The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 238 Going to Chang'an Again
From a certain point of view, life is supreme, and nothing in this world can compare with life, so the country uses the death penalty as the highest penalty.

Looking at it from another angle, life is cheap, for a meal, for a bun, or just because of a word, a life will disappear in this world.

When Li Muyun was still a killer, he had thought about this question, what is life like, whether it is priceless or cheap.But in the end he gave up pursuing this question, because for a killer, the meaning of life is that it can be exchanged for wealth. As for whether it is worth money or not, it is only limited to the difficulty of the task, not the life itself.

Now that things have changed, things have changed and people have changed, the question of what life really is has once again troubled Li Muyun.

However, Li Yuan's view on this issue is very simple. Facing Li Muyun's confusion, he only has one sentence: "The world is not benevolent, and treats all things as dogs; the sage is not benevolent, and treats the people as dogs."

Straw dogs, that is, dogs made of grass, were often used as sacrifices in ancient times, and they should be similar to today's wreaths.

The meaning of Li Yuan's words is also very simple, that is, the world is actually fair, and all things in the world are treated equally, without any distinction between high and low, and the same is true for saints, they are also fair to the people, and there is no distinction between high and low. points.

Li Muyun has learned this sentence before, it is the content of Chapter 5 of "Laozi", and Yu Zhining once specially asked him to recite it.

So after listening to Li Yuan's words, he was a little confused, bared his teeth and gritted his lips for a long while before saying, "Father, you are really far-sighted, and you don't feel pain in your back when you stand and talk."

"Then what do you want to hear?" Li Yuan withdrew his distant gaze and looked at Li Muyun.

"I just want to know why it is wrong for me to feed those prisoners of war and pay them wages. Are they not human beings and should be starved to death?" Li Muyun looked at the construction site in the distance. Xue Yantuo, a prisoner of war, has learned how to use cement, and they are working hard to build the Wujiao Daxia within a month.

"Because they are all of different races, and those who are not of my race must have different hearts." Li Yuan also turned his head, looked at the prisoners of war or slaves who were working hard and said.

These people have been bought by Li Muyun at a high price of [-] guan. In theory, they belong to his property, just like the pots and pans we bought at home.

But even when Old Li Yuan considered Li Muyun's actions with the thinking of the highest authority in the Tang Dynasty, he still couldn't understand why he paid those slaves wages and gave them enough food. Could it be that this kid is really rich? Going to prodigal, burning too much money?

For Li Yuan's point of view, Li Muyun actually does not agree with it. In the era of the global village in later generations, the boundaries of races are no longer so obvious, and the saying that people who are not my race must have different hearts basically no longer exists.

There are 56 flowers from 56 ethnic groups in the land of China. Everyone blooms in a garden, and no one can see how special they are.

And not only that, there are quite a few crooked people working in Huaxia enterprises, and they are also contributing to China's economic construction, and I don't see any company starving these crooked people to death, or even starving them to death , And give them all the fat in their stomachs.

Therefore, in Li Muyun's view, if some nationalized things are excluded, non-governmental cooperation is not necessarily impossible. Of course, this kind of cooperation must first exclude some people with ulterior motives.

Thinking of this, Li Muyun sighed: "Oh, the limitations of history!"

No, just after Li Muyun finished speaking, old Li Yuan quit, staring and said: "If you continue to speak in the tone of the most intelligent person in the world, believe it or not, I will beat you?"

Li Muyun blinked his eyes, and said innocently, "Why don't you be smart?"

"Smart people often die very quickly. Shang Yang, Dongfang Shuo, Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang... Do you want me to give you a few more examples?"

"No need." Li Muyun said with a wry smile, "You can't always hope for my order? For example, you can make a lot of money, don't always die and die."

"This is a bad word from me. I know that you always have some messy thoughts in your mind, but I warn you that before you have a certain strength, all your thoughts are just illusions. If you want to live longer, you'd better hide it. .”

This was the first time old Li Yuan preached to Li Muyun, and it was also the first time he discussed class with Li Muyun.

From Li Yuan's point of view, Li Muyun was too kind to those prisoners of war. Prisoners of war should be treated like prisoners of war. Working to death is their only way out. If they don't want to work, they will be executed directly.

Because he is a saint, those prisoners of war are dogs, and to him, they are sacrifices.

Should the saint maintain respect for the sacrifice?Do you care about the life and death of the sacrifice?Obviously not needed.

But Li Muyun has a different view on this. In his opinion, life is the same for everyone, and there is only one time for everyone. You can't kill someone just because you have prejudice against them.

Prisoners of war are just some soldiers who have been defeated on the battlefield. As far as they are personally concerned, there is nothing wrong with them. They are just following orders. You can't kill them all just because they fought against you. That's called massacre. Not called victory.

In other words, even if it is an ordinary cow or horse, if you let it work, you must let him eat some forage, not to mention that those prisoners of war are human, the same kind with yellow skin and black eyes.

Of course, these are superficially high-sounding theories that can be brought to the public.

Underneath it is the squeeze on the remaining labor force. It is easy to kill a person, and a life can be wiped out with a single knife. But if you keep this person alive and let him continue to work, the value he can create is far greater than that of being dead. Much more cost-effective.

Li Yuan and others, because of historical limitations, in their view, if these prisoners of war were used to farm, they would eat basically the same amount of food as they had grown from their labor. It's meaningless, so it's better to just treat them as slaves and use them up to die.

But Li Muyun is different. He has at least a hundred ways to make these prisoners of war create a value that is a hundred times greater than their own. From this point of view, he does not want these prisoners of war to die immediately, so he will buy them all. After they got down, they fed them, clothed them, and even paid them wages.

"I want to go to Chang'an." After a long silence, Li Muyun suddenly said.

"What are you going to do? Sell your cement?" Li Yuan glanced at him.

"Pick up my wife and sell cement by the way." Li Muyun tried to correct old Li Yuan's point of view.

"Is there a difference?"

"Of course there are, at least the words are different, the emphasis is different, and besides..." Li Muyun paused here, pointing to the prisoners of war who were under construction: "Don't you think I'm too kind to them? This time I went to Chang'an. I plan to sell my construction team."

Although Li Yuan is old, he is not yet confused. As soon as Li Muyun said it, he immediately realized why Li Muyun had to buy these 3000 people, pointed at him and laughed and scolded: "It turns out that you kid has such a wishful thinking. It’s embarrassing to talk about human life.”

"It's different. My starting point is based on respect for life. There is no way to do it." Li Muyun shook his head, denying old Li Yuan's judgment, and then stretched out his hand in front of the little old man.

"What are you doing?" Li Yuan looked at Li Muyun suspiciously.

"The copper coins made of gold are borrowed and used."

"Fart, that's my token."

"I know, otherwise I wouldn't have borrowed it from you." Li Muyun said brazenly: "If you want me to tell you, don't hide it, the prince's identity has already been exposed, so what's the point of keeping it a secret, right? "

"My lord?" Li Yuan asked back somewhat dumbfounded.

"Yes, aren't you the uncle or uncle of His Majesty the current Emperor? It's okay. I've noticed it a long time ago. In order not to embarrass you, so lend me your money first. Don't worry, I won't I sold it." Li Muyun said carelessly.

Li Yuan looked at Li Muyun and was speechless. Now that this kid has discovered money, he still thinks about who he is. Should it be better to say that he is ignorant or ignorant.

But having said that, it seems that only some old people have an impression of this money. Those guys who have only become officials in recent years really don't know the existence of this thing, and they don't know what it represents.

The most terrible thing is that this kid actually wants to sell the money, and he doesn't know what is in his mind. If it is in some other remote places, maybe he can really sell it, but in Chang'an City Selling this thing, who dares to buy it?Don't want to live anymore?

Thinking of this, Li Yuan shook his head, and took out the jade pendant from last time: "This is it, if you want it, take it, if you don't want it, get out."

"Yes, why don't you!" Li Muyun quickly took the jade pendant from Li Yuan's hand with quick eyes.

This thing scared the samurai Xun to the ground last time, obviously it has a big background, Li Muyun is not a fool, how could he not want it.

But having said that, Li Muyun is still more interested in that money, if he can cheat that thing...

Li Muyun was thinking while hanging the pendant on his body, but when he saw Chen Mu's desperate gaze, he still gave up this idea.

Seeing that he had hung the pendant on his body, Li Yuan didn't say much, but asked indifferently, "When do you plan to leave?"

"It's just a few days, the time agreed with Ba Zhuo is coming, I will come back before then." Li Muyun twisted his waist and swung his hips to admire the pendant just hung on his body, and replied casually

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