Hearing Zhang Liang's response, Wei Zhuang sneered and responded contemptuously:

"Confucius' disciples and grandsons talked about hundreds of years of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they completely lost their ancestor's greatest ability to travel around the world!"

What did Confucius rely on to travel around the world, spread Confucianism, and give advice to various vassal states?

It’s not that you have a lot of martial virtue!

He actually has three thousand disciples. Although it is just an imaginary number, it is a fact that the number is large.

A few thousand people were enough for that era to fight a war between vassal states.

Naturally, no one would dare to touch him or provoke him.

In such turbulent times as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, if a person or even an organization wants to make its own voice, a certain degree of strength is essential.

Mohism, which is also a prominent school like Confucianism, is similar.

Mo Zhai was originally a Confucian. Although he did not agree with Confucius's academic thoughts, he should agree with his strong martial virtues.

Therefore, the Mo family not only has outstanding combat power, but also has powerful weapons such as mechanical skills, and even specially created a type of existence called "Mo Xia".

The reason why Mo Zhai was able to easily dissuade the Chu State from attacking the Song State was not only because of the Mo family's mechanism skills, but also because of the Mohist family's own combat power.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the Mohist martial ethics have not changed. Putting aside academic ideas, combat power alone is still a force that cannot be ignored in the court.

Confucianism, on the other hand, has long since given up on force, leaving only words.

Although most Confucian disciples still practice martial arts, they only regard it as part of the Six Arts of the Gentleman and only for physical fitness.

It is difficult to say whether the Confucian changes are right or wrong.

Confucianism, which has lost its aggressiveness and threatening nature, is obviously more acceptable to rulers.

But this also made Confucianism vulnerable and began to play tricks on itself too much.

For Wei Zhuang, this kind of change in Confucianism that abolishes martial arts is tantamount to degeneration, and he naturally dislikes it.

Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then he smiled helplessly and responded, "In the whole world, there is nothing but the king's land."

"Confucianism... and Mohism are ultimately different."

Gu Xun interrupted the topic and asked, "I heard that Fu Nian has contacted some disciples and former officials of Xiaoshengxian Manor?"

Zhang Liang nodded.

"What's the effect?" Gu Xun asked again.

Zhang Liang shrugged, "No response at the moment."

"On the contrary, it is Confucianism itself that has become more and more problematic, and some inappropriate remarks have also become rampant!"

A hotly debated topic will often be skewed for some inconspicuous reasons, leading to things that have nothing to do with it.

In modern times, this is called a crooked building.

Although there was no Internet in the pre-Qin Dynasty, it did not prevent these scholars from "crooking the building".

What aroused the excitement among these Confucian scholars was the matter of Mount Tai's enshrinement of Zen, but so far in the debate, the scope of their discussion has gone far beyond the matter of the enshrinement of Zen.

And another hot topic that extends from it is - enfeoffment.

Although Ying Zheng has always been very tough on the abolition of feudalism and has never had any intention of compromising, there are always people who have illusions about this.

Confucianism is the group that is most enthusiastic about this matter.

Of course, this is not because they admire Confucius and restore the Zhou rites, but because of their interests.

The bustle in the world is all for the benefit of coming, and the hustle and bustle of the world is all for the benefit of the going.

So many people advocate enfeoffment just because it is profitable.

Confucianism is just using Confucius’ excuse to seize this benefit.

When things have developed to this point, even Zhang Liang has to admit that Confucianism has reached the edge of the cliff and will fall at any time.

It should even be said that he will be pushed down at any time - by Ying Zheng.

Gu Xun squinted his eyes and looked at the bustling streets below, and said with emotion, "I have to admit that Zhao Gao is indeed a well-deserved master in playing tricks."

What Zhao Gao used was a conspiracy, and the means he could use to realize this conspiracy were pure sneaky means.

He was the driving force behind this turmoil in Confucianism, pushing Confucianism to the brink of danger bit by bit.

Of course, Confucianism itself also has very serious problems, which is why it was easily exploited by Zhao Gao.

"What are you going to do?" Wei Zhuang asked, crossing his arms and squinting at Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang did not answer, but looked at Gu Xun, "Brother Gu, what do you think?"

"Uh..." Gu Xun thought for a while and replied, "Nothing else, just bow your head and kneel down."

"Just keep alive, there's no shame in it!"

"Brother Gu, do you think this trick will work?" Zhang Liang was not dissatisfied and asked again with a smile.

"This trick may not necessarily work against Ying Zheng, but it definitely has the highest success rate." Gu Xun spread his hands and replied, "He is a very emotional person."

"You mean he will be soft-hearted?" Zhang Liang asked curiously.

"No!" Gu Xun explained, "He will give priority to those who dance the most happily, and he may be lenient to those who are huddled behind."

When it comes to understanding Ying Zheng, Gu Xun is not only number one, he is at least in the top three.

His Majesty the First Emperor was an extremely emotional person, and he acted very decisively when his emotions got the better of him.

For example, due to the rebellion of Lord Changping, the battle against Chu failed. He immediately asked Wang Jian to mobilize 600,000 troops with all the strength of the country to attack Chu again.

Although this was due to the unstoppable eastward march, it was also due to his own anger.

Of course, Ying Zheng's superiors didn't mean to kill without hesitation with red eyes when angry.

He can still make accurate and reasonable judgments and decisions, but only based on the premise of emotional outbursts.

Take, for example, the current crisis of Confucianism.

From a truly rational perspective, Ying Zheng should simply ignore the Confucian voice.

This group of Confucian scholars has no merit except their loud voices. They can neither influence the people nor interfere in the government affairs.

It doesn't hurt or itch, what do you care about it?

If we deal with them, it will cause unnecessary negative impacts.

But Ying Zheng would choose to take action against this group of Confucian scholars out of emotional reasons, and even launch a purge of the entire Confucian school.

Faced with a powerful and highly emotional person, if you know that he will be angered by a certain group, what is the way to remove yourself from this group?

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The only way is to follow his wishes, shrink your head and hide behind, and see if you can be blocked by the net.

This is also Gu Xun's suggestion.

Of course, in theory, you can also choose to fight head-on, such as farmers.

However, the two situations are completely different.

In order to safely complete the mirage voyage and achieve his goal of immortality, Ying Zheng is willing to compromise internally to a certain extent, so he will let the farmers go for the time being.

But Confucianism does not have the strength of farmers.

Cleaning up the farmers may lead to a further decline in the domestic situation, but cleaning up the Confucians is no big deal!

In other words...if I can't beat the farmer, I can't beat you!

The general environment is not good, and the own strength is not good either. If you don't bow your head and pretend to be a grandson, you really deserve to die.

Zhang Liang nodded, thoughtfully, and did not ask any more questions on this topic.

He believes that this is indeed the only effective way, but... to what extent does Little Saint Xian Manor have to do it to really work?

And, is Fu Nian willing to do this?

From Zhang Liang's point of view, if he wanted to ensure that Little Sage Village could protect itself to the greatest extent, it had to take a clear stand and completely oppose other Confucian factions.

Whatever they support, Xiaoshengxian Village will oppose it, and whatever they oppose, Xiaoshengxian Village will support it.

It sounds simple, but in practice...

Xiaoshengxianzhuang is, after all, a Confucian holy land.

Xiaoshengxianzhuang should not and cannot abandon other Confucian factions.

Perhaps the ideas of other Confucian schools are at odds with the Little Sage Village, but not all ideas are at odds with each other.

Doing this would be tantamount to completely abandoning the dignity and perseverance that Little Sage Village should have in order to survive.

Survival is important, but for Confucians...or any principled and ambitious scholar of various schools of thought, survival should not be the most important thing.

Xiaoshengxian Manor is not an academy that just wants to survive in the world.

Fu Nian is not a person who can abandon everything just to live.

He is loyal to the emperor, even to a certain extent to the point of foolish loyalty, but his loyalty does not mean blindly obeying the emperor. After all, the emperor can make mistakes.

Seeing that Zhang Liang stopped talking, Gu Xun changed the subject and said, "I should be leaving Songhai soon."
To be continued...