Confucius Page #6

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one day, we could ask him

to be the teacher of our prince

I have already promised him 60,000 stones of corn

every year!

Please be seated, Master

Our Lady would be here soon

Your humble servant Kong Qiu greets Our Lady

Are you the famous scholar Kong Qiu?

Scholar Kong, please be seated.

Thank you, our Lady

I have heard one of your axioms is

"true benevolence is the love of mankind"

Does this "benevolence"

extend to a woman with a repulation like mine?

I heard that you are teaching "The Book of Odes" here

Yes, I am

I also love poetry

There is one poem

Beauty is what a gentleman seek out for

Could you tell me what that means?

The poem means

"Even while courting, a gentleman observes all proprieties"

Of the 300 poeams in "The Book of Odes"

so many pieces speak of love!

All 300 pieces, we could use one sentence to explain

In true love, there is no evil

Since I was a child, I have taken a liking to poetry

Will you take me as your student?

I have taken on a new student in Wei,

his name is Bu Shang

Although still quite young, he is some sort of prodigy

While studying "The Book of Odes" under me,

he was shown much insight

So I humbly recommend that he becomes your study-companion

Our Ministers consider your theories

of civilty in government to be impracticable

Do you truly beleive they can work?

Ruling with civilty will benefit the state, its community,

and its people

Why couldn;t be out into practice?

Without civilty, a state will descent into chaos

It is human nature to be lascivious and greedy.

and will rage wars to these ends

Since this is human nature

it will be quite a task to overcome them

Then it will be the true measure

of a gentleman's worth

Master, do you really beleive a gentleman?

should carry himself as someone

with high morality standard?

And all this seems to be really important to you?

It is my belief that when one is converted to

a life of civilty in the morning, he wouldn't mind

to give up his life

Teacher, will you stay longer in our country

so we can meet again?

That would not be convenient

How so? Why inconvenient?

For I have never encountered anyone

who loves a little virtue as much as

love worldly beauties

Worldly people could probably come to understand

the master's sufferings,

But few will ever truly grasp

the depth and breath of those sufferings...

It seems we should leave Wei now

Why's that?

This land will soon descend into chaos

Worldly people could probably come to understand

the master's sufferings,

But few will ever truly grasp

the depth and breath of those sufferings...

Scholar Kong is there, let's go and take a look at him

Commander Huan Kui have order

Kong Qiu must leave Song.

Second bow, third bow ...

Teacher, you may commence your class

Poetry, books, ethics, musics,

these must be studied by all gentlemen

So today we start to study together

Duke should treat their minister with courtes

and minister serve their Duke with loyalty

If our belief is based on love to our parents and the emperror

The the world would be harmonious

All trades would prosper

Take it simply, we could serve our parents well

we could placate our neighbor countries

we could also learn a lot

including name of birds, animals and plants

This is the order of Commander Huan Kui

Get out of Song

Stop

Trees are going to fall. Watch out!

Teacher, let leave here quickly

Teacher, let's go

Excuse me master, which way to the river crossing?

The river crossing?

Who's that man sitting on the cart?

He is scholar Kong

Scholar Kong?

The famous scholar Kong Qiu from Lu?

Indeed!

Itsn't he suppossed to know everythings?

Then he should know where the river crossing is

Would it better for you to stay here and farm

rather than drifting around with him

and you could also stay away from the chaos

That's right! Stay here and be a farmer!

That's right! Stay here and be a farmer like us

No work, no one food

Please stay here

Let's go

Move on, we'll ask for the direction later

Fei, is there any news of Kong Qiu?

They say spent some time in Wei

then went to Zheng and now in the Kingdom of Chen

When the country at war, we miss the good generals

and when the country is in the difficult time,

we miss our great minister

At that year when we talked about the alliance with Qi

Kong Qiu won back the three city peacefully

But we sent him into exile

It is now clear we were misguided by the Qi

Now that the Duke of Lu is dead,

and a child has inherited his throne

Qi wants to take this opportunity to invade us

Our strength is no longer what we used to be

If we go into war, we are lack of good commander

Now I have a mission for you

Bring Kong Qiu back to Lu!

Father, we treated him bad!

and force him into exile

If we are going to invite him back

People will mock at us

Why don't we invite his disciple Ran Qiu back first?

He is the head pupil of Kong Qiu,

and a proven capable commander

He would be more than capable to confront the Qi Army

That would be fine. Let's invite Ran Qiu back at once

Wake up! Quick!

Teacher, wake up, something terrible happens

The Wu is invading Chen, we must leave at once

Have you seen an old foreigner?

A stranger is outside the city's eastern gate

Qi's army is at the doorsteps of Lu

Teacher

Master Ji ask for your consent to allow Ran Qiu

return to fight for Lu

Master

For the sake of Lu, you must consent

Teacher, we must not let Ran Qiu go

Only when they are in trouble,

they start thinking of us

Remember how terrible they have treated us

How did you find me?

An old farmer told us

he has seen a foreigner at the east side

A forehead resembles King Yao's

shoulders looks like Zichan's

Had the air of an important man,

but looked as scaggy as a stray dog

We guessed it must be you

I don't dare to be an important person

and actually I don't resemble anyone famous

The old farmer got it just right when he said of

a stray dog though!

Teacher, you have taugh us to practice what we learn

and our motherland is in peril

The Prime Minister is asking Ran Qiu to return ...

That proves it is a matter of life and death for Lu

As natives of Lu, we cannot just standby and watch

Well said, Yan Hui

Lu is in danger, I should allow you to return

and save Lu from disaster

Ran Qiu

You should go

I will wait for the good news

Teacher, once the battle is won

I will come and bring you back to Lu

Kill 'em

Greetings, Prime Minister

Father

General has lived up to our hope

He has defeated the Qiu Army at the battle of Lang

The Qi Army has retreated back to their side of the border

I won't disappoint you

I would petition the King to appoint you governor

the three cities of Wen Shang

Prime Minister, this is not what I wish for

I only have one simple request

Speak

My teacher Master Kong

He has been wandering for many years

without a home and just continue teaching

But there has never been a moment

when the Kingdom of Lu wasn't in his mind

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