"Separate from the inside and outside, and impure and impure, and give to the heirs. Transform into infinity, obey the edict, and always bear the weight of the precepts......"

That night, the music scheduled to be played on Mount Tai tomorrow was gradually coming to an end, and after the ministers practiced the ceremony of sealing the Zen with the ceremonial officials sent by Fengchang, they each went back to the pavilion outside the palace to rest and prepare for tomorrow's main play.

Heifu personally sent Tingwei Ye Teng to his house and carried him out of the car.

He is far away in Jiaodong, although he often exchanges letters with Xianyang, but a back and forth for at least two months, a lot of news is lagging behind, so there are a lot of things, Heifu has to ask his father-in-law for advice.

Ye Teng was also sent by Qin Shi Huang to ask him to sacrifice to East Taishan, so he was late. I haven't seen him for a year, Ye Teng seems to be a lot older, and the county guard who killed decisively in Nanjun ten years ago has become an old court lieutenant of Longzhong.

Only the eyes in his eyes are still sharp, and the words in his mouth are as sharp as a sword, and he often sees blood for a while.

"You think it's just a factional battle between the Confucians?"

After sitting opposite each other in the house, Ye Teng said: "Others can only see that Confucianism and scholars criticize each other, which makes Your Majesty unhappy, but they have never seen that the right minister is connected to the ancient monarch, but he is secretly fueling the trouble." Cancel the right of Confucianism to discuss the sealing of Zen, adopt the old system of Qin sacrificing heaven and earth, arrest the old Confucian, and take no Confucian to Mount Tai, this is all proposed by Prime Minister Li Cheng to His Majesty! ”

"And that Zhang Cangkou kept saying that he didn't want to get involved in the trouble, I'm afraid he also understands that his senior brother will never sit idly by and watch the Confucianism get the will!"

"The woman means that the prime minister was also involved in this matter......"

Hefu recalls Lees's behavior these days: the old guy is mostly silent, and rarely expresses his opinion on Feng Zen. But after the analysis, every time the people around Li Si spoke, they hit the key point of Confucianism, and it also made the emperor even more disgusted with Confucianism, which was simply to death, which eventually led to the defeat of Confucianism.

Ye Teng likes his son-in-law very much: "Heifu, tell me, as a high-ranking prime minister, why does Li Si have to deal with a group of empty talk about Confucianism?" ”

Heifu also understood it at all, and immediately thought of three possibilities: "Xunmeng dispute, right and left dispute, Confucianism dispute?" ”

He knew that Li Si, Han Fei, Zhang Cang and others were from Xunzi's disciples, although Xunzi was generally considered to be Confucian and respected Confucius, but they were heretics of Confucianism.

There are five well-known issues: the debate between heaven and man, the debate of human nature, the debate of righteousness and benefit, the debate of kings, and the debate of name and reality.

Confucianism, Moism, and Taoism have put forward their own views on these five major issues, each with its own emphasis, and sometimes even completely contradictory, which basically reflects their "outlook on life, values, and world view".

In addition to the debate between name and reality, the other four are very different from Qilu Confucianism and Simeng school.

He said that instead of trembling and worshipping the heavens, it is better to actively transform and use it; He believed that human nature was inherently evil, not good......

The Xun faction was attacked as heretics by the Confucians, and Xunzi did not want to see them, ridiculing them as rotten Confucianism, cheap Confucianism, and vulgar Confucianism.

Although this academic struggle was decades ago, it is normal for Li Si to be in power now, and to give some eye medicine to these former enemies of the division.

As for the "right-left dispute", this involves the grievances between the right prime minister Li Si and the left prime minister Wang Juan......

Ye Teng lowered his voice slightly: "Although Your Majesty doesn't like party fighting, in the past few years in Beidi and Jiaodong, the Li Party and the Wang Party in the court have become distinct. ”

Although Li Si crossed the level to become the right prime minister and pressed Wang Juan, Wang Juan did not fall.

"The Qin officials from the school are basically around Li Si, and the virtuous literary scholars from the homeland of the six eastern countries are headed by Wang Juan."

"It's funny."

Heifu smiled: "Woman, I don't remember, Li Cheng is also a scholar from the East for many years, and because he writes well and writes good articles, he entered Lu Buwei's mansion as a diner. Later, His Majesty expelled the guest, he was almost implicated and expelled, and became famous for a while by virtue of a "Book of Expulsion of Guests", and when it was, the people of Kanto knew that it was Li Si who made His Majesty change his mind, and they were happy to meet him......"

"This time and that time."

Ye Teng motioned to Heifu to add some more wine for him: "Li Si, what he is best at is to give up. ”

"He realized the truth of getting ahead from the mouse, and decisively gave up his identity as a small official and went to Lanling to worship Xunzi as a teacher."

"After learning the emperor, he decisively abandoned his mother country Chu and switched to Qin."

"When the court of the Qin State was about to change, he abandoned Lu Buwei, who had the grace of knowing him, and turned to His Majesty, successfully jumped off the ship that was about to sink, entered the hall, and soared."

Now, he chooses His Majesty's favor, regards Xianyang as his hometown, and the Qin people are the township party, and he has long forgotten that he is a scholar from the East. Besides, after the unification of the world, the geographical origin is no longer important, and the belief in law or Confucianism is the most important. ”

Ye Teng's analysis of Li Si was very thorough, and Heifu said: "So in the final analysis, the essence of this matter is still a dispute between Confucianism and Law?" ”

When the Qin Dynasty was just unified, with the Qin Shi Huang's conquest of more than 70 Confucian scholars in the eastern part of the country, they entered Xianyang as doctors for consultation. From that time on, the dispute between Confucianism and law in the court began.

From the mutual temptation of the Shangzun to the differences between feudalism and county. In the end, it ended with the abolition of feudalism and the adoption of the unsealed land proposed by Li Si, and his position as the right prime minister was, to a large extent, also the trophy of the victory of this struggle.

And now, taking the opportunity of the Eastern Tour to seal Zen, the dispute between Confucianism and law is once again noisy! It has become the main contradiction of the court.

"That's right."

"Do you think they are fighting for the old rites of the Qin State or the gifts of the East? Is it about how to kill the ox, how to go up the mountain, and how to dress up during the sacrifice? ”

Ye Teng drank the hot wine that Heifu poured for him, brushed off the beads of wine on his beard, and sneered: "No, they are fighting for the national body!" ”

……

According to Heifu's understanding, the controversy over Confucianism and law, aside from their huge differences in the three views, focused on the two major political issues of "how to build the country" and "how to govern the country."

Confucianism has lost the "founding of the country", and they will try to participate in the next "governance", after all, since the time of Confucius, Confucianism has been an active school of thought in joining the WTO.

Qin established the country with the law and merged the world with the law, which all reflects the correctness of this system. Qin Shi Huang himself was the biggest beneficiary of this state system, and he would definitely regard the rule of the Legalist Qin officials as a basic national policy, and he would never waver.

But the emperor did not abandon all other possibilities, otherwise there would be no need to recruit An Qunru and Huang Lao as doctors, and let the Mo family continue to exist.

Other schools of thought still have their own room for survival, and Confucianism, with Zuo Prime Minister Wang Juan as its backer, hopes to win a certain position for itself in the government and the opposition.

Ye Teng analyzed: "That's why Wang Juan and the doctors worked hard to persuade His Majesty to tour the east to seal Zen, the major affairs of the country, only worship and Rong, this ceremony is very important for the promotion of Confucianism in the court and the opposition." ”

Wang Juan, Zhou Qingchen and others have already recognized their own positioning: in governing the country, the emperor will only trust the Legalist Qin officials for the time being, and Confucianism will not be able to share the soup, they can only work what they are best at, that is, "worship".

This is also the most unfamiliar thing of Legalism, in the minds of Confucianism, this group of law-givers who don't understand poetry and books, lawless kings, have no way to interfere at all!

Wang Juan and Zhou Qingchen's original plan was to pull Qin Shi Huang out of the "Four Domains and Four Emperors" sacrifice controlled by Wuzhu in Guanxi through the Feng Zen full of oriental characteristics, so that the emperor could fully accept the heaven and earth gods in the east, so as to reconstruct the sacrificial system of the entire empire from east to west......

This was in line with the goal of the warlock, so Lu Ao, Hou Sheng and others also actively cooperated.

As long as the emperor agrees and completes the canonization of Confucianism under the design and accompaniment of Confucianism, it is equivalent to recognizing the identity of the Confucianism as the chief priest of the court and the opposition.

First hold the position of national rituals, and then slowly reach out to the world, so as to reverse their weakness in the dispute between Confucianism and law......

Heifu kept bowing his head, feeling that he had really gained a lot of knowledge, it turned out that this Zen had involved so many confrontations.

Speaking of this, Ye Teng couldn't help laughing: "But Wang Juan and Zhou Qingchen never expected that although Li Si and the officials were not good at sacrificial etiquette, they understood people's hearts very well. Li Si knew that His Majesty also wanted to seal Zen, so he did not dissuade him, but did the opposite, saying that sealing Zen is very important, and relying on more than 70 doctors alone, I am afraid that there will be omissions, so it is better to recruit Qilu Confucian students to Mount Tai and discuss etiquette together......"

"It's really trying to get away with it."

Heifu also smiled: "After all, Prime Minister Li Cheng has stayed in Jixia and Lanling for a period of time, and I am afraid that the differences between the Confucians could not be clearer, knowing that this group of people gets together, the more people there are, not only can they not succeed, but they will fail." ”

Of course, everything that happened later was known, and even Wang Juan and Zhou Qingchen could not control the situation.

After all, it was the first time to seal Zen, and there was no record to be examined, so the Confucian scholars presented a thousand strange rituals according to their own understanding, and they first made a mess into a pot of porridge, which angered the impatient emperor......

Wang Juan and the doctors have painstakingly planned Fengzen for several years, but it was easily resolved by Li Si's tricks, and Confucianism suffered a big defeat in the position he was good at, but who can blame him? I can only blame myself for too many pig teammates.

However, instead of gloating, Heifu frowned and said secretly:

"Li Si is happy to win the second round of the dispute between Confucianism and law and hit his rivals, but in the long run, this is somewhat detrimental to the unification of the whole country......

He knew very well that reunification was by no means limited to politics, territory, and ideology.

Husband and wife can't live together if they don't have the same views, let alone such a big country and so many people. It is difficult to achieve the Mohist ideal of "mutual love", but it is necessary for the people under their rule to have a sense of belonging to the new dynasty.

The Qin Dynasty has been merged into the sea, and through the same track and the same text, there is the possibility of communication between various places. However, the unification of ideology has just begun, and it is too early to "Kyushu is coherent, and the style of six contracts is carried out", and there are very few people in the vast six countries with a population of more than 20 million who identify themselves as Qin people.

It is obviously not enough to rely on a single decree, and the recognition of ideas needs to be subtle and silent.

The Legalist Qin officials, who have a straight face all day long, are not good at doing these jobs, but Confucianism is very suitable, although the good and bad in this group of people are uneven, but I have to admit that they are good at indoctrination.

The enshrinement of Mount Tai is an excellent opportunity, which is recognized by everyone in the world as a national festival, and it is something that only the Holy King can do. The object of the worship is "heaven", and it is also the supreme god that everyone believes in.

Feng Zen can make the Kanto intellectuals have a good impression of the Qin Dynasty and recruit them. But now, by mistake, it has become the beginning of the split, and the Confucian scholars are now afraid that they are separated from the imperial court......

"What are you thinking?" Ye Teng saw that Heifu had not spoken for a long time, so he asked him.

Heifu stopped thinking and smiled, "I want to know, which side the woman is on in this battle?" ”

"I am a court lieutenant, and I am in charge of the world's laws and prisons, so I naturally have to stand on the side of the Legalists."

That's right, after Han Fei's death, Legalism ceased to be a school, but expanded to the entire group of officials of the Qin Dynasty. From the grass-roots officials who copied the law every day, to the respected Prime Minister Li Si and Tingwei Ye Teng. As long as you agree with the law and recite the law of Shang Ying, you can be regarded as a believer in Legalism. This group is so large that it is the backbone of the empire to maintain its rule.

Although Ye Teng is a thoughtful politician, he has not been able to think so long-term like Heifu, he said:

"Since becoming the right prime minister, His Majesty has asked his daughters to marry several sons, Li Si has a lot less competition with the old man, and his words are very polite. Thinking about it, or your earlier proposal to consolidate the foundation of Kansai and open up the northwest, just helped Li Si, if there is no westward expansion, there is no motivation to find the western queen mother state, Your Majesty will definitely have a greater interest in the East, Confucian scholars and Fangshi, can also have more opportunities. ”

Heifu smiled dumbly: "In this way, although I am in Jiaodong, I have been regarded as an enemy by Confucian scholars and scholars?" ”

"Do you still want to turn enemies into friends with them? Help them with the Zen canonization? Ye Teng looked at his son-in-law, and Heifu seemed to have his own plans.

Heifu shook his head: "The matter has come to this point, and there is no way to do it." Besides, I am different from the two prime ministers Li and Wang, and my battlefield is neither in the court nor in Mount Tai......"

He smiled: "And in Jiaodong!" ”

"Your Majesty has only been angry and disappointed in Mount Tai, but I promise that Jiaodong's new policy will definitely make him refreshed!"