The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 414 The Not-So-Good Yin-Yang Family

Zou Yan replied: "I thank you very much, Your Majesty. Please be at ease. I have long seen through life and death, and at my age, it doesn't matter to me."

Ying Zheng sighed and said, "Alas, I wonder if there is anything else you are worried about. Please speak up and I will do my best to help you."

Zou Yan smiled and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I have nothing to worry about anymore."

"Well, in this case, please take good care of yourself during this period of time. Stay one more day if you can."

Zou Yan was moved and said, "I thank you very much for your care, Your Majesty."

Ying Zheng suddenly asked, "By the way, Zou Qing, I heard that you have a direct disciple. I wonder what arrangements you have made for him? Do you need my help to arrange it?"

Zou Yan was shocked, this disciple he accepted was top secret, he was not in Qin most of the time, but was helping teach his brother in Chu. Apart from his brother, few people knew about it, and as for Qin, no one should know about it.

How does your Majesty know this?

Zou Yan remained calm and smiled slightly, "Thank you for your care, Your Majesty. This poor disciple is really unteachable. I have never liked him. Although he has decent talent, he is lazy and it is difficult for him to become a talent. I have been quite busy these years, so I left this poor disciple with my younger brother to teach him in seclusion. He is not allowed to leave until he becomes a talent."

"Alas, over the years, that child has become more and more desperate. Everything is left to him. This evil creature is not worthy of your king's concern."

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "It's a pity that this happened. But it doesn't matter. If Zou Qing's disciples work hard in the future, they can come to me and I will definitely use them."

Zou Yan bowed and said, "Thank you very much, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

Ying Zheng waved his hand and said, "No need to be so polite, Zou Qing. You should go back and recuperate. You must take care of your health. I really can't leave you!"

Zou Yan was deeply moved and nodded repeatedly.

After Zou Yan left, Ying Zheng looked at Zou Yan's back. After just meeting him, he was sure that this old man was not playing tricks and was really going to die, and soon.

The Yin-Yang School practices martial arts and takes an unconventional approach with swordplay. Although it is extremely powerful, it also causes endless troubles.

The fact that Zou Yan could live to be over eighty years old before his death shows that he had achieved great accomplishments and had a very upright state of mind.

With his level of cultivation, either nothing will happen to him, or if something happens, he will definitely die quickly.

As for his apprentice being in Chu, even if it is true, he will probably go to Qin soon.

Before he dies, he will definitely pass all his skills to his disciple, otherwise it would be such a waste of his skills.

Although the Yin-Yang School has many skills, if you practice different skills, there is basically no way to pass them on to each other. Moreover, the skills are too attached to the personal spirit. Even if the skills are passed on, too much loss will occur. However, even if the loss is too much, it is still better than decades of hard practice.

As Zou Yan's direct disciple, it is very likely that his skills are similar to his, so the loss should not be too great.

As he was about to die, the old man finally moved everything he had to Daqin.

Ying Zheng shook his head. These were not important. They were just a small Yin-Yang family.

Anyway, the Yin-Yang School is of little use nowadays.

The new calendar and the solar terms of the lunar calendar for both the north and south of China have been compiled.

Zou Yan had already published a book on the theory of the Five Elements and the Five Virtues, which spread throughout the world.

The rest is just using the wood-based Yin-Yang magic to improve the cultivation of seeds and predict natural disasters. These do not require too advanced Yin-Yang magic skills, and some accomplished Yin-Yang disciples can do it.

As for other things of the Yin-Yang School, only alchemy is worth paying attention to.

What the Yin-Yang School can do, the Taoists can also do, and more reliably.

This old man has already gone astray without knowing it. The most important things for the Yin-Yang School have never been his few masters.

If Zou Xie is honest when he comes, then just let him be for now. If he is not honest, then just kill him and support other disciples to take the position.

Moreover, the Yin-Yang School likes to take unconventional approaches in everything, so when it comes to things like elixirs that need to be consumed, they have to be careful, and they must ask the Taoists to get involved, to prevent the Yin-Yang School from messing around.

We also need to add that doctors, Taoists and Yin-Yangists like to add some inexplicable things when making elixirs, so they need doctors to keep an eye on them and coordinate.

Zou Yan didn't know that Ying Zheng had thought of everything. He did secretly call his apprentice back and passed on all his skills to his apprentice.

As for his younger brother, he never had the chance to see him again.

After so many years in Chu and receiving so much financial support from the Chu royal family, it is not so easy to leave now.

Zou Shi is also actively dealing with it now. Well, everything is done without the knowledge of King Kaolie of Chu.

Fortunately, King Kaolie of Chu is now bedridden, the Chu army has suffered a great defeat, and he has to pave the way for his son. There are too many messy things that make him overwhelmed and he has no energy to keep an eye on it. Otherwise, it would not be so easy for the Yin-Yang Family to withdraw.

Moreover, although the Yin and Yang of Chu were annexed by Qin, not all of them were annexed by Qin.

Zou Yan has persisted in his dream for his entire life and will not give up easily. He will also make some arrangements and wait for the right time.

After Zou Yan passed on all his skills to his apprentice, he knew that he was about to die.

This was something that was expected long ago. There is nothing to be sad about. I have already prepared for it.

But suddenly, a feeling of melancholy arose in my heart.

Zou Yan arrived at the courtyard, looked at the night sky alone, and asked his disciples to leave. In the last moments of his life, he just wanted to quietly look at the stars that he had been watching for his entire life.

In the last moments of his life, or when he was about to die, Zou Yan finally saw everything clearly.

When he looked back on his life, he suddenly realized that the second half of his life had gone astray.

Zou Yan was alone looking at the night sky, which was dotted with stars and was endless. The sun, moon and stars illuminated the world, and through their movement, one could predict the development of the world.

The logic is correct.

But who can see through the movement of the stars?
Zou Yan spent his entire life looking at the starry sky, but in the end he found that everything was in vain.

Zou Yan smiled inexplicably. Lao Tzu said, Heaven is unkind and treats all things as straw dogs. People can only be human beings and can never become anything else.

Zou Yan finally understood now.

You deceived yourself.

Looking back on his life, it was King Zhao of Yan's courtesy to him that made him go further and further down the wrong path.

All they want is their own theory of the five elements and five virtues, for their own rule and reputation.

No wonder they never care about the astrology, and even less about the Yin-Yang school's ability to predict the future.

It turns out that they knew that neither the Yin-Yang School nor humans could do it.

The future we perceive is just a vague judgment based on existing information. When we look at the stars and feel that they are talking to us, we are already deceiving ourselves.

He was a young genius who was well-versed in ancient and modern knowledge. He took a different approach and founded the Yin-Yang School, which was once ranked alongside other famous schools of thought.

It turns out that this shortcut is the wrong path.

What was my dream when I was young? Not to replace the will of heaven with my own, but to build a grand road for the world!
So that the world can be unified, this chaotic world can be ended, and the world can be peaceful and the people can live in tranquility.

What I have been looking for is how to bring peace to the world.

But why did it become like this? When did my pursuit become replacing the will of heaven with my own? When did I put the cart before the horse?
The most important thing I have learned and created in my life is not astrology, nor the theory of the five elements and five virtues that is only useful to monarchs, nor even the art of yin and yang.

The most important things are the movement of celestial phenomena, the changing of the seasons, and the observation of weather conditions, which can truly benefit people all over the world.

Zou Yan smiled inexplicably. King of Qin, King of Qin, he knew everything.

No wonder the Yin-Yang School had a high status in the Qin Dynasty. However, the most important thing they actually did was to compile the calendar, cooperate with farmers to formulate the lunar calendar, and use the Yin-Yang technique to optimize good varieties.

No wonder the King of Qin valued me so much, actively discussed with me to improve the theory of the Five Elements and Five Virtues, and spared no effort to help me publish the book.

I was so complacent that I didn't expect that I was played around by a young man.

How ridiculous, how ridiculous, how sad, how sad.

Fortunately, fortunately, I entered Qin and did not achieve nothing. Even though I was used by the King of Qin, I did do something useful for the world after all.

Zou Yan died with regret and a smile on his face.

He himself did not realize it, and what was even more regrettable was that he did not have the time to tell anyone about his dying experience.

Of course, maybe telling my younger brother and apprentice would be of no use.

Zou Shi persisted for his entire life just like him.

Under his influence, his apprentice has grown up.

Even for a wise man, there are some things that he can only truly understand when he is dying.

Only at the moment of death do you truly understand what you want most.

You can only understand something if you actually do it yourself.

It is difficult to understand each other if you have not experienced the same things. What's more, even if you have experienced it, you will not be able to understand each other.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again.

The lessons of the previous car serve as a lesson for the following car, and the tracks of the previous car serve as a guide for the following car.

It's always been like this.

After Zou Yan's death, Zou Yan's direct disciples left Xianyang and secretly returned to the State of Chu.

Donghuang Taiyi, currently known as Zou Shi, sighed deeply, filled with sadness and powerlessness. The last time he felt so sad and powerless was when he was in the State of Yan with his eldest brother, and King Zhao of Yan died of illness before his great cause was accomplished.

And at that time, I had my elder brother by my side.

But now, I am the only one supporting the Yin-Yang Family, and I have to rely on myself for all the plans.

Even though Zou Yan had died of old age, and even though Zou Shi had achieved unfathomable levels of accomplishment, extraordinary character, and an extremely strong mind, Zou Shi was still extremely sad in his heart, because that was his elder brother who had lived for more than seventy years.

The two are brothers with a deep friendship. They have been together since childhood and have supported each other throughout their lives. They have shared similar interests and have been friendly and close to each other.

And he didn't even see his elder brother for the last time.

Even though Zou Shi was such a great man with a very strong character, he still found it difficult to bear the grief.

The current situation of the Yin-Yang Family is not optimistic, which makes him worried.

The younger generation, alas, none of them are reliable.

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