[Comprehensive] Survival of the Last Emperor

The people of Xianyang City, who had just finished the New Year and were still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year, woke up early in the morning and found that there seemed to be something wrong with Xianyang City today.

The houses are still those houses, the streets are still those streets, and Xianyang City, which has hundreds of thousands of permanent residents, is still so lively. Merchants, tourists, lobbyists, and even assassins from the six countries gather here.

No, since the king officially sent troops to attack the six countries a few years ago, the scholars of the six countries, especially the Confucian disciples, have criticized the king and even the whole Qin country. , but the number of officials and officials who entered Qin Dynasty was much less than in the past.

By the way, why are there so many people today?And all went to the square in front of Xianyang Palace.

The square in front of Xianyang Palace is a nostalgic place.Older people may still remember that several decades ago, Shang Yang, the prime minister of the Qin State, set up a pole at the gate of the palace, and announced that whoever could move the pole would be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, which created the idiom "a standing tree is a letter". It laid a great foundation for Shang Yang's subsequent reform.But later, in the Xianyang market again, the new king ordered Shang Yang's body to be divided into five horses in public, and the whole family was punished.

A bold and curious person followed the crowd to the square in front of the palace gate, and found that a large group of people had already gathered there, whispering to each other without knowing what to say.Surrounded by the group of people is a wooden pillar several feet high, with the words "The people can make it known but not make it known."

Yo!This scene looks really familiar.

Although most people in Xianyang have not seen the real scene of Shang Jun erecting trees at the gate of the palace, many people still know the story of "building trees is faith".However, Shang Jun erected the tree in order to promote his legalist thought. Now the king writes a famous Confucian saying on the wooden pillar. What kind of trouble is it?

Anyone who has read the book for a few days and knows the source of the words on the pillar will be speechless to the king who "has power, but is so self-willed" who lives in Xianyang Palace.

And after reading the notice posted beside the wooden post, the person with a delicate mind and a deep understanding of the city even admired the waywardness of the man in the palace with all his heart.

There is a song in later generations that can perfectly describe their mood at this time - King, you are so poisonous, you are so poisonous, you are so poisonous, poisonous, poisonous.

The content of the notice is relatively simple, and the general idea is this-the widow recently developed a new technique of "sentence" and "reading", called "punctuation marks".Punctuation marks can not only be used to mark the reading of sentences in writing, but also can express the tone and mood of the writer. The advantages are too many to say.With such an artifact in hand, the widows decided to use such good things as punctuation marks in all the books of the world.But what about Su... The widow is a little busy recently, and the widow's subordinates are also very busy, so they don't have much time to mark the articles, so they are looking for people from all over the world who are willing to participate in this activity.There are no restrictions on gender, age, school of thought, as long as you can read and use punctuation and are willing to come.

If it is only the above content, it is nothing more than a recruitment order to change the soup without changing the medicine.The insidious part of this notice is that all articles with punctuation marks will be republished in the official name of Daqin. From then on, wherever there is Daqin, only this version is the genuine one and can be passed down to the world. They are all copycats and cannot be distributed legally.And on the newly published book, the editor will be written, that is, the name of the person who marked the punctuation mark.

What is the reason for the literati's decades of cold windows?Isn't it just for power, profit, money and name? Compared with the first three, fame is almost universal for all literati.

In this era when books are very expensive and cherished, it is not easy to leave a name on a book that will be officially released, but anyone with a discerning eye can figure out how this punctuation will bring about changes in future articles. Mixing a piece of this is the rhythm of becoming famous in history.

There is such a big bait here, are you afraid that those scholars from the six eastern countries will run over here?Of course, those Confucian disciples who are said to be very upright may not run over, but the wayward king also has tricks to deal with them.

The notice also said that everyone is welcome to use the punctuation marks of the new society to judge the sentence of "the people can make it from what they can't make it known".

At first, the people in Xianyang didn’t understand why the King of Qin would make people break Confucian sentences, but when they saw a group of scholars in Confucian shirts who were usually polite and polite, they started cursing like shrews, then started to move their hands and feet, and finally After they were all arrested by Ting Wei and sent to prison for food, they discovered that there was indeed a big mystery in it.

Out of curiosity, the common people in Xianyang, who were not short of money and could read a few characters, also bought a copy of "Complete Use of Punctuation Marks" to learn.

Yo!This kind of thing called "paper" is not simple, it is white, light and soft, and it looks like a high-end product.The scrolls made of such precious things only sell for ten Qin Banliangs. The king is really becoming more and more like a local tyrant.

People in Xianyang lamented the government's financial affluence, and picked up the book to study it carefully. After reading it, it turned out that this thing called "punctuation marks" was really interesting.I didn't notice it when I read it. After reading it, many people realized that the so-called "punctuation marks" were used in this official notice.

In the past, I had to keep my eyes wide open and carefully read the past notices word by word. Because of the addition of punctuation marks, it became simple and clear in an instant, and some things that were easy to be misunderstood became clear and easy to understand. The way people accept punctuation.

Punctuation marks are quite simple and easy to learn if you don’t want to play with words. Scholars these days are not stupid. After studying and communicating on the spot, for the reward of a thousand gold, they also started to break sentences on wooden stakes.

If you break it, it will be broken...

Why is Da Wang so bad?

Hehe... Can you be the king of Qin if you are not bad?

Since the morning, Ying Zheng, who has been sneezing because of being talked about too many times, looked at Li Si who was sitting below, holding a brush in his hand, staring at the words on the paper in a daze, and said, "Li Si, you What do you think of the widow's idea?"

On the paper in front of Li Si, there was only one line written - the people can make it from it but not make it known.

"Your Majesty is really wise." Li Si put down the pen in his hand, bowed his hands to Ying Zheng and said, "There are so many different ways of reading a sentence that people can make from but not know, and each way of reading has its own meaning. Different meanings. I can already imagine how the disciples of Confucianism will react. At that time, without your Majesty taking action, the Confucianism will start its own internal turmoil."

As a former disciple of Confucianism and now a disciple of Legalism, Li Si really understood the mood of this kind of scholar.Scholars in the Warring States Period like to visit the wharf to find a host, and they like to give a talk when they have nothing to do.Isn't it just to promote your own ideas?As a result, punctuation marks are now born out of nowhere, and a sentence can give the inner idea that even the person concerned does not know. How can this make people confused?Salty and sweet rice dumplings can pinch each other every year, not to mention things like ideology, it would be strange not to pinch.

Even if you are elegant and empty, you think you are the official, so you don't bother to pinch others, but what if those heresies are made official by Qin Guoli because they are too loud?Anyone who is not stupid can see that Qin is now a rising sun, and the unification of the world and the end of the troubled times are just around the corner.

At that time, those heresies and evil schools will get official qualifications recognized by the state because they have boarded the official ship of the Qin State. Are non-governmental organizations like yours useless?This is no longer the doujin forcing the official to death, this is the doujin forcing the official to step down.

"Li Si, do you know who came up with this idea?" Ying Zheng rubbed his bare chin. Since he was despised by his precious son a while ago when he stabbed someone with a beard, Ying Zheng didn't bother to pay attention to the "parents who suffer from body and hair" Talk, and cleanly shaved off his beard.

Anyway, I also hate Confucianism, anyway, now I don't need to rely on beards to pretend to be old and reliable.

I have to say that after I shaved my beard, I felt a little younger and my face looked better. Although the eyes of the officials were a little strange at the time, I got used to it after a long time.

"I would like to hear more about it." Li Si asked curiously as he looked at Ying Zheng, who looked a little excited, as if he had returned to his boyhood... No, His Majesty was never so impetuous in his boyhood.

"That kid Hu Hai thought about it. That kid, not very accomplished, knows how to play foolishly all day long, and loves to be lazy when reading, but I didn't expect him to be lazy and steal such a trick." Ying Zheng stopped smiling, With an expression of "hating iron but not steel", he said calmly: "The only advantage is that people are more filial and a little clever. He doesn't know who to listen to, those Confucian scholars openly opposed punctuation marks, saying that they are not ancient. I heard that it violated etiquette... Zhao Gao copied this sentence to share the worries of the widow."

Yingzheng originally wanted to embarrass those Confucian scholars by saying "it's raining to keep guests away, but I don't want to stay when it's raining", but unexpectedly, the brat who was eagerly coaxed to avenge his father thought it was not tall enough, and said that he would "do it in the same way" , Give back to the other body", let those Confucian scholars shoot themselves in the foot, let them know how to write the word "death", and provided this classic of later generations. Confucianism has been arguing for thousands of years without any results. sentence.

Seeing Ying Zheng talking, he couldn't help but curl his mouth to both sides. Li Si pretended not to see and drank a sip of tea, resisted pulling Ying Zheng's clothes and said, "Your Majesty, everyone is an adult, please open the door." Tian Chuang speaks bluntly. You can just say that my son is the cutest and the best, and you don’t need to go to such lengths to slander and praise, but you are becoming more and more curious about your future grandson-in-law.

I heard that the eighteenth son is only five years old this year. Although he has been showing his talent in cooking since last year, he has invented a lot of delicious food. While greatly enriching the food basket of the people of Qin, he also I made my waist fatter unknowingly, but that's just cooking. Why did I... change my painting style this year?

Compared with the focus of ordinary people—whether the punctuation marks were invented by Hu Hai, Li Si was more concerned about whether Hu Hai led the scheme this time.If he really came up with this series of deceitful tricks... It is really rare for him to be so insidious at such a young age.

It's no wonder that Li Si is so excited. People in this era pursue frankness and straightforwardness. They generally despise playing tricks and conspiracy. set.Such things as encountering a political enemy and finding an assassin to kill the political enemy directly in the name of oneself can only happen in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

After seeing it, people had to sigh, "Brother, before sending the assassin, at least you should cover up your identity, and if it doesn't work, you can still set the blame."

In short, whether it is palace struggles, political struggles, or even battles on the battlefield, everyone is very upright, and later generations appreciate and laugh at each other. Sometimes reading history books, I can't figure out why such a simple plan by Mao, so-and-so At the meeting, I was fooled by this kind of thing, and in the end, I could only sum up a thousand words: "The ancestors and adults are really simple and rude."

Just like Qin Shihuang, although he was cruel and brutal in his affairs, but after careful consideration, he is innocent and cute. If he were to be replaced by any emperor with higher policy wisdom in later generations, he would not be as playful as he is, and he can do it. When the books are burned and Confucianism is buried, the infamy will definitely not stay.

There is no way, the Chinese conspiracy culture will not gradually develop until after the Tang and Song Dynasties. The ancient working people... are so simple and kind.

In a family of cute and cute schemers, it is inevitable for Li Si to be a little curious to meet a schemer who is not cute, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, for getting this unicorn."

"Where is the widow's son, isn't he also your grandson-in-law?" Ying Zheng said with a smile.

The princes and ministers in the palace were praising each other's son and grandson-in-law, but the protagonist, who was touted by both of them, was holding a pillar tightly at this moment, crying loudly, "Help! Don't! Don't go!" ! Terrible to say!"

"What's there to be afraid of?" Zhao Gao, who had twitching veins on his forehead, looked at Hu Hai, who was clinging to the pillar, howling without tears, with the look of "I'll show you if you come again" on his face. He gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't it just a practical class? Do you need to cry like you want to play and throw it away? Also! Who told you not to study hard? If you don't study hard, you will end up like this!"

"Wuuu...Mr. Zhao, let me go...I'm only three years old...I'm still a child..." Hu Hai hugged the pillar even tighter. Teacher Zhao is neither human nor human.

"First...Even if it's your actual age, you are four years old this year, my lord. Second..." What the hell is it that you are a child now, so I can't let you go.

The author has something to say:

The people can learn from it but not know it—a very classic example, Confucianism has been talking about it for thousands of years...Those who are interested can break it down for themselves

When I was reading Jin Chushi that day, I felt that the minority brothers were so simple and unrestrained in doing things. Seeing the enemy directly slashing people with knives, it was simply impossible to imagine... Then I read the history of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States... I can only say, The ethnic minority brothers in the 12th century BC were almost as civilized as the Central Plains people in the 2nd century BC...

If Qin Shihuang traveled to "The Legend of Zhen Huan", he would have to go crazy in the first period of time, these women have a lot of eyes