After Zhao Dan asked this question, Xun Jing did not answer immediately, but only replied after thinking in silence for a while.

This answer is not strictly an answer, but a rhetorical question.

Xun Guo asked, "The king wants to be the king?" Overlord? ”

Zhao Dan thought for a while and said, "The widow wants to be a bully. ”

For this answer, Xun was obviously stunned.

The Great Confucian's surprise was so obvious that even when he spoke next, his voice trembled a little: "The king wants to do the royal way? ”

Zhao Dan glanced at Xun Qian a little strangely, but still said: "It's not the king's way, it's the overlord's way." ”

The next moment, a trace of excitement suddenly appeared on Xun Kuang's old face, and he was putting away his clothes and making a big salute to Zhao Dan.

"The ministers are thousands of Confucians in the world, thank you to the king!"

Although Zhao Dan's words are very unmistakable and unmistakable, the words "overlord road miscellaneous", but the miscellaneous, containing "royal road" is indeed unmistakable.

This is extremely important for Confucianism, which has not been recognized.

In later generations, the Confucian family was dominant for two thousand years, overwhelming the other princes, but this is not the case in this Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Since Confucius founded Confucianism, although Confucianism has been called "Confucianism and Mohism" together with Mohistism, it is very ironic that these two great schools have basically not been recognized by the powerful monarchs of the time.

This is not surprising at all, because the "royal road" advocated by Confucius refers to the royal road of Zhou Tianzi. But in the era of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, who still buys Zhou Tianzi's account. Everyone has the strength, why do you have to respect the king of Zhou Tianzi according to the words of your Confucius?

So the failure of Confucius to lobby the king was inevitable.

By the time of Mencius, this situation had not changed.

What did Mencius say? "The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light."

Obviously, this kind of talk could not be listened to by the kings, and in fact, if Mencius had met some despotic monarchs in later generations, then this sentence alone would have been enough for him to lose his head.

To put it bluntly, Confucianism has always been to be "benevolent" and "kingly", but in the social background at that time, the princes were precarious and eager to kill all other countries.

To put it bluntly, Confucianism is not at all in line with reality in this social situation.

As the last great power of Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Xun Guo was actually aware of this problem of Confucianism and made compromises in response to the current reality.

This compromise is not only because Xunzi integrated Legalist thought into his own thinking, but also because Xunzi is no longer like his predecessors, Confucius and Mencius, who must adhere to some unrealistic royal way for his own monarch.

This kind of compromise can be seen everywhere in the book "Xunzi".

For example, Xunzi believes that governing the country can be "righteous and king, faith and hegemony, power and death." The monarch can choose either the best policy of "standing up for righteousness and being the king" or the middle policy of "standing up and tyranny", as long as he does not choose the next policy of "standing up and dying".

It is better to say that in the annexation war, Xunzi believes that the monarch can choose to "combine people with virtue, people with benefits, and people with wealth", which are also three methods.

Even for the Confucian scholars themselves, Xunzi also divided the ranks, saying: "If the master of the people uses the laity, the country of ten thousand times will perish; With vulgar Confucianism, the country of ten thousand times will exist; With Yaru, the country of a thousand times is safe; With Confucianism, the land of a hundred miles, after three years, the world is one, and the princes are ministers; With the country of ten thousand times, it will be determined by mistakes, and once it will be overpowered. ”

To put it simply, Xunzi's proposition is: Comrade Guojun, if you want to be domineering, you can do it; But while you are domineering, you must remember that domineering is only the middle strategy, and if you want to be eternal, you still have to use the royal way.

In other words, "domineering" is considered by Xunzi to be the "primary royal road stage", and the "royal road" advocated by Xunzi is the "advanced royal road stage".

For a Confucian, this is actually the biggest concession. If you give in again, it will be tantamount to denying the feasibility of the royal road, and you can no longer be regarded as a Confucian.

But to Xunzi's dismay, even if he had made such concessions, no monarch was willing to adopt his theory.

The State of Qi only used Xunzi's reputation to boost the reputation of the Jixia School Palace to the point of boosting the reputation of the State of Qi, and the reason why Chun Shenjun of the State of Chu recruited Xunzi was only because he wanted to show a good reputation for being willing to use people, and he completely ignored Xunzi's theory.

Even Xunzi himself was a little discouraged and planned to die of old age in Lanling.

It was at this time that Xunzi received a call from the motherland.

At first, Xunzi didn't care about this, after all, in Xunzi's opinion, Zhao was not the opponent of Qin, and only Chu and Qi had hope.

But when Zhao won in Changping, Xunzi's opinion changed.

Zhao defeated Qin and became one of the well-deserved overlords, if Zhao can be persuaded to evolve from hegemony to royal way, then Xunzi's ideal can be regarded as achieved.

So Xunzi resigned from the position of Lanling Ling, and returned to Handan with his two most proud disciples all the way to Handan after many years of absence.

What Xunzi never expected was that he had just met this King Zhao, and the young King Zhao gave him such a big surprise.

The royal road advocated by Confucianism really has the hope of becoming a member of the way of ruling the king!

Confucian scholars really have the hope of entering the court and becoming a member of the ruling forces!

Xun Zi let out a long breath and said to Zhao Dan Zhengse: "In the opinion of the situation, the one who dominates the world should be Zhao Guo!" ”

Zhao Guo, of course.

In today's world, only Zhao can accept the royal way of Confucianism.

As long as Confucianism takes root in the Zhao State, then after the Zhao State unifies the world, won't the royal road of Confucianism be able to spread all over the world with the unification of the Zhao State?

As for the royal road of Zhou Tianzi advocated by Confucius... At this time, there was no longer any Confucian in his right mind who felt that Zhou Tianzi's royal way would have a chance to reappear in the world.

As soon as Zhao Dan heard Xunzi's words, the whole person was finally relieved.

Obviously, the words of this Confucian power clearly stated a position, that is, to resolutely advance and retreat with Zhao State.

So Zhao Dan no longer hesitated, and said to Xunzi: "The widow wants to use Mr. as a lieutenant, help the widow to elect a meritocracy, and promote officials, I don't know if Mr. wills?" ”

As soon as Zhao Dan said this, Xun Jing had not reacted first, but Xun Qian's two disciples, Li Si and Han Fei, were both excited.

This is Lieutenant Zhao! One of the six ministers of Zhao State, he belongs to the out-and-out leader of Zhao State!

Moreover, the current Zhao State is still the overlord of the world alongside the Qin State, and even defeated the Qin State twice in succession! Holding such an important position in such a country is the dream of many people in the world.

But the next moment, Xun Kuang's answer surprised everyone.

This Confucian master did not speak immediately after hearing Zhao Dan's words, but thought silently for a while before saying, "Great King, I don't want to be an official in Zhao State. ”