This set of rhetoric was not something Shen Yi had planned in advance to shirk responsibility, but he told the truth, because that's what he originally thought.
This poem came out due to an accident. After the accident, Shen Yi did not want to implicate anyone. He even removed Xu Fu, one of the parties involved, from the matter, hoping to handle it alone. Take care of things.
Although the bad thing has turned into a good thing now, Shen Yi never wanted to implicate the Jin Palace from the beginning to the end.
The prince Li Mu had already made tea. While pouring the tea, he said calmly: "You don't want to bring Prince Jin's palace with you. I believe this. After all, when Eunuch Gao came to the house this morning, you Not at home."
At this point, Li Mu paused and said slowly: "But someone wants you to take you to Prince Jin's Mansion."
His Royal Highness pushed a cup of tea in front of Shen Yi, and then looked at Shen Yi.
"Mr. Shen, you are a student who came to the capital to take the exam. According to Eunuch Gao, you ranked second in Jiangdu Prefecture's imperial examination. Naturally, you have read many sages' books. My father asked me to ask you. The sages' books say, If you are brave enough, you will be killed; if you are brave but not brave, you will live. What’s the explanation?”
Shen Yi raised his head and looked at Li Mu, his eyes no longer evasive.
He looked calm and said, "What the saint means is that if you want to live in this world, you have to be brave sometimes."
"Being brave and not daring is often more difficult than being brave enough to dare."
The humiliation of Han Xin's crotch means that he is brave and dare not.
The so-called courage means being able to endure. This kind of endurance is also a kind of "brave" in Li Shengren's book, and it is a very difficult "brave".
Sometimes when people face things, they rush forward as soon as their brains heat up, and many times they die. However, being able to hold back your temper at critical moments can keep you calm and tolerant, which is also a kind of bravery.
Even this kind of bravery is even more advanced.
When Li Mu mentioned this sentence, he already represented the attitude of the Jin Palace.
Rather than looking up to the north and feeling elated, the Jin Palace wants Da Chen to continue to "survive". Even if he suffers some humiliation, even if he is a little angry, he must be "brave and dare not", so as to maintain Da Chen's national honor.
After a pause, Shen Yi continued: "But Your Highness, what Li Shengren said is the teaching of Huang Lao, not my authentic Confucianism."
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Shen Yi looked calm and said, "I, the Confucian sage, say that you should do something when you know it is impossible to do."
Li Shizi lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and smiled dumbly: "If you do something you know you can't do, you will inevitably get the word "foolish"."
Shen Yi shook his head and continued: "Your Majesty, I understood it wrong. The sage said that you should do something you know not to do. This is a warning to our descendants. Don't ask whether it is possible to do something, but ask whether it should be done."
"If this thing is worth doing and should be done, then no matter how difficult it is, it is our duty to do it!"
Li Mu put down the cup in his hand and his expression became a little complicated.
"My father said that swords are the most dangerous weapons in the world. Once they arise, we don't know how much blood will be shed and how many people will die..."
This time, Shen Yi finally heard the different meaning in Li Mu's words.
Before His Highness the Crown Prince spoke, he always mentioned Prince Jin, which meant that some words were not his original intention, but the meaning of Prince Jin.
This is not surprising.
His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, is also a young man. Young people are bound to be full of passion and heroic spirit. As a young man of the Li Chen clan, Li Mu, the Crown Prince of Jin, has never raised his head to look north.
Young people always have a spirit in their hearts.
However, Li Mu was now asking questions on behalf of King Jin. After Shen Yi shook his head, he still replied: "Your Majesty, there are some things that cannot be avoided. Even if the swords are turned on again, only Da Chen will die on the battlefield. Soldiers, if we insist on benevolence as women, when the Northern troops attack the border one day, it will not be the soldiers who will die, but the common people of Dachen!"
He looked at Li Mu and said in a deep voice: "If nothing else, how many people in Dachen died when Shizong went south sixty years ago?"
Hearing this question, Li Mu looked a little unhappy.
This question cannot be answered by the Li Chen clan.
Because...too many died.
Countless.
After a long silence, Li Mu opened his mouth and continued to speak.
At this time, his tone was no longer very firm.
"The Northerners are no longer the Northerners of sixty years ago. At this time, the internal governance of Northern Qi has been corrupted, and the court's principles and disciplines are no longer preserved. In a few years, without the use of weapons, they will decline."
Li Mu said slowly: "Even now, they are no longer able to go south."
Hearing Li Mu's words, Shen Yi stood up directly. He looked at Li Mu and asked in a deep voice: "Your Highness, even if Northern Qi is unable to go south, if Da Chen doesn't even have the courage to look north, even if the Northern Qi court collapses, , we also have no ability to regain our homeland!"
"When the Northern Qi Dynasty is gone, we will only have another group of more vicious barbarians!"
There is actually a lesson in this matter.
The Northern Song Dynasty in another world was beaten by the Khitan from the very beginning of the founding of the country. It took more than a hundred years to survive until the Liao Kingdom's national power declined and perished. Before the Song people could be happy for a few days, they ushered in the more ferocious Jin people.
Afterwards, the Southern Song Dynasty faced off with the Jin people for more than a hundred years, and finally defeated the Jin people. The Southern Song Dynasty ushered in the more terrifying Mongols.
It will not end well for you to live in peace for a while. If you continue to shrink like this, you will live for ten or twenty years. If you are lucky, it will last for thirty or fifty years. But sooner or later, the descendants of the Chen Kingdom will have to fight for the legacy of their fathers and grandfathers. Cowardice pays a very heavy price.
Seeing Shen Yi stand up, Li Mu also stood up silently. He looked up at Shen Yi, then cupped his hands to Shen Yi and said, "Master Shen, no matter what, you have convinced me today. As for whether I can convince my father." …”
He shook his head and sighed, and said helplessly: "I can only try my best."
"But no matter what my father's attitude is."
Li Mu smiled at Shen Yi and said, "From today on, you are my guest, Li Mu. You can stay in Prince Jin's Mansion as long as you want."
Shen Yi bowed his head.
"Thank you, Your Highness."
"No need to thank me."
Li Mu smiled: "Your poem, I thought it was well written after I heard it for the first time. His Majesty has just taken office and wants to refresh the atmosphere of the court. It is indeed a good start to use this poem as an article."
Shen Yi also smiled and said: "Actually, there is a fragment of the poem. When the inner guard asked about it, I thought that His Majesty was unhappy. Considering the future, I told the inner guard that the fragment was "The man on the bright moon has his heart broken." .”
Li Mu became interested and asked: "So where is the original sentence?"
Shen Yi looked calm: "Who will lament the rise and fall?"
"Who will lament the rise and fall..."
Li Mu, the crown prince of the Jin Dynasty, murmured and repeated it, and then said to himself: "The spring breeze does not know the change of beauty, but still sings happily around the boat, who will... sigh about the rise and fall..."
After His Highness the Crown Prince read it once, he let out a long breath, cupped his hands to Shen Yi and said, "Li Mu has been taught."
Shen Yi waved his hands quickly, shook his head and said, "I don't dare to take it seriously."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stood up directly and said solemnly to the outside of Nuan Pavilion: "Here comes someone."
There were many people in Prince Jin's palace, and someone immediately ran over and bowed their heads respectfully: "Your Highness."
"Go and clean a guest room for Mr. Shen to live in, and treat him as a distinguished guest in the house."
The servant was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Shen Yi, then quickly lowered his head with respect.
"yes…"
