Liang Xianggong got up again.

But he couldn't sit back any longer.

Fusu's identity is special, and this statement can be described as extraordinary, as a yin and yang family, he should curb his arrogance.

Liang Xianggong left his seat and faced the throne directly, and the old voice echoed in the hall, and not a word was true.

"Your Majesty is discerning."

"The foundation of all disasters is born in the loss of the country."

"Heaven has yin and yang, people also have yin and yang, the yin of heaven and earth rises, and the yin of man rises accordingly; The yin energy of man rises, and the yin energy of heaven should also rise accordingly. ”

"It's the same way."

"The world governs and the people are peaceful, the ambition is peaceful and the spirit is upright, then the heaven and earth are refined, and the beauty of all things arises; If the world is chaotic and the people are obedient, and the ambition is rebellious, the heaven and earth will be injured, and the qi will cause disasters. ”

"As for what His Royal Highness said, why didn't he give birth to a generation of Ming Jun, but the minister has a few words to say."

"Heaven regulates people's behavior in the way of 'induction', so that people will not deviate from the 'Heavenly Dao', or will not deviate too much from the 'Heavenly Dao'.

"After all, man has his own mind and therefore has free initiative, so he may maintain the stability of the overall structure of the universe and internal harmony with 'good deeds' that conform to the will of Heaven, and he may destroy this harmony and stability with 'evil deeds' that go against the will of Heaven."

"Then the will of heaven cannot be violated."

"Therefore, once a person has a 'defeat of losing the way', the heavens will use a certain variation in the operation of the five elements of yin and yang, such as 'wood changes, spring withers and autumn glory', to remind, warn, punish, etc., with the purpose of making people return to the path of 'natural' to avoid ultimate defeat."

"If people insist on not changing, they will cause the heart to shift."

"Quing the people to reach the king."

"And the monarch is commanded by heaven."

"Nature also means to bend to the heavens."

That's it.

Liang Xianggong did not say any more.

It's just that Yingzheng, who was sitting on it, showed a cold light in his eyes.

He didn't like Liang Xianggong's words.

Although the good minister is expressing his support for the absolute monarchy, this sentence of 'subservient to the king to reach the sky' made Ying Zheng have a touch of murderous intent.

In Liang Xianggong's view, the power of the monarch has supreme authority because it comes from the 'heavens', and for the 'heavens', the monarch represents the 'world' and the senses, and the essence of the 'heaven and man induction' he proposed is to correct the monarch's 'way of failure'.

Get the world back on track.

However, in Yingzheng's view, the good minister is too selfish.

This move has clearly put itself above the monarch, and can even allow the courtiers to make a big fuss about disasters and politics at will, in order to criticize the monarch, and even have the possibility of demanding that the monarch step down automatically, and this has touched the scale of the reverse of the winning government.

That's it.

Ying Zheng completely understood what Ji Heng said.

The power to interpret this system is not in the hands of the monarch.

He can still understand the truth, but what about Fusu? What about Qin III, Qin IV? Can they all see the meaning? If you really believe in this, when the real disaster falls from heaven, these courtiers will encourage them to abdicate, will they really be coerced by these people to abdicate?

Will Daqin still be Daqin at that time?

Come to think of this.

Ying Zheng completely sentenced this system to death in his heart.

He knew that people make mistakes, so he allowed his courtiers to advise, but he never allowed his courtiers to criticize the monarch and the government at will by taking advantage of the catastrophe, nor did he allow the power to fall, let alone the country to change hands.

A good minister may not have such an intention, but there are signs of it.

This is something that Yingzheng will never tolerate.

He would rather have Da Qin embark on the 'cultivation of people to win the heavens' than allow the 'heavens' to point fingers at Daqin.

The other side.

After listening for a while, Lees stepped forward.

Thinking about the situation, he also spoke.

Li Si saluted Yingzheng, and then turned to look at Liang Xianggong, he said coldly: "Heaven has no will, heaven is natural, the king is prosperous in the time, holy but not god, the disaster is caused by yin and yang, not by the gods." ”

"Everyone in the world knows that my teacher is Xunzi."

"My teacher once said that there is permanence in heaven, not for Yao, not for ruin."

"Eclipses of the sun and moon have constants, not politics."

"All kinds of disasters are the same."

"Whether it is the Holy Lord or the Faint King, the heavens only operate according to their own laws, and all disasters and phenomena have nothing to do with political good or bad, and natural ones have natural laws, and they are not subject to human consciousness."

"Heaven does nothing, if you accuse people, then you are promising."

"It's unnatural."

"Inaction is the way of heaven, and doing is not the way of heaven, but the way of man."

"First, heaven has no will, and heaven is natural."

"As His Highness said before, heaven and earth are in harmony, all things are born by themselves, and the couple are in harmony, and the son is born by himself."

"However, people are born in heaven and earth, fish are born in the abyss, lice are born in people, they are born because of qi, and they are born of each other. All things are born between heaven and earth, and they are all the same. ”

"Heaven is a natural entity containing yin and yang, and because of the qi of heaven and earth, all things are born in harmony with human beings, but all things are born in harmony with human beings, not 'old birth'."

"This is the way of heaven."

"Two."

"The king is in the destiny of the time, and the holy is not God."

"When the son of Hu Hai was born, you deliberately counted the hexagram for him, saying, 'The divination is returned to the sister, and the seven stars of the Pleiades become Qinzi.'" ”

"At that time, you said that the Pleiades host Zhao was born in the Qin Palace, then the eastern gateway Zhao will die, and as soon as the portal is opened, the world will be determined to be just around the corner, and it is said that the sky will die in a country, and it will inevitably come first."

"This is the manifestation of the Mandate of Heaven that you have been preaching, and it is the Heavenly Fu Rui."

"For this reason, you have also taken King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou as an example many times, saying that King Wen got red sparrows, and King Wu got white fish and red birds, but naturally did nothing, and the way of heaven was also, and the order was to use red sparrows and white fish to martial arts, and it was also promising."

"It's just far-fetched."

"King Wen is excited, the red bird is suitable: the fish leaps and the bird flies, the king of Wu occasionally meets, the non-angel bird comes, the white fish comes, the auspicious thing moves, and the holy encounter is also, this Ruiwu and the king of Zhou Wen and King Zhou Wu meet is accidental rather than inevitable, not to mention the so-called manifestation of the destiny of heaven."

"People are born in one life, the short ones are a few years, the elders are a hundred years, there are too many things encountered, there are one or two miracles, how can it be magical?"

"Third, the calamity is caused by yin and yang, not by the gods."

"Heaven is natural, why should you condemn?"

"If Heaven can really condemn the human monarch, this is undoubtedly an affirmation of the existence of the will of heaven, and the heaven with the will is a kind of action, but everyone in the world knows that the heavens are naturally inactive, so how can we talk about reprimanding the human monarch?"

"Again."

"If the heavens have the will to want the monarch to promote good governance, why should they not be more angry, but instead send disasters?"

"The drummer mistakenly set the strings and set the pillars. The palace merchant is easy to sound, and his teacher knows it, and he changes his strings and moves his pillars. If the husband sees the mistake of punishment and reward, and the teacher sees the wrong of the string pillar, he does not change his anger to understand the human king, but increases his anger to relieve his evil, then the sky has no intention, and he is wrong with the human king. ”

"Therefore, your claim that the calamity from heaven is different from persuasion of the king is not tenable at all."

"Other than that."

"In the past, you kept claiming that the sages were in the same way as the heavens."

"However, whether it is Yao Shunyu or the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, they all persuade people with goodness, why should the heavens persuade people with evil?"

"As for what you said before, 'the foundation of all disasters and differences is born from the loss of the country', it is even more absurd."

"You say that disasters come from a loss of government, so why is there no disaster? And Yao and Tang suffer from floods and droughts? Therefore, whether the heavens send down disasters has nothing to do with the political gains and losses of the monarch. ”

"The storm is coming, and it is yin and yang."

"It's the chaos of heaven and earth!"

"It can be seen from this."

"Disasters are not enough to show that politics is evil, and auspiciousness is not enough to show that politics is good."

said.

Li Si snorted coldly: "When people are sick, they are afraid, and they are afraid of ghosts." If a mortal is not sick, he is not afraid. Therefore, when you are sick and sleep, you are afraid of ghosts, and if you are afraid, you will think, and if you think, you will see nothing. ”

"You are clearly selfish."

Hear the words.

Liang Xianggong and the others looked gloomy.

It was at this time that Duch stepped forward for the first time.

He stroked his beard and said lightly: "I used to serve as a long historian in the past, so I have heard a lot of classics from all sides. ”

"What the prime minister said is not in line with historical facts."

"In the Analects Yaoyue, Chinese Zhouyu, Mozi and Love, and Lü's Spring and Autumn, there are descriptions of Tang praying for rain, so I will talk about the content in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Shunmin."

"In the past, Tang Kexia was in the world, there was a great drought, and there was no harvest for five years. Tang Nai prayed to the mulberry forest with his body, saying: "The remaining one is guilty, and there is no one who is worth ten thousand." Ten thousand people are guilty, and there is only one left. There is no one who is insensitive, so that God and ghosts can hurt the lives of the people. So he lifted his hair, sharpened his hands, sacrificed his body, and prayed to God for blessings. The people said, "The rain is great." The soup is the transformation of ghosts and gods, and the transmission of personnel is also. ”

"It was by praying to the ghosts and gods, damaging oneself and sacrificing oneself that Shang Tang finally moved the ghosts and gods and was able to achieve heavy rain from the sky."

"This is a true portrayal of the heart of heaven that is the heart of the people."

"That's why."

"Shang Tang won the will of heaven and won the hearts of the people, so he became a generation of holy masters."

Lees scoffed at this.

He said disdainfully: "What is the connection between Shang Tang's sacrificial behavior and the heavy rain falling from the sky? There is no causal connection between the two, and some are just a kind of accidental synchronicity. ”

"Or if it's early, when it's raining, and when it's early, it's also appropriate to blame yourself."

"If according to what you said, worship Liang's wife crying in the city, then Qi City is really Liang's wife crying and collapsing the city?"

"There is no inevitable relationship between the two, but it happened at the same time, which is far-fetched, and then everyone follows the clouds, and finally it becomes a joke about worshipping Liang's wife and crying in the city."

"You keep saying that the saints of heaven are born with grains to support people."

"But grains, silk and linen, is it really heaven for life? It is clear that people see that the grains can be eaten, take and eat, see the silk and linen can be clothed, and take the clothes, all things in heaven and earth are good, and human beings are natural objective existences, not generated and arranged by heaven for a certain purpose. ”

"As for the glow of confusion this time, the same is true."

"Heaven and earth are incomparably vast and huge, and man is also very small compared to the stars, and because of the so-called celestial phenomena, it is absurd to think that the heavens are going to bring disasters different from the world?"

Li Si scoffed.

Liang Xianggong refuted: ""Mozi Ming Ghost" said: '...... It's chaos in the world. Why is this so? They all wonder about the difference between the existence and non-existence of ghosts and gods, and they don't know that ghosts and gods can reward the virtuous and punish violence. Now, if the people of the world are made to believe in the power of ghosts and gods to reward the virtuous and punish the violent, then the world will be in chaos! ’”

"It was precisely because people doubted the existence of ghosts and gods at that time, and did not believe that ghosts and gods could reward the virtuous and punish the violent, which led to all kinds of political, social and moral problems in the Zhou Dynasty, and finally the Mandate of Heaven was taken by His Majesty."

"Now Prime Minister Li wants to go back to the old path of the Zhou Dynasty, doesn't this mean that he wants to put Daqin to death?"

Li Si disagreed, and said with a straight face: "I think heaven and man have a part." ”

"The eclipse of the sun and the moon, the wind and rain from time to time, and the party of strange stars are unborn and uncommon. The Ming Dynasty and the political peace, although it is not in the world, there is no harm; The darkness and political risk are useless, even if there is no one. ”

Li Si didn't flinch in the slightest.

Time.

The atmosphere of the main hall instantly froze.

There was a hint of annoyance and dissatisfaction in the eyes of the good minister.

In fact, he had already guessed that Li Si would be so difficult, because Li Si was a disciple of Xunzi, and Xunzi had always advocated the distinction between heaven and man in the past, and he was very critical of the catastrophe theory that gradually formed in the Zhou Dynasty, and this set of catastrophe and alienation theory was exactly what he firmly recognized.

It's a political divide.

What they advocate is that heaven has a will, a mandate of heaven, and a condemnation of heaven and man.

Li Si and others insisted that heaven has no will, heaven is natural, and the king is prosperous in the time, holy but not god; Disasters are caused by yin and yang, not by the gods.

The two views are-for-tat.

However, neither side can convince either side.

Because they believe that there is a supreme god in heaven and earth.

The other side is also unable to explain it, and can only add a fabricated 'Tao' out of thin air.

However, even if the two parties fight in the court, fight hard, and fight fiercely, they will not be able to fight for the result in the end, because neither party can convince the other party, nor can they prove that what the other party said is wrong, at best they can only blindly criticize.

At most, they will talk harshly to each other.

Time.

There was a great controversy in the temple.

Quoting scriptures from each other, refuting each other's views, and constantly using some historical materials to prove their correctness, under each other's attacks, the whole hall was noisy.

Ying Zheng stared coldly downward.

His brows furrowed slightly.

How could he not see the situation below, but whether it was Li Si, Du He and others, they couldn't justify themselves after all, or they couldn't explain it further, and in the end it still fell to the mysterious and unpredictable.

But what is the difference between this and the power of ghosts and gods?

Long.

Ying Zheng must be in his mind.

His gaze hardened.

In any case, the authority of heaven must be weakened, or it will affect the power of the monarch, and as for further explanation, he cannot think of it for the time being, but for now he prefers to attribute all good and evil to the monarch alone.

Completely unaffected by the outside world.

Li Si below has been secretly observing the First Emperor, and when he saw the First Emperor's displeasure, he also knew that this farce should end, and he suddenly spoke: "At present, all parties express their opinions, there are Mozi's 'Heavenly Will', there is the 'Mandate of Heaven' and 'Heavenly Will' believed by Confucianism, and there is also the marriage coincidence that my master believes that people are born by chance and things are born by chance. ”

"Your views have been clearly expressed, and the old minister dares to make a decision with His Majesty."

"Dare to make a decision with Your Majesty." Raise the temple.

"Okay." Ying Zheng took the case, "Within ten days, I spoke with an edict. ”

"Scattered !!"

Most of these are taken from the views of the Qin and Han dynasties, when the arguments could only explain the macroscopic situation on the one hand, and the small things could not be explained, which could not be solved until Darwin, so no matter how the struggle was in history, it would eventually fall to metaphysics.

And the end of metaphysics is life.

It is fatalism that we are familiar with now.

(End of chapter)