"Your Highness, how about I teach you about the 'Opening of the Sect' in this lesson?"
The prince raised his eyebrows and asked: "Why, don't you talk about the chapter of princes and emperor?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "After we talked about the 'Initiation of the Zong Mingyi Chapter', we naturally went to the Chapter of the Princes and Emperors."
The prince leaned on the pillow behind him, looked at Mr. Zhuang with his chin slightly raised, and motioned for him to speak.
Mr. Zhuang did not care about his attitude and said as respectfully as before: "Your Highness, you should have read the book "The Classic of Filial Piety" and even memorized it. Confucius said that filial piety is the foundation of all virtues.
It is also the source of enlightenment. If the people of the world are to obey, the emperor must have the supreme conduct and the most important morality. Only then can the world be stable and the world be at peace."
The prince had long been tired of hearing these words. Kong Jijiu had been repeating them to Kong for the past few years. The prince listened absentmindedly and nodded perfunctorily.
Mr. Zhuang asked: "How does Your Highness feel about today?"
The prince said calmly: "My father is naturally wise and powerful."
Mr. Zhuang glanced at his expression and said with a smile: "You are right. Your Majesty is indeed wise and powerful. I am older than your Majesty. Your Highness may not know it, but I have lived through two dynasties and was studying in my hometown during the troubled times.
Not only did the neighbors say they were forced into military service, but other wealthy people in the same county also had to sell their properties due to excessive taxes."
"Not to mention the troubled times that lasted for nearly two hundred years, let's just say that during the last emperor of the previous dynasty, the people lived in misery." Mr. Zhuang said: "After His Majesty ascended the throne, he successively pacified the Turks, Xueyantuo, and Uighur in terms of martial arts.
, Gaochang, the civil administration department has successively sent Masters of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shangshu, Master Wei, etc. to inspect the country and inspect the public opinion. Over the past sixteen years, they have worked hard and never dared to slack off. "
He said: "Your Highness once served in the Ministry of Household Affairs. You should know that when the Jin Dynasty was founded, we only had a population of two million households. Now we have three million households. You can imagine your Majesty's civil and military skills. A wise saying.
His Majesty Shenwu is truly worthy of it."
The prince did not deny what Mr. Zhuang said, but he couldn't help but said: "What Mr. Zhuang said should be said in front of His Majesty."
Mr. Zhuang knew that the prince probably heard these words more than the emperor. Whether it was good words or advice, if he heard the same words too many times, he would feel bored even if he knew in his heart that they were reasonable.
He took a sip of tea, put down the tea cup, poured himself another cup, and then continued: "Your Highness, "Daya" says, Wu Nian Erzu has cultivated great virtues. You are the prince, and you should cultivate yourself according to the aspirations of your ancestors.
Regarding your own virtue, look at His Majesty’s civil and military skills, shouldn’t you learn from him?”
The prince picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He smiled slightly. He glanced at the quiet tea room and saw that he had specially brought him to have a small class. He knew that Zhuang Xun must have more to say than that.
He put down the teacup and asked, "My father is so good at martial arts, but he did not learn from my grandfather about his aspirations and practice his virtues. Is it wrong for Zhuang Shi to use my father as an example to teach me?"
He said: "Even when Confucius offered wine, when he wrote the "Book of Filial Piety", he often used Han Wuwen Jing as an example to teach the lonely king."
Mr. Zhuang knew that the most important thing was coming. He couldn't help but sit up slightly and said: "Your Highness, the book is right. Children are the continuation of blood. But we also need to know one more thing. Every child is independent."
Your Highness is, and so is Your Majesty. Your words and deeds have also proved that you are not completely dependent on your father. You will not completely obey Your Majesty, and His Majesty will not listen to the late Emperor's instructions to go west or east.
Then we headed east. Everyone has his or her own weighing of interests and losses, as well as thoughts about the world."
The prince was slightly stunned, his words were a bit convoluted and seemed to run counter to the original intention of the "Book of Filial Piety".
However, Mr. Zhuang continued: "It is not only complete obedience to the ancestors that is called filial piety. Saints sometimes make mistakes, not to mention us ordinary people?"
He said: "This is what Lord Wei always advises. Your Highness should learn from his father's good deeds and his bad deeds."
The prince became more serious and couldn't help but sit up slightly. He put the teacup on the table, raised his eyes and looked at Mr. Zhuang and asked, "What do you think Mr. Zhuang should learn from his father and what should he not learn from his father?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "Your Majesty has many things worth learning from. Let's talk about filial piety that is most worthy of learning from Your Highness."
The prince couldn't help but sneered and asked: "Filial piety is the most valuable thing for a lonely prince to learn from my father?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded slightly and responded: "Yes!"
"What does Your Highness think is the highest wish of the clan? What is the most unified wish of the ancestors of the Li family?"
As soon as the prince heard Mr. Zhuang say that what he should learn most from his father was his father's filial piety, he didn't want to continue listening. However, because what Zhuang Xun said before was good, he continued to sit and asked: "Master Zhuang is speaking.
What do you think it is?"
"His Highness may not agree with what I said, so it is better for Your Highness to think for yourself," Mr. Zhuang said: "Your Highness, imagine that you are the father and the Crown Princess has given birth to a legitimate son. What do you want him to do in the future and what will he inherit from you?
Ambition, what will be the future of your children and grandchildren?"
The prince frowned.
Mr. Zhuang said: "The Crown Princess will give birth in three months, right? As a new father, the Crown Prince may not know that raising children is not only about giving them names and clothing and feeding them, but also teaching them how to behave."
, teach them how to read and write, and watch them become famous..."
Mr. Zhuang said sadly: "I missed a lot when I was young. Your Majesty was in the most danger when you were a young man. When you were the busiest, I am afraid that I have no time to teach you. But I think that the hearts of all fathers in the world are generally the same."
, what kind of person does the prince want his child to be?"
Of course, it is to inherit his throne and pass on the Li family's world from generation to generation.
This is what the prince thought in his heart and what he told Mr. Zhuang.
He will be the emperor in the future, and the prince has never shied away from this. When he had a quarrel with Prince Gong, he even bluntly shouted that if he wanted to be the prince, he must first step on his corpse...
So he never shied away from this, and the emperor and court officials had long been accustomed to it. Even if someone heard it, no one would accuse him of this unless he was training troops.
Mr. Zhuang then smiled and said: "Your Majesty must have thought so, the late Emperor must have thought so, and the ancestors of the Li family must also have this hope. They hope that the Li family's world will be passed down for a long time. To achieve this,
It must be that all the people in the world will return home, the people will live and work in peace and contentment, the emperor will manage the people well, and the people will be convinced and support the royal family..."
Mr. Zhuang had a smile on his face, but he almost cried in his heart. He finally brought the topic to the right track. This student was really difficult to teach, more difficult to teach than all the disciples he had taught before.