The scene during the banquet was a little embarrassing, and the nobles were not good at making a sound, and if they didn't make a sound, they would be suspected of showing weakness.

But if you make a noise and are afraid of being humiliated, you will make people laugh, your reputation will be ruined, and you will become a joke in the market.

Zhao Zhiai has met with Shiduo a few times, and at this time hurriedly said: "Zi is too worried." Yan Ying is five feet and you are seven feet, and the ink is more beneficial to the world and less traitors, how can there be any more Yan Ying making Chu? ”

This can be regarded as wanting to alleviate the embarrassment through compliment, and each retains some feelings. praised both the fit and the Mo family.

Shi said with a smile: "Although I am seven feet tall, my ancestors are all craftsmen, and in your eyes, I am only afraid of five feet of blood." When the giant came to Chu, didn't some people think that my Mo family giant was not a 'doctor', but just a 'lowly farmer, and his words could not be heard'? ”

This incident was a personal feud between Mozi and the nobles of the Chu State, and Mozi had traveled to the Chu State twice. One was to fight with the public to stop the attack on the Song Dynasty, and the other was to lobby the king of Chu, but the nobles said that Mozi's status was low, but he was just a common people, so the king of Chu might not listen to Mozi's remarks.

Now the situation is completely reversed, after the first battle of Shangqiu, it was not the Mo family who took the initiative to lobby the king, but the king of Chu personally sent Zhaozhiai to Peixian to ask for the support of the Mo people.

The situation is already like this, and Zhao Zhiai is helpless, hey, hey.

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

"One is that Yan Zi Tang gave birth to Huainan, and the other is an interesting thing. In the past, I have heard the story of the orange from the two masters, and I am fortunate enough to see it today, so I might as well tell you that story. ”

The king of Chu thought that this was suitable and gave Zhao Zhiai a face, and Zhao Zhiai bowed his head slightly to show his gratitude.

Shi pondered for a moment, looked around, and said slowly: "In the past, the two masters traveled to Chu, and they reached Zhongli. Zhongli has fruit sellers, good at hiding oranges, and does not collapse in the cold and summer. Out of the clear, jade and golden. placed in the city, Jia ten times, people fight for it. ”

"The master is strange, and he has one of them, and if he dissects it, if there is smoke in his mouth and nose, he will look at it, and he will be defeated. He asked, 'If the city is in the hands of the people, will they be sacrificed to the guests with the beans?' Will dazzle the outside to confuse the foolish also? It's even a deception.'" ”

"The seller laughed and said, 'My business is old, and I rely on it to eat my body.'" I sell it, people take it, I don't have a word, and I don't care about it? There are many deceitfuls in the world, but I am the only one? My son didn't think about it. Today's husband wears a tiger talisman and sits on Gaobi, and he is also a tool for the dry city, and if he can give Sun Wu and Sima Sui Tho a little yes? The big crown and the long gentry, the vessel of the temple is also angry, and the industry of Yigao can be built? Thieves do not know how to win, people are poor but do not know how to help, the law is unreasonable, and they are shameless when they sit on the millet and do not know how to save them. Watching it sit in the high hall, ride a horse, drunk and fat, who is not majestic and terrifying, and is like it? Why not go beyond the gold and jade, and defeat in it! This son is not aware of it, but to observe my orange'! ”

This is an allegory that uses gold and jade to defeat it.

It's just that although there is cotton wool at this time, it is not popular, so the word "ruin" is applied instead, after all, at this time, ordinary people use wheat straw or straw as a warm bedding at night.

After the recitation was finished, the nobles in the banquet were either ashamed or angry, and they were puzzled by the people who secretly wiped their sweat and were lucky not to humiliate each other with words just now.

Appropriate for swearing.

It can also be said that Shi is also promoting the truth of the Mohist "Shangxian".

It's just a bit of a tactful scolding.

Zhao Zhiai twitched the corners of his mouth, angry and laughing in his heart, he was really helpless.

The angry thing is that Shi used such a strange story to scold all the nobles present, saying that they wore tiger charms and Egao crowns one by one, and made themselves glamorous and beautiful like Sun Wuzi, Sima Sui Tho, Yi Yin, and Gao Tao, but they were all straw bales, and they could not relieve the people's hardship and improve the law.

This, of course, also includes him Zhaozhiai, because in the previous words, he used Yan Zi's five-foot body to turn his height into a bloodline noble, which was obviously satirizing these people here.

Laughing is...... He thought that Shi Shi had given him a favor just now, but he didn't want Shi to be a Mo person, but he personally practiced Zhong Ni's so-called "thief of hometown wishes and virtues", and did not take into account the feelings of everyone present, and lived out of a person who couldn't speak.

He didn't know that the Mo family was most disdainful of people like "good people who wish to be good people". For example, the great grandson, I don't know how many disputes he has had with Shi, but whether it is Shi or the people who support him, they have great respect for the high grandson, but they are extremely despised by those slippery ink people, and there is no place for such people inside.

This story does not belong to this era, but because of the inheritance of the literary language, the meaning of the two thousand years can still be understood by those present. The so-called inheritance is about the fact that future generations can understand the words of their predecessors, and the words of future generations can still be understood by their predecessors.

This insinuating story of Sang scolding Huai made the mood of the banquet reach 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, will offend the rest of the people present if they are careless.

Even if I knew that this story was quite interesting and reasonable, after I told it, the scene was silent.

Shi noticed the silence of the scene, and secretly laughed in his heart, he didn't want to have too many arguments with the nobles, some of the simple truths of the Mo family, some of the things advocated by Mozi, I think the king of Chu should also know.

Now that he has arrived here, he does not want to waste his energy on "reasoning" with the nobles.

Meng Sheng, who was sitting at the bottom, saw that he was like a competitive rooster, looked around defiantly, and touched the wine bottle with his hand very casually, and the nobles around him bowed their heads or turned their eyes away, not daring to meet their eyes, let alone answer.

I borrowed an orange just now, humiliated many people, and now I touched the wine bottle, and no one knew what to say next.

Some of the people who were drinking immediately stopped their hands, squinted at their suitable hands, and hurriedly changed their postures, for fear that he would take advantage of the problem again.

Meng Sheng secretly praised in his heart, and said in his heart: "He often said that if you fight with one punch, you won't have a hundred punches, which is exactly what he means." ”

"If I fought with people on the street when I was young, if there were many people on the other side, 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 enemies are looking around, they don't wait for others to say it first, but they first use citrus to humiliate themselves, and the rest of the people naturally don't dare to speak easily to avoid humiliation."

"I think today, I'm afraid that no one will dare to use words against our Mo family anymore."

I thought that if it was myself, I was afraid that I couldn't rely on an orange to take the lead for a while, so that no one dared to speak out in the audience, and I admired myself in my heart.

Looking at the suitability again, it is really generous.

The chopsticks that were originally only used to eat "soup with vegetables" were properly used as all the tableware, but the nobles and attendants present were taken by his momentum just now, and no one spoke out to blame.

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

The king of Chu at the head recalled the words of the golden jade just now, and he also secretly praised it in his heart.

I thought that I had heard that this person was good at words, sharp as an arrow, and he didn't want to provoke this person, but this person took the initiative to provoke others.

After thinking about it again, I also understand the attitude of the Mo family, often pointing out that the nobles of Shiqing are not virtuous, and there is a great personal grudge between the Mo family and the nobles present, which cannot be resolved by a few good words.

If this is the case, it is better to insult first, so that one person does not have to deal with a group of people. Just like a tiger fighting a pack of wolves, you always need to roar a few times to let the wolves know what they are capable of, and don't step forward easily.

Jin Yuqi's defeat on the outside, although the king of Chu felt that it made sense, but he couldn't praise it on his face.

Because the Mo family can ignore the feelings of the nobles, they can say anything. But he, as a monarch, has no capital to turn his face with the nobles at this time, and he can only show his attitude at this time.

After thinking about it, Xiong Su chuckled and said, "The words of the Mo family have always been sharp. Shangxian's theory of rewards and punishments is reasonable, but don't you hear the comparison between Zizhang and Zixia in the past? Zhong Ni said: It's too much. ”

"Poetry" cloud: The cloud of people is dead, and the country is ruined."

"The Book of Summer" says: It is better to lose than to kill misfortune."

"Shang Song" said: Don't be indiscriminate, don't dare to slack off the emperor, order the country, and be feudal."

"Everyone knows that those who are good for the country will not be rewarded and punished. But that's what a saint can do. If you can't do it, you still have to be unlucky, and you'd rather be indiscriminate. It is better to be promiscuous than to be unkind. ”

After the words of the king of Chu were finished, Zhao Zhiai also breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that the king was really smart.

It is clear that he is personally attacking and humiliating the nobles present, and if the king cannot deal with it properly, it will make the nobles resentful. The position was already unstable, and it would be very bad to make the nobles resentful at this time.

And if in order to please the nobles, it is even worse to go directly.

If only the nobles present can solve the predicament of the Chu State, why let yourself go all the way to Pei County and invite the ink to enter Chu? At this time, all the previous preparations are meaningless.

As a king, at this time, only both parties can not be offended, so this is very clever.

Very keenly defused the personal attacks that are being carried out by the suitables into theoretical problems. As long as we talk about theories and don't talk about individuals, then this matter can be perfunctory, and we have some feelings for each other, so as not to make the contradictions too acute.

Zhao Zhiai said in his heart, the contradiction is suitable for this person to make it in the Mo family. The year before last under Shangqiu City, it was this person who directly made the contradiction clear in front of the former king and the nobles...... From this point of view, this is a person who is good at creating some contradictions when everything happens, and for these people present, silence is the best choice!

The king of Chu is in harmony with the mud, or rather, he is changing the topic.

It's a helpless choice.

He used the words of the Book of Songs, Xia Shu, and Shang Song in the hope that the appropriate words would be transferred from the sharp topic of accusing the nobles of "gold and jade to be ruined by the outside" to the topic of "how to identify the virtuous".

The meaning of the king of Chu is that everyone knows that to be a king, the reward should not be excessive, and the punishment should not be abused. If the reward is excessive, it will be feared against the wicked. The abuse of punishment is afraid of involving good people.

The problem is that this is something that only a saint can do.

So, if you are not a saint, what should you do when you can't?

If you are unfortunate and excessive, you should rather be excessive than abused. It is better to benefit the bad than to lose the good guys.

In other words, the king of Chu said that he was not a saint and could not distinguish between virtuous and dull, so he had to reuse it.

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

The words are said like this, and it gives enough affection to the nobles, after all, there are still some of the words that are considered virtuous. You can't always sit in the right seat and think that you are the unwise people.

Shi is not interested in this set of crooked theories, but his previous purpose was only to preemptively prevent himself from being besieged.

Now that the king of Chu has given the steps, he has shown his feathers and sharp claws like a rooster, and he will accept it when he sees it.

So he bowed: "This is exactly the method of the Mo family's so-called 'Tianzhi selection'." As long as the standards of talent can be formulated and assessed, just like the rules of a craftsman are determined, where must saints be needed? ”

Seeing that Shi had already relented, the King of Chu hurriedly responded: "That's the case. Mo Zhai's knowledge is not unreasonable, and this time he invited the Mo family to Chu, just because he wanted to hear about the Mo family's knowledge. ”

"The so-called husband and people are foolish if they listen to each other, but they are holy if they listen to each other. There must be a certain truth in the truth of the doctrines of the world, which can be spread throughout the world. You can't listen to it separately, you can only listen to it together. Choose those who are good and follow them, and choose those who are good and follow them. ”

This is also to reassure the nobles, the King of Chu has been expressing an attitude to the nobles present: he may not use the radical ideas of the Mo family, don't worry.

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

Different people have different meanings for the same sentence.

When the king of Chu heard this golden and jade sentence, he had to think that the nobles were unwilling to listen to it, and he had to come forward to appease him; It's easy to think from the perspective of the monarch that the current Chu State is just gold?

In just a few decades, Xiongchu, who was so strong that after the Baigong Rebellion, especially the Xiongchu that could annex several countries and conquer Huaibei, has been reduced to the point where the feudal monarch is too powerful to move, and the oppression of the Three Jin Dynasty is difficult to fight back.

Now that Wuyang Yuguan has been lost, even the Zheng people can defeat the Chu army, and even behead two Chu nobles, which is like a dilapidated orange, which has been torn apart, revealing the defeat inside.

If it was the time of King Zhuang and King Hui, don't say that it was a crisis of domestic inheritance, even if the clan was in turmoil, a small country like Zheng would not dare to bite the Chu people.

He heard from his father about the conversation that instigated contradictions under Shangqiu City the year before last, and today he heard that Jin Yu had come to mention the situation of Chu State, and Xiong was secretly happy in his heart.

This place is not a Shangqiu, nor is it a military tent, nor is it in the military array. 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 feudal nobles in the country.

He thought that he was not a king of success, and what he wanted was not just to repel the counterattack of the Three Jin Dynasty and kill his younger brother.

Rather, after doing all this, let Chu regain the national strength to compete for hegemony with the Three Jins...... The issue of the aristocratic feudal monarch cannot be delayed any longer, and if it drags on any longer, the Chu State is slowly waiting for death.

It is precisely the lack of desire that is rigid, and the stronger the mentality, the weaker the strength, the easier it is to be exploited.

If he is just the kind of mediocre king, it would be meaningless for the ink master to enter Chu this time.

If he has a strong heart and the state of Chu is in the prime of King Zhuang and King Hui, it is meaningless for the ink man to enter Chu this time.

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