Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 21: You and the merchant are like father and son? [First update, please collect and read]

"Are you the famous teacher that my father has found for me?"

The young child was sitting in the main hall, tilting his head slightly. He looked very cute, but his words were very direct and smelled of gunpowder.

"You and the merchant thief have the same love as father and son?"

Chen Ye just came in and saw Ying Si, and heard Ying Si's explosive words and direct words that were almost questioning.

The king and the merchant thief have the same affection as father and son?
  There are two key points in this sentence, at least that's how it sounds to Chen Ye. The first is that he is a business thief, and the second is that he has the same affection as father and son.

First, it shows that the prince Ying Si, at least at this stage, has already begun to dislike Shang Yang. He did not wait until his teacher and Gongsun Qian were humiliated in the future before he started to dislike Shang Yang.

Secondly, the word "similar father and son" is very interesting, and Chen Ye is even more curious about where Ying Si heard about the relationship between him and Shang Yang.

But Chen Ye's expression didn't change at all. He just walked slowly to Ying Si, with a look in his eyes that was almost as if he was looking at a junior or an ignorant child.

"Where did the prince hear this news?"

He shook his head slightly, with some peace in his expression. Chen Ye said without hesitation: "More than a month ago, I was a first-class citizen living in the Qin State, and even begged in the city. If I hadn't met the teacher, I'm afraid I would have lost my life at this time. I'm dead on the streets."

"So there is nothing wrong in the prince saying that my teacher and I have the same affection as father and son."

Ying Si was a little curious at this time. He looked at Chen Ye and asked with doubt and confusion: "Aren't you angry, sir?"

Chen Ye asked back: "Why are you angry?"

Ying Si said with the unique naughtiness of a child and a hint of pride: "You and Zuo Shu have a long-term relationship as father and son, but when you came in, I called Zuo Shu Chang a [merchant thief] and asked you whether you and Zuo Shu have the same relationship as father and son." , shouldn’t you be angry?”

Chen Ye shook his head slightly: "First of all, the prince is still a young child and does not understand much at this time. If someone speaks ill of the teacher in front of the prince, it is normal for the prince to naturally hate the teacher."

"Secondly, Prince, your opinion of the teacher is your opinion of the teacher, and my opinion of the teacher is my opinion of the teacher. I will not use my mental attitude to coerce other people, let alone force anything. One has to like another person."

"Even if this person is very important to me."

He looked at Ying Si as if he were a piece of wood: "So, I won't be angry because the prince called the teacher a [merchant thief]."

"And the relationship between me and the teacher is indeed like that of a father and son. The prince is just telling things, so why am I angry?"

Ying Si sat there, already a little sluggish.

Why do I feel like what the gentleman in front of me says makes sense, but something still feels a little wrong? But what's wrong?
  He was a little confused, and his eyes seemed to be spinning in circles.

Chen Ye looked at Ying Si, who was sitting there with a childlike look in his eyes from the beginning until now, and couldn't help but smile in his heart.

He had already asked Shang Yang before he came, and Shang Yang had met the prince.

And his evaluation of the prince was "intelligent" and "still childish". These two evaluation words together with the records in history immediately made Chen Ye know how to face Ying Si.

What is it to be smart but still childish?

Even though they are smart, they have not gotten rid of their childish nature. A naughty child who is naughty and childish but also smart is the best naughty child to teach, clean up, and make him feel that he is not to be trifled with.

He is also the naughty child that Chen Ye likes to deal with the most.

At this time, Chen Ye sat there, picked up the cup placed in front of him, and took a slight sip. There was honey water in the cup. He was certain that the child in front of him didn't know that he liked drinking honey water, so it could only be Ying Si's own preference, which further proved that Ying Si was a child's mentality.

After all, they were already prepared to scold him at the beginning of the meeting, but they still prepared the same thing for him.

Chen Ye's evaluation of Ying Si, in addition to [intelligent] and [childish], silently added [] in his heart.

In the main hall, one person was sluggish and another was drinking water. There was a rare quiet silence.

After a moment, Ying Si came out of his daze. He looked at Chen Ye who was leisurely and at ease in front of him, and couldn't help but said: "Since Mr. Jun asked you to be my teacher, what are you going to teach me? "

There was still a thorn in his words: "Is it possible that you want to teach me the new method that Shang Yang firmly practiced? Or is it the teaching of your Legalists?"

Chen Ye was still calm, and in his ears, these words were not considered harsh at all: "First of all, I have only stayed under the teacher for more than a month, and this does not include the time when I served as a commander, so I am not very clear about the teacher's current practices. What exactly is the new law?”

"Secondly, you are the prince and the future king, so you don't need to learn the specific content of the new law. You only need to know what the new law can bring to you and to the state of Qin. Whether the benefits it brings exceed those of the state of Qin. , as long as it exceeds the risk you need to bear.”

"In the end, I am not a qualified or a true Legalist disciple."

"My biggest relationship with Legalism is probably that my teacher is a leader of reform and a great sage of Legalism."

Ying Si sat there awkwardly. He felt like he had been punched into cotton and couldn't stretch his hand at all.

The various vocabulary, routines, and ideas on how to make this teacher leave in anger completely collapsed under Chen Ye's very calm and even friendly treatment. He was still just a child after all.

"Then, what are you going to teach me, sir?"

Ying Si's name for Chen Ye changed quietly, from you at the beginning to sir now.

Chen Ye naturally heard this change and couldn't help but smile again in his heart, he was still a child.

He looked at Ying Si: "What I teach the prince depends on what the prince wants to learn."

Chen Ye sat up straight at this time, and his aura suddenly rose.

Ying Si looked at Chen Ye. At this time, Chen Ye looked more like the great talent his father Jun said he had before. This momentum was a bit astonishing.

"Oh? Are you so confident, sir, that you can know everything I want to learn?"

Chen Ye seemed very confident in this aspect at this time, even a little arrogant: "Prince, just say so."

Ying Si stared at Chen Ye closely: "What if the disciple wants to learn Confucianism?"

Chen Ye nodded: "To provide benevolent government and to bring peace to the people, this is the meeting of ministers."

Ying Si frowned slightly: "I made a mistake. Actually, I wanted to say that I wanted to learn Mohist thought."

Chen Ye continued to nod: "Select talents and appoint capable people, love all without attacking, this Taoist minister can also do it."

Ying Si's eyebrows almost knotted: "Then, what exactly do you want to teach your disciples?"

"You are a teacher, do you still want me as a disciple to choose?"

(End of this chapter)