Chapter 820 The Weak Song Needs It, but the Strong Qin Does Not! Rule the People by Law and Educate the People with Virtue!

Ying Zheng was stunned: "Useless?!"

"My brother thinks that governing the country with filial piety is useless!"

Almost all the ministers from the Guandong region, including Lu Buwei, Han Fei, Li Si, and Wei Zhuang, advised Ying Zheng to govern the country with filial piety. The only difference was the method and purpose of implementation.

After careful consideration, Ying Zheng also believed that governing the country with filial piety was a very good way to govern the country.

But now, Ying Chengjiao said that this was useless and even advised him to give up? !

Ying Zheng had to wonder if the people from Guandong were joining forces to deceive him!

Ying Zheng asked solemnly: "Why do you think that governing the country with filial piety is useless?"

Ying Chengjiao shook his head: "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 weapon to rule the common people, and it can even be said to be the most handy tool."

"I don't oppose my Great Qin promoting filial piety."

"It's just that I think that filial piety is useless to my elder brother."

"I think that my elder brother can value filial piety and promote filial piety, but he should give up the idea of ​​treating filial piety as the foundation of governing the country."

Although filial piety has been deviated since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it has developed to the extent that Confucius would want to curse when he saw it in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had made Mencius, who highly praised filial piety and the goodness of human nature, so angry that he would fake his death, and it had a huge negative impact on this world.

But filial piety also played an extremely important and positive role in the stability of the Han Dynasty.

Filial piety is just a tool, just like benevolence, righteousness, law and other ideas. It is not good or bad. The key to determine whether it is good or bad lies in the means of implementation.

Unfortunately, the tool of filial piety needs a long time to start.

Ying Chengjiao thinks that the two brothers will probably not live to see the day when filial piety is truly deeply rooted in people's hearts.

In Ying Chengjiao's view, filial piety, a tool that can only take effect in the future, is basically useless for the complex environment faced by the Qin Dynasty today!

This can only be a legacy left by Ying Zheng to future rulers.

Ying Zheng relaxed a little, smiled and said: "Since my brother also thinks that filial piety is a handy tool, I am relieved."

"Brother, you want to take the doctoral policy not to punish, but to take the policy of the prime minister to promote, and use the Confucianism of Meng family in Guandong as the basis for rewards and punishments."

"Severe punishments and strict laws to punish unfilial people."

"Heavy rewards and promotions to reward filial sons."

"With rewards and punishments as a guide, people will naturally be filial."

"It will take no more than a few years for filial piety to be established!"

"When people's hearts are inclined to filial piety, my Great Qin can relax the laws and govern the people with filial piety!"

Ying Zheng imagined the beautiful scene after filial piety was deeply rooted in people's hearts.

The people's spontaneous filial piety to their parents will extend to obedience to their superiors and loyalty to the king.

At that time, the Great Qin no longer needed a huge official system to control the people, and the filial piety in the hearts of the people could manage themselves.

The Great Qin could not only allow a large number of elderly people to have a place to rely on in their old age, but also save a lot of salaries, and win the loyalty of the people of the world.

That would be so wonderful!

However, Ying Chengjiao sighed in his heart.

Sure enough, Ying Zheng's thoughts were very similar to the policies of the Qin Dynasty in history.

It was just because Lu Buwei was still alive, so Ying Zheng's means of promoting filial piety included not only punishment for filial piety, but also reward for filial piety, but that was all.

Ying Chengjiao asked back: "Just like my elder brother's filial piety to the Queen Mother can be recognized as a reward by the people of Guandong, so my elder brother is willing to be filial to the Queen Mother?"

The smile on Ying Zheng's face faded slightly, but he still nodded and said: "That's right!"

Ying Chengjiao asked again: "Does it make sense?"

Ying Zheng was slightly stunned: "What?"

Ying Chengjiao stabbed out a sharp lip gun: "My elder brother holds the power of reward and punishment, and he should know that severe punishment and heavy rewards are just means."

"Rewards and punishments can only guide the subjects to do, but cannot control their thoughts!"

"Rewards Punishment can make subjects act in a filial manner, but it cannot make them keep filial piety in their hearts! "

"For the country, severe punishment can force subjects to follow the law and practice filial piety."

"But for the country, the meaning of filial piety is to make subjects spontaneously compromise for the safety of their parents, and then obey their superiors and respect the king, and at the same time make subjects kind-hearted and love their elders and others. "

"If filial piety does not exist in the heart, what is the use of filial piety in the country!"

This is the reason why the Qin Dynasty has been vigorously promoting filial piety for a long time but has not made any waves.

People in the world just succumb to the punishment of the government, just like paying taxes and doing corvée, they have to pinch their noses to be filial to their parents. What's the use of this?

Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang with cooking and killing Liu Bang's father, and Liu Bang laughed and said: Give me a share.

Which of Liu Bang's subjects and soldiers betrayed Liu Bang because of this?

If you are not filial, then you are not filial. The Qin Dynasty is dead, who will be filial!

Therefore, for the Qin Dynasty, the filial piety that the Qin Dynasty vigorously promotes is meaningless, and will only increase the dissatisfaction of the people of the world with the Qin Dynasty!

Ying Zheng shook his head: "No!"

"Does everyone like war? People are greedy for life."

"But my Qin Dynasty has used the military merit system to make everyone in the Qin Dynasty like war."

"It can be seen that severe punishments and heavy rewards can not only influence people's actions, but also influence people's thoughts!"

Ying Chengjiao stabbed out his tongue sword with his backhand: "Brother, will you be filial to the Queen Mother in order to gain the support of the Guandong people."

"But if the Guandong people want the Queen Mother to die, will you kill the Queen Mother for the support of the Guandong people?"

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, and he is just pursuing profit.

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 a little colder: "Is this filial piety? It's just a matter of profit!"

"You can be filial for your own benefit, but you can be unfilial for your own benefit, and you can even pretend to be filial for your own benefit."

"Such filial piety is harmful to the family! It is harmful to the country! It is harmful to the world!"

"If we, Da Qin, really implement filial piety in this way, it won't be long before someone will 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.

Although they are a landowner and aristocratic family, they have to dig meat from their own 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 to give to 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 filial piety system of the Song Dynasty to complete their class jump, and endure it 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 in order to survive, then Ying Chengyu would even want such a Qin Dynasty to perish!

Ying Zheng's heart skipped a beat when he heard what Ying Cheng said: "Man and God are angry."

The weight of the ‘divine anger’ spoken by Ying Chengyu himself is self-evident!

Ying Zheng's voice unconsciously softened a bit: "Brother Nai and his subjects are different after all."

"No one in the world has such a profound conflict between Brother Nai and the Queen Mother."

"The example given by Brother Wang is not appropriate."

Ying Chengxuan shook his head: "The eldest brother has the world in mind, so he thinks that the Queen Mother gave birth to a son to threaten the eldest brother, which is a deep hatred."

"Subjects cherish one family at a time, so even a pot or a jar can cause deep hatred!"

"Furthermore, our country, the Qin Dynasty, has neither filial piety nor kindness. It is common for fathers to harm their sons and mothers to force their daughters."

"There are countless parents in Da Qin today who do not deserve filial piety from their children, but the eldest brother forces their children to be filial."

"I think this move will not inspire filial piety in my children, but will only inspire their anger!"

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 unworthy 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.

Moreover, 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: It's too cruel!

Ying Chengzhi pointed to the door of the palace and shouted solemnly: "If the eldest brother really enforces filial piety with 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!"

"If future generations of kings fail to control their filial piety and make their filial piety become more extreme, it will at least lead to the collapse of the Qin Dynasty. At worst, it will affect the whole country, and even lead to the invasion of foreign tribes and trample China!"

Ying Chengyu would never pretend to understand something he didn't understand, and he rarely expressed his opinions on government affairs.

Today, it is rare for Ying Chengxuan to talk about filial piety at length, and even talk about the impact of filial piety on the future with certainty. This abnormal performance makes it difficult for Ying Zheng not to suspect that Ying Chengxuan has been inspired by previous kings and even Emperor Tianhoutu!

Ying Zheng didn't think Ying Chengyu 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 such as Dr. Fei, Dr. Yue, etc. are of noble origin, and it is even more difficult for them to see the various aspects of people's livelihood."

"Even the prime minister has been away from the people for a long time, and he may have forgotten the situation he was in when he was a concubine."

"Thanks to Brother Wang's advice, Brother Nai didn't make a big mistake!"

Ying Chengyu raised a smile unconsciously: "As long as I can help my brother!"

Seeing 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."

"Of course, the law is most important!"

"We in Daqin should adhere to the core of governing the country according to the law and never waver, take the rule of law as the central idea that overviews the overall situation and guides all parties, and promote loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and trust as means of education."

"Rule the people with law and transform the people with morality."

"At the same time, we in Da Qin cannot use the foolish filial piety of Mencius' Confucianism as the standard. Instead, we should ask each school and school to give more consideration to the concept of filial piety with Da Qin characteristics, and clarify that 'the father is kind and the son is filial', and 'the little filial piety is filial to the family. , the filial piety program of "being filial to the country".

"Unfilial piety should be punished, but it must be taken into consideration when sentencing..."

Ying Chengyu poured out the thoughts he had been thinking 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?"

However, Ying Zheng took out a blank piece of silk from the case, held the pen in his hand, and smiled warmly: "Continue!"

Ying Chengyu: (▽｀)