The rise of the prince

Chapter 341

The development of Confucianism is relatively complete. Through Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi, Confucius mainly talked about benevolence, Mencius mainly talked about justice, and Xunzi talked about self-improvement.

It doesn't matter what you say about Confucius' benevolence and Xunzi's self-improvement, because love and self-improvement cannot be overstated.

But Mencius' "justice" is a big problem.

Zhu Yuanzhang even scolded Mencius, saying that he was not worthy of being a saint, and wanted to remove him from the list of saints. Why?
Because "righteousness" means killing, one person's love is not enough, and killing is also required, such as righteousness killing relatives.

The righteous oracle bone inscription is also a soldier holding a weapon, killing and zooming in is chaos, change, and turmoil.

So emperors are afraid of the word "righteousness".

What's more, Mencius still talked about "justice", so Mencius was a revolutionary among the pre-Qin scholars. He said that if a king is unkind and unrighteous, he is a thief of the people, and to overthrow him is a teacher of justice, which is not wrong.

What frightened the emperor even more was that Mencius admitted that the power of the king was granted by heaven, and at the same time he said, "Heaven sees itself, the people see it, and the sky listens to the sky of the people."

Therefore, all the emperors throughout the history were not afraid of Mencius, they were all afraid that this kind of "justice" would be spread in the world, such was the case with Qin Shihuang's burning of books and burying Confucianism.

But any group will have scum, and with the certification of the times, many unscrupulous Confucian scholars have also discovered that the emperor is afraid of this.

But instead of spreading Mencius' "justice", they began to write books to please the royal family, deliberately using various theories and explanations to misinterpret this "justice". Feeling instilled with new values.

In the Song Dynasty and thereafter, "justice" became "loyalty", and the difference of one word made a world of difference.

Song Confucianism replaced "justice" with "loyalty" is the core of the tragedy of Chinese feudal society.

And now, the old emperor is obviously afraid of this justice and wants to distort it.
"Why did father-in-law praise King Pingnan so much just now?" Shen Sheng asked in a low voice.

They entered the side hall of the Changchun Hall, but not all of them arrived, nor did the emperor.

Yu Chengan smiled, stroked his beard and said: "Li Xingzhou is still the blood of King Xiao in his bones, martial arts and arrogance, if he is allowed to gain power, Jingguo will be in trouble. So I will make a small plan.

A young man like him is full of blood and flamboyant, and if he speaks more good things, his tail will inevitably go up to the sky. He won't understand the so-called truth that a tree will be destroyed by the wind in the forest, so I just use a small trick to lure him Just take the bait. "

"Father-in-law is brilliant!" Shen Sheng bowed.

Yu Chengan supported him, and said with a smile: "Looking at his smug smile just now, he must be complacent in his heart. If you lift him up in the future, you will forget about it. If you give him a high ladder, he will fall to his death by himself." .” As he spoke, he shook his head: “So what if you have a small achievement, so what if you are lucky, you are still too young.”

Shen Sheng also nodded, and then seemed to think of something, his eyes lit up and said: "Father-in-law, my son-in-law has a plan!"

"What's the plan?"

Cansheng looked around, then leaned up and spoke in a low voice.

Yu Chengan nodded again and again, and the expression on his face became more and more joyful.
Li Xingzhou was drowsy when he heard it, he basically didn't have any sense of existence, in fact, the court meeting was nothing more than talking about the settlement of the south, but what worried the emperor most was the news from the north, and the emperor asked several times from above.

Wen Daoli from the Privy Council reassured repeatedly that he had dispatched a hundred meteor horses to go north, and there would be news soon.

Having said that, Li Xingzhou knew from the bottom of his heart that Wen Daoli was probably procrastinating. Such a heavy rain must have caused mountain torrents, landslides, mudslides and other disasters in many places. These were very difficult to repair in ancient times. It is estimated that within a month, News from the north is unlikely.

This really makes many people uneasy, because it will not only bring good news or bad news.

The emperor was furious because of this, and when he was furious, everyone would kneel down to say that His Majesty calmed down, they knelt down, and Li Xingzhou followed suit.

After about an hour like this, Li Xingzhou's feet hurt from standing, and the court meeting finally ended.

Eunuch Fu An shouted to leave the court, and all the officials knelt down and watched the emperor leave, and then left one after another. Generally speaking, the first court visit was very dull, which reminded Li Xingzhou of the drowsiness and fear in high school. The teacher found out and didn't dare to sleep.
In the afternoon, in the scorching summer, the crown prince sat in the gazebo of the mansion and played chess with Mr. Fang. There was iced lotus seed soup by the table, but there was no ice cubes in Mr. Fang's bowl.

Now it's the end of summer, everyone's ice consumption is about the same, ice is precious, even the East Palace has no extra, only the crown prince can use it.

On the chessboard, the crown prince held the black, the general situation was gone, he frowned and didn't know how to make a move. Just at this time, Sun Huan Xiaopao came in: "Your Highness, Mr. Shen Zhizheng Shiyu sent a letter of worship, and he is already waiting in the main hall."

The prince quickly stood up: "Okay, let's go, I'll go see him in person!" Then he said with a look of regret to Mr. Fang: "Today's victory is hard to tell, and I don't want to give up, but at this time Yu Chengan came to see me, he is An important minister of the imperial court, you can't be negligent, and we will decide the outcome with you in the future."

"Your Highness, do as you please." Mr. Fang bowed.

The prince quickly walked out of the small courtyard, and Sun Huan followed.

Mr. Fang looked at the sunspots on the chessboard and shook his head.

In the main hall, when the crown prince saw Yu Chengan, he greeted Yu Chengan for a while, and then asked for tea.

Then he asked what happened.

Yu Chengan hurriedly said: "I'm ashamed to say that it's not a big deal at all. The old man's mansion is running out of ice, and the summer is scorching, and no other family is willing to help. I also think that apart from the palace, the Prince's Mansion is the most noble, so I came to the door I want to ask the prince to give me ice."

The prince was very happy when he heard that, "What's the problem, I will ask someone to fetch it." Then he ordered Sun Huan to fetch ice.

As soon as Sun Huan left, Yu Chengan continued, "Your Highness knows about King Pingnan."

"What are you talking about?" The prince frowned displeased.

"Haha, I just said it casually, but today, during the court meeting, I said a few words to King Pingnan, and found that this person's words and deeds are really arrogant, and he has made great achievements. He is arrogant and arrogant. He became more and more arrogant, considering his seniority, he is also His Highness's nephew, His Highness, as an elder, needs to remind King Pingnan more, if he behaves like this, something will happen sooner or later." Yu Cheng reassured Xu.

The prince stood up all of a sudden, with a smile on his face, and quickly covered it up, saying in disbelief, "What happened? What will happen? King Pingnan is in such a high position now, so how could something happen. My lord, let me scare you."

The corners of Yu Chengan's mouth turned up, and then he spoke with a worried look
It took a while to talk, until Sun Huan brought people back, and two servants carried a large wooden box with wooden sticks, wrapped in thick cotton wool.

"My lord, put the ice in the ice cellar as soon as it arrives at home," Sun Huan ordered.

Yu Chengan nodded, then bowed his hands and said goodbye, and took the two out of the East Palace.

(End of this chapter)