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Chapter 136. Brother Kong is kind and righteous, Brother Meng is righteous and kind

[Job Change Mission ④: The Weight of the Tripod]

[Although the virtue of Zhou Dynasty declined, the Mandate of Heaven has not changed. The weight of the tripod is not worth asking.]

[Mission objective: Obtain one of the Nine Cauldrons.]

The mission objective is to let Mo Hao obtain one of the Nine Cauldrons, but the mission description is in [Wang Sunman to Chu Zi], in which Wang Sunman advises King Zhuang of Chu to give up this idea.

It was just a warning in the description, so Mo Hao just glanced at it and didn't pay any attention to it.

He knew very well that there were many things that could be given up in this Taixu Realm, but the job change mission was not among them.

If it weren't for this job transfer mission, Mo Hao wouldn't have needed to take the college entrance examination at all. Just with the [Adventurer's Automatic Recovery Device], he would be qualified to enter any top university.

Because what he did was nothing else but to increase the survival rate of two professions with extremely high mortality rates, hunters and explorers, by several times.

Hunters and explorers, for human society, these two are the main occupations to maintain the human living environment.

At the same time, the mortality rate of these two occupations has remained high.

As a result, humans have never been able to go back to the past and set foot in every corner of the world.

Improving the survival rate of these two professions, in a sense, greatly improves humans' real-time combat power and ability to retake territory.

……

The group found a place to settle down in the city, which was actually an empty, dilapidated house on the edge of the city.

The walls and roof were in a damaged state, and there were weeds growing all around. It was obvious that this place had not been inhabited for a long time.

Mo Hao and Su Zhilan naturally did not have the money from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period on them. As for Confucius, he had just been "awakened" not long ago, so let alone money, apart from the torn clothes on his body, he only had a set of clothes for attending important occasions in his package.

Confucius also had a sword on his waist, which was longer than an ordinary sword. Because it was not unsheathed, Mo Hao didn't know what material the sword was made of.

On a cleared piece of ground, because there were no bamboo slips, Confucius simply took a branch and used the ground as paper to write a few questions.

Addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, linear equations with two variables...

There were only a few questions, but each one was harder than the last. Fortunately, Mo Hao didn't see any Olympiad math problems in them.

Basic arithmetic problems were certainly not difficult for Mo Hao, and he quickly finished answering all the questions.

All right.

It only took one glance to tell it was correct, and Confucius couldn't help but nod his head.

At least on the subject of arithmetic, you don't need to spend too much time on it.

Mo Hao, who also knows arithmetic, has more time to focus on other subjects.

Especially the two subjects of [ritual] and [music]. Without a good background, these two subjects cannot even be learned, and they are the most difficult to teach.

As for [Driving] and [Archery], we will have to wait until we can get a bow and a chariot before we can teach them.

"Teacher, I just heard you talking to Mozi outside the city. Are you trying to get rid of something?"

It was something that the two sages were able to work together to eliminate, and from what they said, it seemed that the two sages did not have enough disciples and followers around them, so they felt that they could not do anything about it for the time being.

No matter from which angle you look at it, he is definitely a strong guy.

During his many explorations of the Grand Void Realm, Mo Hao realized a fact: the powerful guys in the Grand Void Realm were either related to the Grand Void Realm's missions or could become a milestone.

Confucius nodded, not intending to hide anything, "Mozi and I agreed to kill an evil beast, it was a tiger."

tiger?

Mo Hao looked at Confucius' height of more than two meters and the bulging muscles hidden under his clothes. He couldn't help but wonder what kind of tiger could be considered a scourge by Confucius and require him to team up with Mozi and gather the disciples of the two families to surround and kill it.

"Lüshi Chunqiu" records: Confucius was so strong that he could hold the gate of a country, but he refused to show his strength.

Moreover, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the most important thing for each school of thought was not how widely it spread, but whether it could be used.

Countries are at war, rebels are everywhere, and bandits are everywhere, not to mention that outside of human settlements is a paradise for wild animals.

There were even some places where there were no roads at all, and he had to walk out on his own.

In that environment, he led 3,000 people to survive in the wild and spread his teachings to various countries without suffering any major casualties.

To put it nicely, this is called Confucius leading three thousand disciples to spread Confucianism.

To put it in a wilder way, it would be like Confucius leading his army of wandering scholars to the capitals of various countries.

Seeing the confusion on Mo Hao's face, Confucius continued, "A harsh government is more ferocious than a tiger, but who would have thought that a monarch would actually devour all his subjects with a harsh government."

As he spoke, Confucius's face was gloomy, and one could vaguely feel that he was angry.

"The king cooked his subjects in nine tripods and swallowed them all in one gulp. He became a tiger that roared in the mountains. After eating up his own subjects, he ran to other countries to eat people. He didn't eat anything else but people."

"This is not a king, this is a beast!"

A king of a country eats all the people in his own country?

"Teacher, Hao wants to go with you." Mo Hao directly expressed his attitude. Anyway, the first time he entered the Taixu realm, he killed a tiger monster, and now he just wanted to kill a bigger tiger monster.

After Confucius revealed that the king who turned into a tiger was cooking his subjects in nine tripods, he knew he had to get involved.

Now that we have the clue to the Nine Cauldrons, there is no way we can let it fly away.

Seeing Mo Hao volunteering, Master Kong nodded with great satisfaction, "To kill that beast, we must have enough manpower to seal off the forest. Otherwise, the beast will escape quickly."

Mo Hao, who had been a captain before, immediately understood the meaning, "Gather the local militia, block the mountains and forests, and then kill the king."

"It's not regicide." Confucius shook his head and said, "I've heard of the execution of a man named Zhou, but I've never heard of regicide."

Confucius said Mencius's famous saying, why would I have such a dream?

Although he knew that the time and space inside this Taixu Realm were chaotic, and that Confucius in front of him looked to be in his prime, he had actually been resurrected from the dead and had memories of one lifetime.

But when Confucius said another famous saying of Confucian sage, Mo Hao still felt very shocked.

Mo Hao and Su Zhilan had a lot of food with them, so there was no problem with supplies in the short term. After eating, seeing that it was still early, Master Kong asked Mo Hao to go out with him.

"Teacher, what are we going to do?"

It seems like someone asked himself this question a long time ago. How did he answer it at that time?

Confucius paused, "Go recruit some disciples, and then crush that bastard who has no idea what morality and etiquette are!!!"

(End of this chapter)