Even if you use a vertical silver needle without bait or hook, those fat carp will hit it repeatedly, causing the fish float to float up and down and stagger around.
This will not be the case in Chang'an Jun's Mansion. The carps here have learned to be smart. Without bait, no fish would pay attention to the broken silver needle.
The First Emperor wore a loose and loose light yellow robe that was not close to the body. For a king, such clothes were somewhat inappropriate and not suitable for wearing in front of others.
The imperial robe, cut according to the figure of the First Emperor and perfectly suitable for the First Emperor, would show the Emperor's majesty, but this robe would show the First Emperor's laziness.
Normally the First Emperor would not dress like this unless it was to achieve a certain purpose, such as getting closer to a certain talent.
And now I wear it this way because it is comfortable. Mianfu is both power and restraint.
After the initial period of discomfort since he asked the Prime Minister's Office to handle most of the government affairs, the First Emperor now feels extremely relaxed.
A small part of the power was given away and most of the constraints were lost. You can go to bed early every day, or you can go find a few harem concubines to have babies.
The First Emperor touched the fishing rod lightly, closed his eyes and stretched his body in the warm sun, raising his arms and sliding down his sleeves. He stretched out and took a breath comfortably.
"This kind of indulgent life really makes me addicted."
Ge Nie, who came up to me at some point, saw the First Emperor looking like this, his stern face twitched, and he had the urge not to do anything for the First Emperor.
[How is being so lazy different from a young master? ! ]
Ta Ta ~
His steps were deliberately heavier, making two distinct soft sounds on the grass.
The First Emperor moved his arms forward very naturally, and then stretched them upward. He repeated this several times, and then looked back and glanced at Gai Nie.
"Why are you disturbing my practice?"
"...Mao Heng has arrived at the house. Your Majesty, would you like to see him?"
"not see."
The First Emperor responded very quickly and continued to do arm raising exercises. After doing four more sets, he inadvertently turned around and found that Genie was still there, speaking in a bad tone.
"Why don't you leave? Is there anything else?"
"Your Majesty told Nie Yan a few days ago that when Xunzi's disciples enter Xianyang, they should be seen in person."
The First Emperor frowned and lowered his hands.
"Have I ever said this?"
Gai Nie's face was expressionless, but his answer was decisive.
"Your Majesty said so personally."
"No, why don't I remember."
"Your Majesty, don't you want to be as lazy as Lord Chang'an?"
The First Emperor's face suddenly dropped.
"I am not the King of Qi, and you are not Zou Ji. Anyone who stabs me in the face will not only not get a reward, but will also be hated by me."
Gai Nie's face drooped, but his tone also changed from like a pool of stagnant water to a slight splash of water.
"If Your Majesty does not depose Nie, please follow your preamble."
Seeing the firmness of the seal order, the First Emperor somewhat understood how his younger brother felt when he was forced to become an official.
To see Xunzi's disciples is indeed what the First Emperor said, in order to win over people's hearts and do the thing of buying horse bones for a thousand gold. But now, the First Emperor didn't want to see him anymore.
He originally thought that he alone was ensuring the operation of the Qin State, and that he had to do everything himself. But since he became the director of Xiangbang Mansion, he found that nothing happened without him.
Recently, I looked through the words and deeds of Ying Chengxuan handwritten by Xunzi, and he agreed very much with what Ying Chengxuan said in it - Qin will continue to operate as usual without everyone, and no one in the world is irreplaceable.
"Leave such small matters to the Prime Minister, and the two Prime Ministers will do it. Report the names of the official positions they have arranged, and I will do the final review."
Gai Nie was unmoved and bowed slightly.
"Your Majesty, please keep your promise."
"There are at least thousands of Xunzi's disciples. How can I see them all?"
"Your Majesty, please keep your promise."
The First Emperor pondered for a moment.
"When Xunzi's disciples arrive, I will see them all."
[I said I would see you when I entered Xianyang, but I did not say I would see you immediately when I entered Xianyang. ]
Having no reason to dissuade him anymore, Gai Nie pursed his lips, glanced briefly at the slightly sullen Emperor Shihuang, turned around and left, as fast as a shooting star.
[If the young master is not the king, the Qin Kingdom will be over sooner or later! ]
The First Emperor changed to a relaxing posture and lay down again. Under him were tiger skins and bears skins that he had plundered from Chang'an Palace...
The warm sun was shining low in the west, and the leisurely Emperor Shihuang picked up the fishing rod again, picked up the silver needle and swung it around again before throwing it into the pond. Thinking about what he heard from Gai Nie, Lu Buwei's remarks were taken advantage of by the wisher.
"If I had known this, I would have become King Wen of Zhou."
Step~
Step~
There were footsteps again.
Before the people arrive, the sound arrives first.
"Zhang Han pays homage to His Majesty."
Zhang Han, who was wearing bone-corroding skull armor, bowed his head to the armrest and stood ten steps away from the First Emperor to salute.
"Has the person been found?"
"yes."
"My safety will be in your hands, Zhang Han."
Wow~
Zhang Han knelt down, his armor ringing softly.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Zhang Han said in a deep voice:
"only!"
The First Emperor holds a fishing rod.
"The power of the original secret guard is handed over to the shadow secret guard. The official is in charge of the official, and the shadow secret guard is in charge of the secret guard. Zhang Han, I have given full power to you in Xianyang Palace. Don't betray my trust."
The First Emperor paused slightly.
"I hope that your shadow guard can be like what Zhuzi said: like maggots attached to bones, like shadows that follow you, and like me in person."
Zhang Han shouted in a low voice:
"Handing has lived up to His Majesty's expectations!"
The First Emperor nodded slightly and waved his hand.
"Go down and don't disturb me while I'm fishing."
Zhang Han hesitated for a moment and said softly:
"I still have something to report to Your Majesty."
"explain."
"Concubine Chu has been in and out frequently recently and has been in close contact with many old ministers. The queen is going to Yongdi to visit the Queen Mother and will leave tomorrow. Gan Shangqing has held two banquets in the past three days, and the attendees are all high nobles."
The First Emperor held the fishing rod in his hand, and the fish floated smoothly on the water without any obvious shaking.
"Leave it to them."
"only."
Xunzi's house.
Mao Heng, who was tired of his travels, saw his teacher, whom he had long thought to be dead, sitting safely in front of him. The young man couldn't help but blush.
He wiped away the tears from his eyes, took out a wooden hairpin from his clothes with holes in it, inserted it into his head to fix his hair, bowed and bowed.
"Student Mao Heng, I met the teacher."
Xunzi stood up and returned the courtesy.
"Please get up."
From that day on, people continued to bow and worship in this house.
"Student Fuqiubo, I have met the teacher."
"Student Lu Jia, I met the teacher."
"Student Gongsun Ni, I met the teacher."
"Student Chen Xiao, I met the teacher."
"..."
Xunzi returned the courtesy as usual every time, and then said "please" in a gentle voice. He said three hundred and thirty-four times in half a month, and the Chang'an Jun's Mansion was overcrowded.
Most of his disciples are not famous now. In this era, there are two giants of Legalism, Han Fei and Li Si Zhuyu, and other students are like pebbles, infinitely suppressed.
But if we look at the entire history, many of the Xunzi disciples who came to Xianyang were very famous.
Mao Heng.
Mao Sui recommended himself as Mao Sui's nephew in the idiom. He was a beginner in the late Qin and Han Dynasties, a native of Handan, Zhao State, and the founder of the ancient poetry "Mao Poetry".
He studied "Poetry" from Xunzi, and his poetics was passed down from Zixia. He once wrote "The Biography of Mao's Poems", referred to as "The Biography of Mao", and taught it to his nephew Mao Chang. The world called him "Da Mao Gong". The nephew Mao Chang is called "Little Mao Gong".
Fuqiub.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, he was an important figure in the history of development from Old Confucianism to New Confucianism. According to the records in "Jingning County Chronicle" and the prefaces to previous county chronicles, Fuqiu Bo once lived in seclusion in Hexi with his two cranes.
Proficient in the management of "Poetry", he taught it to Liu Jiao, King of Chu Yuan Dynasty, Shen Peigong, Bai Sheng, Mu Sheng and others during the Qin Dynasty. When Qin burned books, his disciples, King Yuan of Chu, and others left.
Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, visited Lu and summoned Confucian scholars. Fuqiu Bo and his disciple Shen Gong and others met the emperor of the Han Dynasty in Nangong. When Lu Pheasant was in power, Fuqiu Bo traveled west to Chang'an. King Chu Yuan heard about it and sent his son Liu Yingke and his classmates Shen Gong, Bai Sheng, Mu Sheng and others to the west to Chang'an to study under Fu Qiu Bo.
Lu Jia.
A native of the Chu state, he followed the Han emperor Liu Bang as an aide during the conflict between Chu and Han. Because of his eloquence and eloquence, he often sent envoys to lobby various princes. He was highly appreciated by Liu Bang and was known as an "eloquent arguer".
During the reign of Emperor Liu Bang and Emperor Wen, he sent two envoys to South Vietnam to persuade Zhao Tuo to surrender to the Han Dynasty and stabilize the situation in the early Han Dynasty. After Empress Lu died, she persuaded Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and others to work together to punish Lu and bring order to the chaos. They wrote "Xinyu".
When Taoism was flourishing in the early Han Dynasty, he was the first person to advocate Confucianism. In response to the specific era and political needs of the early Han Dynasty, it was based on Confucianism and integrated Huang Lao Taoism and Legalism.
He proposed "practicing benevolence and righteousness, prioritizing the law, combining etiquette and law, and governing by doing nothing". He implemented the thoughts of his teacher Xunzi and laid the ideological foundation for the rule of the early Western Han Dynasty.
Gongsunni.
The author of 28 chapters of "Gongsun Nizi", he is a master of music theory and is known as Gongsun Nizi in the world.
Chen Xiao.
When he was more than seventy years old, he was recommended to Emperor Xiaocheng Liu Ao by the clan minister Liu Xiang and the Huangmen minister Yang Xiong because of his high moral integrity and his ability to rectify the frivolous and vulgar social atmosphere. Liu Ao treated him like a teacher, and he was promoted to Taizhong doctor.
The most important student was Xunzi, and there are countless outstanding disciples.
There is a family with two sons and a reputation of two emperors and masters.
Two sons: Han Feizi and Gongsun Nizi.
The two families are: Mao Heng, a poet, and Lu Jia, an ideological and political diplomat.
There are two prime ministers: Li Si, Prime Minister of Qin, and Zhang Cang, Prime Minister of Han.
The two emperors' teachers were: Fu Qiubo, the teacher of King Chu Yuan, and Chen Xiao, the teacher of Emperor Xiaocheng of Han Dynasty.
When the nobles indulged themselves in the new tower, waiting to see how the First Emperor would end. They didn't know that many talented people who could leave their names in the history of Qing Dynasty had entered Xianyang.
But they didn't know that Li Si, the Zuo Prime Minister of Great Qin, knew about it.
At first, he didn't know that Xunzi, his master, lived in Chang'an Junfu, and he was only one step away from him several times. But with so many brothers from Jixia Academy entering Xianyang, how could Li Si not react?
But he didn't make any move. He pretended not to know, and still only went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to work every day, and never entered the Chang'an Lord's Mansion.
He did not dare to see Xun Qing because he plotted to kill his senior brother Han Fei.
A long time ago, Xun Qing asked someone to tell him that he would expel Li Si from his family and no longer recognize Li Si as his disciple.
On this day, Zhang Cang, who was fair and fat, found Li Si's home while Li Si was taking a bath. He smiled kindly and said slightly reproachfully:
"Senior brother, the teacher has arrived, why don't you go?"
From Xunzi's mouth, Zhang Cang already knew the news of Han Fei's birth, and knew that it was Han Fei who asked for death, and it was not Li Si who was jealous of his ability and plotted his life. The fat man Zhang Cang, who knew the truth, was heartbroken about Li Si.
This time he came to look for Li Si. This was the second time he stepped into Li Si's house after advising Li Si that day. He planned to do the third time tomorrow.
Facing Zhang Cang, who had always been on good terms with each other in Jixia Academy and was the youngest of the trio, Li Si put down his airs as prime minister Zuo and showed a hint of weakness in front of others for the first time.
"Junior brother, what is your identity?"
There was a wry smile on his lips.
"The teacher has already kicked me out of the school."
"But the teacher said it himself?"
"It's the teacher who entrusted me with the instructions."
"Then how can we confirm that what he said is true?"
"He is a close friend of the teacher, and this is absolutely true..."
"Senior brother, I don't want to listen to your explanation. Among the three of us, Cang is the most stupid. Today, senior brother, please be stupid for once."
Fat people are prone to night sweats, and Zhang Cang himself knows this. He wiped the sweat from his hands hard on his body, and then used his round and chubby hands to grab Li Si's skinny hand.
The palms of their hands met, and the fat hands that had just been dried were once again covered with sweat. They pulled hard, but Li Si remained unmoved.
"Brother!"
Zhang Cang's tone was a little urgent.
Li Si took out his hand, looked into the bronze mirror under Zhang Cang's anxious eyes, straightened his face and straightened his clothes.
"Junior brother is right."
Zhang Cang's face turned anxious and he smiled broadly.
Li Si turned around and followed Zhang Cang to the outside.
"The teacher has not said it himself, who knows whether it is true or false!"
The two people in a hurry thought that the carriage was too slow, so they galloped along the galloping road and arrived at Chang'an Jun's Mansion in a short time.
Zhang Cang dismounted first and looked at Li Si with encouraging eyes.
Li Si stared at the Chang'an Jun's Mansion, which he had come to often and should have been familiar with for a long time, but today looked very strange. He gritted his teeth, crossed his horse's back with one leg, and rushed in ahead of Zhang Cang.
As a senior brother, there is no reason to let his junior brother lead.
From Chang'an Jun's Mansion to Xunzi's house, Li Si met many classmates.
Some of them he should call senior brother, some he should call junior brother, but he didn't say hello to any of them, and no one greeted him.
Everyone looked at the top student of Jixia Academy with confusion, and he was the Prime Minister of Zuo of Qin State. Li Si was famous for refuting all the students in the Jixia Academy class.
Li Si held his head high and his face tensed, and stopped when he came to the door of Xunzi's house. First, he straightened his clothes, then took a deep breath, and knocked on the door with trembling hands.
"Enter."
Zhiqua~
Li Si gently opened the door and saw the teacher sitting in front of the case. The teacher's appearance has not changed much from before he left Jixia Academy.
"Student Li Si, I met the teacher."
He shouted loudly, bowed at ninety degrees, and bowed, his body and mind trembling slightly.
Zhang Cang waited at the door, holding his breath, and sweat began to appear on the fat man's face.
Both of them were waiting for two words, two extremely simple words that echoed hundreds of times in this room - please get up.
"You are no longer your disciple."
Xunzi's words were very gentle, but Li Si almost fell to the ground.
Li Siqiang held himself up and said in a harsh voice:
"I am so stupid. I don't know when the teacher will kick me out. What others say cannot be true."
Xunzi's face suddenly became serious.
"If a man has no faith, he will not stand."
Zhang Cang's already fair and chubby face became even fairer, and he knew that this was the teacher admonishing his senior brother. Not knowing what you mean is deception and bad behavior.
Zhang Cang can understand, and so can Li Si.
"Li Si is taught."
Prime Minister Zuo of the Qin Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, and finally he knelt on the ground with a plop and kowtowed to Xunzi nine times.
"Thank you for teaching me and solving my doubts. I can't repay you except nine knocks."
Nine kowtows are the highest ritual.
He stood up, shook his head and was about to leave.
"Three more prayers."
Xunzi's voice was still soft.
Three bows and nine kowtows are the Confucian apprenticeship ritual and the Jixia Academy apprenticeship ritual.
Li Si suddenly turned around and bowed three times.
"Please get up."
Xianyang entered the Xunzi era.
(End of chapter)
