In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States without women

Just when all the scholars were applauding, there was a cold snort at this time, and a rather sarcastic voice said: "You dare to call goodness after boasting, and I am ashamed of you."

These words made the crowd who were still cheering just now quiet down. Mr. Duanmu frowned slightly, but he still said politely: "This gentleman thinks what I said is wrong?"

That scholar was very arrogant. The other scholars spoke after the case. This scholar got up, went to the hall, saluted all the scholars, and said: "I think that what you said, sir, is not realistic at all. .”

As soon as the scholar walked to the middle of the main hall, Gu Zhucun, who had been sitting quietly with Xia Yu listening to the debates of the scholars all over the world, let out a "Hey", making Xia Yu look sideways, seeing a strange look on Gu Zhucun's face , couldn't help whispering: "What's wrong?"

Gu Zhucun also said to Xia Yu in a low voice: "I saw this person at Shen Zili's residence? It seems to be Shen Zili's retainer."

Xia Yu frowned slightly and said, "What is Shen Zili's intention in letting his disciples end the debate?"

Gu Zhu Cun said: "It may not have any intentions. I have known Shen Zili for a long time, and I know that he is quite proud of what he has learned, and he is very disdainful of the Confucianism that is popular in the world today. To refute, today the Jin State invites scholars from all over the world to argue and debate, which is a good opportunity to promote their own theories. From the residence, I heard that he trained an eloquent disciple in his residence, with the intention of using what he learned at home to dampen the spirit of the Confucianism on top of the contention and chaos."

Xia Yu glanced at the people in the palace at this time, and said, "Is this the person?"

Gu Zhu Cun'a said: "It looks like this person."

At this time, the scholar went to the middle of the main hall to salute, and Mr. Duanmu returned the salute, saying: "Why did you say that? The scholar thinks that rituals and music cannot be restored..."

Before Mr. Duanmu finished speaking, the scholar interrupted very rudely: "I don't want to discuss with you about etiquette and music, and I don't want to argue with other scholars about inaction, and I don't want to discuss about yin and yang. Five Elements, I just want to say that what you say, especially what you Confucianists say, is all empty talk and useless!"

Mr. Duanmu frowned tightly, but he didn't speak. Obviously, although he was displeased with the other party's rudeness, he still wanted to wait for the other party to explain his point of view before refuting it.

The scholar said: "You Confucian disciple, no, all the scholars here keep saying that the past is better than the present, and the scholar who talked about Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang just now is not enough to admire, also keeps saying that the more ancient the better, the more recent The earlier the ancient times, I would like to ask all of you, what happened hundreds of years ago in this world may not be clear. What happened during the time of Huangdi Yandi, Yao, Shun and Yutang, who has seen it with his own eyes? Whether it is good or not, who knows? !?"

This remark made all the scholars dumbfounded, because no matter how they debated, they all agreed that the world is in chaos today, and the rites and music are broken, which is not as good as in ancient times, but this scholar actually said frankly, "What happened in the time of Yao, Shun and Yutang, What is it like, good or bad, who knows!?"

A student of Mr. Duanmu couldn't bear it. Although he knew that it would be rude to speak past the teacher, he really couldn't understand the arrogance of this scholar, and said: "Things from ancient times, although I haven't seen it personally, but it has been passed down by word of mouth..."

This sentence was interrupted by the scholar again: "I remember that Confucius once said: 'Those who believe in the eyes, but the eyes are still untrustworthy', and those who see it are still untrustworthy. The things that happened thousands of years ago have been passed down by word of mouth until now. Do you know it's fake?"

This scholar who was born as a disciple of Shen Zili used Confucius' words to block the disciples of Confucius, and blocked the disciple of Mr. Duanmu so much that he almost choked.

Seeing that the opponent was unable to fight back, Shen Zili sneered, and continued: "Once upon a time, there was a farmer in the Song Dynasty who was farming in the field. He saw a rabbit running by and bumped its head against a tree stump, knocking him unconscious. This Song Dynasty The farmer in the Song Dynasty picked up the rabbit and went home. The farmer in the Song Dynasty thought: This is great, I will wait here for the rabbit without planting the land. The sky didn’t come, never came, and then he starved to death.”

As soon as the story was told, everyone laughed, even the monarch who was listening to the debate on the high seat laughed, but the monarch of Song Dynasty was a little bit unkind, thinking: You are so rude, why should you use a fool as an example? Be sure to say that this person is from Song Dynasty.

Shen Zi left the door and said: "You guys, don't laugh at those Song people who are waiting for a rabbit. You advocate going back to ancient times. The guys from the time of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors Yao, Shun and Yu Tang are all Song people who are waiting for a rabbit!"

This sentence choked everyone who was still laughing.

Shen Zili's guest scholar said: "No one knows what happened in the past. In the past, Yao, Shun and Yu Tang were really good or not, and no one has seen it with their own eyes. Since it is not clear whether it is true or not, why bother with it?" Those illusory things, people should keep pace with the times, and to solve the problems of today's world, we must base ourselves on the present."

Mr. Duanmu listened to this crazy scholar for a long time, and finally opened his mouth, saying: "What the scholar said is not unreasonable. We praise the sages in order to solve the problems of today's world."

Shen Zili said, "How to solve it? Revive ritual and music? Let me tell you, the so-called revival of ritual and music is useless! Your Confucianism advocates benevolence and love and enlightenment, but does it work? It's useless!"

Mr. Duanmu frowned. To be honest, he is not afraid of someone who disagrees with him. The key point is that the person in front of him not only disagrees with him, but also is very rude. The scholar said, if rituals and music are useless, and benevolence is useless, then what is the use.”

Shen Zi left the door and said: "Troubled times should be punished with severe punishment! You Confucian disciples love etiquette all day long, but those thieves and criminals can kill people as usual. Is it useful for you to use love with them!? It's useless! But you tell him with a knife, you If you commit a crime, the criminal law stipulates that you will cut off your hands and your head, and see if he dares to commit a crime! People dare not commit crimes, and chaos will be brought to an end.”

Mr. Duanmu got a little angry. Confucianism always advertises to be kind to the people, but this scholar wants to kill the people. How can Mr. Duanmu not be disgusted, and said: "If you don't do benevolence and righteousness, the criminal law of killing is the most important thing, don't you have no shame?" ?”

Shen Zi left the door and said: "Shame? What kind of method are we talking about? In today's world, only heavy codes can be effective."

Mr. Duanmu said angrily: "If you are a common people, do you like a country that only knows punishment and killing or a country that is honest and benevolent? If a country is governed by punishment and killing, then the people of this country will defect!"

Shen Zilimen laughed loudly, and said: "I don't know if a country that governs the country by Xing kills the people will defect, but I know that if a country only knows benevolence and righteousness, it will surely perish! Let me give you an example, once in your country of Lu there was a person who Every time he fought, he sneaked away. Others charged him forward and ran backwards. As a result, the military judge arrested the soldier and ordered him to be punished by the marching law. The soldier explained that I still have an old father at home. Father, I didn’t dare to die so I didn’t try my best. The result? Lu Guo praised him, Kong Qiu also praised him, and recommended him to be an official.

Lords, please imagine, if every soldier sneaked away from the war when the country was in trouble, was praised by the Confucians, and could still be an official, would there still be people who would rush forward to defend the country when the country was in crisis? ?It can be seen that the way of benevolence and love mentioned by Confucianism is fundamentally harmful to the country. If a person is kind and filial to his family and parents, he must not be loyal to the country! "

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the monarchs on the high platform were all solemn. To be honest, these monarchs came here to listen to the debates of the world's scholars, and they didn't take it very seriously. But Shen Zili's words and deeds of benevolence and righteousness seem to be harmful to their country, but they listened to them. After all, Shen Zili's examples are very reasonable.

Including Zhao Zhifu, who had always had a deep complexion, his brows twitched.

Mr. Duanmu was also froze by this example, and couldn't say anything against it for a while.

When Shen Zili saw that all the great scholars in the world were being suppressed by him, his tail almost went up to the sky, and he triumphantly poured out all the things that Shen Zili had asked him to memorize in advance, and said: "Mr. The straight minister of the father is the violent son of the father; the filial son of the father is the betrayal of the king. Loyalty and filial piety are inseparable. Confucianism establishes benevolence with filial piety, establishes virtue with benevolence, governs the country with virtue, and governs the world with the family. Does it work? It doesn't work!

In today's world, if you want to be successful, there are actually only two things, rewards and punishments, or punishments and virtues.What is punishment?Killing also, punishment also.What is virtue is not the virtues and morality mentioned by the Confucianism, but the benefits, that is, rewards, lures..."

Before the words were finished, only a chuckle came, which made Shen Zili's door guest furious, who was talking excitedly, and said, "Who is laughing at me?"

I saw one of the scholars coming out more and more, and also went to the hall, saluted, and said, "I laugh at you."

Shen Zili was very angry at the guest, but now when he saw the laughing man approaching, he was not angry anymore.

Why are you not angry anymore?

Because the person who laughed at him was so good-looking, Shen Zili only felt that the people he had seen in his life were not as good as the ones in front of him, so he was stunned for a while, and he came back to his senses after a while, stuttering: " You...why are you laughing at me?"

Before the very good-looking man opened his mouth to answer the extremely stupid question, two of the Jin ministers almost jumped up, and they were Kong Wei and Shen Zili.

Kong Wei is a military general of the Jin State. On the highest platform of the Jin State sits the monarchs of other countries. From a distance, in the middle of the hall, which is one step lower than the high platform where the kings of various countries and the officials of the Jin Kingdom sit, is that very good-looking person the one he thought?

Kong Wei thought to himself that it was three years ago that he met that person. Seeing that this person seemed to have grown taller and lost baby fat, he felt a bit reborn. If this person was still a bit immature before, now On the contrary, he is full of romance and beauty, as bright as a jade tree facing the wind, and he is already an adult, which makes Kong Wei a bit afraid to admit it.

Slightly hesitant, Kong Wei immediately thought that Shen Zili had also seen that person, so he looked to Shen Zili to verify, only to see that Shen Zili was also staring at the person in the lower hall, his face full of surprise.

At this time, the person who was stared at by Kong Wei and Shen Zili looked at the scholar from Shen Zili's family with a smile on his face, but his eyes were full of coldness, and said, "I laugh at you more than Confucianism." Disciples are even more ridiculous and unrealistic. Everyone who has made a difference in the world knows about rewards and punishments. Rewards and punishments, oh, are the things you said about punishment and morality. They are the foundation of a military strategist, as long as they know how to fight , there are not many who are not proficient in making good use of rewards and punishments."

The man paused, looked up at the high platform, and said in a loud voice: "If it is clear how to reward and punish Xing De, then the world can be ruled, then Zhao Zhifu, who is in charge of the Jin Kingdom, has already helped the Jin Kingdom. The country is in decline!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the scholars were shocked, and the kings of all countries were astonished, but Zhao Zhifu, who had been staring at him like a stone, finally moved, lowered his head slightly, and looked at the scholar who dared to call him by his name openly.

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Many examples and opinions of Shenzi Limenke in this chapter come from "Han Feizi", which are not marked in the text, and are explained here.