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

Chapter 22 Class Theory [Second update, please collect and read]

Chen Ye still looked at Ying Si calmly, and when Ying Si was almost angry, he said calmly: "Whether it is Confucianism or Mohism, whether it is Legalism or Taoism, whether it is Yin Yang Family or Politician, they are all just the same family. Tools."

"A tool for governing the nation."

"The reason I'm good at them is because I'm good at something else."

"In the end, these are just inferences."

Ying Si felt a little curious out of thin air. He leaned forward and his eyes were full of curiosity: "Oh?"

"What is it?"

Chen Ye put down the cup in his hand and looked at Ying Si equally: "How to be a qualified king."

Ying Si was stunned.

How to be a qualified monarch?

His body retreated involuntarily, and all the curiosity in his expression disappeared as if it had never appeared before.

"What do you mean by that, sir?"

Chen Ye smiled slightly and raised his brows: "What does the prince think I mean?"

Ying Si was silent and just sat there. He was still just a child after all, but he was also a smart child after all. He didn't know what Chen Ye meant, let alone what Chen Ye wanted to do.

His intelligence is revealed in his relationships with others, and the breakthrough point that Chen Ye made was exactly the opposite of him.

At this time, Ying Si showed his instinct and excellent talent: "How could the disciple know?"

Ying Si claimed to be his disciple and claimed not to know, but his eyes were fixed on Chen Ye in front of him. His next words were almost calm and indifferent: "Sir, please teach me how to be a qualified king. But I don’t think I need sir to teach me this, right?”

"Do you think, sir, that my father is not a qualified monarch?"

Chen Ye said calmly: "Your Majesty is naturally a qualified monarch, and a very outstanding monarch. Among all the countries in the world today, there are very few who can compare with the monarch."

Ying Si leaned forward again: "Sir, why do you think that my father will not teach me how to be a king, but that he needs you?"

Chen Ye also leaned forward and looked into Ying Si's eyes, with a firm expression and a hint of a smile: "Because this is what your Majesty allows and what your Majesty wishes."

There was a hint of playfulness in his voice: "Don't His Highness the Crown Prince know that it was the monarch who sent me to be the Crown Prince's tutor?"

"This shows that what I want to teach is already known to you."

"It's also something that Your Majesty wants to tell His Highness the Crown Prince through my mouth."

Ying Si was silent again. After a moment, he spoke: "Then sir, let me tell my disciple how you think you should be a qualified monarch."

At this time, he could not understand the game between these court politicians and the emperor and his father, and he did not fully understand the complicated relationship between the old aristocrats, the new law, the monarch, and Chen Ye, who was interfering with each other.

But Ying Si has one advantage.

So far, he still obeys his father's words, although he is a bit stubborn in some places.

This is why Qin Xiaogong hopes to use Chen Ye to tactfully change Ying Si's view of Shang Yang.

Chen Ye adjusted his robes and looked much more solemn than before. It immediately brought Ying Si back to the feeling he had during class.

"Your Highness, what I want to tell you is actually very simple."

"No matter what I say in the future, in the end, it cannot avoid what I said today. Some things that seem to deviate from today's content are just appearances." "I hope that your Highness can always remember what I said today. , at different ages of Your Highness, you will definitely have different understandings and views on the content taught by today’s minister.”

"Confucius once said that by reviewing the past, you will learn the new. This saying is applied here, and it really makes sense."

Ying Si also corrected his attitude. Since he was going to listen to the teacher's lecture, he naturally had to show respect.

At this time, he had already recognized that Chen Ye was his teacher.

"Disciples will always remember this."

Chen Ye then said leisurely: "The thoughts of the minister, gathered together, are just three words."

"Class Theory."

Class theory?
  These three words were very strange in Ying Si's mind. He couldn't even understand the meaning of these three words. He could only roughly understand that they were a discussion about something.

He had a vague and unclear understanding of the concept of class.

"Sir, you said before that what you want to teach me is how to be a qualified or even excellent monarch, but why are you talking about class theory now?"

"The disciple doesn't understand."

Chen Ye looked at Ying Si, with a dark light flashing in his eyes: "Your Highness, what do you think is the most important condition, or the most important foundation, for being an excellent monarch?"

Ying Si thought for a moment and then replied: "Be diligent and love the people? Implement benevolent governance? Make the country stronger?"

He looked at Chen Ye, as if he wanted to find a suitable answer from the change in Chen Ye's expression.

But Chen Ye's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end.

But after Ying Si finished speaking, he argued one by one: "Even if a monarch is diligent and loves the people, if he cannot complete [government] correctly and cannot [love the people] correctly, how can he be called a qualified monarch?" ?”

"If it is benevolent government, what is benevolent government? Is it a criminal law that reduces harsh punishments? But harsh criminal laws are the final deterrent to those who violate Qin's laws, letting them know what they can and cannot do. After its abolition, domestic There must be turmoil, and a strong country may decline.”

"Making the country strong and prosperous is a result, but it is not a prerequisite, so it cannot be used as the basis or prerequisite for a good king."

Chen Ye said with a smile: "In my opinion, if you want to be a qualified monarch, you only need to do one thing."

"As long as this is done, the country can become stronger, regardless of whether the monarch exercises benevolent governance and works diligently and loves the people."

"And when he achieves the [effect] of becoming more powerful, he will naturally become an [excellent king]."

Ying Si was a little curious at this time. He looked at Chen Ye, who had been whetting his appetite, and felt a little anxious: "Is what the gentleman said the class theory just mentioned?"

“But why can class theory be the basis for this?”

"Forgive me for being stupid and unable to understand its meaning."

Chen Ye just waved his hand and said: "Your Highness is already smart enough, but it is beyond your age and current understanding."

At this time, he changed the topic back to the point he mentioned at the beginning: "Speaking of the relationship between this, I will give you the simplest topic that we just talked about a quarter of an hour ago."

"My teacher, Zuo Shuchang of Qin State, leader of the new law and reform."

"Shang Yang."

At this time, Chen Ye was quite straightforward: "How do you think a monarch, an excellent monarch, should view his fight with the old nobles in the country?"

(End of this chapter)