warring states careerist

Chapter298
The scene during the banquet was a bit awkward. It was difficult for a group of nobles to keep quiet, and it would be a sign of weakness if they didn't keep quiet.

But if he kept his voice and was afraid of being humiliated, he would make people laugh instead, ruin his reputation and become a joke in the market.

Zhao Zhiai had met He Shiduo a few times, and at this time he hurriedly said, "I'm too worried. Yan Ying is five feet and you are seven feet. Mohist is more beneficial to the world, but there are fewer rapes and robbers. How can there be such a thing as Yan Ying's envoy to Chu?" ?”

This can be regarded as an attempt to ease the embarrassment through praise, and to preserve some sympathy for each of them.Not only praised the fitness, but also praised the Mohism.

Shi smiled and said: "Although I am seven feet tall, my ancestors are all craftsmen. In your eyes, I am afraid that my blood is five feet long. When the giant came to Chu, some people thought that my Mohist giant was not a 'doctor', but just a 'peasant farmer'. , its words are not audible'?"

This incident was regarded as a personal grievance between Mo Zi and the nobles of Chu State. Mo Zi had traveled to Chu State twice.One time he fought with Gongshu Ban to stop the attack on the Song Dynasty, and the other time he lobbied the King of Chu, but was told by the nobles that Mozi was lowly and just a commoner, so the King of Chu might not listen to what Mozi said.

Now the situation is completely reversed. After the first battle in Shangqiu, it was not the Mohists who took the initiative to lobby the king, but the King of Chu personally sent Zhao Zhiai to Pei County to ask for the support of the Mohists.

The situation was already like this, Zhao Zhi'ai had no choice but to remain silent.

Holding up the orange that caused the topic just now, he said again: "I grew up in Shangqiu and traveled in Surabaya. I have never seen an orange with my own eyes. It's just that I heard people mention it twice during the study."

"One of them is the saying that Yanzi oranges were born in Huainan, and the other is an interesting story. In the past, I heard two masters tell the story of oranges. I am lucky enough to meet them today. I might as well tell you the story."

The king of Chu thought that Shi Shi had given Zhao Zhiai a favor, and Zhao Zhiai nodded slightly at Shi Shi to express his gratitude.

Shi pondered for a moment, looked around, and said slowly: "In the past, the two masters traveled to Chu and came to Zhongli. There is a fruit seller in Zhongli who is good at storing oranges. They are not broken in cold and heat. They come out brightly, jade and golden. Put them in the market. , Jia ten times, people fight for it."

"The master is curious, and if he trades one, he dissects it, and if there is smoke in his mouth and nose, he looks at it, and it looks like a failure. He asked strangely, "If you sell it to others, you will sacrifice it with real beans. Is it for the guests? Is it to confuse the blind by showing off? It’s really deceiving.”

"The seller laughed and said: 'My business has been around for a long time, and I rely on it to eat my body. I sell it, and others take it. It's not a word, but it's not enough for my son? There are not a few people who are deceived by the world And I am alone? My son did not think about it. Today, the husband who wears the tiger talisman and sits on the tiger is like the tool of Qiancheng, and he can really teach Sun Wu and Sima Rangju the strategy? The big crown and the long gentleman , The utensils of the temple are also so high, can they really build the business of Yigao? The robbers do not know how to control them, the people do not know how to save them when they are in trouble, the law does not know how to reason, and they do not know how to be ashamed when they sit on millet. Watch him sitting in the high hall, riding on a four-horse horse, drunk For those who are mellow and rich but rich and fresh, which one is not majestic, formidable, and imposing? How can we go without gold and jade outside, and ruined in it! Today, I don’t look at it, but look at my tangerine’!"

This is an allegory that uses gold and jade in its exterior and ruins it.

It's just that although cotton wool was available at this time, it was not popularized, so the term Bai Rang was used instead. After all, ordinary people used wheat straw or straw as bedding to keep warm at night.

After the recitation was over, some of the nobles at the banquet looked ashamed or angry, wondering if they were secretly wiping off their sweat and feeling lucky that they hadn't humiliated the other party with words just now.

Suitable for scolding.

It can also be said that Shi is promoting the Mohist principle of "advocating the virtuous".

It's just a little bit euphemistic.

Zhao Zhi'ai twitched the corners of his mouth, he was angry and laughed in his heart, really helpless.

I was so angry that I borrowed such a weird story and scolded all the nobles present, saying that they all wore tiger charms and Egao crowns, and made themselves look as glamorous as Sun Wuzi, Sima Rangju, Yiyin, and Gaotao. Yes, but each of them is an idiot, which cannot save the people from poverty and improve the law.

This naturally includes him, Zhao Zhi'ai, because in the previous words, Yanzi's five-foot body was used to transform the height into the ranks of the blood, which is obviously satirizing these people present.

He was laughing... He thought that Shi Shi had given him some favor just now, but he didn't think Shi Shi was a Mohist, but he personally practiced Zhong Ni's so-called "thief of virtue in the countryside" without caring about his presence The sensibilities of everyone are just like a person who can't speak.

But he didn't know that the Mo family despises people like "Xiang Yuan, a good man" the most.For example, Grandson Gao, I don’t know how many disputes happened with Shi, but both Shi and those who support him respect Gao Sunzi very much. On the contrary, they are extremely contemptuous of those oily Mohists, and there is no room for such people inside. land.

This story does not belong to this era, but because of the inheritance of classical Chinese, the meaning of it can still be understood by the people present after 2000 years.The so-called inheritance means that the future generations can understand the words of the predecessors, and the words of the descendants can still be understood by the predecessors.

This story of accusations and insinuations brought the mood of the banquet to an embarrassing peak.

No one dared to speak out for fear of being humiliated.Those who want to speak, but don't know what to say, and if they are not careful, they will offend the rest of the people present.

Even though they knew the story was quite interesting and reasonable, the scene was completely silent after it was told.

Feeling the silence of the scene, Shi felt secretly happy. He didn't want to have too many arguments with the nobles. Some simple truths of the Mo family and some things advocated by Mo Zi should be known to the king of Chu.

Now that I'm here, I don't want to waste my energy on "reasoning" with the nobles.

Meng Sheng, who was sitting at the bottom, saw that Shi was like a victorious rooster. He looked around provocatively, and touched the wine bottle casually. , let alone pick up the conversation.

Borrowing an orange just now has humiliated many people, and now he is reaching for the wine bottle, no one knows what to say next.

Some of those who were drinking stopped their hands immediately, squinted at Shi's hand, and hurriedly changed to another position, for fear that he would make use of the problem again.

Meng Sheng praised secretly in his heart, and said in his heart: "He often said that one punch is enough to prevent a hundred punches, that's exactly what he meant."

"If I was fighting with people on the street when I was young, if there were many opponents, I had to knock down one person first, so that the rest of the people would have scruples and dare not come forward, so that I could deal with it calmly."

"Now that the group of enemies are looking around, they don't wait for others to speak first, but they use the mandarin to humiliate them first, and the rest of them naturally dare not speak easily to avoid being humiliated."

"I think today, no one dares to use words to deal with our Mo family anymore."

I thought to myself, I'm afraid I can't preemptively rely on an orange for a while, so that no one in the audience dares to speak out, and I admire myself in my heart.

Looking at the appropriate behavior, it is really generous.

The various tableware during the banquet did not follow the rules for using tableware. Originally, chopsticks were only used to eat "soup with vegetables", but they were used as all the tableware. One person uttered accusations.

I'm afraid that many people even think that Shi Shi did it deliberately, just waiting for the opportunity to set a trap to fight back against others.

The king of Chu, who was at the head, recollected the words of Shi just now, and he secretly praised him in his heart.

He thought that he had heard that this person was good at speech, as sharp as an arrow, and he had no intention of provoking this person, but this person took the initiative to provoke others.

Thinking about it again, I also understand the Mo family's attitude, often pointing out that the nobles of Shiqing are not talented, and there is a great personal grievance between the Mo family and the nobles present, which cannot be resolved with a few good words.

That being the case, it would be better to insult first, lest one person have to deal with a group of people.Just like a tiger fighting a pack of wolves, it always needs to roar a few times first to let the pack of wolves know what they are capable of, and don't step forward easily.

Although the king of Chu thinks that the words of gold and jade are reasonable, but he can't praise them on the surface.

Because the people of the Mo family can say anything regardless of the favor of the nobles.But as a monarch, he doesn't have the capital to turn against the nobles at this time, so he can only express his attitude at this time.

After thinking about it, Xiong Yi smiled lightly and said, "Mohism's words have always been sharp. The theory of rewarding and punishing the virtuous is reasonable, but don't you hear the comparison between Zi Zhang and Zi Xia in the past? Zhong Ni said: Too much is too late."

"The "Poetry" says: The clouds of people perish, and the country is exhausted."

"The "Book of Xia" says: Rather than kill misfortunes, it is better to lose them."

""Shang Song" says: Don't be arrogant, don't dare to neglect the emperor, order to go to the next country, and feudalism will be blessed."

"Everyone knows that those who are good for the country should not be rewarded and punished indiscriminately. But this is what a sage can do. If you can't do it, you still have to pass by unfortunately. Rather than be good, you would rather Prostitution."

After the king of Chu finished speaking, Zhao Zhiai also heaved a sigh of relief, saying that the king is really smart.

It is clear that it is a personal attack and humiliating the nobles present. If the king cannot respond appropriately to these words, the nobles will feel resentful.The seat was already unstable, and it would be very bad if the nobles resented him at this time.

And it would be even worse if he walked away directly in order to please the nobles.

If the plight of Chu State can be solved only by the nobles present, why bother to let himself travel thousands of miles to Pei County to invite Mohists into Chu?At this time, all the previous preparations are meaningless.

As a king, at this time, both parties can only not offend, so what he said is very clever.

Very keenly resolved the ongoing personal attack by Shi Suo into a theoretical problem.As long as the theory is mentioned and the individual is not discussed, then this matter can be dealt with perfunctorily, and we have some sympathy for each other, so that the conflict will not be too sharp.

Zhaozhi'ai thought in his heart that the theory of contradiction was made by this person in the Mohist school.In the city of Shangqiu the year before last, it was also this person who directly pointed out the contradictions in front of the late kings and nobles... From this point of view, this is a person who is good at creating some contradictions for nothing, and these people present were silent It is the best choice!

The king of Chu was talking to each other, or changing the subject.

This is a helpless choice.

He used the words of the Book of Songs, the Book of Xia, and the Songs of Shang in order to transfer the appropriate words from the sharp topic of accusing the nobles of "gold and jade on the outside and the inside of them" to "how to identify talents" so that everyone would not feel uncomfortable. on the topic.

What the king of Chu meant was: Everyone knows that to be a king, rewards should not be excessive and punishments should not be abused.If rewards are excessive, bad people are afraid of being affected; if punishment is abused, good people are afraid of being involved.

The problem is that this is the kind of insight that only a saint can do.

So, I am not a saint, so what should I do when I can't do it?

If it is unfortunate that it is excessive, it is better to be excessive than to abuse it.Better to benefit the bad than to lose the good.

That is to say, the king of Chu said that he is not a saint and cannot distinguish between wise and dull, so he has to reuse it.

In other words, some of these people present must be talented, and some of them may be really stupid, but it doesn't matter if you are stupid, I will still use you.

Having said all the words like this, it also gave enough affection to the nobles. After all, some of the meaning in the words can be regarded as talents.It is impossible for everyone to sit on the right seat and think that they are those unwise people.

Su Shi is not interested in this fallacy, but his previous purpose was to preemptively prevent himself from being besieged.

Now the king of Chu gave the steps, and he showed off his feathers and sharp claws like a rooster, so he just accepted it as soon as it was good.

So he said: "This is what the Mohists call the method of 'Tianzhi selection'. As long as the standards for talents can be formulated and evaluated, just like the rules of craftsmen to determine the radius, why do we need saints?"

Seeing that Shi Shi had already let go, King Chu hurriedly responded, "That's right. Mo Di's knowledge is not unreasonable. This time he invited the Mo family to Chu, and he wanted to hear the knowledge of the Mo family."

"It is said that if husbands and people are separated, they will be foolish to listen to them, and if they are united to listen to them, they will be holy. The principles of the world's theories can be spread to the world, there must be a certain reason. You can't separate and listen to them, you can only listen to them together. Choose the one Those who are good should follow it, and those who choose what is beneficial should follow it.”

This is to reassure the nobles. The King of Chu has been expressing an attitude to the nobles present: I may not use the radical ideas of the Mohists, so don't worry.

Xiong Yi didn't want to cause such a stalemate at the banquet at all, but he didn't expect that Shi would directly use an orange to draw out some hidden contradictions at the banquet, which made him a little difficult to deal with.

The same sentence sounds different to different people.

When the king of Chu listened to this sentence of gold and jade, he thought that the nobles would not listen to it and wanted to appease him; from the perspective of the monarch, it was easy to think that the current state of Chu is not gold and jade.

In just a few decades, Xiongchu, who was so tyrannical enough to annex several countries and conquer Huaibei after the Baigong Rebellion, has been reduced to the point where the monarch is too powerful to move, and the oppression of the Three Jin Dynasties is difficult to counterattack.

Now that Wuyang Yuguan is lost, even the Zheng people can defeat the Chu army, and even behead two Chu nobles.

If it was the time of King Zhuang and King Hui, not to mention the crisis of domestic succession, even if the public clan rebelled, a small country like Zheng would not dare to bite the people of Chu.

He heard from his father the inciting conversation in Shangqiu City the year before last, and today he heard that Shi Shuo Jin Yuqi came to mention the situation of Chu State, Xiong Sui was secretly delighted.

This place is not Shangqiu, nor is it an army tent, nor is it in an army formation.I can take this opportunity to listen carefully to what the Mo family has to say, or see if I can use the power of the Mo family to suppress the domestic nobles.

He thought, he is not a conservative king, and what he wants is not just to repel the counterattack of the three Jins and kill his younger brother.

Rather, after all this is done, let Chu State regain its national power to compete with the three Jins... The issue of the nobles' title to the king cannot be delayed any longer. If it continues, Chu State will slowly wait for death.

It is just that one can be strong without desire, and the stronger the mentality, the weaker the national power, the easier it is for people to take advantage of loopholes.

If he is just the kind of mediocre and conservative king, it would be meaningless for Mo Zhe to enter Chu this time.

If he has a strong heart and the state of Chu is at the height of King Zhuang Hui's prosperity, it would be meaningless for Mo Zhe to enter Chu this time.

Only at this time and this heart made the situation of the Mo family's entry into Chu become subtle.

　One more today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)