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

Chapter 704: Death of Fan Zeng [Subscribe*Monthly Ticket Request]

"If you don't teach me, someone else will!" Xiang Ji put away his spear, not thinking he was wrong at all.

Xiang Liang thought that after this great defeat, the sacrifice of 10,000 soldiers could make Xiang Ji wake up and remove his pride.

But he never thought that although Xiang Ji seemed to have gotten rid of his pride, it was actually just an appearance.

Xiang Ji's pride was beyond everyone's understanding. He admitted that he was not as good as Li Ren and Yun Da Nu, and acknowledged the strength of Bingzhou.

But he only thought that it was the Chu State and the Tenglong Legion that lost, not him, Xiang Ji.

If he was commanding the Bingzhou Army and received Yan Yan's instruction, he would not be the loser.

He never thought that failure was due to himself. He was a genius and a natural saint.

He was born with double pupils and was gifted with supernatural powers. He was a saint gifted by heaven and was invincible. All his failures were due to others dragging him down, not his own inability.

He stayed in Yangdu only because he believed that the State of Chu was not capable of bringing out his full talents, and that Xiang Liang and the Xiang clan, and even the entire State of Chu, were not qualified to teach him.

If he wants to learn, he should learn from the strongest.

However, Yun's furious disdain and ridicule shattered all his pride.

Some even compared him to barbarians, saying that he was even worse than them.

This was unacceptable to him.

"Are you very unwilling?" At this moment, a person appeared.

"Who are you?" Xiang Ji frowned and looked at the person who came.

He was dressed in plain clothes and looked weathered, probably over fifty years old.

"Fan Zeng, my ancestor is Fan Li!" The man introduced himself with a smile.

Xiang Ji frowned. He knew about Fan Li of course. However, ever since Fan Li retired and went boating on the West Lake, he had not heard of any descendants of Fan Li coming out to visit.

"You can't beat that centurion only because he is older than you. If they were the same age, he would not be as good as you!"

"It's not your fault that the Tenglong Army was annihilated by Bingzhou. Both Li Ren and Bingzhou Army are stronger than Xiang Liang, Ji Bu, and Ban Bu, so you lost."

Fan Zeng continued.

A genius must have an invincible heart, an absolutely proud heart.

"You were defeated because you underestimated the enemy and rashly sent out troops without understanding Bingzhou's tactics. As Sun Tzu said, if you know yourself and your enemy, you will win every battle. You know nothing about the Bingzhou army, so how can you not be defeated?"

"If I were to take command, the Bingzhou Army would be annihilated with a wave of my hand!"

Fan Zeng said this conceitedly.

"I once fished in a stream, intending to follow the example of Taigong, who came out of the mountains at the age of seventy to wait for a wise master. Unfortunately, the will of heaven told me that the wise master had encountered setbacks and had to come out early!"

Xiang Ji frowned and looked at Fan Zeng, who was dressed in tattered clothes, somewhat unconvinced.

"Hahaha, this is really the biggest joke I have ever heard!" Before Xiang Ji could refute, he saw a Bingzhou captain walking out of the military camp, looking at Xiang Ji and Fan Zeng sarcastically.

After all, this is the Bingzhou camp. Yun was attacked when he left the camp in anger, which naturally attracted the attention of the general at the gate of the Bingzhou camp.

However, the camp gatekeeper did not expect that before Xiang Ji had finished eating the melon, another charlatan came running.

"You compare yourself to Taigong, why don't you say he is King Wu?" The camp guard continued to mock Fan Zeng, then turned to look at Xiang Ji and said, "Although you are stupid, you are the young master of the Xiang family after all. We can't let you get cheated in front of Bingzhou camp." Xiang Ji became even angrier, and once again felt Bingzhou's disdain for him, and this time, he was directly called stupid.

"Don't be unconvinced. Look at him from head to toe. How can he look like a wise man?"

"A man who has made himself so poor that he can barely eat, you still expect him to have strategy?"

"The simplest thing is, if you ask him how many words there are in a text, he may not be able to answer!"

The camp gatekeeper looked at Fan Zeng and continued.

Xiang Ji also turned to look at Fan Zeng. Shuowen Jiezi had been published all over the world. As a primer, almost every educated family had a collection of it. If Fan Zeng was really a talented person left behind by the wilds, he should not have not even known how many characters there were in the most basic Shuowen Jiezi.

Fan Zeng looked unhappy. Although "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" was jointly promoted by Qin and Bing and various schools of thought, and printed all over the world at a low price, he was really too poor to afford a copy.

As for how many words there were, he also knew it, but since he was being ridiculed by the camp commander, why should he answer such a question that even children knew?

"You're just a soldier. I don't bother to answer you!" Fan Zeng snorted coldly.

"Haha..." The camp gatekeeper sneered, and suddenly swung out with his spear, piercing Fan Zeng's chest.

Fan Zeng looked at the camp gatekeeper in disbelief. He killed someone just because of a disagreement?
Xiang Ji did not expect that the camp gate general would suddenly kill someone, and looked at the camp gate general in surprise.

"Look, he said he could predict that the wise leader would suffer a setback, so why couldn't he predict that I would kill him?" The camp gatekeeper indifferently retracted his spear.

This is the gate of Bingzhou Camp. Any cat or dog dares to come here to stroll. Do you really think he doesn't exist? And you dare to mock me.

Although his position was not high, he was able to serve as the gatekeeper of Bingzhou Camp and was also an officer who was qualified to attend the Central Army Headquarters. How could a liar ridicule him?
Xiang Ji looked at Fan Zeng who was thrown out like a dead dog, then looked at the camp gatekeeper and somewhat agreed with what the camp gatekeeper said.

If you can predict that your wise leader will suffer a setback, why can't you predict that you will suffer the same disaster?

Moreover, as a wise man, why would he dare to provoke the commander of a battalion when he had no power or influence!
This behavior is like a beggar mocking the powerful and wealthy, and he will die without knowing why.

"Go back. It's none of my business where you die, but please don't die in front of my camp gate!" The camp gate general looked at Xiang Ji and continued.

Bingzhou did not kill Xiang Ji not because it was afraid of the Tenglong Legion, but because it did not want to go to war with the Tenglong Legion and the State of Chu because of Xiang Ji, which would have added to the casualties.

If Xiang Ji was not the young master of the Xiang family, he would have died eight hundred times already.

Xiang Ji looked at the camp gate commander, then at the Bingzhou camp, but he did not feel any anger at all. Perhaps he had been ridiculed enough today and had become numb.

Especially when he looked at Fan Zeng's lifeless body lying in the distance, he glanced at him with even more disgust. If he was really fooled by Fan Zeng, then Bingzhou would not know how to laugh at him.

I was almost fooled by a liar.

If the camp gate commander had not come out, he would probably have become a laughing stock for both Qi and Chu.

Therefore, without even thinking about collecting Fan Zeng's body, Xiang Ji rode his war horse and headed towards the State of Chu.

"Gone?" After Xiang Ji left, Li Ren's figure also appeared at the camp gate.

"General, do you think highly of him?" The camp gatekeeper saluted hurriedly.

Just as he said, Xiang Ji could die anywhere but not outside the Bingzhou camp. If it weren't for Li Ren's order, he wouldn't bother to care about Xiang Ji and Fan Zeng.

"After all, he was once someone specially named by His Majesty. He is a genius that His Majesty pays attention to, just like General Han of the Red Flame Cavalry. We have all witnessed General Han's achievements today, so naturally we have to pay attention to him!" Li Ren said seriously.

(End of this chapter)