"Confucius said, when you hear the Tao, you can die at night. My master also said in "Persuasion of Learning" that learning is not a last resort. When I was young, I learned to worship in Lanling, and this year has been established, as a stone chamber pillar under the history, in charge of the six countries of the library, relying on the convenience of the position, it can be regarded as a well-read book. ”

Among the four histories of the Imperial History Mansion, the history of the stone chamber has the least authority, because the Qin people have little interest in the books of the Six Kingdoms, and they are only snatched into the warehouse and collected, and no one usually cares about them at all.

Zhang Cang, as the younger brother of Tingwei Li Si, is a world-famous scholar, but he recommended himself to be this official, not seeking fame and fortune, but really out of love for knowledge.

is such a scholar who is rich and rich, and he also said sincerely to Heifu:

"But the more I learned, the more I felt inadequate. Knowing the insufficiency, and then being able to self-reflectively also. Therefore, when I die, if I can really take the book as the black man said, take the book as the coffin, take the dictionary as the coffin, and carry the cart full of slips to the Yellow Springs and the Nine Shadows, this life is enough......"

This was an inspirational and touching persuasion, but looking at the white and chubby guy in front of him sitting behind the desk, chewing the brown sugar he gave him as a snack, while saying this, Heifu felt that the scene was not serious.

Since he heard the name of this person in Humu Township, Yangwu County, Weidi four years ago, Heifu has wanted to travel with Zhang Cang for a long time, and now he finally came to Xianyang, and after reporting to Langzhongling, he visited Zhang Cang for the first time.

Zhang Cang is a very high-spirited person, and he is also very low-key in Xianyang, not involved in political disputes, and buried his mind in the stacks of books. Even if Heifu also belonged to Li Si's party, and he still had a friendship with the Zhang family to cover up the disaster of Zhang Er's wife, he was still very cold to Heifu, a stranger who visited rashly.

The thing that Heifu used to knock open Zhang Cang's defense line was actually the brown sugar he brought all the way into Xianyang......

"Zhang Zijun has three good."

Heifu's old friend Zhang Han and Zhang Cang have a great relationship, and once told Heifu about Zhang Cang's hobbies: "Books, women's sex, food." ”

"He loves books like his life, and he can not leave home for a month. But within this month, there must be no less women around me. According to him, if you don't take a maid for a day, your skin will be cracked, and your tendons will be ......"

"In addition, the reason why he is so fat is because he likes sweets, honey, glutton, and even human milk......

Heifu didn't have books, and the woman gave Zhang Cang, so he simply gave him fifty catties of brown sugar as a meeting gift.

You need to know that sweetness is a rare taste in this year, there is not so much honey to eat, Zhang Cang is tired of eating it early, and Heifu gave him brown sugar, which is exactly what he likes, and he was overjoyed, and he swallowed half a catty that day. Later, every day when he came to work in the Imperial History Mansion, he would bring some, and when he was resting, he would eat with sticky hands, and carefully wash and wipe them before touching the books that he regarded as treasures.

"It's obviously a sweet party, but he lives in 'salty' yang, it's really bitter for him."

Heifu is a little funny, his cousin Yan went to Weibei to rent a market, open up the sales of brown sugar, I don't know if thousands of years later, can Xianyang become "sweet yang".

It was also on this occasion that Heifu and Zhang Cang climbed into friendship, and he happened to live next door to Zhang Cang, and the two soon got to know each other, Zhang Cang also found that this Qianshou disciple who relied on military merits to get to Xianyang, although he deliberately showed the appearance of a countryman entering the city, but the conversation was quite extraordinary, inadvertently, and occasionally there were surprising words.

For example, he and Zhang Cang put forward the idea of "abacus", which made Zhang Cangshen think so.

When Zhang Cang recovered from the shock of being almost buried alive by the book, Heifu also chatted with him about the hottest topic of the past two days.

"The king ordered the prime minister, the imperial history, the court lieutenant and the Zhu Lang to discuss the emperor, Zi Gu is known for his erudition, and he was not called to inquire by the prime minister, the imperial historian, and the court lieutenant?"

Zhang Cang said: "The right prime minister is not familiar with me, as for the left prime minister, he prefers Confucianism, and mainly consults those doctoral Confucian students who have been recruited." ”

The prime minister of the Qin State is divided into left and right, of which the right prime minister is positive, since the resignation of Changping Jun, it has been held by Kui Xiang, and the left prime minister has only been promoted from the imperial historian to Wang Juan this year.

One of these two people is from a Legalist background, and the other is a sympathizer of Confucianism, and neither of them will come to him, an unruly fellow.

"Captain Tingwei sent someone to ask me ......"

Zhang Cang didn't hide it, and said with a smile: "But I just sent the classics that Tingwei needed, and Tingwei's subordinates have their own smart staff to discuss." ”

Although he is Li Si's junior brother, the friendship between the two has a feeling of "gentlemen's friendship is as light as water". Maybe Li Si was very careful and didn't want to give King Qin the impression of "forming a party", so he rarely looked for Zhang Cang, or maybe it was because of the death of another fellow disciple Han Fei?

Heifu came to Zhang Cang for a purpose.

Even if he has to present the correct answer, he must have a problem-solving process to make the test paper. Since it is such a serious matter, we can't pat our heads and talk nonsense, but take into account the traditions of the three generations, and even trace the deeds of Fuxi, the Yellow Emperor, and Shennong in ancient times......

With his background and experience, he will definitely be suspicious if he rashly offers his honorific title: How can this martial artist, who was born in Qiantou, know this?

"What I heard when chatting with Zhang Xueba" should be a good excuse.

At this time, under Heifu's advice, Zhang Cang had already started talking.

"In ancient times, there were five emperors, and some people said that the five emperors were Ku Xi, Shennong, Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun. Some people also say that the five emperors are Taihao, Emperor Yan, Yellow Emperor, Shaohao, and Zhuan, and so on. But no matter what, it's the Ancient Saint King. ”

"However, this is only the words of the Confucian scholars, I read the ancient books, and found that the merchants never mentioned the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, and the emperor contained in the golden inscription is the high-ranking 'Ming God', which can also be said to be the emperor. In "Xuanniao", "the ancient emperor's martial arts soup, the right domain is in all directions". In "Long Hair", "there are generals of the Lou family, and the emperor is a businessman". This is all the case, but the Yin Shang monarchs are also called emperors, because the Shang monarchs are not only in charge of military affairs, but also in charge of ritual affairs, they are both human kings and gods, and they regard themselves as the incarnations of the Emperor of Heaven, and Emperor Yi and Di Xin are examples. ”

Seeing that Heifu was a little stunned when he heard this, Zhang Cang explained again: "Di Xin is the king of Zhou. ”

"When King Wu destroyed the Shang, the Zhou people's views were very different from those of the merchants, only called the Son of Heaven, regarded themselves as the herdsmen of the heavens, the heavens listened to their own people, and the heavens regarded themselves as the people, so they only dared to call the king of people, not the emperor of heaven."

Zhang Cang chewed another piece of candy: "But when the etiquette collapses, and the princes claim the king one after another, the king title is no longer enough to be noble, and the emperor name becomes a higher name." At this time, there are people who want to be emperors......"

"What does Zi Gu mean that someone has been called emperor in the past?"

Hefu was a little surprised, he really didn't know the history of these partial doors.

Zhang Cangpu said: "Wei Ran, the prime minister of Qin at the time of King Qin Zhao, was the first advocate of the emperor. ”

It turned out that when Qin and Qi were two strong and stood side by side, Qin Prime Minister Wei Ran adopted the strategy of Qin and Qi being called "emperors" to win over the Qi state. He built a palace for King Qin Zhao in Yiyang, let King Qin establish himself as the "Western Emperor", and sent an envoy to send the title of "Eastern Emperor" to King Qi, and agreed that the five kingdoms would attack Zhao and divide the Zhao State......

"However, this call to the emperor is hastily over, and King Qi is only more than a month old, so he was persuaded by Su Qin to go to the emperor's name, the Eastern Emperor is gone, and the Western Emperor will be attacked by the world, and he can only go to it."

"But although Su Qin seems to be thinking about Qi everywhere, his real purpose is to assist King Yan Zhao to break Qi."

While speaking, Zhang Cang personally took out a silk book from the stone room, and Heifu looked at it, and it read "The Book of the King of Yan".

"This is obtained from the treasury of the Yan State, some people say that it is a letter written by Su Qin to King Yan Zhao, and some people say that it was written by his younger brother Su Dai......"

"This is the original? Su Qin's handwritten letter? Hefu was taken aback.

Zhang Cang said: "I don't know, I hope so." ”

After Heifu took it, he only felt that although the Yan Guo script on it was a little difficult to understand, he could vaguely feel that Su Qin was Yan and died, and he was good at dancing between Qi, Qin, Zhao, Wei, Han, and Chu.

Zhang Cang pointed to the above sentence and read: "Qin is the Western Emperor, Zhao is the Middle Emperor, Yan is the Northern Emperor, and the three emperors are established, and the princes are ......."

"Su Qin wants to make Qin, Zhao, and Yan emperors and destroy Qi together. In the end, although the Five Kingdoms were defeated, the Three Kingdoms did not claim the title of emperor after all, and it is said that King Qin Zhao suddenly gave up. ”

"Why is that?"

Heifu almost forgot his original intention of coming to the stone room to find Zhang Cang, and immersed in what happened decades ago, he even somewhat understood why Zhang Cang was obsessed with books.

The classics of the Qin State are hidden in the Mingtang room, but Zhang Cang is also a frequent visitor there, and after a little thought, he directly recited to Heifu the original words of the historian and King Qin Zhao......

"The king said, there is no truth, dare to deal with its name? If Qin has been annexed to the princes, even if he is not called the emperor, the countries will also be subject to Qin, if not, even if Han, Wei, and Chu are now in the Qin dynasty, and the night is against Qin, what is the use of having an empty name? ”

"The king said, Qin can only be called emperor when he destroys the six kingdoms! This hundred-year-old wish does not start from loneliness, nor does it end alone! Though the lonely died, there were sons, and sons begot grandchildren, and grandchildren begot sons. If the third generation can't be the sixth generation, and if the sixth generation can't be the tenth generation, one day, the world will be in one, unified in Qin! ”