Confucian Cultivator Under One Person

……

Biyou Village is not big and there are not many villagers. The houses look simple on the outside and there are no special decorations or furniture inside. It is exactly the environment that a village should have.

But if you observe carefully, you will find that the living facilities in this village are very comprehensive, with water, electricity and signal. There are no farmlands around, only dense forests, but the village has sufficient food and material reserves.

Although the villagers all have work to do, they always give people a feeling of "unable to calm down".

It's like a certain TV show where a group of rich people go to the countryside and yearn for a pastoral life...

After all, they are just work or hobbies, not life!

The mentality is completely different!

After walking around the village, Fu Yuan returned to the village and saw several villagers gathered together. He went up to greet them and said,

"Hello!"

However, the villagers just glanced at Fu Yuan, turned around and left without saying a word.

Fu Yuan didn't care and continued walking. He greeted the villagers when he met them: "Hello..."

However, several villagers had the same reaction, and Fu Yuan finally understood.

Then I was happy.

When children are upset, they like to use threats such as "I won't talk to you" or "I won't pay attention to you" to confront the child.

So Ma Xianhong and the others were planning to use such childish means to express their dissatisfaction?

In this case, Fu Yuan did not take the initiative to talk to the villagers. When he met them, he would just smile and nod as a greeting.

At the end of the day, no villager responded.

Fu Yuan didn't care. He found a canteen in the village, had a meal, and then went back to sleep.

Eating in the village is free... Daily necessities such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, etc. are all free and you can get them yourself.

Which village would be so generous?

This is not the attitude to live life, it's so fake!

……

The next day, Fu Yuan was still strolling around the village, smiling and nodding at everyone he met.

No one talked to him, but Fu Yuan didn't care and just took it easy.

In the afternoon, he met a villager. When Fu Yuan nodded to him, he subconsciously nodded in response.

The villager reacted immediately, his face changed, and he ran away in a hurry.

That's what etiquette is all about.

If you do your best to be polite, you can gradually influence others.

When you greet others, they will subconsciously greet you back.

On the third day, more and more villagers responded to Fu Yuan. Although they only realized what was happening after responding and looked a little awkward, it was at least much better than the previous two days.

In the afternoon, when he met a villager again, Fu Yuan not only smiled and nodded, but also said, "Hello."

The villager subconsciously replied, "Hello," and then he was stunned.

By the time he reacted, Fu Yuan had already walked past him.

The villager slapped his head and muttered to himself, "We clearly agreed to use cold violence and ignore him, so why can't he control himself?"

Some things, once there is one, there will be another.

By evening, most of the villagers had spoken.

Then on the fourth day, when Fu Yuan was saying hello, people started to talk to him... Before noon, Fu Yuan was already chatting and laughing with a group of villagers.

……

“Is this the teaching of Confucianism?”

Ma Xianhong came to the door on his own initiative and said with a look of surprise, "I clearly told them not to talk to you, but they unknowingly disobeyed my order."

Fu Yuan smiled and invited him in, then sat him down at the table. He said, "When certain teachings are deeply rooted in people's hearts, they can no longer be reversed by a single command. Let nature take its course. This is not only about following the laws of nature, but also the laws of humanity."

Ma Xianhong exhaled and said, "I admire you!"

Fu Yuan said, "I told you when I entered the village that I was here to look for three people. Since you came to me on your own initiative, it makes sense to look for you first... It just so happens that you also want to talk to me?"

Ma Xianhong thought for a moment and said, "Then let's talk... What do you want to talk about?"

Fu Yuan looked at Ma Xianhong and said, "Let's talk about Tao first!"

Ma Xianhong was stunned. He didn't expect the topic to be so big right from the start.

Fu Yuan ignored him and continued, "Taoists seek the truth, and Confucians also seek the truth, but they have different attitudes when dealing with things. Taoists don't consider humanity or society, because the main purpose of Taoism is balance!"

Ma Xianhong frowned and asked in confusion, "What do you mean by telling me this?"

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "There have been many Taoist rebellions in history, right? When they rebelled, they didn't consider how much suffering would result from the war, how many families would be destroyed, and how they would simply follow the laws of nature. After disrupting the order, a new order would naturally emerge under the balance of heaven.

The Way of Heaven is to reduce the excess and replenish the deficiency. The way of Taoism is to balance resources!

The way of man is to take from what is insufficient in order to support what is abundant. The way of Confucianism is to concentrate resources.”

Chapter 84 Heavenly Dao, Chen Duo

Why did Fu Yuan suddenly say this to him?

Ma Xianhong looked puzzled, but he had a vague answer in his heart: "Do you know something?"

Fu Yuan said directly: "A large part of the villagers in your village should not be strangers!"

What does it mean that I shouldn’t be an alien, but became one?

Ma Xianhong was certain in his heart, and his tone became a little firmer. He said, "Strange people, is there still a distinction between what should and shouldn't be done? In this world, do we really have to compete with each other? Ordinary people will always be ordinary people for the rest of their lives?"

Fu Yuan didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.

Ma Xianhong said in a somewhat high voice, "Yes, I am indeed trying to find an opportunity for ordinary people, a chance to become extraordinary people. To this end, I created a village and also created a new Jiejiao. I teach everyone and give ordinary people a chance to become extraordinary people. Isn't this what should be done?"

Fu Yuan waved his hand and said with a smile, "Don't be so angry. I'm not here to argue with you about right and wrong. Remember what I told you at the beginning? The Way of Heaven and the Way of Man. You follow the Way of Heaven, and I follow the Way of Man.

This is why I came to you, and this is the conflict between you and me, not about right or wrong, good or evil, good or bad... It has nothing to do with that!"

Ma Xianhong exhaled heavily and said, "I'd like to hear the details!"

Fu Yuan sighed and said, "You act according to your own thoughts, ignoring humanity and society, and even despising the order established by man. Therefore, you adhere to the Way of Heaven and will not care about the consequences of this matter or how much damage it will cause, because the Way of Heaven will eventually return to balance.

But I am a Confucian and I believe in humanity, so I must consider the consequences of your actions and how much impact they will have on the current social order.

It is on this basis that we have this conversation. This isn't a debate about right and wrong, good and evil, it's just a matter of differing stances. We can complete this discussion calmly and peacefully, and the outcome is irrelevant."

Ma Xianhong was stunned for a moment: "Why don't we consider the consequences?"

Fu Yuan said, "There are only three possible outcomes: I convince you, you convince me, or we can't convince each other."

Ma Xianhong nodded and acknowledged this.

Fu Yuan: "If I convince you, then you stop. If you convince me, then I will help you. In both cases, we can become friends."

Ma Xianhong asked, "What if neither of us can convince the other?"

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "Since we can't convince each other, neither of us can prove the other right or wrong. We just chose different paths. We can still be friends, just friends with different standpoints."

Ma Xianhong's eyes lit up and he blurted out, "Okay! But I need three days to prepare!"

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, we'll discuss this again in three days!"

Ma Xianhong stood up and was about to go out, but he paused and said, "I knew you were coming before you even got on the plane, so I sent your sister Fu Rong out in advance.

As for Chen Duo, she's off to take care of another matter and will be back soon."

Fu Yuan nodded and said, "I understand."

……

When reading the original novel in his previous life, Fu Yuan simply thought that Ma Xianhong was a kind-hearted person, but he did things without any sense of propriety and without regard for the consequences.

But the view in this life is different.

Extraordinary people and ordinary people are inherently exclusive. This exclusiveness is actually not difficult to understand. For example, if you are an ordinary person, and one day you witness something beyond your common sense, what will you do?

Fu Yuan’s biological parents are the best example.

However, there are so many extraordinary people in the extraordinary circle, but their vision always remains in the extraordinary world. They choose to ignore ordinary people and ignore the boundaries between extraordinary people and ordinary people... Isn't this fear?

They dare not face this boundary, let alone the courage to break it!

Even the company only blocked the news about the aliens from ordinary people, reinforcing this boundary.

But Ma Xianhong is different. He has vision and courage.

Moreover, he founded the New Jiejiao and was also aware of the Conferred Gods War between the Shang and Zhou dynasties, so he did not act without considering the consequences.

He knew clearly the consequences of breaking the boundaries, which would at least lead to a world war. He made this choice after considering the consequences.

Ma Xianhong is not an impulsive person who does things without considering the consequences. He is just following the will of heaven!

Just like Zhang Jue of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Zhang Jiao rebelled in order to break the monopoly of social resources, which was in accordance with the will of heaven.

Ma Xianhong's goal is to break the boundaries between extraordinary people and ordinary people, and he is also following the way of heaven.

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

The concentration of social resources and their gathering towards a small number of people is the way of humanity. Although Confucius pursued "universal peace", this ideal is the way of heaven, which is too lofty and inconsistent with human nature. Confucianism ultimately practices the way of humanity.

In ancient times, there was a system called the "井田 system", in which roads and canals crisscrossed and divided the land into squares, shaped like the Chinese character "井".

Private fields are located around the well-field system, and public fields are located in the middle. The same group of people cultivate the fields, but the result is that private fields are lush and public fields are barren. This is human nature.

It is also humane.

If it is the way of heaven, then private land and public land should be the same.

……

Fu Yuan originally thought that Fu Rong would come back first, but he never expected that the one who returned to Biyou Village first was Chen Duo.