How to deal with the relationship between monarch and minister in The Analects of Confucius, Eight-legged essay III (19)

The relationship between monarch and minister is listed as the first of the "five ethics" and is one of the up-and-down relationships between people. Nowadays, these terms are almost abandoned, but the relationship between superiors and subordinates in human society will exist forever, and this principle will not change in the past, present and future.

? Ding Gong asked Confucius, "What should a monarch do if he controls his subjects and they serve him?" ? Confucius replied: "A monarch should be polite when appointing his servants and loyal when serving the monarch. "Confucius analyzed how to deal with the relationship between superiors and subordinates.

First of all, the monarch and his ministers should do their respective duties, and they should be polite to each other, because the monarch is easy to be arrogant to his ministers, so he emphasizes etiquette. And I am loyal to you, although I will be respectful on the surface, but I can't say what will happen to you behind your back or in my heart, so I emphasize loyalty.

The Book of Changes is the divination of heaven and earth, and the Biography of Xun is "Heaven and earth meet and everything is connected, and the upper and lower meet and have the same purpose." As far as the form of heaven and earth is concerned, nature is that the sky is above, the earth is below, and the position of heaven and earth is immovable. However, the Qi of Yin and Yang is the downward trend of Yang Qi and the upward trend of Yin Kun, and everything can be transformed when it intersects with heaven and earth.

Avenue is the monarch's way, and Kundao is the minister's way. The way of the monarch is the same as the way of heaven and earth. It is not easy to be a monarch or a vassal. If the monarch can be humble, the princes can inherit wholeheartedly, and the monarch and the minister are United, naturally nothing will happen.