After Li Si finished speaking, there was a chuckle in the hall. Qin Shihuang looked at Kang's excited Li Si, and his face relaxed slightly.
Among the officials of the Qin State, except Zhao Tuo, Li Si was the most satisfied with him. Zhao Tuo couldn't help laughing when he heard this.
Best debater Li Si! What a good one. Use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son! You Confucian disciples don’t always have to talk about
"Learning from the past will last forever",
"Learning the methods of the previous kings" often praises the rule of the three generations. Is it called beautiful government? During the previous disputes over the enfeoffment of counties, these people used the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties as an example of enfeoffment, but now Li Si used this method to hit them head-on.
Qi Bibi and the others' faces immediately turned red. Chunyu Yue also twitched the corners of his mouth. Which one is more ancient, Xia, Shang or Zhou, is obvious.
Zhou Qingchen whispered from the side: "Shut up, Tingwei opened his mouth, the matter is over." Chunyu Yue glared at him, stiffened his neck and said: "What Tingwei said is wrong, although we say it The teachings are ancient and long-lasting. But if there are problems with the system of the previous generation, it is also a good thing if there are saints in later generations who improve the system."
"In Xia and Shang, intermarriage with the same surname was not a good law. The so-called men and women with the same surname would not be born in the same surname. Therefore, the Duke of Zhou established rituals to eliminate this evil custom in order to determine human relations and distinguish animals. Therefore, although we follow the ancients, we should also Learn the methods of ancient saints instead of practicing ancient bad habits!" Double standards!
Zhao Tuo cursed secretly in his heart. This is what Chunyu Yue said
The "methods of saints" can't all be explained by their mouths. However, as Zhao Tuo was the protagonist of this matter, it was not easy for him to debate in person.
Fortunately, Li Si was also a master of verbal warfare, and as a pillar of Legalism, he and these Confucian doctors were enemies of each other. At this moment, he mustered up his energy, moved his lips and tongue, and launched a counterattack.
"What a saint's method. Zhou Gongdan is a saint. Could it be that Dayu and Shang Tang were not ancient sages? Could it be that what they did with the same surname was the behavior of animals?" Li Si sneered and put on his hat first. Buttoning it up, the faces of all the Confucian scholars changed slightly.
Dayu controlled the floods and settled the nine provinces. He was certainly an ancient sage. As for Shang Tang, Confucius said
"The revolution of Tang and Wu followed nature and responded to man." Of course, he was also a saint. This is beyond doubt.
Fortunately, Li Si didn't say anything here.
Tangled up in the "method of saints". He changed the topic and said: "The so-called non-marriage of people with the same surname has been eight hundred years since the Zhou Dynasty began to institute rituals. You now call it the ritual system, but during these eight hundred years, how many princes in the Zhou Dynasty have How about abiding by this etiquette? How many things are there like that of Wu Mencius?" The Confucian scholars looked at each other, and it was hard to answer for a while.
Wu Mengzi's incident was a heavy blow to them. This is mostly clear in the Analects of Confucius.
Yan Lu Zhaogong married Wu Guozong's daughter. Lu and Wu have the same surname, so intermarriage between the two is a violation of Zhou etiquette.
"No marriage with the same surname" system. Therefore, the people of Lu do not call women according to the common titles.
"Wu Ji" was changed to
"Wu Mencius" is equivalent to changing someone's name in order to get away with it. Of course, this is not the point. The point is that Chen Guo Sikou once asked Confucius: "Does the gentleman of Lu know etiquette?" Confucius replied: "Knows etiquette." After Confucius left, Chen Guo Sikou said to Wu Maqi: "I heard that a gentleman is He would not be selfish and protect others. But Lu Jun married a woman with the same surname as his wife in Wu State. This was a marriage with the same surname and he called her Wu Mencius. This was obviously against etiquette. But Confucius is now But he protected Jun Lu, saying that he knew etiquette. If Jun Lu’s behavior of marrying a woman with the same surname can be regarded as knowing propriety, who else in the world does not know etiquette?” Li Si’s words not only cited the example of Lu Zhaogong’s intermarriage with the same surname as a counterattack, but also He also mocked Confucius for shielding Lu Zhaogong, which made many Confucian scholars look bad.
Chunyu Yue said in a deep voice: "The Zhou Dynasty has been in power for eight hundred years, and there are more than ten million princes in the world. Even if one or two kings violate etiquette, it is normal. This is not enough to give an example."
"Haha? Only one or two? Are you rotten scholars ignorant of historical events? Or do you want to deceive the emperor? I will tell you today how many people in the Zhou family married with the same surname!" Li Si opened his eyes angrily and spoke loudly.
"The Kingdom of Jin, after Tang Shuyu, the son of King Wu of Zhou Dynasty, was a big country with the surname Ji. When Duke Xian of Jin Dynasty, he married Jia Nu, Da Rong Hu Ji, Xiao Rong Zi, Li Ji, etc. as his wives and concubines. These four girls all had the surname of Ji. His son Jin Wengong Chong'er , was born from a marriage with the same surname, and became the overlord of the world. Even Duke Wen of Jin himself married a daughter of the Zhou royal family in a marriage with the same surname, and gave birth to a son, Duke Jin Chenggong, with black buttocks!"
"As for Duke Ping of Jin, he married the daughter of Marquis Wei of Wei and married her to the state of Wu. Both marriages were marriages with the same surname." Zhao Tuo's eyelids jumped when he heard the name of Duke Cheng of Jin. Down.
But then he was surprised by what Li Si said. These Jin kings loved women with the same surname.
Li Si did not stop talking at this moment and continued to rebuke sternly: "Besides Jin, Wu is also a big country with the surname Ji. Wu first married the daughter of Jin, and then married her daughter to Lu. It also intermarried with Cai, who also had Ji, and King Wu married Cai Zhaohou. The daughter is Meng Ji. King Helu of Wu married his uncle Ji to Cai Houshen. In addition, the state of Wu also intermarried with the Zhou royal family. How can such behavior mean that there is no marriage with the same surname? "
"For hundreds of years, Jin, Wu, Lu, Zheng, Wei, Cai and other countries with the surname Ji have all intermarried with each other, and their deeds are countless. In addition to these foreign countries with the surname Ji, even the emperor of Zhou also married with the same surname of Jin and Wu. Is this the Zhou etiquette that you are talking about where people with the same surname do not marry?" Li Si's voice was stern, and the words in his mouth even named each other, revealing the incidents of intermarriage between countries with the surname Ji, which shocked everyone in the palace. Everyone was shocked.
The faces of all the Confucian scholars changed drastically. Li Si did not give up, and even took advantage of the victory to pursue him: "Why did I say what you said was ridiculous?"
"The Rites of Zhou are the etiquette created by the Duke of Zhou to restrain the people of Zhou. And the ancestor of our Qin Kingdom is a descendant of the nobles of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. He is the son of Evil Lai after Fei Lian!"
"The etiquette and customs of the Qin people are not the same as those of the Zhou Dynasty. How can you restrain the Qin people with things that are not observed by the emperor of Zhou and all the countries with the surname Ji? Use the things that were destroyed hundreds of years ago. I use etiquette to restrain the Qin Dynasty that now dominates the world. Such things are so ridiculous and ridiculous!" After saying these words, all the Qin ministers in the palace applauded and took advantage of the situation to attack.
Qiang Yu was impatient and sarcastically said: "What a bunch of stinky Confucian scholars. Even the Emperor Zhou is playing with the issue of intermarriage with the same surname, and yet he dares to ask me, Qin, to prevent marriages with the same surname. Damn it, we Qiang people are better. Don't engage in such nonsense at all." Wang Wu, the governor of Su Neishi, sneered and said: "It's extremely shameless. When the Emperor Zhou and those countries with the surname Ji were intermarrying with each other, why didn't you oppose and stop it? What Confucius are you doing? Jun Lu married a girl with the same surname as Wu and lied to cover it up. Now that I, the princess of Qin, are getting married, you people come here to oppose it. It is really ridiculous and ridiculous." Wang Ben, the king of the state, said coldly: "Li of Zhou? Emperor of Zhou? Emperor of Zhou? The family has been destroyed by our Qin State, and the Zhou rites are just things that should be buried in the tomb."
"Of course! What Lieutenant Bang said is nonsense about Zhou's courtesy to the Emperor of Zhou. We, the Qin State, were after the Yin and Shang Dynasties and had already destroyed his Zhou Dynasty!" The crowd was furious and the shouts were endless.
"This...this..." Those Confucian doctors all turned pale. Doctor servant Zhou Qingchen was so frightened by this scene that his two legs trembled.
They couldn't even make excuses because they didn't know many of the things Li Si said and it was the first time they heard about it here.
Although these Confucian doctors claim to be knowledgeable about the past and the present, in this ancient era where bamboo slips were used as carriers, due to limited conditions, the classics were not in circulation.
Each school's true biography often only has one or two classics, and most of them are hidden and only passed down from masters. Therefore, their knowledge, except for the classics they have carefully studied, is actually limited.
For some things mentioned in Confucian classics, such as
They may know about "Wu Mencius". But how can they learn about things that are not in the Confucian classics and are only recorded in the history books of various countries?
Even Li Si had to go into the library of the Yushi Mansion overnight, look through the history books of various countries collected by the Qin State, and consult his learned junior brother before he could sort it out.
It was precisely because his examples had names and surnames that they were even more lethal and silenced the Confucian scholars on the spot.
It turned out that Emperor Zhou and those countries with the surname Ji were all getting married with the same surname. At this moment, in addition, the Qin ministers in the palace were denounced one after another, with such shocking momentum that the Confucian scholars were so frightened that they could not even speak.
Chunyu Yue's palms trembled, his lips trembled, and he couldn't find the words to respond. Although the Zuo Prime Minister Wang Wan and several ministers who were good friends with their Confucians did not add insult to injury, they were expressionless at the moment and did not dare to get involved.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Tuo smiled. Li Si is Li Si. There was no need for the emperor to use his power to suppress others. The imperial officer just opened his mouth and knocked down all these Confucian scholars.
As expected of a man who could write the "Book of Remonstrance and Expulsion of Guests", his eloquence is truly astonishing! But the next second, a scene that surprised Zhao Tuo appeared.
Li Si did not give up after his victory. Instead, he turned to look at Qin Shihuang who was smiling on the emperor's couch.
He raised his head and said loudly: "Your Majesty, as far as I know, the Duke of Zhou abandoned the customs of the Xia and Shang dynasties and created the ritual of not marrying people with the same surname in order to maintain the patriarchal laws of Zhou. Countries with different surnames act as matchmakers for each other, and they all have His country surnamed Ji formed an alliance to consolidate the Zhou Dynasty's control over the world. This ritual system is a means of governing the country, specifically used to stabilize feudalism."
"Now that the world is unified, this method should be abandoned. But these Confucian scholars use this outdated thing to oppose the affairs of the concubine Chang Shang Princess."
"I believe that these Confucian scholars must be dissatisfied with the affairs of the prefectures and counties that our Qin State has done in the world, and they are taking advantage of this matter to use the past to change the present and want to restore feudalism!"
"Your Majesty, Li Simei, has said that in order to ensure the stability of our Daqin society, we must avoid such things that are based on the past but not the present. We should deprive all the doctors of their right to discuss and participate in politics." Li Si's eyes shone, and he turned to face the many Confucian scholars at the end of the hall. Showing yellow teeth.
Confucianism wanted to use this incident to seize the right to speak. And he, Li Si, just happened to kill them all in one fell swoop.
"I ask your majesty to abolish Zhou's rites and implement Qin's laws!"
