After the death of my first teacher Confucius, I also followed the example of other disciples. I built a hut near the tomb of Confucius by the Sishui River in the north of the city, and mourned for three years.Time flies so fast, it has been thirty-three years since Confucius left us without knowing it.In these years, I have tried my best to avoid contact with the world. Although I am far away from the tomb of Confucius, I think that I will serve my teacher here all my life, that is, in my lifetime.No matter what I do now, I must think about what Confucius thinks, as if I am still serving him.Insignificant beings like myself can do nothing but pass the time each day, let alone be useful to the world.

Yes, just like what you said, I also heard that after we mourned for three years, disciple Zi Gong spent another three years in mourning, a total of six years.In fact, I didn't need anyone to tell me, I had expected Zigong to do this a long time ago.On the morning when the three-year mourning period expired, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. More than seventy of us were ready to go our separate ways and find our own ways, so the person in charge of the luggage took the lead and bid farewell to Zigong in order.For three years, Zigong was responsible for all the affairs of the mourning period on his own. Without his support, our mourning would not have been able to continue.

As soon as they entered Zigong's room, everyone hugged him tightly, and then they hugged each other again, with tears streaming down their faces, saying goodbye.I also bid farewell to everyone in the house.Looking from the window, you can see a newly built thatched cottage next to Confucius' tomb. Zi Gong was forty-six years old at the time, and he would continue to guard the tomb for three years. I was greatly moved by Zigong's devotion to serve his ancestors, but this kind of practice is not what we should emulate.Besides, those who can continue to serve the side of the tomb, after the death of Zilu and Yanhui, are Zigong, and Zigong is the only one.

Just now I mentioned Zilu and Yan Hui, the names of these brothers have not been annihilated.How glad I am that you all hear their names today!Zilu was sixty-three years old and Yan Hui was just forty-one years old, both of whom passed away before their predecessors. ask me?I am five years younger than Yan Hui, but I have lived 30 years longer than Yan Hui and 8 years longer than Zilu without knowing it. Now I am almost 73 years old when Confucius died.It's ashamed that the horse's teeth are increasing.However, this is also what the angel does. I plan to live my life in my own way, thinking innocently.

As you can see, I am now living a hermit-like life, cultivating a little Susukida, lest I get tainted by the world's filth, aloof from the world, and doing my own way.I think that Confucius, who is broad-minded, will not blame me. I seem to hear the voice of Confucius: Just live like this!In fact, Confucius really wanted to live the life I am now, and he couldn't imagine it!I, the only one who understands Confucius's mind best. However, Confucius did not do this, and it is impossible to do so.In order to make this chaotic world a little bit better, and for the sake of fewer and fewer people suffering misfortune in society, even if there is one less person, he is anxious day and night, and strives to promote his ideas: No matter what happens, you can't leave the noisy world of many people. Isn't it like this? If you don't live with your peers called 'people', what else can you live with? ? You can’t keep company with birds and beasts.” ——Confucius Han’s lonely voice lingered in my ears.This is what Confucius said to himself.

However, Confucius will not have the standard of self-discipline to demand people like me who are not even his disciples. Confucius has an extremely generous mind. "If you want to go to the mountains, go to the mountains!" "Let's live a clean life!" You raise the Mandate of Heaven, which is a difficult question to answer.To be honest, of all the things Confucius said, what we find most difficult and most fearful is this "Mandate of Heaven".What is the sky?What did God say?The four seasons move, and all things come into being.Confucius said what the sky said, and it is exactly so.The sky does not speak.The four seasons run, go round and round, and everything grows.But the sky did not speak.

Confucius did say that he knew the destiny at fifty.I remember this is what he said to the many disciples who were waiting for him when he returned to the state of Lu after finishing his life of exile and lobbying.In short, this is what he said in his later years.Do you not understand this sentence of Confucius?But when he said this sentence, as usual, he did not give any explanation, and let everyone experience the profound meaning. In the later period of mourning for Confucius, Zigong led everyone to explain the vitality of Confucius' speeches one by one, and recorded the original words of Confucius in an accurate form. I also attended this kind of discussion meeting.When this kind of meeting first started, there were several nights when everyone had heated discussions around knowing the destiny, fearing the destiny, what is heaven, and what is destiny.At that time, I hadn’t completely shaken off the sorrow of mourning Confucius. Although I sat in it, I was far away from the whole atmosphere of arguing about the profound meaning of Confucius’ words, so now I can’t remember where the result of the debate was attributed to the Mandate of Heaven.

The fate is naturally like this, so what is the sky originally?What kind of heaven did Confucius know?Since I lived in this mountain village for more than 30 years, I have thought about the issue of "Heaven" several times a year, and I have entered into the words "Mandate of Heaven" said by Confucius to think about it, but I often go around in circles and return to it. to the place.Regarding your questions, it seems that I can only talk about my own understanding process.Ah, let me not answer this question for now, so as not to make mistakes.Let me think about it for a month or two, summarize my thoughts, and then tell you about my understanding of Confucius' exposition on heaven and destiny.

Thirty-three years have passed since Confucius passed away. It is really gratifying and reassuring to hear that you outstanding young people have discussed Confucius' teachings from various angles in the lecture hall where he taught during his lifetime. I always feel that Confucius seems to have left us not long ago, but thirty-three years have changed everything.Among the disciples of Confucius in his later years, after the death of the teacher, some applied for employment and served as officials in the princes, and some lived in seclusion without seeking to be famous, and they all went their separate ways.Zigong guarded the tomb for six years. If he had stayed in the capital of the State of Lu, the situation of Confucius would have been different from what it is now. The motherland defends the country.

There are also Zixia, Zizhang, Ziyou and other late disciples of Confucius who, after three years of mourning, insisted on the lecture hall of their predecessors for a while. Later, I heard that they had different interpretations of "rituals", and their views were opposed, and they were divided into several schools.After that, they gradually lost their news. Is that so?Zixia returned to his motherland to defend his country, while Zizhang and Ziyou returned to their hometowns, although their motherlands Chen and Wu had fallen.In terms of youth, they are about ten years younger than me. It is very logical for them to have the opportunity to return to their hometown.Besides, these Confucius disciples preached the teachings of Confucius in the Yellow River, Huai River Basin and various places in the Central Plains, effectively spreading the Confucian theory.

Nevertheless, in the Lecture Hall of the State of Lu, everything about Confucius has been handed over from the disciples of Confucius in his later years to you who bear the heavy responsibility of today's era.After Confucius died, his theory was being inherited and carried forward by a generation he did not know.This puts me completely at ease. isn't it?You are collecting and arranging all the speeches of Confucius, so that there is no omission in it, and then you have to understand and interpret it correctly-just hearing you say this, you know that this is a arduous and huge project.Before Confucius was alive, I served him. At that time, I just passed the day, but now I think about it.I really regret it. You guys come here on purpose, I have to tell you something you want to know.You have asked a few questions. Today I will choose the topic "Confucius and his students and my relationship". Although I am not prepared, I can still talk about this topic.For the other deep questions, let me make some preparations and wait for the next or next time. Maybe you all know that I am different from other disciples. I muddled into the Confucian student team on the way, and then stayed to serve Confucius.During the years when Confucius lived in this country in his later years, I was not ordered by anyone to send me out, but I took the initiative to do chores for Confucius’ students. I just paid attention to it all the time, and whenever I had free time, I tried to get close to Confucius so that I could listen to him. teaching.If I said that I was a student of Confucius, I would definitely be laughed at by Confucius, and other students would also show embarrassment. My situation is like this, and the ins and outs of the matter have to be discussed from my life experience.The sun is still high right now, so I plan to finish my talk before dark, lest you go back and rush the night. I was born in Cai Guo.I haven't talked about my home country for several years.But as soon as I mentioned her, I immediately saw a village with dusty earthen houses, sparse tung forests around it, and the Rushui flowing in the distance, a feeling of nostalgia spontaneously emerged. It is said that Cai Shudu, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, established the State of Cai in order to rule the remnants of the Yin Dynasty by enfeoffing him in the valleys of Yingshui and Rushui.The capital of the country at that time was not Xincai, where I was born and raised, but Shangcai, upstream of the Rushui River. For unknown reasons, Cai Shudu, who established the Cai State, rebelled against the Zhou Dynasty after the death of King Wu, but failed miserably and the country was destroyed.However, his son Hu rebuilt his homeland, and Cai's lifeline was barely maintained.Thinking about it, Cai Guo was doomed to a turbulent historical fate since the founding of the country. When Cai Guo made his capital in Cai, relying on the asylum of the Zhou Dynasty, he was once prominent among the vassal states of the Central Plains. However, this was during the heyday of the Zhou Dynasty. Soon the forces of Wu, Chu and other big countries around the Central Plains extended into the Central Plains. Thus began the tragic history of Cai Guo. If it is a history of suffering, the vassal states of the Central Plains all have a common historical destiny, and most of Cai's history of suffering is linked to the disputes between the southern neighbors Yidi and Chu. Cai Guoding’s capital Shangcai has lasted for 18 generations and 500 years, during which he suffered countless oppressions from the Chu State. The most serious one was when the 13th generation of Aihou was attacked by King Wen of Chu with excuses.Cai Guomin's tragic situation at that time was handed down through various forms of oral tradition.During the eighteenth generation of Linghou, the state of Chu murdered Linghou again under pretext, so that the country was ruined and the family was destroyed.Two years later, Marquis Ping moved his capital to Xincai to rebuild the country, but this was also a conspiracy planned by Chu State. Naturally, in this case, although the country was rebuilt, it was forced to become a vassal state of Chu.We have grown up hearing the tragic and humiliating history of this country. All in all, the 18th generation of Cai Guo and the 500-year Shang Cai era came to an end, and the new Cai era began.In the second year of Pinghou (529 BC), that is, thirteen years before I was born, the state of Cai moved its capital to Xincai. When I was a teenager, I heard adults tell how beautiful Shangcai was in the old capital several times.Although its history has been full of disasters and disasters, it must have unique advantages that Xincai, a new capital built in a hurry, has not been able to become a five-hundred-year-old royal city.However, for those of us young people who were born and raised in Xincai, the whispers of adults are just a kind of helpless sorrow. When I was twelve or thirteen years old, once, the adults took some of us children to go north along the Rushui River. On the fourth day, we arrived at Shangcai, the old capital. Locals and foreigners are bustling with each other, creating a lively scene.This is a new street market built by people who immigrated from the city after the capital was moved to Xincai. Not far from the village, lies the deserted city of Shangcai, which is actually a ruin on the plain.The moat has been filled and the walls are crumbling everywhere.The ruins surrounded the ruins of the city wall. We climbed up to a gap in the city wall, and there was a continuous stream of dilapidated and uninhabited earthen houses, hidden among weeds and wormwood. Only groups of cypresses, ginkgoes, locust trees, and willows were lush and luxuriant. Refers to the sky.The thoroughfare that the adults who once lived here are very familiar with has been swallowed up by weeds, and there is no trace of the past.At a glance, the area of ​​the ruins is nearly twice the size of Xincai City. The promenade of the city wall is quite wide, and soldiers can be trained.We stood on the promenade, staring at the dilapidated wreckage of the old city made up of square streets.At this time, several groups of big birds that I have never seen before swooped down from the ruins in various formations and cut away obliquely.Only they are alive.The majestic and majestic appearance of the flock of birds is still deeply imprinted in my mind. Because we have seen the ruins of the old capital Shangcai, those of us who were born in Xincai feel that the new capital Xincai is very beautiful and magnificent, and we feel an indescribable sense of joy and fulfillment living there. Now to bring the topic back, Cai Guo has been bullied by Chu State for many years.There was only one time, after the capital was moved to Xincai, Cai Guo and Wu Guo formed an alliance, it may be because of the pressure of Wu Guo, or the situation at that time made Cai Guo have to do so, in short, he even joined forces with Wu Guo to attack Chu, and defeated the main force of the Chu army in the Battle of Baiju, crossed the Han River, and stepped into Chuduying as a victor.That was the thirteenth year of Zhaohou, twenty-three years after the capital was moved.I was eleven years old that year. I still clearly remember that the news of the crushing of the sworn enemy Chu State made the whole country of Cai State ecstatic and immersed in a strange excitement.In the hundreds of years of relationship with the Yi Di Chu State, only this time, Cai Guo, the family of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the country with the surname Ji, relieved the hatred in his heart and let out a sigh of relief. However, not long after, the state of Chu began to retaliate crazily for this vengeance.Twelve years later, that is, the 25th year of Zhaohou, the army of Chu State suddenly surrounded Xincai City, forcing Cai State to move its capital to the interior of Chu.For this kind of mandatory decision that does not ask whether it is acceptable or not, Cai Guo can only accept it submissively and obey his orders.When the country was in extreme chaos, Wu Guo took the opportunity to intervene again. The State of Wu was ahead of the State of Chu and fought without declaring it. Overnight, heavy troops occupied the city of Xincai, and forced Cai to move its capital to a remote prefecture of the State of Wu.This move of the capital was so sudden and fast that it was almost unprepared.I was twenty-four years old that year. It goes without saying that the so-called relocation of the capital means changing the territory, but the changing of the territory does not mean that the whole country is relocated intact. Half of the people cannot move and live, so they have to stay in Xincai as survivors. Now, I will talk about the history of the Chu army's invasion of Cai Guo and moving the capital to the state in a little detail.As mentioned above, in the twenty-fifth year of Zhaohou (494 BC), when the long cold winter had just passed and Rushui was getting warmer, the Chu army suddenly approached the city, and the mighty chariot surrounded Xincai like an iron barrel. city. The Chu army built fortifications day and night, and built barriers one foot wide and two feet high from the gate to several towns, cutting off all traffic inside and outside the city. At that time, Cai Guo's main force was stationed on the border, and the garrison was the weakest, so he was helpless against the Chu army, so he had to let it do whatever he wanted. After the barrier was completed, the Chu army set up camp on the spot and began to shout to the residents of Cai to persuade them to surrender.For a few days, some residents who were afraid of the Chu army's attack, divided into two groups of men and women every morning and threw themselves into the Chu army's camp.However, the number of residents who succumbed to the Chu army's despotic power and surrendered out of the city was small, and most of the residents remained in place, sticking to the city. A few days later, news spread in the streets and alleys that Mr. Cai Guoguo planned to accept the request of the Chu army and decided to move the capital to the mainland of Chu.Because the Chu army's barriers completely blocked the people in the suburbs from outside the city, the whole city was surprisingly quiet, and the spring sunshine shining on the streets seemed extraordinarily empty. After autumn, the rumors of moving the capital finally became a reality.The notice posted on the street clearly stated: Cai Guoding will move the capital to the area north of Jiangshui (Yangtze River) and south of Rushui in the near future. All residents should prepare immediately without any mistakes. There was a riot in the whole city, but calm was restored immediately, because everyone had many things to consider calmly. Then, everyone talked about the new capital to be moved to, but when it came to what to prepare and how to prepare, everyone was at a loss and felt uneasy. People passed the New Year in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, and ushered in the twenty-sixth year of Zhaohou.The Chu army who occupied the private houses and farmers outside the city as barracks still surrounded Xincai, but there was no new movement.After the Chinese New Year, although the announcement of moving the capital was posted again, the streets were unexpectedly calm and did not cause commotion. Even in the spring and summer, various news spread about the cancellation of the relocation of the capital and the change of the new capital. At the end of summer, a notice was posted officially announcing that the capital would be moved to the fertile plains of Jiangshui and Rushui in November, requiring all residents to start preparations immediately.At this time, Xincai was in chaos, and the Chu army that had been besieging the city for more than a year also began to withdraw. As soon as the Chu army withdrew its troops, everyone felt that moving the capital was imminent, and the time was imminent. But even so, people just ran around without seeing any preparations for moving the capital.Different from the previous domestic relocation from Shangcai to Xincai, this time it was relocated to a foreign country, and it was in the interior of Chu State, so no one knew what to do. In this dying city, an unexpected event suddenly happened. One month before moving the capital, one night, Wu's army and chariots suddenly swarmed in. The heavily armed soldiers occupied all the urban areas of the city, the chariots drove into all the squares, and the streets were full of burning Wu. The whole city of Xincai was shrouded in a tense and terrifying dark atmosphere. Under the command of anyone, everyone fled the city at the same time, with nothing but clothes on their bodies, and ran to the banks of the Rushui River to seek refuge.Gossip, true and false, spread among these people, and as soon as there was new news—no matter where it came from, it spread like wildfire, and spread it by ten or ten. The Wu army's invasion was undoubtedly a punishment for Cai and Chu's communication and attempt to move the capital to Chu.In this way, Cai Guo had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​moving to Chu, which was actually the decision.For the common people, this decision seems to be able to relieve the depression in their hearts a little bit, but it is not the case. If they do not move to Chu, it does not mean canceling the relocation of the capital, but must follow the will of Wu and move to a certain place in Wu.It is also possible to move to Wu, but it is reported that the designated place of Wu is a desolate and barren land. Just when this kind of rumor was prevalent, it seemed that in order to prove its authenticity, there was news of the death of the son of the pro-Chu sect.How did Gongzi Si die?unknown.However, it is an undoubted reality that an extremely serious situation is befalling Cai Guoguo, which is surrounded by a square moat. When the long dark night without moonlight gradually subsided, and the morning light overflowed from the river surface of Rushui River, the news came that the Wu army had withdrawn from the city, and the victims returned in droves overnight. A city that has become empty. At this time, it was also rumored that the ruler of Cai Guo had set out for the prefectures of Wu State under the leadership of Wu Jun last night.Zhoulai was designated by the state of Wu as the new place to move the capital to replace Chu.As for whether Zhaohou has come to the state or is still in Wangcheng, no one seems to know. When I returned to the city, everything that happened last night seemed like a dream. Wu's soldiers and chariots had disappeared, and piles of bonfires remained on the streets.After a while, the city returned to its usual appearance. In the afternoon, the sad news came that the son Si was killed while negotiating with the Wu army under the order of his father Zhaohou.In the evening, the rumors of the previous night were confirmed, and people were officially informed that Cai Guo was scheduled to move the capital to Zhouzhou in early November, and all the residents tried their best to move to the new capital.There were only a few days left until November, but no one complained.At this time, no matter what happens, no one will make a fuss. Two or three days later, I heard that the tombs of the ancestors of the Cai Kingdom would be moved to the prefecture. For this purpose, a mourning ceremony would be held in Wangcheng, but everyone was indifferent to this. Soon, the day of moving the capital finally arrived.We watched the quiet and silent procession move slowly on the high ground beside the Rushui River.The two armies of Cai Guo and Wu Guo guarded the head of the government and his party. Behind them were crowds of people. They went out of the royal city, passed through the city, and came to the Rushui River, and then boarded countless warships. Go upstream. For a few days, we watched the people who moved to the state continuously leave the city where their ancestors lived for generations, and walked towards Rushuizhijin.Later, I saw off our family on the embankment of Rushui. Neither the people who saw us off nor those who went on the road expressed emotion. It seemed that everything was arranged by God. Cataclysm, still remained calm and silent. I just mentioned a family. At that time, a family was generally engaged in work such as making pottery and making bone utensils.My parents and I have a shallow relationship, and lost my father and mother when I was young, but my ancestors minted coins in the royal city for generations and had their own workshops. My grandfather, father, and uncle all devoted themselves to this work all their lives.Calculated in this way, I think my ancestors were Yin people. Although the country perished, they still retained a wealth of superb techniques for making bronze wares. It seems that my father and grandfather also thought so. Maybe because my parents died early, so I didn't inherit this craft, but worked as a small laborer on the water control construction site. I wanted to make a name for myself in this area in the future, but at this moment, I caught up with the relocation of the capital.However, if our family has a blood relationship with the Yin people, it can be said that we have already experienced the taste of subjugation. When I was tired of seeing off the people who moved to the state all day long, the people who stayed behind wandered around in this desolate and empty city.Judging from the number of vacant houses, about half of the people moved and half stayed. Generally speaking, those who thought it would be more convenient to live in the state moved away, while those who worried that they would not be able to live without their hometown stayed. Just now I said that the people who moved to the prefecture and those who stayed in the state were divided into two groups. This only refers to the people in Xincai City. The vast area outside the city is still populated by farmers and people of various professions. unable to live.Therefore, in general, there are much more people who stay in Cai Guo and do not leave than those who relocate. We wandered through the ruined streets and alleys, and everyone has realized that this is no longer Cai Guo, but there used to be Cai Guo.Then, the Cai people who were abandoned by the motherland, or forgotten by the motherland, will try to survive on this land as stateless people. These survivors of the Cai State were worried that the Chu and Wu armies would invade again, and they had to gather together for self-defense, so they all gathered in the southeast of the city and moved into empty houses. However, this abandoned city is safe and sound.Perhaps there was a secret agreement between Chu and Wu to use this place as a buffer zone, and neither side should get involved at the moment.Indeed, if the Wu army enters the city, the Chu army will definitely enter the city to fight against it. On the contrary, if the Chu army enters the city, the Wu army will not stand by. In this way, the homeland of Cai State will undoubtedly become a tragic battlefield of life and death duel. Fortunately, nothing terrible happened in the end, and the half-dead city spent a few days of peace.It didn't take long before the dead town began to revive again, and the deserted palace and mansion soon became a market, with various shops opening up, and businessmen from Wu State and Chu State coming in and out, as well as Chen State. People from neighboring countries such as Cai, Zheng, Song, etc. When these outsiders saw us Cai people, they all raised their hands in greeting. We Cai Guo adherents also began to get busy.If you want to eat, you have to work, but there is plenty of work. When you go to the palace market, you need labor everywhere, and the labor is immediately turned into vegetables and food.We also shipped vegetables to the countryside in exchange for things from other countries.Every day is busy and busy, it seems that the country perishes, but the city prospers instead. We are the survivors of Cai, the abandoned people of Cai, and there are many others besides us.People from Xu, Zhou, Fei, Lai, Xiao, Shu, Yong, Liang, Xing, Jiang, Wen, Huang and other countries that perished in the past few years or decades are pouring into the incredible international market of Xincai every day. . Whether it is the nationals of the victorious country or the nationals of the defeated country, everyone gets along equally here.The victorious country may one day suffer the disaster of national subjugation.Businessmen in powerful and big countries such as Wu, Chu, and Jin did show a certain degree of self-confidence, but the size and strength of the country are matters between the rulers and have nothing to do with themselves.Here, you can only rely on yourself to protect yourself. It is true that one's own country's victory over other countries does not guarantee that one's life will be improved;Originally, this land was full of misfortune. In a sense, the palace market is the gathering place for the unfortunate common people of all countries.How many people without feet are here!Their feet were not lost in battle, but were cut off by their own officials because of late payment of land rent and late payment of tribute (grain).No one has mercy on them.If you sympathize with them, you will lose your confidence in life.There are many qian (hemp shoes) and jiao (prosthetic limbs) on the market, and the price of jiao is much more expensive than that of qian. We, the survivors of the Cai Kingdom, actually lived a peaceful and comfortable life again.About a month later, new rumors about Zhaohou spread widely in the Yi people's residential area, making the city full of storms.It turned out that the night when Wu Bing entered the city when the capital was moved to the prefecture was precisely the conspiracy carefully planned by Zhaohou himself, and everything went smoothly according to his prior arrangements.Speaking of it, even this is not surprising. Originally, Cai Guo was held between the two great powers of Chu and Wu. Pro-Chu or Wu has long been a headache for Cai Guo's rulers. If the rumors are true, the protracted feud between the pro-Wu Zhaohou and the pro-Chu son Si was finally resolved on the night of the Wu army's swarming invasion.Everything was premeditated by Zhaohou. He arranged carefully, led troops into the city, and ordered the doctor to kill son Si in the chaos. Amidst the various discussions about Zhaohou, the 26th year of Zhaohou has passed and entered the spring of the 27th year of Zhaohou.After the long cold winter, boats and boats competed on the Rushui River, and the ferry began to be busy again.At this time, another shocking news came, saying that the state of Chu was building a new city to accommodate the survivors of the state of Cai who had not moved to the state. Once the new city was completed, everyone would have to move out. Although the incident was unexpected, it is not incomprehensible to take a step back.Originally, Cai Guo had promised Chu State to move the capital to Chu, but at the final stage of implementation, the place of moving the capital was taken away by Wu State overnight.In this way, it can be said that there was a reason for the Chu State to gather the survivors of the Cai State and move them to Chu. This extraordinary rumor terrified the survivors of the Cai Kingdom, as if their own life path was suddenly clouded.As survivors, as long as they still live in the homeland of the Cai Kingdom, they will not be protected by any country, but because they do not have the protection of any country, they still enjoy a certain degree of freedom.If they were taken in to Chudi, they would lose all their personal freedom and become slaves, and all young people would be drafted into the army. This is very clear. When the rumors were just rumors, although my heart was heavy and I was always a little dubious, but after a while, these rumors became real facts. One month later, late one night, we were woken up by our neighbors, and we ran outside to have a look. We saw a fire burning in a nearby square, surrounded by a dozen or so people who said they were swimming in the Ru River. The survivors of Cai Guo, men and women who escaped from the countryside. According to these uninvited guests in the middle of the night, the soldiers of Chu State are now mobilizing fishermen and farmers in the area around Shangcai to move them to the designated Chu land. It is said that there is a year of preparation time. A whim, a change of mind, maybe today will force everyone to go, so they escaped in a panic. After hearing what these people said, it seems that moving to Chu is not a rumor, and it is already planned to be implemented in the border area.The people who fled here didn't think it was safe, but they just felt that, no matter what, they would feel more at ease in Xincai City, where the survivors of the Cai Kingdom lived. Someone said: "Chu probably thinks that the capital of the country was taken away by Wu, and the people left behind should belong to our Chu." Another said: "Having said that, it's annoying." But people can't do anything about it, this is the sad thing about the survivors of the subjugated country. The next day, I went to work in the market as usual, and I heard from a businessman from Zheng State that Chu State troops were stationed in a village three days away from here, and they might be coming soon.So, I decided to leave Xincai City immediately.If I was robbed by the Chu army and sent to Chu, my life would be completely ruined. Recently, I went to a shop run by a merchant from the state of Song that I met in the market almost every day. The owner of the shop introduced me to join a transport team to transport goods to the capital of the state of Song.At that time, young people were conscripted into the army, so no matter where you go, as long as you are young, you are welcome. In this way, I left Xincai City with a dozen or so people from the Song Dynasty, and went to the Song Dynasty via the Chen Kingdom.We transported the stones to the capital of the state of Chen, and then transported the large water tank from the state of Chen to the capital of the state of Song. Along the way, whenever we heard that soldiers were coming, we hid in the countryside, in the mountains, and sometimes on boats.This is the first time in my life that I have traveled in a foreign country. Wherever I passed, I saw heavy military disasters, withered mountains and fields, and barren fields. Some villages were hungry and food was scarce, and some villages were full of orphans and disabled people. Become rough and violent. It takes nearly a month to travel from Xincai City to Shangqiu, the capital of the Song Dynasty. It is said that they have arrived at the capital of the Song Dynasty, but they did not actually enter the city. They just rested in the countryside on the tributary of the Sui River to recover from the fatigue of the long journey, and then looked for other strengths. Dry.As long as you don't pick and choose, finding a bite to eat is no problem. Living in the Song Dynasty, there is no sense of a foreign country. Everyone says that the people of the Song Dynasty still have the legacy of the Yin Dynasty in their way of life and way of thinking.This is very natural, because the place where the Song State was founded was once the capital of the Yin Dynasty in ancient times. When Zhou defeated Yin and took over the world, one of the Yin royal family was entrusted here to inherit Yin Si, so the Song Dynasty was established. country. In this sense, it may be said that today's Song State is the only relic of the ancient Yin Dynasty left in the Central Plains.Even if they are all vassal states in the Central Plains, but their national conditions are different, it is really not easy to manage the government in a troubled world. When it comes to Song people, everyone is often wary.Yin people have created a high degree of culture, and they are very sensitive to the relationship between gains and losses, and the people of Song Dynasty are also like this.In Xincai's palace market, people from other countries respect them. However, I finally got along with the merchants of Song State, so they let me join the trafficking team, so I finally came to the capital of Song State.Perhaps it should be said that all of this was predestined by the blood of the Yin people flowing in my veins. Well, let's stop here for now, let me sort out the content of my next speech.Unfortunately, I can’t remember exactly what happened more than 40 years ago. The opening sentence is a bit long, but before I talk about the relationship between me and my teacher Confucius and his students, let you know my motherland Cai Guo and our The experience of this little person will make it easier for you to understand the stories I will tell later. Just now, the wind suddenly fell outside, and it was getting hotter.If you walk around, you must feel refreshed.The mountain village is deserted, but the early summer evening wind blows the mountains and forests, which has a unique flavor.