I am immortal with scientific thinking

Chapter 175

Rumble!
The thunder exploded, like daylight suddenly appearing, illuminating the bewildered faces of everyone in the temple.

"People's hearts?"

Xiao Wu, who was still wary of Lin Chen, unconsciously listened to him at this moment, and asked subconsciously at this moment:
"If that's the case, isn't it that no matter what happens, whether we live well or not depends on those gentlemen's thoughts, so the only thing we can do is to count on their kindness?"

Zhang Zhiping thought about it, and said solemnly: "Dare to ask, sir, since changes in the world depend on people's hearts, but people's hearts are unpredictable, hard to figure out, and even more difficult to fill desires, then we can only watch everything happen, and we can't even escape..."

Speaking of this, it seemed that there was some taboo, and then Zhang Zhiping closed his eyes slightly, and after a long silence, he opened them, and said to Lin Chen word by word:

"These 300 years of reincarnation?"

Upon hearing these words, Lin Chen asked back: "Mr., do you really think that people's hearts cannot be influenced or even restrained?"

"The human heart is an illusory thing, how can it be influenced and restrained?" Zhang Zhiping asked after thinking for a while.

"That's right, it's like when my elder brother hit me, I didn't know what to do..." Xiao Wu said quickly.

But before he finished speaking, the middle-aged man covered his mouth.

"Sir, don't interrupt!" The middle-aged man resisted the urge to beat someone, and shouted in a low voice.

Lin Chen smiled slightly at this, and said: "How to change people's hearts so that everyone's hearts are good, so as to create eternal peace, isn't this method given to us by the ancient sages?"

"Huh?!" Everyone was taken aback.

Zhang Zhiping vaguely got some clues, but still bowed and said respectfully: "I'm stupid, please enlighten me, sir."

The way of learning is to put those who have mastered it first. The knowledge and understanding that Lin Chen described has surpassed him in terms of level, and it is worth worshiping.

Lin Chen accepted the gift generously. He was very clear that the other party was not worshiping himself, but the bright thoughts in the civilization behind him.

After saluting, Lin Chen didn't reply directly, but grabbed a passing ant from the ground and showed it in front of everyone: "Dare to ask you, what is the most important thing for this ant?"

"Eat!" Xiao Wu responded immediately.

The middle-aged man stared at Xiao Wu, who immediately shrank back. Afterwards, he thought for a while, and raised his arms: "Dare to ask, sir, but life?"

"That's right." Lin Chen nodded with a smile, and then continued to ask, "Then I have to ask, what is the most important thing for people?"

"... also, life?" Zhang Zhiping pondered.

"If it's life, then why do you risk your life to save Mr. Zhang?" Lin Chen pointed to the middle-aged man, and then to Zhang Zhiping, "If it's life, why do you insist on carrying out reforms regardless of the safety of your life?"

"This..." For a moment, everyone was stunned.

Afterwards, the middle-aged man spoke first: "We don't have that many thoughts, we just think that people like Zhang Xiang cannot die!"

Zhang Zhiping was also silent for a while, and then said firmly: "For the sake of the world."

"So, whether it's the idea that a person like Zhang Xiang cannot die, or the heart to spare his life for the sake of the common people, in the final analysis, it is all for the righteousness in the heart and the morality of the society."

Lin Chen concluded, and then continued: "Then I would like to ask, whether this is righteousness or morality, is it inherent in human beings?"

"Sir, what do you mean..." Zhang Zhiping seemed to understand it completely at this moment, and murmured, "We learn morality and righteousness from classics, and classics are created by sages."

"We who understand morality and righteousness, know right and wrong, know how to restrain ourselves and eliminate the evil in our hearts, and even go against the instinct of life for the sake of righteousness in our hearts."

"So, the moral righteousness created by the sages has established the spirit of civilization inheritance, and to a certain extent, changed people's hearts!"

"That's right." Lin Chen nodded, "In fact, the ancient sages have already thought of the law of peace and harmony, and that is morality and righteousness."

"The ancient sages created a moral system, restraining people's hearts with morality and etiquette, which transformed us from animal nature to human nature, and transformed us from a world of the jungle to the possibility of a world of great harmony!"

"As long as we follow what the ancient sages and sages did, constrain people's hearts with righteousness, educate nature with morality, everyone can abide by it, respect the old and love the young, be kind to others, be honest and trustworthy..."

"In the end, our entire society will become a society with high moral quality. Even if there is no law, each of us will consciously restrain ourselves, correct the problems caused by the changes of the times, and make up for its shortcomings."

"Everyone has extremely high morality. Naturally, they will not be corrupt, oppress and exploit, but be considerate of others, be strict with themselves, and be a gentleman and cautious."

"At that time, the entire society will be able to achieve fair distribution and earn a living. In the end, everyone will be like a dragon, marching to the wider world and even the sea of ​​stars..."

"That's so, why did the world become like this?" Hearing this, Xiao Wu couldn't help asking.

"It's not that morality doesn't work, it's that some people have trampled on it time and time again." Lin Chen said lightly.

"Originally, old people and people are old, and it took thousands of years to form morality. To save the old man from being blackmailed and to accompany the entire family property is enough to break the morality formed over thousands of years..."

"And such small things, accumulated over many years in history, will bring down the efforts of countless sages and ancestors through the ages."

"In the early years of the dynasty, people gathered together to work together to create a prosperous world. But as time went by, I couldn't control my desires bit by bit, and things that corrupted social morality happened one after another..."

"Slowly, from the initial gathering of people's hearts, to the continuous deterioration of the social atmosphere, the world's morale is declining, and the people's hearts are not old, which eventually leads to the rampant corruption of officials and the rampant landlords, so that the people are struggling to live, and reincarnation begins again..."

"So I think that the decline of the dynasty is not an issue of land, taxation, or interests, but a problem of people's hearts!"

"Otherwise, when the interests of the basic market are getting bigger and bigger, how can there be no idle fields in the world, and the farmers are still starving to death? In the final analysis, it still depends on people's hearts!"

After listening to these words, Zhang Zhiping was silent for a long time, and sighed: "First prove that the situation has changed through the ages, but not the people's hearts. Then explain the ancient sages who restrained people's hearts with morality, and then explain the reasons for the changes in dynasties from the moral heart. If you can have such a view, you must be a sage left by the mountains and fields. A person with ancient virtues is a first-class sage!"

"The sages created the Dao, and they will benefit future generations for thousands of years. The real immortals are free in the world, and their aspirations have not changed since the beginning of the ages. I am just a strange man who knows a little knowledge. How can I be compared to the sages and immortals?" Lin Chen shook his head.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhiping bowed solemnly to Lin Chen, and asked respectfully: "Then I dare to ask, how can we restrain people's hearts and create eternal peace now that the way of sages and sages has been damaged, the world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient?

"I don't know." Lin Chen shook his head and said directly.

"Sir, you are really talented...huh?!"

(End of this chapter)