My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 1008: Why not ask the people about their opinions instead of asking the saints? My uncle must have other intentions!
Ying Chengjiao's name was Zong Zheng, but he actually did the work of Feng Chang, Shao Fu and Jiang Zuo Shao Fu.

Ying Le's name was Fengchang, but due to the absence of Ying Chengjiao, he had to do the work of Zongzheng.

In everyone's eyes, Ying Le is usually a cheerful, smiling, mysterious and reliable good old man. Even when Ying Zheng wanted to exchange the position of Fengchang for interests and let Ying Le retire early, Ying Le gladly accepted it without any argument.

But since Ying Le began to manage the royal family on behalf of Ying Chengjiao, Ying Le gradually became powerful. When the Qin royal hospital was extended to Guanzhong area, Ying Le showed a toughness, coldness and madness that made everyone feel unfamiliar!

Under Ying Le's order, all women of childbearing age in the Qin royal family, including but not limited to wives, princesses, concubines, female officials, and maids, no matter where they were, had to return to Xianyang City to study obstetrics and suturing skills full-time, and after making some progress, they had to rush to Qin hospitals across Guanzhong to participate in childbirth work.

All males of appropriate age, including princes, grandsons of nobles, eunuchs, and castrated men of the Qin royal family, except those holding important positions (except Ying Chengjiao), had to study the art of raising pigs full-time, and then go to various places in Guanzhong to assist the court in distributing pigs to the people and teaching the people how to raise pigs.

Those who disobey orders, those who are lazy, those who pretend to obey but actually disobey, those who destroy the reputation of the royal family, and those who take advantage of the opportunity to steal credit and cultivate their own confidants.

Expelled from the family tree! Demoted to a commoner! No longer allowed to bear the royal surname!

It was precisely because of Ying Le's almost crazy order that the Qin royal family, which had been silent for seventy-four years since the Ji Jun Rebellion, suddenly burst into unprecedented vitality!
July 10, the sixteenth year of the reign of Qin Shi Huangdi.

Ying Fusu's face, which was originally as white and tender as white jade, and as soft and fleshy as if it could be squeezed to produce water, had not only become thinner than an oval face but had also turned bronze. There were several patches of cracked and wrinkled skin on his arms due to sunburn. The fragrance of orchids that had always accompanied him was no longer on his body, but instead there was a faint stench of pig residue.

Even though Ying Fusu still maintained the most standard gentlemanly demeanor, anyone who saw Ying Fusu now would never associate him with the jade-like gentleman, but Ying Fusu didn't care.

Ying Fusu just kept lifting the curtain of the carriage, his eyes following the little pigs grazing on the tender grass outside the carriage and the children carrying baskets to cut grass for the pigs, with a smile from the bottom of his heart.

Yuan Shou dug out a large piece of deer oil and carefully rubbed it on the sunburned area on Ying Fusu's arm. He said distressedly, "Sir, how could you torture yourself to this extent!"

"Lord Chang'an entrusted the young master to the care of Doctor Liu, but Doctor Liu took care of the young master like this!"

"I will fight this man to the death!"

Yuan Shou never expected that Ying Fusu would become like this after only two months of recuperation at home!
Although Yuan Shou's physical and mental injuries have not yet healed, he has made up his mind.

When this trip is over, he will have a life-and-death battle with Liu Ji. Only one of them can survive!
Ying Fusu's eyes were still chasing the vitality and hope outside the carriage, and he said sincerely: "Master, please don't blame Doctor Liu."

"The task of dividing the pigs is important, but the task of teaching the people how to manage the pigs is even more important."

"Only by teaching the people how to tame pigs can we let them live a good life and live up to my uncle's good intentions."

"My uncle loves the people so much and teaches me to be benevolent. How can I fall behind him?"

Benevolent government, love for the people, people-oriented, and people being more important than the monarch, these are the unshakable ideological foundations of Mencius' Confucianism.

Yuan Shou could only avoid this sharp edge and said distressedly: "Even if you are practicing benevolent politics, you should be stingy with yourself."

"It is good that you are benevolent and love the people, but you cannot abandon etiquette and belittle yourself because of this."

"No matter how busy you are, you should ask your servants to fumigate your clothes with incense to improve your temperament!"

Ying Fusu shook his head gently: "The pig doesn't like it, the people don't care, why should I care?"

"That foul smell has never ruined my character. Instead, it is a testament to my virtue!"

Yuan Shou said without hesitation: "How can the people not care! How can the foul smell promote virtue!"

As he spoke, Yuan Shou was about to cite the words of sages from "The Book of Zhou", "The Spring and Autumn Annals" and "The Analects of Confucius" in an effort to change Ying Fusu's mind.

But Ying Fusu turned to look at Yuan Shou and said, "I have visited the people in the countryside and have seen and heard it with my own eyes."

"The people do not care whether the aura around the disciples is fragrant or smelly. The people only care whether the disciples are benevolent and loving to the people."

"The foul smell will not ruin my character. The respect of the people makes me feel like I am drinking sweet rain, which will make me pure!"

"Master, is fragrance or stench more important than the people's will? Is the nobility or inferiority of one's character not determined by the people's will?"

“Instead of asking the saints about the people’s feelings, why not ask all the people about their feelings?!”

In the past, Ying Fusu wore gorgeous clothes and smoked orchids, but the people kept their distance from him, with fear and panic in their eyes.

Now Ying Fusu wears sackcloth and has a foul smell, but all the people love him and approach him with loving eyes.

Ying Fusu believed the words of the sage, but Ying Fusu could not help but trust his eyes and ears.

Ying Fusu witnessed with his own eyes the grand occasion that had never been recorded in the books of sages, heard with his own ears the gratitude and reverence from the hearts of the people, and personally practiced the benevolent policy that the sages had always sought but could not obtain.

He really still couldn't break out of the mental cage he had created since childhood, and subconsciously regarded the words of the sages as the truth, but how could he not rethink the words of the sages based on what he saw and heard?

Ying Fusu's question resounded in Yuan Shou's mind like a loud bell.

Yuan Shou froze while applying deer oil to Ying Fusu. After a few breaths, he said with a guilty look, "After hearing what you said, Master, I finally came to my senses."

"I have been very self-righteous in recent years and have not cared about the people's feelings for a long time."

"Sir, I really don't know what you are asking."

"I, the teacher, must carefully investigate the people's sentiments before I can answer you, sir!"

Yuan Shou felt ashamed and remorseful from the bottom of his heart.

The words of the sage are certainly correct, but their profound meaning is difficult to understand.

Although the words of the people are shallow, they are the most simple and sincere.

As a great Confucian scholar of the Mencius school who supported benevolent government, valued the people's hearts and put the people first, Yuan Shou buried himself in the books of sages for many years and did not care about the affairs of the people.

Isn't this a betrayal of Mencius!
Yuan Shou and Chunyu Yue all stood up, bowed to Ying Fusu and said, "Thank you for your teaching, Master!" Ying Fusu quickly stood up and returned the greeting, "Thank you, Masters."

"My uncle taught me the art of probing the people's sentiments, and also taught me the heart of benevolence and love for the people."

"What the disciple said is only one or two of the great principles of uncle."

Yuan Shou praised more sincerely: "Chang'an Jun, you are indeed a saint of the time!"

As they were talking, the carriage stopped and Ying Chengjiao's voice came from the side and front: "Fusu! Come here!"

Ying Fusu hurriedly got off the carriage and saw Ying Chengjiao happily strolling beside a stream with his hands behind his back, muttering to himself: "In spring, fish on the beach; in summer, fish in the pond; in autumn, fish in the shade; in winter, fish in the sun."

“In spring, fish in running water; in winter, fish in clear water; in summer and autumn, the pond water is dark and shady.”

"It's early summer now, and this deep pool with shade and aquatic plants is a great fishing spot."

"Today, I will definitely have a good harvest!"

"Bring me my fishing box!"

Ying Fusu had met Ying Chengjiao frequently in recent months, but he had never seen such a relaxed, happy and comfortable smile on Ying Chengjiao's face.

Quickening his pace and running to Ying Chengjiao's side, Ying Fusu bowed and asked, "Uncle, is there anything you need from me?"

Ying Chengjiao was concentrating on flipping through the tackle box. He pouted at the water in front of him and said, "Fusu has been working really hard these days. He deserves to relax."

"There must be big fish in this pond. Today, I will teach you how to fish in this pond."

Ying Fusu asked seriously, "Uncle, this trip is in accordance with the order of our father, the king, to lead the talented people to the old Qi land to preside over the examinations for the imperial examinations."

"Now my uncle is fishing here, isn't that a dereliction of duty?"

Ying Chengjiao curled his lips and said, "The reason why my uncle asked to go to Qi to preside over the imperial examination was to have some fun along the way."

"Your father allowed your uncle to go to Qi, and he also allowed your uncle to have some fun."

"Uncle Nai has worked so hard for so many years that he is exhausted. What's wrong with relaxing?"

Ying Fusu subconsciously felt that this was wrong, but then he remembered that the person who said this was his uncle!

My uncle must have other intentions!

Unconsciously assembling the fishing rod, hook and bait, and casting the hook at random, Ying Fusu said thoughtfully: "My body and hair are given by my parents, I dare not damage them."

"Uncle, in order to maintain good health, he has taken some time off with the permission of the King."

"This should be considered filial piety, not dereliction of duty!"

“If filial piety and duty conflict, should filial piety be more important than duty?”

Ying Fusu turned to look at Ying Chengjiao for an answer, and saw Ying Chengjiao's face not looking good and he said in a low voice: "Raise!"

Ying Fusu looked puzzled: "Ti?"

"Isn't this action of uncle's not out of filial piety, but out of respect for his elder brother?"

Ying Chengjiao raised his voice slightly and called out anxiously, "Pick up the fishing rod!"

Ying Fusu subconsciously lifted the fishing rod and saw a small fish jumping out of the water along with the hook.

Ying Fusu didn't know why he felt happy, but he smiled unconsciously: "Uncle, the fish is hooked!"

Ying Chengjiao snorted: "If you don't make a nest when fishing, you won't catch much."

"Get out of the way, Uncle Nai will make the nest first!"

As he was speaking, Ying Chengjiao pretended to accidentally push Ying Fusu away and seized the fishing spot where Ying Fusu had just been fishing.

Looking at Ying Chengjiao throwing bait into the pond from afar, Chunyu Yue and Yuan Shou looked at each other, both of them began to doubt their own judgment.

Can such a person really be called a saint?

at the same time.

Linzi City.

Therefore, the second son of Qi, Tian Huan, was the first in the palace. He looked at the people on his left and right sides and said in an especially heavy voice: "According to the news from the Xianyang clan, Lord Chang'an has set off for Linzi City."

"Two or three!"

Tian Huan emphasized, "In his life, Chang'an Jun has only set foot out of Neishi Prefecture twice, except for leading troops to fight in battles."

"The first time, Chang'an Jun obtained a hundred miles of territory from Han State, obtained Chang'an Township as his fief, and was named Chang'an Jun."

"The second time, Lord Chang'an led 500 soldiers to defeat the Han army and killed Prince Cheng of Han in battle. Almost all the people of Han were slaughtered!"

"And today, Lord Chang'an set out of Neishi County for the third time without leading his troops to fight."

"The target is Linzi!"

(End of this chapter)