A moment later, Goukuang appeared in front of Zhao Dan with two disciples and saluted respectfully to Zhao Dan: "I have seen the king."

Zhao Dan looked at Goukuan carefully, and couldn't help but feel a little excited.

This is Xunzi, the legendary schools of thought finally made Zhao Dan see one.

Xunzi, whose name is Kuang and whose courtesy name is Qing, was a native of Zhao State. He was a thinker, writer, politician, and a powerful Confucian scholar in the late Warring States Period. He served as the sacrificial sacrificial resident of Jixia Academy three times. A few years ago, he was invited by the Chu State Order Huang Xie to be the Lanling Order at the invitation of the Chu State Order Chunshen Jun.

Not only was Xunzi a famous scholar in this era, but his disciples were also quite good at learning. All three disciples taught were famous.

Some people may ask, as a time traveler, who is not good at using Zhao Dan to use, and actually went to use a Confucian scholar to reform? I am afraid that this history has not been learned well.

Actually, it's not the same thing.

Xunzi, even within Confucianism, is a very controversial person.

What is the controversy? It is with the two young men in front of Zhao Dan.

The black-capped scholar saluted Zhao Dan with a respectful tone: "Li Si has seen the king."

The young scholar also bowed: "Han, Han Fei met, and saw the king."

Zhao Dan nodded with a smile and said, "No need to be polite, just sit down."

Although these two young scholars were not well-known in this era, Zhao Dan could describe these two people as thunderous.

Li Si, a powerful Legalist, and the prime minister of Qin in the late Qin Shihuang, once wrote the very famous "Letter of Admonition and Exile of Guests", which assisted Qin Shihuang in completing the great cause of unifying the world, vigorously promoted the same track as the carriage and the same track as the documents and the unified weight and measure system, and was one of the founders of the two thousand years of great unification.

Of course, Li Si also has black spots. The biggest black spot is that after Qin Shihuang's death, he was coerced by the eunuch Zhao Gao and tampered with the edict and made Hu Hai the second emperor of Qin.

But in general, if you look at the black spots, Li Si, the Xiangbang, is undoubtedly a very outstanding Legal official and a very outstanding Xiangbang.

But in terms of reputation in later generations, Li Si is not even as good as the brother standing beside him.

Han Fei, a Korean prince, an outstanding thinker, philosopher and essayist.

Han Fei combined Shang Yang's "law", Shen Buwei's "art" and cautious "moment", and was the master of Legalism's thoughts.

Han Fei integrated Lao Tzu's dialectics, simple materialism and law. He attached great importance to materialism and benefitism ideas, and actively advocated the theory of monarchical autocracy, with the purpose of providing the idea of ​​enriching the country and strengthening the army for the autocratic monarchs, and providing a theoretical basis for the birth of the first unified and authoritarian centralized country in China.

The emperor of the ages, Qin Shihuang attached great importance to Han Fei's thoughts and regarded "Han Feizi" as the essence of Qin's rule.

"Records of the Grand Historian" records: Qin Shihuang saw the book "Lonely Anger" and "Five Worms", saying: "Alas, I will never be hated when I see this person wandering with him!"

In order to allow Han Feizi to enter Qin, Qin Shihuang even launched a war against South Korea, which eventually led Han Feizi to enter Qin as an official.

But Han Feizi was devoted to Han, and the strategies he offered after entering Qin were all about weakening Qin and surviving Han. After being exposed, he was imprisoned, and then he was poisoned to death by his fellow disciple Li Si who was standing beside Han Feizi at this moment.

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Yes, Xunzi is such a magical person.

He is obviously a powerful Confucian figure, but he has taught two Legal giants that have shocked the past and the present.

It is precisely because of this that some people even do not recognize Xunzi as a Confucian scholar, but believe that Xunzi is a Legal scholar.

This is mainly because Xunzi, a man, added many Legal elements to Confucian thought and theory.

Of course, this is not surprising, because the collision of thoughts will always spark, and then everyone will learn from me and I learn from you, and finally you have me and I have you.

To change the words of the famous figure Comrade Kong Yiji, it means: "Can scholars be called copying?"

Of course, for these thinkers, it is obvious that the word copying is neither respectful nor appropriate. It is more appropriate to learn from others' strengths and integrate them into one's understanding.

Xunzi talked about the theory of evil nature and carried out a certain degree of integration of the ideas of Confucianism and Legalism. Therefore, he was severely criticized by many Confucian powers in the Jixia Academy and had to leave the Jixia Academy to go to Chu State.

However, Xunzi's approach was still very far-reaching, and it set a precedent for the cooperation between Confucian and Legal schools. What Confucian skin and legal bones played by Zhang Tang and Dong Zhongshu in the Western Han Dynasty? The Spring and Autumn Prisons should have been influenced by Xunzi.

Therefore, Xunzi has a very high reputation. He has some of his fans in Confucianism, and many people in the Legalists have a good impression of him. He also served as the sacrificial sacrificial sect in the Jixia Academy, which is equivalent to the leader of the world's literary world.

What Zhao Dan wanted to use was a very special reputation like Xunzi.

In later generations, people often like to criticize Confucianism as if Confucianism has bound the Chinese nation for two thousand years. Without Confucianism, the Chinese nation had long been unified the world.

This is wrong.

Materialism tells us that when dealing with everything, we should look at it dialectically, and we should see its shortcomings and its advantages.

Any theoretical idea is ultimately just a tool for the emperors to rule. Whether it is used well or not depends entirely on how the emperors use it.

Confucianism is such a tool that was chosen by the emperors and eventually evolved into strange things under the preferences of the emperors.

If a person does something wrong with tools, he should first hold people accountable, rather than hold tools accountable.

You can’t just say that a knife is bad just because a person uses a knife to kill someone, and should be denied.

Just as the commonly used sentence "History is just a little girl at the mercy of others", Confucianism is actually such a little girl at the mercy of others.

Of course, given the initiative of Confucianism, it seems that it is called a "little girl who actively merces herself according to the preferences of the king", and there seems to be nothing wrong...

Confucianism has many black spots, but actually has many advantages.

In fact, all the pre-Qin schools of thought have both advantages and disadvantages.

As Zhao Dan knows, there is no perfect and impeccable thought theory in this world, and there is no one.

In Zhao Dan's view, it is not just Confucianism, nor is it just Legalism. All the schools of thought can be used by Zhao Dan.

Using the Legalists to strive for strength, using Confucianism to be gentle, using military strategists as war, making the Mohist schools as laborers, and allowing farmers to farm...

Let all schools of thought go their own way and shine, contribute their own strength to Chinese culture, let Chinese culture shine the most dazzling brilliance in the collision of various schools of thought, and ultimately dominate the world completely.

This is Zhao Dan’s true vision!

But as Xunzi in front of Zhao Dan said in "Xunzi: Encouragement of Learning": "If you don't accumulate small steps, you can't reach a thousand miles."

Everything has to take the first step.
Chapter completed!