Chapter Ninety-Nine: Lies

What the harem is fighting for is still the old problem of using martial arts to control literature and suppressing martial arts with literature, rather than the apparent dispute between Zhou Li and Chu Zheng. There is the content of using martial arts to control the text, and there is also the content of suppressing the martial arts with the text, and the same is true of Confucianism, which summarized the Zhou rites. It's just that Confucianism in the period of Confucius already had a very strong sign of suppressing martial arts with literature, and by Mencius he had become Huangzuo, and by Xunzi Confucianism and law had converged.

Aristocrats, commoners, and officials can all find what they are looking for in the Zhou rites, but it is obvious that the Zhou rites in the mouths of Kong Qian and Song Yu must be Mencius-style Zhou rites, and the Zhou rites in Xunzi's mouths must be the Zhou rites of the confluence of Confucianism and law. It's like liberalism in old Europe, and in the United States it's neoconservatism; A student at the Eastern University in Moscow, he became an old Bolshevik when he arrived in Yan'an. It's not a question of who is advanced and who is not, it's a question of being lower down in chronology.

The state of Chu can be said to have not been part of the world of the Zhou people since ancient times, but part of the world of the anti-Zhou people. Guan Zhong shouted, 'Rong Di Jackal, don't be tired of it; When Zhuxia was intimate and could not be abandoned, the state of Chu was on the side of Rong Di. Since there is such a historical origin, there is no need to find the truth in the Zhou rites, and it is completely possible to integrate the appropriate parts of the Zhou rites, such as the rites, under the political structure of the Chu government; Discard inappropriate parts, such as benevolence.

After nine years on the throne, Xiong Jing has become more and more aware of the essence of the country. The political textbooks of secondary schools and universities do not deceive people, and the state is a violent instrument for one class to rule another. This is the essence, and there is the end beyond the essence, which is like a sword with a scabbard. This so-called scabbard is the so-called united front.

Of the three million people in the Chu State, only a small number of them are the ruling class, and most of them are the ruled class. In order to ensure that those who are united front have no resistance, and even surrender happily, sing and dance, it is necessary to carry out united front. Loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, light conscription, these are naturally united fronts, but the most important united front is the common people's identification with their political identity, that is: 'I am a Chu person. ’

When a Yi person, a Yue person, or a Ba person claims to be 'I am a Chu person', it means that he is willing to be ruled by the Chu royal court and the nobles of the Zhu clans, and he will honestly pay taxes and Fu nationality. This is just like the Qin official who was rebelled by Zhibisi, he thought he was a Qin, but when Zhibisi told him that he was originally a Rong, he rebelled without any worries. Later, he didn't want his own reward, and the whole family went straight out. He is a Rong man, the fox dies in Shouqiu, and he always has to go back.

If there is a united front, there will naturally be an anti-united front. 'The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light', and "the benevolent government reigns the world", this is the classic anti-united front. Guided by the goodness of human nature, the difference between the ruler and the ruled is deliberately blurred, forming a beautiful appearance of mass democracy and equality for all. Another important feature of this kind of united front is to persuade the rulers to renounce the use of force and to put morality first.

Xiong Jing remembers deeply that the regent Zaifeng at the end of the Qing Dynasty said that 'there are soldiers', and Zhang Zhidong lamented that this was the sound of the death of the country (which means that the Qing court's united front was completely defeated), and later the Manchu Qing Dynasty really fell to the country. Actually? Where are there still soldiers in the Manchu Dynasty? The Wuchang Uprising was initiated by the soldiers (New Army), and the counterinsurgency soldiers (Beiyang New Army) under the leadership of Yuan Shikai, who had a lesson from the past, swayed and dragged the Manchus out of abdication.

Force is the foundation of rule, and united front is the ornament of rule, and this is how the state exists. Now some people hope that by changing the ornament, the force will be completely corrupted. Although it was beneficial to him and could give him as much power as Zhao Zheng, he refused.

He would never allow the Chu people, whether they were nobles as rulers or common people as ruled, to give up their bravery and be bullied in the future; He also did not allow the state of Chu to become a bureaucratic empire in the future. Zhao Zheng seems to be in power, but the Qin royal family will eventually become puppets of the bureaucracy, and one day the king will not be able to leave Xianyang.

In the Ming Hall, the teachers and students sitting opposite each other completed the first round of confrontation, Xiong Jing knew very well what he was doing, and Que Guanzi had just understood what his students were going to do. Standing in the position of the student, whether true or false, the bird thought to himself: "If you don't use Zhou Li, how can the king rule the world?" Yin people are in the summer, and this destiny is also; The Zhou people are businessmen, and this destiny is also. He is a Chu person on behalf of Zhou, and he is also destined for heaven. And the mandate of heaven is related to the Zhou rites, the king does not use the Zhou rites, how can he say that the Chu people have the mandate of heaven? ”

"Destiny?" Xiong Jing read this strange and familiar word, which is of course a part of the ruling fate of the Zhou people, the so-called ruling legal system. It is precisely because of this legal system that the common people willingly claim to be Zhou people instead of Yin people. In a nutshell, the mandate of heaven is the divine right of kings, and mortals cannot blaspheme.

"Yes, yes." Crane nodded, stood up, and continued the previous lobbying. "Heaven sees itself as the people, and the sky listens to the people as it hears. The people have had, and they are giving to one person, and I will go now. Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, its government is tyrannical, and the king is angry and destroys Qin, and he is also ordered by heaven. After the death of Qin, the king is the Son of Heaven, and since he is the Son of Heaven, how can he not practice Zhou etiquette? ”

If it was someone else, he would really be persuaded by the Crane Guanzi, but Xiong Jing laughed. He said: "The doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven only originated from the Zhou people, and Shang Tang's so-called 'Xia Duo sin, the Mandate of Heaven will be destroyed', is just a tampering statement of the Zhou people." Yin people never rule the country with the mandate of heaven. ”

Xiong Jing smiled, and the crane also smiled. The Zhou people were only the matrilineal blood of the Yin people (married to the daughter of the Yin people), so they could not inherit the legal system of the Yin people, so they had to create and invent the Mandate of Heaven. In order to make the Mandate of Heaven look 'since ancient times', the Zhou people re-compiled the ancient history with the Mandate of Heaven as the main purpose. Distorting history into 'the Tangwu Revolution follows the heavens and responds to the people', endorsing the legitimacy of the regime.

This is as if the Qin State in later history destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and the five virtues were always said, labeling themselves as water virtues, and saying that they were still black. At the same time, the history is reinterpreted, and it is said in the Feng Zen book that 'the Yellow Emperor has the virtue of the soil, and the Yellow Dragon has seen it.' Xia Demude, the green dragon stops in the suburbs, and the grass and trees are lush. Yin has Jinde, and silver overflows from the mountains. Zhou Dehuode, there is a red black charm. ’

This is, of course, a standard political lie. The Yin gods are the ancestors, and the ancestors are the gods. Di Jun is the father of all the sun, Xi He and Chang Xi are the wives of Di Jun, and the two gave birth to the tenth day and the twelfth month, 'Ding', 'B', and 'Xin' are all Japanese names. The Shang King is not a son of heaven, but a 'day and grandson' who lives in the world, and they are all sun gods.

Qin State, Qin State 'Qin Xianggong is both a marquis, living in the west, thinking that he is the god of the main young howl, as the West Chou, the shrine of the White Emperor', 'Qin Xianggong, Liyang Yujin, Qin Xiangong thought that he had Jinrui, so he worshiped the White Emperor as Qichou Liyang. 'According to the five elements, it has always been said that the Qin State is obviously Jinde and Shangbai. However, in order to rule the legal system, he had to cut his feet and change from white to black.

The vast majority of the population lives in self-comforting political lies, which are invented by the rulers to accept domination and enslavement willingly and gratefully. Since he was able to write books and speak, he naturally peeked into all the secrets of his rule. It was when Xiong Jing laughed, and he also laughed with him.

"The king can be called the son." There was embarrassment in the smile of the Crane Guanzi, this student is getting harder and harder to coax.

"The teacher praises falsely, how can he be called a son if he is not a fool." Xiong Jing shook his head. He didn't dare to see more.

"But how can the king rule the world?" The smile between the teachers and students was only for a moment, and the crane continued to ask. "The government of Chu State cannot govern the world."

"The Qin army is pressing, how can you think about how to rule the world." Xiong Jing sighed. "Those who do not know are not gods, the Son of Heaven can rule the world, such as Persia, the King of kings can also rule the world, and ......"

"King of kings?!" Xiong Jing was interrupted in the middle of his sentence by Crane Guanzi, and his body shook when he heard the 'King of Kings'.

"Yes, yes. The king of Assyria proclaimed himself king of kings, and the Persians did it. Xiong Jing explained.

"This is a system, not a fate." The crane shook his head. Xiong Jing's example is somewhat wrong, the King of kings is a ruling system, not a ruling system.

"The Zhou people claim that they are ordered by heaven, and they also say that the will of the people is the will of heaven, why can't they be ordered by the people?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Public opinion is the will of heaven is not accurate, if the will of heaven is really the will of heaven, how can the Zhou people be the son of heaven?" Hearing this, the bird shook his head again.

The Zhou people's Mandate of Heaven legal system contains three factors: heaven, me, and the people. I am ordered by heaven, the will of heaven is the will of heaven, and I govern the people on behalf of heaven, and the three logics construct a triangular relationship, which seems to be mutually restrictive. In fact, in these relationships, it is true that I am ordered by heaven, it is also true that I rule the people on behalf of heaven, and the will of the people, that is, the will of heaven, is properly false. Heaven is an ethereal thing, how can the people tell the sky if they want to reduce taxes, and how can the sky tell the Son of Heaven?

"However, most of the kings of the kingdoms of the sea in the middle of the earth are commanded by the people." Xiong Jing Road.

"How was the king commanded by the people? If the common people do not regard him as the Son of Heaven, what if so? "The crown of the crane wondered.

Hearing about the problem of the crane crown, Xiong Jing realized that he had made a mistake that he often made when translating. Because of cultural and traditional differences, some foreign words do not have corresponding words in Chinese, and some Chinese words do not have corresponding words. The concept of the 'people' of the world and the concept of the 'people' of the Mediterranean are not exactly equivalent.

He thought for a moment and corrected: "Don't make a mistake, and being ordered by the people should be called being ordered by the people." The people of the country are to the foreign dynasty, the nobles are to the main dynasty, and the king is appointed to the king, and the king governs the country in this way. Or the countrymen are to the foreign courts, the nobles are to the main dynasty, recommend a minister, and the king of the other is the administration, so guilty is the sinful of the minister, and meritorious is the merit of the king. ”

Xiong Jing had no intention of discussing ruling the world, it was too early, and his simple words made Que Guanzi shake his head again. "In the kingdom of the world, the Zhao people will recommend a Zhao people, the Qi people will recommend a Qi people, and the Chu people will naturally recommend a Chu people, all countries are different, why are they ordered by the people to rule the world?"