The small sage village is worthy of being the place where Confucian students worship as a holy place today, the small bridge and flowing water in the Zhuangzi, the rockery forest, there must be strange flowers and plants planted on both sides of the road within three or five steps. There is also a pool of clear water in the village, and there are one or two feet long koi swimming in it.

Ying Zheng walked in front of everyone, Fu Nian walked side by side behind His Majesty the Emperor as the master and Prime Minister Li Si, and behind the two were Meng Tian, Meng Yi, and Zhao Gao and other eunuchs who followed at the end.

Li Si was a little emotional, he was also one of the students here, and he was fortunate to live in Xiaoshengxianzhuang for a period of time, and he couldn't help but be a little excited to revisit the old place today.

"Your Majesty, please see, this is the place where the sage Confucius taught, and there are still my Confucian students here to discuss academics. Walking to a shady place, there is a large erection here, and there are stone tables and stone benches under the shade of the trees, Fu Nian introduced to Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng walked over, sat on a stone bench, and looked around. Under the shade of the trees, there are several stone tablets, all of which are engraved with words from the Analects. "When you learn it, you don't talk about it, you have friends from afar, you are happy, people don't know it, you Ying Zheng read the words engraved on one stone tablet, and then looked at another stone tablet. "If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you will die." ”

"Your Majesty, these words are all words within the Analects, which are to teach students all over the world the knowledge and truth, and they are also the words of sages. Lees spoke.

Fu Nian continued Li Si's words and said, "What the Prime Minister said is good. Your Majesty, the way of Confucianism pursues the rule of law by etiquette, the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, the courtiers are the courtiers, the program is always chaotic, and the program is often chaotic, then the world will be chaotic. It is because I believe that Your Majesty is the dragon and phoenix among the people, and it is necessary to obey the people and educate the world, which is the way of the king. ”

Since the establishment of the Qin State hundreds of years ago, the Qin State has been implementing force to develop the national economy, which has remained unchanged for several generations, laying a solid foundation for the later Qin State to dominate the world. Until Yingzheng ascended the throne, Zhou Tianzi died, the Great Zhou Dynasty still collapsed, and the etiquette system collapsed.

Ying Zheng said with a smile: "What Mr. Fu Nian said is indeed reasonable, I think that the Son of Heaven also ruled the country with etiquette at the beginning, what happened in the end? None of the princes in the world obeyed the jurisdiction, and the position of the Son of Heaven is like a fictitious position, is this also the credit of etiquette?"

Fu Nian was not moved by His Majesty the Emperor's questioning, but just replied: "Your Majesty, this time and that time." Today's world is very different from Zhou Tianzi's time. His Majesty ruled the world, gathered the power of the world in the hands of the emperor, and did not divide the princes and all parts of the world. ”

"Hahaha......" Ying Zheng laughed out loud after listening to Fu Nian's words, and after laughing, he looked at Fu Nian and said, "Then do you know who told me about this method?"

Puzzled, he looked at Li Si who was standing on the side and asked, "Isn't it the Prime Minister?"

Li Si smiled and shook his head, he glanced at Ying Zheng, and saw that Ying Zheng didn't mean to speak, so he opened his mouth and said to Fu Nian: "Back then, Benxiang was also a Confucian disciple in this little sage village, and he was fortunate to worship under Teacher Xunzi, but although there are not many disciples under the teacher, there is still one person who is more talented than Li Si, and this method is what he said to His Majesty." ”

Fu Nian suddenly realized, he knew who that person was, this person was indeed talented, if this person was still alive, I am afraid that the prestige of Confucianism today would be more than doubled. "The Prime Minister is talking about Senior Brother Han Fei, right?"

"Yes, it was Han Fei, I wanted to keep him by my side very much, but unfortunately his heart was always towards his South Korea, so I had no choice but to kill him. Now it seems that the few suggestions that Han Fei put forward to me are indeed good, and Han Fei's contribution to the fact that Daqin can have the world today, is also not small. It's a pity, it's a pity......" Speaking of this somewhat distant name, Yingzheng is still a little regretful.

Back then, Han Fei's incident made Yingzheng, who was not yet the emperor, heartbroken, he valued Han Fei so much, and even promised him the status of one person in the Qin State above ten thousand people, but Han Fei was always unwilling to stay in the Qin State. Han Fei's ability is strong, so that Li Si, Meng Tian and others are very jealous, if it is really released to South Korea, maybe in a few years, South Korea, which has been reduced to the gatekeeper of the Qin State, is not without the possibility of re-rising, South Korea was the first to be destroyed by the Qin army in the process of Qin dominating the world, which may also be stained with Han Fei.

Li Si opened his mouth and said: "Now that my Great Qin dominates the world, this also proves that Your Majesty is indeed the chosen one, even if Han Fei is resurrected, it will not be able to stop my Qin State from dominating the world." ”

At this time, Yan Lu brought people tea and snacks, put them on the stone table, Yingzheng asked Li Si and others and Fu Nian to sit down, since this was the place where Confucius taught, it can be regarded as a blessed place, and it is also a pleasure to talk about world affairs here.

"Your Majesty, this is the green tea in my village, please enjoy it. Fu Nian poured a cup of tea for Yingzheng, handed it to Zhao Gao, who was standing aside, and then said.

Zhao Gao brought the tea to Ying Zheng, who smelled the heat coming out of the teacup and exclaimed: "Good tea, compared to the tea I drank in the palace, it is not inferior." ”

His Majesty said with a smile, this tea is just picked from a tea tree in the village, but it is also very usual, but this tree is planted by the ancestor Confucius, and then watered by several generations of people in the village, over time, the taste is indeed more elegant than ordinary tea. "Yan Lu is the one who is responsible for taking care of the tea tree, and he knows more about tea than the senior brother.

"Two Meng Qing, what do you think of this tea?" asked Ying Zheng to Meng Tian and Meng Yi.

"Your Majesty, the minister feels that the taste of this tea is indeed extraordinary, and when he drinks it, he only feels that his limbs are unobstructed and his whole body is refreshed. Meng Yi said after drinking the tea.

Meng Tian said much more directly than his younger brother, he said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is a military general, and the tea and water are the same in front of the minister. As for His Majesty's question about how he felt, the minister just felt that it was delicious to quench his thirst. ”

Fu Nian smiled slightly after listening, he put down the teacup and said: "The tea ceremony is profound, just like the words recorded on this bamboo slip, the same sentence is read by different people, and different people will have different understandings. Although General Meng Tian's words are simple, there is also some simple truth, this tea is used to quench people's thirst. As Fang just said, this tea tasting, reading, and governing the world is a truth, the content is complex, but its purpose is only one. ”

"The son said: 'The country of a thousand times of the Tao, respect and believe, use sparingly and love people, so that the people can be timely. The sage thought that governing the country is nothing more than these five principles, one is to respect things, the second is to win the trust of the people, the third is to use sparingly, the fourth is to love others, and finally this last sentence to make the people timely. I don't know what Your Majesty, the Prime Minister, and Lord Meng think?" Yan Lu said after the senior brother finished speaking, and then followed the words of the senior brother.

Ying Zheng was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean by this?"

"Your Majesty, Mr. Yan Lu is telling His Majesty how to govern the country. Confucianism has always emphasized benevolence and righteousness, which is not only the theory of being a human being, but also the reality of governing the country. As the Son of Heaven, if he only thinks about how to enrich the treasury, instead of thinking about how to make the people of the world rich, he cannot be called a benevolent king. The prosperity of the country and the strength of the people not only make the country strong, but also make the people rich and really strong. Li Si also read the Analects hard, and he also remembered what Yan Lu said.

"What the Prime Minister said is true, and that's exactly what he said. Yan Lu bowed his head to Li Si, and then said.

Li Si only smiled at Yan Lu's overtures, it is true that he is a student of Confucianism, but his teacher Xunzi is more inclined to Legalism, so that Han Fei, who he taught, is even more dedicated to the way of Legalism.

"Mr. Yan Lu is indeed reasonable, but Li Si does not dare to agree. Just as the gentleman said, it is true that this statement came from the mouth of a sage, but what was the result of the sage's advocacy of benevolence in the beginning? The princes of the world fought for hundreds of years, and the hundreds of princes of the Zhou Dynasty, only two or three out of ten survived in the end, and most of the rest bloomed like flowers and withered. Just like the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Wu Kingdom of Goujian, the king of Yue, was all unknown in the end. It can be seen that although benevolence and righteousness are the best way to govern the country, it is necessary to divide the seasons, and the troubled times still need to be re-enacted, and the national power is stable, so that it will be rich and strong, and it will survive in the troubled times. Li Si has long discarded the way of benevolence and righteousness that he once believed, and he believes in Han Fei's Legalist method even more, and it is precisely because of this that he has come to today's position.

After Li Si finished speaking, Ying Zheng, Meng Tian and Meng Yi couldn't help but applaud, what he said was really wonderful, which made Fu Nian and Yan Lu's faces a little ugly.

"Does the prime minister remember what the saint said?" a voice came, and it was heard in everyone's ears.

Everyone followed the sound and looked, and a young man came from a distance, dressed in a wide clothes and jade belt, with a delicate face, and a long hair tied behind him, slowly walking towards everyone.

After the man walked in, Fu Nian stood up and introduced Ying Zheng and everyone in the Qin State: "Your Majesty, my lords, this is Fu Nian's brother, Zhang Liang, Zifang. ”

Zhang Liang knelt down and bowed to Yingzheng, "Zhang Liang has seen His Majesty the Emperor, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

"Excuse me, I saw you when I entered the door, why did you come at this time?" Ying Zheng had some impression of Zhang Liang and asked.

Zhang Liang stood up, bowed to Ying Zheng and replied: "Your Majesty forgives me, the pain in my abdomen is unbearable, and I am afraid of disturbing Your Majesty Yaxing, so I didn't follow, and I hope that Your Majesty Haihan." ”

Seeing that the emperor didn't blame himself, Zhang Liang straightened up and said to Li Si: "Prime Minister, I believe your lord still remembers this sentence." 'The way is to govern, all to be punished, the people are free and shameless; "That's the difference between the rule of etiquette and the rule of law, I'm sure adults won't be unfamiliar with it, right?"

When Li Si heard this, his face changed suddenly, he couldn't imagine that this Zhang Liang's eloquence was so good, and he was already a little difficult to resist.