"Tornacle?"

After hearing this word suddenly, Zhang Cang didn't react for a moment, and was a little amused and irritated, "Brother Yang, the teacher asked him to catch a carp, not a turtle..."

"Oh?" Xunzi understood and said in surprise: "You actually realized the king's dominance?"

In history, Jixia Academy has been full of talented people and has staged many famous debates, especially between Xunzi and Mencius, where the dispute over ideas is the most intense, including the dispute between kings and hegemons, the dispute between etiquette and law, the dispute between justice and profit, the dispute between heaven and man, and the dispute between good and evil of human nature.

Among them, the most profound and important battle is the battle between kings and dominance.

On this Warring States Continent, the battle between kings and dominances is the fundamental difference between Xun and Meng.

The so-called kingly way is to rely on morality and ethics to educate the world with benevolence and righteousness, which means to conquer people with virtue; the so-called dominance is to rely on the power of force, and to use the name of benevolence and righteousness to suppress people with power and conquer heroes.

In a nutshell, "Those who practice benevolence with virtue are kings, and those who use strength are bullies."

Mencius firmly advocated the kingly way and pushed benevolence, righteousness and morality to the supreme position. He believed that as long as the king and sages could spread benevolence and righteousness and influence the people of the world, the mainland would naturally be unified. He was cruel and murderous and arrogant, which was something he despised.

Therefore, his disciples cultivated a great spirit and realized the kingly way of justice. The way of the Tao was vast and profound, majestic and unyielding, and had a sense of righteousness and glory, but lacked the desire to kill and focus on conquering people rather than killing people.

Whether you can truly practice benevolence and righteousness is not the case. The Meng faction often regards itself as a defender.

Xunzi's philosophy is even more complicated. He also advocates the kingly way, but in the face of the reality of force as respect, he clearly realized that lobbying countries and urging them to voluntarily promote the kingly way is unrealistic.

When a scholar meets a soldier, it will not work by just preaching the truth. In troubled times, only by defeating the other party first, forcing him to sit down and listen carefully to your reasoning will he be able to listen to your truth and accept it humbly.

If you don’t even have the opportunity to explain, how can you convince others?

Xunzi's proposal is that kings and domineering are in parallel, just like both etiquette and law, and does not reject each other's slightestness, but fully absorbs the advantages of the two, which have both the gentle and thick side of the kingly way and the domineering and fierce side.

Compared with the Meng School, the Xun School has a more powerful style and is not opposed to fighting bravely.

In order to distinguish it from the Haoranqi of the Meng School, the Xun School realized the Taoist meaning and was called the overlord energy.

In other words, at this moment, Yang Zheng was pursuing the overlord spirit and the root of the Xun School's method.

Yang Zheng closed his eyes and pondered, and sighed: "Let's start with fishing itself. Mr. Second, I agree with the words that the method of doing things is very important. It is unrealistic to expect the fire-scale carp to take the bait on its own initiative. If it is consumed like Mr. Big, it will only be futile."

When Li Si heard this, a ray of light appeared in his desperate eyes.

"As far as the master wants, does he support Mr. Xiao Bai? If this is the case, it is equivalent to supporting me in disguise. With his position in Xunzi's mind, if he is willing to plead for me, perhaps Xunzi will have a chance..."

Yang Zheng continued: "How to achieve the goal and let the fire-scaled carp take the initiative to take the bait is the key to the problem. The eldest gentleman treats everyone equally, and he can only wait for the literary talent; the second gentleman is eager to achieve success, and he kills innocent people indiscriminately when attacking martial arts. Both of them are not good at doing it."

Li Si's pupils contracted and his heart pounded.

What does this mean? With Yang Zheng's wisdom, he will definitely not be like Han Fei, who is not incompatible with the world and can easily offend people. But from his tone, he actually wants to choose the worst position and offend two people at once!

Everyone wants to please Li Si, but no one wants to buy it.

Xunzi narrowed his eyes slightly, and saw that Yang Zheng did not agree with Qingbai and asked interestingly: "What do you think should we do?"

Yang Zheng closed his eyes and replied: "Both gentlemen are too stubborn, sticking to their own ideas and unwilling to give in and compromise. In fact, there are many ways. As long as they are targeted and treat fire-scaled carp differently from other fish, they can avoid their own disadvantages."

Xunzi's interest is getting stronger, "Speak more specifically."

"The order given by my senior is that we must not be caught with force and will not be damaged by fish scales. The two gentlemen also guessed that the fish is for the patient to eat. So, it is better to make some adjustments and use force in other places, such as perception of divine consciousness, diving into the water, etc., and first determine the location of the five fish."

Zhang Cang listened in a daze, wondering what Yang Zheng said had to do with the turtle. All this was about carp!

"It is easy to do this with the two gentlemen's teachings. At that time, they will sit in the target position and fish with the most favorite bait of Fire Scale Carp. Is this method complicated? It's not complicated, can't they think of it? They just don't want to compromise."

Wen Qing respects his teacher and is the most honest and obedient. When Xunzi asked him to fish, he fished properly and did not dare to take any action. However, Xiao Bai dared to adapt, but he was rough and domineering, losing his compassion, and even blocked Wen Qing's path.

If Wen Qing knew how to adapt and Xiao Bai knew how to be awe, he would form the method Yang Zheng said.

This method is to go hand in hand.

Xunzi smiled, as if forgetting Qingbai's troubles of fighting fiercely, and said, "This method is indeed more clever. It has neither violated my orders nor waited, nor did Wen Qing have to wait, nor did Xiao Bai have to take any action. But what does this have to do with the king and the king?"

Zhang Cang stared at Yang Zheng in confusion and said to himself, "Yes, you still didn't mention the turtle!"

Yang Zheng replied: "Mr. Great Master pursues benevolence and righteousness, pity life, and opposes harm to the fish in the pond. This is the king's way. Mr. Second Master is strong in his means and does not hesitate to destroy all living things with violence in order to achieve his goal. This is the domineering. The essential difference between the way of king and domineering is not the goal, but the method."

Whether it is a kingly way or a domineering person, they essentially want to conquer the world and be respected by all the people. However, the former wants to persuade others to be convinced, while the latter wants to force others to be convinced, that's all.

"The advantages and disadvantages of the kingly way and domineering way are already very obvious, so I don't need to repeat them. In our opinion, both are just like the two gentlemen, both of them are too extreme and stubborn, and are unwilling to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses and recognize their strengths.

The method I proposed is to integrate kings and domineering into one and complement each other's advantages. These two seem to be tit-for-tat and difficult to reconcile. In fact, you only need to adjust the objects that use them, which is what I said earlier, to be targeted and treated differently, and you can live in harmony."

This statement has a profound meaning. Yang Zheng not only expressed the concept of kings and domineering parallelism, but also said it together how to parallelism. Finally, the four words "harmonious coexistence" clearly mean something else.

I don’t know when, Xunzi’s expression became solemn. After hearing these words, he was silent for a while and said four words.

"Please teach me."

Please teach me how to be targeted, how to treat differently, and how to train these two apprentices who are hard tolerant.

As a saint, he pioneered the domineering spirit and naturally knew the specific methods of practice the most, so there was no need to ask Yang Zheng. However, he was really poor in dealing with the relationship between Qingbai and the two, and he was helpless.

It sounds like Yang Zheng has a way.

Han Fei and others were dumbfounded and thought they had auditory hallucinations.

What? Xun Sheng is asking Yang Zheng for advice?!

They looked at Yang Zheng in shock and couldn't speak.

Yang Zheng still closed his eyes and said, "Let's talk about the way of kings and domineering first. This is the same as fishing. The key is that you cannot generalize. You have to separate the fire-scaled carp from other fish, use domineering against the target, and use the kingly way for innocent people."

Wen Qing’s mistake was to use the kingly way for all fish and wait for the target to take the bait by itself. Xiao Bai’s mistake was to use the domineering behavior for all fish. As a result, the target was indeed poisoned, but the fish in the lake also died together.
Chapter completed!