My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 734 If you ask me, they are all scum.

"However, the result will be just as Confucius said: listen to what he says, but also watch what he does."

Talking is the easiest thing, all you have to do is open your mouth; saying nice words is not difficult either.

But the key is to see how they do it.

When the doctors heard Fusu answer them with Confucius' words, they were all convinced and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

When the doctors left, Chen Ping felt very unhappy.

This was different from what he thought. So far, no monsters or demons had appeared to cause trouble. This was unreasonable.

To create an era in which the people produce the fruits of their own labor and then enjoy the fruits of their labor themselves, one must go through considerable torture.

How could it be so easy to let a group of doctors educate the historians who have been passed down for hundreds of generations, and to educate the rich young men who have been recommended to be admitted to the school.

It's like applying wood sap to stone to make it behave like wood.

Simply put, it's a waste of effort.

After Fusu met with the seventy-two doctors, he returned to the Zhangtai Palace. Almost everyone around him had a lot to say.

But everyone just bowed their heads, they wanted to say something but couldn't. This matter was done too smoothly, just like digging a channel in the grassland, as long as the channel is dug, water will flow along the channel by itself.

It's not that simple.

Chen Ping also kept his mouth shut and no one spoke.

After spending a few dull days, seeing the sun rise and set several times, and eating a few meals, the previous passion for reform slowly disappeared.

Instead, there is a sense of panic, uneasiness, and uncertainty.

And Fusu actually handed over such a big matter to the seventy-two doctors so casually.

Seeing that Fusu had completed the cultural and educational reforms and turned around to read the memorial on the reform of the military merit system, Chen Ping wondered at that moment if he had followed the wrong person.

The emperor of the Qin Dynasty was such a simple-minded person. He was totally unaware of the difficulty and importance of this matter. He just handed it over to a group of doctors of the Five Classics and thought that the reform was a success?
How can this be done?
Chen Ping was a little anxious. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether the emperor he followed was really confused or just pretending to be confused.

After holding his breath for an incense stick, Shao Ping saw that the time was up, so he stood up and left. He felt that he still had to observe and see, as it was just the beginning and there was no need to rush.

Xianyang is Shao Ping's home. He doesn't want to leave Xianyang or join someone else.

But Chen Ping is different. He is always ready for changes. He knows what kind of era this is and what the people at the bottom have become.

Unlike the dignitaries in the court, Chen Ping, a young man from a remote village, had seen too many scenes of cannibalism among the lower classes. He found those cultural and educational reforms and moral propaganda absurd - even unbelievable.

In fact, Chen Ping was born a little late. If he had met Han Fei, the two of them would have had a spiritual resonance.

They know what reality is.

How should I put it? Fusu was still too advanced.

Fusu's ideas were too advanced and his goals were too lofty, which was not wrong in itself. However, in such an era where human life was disregarded, if he could not come up with effective and concrete measures, these ideas would be like bubbles in the water and illusions in dreams.

Fusu's goals were so high that many people thought he was too idealistic.

In the past, everyone always said, don’t try to change the world. People cannot change others, let alone the environment. They can only adapt themselves to the environment.

But Fusu wanted to change people.

It's very ridiculous.

Thinking about the fact that I have been following Fusu for almost six years.

During the six years he followed Fusu, he never fully utilized his talents.

Although Fusu treated Chen Ping very well and treated him very well, he actually never gave Chen Ping what he wanted.

Chen Ping's talent has been less than 10% utilized so far.

He had long felt that he had been buried by Fusu's side, and that his talents and abilities were far more than what he had shown so far.

This can be seen from the past treatment of Zhao Gao. When Zhao Gao met Chen Ping, he was simply a scumbag.

But after that, Chen Ping had nothing much to do. Not only was Fusu smart, but he also always kept something in reserve.

Chen Ping always felt that he was not very happy with such a high salary.

Because of this, he has been depressed for a while.

Originally, the new emperor of the Qin Empire ascended the throne, and everyone was looking forward to seeing Fusu do something, wanting to create a better world.

However, the national administrative goal proposed by the emperor was to enable people to improve themselves.

The more Chen Ping thought about it, the more scared he became. Not only would there be a lot of criticism from the public, but many people would also take the opportunity to cause trouble.

Because it is so beautiful and ideal.

In this world, there are many bad guys who cannot stand the light of day and do not want others to live a good life.

When they see good-looking people, they slander the women as whores and the men as thieves. When they see other families living happily, they spread rumors and slander them vigorously. They belittle and blacken the rich men with extraordinary looks into pancake sellers, and belittle the women who have a close relationship with their husbands as whores.

When they see someone is extremely wealthy, they will spread rumors and slander him without any reason.

Taking people as the goal, rather than the means, makes people more self-sufficient. Yes, such a goal is great and beautiful.

But did the Second Emperor know that the despicable nature of human beings cannot be solved by listening to a few verses from scriptures or talking about a few moral principles?

In the Zhangtai Palace, the mermaid's eternal lamp was burning with a crackling sound.

The warm spring breeze blew through the door and touched the gauze curtains in the blink of an eye.

The emperor's eyebrows were tightly furrowed on his young face.

Chen Ping looked at the emperor worriedly. In fact, the emperor didn't have to bear many things alone. There were many people behind him, but he thought he was too lonely.

Or maybe he was too advanced and I couldn't understand him.

After all, although I can understand his thinking, it is too novel.

He could have gone into academia, found a place to write books quietly, without worrying about food and drink, and not worrying about worldly affairs. Why did he have to wade into this mess?

Outside the palace gate, a row of bamboos were swaying in the wind, and the bamboo poles were swaying and colliding with each other.

In the dead of night, listening to the sound of pine waves hitting the shore in the palace is the most elegant of all elegant things.

Fusu came to his senses and suddenly saw Chen Ping staring at him.

"what you do?"

Chen Ping wiped the sweat off his forehead. He felt that he needed to talk to this ideal emperor about reality.

"I have something in my heart that I want to talk to Your Majesty alone."

Fusu looked up at the two palace maids who were waiting below to help him undress. The two palace maids stared at Chen Ping. They had also heard some rumors between the emperor and Chen Ping.

It is said that the two of them walked into the rockery with calm expressions, and then one of them walked out of the rockery with a red face.

The two young palace maids looked at the two men with eyes that seemed to see through everything, and then tiptoed away.

In other words, Fusu had a good temper, which would never happen to other emperors.

In fact, Fusu probably knew what Chen Ping was thinking. He had also thought about what Chen Ping was thinking. They were limited by the experience of the times and did not dare to make such assumptions.

But Fusu was different. He had ways, and quite a lot of them.

Considering that Chen Ping will be his most capable assistant in the future, Fusu still gave him the opportunity to express himself.

"Your Majesty, these doctors speak very logically and even say that they want to eliminate all lawsuits in the world." Chen Ping said this with disdain on his face.

Mainly, bragging is one of the things that Chen Ping despises in his life.

No matter how great Confucius was, due to the timeline, to Chen Ping, he was just an old man who died more than seventy years ago.

Confucius was a man who relied on his strong body to lead dozens of strong men to preach, and he loved to brag and talk about everything. Chen Ping was not into those kinds of worship. He admired Laozi, a noble man who saw through human nature, understood the way of the universe, and left after accomplishing his mission.

However, in order to disguise himself, Chen Ping still said some hypocritical words, "I think Confucius's virtue is high enough. But Confucius didn't do it, and I think his descendants can only talk about it."

"And your majesty, you should also listen to their stories. Kong Yu is very arrogant, and he will stay away from disciples with low moral character and will not teach them."

"Chun Yuyue is old. Sometimes he would forget what he had taught during class. He would repeat the lessons he had taught a few days ago to his students. He also didn't know how to teach people. He could only repeat spells over and over again. Students would get headaches and become afraid when they saw him open his mouth."

"There's no need to talk about Zhou Qingchen. He actually arranged the seats for the princes. Those who are close to you and know how to please you, let them sit in the first row, and the rest will sit in the last row."

"That Fu Sheng often likes to take students out for classes. In the name of taking students out to cultivate their temperament, in fact, he simply doesn't like to give lectures and prefers to travel around."

"These PhDs often get together. Instead of marking assignments, they play chess, drink, and sing every day."

"Perhaps they think such days are elegant and life is wonderful. But to be honest, Your Majesty, if these people were really useful, they would have achieved great things decades ago, and the six kingdoms would not have been destroyed."

Chen Ping's eyes were indeed sharp.

Things that seem very normal, reasonable and natural in the eyes of others are the source of problems in Chen Ping's eyes.

"The masters are busy cultivating themselves and enjoying life all day long, and they only talk big about governing the country. The disciples only learn the superficial knowledge and never learn the real things."

"All you can do is talk, not action."

"Confucian disciples have long since departed from Confucius' teachings. Confucius practiced what he preached, traveling around the world to preach and influence others. He once endured the wind and rain, was besieged by the armies of two countries, and had no food for several days."

"Confucius chose to endure hardships and preach at the same time, so people were willing to believe in Confucius. The reason why Mozi was respected by later generations was because he bent down to the farmland and helped the farmers do their work."

"But nowadays, most of the Confucian disciples are obsessed with the six arts of a gentleman, living a life of luxury and have long since turned their backs on the people."

"When they become scholars, they turn their backs on the people. It is impossible for them to work for the people for free. As for their actions, they will become more and more detached from the people as they are corrupted by money and interests."

"The scholars nowadays are full of nonsense. They don't even know how to plant a crop. Moreover, many doctors studied to become superior people, not to help other weak people become as strong as themselves."

"Your Majesty, you think too highly of these five classics scholars. You talk about the seventy-two scholars of the Qin Dynasty, but in fact they are the ministers who lost the country. They did not make any achievements in the past, and they can do even less in Qin."

"The state is wasting its salaries by supporting them."

Fusu's eyes flashed with coldness, "Do you know how many crimes they can accuse you of with what you said?"

"There is a dark element in human character."

Chen Ping: "It's unbelievable that such words would come out of your Majesty's mouth."

"I actually know everything you're talking about, but I never realized how big of a problem it was."

"I know you've always wanted to do something big, but now is not the time."

"You can see it yourself. Those doctors are pampered and boastful, but they are all talk and no action. The public has sharp eyes, and I think they will not be able to stand it."

When Chen Ping heard these words, the anger in his heart disappeared.

"In fact, I am against Your Majesty's use of this method to rectify the administration of officials, not only because Your Majesty chose to hand this matter over to those doctors who have strayed from the group, but also because I think it is unlikely that those adults will be educated again."

II: “Oh?”

Chen Ping: "Your Majesty, think about it. Let these doctors teach some young children under ten years old. Children are kind-hearted by nature. Most of the young masters grew up in the palace and have not been exposed to the world. They have not been polluted too much."

"If we teach more and spend more time on it, the results will be easily apparent."

"But now they are going to teach a group of adults. Some of the students in the school have already started families, and some have been working in the government for many years."

Gan Luo became a senior minister at the age of thirteen. There were countless young people in the Qin State who started to serve as officials at the age of thirteen because of their family influence.

The gap between people is greater than that between people and dogs. And this innate gap is basically determined by the social status of the family into which they are born.

Children from poor families were herding sheep at the age of seven or eight, and when they got married at the age of fifteen, they went to the battlefield to be cannon fodder.

Children from wealthy families learn to read and write at the age of seven or eight, and begin to follow their fathers into officialdom at the age of thirteen. When they are seventeen, they go to the academy to study law based on the number of words they know, and then they can naturally get an official position in the court.

In this situation, let the doctors of the Five Classics teach such people to treat illiterate common people well, to guide them to abide by the law, and to give them justice.

Is this really realistic? Is this true?
"Your Majesty, do you think it is possible to let the Five Classics doctors teach these historians and their relatives, so that they will not be impartial and serve the people?"

"There is only one Mozi and one Confucius in this world."

Chen Ping still believed what Laozi said, "When it comes to morality, the lower class will laugh. Your Majesty is determined to spread the classics and enlighten the people. I am afraid this is the beginning of bad things. The classics will not be valued because of your Majesty's widespread dissemination, but will be despised because of your majesty's widespread dissemination."

"If Your Majesty were to teach these Qin officials to be moral and fair to the people, I'm afraid that after they take office, they would despise these things even more and develop a dislike for them."

"Your Majesty, you once said that some things are better left unsaid. Once said, they will immediately have the opposite effect."

Fusu: "So what? You want me to use Laozi's method to abolish rewards and punishments in the world. In the past, those who were virtuous were rewarded, and those who were wrong were severely punished."

"According to Laozi, people feel that it is unfair because some people escape punishment while others have to be punished for the same mistakes."

"Some people commit thefts but some are not exposed, while others are. Those who are exposed feel that society is unfair, while those who are not exposed can feel that again."

"Similarly, people do good deeds. Some people do good deeds but are not seen by others, or do good deeds but are not rewarded by others; while some people do good deeds and are rewarded and praised by everyone."

"So, people feel that society is unfair."

"You want me to adopt Laozi's governance methods, but have you ever thought about what Laozi meant by what he said? If we really follow the scripture and formulate national policies according to what Laozi said, what will happen?"

Chen Ping stared at Fusu blankly and stopped talking.

“In fact, good and evil, right and wrong, rewards and punishments, fairness and unfairness, these are all opposing viewpoints that arise when people are attached to appearances.”

“Humans are conceptual animals, living in a world of concepts.”

"What you want to solve is the problem of people's concepts?"

Chen Ping was shocked, "How is this possible?"

But then, Chen Ping broke out in sweat.

"Have you ever thought about what the ultimate form of human social development will be like?"

Chen Ping: “What should that look like?”

“It goes beyond concepts.”

"This is impossible." Chen Ping felt like his world was turned upside down.

Fusu originally wanted to tell him a verse, which is to stay away from upside-down dreams and ultimately achieve Nirvana.

Stay away from this upside-down fantasy world, and finally reach the state of nirvana.

But think about the level of decline in that era. Physics was not well developed, microscopic chemistry had not yet started, and human knowledge was still quite limited. If you tell him these classics, he will not believe them because he cannot verify them with science and physics.

Chen Ping sat there for a long time, and cold sweat broke out on his body.

Because when he was chatting with Fusu face to face, through Fusu, he had a moment of realization - the power of emptiness.

It is neither nothing nor something.

It’s just such a magical power, or feeling.

"Do you really believe that you can make people reach this state?"

"No, I don't believe it."

"It's because everyone wants to pursue a happy life, and everyone wants to get rid of pain."

"If they want to live an ideal life, they must get out of their own way and overcome their own weaknesses."

“It’s not that I believe humans will reach this state, but the ideal state of life that humans pursue, when it reaches its peak, is this state.”

"Even if I don't come out to lead them to do this, many of them will seek these truths on their own, because human beings are born to pursue happiness."

[See "Adlerian Psychology", "Diamond Sutra", "Tao Te Ching"]

(End of this chapter)