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

Chapter 23 Jun [First update, collect and read]

Ying Si's mind almost didn't turn around. He didn't expect that the matter would return to this topic in the end, and his brain immediately froze.

But then he reacted.

"Teacher, how do you think a good king should treat Zuo Shuchang?"

Chen Ye shook his head slightly: "It's not that I think a good monarch should treat Zuo Shuchang, but that all good monarchs will treat the struggles of these people in the same way."

"The most important thing in this is not Chief Zuo, let alone the old noble, but you."

There was a very calm look in his eyes: "Your Highness, we are just in class at this time, why not express our true thoughts?"

Ying Si immediately stopped hesitating: "Chief Zuo is challenging the authority of the Qin clan and nobles! Challenging the authority of the monarch!"

"This person even dares to openly say that the prince is guilty of breaking the law and the common people are guilty!"

Chen Ye raised his eyebrows slightly and continued to listen to Ying Si's inner thoughts.

"What's more, my uncle told me before that Shang Yang is extremely arrogant and doesn't give anyone face. How can such an unruly minister be lovable?"

He looked at Chen Ye with eyes full of curiosity: "On the contrary, sir, he doesn't seem to have any objectionable thoughts towards Shang Yang."

"I can clearly feel that even if you are not rescued by Shang Yang and become his disciple, your views on this matter will not change in any way. I don't understand this."

Chen Ye looked at Ying Si and said softly: "This actually involves what I mentioned before [class theory]."

"In my eyes, all people can be divided into classes. I once said something to your Majesty before: "There are only people who betray the class, and there are no classes that betray the class." This sentence is from "Class Theory" The most important sentence."

"It's exactly what I think is the truth between heaven and earth."

truth?

Ying Si was still young, and her thoughts were aroused by the words she had not heard at this time. She subconsciously changed the topic and asked: "Teacher, what is truth?"

Chen Ye smiled slightly: "Truth will develop with the development of things, time, and people, and will not become wrong truth."

"Your Highness, we will use Zuo Shuchang's reform, your doubts, dissatisfaction with Zuo Shuchang, the old nobles, and your Majesty as a simple example to explain to you the first section I am going to teach you. This lesson is also the most important lesson.”

"How many classes do you think there are in this matter?"

How many classes?

Ying Si frowned slightly: "One is the new nobles supported by Shang Yang's new law, and the other is the old nobles represented by the Qin clan. Aren't there only these two classes?"

Chen Ye looked at Ying Si and said, "What about you?"

"Which camp do you think you are in? Where is your Majesty? Which camp do you think you are in?"

Ying Si was stunned for a moment. The reason why he delayed Shang Yang so much before was because he subconsciously attributed himself and his father to the old aristocratic class.

Chen Ye said: "The correct answer is that there are five classes in this matter."

"First, the old nobles who had their interests violated and started fighting, such as Heijia, Slug, Gongzi Qian and others."

Ying Si nodded, this was what he knew.

"Secondly, the [new aristocracy] emerged due to changes in time and the emergence of iron farm tools and cattle farming. These people are precisely the core driving force and source of support for the reform." Ying Si nodded again.

"The third one is Zuo Shuchang who promoted the reform. He sits alone in a class. He belongs to the management class."

Belong to a class alone?
  Ying Si asked a little puzzled at this time: "Why?"

Chen Ye said with a slight smile: "Because he did not carry out the reform to promote the development of the new class. He simply wanted to take this opportunity to promote the development of Qin. He does not belong to any class camp."

After finishing speaking, Chen Ye gave Ying Si some time to think, while he quietly took a sip of honey water.

After feeling the sweetness bursting out of his mouth, Chen Ye let out a soothing breath, and then continued: "As for the fourth level, you are the fourth level, and the fifth level is the king."

Ying Si was stunned again. He and his father were not in the same class?
  Perhaps seeing Ying Si's dullness, Chen Ye asked again: "Isn't the reason why you hated Zuo Shuchang in the first place because you were offended by the words that princes break the law and the common people are equally guilty?"

"But this sentence will not offend the king, so the king will not be angry because of it, so there will be differences between the two of you, and differences will cause you to stand in different positions and become different classes. .”

"For example, now, Your Majesty supports the reform, but you have some opinions on the reform."

Ying Si was slightly silent. He looked at Chen Ye, his heart and brain were spinning crazily, thinking about every word that Chen Ye said.

At this time, he seemed to understand why his father was not angry and supported Shang Yang's reforms.

Because all laws and rules are never binding on the king.

Even if there is a saying that a prince who breaks the law is as guilty as the common people, he can still be innocent as long as the king forgives him.

He raised his head and looked at Chen Ye thoughtfully, and some hazy thoughts came to his mind: "I seem to understand what the teacher means."

"The prerequisite for becoming a king is to divide one's own class well and see what is beneficial to oneself, what is beneficial to the country, and what seems to be harmful, but is still beneficial."

Chen Ye nodded slightly: "That's the truth."

"But in fact, there are simpler uses of class theory."

He looked straight at Ying Si: "That is to remind the monarch at all times that the monarch does not belong to any class camp in the country. No matter which camp he is in, launching an attack on another camp is stupid and mediocre."

"Your Highness, there are two groups of people fighting now. You are watching from the stage."

"Will you personally join a group of people and fight for them, just to let them win the final victory?"

Ying Si raised his head, and he had fully understood what Chen Ye said.

Chen Ye pointed to the chessboard placed on the table in the distance: "The best monarch always knows that he is a chess player, not a chess piece charging on the chessboard."

"Your Highness, can you understand what I mean?"

Ying Si let out a long breath. What he heard today was still too complicated for him, but he could clearly see through this simple example what Chen Ye wanted to teach him.

"I think I understand, teacher."

Chen Ye smiled slightly, looked at Ying Si again and asked the question just now: "So, what do you think of the fight between Zuo Shuchang and the old nobles?"

(End of this chapter)