When Zheng Xilin talked to Zhao Yao, he did not drive away his youngest son. Zheng Qian sat on the sidelines, quietly listening to his father say some big things to His Royal Highness the King of Han.

Zhao Yao originally thought that Zheng Xilin would talk to him for several hours, but he didn't expect to say only one hour. After saying that, Taiwei Zheng said that he was tired, and he would leave the swamp mansion by boat early tomorrow morning, and he would never bring trouble or danger to Zhao Yao.

Zheng Qian invited Zhao Yao to his study for tea. Zhao Yao picked up the teacup, did not rush to drink tea, but took the tea lid and gently brushed the water. Zheng Qian sat across from him and didn't speak.

After a while, Zhao Yao spoke, "What do you think your father means?"

Zheng Qian knew in his heart that it was impossible for Zhao Yao not to understand the meaning of his father's words, "Lord, you don't have to pay attention to his words." He had never listened to his father. "You assume he's farting."

When Zhao Yao heard Zheng Qian say this about his father, he was stunned at first, and then burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha, Zheng Qian, are you okay with your father like that?"

"That's what I've always said about him." He has said more rebellious things than that.

Zhao Yao had long seen Zheng Qian's strong dislike for Zheng Taiwei. He quipped, "Your eldest brother and second brother are also proud of a father like Taiwei Zheng, why do you dislike your father so much?"

Zheng Qian snorted coldly, "He is disgusting."

Zhao Yao didn't speak again, but slowly drank tea.

"My lord, you still live according to your heart."

Zhao Yao finished drinking the tea and put down the teacup in his hand, "I won't change my mind because of your father's words, I don't understand why your father values me now, where do I deserve his old man's attention?" He still doesn't understand why his father chose him. He felt that he would make more money than his royal brothers, and then he would not be as good as the royal brothers in other places. When it comes to fighting, he is not as good as acting as a king. In terms of reading, he is not as good as the fourth brother. In terms of forbearance and trickery, he is not as good as starling. In terms of family background, he is far inferior to King Jing. In addition to making money, he is really not as good as the royal brothers everywhere, why do their fathers think that he can be worthy of a great responsibility?

"Lord, if he doesn't look down on you, then he's blind." Although Zheng Qian dislikes his father in all aspects, his father takes a fancy to Zhao Yao, and he agrees. "Lord, you are very good, it is normal for him to value you."

"Where am I?" Zhao Yao pointed to himself and said, "I don't have big ambitions, I just want to be a rich prince, I don't want to take care of the world, so what qualifications do I have to be an emperor." Don't talk about other people, let's just say that my fourth brother is excellent in all aspects, he cares about the people in the world, he is the most suitable person to be the emperor, why does his father and Taiwei Zheng dislike him, where is he wrong?"

"The king of Chu is good, but the king of Chu is not as good as the lord."

"How is the fourth brother inferior to me?" In his opinion, the fourth brother is the perfect heir.

"Lord, you will do a lot of things that are beneficial to the people in the world, and the King of Chu is far inferior to you in this regard."

"What does this mean, to be an emperor and not to be a zigzag plow and a waterwheel." Zhao Yao waved his hand, "The things I made did benefit the people, but that doesn't mean I'm suitable to be an emperor. To be an emperor is not to need these, but to manage the country well. I don't even bother to take care of the business of my little court, let alone the big things in the world." He doesn't even have too much business in his small court, let alone the affairs of the world. The most important thing is the affairs of the world, there is no small thing, it is related to the entire people of the Great Zhou, and it cannot be perfunctory.

Zheng Qian suddenly asked, "Lord, how do you think the King of Chu will manage the Great Zhou Dynasty after he becomes emperor?"

Zhao Yao said without hesitation: "Naturally, it is benevolent to rule the world."

"Then do you think it's good to rule the world with benevolence?"

Zhao Yao, who asked this question, was slightly stunned. He frowned, and asked with a puzzled face, "Isn't it good to rule the world with benevolence? Haven't all the wise rulers since ancient times ruled the world with benevolence?"

Zheng Qian did not answer Zhao Yao's rhetorical question, but continued to ask, "Lord, do you think the emperor is ruling the world with benevolence?"

"Isn't my father ruling the world with benevolence?" Zhao Yao felt that Zheng Qian's question was very strange, "After my father ascended the throne, he reduced all kinds of taxes and forced labor, reduced punishments, and formulated various policies that were beneficial to the people, isn't this benevolent rule?"

"My lord,

Is that what you think is the rule of benevolence?"

"Of course, that's not enough, I'm just going to give some examples. Benevolence in governing the world should be manifested in many ways." Zhao Yao said with a serious face, "We must be [benevolent] to the civil and military officials, so that they will actively admonish. For the literati students, this will make the culture of the Great Zhou prosperous, so that more people are willing to study and participate in the imperial examination to become officials. To the people, this will allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and the country and the people will be safe......

Zheng Qian quietly listened to Zhao Yao after he finished saying what he understood about "benevolence", "Lord, do you think it's enough to just rely on benevolence to rule the world?" He asked rhetorically, "Do you think the emperor just blindly rules the world by benevolence? Why doesn't the emperor treat those families with benevolence?"

After hearing this, Zhao Yao was silent for a while, and only after a while did he say, "It's not enough to just blindly rely on [benevolence] to rule the world."

Zheng Qian asked again, "My lord, what do you think the emperor relies on to rule the world besides benevolence?"

Zhao Yao said: "The rule of law is the world."

"My lord, now the emperor not only uses the Confucian [benevolence] to rule the world, but also uses the Legalist [law] to rule the world."

Zhao Yao nodded in agreement with Zheng Qian's statement, "That's right, but what does this have to do with the fourth brother?"

"My lord, you have always scoffed at the Confucian set of benevolence and morality, but the king of Chu is different from you."

Zhao Yao asked with a puzzled face, "What's the difference?"

"The king of Chu was deeply influenced by the Li family and enshrined Confucianism as the guideline." Zheng Qian also looked down on the Confucian set, but he did not make the Legalist set a standard. "My lord, this is the biggest difference between King Chu and you."

Hearing this, Zhao Yao finally understood what Zheng Qian meant, but because of this, his father and Zheng Taiwei didn't look down on the fourth brother, was it too hasty?

"The Confucian system is not useless, and most of the emperor's policies today are based on Confucian benevolence, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and their lives are getting better day by day."

"In that case, why can't the fourth brother continue to practice Confucian benevolence?"

"My lord, the world was initially decided, full of devastation, and the people were struggling to make a living, so it was natural to implement benevolent governance of the world, but now the Great Zhou is no longer what it was when it was first established, and it can no longer blindly implement benevolent governance." Zheng Qian said, "Moreover, the family gate valve has not been completely eradicated, and they still pose a threat to the country and the people. The king of Chu is benevolent and righteous, but he may not be vicious."

"Vicious?"

"My lord, did the emperor eradicate those families in Yangzhou back then, and his methods were ruthless?"

"Not vicious in my opinion." Zhao Yao felt that those families in Yangzhou deserved it.

"However, in the eyes of many people, including many ministers in the court, the emperor's methods are too vicious." Zheng Qian looked at Zhao Yao and asked, "Lord, if it were you, would you do the same as the emperor?"

Zhao Yao replied without hesitation, "Of course."

"If the minister repeatedly pleads with you to let you open the net, and tells you to eradicate Young

The state family will make the world's family cold and afraid, will you open the net and not cut the grass and eradicate the roots?"

"Of course not." Families like Yangzhou must be wiped out, otherwise they will resurrect, and then they will dare to do things that endanger the country and the people. Moreover, the father has another purpose, that is, to deter all the family lords in the world and make them be honest.

"Then do you think the King of Chu will be ruthless in cutting down the grass and eradicating the roots?"

This question stopped Zhao Yao. He knew that with the temperament of the fourth brother, he would definitely not let go of the adult men in those families in Yangzhou, but the women and children would definitely let go. If the ministers plead again and again, it is very likely that the fourth brother will really open up and give them a chance to mend their ways.

"My lord, His Royal Highness the King of Chu will not be ruthless in cutting down the grass and eradicating the roots." Zheng Qian said very firmly, "Back then, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was ordered to go to Shu to exterminate the rebels, but the King of Chu did not kill all the rebels, and even interceded for some rebels, begging the emperor not to kill them all."

"That's because the fourth brother thinks that the Han family is not all evil, and the Han family has taken root in Shu for many years, leaving some Han family members to continue to be in charge of Shu and be stable

Shu Di." Zhao Yao defended the King of Chu, "Moreover, my father has no intention of killing the Han family. The fourth brother understood his father's intentions, so he helped the Han family intercede. You can't use this incident to criticize the fourth brother, the fourth brother has not done anything wrong in this matter."

"Lord, if it were you, would you intercede for the Han family?"

Zhao Yao didn't answer immediately, but hesitated for a while before saying, "I won't, I won't let the Han family continue to stay in Shudi."

Hearing Zhao Yao's answer, Zheng Qian was not surprised at all.

"Just because I won't do it doesn't mean I'm right."

"Lord, you must know in your heart that there will be turmoil in Shu in the future."

"Not necessarily." Zhao Yao said so on his lips, but he thought so in his heart. "The father approved the fourth brother's plea, which means that the father and the emperor approve of the fourth brother."

"My lord, the emperor agreed to let the Han family stay and continue to manage Shu, not just because of the intercession of the king of Chu, but also because of other deep meanings."

"What can it mean? Rather than suppress, it is better to appease." Zhao Yao said, "Appeasement can avoid bloodshed again, and it can reassure the people of Shudi."

"My lord, I have been to Shu during my travels, and I have been there for a while. At present, Shu is indeed peaceful, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the Han family is honest, they have not done anything wrong as before, they are conscientiously managing Shudi, but in a few years, the Han family will rebel again." The Han family used to be emperors in Shu, and they enjoyed supreme rights and glory and wealth in Shu, how could they be willing to condescend to others, be an official with a small official position, and be monitored for a lifetime.

"My lord, Shu Di was left to you by the emperor."

When Zhao Yao heard this, his face was shocked: "Leave it for me?"

"The new emperor must establish his prestige when he ascends the throne, and Shu is the fastest way to establish his prestige after you ascend the throne." Zheng Qian swore and said, "This is the deep meaning of the emperor's agreement to the intercession of the king of Chu."

Zhao Yao immediately denied: "Impossible." How many years ago was the extermination of the anti-thieves in Shudi, how could my father have this idea at that time? "I agree with you that your father may have stayed in Shu to establish prestige for the new emperor, but I don't agree that it was reserved for me. In the future, the fourth brother will be able to extinguish the rebellion in Shu once again when he ascends the throne." The fourth brother, who has suffered a loss once, will never be soft on the Han family again.

Zheng Qian didn't argue with Zhao Yao about the matter of Shudi, he said another thing.

"Lord, one of the biggest differences between the King of Chu and you is that his mother family is the Li family, and the Li family has always been a scholarly family and a literati family. And your mother is a merchant."

"What's wrong with that?"

"My lord, your mother family is three generations up, and you should be a farmer, right?"

"Yes."

"When there was a war in the previous dynasty, my lord, your mother's family experienced it, I remember that the Liang family took out money, fields and food to support the people, while the Li family escaped from the world and hid in the deep mountains and forests to read and write, but they asked about the affairs of the world, and they didn't care about the lives of the people." Zheng Qian's expression suddenly became serious, "My lord, in the heart of the King of Chu, the people are very important, but more important is the literati race. Between the common people and the literati clan, the scale in the heart of the king of Chu will unconsciously favor the literati clan."

Zheng Qian's last sentence made Zhao Yao unable to refute.

"Lord, this is why the emperor and my father chose you, not His Royal Highness the King of Chu." In fact, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is inferior to the lord in any aspect, but the king of Chu is far inferior to the lord in these two places.

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