The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 737 Xiyu Xiaolin
"Wow..." A baby cried. Lu Heng's body, which had been wandering around for almost a cup of tea, suddenly froze, and he instinctively turned his head to look at the 'delivery room'!
"Congratulations to the official family! Congratulations to the official family!" Wen Po trotted towards Lu Heng's direction, the wrinkles on her whole face were stacked together, obviously more excited than before.

All the ministers also unconsciously looked at this Wen Po. At this moment, all the senior officials of the Song Dynasty were paying attention to this little Wen Po.

"Congratulations to the official family on the birth of a unicorn!" Wen Po finally ran to Lu Heng's side to tell the good news.

"Rewards! There are many rewards!" Lu Heng was overjoyed when he heard that he was a son. When the first child was a daughter, Lu Heng had already prepared for both of them to be daughters. Even though they were twins, even Lu Heng knew The probability of twins is very low, I thought so at the time, fortunately I and Ling Ji were still young...

"Physician Qian! Physician Chen! Quickly check the situation of the queen and the baby!" Lu Heng still couldn't let go of his wife and child, so he asked Qian Yi and Chen Ziming to check on them immediately.

Lu Heng also entered the "delivery room" excitedly. The first thing he saw was Ling Ji, whose face was pale. He took a step forward and looked at his wife. At this moment, Lu Heng was filled with heartache.

"Official, is it a boy or a girl?" Lingji asked softly. Obviously Lu Lingji also knew the pressure she was under. She was very concerned about whether the child was a boy or a girl, and hoped to give birth to a boy for Lu Heng.

"Both sons and daughters, this time it's twins! Lingji! This time it's twins!" Lu Heng was so excited that he completely forgot that 'dragon and phoenix' is a word for later generations.

But this word is really easy to understand and it is too appropriate to use it here. Lu Heng is the Ninth Five-Year King and is naturally a dragon. Lu Lingji is a queen and is naturally a phoenix. The pair of children they gave birth to are naturally a dragon and a phoenix.

"Great! Great! I hope the official will give me a name!"

"I've already decided that the girl will be called 'Lu Xiyu' and the boy will be called 'Lu Lin'. Xiyu and Nishang are just like a pair of sisters, and Lin is a unicorn. I hope the child will be the unicorn after the Lu family!" Lu Heng said early. Just say the name you think of.

As someone who is incompetent in naming, Lu Heng thought for a long time before he came up with the name, because it is twins, naturally he had to prepare four names, namely 'Lu Xiyu' and 'Lu Qingyu' for girls, and 'Lu Qi' for boys. ’, as for choosing Lu Lin, it’s all because it sounds better than Lu Qi!

Originally, Lu Heng wanted to name it Guotai Min'an or something, but in the end it was either 'Lu Tai' or 'Lu An' and it felt... so he had to give up.

Seeing the two infants, both of them were smaller than Xiao Nishang back then, obviously caused by being squeezed in Lingji's stomach and being diverted from nutrition, they looked the same wrinkled and dark, but fortunately Lu Heng had already experienced it once. , as long as it is a newborn baby.

Like Lu Heng, those important ministers outside were as ecstatic. Now that Song Dynasty has an heir, it can be said that a big rock has fallen!
It is very important whether the heir is in this era or in later generations. If Da Song has an heir, he can avoid the subsequent turmoil. The rest is the cultivation of Xiao Lulin.

Lu Heng hopes that his son will not be just a scholar like himself, at least he must have the power to protect himself. Of course, how to become an emperor must be cultivated slowly. In short, choosing a teacher for his heir is on the agenda. Lin was just born, which was unavoidable for him as the eldest son of the emperor.

The birth of the little prince is universally celebrated. Although there is no unification, it is possible to achieve universal celebration under Lu Heng's rule. Some officials suggested to Lu Heng to "amnesty the world", but Lu Heng firmly rejected it.

There are two reasons. On the one hand, Da Song Xinjian has to establish prestige for many things, and "amnesty to the world" is a challenge to the law. Lu Heng thinks this is impossible!To establish the majesty of the 'law'!

The second is that I don't want to set a precedent, and later offenders can escape the punishment of the law just because of the royal 'happy event'. This is absolutely not advisable!
When Lu Heng expressed his thoughts, he sparred with the old master "Zhang Zhao" for a long time. It is very simple. The core issue is the fundamental issue of "rule of law" or "rule of benevolence". Zhang Zhao thinks that Lu Heng's thinking is too "Legalist" The rule of benevolence is missing.

The idea of ​​ruling the country with filial piety in the Eastern Han Dynasty is actually the rule of benevolence. There are too many examples in the Eastern Han Dynasty that filial piety and righteousness can control the law!

But Lu Heng believes that the rule of benevolence is uncontrollable, and individual "humanity" cannot be higher than the law. This is a typical legalist thought. For a while, the two forgot the prince's joy and began to spray each other. No one can convince the other!
Zhang Zhao gave an example of how the Qin Dynasty was destroyed by the harsh calendar, and the Song Dynasty must not repeat the same mistakes!
However, Lu Heng and Zhang Zhao chatted against each other for a long time, and found that Zhang Zhao's ideas are still very marketable, including the cabinet alone, Kou Yan, and Zhao Ding support Zhang Zhao's ideas, but obviously also support Lu Heng's concept of rule of law. Fan Zhongyan, Yu Yunwen, and Ding Wei supported Lu Heng, but in the end Zhang Hong believed that the law also needs human kindness, which is a matter of specific implementation and cannot be generalized.

Zhang Hong's words can actually be understood in two ways. The first is that 'privilege' is triggered under certain circumstances, which is still within the scope of 'benevolent rule'. For example, for example, killing someone to avenge his father, this is a 'specific situation'.

The second type is supplemented by more detailed laws, such as how to deal with serious crimes and so on.

It is not just a matter of thought, but also involves whether the fundamental policy of governing the country is "rule of law" or "rule of benevolence". Fortunately, even so, everyone agrees on the importance of law, so the general direction of the two sides is the same.

In the end, the debate slowly dissipated. In addition to the cabinet, the twelve important ministers also expressed their views one after another. The more people there are, the more ideas they have, but the general direction cannot be separated from these two. This proposition cannot be concluded in one discussion. Think a lot about the meeting.

When Lu Heng returned to the harem to see Ling Ji, he suddenly realized, why did he end up with Zhang Zhao?

Since Zhang Zhao and others were determined by their ideology, wouldn't it be enough to correct their thoughts from the source?Isn't that what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did when he deposed all schools of thought and respected Confucianism?

Thinking of this, Lu Heng felt that he started to grasp ideas at the beginning of the founding of the country, and needed a great Confucian who accepted his own ideas, but Kong Rong and Zheng Xuan couldn't use it. It seemed that he still needed to summon a thinker to use his own energy for him. Build momentum, and then slowly evolve a unified thought.

And this person must also become Xiao Lulin's Taifu. It's not that Yu Yunwen and others can't be Taifu, but that the cabinet is too busy with government affairs and teaching is a duty that requires full dedication!
Letting this person be a tutor represents one's own attitude. As long as this person's reputation is large enough to influence the mainstream thinking, he can use the energy of the court to slowly change the thinking of the world to solve this problem.

(End of this chapter)