Chapter 297 Jing Ke (End)

"Jing Ke, this is true." Shen Fei was not surprised that the Mohist came, but he was a little surprised that it was Jing Ke who came. Although Shen Fei had never seen Jing Ke before, he had already known his name. Jing Ke's assassination of Qin was a great event that was passed down through the ages. Although he failed, Jing Ke still entered the biographies of assassins in later generations.

Jing Ke was one of the five great assassins in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The assassins here are completely different from the names in organizations such as Luowang and Liusha now. Strictly speaking, people in organizations such as Luowang and Liusha should not be called assassins, but killers.

The name of assassin was not used casually before. Each of the four great assassins before Jing Ke was a representative of loyalty and righteousness, and Jing Ke was of course one of them.

There is a saying that the times are different. The rituals and music that were followed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have collapsed in this era, and the name is of course inevitable.

For example, the word "gongzi" was only used by people of Han Fei and Fusu before. Now, although it is not common, there are a lot of people in Zilanxuan who call themselves "gongzi".

Of course, because people are different, even if the title is the same, there are still big differences.

The so-called collapse of rituals and music, in the eyes of Confucianists, is the lack of distinction between superiors and subordinates. This did not start from the Warring States Period, but from the time of the Five Hegemons in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Confucianism attaches the most importance to the hierarchy, believing that only in this way can people perform their duties and not covet things that they should not have, so that the world can be peaceful and there will be no war.

Simply put, farmers are farmers for life, and they should not think about becoming officials and making money all day long, which will neglect farming. Although this statement is a very one-sided statement, it is generally not wrong.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the power of the literati in various vassal states increased greatly. As a result, there were things like the Eight Yi Ceremony, which was a ritual exclusive to the emperor. However, at that time, the literati themselves were performing the Eight Yi Ceremony, which was the most intolerable for Confucius.

The so-called Eight Yi dance in the courtyard, how could it be tolerated?

It must be said that the matter is very interesting. Confucius was born in Lu. At that time, there was a saying that the Zhou rituals were all in Lu. However, the first person to destroy the Eight Yi Ceremony was also a Lu person. The other vassal states destroyed the Six Yi Ceremony at most.

This is one of the points of the collapse of rituals and music. Another reason for the collapse of rituals and music is the change of war. Before the collapse of rituals and music, both sides of the war would set up their formations and then start to attack in unison. There would be no sneak attacks at all.

The most important point of the war at that time was that the nobles would never die under normal circumstances, because ordinary soldiers were not allowed to fight nobles in the war. Even if the war failed, the nobles would only be captured at most, and they could go back as long as they paid the ransom.

Duke Xiang of Song, who refused to attack the enemy halfway across the river, was praised as a benevolent and righteous leader in the Confucian classics. However, this reputation of benevolence and righteousness ended with the death of most of his country's soldiers and his own death from serious injuries.

At that time, even if there was a war to destroy a country, it was only to destroy the country but not the ancestral temple. Even if the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, it still divided the remaining Shang Dynasty nobles into princes.

But when the rituals and music collapsed, everything was different. In war, people wanted to put the knife on the opponent's neck before the opponent knew it. As for setting up the formation before starting the battle, don't joke. Don't you know that war is not too bad?

The military school originated from that era. Among the hundreds of schools of thought, the military school was the only one that did not unify the hundreds of schools of thought. They all served their own masters.

Why did Confucianism strongly criticize the military school? It was because the military school changed the etiquette in war. This change made it impossible for the nobles to save their lives in war. Let alone the nobles, even the royal family and the emperor would be killed.

Fortunately, Confucius did not live to the time when Lu Buwei exterminated the Zhou Dynasty, otherwise he would definitely be so angry that he would vomit blood.

Punishment does not apply to officials, and courtesy does not apply to common people. In later generations, some people have made many explanations for this sentence, saying that many people in ancient times understood it wrongly. In fact, this is just the meaning given to them in modern society. In this era, this sentence does not have so many explanations.

"So you are Jing Ke, I heard Gai Nie mention you."

"Gai Nie."

After hearing the name Gai Nie, Jing Ke's expression immediately became very complicated. Gai Nie and Jing Ke were originally a pair of good friends. After all, they were both from Wei. However, after Gai Nie became the chief swordsman of Daqin, the relationship between Jing Ke and Gai Nie became much weaker.

For the six states in Shandong, they would consciously or unconsciously regard Qin as an enemy. Gai Nie defected to Qin, which meant that he was the enemy of the six states. In secret, Gai Nie was also on the wanted list of the six states.

It has to be said that Wei State is a very magical place. In the Warring States Period, many powerful figures came from Wei State, which is now only a small city.

Shang Yang, Lü Buwei, Gai Nie, Jing Ke, and even the legendary Guiguzi were all from Wei State, which was worthy of being the place where the remnants of the Shang Dynasty were located.

Destroy the country but not the ancestral temple. After the Shang Dynasty was destroyed, the small princes such as Lu State and Wei State were the places where the remnants of the Shang Dynasty were enfeoffed by the Zhou Dynasty.

At the same time, Wei State was also a prince that existed until the end. Ying Zheng did not destroy Wei State. After all, Shang Yang's contribution to the Qin State was too great.

"Are you okay?" At this moment, a figure jumped down from the mechanical Suzaku above. The man looked about the same age as Bai Feng, and held a pair of strange weapons in his hands, the Instant Flying Wheel. Just by looking at his attire, body movements, and weapons, you can know that he is Dao Zhi.

This is a weapon that can be used in close combat or as a hidden weapon, and it has traces of Mohist mechanical techniques.

"Why did you come down, Xiao Zhi?" Dao Zhi's voice immediately interrupted Jing Ke's meditation, and his expression immediately became calm.

"I told you not to call me by this name. I was just curious about what kind of person the Great Qin State Master is. Today, I see that he is just an executioner who kills people like crazy."

"You are quite good at talking. Is it that the Mohist concept of non-aggression is that if someone wants to kill you, you can't fight back, but don't resist and let others kill you?" Shen Fei looked at Jing Ke and Dao Zhi and said calmly.

"Uh."

Shen Fei's words made Dao Zhi speechless. This is not how Mohist non-aggression is explained.

"Master of the Great Qin, what do you want to do?" Jing Ke immediately stood up. Dao Zhi at this time was even worse than the slick Dao Zhi of the Qin Dynasty.

"What do I want to do? It's an interesting question. I'm just traveling around the world. These people are ambushing me here. I think you should ask them what they want to do. Sorry, I can't ask now."

"Travel around the world."

"Yes, there is a saying that reading thousands of books leads to traveling thousands of miles. Or is it too overbearing for Mohist school to even control other people's travel around the world?"

"Travel around the world, there is no need to kill so many people." Dao Zhi spoke again.

"I never show mercy to my enemies." It is easy to avoid these people, but why should he avoid them?

"Okay, no more nonsense. Since you are here, you Mohists also participated in the ambush." ​​Shen Fei raised the black sword in his left hand and pointed at Jing Ke and Dao Zhi.

"I just said that I will never show mercy to the enemy. Since you Mohists dare to participate, I think you are ready to die here."

As Shen Fei finished speaking, the situation in the field immediately became tense. Jing Ke and Dao Zhi would not think that Shen Fei was joking. The corpses lying on the ground were proof of this.

"Xiao Zhi, leave immediately." Jing Ke suddenly took a few steps to the left, blocked Dao Zhi behind him, and whispered to Dao Zhi.

The previous fight made Jing Ke understand that he was no match for Shen Fei, the Great Qin State Master, and Dao Zhi was just a bonus. In order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army, he could only block Shen Fei and let Dao Zhi escape.

"I won't be so disloyal."

"What good luck! The Mechanical Vermillion Bird and the Mechanical White Tiger appeared by themselves, saving me from searching everywhere in Yan State." Shen Fei's main purpose of traveling around the world this time was to find the Mechanical White Tiger and the Mechanical Vermillion Bird.

As for Jing Ke and Dao Zhi, Shen Fei's previous words were just to scare them. If it were someone else from the Mohist School, he would have killed them, but he didn't have any intention of killing these two. After all, they were famous and not like Ji Wuye.

However, although he would not kill Jing Ke, he would not let Jing Ke leave intact. It can be said that when Jing Ke appeared in front of Shen Fei, he had already lost the opportunity to assassinate Qin.

Jing Ke assassinated Qin, saying it was for loyalty, but in fact he was just used by Yan Dan, so he abandoned his wife and children to assassinate Ying Zheng.

Is Ying Zheng so easy to kill? Not to mention how many chances of success there are, even if he really succeeds, Jing Ke is absolutely dead, and it is impossible for him to leave Xianyang Palace alive.

In this era, it is normal to abandon your wife and children for righteousness and loyalty. Among the four great assassins of the Warring States Period, one of them even sacrificed his entire family in order to get closer to his target.

"I'll go first." Dao Zhi said, winking at Jing Ke, and then turned the instant flywheel with both hands, and his figure suddenly split into two and rushed towards Shen Fei, with the Lightning God Step.

"Does this move work at this time?" Looking at Dao Zhi who split into two figures and rushed over, Shen Fei smiled lightly, and turned the blade of the black sword in his left hand, turning it from a blade to a sword face and slapping it to the left. The Lightning God Step may be able to deceive others, but it is impossible to deceive Shen Fei.

Bang.

Dao Zhi's body flew out directly under the slap of the sword face.

"Little cleverness is useless to me." He slapped Dao Zhi's black sword away, and then turned it around and directly smashed the instant flywheel that was spinning around.

The instant flying wheel is a weapon that can be combined. Before taking action, Dao Zhi disassembled the weapon and threw it out in an arc shape. Then he used himself as bait to attract Shen Fei's attention. It must be said that he had a set of skills, but the strength of the two sides was too far apart.

And this was not all of Dao Zhi's plan. In fact, even the instant flying wheel was a bait to cover Jing Ke who followed closely and attacked.

But unfortunately, all this could not be hidden from Shen Fei. The white sword in his right hand had been waiting for Jing Ke. Jing Ke's Shocking Eighteen Swords was a unique skill that was not inferior to Guiguzi's.

Once the sword force was launched, it would encounter continuous blows like a storm. Very few people could walk out of Jing Ke's Shocking Eighteen Swords intact.

Similarly, the Eighteen Swords of Shocking the Sky, like the Crossing the Eight Directions, have two ways of use. One is to use one sword after another, with continuous sword force, and the other is to burst out all the sword energy in an instant, so that your attack can be strengthened several times in an instant.

However, there is a big difference between the Eighteen Swords of Shocking the Sky and the Crossing the Eight Directions in terms of burst, that is, the Crossing the Eight Directions burst is a large-scale sword energy attack in all directions.

In the original book, in order to deal with the black crow and the white phoenix, as well as the assassins of the other birds, Wei Zhuang used a move, which not only broke the siege of the birds, but also severely injured the black crow and the white phoenix.

The Eighteen Swords of Shocking the Sky only increases the single-target attack. It is said that the eighteen styles of the Eighteen Swords of Shocking the Sky are combined into one, which is not inferior to the power of the One Blade Cutting Throat and the Hundred Steps Flying Sword of the Guigu School.

The two major swordsmanship of the Guigu Zongheng School, one is the powerful single-target attack, and the other is the large-scale attack.

Unfortunately, Jing Ke's Eighteen Swords of Heaven will return in vain today. The Eighteen Swords of Heaven, which gathered all the true energy in his body, were directly hit by Shen Fei and flew away again.

Unlike the previous time in the sky, Shen Fei also increased his strength this time, smashing the famous sword in Jing Ke's hand directly, and then directly cut off Jing Ke's right arm. It was only because Shen Fei stopped in time at the last moment that Jing Ke was not killed directly.

"Jing Commander." Dao Zhi, who had just climbed up, immediately rushed to the place where Jing Ke landed. Dao Zhi was not seriously injured. His strength was too weak, and Shen Fei could easily hold back.

In contrast, Jing Ke was not so good.

Among the six leaders of the Mohist School, Jing Ke was one of them at this time. At this time, except for Master Ban and Master Xu, the other four leaders of the Mohist School were all top masters, Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang.

It was like the Mohist School in the Qin Dynasty. Except for Yan Dan, the Mohist School did not have a top master. There was only Gao Jianli who relied on the Shuihan Sword to hold the scene.

Although Gao Jianli's martial arts were not weak, and there was only a gap between him and the top masters, it was this gap that made Gao Jianli's martial arts only at the peak of the second line.

This gap was like a natural moat for him. If there was no external help, he would probably be at this level for his whole life. This external force was naturally the top elixir such as the Juxian Pill.

"Go down." Shen Fei did not care about Dao Zhi and Jing Ke, but jumped to the Suzaku in the sky. The black sword in his hand pointed at the Mohist disciple who was driving the Suzaku and asked him to lower the Suzaku.

Facing the cold sword on his neck, the Mohist disciple immediately lowered the Suzaku.

"I thought it would be Master Ban from the Mohist School." Looking at this Mohist disciple, Shen Fei felt a little disappointed. If it was Master Ban driving the mechanical Suzaku, it would be a great harvest, and he could capture him and take him to Xianyang.

Even though Gongshu Chou was unwilling to admit it, the fact was that Master Ban from the Mohist School was indeed better than him in the attainments of mechanical arts.

The Gongshu family was able to suppress the Mohist School because of the support of the powerful Qin behind them. This was a suppression of resources, not a suppression of mechanical arts.