Chapter 377: Teacher, you and Chang'an Jun are the source of unrest in the world
The white winter snow falls lightly, but as long as it snows during the day, it will not fall in front of the gate of Chang'an Jun Mansion.
Throughout the winter day, there was always someone in front of Chang'an Jun's mansion.
There was an endless stream of pedestrians, ox-drawn carts, and horse-drawn carriages. The snowflakes fell on the people and the carriages, not on the ground at all.
The younger brother of the First Emperor, a powerful official who was not suspected by the king, a scoundrel who could overturn the table and had a history of overturning the table. When these three labels are attached to one person, the effect is explosive.
As long as one enters the Xianyang Palace and is a Xianyang noble, one cannot escape the three names Ying Chengjiao.
If you don’t love the court officials, then respect them; if you don’t respect them, then fear them.
When one person succeeds, the whole family will benefit.
As Ying Chengjiao gained power, the status of his retainers also increased. If a common retainer of the Chang'an Lord's residence left and joined others, he would immediately receive a higher level of treatment.
There was a brazier in the open space in the middle of Xunzi's house, with firewood burning slowly inside. The fire was weak.
Xunzi added a piece of firewood inside.
"The palace is packed with people. Your Majesty seems to be enjoying great success this time, but in reality, it is not a good thing. Your Majesty is the heaven of Qin. How can we go against the heaven by borrowing your power?
"It is true that the opponents are those nobles, but Your Majesty, don't forget that the biggest opponent is Your Majesty. The ultimate goal of suppressing these nobles is to make Your Majesty agree to enlighten the people and agree to reform.
"Now these nobles are afraid of your majesty and dare not stand in front of you. If you cannot force these nobles to rebel, Your Majesty will not feel the crisis and will not agree to enlighten the world."
Xunzi sighed deeply, his face full of regret.
"The death of one person ruined the whole world. How could it be such a coincidence? Just one step away!"
The chubby Zhang Cang came closer to the fire and laughed.
Xunzi was already angry, and when he heard that his disciple did not grieve with him but laughed out loud, he became even angrier. He rolled up his sleeves without saying a word, and wanted to teach his disciple to respect his teacher.
"Teacher, please calm down and forgive Cang for once. Cang didn't mean to laugh."
"Is what you said ridiculous?"
The sleeves are rolled up.
Seeing his teacher like this, Zhang Cang did not dare to delay and quickly explained:
"Even if Meng Ao hadn't died, this matter would not have been accomplished. This is not a coincidence, this is a premeditated plan. Your Majesty is too simple-minded. Your Majesty is good at open schemes, which means he likes them, not that he can only use them. Your Majesty doesn't use conspiracies, which means he doesn't like them, not that he can't. Cangdu can see through the plans of your teacher and Chang'an Jun, so how could Your Majesty not see through them?"
Xunzi held the ruler in his left hand and gently tapped the palm of his right hand.
The "pa pa" sound made the fat on Zhang Cang's face tremble, and he was afraid that the next hit would be on his palm.
When studying at the Jixia Academy, if you were naughty in class, the teacher would use a ruler to teach you a lesson without any mercy. The ruler was a shadow of Zhang Cang's childhood.
"If you can tell me what the Lord and I are thinking, I will not pursue your previous disrespect."
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Zhang Cang muttered softly.
"Can't Cancang see that? I'm usually too lazy to think about most things, not that I can't think of them."
"Louder."
"only."
Zhang Cang sat up straight with a serious look on his face.
"What Chang'an Jun did in Han was very clear. He expelled the nobles, employed students from hundreds of schools, vigorously developed schools, and selected scholars based on their knowledge rather than their family background. He wanted to break the status quo where only nobles could serve as officials. He wanted everyone to become a noble and break the aristocracy's sky.
“He was not satisfied with enlightening people only in Korea, he wanted to enlighten people all over the world.
"There should be no discrimination in education. There should no longer be any Jixia Academy in the world. There should be Jixia Academy everywhere in the world. This has been the teacher's vision for many years.
“But this is not what the nobles want. This is digging up the roots of the nobles, so Chang’an Jun wants to be the enemy of all the nobles in the world.
"This is not what your majesty wants. Your majesty won the world with the legalist school and took the Book of Lord Shang as the guiding principle. The Book of Lord Shang clearly wrote the words "foolish the people". Your majesty practiced it yourself, and the book burning order and the book holding law are proof of this. So at the end of the reform, Chang'an Jun wanted to be your majesty's enemy.
“Your Majesty does not want to enlighten the people because it is clearly written in the Book of Lord Shang that farmers are ignorant and uneducated, so they do not think about other things and only know how to farm and work hard.
"When the people are enlightened, the farmers will have their own ideas and know about the wider world. They will not be satisfied with farming and will want to leave the fields and villages. This will undermine the stability of the country and reduce grain production, which is not conducive to your Majesty's rule.
"There are two ways to get your majesty to agree to enlighten the people. The first is to make your majesty see the benefits of enlightening the people, and these benefits outweigh the disadvantages of enlightening the people. The second is to make your majesty see the disadvantages of not enlightening the people, and these disadvantages are greater than the disadvantages of enlightening the people.
“Changan Jun chose to take a two-pronged approach.
"He eliminated the Meng, Xi and Bai families. The demise of the Meng, Xi and Bai families left many official positions vacant in Qin. Qin had no schools and not enough talents to fill the vacancies. If these vacant official positions were not filled, it would inevitably lead to chaos in Qin.
"In the Qin State, only the nobles can serve as officials and do good work. If the nobles collectively agree not to respond to Your Majesty, and if the teacher does not step forward, I can't think of any solution for Your Majesty.
"Although the matter was resolved perfectly by the teacher's students entering Qin, Chang'an Jun's goal has been achieved. This incident has made Your Majesty understand. If Your Majesty does not want to be strangled by these nobles, Qin needs to train its own officials..."
Xunzi nodded and stretched out his hand to signal his disciples not to continue.
Zhang Cang felt a little unsatisfied.
"Disciple hasn't finished yet."
"That's enough. You really see it clearly. What happens next is just a copycat, the substance remains the same."
Xunzi originally thought that he could see the big picture from the small details, and that the downfall of Meng Xibai was enough to make the First Emperor realize the necessity of enlightening the people, but he did not expect this.
The sense of crisis of the demise of the three great families of Meng, Xi and Bai only prompted the First Emperor to establish the Xianyang Academy in Xianyang.
Although the students there are mainly disciples of Guiguzi and Xunzi, it can be seen from the name that this school is not specific to any one school. Instead, it is like the Jixia Academy, an school that embraces hundreds of schools of thought.
After consultation, Xunzi and Ying Chengjiao concluded that the sense of crisis was not great enough, and the official positions vacant after Meng Xibai's destruction were still too few, not enough for the First Emperor to enlighten the people.
If Meng Xibai is not enough to make the First Emperor feel a sense of crisis, then all the nobles will join in.
After Ying Chengjiao had taken good care of Han, he would let the First Emperor see that Han would not cause chaos even if the people were enlightened. Then he would deal with the nobles in Xianyang, promote the achievements of Han in Xianyang, and seek an opportunity for the people of the world.
In this process, the nobles whose interests have been infringed upon will inevitably resist strongly.
Their methods will certainly be extremely fierce, and this struggle will inevitably cause unrest in Qin. This unrest that affects the entire Guanzhong and endangers the basic foundation of Qin will give the First Emperor enough sense of crisis.
And now, as Xunzi said, the nobles of Xianyang were overwhelmed by Ying Chengjiao's power and dared not oppose him.
If they did not cooperate, the First Emperor would have no sense of crisis and would not agree to enlighten the people.
Xunzi was somewhat relieved. He was somewhat surprised by the analysis of this pessimistic disciple. He advised in a gentle voice:
"Don't have those absurd dreams of becoming a god or immortal, and don't associate with those alchemists and sorcerers."
Zhang Cang advised solemnly:
"Teacher, I dare to say that you and Chang'an Jun should not have such delusions."
Xunzi used a ruler to stir the firewood in the brazier. As the firewood moved and rubbed against each other, the area in contact with the air became larger, and the flames became stronger.
He lowered his head and smiled and asked:
"How do you say it?"
He likes students to put forward different opinions, and he never gets angry because of students putting forward different opinions.
"I have been in Xianyang for more than ten years, and I have never seen a king as wise as Your Majesty. He unified the country and ended hundreds of years of war.
"The people have been fighting for so long, and they are already satisfied to be able to live a stable life. If it can continue like this, what's wrong with that?
"Teacher, what you and Chang'an Jun think and do are just your thoughts. Without you, Meng Xibai would not have died, and the officials of Qin would not have caused chaos. They dare not disobey Your Majesty.
"Teacher, you and Chang'an Jun are the source of unrest in the world."
The hot and bright flames cast a cold black shadow on Xunzi's face.
Xunzi raised his head slightly, and the black shadow of flame jumped from his forehead to his nose, again and again, as he moved.
He smiled and encouraged:
"Go on ."
