The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 663 Emperor Xuanwu [Subscribe*Monthly Tickets]

"Oh, I see!" Yan Yan nodded in agreement.

Li Yuan was also happy when he saw this.

"How about this, Bingzhou recognizes that Yan, Chu and Wei have conquered Qi!" Yan Yan said with a smile.

"Thank you for your kindness!" Li Yuan became even happier.

"In that case, then, let's do it!" Yan Yan said with a smile.

"On behalf of Yan, Wei and Chu, I would like to thank you for your foresight!" Li Yuan bowed and took his leave, but he was ecstatic in his heart.

The purpose of this trip was achieved. Without paying any price, Bingzhou's approval was obtained, and it agreed to Yan, Wei, and Chu swallowing Qi to counter Qin.

"Your Majesty, do you want to break with the State of Qin?" Mo Ya and others looked at Yan Yan in confusion. This was not in the interests of Bingzhou.

Could it be that after the grassland was unified, the monarch's mood also changed?

This is very possible. The princes will recognize Bingzhou as the common ruler of the grassland and become the overlord of the princes.

It's easy to feel like you're floating in the air. How many monarchs spent the first half of their lives sleeping on straw and eating bitter food, creating a hegemony, but spent the second half of their lives...

"When did I agree to form an alliance with them?" Yan Yan asked with a smile.

"Ah?" Mo Ya was confused.

"If Yan, Wei, and Chu destroy Qi, then we can't send troops to destroy Yan? Qin will send troops to destroy Wei and Chu?" Yan Yan continued.

"Is it better to divide the world into five parts: Bing, Qin, Yan, Chu, and Wei, or is it better to divide the world into Qin and Bing?"

Mo Ya stared at Yan Yan in a daze, and suddenly understood.

The world is so small, why should we form an alliance with Yan, Chu and Wei and divide the world into five parts?
Wouldn't it be better to cooperate with Qin and divide the world into two?

Moreover, in the former case, Bingzhou gained nothing and even provoked the powerful enemy Qin State for no reason.

The latter is different. The relationship between Qin and Bing will only become closer, and Bingzhou can also get Yan State.

Everyone knows how to choose.

"So, Your Majesty was just teasing him?" Mo Ya understood.

"He was the one who teased me first!" Yan Yan rolled his eyes. He wanted Bingzhou to help contain the Qin State without giving anything. What a joke!

Mo Ya smiled. It was indeed true. Everyone knew that Bingzhou never did business at a loss.

As a result, the State of Chu was still so optimistic that it thought Bingzhou would form an alliance with them.

As for Bingzhou sending troops to Yan State and destroying Yan?
Mo Ya also knew that Yan Yan was teasing him.

The princes of the world may not care about the oath, but Bingzhou does.

Bingzhou engraved "not to attack the south" into the Bingzhou tripod and incorporated it into the national policy. It was impossible for Bingzhou to launch a war against the Central Plains again at any time and in any place.

What's more, after unifying the grassland, Bingzhou has too many things to do. At least in the next ten years, Bingzhou will need to deal with grassland affairs and will not be able to send troops abroad.

"This person always thinks that everything will be done according to his best ideas, but forgets that the facts often develop according to the worst situation." Yan Yan shook his head and watched Li Yuan's figure leave the Bingzhou Palace. When leaving the palace gate, he did not forget to turn back and salute Yan Yan who was standing in front of the School Administration Hall.

"What a nice black carp!" The attendant shook his head silently. He was too lazy to record what happened today. Bing Jun was just in the mood to play and caught a black carp. What was there to record?

What Yan Yan said to Mo Ya was actually to use their mouths to tell the ministers in Bingzhou who had relations with Yan, Chu and Wei to face the facts. Bingzhou was already strong enough and had more and better options. Choosing to form an alliance with Yan, Chu and Wei was the worst option.

If it was really a secret, he wouldn't have said it in front of so many clerks in the School Administration Hall.

"Bingzhou is really becoming more and more powerful!" The attendant looked at the bustling and noisy Beiye Royal Court. Who would have thought that this sandy city that no one wanted to visit back then has now become the world's leading capital?
As for those peers who were better historians than him back then, they should be slapping their thighs and regretting it now, right?

The way historians confirm their status is simple and crude: whoever records the history most accurately and importantly is the big historian.

Therefore, whoever follows the most capable king will also have the most accurate history.

Back then, that group of people were unwilling to come and pushed him out. Did they ever think that this day would come?
A group of guys who only know how to record the affairs of the king's palace will sooner or later be reduced to writing pornographic books like novelists, and they themselves will become orthodox historians!
Thinking of this, the attendant's mouth corners couldn't help but curl up, and even his beard curved into a circle.

At the end of February, after 49 days of incense offerings and calcination, the tortoise shell of Emperor Xin that the Taoists had put into the Bingzhou Ding finally arrived at the day of being taken out of the Ding.

All the philosophers, civil and military officials of Bingzhou, and the people of Beiye Royal City also gathered in front of the Bingzhou Ding, their eyes fixed on the Bingzhou Ding, or in other words, on the hands of the person who took the tortoise shell.

As the representative of Taoism, Heguanzi personally flew into the cauldron and walked out of the black cauldron with his hands respectfully holding a palm-sized tortoise shell that had been calcined to a white color.

Fortunately, a drizzle fell, washing away the incense ash on the tortoise shell and revealing the cracks on the shell.

"Everything is going well and benefiting all people. This is a blessing from heaven and earth!" The head of the Confucius Temple stretched out his hand to catch the falling rain and said with a smile.

No one expected such a drizzle to fall in such a timely manner, but that did not prevent Confucians from touting it as an auspicious sign.

Heguanzi respectfully placed Emperor Xin's tortoise shell on a red cloth tray that had been prepared long ago.

Representatives of various schools of thought and representatives of Bingzhou court officials also gathered together at the first opportunity to identify the cracked oracle bone inscriptions left by the burnt tortoise shells.

"This word is easy to recognize. If nothing unexpected happens, it is definitely a big word!" said the military representative, pointing to several cracks on the bottom of the tortoise shell.

"Yes, it is undoubtedly big characters!" None of the other representatives refuted.

"As for this character, it means having the power to stop war, so it should be 'Wu'!" Seeing that everyone else agreed with his opinion, the representative of the military strategist pointed to the crack in the middle of the tortoise shell and said.

"To stop the war is the best way to fight!" All the representatives hesitated. In fact, the cracks caused by the burning were in a mess, and very few of them could be directly identified as words. What mattered more was how the people who identified them thought.

The representatives of Taoism, Mohism, and Confucianism were all frowning and hesitating, wondering whether to agree with the words of the military representative.

"To stop the war is the best way to fight, not bad!" Finally, the head of the Confucian Confucius Temple and the representatives of the other two families exchanged glances and agreed.

"As for the word at the top, I haven't read much, so I'd better let you recognize it!" The representative of the military strategists also withdrew with great understanding of the ways of the world.

"True? Or Xuan? Or North?" The representatives of Taoism, Confucianism and Mohism ignored the discussions of other representatives and secretly formed a small circle to discuss the issue.

“Seems true, seems mysterious. In the ancient times, the two might have been written in the same way.” In the end, none of the three bosses could be sure, so they simply combined the two words into one.

As for why the two words are one?
The final right to interpret the world's texts belongs to Xianxue!

"Then announce it!" Everyone looked at the heads of the Kong and Meng families. In terms of knowledge, the two were recognized as the best in the world. It would be most convincing if they announced it.

"After Emperor Xin, the Chinese land continued the title of Emperor Xin, and worshipped him with incense and offerings from the people of the Northern Territory, and he became Emperor Xin, the Great Emperor of Xuanwu."

After all, the head of the Confucius Temple has the highest status in Confucianism, so he is the one who announces the results of the tortoise shell divination.

(End of this chapter)