Chapter 491 Li Si: Hunjun, how are you doing? Have you changed your mind and want to kill Si?
Fu Qiu Bo had profound knowledge and great reputation, and all Xianyang aristocratic families were proud to have their children worship him.
Fu Qiubo, who could make the nobles' sons and daughters flock together to worship him, was regarded as a disciple in front of Xunzi.
Unable to change his teacher's will, he had tears in his eyes, bowed deeply to the haggard old man, and ran out to find that foolish man for his teacher.
The worst thing about Fuqiubo's impression of Qin II was not that he acted arrogantly and blocked his speech. It was that Ying Chengyu had been back in Xianyang for so long, and he had never seen the teacher lying on the bed once.
I scooped the black medicinal soup dozens of times with a spoon. The ceramic spoon and the bowl clinked together from time to time.
After drinking up the bowl of medicine soup in one breath, Xunzi put the medicine bowl back on the table and lay down slowly and meticulously.
His head rested on a linen pillow filled with wheat husks, his body lay flat, his hands folded on his abdomen, and then he closed his eyes.
He is very weak and tired.
But as long as he still has some strength, he will never allow himself to lie down with his clothes in a mess.
He is a disciple of Confucianism.
If you are poor and humble but like to know etiquette, your ambition will not be deterred.
After an unknown amount of time, Xunzi opened his eyes slightly, and in his hazy vision was an extremely familiar person.
Just by looking at a vague shadow, Xunzi could conclude that this was his emperor, the current emperor of the Qin Empire, Qin II, Ying Chengyu.
The young man in front of me has many more titles on his head, but his temperament and appearance are the same as when they met in Lanling seven or eight years ago.
"You came here secretly and left secretly. Your Majesty is clearly the owner of this mansion, so how can you live like a thief?"
Xunzi said with a smile, while he struggled to sit up with his own strength, rejecting Ying Chengyu's offer of help.
"Shameless."
Ying Chengyu sat beside the bed with a wry smile on his face, full of apologies.
Since returning to Xianyang, he actually saw Xunzi many times, but it was always when Xunzi was asleep.
When Xunzi was awake, Ying Chengyu was busy looking for a deer that looked like a thousand-mile horse, busy with Lao Zongzheng discussing whether it would be appropriate to take in seven or eight concubines at once, busy asking Zhang Han to pick up his sword and fight with them...
He always has something to keep busy with.
"I cannot blame Your Majesty for the Lanling incident. Your Majesty need not blame yourself for this."
The old man panted slightly for a while, but his smile did not diminish.
"Even if it is really what your Majesty did, it is nothing compared to what your Majesty has done and wants to do."
Ying Chengyu said softly:
"If scientists hear this, they will definitely find trouble with Xunzi. The powerful do not order the weak, the more numerous do not rob the less numerous, and the rich do not insult the poor. This has always been the Mohist code of conduct."
"This is not necessarily true. Scientists were personally involved in the Han Dynasty incident, and they did not say anything. One believes that Mozi's two chapters, "Tian Zhi" and "Ming Gui", are intended to make the world's people understand.
A great Mohist who is afraid but behaves with restraint. If he had shown his true thoughts, he would have been denounced as a heretic just like you."
Xunzi sat up straight, and as a habit, he straightened the tree crown above his head, felt empty, and silently put down his hand.
"Xunzi's words mean that if you can achieve your goal, you can sacrifice some in the process."
"If sacrifice is necessary, yes."
Ying Chengyu handed over a bowl of water.
"This is not like Confucianism. Confucius probably never interpreted 'benevolence' in this way."
Xunzi lowered his head to receive the thanks, and drank the slightly hot water. A little more energy was injected into his dry body, and he was able to speak more.
"At this time last year, you would have denounced this view. You would have called it a heresy and an unhealthy trend. Those who have such concepts in their minds are in vain.
"I won't say that this year. Your Majesty, you are going to die."
When talking about his own life and death, the old man's face was very calm, and he was not frightened at all by the horror between life and death.
"Today, you will not talk to your majesty about any formal principles, nor will you discuss the truth with your majesty. I would like to say a few words of sincerity to your majesty."
Ying Chengyu felt heavy, but he pretended to be angry:
"Xunzi blames me for not telling the truth before?"
"The truth your Majesty said before is just like the sentence your Majesty just said. It is not the original meaning of the words. You have to guess the meaning. It suddenly occurred to me that you do not seem qualified to accuse your majesty, and the same is true for you."
The old man raised his hands, joined his four fingers together, and bowed slightly in salute.
"Your mind is too dull to understand the meaning behind your Majesty's words. Please treat your Majesty as an illiterate farmer today. This is your last request."
Ying Chengyu took a deep breath, sat up straight, and performed a ceremony exactly like Xunzi's, meticulously.
"The elders do not dare to disobey their wishes."
After the ceremony, the two sat facing each other, and Xunzi spoke first:
"Has Your Majesty made up his mind to be a foolish king?"
"Then it depends on who is right. For the head of Guanzhong and Guizhou, I should be the best Qin Jun in the past."
"But without officials who can manage the head of Guizhou, how can His Majesty alone implement his will?"
"Of course I am not alone. The students in Handi Academy are not allowed to be ministers or scholars in the court, but I don't think there is any problem in being an obedient official. For big things, there is the court, and for small things, there are these.
Among the students of Han and the retainers of all the princes, there has never been a Qin monarch in the Great Qin Empire who has such powerful control as me."
"You call a deer a horse. You want loyal people to go north and leave the treacherous and flattering people in the court. What do you think?"
Ying Chengyu couldn't help but sneered.
"Loyalty and traitor, these two words are simple to say, but who can really distinguish them? The foundation of the Qin State is the word profit. What does the word profit mean, loyalty and traitor? They all work hard for the word profit, how can there be a few of them?
Serve the public whole? In this case, what’s wrong with me leaving a group of obedient people with the argument between deer and horses?
"As long as he can carry out the orders I gave him to the end, listen to my arrangements and do everything well, at this point, the treacherous ministers Xunzi calls are more than a little stronger than the so-called loyal ministers. What I want now is to treat me
Having capable ministers and officials without reservation, being both loyal and treacherous is what Fusu should consider."
Xunzi looked steadily into Ying Chengyu's eyes, and Ying Chengyu did not shy away.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After a long time, the old man suddenly coughed violently, covered his mouth with his hand, and could not speak.
Ying Chengyu was very worried about the old man's health and wanted this conversation to end and asked the old man to lie down and rest.
He had never seen the old man when he was awake, not only because of the murder in Lanling County, but also because he wanted to let the old man not bother with state affairs.
But he didn't move and sat upright.
It's like a big bell, waiting to ring the last bell for the old man and fulfill his wish.
"Ahem, you, you are too impatient, ahem, cough."
He put his hands on his knees, his face turned pale, and he put the half-drinked hot water on the table into his stomach. Only then did the old man feel better, and at least he could talk.
"Your Majesty's original intention has not changed, but he acted too hastily.
"If you continue, in less than a month, the Qin Dynasty's court will become your one-stop shop. Whatever you say will be yours, and you can do whatever you want.
"The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty are like Zhou Qingchen. They only know how to praise you and carry out all your orders to the end. No one dares to stab you in the face.
"You know this is what your Majesty wants. But Your Majesty, how can anyone not make mistakes? Can Your Majesty guarantee that every decision you make is correct?
"If His Majesty's wisdom does not require the advice of others, then why is there still a court? If one person is short-sighted and others are wise, there must be someone in the court who can speak.
"Even though their starting point is self-interest, as long as they try their best to find out the truth during the narrative process, Your Majesty will be able to gain a new understanding of things from another angle.
"Just like the enfeoffment system and the county system, most officials chose the enfeoffment system because they wanted land. But is there no merit in the enfeoffment system? Are all the benefits they say of enfeoffment wrong? No.
"You have a good heart and want the common people to stop suffering. This is the blessing of Li Shu, but you can't do this.
"When you were alive, you always asked yourself to be an upright gentleman who complied with Confucian norms. But you know that a gentleman cannot govern a country.
"Nothing in the world is perfect. If you want to get it, you must lose it. If Korea had not experienced war, it would still be the world of Korea's legacy. There would be no sound of reading aloud and the smiles of the people, so people like you should not
Does it exist?
"You are now the Emperor of Qin, and everyone in the world must address you as Your Majesty. Everyone in the world is your subject, so you must be tolerant.
“There are Confucian disciples who have always upheld an awe-inspiring righteousness and awe-inspiring inviolability. No matter how dark and oppressive this world is, there will always be a ray of light shining on it.
"This beam of light is just a beam of light. It can be seen and touched, but it does not nourish all things. You cannot extinguish it just because it seems to be of no use. When it shines, it has the greatest effect.
“In this world, there must be people who do practical things, people who cannot do practical things but have extremely high moral standards, and people who are extremely flattering and will take the blame for you and do all the bad things for you.
"What you have to do is to be high in the court and have fun with the people in the market. Most of the time, you listen to the loyal ministers' sarcastic words. Sometimes you are deceived by the traitorous ministers. But in the end, you wake up to the emperor who killed the traitorous ministers in anger..."
Xunzi, the master who is not recognized by traditional Confucianism and calls himself a Confucianist, but taught two French giants, keeps talking.
Speaking of five consecutive bowls of slightly hot water in the bowl, and the sky outside the window changing from white to black.
During this period, he coughed countless times, and Ying Chengyu tried to persuade him seven times to talk tomorrow, but the old man refused every time because of his last wish.
Confucianism on the inside and Dharma on the outside, sage on the inside and king on the outside.
In the eyes of Confucian scholars, Xunzi's knowledge of meritorious service is a thoroughly profit-seeking Legalist theory.
However, Xunzi himself regarded himself as a gentleman and defined three ideal personalities: scholar, gentleman, and sage.
The three levels progress from low to high, and are distinguished based on the different levels of knowledge, ability, morality, etc.
This is undoubtedly contradictory.
There is no such word as morality in the eyes of Legalists. The first is the will of the king as the benchmark, and the second is the law.
In the eyes of Confucians, there are laws and regulations, but laws must make way for morality, that is, etiquette.
Ying Chengyu had teased Xunzi countless times about this issue, but every time he could tell the old man to shut up and stop talking, unable to make any sense.
Listening to the old man's words getting weaker and weaker, Ying Chengyu felt sour in his heart when he finally got the answer.
The old man behaves and knowledge is contradictory, but the old man knows it.
The old man teaches practical knowledge in Jixia Academy so that his disciples can do practical things and change the world.
The old man calls himself a gentleman and has always regarded himself as inheriting the will of Confucius. He wants to establish a moral heart for the world throughout his life.
The conversation ended at midnight.
Ying Chengyu saw with his own eyes that the old man fell into a deep sleep with a smile on his face, and tried to test the old man's breath with trembling hands.
weak.
Ying Chengyu breathed a sigh of relief.
With his martial arts skills, he had long realized that although the old man was like a candle and could be blown out by a gust of wind at any time, he was still alive after all.
Testing his breath is because he is not confident and is also afraid.
After returning to Xianyang, he was buried next to Wu'an Jun Baiqi's tomb. He left without a trace, without even giving him a chance to say goodbye.
After completing the sealing of the wolf to live in Xu, he fulfilled his last wish, and then passed away suddenly.
Ying Chengyu was very afraid of Xunzi, and he was afraid that teaching him how to be an emperor would take Xunzi's last breath. After teaching him, he left.
Ying Chengyu quietly closed the door. Outside the door were Xunzi's five disciples, all of whom had achieved considerable fame.
The ideal teacher of the Xianyang nobles, Fu Qiu Bo.
Following Dunwei and Yao Jia, Lu Jia was the unparalleled eloquent person who dominated Xianyang with his ability of speaking.
Mao Heng, a poet who studied the Book of Songs carefully and interpreted it unparalleled. His pioneering Mao poems were not recognized by the people of Qin, but were popular in Chu.
First, he spent a lot of money to buy human milk, and then he raised eight wet nurses, causing harm to many widows. He took over the title of Ying Cheng Zhuzi and became Xianyang's shameless lustful ghost, Zhang Cang.
The person standing in front of everyone was expelled from the school by Xunzi, and returned to Xunzi's school. As a minor official in the Chu State, he was promoted to the top of the civil servants of the Qin State, the prime minister, and then disappeared into nothing in one day and was demoted to Hanhai.
The great master of Legalism, Li Si.
Fu Qiubo, Lu Jia, and Mao Heng looked at Ying Chengyu with complicated expressions.
They have been waiting outside since Ying Chengyu entered, and have been listening to the two of them talking until now.
To be precise, since I heard the teacher speak, Ying Chengyu has not said much except for a few words when he entered.
They tried several times to rush in and ask the teacher to take a break, but were stopped by Li Si.
Without Han Fei, Li Si, who had shone brightly in Jixia Academy and was still shining brightly in the Qin Kingdom, was implicitly their leader.
There was a door blocking it, and Xunzi spoke weakly, so they really couldn't hear anything.
But as a teacher, Xunzi was willing to spend all his efforts to talk to Ying Chengyu when his life was counting down, which in itself proved that he highly recognized him.
For a moment, the three of them didn't know how to treat Qin II.
From what Ying Chengyu did, they still believed that he was a fool, but this fool was recognized by the teacher...
Ying Chengyu looked cold and nodded towards these five people. Then he glanced at Li Si in front of him, shook his head and said coldly:
"Come with me, I have something to ask you."
Walked past five people.
Li Si sneered and followed quickly without fear.
"Hunjun, how are you doing? Have you changed your mind and want to kill Si?"