Three Kingdoms

The simpler something is, the less simple it is.

Just like Feizhen knew that his father had some questions that were not simple questions.

"doctor? Fei Zhen repeated it softly, and then thought about it, "Father, what you mean is not just about his official position?" 』

Fei Qian laughed dumbly. Has this guy learned the elimination method? So he said: "Think about it first, and then think about it." 』

Fei Qian is indeed not just talking about official positions.

It's about a class.

Fei Qian had proposed the concept of class before, but Fei Zhen was not able to fully understand it. After all, at Fei Zhen's current age, he is unable to form an effective understanding of this very abstract concept. Fei Qian needs to continue to give examples and then deepen his understanding step by step.

"As the rites say, the emperor has three princes, nine ministers, twenty-seven great officials, and eighty-one noble men." So this doctor..." Fei Zhen looked at Fei Qian and said, "Father's intention is that the Duke will assist the left and be led by the nobles? When the King of Qin sends out troops, he wants to watch the Jin Kingdom externally, but he wants to watch the officials internally? 』

"Haha, that's right. Fei Qian nodded and said, "So Shen Baoxu is crying outside, what is King Qin doing inside?" Are you playing? 』

Feizhen shook her head and said, then suddenly she seemed to think of something, clapped her hands, and said excitedly, "It must be a discussion with the doctor... Oh, father, are you saying that the doctors in Qin State have different opinions?" ! King Qin not only has to consider foreign affairs, but also needs to consider the people at home! yes! This has been the case for thousands of years! There are enemies abroad and there are enemies at home! What cannot be controlled internally cannot be controlled externally! The restlessness of Chu State cannot be controlled from within! The defeat of Wu State cannot be controlled from within! Those who achieve great things can guard both the inside and the outside! 』

Feizhen shook her head with some pride~(????ω???)?.

Fei Qian laughed and gave Fei Zhen a thumbs up to express his praise.

The father and son laughed heartily for a while.

"Okay..." Fei Qian knocked on the table and stopped laughing, "Shen Baoxu, cry Qin Ting... Where is the King of Qin, singing Wu Yi... So why does King Qin sing Wu Yi?" You even gave Shen Baoxu some clothes to wear? Is this the only thing I need to apply for Baoxu? Haha... So look, the reason why Qin was able to unify was not without reason..."

"Then, who will be the leader of King Qin's army?" Fei Qian asked, and then after seeing Fei Zhen's confused expression, he said, "Zi Pu, Second General Zi Hu." 』

"..." Feizhen's eyes were a little confused, and she obviously had no impression of these two people.

"Perhaps during the reign of King Qin, these two were considered generals..." Fei Qian waved his hand and said, "However, looking at Zuo Zhuan, the two of them only went out to serve as commanders once..."

Five hundred times.

If it is a small number, although Chu State was said to have millions at that time, it only had a thousand chariots, so Qin State's support of 500 chariots was not too small. Of course, perhaps because Chu State is not in the Central Plains, vehicles are not as useful as boats, and it is possible that the proportion of passengers is relatively small compared to vehicles.

If you say it's too much, well, it really can't be considered too much. After all, compared with the statistics of the wars in the late Warring States Period, Five Hundred Times can barely even be considered a partial army. And according to the urine characteristics of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the consistent habits of the Chinese ancestors, these five hundred times are likely to be false references, just like Sun Shiwan always used one hundred thousand...

Someone in Jiangdong felt a fever in his ears.

What's even more interesting is that these two "generals" rushed to the front with great momentum, and then when they were about to fight for the first time, they openly stated that they had no experience fighting the Wu army and let the Chu soldiers go first...

Shen Baoxu could only stare and say okay, I, the State of Chu, will go first.

Then when Chu and Wu were fighting together, Qin came out and Wu was shocked. He didn't know the surrounding situation or how many troops Qin had sent, so he immediately withdrew his troops cautiously, and was soon pursued by Qin and Chu. Kill, defeat.

This is also normal.

What is abnormal is that when the Qin State said for the first time that it had no experience fighting the Wu State, and then won the battle, it did not immediately pursue the victory. Instead, it immediately changed the subject and said that the Wu State was nothing more than this, and the Chu State would definitely win!

So let’s go fight against the Tang Dynasty...

Of course, the reasons are very good. For example, after marching, Tang Guo on the flanks may cause harassment to the military line, damage food routes, etc., but in reality?

Fei Zhen scratched his head a little. He was not very clear about these military things, so it was difficult for him to understand the questions raised by Fei Qian.

"Let's put it this way, there is a fire in someone's home, and they come to you for help, saying that they want you to help put out the fire..." Fei Qian gave a relatively simple example, "Then you also went and mentioned it. He put out the fire in his courtyard with water, and then said that the fire can definitely be put out, so let's go somewhere else to play for a while..."

Tang State, said to be a country, was actually just a city. Although the Tang State was indeed on the flank, its country was too small. If they really saw the coalition forces, they would not dare to let go of one more thing. How dare they come out to harass the rear of the coalition forces and invade the coalition's chrysanthemums?

"So... what Father is saying is that Zi Pu and Zi Hu will slack off?" Or...Qin doesn't really want to save Chu? ” Feizhen thought about it, then raised her little eyebrows, “Or should we say... it's a matter of fact? 』

Fei Qian waved his hand, "I don't know." 』

"ah? ” Feizhen’s eyes widened.

"Ahaha, you don't think I know everything, do you? Zuo Zhuan didn't write it down, so it can only be an inference. Fei Qian said, "What you said is all possible, and I think the most important one is still Jin... So even though Qin made such a big splash, in fact, from the beginning to the expedition to aid Chu, In fact, the State of Qin is not very willing... Strictly speaking, it should be King Qin who wants to help Chu, but Doctor Qin doesn't think so... Do you know why? 』

Fei Zhen shook her head subconsciously, and then looked at Fei Qian with some worry, fearing that Fei Qian would scold him for not thinking, but this time Fei Qian didn't say anything, but gave a direct answer.

"Because of the marriage..." Fei Qian smiled, "Who is the marriage between Qin and Chu?" So if among the King of Qin and the officials of Qin, there is one who wants to save Chu State more, who would it be? 』

"King Qin!" Feizhen said, "If the King of Chu dies, then the friendship forged by the previous marriage may be gone!" At least it is in vain. If we marry again, we will need to send new people, and secondly, it may not have the original effect..."

Fei Qian nodded and said with a smile: "The King of Qin will send troops for seven days!" Shen Baoxu just cried, but King Qin had to put in so much effort and thought, and he had to sing Wuyi himself in front of the public. In the end, when he went to battle, he might not be able to go as King Qin wanted... So do you understand? So...it's still the same question as before, what does it mean to be a doctor? 』

Feizhen fell silent and frowned.

"If you can't understand this question, you can refer to another question..." Fei Qian said, "Is it the doctor who controls the officials, or the doctor who controls the officials?" 』

Fei Zhen said smoothly: "Of course, it is the way for officials to rule over officials, including public servants, ministers, officials, and scholars. This is the etiquette of the Spring, Autumn, and Zhou Dynasties. It has been like this since Qin and Han Dynasties." 』

Fei Qian smiled and said, "If that's the case, why do you call him a 'scholar-official'?" There is also a saying in the Zhou Dynasty, "He who sits down and discusses the Tao is called a prince. When he works and practices, he is called a scholar-official." A king is a public servant, and a scholar is a senior official. How can we explain this? 』

"This..." Feizhen stared.

"However," Fei Qian looked at Fei Zhen and said with a smile, "Xunzi also said, "Great doctors and scholars have Chang Zong." This doctor is ahead of the scholars again! What’s the explanation for this? Is it a scholar who is a superior scholar, or a scholar who is subordinate to a scholar? 』

If we are from later generations, we can't say it's a lie. Is the front and back position so important? However, countless historical experiences, as well as the ordering of names of various parliaments in later capitalism, etc., all tell one thing, the order cannot be disrupted at will. If you don’t believe it, you can try it by putting the name of the company boss behind the cleaner at the next meeting.

Level is level, and gap is gap. Everything is not a matter of a certain person, or a certain media, and then directing and acting to say that those who wear long gowns and those who work on screws are equal in status, then there can really be no distinction. Up and down, equal status. No matter how beautifully the person wearing a long gown sings beautifully on stage, he would definitely not be willing to take off his long gown and drill screws for the rest of his life.

Therefore, those who wear long gowns should ask others to take off their long gowns, so as to ensure that they will not be taken off their long gowns. It is like a doctor who should hold down a scholar, but why did the scholar sit on him later?

"At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the officials came in front and the scholars came behind. At the end of the Warring States Period, the scholars came first, and the officials followed. ” Fei Qian lightly knocked on the table, “That’s what I wanted... Then, why did it change?” 』

"Spring and Autumn?" Warring States Period? ” Feizhen stared, “The Spring and Autumn Scholars are in the back, the Warring States Scholars are in the front... This, ah! Father, did you say that during the Warring States Period, great officials fell while scholars rose? So there are changes? 』

Fei Qian nodded slightly, "Then why did the authority of the doctors deteriorate during the Warring States Period?" 』

"..." Feizhen subconsciously wanted to say "How do I know", but she swallowed it back before she could say it. He knew that if he really said that, Fei Qian would ask him to go to the Cai Library to "know" it again.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and for a long time before that, people were called "officials". However, in the late Warring States period, there were more "officials" and they continued into the later dynasties. They were still often called "officials" until the Han Dynasty. They are called "Scholar-bureaucrats" instead of "Scholar-bureaucrats" as in the early Spring and Autumn Period.

"Common people can't do it just once and be upright, and there are scholars who can do it; scholars can't do it twice and they can do it right, and there are great officials who can do it; great officials can't do it twice and they can do it right, and there are princes who can do it..." Fei Qian said slowly, "It can be seen from this that , it was clear that the scholar was at the bottom at first, but then..."

Fei Qian smiled meaningfully, and then his eyes turned to Fei Zhen, "Do you understand?" The Warring States Period..."

"oh! Understood! Fei Zhen slapped her hands and said, "The bottom defeats the top!" The same was true for King Qin at that time! The King of Qin wanted to take action, but the officials blocked it! 』

Fei Qian smiled and nodded, "Let's talk about it." 』

"Spring and Autumn!" Warring States! ” Feizhen had obviously found the main direction of the problem, “The great officials of the Spring and Autumn Period were feudal lords from the clan, and they were also hereditary great bureaucrats! However, hereditary officials may not be able to do their job, so they are left to the scholars! Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, scholars had their own abilities and positions, so they... usurped the throne..."

Feizhen's face suddenly darkened.

Only when he got here did he fully understand what his father wanted to say to him.

No matter before the Spring and Autumn Period or the Warring States Period, a doctor refers to a person with a certain official position and title. There is no doubt about this. In the early days, doctors were of a higher level than scholars, which was no problem at all. But starting from the middle and late Warring States Period, scholars appeared before doctors. At the beginning, perhaps it was to mark a certain doctor. They were not hereditary, but were promoted from scholars, so they were called scholar-officials. Later, it became a description of the group of people who became officials through promotion among the entire scholars.

Because the original hereditary doctor had been separated from the grassroots for too long, he did not know the changes at the grassroots level. He still remained in his superior self-goodness and did not realize the danger was coming. He still existed in the illusion of self-goodness. Secondly, he also interacted with the grassroots There is no common language, so when the hereditary doctor encounters "danger", he also loses the protection from the grassroots, is overthrown by the soldiers, and strips off his long robe.

Then the scholar put on the long robe and became a scholar-official.

But this is not an end, just a beginning.

Scholar-officials, scholar-bureaucrats.

Then what?

There are people below the scholars, and ministers above the officials.

Who can guarantee that the situation of officials and scholar-officials will not evolve on other levels?

Is it guidance or confinement?

"Read more about the Spring and Autumn Period, think more about it, use your brain more..." Fei Qian said meaningfully, "In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the plans and plans can be seen today, and they have been revealed again, but the changes are different... For example It was said before that King Qin sent troops. At that time, Sun Tzu traveled from Qi to Wu and was recommended by the military officers. The battle of Bai Ju shocked the world and almost overthrew the Chu State... The king of Qin wanted to save him, but the officials were afraid of him, so he could only travel in seven days. He also sang without clothes to be strong. What he did was to be cowardly before fighting, and then to avoid fighting. If no Yue Kingdom participated in the war later, would it be an act to aid Chu... Haha, so it can be seen that at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the power of the Qin officials was very high... Then , until Shang Yang’s reform..."

Beasts are incomparable to humans. This is a fact that the earth's ecology has proven over thousands of years.

Human beings do not have the sharp claws and teeth of beasts, and they even have various defects in their bodies, but the only thing stronger than beasts is their brains.

Fei Qian continued.

"At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the officials were like this, but at the end of the Warring States Period, why were the scholars better than the officials? 』

"Doctor Gein believes that the inheritance is eternal and can be enjoyed by generations to come. The doctor does not want to make progress, for fear of losing his position. So what? A scholar is a scholar-official. 』

"Sciences were born from the Spring and Autumn Period, grew up from the Warring States Period, and flourished from the Han Dynasty..." Fei Qian's eyes seemed to have penetrated the fog of history, seeing more and remembering more, "Today, it is extremely prosperous and..." Decline, or continue to grow? If the official is not good, the scholar will replace him. If the scholar is not good, who can replace him? 』

The scholars took away the doctor's robe and put it on themselves, and then formed a new generation of scholar-officials. What will they do next? Will you lead more people to wear long gowns, or will you coax others to say that long gowns are not easy to wear or look good at all, and that it is best for everyone to wear short coats, which are closest to nature and return to the true self?

Just like after the Confucian disciples were taught without distinction at the beginning, will they uphold the spirit of Confucius, expand their knowledge and teach it to the world, or will they deliberately raise the threshold to express that knowledge is difficult and studying is hard, and even if they study It may not be of any use, why not just farm honestly from the beginning?

When Fei Qian was buried in later generations, he was baptized by a very large wave of futility of reading. In the whole noisy and chaotic wave, how many people saw their own direction clearly, and how many people just followed the trend? How many people know that under such surging waves, are they artificial waves or spontaneous social fluctuations?

Anyway, Fei Qian saw that the current scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty had gradually begun to move towards the path of becoming doctors at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period.

arrogant.

ridicule.

Oppress.

arrogant.

Then in the Jin Dynasty, the emperor who climbed up from the noble family expressed his innocence and confusion about why he didn't eat minced meat.

During the Warring States Period, soldiers with bare feet and swords standing in front of the people, leading the people to work and fight, would say such things?

Would the taxi driver who had just kicked the doctor down and put on a long gown say that it would be better to dig in the soil than to wear a long gown?

What kind of changes did those scholars who became doctors feel that they both want and want, and both are and still?

What changed everything?

What made the doctor in the late Spring and Autumn Period fall?

What makes the new generation of taxis become doctors again?

The dragon slayer eventually becomes the evil dragon.

This is not an empty statement.

In the feudal era, it was often doomed.

Because we can’t see far and we can’t think far.

"There is chaos in the Western Region..." Fei Qian asked Feizhen, "You also know about this." So do you feel scared? Are you afraid that the Western Region will spread to Chang'an, which will lead to the collapse of Chang'an's three auxiliary forces and the world's instability? Yes, why not? 』

"Because father is here. Fei Zhen said, "If I only let my child face the events in the Western Regions, he will definitely panic..."

Fei Qian nodded, "Only when you have something in your heart can you stay calm." The basis in your heart is in someone. And the proof in someone's heart is that the people in Guanzhong are united. Everything in the world is like this, and there is no use in fearing it. Just like Sima, if he has lived in Dali Temple for a long time, he will covet his merits. If he does not lead him to be good, he will easily use him to do evil. Chu and Qin had good relations and marriages were righteous, but if used improperly, they would become evil. Then there was the matter of Wu Zixu and others. 』

"With the strength of only two men, they may be able to capture tigers and leopards, or they may be able to fight hundreds of brave men, but they cannot defeat a country." 』

"The same is true in the Western Regions. You may be able to defeat an army, but you cannot defeat a country." 』

"What is a country?" Just doctors? Just for scholars? 』

"Therefore, the King of Chu lost, and the King of Wu gained, and the King of Wu lost, and the King of Qin gained, this is the case." The unification of Qin was not what Qin gained, but what the six countries lost. 』

"In the Warring States period, when the officials lost something, the scholars gained it, and they were scholar-officials. It was not the loss of one official, but the loss of all the officials." 』

"What will happen to the scholars now?" 』

"If a scholar is lost, who will gain?" 』

"Can you answer these...?" Fei Qian first looked at the sky in the distance, then cast his gaze on Fei Zhen, and said with a smile, "Read more and think carefully." Only then can you lose less and gain more. It was like this in ancient times, and it should be like this now. Hmm... I heard that you boasted that after finishing reading Spring and Autumn Annals, you just played around for several days? 』

Feizhen trembled and said with a straight face, "My child... I know I'm wrong!" Thanks for the advice, Father! My child, go and study hard now..."

Fei Qian nodded.

Feizhen wiped her sweat, bowed again, then got up and went to the back hall.

Fei Zhen's temperament has not yet been settled, and it is normal for her to be playful and active. Fei Qian did not say that she must be tied up. She cannot play at all, but she cannot let her mind wander...

It is not a bad thing for a person to be ambitious. The bad thing is that ambition cannot be controlled.

It's not a bad thing for a person to like beautiful women. The bad thing is that he wants to occupy all the beautiful women by any means necessary.

It's not a bad thing for a person to put on a robe. The bad thing is that when he puts on the robe, he wants to prevent others from wearing robes...

Fei Qian smiled and whispered, "King Chu Ping, is the daughter of Qin so beautiful?" 』