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

Chapter 820 The weak Song needs it, but the strong Qin does not need it! Rule the people with laws and educate the people with virtues!

Ying Zheng was stunned: "Useless?!"

"My brother thinks that governing a country with filial piety is a useless move!"

Almost all the ministers from the Guandong region, including Lu Buwei, Han Fei, Li Si, and Wei Zhuang, advised Ying Zheng to govern the country with filial piety. The only difference among them was the method and purpose of implementation.

After careful consideration, Ying Zheng also believed that governing the country with filial piety was a very good way to govern the country.

But now, Ying Chengjiao said it was useless and even advised him to give up? !
Ying Zheng couldn't help but wonder whether the people from Guandong were joining forces to deceive him!

Ying Zheng asked solemnly, "Why do you think that governing a country with filial piety is useless?"

Ying Chengjiao shook his head: "I don't think that governing a country with filial piety is useless."

"In my opinion, governing a country with filial piety is absolutely the best tool to rule the common people. It can even be said to be the most handy tool."

"I have no objection to the Great Qin promoting filial piety."

"But I think that filial piety is useless to my elder brother."

"I think that you can value filial piety and promote it, but you should give up the idea of ​​treating filial piety as the foundation of governing the country."

Although filial piety had gone astray since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, by the Song Dynasty it had developed to such an extent that even Confucius would want to curse. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, even someone like Mencius, who highly advocated filial piety and the goodness of human nature, would be so angry that he would resurrect. It had an extremely huge negative impact on the world.

But filial piety also played an extremely important and positive role in the stability of the Han Dynasty's regime.

Filial piety is just a tool, just like other ideas such as benevolence, righteousness, and law. It is neither good nor bad. The key to determining whether it is good or bad lies in the means of implementation.

Unfortunately, however, the tool of filial piety requires a considerable amount of time to start up.

Ying Chengjiao felt that the two brothers would probably not live to see the day when filial piety would truly take root in people's hearts.

In Ying Chengjiao's opinion, filial piety, a tool that can only be effective in the future, is basically useless in the complex environment faced by the Qin Dynasty today!
This can only be a legacy left by Ying Zheng to future rulers.

Ying Zheng relaxed a little, and said with a smile: "Since my brother also thinks that filial piety is a handy tool, I am relieved."

"Brother Nai wants to take the doctoral degree not as a punishment policy, but as a policy for the promotion of the prime minister, and use the Confucianism of Meng Clan in Guandong as the basis for reward and punishment."

"Severe punishments will be imposed to punish those who are unfilial."

"Give generous rewards and promotions to reward filial sons."

"With rewards and punishments as a guide, people will naturally be filial."

"It doesn't take many years for filial piety to be established!"

"When people's hearts turn to filial piety, we will relax the laws of the Qin Dynasty and govern the people with filial piety!"

Ying Zheng imagined the beautiful scene when filial piety would be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

The people spontaneously obey their parents, which in turn extends to obedience to their superiors and loyalty to the king.

At that time, the Qin Dynasty no longer needed a huge system of officials to control the people. The filial piety in the hearts of the people could govern themselves.

The Qin Dynasty could not only provide a large number of elderly people with a place to rely on in their old age, but also save a lot of salaries and win the loyalty of people all over the world.

That would be wonderful!

However, Ying Chengjiao sighed in his heart.

Sure enough, Ying Zheng’s thoughts were very similar to the original policies of the Qin Dynasty in history.

It was only because Lu Buwei was still alive that Ying Zheng's means of promoting filial piety included not only punishments for filial piety, but also rewards for filial piety, but that was all.

Ying Chengjiao asked in return: "Just as if you are filial to the Queen Mother, you will be recognized and rewarded by the people of Guandong, so do you want to be filial to the Queen Mother?"

The smile on Ying Zheng's face faded slightly, but he still nodded and said, "That's right!"

Ying Chengjiao asked again: "Does it make sense?"

Ying Zheng was slightly startled: "What?"

Ying Chengjiao stabbed out a sharp lip dagger: "Brother, you hold the power of reward and punishment. You should know that severe punishment and heavy rewards are just means."

"Rewards and punishments can only guide the subjects' actions, but cannot influence their thoughts!"

"Rewards and punishments can make subjects behave in a filial manner, but they cannot make them keep filial piety in their hearts!"

"For a country, severe punishment can force its subjects to follow the law and be filial."

"But for the country, the meaning of filial piety is to make the subjects voluntarily compromise for the safety of their parents, and then obey their superiors and respect the king. At the same time, it makes the subjects kind-hearted and love their elders and others."

"If filial piety is not in one's heart, what is the use of being filial to the country?"

This is the reason why the Qin Dynasty has been vigorously promoting filial piety for a long time but has not caused any waves.

What's the point if people all over the world just submit to the punishment of the government, just like paying taxes and doing labor service and having to be filial to their parents?
Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang with cooking and killing his father, but Liu Bang laughed and said: Give me a share.

Which of Liu Bang's ministers and generals betrayed Liu Bang because of this?

If you want to be unfilial, then be unfilial. The Qin Dynasty is gone, so who would be filial?
Therefore, for the Qin Dynasty, the filial piety that the Qin Dynasty vigorously promotes is meaningless, and will instead intensify the dissatisfaction of the people of the world towards the Qin Dynasty!

Ying Zheng shook his head: "No!"

"Does everyone like war? The desire to survive is what people desire."

"However, our Great Qin has used the system of military merit to attract everyone in the Great Qin to be warlike."

"It can be seen that severe punishment and heavy rewards can not only influence people's actions, but also influence their thoughts!" Ying Chengjiao stabbed back with his tongue: "Brother will be filial to the Queen Mother in order to gain the support of the people of Guandong."

"But if the people of Kanto want the Queen Mother dead, will you kill her for the support of the people of Kanto?"

Ying Zheng was speechless!

If Ying Zheng answered that he would, it would mean that even if Ying Zheng openly obeyed filial piety, filial piety was still useless to Ying Zheng, and he was just pursuing interests.

If Ying Zheng answered that he wouldn’t...he himself wouldn’t believe it!
If it could really bring stability to Guandong, let alone sacrificing Zhao Ji, even if it meant adding a few more sons, Ying Zheng would feel it was a huge win!
Seeing this, Ying Chengjiao's voice became a little colder: "Is this filial piety? This is just a matter of interest!"

"You can be filial for the sake of gain, but you can also be unfilial for the sake of gain, or even pretend to be filial for the sake of gain."

"This kind of filial piety is harmful to the family! It is harmful to the country! It is harmful to the world!"

"If the Great Qin really promotes filial piety in this way, it won't be long before someone does something that would anger both humans and gods!"

Looking through the "Biographies of Filial Piety and Righteousness in the History of the Song Dynasty", one can see too many jaw-dropping things.

Although they were a landlord and noble family, they still dug meat from their own thighs to feed their parents to show their filial piety.

When drought struck, he cut his wrists and fed his blood to his parents, but completely ignored the river more than ten miles away.

One ruthless person even cut open his own abdomen to look for the "magic medicine" from his own intestines to feed his sick parents!

Are they really filial?
Perhaps some of them are truly filial, but in Ying Chengjiao's opinion, the vast majority of them are just using the filial piety system of the Song Dynasty to achieve class advancement, enduring temporary pain and seeking lifelong benefits for the various benefits, resources and halo of the title of "filial sons"!
The weak Song Dynasty needed such a group of subjects to allow the incompetent rulers to rest assured.

But the powerful Qin doesn’t need it!
If the Qin Dynasty had fallen to the point where it needed its subjects to be so ignorant and crazy in order to survive, Ying Chengjiao would rather hope that such a Qin Dynasty would perish!

When Ying Zheng heard Ying Chengjiao say "it is outrageous to both humans and gods", he felt a pang in his heart.

The weight of the "divine wrath" spoken by Ying Chengjiao himself is self-evident!

Ying Zheng's voice unconsciously slowed down a bit: "Brothers and subjects are different after all."

"No one in the world has such a deep conflict as the one between you and the Queen Mother."

"The example your brother mentioned is not appropriate."

Ying Chengjiao shook his head: "My elder brother cares about the world, so he thinks that the Queen Mother's giving birth to a son is a threat to my elder brother out of deep hatred."

"The subjects are all family members, so even a pot or a jar can be a source of deep hatred!"

"Moreover, there is no filial piety or kindness in our Great Qin. It is common for fathers to harm their sons and mothers to oppress their daughters."

"There are countless parents in the Qin Dynasty who are not worthy of their children's filial piety, but you force their children to be filial."

"I think this will not inspire filial piety from children, but will only inspire anger from them!"

After more than two thousand years of baptism of filial piety culture, there are still many parents in later generations who are not worthy of being parents.

Not to mention the Qin Dynasty, which had never promoted the culture of kindness and filial piety before!

Using the law as a weapon to force children to be filial to their scumbag parents will only make the conflict more intense.

Moreover, Ying Zheng’s legal requirements for filial piety were indeed too strict.

Even if those famous filial sons and great scholars from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties traveled through time to the Qin Dynasty, they would have cried out in grief when faced with the Qin Dynasty's complicated and heavy filial punishments: It's too cruel!

Ying Chengjiao pointed outside the palace gate and shouted solemnly: "If my elder brother really uses severe punishments and heavy rewards to vigorously promote filial piety, then the resentment of children all over the world towards their immoral parents will be transferred to our Great Qin court!"

"If future kings fail to handle filial piety properly and make it more extreme, it will cause the collapse of the Qin Dynasty at best, or even affect the whole country, and even lead to foreign invasions and trampling over China!"

If Ying Chengjiao encountered something he didn't understand, he would never pretend to understand, and he rarely expressed his opinions on government affairs.

Today, Ying Chengjiao rarely talked about filial piety at length, and even spoke with certainty about the impact of filial piety on the future. This unusual behavior made it difficult for Ying Zheng not to suspect that Ying Chengjiao had received guidance from previous kings and even from the heavens!
Ying Zheng didn't think Ying Chengjiao was exaggerating, but he was just scared.

"My brother, what you said is very true!" Ying Zheng said with emotion: "After all, my brother has lived in the palace for a long time, and it is difficult for him to see the suffering of the people."

"Doctor Fei, Doctor Yue and other doctors are of noble origin, so it is even more difficult for them to see the various aspects of people's lives."

"Even the prime minister has been away from the people for a long time, and I am afraid he has forgotten the situation when he was a commoner."

"Thanks to your advice, my brother, I didn't make a big mistake!"

Ying Chengjiao smiled unconsciously: "I'll be glad if I can help you, big brother!"

Seeing Ying Chengjiao's uncontrollable smile, Ying Zheng also smiled: "Then my brother, do you think that our Great Qin should give up filial piety?"

Ying Chengjiao's smile subsided unconsciously, he sat up straight and spoke solemnly: "I think there is nothing wrong with being filial."

"Yes, the law is the most important!"

"Our Great Qin should adhere to the core of rule of law and never waver, take the rule of law as the central idea to oversee the overall situation and guide all parties, and promote loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and trustworthiness as means of education."

"Govern the people with the law and educate the people with virtue."

"At the same time, our Great Qin cannot use the foolish filial piety of Mencius's Confucianism as the standard, but should make all schools and factions consider more, form a filial piety concept with Great Qin characteristics, and clarify the filial piety guidelines of 'father is kind and son is filial', 'small filial piety is to the family, big filial piety is to the country'."

"Disobedience should be punished, but the punishment must be carefully considered..."

Ying Chengjiao revealed his thoughts that he had been thinking about for a long time, but Ying Zheng raised his hand and said, "Wait a minute!"

Ying Chengjiao was slightly surprised: "Is what you said wrong?"

Ying Zheng took out a blank piece of silk from under the table, held a pen in his hand, and smiled warmly: "Continue!"

Ying Chengjiao: (▽｀)
(End of this chapter)