"It's completely deserted!" Standing at the gate of Guozijian, looking at the broken and collapsed archway and the gate full of holes, Li Ze shook his head.

Today's snow was very heavy, and the wind was strong, and the wind passed through the holes, whining and whining.

"It's long gone." Zhang Hui said with a wry smile: "When I left, there was still some funding every year, but later I was afraid that there was no funding for the only one, and the teachers and students in the prison were scattered. Later, Zhu Wen entered Chang'an, and the war continued, even if Zhu Wen wanted to rebuild the Guozijian to win people's hearts, where would he have the time and money? ”

"Go back to your hometown and see the injuries, right?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

"Not really!" Zhang Hui was invigorated: "Now that I am back, I will naturally restore him to his heyday, so that this place will become the most desirable place for students in the world again." ”

"But he is no longer the eunuch of the country!"

"Datang University of Political Science and Economics!" Zhang Hui said with a smile.

"Let's go, let's go in and see!" Li Ze said: "Look at how your students have cleaned up inside?" ”

This is the first batch of students from the School of Political Science and Economics of Wuwei Academy to arrive.

After taking Chang'an, these people packed their bags and came from Wuyi to Chang'an. Because before the attack on Chang'an, the branch of Wuwei Academy had already formed a resolution. For example, the School of Political Science and Economics will move to Chang'an, and the original Guozijian is their new school site.

In such a densely populated place as Chang'an, there can be such a large place as a place for learning, it cannot but be said that the rulers of the Tang Dynasty in the past still attached great importance to education and knowledge.

But one thing has to be said is that only when the country is safe and secure, education will become an industry that the country attaches special importance to, and when the war comes, education seems so insignificant.

When human life is like a mustard and you can't even eat enough, you can talk about knowledge extravagantly, which is unrealistic.

"Anyway, Wang Shu did something in the end." Zhang replied: "At least, he ensured the integrity of the imperial city and the palace city, and also enabled the vast collection of books in it to be preserved. It will not be ruined as worthless. ”

"Well, he did a good job of this, anyway, after all, he is a person who has been in charge for many years, and he still has this bit of knowledge." Li Zedao.

"So Li Xiang, I still want to ask him for a favor and hit a wooden clock here for you." Zhang Hui stopped and said.

"He begged to come to your door!"

"He panicked!" Zhang replied: "I went to my house yesterday. completely lost his proper demeanor, crying bitterly, full of ugliness, disgusting, but also embarrassing. ”

"Shou Chunhou was beheaded, it scared him!" Li Ze smiled.

"Can you not be scared?" Zhang replied: "After all, he is much more clever than those stupid nobles. He was willing to give up all his possessions for the lives of his family. ”

"What other possessions does he have? I heard Gao Xiangsheng say that in the end, it was difficult for his family to even eat a full stomach. ”

"Land!" Zhang replied: "Haven't you been thinking about how to get these lands back? He has thousands of acres of land in various parts of Guanzhong, and these lands are divided among different people. Only he has this list. Moreover, he also has millions of family fortunes that he is willing to dedicate to Li Xiang. ”

"Thousands of acres of land, millions of riches!" Li Ze suddenly stopped.

"He's been a ruler for years! It started from the time of the first emperor. Zhang replied: "In the end, his actions of not being able to eat and clothing to keep out the cold are just more of a gesture and a performance." Now that he sees that the form is not right, with his political experience, he will not guess that we will settle accounts after the autumn, so he wants to use these things to save his life. ”

"These things are in the hands of different people, and he is not afraid that he will not come back?" Li Ze asked with interest.

"That's where he can threaten us." Zhang replied: "We don't know who these people are, maybe on the surface, these people are some good people, we can't get much control at all, and these lands naturally can't be recovered." ”

"What a hate!" Li Ze gritted his teeth and said.

"He guessed that we were short of money now, and that we needed the land to house the people, to reward the soldiers, and even to use the land for money. One of his lives is worth nothing, and it doesn't really mean anything to kill or not. But this thousand acres of land and the wealth he has hidden over the years, if we get our hands on it, we can do much more. ”

Li Ze thought about it, but laughed: "You're right, his life is indeed not worth these things." Tell him to hand over these things, and I will spare his life. But the Wang family, all of them will leave Chang'an for me, go to Liaozhou, and leave it to Wang Wenshu to take care of! ”

Zhang Hui nodded.

"Li Xiang, these days, I've been thinking about what you said to Chen Wenliang that day, can't you really have both talent and virtue?" Zhang Hui said a little depressedly. "If there is no virtue, how can you stand up and speak? What does it take to be a role model? Look at Wang Shu like this, isn't he talented? Is he talented, is he virtuous? He has no virtue. ”

Li Ze stretched out his hand to catch a few falling snowflakes, pondered for a moment and said: "Zhang Gong, to be a man, you must be virtuous, but to be an official, you may not be able to do it. For example, no one in the world can criticize you for your morality, but what about being an official? Do you feel like you've done it blameless? ”

"I ......"

Zhang Hui was about to argue, but Li Ze raised his palms to stop what he wanted to say, and instead chuckled: "For example, I am now the King of Qin's affairs......"

Zhang Hui was startled, looked back behind the two, and saw Li Peng and the others fall behind him more than ten steps, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "Li Xiang, this is a last resort for the sake of the world." ”

"There are so many unavoidables in life. It's the same with being an official. Li Ze said: "Sometimes, it's too much of a last resort. For individuals, morality is naturally pursued, but sometimes, when you have to sacrifice your personal morality in the face of the interests of the majority, what do you choose? Do you choose to retreat and make sure you have a moral reputation and keep yourself clean, or do you sacrifice your reputation for the benefit of the majority? Let your white wall be stained? ”

Zhang Hui once again fell into a dilemma, and after a long while, he said, "I think, I will choose the interests of the majority." ”

"That's it!" Li Ze sighed: "When we educate scholars and educate the world, we naturally require everyone to have both talents and virtues, but when we really start to step into this complex society, we have to face a choice. ”

Looking at the students who were busy in the cold wind and snow in front of him, Li Ze said: "They are full of enthusiasm now, and everyone wants to make a career for the country and the people." But when they really become officials, they will appreciate the cruelty of this society. It is conceivable that many of them will sink in these ups and downs, some will fall, some will do nothing in their lives, and some will rise to the top. One day, he even became one of the leaders who took charge of this empire. And in the process, they have to keep facing this choice. ”

"A person with a moral cleanliness habit cannot be a good official." Li Ze continued: "Ordinary people can be black and white, they can distinguish between right and wrong, but officials can't. For most of their lives, they actually walk between the two. Whoever can grasp this degree is a good official. ”

"How did he answer that question you asked Zhang Xun?" Zhang Hui's mood was a little low and asked.

Li Ze smiled and said: "Zhang Xun said that for those who are virtuous and talentless, they can be allowed to be officials of supervision, and they can be academic officials who teach and educate people, but they must not be allowed to go to the ruling side but be officials close to the people. And what about those who are talented, but have problems with discipline? Don't you? That's a pity, he will set a red line for these people, and above the red line, he can tolerate these people. But if he breaks through this bottom line, he will not hesitate to take down such a person. ”

Zhang Hui's face was a little uncertain: "Do you agree with his statement?" ”

Li Ze laughed and said: "Zhang Gong, people live in this world, they all have desires, what we are talking about here, talented and unvirtuous people, they are not like this at the beginning, they are just in the process of life, they did not grasp the greed in their hearts." As an official on the governor's side, Zhang Xun is not wrong in saying this, he wants peace on the side, and if he wants to develop the local economy, he naturally wants anyone to be able to use it, as long as he can control it. But from our point of view, we can't think so. ”

"So what are we to think?" Zhang Hui sighed: "This is a difficult problem of both worlds. ”

"From our point of view, what we should think about is how to use the system to restrain the greed in people's hearts! Let those who are likely to commit crimes not dare to stretch out their little hand of greed out of fear. You teach and educate them, you educate them from personal recuperation, and you revise and perfect the law from the point of view of intimidating them from the consequences. And what I want to do is to put both of these things into practice, and not let education go astray, and not let the law become a dead letter. Don't stretch out your hand, and you will be caught. ”

"Putting it into practice, but it's the hardest!" Zhang Hui sighed.

"Take your time. When the system becomes more and more perfect, there will be more and more people who are afraid. Li Ze smiled: "But we can never think that all the people in this world really become selfless, that is impossible." As long as most of the officials under our rule abide by this rule, then the world will get better and better. ”