Chapter 1028: A Single Thought of Kindness without Considering the Consequences Is the Greatest Cruelty! Fusu Debates with Scholars!

Listening to Kong Yu's question, Ying Fusu was a little dazed.

As someone who was always with Ying Chengjiao, Ying Fusu knew better what kind of bloody storm had happened in the ancient Qi land.

In just eight days, 81 clans in the ancient Qi land were wiped out!

4,682 civilians died in the conflict, and 25,791 civilians were imprisoned in various prisons, ready to return to Xianyang City with Ying Chengjiao to be punished.

In the arrest operation, Ju, Chang and other tribes also paid the lives of 2,191 men!

This is just the loss of civilians, and the number of servants of various tribes who were arrested and killed is as high as 60,000!

However, this is not the end. With the Tang, Zhai and other tribes actively reporting the illegal and disorderly acts of other tribes, more people will be arrested and imprisoned next!

Kong Yu's problem today is exactly the problem Ying Fusu had yesterday.

Isn't it tyrannical to impose such a heavy punishment for killing?

Recalling Ying Chengjiao's answer yesterday, Ying Fusu did not answer but asked: "Kong Yu, do you think Chai Qingshan should be killed or not?"

Kong Yu frowned slightly and said: "Kong Mou has also seen Chai Qingshan's crime, and it does not seem to be false."

"Kong Mou thinks that Chai Qingshan is guilty and should be punished, but he should not be punished so severely, let alone implicate his family."

"A gentleman's kindness is long and his hatred is short. He only hates evil and only treats himself well, and his kindness is extended to his descendants."

"Chai Qingshan is indeed a gentleman. How can Chai Qingshan's evil affect his descendants?"

"This is a chaotic government!"

Kong Yu was not only dissatisfied with Ying Chengjiao's action this time, but also dissatisfied with the Qin Dynasty's system of collective responsibility.

The Qin Dynasty's system of collective responsibility and the system that relatives do not need to be collectively punished after reporting are undoubtedly a huge challenge to the Confucian concept of "protecting relatives from each other"!

Ying Fusu was a little dazed. Yesterday, he questioned Ying Chengjiao in the same way.

Subconsciously, Ying Fusu asked again: "If Chai Qingshan had killed Confucius Yu's parents, what would Confucius Yu do?"

Kong Yu said without hesitation: "Confucius said: Sleeping on straw mats and pillows, not serving as an official, not sharing the world with him! If you meet him in the market, don't fight with him!"

Confucius had already given a standard answer to this question.

Facing the great hatred of killing his father and mother, children should use straw mats as beds and shields as pillows, and don't think about serving as an official. Instead, they should think about revenge every day. If they meet the enemy on the road, they should copy whatever they have and kill the enemy at all costs!

Ying Fusu asked the third time: "If Chai Qingshan's descendants blocked Chai Qingshan, what would Confucius Yu do?"

Kong Yu still said without hesitation: "Kill them all!"

This is a hatred that we will not share the world with, whoever blocks us will be killed!

Ying Fusu nodded slightly, and asked a soul-searching question: "If that's the case, what's wrong with my uncle not fighting in the city and the court on behalf of the children of the victims?"

Kong Yu looked at Ying Fusu in surprise and said, "Why do you say that, sir?"

"If the people harmed King Zhuangxiang of Qin, then Lord Chang'an's revenge for his father is a righteous battle."

"But the death of King Zhuangxiang of Qin has nothing to do with the people. What does Lord Chang'an's killing of the people have to do with the hatred of his parents?"

Your question is so weird!

Ying Fusu said seriously: "After Qi surrendered to Qin, all the people of Qi paid taxes to Qin."

"Sun Bo and his sons all paid taxes to Qin. Qin accepted their taxes and money and promised to eliminate disasters and keep them safe."

"Chai Qingshan killed Sun Bo, Qin should avenge Sun Bo's death and avenge Sun Bo's son's parents."

"There are many people whose parents were killed by Chai Qingshan like Sun Bo's son!"

"Qin used the revenge for his parents to fight against Chai Qingshan, what's wrong?!"

Kong Yu was stunned.

When I debated with you about the way to govern the country, we talked about the world.

Look at what you are talking about? The revenge for parents, the way of knights! The pattern is too far apart!

Kong Yu refuted repeatedly: "Absurd!"

"What you said is the righteousness of the knight-errant taking money to eliminate disasters, but how can the court act like the righteous knight-errant!"

Ying Fusu asked back: "Isn't the court righteous? The court is also made up of people."

"The righteousness of the court is naturally born from the righteousness of people."

"Knights-errant have small righteousness, and the court has great righteousness."

"Knights-errant know how to take money from people to eliminate disasters for them, but the court takes taxes from the people but does not know how to keep the people safe?"

"Isn't the great righteousness of the country better than the small righteousness of the knight-errant!"

"Right is the foundation of being a human being, and it is also one of the foundations of governing the world!"

Kong Yu never tried to personify the country, nor did he consider that the country and the people could be in an employment relationship rather than a ruling relationship.

For a moment, Kong Yu could not refute Ying Fusu's words, so he could only ask: "Benevolence and righteousness are the foundation of governing the world."

"My lord, do you think that Chang'an Jun's action can be called benevolent?"

Ying Fusu said with a look of reminiscence: "I also asked my uncle yesterday."

"To create such a heavy killing, isn't this tyranny? This is unkind!"

"My uncle said: Only by fighting can we seek peace, and only by killing can we seek benevolence and righteousness. If Chai Lue is let go because of my uncle's kindness, it will not be able to let the victimized people rest in peace, nor will it be enough to make Chai Lue and other pests afraid of the law, so that Chai Lue and other pests will continue to harm the people. For the people who will be harmed by Chai Lue in the future, is this benevolence? This is cruelty!"

"My uncle told me: The one-minded kindness without considering the consequences is the greatest cruelty!"

Kong Yu frowned and fell into thought.

Chunyu Yue couldn't help but say: "Mencius said: Everyone has a heart of compassion, a heart of shame and disgust, a heart of respect, and a heart of right and wrong."

"To educate and remove the dust from the heart and awaken the original goodness is the way of education."

"To be kind without considering the consequences is a great cruelty, but to kill without education is even more tyrannical!"

Confucius did not have a clear judgment on whether human nature is good or evil, but Mencius clearly believed that human nature is good.

So in Chunyu Yue's view, everyone has the original good thoughts in their hearts, as long as they are educated, they can become good people again.

Ying Fusu looked at Chunyu Yue sincerely and asked: "The disciple is willing to ask for the uncle on behalf of the master."

"All the civilian prisoners who should be killed will be handed over to the master for education and punishment."

"However, if all civilian prisoners violate the law again in the future, their crimes will be implicated by the master."

"Are you willing?"

This question, Ying Fusu is serious.

As long as Chunyu Yue agrees to this matter, Ying Fusu will really ask Ying Chengjiao on behalf of Chunyu Yue.

However, facing Ying Fusu's sincere and earnest gaze, Chun Yuyue remained silent.

After a few breaths, Chun Yuyue sighed softly with a slightly difficult voice: "As a teacher, I cannot teach so many criminals, let alone teach them to be good and never do evil again."

If it was a year ago, Chun Yuyue might really accept this task, even if he was implicated and killed later, he would not be afraid.

But looking at Ying Fusu now, Chun Yuyue had serious self-doubts about his ability to teach his disciples.

They had many great Confucian scholars working together to teach Ying Fusu, but Ying Fusu grew up crooked because they were not careful enough. How could Chun Yuyue dare to say that he could teach tens of thousands of criminals to be good by himself?

Ying Fusu also sighed: "If even the Master is incapable of teaching them to be good, how can anyone in my Great Qin teach them to be good?"

"What the Master said may be right, but my Great Qin does not have the ability and talents to remove the dust from their hearts and rejuvenate their hearts to be good."

"If my Great Qin has this ability in the future, I will definitely advise my father to implement this policy as soon as possible."

"But now, in order to avoid being unkind because of kindness, I think my uncle's move is a last resort!"

In the side hall, Ying Chengjiao sat casually on the soft couch, listening to the voice across the wall and nodded repeatedly.

Seeing this, Qi Diaoli smiled and whispered: "No wonder Chang'an Jun dared to let Prince Fusu fight against the group of scholars alone."

"Prince Fusu has been with Chang'an Jun for only a few months, but he already has some of Chang'an Jun's style!"

Ying Chengjiao said casually: "The questions asked by the group of scholars are all questions that Fusu has asked me before."

"Now Fusu is just reading my answer again, what's the difficulty?"

Having said so, Ying Chengjiao's mouth couldn't help but rise.

The questions asked by the group of scholars did not exceed the scope of Ying Fusu's questions, and Ying Chengjiao did give his explanations for these questions.

But the details and angles asked by the group of scholars are different from those asked by Ying Fusu.

However, Ying Fusu gave reasonable responses and explanations that did not deviate from the main idea.

This is enough to show that Ying Fusu not only listened to Ying Chengjiao's answers, but also listened to Ying Fusu's answers in his heart, and even integrated them, and made those ideas into his own thoughts.

Which teacher doesn't like a good student who is serious, smart and can draw inferences from one example?

Taking a sip of wine happily, Ying Chengjiao happily listened to Ying Fusu's debate with a group of scholars, including Chunyu Yue and Yuan Shou, two of Ying Fusu's teachers, who were not inferior.

"Now Chang'an Jun asked the candidates in the imperial examinations whether Qin should be governed by fiefdoms or by counties. Has Chang'an Jun no longer concealed his desire to help the King of Qin rule the world with counties? In ancient times, the world was governed by fiefdoms, and the four seas were peaceful. Now Qin wants to rule the world with counties. Isn't this a move to destroy the country!"

Hearing this question, Ying Chengjiao finally put down the wine cup in his hand and said calmly: "It's time for me to come forward to greet the scholars."

This question is beyond the scope!

Ying Chengjiao has not yet systematically taught Ying Fusu on this issue, and now is not a good time to clarify the future ideas of Qin's governance.

It's time for Ying Chengjiao to come forward and continue to debate with the scholars!

But just as Ying Chengjiao started, he heard Ying Fusu's immature but firm voice: "I don't know what my uncle thinks, nor do I know what my father wants."

"I do know that in ancient times, the world was ruled by fiefdoms, but Xia, Shang, and Zhou all perished! There is no peace in the world!"

"County governance may not be a good strategy, but it is not considered a move to destroy the country, but only to help our Qin find a way to survive!"

Ying Chengjiao's eyes flashed with surprise.

Did I hear it right?

Unless I taught him, Ying Fusu, although he did not clearly support county governance, has already regarded the county system as a positive exploration?

Is this man really the prince of Qin, Ying Fusu!

There was an uproar in the main hall of the palace: "What nonsense!"

"You have been well-read since childhood, how could you have such an idea!"

"Dividing the world into fiefdoms is the wisdom of ancient times, and it is also the ritual system of Zhou Dynasty. How can it be wrong! What Prince Fusu said is really foolish!"

Ying Chengjiao's eyes condensed when he heard the words, and he suddenly pushed open the door of the palace. He looked around the whole place with a cold and sharp gaze, and said in a calm voice:

"The scholars are bullying the child."

"You are in a good mood!"