Chapter 67: Fusu, the Master of Keeping Balance
Chunyu Yue and Master Wei both had serious expressions.
Chunyu Yue asked, "Sir, please tell me what we did wrong?"
Master Wei glanced at Chunyu Yue, snorted coldly, and also waited for Fusu's answer.
The gazes of the two gentlemen made Fusu feel pressured, but he remembered what his mother had said before, that we should look at things dialectically, seeing both its good and its bad points, and learning from its strengths to overcome its weaknesses, in order to come up with the correct answer.
Fusu gathered his thoughts and continued, "If we educate with virtue and restrain with law, and if virtue and law are used together, the world will be more stable. If ministers serve the monarch with loyalty, the monarch should be benevolent to them. However, if ministers make mistakes, they should also be punished accordingly."
Master Wei laughed loudly. What Prince Fusu said about rewards and punishments was actually leaning towards his Legalist school!
Master Wei glanced at Chunyu Yue with pride. This old man had worked so hard for so long, and in the end he was making wedding dresses for them.
Chunyu Yue glanced coldly at Master Wei, what a short-sighted person!
The Queen Mother wanted them to educate the people with Confucianism, but the Legalists only existed to correct mistakes. How could they be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people than Confucianism?
Both of them felt that they were superior.
Fusu, the master of keeping balance, winked at Ziying, and Ziying gave him a thumbs up.
After listening to the whole story, Ying Zheng's expression relaxed. After just three months of not seeing Fusu, he could be considered to have made some progress.
The combination of morality and law is quite new.
However, the problem with Confucianism is not just that its ideas are unrealistic. The reason why it was abandoned by the Qin State was more importantly that it challenged the Qin State's current system.
Ying Zheng would never allow the imperial power to give way to Confucianism.
"Your Majesty?" Lu Le called out softly. They were already at the door. Wouldn't the king let Prince Fusu come to see him?
"Go back!"
Ying Zheng was in a good mood at the moment. It seemed that sending Fusu over was indeed the right decision. That woman was indeed capable of teaching children.
It should be said that whether it is farming, being a person, or educating children, she seems to be doing well.
Gao Sheng watched the King of Qin leave, feeling somewhat regretful. He was reckless today and missed this opportunity. He didn't know when he would be able to gain the King of Qin's attention again.
However, since the King of Qin values the Queen Mother and Prince Fusu, it is only a matter of time before they return to Xianyang.
What surprised him even more was the Queen Mother's attitude towards the King of Qin. He had inquired about it and knew that the Queen Mother was accompanying Changping Jun out today, but wasn't it the King of Qin who came?
Why did the King of Qin ask him to conceal his whereabouts?
Gao Sheng had a bold guess! The Queen Mother had forgotten the King of Qin, or perhaps she had forgotten what he looked like, and the King of Qin had fabricated a false identity in order to get closer to the Queen Mother.
This mother and son are really interesting!
Therefore, when it came to selling Yong paper to Xianyang, the Queen Mother did not look for Changping Jun, but the King of Qin. Gao Sheng could not help laughing, as if he had already won the battle!
Zhao Yuanxi didn't know that his little secret had been discovered by a third person. He was currently studying their hybrid soybeans with Xu Yi.
Soybeans are self-pollinating crops with stable traits. If you want to cultivate hybrid beans with excellent traits, artificial intervention is required during the bud stage.
Zhao Yuanxi looked at Xu Yi, who was diligently pollinating flowers in the fields, and couldn't help but sigh, "You are truly the Mendel of our Great Qin."
Xu Yi was a little confused, not understanding what was going on. "Mendel is also a farmer? How come I've never heard of him?"
Zhao Yuanxi chuckled, "It's normal that he hasn't heard of it. He's not from our Great Qin."
Xu Yi felt a little regretful and asked curiously, "Could it be that what the Queen Mother taught me was learned from this person?"
"The first part you learned was compiled by him." Zhao Yuanxi nodded and added, "But don't even think about meeting him. He's not in this world."
Xu Yi looked regretful.
Zhao Yuanxi shrugged. It was impossible for her to capture that foreigner from thousands of years later!
When it was time for dinner, Zhao Yuanxi added a dish of fish soup for the two little ones.
Ziying stared at the little fish, a little disappointed, "Grandmother, are you going fishing?"
Zhao Yuanxi snorted, "Don't question your mother's fishing skills. This fish was not caught by me. Someone gave it to me."
"other people?"
The two children sat very close to Zhao Yuanxi. Ziying's nose moved, and he smelled a familiar scent. He curled his lips and said, "That annoying guy is here again?"
"You are disrespectful. He is your elder after all."
"He's just a nuisance!" Ziying was dissatisfied.
He still remembered that man who came to bully him and asked his grandmother to find a teacher for him when he left. It could be said that most of the suffering he was experiencing now was caused by him. Although Ziying did not hate studying now, his resentment towards him had not disappeared at all.
Fusu listened for a long time but couldn't figure out who they were talking about. He followed Ziying's example and came over to sniff the scent of his grandmother.
Fusu was stunned. He couldn't quite smell it, but he felt that the smell was a little familiar, as if he had smelled it somewhere before.
"Ziying, who is the annoying guy you are talking about?" Fusu asked softly with his head tilted.
Ziying ate the rice in his bowl and said vaguely, "It's that—that someone!"
Zhao Yuanxi was at a loss for words and knocked on his head. "What do you mean by 'who'? He has a name. The man is Changping Jun. Fusu should have seen him before."
Fusu sniffed it carefully again, and his doubts grew even stronger.
Uncle Mi Qi doesn't like incense, so how could his eldest mother be contaminated by the smell of incense? If there is anyone who loves incense, it is none other than his father.
The Xianyang Palace was filled with all the fragrances that my father liked, and he would even change the fragrance depending on who he was meeting.
But since the eldest mother said that the person who came was Mi Qi's uncle, then it was correct. Maybe the uncle was influenced by the father and started to be particular about things.
As soon as Ying Zheng, who was criticized by his own son, returned to Xianyang, he received news that South Korea had sent an envoy to Qin.
"Who is coming?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Prince Han Fei wishes to see the king."
When Ying Zheng heard that the visitor was Han Fei, he was overjoyed. He had wanted to meet Han Fei for a long time and now he finally got the chance.
Looking at Han Fei's works beside him, he could not help but sigh: "If I could meet this man and travel with him, I would not regret dying."
Li Si was filled with anger and helplessness. He leaned forward to congratulate him, "May the king get what he wants."
Ying Zheng laughed heartily and said, "Having Li Qing is like adding wings to a tiger, and having Han Fei is like having fish in water. I hope that the two of you can serve the Qin together. The matter of Han Fei entering Qin will be handed over to Li Qing."
"I obey your command." Li Si knelt down.
Han Fei's carriage reached Hangu Pass and suddenly stopped.
He was so righteous that he pointed at a young man and scolded him, "I told you not to follow me. You are disrespectful to the teacher and don't listen to the teacher. How should I punish you?"
Zhang Liang let Han Fei scold him, and when he saw that his anger had subsided, he explained, "I know you are worried about me, but I am also worried about your safety. How could you bear to leave me alone?"
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