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Chapter 305 Zhuang Zhou's Dream of a Butterfly... (Subscribe)
"One person carries the seal of the six kingdoms, let me go, this is the pinnacle of a minister."

"What a prestige this is."

"The power of one person to make the six countries form an alliance, which in itself proves Su Qin's energy."

The Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of more than 2000 years, which many people don't know well, is more and more radiant with its charm.

Everyone was dumbfounded, already immersed in the world of Spring and Autumn and Warring States.

"Teacher Chen Fan, where is Zhang Yi?"

Professor Zhou asked excitedly.

"Zhang Yi."

Chen Fan said: "Zhang Yi and Su Qin are classmates, they are both Guiguzi's disciples."

"Mr. Chen Fan, it seems that you said before that Sun Bin and Pang Juan are also Guiguzi's disciples."

"Yes."

"This Guiguzi is simply a god."

Although this Guiguzi never appeared.

But among Chen Fan's few stories, everyone has already admired the legendary Guiguzi.

"When Su Qin was studying with Zhang Yi, he thought that his talent and learning were inferior to Zhang Yi. But unfortunately, although Zhang Yi was full of talent and learning, he was not reused. Even, many people despised him. Once, He came to the state of Chu. He was invited to drink with the Xiangguo of the state of Chu. At this time, the Xiangguo was very happy to show a piece of jade for everyone to appreciate. After the banquet was over, the piece of jade was lost.”

Chen Fan told this story before.

Chen Fan just opened the beginning, and everyone knew: "Mr. Chen Fan, this is the story of He Shibi."

"Yes."

Chen Fan nodded: "Everyone suspects that Zhang Yi stole it. Why do you suspect Zhang Yi, because everyone thinks that Zhang Yi is not a good character, and no one will steal except him. As a result, Prime Minister Chu arrested Zhang Yi and beat him up." , and searched, but did not find the lost jade. Zhang Yi returned home, angry and angry, and thought to himself, why do those Chu people think he stole the jade? His wife is also very distressed. He said to her, "Look at you, it's just that you have been hurt by reading. It's okay to suffer such insults for no reason, and you were beaten up by others. Zhang Yi said to his wife, do you still have my stone?" The wife said with a smile, your tongue is still there, what do you want to say? Zhang Yi suddenly became happy, and said, it is good that the tongue is still there, since the tongue is still there, this is enough. Zhang Yi swore in her heart that in the future, people will When you surrender the land, you must take revenge on Chu."

This said.

Everyone understood.

Why did Zhang Yi lie to the King of Chu later, and finally let the king Huai of Chu die in Qin.

It's not for nothing, it's all for a reason.

of course.

Before Zhang Yi finished speaking, Chen Fan continued: "For this reason, Zhang Yi thought of his old classmate, Su Qin. Su Qin was so majestic at this time. He has been honored as Prime Minister by many countries. Any sentence of his Words may destroy a country. Relying on the relationship of classmates, Zhang Yi wanted to join Su Qin. But after finding Su Qin, Su Qin did not see Zhang Yi. Not only did he not see him, but he also arranged for Zhang Yi and some of his servants to have dinner. Even when he was leaving, someone told him, "Zhang Yi, you are like this, and you are ashamed to say that you are my classmate. Zhang Yi was angry and anxious, so he wanted to go to Qin. Because in his opinion, if he can persuade the king of Qin, then He can break Su Qin's alliance."

In fact, what happened to Zhang Yi was caused by Su Qin on purpose.

Because at this time Su Qin was uniting the six countries to resist Qin, he was very worried that if Qin suddenly attacked Zhao when the six countries were uniting, the entire alliance might fall apart before it was reached.In order to keep this alliance, he chose to provoke Zhang Yi, let him go to Qin, and secretly funded Zhang Yi.Su Qin believed it.As long as Zhang Yi can see the King of Qin, he will definitely be able to get the reuse of the King of Qin.

really.

After Zhang Yi met the King of Qin, Zhang Yi relied on his own ability and insights to receive the warm hospitality of King Qin Huiwen, and discussed with him about attacking the State of Zhao.At this time, the person who helped Zhang Yi said that Su Qin deliberately provoked him, so that Zhang Yi could have a better development in the future.Only then did Zhang Yi understand.It turned out that I was able to come to the Qin State, and I was able to be appreciated by the King of Qin. Everything was planned by Su Qin.On the one hand, Zhang Yi admires the ability of his old classmate Su Qin, and on the other hand, he is also grateful for Su Qin's secret help to him.So he communicated with King Qin again about Zhao's problems, and finally, Qin Wang gave up his plan to attack Zhao.And Su Qin, because Qin State did not intervene, finally united the six countries and became the prime minister of the six countries.

"Wonderful."

"I didn't expect there to be so many stories here."

"Su Qin is indeed a master. He has already anticipated the following things before he achieved the alliance. Moreover, he also arranged the way out."

Everyone kept nodding.

"It is also because Su Qin united the six countries, and the strength of the entire six countries was completely superior to that of Qin. According to the regulations of the united country, if any of the six countries is attacked by Qin, all countries must attack Qin at the same time. This also put a lot of pressure on Qin State. In 15 years, Qin State did not dare to go out of Hangu Pass. On the other hand, although Zhang Yi was Su Qin’s classmate, after many years, Qin King treated Zhang Yi well, and Su Qin was mixed in the Six Kingdoms. The success is also very good, the two are their own masters. King Qin Huiwen suffers from the fact that Su and Qin have united the six countries, so that Qin dare not go east. Zhang Yi took the initiative to invite Ying, saying that he could disintegrate Su and Qin's union."

"King Qin Huiwen asked Zhang Yi what he could do?"

"Zhang Yi said that Su Qin restrained Qin by cooperating with the six countries. On the surface, it seems that the strength of the six countries is much stronger than that of Qin. However, the six countries are not monolithic, they are composed of six countries, and they are just It’s just an alliance formed on the surface. It may be too much to say that it’s a mess, but internally they all have their own problems. First of all, about the leader of the alliance. At the beginning of the six countries, Chu was the leader of the alliance, and later Qi was the leader of the alliance. Because The Six Nations are very unhappy about the alliance leader's matter."

"There is one more thing, which proves that the six countries are not in agreement. At that time, the six countries joined forces to fight against Qin. Originally, they wanted to fight against Qin. As a result, this battle failed. So the state of Song, which was caught in the middle, was successfully destroyed. Then, the three families of Qi, Chu and Wei divided up the territory and power of the state of Song. But among them, the state of Wei and the state of Chu were very dissatisfied, thinking that they had been divided in it There are too few benefits.”

"Of course, the most important thing is that the six countries are attacking Qin with the strength of the six countries. Taking it apart, none of the countries in it is the opponent of Qin. In other words, it is a combination of weak and weak to attack Qin. A strong country. This in itself does not give people enough confidence, but, on the other hand, if Qin takes the initiative to attack other weak countries with the strong and the weak, it is obvious that the situation can be reversed. After Zhang Yi's judgment, King Qin I am overjoyed, and let Zhang Yi go to various countries to break up the alliance between Su and Qin."

have to say.

Zhang Yi's eyes are so vicious.

Su Qin's alliance looks solid, but there are still a lot of internal problems.

but.

The most important thing is what Zhang Yi said, the six countries are an alliance between weak countries and weak countries.Such an alliance may be sustainable in a short period of time, but in the long run, there must be problems.Moreover, such an alliance could easily be disintegrated by Qin.After all, Qin is so powerful, as long as he extends an olive branch to any of the other six countries, or threatens them, some of the six countries will definitely not be able to withstand Qin's diplomatic means.

"Under the order of the King of Qin, Zhang Yi sent envoys to Wei, South Korea, Zhao, Qi, Chu, Yan...these are very powerful countries in the Warring States, because they were afraid of Qin. In the end, Su Qin spent Countless joint vertical efforts were defeated by Zhang Yi one by one."

This is Zhang Yi's "Lianheng" breaking Su Qin's "Unity Vertical".

but.

There is controversy here.

The focus of the controversy is whether Su Qin was contemporary with Zhang Yi or whether Su Qin was after Zhang Yi.

According to Sima Qian's historical records and Zizhi Tongjian, Su Qin and Zhang Yi were of the same era.

However, in 1973, the silk book "Warring States Strategist Family Letter" from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha showed that Su Qin's generation was later than Zhang Yi's. Su Qin died in 284 BC, and Zhang Yi died in 310 BC.Su Qin's main activity was after Zhang Yi. When Zhang Yi was the prime minister of Qin, Su Qin had not yet entered the political arena.

If you look at it from here, it shows that Mr. Tai Shigong made a mistake.

But that's not entirely certain either.

Because "Warring States Strategies Family Letters" is also a book, and it is also a work of the Western Han Dynasty.

The status and value of this work, and whether its accuracy is higher than that of historical records, still needs to be verified.

and so.

At this time, when Chen Fan introduced Su Qin and Zhang Yi, he still used Sima Qian's "Historical Records" as the standard.

……

"I originally talked about the Song Kingdom, but in the end, the Song Kingdom was wiped out by a group of big countries. Let's stop here for today..."

Chen Fan said helplessly.

Sometimes the Warring States period is so helpless.

The situation of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period is better.

Some other small countries are in danger of destroying the country every minute.

For example Song Guo.

The State of Song is still considered a big country.

but.

In the eyes of Qi, Chu, Wei... these countries, Song is nothing.

In the eyes of Qin, the countries of Qi, Chu, and Wei have become countries that can be conquered.

Getting ready to turn off the live broadcast.

At this time, all the netizens were unhappy again: "Mr. Chen Fan, you haven't finished your lecture yet, how can you end it?"

"Finished?"

Chen Xin was taken aback, and said, "I've already finished talking about the Song Kingdom."

"Have you finished speaking? Didn't you have an old man named Zhuang Zhou just now?"

"Zhuang Zhou."

This said, there is really one thing Zhuang Zhou didn't say.

but.

If you really want to talk about Zhuang Zhou, it will take a lot of time.

Before, because of talking about the Song Dynasty, because of talking about Huizi, Mozi, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, and even talked about the topic of famous white horses and non-horse horses.

Looking back, Zhuang Zhou didn't have enough time.

Just seeing everyone’s anticipation, after thinking about it, Chen Fan said, “Okay, let’s talk about Zhuang Zhou. However, Zhuang Zhou’s story is a bit long, so let’s talk about Zhuang Zhou’s two short stories today. The first short story , called useless use.”

"What is useless use?"

"Don't worry, listen slowly."

Chen Fan said: "Compared with some sages such as Huizi, they may choose to be officials or promote their own ideas and strategies. But Zhuang Zhou is not such a person. Zhuang Zhou advocates freedom and likes quietness, so he resigned from many Official position. However, like Huizi, Zhuang Zhou is also a person with big thoughts. Even, the depth of his thinking is even higher than that of Huizi."

"Once, Zhuang Zhou and his disciples walked to the foot of a mountain, and saw a big tree with luxuriant branches and leaves, standing beside the big stream, which was very conspicuous. But I saw this tree: it was hundreds of feet thick, and it was thousands of feet high. , pointing directly at the sky; its crown is as wide as a giant umbrella, and can cover more than ten acres of land. Zhuang Zhou couldn't help asking the logger: Excuse me, master, why has no one cut down such a good wood? It has grown alone for thousands of years? The woodcutter seemed to dismiss the tree, saying: "Why is this so surprising?This tree is a poor wood.If it is used as a boat, it will sink in water; if it is used as a coffin, it will rot quickly; if it is used as a utensil, it will be easily destroyed; Erosion, this is a tree that does not grow. "

After Zhuang Zhou listened to it, he said to his disciples that the tree lived its entire life because of its lack of talent.The disciple suddenly realized and nodded.Zhuang Zhou also said: "Trees are useless. If you don't want to do something, you won't be caught by the axe. White-fronted oxen, kangman-like pigs, and people with hemorrhoids are considered ominous by wizards, so they will not be thrown into the river when offering sacrifices to the river god." ; A disabled person will not be recruited by the conscription, so he can live his entire life.Physically handicapped, you can still support yourself and protect your life, not to mention those who are physically handicapped?If a tree does not become useful, it can avoid disaster; if a person does not become talented, he can protect himself...

This is the useless use that Zhuang Zhou said.

"It's useless, I'll go, it's the first time I've heard of it."

"It's useless, but there are other uses. It seems to be very philosophical."

"Well, just like this tree, it has lived for thousands of years because it is useless. If it is useful at all, then it will be cut down."

"Nimma, I suddenly realized that I have lived for decades to no avail, and it seems that I am not to blame."

"Hahaha, I like the one named Zhuang Zhou."

The use of uselessness was later quoted by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan as the use of literature.

It seems that literature is as useless as this big tree.

He is no better than mathematics, no better than physics, and no better than other seemingly useful knowledge.

There seems to be no big difference between learning literature and not learning it, and it is of no use.

but.

Literature may be so useless, but it has been passed down for thousands of years and is enduring.

On the contrary, it is the knowledge that seemed useful before. When this knowledge is not suitable for this era, it becomes useless.

"Useless, it feels like it has risen to the philosophical level."

"Well, Zhuang Zhou's thinking is really high and confused."

"Go back and think about the uselessness."

Many people remember it in their hearts.

At this moment, Chen Fan went on to say: "Let me tell you a story about Zhuang Zhou."

"One day, Zhuang Zhou was sleeping on the grass, and had a dream. In his sleep, he felt that he had turned into a butterfly, and the butterfly was fluttering in the air, wandering around, so happy that he forgot his original appearance, Forgot that he was transformed from Zhuang Zhou. After a while, Zhuang Zhou suddenly woke up, but the dream was still clearly imprinted in his mind. He got up and looked at himself, thinking about the things in the dream again He was a little confused for a while. He couldn't figure out whether he was Zhuang Zhou or a butterfly. Did he turn into a butterfly in his dream, or did the butterfly turn into Zhuang Zhou in his dream? He couldn't tell Which one is true..."

(End of this chapter)