Chapter 820 The weak Song Dynasty needs it, but I, the strong Qin Dynasty, don’t need it! Rule the people with law and transform them with virtue!
Ying Zheng's eyes were stunned: "It's useless?!"
"Brother Wang thinks that governing the country with filial piety is useless!"
Lu Buwei, Han Fei, Li Si , Wei Zhuang and other officials from the Guandong region all advised Ying politicians to govern the country with filial piety. The difference was only in the method and purpose of implementation.
After careful consideration, Ying Zheng also believed that governing the country with filial piety is a very excellent way to govern the country.
But now, Ying Chengxuan said it was useless, and even advised him to give up? !
Ying Zheng had to wonder if the people from Kanto were uniting to deceive him!
Ying Zheng asked solemnly: "Why do you think that governing the country with filial piety is useless?"
Ying Chengxuan shook his head: "Brother, I don't think that governing the country with filial piety is useless. "
"In my opinion, governing the country with filial piety is definitely an excellent tool for ruling the common people of Li, and it can even be said to be the most convenient tool."
"My brother has no objection to my practice of filial piety in Great Qin."
"It's just that I think that filial piety is useless to the eldest brother."
"My brother thinks that the eldest brother can value filial piety and promote it. , but we should give up the idea of regarding filial piety as the foundation of governing the country.”
Although filial piety began to deviate from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, by the Song Dynasty it had developed to the point where Confucius wanted to scold his mother. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people like Mencius, who highly valued filial piety and the goodness of human nature, could be angered to the point of cheating, and it had a huge negative impact on the world.
But filial piety also played an extremely important and positive role in the stability of the Han Dynasty's regime.
Filial piety is just a tool, and ideas such as benevolence, righteousness, and law are generally tools. There is no good or bad theory. The key to determining whether it is good or bad lies in the means of implementation.
However, unfortunately, the tool of filial piety takes a long time to start up.
Ying Chengyu felt that neither of his brothers would survive the day when filial piety would truly take root in people's hearts.
In Ying Chengyu’s view, filial piety, a tool that will only be effective in the future, is basically useless in the complex environment that Da Qin faces today!
This can only be a legacy left by Ying Zheng to future generations of rulers.
Ying Zheng relaxed a little and said with a smile: "Since brother Wang also thinks that filial piety is a tool, brother Nai is at ease." The policy to carry forward is based on the Confucianism of Guandong Meng."
"Severe punishments and punishments for unfilial people"
"Rewards and promotions are generous, and filial sons are rewarded."
“With rewards and punishments as the guide, people will naturally show filial piety.”
"It doesn't take a few years for filial piety to become a reality!"
"When the people of the Qin Dynasty become filial, we can relax the laws and govern the people with filial piety!"
Ying Zhengchang imagines that filial piety is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Beautiful scene afterward.
People spontaneously obeyed their parents, which extended to their obedience to superior officials and loyalty to the king.
At that time, the Qin Dynasty no longer needed a huge official system to control the people, and the filial piety in the hearts of the people could manage themselves well.
Da Qin can not only provide a large number of elderly people with something to rely on, but also save a lot of salary, and win the loyalty of people all over the world.
That is so beautiful!
However, Ying Chengyu sighed in his heart.
Sure enough, Ying Zheng’s thoughts were very different from the original policies of Great Qin in history.
Just because Lu Buwei is still alive, Ying Zheng's method of promoting filial piety not only includes punishment for filial piety, but also rewards for filial piety, but that's all.
Ying Chengxuan asked: "Just as the eldest brother is filial to the Queen Mother, he will be recognized and rewarded by the people of Guandong, so the eldest brother is willing to be filial to the Queen Mother?"
The smile on Ying Zheng's face faded slightly, but he still nodded. Said: "Exactly!"
Ying Chengyu asked again: "Does it make sense?"
Ying Zheng was slightly startled: "What?"
Ying Chengyu thorn He spoke sharply: "The eldest brother holds the power of rewards and punishments. He should know that severe punishment and heavy rewards are just a means."
"Rewards and punishments can only guide the subjects' actions, but cannot influence their thoughts!"
"Rewards and punishments can make the subjects do filial piety, but they cannot make the subjects retain filial piety in their hearts!"
"Yu For a country, severe punishment can force subjects to behave filial piety according to the law. "But for a country, the meaning of filial piety is to force subjects to spontaneously make compromises and obey for the safety of their parents." Shangguan, respect the king, and at the same time make the subjects feel good and love me and others.”
“If filial piety is not in the heart, what is the use of filial piety to the country?”
This is the reason why Da Qin has vigorously promoted filial piety for a long time without causing any waves.
People all over the world just succumb to the punishments of the government, just like paying taxes or doing corvee labor and have to hold their noses and be filial to their parents. Is this of any use?
Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang by cooking and killing Liu Bang's father. Liu Bang smiled and said: Give me a piece of the pie.
Which of Liu Bang's subordinates and soldiers turned their backs on Liu Bang because of this?
If you are not filial, you are not filial. The Qin Dynasty is dead, who will be filial!
Therefore, for Great Qin, the filial piety strongly promoted by Great Qin is meaningless. On the contrary, it will aggravate the dissatisfaction of the people of the world against Great Qin!
Ying Zheng shook his head: "No!"
"Are all people warlike? Greed of life is what people want."
"But I However, the Qin Dynasty used the military merit system to make everyone in the Qin Dynasty warlike. "It can be seen that severe punishment and heavy rewards can not only influence what people do, but also what they think!" Ying Chengyu stabbed him back! Tongue Sword: "The eldest brother will be filial to the Queen Mother in order to gain the support of the Guandong people."
“But if the people of Guandong want the Queen Mother to die, will Big Brother kill the Queen Mother for the support of the people of Guandong?”
Ying Zheng was speechless!
If Ying Zheng answers that he can, it means that even if Ying Zheng openly obeys filial piety, filial piety is useless to Ying Zheng. He is just pursuing interests.
If Ying Zheng answers that he won't...he won't believe it himself!
If we can really gain stability in Guandong, not to mention sacrificing a Zhao Ji, even adding a few more sons to Ying Zheng will be a waste of money!
When Ying Chengyu saw this, his voice became colder: "Is this filial piety? It's just a matter of self-interest!"
"You can be filial for self-interest, you can be unfilial for self-interest, or even It is a pretense of filial piety for the sake of profit. "Such filial piety is harmful to the family! It is harmful to the country!"
"If we in Da Qin really implement filial piety, it will not take long. Some people do all kinds of things that are outrageous to both humans and gods!”
Looking at "The Biography of Xiaoyi in the History of Song Dynasty", we can see too many jaw-dropping things.
Obviously they are a landowner and aristocratic family, but they have to dig meat from their thighs to feed their parents to show their filial piety.
When there was a drought, he cut his wrists and fed his blood to his parents, but completely ignored the river more than ten miles away.
A ruthless person even cut open his own abdomen to find the 'miracle medicine' from his own intestines for his sick parents!
Are they really filial?
Maybe some of them are really filial, but in Ying Chengyu's view, the vast majority of them are just using the Song Dynasty's filial piety system to complete their class jump, and endure for a while for the benefits, resources and aura of being a 'filial son'. Seek the benefits of life in spite of the pain!
The weak Song Dynasty needed such a group of subjects to let the incompetent people in power sit back and relax.
But Qiang Qin doesn’t need it!
If the Qin Dynasty has declined to the point where it needs its subjects to be so ignorant and crazy to survive, then Ying Chengyu would even want such a Qin Dynasty to perish!
Hearing Ying Chengyu’s words that ‘man and god are angry’, Ying Zheng’s heart skipped a beat.
The weight of ‘divine anger’ spoken by Ying Chengyu himself is self-evident!
Ying Zheng's voice unconsciously softened a bit: "Brother Nai and the subjects are different after all."
"No subject in the world has such a deep relationship between Brother Nai and the Queen Mother. Contradiction."
"The example given by Brother Wang is not appropriate."
Ying Chengyu shook his head: "The eldest brother has the world in mind, so he thought that the Queen Mother gave birth to a son to threaten the eldest brother. It’s a deep hatred.”
"The subjects cherish each family, so even a pot or a jar can cause deep hatred!"
"And our Qin Dynasty has neither filial piety nor kindness. It is commonplace for fathers to harm their sons and mothers to force their daughters."< br>
“I don’t know how many parents in Da Qin today are not worthy of filial piety from their children, but the eldest brother forces their children to be filial.”
“The younger brother thinks that this will not inspire filial piety in the children, but It will only arouse the anger of the children!”
After more than two thousand years of baptism in the culture of kindness and filial piety, there are still many parents in later generations who are not worthy of being parents.
Not to mention Da Qin, which had never promoted a culture of kindness and filial piety before!
Using the law as a weapon to force children to obey their scumbag parents will only make conflicts more intense.
And Ying Zheng’s legal requirements for filial piety are indeed too strict.
Even those well-known filial sons and scholars from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties traveled to the Qin Dynasty, and when faced with the complex and heavy filial piety punishment in the Qin Dynasty, they had to cry out in grief: It’s too cruel!
Ying Cheng pointed his finger at the door of the palace and shouted solemnly: "If the eldest brother really enforces filial piety through severe punishment and heavy rewards, then all the resentment of the children of the world against their unscrupulous parents will be transferred to our Great Qin court! ”
"Once the kings in future generations fail to control their filial piety and make their filial piety become more extreme, at least it will cause the collapse of the Qin Dynasty. At worst, it will affect the whole country, and even lead to alien invasions and trample China!"
If Ying Chengyu encounters He never pretends to understand something he doesn't understand, and he rarely expresses his opinions on government affairs.
Today it was rare for Ying Chengyu to talk at length about filial piety, and even talk about the impact of filial piety on the future with certainty. This abnormal performance made it difficult for Ying Zheng not to doubt that Ying Chengyu had won over previous kings and even Huangtian Houtu’s advice!
Ying Zheng didn’t think Ying Chengxuan was being alarmist, but he was just worried.
"What brother Wang said is true!" Ying Zheng said with emotion: "Brother Nai has been living in the palace for a long time, and it is difficult to see the suffering of the people."
"Doctors like Dr. Fei, Dr. Yue, etc. are of noble origin, and it is even more difficult for them to see the various conditions of the people's livelihood."
"Even the prime minister has been away from the people for a long time, and he may have forgotten his situation when he was a concubine."
“Thanks to Brother Wang’s advice, Brother Nai didn’t make a big mistake just now!”
Ying Chengyu raised a smile unconsciously: “As long as I can help my brother!”
< br>Looking at Ying Chengyu’s uncontrollable smile, Ying Zheng also had a smile on his face: “Do you think, brother Wang, that I, Da Qin, should give up on filial piety?”
Ying Chengyu's smile unconsciously faded, he sat up straight and said solemnly: "I think there is nothing wrong with being filial."
"However, the law is the most important thing!"
"We, Da Qin, should insist on it. The core of governing the country according to the law remains unshakable at all. The rule of law is the central idea that oversees the overall situation and guides all parties. Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and trust are both used as means of education. "
"Rule the people with law and virtue. Transform the people. "
"At the same time, we in Da Qin cannot use the foolish filial piety of Meng's Confucianism as the standard. Instead, we should make all schools and schools think more about it, form a concept of filial piety with Da Qin characteristics, and make it clear that "Father" The principle of filial piety is that "a small filial piety should be filial to the family, and a big filial piety should be filial to the country".
"Unfilial piety should be punished, but when imposing punishment, it must be carefully considered..."
Ying Chengyu revealed the thoughts he had thought about for a long time, but Ying Zheng raised his hand and said: "Wait a minute!"
>Ying Cheng was slightly stunned: "Is what I said wrong?"
Ying Zheng took out a blank piece of silk from the case, held the pen in his hand, and smiled warmly: " Continue! ”
Ying Chengyu: (▽｀)
(End of this chapter)