Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

【Looking at Zhang Cang who was worried that Confucianism would have a dispute over which school of thought would be followed by others, Prince Fusu smiled and said,"Whether the schools of thought will split into multiple factions or have a dispute over which school of thought will be followed,"】

【"In the final analysis, there is only one reason, that is, no faction or any one route has absolute advantage or upper hand!"】

【"Internally, the power gap between the two lines, or multiple factions, is not big, and they are deadlocked and difficult to settle, so they can fight."】

【"However, if one of the eight Confucian factions has an absolute advantage and the upper hand, with the largest number of disciples,"】

【"Even if the number of disciples of the other seven factions added together is not as many as half of the number of disciples of the faction that has an absolute advantage."】

【"So, does Zhang Qing think that the eight major Confucian factions will continue to be divided as they are now? Or will they be unified by the faction that has an absolute advantage and the upper hand, and become one again?"】

【After thinking for a while, Zhang Cang gave his answer:"It should be unified by the faction that has the absolute advantage and the upper hand, and the eight factions will become one again!"】

【Prince Fusu smiled further and said,"So, Mr. Zhang, do you want your Xunzi school to become the mainstream among the eight major factions within Confucianism?"】

【"Is it possible to completely integrate the eight schools of Confucianism?"】

【As soon as these words came out, Zhang Cang's eyes suddenly widened.】

【As a disciple of Xunzi, how could he not want Xunzi's school to become the mainstream among the eight major factions within Confucianism?】

【And the complete integration of the eight schools of Confucianism has unparalleled appeal to every Confucian scholar!】

【For example, how attractive was it to Qin King Ying Zheng to conquer the six kingdoms, unify the world, and complete the great unification hegemony that the Qin Dynasty had longed for?】

【Then how attractive would it be for Confucian scholars to completely integrate the eight schools of Confucianism and make them become one again!】

【only......】

【Zhang Cang shook his head and smiled bitterly,"I dare not deceive Your Highness. I have naturally thought about making my teacher's thoughts the mainstream of Confucianism and completely unifying the eight schools of Confucianism."】

【"But this is so difficult!"】

【Who doesn’t want to achieve great unification?】

【However, King Qin Ying Zheng inherited the efforts of his predecessors, civil officials, military generals, and old Qin people for hundreds of years, but until now he has not yet completed the unification of the world.】

【Even in his opinion, his teacher Xunzi was comparable to Confucius, but even Xunzi failed to unify the eight schools of Confucianism.】

【And Zhang Cang was not even as good as his own teacher Xunzi. How could he have the ability to integrate the eight schools of Confucianism?】

【Seeing Zhang Cang frankly expressing his thoughts on completely integrating the eight schools of Confucianism, Prince Fusu's face was even more satisfied.】

【For Prince Fusu, his father wanted to unify the world, and he wanted to unify the writing, culture, currency, weights and measures, ethics and morality.】

【It can be said that great unification is the lifelong obsession of the Qin people!】

【Then, as one of his subordinates, Zhang Cang must naturally also pursue great unification, so that he can be considered a qualified subordinate of his Crown Prince Fusu!】

【Moreover, it was not difficult for Prince Fusu to let Zhang Cang unify the eight schools of Confucianism.】

【"It is not easy to make Xunzi's thoughts and words become the mainstream thoughts of Confucianism and completely integrate the eight schools of Confucianism."】

【Prince Fusu looked at Zhang Cang and said with a smile】

【Zhang Cang also understood what he meant, and immediately bowed to Crown Prince Fusu and said,"I beg your Highness to give me some advice!"】

【Seeing Zhang Cang being so sensible, Prince Fusu was even more satisfied with him.】

【Then Prince Fusu stopped pretending to be mysterious and said directly:"If you want to make Xunzi's thoughts and words become the mainstream thoughts of Confucianism and completely integrate the eight schools of Confucianism, you only need to do two things."】

【"The first point is that after establishing a complete, systematic and unified set of punctuation symbols, use this set of punctuation symbols to recompile and interpret the Confucian classics in accordance with Xunzi's thoughts!"】

【"Second, after re-editing and interpreting the current Confucian classics with Xunzi's thoughts, a unified country will promote them."】

【"In the future, within this unified country, the current Confucian classics will be rewritten and interpreted with Xunzi's thoughts and words, and they will become the orthodox Confucian classics."】

【"Apart from this, the thoughts and ideas of the other seven schools of Confucianism that have not yet been recognized by this unified country are all fallacies and heresies and are not allowed to be taught publicly within this unified country!"】

【"If anyone violates this rule, he will be punished with a thousand days of labor service for the first time, exiled a thousand miles away for the second time, and expelled from the Qin's ruling territory for the third time!"】

【"As a result, after a long time, Zhang Qing felt that the other seven Confucian schools that were not recognized by this unified country and were not allowed to teach publicly, could they continue to prosper and exist?"】

【Zhang Cang shook his head fiercely and said,"Of course not!"】

【Prince Fusu's approach was actually very simple. He used the power of the state to promote one of the eight Confucian schools, and then vigorously suppressed the other seven Confucian schools.】

【As a result, the other seven Confucian schools were forced to either merge into the school favored by the state in order to ensure the continuation and prosperity of their own schools of thought.】

【Either it can only be a private school between father and son, or between master and apprentice.】

【If you choose the former, the seven Confucian schools will exist in name only, and the eight Confucian schools will be reunited.】

【If the latter is chosen, even if the other seven Confucian schools do not completely disappear, they will no longer have a great influence, and the Confucian school that is promoted will completely dominate, and then become a school of its own.】

【This method is not something that no Confucian sages have thought of, and some Confucian sages have even tried it.】

【It is a pity that since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, almost no country has really used Confucianism to govern the country.】

【If Confucianism has not been truly used by other countries to govern their countries, then the various Confucian schools would like to use the power of a country to expand the influence of their own school of thought.】

【As well as suppressing and reducing the influence of other schools of thought, it naturally became a lie.】

【And what Prince Fusu just said meant that he wanted to use the thoughts and words of their Confucian school of Xunzi to govern the country?】

【Thinking of this, Zhang Cang couldn't help but asked excitedly:"Your Highness wants to govern the country according to the thoughts and words of my teacher Xunzi?"】

【As soon as these words came out, the eyes of Qin Wang Ying Zheng, who was standing next to Prince Fusu, also fell on Prince Fusu.】

【King Ying Zheng of Qin does not think that Prince Fusu would want to govern the country according to Xunzi's thoughts and words.】

【Because as early as the time when Crown Prince Fusu came back from inspecting the lonely old Qin people to discuss his gains with him, Crown Prince Fusu had already made it clear that among all the schools of thought, only the Legalists could help the Qin State achieve its goal of unifying the world!】

【Before that, if the Qin State was governed by the ideas of any other schools of thought, it would not only fail to unify the Qin State, but would also lead to its decline.】

【Therefore, Prince Fusu, who had such an understanding, would not have ruled the country according to Xunzi's thoughts before Qin completed its great unification.】

【Even though Xunzi's thoughts and words contain some Legalist ideas, this is still the case.】

【After all, how can Xunzi's thoughts, which combine Confucianism and Legalism, compare with the pure Legalist thoughts?】

【But Prince Fusu also said that after Qin unified the world, if the Legalists did not reform themselves,】

【Then the current legalists are also not suitable for the future unified Qin State.】

【So Crown Prince Fusu is now preparing for the future unification of the Qin State?】

【If the Legalists do not carry out self-reform after the unification of the Qin State in the future, then will the thoughts of Xunzi replace the current Legalist ideas of governing the Qin State?】

【Prince Fusu nodded, then shook his head and said,"Yes, and no!" (To read the exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

【"As I said before, the Qin State not only wanted to unify the whole country, but also wanted to unify other aspects."】

【"The unification of characters and punctuation marks has just been mentioned."】

【"What the Qin State also needed to do was to achieve cultural unification, or ideological unification!"】

【"The so-called great unity of thought means that no matter which of the various schools of thought are involved, a set of ideas and viewpoints must be recognized by all."】

【"For example: recognize the correctness and necessity of the great unification of the world, and oppose the current situation of the division of the countries."】[]

【"For example, if you agree with the authority and power of a monarch, the monarch must have supreme authority in the world and the power to absolutely control the world!"】

【"For example, they recognized their identity as descendants of the Xia people, promised not to betray the Xia people, and jointly fought against the barbarians, etc.!"】

【"After the Qin Dynasty unified the world in the future, it would set up academies like the Jixia Academy in various parts of the country to recruit scholars from all over the world to study."】

【"All the classic works of the various schools of thought that recognized this set of core ideas would be listed as one of the orthodox teaching contents of the Qin State's official schools, and special doctors of the various schools would be hired to teach the scholars in various schools."】

【"The Qin State would not actively suppress other schools of thought that did not agree with this set of core ideas."】

【"However, within the territory ruled by the Qin State, those schools of thought that did not agree with the core ideas of the Qin State were not allowed to teach publicly or recruit disciples, and could only exist in private!"】

【"If anyone violates it, as I just said, he will either be punished with corvée labor, exiled a thousand miles away, or directly expelled from the State of Qin."】

【"Moreover, the Qin State also refused to allow those scholars from various schools of thought who did not agree with the core ideas of the Qin State to serve as officials in the Qin State!"】

【"Therefore, if Xunzi's thoughts and words are to be reused and promoted in the future of Qin,"】

【"Then it depends on whether your re-edited and interpreted Confucian classics contradict the core ideas of the Qin Dynasty."】

【"If it does not violate the core ideas of the Qin State, then Xunzi's thoughts and works will naturally be listed as one of the orthodox ideas taught and studied in the Qin State."】

【"If it violates the core ideas of the Qin State, then either Xunzi, or you on his behalf, should modify Xunzi's ideas until they conform to the core ideas of the Qin State just proposed."】

【"Otherwise, Xunzi's thoughts can only be spread in a small circle of private circles in the future."】

【"Of course, it is not just your Confucian school of Xunzi that is like this. The eight schools of Confucianism and even the other hundreds of schools of thought will all be like this in the future!"】

【After listening to the words of Crown Prince Fusu, Zhang Cang's face turned pale and sweaty."｀.Your Highness, do you want all the schools of thought to cut themselves off in order to adapt to the Qin State?"】

【"Isn't Your Highness worried that this move will cause all the scholars to leave Qin?"】

【The thoughts of the various schools of thought are quite different, and some of them violate the core ideas just mentioned by Prince Fusu.】

【Prince Fusu's meaning is very simple. Either he changes himself to adapt to the core ideas of Qin.】

【Or they would change from a formal school to a private school, and only be able to pass on their own school of thought through three or two disciples, and would not be allowed to give public lectures, teach the Dao, or accept disciples.】

【If you don't want to change, but want to recruit a large number of disciples to pass on your own school of thought,】

【Then he could only get out of Qin and go to the barbarians, or other small countries that had not yet been unified by Qin to teach and recruit disciples.】

【Otherwise, if the Qin State discovered that they were openly teaching and recruiting disciples, they would either be punished with corvée labor, exiled thousands of miles away, or even directly expelled from the Qin State.】

【Zhang Cang thought that this behavior of forcing the various schools of thought to change and prohibiting them from teaching and accepting disciples would anger the scholars, and then cause them to leave Qin.】

【By then, a large number of talented people from various schools of thought would be lost, which would be detrimental to Qin's governance of the world.】

【Prince Fusu glanced at Zhang Cang, and his voice was still a little childish, but it was exactly the same as Qin King Ying Zheng's domineering and unquestionable:"It is the various schools of thought that serve the Qin State, not the Qin State that serves the various schools of thought!"】

【"If the various schools of thought want the Qin State to actively adapt to them, then they can, but they should defeat the Qin State first!"】

【"If you can't do it, then don't even think that Qin will bow to the various schools of thought!"】

【"As far as I am concerned, as far as my father is concerned, and as far as the State of Qin is concerned, it is only the various schools of thought that have taken the initiative to adapt to the State of Qin, but there is absolutely no reason for the State of Qin to take the initiative to adapt to the various schools of thought!"】

【"As for the various philosophers and scholars leaving Qin?"】

【"Zhang Qing thought, what was the purpose of setting up the Education Department?"】

【"Naturally, it is to cultivate the future talents of the Qin Dynasty, to make reserves for the talents needed by the Qin Dynasty in the future, and to prevent the possible departure of scholars from Qin in the future!"】

【At this point, Prince Fusu looked up at his father and made a request:"Father, I want to recruit those children who died on the battlefield for the unification of Qin and left behind only orphans and widows to study in the Education Department, is that okay?"】

【"Although the Qin State provided pension subsidies to the families of martyrs who died heroically, the life of orphans and widows was still difficult."】

【"Therefore, if the descendants of these martyrs could be recruited to study in the Education Department, on the one hand, it would reduce their burden, and on the other hand, it would also be possible to reserve the talents needed by the Qin State in advance."】

【King Qin Ying Zheng nodded slightly and said in a gentle tone:"Father has already said before that he will not interfere with the operation of your six ministries."】

【"If you think that your income from the six ministries can support so many young children to study in the Education Department, then you can do it."】

【It would have been fine if Prince Fusu hadn't said it before, but now that Prince Fusu had said it, King Ying Zheng of Qin suddenly realized something.】

【That is, the Qin State did not cultivate a talent system that was truly loyal to the Qin State, and basically relied on the voluntary service of hundreds of scholars.】

【As a desire for control���As a monarch, King Qin Ying Zheng would never allow himself to be shackled and controlled by the various schools of thought in terms of reserve talents.】

【Therefore, Prince Fusu's Education Department wanted to train exclusive reserve talents for the Qin State, so King Qin Ying Zheng naturally agreed to it.】

【Prince Fusu nodded happily and said,"Thank you, father!"】

【Then Prince Fusu turned to look at Zhang Han beside him and ordered:"Later, compile a list of the people around Xianyang whose fathers and brothers died in the battle and left only orphans and widows."】

【"When the imperial court transfers 10% of the profits from wool trading to the six ministries, you will calculate the amount of money that will not affect the normal operation of the six ministries and reserve some extra expenses that may be used."】

【"The remaining money and grain can be used to recruit as many children as possible to study in the Education Department. That is how many children can be recruited to study in the Education Department."】

【Zhang Han bowed respectfully and nodded,"Yes, Your Highness!"】

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