Chapter 497: Prohibition of Deliberation
The whole hall was shocked. Zhao Tuo's face changed even more, staring at Li Si, the court captain diagonally opposite. What a Lees!
Zhao Tuo guessed that in the face of the criticism of that group of Confucian doctors, Li Si would definitely stand up. First, this court lieutenant knows the emperor's mind very well and knows that standing up can win the emperor's heart.
Second, if Chun Yuyue and others use Zhou Li to oppose him Princess Zhao Tuoshang successfully, then the voice of Confucianism is bound to rise, and the Legalist family, which was originally the dominant family in Qin, will also be affected, so Li Si will definitely take action.
It's just that he didn't expect this guy Li Si to be so powerful, and he used this incident to launch a lore against that group of Confucian doctors.
The past is not the present, and I want to restore feudalism! After this big hat was buttoned up, Li Si immediately asked the emperor to deprive the doctors of the right to participate in politics, if the emperor nodded, then this group of doctors really became echo worms, what they said was what they said, they were not qualified to discuss, let alone express their opinions.
The abolition of the Zhou Rite is even more murderous. The essence of Confucianism is not the same as that of the sons of Dao, Mo, and Fa, and it is better to say that Confucianism is not so much one of the sons as they are the heirs of the Zhou Dynasty's ritual system.
The rites they learn are the rites of the week. The poems they read are Zhou music, and everything they say is born from the ritual music culture of the Zhou Dynasty.
What the Confucian disciples learned was the inheritance of Zong Zhou. Confucius said
"Self-denial and revenge" is to hope to change the era of ritual collapse and happiness, and reproduce the prosperous society of the past Zhou rites.
As for Mencius, Xunzi and others, although they have their own opinions, they can't escape one
The word "li". Mencius said, rude and righteous, then up and down. Xun Ziyan, the rite, the great division of the law, the outline of the class.
Within Confucianism, no matter which branch of the teacher is transmitted,
"Li" is their core thing, and it is also the basis of all their doctrines and political thoughts. If you are rude, you are not Confucian.
If the Zhou rite is abolished, then Confucianism will be equivalent to not existing. Therefore, the ministers and ministers in the palace who had a little insight were all shocked.
This Li Si directly wants to abolish the foundation of a doctrine and completely erase this school from this world!
"If the emperor agrees to abolish the Zhou ceremony, the next step is to suggest burning poetry books. Lees is using me as a pawn to eliminate all political enemies. Zhao Tuo's eyes condensed slightly, and his heart hung up.
He was taken advantage of by Lees. Although Zhao Tuo was dissatisfied and resentful of this group of Confucian doctors for opposing his wedding, he wanted to kick Chun Yuyue's crotch hard if possible to show revenge.
But he didn't want it to become a fuse for book burning. Abolition of the Weekly Rite. How to repeal it? According to the style of Legalism, it is not just to burn all the Confucian poems and books, and if there are any more people who talk about Zhou etiquette, then they will all be killed.
In this way, even if the weekly rite is abolished. This is a proper reproduction of the original historical book burning.
"With Li Si's style of killing the enemy with one blow when he finds an opportunity, I am afraid that this matter will be extended to other princes, saying that the emperor will burn all the books in the world, and in the end, he will be left with the situation of the Legalist family being the dominant one. He can do this kind of thing! Zhao Tuo took a deep breath, and his mind recalled the words of book burning that he had heard in his previous life
"Those who dare to have Tibetan poems, books, and hundreds of languages in the world will burn them. There are those who dare to say poetry and books to abandon the market. The ancient is not the present. Those who do not go, the book of medicine divination and tree planting. "When the Legalists monopolized the Qin State, when there was only one voice left in the whole world, it also meant that this nascent empire was not far from destruction.
History has proven this. Just when Zhao Tuo was frightened. The courtiers in the palace also began to react.
"The minister and the king died to give His Majesty, although Confucianism has no knowledge, and uses ancient rites to block the marriage of the princess, but there is no idea of restoring feudalism. And the Zhou rites, although they are the rites set by the Zhou room, have been integrated into the people of the world in the past 800 years. Even my Qin country's weddings, funerals, daily communication, and all kinds of things are inseparable from etiquette. If the weekly rite is abolished, how can it be replaced? ”
"And the world has been decided, the land of the princes of the six countries, all beings have not yet returned to their hearts, if the Zhou rites are abolished at this time, I am afraid that the people of the six countries will make waves again!"
"Yes, if the Zhou Rite is abolished, the world will definitely be shaken, and it will also affect the major events of the people who have migrated to the Six Kingdoms!" As Prime Minister Wang Juan spoke, several ministers who were kind to Confucianism also spoke.
The Confucian doctors at the end of the hall were already stupid by this matter. Fortunately, Zhou Qingchen, the doctor's servant, was a clever person, he threw himself into the hall, bowed and cried: "Your Majesty, our Confucian students have no intention of restoring feudalism." ”
"Yes, we have absolutely no idea of opposing the county and restoring feudalism."
"We have not taken the past as the present, and please ask Your Majesty to learn from it!" A group of Confucian scholars hurriedly followed behind Zhou Qingchen and kowtowed and begged.
Chun Yuyue's eyes were glazed, and he was pressed to the ground by his colleagues beside him. Tingwei's proposal to abolish Zhou Li simply frightened them.
On the emperor's couch, Qin Shi Huang's face was indifferent, and he looked at the ministers in the palace coldly. The group of Confucian doctors took it out
Zhou Li, who "has the same surname and is not married", came to oppose the wedding, which made him feel quite angry. How dare anyone oppose the emperor's edict?
He recruited these Confucian scholars to serve as doctors, just as a tool. Now that these tools have their own will, they dare to oppose themselves, which he naturally cannot tolerate.
Li Si proposed the abolition of the Zhou rites, and the emperor was indeed moved. Disobedient tools, there is no need to exist.
But then Wang Juan and others stood up and said, which made him think about it again. As Wang Juan and others said, in the eight hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty, the influence of Zhou rites on the world was too great.
Not to mention anything else, even the crown ceremony just performed for Fusu and Zhao Tuo was also created by the Zhou people and was the content of the Zhou ceremony.
In addition, the weddings, funerals, rituals, and even food rituals and social rituals in daily life that are common in the Qin State today are all derived from the Zhou rites, although there are changes, but they are generally carried out in accordance with the Zhou rites.
If so, will it be abolished in whole or will it be partially retained? If the weekly rite is abolished, then what will be used to replace it?
In addition, if it is decided today, the land of the Six Kingdoms is not stable, and the matter of relocating the nobles of the Six Kingdoms suggested by Zhao Tuo has just begun, and if the Zhou Rite is abolished at this time, it will definitely have a great impact, and there will be twists and turns.
As for the reason why Li Si proposed to abolish the Zhou ceremony, the emperor was also clear in his heart.
Qin Shi Huang was a monarch who valued practical interests, and after some thought, he made his own decisions. looked at the Confucian scholars who were trembling in the hall, and looked at Wang Juan and others with sincere faces.
The emperor said: "The Confucian scholars abused the power of the doctor, the past is not the present, from today onwards, the official position of the doctor is not allowed to go to the palace, and in the future, unless I am ordered, he is not allowed to participate in state affairs." ”
"As for the abolition of the Zhou ceremony, the ministers will discuss it again." As soon as these words came out, Dr. Confucianism at the end of the palace was full of bitterness, and those Yin and Yang families, famous scholars, and Mo family doctors gritted their teeth with hatred.
This group of stinky Confucian students, the uncontrollable stinky mouth, really hurt everyone. They didn't say a word, and they were implicated in vain, and they were deprived of the right to go to the temple and participate in politics, which was really going to kill people.
Wang Juan and the others breathed a sigh of relief. With the emperor's temperament, since it is said that the matter of abolishing the Zhou rite will be discussed by the emperor, there is still room for discussion.
A smile welled up in Lis's eyes. How big the influence of Zhou Li is, he knows very well, and if he wants to abolish Zhou Li in one go with this matter, it is naturally impossible.
He Li Si is only a district court lieutenant, not a prime minister, and there are Wang Juan and others on top of him, and the current situation today is not stable, so it is almost impossible for the emperor to directly abolish the Zhou ceremony.
"Unless another ten years pass, the world will be fixed for a long time, and I can become the prime minister, and the power will become stronger and stronger, these Confucian scholars will make a big mistake again, maybe they can be destroyed with one blow, burn poetry and books and destroy hundreds of schools, and from then on the world is only the law." Li Si sighed secretly in his heart, but there was still a smile in his eyes.
Because his purpose was achieved, he made it through Confucianism
The matter of "not marrying with the same surname" made the emperor prohibit all doctors from participating in politics, which is equivalent to blocking the mouths of the hundreds of schools, and the future Qin State will still be a word of his Legalist family.
And put forward the terrifying idea of abolishing the Zhou rites, even if it is not implemented, it is enough to deter the people of the world.
Li Si was very satisfied.
"This matter, my law family has earned it." At this time, Zhao Tuo was also relieved after hearing the emperor's edict.
Forbidding the doctor to go to the temple to participate in state affairs and blocking the mouth of the Confucian scholar is equivalent to banning speech. This result is already lighter than the abolition of book burning.
His eyes glanced at the group of sweaty Dr. Confucian scholars, and shook his head secretly. Before these Confucian scholars were conscripted by the emperor and came to the Qin State, they were either doctors of Qi like Chun Yuyue, or they were folk Confucians in various places, and most of them studied the classics and danced their lips and tongues, and basically had no experience in participating in political struggles.
That's why they did such stupid things, they didn't understand the emperor, they didn't understand the situation of the Qin State, and they didn't understand his Zhao Tuo's status in the Qin State, so they thought about using the wedding to grab the right to speak, and this was directly overturned by Li Si.
Compared with Li Si, a veteran who has struggled in the court of the Qin State for more than 20 years, these Confucian scholars are as white as a piece of paper, far inferior to their disciples and grandchildren who have made a name for themselves in the officialdom of later generations.
"It's okay to be overturned by Li Sigan, so as not to talk nonsense in the future if you can't tell the situation." Zhao Tuo smiled.
With the fate of these Confucian doctors in front of him, no one can stop him from getting married.
"I'm getting married." He whispered, anticipation flashing in his eyes.