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Second Lecture on Confucius and the Mausoleum of the First Emperor
What legacy did Confucius and Qin Shi Huang leave behind?
The emperor called the mausoleum, the common people called the tomb, and the two sages of the civil and military called it Konglin and Guanlin.
Kong Lin was formed gradually, starting small and becoming more prominent in later generations.
The Mausoleum of the First Emperor is bigger than the Forbidden City
The concept of death in ancient times = immigrant graves = underground residence funerary goods = underground property City God = underground county magistrate
It took 700,000 people to build the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, five times that of the Great Pyramid.
How could Qin Shihuang’s army be victorious in every battle?
Qin army vanguard: No armor, light robes, hand-to-hand combat with short soldiers, a true warrior!
The secret of Qin’s bravery
“Xunzi Discusses Soldiers”
Qi people are long in martial arts, and their skills are also good. Those who win one will be given redemption gold, but there is no real reward. If it is a small enemy, it will be used for stealing, and if it is a big enemy, it will be lost. If the birds are in flight, and the side is repeated and repeated, it is a soldier who is subjugating the country, and the soldier is not weak. It was a few times when he went to hire a city servant to fight.
The military soldiers of the Wei family, take them by degrees, wear armor of three genus, carry a twelve-stone crossbow, carry fifty arrows in their uniforms, put a sword on it, win three days’ food, and become more than a hundred in the middle of the day. In the middle test, it will restore its households and benefit its fields and houses. It will decline in a few years, and it will not be seized, and it will not be easy to transform it. Although the old land is large, its taxes will be low, and it is also a soldier in a dangerous state.
In the second great change, all nations and hundreds of schools of thought are trying to find a way out for the new era.
“Book of the Lord of Shang”: a hole in profit (a hole: the only way out for the people of Qin to be a soldier is to become a soldier)
“Xunzi Discusses Soldiers”
The people of Qin lived in Jia’e, and the people they made were cruel, robbing them with disgrace, concealing them with evil, embarrassing them with rewards, chieftains with punishment, and making the people of the world, so to benefit the superior, there is no reason to fight. also. It is good to use it, to obtain it and then to merit it, the merits and rewards are mutually beneficial, and the five top leaders belong to the five families. It is the most powerful and long -lasting .
Therefore, Qi’s martial arts cannot meet Wei’s military pawns; Wei’s military pawns cannot meet Qin’s sharp soldiers.
Qin’s military system is not a secret, why didn’t the six countries learn from Qin?
Can’t learn. Offend those with existing interests. Shang Yang’s fate was to die without a corpse.
The stakes must be seen, otherwise the rest is vain.
The Qin state has won hundreds of battles not because it can change its laws, but because the countries cannot really change their laws.
History shows a truth: those who cannot adapt to the times can only be eliminated and disappeared.
“Historical Records”
Scholar in China lacks food and wages, and women do not have enough clothing. The ancients tried to exhaust the wealth of the world in order to offer it, and they still thought they were insufficient. (Desires are hard to fill)
What is success? What is failure?
Why is studying history useful? Because to be successful.
When Confucius and Qin Shi Huang died, who succeeded? who failed?
A few years after Confucius and Qin Shi Huang died, who succeeded? who failed?
Hundreds of years after Confucius and Qin Shihuang died, who succeeded? who failed?
The so-called success and failure in history depend on where you stand and what scale you use to measure it.
The criteria for judging success and failure are to ask yourself, what do you want?
What do you really want in your life? Getting what you want is called success.
The ultimate goal of learning [students] is to live the life you truly want.
Yonghangu Guanqing Yin Qinglan
Xiongzhen solid gold soup, eyeing the six kings.
To swallow a hundred more, Zuo Jian is two perimeters long.
The pheasant retains Yu Lie, and there are few different recipes for pills and mud.
Qingniu carried the guests on his back, and smiled over Xianyang.
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