Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 991
After the Royal Great Ceremony was over, Qingji hosted a banquet for the officials and ministers inside and outside the Funing Hall.

This grand palace banquet is destined to be difficult.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

The slightly drunk Yushi Zhongchengbo, his eyes wandered for a while, so he came to the red carpet, knelt down towards Qingji, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I have a sentence, I don't know whether to say it or not. ?”

"But it doesn't matter."

"At that time, the land of Wu was only a few hundred miles away. His Majesty Lai's gods and sages pacified the sea and exiled the barbarians. Under the sun and the moon, they were all obedient. With the princes as counties, everyone can enjoy themselves without the danger of war. It will be passed on forever. Since ancient times, it has not been as powerful as His Majesty!"

Bo Tong sang praises to Qingji, which made Qingji feel a little smug for a while.

As the saying goes, who doesn't like to hear the words of flattery and flattery to oneself?

However, before Qingji could be happy, Zuo Chancellor Kong Qiu stood up very untimely and said to Qingji, "Your Majesty, I have heard that the king of Yin and Zhou is a thousand years old, and he has made his son a meritorious official, and he will be his assistant."

"Your Majesty now has domestic affairs, and his children are ordinary people. He has three Huan and six ministers, and he has no assistants. How can we save each other?"

"Those who do not learn from the past but can last for a long time are unheard of. Today, Bo Tong is flattering His Majesty's faults, and he is not a loyal minister."

"..."

What Confucius said was not only criticizing Bo Tong for flattering and flattering Qingji, but also led to a very sensitive topic——

Shigu?

Teacher today?

Will the State of Wu continue to implement the system of prefectures and counties, or will it be divided up like the Zhou Dynasty?
Qingji remained calm, and said slowly, "Second and third sons, what do you think about what Confucius said?"

"What Prime Minister Zuo said, Damu also!"

Deng Xi, who paid homage to Prime Minister You, stood up immediately, bowed to Qingji and said: "Your Majesty, the five emperors will not return to each other, and the three generations will not attack each other. Each is governed by its own method. It is not the opposite. Time changes."

"Your Majesty has created a great cause today, and the achievements of the world are beyond the knowledge of foolish scholars."

"Besides, Qiu Yan is a matter of three generations, so what is the law? At different times, the princes are fighting with each other, so they recruit and study abroad."

"Today, it has been decided, and the decree will be issued. Li Shu will be in charge of agriculture and industry, and the scholars will learn the decree and ban it."

"Today's students don't learn from the present, but learn from the past. If they are not in the present, they will confuse the head of Guizhou."

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister You analyzed the dead words of ignorance: In ancient times, the world was scattered and chaotic, and there was no one who could be unified. It was written by the princes together. The words are all the way of the past to harm the present. They pretend to be false to confuse the truth. People are good at what they learn privately, and they are not what the superiors say. Establish!"

"Today the emperor does not own the world, so don't settle for one."

"Private learning and illegal teaching. When people hear the order, they will discuss it based on their own learning. If they enter, they will be wrong, and if they go out, they will discuss it. Praise the master for fame, take differences as high, and lead the group to create slander!"

"If you can't ban it like this, the dominant power will come down to the top, and the party will succeed in the bottom. Therefore, the minister thinks that the ban is convenient, so that Confucian scholars dare not talk and slander the state affairs!"

"hiss!"

When all the ministers and officials heard Deng Xi's statement, they couldn't help but gasped and were shocked.

Deng Xi was even more ruthless, directly making use of the topic, accusing Confucian scholars of attacking state affairs.

As early as a few years ago, the Legalists headed by Deng Xi and the Confucians headed by Kong Qiu started to fight each other, and they didn't see each other right.

Wu's five major schools are: Confucianism, Law, Taoism, Ming, and military.

It is nothing but Confucianism and Legalism that are popular in the ruling and opposition parties.

Scholars of these two schools often bicker and criticize each other.

For these things, Qing Ji is aware of them, but has been ignoring them.

"Deng Xi, how to ban such incidents?"

"Your Majesty, I ask the historian to burn all the books that are not recorded by Wu. If you are not a doctoral officer, anyone who dares to collect poems, books, and a hundred languages ​​in the world will keep them and burn them!"

Deng Xi said sternly: "Those who dare to speak poems and books abandon the market. Those who think that the past is not the present are the same as those who do not know what the officials know."

"Order not to burn for [-] days, and tattoos are city dan. Those who don't go are books on medicine, divination and planting trees. If you want to learn laws and regulations, take officials as teachers!"

"..."

Burning books?
Qingji fell into deep thought for a while.

"Deng Xi! How dare you say such words that harm the country and the people?"

Kong Qiu gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty has set up government schools in various places before, and opened up the way of speaking, allowing scholars to discuss politics. How dare you propose such a treasonous thing to His Majesty now?"

"Your Majesty once said in the early years that throughout his life: establish a heart for the world, establish a life for the people, inherit the knowledge of the past, and create peace for all generations!"

"If I, the Great Wu, burn books, why do I think that the sages will continue to learn? As for the theory of establishing one's heart, establishing one's life, and opening up peace, it is even more nonsense!"

Hearing this, Qing Ji waved his hands and said, "Zhen, I must not do this."

"His Majesty……"

"Stop discussing again!"

"promise."

Seeing Qing Ji's persistence, Deng Xi could only sigh helplessly.

In history, Qin Shihuang burned books in order to control his mind, or to unify his mind.

But thinking is boundless, the more you try to suppress it, the more you will be backlashed.

In view of this, Qingji has long been "bad", and even opened up his voice, allowing scholars to have the right to discuss politics.

Kong Qiu continued to bite the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, I think that in view of the national conditions of our Great Wu, we should implement the system of enfeoffment and parallel system of prefectures and states!"

"Thanks to His Majesty's majesty, my Wu Kingdom has gnawed away whales from a small southeast country with a territory of hundreds of miles, and achieved a unified dynasty!"

"However, there is no peace in the world! Fulongxi, Yuyang, Dai, and even in the Central Plains, the hearts of the people have not yet surrendered, and there may be rebellions!"

"For this reason, Your Majesty should follow the example of the ancient times, entrust the princes or meritorious officials to establish a country there, and build a country by feuding the country!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhi Su Nei Shi Zeng pointed out and said: "Your Majesty, what Prime Minister Zuo said is absolutely true!"

"In the era of the Yellow Emperor, the feudal lords came here to serve as guests, and Xian respected Xuanyuan as the son of heaven. The Yellow Emperor set up the left and right supervisors, and supervised them in all countries. From Tang, Yu to Zhou, the emperors and princes divided and ruled!"

"This will greatly consolidate my Great Wu's rule!"

"What Zhisu Neishi said, Da Miao!"

Deng Xi retorted: "The etiquette education advocated by Confucianism has long been outdated and out of date. After King Wu defeated Zhou and ruled the world on behalf of the Shang, the Zhou family wantonly entrusted their children and meritorious officials as vassals. What is the result?"

"Times have changed and people's hearts have changed. The princes no longer obeyed the orders of the emperor of Zhou, and attacked each other. The wars continued, resulting in the loss of life and sorrow."

"Fortunately, Your Majesty was born to wipe out the nations and make the whole country belong to one family."

"Now you are instigating Your Majesty to split the territory and make the children and heroes feudal and establish the country. What is your intention?"

"Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? Doesn't it make the unfortunate things that happened to the Zhou royal family happen in my Great Wu?"

"Why the Zhou family was destroyed, the second and third sons all know it well!"

In Deng Xi's view, the restoration of the enfeoffment system advocated by Confucian ministers such as Confucius and Zeng Dian was completely regressing history.

Let the state of Wu repeat the mistakes of the royal family of Zhou!
(End of this chapter)