Daqin: The Greatest Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

But, in my eyes, no matter how dazzling the stars are, they are not as bright as my husband.

What truly illuminates me is not the stars, but you, my husband!

The warm scene seems to be frozen in a painting, recording the beauty of the world.

The night is as gentle as water, with the gentle breeze and moonlight, the willows swaying in the wind, and the night passes in a flash.

......

Li day.

Su Xuan met the Six-Fingered Black Knight, the leader of the Mohist school, who came to visit.

The six-fingered black hero wears a black cloak, has black eyebrows hanging from his waist, and has a friendly look on his face.

"The Six-Fingered Black Knight of the Mohist School greets His Excellency the Prime Minister." He bowed respectfully.

Su Xuan nodded slightly in response.

"I wonder what's the matter, Master Mo?" He asked straight to the point.

"I came here today to express my special thanks to the Prime Minister," said the Six-Fingered Black Knight earnestly. "For the sake of the people of the world, the Prime Minister has put aside the national boundaries and prejudices against the six countries. This noble act of loving and benefiting the world is a blessing for the people of the world. The Six-Fingered Black Knight would like to thank the Prime Minister on their behalf."

Su Xuan had a strange look on his face. Since he wanted to think so, then let him do as he pleases.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister has the world in his heart. I implore you to dissuade the King of Qin from waging an unjust war." His face was sincere, and he showed an attitude of loving the world.

Su Xuan laughed out of anger. He scoffed at the Mohist concept of "universal love".

Everyone is selfish. Even saints cannot love all people, let alone ordinary people?

In his opinion, the Confucian idea of ​​love having closeness and distance is more in line with reality, while the Mohist thought is too idealistic.

Mencius even criticized Mozi's concept of universal love, saying, "Mozi's universal love is fatherless. Without father and ruler, he is a beast!"

As for the unjust wars mentioned by Mozi, he was referring to the various small-scale wars carried out during the period when Lu Buwei was in power. The reason why he dissuaded them was because he could see that the Qin State now had the intention of annexing the world.

"Master, this is wrong." Su Xuan shook his head and said righteously, "In the past, Mozi proposed the concept of universal love and non-aggression because the people at that time suffered from war. The ultimate goal was to allow the people of the world to live and work in peace and contentment."

"The so-called non-aggression means opposing unjust wars. But who defines what is just and unjust?"

"Is attacking the six kingdoms an unjust war? The reason why our Great Qin wants to unify the six kingdoms is to end the disputes that have lasted for hundreds of years, so that the people of the world can have enough food and clothing and no longer suffer from the pain of war."

"Do you think this is righteousness or unrighteousness? If it is righteousness, why oppose it?"

The six-fingered black hero frowned and thought, re-examining the definition of righteousness.

But no matter what, Mohist school was still against war, so he advised, "Qin is a vast country with abundant resources, luxury cars, and everything else. Why does it still covet the territories of the six countries?"

Su Xuan laughed in silence, "Sir, are you following Mozi's example and persuading King Hui of Chu not to attack the State of Song?"

"What I want to say is that these two are not the same." Su Xuan shook his head and then explained, "The so-called universal love should not be about loving one person, a group of people, or the people of a country, but about all the people in the world. Do you agree with me, sir?"

The six-fingered black hero nodded without hesitation.

"My Great Qin's annexation of the world is an act of universal love. Now the six countries are all imposing heavy taxes and levies, and the people are suffering. My Great Qin wants to destroy the six countries, not for ourselves, nor for the sake of gaining more territory. My Great Qin just wants to save these people who are in dire straits." Su Xuan smiled slightly and found it very interesting. He wanted to see how the Six-Fingered Black Knight would respond and whether he would stop the Qin State from carrying out its righteous act.

The Six-Fingered Black Knight naturally knew that the Qin State had drastically reduced its taxes. He fully agreed with this policy that benefited the country and the people, because most of the Mohist disciples were farmers and handicraft practitioners, and the Mohist disciples in the Qin State benefited greatly from this. When the Mohist disciples in other countries heard about this, some even wanted to move to the Qin State to live.

The Six-Fingered Black Knight frowned even deeper and fell into complete silence.

Su Xuan smiled and said, "How about this, Sir? You might as well persuade the monarchs of the six countries. As long as they can love their people like their own children like my Great Qin, vigorously develop agriculture, and reduce taxes, then I can persuade the King of Qin not to attack them. How do you think?"

The Six-Fingered Black Knight felt a little confused and nodded after a moment of silence.

After the two chatted for a few words, the Six-Fingered Black Knight bowed and said goodbye.

Looking at the back of the Six-Fingered Black Knight, Su Xuan shook his head.

The so-called righteousness should not be so narrow. Just like Gai Nie and Zhang Liang in the future, the swords in their hands were wielded for the people of the world.

The Qin Dynasty unified the world, wasn't it for the benefit of the people of the world?

Su Xuan believed that the Six-Fingered Black Knight must be able to understand the greater good, otherwise, he would have no choice but to have him eliminated.

As for Mohism?

As the Academy of Gewu continued to grow and the two came into conflict, the Mohist school naturally fell apart.

He will show no mercy to his enemies.

Chapter 151 Black and White Young Sima Ming (Additional Update)

After the Six-Fingered Black Knight, Su Xuan successively met with Nei Shi Teng and Zong Zheng Ying Xi.

Nei Shi Teng was in charge of the Qin State's financial power. When he learned that Su Xuan had vowed to spend millions of gold to encourage innovation, he was dumbfounded.

Even if you want to spend money, you shouldn't spend it like this! The Qin treasury can't afford it!

He came to understand the situation as soon as possible.

Su Xuan's words left him speechless.

That means this matter was approved by Ying Zheng.

In the end, he left in disgrace, because neither Su Xuan nor Ying Zheng were people he could afford to offend. If these two gentlemen wanted to build it, then let them do it. He had fulfilled his obligations anyway. If they didn't listen, what else could he do?

Of course, the reason why he was allowed to leave so easily was mainly because the Qin State was about to have another huge fiscal revenue to fill the deficit.

That is the sale of snow salt.

He was quite clear about how much profit this thing could bring.

Ying Xi came here specially mainly for the purpose of participating in the commodity investment.

With Su Xuan's careful preparation, Ying Xi accidentally learned about the huge profits of perfume, porcelain, and sugar. He couldn't help but be tempted. He has taken the initiative to visit Su Xuan for several days in a row. After some soft and hard persuasion, Su Xuan agreed to let him take a share.

This share was worth tens of thousands of gold, and almost all members of the Ying family participated in it.

One good thing about Su Xuan is that he never keeps all his money to himself. His main purpose is to make everyone happy.

Of course, if any problems arise in the Chamber of Commerce one day, Su Xuan will naturally need them to come forward to help resolve them. After all, they have common interests.

Hehe, since we are on the same front, it’s not a big deal to help out a little.

The so-called dragnet of heaven and earth, which is pervasive, means that you extend your tentacles into every corner, so that everything is under control, and you are the absolute master!

This is the real trap!

What was Luowang before? It was just a killer organization.

After seeing Ying Xi off, it was almost noon. Su Xuan smiled bitterly and shook his head. He was just busy these few days. If it was like this every day, he would not be able to bear it.

In addition to them and the Qin court officials, many envoys from the six countries also came to visit him and threatened to give him beautiful women and luxurious cars, but he refused them all.

Looking at the housekeeper who was not doing well in his job, Su Xuan inexplicably missed Haitang. Every time he gave her a task, she would complete it meticulously. After Zi Nu's training, he should be able to feel more at ease now.

The only pity is that now she and Yan Lingji are both in the land of Baiyue.

After parting with Yan Lingji, he let Haitang stay with Yan Lingji to take care of her. Although he wanted her to slowly develop Baiyue and absorb refugees to gradually increase her strength, he was still a little worried about her eccentric and willful personality. So he let Haitang stay with her so that if anything happened, he would know it first even if she didn't say it.

After he took control of Luowang, Xuan Jian was sent directly to Baiyue. As for Xue Nu, he had been regularly informed of her situation through the Violet Chamber of Commerce, and there were people protecting her in secret, so he didn't have to worry too much.

Looking at the empty courtyard, Su Xuan thought that after Ying Zheng was crowned, it would be time to bring Xue Nu and Yan Ling Ji back.

To be honest, he really missed her after not seeing her for a while.

After having lunch and taking a short rest, he went directly to the Yin-Yang family’s base in Xianyang.

To his surprise, in addition to Dongjun, there were two beautiful girls with long black hair behind her.

One was dressed in black, the other in white, both had black hair, a slender figure, and fair skin, which was exactly the same as the white and thin ones in later generations.

The two men's faces are almost identical, the only difference is that each of them has a teardrop mole under their eyelids, one on the left and the other on the right.

"Fei Yan greets the Prime Minister."

"Hei, Bai, meet the Prime Minister."

The three of them bowed slightly.

Su Xuan suddenly realized, and then he remembered that Black and White Shao Siming was the previous generation's Shao Siming.

Thinking of their passing at such a young age, Su Xuan felt sad, and there was a hint of pity in his eyes when he looked at them.

Black and White looked at each other secretly, with a hint of doubt in their eyes.

Judging from his appearance, he seemed to have seen his two sisters before?

As twin sisters, they are in tune with each other and have a tacit understanding. They can understand each other's thoughts with just a glance.

Feiyan looked at the half-broken jade pendant hanging on Su Xuan's waist. With her level of cultivation, she could feel that it seemed to contain a strange energy, which was extremely similar to something she had sensed in the Donghuang Palace before.

Is this a token of loyalty from a royal family member of the Seven Kingdoms?

Her eyes focused, she had never expected to reap the rewards so soon.

Su Xuan naturally noticed Feiyan's gaze. He glanced at the jade pendant on his waist. It was mysterious and bizarre. This thing was originally a personal belonging of Ying Zheng. Because Su Xuan felt familiar with it and looked at it a few more times, he gave it to Su Xuan directly.

As for the Seven Stars of the Azure Dragon, Su Xuan admitted that he did have some interest in it, but not much.

Instead of exhausting all his energy to crack the secret, wouldn't it be better to let Donghuang Taiyi collect the tokens to crack it, and he can just sit back and reap the benefits?

Besides, instead of hoping that the Seven Stars of the Azure Dragon contained the secret to making people stronger, he might as well hope that the system would reveal a method for cultivating immortals.

Or he could also accept a book like "The Secret of Stars" or "The Secret of Burning".

"Miss Feiyan, I have something to discuss with you." Su Xuan went straight to the point.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, please feel free to speak." Feiyan placed her hands in front of her belly, looking dignified and graceful.

"After the King of Qin takes power, he will raise an army to conquer the six kingdoms. I will follow the army at that time. This trip is full of dangers. I heard that Miss Feiyan has a high level of cultivation. Please ask Miss Feiyan to go with me and protect me." Su Xuan turned to Tiangang. Others were the personal masters of school beauties, but he let the beauties protect him.

In fact, this was just an excuse for him to have a chance to be alone with Feiyan, thus strengthening the relationship between the two.

Feiyan agreed without even thinking about it. She was worried that she had no excuse to get close to Su Xuan to complete the task. Now that he took the initiative to come to her, how could she let go of this opportunity?

"You are too polite, my Lord Xiangguo. You are my future husband, and this is my duty."

Su Xuan looked at her serious face and was a little confused as she said these words without changing her expression.

It's good to automatically put yourself in the role of the fiancée, but looking at her appearance, she seems like a three-year-old child, still ignorant about love matters.

In response, Su Xuan said that he would teach Feiyan well.

Be patient, careful and considerate until both hearts are in harmony with each other, only then can the merit be considered complete.

Chapter 152 Six Yao Algorithm (Additional Update)

"Planning is the key to success, while lack of planning leads to failure." Su Xuan smiled slightly, "Miss Feiyan, please use the laws of astrology to help me predict whether this trip will be smooth."

Someone once said that if you are undecided, you can ask Chunfeng, but what Su Xuan wanted to say is that after having Feiyan, if you are undecided, you can ask for a fortune first.

Fei Yan nodded slightly and quickly asked the Yin-Yang family's disciples to get ready.

Su Xuan took the opportunity to chat about some random things. "The stargazing layout that Miss Feiyan set up contains the mysteries of the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams. Is it derived from the Book of Changes?"

Feiyan's eyes lit up, "Master Xiangguo, do you also know something about the theory of fate?"

Su Xuan waved his hand modestly, "When I was studying at Xiaoshengxianzhuang, I read several ancient books and had a little knowledge of them."

Feiyan gradually became interested in talking, "The Book of Changes says that in ancient times, when Fuxi ruled the world, he looked up at the sky to observe the patterns, and looked down at the earth to observe the laws, the patterns of birds and beasts and the suitability of the land, and took things from his body and from far away. Then he created the Eight Trigrams to understand the virtues of the gods and to classify the emotions of all things."

"The Yin-Yang Bagua theory was created by Fuxi after observing the universe, and later King Wen of Zhou rearranged it based on the Xiantian Bagua and deduced the arrangement and combination of the Houtian Bagua and the 64 hexagrams. The promotion of the Yin-Yang theory is also closely related to the Confucian sage Confucius's interpretation of the Book of Changes in the Yi Zhuan."

"We in the Yin-Yang School believe that everything in the universe has attributes such as Yin-Yang, the Five Elements, and the Eight Trigrams, and the stars in the sky also have corresponding attributes. By observing the attributes and changes of the stars, we can infer the trajectory of the universe."

Su Xuan suddenly remembered a famous saying from later generations and asked, "Miss Feiyan, have you ever heard such a saying?"

"The six yao can calculate all the affairs of the world, and the plum blossom can relieve the suffering of the world."

"Liu Yao?" Fei Yan looked puzzled.

Su Xuan looked at Fei Yan's genuine expression and explained, "Liu Yao is a method of numerology derived from the eight trigrams and sixty-four trigrams of the Book of Changes."

"Yao means bright. One refers to sunlight, two refers to moonlight, and three refers to intersection. It is a combination of six yin and yang symbols arranged from top to bottom. By calculating the stems and branches of the day and combining the Yao Ci of the Book of Changes... we can judge the development and outcome of things."

Su Xuan slowly explained some of the essence of the "Fire Pearl Forest Method" of later generations.

As for why he knew so much about it, it was because he had a friend in his previous life, a so-called Feng Shui master, who was quite knowledgeable about these things and even gave him several books on Feng Shui. He had actually read one or two of them when he had nothing to do.

Under Su Xuan's narration, Feiyan gradually became fascinated. She was the most extraordinary woman in the Yin-Yang School and had extraordinary talent. She could naturally apply the Liu Yao algorithm to other things. The more she deduced, the more she could feel the mysterious changes in it.

It is like a more complete method of deducing Yin and Yang and the Eight Trigrams.