Chapter 46: The Way of a Gentleman

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Little Sage Village, the main hall.

The lights reflected Fu Nian Tieqing's face, the head of the three Confucian heroes who were elegant and elegant in the past, but today he is extremely angry.

The cold gaze stared at the two brothers and sisters in front of him, the three of them have lived together since they were children, compared to the Fu family who have lived in the small sage village for generations, the ovary and the sub-road are just two wandering wanderers, the sub-road is lonely, and the country of the sub-house is ruined.

Such a life experience, such a gap, but Fu Nian did not despise them because of this, although it cannot be said that they eat and sleep together, but they are also caring, more than ten years of brotherhood, and they can't withstand a group of rebels?

Yes, rebellious!

In Fu Nian's eyes, the so-called chivalrous people of the Mo family, and even the heroes of the hundred families, are just rebellions against the empire, the prince of heaven and earth is Fu Nian's creed, as a subject to be loyal to the king is a matter of course, as the head of Confucianism, to ensure that the Confucian incense inheritance is endless, it is also his unshirkable responsibility!

However, what these two juniors are doing now is to push Confucianism to a place of no return!

Now that Gongsun Linglong has noticed, who will be the next to notice?

Li Si, Fusu, and even His Majesty the Emperor, Fu Nian didn't dare to think about the consequences of going on like this.

The mind was constantly experiencing turbulent waves, and his face was becoming more and more gloomy, looking at Yan Lu, who was still calm and calm in front of him, and Zhang Liang, who was even a little light-hearted, Fu Nian's anger finally broke out irrepressibly.

"What's the reason, you say!" Pounding heavily on the table, Fu Nian's voice was extremely cold. "Senior brother!" The ovary wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Fu Nian without hesitation.

"I didn't ask you, and it wasn't your turn to speak." Fu Nian's tone became more and more hardened, the qualifications of the three-person middle room are the best, and the two senior brothers have also taken care of him since he was a child, judging from Fu Nian's concept, what Zhang Liang has done now makes him extremely disappointed.

"Senior brother, it's all my decision, if you want to punish me, punish me!" Zhang Liang looked at Yan Lu, and his heart couldn't help but warm, compared to Fu Nian's sternness and uprightness, Xiao Yan Lu could be regarded as spoiling him.

However, Yan Lu's answer made Fu Nian extremely surprised, "Your decision? Put the safety of the entire Little Sage Village above the fire, and confuse the entire Confucianism with the rebellion of the Empire, this is your decision! ”

"Yanlu is willing to inherit the Confucian family law." Yan Lu's face did not move, and Gu Bo replied indifferently.

"What should be done with the legacy of the most holy sages and ancestors regardless of the family law?" Fu Nian asked rhetorically.

Faced with such a big hat, Yan Lu seemed to be unconscious, and still calmly said four words: "Expelled from the division." ”

"No!" Before Yan Lu's words fell, Zhang Liang had already grabbed the white, but Fu Nian did not give Zhang Liang a chance to speak, so he reprimanded: "You practice the method of sitting and forgetting your heart, and you actually practice the number of books and forget your ancestors!" ”

However, before Fu Nian finished speaking, he was cut off by Zhang Liang, "The sage patriarch said, don't let righteousness and act bravely, how can this be said to be a book and forget the ancestors." ”

"The ovary doesn't need to be said." Yan Lu didn't want the ovary to be implicated, but Fu Nian's eyes widened and he angrily reprimanded Zhang Liang, "Assist the empire in rebellion and disturb the world, what kind of benevolence should you be, and what kind of righteousness will you see!" ”

"The benevolent, the lover, the righteous, altruistic, there are people in danger, should we Confucians stand up, or should we stand by for our own safety and interests!"

Every word in the ovary is from the bottom of my heart, but Fu Nian still doesn't think so.

"Zi said, those who can do the five things in the world are benevolent, respectful, forgiving, faithful, sensitive, benevolent, respectful, respectful, respectful, and loyal to others, if the people do not know humility, those who are officials do not know integrity, and the subordinates do not know loyalty, if the people of a country are thinking about murdering the king, will the country not fall into turmoil, and the people will not be in danger."

"If you don't ask about the indiscriminate and blindly only ask the people to be loyal to the king, will the world be peaceful, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment, Mencius Gongsun Ugly said that those who have attained the Tao will have more help, and those who have lost the Tao will have little help, and those who will not help their relatives will be able to help them with more, and they will be helped by the world." The ovary quotes scriptures, but it makes Fu Nian even more angry.

"Hmph, it's rare that you still remember the Confucian classics, in the Analects of Yanyuan, Zi said, the beauty of a gentleman is not the evil villain of an adult, and the little sage village is a model in the hearts of the world's readers.

The ovary has blazing eyes, but he has a different opinion on Fu Nian's statement, "Zi said, people don't do anything, and then they can do something, the way of a gentleman is to do something, in order to do something!" ”

For the words of the ovary, Fu Nian was extremely shocked, "What you said is not true, is it disloyalty and unfilial piety!" ”

Unmoved, the ovary continued, "Mencius taught with all his heart that the people are the second most important and the most precious is the vitality of the people, so that there is a country and a king." ”

"You take the words out of context, have you forgotten, Mencius, from Lou Shang, you can't be positive with the six laws, you can't be square without rules, if there is no ethical outline, if there is no social order, what kind of social country, without social country, how can the interests of the people be guaranteed, and how can we talk about the people as valuable."

Looking at Fu Nian, who was pacing anxiously, Zhang Liang's tone finally softened a little, "What the senior brother said is certainly reasonable, but the sage patriarch still has such a doctrine, whoever is benevolent should be in a high position, and if he is not benevolent, he should be in a high position, and only the benevolent person with high morals should be in a dominant position, if the unkind person with low morals is on the throne, he will let him harm the vast number of innocent people!" ”

After hearing this, Fu Nian suddenly turned around, sat on a high position, and scolded, "Right, and then the weight, degree, and then the length of the time, Zi said, not in his position and not in his government, our little sage Zhuang only concentrates on the study of knowledge, does not involve military politics, as a scholar, should not comment on their own king, sensitive to the world and cautious, to know that there is no way to be good or bad, only people take their own trouble, the gentleman does not complain about the sky, people must insult themselves and then insult them, people must be themselves hurt first, others can hurt him! ”

Zhang Liang heard Fu Nian say this, and couldn't help but feel a little indignant in his heart: "What did the idle people do to hurt themselves and fall into an inexplicable danger!?" ”

"The person you are talking about is in danger but is fighting against the emperor of the empire, and he wants to plunge all living beings into war and fire," in Fu Nian's mind, it was clear that loyalty to the monarch and patriotism were deeply rooted.

The ovary looked at Fu Nian's expression, but still did not have the slightest fear and said, "The foundation of governing the country, respecting things and believing in things, using sparingly and loving people, if a king can't cherish his own people and people's lives, he can't be regarded as a qualified king!" ”

This sentence almost touched the red line in Fu Nian's heart, it was an insurmountable red line in his heart, as a subject, Zhang Liang's behavior was already a blatant slander of the king, which made him very angry, but his face never changed, he wanted to see what this junior brother would say next.

Sure enough, Zhang Liang then said, "Qin annexed the Six Kingdoms, and there were no less than one million soldiers in the world who lost their lives because of the war, and in the Battle of Changping, more than 400,000 prisoners of war were killed, and the civilians who were slaughtered by the war were more than one million, the Son of Heaven is not benevolent and does not protect the four seas, the princes are not benevolent and do not protect the community, if the princes do not do benevolent government, they will not be able to keep their country, and if the king is not benevolent, they will not be able to protect his world." ”

Zhang Liang said it freely, which can really be described as a generous statement, but he didn't notice that Fu Nian was already clenching his fists at the moment, and the green scriptures on the back of his hands burst out, "I only know one but I don't know the other!" Fu Nian was frightened, and then said, "You forgot that there are two sentences in the back, Qing, if the doctor is not kind, his temple family will be destroyed, and if the people are not benevolent, they will lose their lives!" ”

Zhang Liang was still as calm as water, and then answered, "Mencius said, life is also what I want, righteousness is also what I want, you can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also!" "It seems to be plain, but it shows my heart!

This sentence, whether it was Fu Nian or Yan Lu, they were all extremely shocked, Fu Nian's palm fell, and suddenly he stood up and scolded, "Enough!" What did you just say, you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness! ”

"I mean. If you can't have it both ways! Zhang Liang's response was categorical.

"You're going to cost your life? Do you not hesitate to live your own life, or the life of the entire Little Sage Village! The prince of heaven and earth is the unsubversible ethical code of Confucianism, the monarch and the minister are different, the young and the old are orderly, and what you have to do now is to rebel and bring ruin to the entire Confucianism! ”

Unable to tolerate Zhang Liang's rebuttal, Fu Nian wanted to take down the two of them, but at this moment, Fu Nian's words were stuck in his throat, and Fu Nian's stopped in mid-air, because he saw a person, a person he hadn't seen for ten years, and a teacher he loved - Master Xun!

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"Uncle Shi, long time no see!" Fu Nian saluted respectfully.

"Ten years is not a long time." Master Xun seemed a little unimpressed.

Fu Nian's face fluctuated slightly when he heard this, but Master Xun just paced leisurely into the main hall and said, "I listen to you arguing back and forth, it is both family law and national law, it seems that it is for the sake of two children. ”

"They...... They are all rebellious and wanted felons by the Empire. Fu Nian paused and replied.

"So, you're going to hand them over?" Xun Fuzi asked.

"At present, the entire Songhai is under the strict monitoring of the empire, and a large number of troops have been stationed in recent days, these two children are the felons wanted by the empire, since the last time Lord Xiangguo came to the little sage village, ......!"

seemed to be a calm statement, but because of the mention of 'Lord Xiangguo', it touched the heart of Master Xun who had been silent for a long time: "Li Si! You're going to give your two children to this guy! ”

"This is for the ...... of Confucianism" Fu Nian had to defend himself, but he was still angrily cut off by Master Xun, "Li Si can kill his fellow disciple Han Fei for the sake of the empire, for his master, and for his official fortune, and you have to use family law to deal with your two disciples Lu and Zifang for the safety of Confucianism." ”

"Uncle Shi......" Fu Nian wanted to say something, but Master Xun's words poked at his sore spot.

"Do you remember the fire in the library building of the Little Sage Village?"

Qilu Sanjie was silent at the moment, his face was gloomy, but he had his own thoughts, but what the ovary cared about was the Canglong Qisu that had been inherited for thousands of years.

Master Xun didn't care about anything else, and continued, "The road he has walked is full of blood and dry bones, and you plan to hand over your two children to such a person?!" ”

"Uncle Shi, what I have done is to protect the little sage village and continue the Confucianism of the sage patriarch, which is also my unshirkable responsibility as the head of Confucianism, this responsibility is only borne by me, I dare not be lazy, and I can't let anyone share it for me, even if I respect your old man very much!" Fu Nian's statement seems to be bland, but it is indescribably bitter, and how much can others experience the difficulties in it.

"You are the head of Confucianism, I know this very well, but before you make a decision, I still have one more sentence!" Xun Fuzi said.

"Uncle Shi, please speak!" Fu Nian is listening to me at this moment.

"It's not righteous to take it from it, it's not benevolent to kill an innocent person, it's unrighteous to go here if it's not your own, it's unkind to kill an innocent person, if you hand over these two teenagers to Li Si, what will be waiting for them, you must also know, but no matter what, it's you who make the final decision, and the decision of the head is the decision of Xiao Shengxianzhuang!"

What Xun Fuzi said in this paragraph was meaningful, but in the end, it was categorical, Yan Lu and Fu Nian both fell into contemplation, only Zifang secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and the crisis between Ziming and Ziyu was temporarily over.

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After a while, Master Xun stood quietly in the Guanhai Pavilion, looking at the undulating tide in front of him, a stack of letter paper in his hand slowly turned into powder and went away with the wind, only to hear the old man whisper slowly.

"Zihong, that's all it takes for the teacher to help you, you can do it yourself, don't let the teacher down!"