History of the Great Zhou Dynasty

Chapter 29 Ceremony Sword
Feng Yun did not use "Yi Li" and "Zhou Li" as instruments, but decided to use "Zhou Yi" as the guide first. When he opened "Dating 36 Hexagrams", he was slightly stunned.

"Don't use "Zhou Rites" as a tool... tool?"

"What is a vessel? It turns out this is what it is. This is respect."

Feng Yun understood... what a courtesy was. This courtesy was just a rule, a rule of class rule. He was the only one who foolishly hesitated under the courtesy.

"Etiquette is the rule. I knew it from the beginning, so why am I still confused!"

Since it is a rule and a tool, why not use this tool within the rules to complete his own way?

"Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and going to the Tiger Mountains instead, if you go there without any reason, the meat of the tigers will be despicable."

"The trip to Hushan either refers to a brave and fearless person, or it refers to a reckless and brainless person, but both can be said to be a person who does not follow the rules."

"If you follow the rules, don't touch the tiger's beard, and use the resources of Tiger Mountain to grow yourself, you will have the power to fight with him when you become another tiger in the mountain."

Feng Yun knows that there are only two tigers in a mountain, but first he has to become a tiger, not a fox pretending to be a tiger.

In Feng Yun's view, today's scholar-bureaucrats and princes are just foxes pretending to be powerful, relying on etiquette to dominate and bring blessings.

"It's a pity that now that I am weak, I can only be a fox."

Feng Yun's mentality changed. If he had to deal with Wu Zhengshi's plea with his nephew at this time.

He would not refute Zongbo's punishment of Wu Zhengshi face to face. Instead, under the Zhou rites system, he made Wu Zhengshi a slave, used his status as a slave to offset the punishment of severed hands, and then bought the slave and granted him freedom.

This is in line with etiquette, and Uncle Zong will only think that he understands etiquette and can use etiquette to plan what he wants to do.

When faced with his nephew's request for military orders, Feng Yun would not directly agree. Instead, he would help him become his insider minister and then discuss the military orders as an act of cultivating his followers.

Rather than aiding military books because of family affection, it disrupted the rules hidden in the etiquette system. It was already the limit for common people to be literate, and allowing them to read military books again was not a good thing for scholar-bureaucrats.

Unless this commoner is a disciple trained by the noble clan and is an asset of the noble clan, this is in line with etiquette.

……

"This is the gift of Zhou Dynasty today."

No matter what the original intention of the rites was, or whether it contained help for human development, or how later generations praised it, this is how it is now used by classes. The "Zhou Rites" are the regulations for governing the country.

When governing a country, some people must suffer, and some people must benefit, which is also unexplainable. The so-called Datong society is just a beautiful fantasy.

Feng Yun suddenly became enlightened.

And on its panel, there was an additional item among the different techniques - the ceremonial sword.

Feng Yun raised his hand and put his fingers together as if casting a spell.

Then a burst of Wen Qi surged out and turned into Wen Dao Sword Qi.

Feng Yun followed the basic sword skills to strike, stab and block, and used his fingers as swords in the inner room to perform them.

The sword energy never left his fingers, but a trace of wind appeared around him, spreading like an air blade.

Feng Yun controlled the sword energy to prevent it from damaging the book.

"call."

"Those who ceremoniously use swords to transform their swords with literary spirit are the punishment of etiquette."

Withdrawing his strength, the sword energy in his fingers also dissipated...

Unlike Zong Bo's ritual lock, Feng Yun's is a magic weapon, not a weapon of destiny. However, if Feng Yun decides to practice rituals, he can also turn the ritual sword into a weapon and become a weapon of destiny.

When the sword energy becomes real, it will be a lot more magical.

But Feng Yun would not do this. The weapon of his destiny and his life were in harmony with each other. When he fell, he had put a prison of ritual on himself and could not escape.

The ritual sword and magic are just a cover for him under the ritual system.

Just like knowing how to do evil but not doing it, knowing evil but avoiding it.

……

Picking up the "36 Hexagrams of Da Ting", Feng Yun looked at it carefully.

At first glance, his eyes were clear. This book was wonderful and full of extraordinary colors. It was completely different from the feeling of reading "Rituals", and Feng Yun fell into it unconsciously.There was a fire in the inner room last night due to a fight, and now it's a mess.

Feng Yundu had no intention of taking care of it, and concentrated on reading and comprehending the essence of Yi.

At noon, I ate the food sent by my sister-in-law, and it was not until evening that I read half a box of bamboo slips.

"How can you say that... Yi returns to ritual, and ritual controls the foundation of Yi?"

Feng Yun was surprised, put down this volume, picked up the next volume and read it.

The brow wrinkled even tighter.

Reading the next volume adds another layer of sadness.

He took a deep breath and picked up the first volume. After reading it, he felt that it was written by two people.

In other words, Feng Yun seemed to see an ambitious person who went from insisting on himself to stepping into etiquette step by step.

This "Dating 36 Hexagrams" was not written in one go. These words cannot lie. Feng Yun saw the words of innovation, the heart of perseverance, the courage to overcome difficulties, the meaning of compromise, and the words of respect. I saw the greeting hands.

Youth is high-spirited, middle-aged is hesitant and difficult to achieve, and old age is hardened by compromise...

"In this book, one can only look at its appearance but not its meaning."

Feng Yun took a deep breath, hastily glanced at the hexagrams, and ignored the rest.

This book is a book of confusion. If ordinary people read it, no matter what their nature of mind is, they will eventually become respectful people.

If Feng Yun had not understood the last four hexagrams of the Book of Changes and even became the Weiji hexagram, he might not have been able to see the confusion behind this hexagram.

To say it's bewitching is an understatement, it's clearly like ink torture, carving words on people's faces!
"Doctor Da Zai, he is not as kind as he appears."

The method was so harsh and decisive that it sent chills down Feng Yun's back.

In comparison, Zongbo worked tirelessly to change Feng Yun's thoughts on etiquette. This is a teacher and a polite person.

Feng Yun stopped reading carefully, read it hastily, and quickly read all the rest.

It was already dark now, and Feng Yun exhaled another breath of turbid air.

This "36 Hexagrams of Da Ting" is clearly the "Li" of Zhou under the skin of "Book of Changes". Although it can temporarily stabilize Da Ting, it sets shackles on the younger generations and there is no way out!

I'm afraid many people in the court have read this book.

Once you read it, you will be forced into thinking about respect and etiquette.

"If you cut off your own path, you will cut off the paths of your descendants. You are not a son of man!"

Feng Yun shouted angrily in a low voice.

Rarely angry, he gasped quickly before suppressing his anger.

Throwing the bamboo slips away casually, Feng Yun stood up and pushed open the door of the inner room. There were matching lights in the distance outside the door, which should be the lights of other palaces.

In the courtyard in front of Feng Yun's door, there were only a few dim lights reflected by the oil lamps in the house.

Although the night is dark, it is hard to sleep.

"With the sword of etiquette, I'm afraid Doctor Dazai will be pleased with his decision and give me the book to read."

Only with an understanding of etiquette can strange magic appear.

But the sword of ceremony...the sword is always a sword, a weapon, and the edge hidden under his courtesy.

His edge should not be sharpened by Li Lai!
……

The night is like a curtain, only a small piece is torn apart, revealing a cluster of night stars, telling that the stars are not extinguished.

"Whoosh!" The wind blew and the figures moved.

Sword light transition...

In the dark night, sometimes it looks like a stream of light, sometimes like a spark of fire, flickering on and off indefinitely, seemingly broken but lasting...

(End of this chapter)