The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

"This is the Xusheng! This matter is not a matter of face, but a matter of "gifts". When Duke Huan of Qi defeated the Chu Alliance, he used the excuse that 'Ergon was incompetent'. It was just because the Chu State did not send gifts to the Emperor of Zhou. A kind of thatch, so the state of Chu was judged to have violated etiquette, forcing other vassal states not to dare to help the state of Chu. However, Confucius said that "if you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand up", which is to say that Confucian disciples do not follow the holy way of etiquette. Worthy of being a scholar!”

Ao Huang continued to be filled with righteous indignation and said: "You are a virtual saint who has blessed the human race. You should blame the Lei family, but no matter what, you should abide by the 'holy way of etiquette' of the human race, at least as the Lei family and not as the head of the Lei family." Congratulations. Humph, the Lei family is too arrogant, even worse than this dragon!"

"You know a lot about the scriptures of human saints?" Fang Yun said with a smile.

"Naturally!" Ao Huang raised his head proudly and said: "This dragon can even understand why you are different.' Self-directed luck' does not matter the Lei family's violation of etiquette, but 'Xu Sheng's lucky way' must follow the holy way of etiquette. ! If you don't care, , this behavior of 'Void Sage' is tantamount to telling the world that the Lei family is not at fault! You are also another form of violation of etiquette! You must point out as a 'Void Sage' that the Lei family has something wrong. Wrong! This is repaying grievances directly!”

Fang Yun didn't expect that Ao Huang actually said what he was thinking about.

This is the helplessness of life, or the process that every life must go through.

Sometimes, one's own words do not depend on one's own wishes, but on one's own status.

Only when you reach your true limit and reach the pinnacle of strength that no one can contend with can you break this bondage.

The teachers in the academy do not like the textbooks in the academy, and they feel resentful. However, as teachers, they must abide by the "etiquette" and teach students according to the academy's methods.

A soldier may not like the general's military tactics, but as a soldier, he must abide by "etiquette" and obey the general's orders.

As a general of the human race, since he is against the demon barbarians and knows that the demon barbarians are harming the human race, he naturally wants to attack the demon barbarians.

It is right for the demons and barbarians to invade the human race, but the generals of the human race can never say that the demons and barbarians are not wrong if they side with the demons and barbarians.

Human beings are human beings, and once they think about demons and barbarians, they are rebellious!

This is "ritual" and is the basic rule that all human beings must follow.

If there were no such rules, the human race would immediately collapse and become no better than monsters and beasts.

Xusheng must maintain the holy way of etiquette!

Fang Yun nodded and said: "If you were a human race, you could at least become a scholar!"

Ao Huang said angrily: "Is there anyone who scolds a dragon like this? This dragon is at least a Jinshi!"

Fang Yun ignored Ao Huang and continued to read the discussion list. More and more scholars criticized the Lei family.

Even the members of the clan who were in conflict with Fang Yun's Holy Way laughed at the Lei family for not even abiding by the most basic etiquette of the Holy Way.

Some people even retorted: "If someone from the Lei family is canonized, and Fang Yun, as a virtual saint, does not send congratulatory gifts, what will happen to the Lei family? Fang Yun will be arrested for violating etiquette!"

Fang Yun thought for a moment and wrote an article on the list, with only two sentences.

"If the Lei family doesn't treat me with courtesy, I won't treat the Lei family with courtesy!"

As soon as this article appeared on the discussion list, it immediately attracted support from many readers.

Some people support it with Xunzi's "There are three principles of ritual", some support it with Confucius's "If you don't learn ritual, you can't establish it", and some people support it with Mencius's "There is no ritual in the upper level and no learning in the lower level", which gave rise to the holy way of ritual. big discussion.

As the discussion progressed, the status of this article became higher and higher. Not only Juren and Jinshi joined, but even Hanlin began to join, and finally even a bachelor gave some advice.

Finally, under the article where four large characters appeared, it was obviously different from the ordinary text, and there was a faint white light around it.

"Ethics are flourishing!"

Wenzong’s conclusion!

Countless scholars rushed to tell each other. It is not convenient for a semi-saint to participate in this kind of discussion list, and Wenzong is almost the person with the highest status in the discussion list. On the surface, Wenzong said that the discussion triggered by this article is beneficial to the holy way of the human race, but in fact he is supporting Fang Yun.

If Wen Zong had not said anything to the contrary, the matter would have been settled.

Fang Yun looked at the signature, and it turned out to be Luo Jingting, the famous lazy Wenzong. The two had met once before, and it was he who went to Yuhai City to take away the "Three Character Classic" and send it to the Holy Court.

The Lei family's violation of etiquette continued to ferment, Fang Yun closed the Wenbang and went to have dinner with Ao Huang.

Ao Huang's appetite has always been a headache for the Fang family. The Fang family prepares a large amount of meat for Ao Huang every day. Sometimes it is too late, so they ask the restaurant outside the academy to deliver it.

Ao Huang first politely ate at the same table with everyone. After everyone finished eating, he ate up all the food on the table like a whirlwind, and then said: "One more table!" Then he started to eat the food that belonged only to him, the stew from the big pot. Meat, large pancakes, large plates of vegetables.

After dinner, Fang Yun walked around the yard with Yang Yuhuan and Nunu, chatting about home affairs.

After the walk, Fang Yun returned to the study and continued studying hard.

It was not until night that Fang Yun received a letter from the palace, and the ministers finally discussed his canonization.

Tomorrow, the monarch will confer Fang Yun as the "Gong of the State", which is equivalent to the second rank. When Fang Yun passes the palace examination, he can be made a first-rank county prince.

Fang Yun's status was also promoted from the original "cabinet walker" to "cabinet councilor", but he only had partial powers. Only by passing the palace examination can he obtain the full power of cabinet councilor.

If Fang Yun had the power of a cabinet councilor when he was a county magistrate, then in the entire Qingwu Prefecture, except for the prefect and the Mizhou Transportation Bureau, Fang Yun could have anyone escort any official he suspected to the capital for supervision. His power completely destroyed the fairness of the palace examination.

Fang Yun's contribution was real military merit, so he would have a fiefdom that truly belonged to him tomorrow!

As long as Fang Yun did not betray his country or rebel, as long as he lived, he would have the final say in everything in that fiefdom, and he even had the right to forcibly change some laws.

But compared with the fiefdoms of the aristocratic families, this is nothing. In some of the fiefdoms of the aristocratic families, there are only family laws, not national laws!

As for the ancient land, it is far more chaotic than the Shengyuan Continent.

For Fang Yun, the enthronement of Jingguo is actually a gift list of Jingguo.

Not only Fang Yun was canonized, but Yang Yuhuan was also canonized with the imperial edict of the third rank, and even Fang Yun's father was posthumously canonized, and was posthumously canonized as "Marquis", which was a great honor.

Some of Fang Yun's relatives were also rewarded, although they were all small ninth-rank titles, but they were enough to make countless people envious.

Fang Daniu was awarded the title of ninth-rank rural man, which was a great event for the Fang family in the past.

Although Fang Yun is now a Duke of Zhenguo, his mansion is built according to the highest standard of "Prince's Mansion", and even the fields, gardens, salaries, etc. granted by the royal family are all compared to the prince, which can be regarded as making up for Fang Yun's delayed canonization.

As for the most important "private soldiers", the court argued from afternoon to night.

The private soldiers of ordinary princes are only 300, while the private soldiers of military merit princes can reach one guard, that is, 3,000. However, the private soldiers of the title belong to the military and eat the salary of Jingguo, not private soldiers in the strict sense.

Only those who obtain private soldiers according to their literary rank are absolute private soldiers, and even the royal family has no right to order them.

Fang Yun is a Jinshi, but he is also a virtual saint of the Holy Academy, which exceeds the scope of Jingguo.

The human race has never given a virtual saint to a living person before.