A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 396 Who is here?Sue me!
By the time the "Book of Rites" was annotated by Wang Jing, it had basically changed beyond recognition.

He even wrote a comment on the first page of the Book of Rites, saying: "Things change with circumstances, times change, how can etiquette not be adaptable?" '

At the same time, it was agreed that the Book of Rites could be officially written and distributed throughout the world, but all transcripts must contain Wang Jing's annotations verbatim.

Wang Jing made major revisions to the "Book of Rites". When Dai Sheng came back with the "Book of Rites", he was completely confused.

As a great Confucian, he was very aware of Confucianism's dedication to etiquette. If the "Book of Rites" were to be revised and annotated in such a major way, many people might not be able to accept it.

When Dai Sheng returned to the academy with the "Book of Rites", many schools were stunned to see such annotations in the "Book of Rites".

Some people are happy, some are sad, and some are extremely angry, thinking that this is digging into the foundation of Confucianism.

But even so, no one dared to express their dissatisfaction in public.Wang Jing was not a benevolent emperor.

Do you dare to directly oppose his annotation here? Do you believe that next month you will be exiled eight thousand miles for violating etiquette and showing contempt for the court?

Another Confucian classic is Huai Gong Chun Qiu. Confucius annotated this Huai Gong Chun Qiu when he was in the Huai Kingdom Academy.The Spring and Autumn Annals of Huai Palace records hundreds of years of history from the founding of the country by Zijue to the division of the three families into the Jin Dynasty.

In fact, the Wang family has the most authority to annotate this book, but the Wang family has always regarded it as a history book.

But now this book is not only regarded as a classic by Confucianists, but also by Legalists.Confucianism talks about the subtle meaning and great meaning, while Legalism talks about the reform of the rule of law.

And both arguments make sense.

Therefore, there are the most schools of thought to annotate "Huai Gong Chun Qiu". Each Confucian school annotates "Huai Gong Chun Qiu" according to its own ideas. Among them, the most influential school is "Spring and Autumn Gong Yang Zhuan" of Gong Yang School.

Although there are many annotations in "Huaigong Chunqiu", these schools of thought know that the real power of interpretation has always been in the hands of the royal family.

After all, as long as the royal family is serious about it, they can bring out a large number of history books to restore the scene at that time.You said this was written by a sage of your school of thought. The royal family was able to find all the records of this sage, including the original version at that time.

Before the pre-Qin Dynasty, because there was no paper, it was extremely inconvenient to write on bamboo slips. Therefore, all kinds of classic languages ​​​​were extremely concise, just to facilitate writing and recording. However, this resulted in a reason. Zhu Xia's writing was profound and profound, and one word could often express everything. Multiple meanings.

Therefore, there will be various interpretations of this sentence by various schools of thought.

But who can guarantee that their understanding is the original meaning of the sages?

Because no one knew the situation at that time, they basically learned about it from history books, but the history books did not record much about these things.

So the annotation of this sentence will be debated endlessly.But with the exception of Wang, as long as Wang becomes serious, these schools will be afraid of him.

For example, you are arguing with someone about the meaning of this sentence written by the sage, and the next second the Wang family directly comes up with a sentence. When the sage said this sentence, one of my Wang family ancestors was next to him and asked about its meaning. , and then ordered people to find the books recorded by Wang for you to read.

And recorded the situation at that time, as well as the sage's own explanation.

Don't you think we should use various clues to infer the thoughts of the sages at that time?
Come!Let me tell you what happened.

I have video recordings and developer logs here. Which one do you want to see?
Various schools of thought: Gan!
referee!He cheated!He has surveillance!
Wang: Who is in the audience?Sue me!

Therefore, even if the "Book of Rites" was revised by Wang Jing in this way, these great Confucian scholars also gritted their teeth and admitted it. If they were not convinced, they could go to the scholars in the royal family to debate, and then get beaten back.

All schools of thought are naturally inferior when facing Wang scholars.I really can’t beat him, I really can’t beat him!

Wang Jing's promotion of the "Book of Rites" has at least brought a lot of benefits to Confucianism. If it happens again and Wang personally ends up, everyone will be in trouble.

Soon, the "Book of Rites" annotated by Wang Jing was copied and distributed throughout the world.

With the endorsement of "Book of Rites", many of Wang Jing's operations became correct.As a result, those nobles, powerful officials, and wealthy officials couldn't resist even if they wanted to.

After Wang Xiang gained a foothold, Wang Jing continued to enfeoff the Western Regions. Wang Jing was ready to enfeoff all his capable sons.Those who are incompetent will stay in the court as scholars, except of course the prince.

Wang Xiang's prince was also carefully cultivated by him, and his ability can be said to be second only to the emperor's eldest son Wang Xiang.

Wang Jing's entrustment of kings naturally required a large amount of land, so a new round of conquests began.

Since the establishment of Shandan Racecourse in Hexi Province, Wang Jing has been collecting good horses and sending them to Shandan Army Racecourse for breeding. Shandan Army Racecourse is located at the foot of Qilian Mountain. It can be said to be a God-given racecourse. Its unique environment has surpassed Shuofang Army Racecourse. .There is a Pegasus in the Western Region!
This saying has been circulating for a long time. Later, after Daqian entered the Western Regions, he was looking for Tianma.As a result, Daqian found many horses in the Western Region, but the so-called Tianma was not found.

Later I learned that the so-called Tianma was produced in the Dawan Kingdom further west in the Western Region, and even in the Dawan Kingdom of the Western Region, those Tianma were extremely precious.

So Wang Jing sent an envoy with a thousand taels of gold, a large amount of silk, lacquerware, and a golden horse made of gold, hoping to trade with the King of Dawan in exchange for the Tianma.

As a result, after the envoy arrived at Dawan with a large amount of goods, not only did he not exchange the Tianma back, but the envoy was also killed by Dawan and swallowed up together with the goods.

After receiving the news, Wang Jing was furious and directly ordered the Western Region Protectorate, Liang Wang Bo and Zheng Wang Xiang, to lead their troops to attack Dawan.At the same time, he ordered King Wei Wangfu to lead an army of five thousand to the Western Regions to establish a kingdom, and the fiefdom was Shule.

Shule is located to the west of Qiuci. It is also a major country in the Western Regions, and attacking Dawan requires marching from Shule, so this time Dagan is ready to conquer Shule together.

Although Shule is a large country in the Western Region, its population cannot be compared with Qiuci, with only more than [-] people and [-] soldiers.

Facing the Western Region Protectorate, Shule had no strength to resist. Wang Bo and Wang Xiang easily captured Shule City.

When King Wei Wangfu arrived, Wang Bo and Wang Xiang had already prepared food, grass, soldiers and horses.

This time, Wang Fu was the main force in the attack on Dawan, with 3000 elite cavalry and 2000 expedition athletes. Wang Bo led [-] knights and [-] Western Region Guards. Wang Xiang only brought [-] elite soldiers. ride.

Although the Zheng State was established, it needed to guard against attacks by Wusun and the Northern Huns.Therefore, the minimum number of troops was sent.

The army was briefly integrated before attacking Dayuan.The army rolled up its armor and marched across the green hills.The so-called rolling armor is to roll up the armor and carry it on spare horses.

This is a method used to save energy.

If there are no war horses, then these armors will be carried by other auxiliary soldiers and put on during battle.

When the three kings of the Western Regions sent out troops, the war horses were naturally enough. It could be said that there were one man and three horses, and the total army was 1 people.

In addition to these regular soldiers, there are thousands of auxiliary soldiers. These auxiliary soldiers are from Kucha and Cheshi.

All three of them knew the strength of the Dawan Kingdom. The Dawan Kingdom occupies a large basin to the west of Congling. It has a population of about one million, including dozens of cities, and its total military strength can mobilize [-].

But none of the three took Dawan's [-]-strong army seriously.At this time, Daqian had his own pride, so what if there were hundreds of thousands of barbarians?Watch me catch him!

Dayuan Kingdom is located in a basin. The basin has abundant water resources and luxuriant water and grass. It is a rare and good place. More importantly, the surrounding mountains are steep, with only one gap in Shule.

If the King of Dawan is smart and builds a wall similar to the Great Wall at this gap to block it, Daqian soldiers will have to kill and injure a large number of soldiers if they want to conquer it.If fortresses like Hangu Pass and Hulao Pass could be built, it would take an army of [-] to conquer his country.

It's just that Dawan Kingdom never thought of this, and the army easily crossed Congling from Shule to the west and passed this mountain pass.

In real history, the Han Dynasty conquered Dayuan, starting from Chang'an and traveling thousands of miles away. I don't know how many people died along the way. Moreover, during the first attack, all the countries in the Western Regions refused to allow the Han Dynasty to pass, forcing Li Guangli to have no choice but to They fought one by one. In the end, due to lack of food and water, the Han army was unable to attack when they arrived in Dawan.

The second time they sent troops again, the countries in the Western Regions were beaten hard and were willing to borrow food through the passage, and then Dawan was defeated.

Daqian attacked Dawan this time. Wang Bo belonged to the Western Region. He first conquered Shule and used it as an advance base. He also requisitioned supplies from Tianci City and Qiuci City, saving a lot of logistics.With the addition of more than 1 elite troops, the attack on Dawan began.

Facing a big country like Dawan with a population of one million, Wang Bo was not careless at all and was very cautious. After arriving at the border town of Dawan, he ignored it at all.

There are dozens of cities in the Dawan Kingdom. If he attacks them one by one, even if all his tens of thousands of troops fight to the death, they may not be able to conquer the Dawan Kingdom.

Therefore, he adopted an extremely bold battle plan, directly gave up attacking the surrounding cities, and directly led his army to attack the King of Dayuan City.

Wang Bo dared to be so bold because he knew the situation of the Dayuan Kingdom. The Dayuan Kingdom was said to be ruled by the King of Dayuan, but in fact the Dayuan Kingdom was a tribal alliance.

Nobles from all over the country were the lords of cities, but the King of Dayuan was the strongest.It can be said that the country of Dayuan is a piece of loose sand.

Wang Bo spared these noble cities and directly attacked the royal city. Among them, only the nobles loyal to King Dawan would send troops to rescue, and other nobles would more likely stand aside.This gave him a chance.

Wang Bo could work with Wang Xiang and Wang Fu to encircle the point for reinforcements, use superior force to annihilate the nobles who dared to come to the rescue, and then continue to attack the Dawan Royal City.

(End of this chapter)