Among the four ministers of the Jin Kingdom, the Zhi family was originally the strongest. According to normal circumstances, the Zhi family should annex the Zhao family and then annex the other families. But the strong strength blinded Zhishi and did not see the danger.
The Zhi family led the Han family and the Wei family to attack the Zhao family. The Zhi family served as the central army, and the Wei family and the Han family formed the left and right armies. Once Han and Wei rebelled, the Zhi family would face a flanking attack.
Sure enough, the Zhi family attacked Zhao, but the Zhao family held firm and remained unbroken for two years. Han and Wei were unwilling to do so. Seeing this situation, they also had other thoughts in their hearts.
At this time, the Zhao family came, and they hit it off immediately. Taking advantage of the night, the Han and Wei families opened the floodgates and released water, flooding the Zhi family's camp. The Han, Zhao and Wei families took advantage of the situation to attack, and the Zhi family was defeated. Immediately afterwards, the three families worked together to wipe out the Zhi family and divide the Zhi family's fiefdom.
After the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei defeated the Zhi family, they took advantage of the situation and divided up the other territories of Jin. When the three families saw that the Zhi family had been wiped out, they decided to stand on their own feet without any further action.
The three families of Han, Zhao and Wei paid tribute to the Emperor of Zhou and requested to be canonized as princes. Emperor Zhou saw that the general trend of Han, Zhao and Wei was established, and even if he did not admit it, it would have no impact, so he accepted the tribute and recognized the three families as princes.
The consequences of the division of the three families into Jin Dynasty were greater than the destruction of land by the Qi family. The already collapsed ritual music was completely in disarray.
The Qingshi family can replace the official family and become princes. This operation suddenly makes other Qingshi families in the world ready to take action, and at the same time makes the princes and official families frightened.
So in the next few years, more than ten turmoils broke out among the princes' offices and the families of the ministers in the Zhou Dynasty, and the world was suddenly filled with wars.
The State of Qin felt that after the three Jin families were divided, the time had come to go eastward, so he led his army to attack Hangu Pass. Unfortunately, the terrain of Hangu Pass was dangerous. Even if the three Jin families were separated, Qin State would not be able to take advantage at all.
The cruel war completely threw all ethics, justice and shame into the rubbish heap. The chaos in the world made Huaiguo a rare place of peace. Seeing the chaos in the world, the people displaced, and the large number of people dying in the war, many people who cared about the world thought... To find a way to restore peace to the world.
As a result, the Huaiguo Academy attracted a large number of scholars. These people either wanted to restore peace to the world, enriched the country and strengthened the army, or wanted to promote their own ideas, so they came to the academy one after another and wanted to To find the answer.
Under such circumstances, the great ideological debate among Zhu Xia broke out in the Huaiguo Academy. Then a large number of various schools of thought sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
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In the academy, because Laozi and Confucius served as sacrificial wines, there were many disciples of Laozi and Confucius in the academy. In addition, Huai State was the birthplace of Legalism, so the three families had the largest number of disciples, plus the thinking Under the collision, some other schools of thought emerged. This made the academy very prosperous.
Zi Jue originally established the Academy, which has grown stronger after four hundred years of development. The collision of ideas and the emergence of the school also provided Zi Jue with a lot of luck. This situation was unexpected even by Zi Jue back then. of.
At this time, two groups of people were having a heated debate in the academy. Both sides had completely different views on the current war in the world.
On one side was a disciple of Confucius, who was loudly expounding his point of view: "The constant strife in the world is due to the collapse of etiquette and music. Those princes have no faith, have no justice, and violate etiquette. This is how the world is in chaos and the princes attack each other." , Even when the ministers become bigger, they take the official office instead."
"If everyone in the world abides by etiquette and is safe, how can it be like this?"
The Taoist disciple next to him heard this and laughed: "It has been more than 400 years since the Duke of Zhou has been practicing the Zhou rites and entrusting the world to implement the Zhou rites. But is there ever peace in the world?"
"Besides, who is the one who destroys the Zhou rites? The emperor of Zhou. The emperor does not respect the Zhou rites, let alone ask the people of the world to abide by them. This goes against human nature. From this point of view, the collapse of rituals and music is common to all the people of the world. Will, the world is so vast and powerful, how can you alone stop it?"
"Then according to what you said, just ignore it and let it develop and get worse? Then the world will be in chaos, disputes will continue, and the people will be displaced. Is this what you call letting nature take its course?" The Confucian disciples sneered.
"Use the law to restrain it!" The Legalist student next to him said directly: "Since the founding of Zhou Dynasty, all countries have believed that punishment cannot be known, and the power is unpredictable. However, unknown rewards and punishments are the way to cause disaster. The common people and officials only need to flatter Just be the king."
"If you want the world to be stable, you must use laws to restrain it."
"Rewards and punishments are clear, and rewards are based on merit. Merits will be rewarded, and mistakes will be punished. If people do not dare to cross the gap, the world will be safe."
The Confucian scholar smiled and said, "If your father breaks the law, what will you do?"
The Legalist scholar immediately said: "If the father breaks the law, he has his own law to do and cannot hide it. The son must perform meritorious deeds to atone for his sin."
The Confucian scholar sneered and said: "The lamb kneels down to breastfeed, the crow feeds back, the beast still knows the kindness of nurturing, you have done this, you are worse than the beast!"
Hearing what the Confucian scholar said, the Legalist scholars in the academy were angered and criticized one after another:
"The Jin Kingdom has helped the Zhou family many times because they are blood relatives of the Zhou family. Now that the three families are divided into the Jin Dynasty, the Zhou family canonizes the Qing family as princes. Is this what you call relatives hiding from each other? Is this what you call Zhou Rites?"
"Besides, when you came to the Academy, you were still from Jin. Now the Jin Kingdom was destroyed by the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei. Now you can sit in the Academy with such dignity. It's really shameless. Since you pay attention to Zhou etiquette and your family and country are ruined, why don't you see it? Are you Confucian scholars going to die for your country?"
According to Confucian concepts, family, country, father and son are important concepts and the foundation of rituals and music. When he told the story of Jin seriously, he was indeed in the wrong and was embarrassed for a while.
Other Confucian scholars argued: "There are wise kings and unwise kings in the world. Although we have the desire to serve the country, the king does not use it."
Although Confucianism admires the king, the king, the ministers, the father, the son and the son, the obligation is two-way. It's just that Confucianism has too high moral requirements for people. If everyone had such high moral standards, the world would indeed be able to achieve great governance. Unfortunately, this is just a delusion after all.
The concept of Legalism is more suitable for today's world. Legalism has clear legislation, clear right and wrong, clear rewards and punishments, rewards for merit and punishment for demerits, open and fair, and is more easily accepted as a rule.
Of course, Legalism is not without loopholes, that is, the monarch is above the law, and the monarch’s will can change the law. If the monarch is wise, he will naturally not change the law arbitrarily, but if the monarch is stupid and absurd, then the law can no longer guarantee its Fair and reasonable.
There was a lot of commotion in the academy, but it did not affect the pace of other countries, and the world was still in chaos.
