Chapter 20: Daily Life in Gongxue (2)
Mencius said: "Those who pretend to be benevolent with strength will be hegemonic, and there must be a big country; The king who is benevolent with virtue does not wait for the great. The soup is seventy miles, and the king of Wen is a hundred miles. Those who convince others with their strength are not convinced, and they are not supported by their strength; Those who convince people with virtue will be happy and sincere in the center, such as Confucius in the service of the seventy sons. ”
Today's lecturer, Mr. Zhang, talks about today's topic in class.
I have to say that this is a very important lesson today, the purpose of which is to teach the princes which is higher or lower between "domineering" and "royal way", which may affect the foundation of the entire Great Wei in the future.
It's a pity that Zhao Hongrun is not interested in this at all.
He looked at the empty classroom, and finally understood why there were only the three princes in the palace today, and he couldn't see those princesses.
"It's so sad......
Zhao Hongrun sighed gloomily.
Who would have thought that the things they imagined about the princes embracing each other and enjoying the blessings of all the people did not exist in reality at all, and the reality that the princes who had not left the cabinet faced every day was that they were surrounded by a group of five big and three rough guards, or a group of young and handsome little eunuchs, and they rarely had access to young palace maids.
Although the princesses in the palace school are pure and spiritual, they are princesses after all, half-sisters and sisters.
Except for the mother concubine, the only person who can be contacted is the half-princess, which is really a sad story.
What's even sadder is that Zhao Hongrun, who is fourteen years old, once unconsciously regarded a princess as something in his dream, and when he woke up, he was in a mess.
From then on, Zhao Hongrun decided never to come to Gongxue again, because this place was simply a place of purgatory-like torment.
He's going to get out of the cabinet!
Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet! Out of the cabinet!
He felt that in order for his normal physiological outlook not to be distorted, he had to leave the cabinet immediately, or else he would ...... One bad thing or another can happen.
"...... the cloud of "poetry": 'From the west to the east, from the south to the north, without thinking or convincing.' That's right. ”
The lecturer who taught the class, Mr. Zhang, held the scroll in his right hand, and slowly walked to the three princes while reading, and glanced at Zhao Hongrun sideways.
"Humph!"
Bachelor Zhang snorted coldly in his heart, and suddenly the scroll in his hand gently patted the shoulder of the sixth prince, Zhao Hongzhao, and asked with a pleasant face: "What is the 'royal road'?" ”
Zhao Hongzhao replied: "The monarch rules the world with benevolence and righteousness, appeases the subjects with virtue and politics, and is unbiased and non-party, which is said to be a royal road." ”
Bachelor Zhang nodded: "What is 'domineering'?" ”
"Bullying the weak with force, fighting with force, establishing the country with force, and ruling the state with force."
Bachelor Zhang thought for a moment, nodded and praised: "Good summary." …… So what is the "way of heaven"? ”
"Not for Yao, not for death, it is called the way of heaven." Zhao Hongzhao replied calmly.
"Good!" Mr. Zhang nodded with satisfaction, and sighed in his heart, this son is really rare.
After sighing for a while, Bachelor Zhang looked at Zhao Hongrun.
It is not difficult to see that the way he looked at Zhao Hongrun was very different from that of Zhao Hongzhao, and there seemed to be a bit of reluctance hidden in his expression.
"Are you reluctant? I'm not willing to do it!'
Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes.
Indeed, in the eyes of this Bachelor Zhang, this eighth prince Zhao Hongrun is undoubtedly quite an eyesore, but there is no way, this son is a prince after all, and he still has to teach what he should teach, no matter whether this stubborn prince listens or not.
"What is the royal road?" Mr. Zhang asked.
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Bachelor Zhang a few times, suddenly smiled weirdly, and said, "If you are disobedient, kill it!" ”
"Ridiculous!" Mr. Zhang almost jumped to his feet: "What is domineering? ”
"Kill those who are obedient!"
"You...... What is the Way of Heaven? ”
"While killing, shouting 'Heaven Damn Zhi'."
“…… What is the Confucian Way? ”
"Tell the other person before you kill."
“…… What is Deneb Deneb? ”
"If I want you to die, you must die!"
Listening to this absolutely unconventional answer, Mr. Zhang trembled angrily: "Treacherous theory! Treacherous! …… I want to present it to Your Majesty! ”
Saying that, this Bachelor Zhang couldn't care about continuing to teach, so he left the three princes and wrote a fold to the Son of Heaven to cry to the Eighth Prince Zhao Hongrun's distorted sage theory.
"Hongrun, you are ......," Zhao Hongzhao shook his head with a little cry and laughter.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Hongrun asked the Sixth Emperor Brother in turn: "I said something wrong?" ”
Seeing his expression, Zhao Hongzhao thought about it carefully, and suddenly found that what this Eighth Emperor Brother said was really reasonable, but this reason was extremely straightforward, and the layer of rhetoric used to hide the truth was stripped away.
"This summary is more incisive than the foolish brother......"
Next to him, Zhao Hongxuan, the Nine Emperor Princes, said a little unhappily: "Brother, why did you make Master Zhang angry?" I still want to learn the royal way! ”
"What's so much to learn from such pedantic rhetoric? The more you learn, the more stupid you get. If you want to learn real skills, you have to find those adults in the court...... You have to remember that the value of experience is far greater than rhetoric. Let's go, let's eat. ”
"Okay. …… Eating in the palace school? ”
"There's no way, my brother has been short of money lately, if it weren't for the food, he wouldn't have come today." As he spoke, Zhao Hongrun turned his head to look at Zhao Hongzhao, the Sixth Emperor Brother, and he felt that this Sixth Emperor Brother was a brother who could be deeply acquainted.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongzhao was slightly stunned, but he was a little happy in his heart, he didn't expect this eighth brother to invite him.
The three of them left the palace school class together.
"By the way, Sixth Brother, are your calligraphy and paintings very valuable?"
During this period, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but ask.
"That's what it says...... Hongrun: What do you mean by this? ”
Zhao Hongzhao, the sixth prince, suddenly felt that the eighth brother's purpose of befriending him seemed to be a little impure.
"Oh, just ask, ask ......"
Zhao Hongrun didn't care about haha, but he was thinking in his heart, how to find a way to get a few calligraphy and paintings from the hands of this Sixth Emperor Brother, after all, he was really embarrassed these days.
The three of them gradually walked away.
An hour later, he had a lunch in the palace school, and Zhao Hongrun was not interested in participating in the afternoon class, after all, his "pit father" plan had not yet been achieved.
At the same time that Zhao Hongrun continued to pit his father's plan, the palace scholar Zhang had already written his conversation with Zhao Hongrun today, and asked a little eunuch in the palace to send it to the vertical arch hall, and he indignantly criticized the treacherous and crooked theory of the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun in the chapter fold, but this chapter fold made the Great Wei Tianzi laugh.
"That rebel son did another good thing in Gongxue today!"
Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, recounted the matter in a mocking tone, and passed the chapter fold of the scholar Zhang to the hands of the three ministers of Zhongshu.
I have to say that Zhao Hongrun's strange and novel remarks made the three Chinese ministers laugh.
After a long time, Lin Yuyang, the left secretary of the Chinese book, sighed with emotion: "Although it is not in the middle, it is not far away...... Although His Royal Highness's words were rough, they were true. ”
"Didn't Bachelor Zhang ask His Royal Highness the Eighth Highness which is better between the royal road and the domineering way?" Yu Ziqi, the right of the Chinese book, looked at this chapter and faintly felt a sense of eating the marrow and knowing the taste, and he couldn't wait to have an in-depth discussion with Zhao Hongrun.
"It is said that he left in a huff before he could ask." The great eunuch Tong Xian explained with a smile on the side.
"It's a shame." Yu Ziqi showed regret on his face.
Listening to Yu Ziqi's words, the Great Wei Tianzi couldn't help but think deeply: "The three Aiqing think that which is higher or lower is the royal road and the domineering? ”
It is related to the foundation of the founding of the Great Wei, and it is not easy for the three Zhongshu ministers to speak rashly.
For a long time, Zhongshu Ling He Xiangxu said in a rare serious tone: "The domineering imperial kingdom is not long, and the royal kingdom does not exist." To rule the people with the king's way, to reject foreign countries with hegemony, to rule by force as the skin, to rule by culture as the bone, this is the dynasty of eternity! "Why is wansheng a sensitive word? 】
The Great Wei Tianzi nodded thoughtfully, in fact, he knew in his heart that the so-called royal road in the way of Confucius and Mencius was not suitable for use in the troubled times at all, there was no force, there was no benevolence, what was the use of this? Could it be that Confucius and Mencius said that they could resist 100,000 soldiers from foreign countries?
Sometimes, the emperor should be biased towards domineering, just like the seemingly ridiculous remarks of the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun.
For those who obey the emperor, favors, rewards, and peace should be given, such as the people and courtiers in the country, they should be rewarded, so that there will be no resentment; As for hostile foreign states, it is necessary to make friends (crusade) at the same time, and establish the prestige of a strong country, so as to gain a foothold in this colorful and troubled world.
To sum it up, it is eight words, those who follow me prosper, and those who go against me die!
This is the way of the emperor!
In contrast, the remarks of Zhao Hongzhao, the sixth prince who was frequently praised by Master Zhang in the chapter, seemed to be biased towards the way of the Holy King of Yao Shun, which was simply too idealistic and not suitable for today's current situation.
"By the way, how can His Royal Highness the Eighth have the leisure to go to the palace to listen to the lectures today?"
Lin Yuyang felt a little incredible.
The Great Wei Tianzi laughed secretly when he heard this, but he heard that yesterday Concubine Shen Shu called the rebel to the Ningxiang Palace, raised his face, and reprimanded him fiercely, which made him feel very comfortable.
"Fight with me? I'm your son!'
The Great Wei Tianzi was in a good mood. He thought that Zhao Hongrun should not have the courage to go to Ningxiang Palace again these days, so that his life would be more and more embarrassing. Maybe when I can't bear it anymore, I will obediently admit my mistake in front of him.
Visioning the scene of the inferior son kowtowing in front of him and admitting his mistakes, the Great Wei Tianzi had even considered in advance what to say to persuade and admonish this stubborn son.
Unexpectedly, a little eunuch's panicked report not only interrupted the conjecture of the Son of Heaven, but also disturbed his good mood.
"No, it's not good, Your Majesty, His Royal Highness and Liu Shuyi quarreled in the 'Fangxin Palace'......"
“……”
In the Vertical Arch Hall, whether it was the Great Wei Emperor or the three Zhongshu ministers, they all frowned in unison.
"Chen Shuyi is Liu Shuyi again? What's going on?'