The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2091 Xiao Xingtan

"Please sit down, everyone." Fang Yun said.

Then everyone sat down obediently, some people even dared to sit only half of their buttocks, while the rest sat upright.

Respect like a god, fear like a saint.

Next, Fang Yun began to handle the government affairs of Xiangzhou. At first, it only involved the state government and the government offices of various prefectures, and later involved the government offices of various counties, and finally even pointed out some problems in towns or streets.

All officials admired more and more, especially some officials of the eclectic school, who almost worshiped in public.

The highest goal of the eclectic school was to "combine Confucianism and Mohism, combine the name and law, and penetrate all the ways of the hundred schools", but later found that this road was extremely difficult to follow. After Lu Buwei, the main direction of the eclectic school changed to become an official.

For the handling of government affairs, every eclectic scholar has a kind of pride in his heart. They even think that whether it is Confucianism or Legalism, including other schools in the inner court, they are far inferior to the eclectic school. Some eclecticists even believed that Confucianism was very suitable for education and for etiquette, but not for being an official, because Confucianists wanted to regard themselves as saints and officials as saints, which was absolutely impossible.

The eclecticists always believed that Confucianism had a wrong understanding of politics. Officials should be viewed from the perspective of people, restrained from the perspective of people, and required from the perspective of people. If officials were viewed, restrained, and required from the perspective of saints, this would be a complete disaster, and even become a fig leaf for Confucianism, which would eventually lead to a very serious crisis.

Some great Confucianists of the eclecticists once said privately that it was fortunate that the human race had the Holy Court and that Confucianism had power. If Confucianism lost its power, the bureaucrats would inevitably use the most despicable, ugly, and brutal methods to overthrow all the constraints of Confucianism, including "benevolent government", for their own selfish desires, and let officials be officials, not saints.

In fact, the fact that the eclecticists occupied the courts of various countries in the human race has proved a fact that the eclectic people are more suitable for politics.

In recent years, in the imperial examinations or various examinations, the content of Confucian saints and officials governing the country has been reduced, but the views of the semi-saints of the various schools of thought in history on politics have been increased.

It is not that Confucianism cannot control education, but that Confucianism has admitted that it is not as good as the various schools in terms of politics. Rather than letting the human race fall into crisis, it is better to reform in a slow way.

Innovators can be saints, and officials are just people.

When foreign enemies invade the human race, fighting against foreign enemies can be saints.

When the country is torn apart, unifying the whole country can be saints.

After stability, when external threats are weakened, those who can satisfy the human race's desire for food and clothing can be saints.

When the country is stable, we cannot look at the human race with the perspective of fighting against foreign enemies and when the country is in chaos, but we cannot deny the real heroes and saints in the chaos.

When the country is in chaos, those decadent and groaning, no matter how exaggerated they are, are not as good as a soldier, a weapon, or a machine.

The officials of the Miscellaneous School thought that Fang Yun might use Confucian methods to handle government affairs, but in fact, Fang Yun abandoned most of the ideas of "benevolent government", and also rejected the harshness of the Legalists, and threw all the dregs of the Miscellaneous School into the garbage dump, using more effective and more sophisticated methods to solve everything.

Later, no matter what Fang Yun said, all the officials remembered it word by word, not only the words, but also Fang Yun's tone and expression.

Soon, some officials looked intoxicated.

A crisp voice sounded.

The literary courage of an old Jinshi official finally reached the second realm.

However, no one was surprised and continued to listen to Fang Yun's way of governing.

After a while, a talent came from heaven, and a middle-aged Jinshi was promoted to Hanlin.

No one congratulated, but everyone was beaming, and even the person who was promoted to Hanlin himself didn't care, and only had Fang Yun in his eyes.

Unknowingly, all the scholars in the city gathered outside the Baling City Academy of Literature, and many scholars were even anxious to scratch their ears and cheeks.

Since the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, Baling City has become a famous tourist attraction for the human race. Many scholars who were teleported by the Sea Eye are still here, and scholars from various countries have set Baling City as the destination of their study tours.

At first, these scholars only wanted to wait to participate in the literary meeting held by Dong Wencong, but as more and more officials in the Academy of Literature were promoted, the scholars could no longer bear it and spontaneously went to the Academy of Literature.

For no other reason, they just wanted to know what means Fang Yun used to strengthen the power of others.

Later, this news spread on the discussion list and the human race. Many great scholars even did not hesitate to consume their talents and military exploits, and directly sent their divine thoughts to the sky above Baling City, wanting to hear what Fang Yun said.

Unfortunately, except for the officials in front of Fang Yun, even the great scholars could not hear a word.

However, these great scholars were shocked, and some of them even lost their ability to think.

On both sides of each Academy of Literature square of the human race, there must be two rows of apricot trees.

There were many places where Confucius gave lectures, such as Sishuiyuan, Zhushuiyuan, etc., but there was one place that Confucius liked the most, known as the Xingtan. Later, the Kong family built the current Confucius Temple on the original site of Xingtan.

The reason why it was called Xingtan was that before Confucius gave lectures, there were four apricot trees around, and even a cypress tree planted by Confucius himself.

There are some big trees in the Confucius Mansion Academy that are very strange because they have listened to Confucius or other saints’ lectures. They are honored as Mr. Trees, and even their leaves have extraordinary power.

But compared with the four apricot trees, Mr. Tree is just ordinary, and as for the cypress tree, it is regarded as a tree sage!

According to legend, the cypress tree was often nourished by the power of Confucius, and was full of knowledge and could speak human language. Logically, it should be a tree demon, but neither the Kong family nor the cypress tree itself admitted that it was a demon. They only recognized it as the 73rd sage disciple of Confucius.

Confucius had 3,000 disciples and 72 sages.

Although the four apricot trees were not as good as the sages, they were also extraordinary. Each tree only produced one fruit in ten years, named Kong Xing. Each fruit was regarded as a treasure of the Kong family and had always been a must-have for great scholars.

Now, the two apricot trees in the middle of the two sides of the Wenyuan Square have strange phenomena!

The other apricot trees are no different from before, but the two apricot trees are sprouting, growing leaves, blooming, bearing fruits, falling leaves, sprouting at a speed visible to the naked eye...repeating the four seasons of an apricot tree.

These two apricot trees seem to be shrouded by the power of time, favored by the long river of history, and growing rapidly.

Ordinary apricot trees can reach the height of three stories. The apricot trees in the literary academy are taller, four stories high, but now, the two apricot trees are ten feet high!

And they are still growing and rising!

The fallen leaves and apricots of the apricot trees fell to the ground and were quickly absorbed by the roots.

"Small apricot altar..."

Many great scholars rolled the same word in their throats.

This is a place that at least a half-saint can create, without exception!

Moreover, not every place where a half-saint lectures can form a small apricot altar.

Including this place, the human race has only sixteen small apricot altars so far, and the other fifteen are all places where saints lecture, and they have all lectured many times.

The small apricot altar will definitely be revered as a holy place by the Saint Academy and the human race!

Fang Yunyi, a great scholar, created a holy place!

Those great scholars who saw this scene were dizzy. This is not a single holy place for doctors or military strategists.

All the schools of thought respect it! .