Li Mu looked at Kong Yingda, who was already sweating on his forehead, and asked with a smile: "Old Kong, you are not busy today, you can think about it seriously and answer this question well." ”

Hearing Li Mu say this, the students present all smiled in unison. The past between Li Mu and Kong Yingda is unknown to others, but they couldn't be clearer. In the past, every time Kong Yingda was defeated, he would 'faint on his back' for the sake of face, once or twice was excusable, after all, Kong Yingda was so old, and Li Mu really didn't save face, but every time he fainted, how could there be such a coincidence, he must be pretending to be dizzy.

After a few times, it has become an unspeakable secret for Kong Yingda. Li Mu broke it in front of him, and it was even more damaged, he couldn't even faint now, if he fainted now, if it wasn't fake, it would be falsely accused, and in front of the students in the future, there would be no majesty at all.

Far away, Li Shimin could feel the resentment emanating from Kong Yingda's body, and he felt a little pity for him in his heart. Although Kong Yingda is also from the Shandong Shi clan, compared to Wei Zheng and others who like to cause trouble, Kong Yingda is much better. Because he is a relatively pure person, what he teaches, considers, says, and revolves around are also teaching things, and as for the things that Wei Zheng and others worry about, he doesn't pay much attention to them.

This time he was squeezed into a corner by Li Mu again, Kong Yingda knew that there was no way to avoid it, so he turned his heart on it and decided to fight with him. Even if he can't argue, he must give it a go, in the final analysis, in his heart, he still has confidence in this set of Confucian knowledge passed down from his ancestors.

Why?

Since the Han Dynasty, the dethronement of the hundred schools and the exclusive respect for Confucianism are not the answers? If other learnings are comparable to Confucianism, why have they all dissipated by now?

Therefore, Kong Yingda is not afraid.

Kong Yingda took a deep breath, stabilized his mind, met Li Mu's gaze, and said, "The situation you said, it is undeniable that there will be one. For such stubborn people, there is a law to deal with them. My Confucianism is not only about benevolence. ”

Li Mu smiled as if waiting for this sentence, and said, "Lao Kong, I'm embarrassed to debate with you when you say this, you're so stupid." ”

Kong Yingda's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "What did you say?!" ”

"I know what you mean, and you're right. But have you thought about it, and if you say so, you are wrong. As a ruler, you have given benevolent government, and in your imagination, under the bath of your benevolent government, the people should be grateful. At this time, if someone disagrees with you, it is a person who is not educated, and you will punish them...... Ha, you think about it yourself, can this still be called benevolent government? ”

"The so-called 'benevolence' of benevolent government is determined by you or by the people? There is a saying called my honey and my arsenic. If you follow your thoughts, you will think, why don't you let this herdsman come to Jiangnan and give him a piece of land to cultivate? ”

Kong Yingda nodded subconsciously and said, "If the conditions allow, why not?" ”

"Huh! Why not? Li Mu smiled very speechlessly, and said: "This is the words of a nerd, have you ever thought about why a herdsman is called a herdsman, because he can only graze herds, he can't farm." Do you think it's good for him, let him come to Jiangnan to farm, he won't be able to plant, starve to death, who is it? If you don't help him, he has a difficult life, at least he can live, you helped him, he was killed by you, this is also called benevolence? ”

Kong Yingda's face was flushed, and after a few words, he already knew that if he argued, he would never be Li Mu's opponent. And what's even more terrifying is that Li Mu said a reason or an example, and he himself actually listened to it. This is too scary, if he continues to talk like this, won't it subvert the Confucian essence in his heart?

Kong Yingda gritted his teeth and said: "Even if I am wrong, it is because I Kong Yingda is not good at studying, I'm sorry for the ancestors, you can't say that Confucianism is wrong!" ”

Kong Yingda thought that the next thing to meet would be Li Mu's fierce attack and humiliation, and he was mentally prepared to bear it. But what he didn't expect was that Li Mu was even more surprised than him when he heard him say this, and said, "Old Kong, what are you thinking, when did I ever say that Confucianism was wrong?" Am I not saying you're wrong? ”

Kong Yingda was stunned, he didn't react, isn't this the same thing?

Li Mu didn't care about him, and said to the students with his own care: "Students, after talking about it for a long time, I believe you are also a little confused. Just now, Kong Saijiu said that he was wrong, and through my refutation, everyone also knew what he was wrong. You may now think that what Confucius taught you is pure Confucian benevolence, if this is wrong, isn't it the mistake of Confucianism and Confucius? ”

"It's a big mistake to have this kind of thinking!"

"Let's analyze the word benevolence from the beginning, and we just said it. Confucius, the old man, never said the word 'benevolent government', he only said benevolence. Politics was added by Mencius. Later generations studied the Confucian classics and were accustomed to merging Confucius and Mencius and calling them the two sages, so they were confused, but the two were still different. ”

We must clearly understand that although Confucius and Mencius are collectively called the two sages, the main ideas of Confucianism are derived from Confucius. Mencius is based on the doctrine of Confucius to interpret and carry forward. Confucius and Mencius are more than 100 years apart and have never met. This is just like today, you have learned Confucian classics from Confucius Wine for a long time, get along day and night, have you learned its essence? ”

Everyone shook their heads, Kong Yingda's 'theory class' is the most difficult to understand of all courses, often thinking that they understand, but being told that they understood it wrongly, which makes people annoyed and afraid.

"According to this, can I make a bold guess that about the word 'benevolent government', Confucius only wants to say 'benevolence', and 'government' is added by Mencius because of his own imagination or needs, this is not me talking nonsense, Mencius in order to seek official positions, get reused, has traveled to Liang, Wei, Qi, Song, Teng, Lu and other countries, the word benevolence, is he and Liang Hui Wang played against the two words!"

The students were thoughtful, Kong Yingda was very anxious when he saw this, but he couldn't help it, because he couldn't give an example to prove the absurdity of what Li Mu said.

Just when the students were about to be brainwashed successfully, Li Mu suddenly smiled, changed his words, and said: "Of course, everything I said is speculation, maybe Confucius thought about it - attention, what I said is speculation, I speculate about Confucius and Mencius, Mencius speculates about Confucius, everyone is speculation, not what the eyes see, the facts of physical experience, so this kind of words are not enough to believe." ”

The students were silent, and they doubted their ears. What was this young Zhulu Marquis talking about, he actually said, the way of Confucius and Mencius is not believable? It's a challenge to their values.

Kong Yingda couldn't help but speak, and said: "Li Mu, please be cautious, don't rely on your own talent, just mislead people's children here, they are all the humerus of the future country, you can't afford it!" ”

Li Mu smiled and said, "Lao Kong, don't scare me." I'm ordered to teach, and I have to come, otherwise do you think I'm willing to come? I was born in Li Mubian City, and I didn't know a single big character half a year ago, and I couldn't write my name. Today, I have all of this by the word 'different'. If I think the same thing as you, how can I stand out? Anyway, I don't like to talk about it, since you say so, then I won't say it, I'm here today, class is over! ”

It's okay not to say this, but after saying it, you can blow up the nest.

Regarding Li Mu's origin, Datang Daily has already reported it, and the students can't be clearer anymore. I have seen a lot of all kinds of miracles about him. He said that everything he got was because of his difference, and the students subconsciously believed it.

Everyone present, needless to say, is from a background that will take the title of duke and marquis in the future. But who of them dares to say that they can compare to Li Mugo? Who doesn't want to get dragon slaying skills, seeing that Li Mu is leaving, Li Chengqian was the first to rush over, hugging Li Mu's thigh, where can he still take care of the majesty of the prince, and shouted loudly: "Big brother, big brother, they don't listen, I want to listen, didn't my father ask you to teach me and Qingque, you have to finish speaking!" ”

Li Tai also pounced, hugged the other thigh, and said, "Big brother, the imperial brother is right!" ”

The others also gossiped and completely ignored Kong Yingda's drinking. Li Mu sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, let's all go back to our seats, listen to me, anyway, I don't know when the next class will be." Maybe Your Majesty thinks that I can't speak well, and maybe I won't let me talk anymore, so I'll just have an addiction to being a teacher! ”

The students responded and sat back in their places obediently. Li Mu glanced at Kong Yingda and said, "Old Kong, you might as well listen to it, if you think what I said is wrong, you can go and explain to Your Majesty, it just so happens that I don't like to lecture, so I don't have to come here to hinder your eyes." ”

Kong Yingda was already disgraced, snorted, looked to the side, and didn't hear it.

Li Mu smiled, ignored him, and continued: "As I said just now, it is an unreliable thing for future generations to speculate on what their predecessors think. Let's think further, don't say that the descendants speculate on the predecessors, that is, the two people facing each other, do you think you can know everything he thinks? ”

Seeing that all the students looked at each other, Li Mu directly gave the answer and said, "No! Because between people, whether it is father-son affection or friendship, as long as it is not one, it is natural to have a defensive heart, and it is impossible for you to see through it. What a person thinks, only he knows, others are just guessing. ”

"What I'm really trying to tell you is that when you read, you have to bring your own brain. The classics of the saints are, of course, classics. But the saints' texts are not necessarily all right. How can there be an all-knowing and all-powerful person in this world? Everyone has made mistakes, if Confucius and Mencius are omniscient and omnipotent, why didn't they make a marquis and worship the prime minister, and they failed to establish a dynasty? If they did it right, why didn't the people enjoy benevolence at their time? If we look at the results first, we can deduce the cause, which is very simple, so there must be something wrong in their theory. ”

Kong Yingda's nostrils were bubbling, he wanted to say something, but his brain was blank, and he really couldn't think of words to refute it.

"Then as far as this benevolent government is concerned, I can take you to try to study, why can't you do benevolent government, why Mencius can't do it with such great power? Because – it's something that can't be done in itself. ”

The students had already held their breath and waited for Li Mu's high talk, but they didn't expect another big breath to come, and they almost flashed their waists.

"Why do I say I can't do it? It is very simple that since ancient times, there have been few kings and many people. There was only one king, and with all the ministers and officials, there were only thousands. But the people are like carp crossing the river, thousands. How can a king, thousands of officials, come up with a benevolent government that satisfies all the people? The same decree, some people rejoice and some people curse, how do you block the mouth of Youyou? ”

"So, we can draw conclusions. Mencius combined Confucius's idea of 'benevolence' to put forward 'benevolent government', but the reason why he did not do it himself is that 'benevolent government' is an idealized concept. If you want to achieve benevolent government, you need the king to be a clear king, the minister to be a virtuous minister, and the people must be good people who are kind and benevolent. All three are indispensable. Think about it, if you have all three, why do you need any benevolent government? It's all benevolent! The so-called 'benevolent government' is just nonsense. Two of the three ancient and modern dynasties are prosperous, how can there be a time when all three are available? ”

"It seems to me that it is absurd and meaningless to blindly study the texts of the saints. The life, environment, rituals, and education of our predecessors are completely different from ours. Even when Confucius wanted to restore the Zhou rites in the Lu State, he did not succeed. Now if we pick out the words in the classics and apply the things that our predecessors encountered to the things we encounter now, can it work? ”

Li Mu glanced at Kong Yingda and said, "Then some people will have questions when they hear this, if according to what I said, the monarch should not be benevolent?" ”

"Not either!"

"It's still the same sentence, you can think about it the other way around! Since the monarch wants to implement benevolent government, there will always be people who will find fault, so the monarch may as well wait. Waiting, not to ignore it, but to observe the people's feelings. Giving the people what they desperately need will be much more effective than if you were to implement a so-called benevolent government. In a phrase that I often say when I do business, this is called 'there is no good deal in a hurry', and everything must be pragmatic. If there is no accident in the future, you will all be officials, remember not to put any benevolent government, kindness, generosity, this kind of useless on your lips, the people don't care about these, no matter how beautiful the words are, you have to solve the matter. ”

"Just imagine, if there is a famine year, the people are hungry and thin, you talk to the people about benevolent government, do the people have time to listen? They want food, except for food, it's all bullshit! You have never seen a really hungry person, if a person is hungry, he will really eat people. What I told you today, if you don't take it to heart, he really encounters this situation one day, and he is torn up and eaten when he is talking about it, don't blame me for not reminding you! ”