The rise of the prince

Chapter 340
Li Xingzhou hummed a ditty and sang songs, and went all the way to the court meeting. The thing didn't look like cement, but the adhesion was no problem, and it could be used, which made him very happy.

Ji Chunsheng's family lived in the palace, and he went to court with him. Today is a small court, and only court officials have the opportunity to go to court.

Although it is said that the third rank and above, but there are also special, for example, in the six departments, the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War are not required to attend, and the other four are not as high as the third rank, but they all come.

In the final analysis, the six ministries were supposed to be in charge of political affairs, that is, the power of the prime minister, but the emperor was afraid that the prime minister's family would dominate, so in order to divide the power, he separated the affairs of the Ministry of War into the Privy Council, and the affairs of the Ministry of Households became the Department of the Household Department.

Both he and Ji Chunsheng ride horses, and Meixue has gained weight recently, probably because of the good days in the capital.

The two rode to the Meridian Gate on horseback. On the way, they met Degong and greeted him through the car window.

As the sun was rising, everyone had already arrived at the Meridian Gate, and they were not allowed to ride horses or carts after entering the Meridian Gate. Originally, Li Xingzhou was the king of the county and could ride a horse, but he couldn't leave De Gong and Ji Chunsheng behind. They dismounted and walked. I asked Degong a lot.

It's all about court procedures, etiquette, etc. After all, he has never been to court, and if he makes a mistake, he will make a joke.

Just as they were talking quietly, a voice suddenly came from the side: "Morning, my lord, King Pingnan is really a young hero, a great man in the world, he is a pillar of the country when he is young, and he is a blessing in the world. I’ve wanted to go to the meeting for a long time, but I just haven’t had the time.”

When Li Xingzhou turned around, he turned out to be a chubby fat man, and Tang Zhou was the envoy of the household department.

The corner of Li Xingzhou's mouth twitched, he had seen this guy's duplicitous skills before, and his superficial skills could not fool him, so he cupped his hands and said, "Master Tang's ridiculous praise, I'm ashamed of it."

"Why don't you dare to be one? There are thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people. Even the champion Hou is still alive! It really makes me ashamed." The fat old man rubbed his hands and laughed.

At this moment, another person passed by, a big red robe, embroidered with gold silk dragons, and a white jade crown with six tassels. When he saw Li Xingzhou, he looked over, frowned slightly, turned around and left without saying a word. He was the present prince.

Seeing them, Tang Zhou hurriedly bowed to say goodbye to them, then ran fast with his fat body, and after a while caught up with the prince in front of him, he vaguely heard something like "The prince looks good today, he is very heroic and mighty."

Li Xingzhou was speechless. He had seen scumbags before, but he had never seen Tang Zhou take a look at this fat man.

After walking for a while, they met Yu Cheng'an, the political adviser, and a middle-aged man in his 30s who he didn't know.

The two sides bowed to each other and exchanged a few pleasantries, Ji Chunsheng took the opportunity to tell him in a low voice that the young man was Tongzhi Yantiesi and Yu Chengan's son-in-law.

Everyone talked about his heroic deeds in the south, and Yu Chengan praised him so much that the young man next to him had to follow suit.

Although the words sounded nice, Li Xingzhou felt a little embarrassed when he heard it, because it was too much.
He praised him as if Wei Qing was alive, but of course he was happy if someone praised him, and he would not hit the smiling person with his hand, so he also said goodbye to the two with a smile.

As soon as the two left, De Gong seriously reminded him: "What they said is indeed true, but you must not be complacent. You must know that you are still young and have a long way to go, so you can't be complacent from the beginning."

"Understood." Li Xingzhou nodded, of course he would not, this victory is indeed something to be happy about, but he has never seen any big scenes, so naturally he will not swell and go to destruction.

There are indeed lessons everywhere. There are countless people who are young and promising, then become arrogant, and then ruin themselves. That's why Degong is worried about him.

After a while, when we walked to the Changchun Great Hall, Mao Luan from the Ministry of Industry also came up to salute, because it was only a small court and there were not many officials on the road.

Mao Luan also said a lot, but what he cared about was the cannon in the palace, and he asked Li Xingzhou a lot of questions about the cannon.

This was not a secret at first, because the most secret core of Wangfu Cannon is the material. Li Xingzhou told him that Mao Luan became more and more fascinated by it, and in the end he was deeply moved, saying that the magic cannon should be a weapon of the country.

But then his expression became depressed again, he glanced at Duke De, and said worriedly: "Your Majesty has come to the palace for several days to see His Majesty, just to remember the necessity and power of firearms, to make His Majesty pay attention to them, and to increase the research and improvement of firearms. , In this way, maybe a few years later, the Liao people will be completely defeated. But every time he enters the palace, His Majesty is missing something, and even Chen Zuobiao has no news.

During the last great dynasty, it was very difficult to talk about it in the court, but it was also used by the ministers to be obscene; the imperial army had long-awaited muskets, but it was useless at all, and other reasons to dismiss it."

Speaking of this, Mao Luan sighed: "It's not good to be a humble official, but I don't want to miss such a good opportunity, alas."

Degong nodded. The six departments belonged to the Zhengshitang, which meant that Mao Luan's top official was Degong. He actually told Degong what he said.

"It's not because I don't do anything. I've seen His Majesty twice, but recently His Majesty seems to be too busy studying the knowledge of sages and sages, and has no time to pay attention to it." De Gong said that he was giving Mao Luan an explanation.

"The learning of sages?" Mao Luan was surprised.

De Gong nodded: "Probably they are all the words of the sages, Confucian rites and music, and they often summon Meng Zhiye, Chen Yu and other great Confucian scholars to talk about it." Everyone said as they walked.

"Your Majesty, why are you looking at those?" Mao Luan was puzzled: "I mean that the study of sages should be learned, but it's not the time."

Degong frowned, as if thinking of something, but didn't speak.

"Is the emperor watching "Mencius"?" Li Xingzhou asked.

Degong was surprised, his eyes widened in surprise, and he looked at him in surprise: "It seems that you don't look like a sage, you can guess it!"

"Hahaha, I am a great Confucian in the world." Li Xingzhou joked, but sighed in his heart, it seems that the emperor really wanted to change his words.
When it comes to changing words and sayings, it has to be said that a hundred schools of thought contended in the pre-Qin period.

This is the most important period in Chinese history.

It was also the collision of ideas at that time that shaped the unique core values ​​of the Chinese people. From then on, as long as anyone who agrees with those values ​​can be called "Chinese", regardless of nationality.

Therefore, China has never been a nation-state, but a civilized country. Anyone who recognizes and integrates into Chinese civilization can be called a Chinese.

The famous ones in the pre-Qin period are Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Mohism, etc., and the legalists who finally ended the troubled times and were used by the dynasties in the past dynasties, and the Confucianism was used to educate the world. But in fact this statement is wrong.

"Depose a hundred schools of thought" was only said by Confucian scholars of later generations, especially Confucian scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in order to improve the status of Confucianism. Cannot speak, cannot exist.There are also many theories that have been passed down, such as Taoism and Legalism, which have been passed on for a long time.

The reason why Legalism has endured for so long is that the dynasties of the past dynasties have been Confucianism and internal law, using Confucianism to educate the world externally, and using Legalism's strict kingly laws to rule the world internally.

For example, the famous "fooling the people" policy, many people who don't understand it say it was taught by sour Confucian scholars and Confucius, but in fact it is a legalist statement.

Taoism advocates that "foolish people" are also "foolish rulers". If everyone is stupid, they can return to a natural state that does not require rule or rules.

The starting point of legalism is "human nature is evil", so strict kingly laws are needed to punish and restrain people. Human beings are inherently evil, so they need foolish people. People who don't know anything are best governed.

(End of this chapter)