"What is the family world? It is what you just mentioned, the emperor, the country that a family has inherited for generations, is the family world. So what is the family country world?"
"Family, country, world," comes from "Book of Rites and Great Learning". After cultivating the body, the family will be in order. After the family is in order, the country will be governed. After the country is governed, the world will be peaceful. This sentence means: improve self-cultivation, manage household affairs well, and govern the area where you are.
Finally, the whole country will be at peace."
As he said that, Zhou Buyi smiled softly, "But I want to redefine this sentence. To serve as a minister and the people, one should have the ambition and consciousness to have the world in mind. Only by having thousands of small families can unite a great country!"
Deng Ai's expression at this moment could no longer be described as ugly. He agreed with what Zhou Buji said. To put it simply, he wanted to be good to the people. However, Zhou Buji's words made him feel that he was too sensitive to Liu Cong's rule.
"Then according to what Mr. Wang said, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism have to be separated. Should we first love the country and then be loyal to the emperor?"
"Good!" Zhou Buji nodded.
"Shu Ru! According to what you said, ministers should not just risk their lives to remonstrate. If the king is wrong, even standing on the opposite side of the king is fine?"
Zhou Bujie replied calmly, "If it's for the sake of the thousands of people and the stability of the country, it's fine. Isn't Cao Cao, who is holding the emperor hostage to order the princes, just an example?"
"Arrogant! What kind of loyalty and patriotism is this? What kind of family, country and world is this? I'm going to report you to several deans! You dare to stand here and talk nonsense at the age of 18!" With that, Deng Ai took a step to leave the classroom.
In Zhou Buji's self-introduction just now, Zhou Buji also revealed his age, so Deng Ai was not convinced that even though he was only five years older than him, he dared to say such outrageous words.
"If according to your point of view, you are loyal to the emperor, patriotic, and respectful of your teachers, then even if I am wrong, you are guilty of disrespecting your teacher. Should I punish you?"
"You said that the Marquis of Chu can be the emperor. Now that the Emperor is still alive, if the Marquis of Chu becomes the emperor, can it be regarded as being loyal to the emperor and patriotic?"
Deng Ai's footsteps paused, and his angry face turned ugly again. He cupped his hands at Zhou Buyi as if he was constipated and said, "Student is rude, sir, please punish me."
"Come forward and punish you with thirty rulers!"
"promise!"
Deng Ai was also tough. Zhou Buyi, who was in his late thirties, did not hold back at all. Deng Ai endured it without even a single cry.
"Why do you hit Brother Ai!"
After Deng Ai was beaten, the ignorant Sun Shao didn't know where he got the courage to run up to Zhou Bujie and question him.
He didn't understand what Zhou Buji and Deng Ai were talking about, but he understood Deng Ai's defense of Liu Cong. Moreover, in the entire school, even since childhood, he only had two close friends, Deng Ai and Zhou Yuan.
"If you question the teacher, you will be punished by five strokes of the ruler."
Zhou Yuan couldn't sit still anymore. He ran to Sun Shao and prayed to Zhou Buji, "Sir, Sun Shao just entered school today and is not sensible yet. Please forgive him, sir."
Zhou Bujie showed no mercy at all, "No, this is the teacher-student principle, stand down!"
Zhou Yuan knelt down and said, "If you want to hit me, sir, hit me first!"
"If you obstruct the teacher, you will be punished with five strokes of the ruler. Because you two are still young, take off your pants and spank your butts."
Deng Ai, who was standing aside with his hands still shaking, moved his lips to say something, but in the end he just sighed.
After all, Zhou Yuan had studied for two years. Sun Shao, who had just entered the school, had no idea that the school would be like this. After being beaten, he burst into tears. The poor baby didn't know if it would leave a psychological shadow in the future.
Deng Ai squatted beside the crying Sun Shao and comforted him, "Brother Shao, don't cry. Come with me, let's go and file a complaint!"
The three little guys walked straight out of the classroom after being beaten. After learning what had happened, Sima Hui and the others actually got into a dispute over Zhou Buyi's class!
Sima Hui and Huang Chengyan thought Zhou Buji was right, but Liu Biao and Pang Degong thought it was sheer fart!
Liu Xian, who rushed to the president's office, saw an even more shocking scene. Huang Chengyan and Pang Degong were fighting! Liu Biao and Sima Hui were banging the table and arguing, and they were so quarreling that their faces were red.
Who could care about Deng Ai and the other little guys at this time? In the end, there was no other way, so Liu Xian had no choice but to report the matter to Liu Cong.
He was worried that Liu Cong would kill Zhou Buyi. What Deng Ai and Zhou Buyi said were treasonous and treasonous. But these days, who cares about treason and treason against the emperor Liu Xie. But if Zhou Buyi and Liu Cong wanted to kill him, it was just
Just one sentence!
After listening to Liu Xian's narration, Liu Cong fell into deep thought. Zhou Buyi! Unexpectedly, he was Liu Xian's nephew and was still under his rule. What Liu Cong never expected was that he could have such avant-garde ideas.
The emperor in the feudal era was actually more like a balancer, cracking down on the powerful landlords, stabilizing the people, developing people's livelihood, and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor. This was a macro balance.
Strengthen imperial power, check and balance major forces. Resist foreign aggression, expand territory, recruit talents, govern local areas, etc. This is a micro-level balance.
The day the balance is broken, just as Zhou Buji said, the people should rise up. They don't care about anything else. They only know that rebellion is a capital crime for the Yi tribe. Kill the emperor and make your own decisions. Only then can you go all the way to the dark side.
live!
In the end, very few succeeded, and those who benefited were often those powerful families. Before the empire collapsed, they absorbed the foundation of the empire, and after the empire collapsed, they still reaped the fruits of victory.
This creates a saying: a strong family and a flowing dynasty.
Of course, the emperors in the feudal era understood the simple truth of forcing the people to rebel, so a wise king would be good to the people. However, no matter how wise a king is, he also has selfish motives. The biggest selfishness is that the family's world can be passed on forever. This creates another problem.
Uncontrollable factors: Will future generations of kings be wise? Can they control their ministers? Can they govern the world well?
If you are not sure, then you should pave the way for future generations. Therefore, if Confucianism can prosper, you must be loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Is it wrong? The king of heaven and earth is his teacher. The king is under heaven and earth, and above his relatives and teachers!
So a series of measures were taken to strengthen the imperial power and educate the subjects. In summary, it is the outer saint and the inner king!
Use the principles of saints to teach the people of the world to be loyal and patriotic, and use the way of kings and dominators to rule their empires!
Of course, this cannot prevent future generations of kings from succeeding to sages. Otherwise, starting from the ancestors of the Han Dynasty, there would be a lineage for all generations.
But for thousands of years, every emperor's family that ruled the country did this. For the sake of the country's longevity, this was the only way to do it.
Is what Zhou Bujie said wrong? Yes, but in this era, this is a paradox in the eyes of most people. Because this is standing with the common people with imperial power and saying to them: I will be good to you.
If I do something wrong, you can resist me!
Throughout the dynasties, imperial power has been the will of God, which is in opposition to any other consciousness. No will can override imperial power.
In everyone's concept, the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, stars, grass and trees, and everything in the world belong to the emperor! The emperor is rich all over the world! Thousands of subjects are only part of the emperor's private property!
In Zhou Buyi's concept, the world belongs to the people of the world!