warring states careerist

Chapter 25
The chariots and horses are sparkling, all the way to the west.

Shihe and the group of rascals were no longer visible, and Gongsun Ze was still angry.

The friend said softly: "Although the man knows the etiquette but does not keep it, he has no king and no father, but in terms of nine numbers, I don't think even Wang Jizhi's Taishi may be able to match him. This is beautiful jade."

Although Gongsun Ze lost, he would not force his resignation on this matter, nodded and said: "I agree with what you said. Although his method of number nine is not in compliance with the rules, he has another plan... Sigh, Pity."

The friend said with a smile: "Even if a piece of beautiful jade falls into the soil, it is still beautiful jade. This piece of beautiful jade can be carved into ritual characters or Mohism's righteous characters in the future, and it can become a talent."

Gongsun Zedun said: "This is the problem! For example, among the barbarians, there are warriors who are loyal to the barbarians, and brave men who take the risk of attacking. But they don't know how to use this bravery on the right path, so They cannot be praised."

"Gentlemen can tell the difference. It is their bravery that is praised, not the faith they hold in their hearts when they are brave. The common people can't tell the difference. They may learn bravery, or they may learn from those barbarians who wear their left lapels. The wind of burning, killing and looting. The most important thing is not to be brave, but why you are brave? It is right to be brave for bad things, but brave people are bound to be wrong, can the rascals tell the difference?"

He glanced at his friend and said seriously: "I'm not the kind of person who can't afford to lose, but I have to win. Winning is not for me, but for the righteous way. He is a beautiful jade, but he has been carved by others, so it is a pity that he can discard it. In today's world, when the master is dead, who can snatch the disciple from Mo Di? Even that Qin Huali, who learned from Bu Zixia, was not bewitched by Mo Di after all."

"I know what you mean, but you have to know, can we be more learned than Bu Zixia? This jade is already Mo Yu, and Mo Di still exists, so there is no need to think about it anymore. If the Master is here, why let Yang Zhu wait The science of beasts is so popular? Why is it that no one can argue with it now?"

"My heart hurts! My heart hurts!"

The friend stopped talking, and then sighed, listening to those singing voices coming from a distance again, feeling lost.

That's right, Master is gone, who can compare with Mo Di when it comes to knowledge and knowledge?And who can pull the disciple away from Mo Di?
Up to now, I have only heard of people like Qin Huali rebelling against Confucianism and learning Mohism, but I have not heard of anyone rebelling against Mohism and learning Confucianism.

Because Wu Qi was not filial, he was disgusted and driven away by Zeng Shen, who was educated by a sage like Zeng Zi to kill him, but now he has done great things in Xihe; Tian Zifang, Duan Ganmu, Qin Huali...

He couldn't help thinking, if the master is resurrected, he can teach without discrimination, and teach students in accordance with their aptitude, what kind of person will he teach that person called Shi?

If the master is resurrected, what he is facing is no longer the collapse of the rituals and the destruction of music, but a world where the princes are all fighting to destroy the country and conquer the city. What kind of opinions should we put forward?

……

Early the next morning, someone brought a small bow, twenty feathered arrows, and a finger wrench for children to practice archery.

Everyone in the village is busy with the preparations before the harvest, helping the Liuzhi family with some things as promised yesterday, and the harvest of the public land will take a few more days. Put some effort into it.

Shi took Liuzhi to the small river and made a random target out of wheat straw.

He played bow and arrow when he was very bored in his previous life, but it was just for fun. Compared with someone like Gongsun Ze, he must be in heaven and earth.

This opportunity won by cutting his thumb, Shi felt that he still had a chance to fight for it, so as to ensure that he could win the 40 taels of gold.

This is the first pot of gold in the most difficult primitive accumulation. For Gongsun Ze, the amount is not much, but for him, he can use the farming events he is familiar with to expand his influence.

Since it was a competition between disciples, with Gongsun Ze as a man, he would at most choose a child with long arms and broad shoulders and a talent, but he would never choose a nephew who had learned archery in his own family.

Holding a small bow with six fingers, he was extremely happy.It's not that he has never seen a bow, but he can't play with a bow. When he was a child, he played with his playmates, and he just stole a hemp rope from his mother at random, got beaten, and looked for pieces of mulberry wood.

Even if he shoots arrows, he only knows how to shoot primitive people, holding the tail of a reed with his thumb and forefinger.It's okay to play like this, but even the formal small bow used by children can't be drawn.

After trying a few times, he had already missed a feather arrow and was looking for it in the grass.

After finding it out, he ran to Shi with the feather arrow and asked, "Brother Shi, you taught me well. My mother told me well last night, saying that if I really want to have these two yi gold, Then you can try the cattle farming method you mentioned. This morning, green buttocks blocked my door again and asked me to study hard, and I must win."

Qing Hip is a personal name, and there was a bruised birthmark on the back of the buttocks when she was born.At this time, the name is very random. In fact, this name is basically the same as the name of a prince like Jin Chenggong, so at this time, people with status must have characters, otherwise names like Heifu, Er Mazi, and Guatian Li Xiasheng are really indecent. .

Sitting under a tree by the river, playing with the wrench on the thumb, or called Kui.

Hearing Liuzhi's words, he put the coin aside, beckoned to him and said, "No hurry, come and sit down."

Liuzhi walked over obediently, and sat on the ground opposite Shi Shi.

"Brother Shi, do you know how to shoot arrows?"

"What do you think?"

"Shouldn't be very good at it? If I could, I would definitely compare him directly like when I was comparing nine numbers."

Shi laughed and said, "If you can see this clearly, it's time to learn to reason."

Liuzhi said distressedly: "But we have to win this round first. Everyone is looking forward to it."

Shiza touched it, and asked again: "What do you think of the young master who came today?"

Six fingers scratched his head, glanced at Shi, and said cautiously: "He can stick to some things, but what he sticks to is not right. It would be great if he could stick to the same things as brother Shi. If such a person opposes us, He is the most difficult to fight against; if he is like us, he is the most reliable partner. If he replaces his gift with Brother Shi, you believe in doing the world’s righteousness and arriving in Kyushu Paradise, in fact, he is the same as you, Brother Shi The same person, even the same person as Mr. Mo Di, whom I have never met. Right?"

Shi smiled and asked, "How do you say?"

"Well, it's like the story you told. Two horses, both want to know where the horizon is. One is going north, the other is going south. The north and the south are different, but the four hooves never look back. , but the same."

Shi praised: "It's really rare for you to understand this. If Mr. Mo Di comes back, he will also like you. I'm not wrong about you, but it's a pity that you didn't have the opportunity to learn since you were young. It's still too late after all. You You have to work harder than others."

"Understood, brother Shi. I'm not afraid of death. As long as I set my sights on something, I will do it even if I try my best. It's like swimming in a river. I want to learn how to swim, so I will continue to swim if I am almost drowned." He. Brother Shi, teach me how to shoot an arrow, even if I wear out my fingers, I must practice it."

Appropriately pat Liuzhi on the head as a sign of encouragement, and look down at the wrench finger.

I don't know what kind of bone it is made of, but it has been used all year round and is extremely smooth.

There is a small ear on the side, which can be used to put the arrow tail on it when drawing the bow, so as to ensure that the position of the arrow tail is fixed every time the bow is drawn, and the shooting can be more accurate.

There is a small hole on the side of the ear, which is covered with cooked cowhide, which can be hung on the wrist, like a bracelet, to prevent the fingers from flying out due to inexperienced release.

Very mature finger wrench, it can almost be said that it has been like this for the next 2000 years.

Reaching out to pick up the small bow at Liuzhi's feet, he pulled it a few times.

Without a thumb pull, you can't shoot with the proper thumb.

I took out three fingers except the thumb to hold the bowstring, tried a few times, and finally got an idea.

From the very beginning, he wasn't going to use his thumb.

Gongsun Ze is a gentleman who abides by etiquette. He will definitely teach the children over there to shoot with their thumbs. This is the old place of Yin and Shang.

Thumb shooting is of course very useful, especially on a speeding chariot. If you want to make the three arrows in "Shooting Ceremony", it is best to use thumb shooting.

But the disadvantage of this shooting method is that it is too slow to learn, and it is difficult to practice a good shooting method if you are not a professional full-time worker or have practiced since childhood.

Regardless of whether it is the hard-core crops of the Eight Banners of the Manchus, or the non-cultivable taxi class with sufficient income to farm for them at this time, it is the same way, using off-production to ensure the level of archery.

The collapse of well fields in the Warring States Period was not only related to the development of agricultural technology, but also to the expansion of the scale of the war.

The emergence of the crossbow allows more people to use long-range weapons, and also makes the military status of blood nobles continue to decline in some countries.

A crossbow is similar to a musket, and it can be used while standing on a chariot. Even if it is inaccurate, it is not the time when non-nobles with a bow could not fight with a chariot for ten years.Both crossbows and muskets belong to the destroyer of nobles in a certain sense. The former is the destroyer of nobles in the era of stirrupless chariots when combined with the rise of infantry and military merit; the latter is the destroyer of nobles in the era of stirrup plate armor when combined with cannons and square formations.

With the emergence of crossbows and the fact that the thumb shooting method is too difficult to get started, it is likely that a burst of three-finger shooting methods also appeared during the Warring States period, which was used to quickly train archers and ensure the long-range advantage over crossbows.

But Shi believes that Gongsun Ze may not know the three-finger shooting method, and even if he does, it is impossible for him to teach children such a way that violates etiquette.

The words that were used to prevaricate Gongsun Ze before were not completely unreasonable.

He is a common man, wearing short brown clothes that are convenient for work.

Gongsun Ze is a scholar, wearing a straight train, according to the archery etiquette, before shooting, he has to go to the dressing room to take off his left sleeve, expose his arm and put on the armguard, otherwise the left sleeve is too wide to shoot arrows at all.

Two people have different identities and wear different clothes, so there is no way to compare them.

In terms of teaching people, Gongsun Ze taught common people and children to avoid the etiquette of taking off their clothes and showing their left arm, but the issue of thumb shooting will definitely not change.

But Shi doesn't care about these at all. He is a pragmatist on some issues, whichever is easy to use.

Within ten days, the three-finger shooting method is definitely better than the thumb shooting method; within three years, the two are comparable; after five years, because of the problem of inheritance, learning the thumb shooting method at this time is definitely better than the three-finger shooting method. There are also many skills such as lianju arrows that can be taught.

Since it was set for ten days, of course he had to teach six fingers to shoot with three fingers.

He got up and stood up straight, hooked the bowstring with three fingers, straightened his chest, stretched his back muscles, and stretched his back as if expanding his chest, drawing the small bow to its full extent.

Afraid of the rebound, Kong broke the bow, carefully restored it to its original appearance, and handed the bow to Liuzhi's hand.

"According to the appearance just now, let's contact the bow first. Don't rush to shoot the arrow."

He also talked about some bow-drawing techniques in his ear, and from time to time, he patted the six-fingered chest and unstretched arms due to lack of strength, telling him that he would rather not draw the bow than to practice the posture first.

When I was actually teaching others, I just realized the connotation of the archery ceremony. It really is every detail that determines whether it is the right way in the end, and the process itself is the goal, and it is often impossible to directly think of achieving the goal.

But these insights are for self-cultivation after all, and he didn't talk to Liuzhi about self-cultivation and morality anymore, but kept correcting his posture with sticks.

After drawing the bow more than a dozen times, Liuzhi's face was already covered with sweat, and his posture became more and more ugly every time he drew the bow, and his fingers trembled slightly.

Although he didn't open his mouth, Shi also knew that this was the process of severe finger pain that would inevitably be experienced in the early stages of the three-finger shooting method.

He thought, he should go back and ask his brother for help and make a finger cot for him.

"You have your own family, which will provide you with bows and the opportunity to quit your job. But I also have brothers and sisters-in-law who make shoes, but they can also help me make a finger cot. Isn't it just better than the backstage? I'm afraid you won't make it ? It’s not easy to make a finger cot for leather shoes?”

I thought about it so happily that I laughed myself out, thinking that it's nice to have a backstage.

(End of this chapter)