Spring and Autumn I Am King

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Sitting opposite each other in front of the stone table in the village temple, Zigong thought while drinking sweet soy milk with honey.

This gentleman of the Zhao family actually knew that the Master had privately said to his disciples not long ago that "you have friends come from afar". Could it be that a fellow apprentice confided it and spread it to the state of Jin?

Is it really that fast?

Also, does this mean that just like he started paying attention to Zhao Wuxi half a year ago, Zhao Wuxi is also silently paying attention to his master who is far away in the country of Lu?

Thinking of this possibility, Zi Gong couldn't help but feel refreshed.

However, although the residence of the village temple is simple, the bean juice and the smooth pottery cup are not cheap, right? Is the Zhao gentleman a hypocritical person who is simple on the outside and extravagant on the inside?

However, Zhao Wuxi, who was opposite, seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with a smile: "What Zigong drinks can be drunk by almost everyone in Chengyi, and after planting the Rongshu you brought, I hope next year the savage gangsters will also benefit from this."

He pointed to the smooth porcelain cup again: "Although it looks extremely smooth and has the sound of gold and jade, it is actually not expensive. It can only be used as the price of two white pottery cups."

"How could it be like this! A gentleman's lordship is truly a gift of vision." Zigong has always been extremely accurate in his estimates, but today he was a thousand miles wrong, and he couldn't help being slightly shocked.

Zhao Wuxi didn't take it seriously, he secretly thought, what's all these things, the real good things are all concentrated in the newly built craftsmanship area.

Of course, before discussing business, he thought it would be better to bring the two closer together, so he pretended to be curious and asked, "Zigong returned to Lu this time, can you see your master?"

Zigong then informed Zhao Wuxi about the master's appointment as the slaughterer of Zhongdu. His original intention was to elevate the status of the lower master. Compared with the original unemployed corporal, the slaughter of Yiyi was obviously better at it.

However, Zhao Wuxi didn't pay much attention to this. If I remember correctly, Confucius will continue to rise in the next few years. In the end, like Yanghu, he is the leader of the state of Lu, and he is just a starter.

What he cares about is what happened last time.

"How did Confucius comment on the matter of Zigong redeeming people but not taking the ransom?"

Speaking of this, Zigong was even more astonished. He felt that the best match between Master and Zhao Wuxi was in their views on the matter.

Zigong still had a fresh memory of the situation at that time. In the hall of the Central Capital, he and the Master were also sitting at the table to discuss the matter.

The Master said this: "Ci, the gentleman of the Zhao family is right, you have done something wrong in this matter."

Zigong was puzzled, and he asked, "Isn't the Master instructing me that the gentleman can be compared to righteousness, and the villain is compared to profit? What's wrong with giving profit instead of profit?"

He felt that it was a morally noble act to redeem people without taking the money in return. Why did the gentleman of the Zhao family and the master oppose this practice?

The master stroked his long beard, smiled and shook his head: "The actions of the saints can change the customs, my pursuit is to lead by example, to teach the people of the country, and let them learn the heart of benevolence, rather than to practice excessively high-mindedness alone. Morality."

"Nowadays, the rich are few and the poor are many in Lu. If you redeem people and take the money as compensation from the government, it will not harm righteousness; if you don't take the money, the rest of the people of Lu will no longer be as keen on redemption as before."

Zigong is not stupid. Although it is not as good as Senior Brother Yan Hui's "hearing one and knowing ten", he is also "hearing one and knowing two."

During those few days, his senior brother Zilu rescued a drowning man when he was passing through Wenshui River. The man thanked him and gave him a cow, and Zilu accepted it.

When the Master heard about this, he said happily: "There will be many people in Lu who will save the drowning!"

Zigong suddenly realized.

It turned out that he redeemed people's freedom, thinking that he had done a good deed at the expense of his property. However, the purpose of this law in the state of Lu was to encourage everyone who went abroad to buy their compatriots as long as they had the chance, and they could get equal compensation afterwards without losing anything.

Zigong's mistake lies in his behavior of "taking righteousness and abandoning profit", which has raised the moral standard that everyone can easily achieve to a level that is difficult for most people to reach.

In the future, whoever redeems the Lu people and then collects the ransom will be regarded as inferior to Zigong, who is good for profit and not righteous. However, there are fewer rich and poor people in the state of Lu, and few people like Zigong have enough financial resources to ensure that the loss of this ransom will not affect their livelihoods.

That's why the master, like the gentleman of the Zhao family, thought "the gift is lost"!

And Zilu saves people, both righteousness and profit, and will surely be imitated by many Lu people.

After Zigong explained the matter in its original form, he praised Zhao Wuxi for being a coincidence with the Master. It is true that a sage must be gracious.

Zhao Wuxi snickered in his heart, and asked the craze for Chinese studies in the mountains and plains of his previous life. He had heard of this story. Otherwise, how would he dare to be so sure of Confucius' reaction?

However, Zhao Wuxi couldn't help but sigh that Confucius was different from the angry youth who scolded Ji Shi as "tolerable and unbearable" when he was young. After more than 20 years of stumbling and climbing in Qilu, he has seen through the hearts of people, righteousness and profit, not absolute opposition.

Who said he couldn't eat the ancients? Who said he was pedantic? This is clearly a realist!

Otherwise, he would search all over the summer, worship countless teachers, and embrace their thoughts? Otherwise, he would accept the invitation of Yang Hu, his mortal enemy, and accept the invitation of Yang Hu's party to serve as a slaughter in the office? Can you teach Confucian disciples with different professions and great deviations in ideological achievement?

Although ~www.readwn.com~ this person is still idealistic from time to time, for example, when he gets the opportunity to let go of governing a city, he still uses benevolence and ritual music as a magic weapon.

Governing a city of a thousand houses may be maintained by virtue of morality and personality charm, but if you are in charge of a great country of a thousand vehicles, it will be strange that there will be no leaks.

Zigong didn't know what Wu Xie was thinking. He felt that the time had come. He was about to take out the brochure in his arms and sell the Master's philosophy to Zhao Wu Xie.

However, Zhao Wuxi got up first and said, "Zigong, would you like to go with me to the newly built craftsmanship area? You and I can all do business there in the future."

He had to withdraw his hand again, stood up silently, and followed behind Zhao Wuxi with his hand down.

After leaving the village temple, after walking for a while, I saw that the place near the downstream of the stream had been built into a small craftsmanship area.

Although the sparrows here are small, they have all the five internal organs. Zhao Wuxi said that since then, some simple tools and utensils can be made by themselves, and there is no need to go to Xinjiang and Xia Palace to buy them.

The most lively among them are the potters of the state of Lu who were busy around the kiln. Zigong guessed that the exquisite pottery cups he used just now were fired here.

But in his opinion, if he sells this thing to the Chinese, he might be able to make some small profits. But after all, it is small profits but quick turnover. Look at these kilns and manpower, which can only be supplied a few times a month, and the benefits are not great.

What exactly is the business that the gentleman of the Zhao family is talking about?

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Ask for collection, ask for recommendation, ask for Sanjiang ticket...