Chapter Seventy-Five: Si Wencheng's Twenty Rites of Surprise

Hear the final word of the First Emperor.

Whether it was Li Si or Li Zhan, who was about to stand up, they all sighed in their hearts.

His Majesty, who was sitting in the depths of this matter, had already decided in his heart that they would oppose it even again.

Nor can it be more productive.

"The Propaganda Department is Zheng, and the minister recommends Chun Yuyue to be the post!"

Solving one thing, Yingcheng said again: "Chun Yuyue is a Confucian erudite person, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and wisdom, if you rule the world, Confucian etiquette is indispensable." ”

"The minister believes that the benevolence of our Great Qin should be proclaimed with Confucian rites, the old customs of various places should be removed, and the definition of etiquette should be expanded, so that the people can respect their teachers with heaven and earth, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, filial piety, honesty, shame and courage, these two crosses stand in Daqin."

Yingcheng's voice landed, and the court was silent and shaken.

The murmuring was endless.

Li Si couldn't help but murmur in a low voice, "Heaven and earth respect the teacher, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, humility, loyalty, filial piety, honesty and bravery!" ”

Feng Quji's eyes flashed with Lao Cheng's steady but sharp gaze, "Heaven and earth respect their own teachers, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, humility, loyalty, filial piety, honesty and bravery!" ”

Meng Yi also whispered softly, "Heaven and earth respect the teacher, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, humility, loyalty, filial piety, honesty and bravery!" ”

The learned people above the court couldn't help but murmur.

Fusu, who still had a lot of opinions, stared at Yingcheng in disbelief, couldn't understand, couldn't understand, really couldn't understand.

Suddenly found that he had studied Confucianism all his life.

I can't match these 20 words.

Even the First Emperor, who was sitting in the depths, murmured softly.

"I, as if I suddenly woke up, I have a summary of the past!"

Twenty words, like the sound of heaven, seem to have found a clear direction for this gift of the world.

The entire court seemed to resound with a chanting voice.

Twenty words, like an initiation, the gift of the world!

“???” There is no shortage of people in the court, I don't know why.

But for a multitude of learned people.

When he looked at Yingcheng, he felt a big mountain pressing down on the entire court.

The law of etiquette collapsed in the Spring and Autumn Period, and before the Spring and Autumn Period, it was a long epic of governing the country with etiquette.

No one can deny that it was a long chapter in the history of Chinese etiquette in full bloom to the extreme.

The three emperors and five emperors, with the rites of Zen, the world is not the world, the lord of China is determined by virtue and virtue, and the beginning of the ceremony of the world.

In the summer of 400 years, at the same time as the world of the family began, it also opened a long road of etiquette, and etiquette has been in full bloom since then.

The rule of law by rites began in Xia, and many tribes gave up and inherited in parallel to govern Xia, so there was "Xia Li"!

Although Shang defeated Xia, he inherited the Xia Rite, thus perfecting the more stable "Yin Li", the Rite of Sacrifice, and the Rite of Heaven and Man!

Five hundred years of business, respect for etiquette, etiquette prevails in the world.

After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou metric system of ceremonies was used for fun, the princes were divided, and the gifts of the Xia Shang were inherited, and a more perfect "Zhou Rite" was formulated.

The dispute between the princes and the division of the Zhou rites.

Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism and other hundred schools of thought were stripped from the Zhou rites and innovated.

Hundreds of princes, hundreds of princes, one country and one system, unpredictable, Zhou Li collapsed.

Huaxia barbarian, reckless, the word Huaxia also comes from this.

Learning is never fabricated out of thin air, it comes out of nowhere, and all have its inheritance and its origins.

Even Confucius, who was regarded as a sage by Confucianism, claimed to be 'talking but not doing' about his learning.

And now.

They were extremely shocked, even incredible.

Yingcheng two crosses!

The rites of this long history are summarized and redefined.

Two crosses, the gift of the world.

Dating back to 3,000 years, it is the gift of this central China!

"Hahaha, hahaha, hahaha......" Above the court, a rampant and arrogant laugh suddenly appeared, breaking the sudden silence of the court, and everyone looked for prestige.

It turned out to be ...... Lees was laughing maniacally.

Those who don't know think that Li Si is going crazy.

The First Emperor was puzzled and asked, "Why is the Prime Minister laughing?" ”

Li Si bowed deeply to Yingcheng, and then faced the First Emperor, as if he had been young for more than ten years, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the old minister has some insights in this surprise. ”

"Cheng Gongzi, a word woke up the minister, and the minister laughed very comfortably."

The First Emperor really asked with doubts: "What kind of perception does the prime minister have, you might as well say it and share it with all Aiqing!" ”

Li Si laughed and said: "Your Majesty, the minister feels that there is no conflict between law and etiquette, they are the same source, but they end up in different paths!" ”

Li Si's words instantly made many ministers in the court cast extremely surprised eyes.

Especially his own son Li Zhan, who is about to be angry with this father.

In front of the princes of the court and His Majesty, why did my father make a lot of nonsense, so that my Legalist family would have face?

And Feng Quji, who has always been a watchman on the wall, couldn't help but ask: "The dispute between law and etiquette has been going on for a long time, and it has reached the point where water and fire are incompatible, why is there no conflict?" ”

The First Emperor frowned, as if he was puzzled, and he was also thinking hard, what did Li Si feel about this feeling, and he felt that Li Si was suddenly much younger.

That kind of youthful and energetic appearance.

Li Si smiled proudly: "Suppressing Confucianism does not enter the court, and the minister admits that it is slightly biased, and it is indeed suppressed, thinking that Confucianism is just the study of fools and fools." ”

"If Confucianism is practiced, the officials will be private, the officials will protect each other, the people will be fooled, the superiors will be deceived, Confucianism will prevail, the road to ascent will be blocked, the sinners will not be punished as they deserve, the people will follow suit, and the chaos in the world will follow."

Faced with Li Si's blatant admission of his actions in the court, everyone was shocked.

"Daddy!" Even Li Zhan quietly shouted anxiously in the back, telling Dad to stop talking about it, and if he said that the face of their Legalist courtiers would really not be able to hang up.

But Li Si didn't care, and even looked at Yingcheng, which was indescribably complicated, and continued to smile: "But now, the minister thinks that the sage book, the minister still hasn't read it thoroughly!" ”

"Legalist learning, if you use it, you must be strong, and if you are rigid, it is easy to break; Confucianism is as soft as water and docile as Tan. ”

"The minister now thinks that I, Daqin, must use Confucianism, no, I should say that I must use Confucianism."

"Heaven and earth are the princes of the teacher, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, filial piety, honesty and bravery, these two crosses, for the courtesy, are praised in the world."

"What does it have to do with my Legalist family, what does it have to do with my Great Qin Qin Method?"

"The etiquette of Confucianism is just to tell Your Majesty, just to tell the ministers, just to tell the officials of the world, just to tell the people of the world, the truth of being a man."

"Tell everyone that if you understand etiquette, you will be a person, and if you are a person, you will follow the etiquette of Confucianism."

"And the law is still the law, and it can only be the law!"

"If you break the law, you will be prosecuted for violating the law, and what does it have to do with etiquette, the two have nothing to do with each other, but they prove each other."

Liston paused and said with a cheerful smile: "The old minister has not yet figured out that the Great Law says that 'the law should lead people to follow good, not force people to follow evil!'" ’”

"The minister had an epiphany here, and the strict law is to warn those who want to break the law, and those who violate the law will definitely suffer the corresponding punishment, so that they can no longer bear the burden."

"For those who have already violated the law, the sentencing is determined, and the purpose is not to punish for the sake of punishment, but to persuade the good!"

"Lead him to be kind and affectionate, reform and be a new person, only then is the law!"

"At the beginning, the ministers were puzzled, the Propaganda Department and the Education Department, both of which had the same intentions and had the ability to educate, but one was with the people, the other was with the scholars, and their functions and powers were different, so they kept silent and let them be dealt with."

"But at this time, seeing that the Great Law Order wanted to inject all Confucianism into the Propaganda Division, I asked the minister to ponder for a while, and then I had some understanding."

"Propaganda Division, we should spread the law for the proclamation, let the people of the world know the twenty rites, everyone praises my Qin law, and I will make a thousand achievements in my Great Qin."

"This kind of thing, the Legalists can't do it, and if the Legalists go, they will only hold the order in one hand and the mallet in the other, and give them a stern admonition."

"But it is not the best policy to use Confucian people to influence with virtue and teach by word and deed."

Li Si said, took three steps back, bowed deeply to Yingcheng, bowed ninety degrees and smiled: "Li Si, teachable!" ”

Hiss!

In the vast Xianyang Palace, you can clearly hear the sound of gasping.

This is, the voice of the ministers.

It was also mixed with the voice of the First Emperor.

This moment.

They felt that Lees had changed.

It's not the same.

Especially Feng Quji's old ministers, they felt that Li Si was suddenly radiant and really ten years younger.

Taoism has a saying, once enlightened, the Tao soars.

They felt that Li Si at this time was in such a state.

Li Zhan stared at Li Si in disbelief, but repeatedly muttered about what Li Si had just said.

It seems to be enlightened, but it is plausible.

But he understands that Legalism may usher in earth-shaking changes.

Half of the courtiers were whispering in their mouths, meditating, thinking about what Li Si had just expounded, and even to be regarded as a classic.

The speech of the head of the Legalist family is a kind of baptism for the Legalist at every moment.

Even Fusu was muttering deeply, wanting to interpret Li Si's words.

"The prime minister's gift, the city can't afford it!"

Yingcheng hurriedly stepped forward to help, and he had to admire this powerful minister who could sit firmly in Daqin for more than 20 years and single-handedly changed Daqin.

Really, so smart.

It's probably too smart, so it's too late!

He was only a little moved, and he was perceived.

That's right.

In his view, the study of Confucianism must not be reused, but it must be used.

If you want the world to be stable, you must know how to be honest and honest.

Only courtesy is a courtesy, can China last forever!

Correct!

Etiquette and shame are only the standard of virtue, and they still can't get rid of empty talk, empty talk misleads the country, and if everyone follows the theory of Jiangnan, it will inevitably be the situation that Zhumen's wine and meat stink will freeze to death.

But!

Fa is a knife, and this knife must be sharp.

It has to be sharpened all the time, and the grinding makes people daunted and away from it.

If there is a day when the court guard prison is empty and empty, it will be the success of the Legalists.

Once the knife is rusty and cannot be chopped, turning the three years of filial piety into a means of defeating political opponents becomes a decadent bureaucracy.

And now, he seems to see hope.

There is also a sense of satisfaction in success.

The matter of changing the law cannot be done by one person.

It takes a large group of people who share common beliefs.

And if Li Si changes because of this, the energy driven by it is unimaginable.

Change from the bottom up, change is the opposite.

Change from top to bottom, change is smooth.