The rise of the prince

Chapter 307 The Book of Saints
In the imperial garden, everything grows, lush and colorful.

The much thinner prince and several royal uncles carefully followed their father to admire the flowers.

The emperor was in high spirits, holding a sage's scroll in his hand, and shared a few words with him every once in a while. The atmosphere was harmonious, like a literati visiting a garden.

Since the queen mother passed away, the prince could feel that his father had changed a lot, he seemed to be more cordial, no longer like before, every time he summoned him, he was like a monarch and minister, either asking about learning or politics.

And now the emperor prefers to summon him and several emperor uncles to talk about the past, read books, and recite poems, not as indifferent as before.

After the prince returned to Beijing, he was left out in the palace and was punished and grounded. Only the empress empress came to see him. He was depressed and drank every day, and the only people who chatted with him were Sun Huan and Mr. Fang.

The crown prince also deeply regretted not listening to Mr. Fang. Before leaving, Mr. Fang gave him two warnings, one is to treat the local people kindly, and the other is not to rush forward and strive for merit.

The prince obeyed the first rule, but not the second rule.

Failure to abide by the second rule caused him a crushing defeat, ruined the court's plans, and people all over the world condemned him verbally and in pen.

The first rule he obeyed saved his life. He did not kill the local aliens, but let them go. As a result, when the army was defeated that night, the soldiers escorted him in a panic and abandoned the boat and walked along the river bank and forest. Shouting to kill and shaking the sky, the lights in front of him are blind, and there is no way forward.

They ran for a day and a night in a hurry, tired and thirsty, panicked and didn't know where they were, but the pursuers remained behind.

Just when the prince thought he was going to die, those dirty, smelly, and incomprehensible aliens who he let go at the beginning appeared, led him, helped him repel the pursuers, and then fled back to Guazhou.

Thinking about it now, the prince regretted it too much. If he remembered both of them, how could he be in such a mess today.

When I came back to my senses, my father and uncle were talking excitedly, and suddenly waved: "Prince, come here."

The prince hurried over respectfully, and saw his father holding the book of sages in his hand, pointing to a sentence: "What do you mean by that?"

When the prince saw it, it was astonishingly what Meng Sheng said: "The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least." All of a sudden, cold sweat broke out from his forehead in the scorching summer.

"This is... this is the teaching of the sages. A king should respect the people of the country, regardless of his own interests. It is true, true."

"Hmph, pedantry!" Father groaned, and reprimanded: "This is a word to comfort the ignorant commoners. You can say it, but you must not take it seriously. You keep it in your heart."

The prince was stunned. He also read the books of saints since he was a child. He connected the context and connected the context. This is not the meaning of a saint: "Father, it is the meaning of a saint."

The emperor frowned, and the emperor's uncle also looked at him strangely.

"What do you mean by a saint? Where is a saint! Who knows in the world, I mean it when I say it, and you remember it well."

"Yes, father." The prince looked confused, but still bowed, and then looked at the "Mencius" in father's hand, feeling a little worried, because he knew this book
The emperor flipped through it casually, and then pointed to the page: "What the sage wants to say is this sentence, there are no two suns in the sky, and there are no two kings in man!"

"Remember, my son."

The emperor nodded, and then flipped through it happily, his face turned bad immediately, the prince glanced at it secretly, it was also what he had read:

"Mencius told King Xuan of Qi, saying: 'When the king regards his ministers as brothers and feet, the ministers regard the emperor as his heart; .'"

"Hmph, it's outrageous, it's outrageous!" The emperor was a little sullen, "I treat you like a bandit? What kind of talk is this!"

The prince felt a little uneasy. He read the books of sages all the year round, so he naturally remembered them.

The emperor father only cared about the country, the country, and the government for decades, and he had no leisure to read it carefully, but not all the words of the saints were so...satisfactory.

Even the uncle next to him saw the clue and dared not speak.

The emperor flipped through it quickly, and then his face became darker and darker: "Those who are thieves of benevolence are called thieves, those who are thieves of righteousness are called cripples, and those who are cripples are called husbands. I have heard that a husband is punished, but I have never heard of killing a king!"

The emperor gritted his teeth.

The prince clasped his hands tightly in his sleeves, he also knew this:

King Xuan of Qi asked: "Tang Fang Jie, and King Wu defeated Zhou, what are there?"

Mencius said to him: "There are legends about it."

Said: "Is it possible for a minister to kill his lord?"

Said: "Those who are thieves of benevolence are called thieves, those who are thieves of righteousness are called cripples, and those who cripple thieves are called husbands. I have heard that a husband is punished, but I have never heard of killing a king."

When Mencius and King Xuan of Qi talked about Zhou and Shang, they actually said that a king who destroys benevolence and righteousness is not worthy of being a king, but is a thief of the people and can attack him in groups. This is affirming the rebellion and revolution of the subordinates!

The emperor looked more and more angry, and finally dropped the teacup on the stone table heavily. The emperor's uncle and the prince dared not breathe.

The emperor's chest rose and fell, and he began to quickly flip through the books. After looking at them, he finally couldn't help cursing: "What sages and sages are all traitors and traitors, talking nonsense!"

The book in his hand was thrown on the ground by him, and the crown prince saw that it was from Mencius. Ten thousand chapters: Heaven sees itself and the people see it, and heaven listens to the people to listen to it!

The most feared thing is still here
The prince thought to himself that the Confucian book should have been replaced by the Legalist book.

Mencius said: There are no two suns in the sky, and it is true that there are no two kings in man. The sage recognizes that there should be only one emperor in the world. The power of the emperor is bestowed by heaven, and he is the son of heaven.

But Mencius also said: The sky sees itself and the people see it, and the sky listens to the people themselves.

It means: what the heaven sees is what the people see, and what the heaven hears is what the people hear.

To put it bluntly, the people are heaven, and the power of the monarch is the power of the people!
In fact, when the prince read this before, he thought that if he ascended the throne, he would have to rectify these so-called sage books.

When the first emperor burned books and buried Confucianism, he didn't want these things to confuse the people. What kind of people are heaven, what kind of monarchy is granted by the people, and what kind of people's thieves can be defeated by their own husbands.

If you can change it, you can change it, if you can't change it, you have to let people explain it!

Due to the difficulty of recording the ancient Chinese, the words can be saved if possible, and they are simple and multi-meaning. If there is a great Confucianism willing to stand up and speak out, there will be a convincing "other explanation" for the world.

The emperor blushed, pointed to the book on the ground, and stepped on his feet: "I always thought that the people who harmed my Jingguo were the Liao people in the north, and the Baiyi in the south, the rebellious officials and thieves, but I didn't expect to realize it in my sixtieth year. , Those who mess up our country are all in this book!
No wonder there has been chaos everywhere in the past two years, it was all taught by this bullshit sage!Mencius is not worthy of being a saint! "

"Burn it for me, come, burn it!" the emperor said angrily.

The prince hurriedly said: "Father, there are tens of thousands of copies of "Mencius" in the world, and it is impossible to burn them all!"

"How can we get rid of the evil diseases in the country and the country without burning them! How to get rid of the serious troubles in the heart, and how to solve the troubles in people's words." The emperor shook his sleeves heavily.

The prince looked around and whispered: "Father, if you don't burn the books, you can change them."

The emperor glanced at him: "Hmph, you also said that there are thousands of books in the world, how to change them all?"

The prince respectfully said: "Father, what my son said is not to change the words, but to correct the meaning!
If the meaning is right, the words will be right, and if the words are right, the name will be right, and then you can stop talking nonsense!
The common people do not know books, so what the scholars say is what they say; the scholars know the books, but there are also celebrities and great Confucians who say what they say; if there are great Confucians and celebrities, they will be corrected by the leading figures in the literary world. Wouldn’t it be beneficial to our heavenly family forever! "

Upon hearing this, the emperor frowned slightly, then nodded slowly: "Okay, okay!"

Then something came to mind, "Meng Zhiye is still in Yushitai Prison, luckily I didn't kill him."

(End of this chapter)