Humane Yongchang

Chapter 427

Jinling, light rain.

The faint misty rain and fog unique to the south of the Yangtze River permeated the huge Changning Palace.

However, in the warm-colored study room of fifty or sixty square meters, the unique mist of ambergris floats. Chen Shengan sits behind the large desk, wearing a loose linen-colored robe that emits a halo under the bright lights. The simple and lustrous mutton fat jade hairpin makes the neatly combed bun more black and shiny, revealing a slight sense of leisure in the cleanliness.

He is holding a volume of Confucian classic "Mencius", reading it quietly with the slight rustling sound of raindrops hitting the bamboo leaves outside the window.

Compared with Confucius's relatively vague theory centering on benevolence, Mencius has gone a step further in both his interpretation of the theory of benevolence and his exploration of human nature.

Mencius advocated benevolent government, and for the first time put forward the pioneering thought of "the people are more valuable than the emperor", and he perfected the concept that human nature is inherently good, and that innate goodwill needs to be nurtured in order to survive for a long time and better.

Does it sound familiar?

This is the beginning of human beings, the inherent goodness of nature, and the origin of personal cultivation.

Of course, Chen Sheng is no stranger to such a concept.

But as a visitor from a different time and space, a common problem is that he knows a little about everything, but he understands everything too much.

Just like the proposition that human nature is inherently good, in the time and space of his previous life, a Chinese person could subconsciously say one, two, three, four when he heard these four words.

Even those who hold the opposite view that "human nature is inherently evil" can casually cite evidence such as children watering ant nests with boiling water to demonstrate.

But in fact, very few people have actually read Mencius' interpretation of the claim that human nature is inherently good.

Mencius proposed a thought experiment for the concept of human nature being good: a child who had never met before was playing by the well, and suddenly stumbled and fell into the well, and you just happened to pass by, and accidentally saw this scene, the first thing in your heart What is the reaction?What will be your first reaction in behavior?
Don't consider whether there are people around you, don't consider the outside world's evaluation of your behavior, and don't consider the issue of reputation or disrepute.

Just go back to the most primitive and instinctive reaction in my heart...

Mencius believed that this is benevolence, which is the inherent goodness of human nature.

This is also the most fundamental conflict between Confucianism and Legalism.

Confucianism believes that human nature is inherently good, and it only needs to be guided by the day after tomorrow to improve personal cultivation to create a world of great harmony in which everyone is a gentleman.

Legalists believe that human nature is inherently evil, and the law must be strictly enacted, and the people must be deterred and controlled with high pressure, so as to create an orderly world where everyone walks in his own way and performs his duties.

On this point, Chen Sheng himself has no opinions of his own. Whether human nature is inherently good or human nature is evil, he thinks it is too absolute and does not support it.

What he pursues is a simpler and gentler outlook on life: one must not have the heart to harm others, and one must not have the heart to guard against others.

And his attitude determines the direction of his administration.

However, he still has a long, long way to go to level this bowl of conflicting and boiling water, and he still has a lot to learn.

Chen Sheng has read Mencius's theory many times, and every time he has something new...

At the right time, Meng Yi bowed and entered, raised his hands and said, "I report to your majesty, an urgent report on the special war situation."

Chen Sheng said lightly without raising his head, "Submit it."

"only!"

Meng Yi bowed and presented a secret letter sealed with wax paint in front of the case.

After Chen Sheng made the bookmarks in a calm manner, he picked up the secret letter and opened it. He habitually glanced at the inscription on the lower left corner of the letter, only to see that the inscription was not Chen Feng, but Chen Qiu.

He frowned and looked closely.

After a while, he put down the letter paper, pondered for a long time with a slightly gloomy face, and finally said: "Decree, the Baijia Academy of Jixia Academy will immediately ban Taoism, and the Taoist bachelors in the academy will leave our territory within seven days. .”

"Decree, from now on, Taoists are not allowed to preach, gather, or discuss Taoism within the territory of the Great Han Dynasty. Anyone who violates the law will be punished as an anti-thief."

"Order the Second Army of the Red Army Corps to return to Beijing immediately to defend the capital."

"Send a letter to Li Xin, the general of the Northern Expedition, and tell him that Taiping Dao has colluded with the Taoists, intending to assassinate the king and murder the king, and plot my fate for the great Han nation. Let him figure it out."

After a pause, he picked up the scroll again, and said calmly: "The guards of the royal court will cancel their rest from now on, and all the guards will guard the palace in two shifts, and then it will be reported that Chen Feng will enter the palace to have an audience immediately."

Meng Yi clasped his palms and bowed to the end: "I would like to obey the king's order, long live my king, long live, long live, long live."

Chen Sheng waved his hand, Meng Yi bowed and exited the study.

The bright candle light danced on the pages of the book exuding the faint fragrance of ink, Chen Sheng said softly to himself: "Alright, if you don't make moves, I really treat you as good citizens..."

Two quarters of an hour later, Chen Feng hurriedly stepped into the study room wrapped in steam, and said, "The last general, Chen Feng, pays homage to Your Majesty, long live my king, long live long live."

Chen Sheng glanced at the wet robe on his body, turned his head and said softly to the outside of the room: "Bring two cups of hot tea in, and fetch one of my robes."

Chen Feng chuckled and said, "The last general is disrespectful, thank you for your kindness."

Chen Sheng raised his chin with a smile: "You are the only one who talks nonsense, sit down and talk."

Chen Feng raised his hand: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

After he was seated, Chen Sheng cut to the chase and said, "Where is Mr. Zhuang now?"

As early as last year after the Xuzhou Binhai battle, Chen Sheng handed over the portraits of Old Master Confucius and Old Master Zhuang to the Special Operations Bureau to make them pay attention to their whereabouts.

Although the whereabouts of these giants are erratic, and the dragons see their heads but never their tails, even the special warfare bureau with strongholds all over the cities in Han can't really grasp the whereabouts of these two.

But as long as they openly show up in Handi, the Special Operations Bureau can always catch some clues.

Well, Old Master Confucius and Old Master Zhuang also knew about this, and Old Master Zhuang took the opportunity to blackmail him for several big meals from the Special Operations Bureau...

Chen Feng recalled for a moment, and said: "The last time Mr. Zhuang appeared in our Dahan territory, it should be half a month ago, near Lingling."

After Chen Sheng heard this, he said in his heart that it was true.

After he had just read the sentence in Chen Qiu's letter, "This opportunity must not be lost, it will never come again", and he was thinking about what kind of opportunity this is.

After thinking about it, there are nothing more than two factors:

First, more than half of the army of the Han Dynasty is on the expedition, the situation in Kyushu has changed, and the defense in the territory is empty.

Second, the old master Confucius enlightened Taoism in the Shunling Mausoleum...

He was more inclined to the latter, after all, his aura and the fate of the Han Dynasty that enveloped the Changning Palace were not just for show, any cat or dog could harm him through the residual aura of the Han Palace in Chenxian County.

Those who can attack him from a distance in this way are at least first-class figures of Grand Masters!

And the struggle at that level is the responsibility of Old Master Confucius and Old Master Zhuang...

Old Master Zhuang appeared near the place where Confucius became enlightened, which undoubtedly proved his inference.

He had seen the contact method between Old Master Confucius and Old Master Zhuang, and he didn't think it was necessary for Old Master Zhuang to go to Lingling to communicate with Old Master Confucius.

"Think of a way."

Chen Sheng pondered for a moment, picked up Chen Qiu's secret letter on the case table, and handed it to Chen Feng who had changed his clothes below: "Give this letter to Old Master Zhuang."

It's a shame to call a parent if you can't beat it.

But it works!

Moreover, he, Confucius, Zhuang and the others all performed their duties.

For the struggle at the bottom, he didn't bother Old Master Confucius and Old Master Zhuang.

On the contrary, Old Master Confucius and Old Master Zhuang were often unable to hold back, causing the power of the high-level to fall on him.

Chen Feng took the secret letter, and seeing that the secret letter was not sealed in an envelope, he knew that he could read the contents of the letter, so he immediately flipped through the secret letter and glanced at it intently.

Before he finished watching, his brows were frowned, and murderous intent rose between his brows: "My lord, please order me to get rid of the traitors!"

He pinched his palms and said loudly.

Chen Sheng shook his head slightly and said, "I have made comprehensive arrangements for this matter, and your Special Warfare Bureau will increase the monitoring of Gyeonggi."

If this matter can be solved with a single kill, why would the Special War Bureau need to do it, just press a king's order, and all the hundreds of Taoist masters in Jixia Academy will be killed today!
But the problem is that this matter cannot be done recklessly across the board.

As far as Chen Sheng knew, Taoism and the Taoism in his impression had not yet separated.

Taoism is a philosophy.

Rather, Taoism is a religion.

It is true that more than half of the Taoists are Taoists.

But after all, there is still half of it, just a simple bachelor...

For example, Master Zhuang's thinking was deeply influenced by Taoism.

Is it difficult to regard Old Master Zhuang as a Taoist priest?

Chen Sheng couldn't tell the difference, and didn't bother to do it.

Simply put the pressure on the Taoists, let them fight on their own, and let them explain to Chen Sheng by themselves!

Anyway, if he doesn't nod for a day, Taoism can no longer spread within the territory of the Han Dynasty.

It wasn't him who was in a hurry.

Chen Feng glanced at Chen Sheng, gritted his teeth secretly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty's martial arts are world-class and invincible, and some youngsters who hide their heads and show their tails naturally can't hurt His Majesty even if they are afraid. These lunatics can't help His Majesty." , secretly laying a black hand on Shaojun, Shaojun is pregnant, so there must be no mistakes!"

Chen Sheng frowned and pondered for a moment, then turned his head and said: "Come here, take the Chun Jun sword!"

The caller on duty outside the house responded.

Not long after, a visitor came in with a sandalwood sword case in his hand.

Chen Sheng pointed to the Chunjun sword, and said to Chen Feng: "You hold the Chunjun sword to monitor the land of the capital, and all the three princes and nine ministers have the right to kill first and then play!"

Ever since he entered the realm of cultivating the artistic conception, the sword weapon has become a decoration for him, whether he has it or not.

And even if he had to use a sword with a sword, the mighty sword Tai Ah presented to him by the Special Warfare Bureau at the Changning Palace banquet on New Year's Eve was more in line with the way of the sword.

As a result, Chunjun's noble and unparalleled sword, which had been with him for three years, gradually became a spare tire, and he never took it out of its sheath for a long time...

Chen Feng took the Chun Jun sword with both hands, and bowed to accept the order.

Chen Sheng smiled lightly and said, "There is a ban in the palace, so I won't let you eat, go back and get busy."

Chen Feng nodded his head dumbfounded, then looked left and right with treacherous eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "Brother, how long will our eldest nephew be born? Counting the days, isn't it near?"

Chen Sheng rolled his eyes angrily: "How do you know it's a nephew? Can't it be a niece?"

Chen Feng said firmly: "My aunts have already said that my sister-in-law's fetal position must be the eldest nephew!"

Chen Sheng snorted: "It's better to be a daughter, she is so well-behaved, if a son is as careless as I am, it will be ruined!"

Chen Feng looked at him wonderingly: "What's wrong with being like you? Now that you have a nephew, the adults in the court will no longer always push Si Bo to take a concubine for you..."

Chen Sheng didn't bother to talk to him: "Fuck off, my oil soup hasn't been blown cold yet, and I'm still in the mood to cook porridge here. If I have free time, I'll chat with my second uncle. I can't bear the hardships of being a father alone! "

Chen Feng shrank his neck instinctively, but then he straightened up again, and said proudly: "You can't do anything about this, we've already married three wives and concubines, what can your second uncle do to us?" land?"

Chen Sheng's face turned dark: "Are you still ashamed? Why don't you marry so many wives and concubines to irritate your fourth uncle, and he will come to me and pretend to cry when he's fine?"

Chen Feng's face froze, and he walked out backwards holding the sword box: "The last general will retire, long live my king, long live long live!"

After speaking, Sa Yazi ran away.

Chen Sheng watched this guy go out of the palace from the window, his complexion darkened a little bit, and he muttered to himself in a low voice: "It's best that our worries are unnecessary..."

……

Luoyi, the sun is shining brightly.

In the center of the original site of the Spring and Autumn Palace, a thirteen-foot white pagoda has erected at some point.

Around the White Pagoda, a large number of Huren monks of the Western religion, wearing goose-yellow beard clothes with one arm exposed, shuttled among them.

Under the white pagoda, a monk as dark as charcoal and as fat as a pig was sitting in lotus position, twirling a string of skull rosary beads with one hand, and reciting scriptures in a low voice with his eyes closed.

A group of barbarian monks covered in dirt hurriedly walked under the White Pagoda, and presented a ferocious skull with not yet rotted muscles: "I salute the master, the disciples and others have successfully retrieved the skull of King Zhou Shen, and request Guru town to under the pagoda!"

The fat and crazy monk stopped fluctuating the rosary, opened his eyes and glanced at the ferocious skull in front of him, stretched out his big hand with five fingers as thick as a rolling pin, and took it in the palm of his hand, chanting words in his mouth, and his whole body was full of brilliance.

In the brilliance, the remaining rotten muscles and muscles on the skull fell away like mud, and the dark red and black ferocious skull gradually turned white, and the ferocious and ferocious aura permeating it was like boiling hot soup. Generally more than boiling.

After half an hour, the fat and crazy monk stopped chanting profusely.

As for the skull in his palm, half is as white as jade, half is still dark red like blood, half is glowing dimly, and half is still fierce like a ghost.

"Stubborn!"

When the fat monk saw this, a hint of murderous intent flashed across it, and he grabbed the skull with both hands and with a force, he directly lifted the skull from the skull.

He put the skull in his big sleeve, and handed the skull to the monk in front of him: "Send it into the pagoda, under the Pagoda of Yongzheng!"

The monk took it, kowtowed and said: "Please follow the decree of the law!"

After the ceremony, the monk got up, held the skull and bowed into the White Pagoda.

The fat and crazy monk closed his eyes and recited the scriptures in a low voice again.

At the right time, a Huren monk with a handsome face, male and female, bowed to the fat monk, kowtowed and said: "I salute the master, the Taoist sent a message, the old man Huangshi missed his hand, the demon king expelled the servants of my religion, and has entered the territory of Sizhou .”

The fat and stupid monk opened his eyes again, a kind of fierce light surged up, and he made an angry gesture: "You are more than enough to succeed than to fail!"

The Hu monks kowtowed and dared not answer.

The fat and stupid monk glanced at him, and said in a nasty voice: "Let me ask you, what should the world do when people slander me, deceive me, humiliate me, laugh at me, belittle me, despise me, hate me, and lie to me?"

The Hu monk replied: "Beat him, kill him, cut off his limbs, remove his head, skin him, cramp his muscles, remove his bones, and send him to Avici Hell, where he will never be reborn!"

The fat and crazy monk closed his eyes and said with satisfaction: "You can teach me!"

(End of this chapter)