The month of aid, the day of Jiyou, this is the day selected by Guantuo, and this day just avoids Wushen. On the day of Wushen, 'Morning Glory to marry the Weaver Girl, unsuccessful, three abandonments', as a wedding day is extremely unlucky. Different from the big wedding the year before last, the big wedding the year before last was celebrated all over the world, the countries sent their daughters to come, the nobles and businessmen gathered in the clouds, and the Yingdu was busy.

This time, even if the envoys of the countries were sent to the big wedding, they were some low-status officials, and they were no longer important people like the prince of Xiangbang. There are few nobles and merchants, and they are all trying to build boats to avoid relocation at the moment, and the wedding of the king of Chu cannot but come, nor can he not send a gift, but the left and right servants who went to Yingdu with him are much less than last time.

Before the wedding, Ying, who was not as prosperous as the last time, did not have much joy in the Chu Palace, and Wang Yin, Lang Yin, Si Gong, Si Yi, Si Fu, Ji Ji, Ji Mi, Ji Ji It was not the palace officials who presided over the wedding, but the witches of the Chu State.

The war with Qin was related to the survival of Chu, but the dispute between Chu Li and Zhou Li was related to the survival of the Chu people. The death of the Chu State is not a royal order of the King of Qin, the Chu people in Chu have become Qin people from now on, and only the Chu people who think that they are Qin people from now on will die out.

In the history of mankind, there are many examples of the disappearance of countries and the survival of Chinese people; Similarly, there are many examples of countries existing, and Chinese people are no longer Chinese people. The country can be restored after the death of the country, but the death of the person cannot be restored. Xiong Jing didn't want the Chu people to become the latter, because the latter was the deadliest.

However, he originally just didn't want to be driven by the Confucian scholars to fulfill the Confucian ideals. In the increasingly fierce debate, the Chu people and the Zhou people gradually diverged, and finally completely opposed, which Xiong Jing never expected. His original intention was nothing more than to cut off the humanistic ideas that included Confucius after Confucius, because Zhou Li without martial traditions is like a tree without roots that cannot survive.

During the debate, Chu Li and Zhou Li evolved into the opposition between gods and humans. The Chu people, the Yue people, the Song people (merchants), the Wu people, the Ba people, and the Miao people were originally theocratic tribes, and the Zhou people and the countries under the Zhou people were human tribes. For the Chu people, the will of the gods and the covenant between the gods and people are the laws and cannot be violated; For the Zhou people, the will of the Son of Heaven, the prince, the doctor, the scholar, and the father is the law, which cannot be violated.

In the eyes of the real Chu people, the Zhou people are blaspheming the gods, they steal the position of the gods, and give orders in the name of the gods to satisfy their own selfish desires; In the eyes of Lu Ren, the successor of the Zhou people, a "Chu Ci" can't find half a word of filial piety, and the father steals the sheep and the son actually testifies that he has no king and no father, which is a living barbarian. Regardless of whether the Lu people are self-reliant or not, the Chu people and the Lu people have in fact been split and cannot be recovered.

On the day of the wedding, Xiong Jing, who never thought that the consequences would be so serious, faced this result; Taifu Kong Qian, the eighth grandson of Confucius and the real spiritual leader of the Lu people, also faced this result. Fortunately, heretics are more hateful than heterogeneous, and under the threat of the heresy of the Zhou people in the Qin State, he is willing to talk to his students.

"What does the king want?" Kong Qianqiang fought hard and looked at his good student.

"Students don't want to do anything. The students only hope that the dispute between Chu and Zhou will be put on hold for the time being, and the Chu and Lu people will fight against the Qin State together. After ordering the Chu salute, Xiong Jing was no longer the king of Chu, but the great Ao of the Chu people, and he was not humble from then on.

"The old man thought so." Like Xunzi, Kong Qian no longer dared to consider himself Xiong Jing's teacher. Although the Shang people, who inherited the Zhou people, were also theocratic tribes, and although Confucius's ancestors were merchants and not Zhou people, Confucius had already said: 'I am from Zhou'.

"Hey!" With a lot of helplessness, Kong Qian sighed, "The old man never thought that there would be today." ”

"The students also thought of having today." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "However, the students know that the Qin people will die."

Kong Qian's words are a pun, not only about teachers and students, but also about the world. Xiong Jing's previous sentence is to answer teachers and students, and the latter sentence is to answer the world. Kong Qian was a little unimpressed with the latter sentence, and he said: "How many people can there be who avoid the sea?" There are millions of people, and if the nations today cannot defeat the Qin people and save the community, how can they destroy the Qin in the future? ”

"The death of the Qin State is due to self-decay, not to the attack of other countries." Xiong Jing explained. He didn't care anymore, but it didn't matter completely, he knew that the Qin people would destroy themselves.

Kong Qian also has a kind of indifference, the split between Chu and Zhou made him desperate, and the political tradition of the Zhou people has been cut off since then, and he is completely indifferent. Hearing Xiong Jing's words, he asked strangely: "Self-decay?!" ”

"Yes." Xiong Jing replied in the affirmative. "The Qin people take the law as their teaching and the officials as their teachers. Official, Qin's monarch's father. The whole world knows how the Qin officials behave. The Qin State will rule the world by countless Qin officials. The king can do whatever he wants for his own selfishness, and he can do whatever he wants, so why can't the Qin officials pervert the law for their own selfishness? ”

"However, Qin's law is strict...... "Confucianism does not enter Qin, Kong Qian does not know much about Qin, but he only knows that Qin's law is strict."

"It is precisely because of the strictness that there is infighting." Xiong Jing was originally a king, but he is no longer a king. Standing outside the king and looking at the world, he saw it very thoroughly. "The king of Qin pressed the officials, the officials pressed the people, the people suffered Qin and rebelled, the officials added fuel to the fire, and even gathered troops to rise up......"

If you put it in a tube, you will die, and if you put it down, it will be messy. The rule of officials is based on this routine, and the Qin State dies on this routine. The reason why they did not die before was because the Kanto region was still there - the Qin State was miserable, but their losses could be supplemented by plundering the common people of the Kanto region. Unifying the world means that the head of Qin and Qiantou no longer has a place to plunder their losses, and if Kanto is not opposed, Guanzhong must also be opposed.

Some people say that after Zhao Zheng unified the world, he practiced moderation and how to ....... Zhao Zheng, who ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, was already accustomed to the high-fuel war machine of Qin, and there were still remnants of the countries outside the world that had not been purged, how could he control it?

As for the repair of the Afang Palace and the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, Zhao Zheng unified the world and created the eternal foundation of the Qin State, shouldn't it be flaunted to future generations? What is the reason why he unifies the world because of the pursuit of great achievements, but after he has achieved success, he cannot enjoy the fruits of his hard work?

Kong Qian suddenly saw a glimmer of hope. "The king's meaning is ......"

"If the Qin people still practice the rule of the county after one day, they will die." Xiong Jing said with great certainty.

Kong Qian smiled, he drank all the tea on the case, and said, "That's the case, the old man can see it." ”

"The teacher will definitely be able to see it." Kong Qian is old, and Xiong Jing hopes that he can see this day.

"Does the king want to go down in one day?" The Qin State will fall, and the ownerless world will be ruled by someone, Kong Qian had pinned his hopes on Xiong Jing, but unfortunately the dispute between Chu and Zhou made this hope extremely slim.

"The students don't know." More than ten years later, Xiong Jing couldn't answer. He said euphemistically: "If the Chu people go down in one day, or do not practice the rule of the monarch's father, but the rule of the Yin Shang gods, does the teacher think so?" ”

"How can there be no king in the world?" Kong Qian regretted that he had asked this question.

The Zhou people were opposed to theocracy, which was their helplessness to inherit the merchant legal system, but in the eyes of Confucianism, this was a great improvement. For man has finally become man, and is no longer shackled by God's will. Xiong Jing's view today is completely opposite to Confucianism, only God will not fall, and man will always fall. If there is no restraint, it will degenerate from generation to generation. This is not his view with the concept of later generations, this is his entire summary of the history of the Chu people and the more than 800 years since the founding of the country.

Hearing Kong Qian's exclamation, he said unintentionally, but deeply hurtful to Kong Qian: "If there is a monarch, there is a prince; If there are princes, there will be emperors. King Qin wants to become the father of the people of the world and the emperor of the people of the world, what is wrong with the king of Qin? ”

With a straight face, Kong Qian left without saying a word. Xiong Jing got up and personally escorted him to the bottom of the stairs, and together with Kong Lu, helped him into the chariot, and watched his carriage drive away from the road gate until he was gone.

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The sky was getting dark, and the firewood pile on the Maomen courtyard rose again. This time the pyre was bigger and higher. The wedding was still at dusk, and Xiong Jing went to Xiaoyi in the south of the city to meet his wife, who was not wearing the Xuan clothes of the Zhou people, but the silk clothes of the Chu people.

'In the past, the king of Chuzhuang, Xianguan, was dressed in a red robe to govern his country. The Chu people have a great preference for bright colors, and the nobles wear mostly red, and the common people wear brown clothes. Mi Xuan doesn't wear the wedding clothes of the Zhou people, so she naturally wears the wedding clothes of the Chu people for the wedding. The wedding dress of the Chu people is red, and Xiong Jing, who went out of the palace to greet his relatives, felt that this wedding dress had turned himself into a big rooster - mainly because there was a large cluster of colorful young feathers on the fresh crown, and Yin Yin and Wu Ji said that it was indeed dressed like this, and he could only go out in a hurry.

When I arrived at Xiaoyi, I found that Mi Xuan's wedding dress was also red, and there was a crown on her head, and the crown was naturally indispensable to that cluster of young feathers. Xiong Jing wanted to laugh at her when she got into the car, but she didn't expect her to cry.

"The king......" The woman's eyes were covered with tears, and her father and mother couldn't persuade her.

"I'm here." In front of Mi Chang, Mi Cheng and others, Xiong Jing couldn't take the woman into his arms, so he could only hold her hand and comfort her.

"Xuan'er, get married today, don't want the king...... Da Ao has been waiting for a long time. Mi Ling stepped forward to persuade. Like everyone else, he is not used to being called Da Ao. "If the auspicious time passes......

Xiaoyi is very close to the royal palace, so naturally you will not miss the auspicious time. The crying Mi Xuan wiped her tears and got into the car, and at this time, the ancestor in the big room felt that her mother was going out, and cried loudly. Mi Xuan had already stepped into the car with one foot, and retreated when he heard the sound.

"There's your father, there's Ni'er." Mi Qian hurriedly said, holding his hands again and again, and made a gesture of holding the child. Mi Xuan sat in the car, and Xiong Jing drove her out of Xiaoyi to the palace.

The wedding was not in the main bed, but in the Maomen court, the court was crowded with people watching the ceremony, in addition to the guests from all over the world, there were also nobles and commoners in Yingdu. At dusk, the carriage got off outside the gate facing the palace, and the armorers, witches, and temple people lined up beside the road, watching Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan who came hand in hand. When the two of them entered the Yingdu City through the doorway of the Great Wall, the people in the city and beside the road shouted: "Long live Da Ao, long live Ao Hou." Long live Da Ao, long live Ao Hou......"

Mi Xuan knew that after the Chu ceremony, the king changed her name to Da Ao, and Queen Ao was herself. She was startled by such cheers, and her weak legs made her almost crouch down on the spot to catch her breath. Xiong Jing hurriedly supported her body, but an ominous word two thousand years later came to mind: the glory of being shoulder to shoulder.

"Long live Da Ao, long live Ao Hou. Long live Da Ao, long live Ao Hou......" first the city gate was cheering, then the Maomen court was also cheering, and finally the whole city was cheering to this rhythm. Twilight was about to fall, Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan stood in the city gate cave, and everyone who didn't know why they all looked over, and they didn't understand why the two of them couldn't move forward.

"The king promised me." Mi Xuan looked at the man beside her.

"I will promise you." Xiong Jing looked down at her, and her makeup was completely ruined after crying.

"Can't die!" Mi Xuan's tears flowed out again, although she couldn't push the fine like a man, but her heart could feel it. It was a big wedding, but the husband seemed to be arranging his own funeral.

"Ugh." Xiong Jing sighed in his heart, and he nodded heavily: "The Great Secretary blesses, I will not die!" ”

"Long live Da Ao, long live Ao Hou. Long live the big Ao, long live the queen of Ao. Long live Da Ao, long live Queen Ao......" In the midst of countless cheers, by the last light between heaven and earth, Mi Xuan looked at her husband and looked at his handsome face. However, the light was always short-lived, and it seemed that night fell in an instant, and in the interval of cheering, the north wind howled at the head of the Yingdu City, endlessly.

She bowed her head and wiped away her tears, and finally walked forward side by side with her husband to accept this incomparable glory. However, in her heart, she would rather be unknown in Xiaoyi, and would rather be an aging wife with the most ordinary face in the Chu State, rather than enjoy this glory, because it means that her husband will one day fall on the battlefield.

"Long live Da Ao, long live Ao Hou! Long live the big Ao, long live the queen of Ao! Long live Da Ao, long live Ao Hou......"

Seeing the two moving forward, the cheering people became even more enthusiastic. The common people were not Confucian scholars or courtiers, and they preferred Xiong Jing to marry a Chu woman to be their queen than to marry a Zhao queen.

Fires were lit on both sides of the road, and the pyres of wood in the court were burned. When the two of them arrived at the court, the cheering stopped, and the song of the shrine maiden echoed through the court. They danced around the fire in order to bring the gods down from heaven to earth and witness the union of the two.

Standing in the center of the court, in front of the gods of heaven and earth and everyone in the court, after bowing down, Xiong Jing raised the hand that was clasped with Mi Xuan, and said loudly: "Taiyi bless." I, Xiong Jing, the great Ao of the Chu State, announced to the gods of heaven and earth: I am willing to marry Mi Xuan as my wife, for the rest of my life, and never turn my back. ”

"Taiyi blesses. I, Mi Xuan, the daughter of the surname Mi, told the gods of heaven and earth: I am willing to marry Xiong Jing as my husband, for the rest of my life, and never turn my back. Mi Xuan was a little timid, but her voice soon became louder, as loud as her husband's.

"Hooray! Banzai! Long live Da Ao! Banzai! Long live, long live Ao Hou......" When Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan were bloody, the crowd erupted in cheers again, and the cry rose into the sky along with the sparks flying out of the pyre, and was swept away by the north wind.

At this moment, the wind is blowing in the north, and the night has fallen in the Rongyang a moment ago, Wang Jian on the river embankment nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Divert water!" ”

"The general has an order: divert water!" Orders were passed one by one, and soon the sound of water sounded in the distance. The sound was thin at first, and after half an hour the last earthen embankment burst and immediately became huge, and gradually the sound was like rolling thunder. Wang Jian, who was looking far away at night, vaguely saw that the white tide was like a charging Qin army array, rushing towards the brightly lit Daliang City.

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