Chapter 134: Human nature is good and evil, cause and effect form a cycle

In the Gu family courtyard, spring goes and autumn comes in a dull and ordinary time.

The scorching summer seems to have just passed, and the bleak autumn wind has already fallen on the world.

Countless people on earth are busy on such days, and the increasingly fierce war will slow down a little at this time of year.

Food is the most important thing for people. No one can really go on a fast. Without food, one will starve to death.

From kings and generals to ordinary people, everyone knows the importance of this season.

But this year is destined not to have a good harvest, and this is true for the entire Dayue world.

Yuzhou, which should have produced the most grain, has been caught up in a war that has lasted for more than a year, and the followers of the White Lotus Sect are still fighting and stalemate with the court.

Although the White Lotus Sect had begun to show signs of being unable to resist and had begun to retreat slightly, the territory of Yuzhou was vast and vast, and it would take another three to five years to wipe out the entire sect if they kept fighting and retreating.

As for Huang Chao and Huang Tianjun, they always acted like a gang of powerful bandits. They robbed the poor, but they spared no one from the rich families! Even the relatives within three generations of the rich families were killed without a single one left, and their murderous intent was soaring into the sky.

It just so happens that Yangzhou is sandwiched between Yuzhou and Yuzhou, and the wealthy families living in Yangzhou are extremely unlucky.

If you run south, you will run into the Four-Nation Alliance, and you will definitely die! If you run north, you will run into the White Lotus Sect, and your life will be worse than death.

If you stay where you are and don’t run away, Huang Chao will still be there and your entire family will be killed!

Caught in a dilemma and feeling uneasy, this is how the wealthy people living in Yangzhou feel.

Of course, if they were truly willing to give away all their wealth and join the Huang Tian Army, the Huang Dynasty might be willing to show some leniency.

Only those wealthy people who resisted stubbornly, or even spent money to recruit soldiers and horses to support the court or tried to resist, would be so ruthless.

Unfortunately, almost all the wealthy families were unwilling to bow to him.

Then there's nothing much to say.

kill!

During the two years of being hunted by the imperial court, the number of Huang Tian’s troops not only did not decrease, but increased instead.

It is even visible to the naked eye that more people will join them soon.

Because most of Yuzhou had already been lost! From the 37th year of Emperor Zongming to the autumn of the 2nd year of Emperor Kangjing, the Four-Nation Alliance took a full three years to capture Yuzhou.

This speed seems to be very disappointing whether compared with Huang Chao or the White Lotus Sect Leader.

Actually, it can’t be calculated that way.

The coalition forces of the four nations came for the purpose of slaughter, and even massacred several cities as soon as they entered Yuzhou. Their original intention was to warn the cities that would come after them to give up resistance, and if they did not resist, they would not be massacred.

But before they could even shout out this sentence, Mo Qiu and his three thousand Mo Zhe killed the culprit.

They were supposed to be the ones who put pressure on the people, but they became the ones who were put pressure on! This incident earned Mo Qiu the reputation of a saint among the people, and at the same time aroused the people of Yuzhou to share the same hatred of the enemy! Because if they lost, they would die! No matter how much the Huang Dynasty and the White Lotus Sect leader stirred up trouble, they were mostly against the government and coerced the people. If they had to say that they ordered the people to be arrested and deliberately abused and massacred, they really didn't do that. At most, they just forced some of them to death.

Ordinary people can just pick up a hoe and join them and become a part of them. Everyone has soil to eat soil and meat to eat meat, and they live one day at a time.

What about the Four-Nation Alliance? They killed, burned, and looted everything and left them alone, refusing to take anyone in.

Even if someone wants to join, they can't find a way! In this case, how can the people not fight them to death?

That's not all. Mo Qiu, who was wanted by Dayue, actually led Mohists to defend the city. The key is that Mohists really know how to defend the city! To be precise, when it comes to defending the city, no one in this era has studied it more deeply than Mohists. It is not an exaggeration to say that Mohists represent the highest level of city defense at this time.

Don't ever think that the Mohists are the type of saints who believe, "If I'm good to you, I will never hurt you."

On the contrary, since the founding of Mohism, Mo Qiu has always said: Promote the benefits of the world and eliminate the harm of the world! To achieve this goal, it is natural to take the greater benefits and the lesser harm!

Defending the city is more important than defending the individual.

The Mohists are definitely not only good at talking about reason, they can also take up the knife.

Once the Mohist order to defend the city was implemented, anyone who disobeyed or violated the order would be personally executed by the Mohist.

A friend of the Mohist wanted to go to rescue people because the city was on fire, so he left the place where he was supposed to guard. As a result, he was shot to death by the Mohist with a bow and arrow, even though he knew that he had good intentions.

This is the style of Mohism.

It is too one-sided to simply regard Mohists as saints, ascetics, or good people.

These are a group of people who are not afraid of death for their ideals.

Those who are not afraid of death include not only themselves.

Before many people became Mohists, they could not be considered good people in the secular sense!

But no matter how powerful the Mohists were in defending the city, they could only defend it. If they couldn't hold on, they could only retreat.

The Mohist school has made a great contribution to the rule of Dayue by forcing the coalition forces of four nations to stay in Yuzhou for three years. The Mohists following Mo Qiu have changed several times in these three years, so one cannot ask for more.

Faced with the increasingly corrupt situation, the government was in a difficult situation.

The most important thing is that the first batch of silver collected by Emperor Kang Jing had already been spent!

Unfortunately, there is no money left in the treasury! What should we do?

Another discussion on the crime of silver?

Emperor Kang Jing did not dare to do so.

In order to save money, Emperor Kang Jing, who really couldn't find a better way, chose to temporarily give up Yuzhou, leaving some people to pursue Huang Tian's army, and the vast majority of the remaining troops to encircle and suppress the White Lotus Sect!

The grain prices in Dayue have already risen to the winter prices in the autumn, and this is the autumn harvest season! If Yuzhou is not pacified quickly, no one dares to tell us how shocking the grain prices will be after winter.

Since the ancestor of the clan was unknown, another saying has begun to spread quietly.

Kang Jing, Kang Jing, without Kang, there is no Jing! The internal troubles cannot be quelled, and the external worries cannot be stopped. It is really disappointing.

The situation is gradually deteriorating.

Autumn has passed, and the cold winter has come again! When the cold snowflakes begin to fall from the sky to the ground, there are not many people who can sigh that the snow is a sign of a good harvest.

There were even more hungry people who were shivering with cold and had pale faces.

Gu family courtyard.

Occasionally, cheers could be heard in the yard.

Xiaoying was making a snowman in the yard, her hands and feet were all red from the cold.

Xun Ke stared at the sky blankly, his eyes dull and his mind wandering.

He has been teaching Cang for nearly half a year.

It cannot be said that half a year of teaching has had little effect, it can only be said that it has no effect at all.

Apart from helping Cang recognize some words, everything else was basically in vain. It was normal for it to go in one ear and out the other.

And now there is a seemingly simplest problem in front of him.

Since we are teaching children, we can't avoid talking about people.

So the question is, how to teach?

Is human nature originally good or evil?

There are ways to do good things and there are benefits to doing evil things.

The education that most people in this world have received is that "human nature is good", and this is also the statement that everyone can accept the most.

But if human nature is inherently good, why has the situation in Dayue become so deteriorating?

This is totally unreasonable! If it weren't for the endless evil thoughts, how could there be such a situation? Master Mo once expressed his own views, which were considered centrists, and he agreed with them more.

【Zi Mozi said that when he saw a person dyeing silk, he sighed and said: "If you dye it blue, it will be blue; if you dye it yellow, it will be yellow. What you put in changes, and the color also changes. If you put in five colors, it will become five colors! Therefore, dyeing must be done with caution! This is not only true for dyeing silk, but also for dyeing in the country.】

To put it simply, human nature is unfixed and you become what you are.

If you come into contact with many evil people, you will naturally be more likely to do evil; if you come into contact with good people, you will naturally be willing to do good. This is true not only for people, but also for countries!

Mohist school emphasized that the good and evil of human nature is not static, but can change at any moment.

This is certainly a good answer. The only problem is that this answer requires a certain degree of understanding of the world and a relatively objective attitude towards worldly affairs.

But using Master Mo's words to teach a three-year-old child may seem too profound.

It is impossible for children to truly understand it. They can't even understand it, let alone use it for enlightenment learning?

Others did not know that Xun Ke was racking his brains over such a problem.

Once a conclusion is made as to whether human nature is good or evil, it is almost impossible to change it, and all subsequent teaching plans must revolve around the same theme.

There is no room for compromise between good and evil.

As for the delicate gray in the middle, it is not something that children who are just starting to learn need to consider.

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Xun Ke stretched out his hand and kept writing lines on the snow.

The benefit of the theory of human nature is that it can lead to conscience. Everyone has four hearts - the heart of compassion, the heart of shame, the heart of respect, and the heart of right and wrong, which can lead to benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom.

But it is clear that people are born to be greedy, born to be lustful, and born to hate evil!

The current state of the world in Otsuki is the best description.

Simply nodding and acknowledging the theory of human nature being good, when Cang grows up a little and really walks out of the small courtyard and sees what the outside world is like, will he ask him: "Since we are all good people, why did it become like this? Isn't human nature good?"

When that time comes, how should I tell Cang?

If the initial point of view cannot take hold, all subsequent knowledge will become a piece of waste paper and empty talk.

If I cannot even convince myself, how can I dare to use this knowledge to measure the morality of the world so that thousands of generations can learn and think from it? This view seems insignificant, it is just a choice.

In fact, the impression was extremely profound, so profound that Xun Ke was unable to make a conclusion.

In other words, I dare not draw a conclusion.

Xun Ke was struggling and hesitating for a long time, and suddenly remembered that Cang had not followed him to study today.

He reached out to wipe off the writing on the snow in front of him, and scanned the yard. Xun Ke asked Xiaoying, who was still enthusiastically making a snowman in the yard, "Where's Cang? Where did he go?"

Xiaoying was examining a big snowman she had built. When she heard Xun Ke's question, she said casually, "Cang went out with the book."

The snowman that Xiaoying had almost built in front of her was much taller than her. Although it was made of snow, it was made vivid by a pair of skillful hands. It vaguely resembled Gu Dan, but she was not quite satisfied yet.

Uncle Gu is so handsome, why can’t the snow turn into that shape?

Besides, Uncle Gu always likes to wear a green robe. It is hard to find green leaves in winter. If he really puts a robe on the snowman, he will be beaten by his mother, right? After all, his mother said that many families don’t even have clothes to wear now, so she must set an example and not waste them.

If she really puts a robe on the snowman, won’t her mother chop her to pieces?

That won’t do!

"Cang went out with the book? What was he going to do?!"

Xun Ke's voice suddenly rose and he shouted in disbelief.

What a joke, that little bastard was so upset when he had to learn Chinese characters from him for an hour every day, how could he like reading? "It seems like he went to play with the little girl from the auntie's house next door? As a child, he always needs to find a playmate."

Xiaoying was still looking at her new snow sculpture, preparing to give Gu Dan a surprise when he came back. "Look, does this snowman I made look like Uncle Gu?"

Xun Ke took a quick glance and nodded slightly, "It does look a bit like him."

"What do you mean a bit similar? He looks very similar, okay? It's just that no matter how I do it, I can't get the face right. It's not as handsome as Uncle Gu." Xiaoying tilted her head and thought.

"How can a dead thing be compared to a living person?"

Xun Ke said worriedly: "How about I go look for Cang? I really can't imagine what that little guy is going to do with a book in his arms!"

"Oh, why are you acting like an old woman? Cang just went out to play. The whole time he stayed in the yard, he either messed up the flowers I grew or pestered you to tell stories. It would be more quiet if he went out." Xiaoying waved her hand impatiently.

Little kids who are just three years old are really annoying. They no longer have the cuteness they had when they were little and can be manipulated by others. They are more mischievous by nature, and sometimes they get into some unexpected troubles on a whim.

Although he still has short legs, he can't sit still at all and runs around everywhere. I really don't know where he gets the energy from.

Last time, she had a sudden idea and planned to take care of Cang to appease her sudden maternal love, but she was exhausted after taking care of him for only half a day.

She tried her best to find a playmate for Cang - let the little guy go out and cause trouble for others, instead of destroying his own yard!

She wholeheartedly agreed with Cang's willingness to go out and cause trouble for others.

Alas, things don't always go as planned.

As soon as she finished speaking, the door of the courtyard was pushed open.

A little kid popped his head in and walked in, and immediately fell in love with the snow sculpture that Xiaoying had just made.

“Wow!”

Cang shouted excitedly, and ran over quickly with his short legs, "Sister, did you make this? It's so high, so amazing!"

"Yeah! Does he look like Uncle Gu?"

Seeing that Cang was so appreciative, Xiaoying also smiled and said with some pride.

What answered her was Cang's sudden slapping of the snow sculpture's dark little hand.

Two small black palm prints were imprinted on the pure white snow sculpture.

"Hey, now I have my share too!"

Cang shouted happily.

"Hiss~"

Xun Ke couldn't help but gasp when he saw this scene.

How dare you? ! "Cang!!!"

There were no surprises.

A roar resounded through the sky.

When Gu Dan pushed open the gate and walked in, he saw Cang Zheng lying on Xun Ke's legs, crying at the top of his lungs.

Xiaoying clenched her teeth, held a book in her hand, and hit Cang's little butt viciously.

"What are you two doing?"

Gu Dan was surprised. Why are men and women being paired together now?

"Uncle Gu, come over and beat him up!"

Xiaoying was furious. "This little guy is so disloyal. I'm going to beat him to death today!"

Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly and asked in confusion, "Eating from the inside out?"

"He took Xun Ke's books and burned them for people, saying it would help them keep warm!" Xiaoying said gritting her teeth.

(End of this chapter)