Chapter 47: Li Si on Confucianism

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"All of them are based on seeking the Tao, but in fact, they have their own directions." Fusu's evaluation of each family is still biased towards the positive, after all, there is a yearning for a hundred schools of thought in the old time and space.

Li Si looked at him, and seemed a little disappointed with his answer, since the last time he asked for the crown prince to be frustrated, he really hoped that this disciple of his would grow up quickly, especially politically.

"What you said is good, but you haven't seen through the essence, since King Ping moved east, the so-called 'Shu people do not discuss' has been replaced by 'Priest Heng Yi', and different schools of thought have gradually formed." Li Si commented, "As you said, all schools and factions have written books and theories that claim to be pursuing the avenue, and seem to be pursuing the truth, but none of them who claim to do so do not want to make a difference in politics. ”

"Needless to say, these three schools of Confucianism, Mofa, and Confucianism, who often express and practice various political opinions, have been actively operating in various countries for so many years, peddling their political doctrines through the influence of their disciples in the courts of various countries."

"Han Fei and I studied under Confucianism well, but Xunzi inherited Confucius's idea of running a school without class, and accepting apprentices to run a school does not require disciples to be limited to a corner, except for me and Han Fei who are considered to be Legalists, Xunshi also has a disciple named Zhang Cang who likes all kinds of miscellaneous studies, especially in "Nine Chapters" and "Zhou Ji", which can be called everyone, and has also put a lot of effort into engineering, but it is against Gongzideng. In terms of teaching and classlessness, Master Xun is even more dedicated than Kongqiu. Although Kong Qiu claimed to have no teaching, he was embarrassed and angry when his disciples asked him about farming, and looked down on the farmer, hehe, but it was his usual style. ”

Fusu was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, was Li Si talking about the "Holy Ancestor, Ten Thousand Masters Table" in the old time and space?

"Why don't you believe me?" Li Si looked at Fusu's expression, and didn't know how he could have such a big reaction.

"Kong Qiu claimed benevolence, but he killed his opponent Shao Zhengmao within seven days of taking office, and he also used various excuses, and there is a record in the Confucian classics I gave you, didn't you pay attention?" Speaking of this, there has already begun to be a tone of reproach.

"The disciple once read this paragraph, but he has only seen it in the book "Xunzi", and there is no record in other books, and he thought that it was made by the old man of the master, so he didn't take it to heart." Fusu explained carefully.

This has to say that Confucianism has another habit, that is, tampering with history. The history books you come into contact with now are still recorded by the historians of the Qin State, which is quite objective, and you must be careful when you encounter Confucian history books in the future. Li Si said, here cautiously admonished Fusu.

"Since Kongqiu, Confucianism has been accustomed to using the Spring and Autumn Period, and whatever they think is right will be written in a big way, and what they think is not very good will be omitted or even tampered with. On the matter of Confucius and Mao, some Confucian scholars felt that what Confucius had done was too embarrassing, so they deliberately omitted it and did not write it, if Master Xun hadn't traveled to Lu State, he probably wouldn't have known about it. Speaking of this, Li Si's face was full of disdain for Confucianism, but it was similar to Han Fei's book, "In the future, you have to be careful when you read the "Spring and Autumn Period" and other historical books compiled by Confucius, maybe you will be deceived by the stories made up by Confucianism." There are many such things, for example, the Confucian propaganda that the sage is the king is a big deception. In the history recorded by Confucianism, the ancient kings were always Shengming, and they would choose an heir of Shengming, which they called 'Chan Rang', but in fact, if you have read objective history books, you should know that there is no such thing as Chan Rang. He said and looked at Fusu.

Under Li Si's gaze, Fusu began to recall what he had learned, and found that there was indeed another record of the succession of the throne of the ancient kings in the history books of the Qin State.

Taking the story between Yao and Shunyu as an example, in what Fusu learned, after Yao was old, he became more and more mediocre and could no longer lead the people, so Shun had the heart to replace him, so Yao married his two daughters to Shun on the one hand to envelop him, and on the other hand, he taught his political experience to his son Danzhu, wanting him to inherit the throne earlier. But Shun was not easy to fool, so he imprisoned Yao and exiled him to Pingyang, and guarded Danzhu, so that their father and son would not see each other for the rest of their lives.

Later, Yu's father, Kun, did the same and wanted to oust Shun from power, but he didn't expect Kun to be unpopular among the tribal elders, and the coup was unsuccessful, and he was killed by Shun. As the son of Kun, Yu is determined to avenge his father, he learns the lessons of his father's failure, works hard, and his reputation grows. Shun was afraid that Yu's power would be too great, so he handed over the problem of the flood that no one could successfully manage to Yu, hoping that Yu would stay away from the tribe and die outside. Unexpectedly, after Yu left the tribe, he made friends with the surrounding small tribes everywhere, and with their help he built canals and controlled floods, and the floods gradually disappeared under Yu's governance, so Shun wanted to recall Yu back to the tribe and kill him, but Yu did not go back, but continued to accumulate power outside, and did not return to the tribe until he was full-fledged, and replaced Shun.

In addition to tampering with the deeds of the previous kings, Confucianism also tampered with the affairs of the Shang king and Bigan in order to prove the reasonableness and legitimacy of the Zhou rites and prove that the monarch would die if he did not show kindness. In order to beautify his rebellious behavior of usurping the Shang Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou scandalized the king of Zhou, who was able to write and martial arts, and opened up the territory, and divided the uncle of the king of Zhou, Bigan, after the uninterrupted processing of the Confucian scholars, to this day, Bigan has become a god. ”

Hearing this, Fusu understood that what Li Si said should be true, as the co-lord of the Central Plains, King Su did fight everywhere and pacified the Dongyi, a minority in the east, while King Wu of Zhou's so-called righteous army took advantage of the emptiness of the capital of the Shang Dynasty to unite with the West to destroy the Shang Dynasty.

Fusu couldn't help but be shocked, it can be said that if the history that Fusu is learning now is true, then the Chinese historical system of the old time and space will collapse, and no one knows how much of the history recorded by Confucianism is true and how much has been tampered with after Confucianism has controlled Chinese thought for 2,000 years!

At the same time, Fusu also solved many questions that came up when he read "Han Feizi".

After reading "Han Feizi" for the first time, in addition to writing down a lot of idioms, fables and famous sayings, he also recorded that he did not understand why things appeared in Han Feizi's books at that time, including centralization, autocracy, respect for law, science, three outlines, book burning, Confucianism, ban ink, suppression of business, and heavy punishment.

Perhaps Fusu had too high expectations for Han Fei, so that when he found these dark words in Han Fei's book, he was very puzzled and a little disappointed. Later, he read "Han Feizi" again and again, and he was relieved of the appearance of some of these words, such as: centralization, autocracy, respect for the law, heavy punishment, and so on. These words are not unique to Han Fei alone, and when he comes into contact with many people, they all show this concept.

(After the book friend made a suggestion, he began to correct the previous mistakes, and found that the revision was more difficult than when he wrote it at the time, not only to take care of the previous plot, but also to pay attention to the plot that had appeared later, but he must insist on constantly changing.) )