Dahan first prince

Chapter 137 Learning is good, but it depends on whether you have learned it well

Time flies, that is, the twelfth lunar month has passed, and the first month is coming to an end.

At the palace of the Crown Prince: at the gate of the Phoenix Palace, Liu Ying, standing on the high platform outside the gate of the Phoenix Palace, could not help but let out a sigh of relief as she respectfully bid farewell to Grand Tutor Uncle Sun Tong.

The first month is coming to an end, and February is approaching, and Chang'an City, which has been frozen into ice, has a little warmth.

However, it was still the first month of spring, and the palaces in Weiyang Palace were still covered in silver, and the winter sun shone on the snow piled up beside the palace road, reflecting a little bit of light.

"Whoo~"

Taking a sharp breath of cool air, Liu Ying's slightly swollen head was relieved a little.

Seeing that not far away, he was walking towards her uncle Lu Shizhi, Liu Ying couldn't help but smiled lightly, took the cloak from the hand of the little eunuch Chuntuo sideways, and went up to him.

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"At home, why don't you play duets in the womb today?"

Led by Liu Ying, he walked in the opposite direction from the Crown Prince's womb, Lu Shizhi couldn't help feeling a little puzzled.

When Liu Ying heard the words, she smiled a little self-deprecatingly, then sighed and shook her head.

"Since the first month of winter, my nephew has never been away from the womb. Except for snoring and eating, I go to the school and learn from my grandson and uncle."

"So far, the first month of spring is almost over, but it's already more than two months~"

Walking on the palace road where the snow had been swept to both sides, Liu Ying sighed a little self-deprecatingly, then turned her head with a chuckle, not forgetting to lean her upper body slightly in the direction of Lu Shizhi.

"Nephew, I'm really depressed..."

Hearing Liu Ying say these words with a little guilty conscience and a little bit of self-compassion, Lu Shizhi couldn't help but shook his head and smiled.

After a while, Lu Shizhi's face froze.

"Do you want to leave the palace at home?"

"If you want to leave the palace, I will go get the chariot here."

As he said that, Lu Shizhi did not forget to put on a posture that he was going to leave immediately, and his originally relaxed expression also took on a little seriousness.

"When I go out of the palace at home, I am afraid that I will be accompanied by jailers..."

"Well, I should go to the Proclamation Room and inform the Queen so that the Queen can send orders to the Southern Army to transfer the guards."

Seeing Lu Shizhi's solemn appearance, Liu Ying let out a sigh of relief, smiled lightly and shook her head.

"You don't have to go through so much trouble~"

As she said that, Liu Ying could not help but stop quietly, turned to face Lu Shizhi sideways, and pointed to the north palace wall of Weiyang Palace not far away, which separated the palace from Hao Street outside the palace.

"Today, my nephew and uncle went up to the palace wall to see Chang'an for a while?"

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Lu Shizhi's serious face disappeared, and he just smiled lightly and cupped his hands.

"It's a great honor to be invited by my family..."

When Liu Ying heard the words, she nodded and smiled again, and then walked up the stone steps inside the palace wall.

However, Lu Shizhi was not in a hurry to follow, but ran quickly to the Sima Gate not far away, and said something to the soldiers of the Imperial Army standing inside the archway holding their halberds.

Not a moment later, Liu Ying had also climbed onto the palace wall.

But when Lu Shizhi trotted up the palace wall and came behind Liu Ying, there was not even a single person within the range of [-] steps to the left and right of the two of them.

On the other hand, at the gate of the palace, dozens of guardsmen of the Imperial Army quietly came out, pretending to be patrolling the street, centered on Liu Ying on the palace wall, standing not far or near outside the palace wall, forming a radius Half a circle of nearly fifty paces.

Liu Ying didn't seem to be aware of this, but walked slowly forward with a thoughtful look, towards the intersection of the North Palace Wall and the East Palace Wall, the section of the city wall where the North Tower is located.

Seeing that Liu Ying didn't take the initiative to speak, Lu Shizhi also understood it, and quietly stepped forward a little, as if chatting, and opened the conversation first.

"For more than two months, the family members were all in the womb of the crown prince, and they were taught by the uncle grandson."

"The minister just heard the family say: bored?"

"However, is there something disliked by your family about what Uncle Sun and Grand Tutor taught?"

Hearing this question, Liu Ying shook her head helplessly.

"It's not like I don't like it."

"In the past two months, my uncle, grandson, and grand master have not been with my nephew, and my nephew has benefited a lot from talking about the righteousness of Confucianism.

As she spoke, Liu Ying couldn't help but chuckled and lowered her head.

"If it wasn't for the narration by Uncle Sun and Taifu, I still don't know: Qin Prime Minister Li Si, son Han Fei and other famous criminals are actually the descendants of one of the six Confucian classics-"Shangshu"."

"Gu Geng never knew that the descendants of "Spring and Autumn" and "Yili" are Zhang Cang, Marquis of Beiping in the Han Dynasty, and Lu Jia, a doctor of Taizhong."

"The Marquis of Beiping and the senior officials of the Taizhong University once studied at the Jixia Academy, where they were taught by Xunzi together with Li Si and Han Fei."

"What's more: Duke Fuqiu, the descendant of the "Poetry", is also a classmate of the Marquis of Beiping and the Taizhong doctor; the uncle of the king of Chu was able to teach the "Poetry" to the Duke of Fuqiu. The two of you say uncle?"

With a slightly surprised expression on her face, she asked a rhetorical question, and then she saw Liu Ying shook her head with a smile, and sighed leisurely.

"In the past, my nephew only liked the Confucian way of benevolence and forgiveness, but I don't know why."

"Father's evil deeds against Lu Confucianism, my nephew doesn't know why my father is evil."

"In the past few months, my uncle Sun Taifu said that Confucianism has been passed on for a hundred years, and I only know that the prosperity of Confucianism is due to the sage Zi Xia, and later Han Fei, Li Si and others, who learned from Confucianism, and their talents It is better than Confucianism, the green is from the blue, and its green is better than the blue."

"As for the disadvantages of Confucianism, it is that the scholars of Confucianism and Confucianism do not understand the righteousness. They only understand the order of rites and music, and the order of superiority and inferiority for their own benefit, but they do not understand the righteousness of the country in the "Poems" and "Books."

After speaking, Liu Ying finally stopped slowly, and looked sideways at Lu Shizhi with a feeling on her face.

"The greatness of Confucianism can be said to amaze my nephew; but Confucianism is different from Confucian scholars."

"Confucianism mostly persuades people to be kind to each other, but Confucian scholars are not all people of insight."

"It's not advisable to like the Confucianism like the old man, or the evil Confucianism like the father and the emperor."

"Whether you like it or hate it depends on the person~"

Speaking of this, Liu Ying also came to say a few more words.

"Father and emperor: I hate Confucian scholars in every possible way, but today's uncle Sun Taifu and the past Guangye Lord Li Shiqi all rely heavily on him."

"However, in the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Lu Confucianism who threatened to 'wear hemp and filial piety for King Xiang and swear to die will not surrender' is a person who does not understand the righteousness, and he should be spit on by the world!"

"For the good and evil of Confucianism, I am afraid that it is not appropriate to discuss its learning, but to discuss its scholars and their actions."

"If there are Confucian scholars who have the ability of the Marquis of Beiping, they should use them as the pillars of the country; however, if there are Lu Confucians who, in the order of superiority and inferiority, want to disrupt the country of our Han, they should be punished and punished without hesitation!"

"In this way, the way to unite the country to employ scholars and the monarch to employ ministers..."

Speaking of these remarks that made Lu Shizhi's eyes shine, Liu Ying's face could not help but feel a little sentimental.

In the past two months or so, it would be a joke to say that Liu Ying has really learned the true meaning of Confucianism from Taifu Shusun Tong.

However, from the different experiences of Confucianism in the late Qin Dynasty, in the Chu and Han Dynasties, and now in the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying has quite clear plans for the future of this school.

——Confucianism is good or bad, it is impossible to make a conclusion!

As far as the four classics of Confucianism that still exist in the world today, that is, the "Book of Songs", "Rituals", "Spring and Autumn", and "Book of Changes", together they are all treasures of Confucian culture.

But when it comes to people, especially those Confucian scholars who specialize in a certain part, the effect of "specializing in one classic" is really jaw-dropping.

Let’s just talk about the two most representative classics, "Poetry" and "Li", the students who learn these two classics have completely different mental outlooks, and they don’t seem to be from the same sect at all!

As the saying goes: Three hundred poems, no evil in thinking.

Confucian students who study "Poetry" open their mouths and keep their mouths closed, either because of the righteousness of the family and the country, or the debate between Hua and Barbarians!

The values ​​it promotes are not to civilize barbarians, but to educate the heads of Guizhou to enlighten the wisdom of the people!
On the other hand, students who study "Li" can only say three sentences, and they always say "upper and lower, and the outline is always orderly".

On the surface, the values ​​promoted by the two do not seem to conflict; but digging a little deeper, it is not difficult to find that the three views of scholars from these two factions are almost completely opposite!

Scholars with a background in "Poetry" are concerned about enlightenment, recruiting disciples to open up the wisdom of the people, and talking about improving the quality of the people!

Scholars who studied "Li" and studied "Li" especially in Ludi summed up their thoughts in one sentence: dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and the son of a mouse can make holes.

To put it more bluntly, it is the "Li" school within Confucianism, especially the Luru lineage, which advocates that 'the master will always be the master, and the muddy legs will always be the muddy legs, and it should be like this from generation to generation'.

Realizing this point, and looking at those Confucian scholars who were born in Ludi and studied "Li", and those Confucian scholars who were born in Qi and Chu and studied "Poetry", when the two meet, they can't wait to play out their brains. No wonder.

—Heretics, worse than heretics!
Therefore, in Liu Ying's view, instead of going into the question of whether Confucianism is good or not, which will never have an answer, it is better to look directly at people.

He also came from a Confucian background, so if he has skills and talents, he should use them!
But if you are incapable, incompetent, and you are too high-minded, then go as far as you can!
To understand this point, when I look at the court today, those courtiers and officials who all call themselves "Huang Laozhi", but in fact have their own knowledge, Liu Ying discovered: those things that were not clearly visible in the past were instantly lost. It's much clearer.

Obviously, this has a decisive effect on Liu Ying's future administrative measures and the development plan of the Han Dynasty.

But it is a pity that when Liu Ying expressed her opinion with great interest, her uncle Lu Shizhi beside her seemed not very interested.

Sighing secretly, Liu Ying wisely stopped this topic, and continued to walk forward slowly.

After Lu Shizhi followed, Liu Ying thought for a while, and then started today's topic.

"More than two months ago, my nephew studied under the Taifu in the womb of the Taifu."

"Earlier, I don't know if my uncle has found out what my nephew and uncle discussed?"

Hearing that Liu Ying was talking about serious business, the unexplained sorrow on Lu Shizhi's face faded a little, he quickly raised his head, and bowed his hands to Liu Ying.

"Your Highness, everything has been found out!"

"It's as expected: For more than two months, the price of food in Chang'an has increased by [-] yuan per stone every day; in the first month of spring, it has broken stones by [-] yuan!"

"As of today's hour, more than a dozen rice shops in Dongshi City have listed signs: Mishi, a total of 850 yuan!"

(End of this chapter)