History of the Great Zhou Dynasty

Chapter 153: Follow the trend and benefit humanity (4,000)

During the conversation, Feng Yun did not talk about the situation of the people of Guangdong who were short of food in winter with great benevolence and righteousness.

In this way, he blackmailed King Yangyue to rescue the weak people.

Instead, explain the actual situation to the king and let him choose.

If there are no people, where will the scholars, farmers, industry and merchants come from?

The king also said that he could distribute food and grass to help.

Feng Yun said: "You should not give them gifts. You should work hard to gain food and give them hope. However, they still fall into depravity. Those who cheat and cheat will die without regret. As a human being, there is no need to feel sad for this."

The King of Yangyue was in a high position and had never cared about the sentiments of the people. He had little sympathy for the people. This time he gave food for the sake of Feng Yun.

Then he said: "Do what Mr. An Feng said..."

After finishing speaking, he thought about it and looked at Feng Yundao.

"I heard that Chu turtles gave Baiyue five thousand stones of grain and ten chariots of soldiers and armor?"

Chu turtle?

Feng Yun hesitated.

"Jingchu did give Baiyue a gift, but it only angered Yangyue..."

The contempt in King Yangyue's eyes was towards Jing Chu.

"There is no need to explain, Mr. Feng. Dazai has discussed this matter with me and knows that Baiyue has no intention of unrest and invasion of Guangdong."

Having formed an alliance, King Yangyue naturally believed Feng Yun's words.

"Fengjun is a virtuous person. He is not from Yangyue, but he can sympathize with the suffering of the weak people of Yangyue."

"Let's see. I will send hundreds of thousands of stones of food and twenty chariots of soldiers to Guangdong as a gift of friendship with Lord Feng."

Feng Yun did not ask Yang Yue about food, but he did not expect that because of today's trivial matter, the Yang Yue monarch wanted to increase his food supply.

Feng Yun pondered for a moment.

He cupped his fists and saluted: "Thank you so much, King Yangyue..."

Feng Yun was not ambiguous, Baiyue needed this food to develop, and he also needed this food to implement policies.

King Yangyue decided to make friends with him, and if he accepted it, it would be considered that he owed King Yangyue a favor.

King Yangyue was delighted and immediately ordered to prepare grain and grass.

"After Lord Feng holds the merchant sacrifice, he can return home with the food. This can be regarded as Lord Feng's political achievement, hahaha..."

in this way……

After chatting for a few words, Feng Yun saw that King Yangyue wanted to leave, and Feng Yun also voluntarily withdrew from the palace.

Standing in front of Yangyue Palace, Feng Yun looked towards Yangyue City.

From a distance, you can see the residential buildings criss-crossing below, with wind and snow coming and going, and few pedestrians...

Looking closer, I saw Ji Ran coming in a hurry.

"Jun Wenfeng is explaining to the king in the palace how to distribute food to the weak people in the city of Guangdong. Yu Te is here to assist."

It can be seen that Ji Ran attaches great importance to Feng Yun and pays attention to everything in the palace.

But I came here for another reason.

"Fengjun, why do you go to seek royal affairs for the sake of the common people of other countries?"

In Ji Ran's opinion, this was a provocation to other countries' political figures. If Feng Yun hadn't been famous and King Yang Yue was not politically astute, Feng Jun would not have been able to solve it so easily.

"It stands to reason that as Lord Feng is the Prime Minister of the country, he should avoid taboos..."

Ji Ran tried to persuade Feng Yun in a subtle way.

But Feng Yun said——

"There are three ways in this world."

"The first is heaven, the second is earth, and the third is spirit. The spirit is also a human being, so we act as human beings."

Ji Ran was slightly stunned.

"Heaven and Earth people?"

He and Ji Ran walked down the stairs simultaneously, where Manwa and Zou Yan were waiting for Feng Yun.

Zou Yan and Man Wa saw Ji Ran standing next to them, chatting with Feng Yun, so they did not come forward and just followed him silently.

Seems to have some understanding.

Feng Yun uses today's events to explain the world and the people——

"What happened today is that a powerful person protects a weak person. This is not in line with the laws of heaven and earth."

Hearing the sound, Zou Yan pricked up his ears and listened.

Ji Ran was slightly stunned, but he also understood that Feng Yun wanted to discuss Taoism. He took off the bronze talisman representing Dazai from his waist, waved it and handed it to a Yangyue nobleman.

"Go and arrange the things that Mr. Feng and the king said. Don't go against a single word."

"No." The man left.

Only then did Ji Ran look back and express his questions.

"The strong helps the weak, why does heaven and earth not match each other?"

"Fengjun, why do you want to help the weak?"

What Feng Yun did was inconsistent with what he said, which made Ji Ran confused.

Feng Yun smiled.

"Because..."

"Heaven has no mercy, only oneself; all things are the same, and there is no partiality based on strength or weakness."

"The earth is affectionate, but it loves everyone; all things are the same, and there is no preference based on strength or weakness."

Ji Ran was speechless. As he thought about it, his eyes became weirder.

This is indeed the case.

Heaven and earth are like two extremes, but the strange thing is that at the end of the extreme, all things are treated fairly, and all things are the same, impartial.

Ji Ran couldn't help but interpret Feng Yun's third way - the way of humanity.

"Fengjun is quick, but I beg you."

Feng Yun smiled, but Ji Ran was a sincere person who did not stick to trivial matters.

On the other side, Zou Yan also stared at Feng Yun with anxious eyes.

Then, Feng Yun continued: "The strong helping the weak does not conform to heaven and earth, but it conforms to human nature."

"People have seven emotions and six desires; ten thousand people each have one, but they can unite into one clan!"

Ji Ran was stunned.

"Seven emotions and six desires, ten thousand people are united into one?"

The more he thought about it, the more dazed Ji Ran became.

Feng Yun's words did not end.

"The way of humanity is that the strong lead the way, protect the weak, the weak work together, and give birth to the strong... This is the way of inheriting civilization of the human race, the method of endless life, and the method of fighting against the world."

"Although I am the Prime Minister of Baiyue, I am also a member of the human race. I am a strong person in Yangyue at this time, so I naturally lead the way."

"There are many nations, but one people."

"As a human being, first of all, we should consider the human race as the basis, then divide it into nations, and then discuss old and young, kinship and distance, grievances and grudges..."

"Under heaven and earth, our human race begins with the Sui people, Fuxi and Nuwa are the ancestors, Yan and Huang are the leaders, the five emperors are the leaders, and the three kings are the first. If you believe in one of them within the heaven and the earth, they are all my human race."

Within the heaven and the earth is the scope. After all, the heaven and the earth are too big, there are too many different places, and different places have different rules.

After Feng Yun made his statement, several people also walked to the Palace of Classics.

Feng Yun had no intention of helping those weak people personally.

Because the strong restraining the strong is the greatest help to the weak.

In fact, Feng Yun is now thinking about the future.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, wars raged.

He does not have a clear boundary between the various countries and tribes in the land of China. Coming from later generations, he knows that the world will eventually be unified. What can he do if he serves as an official for a country? This trend is irreversible and he will not go against it.

"clatter…"

Stepping into the Palace of Classical Books, Manwa went to settle down, and Zou Yan and Ji Ran followed Feng Yun into it.

What Feng Yun said just now shocked the two of them, and they needed to think about it carefully at this time.

The three of them sat down.

Feng Yun didn't care about the two of them.

Perhaps what he can do is not to unify the country, but to inherit civilization and benefit humanity.

In the wars of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, countless ancient wisdoms were lost.

He looked at the messy medical books in the Palace of Yangyue Kingdom's Classics. Yangyue didn't pay much attention to them, and he was afraid that they would soon disappear in his country due to the war.

As for those small countries, it is the same - destroying their country means destroying their country, destroying their ancestral temples, burning their history, and moving their people.

She Ji, She is the land, Ji is the grain, and together they are the livelihood of a country.

The most popular way to put it is to destroy a country's territory, burn its culture, smash its ancestral halls, move its citizens to other places, and ban the sacrifices of the previous country. Within a few generations, the country will be completely wiped out.

Feng Yun also has traces of such things.

"Da Zai, do you know the history of the Song Dynasty?"

The Song Dynasty is a legacy of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Hearing the sound, Ji Ran was puzzled, but still replied: "Ji Ran knows, but I don't know when Feng Jun wants to ask?"

It has been nearly 400 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty. It has a long history that cannot be explained in one moment.

Feng Yun first bowed.

"Don't blame the great slaughter. I want to know the period from the demise of the Shang Dynasty to the establishment of the Song Dynasty."

Ji Ran's eyes narrowed slightly.

Because this period of time is taboo in the Song Dynasty, people in the country rarely mention it, otherwise they will be criticized by a group of people.

But Ji Ran is a free-spirited person, so he doesn't care.

What's more, this is Yangyue.

…

Ji Ran spoke seriously, Feng Yun listened with bated breath.

The same goes for Zou Yan on the side, and as Ji Ran spoke, his eyes were full of disbelief.

"This... the Song Dynasty now is... very different from the Wu Geng Yin Shang Dynasty back then." Zou Yan muttered, even though his voice was extremely low, it could still be heard by Feng Yun and Ji Ran.

Ji Ran shrugged and smiled.

"It's very different... If Wu Geng worshiped Shang Tang hundreds of years ago, then the Song Dynasty now worships Zhou Tang... The ancestors have not changed, but the descendants have."

Ji Ran's eyes were a little sad, but there was nothing he could do, and he really didn't want to do anything.

At the beginning, when the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, they did not enter the Shang capital. Instead, they left Wu Geng, the son of Emperor Zhou Xin, to govern the Shang Dynasty through Shang Dynasty and to govern the remaining people of the Shang Dynasty.

Its good name is "the rise and fall of the country" - the countries that have been destroyed are allowed to be re-established by their heirs, and the sacrifices to the ancestors are continued to show the virtues of "Zhou Rites".

However, we must be on guard against others, so King Wu of Zhou sent his three younger brothers to guard the three kingdoms, Bei, Yong, and Yin, so that they could supervise Yin.

But even so, after King Wu died and King Cheng was still young, the Shang remnants instigated the Three Prisoners to seize the throne, leading to the Three Prisons Rebellion!

Later, when the Duke of Zhou suppressed the rebellion, he used resolute measures and moved a large number of remnants, and those who married Zhou moved to rich lands. However, the original Yin and Shang tribes and those closely related to them were all moved to backward and remote places.

He also found Shang Weizi, granted him the title of Song Kingdom, and offered sacrifices to the Shang ancestors with the rites of the emperor. He was a guest of the Zhou Dynasty!

The Son of Heaven... There is no Son of Heaven in Shangtang.

Later, the Duke of Zhou also strictly controlled the clans in the world and stipulated that the position of king could only be passed down to direct descendants.

I will no longer talk about the virtue of its rise and fall.

Today's Song Dynasty, after hundreds of years, even though it is still a large family of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, under the Zhou rites, it has become one of the countries that respects the Zhou rites the most. Its king does not have the courage of the Shang Tang, but only the virtues of the Zhou Tang. .

"Happy, sad..." Feng Yun shook his head slightly.

"At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, there was the virtue of 'continuing prosperity and destruction', but it was no longer mentioned after the Wu Geng Rebellion. But now, it has been laid down to destroy the country, destroy the ancestral temples, burn the history, and move the people. "

Nowadays, the Yin Shang are guests of the Zhou, and their land belongs to the Zhou, but it is borrowed from the Yin Shang...

Nowadays, even when offering sacrifices to ancestors, it is still done according to the etiquette of Emperor Zhou...

Today, how many people still remember and miss the past glory of Yin Shang...

Today, how many pure Yin Shang remnants are there in the land of Yin and Shang...

"What do you mean, Mr. Feng?" Ji Ran heard the voice and was startled by the words of annihilation and broke into a cold sweat. His back was clammy and his eyes were filled with fear.

Feng Yun shook his head slightly and said nothing.

Ji Ran didn't dare to ask again.

"Master Feng, I'm going to observe the charity work for the weak people, so I'll leave first."

Ji Ran left quickly.

Zou Yan on the side didn't dare to ask Feng Yun.

He just sat there blankly, lowering his head and thinking about everything Feng Yun said just now.

Feng Yun sighed slightly.

When its rituals and music collapse, unvirtuous behavior suppresses people's hearts, and the nations are at war.

After his country destroyed other countries, there is an example of Zhou Gong settling the survivors. I am afraid...

Be wary of danger in times of peace, because there will be danger to think about later.

If Feng Yun wants to preserve the inheritance of the human race, these ancient books from every country are necessary.

"It should be established in this world for the inheritance of the human race."

Feng Yun had made a decision and was no longer worried.

…

A few days later, the business festival arrived.

This time it's different.

Because three copies of Shang Song were brought to Guangdong by Ji Ran, and Feng Yun, who was extremely famous in Southwest Vietnam, presided over the sacrifice.

In Yangyue City, many citizens gathered outside and stared at the high altar.

"Fengjun!"

Feng Yun stepped into the altar, and there were many shouts around him.

With every step he takes, his literary spirit rises a little higher, combining with the destiny of the Yangyue Kingdom. On the sky, due to his literary spirit, a shadow gradually appears - a bronze grass flower.

After many days in Yangyue, Feng Yun also learned the meaning of this flower.

Its flowers often grow on bronze mines. If you find this flower, you can find a mine.

This is very important to the Yangyue Kingdom, which relies on bronze.

"He...is Lord Feng, that's him!"

"Brother Bang, who is he?"

Among the crowd, a child and a young man stood in thin clothes and red faces.

The child said excitedly: "It's the person I saw that day. He turned out to be Feng Jun. He helped..."

"Dong dong dong!" The sound of the bronze drum!

It’s quiet all around!

Feng Yun holds prayers and chants to worship ancestors!

At this time, Ji Ran had already left Yangyue and headed to the State of Lu...

"call…"

The snow is covered with white snow, and the wind and snow blow down from the Dabie Mountains with the wind, blowing away the wind and sweeping up the wind. Looking for the wind river to cross the land of Baiyue, we come to the junction of Baiyue and Guai.

"There's something strange!"

"No, it's the Guai people. Quick, gather the armored soldiers!"

…

A few days later, Feng Yun hurriedly embarked on a journey back to Baiyue with the food and soldiers promised by Yang Yue!

"Yan, you and Manwa escort this batch of grain and grass back to Baiyue. I will go to the Guai border first."

"Master, please go, Brother Manwa and I will escort you..."

Zou Yan hasn't finished speaking yet.

Suddenly a burst of literary energy arose in the heavy snow.

Wen Qi turned into a metal bird, carrying Feng Yun and flying into the cold wind.

The beginning of spring, in the Zhou Dynasty, is the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the year.

Now both the anniversary and the Hundred Years have passed, it is already like spring.

But it started snowing again in early spring.

"When it's cold, it's not conducive to farming."

Feng Yun rode on the iron bird and flew towards the land of Baiyue.

This morning, Baiyue came to report that Gu Ai had gathered troops and came to attack Baiyue.

He said Baiyue took out five thousand stones and then left.

His voice was huge and his tone was loud. He actually said that there would be no food for five days and then invaded Baiyue.

"It seems that Gu Ai knows about Chu's gift of grain and Baiyue."

"Twenty thousand armored soldiers have been sent... It seems that there is indeed no food."

Feng Yun is aware of the fact that Gu Ai is out of food.

It's just that because of the war, this food was consumed very quickly.

"Feng Yun waved his hand and wrote it on the back of the bird - An's stopped, Yao's earth moved!"

Now the An clan is recruiting Gu Ai's people for Baiyue, and there are now tens of thousands of them. At this time, Gu Ai sends troops, but the king of Gu Ai cannot find the An clan.

As for the land of Yao... Yao is defending Yangyue. At this time, Yangyue has formed an alliance. With the alliance there, they can slow down their defense and rush to the aid of Guai.

However, how to defeat Gu Ai requires Feng Yun to go to the front of the battle in person and plan the layout...

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