Chapter 81 Sleepless
Unlike the history carefully modified by the Qin officials, Aristotle IV could always open a window for Fusu to let him see the truth of another world. In Zhao Zheng's view, his son was weak, trustworthy, kind, and unscrupulous. He would definitely be played with by ministers and Xun officials in the future. However, the fact is that Fusu under the education of the Eastern and Western courts was far superior to anyone of his contemporaries.
In addition to the excessive protection of the Qin Palace, which prevented him from riding horses and shooting arrows and being weak, he could almost be said to be a perfect prince. However, it is precisely because of this that Zhao Zheng, who was unable to receive court education before the age of ten, could receive court education after the age of ten, but quickly ascended the throne to kings, had lost his childish son everywhere and was inferior to him everywhere. If Qin was passed on to him, it would be destroyed.
Education and the environment create different people. There are levels of differences between the complete palace education and the palace education that Confucius had to simplify due to costs. Confucius' simplified version of court education is different from the private school education that Zhao Zheng received when he was young. In Zhao Zheng's view, most of the education in his youth were useless. Zhao Ji did not ask for help from the useful education. She and Yu were taught by him when he returned to Qin and became the prince. But this is useless. The prince does not have to go to the battlefield to fight, and the prince also has a driver to drive.
Zhao Zheng's evaluation is completely correct. The essence of court education is not for usefulness. After all, a gentleman is not a weapon. If education is for usefulness, wouldn't a gentleman become a weapon? If it is a weapon, what is the difference between it and the Shaofu master? If the Qin prince who became a weapon, wouldn't the country be a craftsman in governing the country? The king is skilled in cultivation, then is the king skilled in farming? The king is skilled in farming, then is the king skilled in military affairs? The king is skilled in military affairs, then is the king skilled in law? The king is skilled in law, then is the king skilled in merchants...
Government affairs involve all aspects, and government orders are related to industries. How can a person take into account everything and take care of himself at all times?
Boya is the characteristic of court education. The essence of Boya is useless. Knowing a little rather than being proficient. But knowing a little bit of everything will become the basis for a king to govern the country. This will prevent him from making common sense mistakes in anything, and will never be confused by something that seems beautiful but practical but vague.
An extremely important point is that the whole world is not only variable, but also malleable in their eyes. They will never strictly follow the footsteps of their predecessors or act with regular knowledge. They often break the bonds of their predecessors and make new creations with their own will. This is the way for European encyclopedia-style scientists to emerge over a thousand years later.
The essence of elegance is also useless, but the purpose of uselessness is to be useful. Court education uses these useless elegance to cultivate the taste and character of the educated. This taste and character can easily identify and find his own kind, people with the same taste and good morals gather together to govern a country.
Zhao Zheng has not received a complete Boya education. Looking at Fusu, who has gradually been trained to be a Boya gentleman with a similar perspective to the common people, the most direct reaction is that it is useless. When looking at Zhao Zheng with Fusu's eyes, he often feels chill. This is not Fusu's fear of his father, but Fusu's fear of his father's situation. There are not many people around him with elegant tastes and noble character, almost all officials who are profit-oriented and flattering. These people are either corrupt or betrayal, or they are fighting and harming each other.
He strangely found that his intelligent and smart father did not fully understand this, although he often doubted them. However, the premise of this suspicion was that the father believed that they were good at some point, but they would become bad only when he was not watching him closely.
This is true for knowing people and taste. The father thought that interesting things were not the music and dance of the Qin Palace, nor the sculptures from Daxia or the pictures of ancient Persians, but the extremely vulgar city jokes that dwarf Youzhan heard from outside the palace.
Finally, there is food. ‘The beauty of fish is the oyster of the East China Sea’. Once, my mother asked the dowry officer to make the oyster of the East China Sea that was transported from the coast of Qi through a lot of hardships. Unfortunately, my father didn’t eat it at all. Finally, he realized that the father did not eat oysters, but did not eat fish at all. He did not eat fish, did not eat anything that was not common, but only common things.
All these things made Fusu secretly sigh that the father's world seemed to be the steps in front of the bed, always limited to the lowest level, and never climbed up to the high platform to look far away. Because he stood at the steps, he could not overview the panoramic view. Things you see were often one-sided and incomplete, and people you knew were two sides, sometimes loyal, sometimes treacherous. Some entertainment that was obviously extremely monotonous and boring, often indulged in it and could not extricate himself; some things that were obviously impossible, such as immortality, became more and more true as he grew older.
The world of father and son is completely different, but they become father and son.
The conversation between teachers and students ended, and Fusu, who was lying on the bed, has not been asleep. The sand sea is also a swamp. During the reign of King Hui of Wei, he built a pavilion and pool garden, and now it has become the military camp of the Qin army. As a guardian, Fusu cannot sleep in the curtain like Wang Jian, but in the palace. On the cold night, he stared at the roof with his eyes straight and listened to the sound of the wind whistling past the roof.
"But the Qinni army likes you and respects you. After Philip II was assassinated, it was the Macedonian army who chose Alexander as their king, not Philip II's friend..."
Amid the wind, Aristotle IV's words kept turning around in his mind and never left for a long time. He was the eldest son and rarely cared about whether his father made him the crown prince. However, today, his father no longer favored him, and there were more and more younger brothers in the Qin Palace. He could not help but think of this.
The generals of the Qin army loved themselves and respected themselves very well, but whoever was appointed as the crown prince and who inherited the throne was all based on the will of the father. It was impossible to choose by the generals of the Qin army. Only when the father did not specify who inherited the throne, the generals of the Qin army could choose who became the king of Qin. If this was not the case, it would be unfilial. The people of Chu were unfilial, but the people of Qin must be filial. If it was not filial, the throne would be unrighteous, and the ministers would not surrender, but...
Fusu thought of the ministers around his father. Will they really care about who is sitting on the throne? The teacher told the story of Alexander conquering Egypt and Persia. The ministers of Egypt and Persia did not care about who became their king at all. They cheered Alexander for entering Babylon and stood on both sides of the road and threw flowers into the middle of the road. If they led the Qin army into Xianyang, would the ministers of the Qin Palace welcome themselves in this way?
On a snowy night, Fusu, who was lying on the bed, didn't know that after a long time, when he was almost asleep, a shout from a cavalry came from outside, "Shahai Feng! Shahai Feng..."
Chapter completed!