Chapter 17 Measures
The body of the Zhangtai Palace was in a mess. More than 30 ministers were killed and injured, and more than 10 were killed by the assassins. They were all injured and killed by assassins. When they ran away, they fell and trampled, and dozens of court officials were injured. The magnificent Zhangtai, which was originally a respectful prince to the Qin Dynasty, turned into a wolf and swept the ground with politeness just because of the two assassins. This has to be said to be a great irony.
This irony also means the weakness of Qin. Her strength is only to the outside but not to the inside. As long as the enemy penetrates the outer wall and breaks into the inside, there will be no decent resistance. There are only temple doctors who fight with bare hands, and then the ministers who also run around the pillars.
After the assassination, the Qin Palace did not pay tribute for six days. During the six days, the court inside and outside the court wanted to prevent assassins from assassinating again, from strictly investigating business trips to strengthening palace bans, from copper and iron to using pottery instead of gold, from banning swordsmanship to slapping the six arts...
There are all kinds of solutions that come up with. After the minister wrote a letter, the official clerk quickly classified and archived it. If the contents in it are similar, they will no longer report it. If there is any new idea, they will immediately report to Zhao Zheng, because the official clerk has been discussing the issue of eliminating the assassin and making Kanto surrender.
"I don't know that the power of building a country is the right to be a country, the function of being frugal, and the poor are not enough to distinguish between different things, the monarch and ministers of the county; however, the reason why they maintain it, the reason of their words is enough to deceive the foolish people. It is Modi, Song Bi, and Jing King."
In the Mingtang, under the gaze of Zhao Zheng, Aristotle IV, and the Mohist masters Yan Wuyi, Xiong Qi, Li Si, Han Fei and others, Xun Zi said angrily. Among these people, Li Si and Han Fei were his disciples, and even if they were not on his side, they would not refute it. However, Yan Wuyi, Aristotle IV, objected from time to time, which made him very angry.
"...If the people in the world surrender, they should make money and all things in the world, nourish the people and benefit the world; all those who are well-versed will obey. Those who are so eight words have established breath and those who are fourteen sons have moved, then the sages will gain power, Shun and Yu."
He did not know how to unify the world, establish the laws of the country, advocated utilitarianism and practicality, attached great importance to frugality and neglected hierarchical differences, and even did not allow distinctions and differences between people and the world, nor did he allow a huge gap between the king and the minister (this is the current problem of Qin, and it is also a problem of various theories outside Confucianism). However, those who advocated different theories were well-founded when making arguments, and explained the arguments in an orderly manner, which was enough to deceive and deceive the ignorant people. This was the kind of person Modi, Song Bi, and King Chu.
... Therefore, if you want to make the people of the world surrender, you must manage all things, raise the people, and benefit all the people of the world after unifying the world. No one disobeys wherever you can reach, so that the above eight theories will disappear immediately, and the fourteen people will abandon evil and go from justice. This is the person who gained power among the saints, Shun and Yu are such people.
Xunzi's method is actually to "make both profit". People who hold different theories are "a saint who cannot gain power," and Zhongni and Zigong are the same. However, if they can achieve "make both profits both", the theories of these people will disappear, and those who hold these theories will also turn from evil to right.
After several days of discussion, a conclusion that everyone has recognized: it is believed in different theories that led to the assassination of Jing Ke.
Xunzi believed that Jing Ke had no king in his heart, so he ignored Wei Yuanjun. Therefore, it is necessary to rebuild the laws of Qin and establish the rank differences between the king, the ministers, the father, the son and the son, and there must be huge differences between the upper and lower levels. If Jing Ke was loyal to the emperor and did not serve himself, he would surrender to the Qin Dynasty because Wei Yuanjun gave up assassination.
Yan Wuyi was a Mohist school. He believed that the reason why Jing Ke was assassinated was because he did not understand the meaning of Qin unifying the world and stopping the killing. He did not agree with Xunzi's method of rebuilding laws and rebuilding hierarchies. When Xunzi made a lengthy argument, his face, which had been flawed by iron, kept laughing. When Xunzi finally finished speaking, he immediately said: "The Confucianism's theory is not in line with Qin.
In ancient times, the sage kings ruled the ruling and valued virtuousness. Even if they were a farmer and a labourer, they would be able to take the title, give them high, give them their salary, and give them their duties to them. Therefore, officials are not always noble, and the people are not inferior. Wu'an lords, who are granted marquis, can also be demoted to the head of Qian. If the head of Qian makes merit, they can also be granted monarchs. How can they be "monarchs, ministers, ministers, fathers, sons and sons"?
The affairs of the assassin are different in the world, so the world is in chaos. If we can share the same meaning, the world will naturally love each other and benefit each other."
"How do you know the meaning of the world together? Choose a virtuous, sage, and wise man in the world to be the emperor, and make him a son of the world?" Li Si asked with a smile. "So, still..." Li Si continued to laugh, "So, still like the people in the world who don't choose the king as the emperor, what if?"
"You!" The Mo family advocated that everyone is equal and that they should be equal. The emperor of the Mo family was chosen by everyone, so the question arises: What should we do if the people in the world do not choose Zhao Zheng as the emperor?
"The king is virtuous and wise, why don't the people in the world choose?" Seeing that Zhao Zheng's face darkened, Yan Wuyi argued anxiously. "If the people in the world do not choose the king, it must be because they were instigated by the enemy's country. They should be traitors. Since they are traitors, everyone can punish them."
"Oh. So it's like this that he became a great man in the Mo family?" Li Si still smiled. He had known what the Mo family had done about it for a long time. He loves both, does not attack, and is a virtuous person, and Shang Tong. It sounds nice, but in fact there is no possibility of implementation.
"The wise king is enough to be the emperor." Yan Wuyi ignored Li Si and just bowed to Zhao Zheng.
"But what is Yan Qing's plan?" It is impossible to choose the emperor. Zhao Zheng didn't care about Yan Wuyi's explanation. He destroyed the Kanto countries not to cut off the land, but to make them surrender to the Qin Dynasty.
"My name..." Yan Wuyi was speechless and was tangled with scars scalded by molten iron.
"Sir," Han Feiyi said, "Assassins are rampant, but the laws of the Qin Dynasty are clear, and the laws are added to prevent problems and killing assassins before they occur, or..."
"If the law is added, the people in Kanto cannot surrender to me." No matter how profound a person has his limits of knowledge, he still has his limits. Zhao Zheng saw the limits of Han Fei's knowledge, or the limits of the Legalists. The law can only punish behaviors and cannot control people's thoughts.
"King..." Zhao Zheng was disappointed, Wu Ji bowed and said, "My Lord, why don't you burn books?"
"Burning books?" Zhao Zheng ignited some hope.
"Why can you burn books when you guard against the people more than to guard against the river?" Xun Qiong angrily rebuked when he heard this. "In the past, Wei Yang taught his ancestor Xiao Gong to burn the poems and books to understand the laws and regulations, and everyone in the world resented."
There is a tradition in Qin's burning of books. Han Fei spoke long-windedly. He also wanted to suggest Zhao Zheng burning books, but was interrupted. Li Si thought so in his heart, but he knew the attitude of his teacher Xunzi, so he did not dare to propose.
"Sir, wait a moment." Zhao Zheng looked at Wu Ji and Aristotle IV, "Sir, please speak."
"More than three hundred years ago, Jewish king Jehoiakim burned the Baluberianlias written by the prophet Jeremiah because he did not like the prophecy of Babylon's invasion of the Jewish kingdom in this work." Aristotle IV talked about the incident in the early seventh century BC. "Wu Ji told me that the last words that the assassin said before his death were actually not what King Chuni said, but what a scholar named Yang Zhu said. If that is the case, just burn all Yang Zhu's books."
"Yang Zhu?" Zhao Zheng knew little about Yang Zhu. In Qin State, he could not read Yang Zhu's words.
"Are there any other similar scholars?" Aristotle IV looked at Wu Ji, and then at Zhao Zheng, Xun Zi, Li Si, Han Fei, Yan Wuyi and others. "If there is, it should be burned together."
"Yang Zhu, Mo Di's words fill the world, and the words of the world do not return to Yang, they return to Mo." Yan Wuyi was a little proud. When Yang Mo's words fill the world, Confucianism only shrank in a corner of Lu.
"Your Majesty, the scholars who call themselves Mo have nothing in common with Yang Zhu." Aristotle IV did not know that Yan Wuyi was boasting, and he thought he was worried about burning Mo's books. "Mo's scholars are the same as other scholars' doctrines... Now, we only need to burn Yang Zhu's works and prohibit the spread of his remarks and thoughts in Qinni."
In order not to provoke the disgust of Xunzi, Han Fei, Yan Wuyi and others, Wu Ji made some reservations during the translation, but the suggestion of Aristotle IV still made Zhao Zheng a little curious. He asked: "Why is this? I heard that the Yang family's saying is to benefit the world but not to pull out a single hair. If he does not enter the dangerous city, he will not be in a military field."
"Yang is for me, and he has no king, so his books should be burned." Zhao Zheng asked, when Wu Ji translated, Xunqiu changed his attitude and agreed to burn books.
"The world is still the same, but the Yang family is selfish, so how can our Mo family be the same?" Yan Wuyi said.
"The Yang family said that if you don't obey the laws, you are afraid of death, so you should burn it." Han Fei followed.
"Yang Zhu's words should be burned, and the King of Jing's words should be burned, and the news of Dajing should also be burned." Xiong Qi was worried that there would be a fish that missed the net, so he added the news of Dachu. "The news of Dajing made Guizhou understand the affairs of the world, understand the benefits of human nature, and advocated the courage to kill and attack, which has confused the people for a long time."
The ministers agreed with their proposal one by one, and Aristotle IV nodded while laughing. Only after everyone finished speaking did he answer Zhao Zheng’s previous questions.
"From the attitude of these scholars, your Majesty should know that although there are differences between them, they are essentially the same. They all hope that there will be a great God, or a person as great as God, to rule the whole world. Only Yang Zhu's words are not like this. He knows what 'me' is.
He did not sacrifice his hair for the country because it had nothing to do with him; he did not enter dangerous cities because he understood the value of life; as for his unwillingness to fight in armor... I would like to know whether the war was approved by his consent?"
Speaking of this, Aristotle IV looked at Zhao Zheng with an inquiry in his eyes. Zhao Zheng had no response to this. He never knew that the war had to be approved by the Qianshou Head. How could the Qianshou Head participate in national affairs?
Chapter completed!