Chapter 19: Self-doubt

After Li Si finished speaking, before Ran Fang could speak, Fusu answered this question for him.

Although he has been in prison, he also knows what is happening in the court.

"No, if Your Majesty wants to reuse Confucianism, then Your Majesty will not pay the books, and those Confucian students will not be imprisoned for this."

I have to say that now Fusu is calling Yingzheng His Majesty, which is becoming more and more pleasant.

Ran Fang listened to Fusu's analysis and nodded slightly, it seems that through his own teachings in the past few days, this person has also made progress and can think.

"That's a good point, but there's one thing you're wrong about."

"Your Majesty will not reuse Confucianism, but Great Qin needs Confucianism."

Li Si was also a little puzzled, didn't Ran Fang's words contradict himself?

"Is there any difference between the two?"

"Yes," Ran Fang glanced at Li Si, and then said, "It has been eight years since Great Qin was founded, and although the world has been unified in the past eight years, the resentment of those old countries towards Great Qin is increasing day by day. ”

"This is enough to show that it is not feasible to force the old country to accept the culture and system of Great Qin, and if they continue to use coercion to make them accept, they will definitely encounter greater resistance."

"The extremes of things must be opposed, that's the truth."

"What kind of person is Your Majesty, how can you not see these things? Therefore, Great Qin needed Confucianism to appease the old country and ease the contradictions between Great Qin and the old country. ”

"But this Confucianism is not the Confucianism of today, but the Confucianism created by the Great Qin, that is, the Confucianism that has been repaired and the dross has been removed."

Li Si frowned slightly, as a staunch supporter of Legalism, he has always been inseparable from Confucianism.

He didn't know the problem that Ran Fang said, but he just felt that the only way to solve this problem was to respect the Legalist alone!

It was because he felt that the Legalist strategy was right!

Especially for Great Qin, only the strict laws of the Legalists can make the Six Kingdoms fearful.

Ran Fang's words today were something he had never thought of.

"In that case, why doesn't Your Majesty reuse Confucianism now?"

Ran Fang shook his head, he was really an anxious child, he wanted to be a Confucian student so much, and he couldn't help but look up to this group of Confucian students too much.

"Confucian scholars are already good at building momentum, if these Confucian scholars take those pedantic rules and make a lot of nonsense in the court, it will definitely have an impact on the people."

"And the ability of Confucianism to breed trouble will definitely cause a lot of turmoil to Great Qin, so this revision is to change the rules of Confucianism and make it available to Great Qin."

"The most important thing is that Na Fusu must be the prince appointed by His Majesty, and he is a real Confucian person."

"If he ascends to that position one day, he must reuse Confucianism, then if he doesn't control Confucianism now, Fusu will definitely be involved by Confucianism in the future, and even do things that are not conducive to the development of Great Qin."

After Ran Fang finished speaking, Li Si turned his gaze to Fusu, only to retract his gaze at a glance.

It's Fusu, I didn't expect Ran Fang to be so bold and dare to talk about the prince of the court, and said that His Majesty values him, why doesn't he think so?

"Is what the gentleman said a little too sure?"

"Even if it is Fusu and reusing Confucianism, isn't that Confucian person a person who is beneficial to the development of Great Qin?"

Li Si didn't speak this time, he was still a little shocked by Ran Fang's remarks just now, could it be that His Majesty really wanted to pass on the throne to Fusu?

No one in the DPRK has ever dared to speak out about this matter, he is just waiting and watching, and now Ran Fang has directly decided this matter.

Ran Fan looked at Fusu and shook his head, thinking that he had just praised two sentences, and he was beaten back to his original form.

"Childe, don't forget, Daqin is strong by relying on the Legalist family, and the law is the foundation."

"If the root is broken, then Daqin will be finished."

"Therefore, this Legalist and Confucianism, both are indispensable, and they cannot be remote, but they must check and balance each other, which is what Great Qin needs!"

"Your Majesty knows this very well, and also knows that although Fusu has a benevolent heart, he is not familiar with politics, let alone strategy."

"But if it is unified today, what is needed is not only a monarch with strong means, but also a benevolent monarch who can classify the people of the old country as Great Qin, so Fusu can afford this great responsibility."

"But if he only knows Confucianism, then there will definitely be chaos in the world in the future, and everything Your Majesty is doing now is just for the future of Fusu."

After Ran Fan finished speaking, Li Si had already set off turbulent waves in his heart, and even some things as a legalist he couldn't come back to his senses.

After thinking for a moment, Li Si stood up and bowed to Ran Fang.

"Today's time has come, so I'll take my leave first."

"When I have time to spare, I'll come back to ask Mr.

With that, he saluted Ran Fang and got up to say goodbye.

When he walked to the door, he turned around and said to Fusu, "Mr. Ran has a gap in his heart, and Mr. Su can learn more." ”

Fusu nodded slightly, not the slightest bit unbearable, and even felt that this Li Si was not so unsmiling as the legend.

After Li Si left, Fusu hesitated for a moment before sitting in front of Ran Fang again, looking at Fusu with some caution.

"Sir, this ...... Can Fusu become Renjun? ”

Ran Fang looked at Fusu, picked up the bamboo slip he hadn't finished writing, and asked without raising his head: "What does Childe think, what is benevolence?" ”

This question is a piece of cake for Fusu.

"Confucianism is benevolence."

Ran Fang was not the slightest surprised by Fusu's answer, and then he asked: "Then in the eyes of Confucianism, the division of the Zhou Dynasty is benevolent?" Or, Daqin unified the counties as benevolence? ”

"Confucianism governs the world with benevolence, so Daqin is not benevolent to rule the world by law?"

"The sage talks about benevolence, but did he say what this benevolence means?"

This question stopped Fusu, and he sat there and couldn't answer.

He took it for granted that this benevolent government was nothing more than doing good for the people.

But now that he was asked by Ran Fang, he hesitated and asked himself, do you really know Renzheng?

If you don't know, then what is your persistence for so many years?

After Ran Fang finished writing an article, he smiled and shook his head when he saw that Fusu was still sitting there thinking about the question just now.

"The benevolence that Confucianism speaks of is in the hearts of Confucian scholars, and they say that benevolence is benevolence, and that benevolence is unbenevolence."

"But the Legalists are different, the benevolence that the Legalists say is to love the people with the law, and great benevolence is not benevolence, that is, to be fair and just is benevolence."

Seeing that Fusu didn't speak, Ran Fang knew that it was difficult for a Confucian student to deny what he had learned, so he took the initiative to explain: "Gongzi Fusu is kind-hearted, he may think that benevolent government is to be kind to the people, but the world of this Great Qin is not governed by benevolence, but by force. ”

"From the moment Great Qin used force, there was a gap between it and the old country, as long as the people of the old country kept thinking about the old country, then Great Qin would not be considered truly unified, and benevolent government would have no meaning in the face of force."

"No matter how benevolent the government is, it only delays the resistance of the old country, but it cannot really solve the problem."

"If Fusu really wants to be stable in the four seas, peaceful in the world, and return to Daqin, then he can't just blindly govern the country with benevolence, otherwise it will be a group of heroes, and the world will be in chaos, what's the point of this benevolence?"

In the small room, Ran Fang's words reached Fusu's ears and continued to echo in his mind.

After a while, he muttered, "Small goodness is like great evil, and great goodness is like ruthlessness." ”

"LΓΌ Buwei is right."