The next day.
Ji Heng went to the hut again.
Just like before, the food and wine were already prepared.
And this time it was two bottles of wine.
"Ji Heng, you asked me to learn about the enfeoffments and counties. I have seen them in the past few days. Now it is your turn to tell me."
Hu Haiduan was sitting at the table, his face was red and his heart was not beating. He had indeed gone to find out more about it, but in fact he just looked over it and didn't think about it specifically.
Ji Heng had long been used to it and didn't care at all. He picked up the wine bottle and took a sip, moistened his throat, and said: "I won't rush to talk about enfeoffment and counties this time. I will tell you about counties and enfeoffment first." The context of the controversy.”
"The Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is divided into two periods, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."
"I divided the Zhou Dynasty into two weeks, East and West."
"The east and west weeks were officially divided, with King Ping of Zhou moving eastward as the distinction."
"East and west are just divisions of the location of the capital."
"During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Emperor of Zhou maintained his authority as the common master of the world."
"After King Ping moved eastward, that is, starting from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou royal family began to decline. It only maintained the name of the co-lord of the world, but no longer had the actual ability to control it."
"From now on, the world has entered a new stage."
"Spring and Autumn and Warring States!!!"
Hear the words.
Hu Hai frowned and asked doubtfully: "Didn't you already divide Zhou's things? Why do you still need to divide them into Spring and Autumn and Warring States?"
Ji Heng's face remained as usual and he said: "The 'Spring and Autumn' and the 'Warring States' are not independent dynasties, they are just two special 'historical periods', both belonging to the 'Eastern Zhou'."
"The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were divided into Jin and Jin Dynasties."
"Before King Ping moved eastward and the three families were divided into the Jin Dynasty, it all belonged to the Spring and Autumn Period."
"The three families of Han, Zhao, and Wei were divided into Jin, and they all belonged to the 'Warring States' until the First Emperor unified the world."
"What I'm talking about today starts with the Spring and Autumn Period."
Hu Hai looked at Ji Heng suspiciously, unable to guess what Ji Heng was thinking.
I asked myself to look at the "Feudalization of Counties" earlier, but now I'm talking about the Zhou Dynasty?
How are the two comparable?
partition.
Fusu frowned slightly.
He was also unsure of Ji Heng's thoughts.
Fusu came here this time to inspect Ji Heng.
He was confident that he had understood the essence of "feudalization of counties and counties", so he wanted to test whether Ji Heng had great talent. However, Ji Heng did not speak according to the rules at all, which made him somewhat confused about the situation.
"The two weeks of East and West? Spring and Autumn and Warring States?"
"Although the enfeoffment of counties and counties started in the Zhou Dynasty, how could Da Qin be compared to the Zhou Dynasty?"
Fusu lowered his eyebrows and thought secretly.
Ji Heng took a sip and said, "Most of the hundreds of schools of thought we are familiar with originated from the Spring and Autumn Period."
"It was also from the Spring and Autumn Period that the world entered a period of great change."
"The reason for the great changes is that on the one hand, the development of bronze wares reached its peak, on the other hand, the emergence of iron wares and the promotion of cattle farming. In short, ordinary people can produce more things, so the various vassal states The strength has been greatly enhanced.”
"I'm not interested in anything related to productivity."
"I'll just make one other point."
"The reason why the world is entering into a great change is not only that productivity has been greatly improved, but more importantly, the Emperor Zhou has lost power."
"It was precisely because of the loss of the status of the 'co-lord' of the Emperor of Zhou that the full-time palace cultural officials of Shishou began to decline, or were transferred to other countries, and local private scholars began to rise, and the phenomenon of 'the emperor lost his official position and learned in the barbarians' began to appear" Case."
"'Shi' starts to rise from now on!"
"You should know later."
"Hundreds of schools of thought were born in this great change."
“Thus, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, the world’s rituals and music collapsed, the cauldrons thundered, the high banks became valleys, and the deep valleys became mausoleums. During this period, hundreds of schools of thought were surging, competing to explore the way to govern the country, which eventually led to a great tide of reform, that is, national change. The king changes, the officials change, the people change, and the law changes."
"Anyone who can change the world can change it!"
"Then a very different situation emerged in the world."
"Many princes do not care about the world, but only care about private governance, and seek to alienate themselves from the Emperor of Zhou."
“Large-scale mergers and hegemonies have begun to take place among various countries.”
"With the overthrow of the Zhi family by Han, Zhao, and Wei, and marked by the division of the three families into the Jin Dynasty, the world officially entered the pattern of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period."
"That is, Qin, Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi."
"However, since Emperor Zhou lost power, striving for supremacy and power has become the mainstream in the world."
"The world has been slaughtered for more than five hundred years. The wars have been continuous and turbulent. The world has been bleeding and the people have been displaced."
“People think of governance, people think of one thing.”
"The unification of the world, after hundreds of years of killing, has converged into a great tide.
"This is the will of the people and the general trend."
"And Qin had the last laugh!"
"If you compare Qin and Zhou, you will find that the two are two eras with little similarity at all. But if you look carefully, you will find that Da Qin still retains many habits inherited from the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, the empire of Da Qin In my opinion, it looks new, but in fact it is an empire that is a mixture of old and new.”
"But like I said before."
“Who is the changer?”
"Change the country, change governance, change livelihoods, and change the people."
"The Qin Dynasty has only achieved geographical unification, but has not achieved cultural and institutional unification."
“If you want to completely end this change, you must first achieve unity on the inside and outside.”
"This great change that started in the Spring and Autumn Period is still going on, and will even last for a long time. The historical trend of the Qin Dynasty was achieved through war, but the war cannot transform the Qin Dynasty into a universal country. If the transformation of the Qin Dynasty fails, , there will definitely be another empire that will take Da Qin’s place and try again.”
"Until this transformation is complete."
Listening to what Ji Heng said, Hu Hai frowned.
He didn't understand.
He felt that what Ji Heng said was too mysterious.
Hasn’t Great Qin already achieved unification of the world?
Why is it not completely unified?
And even if the culture and system have not yet been completely unified, in recent years, Da Qin has been promoting the same text and the same track for cars. Once these systems are fully implemented, Da Qin will naturally be unified externally and internally.
He felt that Ji Heng thought things too complicated.
Separated by a wall.
Fusu sat at the table, thoughtful.
He understood some of it, but not completely.
He could only roughly guess that the reason why Ji Heng said this was to pave the way for the explanation of the 'dividing of counties and counties' later.
But he was also a little confused.
Is there really any change in the world that can last for more than five hundred years?
And listening to Ji Heng's words, Da Qin clearly looks like a transitional one.
At this time.
Ji Heng did not speak.
He frowned and lowered his head, thinking about something.
a long time.
Ji Heng raised his head, his face full of excitement.
He figured it all out.
He knew why he had failed in nine lifetimes.
If the route is wrong, no matter how hard you try, you will only go in the wrong direction.
Change change.
This transformation that began in the Spring and Autumn Period has continued and did not end with the change of dynasties.
He understands it all! ! !
