Li Mu looked at Kong Yingda, whose forehead was already sweating, and asked with a smile: "Old Kong, you are not dizzy today. You can think about it carefully and answer this question carefully."

Hearing Li Mu say this, the students present smiled at the same time. Others don’t understand the past between Li Mu and Kong Yingda, and they can’t know much about it. In the past, Kong Yingda would faint on his back for the sake of face every time, and it was understandable once or twice. After all, Kong Yingda is so old, and Li Mu really doesn’t save face, but he faints every time. How could such a coincidence happen? He must be pretending to be dizzy.

After a few times, it became a secret that Kong Yingda could not tell. Li Mu pointed it out in front of him, which was even more insidious. He couldn't even faint. If he fainted now, if he was not fake, he would be false, and he would lose his majesty in front of the students in the future.

Li Shimin could feel the resentment emitted by Kong Yingda, and felt a little pitiful to him. Although Kong Yingda was also a genius from Shandong, he was much better than Wei Zheng and others who liked to cause trouble. Because he was a purer person, what he taught, what he considered, and what he said were all about teaching. As for the things that Wei Zheng and others were worried about, he did not pay much attention to it.

This time, Li Mu was squeezed into the corner again. Kong Yingda knew that he could not avoid it, so he made up his mind and decided to fight him. Even if he couldn't argue, he had to give it a try. After all, in his heart, he was still confident in the set of Confucianism passed down by his ancestors.

Why?

Since the Han Dynasty, isn’t it the answer to abolishing all schools of thought and respecting Confucianism? If other knowledge can compare with Confucianism, why has it been gone now?

Therefore, Kong Yingda is not afraid.

Kong Yingda took a deep breath, stabilized his mind, and met Li Mu's gaze, and said, "The situation you said is undeniable. For such stubborn people, there is a law to deal with it. My Confucianism is not only benevolent."

Li Mu smiled as if he was waiting for this sentence and said, "Old Kong, I feel embarrassed to argue with you when you say this. You are so stupid."

Kong Yingda widened her eyes and said angrily: "What did you say?!"

"I know what you meant, and you are right. But if you have thought about it or not, you are wrong. As a ruler, you have performed benevolent government. In your imagination, under the bath of your benevolent government, the people should be grateful. At this time, someone sang against you, and they are people who are not educated, and you will punish them... Ha, you think about it yourself, can this still be called benevolent government?"

"Is the so-called 'benevolence' of benevolence? Is it your decision or the people who decide? There is a saying that it is my honey and the arsenic. The herdsmen in the north run around the grassland and desert, and their lives are difficult. There are fertile and fertile fields to cultivate in the south of the Yangtze River. If you follow your ideas, you will think, why not let the herdsman come to the south of the Yangtze River and give him a piece of land to cultivate, and wouldn't he have a better life?"

Kong Yingda nodded subconsciously and said, "If conditions permit, what's wrong?"

"Ha! What else is it?" Li Mu smiled speechlessly and said, "This is what a nerd said. Have you ever thought about why herders are called herders? Because they can only grazle and they can't farm. Do you think they are good to him and let him come to Jiangnan to farm. He can't grow. Who is it if he starves to death? If you don't help him, he will live a difficult life. At least he can live. If you help him, he will be helped to death. This is also called benevolence?"

Kong Yingda's face turned red. After a few words of confrontation, he already knew that if he talked about quibbling, he would never be Li Mu's opponent. And what's even more terrifying is that he actually listened to the truth or example of Li Mu's words. This is too scary. If he continues to talk like this, wouldn't he want to subvert the Confucian essence in his heart?

Kong Yingda gritted his teeth and said, "Even if I am wrong, it is because I, Kong Yingda, is not good at studying. Sorry to my ancestors, you can't say that Confucianism is wrong!"

Kong Yingda thought that the next thing he would face was Li Mu's fierce attack and humiliation, and he was mentally prepared to bear it. But what he didn't expect was that when Li Mu was even more surprised when he heard him say this, he said: "Old Confucius, what are you thinking? When did I say that Confucianism is wrong? Am I not saying that you are wrong?"

Kong Yingda was stunned and he didn't react. Isn't this the same thing?

Li Mu ignored him and said to the students: "Students, I believe you are a little confused after talking for so long. Just now, Confucius said that he was wrong. Through my refutation, everyone knows where he was wrong. Now you may think that what Confucius taught you is pure Confucianism's benevolent politics. If this is wrong, wouldn't it be Confucianism and Confucius's mistake?"

"It's a big mistake to have such an idea!"

"Let's analyze the two words "benevolent and political" from the beginning, and I just said it. Confucius never said "benevolent and political". He only said "benevolent and political" was added by Mencius. Later generations studied Confucian classics and were accustomed to combining Confucius and Mencius and calling them the two sages, so they confused them, but the two were still different."

"We must clearly realize that although Confucius and Mencius were called the two saints, the main idea of ​​Confucianism originated from Confucius. Mencius explained and promoted it based on Confucius's theory. Confucius and Mencius were more than a hundred years apart and had never met each other. How did Mencius know what Confucius thought? This is just like today. You have been learning Confucian classics from Confucius's sacrificial wine for a long time and have been together day and night. Have you learned the essence of it?"

Everyone shook their heads. Kong Yingda's "theory course" is the most difficult thing to understand in all courses. He often thinks he understands it, but is told that he has misunderstood, which makes people feel annoyed and fearful.

"Based on this, can I boldly guess that Confucius only wanted to say "benevolence" about the word "benevolence", and "benevolence" was added by Mencius because of his own imagination or need. This is not something I am talking nonsense. In order to obtain official positions and get valued, Mencius traveled to Liang, Wei, Qi, Song, Teng, Lu and other countries one after another. The word "benevolence" was said by him when he made a report with King Hui of Liang!"

The students were thinking, and Kong Yingda was extremely anxious when he saw this, but he had no choice because he could not give examples to prove that what Li Mu said was absurd.

Just when the students were about to be brainwashed, Li Mu suddenly laughed, changed the subject and said, "Of course, everything I said is speculation. Maybe Confucius thought - note, what I meant was speculation. I guess Confucius and Mencius. Mencius speculated Confucius. Everyone speculated, not what the eyes saw or experienced by the body, so this kind of words was not trustworthy."

The students were silent, and they doubted their ears. What was the young Zhulu Hou saying, but he actually said, "The way of Confucius and Mencius is not trustworthy?" This really challenges their values ​​too much.

Kong Yingda couldn't help but speak, "Li Mu, please be careful. Don't rely on your talent to mislead your children here. They are the humerus of the future country, and you can't afford to take care of it!"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Old Confucius, don't scare me. I was teaching under the order and I had to come, otherwise do you think I would come? I was a commoner in the border town of Li Mu. I didn't know a big word half a year ago and couldn't write a name. Today, I have all this rely on the four words "different". If I have the same idea as you, how can I stand out? Anyway, I don't like to talk. Since you say that, I won't say it. Let's stop here today and the get out of class will be over!"

It would be fine if I didn't say this, but it would be a big blow after I said it.

The Tang Daily has long reported on Li Mu's origin and the students can't understand it clearly. They have seen a lot of magical things about him. He said that everything he got was because of his uniqueness, and the students subconsciously believed it.

Needless to say, everyone present was born, and they would all be in the future to assault the Duke and Marquis. But who dared to say that they could compare with Li Mu? Who wouldn't want to kill the dragon? Seeing that Li Mu was about to leave, Li Chengqian was the first to pounce on Li Mu and hugged Li Mu's thighs. He couldn't care about the majesty of the prince and shouted loudly: "Brother, they don't listen. I want to listen. Didn't your father ask you to teach me and Qingque? You have to finish your lecture!"

Li Tai also rushed up, hugged his other thigh, and said, "Brother, brother, the emperor is right!"

The others were also talking nonsense and ignored Kong Yingda's drink. Li Mu sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, everyone will come back to their seats. Listen to me. Anyway, I don't know when the next class will be. Maybe Your Majesty thinks I'm not good at speaking, and maybe I won't let you talk. So I'll just be addicted to being a teacher!"

The students responded with a loud voice and sat back to their seats. Li Mu looked at Kong Yingda and said, "Old Kong, you might as well finish listening. If you think I'm wrong, you can go and report to Your Majesty. It just so happens that I don't like to teach, so as not to come here to get in the way."

Kong Yingda was already disgraced, and snorted, and looked aside, pretending that he didn't hear it.

Li Mu smiled, ignored him and continued, "I just said that speculating what the predecessors think is an unreliable thing. We can think further, not to mention that the descendants speculate on the predecessors, or two people facing each other, do you think you can know what he is thinking?"

Seeing the students looking at each other, Li Mu gave the answer directly and said, "No! Because between people, whether it is father-son affection or friend loyalty, as long as it is not one, he is naturally guarded, he will not be able to let you see through it. Only he knows what a person thinks, and others are just guessing."

"What I really want to tell you is that you should bring your own brains to your own mind when reading. The saints' books are certainly classics. But the saints' books may not be all right. There are no omniscient and omnipotent people in this world? Everyone makes mistakes. If Confucius and Mencius are omniscient and omnipotent, why did they not be named marquis and ministers, and they failed to establish a dynasty? If they did everything right, why did the people not enjoy benevolent politics at the time of them? Let's look at the results first and then we can draw the reason. This reason is very simple, and it must be that there are some errors in their theory."

Kong Yingda's nostrils were breathing heavily. He wanted to say something, but his mind was blank and he couldn't think of a word to refute.

"So as for this benevolent government, I can take you to try to study why you can't do benevolent government and why Mencius could not do even so powerful? Because - it is something that cannot be done by itself."

The students had already held their breath and were waiting for Li Mu's high remarks, but unexpectedly, they felt a big breath and almost slobbered.

"Why can't I say I can't do it? A very simple truth is that since ancient times, there have been few kings but many people. There are only one king, and with all the ministers and officials, there are only thousands of people. But the people are like thousands of crucians crossing the river. How can a king and thousands of officials think of a benevolent government that satisfies all people? With the same decree, some people will be cursed when someone is happy. How can you block your mouth?"

"So, we can conclude that Mencius proposed 'benevolent government' in light of Confucius' idea of ​​'benevolence'. The reason why he himself did not achieve 'benevolent government' is an ideal concept. To achieve benevolent government, one needs a wise monarch, a wise minister, and the people must be good people who are kind and kind. These three are indispensable. Think about it, if these three are possessed, how can there be any benevolent government? Any benevolent government is a nonsense! The so-called 'benevolent government' is just a nonsense. The second of the three dynasties in ancient and modern times is a prosperous era. Where can all three be possessed?"

"In my opinion, blindly studying the saint's classics is a ridiculous and meaningless thing. The lives, environment, rituals, music, education, etc. of our predecessors are completely different from ours. Even Confucius wanted to restore the Zhou rituals in Lu when he was unsuccessful. Now, can we use the words in the classics and apply what we have encountered to the things we have encountered now? Is it feasible?"

Li Mu looked at Kong Yingda and said, "Then someone will have questions when they hear this. If I follow my words, will the monarch not be kind to do political work?"

"Not it!"

"The same sentence, you can think about it the opposite! Since the monarch wants to promote benevolent government, there will always be someone to find fault, so the monarch may as well wait. Waiting, it is not to ignore it, but to understand the people's sentiment. Giving the people what they urgently need is much better than you implementing a so-called benevolent government. To use a saying that I often talk about when doing business, this is called "there is no good business". Everything should be pragmatic. If you don't have any surprises in the future, you must be an official. Remember not to talk about benevolent government, kindness, and generous. This kind of useless nonsense is not what the people care about. No matter how beautiful the words are, you have to solve the problem."
Chapter completed!