The identity of my tenth emperor was exposed, and the aura recovered

Chapter 126 Confucianism and Taoism Debate
Liu Zhi, or Liu Che, who became the prince, formally accepted the teaching of the prince and Taifu. However, after being taught for a short time, the prince and Taifu and Liu Che were called over by the queen mother.

"Hey, grandma is here, come here!" The Queen Mother waved at Liu She, signaling Liu She to go to her side.

"Empress Dowager Sheng'an!" Prince Taifu bowed slightly when he saw the old lady coming here.

"You are here, Taifu?" The queen mother said softly, "Recently, what books have you taught the prince to read?"

"The old minister is just teaching the prince some principles of how to do things!" The prince and Taifu immediately replied.

"The reason for doing things?" The old lady was obviously dissatisfied with the Taifu's words, "No, you should teach the prince the principles of being an emperor--I said, 'Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish', everything can be done carelessly no!"

Then, the queen mother said directly: "Wei Wan, do you know what the emperor of our Han family is pursuing? And do you know what to do?"

"Chen Qianxue, don't dare to know!" Wei Wan replied like this.

Hearing Wei Wan's words, the old lady frowned slightly and said, "You should teach the prince to learn more from Lao Tzu, and read less useless miscellaneous books that confuse people's minds. Name, a small principle in the world, is not a big principle, and a status in the world is not an eternal status!"

"Queen Mother, Rong Chen think about it carefully!" Facing the aggressive old lady, Wei Wan had no choice but to adopt such procrastination tactics.

The old lady couldn't be satisfied with Wei Wan's answer, and she immediately turned cold and said, "This needs to be thought through carefully? If you don't even understand this, how can you teach the prince?"

Looking at Wei Wan who continued to remain silent, the old lady continued: "I heard that you have been teaching the prince to read those Confucian books such as "The Analects of Confucius" and "Book of Rites" recently-I don't like this kind of thing, old lady. , I, a great man, originally ruled the world with Huang Lao's inaction, and what I admire is Huang Lao's way, not Confucianism!"

As she said that, the old lady even complained about the emperor: "The emperor can choose you, a faint old man, as the grand tutor... If so, I will also arrange for the prince to teach him his knowledge in the near future!"

Then, without waiting for Wei Wan to answer, he directly made up his mind and said: "I think... let Ji An go to be the prince to wash the horses - this person is the son of a hero of the family, and he is meticulous in everything. Let him take care of the prince. I can trust it!"

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When the audience in front of the screen saw this scene, many people expressed their incomprehension.

"The emperor arranged for Wei Wan to be the prince and tutor. He had his own intentions. He couldn't harm his son or the future emperor of the big man, right? But now, what's the reason for this old lady to interfere?"

"This old lady is always so self-righteous, as if she is so awesome!"

"I always feel that this old lady has always liked to point fingers, and she doesn't have any compulsions in her heart!"

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The audience in front of the screen were complaining about the behavior of the old lady, but suddenly a big event happened on the screen...

"Reporting to the Queen Mother, Dou Ying asked to see the Queen Mother outside the palace. According to his report, Linjiang King Liu Rong unfortunately committed suicide in the lieutenant's office!" an internal servant reported.

"What? Liu Rong is dead? How did he die?" The old lady stood up from the bed in panic, "He...has he committed any crime?"

"It was a crime for occupying the Taimiao!" the servant reported.

"Brother Liu Rong is dead?" Liu Zhi...or Liu Che also yelled unacceptably.

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On the other side, in front of the screen, the audience seemed very calm about Liu Rong's death.

"Liu Rong is dead? It's expected! Now that Liu Zhi has become the prince, then Liu Rong, the former prince, seems too intrusive—even if Liu Zhi really doesn't want his Liu Rong My brother died, but for the stability of his position, there will always be someone who will help Liu Zhi solve Liu Rong's hidden danger!"

"Once Liu Rong dies, Liu Zhi's crown prince will be more secure. Naturally, the chance of Liu Zhi becoming the next emperor will also increase greatly!"

"Dongfang contestant's body of the third emperor... I guess it's done!"

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Time flies on the screen, and in the blink of an eye, the little carrot-headed prince Liu Zhi—that is, the current Liu Che—has grown up straight away!
All I could see was that on the screen, the emperor was yelling at Liu Che: "As a prince, don't study hard and wander around, what does it look like?"

Afterwards, the emperor summoned the two tutors who taught the prince to study: "It's just that I haven't asked him about his studies for a while, how can you two let him go like this?"

"Father!" Before the two grand tutors could answer, Liu Zhi dared to stand up and said, "My son is just walking in the garden alone because of the chaotic curriculum and conflicting teachings, and wants to think quietly. ..."

Before he finished speaking, the emperor looked at the prince he had chosen in disbelief and said, "What did you say?"

Regarding the disbelief of his father, Liu She said very sadly: "It is true that the Confucianism taught by Teacher Wei Wan to my son is contradictory to the theory of Lao Tzu that the Queen Mother asked Teacher Ji An to teach. My son is dull. , I don't know where to go..."

Then, Liu Zhi reminded his father "in good faith" and said: "My father usually teaches my son to respect teachers, but now... now I don't know which teacher I should obey..."

Liu Zhi's words immediately caused Wei Wan and Ji An to look at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.

Regarding his son's words, after thinking about it, the emperor directly threw this difficult question to Wei Wan, the prince's first tutor, and said, "Wei Wan, what do you think of this matter?"

Regarding the emperor's inquiry, Wei Wan still had the slightly indifferent expression: "The way is different... don't conspire with each other——I don't understand Lao Tzu, so I don't know what the contradiction is!"

After pondering for a while, the emperor stretched out his hand to signal Liu She and said, "Then, what are the contradictions?"

"Actually, Confucianism and Lao Xue are like water and fire. My grandmother wanted me to learn from Huang Lao, and Teacher Wei asked me to learn ritual education. Confucius said, 'Li is the foundation of a country', but Lao Tzu said, 'Li is the way. The skin of the skin, the head of chaos', Teacher Wei told me to learn to be smart, 'to be tireless in learning, to learn from time to time', to seek benevolence and goodness with wisdom, to know the truth in the morning, and to die at night is worth it, but Lao Tzu said, "In ancient times A person who is good at practicing the Way does not teach people to be smart, but to teach them to be simple. The reason why people are difficult to govern is because they have too much ingenuity. Govern the country with wisdom and ingenuity, so that the country will be happy. In this way, don’t people have to be as stupid as possible? Then what wisdom do I need to learn? Confucius said, “A gentleman’s government must be based on the use of talents.” , but Lao Tzu said, 'If you don't honor the virtuous, let the people not fight', what they advocate is the opposite!"

After hearing Liu She's words, the emperor immediately looked at Liu She's two teachers thoughtfully and said, "The question he mentioned is a big one. I think you two... can't say anything for a while, so let's do it. Tomorrow, from the Taichang Mansion, invite two learned men to talk about this issue, and you and I will go and listen... okay?"

Now that the emperor had asked in this way, the tutors of the two princes did not dare to refuse. Immediately, Wei Wan cupped his hands first and bowed: "Okay, my minister... let's make arrangements now!"

"It's all right now, the tip of the needle is facing the wheat awn, and the truth will come out!" Prince Liu Zhi nodded happily.

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In front of the screen, when the audience saw this scene, most of them showed expressions of great interest.

"Doctrine dispute? This must be interesting!"

"However... this guy Liu Zhi really has some skills - we don't know whether the quiet thinking he said before is true or not. If it is true, it means that he is indeed a sensitive and studious person, but if That's not the case, the quiet thinking is just a temporary nonsense, but even so, it can still trigger this incident... From this point of view, this kind of Liu Zhi seems to be a little more terrifying!"

"Is it scary? Isn't that what it should be? After all, his last two lives are Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shimin!"

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While the audience in front of the screen was discussing these things, the picture on the screen changed, and the next day's battle of scholars had already begun.

"Today I'm talking about university issues - I usually have so many things to do, and I don't have time to read more books by sages. Today is a good day. Listen to everyone's stories and speak freely!" The emperor said with great interest.

"Your Majesty!" Hearing the emperor's words, some scholars stood up and bowed their hands and said, "The origin of Huang-Lao's study can be traced back to the emperor, Yi Yin, the distant ancestors Pengzu, and Laozi. , Do not fight, follow the way of heaven, and rule the world with inaction——Since the founding of Emperor Gao, advocated by Marquis Zhang Liang and Prime Minister Chen Ping, the administration has always been based on the principle of everyone's inaction. , the legislation is to simplify the three chapters of the people, do not disturb the people, do not cause troubles, so that the people can rest and thrive, and all businesses prosper, so that our Han family has enjoyed peace for 50 years. , this cannot be changed easily, and change will lead to chaos!"

As soon as this person finished speaking, someone from the Confucian side immediately came forward and said: "Your Majesty, I think that this time and that time-after Emperor Gao experienced the great chaos, the sea was empty and people were restless. The policy had its own reasons at that time, but today's world can no longer be governed purely by inaction, this reason has already been said by the heroic figure of Emperor Gao..."

After looking around at the people present, the Confucian scholar continued: "After Emperor Gao won the world, the court system had not been established, and the monarchs and ministers were rude. Lu Jia suggested that Emperor Gao revitalize Confucianism and respect Confucius. Emperor Gao said, 'Your father is here. If you won the world immediately, what are you going to do with that?' Lu Jia asked, if you win the world immediately, can you also rule the world immediately? So Emperor Gao came to his senses and said, 'You are right', so he ordered Lu Jia , Shusun Tong, imitated the rough etiquette of Zhou, the sage said, "restrain oneself and restore the ritual, the world will return to benevolence", why did the chaos of the seven kings happen? It is because the country's laws and regulations are not established, the rituals are broken, and the father is not happy. No father, no ministers, no ruler—now that the world is stable and the feudal lords are weakened, it is a great time to make great efforts to govern, reform and change, and implement a great government!"

As soon as the people on the Confucian side finished speaking, someone from the Taoist side immediately came up and said, "Excuse me... what you call promising is to overthrow the policies that our ancestors have always left behind?"

"To be promising...is to renew the law!" The Confucian scholar explained seriously, "Promote the rites and respect the virtues, honor the sage king, and fight against the barbarians!"

When the Taoist scholars heard this, they immediately retorted: "If you change the ancient law without authorization and disrupt the foundation of the country, the world will definitely be in chaos!"

"Continuous change can make progress. In the past, Xia Jie was tyrannical, so Shang Tang raised a promising teacher and took his world. Later, Shang Zhou was tyrannical, and Zhou Wuwang Xing Youwei also took his world - ancient method There is good and there is evil, evil laws are not eradicated, and good laws are not established. The good laws of the past may become evil laws today. If the laws of Jie and Zhou are not broken, will the world still be ruled by Jie and Zhou today?" Confucian scholars began to present the facts, Be reasonable.

"No!" Among the Taoist scholars, someone stood up straight away, "Your example, Tang Wu's two examples are inappropriate-although Jie and Zhou are tyrannical, they are still the king, and Tang Wu, as a subject, sent troops to fight the national army. , it is a crime against the superior, a great treason!"

"In your opinion, what should Tang Wu do?" Someone stood up and asked the Taoist scholar.

"My Taoist school advocates making the most of the situation and conforming to the way of heaven. No matter how old the hat is, it must be worn on the head, and no matter how new the shoes are, they can only be worn on the feet. This is called... the difference between upper and lower!" Taoist scholars warned those Confucian scholars said, "The way of destiny must be respected..."

"Then, Dr. Huang, when the King of Qin was tyrannical, I raised troops against Emperor Gao to punish King Qin's tyranny...does this also violate the destiny?" The Confucian scholar began to be aggressive, "Could it be wrong for Gao Zu to raise troops? Could it be that today, we should obey the fate of the Qin Dynasty?"

"You...you you you you you...you..."

Hearing what this person said, the Taoist scholar couldn't help pointing at the Confucian scholar desperately, saying,

"How dare you talk about the affairs of this dynasty?"

Regarding this person's words, the Confucian scholar didn't even show the slightest strange expression. All he had to do was to take this opportunity to pursue the victory and say: "Emperor Gaozu raised troops to overthrow the tyranny of King Qin, and he did a great job." For the revolution, this created the great cause of the Han family. Isn’t this a benevolent act that follows the heavens and responds to people? If it is, then why can’t the later kings continue to innovate and make a difference? As?"

"You...you you you you you...you..." The Taoist scholar who was being debated was speechless and didn't know what to say except for the word "you".

(End of this chapter)