"Dad." After everyone else had left and Wen Yao also deliberately avoided it, Wen Yuan walked up to Yun Hei.
Yunxi glanced at him and asked: "Wenyuan, my father just now saw that you didn't say much. Does it mean you don't care about attacking India?"
"Father, that's not the case. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" says: 'Soldiers are important matters of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival.' The son understands this truth. Even if it seems that attacking India is easy, the son will not
I don’t care." Wenyuan said.
"That means I don't agree with my father's attack on India." Yunxi said again.
Wenyuan was silent for a moment and replied: "Bangladesh has invaded Arakan, a subordinate country of Fan, and it is reasonable for the imperial court to impose punishment."
"The others?"
Wenyuan was silent for a longer time this time before replying: "My father admires the etiquette system and advocates that everything should be done according to etiquette. It seems to violate the etiquette system to rashly send troops to attack India."
"It seems that you do not agree with father's plan to attack India." Yunxi was not surprised, but said: "Father does admire the etiquette system and advocates that everything should be done according to etiquette. However, the Indian countries do not respect the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty.
Do you think that the Ming Dynasty's rituals can be used in a country that has never respected rituals?"
"This?" Wen Yuan didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"The Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed kings outside the country and educated the barbarians. Both Confucius and subsequent Confucian scholars praised it as a benevolent government with immeasurable merits. I attacked India and promoted benevolence, righteousness and etiquette to India.
How could it be wrong?"
"This." Wen Yuan was silent. If it were a debate in the court, Wen Yuan would have no reason to refute at this time; but the problem is that they are not debating, but Yunxi wants to convince Wen Yuan, and Wen Yuan
Yuan You knew very clearly that Yun Xi's original intention of attacking India was not to promote the ritual system, but to plunder India's wealth and install domestic vassal kings at the same time. Therefore, he was not convinced by Yun Xi's words.
"Wenyuan, how did father treat the people of Ming Dynasty?" Yunxi stared at him for a while and asked.
"My father was very good to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Even the wise emperors of previous generations may not be as good as him." Wen Yuan replied immediately. His words were not flattery. Compared with the emperors of the past dynasties, Yunxi not only paid attention to reducing taxes and levying taxes on the people.
He also personally cared about how to use other methods to improve people's lives, including the implementation of new farming methods, etc. Emperors of all dynasties had never done this. Wenyuan's praise was not excessive.
"If the people of Waifan could become people under the Ming Dynasty, would it be good or bad for them?" Yunxi asked again.
"Of course it's a good thing for them." Wenyuan replied.
"So, no matter what my father's original intention is, the final result will be that the people of Waifan benefit, is that true?"
"yes."
"So, Wenyuan, it doesn't matter what my father thinks."
Yunxi stared at him closely and said: "In the long history, what a person does will definitely lead to other things besides their original purpose. My father's plan to conquer India is indeed to plunder India's wealth.
The enfeoffment of vassal kings, but this is not all that will happen. After my father sends troops to conquer India, it will definitely lead to other things."
"Father gives an example. A person burns down his enemy's house out of revenge. This will not only destroy his enemy's house, but also lead to other things. Even though he just put a gun on the beam of his enemy's house.
A fire, but because the beams and columns set on fire are connected to other sections, and the enemy's house is connected to other houses, it may eventually lead to a fire. This big fire not only burned his enemy's house, but also destroyed many other people's properties.
They will all be turned into ashes, and some will even be burned to death."
"Such a consequence may not be the idea of revenge against that person, but it leads to such consequences. Moreover, this person must bear the responsibility for this and be punished by the law, not because he did not originally have the idea of causing the fire.
Just let him go."
"Then, on the other hand, when my father sent troops to conquer India, although he only wanted to plunder India's wealth and enfeoff vassal kings, the result was that the local people lived a better life after the war."
"So, it doesn't matter what the father thinks, what matters is how the father does it, and what other results it leads to when achieving the goal. If these results are good things, then what the father did is right. In the Zhou Dynasty, the princes were granted the title of
In foreign countries, when the barbarians were being civilized, what King Wu and Duke Zhou wanted to do was not necessarily to civilize the barbarians, but mostly to snatch property from the barbarians and consolidate the country. But in the end, the barbarians were civilized and no longer lived a life of bloodshed."
"This is also why the sages said that 'one has no regard for one's heart when it comes to deeds.' It's not just because 'no one is perfect when it comes to one's heart', but because even if a person's heart is not very benevolent, his actions may not be wrong."
"My son has learned a lesson." Wenyuan saluted. Yunxi's words were indeed very reasonable and worthy of his serious consideration.
But what he didn't expect was that Yunxi's teachings did not end there. "Wenyuan, you are the crown prince. You will inherit the Ming Dynasty and inherit your father's position in the future. So when you think about things, you cannot follow the teachings of your teachers.
Even if they are completely motivated by public motives and have no selfish motives, it does not matter whether they are civil servants or military commanders."
"The emperor is a unique position in the world. Even those vassal kings who have been granted the title are different from you. When a vassal king gets into trouble and makes a mistake, he can still ask for help from the court and other vassal kings; when the emperor makes a mistake, he can
Who can I turn to for help, and who can help me?"
"As a minister or future generations, of course, you can criticize an emperor for doing something with bad intentions, even if it has a good effect in the end. But for the emperor, you cannot think like this. You have to see that this matter
What kind of impact has it had on the country and what kind of impact has it had on the people? From this height, not from the height of the ministers."
"Yes, father." Wen Yuan was stunned for a moment, bowed more seriously, and agreed.
"Think about what your father said when you go back. But don't rest too late thinking about it." Yunxi nodded.
"Yes, father, son, please leave." Wen Yuan bowed again, turned around and left.
Yunxi looked at his back for a while, until it was hidden in the darkness, sighed slightly, and then said to Wen Yao: "Wen Yao, come here and go to your mother and concubine with your father. There is something about your father that is extremely important to you.
There is something important to say, and your mother and concubine also know it."
"Is it something extremely important to my son? Dare I ask my father, what is it?" Wen Yao couldn't help but ask.
"Your lifelong event is not just marriage." (To be continued)
