Chapter 50 Cai Ze
After hearing what the outsider said, Su Dai thought to himself: "Who is this? He dares to say about Fan Ju in Qin State, so arrogant?"
Walk out of the room and stand upstairs and look into the hall below.
I saw an ugly man in his forties and fifties, shouting loudly at the post officer of the hotel.
Mr. Su Dai recognized this person as Cai Ze, a famous scholar in Yan State.
Cai Ze is from Gangcheng County, Yan State (now Wanquan County, Hebei).
During the reign of Ji Kang's great-grandfather, King Hui of Yan, he wrote a letter to King Hui of Yan, talking about the national plans.
King Hui of Yan scoffed at Cai Ze, a civilian, and ignored him at all.
Seeing this, Cai Ze completely lost confidence in Yan State and traveled around the countries to learn from his teacher.
He also sought official positions from many princes of all sizes, but unfortunately, he did not receive any appreciation or use from the king.
When Cai Ze was in Wei State, he met Tang Ju, a famous confrontationist in Wei State.
He asked Tang Ju to face him and said to Tang Ju:
"I heard that the gentleman gave Li Dui a meeting. He said: I will take over the power of a country within a hundred days. Is there any such thing?"
Tang Ju replied: "This is the case."
Cai Ze said to Tang Ju again: "What do you think of a person like me?"
After Tang Ju looked at Cai Ze carefully, he smiled and said, "Sir, he is facing the nose, holding his shoulders, bulging his forehead, collapsed nose bridge, and sling legs. I heard that the saint is not about appearance, but he is probably talking about you, sir?"
Cai Ze knew that Tang Ju was joking with him, and said, "Mr. Tang Ju, wealth is something I already have. What I don't know is the length of my lifespan, I hope to hear what Mr. said."
Tang Ju calculated and said, "Mr.'s life span is still forty-three years from now on."
Cai Ze smiled and expressed his gratitude, and walked away, then said to his coachman: "I eat fatty meat with rice, drive a carriage, hold a golden seal in my hand, and tie a purple ribbon on my waist. I am highly respected in front of the Lord, enjoying wealth and honor. I should be satisfied for 43 years."
Seeing that Wei State could not receive the summons from the King of Wei, he left Wei State and came to Zhao State, but was driven out by Zhao State.
I went to Korea again and encountered a robber on the way. Not only did I snatch his cooking utensils such as pots and cauldrons, but I also snatched the robe he wore outside, leaving only Cai Ze's underwear, making him tremble in the cold wind in the wilderness.
Although it is unlucky, Cai Ze is very high-profile and has always been very high-profile!
Cai Ze wandered around the countries and encountered walls everywhere, but he still did not dispel Cai Ze's self-confidence.
When he came to Qin State the previous year, although Qin Prime Minister Fan Ju was beaten by Wei State the former Wei Prime Minister Wei Qi, his legs were lame, his face was crooked, and his face was extremely ferocious. However, when he saw Cai Ze's appearance, he was still "shocked like a god".
It is probably a relationship of the same kind, so I feel sad!
In addition, Cai Ze was also a "famous scholar" - a famous scholar who ran into a wall everywhere. Qin Prime Minister Fan Ju still gave Cai Ze an errand and asked him to go to Yan State to serve as an envoy, asking him to persuade King Yan Ji Ming, and asked Ji Kang, who was still the king of Liaocheng, to come to Qin as a magistrate.
To put it bluntly, seeing Cai Ze next to him was really “too bad”. In Ji Kang’s words, it was: “It’s too affecting the city appearance, I’m sorry to the people.”
Fan Ju gave Cai Ze the identity of an envoy, sent him far away to Yan State, and let him die!
Unexpectedly, after Cai Ze arrived in Yan State, he saw that Ji Kang was made the crown prince, so he did not stay in Yan State and returned to Qin State.
Cai Ze did not have a house in Xianyang. After all, he was an official of Qin and a famous scholar, so he moved into the hotel.
I have been staying in the hotel for more than a year, but I have not received another summoning from the prime minister of Qin Fan Ju.
The post officers at the hotel do not like to see this ugly person.
Think about the appearance of Cai Ze mentioned by Tang Ju. This is really ugly!
After seeing the Qin prime minister Fan Ju for more than a year, he had not summoned this person and wanted to drive him away.
This made Cai Ze angry, so he shouted loudly in the hotel to replace the Qin prime minister Fan Ju.
Mr. Su Dai was upstairs and saw that it was Cai Ze, he shouted: "So it's an old friend, why not come up and talk?"
Cai Ze traveled around the countries and naturally knew his predecessor Su Dai.
He laughed downstairs and bowed, "It turns out it's Mr. Su Dai, and Cai Ze is just thinking this."
He ignored the postman who drove him away and walked upstairs.
When the post official saw that it was a VIP from Yan State, he did not dare to stop Cai Ze anymore.
After Mr. Su Dai invited Cai Ze to his room, he asked his entourage to order another table of wine and food and narrate with Cai Ze.
After drinking for three rounds, Su Dai and Cai Ze talked about their own experiences.
Su Dai said to Cai Ze: "Mr. Cai Ze, you are from Yan State. I know that you have suffered a grievance in Yan State, but now the crown prince is in power. He is eager to recruit talents and will definitely value the gentleman. Why not follow me back to my hometown and serve my hometown?"
Cai Ze shook his head and said to Su Dai:
"Mr. Su Dai, as the saying goes: People do not have faith and do not establish themselves. When traveling around the countries next time, only Qin gave me an official position. As a minister of Qin, I should serve Qin. I plan to write to the King of Qin again. If I don't need me, it will not be too late for me to go back to my hometown."
After hearing Cai Ze's words, Su Dai sighed repeatedly, saying that it was hard to say anything else.
In the end, he could only give Cai Ze a little ritual gold and told him to return to Yan if he could not get reused in Qin.
The next day, Mr. Su Dai left the Qin capital Xianyang, ended his mission trip, and began to return to Jidu.
Cai Ze wrote quickly, writing to King Yingji of Qin, explaining his views on Qin and other countries.
I hope that through this, I can gain the appreciation of the King of Qin and use myself.
And in the book, he said shamelessly: "I am a talented person in the prime minister. It is because of his ugly appearance that he was rejected by the kings of various countries. The king is a wise king in the world. I don't think he will underestimate the talented people in the world because of this."
After Fan Ju came out of the banquet to entertain Su Dai, his confidant Wang Ji stepped forward and said to Fan Ju, "Prime Minister, you know that Su Dai is an eloquent person, so why do you still do this at the banquet? This... isn't this humiliation for oneself and dissatisfied the king?"
Hedong County has been recaptured by Qin last year.
Wang Ji will go to Hedong County next month and continue to be his county magistrate. He is still in the capital Xianyang.
Fan Ju laughed and said to Wang Ji:
"Wang Ji! You know, my king knows that the defeat in Handan is all because of my fight with Wu'an Jun. But why did Wu'an Jun be so successful, but my king issued an edict to punish him? And even if I had the incident of Zheng Anping surrendering to the enemy, why was my king let go of me?"
Wang Ji thought for a while and said to Fan Ju:
"According to the humble position, my king has a great trust in the prime minister! Because of the prime minister, my king could have rejected the three nobles and actually held the royal power. In the battle of Changping, it was the prime minister who offered a strategy to attack people, which caused great damage to Zhao."
"Now my Qin State can become the only powerful country in the world, and it is all the merits of the prime minister. The prime minister is the meritorious minister of my king and the confidant of my king. Now my king is old. If he punishes the prime minister's crime, my king will just want to say what he says in the future, but there is no one left!"
"Besides, Wu'an Jun doesn't think about how much crime can Queen Mother Xuan, Marquis Rang, and Lord Huayang? My king even punished them, let alone Wu'an Jun. The more he is, the more capable he has, the more he has to hide and keep."
"Who would like to face someone smarter than me every day? My king asked Wu'an Jun to fight with Zhao State. Wu'an Jun should have to go no matter whether he can win or not. But Wu'an Jun not only refused to go, but also asked my king to invite him again and again."
"That's true, he still refused to accept the edict of my king because he was sick. In this way, if my king still did not cure his sins, who would cure his sins? Which one was the king? Which one was the minister?"
"It is precisely because Wu'anjun refused to fight that my king had no choice but to listen to the prime minister's advice and sent Zheng Anping. However, Zheng Anping's surrender to the enemy was also plotted by the generals under Wu'anjun's tent, but he was forced to surrender to the enemy. My king understood in his heart!"
"Can my king not blame Wu'an Jun for these things? Also, he said that my Qin army could not capture Handan, but my Qin State could not capture Handan, and instead was defeated. In this way, it can be said that the crime was even higher. My king must have to punish him!"
Fan Ju nodded and looked at his benefactor Wang Ji and said:
"Wang Ji! You can see these worldly styles yourself very clearly!"
Wang Ji was stunned. Unexpectedly, the Prime Minister Fan Ju would say such words, and said to Fan Ju: "The Prime Minister, my subordinates have followed the Prime Minister for so many years, and their humble positions have made some progress."
Fan Ju sighed and said to Wang Ji: "Wang Ji, there is only one thing he cannot let go of in my life, that is, go out of Guanzhong east, destroy the six kingdoms, and unify the world. As for other people and things, you can let go!"
"From the affairs of Wu'an, we can see that in my king's life, no one cannot give up, and nothing can be remembered by the king forever. The most important thing is only two words: love."
"But you have to remember that the sun will move, the moon will be full, and the things will decline when they are prosperous. This is the way of heaven and earth, and it cannot be saved by human power. Now my king's kindness to Fan Ju is no longer greater, and it will naturally decline in the future."
"Wang Ji, you must remember what I said to you today! Otherwise, you will suffer a great disaster in the future. When my words come to this point, you must remember it, remember it!"
After saying that, Fan Ju turned around and left in a car, ignoring Wang Ji anymore.
Chapter completed!