Palace Concubine Policy: Invincible Queen

Chapter 120 Promoted to Attendant Reader (11)
"What?!" I just fell asleep, and when I saw a lot of gold, silver and jewels, you woke me up.How do I know what you said.Dong Xiaowan murmured in his heart.

Ouyang Zhexuan saw the confused Dong Xiaowan, then picked up the book and pointed to the passage that Chen Ziyi had just read.

Seeing Dong Xiaowan, she quickly picked up the book and read it. It turned out that she had been punished by the teacher for copying countless texts because of sleeping in class. Go to Confucius and say, "The Ji clan is about to use force against Zhuanyu." Confucius said, "Ranqiu, shouldn't you be blamed for this? Zhuanyu, the previous king had authorized it to preside over the sacrifices of Dongmeng Mountain, and its borders It has long been in the territory of Lu State, and it is a vassal with Lu State. Why attack it?" Ran You said: "Ji wants to attack it, and neither of us wants to do it." Confucius said: "Ran Qiu, Zhou Ren has a saying: If you can contribute your strength, you should take up an official position. If you can’t, you have to resign. If a blind man does not help him when he is in danger, or if he is about to fall, then there is no need for an assistant. You must have said something wrong. Husi ran out of the cage and the turtle jade was destroyed in the box. Whose fault is this?" Ran You said: "Now the city wall of Zhuanyu is strong and it is very close to Philadelphia. If you don't take it now, you will lose it in the future." It will become a disaster for future generations." Confucius said: "Ran Qiu, a gentleman hates those who don't say they want it, but find reasons to do it. I heard that princes and officials are not afraid of less wealth but unequal distribution , not afraid of the lack of people but the instability of the territory. Because if there is an average, there will be no poverty, if you live in harmony, you will not feel that there are few people, and if you are stable, there will be no danger. In this way, if people from far away refuse to accept it, use benevolent government to attract them; make them come. Afterwards, I will make them feel at ease. Now that you two are assisting the Ji family, people from far away are not convinced but cannot recruit them. The country is disintegrated but cannot be preserved. Instead, you want to use force within the country. Where is Mr. Lu.'"

After hearing that, Chen Ziyi nodded slightly.

Dong Xiaowan was delighted when he saw it, and said again: "But I think what Confucius said is very wrong!"

"Bold! What's wrong with what Confucius said?" Chen Ziyi turned from joy to anger, and shouted loudly.

"It was wrong! This Zhuanyu is like the vassal kings in the world today. Although they say they respect the court, they all have their own little calculations. Every year, more than half of the country's tax revenue goes to these vassal kings." Moreover, as the power of these vassal kings grows day by day, if the vassals are not withdrawn, within 20 years, the treasury will be empty and the income will be insufficient. It will also threaten the capital. As Ran You said, For a moment, solid but close to fee. If you don’t take it now, future generations will worry about your descendants.’ So I said that this Zhuanyu must also be cut down, and this feudal clan must be withdrawn. Therefore, I said that what Confucius said was wrong, and it was outrageously wrong. .” Dong Xiaowan said this based on what he knew about the feudal lord these days.

That Chen Ziyi was so refuted by Dong Xiaowan that she didn't know what to say.

But Ouyang Zhexuan looked at Dong Xiaowan with twinkling eyes, thoughtful in his heart.

(End of this chapter)