Confucius stayed in the Huaiguo Academy for a year, carefully sorted out his Tao, compiled it into a book, and gave it to Wang Jin.
When he thought about it, after Wang Jin learned about his royal teachings, he would definitely invite him to participate in governing the country and promote the royal way in Huai Kingdom.
But what disappointed him was that although Wang Jin discussed the royal way with him, he never had the intention to implement the royal way in Huai State, let alone recruit him as an official.
This made Confucius very confused, so he took the opportunity of a discussion to ask Wang Jin: "Since Huaigong admires the royal way, why doesn't he promote the royal way in Huai Kingdom?"
Wang Jin smiled and said: "Everyone in the world has selfish motives. It is too early to implement the royal way at this time!"
Confucius asked again: "When can we implement the royal way?"
Wang Jin said: "I don't know either."
Confucius was greatly disappointed. In his opinion, Huaigong was already a very wise king, but why was he unwilling to implement the royal way.
So he wanted to leave the Huai Kingdom and find a monarch who was willing to accept his teachings and practice the king's ways.
"Mr. Zhongni, you are a great sage, but this era is not suitable for the king's way. No monarch would be willing to implement the king's way. Why don't you continue to stay in the academy to perfect your doctrine?"
Confucius refused and wanted to travel around the world.
Seeing Confucius's refusal, Wang Jin said nothing more and just asked someone to prepare a carriage.
Wang Jin is not optimistic about the departure of Confucius. In this era, there are frequent wars. You pursue the royal way, but your opponent will not tell you the royal way. If you insist on pursuing the royal way, it will only end in sadness. In this era, monarchs wanted more ways to strengthen their armies.
"Confucius's room is reserved for him. I think it won't be long before he comes back!" Wang Jin said with a smile.
Confucius left the academy and first returned to the state of Lu, where he explained his royal teachings to Duke Lu. At that time, Duke Lu had been ignored by the royal family and the nobles. When he heard Confucius' royal approach, he immediately decided to appoint him as the chief minister and minister. I plan to break the pot, but there is no worse situation than this anyway.
After becoming the prime minister, Confucius discovered that things were not as simple as he imagined. He wanted to use rituals and music to restrain the nobles, but they didn't care at all. Confucius' photoshoot was a complete joke.
He wanted to do something, but he didn't have anyone available. In three months, he didn't achieve anything. When he wanted to do something, the officials and nobles blocked him. After a fight, he discovered that his royal ways could not restrain these officials at all.
For three months, Confucius accomplished nothing, and Duke Lu was disappointed, so he stopped giving him the sacrificial meat, which meant that he no longer wanted to use him. Seeing this, Confucius had to leave. .
Next, Confucius went to several other countries to promote his kingship. The kings of these countries respected him very much and were willing to make him a doctor, but no king appointed him.
Seeing this situation, he felt that he could not continue like this, so he began to travel around the country and at the same time began to recruit some talented disciples.
After traveling around the world, he discovered the deficiencies in his teachings and then improved them. His name spread among the nations, but no one wanted to use him.
His eyes are still bright. The wind, frost, rain and snow have made him older, but his head is still held high.
After experiencing this, he understood a lot, but he still had many doubts, so he was ready to return to Huaiguo Academy to find answers.
Confucius returned to the Huai Kingdom again and went to the Huai Kingdom's Tibetan Chamber to see Laozi.
There were very few outsiders coming into Huaiguo's Tibetan Room. The only ones who could come with Huaiggong's permission were these great sages.
Almost the best books in the world are gathered here. Of course, the books here have been re-copied. As for the original books, they are stored in the Xumi bracelet of the head of the Huai Kingdom.
Two great sages, Li Er and Confucius, met in the Tibetan room. Although both of them were great sages, nothing strange happened when they met. However, the encounter between the two still awakened Zi Jue from his deep sleep.
Zijue stood in the void and looked at the two people quietly.
, watching what kind of sparks the two most thoughtful people in the world can collide with at this time.
"Boyang Gong, my way is benevolence and righteousness. Use the way of benevolence and righteousness to measure the world, and use ritual and music to restrain it. In this way, the world will not collapse." Confucius said.
Li Er had already read Confucius's books and immediately said: "Is benevolence and righteousness the nature of human beings? What is benevolence and righteousness?"
Confucius said: "If a gentleman is not benevolent, he will not be a gentleman, and if he is unjust, he will not be able to survive. Benevolence and righteousness are indeed human nature. The heart is upright and innocent, willing to live in harmony without resentment, loving everyone without partiality, and benefiting all people. Selflessness, this is the essence of benevolence and righteousness.”
Li Er shook his head and said, "Your statement is very dangerous. Isn't it a bit pedantic to talk about universal love? To say it is selfless is to be partial."
"Everything in the heaven and earth exists naturally. Does anyone push the sun and the moon to promote it? They will move on their own. The tide will rise and fall. Do they need people to move it? Will they rise and fall on their own? Will the beasts gather in groups and need people to raise them? They will It is natural for you to grow by yourself. These are natural laws. If you comply with the laws of nature, the country will be in order."
"You flaunt benevolence and righteousness, insist on etiquette and music, and preach benevolence and righteousness everywhere. This is against human nature. It is like beating gongs and drums to chase a fleeing person, and that person will run farther."
Confucius continued to ask: "Gong Boyang, do you think that the collapse of the world to this point is a natural development. If you follow the trend, wouldn't it be even more chaotic?"
Li Er said: "You admire the Zhou rites and hope to restore the rites and music, but who was the first to destroy the rites and music? It was the Emperor of Zhou!"
"The emperor doesn't abide by rituals and music, how can he demand that the princes abide by it?"
"The world is in chaos. Can we make the world peaceful just by talking about rituals and music?"
"Qi Huan, Jin Wen, Chu Zhuang, Huai Gong and Qin Mu all achieved the position of overlord. Is it also because of their benevolence and righteousness?"
"Even the Zhou royal family abandoned many Zhou rituals."
"You pursue Zhou Li. If you can restore the well-field system to the world, will the farmers thank you?"
"According to the Zhou rites, a prince is granted a title of seventy miles, and a prince is granted a title of fifty miles. Even the smallest prince in the world has a title of more than fifty miles."
"Is the collapse of Zhou Li the cause of one person? No, it was caused by people all over the world. Can it still be restored?"
"You must have understood these truths when you traveled around the world, but you insisted on stopping them. This is like Gun controlling the water by blocking the rivers and building dams to block the water. The result is that your efforts are in vain, and the world becomes more chaotic."
Li Er shook his head and said.
These words almost negated all Confucius' efforts, but Confucius was not angry. He remained firm: "What Boyang Gong said is reality. In my opinion, this is the way, the way of heaven, but there should be a way in the world. Humanity is benevolence and righteousness, what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong!”
"A despicable person should be reviled by thousands of people, and a noble person should be commended and respected. I stick to my way, even if it will break me to pieces, Zhong Ni will never change until death!"
Li Er sighed in his heart. He had already expected this outcome. No one would give up his own way. This time I discuss Tao, I just want to use other Tao to perfect my own Tao.
PS: The author is a scumbag. The issues discussed by the two great sages are not something I can comment on alone. These issues about philosophy and benevolence and righteousness are too profound, so I can only write them briefly. Please read them casually and don’t take them seriously. .
