Chapter 222: Manifesting the Prosperity of a Great Power

"His tall fancy rule is not suitable in our Qi country. If the monarch uses this to transform the customs of Qi country, I am afraid it will become unrecognizable, that Song Xianggong is not very benevolent and righteous, but he died in the country, the reason why the old man Kong has no market, it is related to his set of flower roads, it is difficult to teach the people of our Qi country in this way. Yan Zi's words obviously moved Qi Jinggong, and he decided to withdraw his order and never asked Confucius about etiquette again.

Confucius and his entourage also felt the contrast between the changes before and after Qi Jinggong, and heard that the great doctor of Qi was going to poison Confucius, and he could not let him use Confucian etiquette to harm Qi State, so he fled from Qi State at night. It is said that Confucius also walked in a hurry in the Qi Kingdom.

"Confucius went to Qi and went one after another" ("Mencius"), he didn't eat any food, and went on the road with unfiltered rice. This is exactly the rush to come, the rush to go.

Why did this Yan Zi obstruct Qi Jinggong's appointment of Confucius? There are several reasons for this.

The cultural paths that Qi and Lu want to take are completely different, and they have been "set" by Zhou Gong and Jiang Taigong very clearly. "Han Poetry Biography": "The former Taigong looked forward to Zhou Gongdan being sealed and saw him. Taigong asked Zhou Gong how to govern Lu. Zhou Gong said: "Respect and kiss. Taigong said: "Lu has been weak since then." Zhou Gong asked Taigong, 'How can you rule Qi?' Taigong said: "Virtuous and meritorious." Zhou Gong said: "There will be a king of robbery and killing in the future." 'After Qi Ri is great, as for the tyrant, the twenty-fourth generation and the Tian clan will replace him. Rouge died in the thirty-fourth. ”

The sage Jiang Taigong has already judged that the "benevolence and righteousness" thought conceived by Confucianism, there are too many flowery roads, empty consumption of national strength, and it will definitely weaken the country, so the Lu State has been weak from the original Zhou Gongdan to the present, and the generation is not as good as the generation.

Confucianism has the problem of "Confucianism", only understands the pomp and circumstance, which makes people feel high, as for how arrogant it is, "Historical Records of the Confucius Family": The disciples have good children, and follow Confucius in a private car. - The five private carriages refer to the five carriages, and they are the private property of the disciple Gongliangru. You must know that most of the rest of the officials are ox carts.

Confucius talked about everything and the idea of "self-denial and revenge", what is the gram, what is taught is the restraint of others, and if you can't gram, you can't live anymore, and the common people are weak into this bird-like, and they come to talk nonsense that what gram has been reinstated, and the silver required for this retribution is not a small amount, can the people afford it? Therefore, these ideas of Confucius were divorced from reality at that time, and it was difficult to satisfy the desire of Qi Jinggong to compete for hegemony in a hurry for quick success.

Thirdly, Yan Zi's evaluation of Lu Ru is not just his opinion, but also represents the official understanding of Qi State. Yan Zi's obstruction was not only aimed at Confucius, Yan Zi wanted to seek his government in his position; Lu Ru and ruling the government, this is probably unprecedented. Qi Jinggong also did not have the pattern and insight to "exceptional" appoint Confucius.

Everyone also understands the example of Song Xianggong, who talks about benevolence and righteousness to mischief, but as a result, benevolence and righteousness are too much, and they have done all the ridiculous things!

Of course, Qi Jinggong only has a good impression of Confucius, and it is difficult to say that he has a deep understanding. Yan Zi and Qi Jinggong, who were deeply influenced by Qi culture, did not believe in Confucius, the representative of Confucianism from Lu culture, which was also natural, and most of the princes in the world at that time were also the same, and they did not believe that Confucianism could really save the country.

People in the political circles of Qi were actually not friendly to Confucius. Some of the doctors of Qi wanted to be ruthless to Confucius, thinking that this product came here to bring disaster to the country and the people, and Confucius's ideal of creating a beautiful and prosperous world had to pass away with the wind and flee from Qi in a hurry.

After this happened, it did not affect Confucius's evaluation of Yanzi, and Confucius's evaluation of Yanzi has always been very high. "A gentleman is not a gentleman, but a villain is also virtuous. Its Yan Zi is called "欤", which is the words of Confucius to affirm Yan Zi; In addition, Confucius once praised Yan Ying's outstanding diplomatic performance, "not out of the bottle, but thousands of miles away".

Under the exclusion of Yan Ying, the next thing to flee to Zheng Guo was, and when he arrived in Zheng Guo, Confucius tidied up his clothes and appeared in the national capital to start speaking, Confucius liked the tall music, and he talked about nothing more than the spring and white snow, not the lower riba people, so he couldn't get used to the Zheng Guo style at that time, so he said some untimely words: - Le Ze "Shao" dance. Put Zheng Sheng, far away. Zheng Sheng's obscenity, and the people died.

Confucius said to the monarch of Zheng State: "Your country often engages in some fancy pavement, and your pop music has changed completely, and now it is some glamorous sounds, and we are all lofty intellectuals, can these music be listened to by scholars and doctors?" The music has to use "Shao" and "Wu", which is high. Everything else should be banned! Listening too much will make people fall and not fall into the stream! ”

"Although "Shao" and "Wu" are lofty, they will naturally get tired of listening to them for a long time! What's so bad about having fun with the people? You don't really listen to some music and think it's degrading! ”

"Etiquette can govern the country, this is not a kind of trickery, forming a kind of atmosphere, it is naturally simple, but these outrageous tapes are troublesome if they are out of direction, and it is difficult to correct them!"

Zheng Guojun's monarch said: "Isn't it monotonous to listen to these two songs often in "Shao" and "Wu", can Zheng Guo be cured by listening to these two songs, I think it's very difficult, and the ancient mastery is very complicated, so many people will?" It takes at least decades to learn these things, and how much manpower and material resources do you need to prepare? And it's okay to listen to it once, but if you listen to it too much, you will get tired of it, you are always a saint, do we have your old level? ”

Confucius had no choice but to say: "Your pop music is a little wrong, with some colors that shouldn't be there, and there will be a lot of fashionable rotten men and women." Zheng Guo's new music is debauched and debauched, and there are many and dangerous people who talk about it. It is not beneficial to the country! You see, the atmosphere has changed now, and purple has been used instead of the red color, which is not in line with etiquette! ”

"Our Zheng country is a small country, if the whole country is called to learn from the sage you to govern the country, it will not be difficult to become a climate for decades, and the country is poor and weak, so we waste so much time to engage in these fancy roads, but who will take care of it? At that time, Lile has not been learned well, but people are starved half to death, and when the neighboring countries invade like wolves and tigers, how can they survive? ”

However, the music that Confucius loved and advocated was classical and elegant, believing that such music could cultivate people's temperament and change customs. Resolutely oppose and reject "Zheng Sheng", say "Zheng Sheng's lewdness", put "Zheng Sheng" and "Sheren" on the same page, and criticize Zheng Sheng for making people debauched, and will overturn the country just like the people who use rhetoric to confuse people.

Even if the monarch agrees to these points, Zheng Guo is not happy from top to bottom, doesn't he just like a piece of music! I can't stop talking crookedly, and there are a lot of flower roads, which makes people annoyed, and I even have to say sorry a few times when I fart! Confucius could only be frustrated!

As a result, Confucius turned his thinking to academics and began to relish the three hundred positive music of the "Poems", that is, to restore the "Song" poems and "Ya" poems that had been scattered, out of tune, and had been tampered with, so that "'Ya' and 'Song' each have their place."

There is also "Zheng Feng" in the "National Style", which is sung in Zheng Guo's local music, like other winds, it is naturally still local music, otherwise why is it called "Zheng Feng"?