A moment later, Gou Kuang appeared in front of Zhao Dan with two disciples, and saluted respectfully towards Zhao Dan: "I've seen the king." ”

Zhao Dan looked at the situation carefully, and couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart.

This is Xunzi, those legendary sons of the hundred schools, finally let Zhao Dan see one.

Xunzi, the name of the situation, the word Qing, Zhao Guoren, the late Warring States period thinker, writer, politician, Confucian power, once served three times as the Jixia School Palace sacrificial wine, a few years ago at the invitation of the Chu State Order Yin Chun Shenjun Huang Xie into Chu for the Lanling Order.

Xunzi was not only a well-known Confucian in this era, but also his disciple skills were also quite successful, and the three apprentices he taught were all famous.

Someone may have to ask, as a traverser, who is Zhao Dan bad to use, and actually ran to use a Confucian scholar to change the law? I'm afraid I haven't learned this history.

It's not the same thing.

Xunzi is a very controversial person, even within Confucianism.

What's the dispute? It was on the bodies of these two young people in front of Zhao Dan.

I saw the black-crowned scholar saluting towards Zhao Dan, and his tone was respectful: "Li Si has seen the king." ”

The blue-robed scholar also saluted: "Han, Han Fei has seen and seen the king. ”

Zhao Dan nodded with a smile and said, "Don't be polite, just sit down." ”

Although these two young scholars are still not famous in this era at this time, Zhao Dan can be described as thunderous for these two people.

Li Si, a great power of legalism, the prime minister of the Qin State during the period of Qin Shi Huang, once wrote the extremely famous "Book of Exhortations to the Guest", assisted Qin Shi Huang to complete the great cause of unifying the world, vigorously promoted the same track of the same car and the same document, unified the system of weights and measures, and was one of the founders of the two thousand years of unification.

Of course, Li Si also has black spots, and his biggest black spot is that after the death of Qin Shi Huang, he was coerced by the eunuch Zhao Gao to tamper with the edict and establish Hu Hai as Qin II.

But in general, if you look at it from the black spots, Li Si, the prime minister, is undoubtedly a very good Legalist official, and he is also a very good minister.

But in terms of the reputation of later generations, Li Si was not even as good as the senior brother standing beside him.

Han Fei, the son of Korea, was an outstanding thinker, philosopher, and essayist.

Han Fei combines the "law" of Shang Ying, the "technique" of Shen Bu and the "potential" of prudence, and is the culmination of Legalist thought.

Han Fei integrated Laozi's dialectics, naïve materialism and law. It attaches great importance to the ideas of materialism and efficiency, and actively advocates the theory of absolute monarchy, with the aim of providing the absolute monarch with the idea of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and providing a theoretical basis for the birth of China's first unified and autocratic centralized state.

Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages, attached great importance to Han Fei's thoughts, and regarded "Han Feizi" as the key to Qin's governance.

"Historical Records" contains: Qin Shi Huang saw the books of "Lonely Anger" and "Five Worms", and said: "Wow, the widow can see this person swimming with him, and he can't be hated when he dies!" ”

In order to let Han Feizi enter Qin, Qin Shi Huang even did not hesitate to launch a war against Korea, and finally made Han Feizi an official in Qin.

But Han Feizi was dedicated to Han, and all the strategies he offered after entering Qin were the strategies of weak Qin and Han, and he was imprisoned after being exposed, and then he was poisoned by his fellow disciple Li Si, who was standing next to Han Feizi at the moment.

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Yes, Xunzi is such a magical person.

Obviously, he is a powerful figure of Confucianism, but he has taught two Legalist giants who shook the past and the present.

It is precisely because of this that some people do not even recognize Xunzi as a Confucian scholar, but think that Xunzi is a Legalist scholar.

This is mainly because Xunzi added many elements of Legalism to the Confucian ideology and theory.

Of course, this is not unusual, because the collision of ideas will always spark a spark, and then everyone will learn from me and I will learn from you, and finally you have me and I have you.

In the words of the famous Comrade Kong Yiji, it is slightly changed, that is: "Can the business of a scholar be called copying?" ”

Of course, for these thinkers, the use of the word "copy" is obviously neither respectful nor appropriate, but it is more appropriate to learn from others.

Xunzi talked about sexual evil, and integrated the ideas of Confucianism and law to a certain extent, so he was violently attacked by many Confucian powers in the Jixia School Palace, and had to leave the Jixia School Palace to go to the Chu State.

But the influence of Xunzi's approach is still very far-reaching, it can be regarded as creating a precedent for the cooperation between Confucianism and Law, and what Confucian skin bones played by Zhang Tang and Dong Zhongshu in the Western Han Dynasty in later generations, and the Spring and Autumn Prison Break should be influenced by Xunzi.

Therefore, Xunzi has a very high reputation, has some of his own fans among Confucianism, and many people in the Legalists have a good impression of him, and he has served as the priest of the Jixia School Palace, which is equivalent to the leader of the world altar.

What Zhao Dan wants to use is Xunzi's very special prestige.

In later generations, some people often like to criticize Confucianism as useless, as if Confucianism is a cancer that has bound the Chinese nation for 2,000 years, and without Confucianism, the Chinese nation would have already unified the world.

This is not right.

Materialism tells us that we should look at everything dialectically, and we should see both its shortcomings and its advantages.

In the final analysis, any kind of theoretical thought is nothing more than a tool of the emperors' rule. Whether it is used well or not depends on how the emperors used it.

Confucianism is such a tool that was chosen by the emperors, and eventually evolved into something strange under the emperor's preference.

If a person does something wrong with a tool, the person should be held accountable first, not the tool.

Just because a person hacks someone to death with a knife doesn't mean that a knife is bad and should be denied.

Just as there is a common saying that "history is just a little girl at the mercy of others", Confucianism is actually such a little girl at the mercy of others.

Of course, given the initiative of Confucianism, it seems that there is nothing wrong with calling it "a little girl who takes the initiative to manipulate herself according to the king's preferences"...

Confucianism, there are many black spots, and there are actually many advantages.

In fact, all of the pre-Qin princes had both advantages and disadvantages.

As far as Zhao Dan knows, there is no flawless or impeccable ideology or theory in this world, and there is no one.

In Zhao Dan's view, not only Confucianism, not only Legalism, but also hundreds of schools of thought can be used for Zhao Dan.

Legalism is strong, Confucianism is gentle, soldiers are wars, Mohists are workers, and farmers are cultivated...

Let the hundreds of schools of thought go their own way, each shine, contribute their own strength to the Chinese culture, let the Chinese culture bloom the most dazzling brilliance in the collision of hundreds of schools, and finally completely dominate the world.

This is the real vision in Zhao Dan's heart!

But as the Xunzi in front of Zhao Dan said in "Xunzi Persuasion": "If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles." ”

There is always a first step in everything.

Zhao Dan felt that his first step would start with this meeting with Xunzi.