"Your Highness, how about I tell you about 'Kai Zong Ming Yi Zhang' in this class?"
The crown prince raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why, don't you talk about princes and sons of heaven?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "After talking about the 'Kai Zong Ming Yi Chapter', naturally we will come to the chapter of princes and emperors."
The prince leaned on the pillow behind him, raised his chin slightly, looked at Mr. Zhuang, and beckoned him to speak.
Mr. Zhuang didn't care about his attitude, and said respectfully as before: "Your Highness, you should have read the book "Book of Filial Piety" and even memorized it. Confucius said that filial piety is the foundation of all virtues. It is also the root of enlightenment, and if the people of the world are obedient, the emperor must have his supreme conduct and the most important morality, only in this way can the world be stable and the world return to his heart."
The crown prince was already tired of hearing these words, and Kong Jijiu had been talking to him while watching Kong Jijiu for the past few years, the crown prince listened absent-mindedly, and nodded perfunctorily.
Mr. Zhuang asked: "How does Your Highness feel today?"
The prince said without distraction: "Father is naturally wise and powerful."
Mr. Zhuang glanced at his expression and said with a smile: "That's right, Your Majesty is indeed wise and powerful. I am older than Your Majesty. Your Highness may not know it, but I have gone through two dynasties. In troubled times, I was studying in my hometown. Neighbors don’t say that they were forced to be drafted for military service, but other wealthy people in the same county also had to sell their properties due to excessive taxes.”
"Not to mention the chaotic times that lasted for nearly two hundred years, but the last emperor of the previous dynasty, the people also lived in unbearable hardship." Mr. Zhuang said: "After His Majesty ascended the throne, he conquered the Turks, Xueyantuo, and Huihe successively in terms of martial arts. , Gaochang, in terms of culture and governance, Mr. Tang, Mr. Li Shangshu, Mr. Wei, etc. have been sent successively to inspect the country and investigate the morality. They have worked hard in the past sixteen years and have never dared to slack off."
He said: "Your Highness used to be on duty in the Ministry of Household Affairs. You should know that at the beginning of the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, there were only two million households, but now there are three million households. You can imagine His Majesty's literary and martial arts. A wise sentence His Majesty Shenwu really deserves it."
The crown prince did not deny what Mr. Zhuang said, but he couldn't help but said: "These things Zhuang Shi said should be spoken in front of His Majesty."
Mr. Zhuang knew that the prince probably listened to these words more than the emperor. Whether it was good words or advice, if he heard the same words a lot, even if he knew it was reasonable in his heart, he would feel bored.
He took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, poured himself another cup, and then continued: "Your Highness, "Daya" says, Wu Nian Er Zu, Yu Xiu Juede, you are the prince, and you should cultivate yourself with the ambition of your ancestors. As for your own virtue, look at His Majesty's martial arts, shouldn't you learn from him?"
The prince took a sip from the teacup and smiled slightly. He glanced at the quiet tea room and saw that he had brought him here for a small class, so he knew that Zhuang Xun must have more to say.
He put down his teacup and asked, "My father is so good at martial arts and martial arts, but he didn't learn his ambitions from my imperial grandfather and cultivate his virtues. Is it wrong for Zhuang Shi to use my father as an example to teach me?"
He said: "It is Kong Jijiu. When he wrote the "Book of Filial Piety", he mostly taught the lonely king with the example of Han Wu Wenjing."
Knowing that the most important thing was coming, Mr. Zhuang couldn't help but sat up slightly and said: "Your Highness, the book is right, children are the continuation of blood, but we need to know one more thing, every child is an independent child. Your Majesty, Your Majesty is, and so is Your Majesty. Your words and deeds have also proved that you are not completely attached to your father. You will not completely obey your Majesty, and your Majesty will not listen to the late emperor. Go west, go west, go east. Then head east. Everyone has their own interests to weigh, and even more thinking about the world.”
The crown prince was slightly stunned, the words were a bit convoluted, and seemed to run counter to the original intention of the "Book of Filial Piety".
But Mr. Zhuang continued: "Filial piety is not called complete obedience to the ancestors. Saints sometimes make mistakes, let alone us ordinary people?"
He said: "Master Wei often admonishes his superiors like this, His Highness should also learn from father's good and bad."
The prince became more serious, and couldn't help but sit up slightly, put the teacup on the table, raised his eyes to look at Mr. Zhuang and asked, "Is there anything that Mr. Zhuang thinks I should learn from my father, and what shouldn't I learn from my father?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said: "Your Majesty has a lot to learn from His Majesty, let's talk about filial piety that is most worthy of His Majesty's learning."
The crown prince couldn't help but sneered, and asked, "Is filial piety the most important thing that a lonely king can learn from my father?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded slightly, and replied: "Yes!"
"What does Your Highness think is the highest wish of the clan? What is the most unified wish of the Li ancestors?"
As soon as the prince heard Mr. Zhuang say that what he should learn most is his father's filial piety, he didn't want to listen anymore, but because what Zhuang Xun said earlier was good, so he continued to sit and didn't leave, and asked along the way: "What did Shi Zhuang say?" What do you think?"
"As I said, Your Highness may disagree, so Your Highness might as well think for yourself," Mr. Zhuang said, "Imagine, Your Highness, that you are a father, and the Crown Princess gave birth to a son for you. What do you hope he will do in the future and what he will inherit from you?" Aspirations, what is the future of your children and grandchildren?"
The prince frowned.
Mr. Zhuang said: "The concubine is going to give birth in three months, right? The prince is a new father, maybe he doesn't know that raising children is not only enough to give them a name and give them clothes and food, but also to teach them how to behave in the world. , teach them how to read and write, and watch them become famous... "
Mr. Zhuang said sadly: "I missed a lot when I was young. Your Majesty was the most dangerous and busiest time when you were young. I'm afraid I don't have time to teach you, but I think that the hearts of all fathers are probably the same. , what kind of person does the prince want his child to be?"
Of course, it is to inherit his throne and pass on their Li family's world from generation to generation.
The prince thought so in his heart, and he also told Mr. Zhuang that way.
He will be the emperor in the future, and the crown prince has never shied away from this point. When he quarreled with Prince Gong, he even bluntly shouted that if he wanted to become the crown prince, he had to step on his corpse first...
So he never shied away from this point, the emperor and courtiers have long been used to it, even if someone hears it, no one will accuse him of this, unless he is training soldiers.
Mr. Zhuang laughed and said: "Your Majesty must have thought the same way, the former emperor must have thought the same way, and the ancestors of the Li family must have had the same hope. I hope that the Li family's world will be passed down for a long time. To achieve this, It must be that all the people in the world return to their hearts, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the emperor manages the people well, and the people believe in supporting the royal family... "
Mr. Zhuang was smiling, but he almost cried in his heart. He finally brought the topic to the right path. This student is really too difficult to teach, even more difficult than all the disciples he has taught before.