As Guo Jia's voice sounded, the scrutiny eyes fell on Guo Jia.

Guo Jia obviously did not drink today. He was wearing a Confucian robe, handsome and handsome, with a bit of a celebrity style, but with a pair of eyes, he was a bit arrogant and unruly. He ignored everyone's eyes and came straight to His Highness and bowed to Liu Xie: "My minister, Guo Jia, see Your Majesty."

Yang Biao, Ding Chong, Sima Fang and others are familiar with this person who often appears around Liu Xie recently. Yang Biao has seen Liu Xie chat and Guo Jia more than once. At this moment, he is even more displeased with this person when he sees Guo Jia ignores all the court officials.

"Are you the prodigal son of Yingchuan?" Ding Chong narrowed his eyes, and said coldly as if he was a senior instructing his disciples. "Since your Majesty favors you, you should assist Your Majesty and support the Han Dynasty. How can you make a witch to deceive the Holy Listen?"

Guo Jia stood up, his eyes fell on Ding Chong, and he smiled slightly: "It turned out to be Youyang Gong, but I don't know why Youyang Gong said this, and how could Jia bewitch the saints?"

"Hmph!" Ding Chong said angrily: "Your Majesty has never had such an idea since he ascended the throne. Now he suddenly issued a recruitment order. If it weren't for the villain who deceived the holy ear, how could this edict of chaos in the country betrayed?"

"Young Yang Gong's words are wrong." Guo Jia smiled and said, "Although Your Majesty is young, he is a wise king. If he is really a witch, how can he be easily bewitched?"

"As for the edict of chaos, how can we start?" Guo Jia shook his head and smiled: "Since we want to revive the Han Dynasty, we should naturally have a large number of virtuous ministers. Your Majesty recruits talented people and orders, and all the wise men from all over the world come to join us. If there are wise men entering the court, the revival of the Han Dynasty is expected, how is it an edict of chaos?"

"Absurd!" Sima Fang said angrily: "Why is this a matter of recruiting talents and only asking for talent but not virtue?"

"This is indeed the case." Guo Jia nodded and said, "Who can be without mistakes, but only because of his virtue, he will abandon the virtuous and use mediocre talents, wouldn't it be ridiculous?"

"What's ridiculous about my great Han Dynasty governing the country with virtue?" Ding Chong shouted sternly: "Isn't this a paradox of the rule of law of ancestors?"

"Young Yang Gong's words are wrong, so take our dynasty as an example. You should know how God's virtues are. But you will eventually own the world and establish the foundation of the Han family for four hundred years. Chen Ping and Han Xin have all had flaws in virtue, but they helped Emperor Gaozu achieve great achievements. Why do you ignore it? Our Han Dynasty showed virtues and filial piety outside the territory, but internally, they were bound by laws. If one place was taken as an example, those who had lost virtues could make the people rich and well-dressed, and those who had high moral character but had no worries had no worries, but they could not make the people under their rule live in peace. The refugees were everywhere. No matter how high their virtues were, what would be beneficial to the people?"

"You..." Ding Chong was suffocated by Guo Jia's words, pointing at Guo Jia, but he couldn't say anything to refute.

"But Fengxiao had you ever thought about it?" Zhong Yao took two steps forward, glanced at Guo Jia coldly, and said in a deep voice: "What Fengxiao said is all talented to support the country. However, Guo Jia is just a prodigal son in Yingchuan, who is always in shape, what qualifications are there to compare with these predecessors?"

"How did Duke Chang of Yuan know that Jia has no talent to support the country?" Guo Jia shook his head and smiled.

"You?" Zhong Yao glanced at the country disdainfully: "Wen Ruo regards you as a friend, or has some weird talent. What he sees today is like the likes of Su Qin and Zhang Yi, but if you want to compare with your ancestors, you will be overestimated."

"It seems that Yuan Changgong thought that Su Qin and Zhang Yi were just a lobbyist?" Guo Jia looked at Zhong Yao and said.

"Yes, it seems that Fengxiao has different opinions."

"I dare not." Guo Jia said: "It's just that Su Qin, who once admired the seal of the six kingdoms, Zhang Yi, was the prime minister of Qin twice. In Jia's opinion, these two people are really heroes. As for comparing with the sages, Jia thought it might not be possible."

"Confucius once said that disciples do not have to be inferior to teachers, and teachers do not have to be as good as disciples. People today may not be inferior to those of the ancients. Just imagine, if scholars in the world are not as good as those of the ancestors, and each generation is weaker than the previous generation, then today's sages are not even as good as those of the ancients?" Guo Jia looked at Zhong Yao and said, "Although we respect our ancestors, the ones we respect are the mind and spirit of the sages who opened books and preached theories. However, if we talk about knowledge, we should strive for excellence and surpass our ancestors. In this way, the world can be prosperous. Just as Mr. Yuanchang said, our scholars have no mind and courage to compete with our ancestors. How can we establish our hearts for the heaven and earth, establish our destiny for the people, inherit the unique knowledge of the past sages, and bring peace to all things?"

"you……"

"According to Mr. Yuan Chang's argument, it is hard to imagine that thousands of years later, will the younger scholars be worse than the current peddlers and barracks?"

"Arrogant!" Zhong Yao was furious when he heard this: "Say all the weird words and cholera! It is really a shame for Confucians!"

"I have said this in Yingchuan Academy back then, but now, there is no need to mention it." Guo Jia's eyes flashed with a cold light and snorted coldly: "Before Confucius and Mencius, there was no Confucianism in the world. In the eyes of the great sages at that time, Confucianism was probably a side-door. It was precisely because of these people who were not as good as the ancients and who were indifferent to the old, that the younger scholars had no courage to innovate. Don't you know that what the gentleman said and did seem to be highly respected, but in fact it is useless to the world. In terms of knowledge, it is a chance to surpass the sages. If the so-called virtues are like Mr. Yuan Chang, then Jia feels that there are still fewer virtues in this world who are tall and above the cliff, and it may be better."

"You..." Zhong Yao pointed at Guo Jia, held his breath in his chest, unable to speak. After a while, with a puff of blood amid everyone's screams, he suddenly spitted out blood.

"Send the imperial physician quickly." Liu Xie stood up quickly and looked at the outskirts of the palace. He then cast a glorious look at Guo Jia, but his face was reproached: "The words of filial piety are too intense. Yuan Chang is a pillar of our court. He has made contributions to the country. You must not be rude."

"Jia obeys the order." Guo Jia watched Zhong Yao being carried out of the hall by several guards and bowed slightly to Liu Xie: "Please forgive me for your crime. Jia was speechless for a moment and was too radical. He didn't want Yuan Changgong to be like this... Haha, so strong is actually Jia's crime."

The court officials looked at Guo Jia, and saw that Zhong Yao was vomiting blood by Guo Jia's words, but he felt uneasy and his desire to unite with the enemy became stronger.

Sima Fang frowned and looked at Guo Jia and said, "Today, we are gathered together, but what we do is not to discuss the differences between ancient and modern times, but to recruit talents. As the saying goes, people without virtue may have talent and can make the local area prosperous. But people with filial piety can tell that people without virtue are mostly from poor families. Do you know why?"

"Jia doesn't know, she is about to ask her senior, but I dare to ask why." Guo Jia bowed slightly and asked with a smile.

"It's nothing else. Most of the poor families are from poor families and are not valued. They have been poor since childhood. Therefore, once they gain power, they are difficult to withstand the temptation of wealth and prosperity, resulting in lack of virtue." Sima Fang sighed and said in a deep voice: "I don't deny that there are also nobles in poor families and playboys in aristocratic families. But in general, those who have shortcomings in virtue will often have poor families, which is indisputable. Moreover, they have different positions, vision, and insights, and differences between them are incalculable. Have Fengxiao ever thought about these?"

"The theory of abandoning food because of choking." Guo Jia shook his head: "Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, we have ruled with the law and restrained officials. Officials are greedy for ink and bribery, which is a shortage of the law and an unfavorable implementation. However, Jiangong wanted to summarize it in his personal cultivation and abandon the responsibility of the court's ineffective law enforcement and failure to investigate. Isn't it ridiculous?"

"Random!" Yang Biao frowned slightly when he heard this and shouted sternly: "As an official, he should conquer others with virtue. If his body is not upright, how can he be upright? What does it have to do with the law?"

"The Grand Tutor's words are wrong." Guo Jia shook his head and said, "From all officials to the peddlers and pawns, if there is no law to restrict themselves, they only use their own cultivation to restrain themselves. Perhaps everyone present has enough cultivation to resist the temptations of the outside world, but..."

Guo Jia looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "How many people in this world can have the virtuous virtues? If you only restrain your virtues by virtue, I don't know that you think how many people in this world can maintain their virtues?"

"It is precisely because of the existence of the law that these hundreds of millions of people dare not touch it. Jia thought that instead of being too demanding on the virtues of officials, it is better to strengthen the supervision of the law and then use it accordingly. If everything is harsh, Jia's opinion just shows the incompetence of the court and the undoing of the court's ministers." Guo Jia said in the end, his eyes became brighter and louder, and his voice gradually became louder.

Yang Biao frowned and looked at Guo Jia: "According to the words of filial piety, do you want to imitate the pre-Qin period and promote the rule of law?"

"No." Guo Jia shook his head. Although Shang Yang had courage, he did not want to be Shang Yang: "In Jia's view, law is the bottom line of the country, and virtue is the upper limit of the country. Both sides could have complemented each other, restrained the people with law and improved the cultivation of the people with virtue. This is the theory of governing the world. Whether it is the rule of law or virtue, they are biased. It is even more absurd to select officials with virtue. They use mediocre talents to ignore the people's livelihood and the people are demanding their morality, and even more so, they are different from family backgrounds, and they keep thousands of poor talents out of the family. What Jia said today may be extreme, but I hope you can think deeply. What's more, when Guo Jia is in a difficult time, it should be unconventional. Why should we keep talents out of the door and make others laugh at them."

Yang Biao and others had a gloomy face, but they could not refute it. In addition to what Guo Jia said, there were many conflicts of interest, but how could they say it in the court at this time?

Seeing that everyone stopped asking questions, Liu Xie knew that the overall situation was settled, he immediately stood up and smiled and said, "What Fengxiao said is deeply loved by my heart. My great Han Dynasty wants to revitalize and grow. He just demands the moral integrity of the official and abandons the ability without using it. Just as Fengxiao said, it is actually a move to abandon food because of choking. I hope that all the ministers can abandon their views on the world, and use the mind of a great country to capture the talents of the world for the country."
Chapter completed!