Xunzi immediately took out the ring ruler and asked Zhu Xiang to answer whether he had any shame.

Qin Wangzhu happily watched Zhu Xiang being beaten before he said, "The widow doesn't mind, just eat it."

Cai Ze watched this scene silently, feeling that he was out of place with this lively group of people.

He sighed and said, "Drink the soup first." The weather is cold, and if the chicken soup is cold, it will not taste good. ”

After Cai Ze reminded him, everyone immediately stopped being "lively" and hurried to eat.

Zhu Xiang brought another pot of hen soup.

With so many people, how can one little hen be enough? He just ate a chicken leg in advance, and there are still a lot of chicken legs, Zichu is really stingy, and he will only leave him chicken wings in the future.

Zi Chu listened to Zhu Xiang's complaints and threats, and after distributing the chicken legs to King Qin and Xunzi, he took one himself, and looked at Zhu Xiang with provocative eyes.

I'm sorry, I'm Prince Qin, I have a very high status, and you want to give me chicken wings? No way!

Zhu Xiang sneered. If it weren't for King Qin here, you wouldn't even be able to eat chicken wings in private!

Qin Wangzhu whispered to Xun Zi: "Xun Qing, look at the prince and Zhu Xiang, they have to fight with their eyes when they eat." The widow doesn't know if their relationship is good or bad. ”

Xunzi said slowly: "If the relationship between the prince and Zhu Xiang is not good, Zhu Xiang will find it himself." ”

Qin Wangzhu said: "The prince should still learn to tolerate Zhu Xiang." He is older than Zhu Xiang, how can he fight with Zhu Xiang? ”

Xunzi said: "Zhu Xiang is different from the prince and the prince, he is so arrogant, he should suffer a little loss and learn a lesson." ”

Qin Wangzhu was very opposed: "How can Zhu Xiang be called arrogant? The widow looks at Zhu Xiang as the most well-behaved and caring. ”

Xunzi said: "Zhu Xiang is indeed well-behaved and caring to the king, but he is too arrogant to the prince. ”

Qin Wangzhu waved his hand and resolutely denied the matter. How can two children fight and make trouble, how can it be called arrogance?

Cai Ze and Lin Zhen, who were listening to Qin Wangzhu and Xunzi's "debate" with their ears pricked up, exchanged glances.

Seeing that King Qin doted on Zhu Xiang so much, they were relieved.

Although Qin Wangzhu dealt with many people who slandered Zhu Xiang, they were still worried that the words of these people would leave traces in Qin Wangzhu's heart.

Fortunately, it seems that not all monarchs can "become tigers in three people".

After everyone drank the chicken soup, Zhu Xiang mixed the chicken soup with water and cooked some vegetables and noodles.

The chef who helped cook the noodles watched Qin Wangzhu eat the noodles cooked with leftovers, and his face was satisfied, and his heart was sour.

In this world, it is estimated that only Changping Jun dares to give the King of Qin and the crown prince leftovers.

But the King of Qin and the crown prince are still very satisfied?! What's so delicious about the noodles cooked in the leftovers?! The chef couldn't understand.

Every time Qin Wangzhu sighed that the chef's craftsmanship was not as good as Zhu Xiang's, the chef couldn't understand it.

When he was Changpingjun's helper, he didn't see any difference between Changpingjun's cooking and him. Even Chang Pingjun's grasp of heat and knife work is far inferior to him, and sometimes he will be distracted to fry the meat dry, or burn the cake on the edge.

Changping Jun just served the fried meat that had passed the heat and the slightly mushy cakes to the table, and the king of Qin and the crown prince still closed their eyes and praised the deliciousness.

For a moment, the chef wondered if Changping-kun had put some delicious seasoning in the dishes that he couldn't see.

……

The chef's complaint accidentally spread, and Qin Wangzhu was furious and wanted to punish the chef.

Zhu Xiang persuaded him: "He just wants to improve his skills and let the king eat more delicious food, not jealous of me." I didn't become Changpingjun by cooking, how could he be jealous of me? ”

Qin Wangzhu let the chef go.

The chef was grateful to Zhu Xiang and prepared a generous gift to ask Zhu Xiang for the secret of delicious food.

Zhu Xiang couldn't laugh and cry: "Do you really think that my cooking skills are higher than yours?" My cooking skills are not as good as yours, but because I am a junior of King Qin and a friend of the prince, they praise me for making better food than others. It's like you're cooking for your parents. ”

The chef finally realized his mistake.

What did he do to compare his cooking skills with Changping Jun? Even if Changping Jun steamed a tasteless bun, King Qin and the crown prince would praise it with their eyes closed.

Can the food cooked by the chef be the same as the food made by Changpingjun himself?

In order to make up for his mistake, he deliberately revealed his request to Changpingjun, trying to prove that he was really not jealous of Changpingjun, but really wanted to improve his cooking skills.

But after this word spread, it became Zhu Xiang to show off his close relationship with the King of Qin and the crown prince, and regarded himself as the family of the king and prince of Qin.

So soon someone impeached Zhu Xiang for being arrogant and ignorant of dignity and inferiority.

Qin Wangzhu said lightly: "Show off? It's just a fact, what is showing off? Zhu Xiang is the widow's nephew. Then let people put the person who impeached Zhu Xiang out and remove him from office.

Zichu didn't bother to pay attention to the people who sowed discord in front of him.

Zhu Xiang did not stay in Xianyang for a long time, and soon he would go south to prepare for the summer harvest of Wu County.

The spring ploughing of Wu County had been arranged in advance when Zhu Xiang left Wu County. But summer harvest and summer planting are too important, and Zhu Xiang is not at ease.

He doesn't seize the time to discuss government affairs and learning with Zhu Xiang every day, and play tricks with these people?

has to fight his heart, and after Zhu Xiang leaves, he will slowly fight with these people.

At the beginning of spring, Zhu Xiang pinched the chun buds, made a meal of chun bud fried chicken for Qin Wangzhu, and left Xianyang Palace under Qin Wangzhu's reluctant gaze.

Zichu once again pretended to be public and private, and under the pretext of going on a business trip, he sent Zhu Xiang to the Hanshui Ferry.

Before leaving, Zhu Xiang kept telling Zichu to take care of his body.

Zichu responded good-naturedly: "You also have to take care of your body." ”

Zhu Xiang rolled up his sleeves, revealing his beautiful muscle lines, and said disdainfully: "You tell me this? ”

Zichu's temper couldn't get better: "Get out!" Don't come back! ”

"That's not going to work." The boat left the ferry, and Zhu Xiang stood on the bow of the boat that was getting farther and farther away and smiled proudly at Zi Chu, "Next time we will compare to see if your body is thinner." ”

Zi Chu scolded: "Get out! ”

The boat Zhu Xiang was on gradually disappeared from Zichu's sight.

Zi Chu wiped his eyes that were fascinated by the wind and sand with his sleeve. When he lowered his sleeves, he returned to the appearance of the scheming Prince Qin.

It's time for him to settle accounts with those who framed Zhu Xiang.

……

When Zhu Xiang was on the boat, he was still sorting out Xunzi's books.

Xunzi asked his disciple to copy a lot of copies, and asked Zhu Xiang to take one away, so that Zhu Xiang could sort it out, read and write it for comprehension.

Xunzi also collected the thoughts of other scholars in the Xianyang Academy, and asked Zhu Xiang to read and write them together to understand, preferably to scold people.

Zhu Xiang was helpless.

Could it be that after he wrote a scolding article, Xunzi would send it to other scholars? It's better to say goodbye, I'm not a real Confucian disciple, I'm really embarrassed to scold people.

Zhu Xiang forgot at this time that he even scolded Xunzi.

"Sure enough, I began to ignore practice and emphasize morality." Zhu Xiang sighed, "For today's scholars, they have already learned the six arts of a gentleman before entering school, so they can indeed learn the arithmetic and other courses I have set. Therefore, the teachers of Xianyang Academy think that it is more important to correct morality, and it is understandable. ”

But it's just excusable, Zhu Xiang doesn't approve of it.

Zhu Xiang had a private discussion with the King of Qin and Zichu this time, talked about his worries about the cultivation of officials, and changed the negative examples of his later generations who only paid attention to the scriptures and righteousness and did not understand general affairs to a small country in the Spring and Autumn Period and told them to the King of Qin and Zichu.

There are now many orientalists in Qin. Confucianism is a prominent study in the East, and it has overtaken the Mohists, who originally stood side by side with them, and has almost become the only thought.

Therefore, the Xianyang School Palace gradually became Confucian-dominated, and there was no way to do it.

However, the Qin State was founded on the Legalist doctrine, and after unification, it should merge the strengths of the hundred schools of thought, rather than let one family dominate.

Qin Wangzhu looked at Zhu Xiang with a very strange look at him at that time.

Although he knew that everything Zhu Xiang said was for the good of Qin Guo, he really wanted to tell Xunzi these words. I don't know if Xunzi will expel Zhu Xiang from the division after hearing this.

Zi Chu looked at his monarch's father's expression and was very worried.

The monarch's father is indeed not suspicious of Zhu Xiang, and he will not use some means of checks and balances. But there are no checks and balances, which does not mean that the monarch's father does not want to see Zhu Xiang deflated.

Father Jun just wanted to see Zhu Xiang's jokes.

But can this kind of joke be watched? What if Xunzi and Zhu Xiang really turn against each other?

Zi Chu is not good at directly persuading Qin Wangzhu, because Qin Wangzhu has not yet indicated that he wants to sue. He could only go back to Cai Ze and Lin Zhen to discuss countermeasures.

He, the prince, is really tired. Doesn't it matter whether the monarch is suspicious of the crown prince or not, the prince must be inherently hostile to the monarch?

Although Qin Wangzhu had a little thought of watching Zhu Xiang's jokes, he also seriously thought about Zhu Xiang's exhortation.

The first time that the Qin State established the Xianyang Academy Palace, it was also the first time to see the grand occasion of the scholars of the Six Kingdoms entering the Qin State.

Even if Qin Wangzhu was reflecting on it at all times, he couldn't help but flutter and ignore some problems.

The monarch of Qin should not be immersed in the illusion of praise of "benevolence" created by orientalist scholars. Every Qin monarch is a cold interest creature and a dictatorial king.

He should not and cannot be confused by a certain school of doctrine, not Legalism, nor Confucianism.

The Qin State will unify the world, so naturally it should also hold the world's doctrines in its arms and integrate them for its own use.

In the process of integration, the Qin State must stick to its own bottom line. And the bottom line is that both scholars and officials must be used by the Qin State and be able to contribute to the Qin State.

Therefore, paying attention to practice is something that the Qin State must adhere to from the past to the future.

Even if Qin Wangzhu didn't directly change the curriculum of the Xianyang Academy, he should also change the subjects for selecting talents from the Xianyang Academy, focusing on laws and agricultural warfare.

Zhu Xiang originally wanted to say that it should also be supplemented by handicrafts and commerce. But he didn't tell Qin Wangzhu in the end, only told Zichu in private.

When the Qin State unifies the world and does not need to send so many troops, it needs to pay more attention to the people's livelihood. Commerce and handicrafts are also important aspects of improving people's livelihoods.

Zichu said helplessly: "I know. But that was after the Qin State unified the world, do you think I can live until the Qin State unifies the world? ”

Zi Chu was just half-joking, but Zhu Xiang's face immediately deteriorated, and Zi Chu was beaten down.

Zichu no longer dared to mention that he would not live to unify the world of Qin, and repeatedly promised that he would be the "First Emperor of Qin" and let Zheng'er be the "Second Emperor of Qin".

Zhu Xiang proposed: "Qin II is really not good. Or continue the temple name or something. You are Qin Gaozu, and Zheng'er is Qin Taizong. You see, that's a good name. ”

Zi Chu repeatedly praised Zhu Xianghui for taking the name, completely ignoring that Gaozu and Taizong have had it since the Shang Dynasty.

Ying Xiaozheng, who was far away in Wu County, shuddered, and always felt that his uncle was speaking ill of him.

After Ying Xiaozheng complained, Xue Ji nodded and said, "If anyone talks about you, it should be only your uncle." ”

Ying Xiaozheng said: "That's right! Uncle is the worst! ”

Yukihime smiled.