Lanling, has a long history, here was the capital of the ancient Yan State, later, the Yan State was destroyed by the Ju State, here became the royal city of the Ju State, and later was captured by the Lu State, here gradually became the county town with a strong Lu State color, later, the Chu State took away the city from the hands of the Lu State, here now belongs to the Chu State, but the color of the Lu State has not dissipated, but it is combined with the atmosphere of the Chu State, forming a unique landscape.

This is an area where Confucianism flourishes in the territory of Chu State, and scholars in Chu clothes can often be seen talking about Confucius classics, quoting scriptures, and arguing, perhaps, this is the reason why the King of Chu arranged Xunzi here, and the King of Chu wants to show Xunzi that there are actually places with strong Confucian style in the territory of Chu State, and the widow still advocates Confucianism.

Now, under the influence of the war in all areas of the Chu State, Lanling was of course not spared, and the young man was conscripted to the battlefield, and there was no news, and there was no longer the voice of the arguments that quoted scriptures in the past. The king of Chu also cared about the county order here, so he didn't dare to recruit soldiers from here with all his might, and still left a lot of people to show Xunzi, the widow still cherishes the people's power very much.

Nongsang is affected to a certain extent, however, the county order here takes the lead in leading the people to farm, the county order so moves, the nobles here can't sit still, and hurriedly send people to help, driven by Xunzi, the spring planting of Lanling is less affected, so that during the autumn harvest, Lanling still has the strength to relieve the nearby victims. This made the surrounding people respect Xunzi even more, and even the nearby thieves, after hearing that Xunzi was the Lanling order, did not dare to come here to make trouble again.

Xunzi often wore plain and loose clothes, and roamed around the various villages of Lanling in an ox cart, sometimes without shoes, he walked in the mud of the cultivated land, occasionally talked with the people here, often stayed in their homes, and always gathered a large number of disciples around him, at any time to ask him for advice. When the people saw Xunzi, they were probably overjoyed when they saw Ma Fujun, and they all thought it was their honor to stay at home in Xunzi.

Confucianism attaches great importance to etiquette, even if they die, they must be neatly dressed, and those who cannot die are not in line with etiquette, and Xunzi's behavior is obviously ignoring etiquette.

In Xiangben County, next door to Lanling, several Confucian scholars were talking.

"I heard of a Confucian who was untidy and often wore no shoes, wandering in the fields and wandering in the mud..."

"Who is it? How dare you be so rude?! Please come and reprimand the second and third sons with me! ”

"It's Xunzi."

"Oh... That's fine. ”

"Isn't it rude?"

"Confucius said: At the age of seventy, you can do whatever you want without going beyond the rules of etiquette... I think Xunzi has reached this realm. ”

Obviously, for Xunzi's rude behavior, no Confucian dared to jump out and accuse him of being wrong, and those who had the intention to ask for advice in Chu also gathered towards Lanling and asked Xunzi for advice, Xunzi never cared about their identity, as long as he could take out the apprenticeship, he could teach, he was different from Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo did not want to worship the teacher, and some disciples who were too poor, he would even help himself.

Xunzi is different, without apprenticeship, he will not teach, he said: The harvest obtained without giving will not be valued.

"Teacher, I heard that you discussed the principle of using soldiers with Lin Wujun at the beginning, but you often regarded benevolence and righteousness as the foundation. The benevolent love others, and the righteous follow the truth, so why use soldiers? The reason why Dafan uses soldiers is to fight. ”

"This truth is not what you know, the use of soldiers is to prohibit tyranny and eliminate harm, not to fight, so the army of benevolence, the place where they stay will be fully governed, and the place where they pass will be educated and reformed, just like the rain falling in time, no one is not happy. After the Qin army attacked the Chu State, they arranged officials to govern the local area in time and educate and reform the local people, which is why the Qin people can easily defeat the Chu State now. ”

"Because of Ma Fujun, the Qin State began to practice benevolent and righteous soldiers, like this army, love their kindness from afar, admire their morality from afar, the knife edge of the weapon has not been stained with blood, people from far and near will come to follow, and the virtue is great to such a point, it will affect the Quartet Far Away.....", Xunzi said seriously, and the disciples sat around him, listening thoughtfully to the teacher's explanation.

The disciple who asked the question just now is called Chen Huan, and among Xunzi's disciples, he is considered to be parallel and upright, and he is intelligent.

Among the disciples, there was a Confucian scholar with a tall figure and a long face and short beard, and he asked again: "Teacher, the four generations of the Qin State have all won victories, and they have the strongest troops in the four seas, and their power has extended to the princes and countries, but they do not rely on benevolence and righteousness to engage in war, but only do it according to the principle of convenience, I think this is the reason why the Qin State's military strength is strong, and it is not because of the fact that the Qin State has begun to raise benevolent and righteous soldiers." ”

Xunzi smiled, and he said:

"It's not something you know. The convenience you are talking about is a kind of convenience that is not convenient, and the benevolence and righteousness I am talking about are the convenience that is extremely convenient. That benevolence and righteousness are a tool used to do a good job in politics, and if politics is done well, then the people will be close to their monarch, love their monarch, and don't care about sacrificing for the monarch. Therefore: everything lies with the monarch, and the commander is secondary. ”

He paused, and then said: "The four generations of the Qin State have been victorious, but they are still afraid that the countries will unite to ravage themselves, so he was still an army in the era of decline, and he has not yet grasped the fundamental program, and now you don't look for the cause fundamentally, but explore the cause from the details, this is the reason for the social chaos!" ”

Xunzi told a lot more, and finally concluded: "Without Ma Fujun, no matter how powerful the army of Qin is, it can't unify the world like Shang Tang and King Wu!" It is easy to annex other countries, but it is difficult to consolidate and unite them. Qi was able to annex Song, but it could not be united, so Wei took it away. The Yan State was able to annex the Qi State, but it could not be cohesive, so Tian Dan recaptured it. The Shangdang of South Korea defected to the Zhao State, and the Zhao State could not be united, so the Qin State captured him. ”

"In ancient times, Shang Tang relied on Bo, and King Wu of Zhou relied on Shan, both of which were just territories within a radius of a hundred miles, and the world was unified by them, and the princes became their vassals, for no other reason, because they could condense the land they obtained. The cohesion of scholars must rely on etiquette and righteousness, and the cohesion of the people must rely on policies. If the etiquette and righteousness are done well, the scholars will be submitted; When politics is clear, the people are stable. The scholars are subjugated, and the people are stable, which is called the greatest cohesion. ”

"The Qin State originally only had a strong force, but now using the doctrine of Ma Fujun, with the etiquette and righteousness that can unite the scholars, and the benevolent and righteous policies that can unite the people, relying on this political situation to guard it is unbreakable, and relying on it to go out on the expedition is extremely powerful, there must be orders, and there are prohibitions must be stopped, and the cause of those who claim the king of the world is completed."

Listening to Xunzi's explanation, the long-faced disciple nodded, he called Li Si, he was originally from Chu, his hometown was in Shangcai, that is, Shangcai who had just been broken by Bai Qi, he was originally an official in Shangcai, and later, because he saw the rats in the toilet and the rats in the warehouse, he felt the impact of the environment on people, so he gave up his position as a minister and went to Xunzi to increase his knowledge.

Recently, a major event happened in Lanling, that is, the soldiers who went out to fight actually came back, although the war is not over, but their arrival, so that the people of Lanling are extremely happy, after they came back, they released the Qin people from prisoners, and leaked the fact that the Qin people easily defeated the Chu people, of course, at the same time, it was also preached that Ma Fujun's set of theories, so the disciples asked Xunzi for advice because of the war.

Xunzi once again told about the theory of his benevolent and righteous teacher, in his opinion, the Qin State is now transformed into a benevolent and righteous army, with the appearance of the king of the world, and for those theories of Ma Fujun, Xunzi is also full of praise, sometimes, he simply took out the "Ma Fu Book" to start explaining for the disciples. These days, the old man seemed extremely happy.

Because, the original untouchable dream seems to be floating in front of him, an army that does not harm the prisoners, can appease the captured areas in time, does not harm the local people, and educates, Xunzi can wake up with a smile in his dreams, isn't this the army he has always said? Xunzi never thought that the prototype that began to have what he called the teacher of benevolence and righteousness was actually the Qin State, which had always been known for its brutality!

And the horse service book that the Qin people intended to promote in the territory of Chu State, after Xunzi read it, he only felt that most of the political opinions here coincided with his own, and there was no need to say much about ideas such as benevolence, that is, the idea of ending the war through unification, all of which were the same as him, and Xunzi thought so!!

However, Xunzi did not dare to reveal because his ideas were not formed, he was afraid that his ideas would cause greater wars and lead to more casualties, he was only teaching students, he would vaguely reveal his thoughts, he did not expect that Zhao Kuo had already shown his way to the whole world in a bright light, and buried himself in the cause of saving the world, desperate to run for the world, sometimes, Xunzi just groped for the horse service book, his eyes flashed with tears: his face was full of smiles.

He did something he didn't dare to do.

Since the theory of one king of the world was reused by the Qin State, Zhao Kuo's reputation is no longer as white and immaculate as it was at the beginning, and many people have come forward to reprimand him, some people think that he is an accomplice of the Qin State and help the Qin State to kill the people of the countries, and some say that he wants to destroy the current etiquette rules and bring the world to destruction. Others are worried that his thoughts will make wars in the world more frequent and lead to more casualties.

The doctrine bosses of each family appeared and began to talk about the path proposed by Zhao Kuo, of course, they were all attacked, because each family has its own way to save the world, and now what Zhao Kuo said is obviously not in line with their path, not a person all the way, so he naturally wants to scold. Among the hundreds of sons, only the peasant family expressed its approval, and the idea of the peasant family is not just as simple as heavy farming.

Their core lies in obeying the will of the people and being loyal to the people. The prosperity of government is in accordance with the will of the people; The government is abolished, and it is against the will of the people, this is what the farmers want to say, now the farmers are all in the Qin State, they support Ma Fujun's doctrine, it is not surprising, what is surprising is that the famous boss Gongsun Long, Gongsun Long is also a scholar who came out to echo Zhao Kuo, as for the theory he used to explain why he supported Zhao Kuo, everyone couldn't understand... This is how the family has always spoken.

Except for them, all the other scholars are invective.

Chu Mo accused Zhao Kuo of pretending to love the people, but in fact he advocated war, intending to set off a bigger war and want to kill more people, the Confucian accused Zhao Kuo of instigating the princes to usurp the throne, re-abolishing the law and abolishing the ceremony, and the Taoists reprimanded Zhao Kuo for advocating contention, which would make the situation in the world more turbulent, Legalism... Well, the Legalists are still struggling to memorize the "Book of Horse Clothes", and a certain future Legalist boss is also busy copying the words and deeds of Ma Fujun...

Zhao Kuo, who had no prestige for a while and was respected by the people of the world, suddenly became infamous and even attracted a group to attack him, well, this will not affect Zhao Kuo's prestige, in this era, if he is not scolded by university scholars a few times, he is not qualified to be a sage. If Zhao Kuo had been born for a period of time, he might have been able to experience an abuse from Mencius, who said: The scolding war of later people is just like a child.

It wasn't until thousands of years later that a certain great writer with a mustache who did not want to be named perfectly inherited the skills of Mencius, and scolded the scholars of his generation for not being able to raise their heads.

Xunzi is the only scholar who did not scold Zhao Kuo, and may be the only one among Confucians who praises Zhao Kuo, after all, Xunzi has always been the most alternative Confucian sage.

Xunzi sat in the courtyard, was lecturing to his disciples, with Zhao Kuo at the beginning, Xunzi seemed to be a little unscrupulous, he thought about the doctrine of great unification, and he wanted to implement the idea of great unification and benevolence and government frankly said, the disciples were not surprised, because on weekdays, Xunzi often explained these in a roundabout way, and there were a few smart disciples who had already dug deeper things from Xunzi's knowledge.

Just when Xunzi was lecturing, suddenly a disciple hurriedly walked in, looked at Xunzi, leaned over and bowed, and then said, "Teacher... I heard that Chu Mo had gathered dozens of people and was about to go to Zhao State to find Ma Fujun...", hearing the news brought by his disciple, Xunzi raised his eyebrows, stopped lecturing, and asked with some displeasure: "What do they want to do with Ma Fujun?" ”

"I heard that I was going to discuss my studies with Ma Fujun... Actually, they may be going to reprimand the horse clothes..."

"A beast without a father and a king, dare to do this?!" Xunzi stood up and directly interrupted the disciple's words, he said angrily, and then crutches in his hand, looked at a few disciples on the side, and finally his eyes fell on Li Si among them, he said: "Si... You can take a few people, stop Na Chumo, and talk to them properly.... That's right..", Xunzi suddenly thought of something again, and immediately looked at his other disciple.

"Hustle... I remember, your family passed down the doctrine of the ram high? ”

"Teacher, that's right."

"Then you can go along."

"Yui."

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