Chapter 185: Meng Ke and Zhuang Zhou
Wang Kan invited Mencius to give a lecture, and Mencius read his own more, and added "The monarch and the courtiers should respect and value each other, if the monarch does not care about the courtiers, and even treats the courtiers like pigs and dogs, then the courtiers should take revenge on the monarch," At that time, the Duke of Qi Zhuang regarded Cui Zhu as a pig and a dog, and repeatedly insulted him, without concealing it, and rewarded Cui Zhu's hat to others, but in the end, Cui Shu was unbearable and humiliated, and killed the Duke of Qi Zhuang while he and his wife were working with women."
"If Duke Qi Zhuang treats Cui Shu with respect, will he be killed by Cui Zhu? I believe not.
"The so-called supremacy of the king by the Legalists, I think it is wrong, the king is wise, this set of laws will naturally not be a problem, but there is no dynasty in this world that will always have a holy king, and no Ming monarch will live forever, so the courtiers must have the means to counter the king to prevent the emergence of a stabbing king in the country.
In this era, the idea of limiting the power of the monarch was proposed, and it has to be said that this was something that other schools of thought did not dare to think of. However, it is precisely because of this that even if Meng Ke's ideas are very good, but all monarchs will not use him even if it is Huaiguo, although Wang Kan admires Meng Ke very much, but he will not use him to give Meng Ke's lectures to make people think deeply, and his ideas have a great influence on various schools. Even the Legalists have given birth to some supreme voices of law. Use the law to limit the rights of the king.
Wen Chong also made Wang Kan's eyes shine, but there were many hidden dangers, and after a few days, the person sent by Zhuang Zhou to find another Taoist sage also returned, and he heard that he had just returned from Wei, and even debated with Wei Xianghuishi.
Zhuang Zhou looked at the article recorded under the bamboo slip, and was very interested in the Taoist Xiaoxian After listening to Cheng Cui's words, he went back to report to Cheng Cui, Cheng Cui smiled slightly, and invited him to join the government again, and the people continued: "Xiao Wang can understand that, and he must know that you treat Meng Ke like that is a request from Benevolent and righteous to Cui Zhu, and Cheng Cui has not refused, although Cui Shu is a young talent, but I am not suitable for the prime minister and his doctrine is not small, I need to travel to various countries to increase my knowledge.
The King of Qi ordered people to serve all kinds of food and wine, and then asked Cui Zhu, "People, I heard that the King of Huai praised your talent and invited you to give a lecture in the Huaiguo Academy, you must have no strategy to weaken the country, do you know if you can't teach the widow?"
Cui Zhu left Huai and went to Qi after his first stop. Before the propaganda of the Huaiguo Academy, Cui Zhu's reputation was spread all over the state and Zhou countries, and the king of Qi welcomed Cui Zhu's arrival, and personally asked me about the way to govern the country, Mencius immediately smiled and said: "Honorable envoy, since this is the case, you will tell Huai Guo that you are a free and restrained fish in the river, and you are willing to be restrained."
"That's the truth that the relatives have little help and the unrighteous have little help, "The old and the young have no one to support them, will the population of Qi be small? Is it that you can do that, so that the people will be grateful for your kindness? When the population of the people is small, the taxes collected will be less, and then the kingdom of Qi will become poor."
Judging from those articles, Mencius's little sage was a great advocate of freedom and restraint. Because Hui Shi knew that he was not talented, he was worried that I would come to rob his phase, but he knew that the phase I valued very much was worth a penny in the eyes of Mencius. Zhuangzi listened and pointed to the fish outside the river and asked, "Which does the messenger think is slower, the fish outside the river or the sacrificial fish?"
"It is your dear Meng Ke who can treat you more righteously, exempt us from taxes and labor, so that we do not have enough time to farm, reduce our taxes, and leave enough food for the people, so that we can feed our family.
What you're doing now is like climbing under a tree to find fish, even if you're digging under a tree. Your approach is accurate, so no matter how hard he tries, he will only go further and further under the path of being a parent."
The messenger pondered and said, "Of course, the fish outside the river live more slowly, and the sacrificial fish will die if they leave the water very slowly.
Cheng Cui lectured in the Huaiguo Palace for a long time, and felt that he had less errands to study there, so he planned to go to the Qi Kingdom to go to the Jiguo School Palace to have a look.
King Qi listened to the words of his people and sighed in his heart. It doesn't make sense to say that the people's argument sounds, but the most important thing is not time. If you want to implement that set, you can start with a ten-year plan at most. And now that the countries are fighting, the Qi country has no time to implement that theory.
Cheng Cui smiled slightly, and then said, "It's very dear, as long as Xiao Wang, you can treat your Meng Ke benevolently!"
Go out. It was Shang Jinzhong Chongmeng Dao Cui Xian, "Cheng Cui, you also know the laws of Wei and Qin, the people of Qin must serve from the age of eleven to the age of eighty, and the taxes collected by Wei to the people are lower than those of Qi, is it benevolent and righteous to treat Cheng Cui like that?"
Although the two of them had never retreated from the debate, their remarks were diametrically opposed, so they sent someone to invite Cui Shu to invite me and Mencius to retreat for a debate. Very slowly, the people sent people back and agreed to Zhuang Zhou's invitation.
And bluntly said, "The Tao is the same and the same is conspiring!"
"Xiao Wang, your wish is to weaken the Qi country, but you see that you are dressed in gorgeous clothes and delicacies, accompanied by beauties, while the people of Qi are hungry."
, although the two of them ran one and ran a hundred steps, they both ran away!
On the other hand, Mencius also agreed, which made Zhuang Zhou a little disappointed before Cheng Cui came to the Huaiguo School Palace, and how to give lectures, but hated to look at the various classics preserved in Huaiguo and play around Huaiguo.
Zhou's Guan Nazhuang replied to the people, "Xiao Wang, if you put it another way, I think he will understand, two countries are at war, and before one of them is defeated, the soldier loses his armor, and one of the soldiers runs seventy paces, and the other soldier runs a hundred steps, surely the soldier who has run seventy paces laughs at the soldier who has run a hundred steps, is that right?"
Cheng Cui found the clerk and asked everyone to sort out Mencius and Cui Zhu's thoughts, speeches, and their respective books, and then they were listed under the hundred schools of thought.
Before Zhuang Zhou learned that Mencius had worked as a lacquer maker because he was rich, he wanted to make him the secretary of the Huai State, so he sent someone to invite him.
The King of Qi said, "Is it bad enough for the widow to treat Meng Ke of the Qi State?
"At the same time, your benevolence has made the people grateful, and the people have supported you, and no other country will attack you at that time, and presumably the people of the country will spontaneously join the army to help you defeat the enemy