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

Chapter 818: Filial piety? This really makes me laugh to death! I am really greedy!
If Gong Yangba's words were put in other countries, it would definitely be an extremely harsh accusation!
Only by filial piety can the world be governed!

This shows that this country is unkind, unjust, disloyal and untrustworthy, and that filial piety can be used to govern the world.

Even this filial piety has to be created temporarily!
But the Qin emperor and his ministers were very calm about this.

You say we are unkind, unjust, unfaithful, untrustworthy and unfilial?
hold head high!
We are such brave men, so what?
You are unkind, unjust, disloyal, unfaithful, and unfilial. Will it affect our ability to beat you up, or will it affect our ability to conquer the world?
You guys keep on scolding, and we’ll keep on killing!
Ying Zheng did not take Gong Yangba's words to heart. He just looked at Lu Buwei and the other two and slammed the table angrily: "The Queen Mother and the villains raised an army to rebel! They intend to usurp the throne! They want to assassinate the king and kill him! They want to attack the palace!"

"Their crime deserves the death of their entire clan!!!"

"I thought that the Queen Mother was my biological mother, so I didn't execute her immediately."

“Isn’t this filial piety?”

"I have already been fully filial to my parents, and I don't owe the Queen Mother a penny!"

Lu Buwei sighed in his heart, and Han Fei stuttered as he started the language program.

Chunyu Yue took the lead in rebutting, "Tao Ying once asked Mencius, Shun was the emperor, Gao Yao was the law officer, if Shun's father killed someone, what should Shun do?"

"Mencius believed that Shun should not have stopped Gao Yao from making the judgment, but should have treated the world as an old shoe and secretly carried his father to the seaside. From then on, the father and son lived a carefree life, forgetting that they had ever been emperors!"

"This is filial piety!!!"

"Your Majesty! You clearly shouldn't have pardoned the Queen Mother's crime, but you did!"

"You should have carried the Queen Mother on your back and fled from Qin to help her avoid punishment, but you were greedy for power and continued to be the king!"

"You should have given up your status as a king and spent your life with the Queen Mother, but you haven't seen her for five years!"

“Is this filial piety?”

"This is truly a barbarian!"

Chunyu Yue's cry was so deafening that the imperial study fell silent for a moment.

Most of the court officials looked at Chunyu Yue unconsciously, unable to understand how Chunyu Yue could say such a thing!
Han Fei was even more stunned.

Although Han Fei stuttered and had difficulty speaking his mind for a moment, anyone who saw Han Fei's eyes could definitely read Han Fei's inner roar:
You have a brain disease!!!

After a few breaths, a mocking voice broke the silence in the imperial study.

"Xiao? That really makes me laugh to death!"

Ying Chengjiao stepped into the imperial study and asked with a smile: "Not to mention that Shun's father had never committed a crime, Mencius was only assuming Shun's behavior."

"If the king really did as Mencius advocated, and carried the queen mother on his back and fled to the seaside, forgetting that he was once the king of Qin, the mother and son would live happily together without worries from then on."

"Who will be the king of Qin?"

If Ying Zheng really ran to the seaside without telling Zhao Ji, then who would be the King of Qin?
The orders that Ying Zheng once issued are still valid.

The throne of the Qin Dynasty will fall directly on Ying Chengjiao!
Many court officials showed horror in their eyes.

Is this a threat?
This must be a threat from Chang'an Jun!

With these words, Wei Liao, who was addicted to eating melons, dared not remain silent anymore. He stepped out of the group without hesitation and said, "I think what Chang'an Jun said is very true!"

"Mencius' words are absurd!"

"As a king, how can you abandon the world for your own selfish interests? This is truly an unjust act!"

King!

You must not let Chunyu Yue trick you into running away!
If you run away, no one in the whole Qin Dynasty will be able to restrain Chang'an Jun at all!

Wei Zhuang, Han Cang, Li Si and other ministers who had just enjoyed eating melons came out at the same time and shouted in horror: "What Mencius said is extremely unrighteous!"

Seeing that most of the court officials were unanimously refuting him, Chunyu Yue became even more angry: "How could Mencius be unrighteous?"

"What Mencius said is the truest form of filial piety."

"Everything you said is rude!"

In Chunyu Yue's heart, Mencius is the spokesperson for righteousness and has the final right to interpret righteousness. Everything Mencius says is right and cannot be refuted!

How could he sit by and watch others openly criticize Mencius for being unjust? !
But Ying Chengjiao ignored Chunyu Yue and the words of his ministers.

Walking all the way to the bottom of the stairs, Ying Chengjiao showed Ying Zheng a brilliant smile, and said with a bow, "Your Highness, Prince Chengjiao of Chang'an is here to attend the small court meeting."

Ying Zheng heaved a sigh of relief and said in a gentle voice: "My brother is finally here!"

God knows how hard it was for Ying Zheng during that hour!
At the beginning, Ying Zheng was still sitting back and watching with great interest as Lü Buwei and Han Fei refuted Chunyu Yue and other doctors like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and he was very impressed by the talents displayed by Lü Buwei and Han Fei.

In a blink of an eye, everyone's criticism was directed at Ying Zheng!
Lu Buwei believed that filial piety was the fundamental tool for governing a country.

If ministers knew filial piety, they would be loyal to the king and be honest in their official duties. If soldiers and common people knew filial piety, they would work hard in the fields and would not dare to defect easily. The premise of all this was that Ying Zheng first followed filial piety and then called on the whole Qin to follow suit!
Chunyu Yue believed that filial piety was a natural and right truth.

People should know how to be filial without being taught. Even if parents want to kill their children, children should be willing to be killed. This is filial piety! People like Ying Zheng who were unfilial to Zhao Ji just because he was almost killed by Zhao Ji are not worthy of being called human beings!
Gongyang Ba also believed that filial piety was an important tool in governing a country.

Fortunately, Gongyang Ba believed that filial piety and kindness are mutual. It is completely reasonable that Ying Zheng was unfilial because Zhao Ji was unkind. However, Gongyang Ba also hoped that Ying Zheng could be patient for the sake of promoting filial piety throughout the world and show his filial piety to Zhao Ji - at worst, he could die of filial piety to Zhao Ji, but at least he could just pretend to be filial!

It would be fine if Confucian scholars from all schools and regions came together to make suggestions, but Han Fei also joined in the fun!
In Han Fei's view, filial piety is a tool for maintaining stability that can greatly reduce the cost of social operation and suppress social unrest. Young and strong men who have no scruples and no weaknesses are very terrible destabilizing factors, so the court needs to let them have filial piety in their hearts! Only with filial piety in their hearts, their elderly parents, grandparents in their families can become their weaknesses and control these young and strong men on behalf of the court!

But human nature is evil, and no one is born filial. The country needs to punish the unfilial and reward the filial to guide the people to be filial to their parents. So even if Ying Zheng hated the Queen Mother, he at least had to act like a filial son, so that it could make laws to guide the people.

Different schools of thought have different views on filial piety and different ways of practicing filial piety, but they all require Ying Zheng to be filial to Zhao Ji!

Ying Le and other old Qin people wanted to say something to help Ying Zheng.

But, what?
The Qin Dynasty did not have a culture of filial piety, nor did it attach importance to filial piety, let alone care whether a person was filial or not. However, the Qin Dynasty simply ignored filial piety, rather than hated it, and it did not have a theoretical system that criticized filial piety!
With no other options, Ying Zheng could only attack the leading figures of multiple schools at the same time on his own.

Ying Zheng experienced the same treatment Chunyu Yue had just received not only once, but he also doubled it!

It was not until he saw Ying Chengjiao that Ying Zheng finally felt relieved and at ease that he was no longer fighting alone!
Ying Chengjiao spread his hands and said, "It's not that I don't want to attend the court meeting. It's just that I haven't been able to eat or sleep these days, and I've been tired every day, so I didn't attend the court meeting."

When hearing the news that Ying Chengjiao was unwell, all thoughts of filial piety were thrown out of Ying Zheng's mind!
Ying Zheng sat up straight and asked worriedly, "My brother, are you feeling unwell?"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Doctor Xia, please treat my brother as soon as possible!"

Ying Chengjiao waved his hand to stop Xia Wuqie, and sighed with nostalgia: "Brother Wang, do you still remember the roasted lamb five years ago?"

"The lamb chops from the Qiang region are sprinkled with spices from the various countries in the city, and then slowly roasted over a low fire to make roasted lamb."

"The meat is soft, tender and juicy! The aroma is distinct and layered! One bite will fill your mouth with juice, and it is a very memorable meal!"

"I think about it day and night and can't fall asleep!"

The fierce debate among the great scholars in the imperial study suddenly turned into an enticing food channel.

But in such a huge imperial study, Ying Chengjiao is probably the only one who would be tempted by delicious food!
Seeing that Ying Chengjiao changed the subject as soon as he arrived, Yuan Shou frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "The most important thing for the Qin Dynasty now is..."

However, just as Yuan Shou opened his mouth, Lu Buwei shouted coldly: "Shut up!"

Han Fei also looked at Yuan Shou with disdain and said, "Foolish, stupid, stupid, stupid!"

Yuan Shou showed anger on his face: "You guys..."

As a result, even Chun Yuyue raised his hand to stop Yuan Shou and said in a deep voice: "Trust Chang Anjun!"

Ying Chengjiao, who had not attended court for thousands of years, suddenly entered the imperial study when the dispute was at its most intense. Was he here to share his thoughts on food?

Chunyu Yue knew that Ying Chengjiao definitely came because of the topic they were arguing about today.

Chunyu Yue is willing to give full trust to this gentleman in his mind and a rare filial son in the Qin Dynasty!
The ministers below the stage whispered quietly, but the smile on Ying Zheng's face slowly faded: "I never thought that my brother would miss that meal so much."

"If you want to enjoy it again, you can go!"

The ministers could not understand what Ying Chengjiao was talking about, because roasted lamb chops was a common meal in Daqin.

But the grilled lamb chops from Qiang area five years ago had different meanings for the two brothers.

Because that grilled lamb chops was cooked by Zhao Ji herself!
That was also the last time that Ying Zheng and Ying Chengjiao sat in the same palace with Zhao Ji to have a meal!

At the same time as they were having their meal, a bloody battle in Xianyang Palace had already begun, and a bloody battle in Qinian Palace was about to begin. Beneath the veil of gentleness and friendship between mother and son, they had already clenched their daggers!

Ying Chengjiao rubbed his hands and said with a chuckle, "After all, she is my brother's mother, not my brother's mother."

"When I was young, I went to the palace to eat and drink for free. I always took advantage of the opportunity when the prince was in the palace."

"I am shy and embarrassed to go alone."

"Only with my brother by my side can I go to the Queen Mother's place to feast."

"Otherwise, wouldn't everyone in the world laugh at me for being greedy and rude?"

Ying Zheng said with a sullen expression: "Although the Queen Mother is my mother, she is rude and immoral, plotting treason and assassinating me, and has betrayed me deeply!"

"I have already ordered Queen Mother Wang not to leave the Laiyang Palace in her lifetime. How can I go to see her again?"

"My brother, if you want to leave, just go!"

Ying Chengjiao said seriously: "Don't let the Queen Mother leave the Laiyang Palace, don't delay the Queen Mother from roasting the lamb chops, and don't delay my brother from eating the roasted lamb chops."

Ying Zheng was speechless.

Ying Chengjiao looked at Ying Zheng eagerly and said, "I'm really greedy!"

"I can't eat the lamb chops roasted by the Queen Mother. I can't enjoy the food, can't sleep, feel tired every day, and have no desire to live..."

Ying Zheng waved his hands impatiently: "Stop nagging me, you little brat!"

"I..."

"I'll take you to eat!"

(End of this chapter)