Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

Li Xin shook his head with a smile, drove away useless thoughts, and said to Han Donghua: "I will not refute the fact that businessmen value profits for the time being, and I will talk about it later. I want to ask Mr. Han first, where did you come from for the businessman's treachery?" Listen, can you give me an example?"

Han Donghua was stunned. He was just saying it casually, so it's impossible to fabricate an example right now, right?

Zheng Bowen said: "Businessmen value profit and put profit first in everything. Naturally, it is easy to break the covenant. As long as there are enough interests, they can even treason at the expense of the country. This is well known in the world. Where do we need any examples?"

"That means there is no?" Li Xin sneered, "Both adults agree that businessmen are more likely to betray their trust than ordinary people, but they can't even mention a specific example. This is suspected of slander. On the contrary, the boy Here, there is an example of a businessman sacrificing himself to save the country, do you two want to hear it?"

Zheng Bowen didn't believe it, and said with a smile: "Could it be a story made up by King Chu?"

Li Xin shook his head and said, "Of course not. It's written in history books."

Is there such a story in the history books?

There was a whisper in the queue of the ministers. The vast majority of people didn't know what Li Xin was trying to say, only a few quick-witted people had their eyes lit up, obviously thinking of what Li Xin was referring to.

Unfortunately, Zheng Bowen and Han Donghua are not among the quick thinkers.

Seeing their confused faces, Li Xin smiled and began to speak.

This little story that is easily overlooked by people is very simple. It comes from "Chunqiu Zuoshi Zhuan", which is commonly known as "Zuoshi Chunqiu", a Confucian classic with seriousness and eight classics. If later generations hadn't read this short article when they were doing ancient prose reading questions, and had a little impression, Li Xin really wouldn't be able to tell this story at the moment.

According to legend, the State of Qin sent troops to attack the State of Zheng. When passing through the State of Hua, he happened to meet Xian Gao, a businessman from the State of Zheng who was going to do business in another country. Xian Gao immediately sent someone to give the Qin army four pieces of cooked cowhide as a gift, and then killed twelve cows to reward the Qin army. All in all, it is to serve Qin's army comfortably. So, the people of Qin State became stupid——I am here to sneak attack you, how can it be as if you have been waiting here to entertain me? You Zheng Guo will not try to deceive me, will you?

While entertaining the soldiers of Qin State and paralyzing them, Xian Gao urgently sent someone back to Zheng State to inform Zheng Mugong, who was the king of Zheng State at that time. Zheng Mugong immediately sent someone to check on the envoys of Qin State, and found that they were really planning to escape overnight, so he warned them stingingly. Seeing this scene, the people of Qin knew that Zheng Guo was prepared, and it would be useless to continue the sneak attack, so they left in despair. Of course, it was inevitable to wipe out Hua Guo to vent his anger when he left.

Don't ask why, it's an itchy hand. A weak country is so devoid of dignity, and every Chinese should be well aware of this.

After the story was told, Li Xin looked at Zheng Bowen and Han Donghua with a smile: "Where does this story come from, the two adults probably don't know? Did you say something wrong?"

Damn, "Zuoshi Chunqiu" has been moved out. As a Confucian, who hasn't read this book? Who here dares to refute?

Zheng Bowen and Han Donghua were silent.

Seeing this, Li Xin continued: "The grown-ups say that businessmen seek profits and are prone to betrayal. I don't agree with this. Zhuangzi once said that there is a way to steal. If you are a thief, you should be loyal, but don't you do it if you are a businessman?" May I ask, would you adults cooperate with a person without credit? Can a person without credit really become a profitable businessman?"

These few questions are not loud, but they clearly give people a deafening feeling.

Although all the people present were disciples of Confucius, Li Xin took out Zhuangzi's remarks to defend himself, and no one raised any objections. After all, Li Shimin, who is sitting on the throne now, has already regarded Li Erzhui, the real Taoist king, as his ancestor. As Chuang Tzu, who is almost named after Lao Tzu, his remarks are quite weighty here. No matter how much a person who respects Confucianism alone dares to say that Zhuangzi is talking nonsense in front of Li Shimin, otherwise he will be suspected of insulting the royal family, and the end will probably not be much better.

Li Xin stopped for a long time. After confirming that no one dared to refute his words, he smiled and continued: "Now we can talk about the businessman's heavy profit."

Zheng Bowen and Han Donghua felt a headache when they heard the words. They regretted that they underestimated Li Xin, thinking that they could take advantage of the chance that he had offended so many people by simply collecting a few crimes. Unexpectedly, not only does he not look like he will be knocked down now, but he also looks a little more courageous as he fights. The two of them couldn't stand Li Xin's one thing after another.

But Li Xin didn't care whether these two guys could withstand his heavy punches. He just wanted to spit it out today!

"I would like to ask the adults present, does the businessman's heavy profit really harm the interests of the common people?" Li Xin asked.