The night is getting darker, and the song is over.

The Taifu Mansion, which had been noisy all day, finally returned to tranquility at the time of the first shift.

In the Qianyuan, that is, in the garden at the front of the Taifu Mansion, the Junshou Pavilion where Liu Xing lives is still brightly lit.

Sitting in the lobby of this attic, Liu Xing first looked at Zong Ze on the left, and then at Hu Anguo on the right. No one spoke, just stared at the man standing in the lobby with his head down.

After a moment of silence, it was finally Liu Xing who spoke first to break the deathly silence.

"Wu begs to buy that old man and now wants to make peace, Gao Qingyi, don't you think the Jurchens are really funny?" As soon as he opened his mouth, Liu Xing said such a sentence to the man with a sneering face.

Gao Qing, an envoy sent by the Jin State, and an envoy who came to plead with Liu Xing to ask for an armistice between the two sides and negotiate peace.

Hearing Liu Xing's words, Gao Qingyi lowered his head and rolled his eyes, but he did not answer immediately.

The reason why he didn't answer was actually very simple, because this Gao Qingyi, like everyone today, also knew very well that under the current situation, after the reversal of the strength of the Song and Jin sides, the Jin State had actually lost the confidence of peace talks.

However, as a Han and a person who knows the internal affairs of the Han and Jurchen races, Gao Qingyi still has a glimmer of hope for the armistice and peace talks between the two sides.

Where is his hope? When he lowered his head slightly and thought for a moment, the person he looked at explained where his hope was, and he looked at Hu Anguo, who was sitting on Liu Xing's right hand.

Why did Gao Qingyi look at Hu Anguo? That's because he knew that Hu Anguo was a Confucian leader, and he was a person who often emphasized the basic rules of Confucianism.

Mencius taught Confucian scholars to put benevolence and righteousness first in everything, and advocated benevolent government to govern the country.

Mencius not only hated war, but valued the legitimacy of war, so he would say, "Levy it is the right word."

Mencius's discussion of the justification of war mainly includes the following points: First. The purpose of war cannot be to pursue one's own selfish interests. In order to expand the land, fight for the city and the people. Against the war of "cannibalism for the sake of land".

It was precisely because Mr. Meng Lao saw that most of the wars between countries at that time originated from the greed and selfish desires of the monarch, that he attached great importance to the "distinction between righteousness and benefit" and shouted "why bother to say profit"?

The sage was concerned about the distinction between righteousness and interest generally between the monarch and the minister, the sage opposed the courtiers to lobby the monarch with "profit", the essence of which was to oppose the monarch to expand his own selfish desires and be insatiable, the monarch's greatest desire is not in the beauty of food and clothing, the support of wives and concubines, but in the hegemony of the world, such greed and self-interest will inevitably lead to endless wars.

That old man Meng despised "profit", but it definitely did not mean that his protégés and Confucian scholars were all pedantic masters who neglected their personal interests as later generations imagined. In fact, the "benefit" that Mencius opposed was mainly the great benefit of the king.

Mr. Mencius once cited Confucius's crusade against Ran Qiu, who sought wealth for the Ji family, as an example, and pointed out that if you do not practice benevolent government and blindly pursue selfish interests, it is a betrayal of Confucius, and if you do not hesitate to start a war to kill the people for the sake of land, it is a great crime.

Second, Mencius at that time advocated that a benevolent state of heavenly officials could crusade against perverse monarchs.

It should be noted, however, that Mencius's crusade against the kingdom of heavenly officials has two legitimate premises: the first premise is that Mencius believed that the target of the crusade was actually those perverse monarchs and not to wage war against a country and its civilians, so the old Mencius said that he should "stop it." On the contrary, it is a heavy weapon, and it seeks to swallow the public. Leave it to the king".

And now? Wu Qimai wanted peace talks, and did not want the Song and Jin countries to continue to fight. Because of the continued fighting, the Jin State could only be civilians who were all conscripted as soldiers to block the attack of the royal division led by Yang Yizhong and the Great Song Dynasty.

As soon as he saw Liu Xing, Gao Qingyi first told the Jin State that "the army is almost exhausted, and most of the people who are going to Jinzhou today are civil husbands" as the "sincerity" of the peace talks.

However, his "sincerity" was actually a hole he dug for Hu Anguo when Liu Xing opposed the peace talks......

In this pit, of course, there is another reason for Gao Qingyi's sent, that is, Old Man Meng's second point of view: the country itself that seeks perverse offenders must practice benevolent governance in internal affairs, otherwise it will be punished with a curse.

The point of advocating that the benevolent are invincible and that "those who do not kill people can be one" is to warn the ruler to implement benevolent government, not to pursue invincibility or the unification of the world, but first of all, to require the monarch to be benevolent and make the people in his country live and work in peace and contentment.

That's why Mr. Meng said, "The king does not go to the Tao, does not aspire to benevolence, but seeks to fight for it, and it is the auxiliary to listen to his later protégés, and let his later generations of protégés try their best to persuade the king not to be a tyrant, so that his protégés and descendants will not be used as a tyrant like Xia Ji......

Liu Xing's new law is indeed allowing the people of the Northern Dynasties to quickly rush to a prosperous life, and it seems to be thriving and advancing with the times. In fact, as long as there is a war, people will die, and as long as there is a war, it will consume the country's financial resources and affect the people's livelihood.

After Gao Qingyi's "sincerity", he also said this point as a kind of "helplessness" as a kind of "helplessness" that no one can deny.

Gao Qingyi is a Han Chinese, a descendant of the Gao family in Bohai. Regarding Confucius and Mencius, he is also a person who has studied hard since he was a child and has been in the cold for ten years.

He knew these very well, so he naturally wanted to use a "sincerity" and a "helplessness" to dig a pit and wait for Hu Anguo to jump in, and he pinned his hopes on Mr. Hu Anguo, who was also the inheritor of Confucianism......

So will Hu Anguo and Mr. Hu jump into this pit, and when Liu Xing has made it clear that he will not cease war and peace talks, does he have the courage to dive into the fire pit and for the teachings of the so-called sage teacher?

The answer was soon revealed, and when Gao Qingyi looked at him for the third time, Mr. Hu Anguo looked sideways at Liu Xing and said: "Okay, the Jurchens have no soldiers to fight, and they are willing to negotiate peace with our court." I thought you should follow the teachings of the sages, and stop in moderation. To subdue the barbarians with benevolence and righteousness, and to suppress Hu Di with righteousness, in order to make the world return to peace, the top of the election! ”

From the moment Gao Qingyi threw out "sincerity" and "helplessness", Liu Xing had already guessed from his eyes that the guy wanted to pull Mr. Hu, who would never and would not dare to forget the teachings of the so-called sages, into the water.

Now that Mr. Hu has really moved out of Xianzhe, Liu Xing smiled coldly and said: "If the Jurchens really have no soldiers to fight, then what are the 50,000 people in the northwest of Goryeo?" If the Jurchens really thought that the people who went into battle were people's husbands, then what were the 80,000 people in the Changbai Mountain Demon Palace? If Wu Qimai is really exhausted, he shouldn't be so empty and vernacular to send a nominal Xijing to stay behind and negotiate peace with me. (To be continued.) )