A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 166 Thought Collision, Various Schools of Thought

Among the four ministers of the state of Jin, the Zhi clan was originally the strongest. According to normal circumstances, it should be the Zhi clan that merged the Zhao clan, and then annexed several others.However, due to the powerful strength, Zhishi was blindfolded and did not see the danger.

The Zhi family led the Han family and the Wei family to attack the Zhao family. The Zhi family was the central army, and the Wei family and the Han family were the left and right armies. Once Han and Wei rebelled, the Zhi family would face a double attack.

Sure enough, the Zhi family attacked Zhao, and the Zhao family held firm for two years without breaking it. Han Wei didn't want to. Seeing this situation, he also had a different idea in his heart.

At this time, the Zhao family came here, and it could be said that they hit it off. Immediately, taking advantage of the darkness, the Han and Wei families opened the gates to release water, flooding the Zhi family's camp. The Han, Zhao and Wei families took advantage of the situation to attack, and the Zhi family was defeated.Immediately afterwards, the three families joined forces to destroy the Zhi family and divide up the Zhi family's fiefdom.

After the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei attacked Zhishi, they took advantage of the trend to carve up other territories of Jin.The three families saw that since the Zhi family had been exterminated, they simply would not do anything and continue to stand on their own.

The three families of Han, Zhao and Wei paid tribute to Zhou Tianzi and asked to be canonized as princes.Zhou Tianzi saw that the general situation of Han, Zhao and Wei had been established, and even if he didn't admit it, it would have no effect, so he accepted the tribute and followed suit to recognize the three families as princes.

The consequences of the division of the three families into the Jin Dynasty were greater than those caused by the Qi family's extermination of the fields.The rituals and music that had already collapsed were completely messed up.

The Qingshi family can replace the government office and become a prince. This operation suddenly made other Qingshi families in the world ready to move, and at the same time made the princes and officials frightened.

So in the next few years, more than a dozen turmoil broke out between the princes' offices and the Qingshi's family among the states of Bang and Zhou, and wars broke out everywhere in the world for a while.

The state of Qin felt that after the separation of the three Jin families, the time had come for them to go east, so they commanded a large army to attack Hangu Pass, but it was a pity that the terrain of Hangu Pass was dangerous.

The cruel war completely threw all the propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame into the garbage dump. The chaos in the world made Huai country a rare place of stability. Seeing the chaos in the world, the displacement of the people, and the loss of a large number of people in the war, many people who cared about the world wanted to find a way to restore stability in the world.

As a result, Huaiguo Academy has attracted a large number of scholars. These people either want to restore peace to the world, or want to enrich the country and strengthen the army, or want to promote their own ideas, so they come to the Academy one after another, wanting to find the answer.

Under such circumstances, the great debate on Zhuxia's thoughts broke out in Huaiguo Academy.Subsequently, a large number of various schools of thought have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

In the school palace, because Lao Tzu and Confucius served successively as sacrificial wine, there are many disciples of Lao Tzu and Confucius in the school palace. In addition, Huai State is the birthplace of Legalism, so the number of disciples of the three schools is the largest. Coupled with the collision of thinking, some other schools of thought emerged.This made the academy very prosperous.

Zijue established a school at the beginning, and after 400 years of development, it has grown stronger, and the collision of ideas and the emergence of schools have also provided Zijue with a lot of luck. This situation was unexpected even for Zijue back then.

At this time, in the academy, two groups of people are having a heated debate, and the two sides have completely different views on the wars in the world today.

On one side is the disciple of Confucius, who is loudly expounding his point of view at this time: "Continuous disputes in the world are due to the collapse of rituals and music. Those princes have no faith, officials have no righteousness, and violate etiquette. This makes the world chaotic, and the princes attack each other. Even the officials become bigger and replace the public office."

"If everyone in the world abides by etiquette and keeps everyone safe, how can it be like this?"

The Taoist disciple next to him sneered after hearing this: "Since the Duke of Zhou has practiced Zhouli for more than [-] years, he has entrusted the whole world to carry out Zhouli, but is there a time when the world will be stable?"

"Besides, who is the one who destroys the rituals of Zhou? The emperor of Zhou also, the emperor does not respect the rituals of Zhou, let alone let the people of the world abide by it. This is against human nature. From this point of view, the collapse of rituals and music is the common will of the subjects of the world. The world is so vast, how can you alone stop it?"

"Then according to what you said, just ignore it and let it develop along with the trend and intensify? At that time, the world will be in chaos, disputes will continue, and the people will be displaced. Is this what you call letting nature take its course?" Confucian disciples sneered.

"Restrain it with the law!" The legalist student next to him said directly: "Since the establishment of Bangzhou, all countries have believed that punishments cannot be known, and power cannot be measured. They don't know that unknown rewards and punishments are the way to bring disaster. People and officials only need to flatter the monarch."

"If you want the world to be stable, you should restrain it with usage."

"Rewards and punishments are clearly defined. Rewards are based on meritorious deeds. Those who have meritorious deeds must be rewarded, and those who have done wrong must be punished. If people don't dare to cross the distance, the world will be safe."

The Confucian scholar smiled and said, "If your father broke the law, what would you do?"

The legalist said immediately: "If the father breaks the law, he can do it himself. You can't hide it. The son needs to make meritorious service to atone for his crime."

The Confucian scholar sneered and said: "The lamb kneels and sucks, the crow feeds back, and the beast knows the grace of nurturing. You have done so far, and the beast is not as good as it!"

Hearing the words of the Confucian scholar, the legalists in the academy were enraged, and they accused one after another:

"The state of Jin has repeatedly helped the Zhou family, but they are blood relatives of the Zhou family. Now the three families are divided into Jin, and the Zhou family canonized the Qing family as vassals. Is this what you call relative concealment? Is this what you call Zhou rituals?"

"Besides, when you came to the academy, you were still from Jin. Today, the state of Jin fell to the hands of Han, Zhao, and Wei. It is really shameless for you to sit in the academy like this. Since you pay attention to Zhou etiquette and your family and country are ruined, why don't you Confucian scholars go to die for your country?"

According to the philosophy of Confucianism, family, country, father and son are an important concept, and they are the foundation of ritual and music. He told the affairs of the Jin state seriously, and he was indeed wronged, and he was in a mess for a while.

Other Confucian scholars argued: "There are wise monarchs in the world, and there are also unwise monarchs. Although we have the idea of ​​serving the country, but the monarch does not use it."

Although Confucianism advocates the monarch and minister, father and son, but the obligations are two-way.It's just that Confucianism has too high moral requirements for people. If everyone has such high moral standards, the world can indeed be ruled, but it's a pity that this is just a delusion after all.

The concept of legalism is more suitable for today's world. Legalism has clear legislation, right and wrong, clear rewards and punishments, meritorious rewards and demerit punishments, open and fair, and easier to accept for ruling.

Of course, legalism is not without flaws, that is, the monarch is above the law, and the will of the monarch can change the law. If the monarch is wise, he will naturally not change the law arbitrarily, but if the monarch is stupid and absurd, then the law can no longer guarantee its fairness and reasonableness.

There was a lot of commotion in the academy, but it didn't affect the footsteps of the nations, and the world was still in chaos.

(End of this chapter)