Chapter 158: Whether to raise or not to teach, the father's fault

Chapter 158: Whether to raise or not to teach, the father's fault

  Chapter 158 Raising or not teaching, the fault of the father

  East Palace, Xiande Hall.

  Emperor Li Shimin, who was in the early court, was delivered a message by Wang Kai, the young supervisor in the palace. After hearing the news, Li Shimin was in a daze for a long time, as if he couldn't believe it.

   "Qin Lang kidnapped King Wei? Forbid the crown prince and other students from the Chongxian Hall to enter the hall? And beat the students' guards? What is Qin Lang going to do? Is he going to rebel?" The emperor opened his eyes wide and blew his beard angrily.

Wei Wang Li Tai, because he adopted him to his third brother Xuan Ba ​​as his heir when he was two years old, so Li Shimin always felt that he owed this son who was a direct son. Now that he is the emperor, he naturally wants to get this son back and choose someone else for Xuan Ba. Ba Chengsi, the terrific son who is usually precious, was **** and beaten by Qin Lang today?

  The emperor's eyes burst out with murderous intent.

The young supervisor in the hall replied tremblingly, "It is said that the owner of the Qin Hall made a rule yesterday that the students of the Chongxian Hall must arrive at the hall before five o'clock and five o'clock, otherwise they will be late and will not be allowed to enter the hall. Today, His Royal Highness, Prince Wei and other hall students They were all late, so they were refused to leave the hall, King Wei sent guards to knock on the door, and collided with the owner of Qin in words, but was ordered by the owner of Qin to be tied up..."

   "It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable." Li Shimin was furious, "Wei Wang is only seven years old, and he can do it."

   "Qin Lang ate the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard? Dare to treat princes and kings like this?"

   "Come here, pass the decree, send thousands of cattle to prepare for this kid, and bring this kid to the palace for questioning!"

The morning court is not over yet, although the morning court is just a routine ceremony and does not discuss any matters, but there are more than two hundred regular officials attending the meeting, and the prime ministers are sitting in front of the incense table under the emperor Yuchi, not far from the emperor , They still heard the emperor's voice.

  Secretary Cheng and Political Counselor Wei Zheng asked very bluntly, "May I ask what happened, Your Majesty?"

  Li Shimin's face was displeased, "The minister collided with the prince and kidnapped the prince, Wei Zheng, what crime do you think should be done!"

   Wei Zheng held up the jade wat, "I don't know what happened, so I can't judge."

   "You just said that a courtier collided with the prince, and what crime is it to kidnap the prince?"

"Your Majesty, the Wu De Law has already stipulated that my ministers above the third rank of the Tang Dynasty do not have to get off the horse and salute when they see the prince. Who is it?" Wei Zheng said.

"Didn't you hear it just now? You asked the question knowingly. It was Qin Huailiang who bumped into the crown prince and kidnapped King Wei." Li Shimin said very dissatisfied. , Li Tai's brother-in-law, now dare to disrespect the prince and King Wei so much, how can it be justified? Is this worth it?

  Wei Zheng let out a cry.

   "It turns out that Your Majesty was talking about Qin Lang, so where did this collision happen?"

   "Chongxian Pavilion!"

   "Oh, Chongxian Hall."

   "So what about the Chongxian Pavilion, can Qin Lang be respectful and disorderly in the Chongxian Pavilion?" Li Shimin asked.

Wei Zheng said disapprovingly, "Your Majesty, Qin Lang is a scholar of the Chongxian Academy, and the crown prince and King Wei are students of the Chongxue Academy. Since the incident happened in the Chongxian Academy, then the prince and King Wei are students of Qin Lang. The teacher punishes the students in the academy. , it should be respected, otherwise, in the museum, only the monarch and ministers are discussed, regardless of teachers and students, so how can we teach and solve doubts?"

"I heard a few words just now, the prince Wei Wang was late first, and then Wei Wang contradicted the teacher, and Qin Lang punished them. I thought Qin Lang was not only innocent, but deserved to be commended. Only such a teacher can Teach good students."

  Li Shimin still refused to accept.

After the Xuanwu Gate incident, he is now very concerned about his identity, especially worried that everyone will not accept him. Cheng Qian is his crown prince, and King Wei is his favorite prince. If the ministers are rude to them, it will also hurt him. majesty.

"Even if Qin Lang is a scholar of the Chongxue Academy and a teacher of the kings, he is still a courtier. In terms of rank, the ranks of the kings are far above Qin Lang. Even if he teaches the prince, he should have a limit. Kidnapping the prince? Prince? Pass!"

"Your Majesty, there is no rule without rules. Qin Lang had announced the rules of the hall yesterday, declaring that students should not be late. Today, the crown prince and the princes and other students are still late. How can Qin Lang be punished because of it? If he didn't announce the hall rules yesterday According to the rules, today’s punishment is called punishment without teaching, and now it’s just that the princes and kings have violated the rules of the museum.”

  No matter how angry Li Shimin was, Wei Zheng was still drooling, insisting that Qin Lang was not only innocent, but deserved a reward.

   Li Shimin blushed in anger.

   "Xuanling, Keming, you two are here to judge, who is right and who is wrong, Wei Zheng or Wei Zheng?" Li Shimin asked for help.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui also understood the cause and effect of the matter early on. They were surprised by Qin Lang's boldness, but also admired Wei Zheng's uprightness. After thinking about it, Fang Xuanling said, "I think today's matter is a trivial matter. Although King Wei was late, it was the first time that King Wei's words had offended Qin Lang, but he was young after all, and as the head of the hall, although Qin Lang had the right to punish the students, it was obviously too harsh."

"I think that you can send someone to pass the oral instructions to reprimand the late prince and the kings, etc., and then persuade Qin Lang who is too strict, and then let the prince and the kings enter the hall for class, and pay more attention to it in the future. good."

  Fang Xuanling is obviously a kind person, and it can be seen that the emperor especially favors the crown prince and King Wei.

   Li Shimin is in a much better mood.

   As a result, Wei Zheng refused to accept it.

   Splashed at Fang Xuanling, complaining that he is a prime minister, but he has no principled stand, and said that etiquette cannot be broken. If today's bad start is made, what authority will Qin Lang, the museum owner, have in the future? Which student will respect the teacher again in the future?

  If there is no teacher today, will there be no king in the future?

   These words hurt Li Shimin.

  He flicked his sleeves and couldn't leave the morning. He ordered all the officials to follow him to the Chongxue Hall to find out.

  The emperor disbanded the court angrily, and rushed to the Chongxian Hall with all the officials, because the Chongxian Hall was located in the East Palace, not far from the Xiande Hall.

  But when the emperor came to the Chongxian Gate in front of the Chongxian Hall, he found the gray-haired Prince Shaobao, Prince Zhan Shi, and Li Gang, a scholar of the Chongxian Hall, in front of the door.

  A green mat was spread out in front of the door, and Li Gang, who was in his eighties, sat on the floor in a Confucian robe.

  Li Shimin stopped involuntarily, and wanted to step forward to help Li Gang.

  Li Gang raised his head and asked, "Your Majesty came here because Bachelor Xiao Qin punished the Crown Prince and King Wei?"

   "I am indeed here for this matter."

   "Then please return, Your Majesty!"

   Li Shimin was stunned.

   "Why did Mr. Li say that?"

   "If Your Majesty doesn't want the Chongxian Hall to be abandoned once it's opened, please go back."

   Li Shimin stood there without moving, but Li Gang did not give way at all.

But after all, Li Gang was the teacher of the princes of the three dynasties. He is over eighty years old, a generation of famous Confucianists, has always been upright, and famous in the court and the public. , I can't do anything to this old Li now.

  The scene was a little awkward for a while.

  The ministers who followed did not dare to talk too much at this time.

for a long time.

Li Gang said slowly, "I was in Zhan Shifu just now, and Scholar Chu Zhi came to me and said that something happened in the Chongxian Hall and asked me to deal with it. After I arrived, Qin Lang met me, and he said a few words to me, I'm still thinking about it."

  It seems that it is not easy to make a great Confucian like Li Gang think for a long time.

  Li Shimin couldn't help but become curious.

   "I don't know what kind of sophistry Qin Sanlang said to Mr. Li?"

  "It's not sophistry, but the truth."

Li Gang slowly recited the words Qin Lang said to him just now, with ups and downs, "At the beginning of human beings, nature is good, and nature is similar, and habits are far away. Mother Meng, choose a place next to you. If a child doesn’t learn, it’s the fault of the father. If the teacher is not strict, the teacher is lazy..."

  Over there, Wei Zheng slapped his hands when he heard that it was the father's fault, the father's fault, the lax teaching, and the teacher's laziness.

"Okay, well said. I didn't expect Qin Lang to say such famous words. I saw Qin Lang's poems before, and thought they were quite talented. But compared with today's ones, the insignificance is insignificant. Based on this In a few words, he is more than enough to be the owner of the Chongxian Pavilion."

  Although Li Shimin is said to be the king on horseback, he is well-educated in literature. How could he not understand the meaning of this passage?

Over there Li Gang sighed and said, "Qin Lang is right. At the beginning of a person's birth, the nature itself is kind, just like a piece of white paper, and the nature is similar. It's just that the acquired environment and the education received are different. Different, each other's habits gradually formed a huge difference."

"If there is no good education, the nature of kindness will go bad. In order to keep people from going bad, the most important way is to educate children well. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Mencius' mother moved three times, just to let Mencius had a better learning environment. Mencius refused to study hard, so Mother Meng broke off the weaving loom to educate Mencius."

"Parents who only provide for their children's food and clothing but do not educate them well are the parents' fault, and they are by no means qualified parents. And those who only teach lessons without strict requirements are laziness as teachers. "

   "Your Majesty, do you think what Little Scholar Qin said is right?"

   Li Shimin was speechless in the face of Li Gang's question.

  Can he say it’s wrong? No, because Qin Lang’s words are too reasonable, especially when he used the story of the Confucian sage Mencius as an example.

"Your Majesty, if you go through this gate today to ask Qin Lang for your crimes, then it is not the love of father and son, but poisoning the prince and the kings, and harming them. If your majesty passes through this gate today, minister Li Gang can only be with the little one." Scholar Qin resigns together!"

  Li Shimin was silent for a long time.

  Wei Zheng was there and said, "Dare to ask Mr. Li, is there a follow-up to what you just said? I feel that these three words are concise and to the point, as if they are specially made to teach enlightenment children and students."

  Li Gang replied, "I also asked Bachelor Xiaoqin the same way, and he said that this is an enlightenment article he is thinking about after taking over as a scholar of Chongxianguan. It is called the Three Character Classic, and it has not yet been completed."

Li Shimin was finally no longer silent at this time. He first bowed to Li Gang, thanked Li Gang for his teaching and persuasion, and then said, "Tell Qin Lang, I am waiting for the full text of his Three Character Classic, and the Chongxian Hall will hand it over to you in the future." Hosted it for him."

   After speaking, the emperor turned around.

   walked a few steps, then turned back.

   "I pass on my decree, from now on, no matter if you are a prince or a king, not only must you pay homage to the teacher in the Chongxian Hall, but even if you meet him outside the hall, you must get off the horse and salute."

   "Qin Lang taught with all his heart, and I am very comforted. I specially reward Qin Lang with a thousand pieces of silk and a thousand sticks of jute paper from Yizhou in the middle of Shu."

   "Wei Wangtai fined his salary for one year."

   "The crown prince and the king of Wei are on duty today as guards and followers, and they are all responsible for twenty sticks."

   After speaking, Li Shimin left the Chongxian Pavilion with all the officials.

  (end of this chapter)