If I am not a Confucian saint, I will set off a revolution

"Point?"

The Holy Emperor waved his hand: "It's okay, do as you said."

Saying that, the Holy Emperor got up, and the tomb of heroes under him disappeared, and the previous throne appeared instead.

And the clothes on his body also changed for a while, back to the original normal clothes.

Seeing this, Baiguan breathed a sigh of relief.

Then start communicating.

"Although such an official position with no rank or rank, how can it be held by a lowly family?"

"Yes! From my point of view, Mr. Lin Ke is still young and ignorant, and he still can't grasp it. Why don't you let me do it."

"It's impossible to give him an honorary title, right? How can he get this honorary title if he is not a family member or an imperial examination path?"

"Although he can read poems, he hasn't passed the children's exam yet."

Hundreds of officials and ministers whispered to each other, regardless of whether they belonged to Lin Xuanji or not, they were all discussing one issue.

The gift can't be ignored!

Although Lin Ke broke common sense and became a special official, this has become an established fact.

Now that it has been settled, Baiguan will not offend the Holy Emperor, but is considering a solution.

To be an official, Lin Ke must have honorable status, or at least ordinary status.

What needs to be resolved now is to determine where Lin Ke is from.

"I think it should be respected, Confucianism." Qi Tianxia was the first to speak: "Lin Ke's talent, everyone knows it."

Qi Tianxia, ​​as Minister of the Ministry of War, is one of the most powerful people in the world.

Behind him, there are not only his own party members and disciples, but also all kinds of strong men in the army.

All kinds of generals, marshals, commanders, etc. are all under his command, so it can be said that he is an extremely human minister.

When he opened his mouth, like Lin Xuanji, there was a one-shot effect.

Unless, Lin Xuanji also spoke.

"Pingji, Miscellaneous." Lin Xuanji has experienced so much, but he is still silent, as if he was not the one who was scolded by the heroic spirit before: "Lin Ke has learned miscellaneous, and it happens to be this miscellaneous."

First-rate physiognomy master, second-rate craftsman, third-rate warrior, fourth-rate merchant, fifth-rate doctor, sixth-rate soldier, and the rest are miscellaneous.

Go up to the third class and respect the people.

Sixth Form, common people.

Low class, untouchables.

Qi Tianxia believed that Lin Ke should be the most honorable Confucian person in the world.

Lin Xuanji thought that Lin Ke should be an ordinary miscellaneous person.

Ever since, the leaders on both sides spoke, and the younger brothers naturally started to argue.

After all, the Holy Emperor at this time is not "Hero Tomb Saint Emperor", but "Normal Form Saint Emperor".

The Holy Emperor in this form will not prohibit them from communicating with each other.

"Taoism and Buddhism are not bad." Minister of Taoism and Buddhism smiled and said: "Lin Ke is a Taoist and a Buddha, and it happens to be both."

"Military status is also available, just joined the army, just like the old guy Qi Tianxia." Shangshu Xingbu said indifferently.

"Confucianism."

"Warriors can also."

Everyone communicated, this time the anger between each other was much lower, perhaps because of the previous actions of the Holy Emperor and the spit of the heroic spirits, which made them less tempered.

However, the Holy Emperor ignored them.

Instead, he looked at the Grand Master: "Grand Master, Xuan."

The grand master nodded, facing all the officials, said: "The second suggestion is harsh etiquette."

The words of the grand master silenced all the officials.

Even Lin Xuanji and Qi Tianxia lost their voices for a moment.

"Harsh rituals?!"

"Change the etiquette system?!"

It turns out that the Holy Emperor made so many preparations to change the etiquette system? !

The greatest trade-off between imperial power and scholar-bureaucrats is etiquette!
Ritual is the order that restrains people.

If everyone aspires to the Tao of Lao Zhuang, the world will be full of selfishness and destruction.

You yearn for mountains and forests and occupy a mountain.

He wants to fly like a celestial being and walk around the world.

Then more and more people, more and more.

No one is farming, what do you eat?
No one builds a house, so what do you live in?
No one is acting, what are you watching?
What Confucius wanted was the rituals of Zhou hundreds of years ago, and what Lao Tzu wanted was the primitive society tens of thousands of years ago.

The society is stagnant, there are no new novels, no new technology, what I grab is mine, there are no restrictions and laws, and the vegetables you grow are also mine.

I am that extreme free.

This is unrealistic.

However, push forward hundreds of years and rule the country with legalism?
impersonal.

Some hawkers struggle to survive, but are punished by various laws.

Some people have not committed a crime, but they have done something utterly devoid of conscience, and the law cannot punish them.

This is the law.

The core of Confucius' etiquette is not etiquette or law, but benevolence.

Rites without benevolence are harsh rituals.

Xunzi also discovered this in the end, so he advocated the combination of etiquette and law.

Formulate detailed laws, what can and cannot be done.

At the same time, human behavior is also bound by etiquette.

Constraint, not restraint, not control.

A car overturned, and the watermelon in it rolled down and fell to the ground.

Taoism tells everyone that there is no need to be restrained, do whatever you want, and be free.

Legalists told everyone that if the law stipulates, they can't move, but if there are loopholes in the law, or there are gray areas, then they can go and take these watermelons.

And the law, after all, cannot stipulate everything.

And so, Li was born.

Ritual is the restraint of man to himself.

It is the constraint of morality on oneself.

When a cart of watermelons rolls down, you can choose to ignore them, or you can choose to help, help the owner of the watermelon, pick up the watermelon and return it to the owner of the watermelon.

If you drop someone else's wallet on the ground, you can choose to "be as casual as an animal in the forest, and feel that everything you see is a natural gift", and then pick up the wallet as your own.

You can also check to see if there is a law that "prohibits taking wallets on the ground". If there is no such law, just pick it up and leave. Someone else dropped it."

Of course, you can also use etiquette to restrain yourself.

The law does not prohibit it, but my morals prohibit me from doing this kind of thing.

I don't take whatever I want, and I don't do whatever the law says.

This is the restriction of etiquette.

Between absolute freedom and absolute restraint, I chose relative restraint and relative freedom.

Therefore, having the ritual of benevolence is the best solution after a hundred schools of thought contend.

The literati and bureaucrats also agree with this point.

This is also a point that they often practice in their way of being officials.

As a courtier, I can do my duty honestly and do things in a down-to-earth manner according to the rules.

However, with the constraints of etiquette, I have higher requirements for myself, and I want to do things for the people with all my heart.

This is the function of ritual.

The literati and the bureaucrats emphasize equality.

The emperor can naturally override everything, but the scholar-officials naturally don't have to respect etiquette for those who kill courtiers at will.

This is also a sense of rights and obligations.

Therefore, when the Holy Emperor said that he wanted to change the rituals, it was equivalent to saying that he wanted to change the hearts of the people in the world.

For example, people in the world now feel that Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are noble.

If the Holy Emperor changed his "rituals", Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism might become inferior.

The most important thing is that now, the Holy Emperor calls this kind of "ritual" harsh ritual! (end of this chapter)