Reform". The opportunity for the leap brought to China by the Qin Dynasty was not perfected and Qin Shihuang died suddenly. Qin died in the hands of the young master Ying Hu Hai, and flew down.
From one perspective, Qin State is different from any dynasty. Its defeat marks a turning point in the direction of the entire Chinese nation—
Wang Zhu wanted to change everything and establish an era where the three elements of Legalism, Confucianism and Taoism were integrated, and philosophy was flourishing and contending. We should advocate freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of writing, so that the Chinese nation would have more characters like Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mo Zi, Han Feizi, Sun Tzu, and Zou Yan. These great figures were more famous than Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Napoleon, Caesar, and Octavia!
In fact, in Wang Zhu's mind, a Tao Te Ching is a hundred times stronger than Socrates' philosophical theory. Han Xin, Xiang Yu, Bai Qi, Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Yue Fei and others have more tactics than Caesar and others.
The reason why the Chinese are forgotten by the world is that Western academics later advanced to the East, and all this can be rewritten. Starting from the Qin Dynasty, from Wang Zhu, from the epoch-making and changing the destiny of the world, the second generation, should be written. Buddha Tathagata, Amitabha, Amen, Allah bless! Bless the destiny of the Chinese nation.
He needs Mr. Peng Yue’s support now!
"I have no way to prove my identity unless someone here has seen me!" Wang Zhu said calmly.
Peng Yue stared at Wang Zhu for a moment and shouted, "Go and find Kong Feng. Didn't he claim to be a descendant of Confucius, and have you ever seen Qin Ershi? Let him take a look!"
The old scholar Kong Feng walked over in all directions after a while, entered the tent, looked around with his eyes wide open, ran to Wang Zhu and bowed; "See General Peng, I don't know what advice the general would ask me for!"
Wang Zhu and Peng Yue, who were in a state of tension, couldn't help laughing, and Peng Yue shouted angrily, "Mr. Confucius, what's wrong with you? I'm here, who are you here?" Kong Feng raised his gray head, looked with his white beard for a long time, and distinguished Peng Yue's location from the sound.
"I read it wrong, I read it wrong, what's the matter with the general looking for me?"
When Peng Yue saw his condition, his heart was cold. Even if he saw it, it might not be reliable. But since he was here, he asked him: "My master, didn't you say you recognized the King of Qin? Look, who is the person standing opposite you?"
Kong Qi's words almost shocked the whole room: "Aren't you the general opposite me?" Peng Yue said angrily; "Back!" Kong Qi suddenly realized, turned around and saw that there were indeed many overlapping shadows of people. He looked at them for a long time and said in surprise; "You-you-you-you-you-you-you-you-shoulder" Peng Yue said nervously; "Do you recognize?"
"Can you squat down a little? I can't see clearly!"
Wang Zhuxin said that this old guy was not so decadent last time in Xianyang, why has he grown a lot recently? He knew that Kong Feng was running around to promote his Confucian books recently, and he was so angry that he was exhausted. In order to prove his identity, Wang Zhu still squatted down obediently.
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Kong Feng was three feet tall and shouted like a shrew, "Your father burned books and buryed scholars and killed our fellow disciples. How could this account be settled?" Wang Zhu rolled his eyes. Isn't this adding fuel to the fire? Peng Yue had an objection to the Qin Dynasty, so he even came to put a spell on it. Wang Zhu said coldly, "Old Master, remember when I met you in Xianyang last time, you said that the First Emperor killed was not a Confucian scholar but a sorcerer in the martial arts world. Those were rumors from the outside that were not accepted. He also said that the First Emperor burned books to stop rumors from all directions, which was a good plan for chaos. Why is this statement now?!" Wang Zhu was so full of money by this old guy! It was even more uncomfortable than being slaughtered!
"The tyrannical Qin Dynasty was cruel and unruly. I said so to save my life. Otherwise, you would definitely torture me with cruel criminal laws. Fortunately, I adapted to the situation and used the expedient method to delay you, the foolish monarch, and used the method of escape from the wolf den in Guanzhong. Otherwise, I would definitely want to be like tens of thousands of dead Confucian scholars, without a place to bury!" Kong Feng was filled with righteous indignation, and almost burst into flames in his throat.
"Wait, tens of thousands of Confucian scholars? Kong Yu, don't talk nonsense. There are tens of thousands of Confucian scholars there. You can tell me clearly that there are less than five hundred, but why are there tens of thousands of Confucian scholars coming out? You tell lies and go to the eighteen levels of hell!" Wang Zhu said a little confused as he spoke, bringing Buddhism and great Confucian scholars together, thinking that not lies was a Confucian precept.
Kong Feng said in surprise, "What are you talking nonsense!" Wang Zhu said angrily, "I don't talk nonsense. Although I am well-educated, my character is very problematic. I will expose your lies now!" Kong Feng said in a lawsuit, his neck was thicker. Perhaps it was because Wang Zhu neglected him last time that he made him hold a grudge. He shouted, "I am walking straight and doing things with conscience all my life, and I have never told a lie. I don't believe you can tell anything." I thought to myself, you didn't recognize me before, how could you know what I did?
Wang Zhu said with great confidence; "You said that those Confucians have no place to die, and this is to spread rumors and lie. You just said that it was a killing, so how could it be called a place to have no place to die!" Kong Qi was speechless and stuttered; "You still have the face to say it!" Wang Zhu said; "Last time you went to Xianyang to receive you politely and respectfully, why did you want to repay your kindness and revenge!" Kong Qi blurted out: "That's because-"
Wang Zhu smiled and said, "Why?" Kong Feng's face changed drastically, and he turned red!
"Clang" a sound as light as a dragonfly flapping its wings came, and the cold light was like autumn water. The Zhanlu sword in Peng Yue's hand had already been pulled out. Then there was a shout at the top of his lungs; "King Qin, come and take your life!" Wang Zhu didn't care about talking nonsense to the old guy, pushed the dead branch-like body out, suddenly dodged back, and kept saying in his mouth; "Peng Yue, if you kill me, Xiang Yu will unify the world immediately, and your death will come with you." Peng Yue stabbed with a sword and couldn't withdraw his move. Wang Zhu's intuition fell into the ice cellar, from his heart to the tip of his fingers. Only then did he know the power of the Zhanlu sword.
"If you don't kill me, I will immediately give you the title of King of Liang and let you control the fertile land of thousands of miles. Moreover, it will definitely improve the politics of the Qin Dynasty and abolish the severe punishments and laws of Qin. Think carefully whether you want to be a lackey for the Chu people or a righteous King of Liang!" Wang Zhu said quickly, and before Peng Yue came out of the second sword, he had already expressed all his meaning. After saying that, he just didn't know if the hideous and terrifying Peng Yue listened.
Peng Yue, who was almost crazy, suddenly threw the sword on the ground and roared, "Everyone gets out, get out!" Kong Feng and Wang Tiankai and the guards didn't know why Peng Yue was angry, but Wang Tiankai knew that Peng Yue hated others disobeying his orders the most, and he must go out when he said he would go out. He quickly winked at the people in the coach's tent and retreated one after another.
Wang Zhu turned around, and the screams in his throat looked at the bellows that were whimpering: "Ying Hu Hai, are you saying true?" Wang Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Peng Yue was going to bite people, so he was asking for a promise!
"It's true that General Peng is also an extremely smart person. You should understand that I can't deceive you. If the general cooperates with me, I can give you another 20,000 cavalry for you to expedite you, and I will not send generals to lead troops. From now on, you will be the legitimate King of Liang." Wang Zhu almost swears to the sky, his tone is extremely sincere.
Peng Yue calmed down for a moment and suddenly sighed, "But the tyrannical Qin Dynasty harmed the people and caused the people to live in poverty. I, Peng Yue, was seven feet tall, how could I cooperate with you?!"
Wang Zhu said, "I just said that after I cleaned up the rivers and mountains, I will definitely cultivate political wisdom and love the people. The tyranny of the past will be abolished. Now the general will be relieved. If you retreat ten thousand, the general killed me today and took my head to Xiang Yu to ask for rewards. What will the result be? With your hatred with Xiang Yu, he should not be named king. Even if you give me a title, do you see Yingbu? It is just a county, with seven or eight county towns, and only a hundred miles away. What's the point? Moreover, Xiang Yu considered that your hometown is close to Pengcheng and would force you to migrate, and it is very likely to drive you to Bin County, Changsha for a generation. At that time, Xiang Yu had no Qin land and the county and counties in the country were unified. Who dares not listen to him? If General Peng opposed him, the fate of the fate would be very miserable. As the saying goes, 'The cunning rabbit died and the lack of dogs cooked, and the birds were full of good bows.'"
Peng Yue said, "You said it nicely. Xiang Yu killed the donkey. Could it be that you, King Qin?" Wang Zhu said emotionally on the surface. "I can swear to the sky. I have long admired General Peng's reputation. If the general is willing to serve, I will not only grant you the King of Liang, but also grant you the 'rank of General' of Qin. The officials of Qin will worship him when they see the general. Moreover, I can guarantee that you will not kill three times-"
Peng Yue frowned and said, "What is the three no killing!" Wang Zhu sneered in his heart and said, "First, don't kill the sky, second, don't kill the earth, third, don't kill the iron weapon! Unless the sky collapses, the earth sinks, and the iron ore is gone, General Peng will always be the King of Liang of the Qin Dynasty!" This method was used by Liu Bang to coax Han Xin back then. When Empress Lu killed Han Xin, she covered Han Xin with a black cloth and stabbed him to death with a bamboo stick. Sweat! This is the so-called three no killing!
Chapter completed!