Linzi has a large population, it is the most popular place in the world's citizen culture, its people are rich and happy, in their spare time, all play the flute, drums, beating, playing the piano, cockfighting, dogs, six bo, juju. In addition to these entertainment projects, in the streets and alleys, there are often some haiyu and dwarfs who are also active, doing some performances during the banquet, so as to win the support of diners, and also help the wine shop attract business.

Most of Haiyou's performances, mostly teasing, funny, and even masochistic and ugly things, they will sing while beating the drum, turning their heads on the desk to make people laugh, and the "Eastern Han Dynasty Drumming and Rapping Pottery Figurines" unearthed in later generations are a portrayal of this group of people.

But there are also some outliers in this group, they don't regard themselves as lowly advocates of excellence, and take the Chun Yu bun of King Qi Wei as an example, eat by mouth, and tell stories in the wine shop. Although the story is based on street talk and hearsay, there are also some ancient things that are talked about, such as "Yan Zi Makes Chu" and "Chun Yu Ji Zhi Persuade King Qi", Qi people love to listen to it.

In Linzi's most lively Zhuang and Yuezhi cities, there is a famous wine shop, which invites a haiyou named "Youxiu" to sit on the stage all year round.

It is said that Youxiu was a slave of a "family", and the family made up stories and asked him to tell them, and the more Youxiu told, the better, and his fame spread all over Linzi. Before his death, he regained his free body and continued to make a living by telling stories, appearing in this wine shop on the first and fifteenth days of every month. At this time, the restaurant is full of guests, Youxiu sits in the middle, and the diners who come to him surround him with three layers inside and three layers outside.

Today is the first day of the ninth month, and it is no exception, Youxiu is less than six feet tall, wearing a curtain on his head, his shoulders are high, he is wearing a child's deep clothes, but he has an exaggerated mustache, which looks a little funny, but his expression is very serious.

He sat down in the center of the restaurant, glanced around, and began the story in a distinctive loud voice......

"Shi Kuang is a doctor in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin and Ping, a blind music official, erudite and talented, especially fine music, good at playing the piano, and his family made six articles of "Shi Kuang" for him, and today I only talk about the matter of "The Voice of the Dead Country".

As Youxiu came to talk, a moment later, the story gradually came to an end.

"When Shi Kuang played "Qing Shang", there were sixteen Xuanhe flying in front of the porch door of the hall; When "Qing Zheng" was played, Xuanhe craned his neck and chirped and danced to the sound of the piano. Jin Pinggong was overjoyed when he saw this, got up to toast Shi Kuang, and asked Shi Kuang, is there a more moving song than this? ”

"Shi Kuang said, there is the joy of "Qingjiao", but only people with profound virtue can listen to this song, the prince is not worthy, if you listen to it, I am afraid that the family and the country will be defeated!"

"Jin Pinggong did not hesitate, saying that the widow had the best music in this life, so he forced the teacher to play, and if he didn't obey, he would be killed! The teacher had no choice but to take the piano and play it, and after playing the first song, white clouds appeared from the northwest sky, and the sky and the earth changed color instantly; In the second song, the wind and the torrential rain swept the sky and the earth, blowing so that the corridor tiles flew sideways, and the people on the left and right were panicking! ”

There was a lot of discussion in the wine shop, but now they all stopped, surprised by Shi Kuang's amazing skills.

Youxiu continued: "Pinggong was so frightened that he prostrated himself and hid between the porch houses, shouting again and again, asking Shi Kuang to stop playing music, Shi Kuang stopped his hand, and suddenly the wind and rain receded, and the clouds opened and the fog dispersed. ”

"But it was too late, the Jin Kingdom had a great drought for three years, not a single inch of grass was grown, and the Jin Pinggong was also seriously ill, and the Jin Dynasty has been in decline since then......"

Speaking of which, Youxiu took a few shots and ended today's story, and the diners came back to their senses and praised the story, but some people laughed and said:

"Isn't it just listening to the piano, can it really be so exaggerated, to the extent that the wind and clouds have changed?"

Youxiu smiled and said: "This gentleman is right, but the two words are not separated, and the musicians are like virtue, so there are many kinds of music." ”

He stood up and counted them one by one with his fingers: "There is the joy of the Son of Heaven, the joy of the princes, the joy of the doctors, the joy of the scholars, the joy of the common people, and so on." Therefore, happiness should not be reckless, and it must match the identity and virtue, otherwise it will lead to some evil things, which is what Confucius called 'the great drought of the state, not to lose all punishment and virtue'. ”

"Does Youxiu also recite the teachings of Confucius?" In the wine shop, a young Confucian student wearing a Confucian crown asked.

Youxiu explained: "Although I did not worship Confucianism as a teacher and wore Confucian clothes and wore Confucian crowns, I had also heard the words of Confucius from friends. ”

His voice changed suddenly: "In fact, how can things in this world not be like this?" If a person is not virtuous enough, but learns to be fair and compelled to do something, he will definitely be regarded by heaven and earth as rude, and he will give some omen and be warned and punished! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the wine shop was in an uproar, and the young Confucian student wearing a Confucian crown whispered to others: "Will you be warned for doing things that do not match your own virtue?" Then I heard that the emperor went to Mount Tai last month to seal Zen, and only went up the mountain and encountered a torrential rain, and his whole body was wet, how should this be calculated? ”

"The emperor sealed Zen in the rain?"

When many people heard about it for the first time, they were immediately interested. In the past few years, under the regulation and control of the government, the price of wine in Linzi has increased several times, and there are basically no poor people who can come here for recreation.

Between the cups and cups, the diners began to discuss this "state affair".

Confucian told everyone the news he heard from his teacher, from Qin Shi Huang did not use the words of Confucianism, violated ancient conventions, and used the etiquette of Qin Diguan mixed with "Rong Di's customs" to seal Zen, and then to the change of wind and clouds on the top of Mount Tai.

After a few cups of horse urine, the young Confucian became bolder, and finally shouted: "My mentor and friend said that Mount Tai has spirituality and will not accept the Zen of the King of Debo." Back then, Duke Qi Huan was not qualified, not to mention the so-called Qin Shi Huangdi, in my opinion, he is not really a son of destiny! ”

As soon as these words came out, the wine shop was silent, and then there was a piece of approval, the days of the Linzi people were lowered by a few grades after the rule of the Qin Dynasty, and their dissatisfaction had already been deposited in their hearts, although they didn't dare to take any action, but they could be put into words to vent, Youxiu just drank the wine, and looked at the scene in front of him with a smile.

Confucian was encouraged, and shouted again: "The emperor is immoral and violent, but he forcibly used the gift of Rong Di to seal Zen, angered the heavens, and sent a shower warning, in my opinion, just like Jin Ping Gongqiang listened to "Qingjiao", in the next few years, the world is probably going to be chaotic!" ”

"Yes!" Everyone toasted to the Confucian scholars.

Only a few clever people noticed that the topics discussed in this wine shop were getting more and more wrong, so they put a few and a half taels on the table and began to walk out.

But before everyone could leave the liquor store, they stopped outside.

A group of Qin soldiers surrounded the place.

Qi people changed color, Youxiu quickly stood up, and wanted to run through the back door, but found that it was also blocked, and the owner of the wine shop heard the news, and his face was as earthy as earth.

A group of black-clothed Qin soldiers walked in like wolves with swords in their hands, aiming their weapons at all the diners.

Then, a Qin prison historian who wore the law walked into the wine shop, glanced at the people inside, fixed his eyes on Youxiu and the already drunk Confucian Sheng, sneered, waved his hand and said:

"In this wine shop, the past is not the present, and the people who slander His Majesty will be arrested, and no one will be able to escape!"

……

Qin Shi Huang has left Jixia and visited the "palace" in Linzi City, which is actually the palace of the Qi king in the past.

Qi people like extravagance, starting from Jiang Qi, almost every monarch will build their own high platform, and the successive kings of Tian Qi have also inherited this hobby. Therefore, in the palace city in the southwest of Linzi City, there are countless high-platform buildings standing like pyramids, the pedestal is very wide, and the surrounding is inlaid with smooth stones, which is magnificent when you look at it.

Qin Shi Huang lived in the Great Room Palace, which was built by King Qi Xuan, covering an area of 100 acres, and the hall above was also very large, with 300 rooms. This project is so huge, with the wealth of the Qi country, it was not completed after three years of construction, but now it is cheaper than the Qin people.

In the hall of the large room, the ministers who accompanied the emperor's eastern tour and the main officials of Linzi were there, and the atmosphere was a little solemn, as if a big war was about to happen.

"It's really a war...... There is no smoke of gunpowder, but a far-reaching battle of life and death! ”

Heifu stood in the middle of the hall and sighed secretly. Sure enough, as he expected, the group of Confucian scholars waiting at the foot of Mount Tai heard that Qin Shi Huang Feng Chan was hindered by the wind and rain, and they actually ridiculed it.

In the eyes of Qin Shi Huang and Qin officials, he openly questioned Qin's legitimacy and said that the emperor was "virtuous", which was obviously a challenge to the emperor's authority! Hearing this, he was furious, and immediately instructed Li Si and the Linzi officials to send people, but anyone who discussed this matter was arrested, and those who spread rumors were punished according to the crime of slander.

The Linzi County Guard and Cheng are reporting on the arrests in Linzi City in the past few days.

"Your Majesty, in Linzi, those who dare to criticize Zen in the streets and alleys of wine shops have all been arrested!"

According to the confessions of Youxiu and others, the government investigated the bottom line and found a doctor who first leaked the news and slandered the emperor, and implicated more than a dozen people from him, most of whom were Confucian scholars. In this way, the seventy doctors, two out of ten, and the others were also panicked, after all, after the emperor left them at the foot of Mount Tai, everyone had more or less said what they complained.

According to the law, the first person to spread rumors is guilty of defamation, and in serious cases, he may be beheaded and abandon the city, and other followers will also be convicted of gathering a crowd to make trouble, and not reporting it knowingly, or fined, or be a prisoner, and be sent to repair the Li Mountain Mausoleum.

But Qin Shi Huang did not want to stop there, and let the ministers gather to discuss how the matter should be handled.

As the backer of Confucianism, Zuo Prime Minister Wang Juan could not escape the blame, but when deliberating, he still insisted that this incident was just a handful of ignorant Confucian students who were dissatisfied, and they could be found out one by one and punished, but there was no need to implicate all doctors.

"Your Majesty, the people of Qilu are easy to discuss, and the fool is just talking about it for a while, so there is no need to worry."

"Prime Minister Zuo's words are wrong! It is precisely because there are many fools in the world that we cannot allow all beings to slander, otherwise the people of the world will believe it to be true, and people's hearts will definitely fluctuate, leading to chaos! ”

The right prime minister Li Si is competing with him, he knows that the time has come to completely defeat Wang Juan and let him collapse!

Heifu stood behind, and saw that contrary to Wang Wan's rickety back, Li Si took a big step, bowed to Qin Shi Huang, and said in a loud voice:

"Your Majesty, in the past, the princes quarreled with each other, recruited a large number of lobbyists, made them talk about it, and let it go too far, so that this group of people could not control their mouths at all! Speaking often refers to the ancients as harming the present, and pretentiously and falsely confuses the truth. ”

"It has been decided today, the decree comes from His Majesty alone, not black and white. Under the Son of Heaven, the heads of the people should devote themselves to the affairs of agriculture and labor and create wealth for Your Majesty, and scholars should study the laws and regulations to govern the people for Your Majesty, which is the legitimate use of reading and learning! ”

"But now, instead of learning from the present, all living beings only appreciate what they have learned in their own private fields, and criticize the system of laws and orders established by the imperial court, so as to slander His Majesty's rule and confuse the people. But when he hears of something, he makes a comment on what he has learned, and takes the lead in spreading slander among the people. If it is not banned, it will inevitably make people's hearts fluctuate, weaken the prestige of the imperial court at the top, and form the trend of friends at the bottom......"

Speaking of which, Li Si bowed again and proposed:

"In the opinion of the ministers, after each incident, it is far from enough to only investigate the culprit, and a new law should be established to prohibit private education and discussion in the world. Let the historian burn all the history books of the six countries he collected! The classics are only allowed to be studied and collected by Dr. Xianyang's official office, and in addition, there are people in the world who have "poems", "books", and the words of the hundred schools of thought, which are also guarded and burned by the local guards! From now on, borrow from the past and not the present! Those who dare to gather to talk about ancient things and "poems" and "books" will be beheaded and abandoned the city! Those who have a private collection of poetry books and hundreds of languages are the city! I hope Your Majesty will grant permission! ”

"What!"

As soon as the words fell, there was an uproar in the hall, especially Zhang Cang, who was standing at the end, was even more shocked, and looked at his senior brother Li Si in disbelief.

Li Si was also in Lanling back then, learning imperial arts, and had a certain understanding of Baijiayan, and was deeply nourished by it, but now why should he ban it all?

If this happens, not to mention what Heifu said that day, the "new grass" that is brewing in the world, this world will learn the forest, I am afraid it will be like the Qi Palace outside, the flowers are withering, there is a lonely, only a few chrysanthemums can be left!

He was about to make a plea, saying that this must not be done! But unexpectedly, the black man in front of him had already noticed his actions, and in order to prevent this fat man who carried the hope of future science in China from being convicted for his words, he actually took the first step forward and said loudly:

"Your Majesty, the words of the right prime minister, great goodness!"

Everyone looked at Heifu, and he actually preemptively echoed before everyone could react from the shock? It's too urgent.

Ye Teng was also very surprised, competing to come out, this is not like what a son-in-law's personality would do.

Qin Shi Huang has not yet expressed his position, but he also looked at Heifu and said with a playful smile: "Qing also thinks that the proposal of the right prime minister is feasible?" “

"The matter of Mount Tai sealing Zen is obviously auspicious, and the water virtue of Qin, and the slanderers are all ill-intentioned people, and they should be punished! And doctors, private students, in the past few years, have been letting the chaos go, and it is indeed time to rectify it! ”

Heifu made a statement, but then his voice changed, and he said:

"However, Qin Law has always punished the guilty severely, and the innocent is pardoned, unless it is a clan punishment, but it is only a punishment of his father, mother, and wife. Ministers are ignorant, although the knowledge in this world is collectively called 'one hundred schools', but in fact, they do their own thing, and there are even people who are hostile to each other, and those who do not get along with each other in old age and death, not only are they not relatives, but they are not even neighbors. Now because of a few Confucian students, but all other private schools are banned, and all books are burned, will this ...... Is there a suspicion of harming the fish in the pond? ”