When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 248 Invite Master Xun to Praise the King of Qin
"If you're not good at chess, you won't show your ugliness."

For Xunzi's invitation, if you were an ordinary person, you might be a little flattered.

Although Xunzi is notorious in Confucianism and is notorious in Confucianism, even those Confucian schools who have been called a cheap Confucian by Xunzi's "Not Twelve Sons" have to admire Xunzi's knowledge and skills.

It's just that Zhang Ji has self-knowledge.

With his chess skills, it's okay to bully laymen in the entertainment game, but facing insiders... especially Xunzi, a chess master who has reached the level enough to fight with each other, is tantamount to humiliating himself.

Facing Zhang Ji's refusal, Xunzi was somewhat dissatisfied.

"You are young, you should move forward even if you know you are invincible, why shrink back?"

After saying that, regardless of Zhang Ji's opinion, he put the pieces on the chessboard back into the basket one by one, signaling Zhang Ji to go first.

Zhang Ji smiled wryly, Xunzi was like this, it would be somewhat disrespectful for him to refuse, so he had to drop one child.

A grass belly with golden horns and silver edges, a very ordinary son.

"I also ask Master Xun to teach me more."

Xunzi didn't say anything, just dropped a son, stroked his beard, and looked at Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji at this moment is also a little different from the past. He wears a black robe. Although he is still dressed in black, the edge of the black robe is dotted with bronzing lace, exuding a sense of nobility.

The appearance is dignified and the bearing is extraordinary.

This was Xunzi's first impression after seeing Zhang Ji.

The handsome appearance naturally made Xunzi feel more fond of Zhang Ji.

"However, although I am not good at playing chess, I can't accompany Master Xun to relieve boredom, but the ancestor Zhang Zi once collected a lot of chess records. If Master Xun is interested..."

Zhang Ji's gaze was fixed on Xunzi's face, observing his expression.

It's just that Xunzi didn't seem to have any expression on his face. After all, he was a great master of Confucianism. How could he get excited about a few so-called lost chess records that he hadn't seen before?

Zhang Ji's eyes moved slightly, as if he just remembered something, and added: "Oh, by the way, these chess records seem to be some lost ones."

Hearing this, Xunzi's hand holding a black piece trembled, and he almost lost his grip and dropped the piece on the board.

Seeing this, the corners of Zhang Ji's mouth curled up slightly.

Xunzi was a chess idiot, there is no doubt about it.

Since the defeat of the nature-based dispute, Xunzi withdrew from the Jixia Academy in Qi State, and went to the small town of Sanghai to establish a small sage village, teaching and educating people, and took in many disciples one after another. Obsessed with chess.

This point was mentioned by Han Fei when he was chatting with Han Fei.

And for chess idiots, the thing that attracts them the most, apart from a well-matched opponent, is the chess record.

However, Xunzi, as the master of Confucianism, naturally has a lot of chess records in his hands, but even Xunzi cannot guarantee that he can collect all the chess records.

Furthermore, the world is vast, so it is inevitable that some sages who are good at chess choose to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests and do not care about world affairs, and may spread profound but unknown chess records.

But no matter what the situation is, the lost chess records that Zhang Yi, who was also fond of chess at the time, could collect are absolutely extraordinary. waves.

"Then the old man is disrespectful."

Xunzi caressed his long beard lightly, but he didn't hide it any more, and there was a bit of joy in his brows and eyes.

"However, for the little friend to give such a generous gift to the old man, he must be asking for something, right?"

Xunzi looked at Zhang Ji with a smile, as if to say, "Don't think that I fell into your tricks, it's like I took the initiative to enter the urn."

Zhang Ji, who was punctured by Xunzi, did not show any embarrassment. He dropped his son and praised: "Master Xun is worthy of being a contemporary master of Confucianism. He really has insight."

"I would like to invite Master Xun to praise King Qin."

Xunzi was taken aback, paused for a moment with his hand poking into the chess basket, frowned and looked at Zhang Ji, seeing that Zhang Ji didn't seem to be joking, he hesitated and said, "You let this old man be the King of Qin's crown of praise?"

Zhang Ji nodded: "With Master Xun's identity and status, why not?"

"Little slicker."

Xunzi was a little dumbfounded. It was not a matter of whether his identity and status were worthy of being praised by Ying Zheng, but Zhang Ji confused the concept here.

Those who praise the crown, Zobin is the one who crowns the crown.

When the crown ceremony is held, the master of ceremonies will be sung for praise.

The crown of praise has always been held by respected elders. With Xunzi's prestige and status, he can definitely bear the word "virtuous and respected".

However, if Xunzi praised Yingzheng, he would be bound to Yingzheng.No matter how he explains and how he acts, the world will associate his actions with Qin's interests.

Xunzi pointed at Zhang Ji, but he didn't really get angry, but asked, "Are you trying to ruin my reputation for decades?"

Some talk!
Seeing that Xunzi didn't directly reject it, Zhang Ji knew that Xunzi didn't dislike Qin.

During the reign of King Zhaoxiang, Xunzi entered Qin Dynasty. Although he did not take seriously Qin's strategy of emphasizing criminal laws and officials and despising benevolent scholars and gentlemen, he said that "the county is famous for being a king, but it is not far away." Qin's politics affirmed it, saying that "Qin's fourth generation has victories, and it is not lucky to count them", and admired the prosperous development of Qin.

"Master Xun thinks, is the world too chaotic? Just like this chess game."

Zhang Ji looked at the chess game that had unknowingly reached the final stage, his white pieces had been surrounded by Xunzi's black pieces.Although the killer has not yet been hurt, winning the chess game is already the general trend, and it is only a matter of raising troops and falling.

"Today's Qin State is like a black man in the hands of Master Xun, and other countries are like this white man. Although they are struggling to support, it is only in vain."

"What do you think?" Xunzi squinted his eyes and looked at the young man in front of him.

"The world has been in chaos for too long, it's time for the war to calm down."

"The king once told me about his dream."

"We want to build a great country that extends to the sea and North Korea in the east, to Lintao and Qiangzhong in the west, to Xianghu in the south, to the river in the north, and to the Yinshan Mountains to Liaodong. There is something to eat at night."

"To establish eternal peace!"

Xunzi was silent. Even with his vision, he couldn't help but be shocked by Yingzheng's dream.

The world has been in chaos for hundreds of years, and no one has thought about unifying the world.

The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period thought about dominating the princes, respecting the king and fighting the barbarians, but even now, no one has ever thought of dominating the world.

Xunzi admitted that even he himself never thought of unifying the world as a solution to the chaos of war.

But this is not Xunzi's pedantry, but the limitations of the times.

In this era, there is no great unification idea proposed by the later Confucian Gongyang School, and the concept of Huaxia has not entered the hearts of the people. Even when the original Zhou royal family had not declined, people were more willing to call themselves Zhao people, Qin people, Chu people, Qi people, not Zhou people or other titles.

The characteristics of the times constrained the thinking of these great talents, so even Xunzi never thought about it.

"Unification?" Xunzi murmured, but he was not a young man like Gai Nie, who would be fooled by Yingzheng's few words into violating the vertical and horizontal distribution and working for Yingzheng. Are you there?"

"The state of Qin can do it. It doesn't take 20 years for Master Xun to witness with his own eyes that the great Qin ruled the world."

Zhang Ji's words were full of confidence, but Xunzi didn't understand why Zhang Ji was so confident. Was he confident in his own abilities?Or confidence in Ying Zheng?
Moreover, although the joint verticals of the countries in Shandong have not yet been formally formed and are still in the process of dispatching troops and generals, the joint vertical attack on Qin is a foregone conclusion.

The survival of the Qin State is still a matter of debate, but Ying Zheng and Zhang Ji seem not to worry about whether the Qin State can successfully survive this catastrophe.

In a trance, Xunzi suddenly saw a shadow on Zhang Ji, a person who was clearly "dead", but had chatted with him when he was in his prime, and that person was also full of confidence in Qin.

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