, they dare not do anything.”

"...Moreover, Qingzhou and Yanzhou are full of wastes waiting to be renovated. To sort them out, we have to spend a lot of time and resources, sow the seeds, and we can start harvesting them in a year or two. We can't afford to wait.

.And now, everything you have earned is safe in your pocket... You must appease the emotions of everyone in the army and do not worry about the gains and losses of one place. After the propaganda of Gyeongju and Yeonju, soon, Yue

More and more people will come to seek refuge with us. At that time, there is nowhere to go..."

However, for the elderly, what really bothers them is not these superficial things.

At the end of November, after a long period of running and thinking, Zuo Duanyou fell ill, and the children of the Zuo family also came here one after another to persuade the old man to go back. On this day in December, the old man sat in the carriage and left slowly

It was already snow-capped Xiaocang River. Ning Yi and others came to see him off. The old man dismissed the people around him and talked to Ning Yi.

"I understand some things here." The old man said slowly with a hoarse voice, "The method of training soldiers is very good. I understand it, but it's useless."

"Well..." Ning Yi frowned.

"They...are people who really fight for themselves when they risk their lives. When they wake up, they are heroes. If heroes are born, how can there be a place for cowards? This method cannot be used by my Zuo family...

"

Ning Yi nodded slightly.

"There are many things that I can't figure out..."

"Don't think about it, go back and take care of your grandson."

"Haha..." The old man smiled and waved his hand, "I really want to know if you have any confidence in your heart. They are heroes, but they don't really understand. I have said it many times, you can't

This can be used to fight, but this can be used to govern the country. What these people know is not acceptable. Do you understand... And that day, you accidentally mentioned that you have to use the words "reason, reason, and law". Ning Yi, in your heart

Do you really think so?"

As the goose-feather heavy snow fell, Ning Yi raised his head and was silent for a moment: "I have thought about it, and I have also thought about the core of governing the country."

The old man closed his eyes: "To be honest, you are really not worthy of this world..."

"Well, old man, but I can be sure that the word 'reason' will come first in this future." Ning Yi sat down on the shaft of the car and pulled the thick curtain as close as possible, "You really want to know,

I only said it once and I won’t tell anyone else.”

"you say……"

"The core of the problem actually lies in the people you mentioned, old man. I have awakened their bloody nature. They meet the requirements for fighting, but they do not meet the requirements for governing the country. That is correct. So what kind of people meet the requirements for governing the country?

, Confucianism talks about a gentleman. In my opinion, the standards that constitute a person are called three outlooks, outlook on life, world view, and values. These three are very simple things, but the most complex law lies in these three.

It’s time.”

The old man listened to him, hugged the quilt, and leaned in the car. His health was not good, and his brain could no longer keep up with Ning Yi's words. He could only listen, and Ning Yi also spoke slowly.

"The so-called outlook on life is to determine where a person will go in his life and what kind of person he will become. It is good, just like the Confucian people who set up their mind for the world, establish their destiny for the people, inherit their unique knowledge for the saints, and serve for all generations.

If Kai Taiping has achieved this, it is good. The so-called world view: the world is isolated from the outside world. The world view is in the heart of each of us. What do we think the world is like, and how do we understand the laws of the world?

The outlook on life and the world are combined to form values. For example, I think the world is like this, and I want to set my mind for heaven and earth. Then, what should I do? These things are of value to my pursuit of life and others.

There is no value in doing that. This identification of positive and negative is called values.”

"The biggest problem for people in this world is that their outlook on life and world view often seem to be contradictory and contradictory."

"You and I have been looking at the world all our lives in order to understand its laws. Only after we understand the laws can we know what we can do to make the world a better place. But many people stop at this first step.

After coming down, like those scholars, after they grow up, they are used to the darkness of the officialdom, and then they say, the world is like this, and I want to join in the same. Such people have a wrong outlook on life. And some people have naive ideas.

, to the point of death, he does not believe that the world is like this. His world view is wrong. If his outlook on life and the world is wrong, his values ​​​​will definitely be wrong. Either this person does not want to make the world better, or he wants the world to be better, but he hides his ears and deceives others.

All the choices these people make are meaningless."

"For example, people in Gyeongju and Yeonju, I said I would give them a choice, but in fact it is not a choice. They don't understand anything. If they are fools and bad guys, all their choices will be meaningless. I cheated.

When I was desperate, I said, I believe that giving everyone a choice can make the world a better place. It is impossible. The first step for a person to truly become a human being is to break through the confusion of the outlook on life and the world. The worldview must be objective, and the outlook on life must be objective.

On the positive side, we need to know how the world works, and at the same time, we need to have the idea of ​​​​making it better. Only this kind of human choice has an effect."

"The world is extremely complicated, and there are too many things that are confusing and difficult to understand. Just like doing business or governing a country, whoever doesn't want to make money or make the country good will definitely go bankrupt if he does something wrong. The world

Cold and ruthless, the one who follows the principles wins."

Ning Yi paused: "Taking the order of emotion, reason, and law as the core is a very important thing in Confucianism, because this world has developed from the state of a few countries and small people. The country is big, and there are all kinds of small places, mountains and valleys.

Governing with emotion is more practical than reason and law. However, at the national level, with the development over the past thousand years, what the court has always needed is reason first. Do not avoid relatives when doing internal affairs, and do not avoid suspicion when doing external affairs. This is

What, this is Li, the word Li is the way of the movement of heaven and earth. What does Confucianism mean when it says: monarch, minister, minister, father, son, son? The emperor should be like an emperor, ministers should be like ministers, a father should be like a father, and a son should be like a son.

It seems that if the emperor fails to do a good job, the country will have to foot the bill, so there is no chance."

"But in recent years, human feelings have always been based on principles, and there is a trend of becoming more and more strict. When the emperor talks about human feelings more than principles, the country will be weak, and when the ministers talk about human feelings more than principles, the country will also be weak, but why

Nothing happened internally? Because the internal requirements for favors have become more and more stringent, making the internal affairs weaker and weaker to maintain rule, so it is absolutely unable to resist foreign aggression."

"Gewu will develop, Zuo Gong, you have no confidence in it, but one day, it will change what you see now tenfold and a hundredfold. Gewu is more cold and objective, and it cannot tolerate any human feelings or taken for granted. The law is

Law. Just imagine that a workshop can increase its manpower tenfold, hundredfold or even a thousandfold. The people who study it talk about human feelings all day long. Sooner or later, they will be confused by human feelings. The person in charge of this matter talks about human feelings, so a truly useful person

It can't come up. When an object flies into the sky, it will fall down if there is only one mistake. If the person in charge cannot be strict, what will happen?"

"The bigger and more developed the country is, the more urgent it is for truth. Sooner or later, everyone in the world will be able to read books. They will no longer face the earth with their backs to the sky. They will want to speak and become a part of the country. They will

What should be understood is the objective truth, because - just like Gyeongju and Yeonju, one day, someone will give them the power to be a human being, but if they are not objective enough to treat things and are obsessed with their hometown wishes, they will take it for granted and all kinds of abnormal things will happen.

The dichotomy of this or that, they should not have such power."

"Zuo Gong, you are right when you say that scholars may not be able to understand reason. Today's Confucian scholars, after reading the books of saints and sages for a lifetime, will be able to understand the truth in them. I can foresee that in the future, everyone in the world will be able to read.

At that time, there were not many people who could break through the oppositional unity of outlook on life and world view. They were limited by whether they were clever or not, limited by the way knowledge was passed on, and limited by their daily life edification. The question of whether they were clever or not was limited.

The point is already determined when you are born, but the inheritance of knowledge can be changed, and the influence of life can also be changed."

"When the world continues to develop and the world continues to progress, I assert that one day, the biggest dregs of Confucianism that people will face must be the order of the three words 'emotion, reason, and law'. A person who is unreasonable and does not understand the truth cannot see clearly.

The objective laws of the world's operation are those who are obsessed with various country wishes. His choice is meaningless. If the core of a country's operation is not truth but human relations, the country will inevitably face a lot of internal friction problems. Our roots are in Confucianism.

, our biggest problem is also Confucianism."

"No matter what kind of people we need, or what kind of country we need. That's right, I want to get rid of emotion, reason, and law. It's not that I'm ungrateful, but that reason must come first." Ning Yi tilted his head, "Old man, you

Asking me these things may not make sense in a short period of time, but if I say what the future will be like, this is what I see. I may not be able to do it in my life. Maybe I can lay a foundation and plant a seed. What will happen in the future?

I'm afraid you and I won't be able to see it, or maybe I won't be able to survive the Jin people coming south."

He smiled: "In the past, when Qin Siyuan and the others chatted with me, they always asked me what I thought about Confucianism, but I didn't say anything. They tinkered with it, but I couldn't see the result, and then it turned out there was no result. What I have to do

I can't see the outcome of this matter, but since it has begun, I can only do my best...let's say goodbye. Zuo Gong, the world is going to be in chaos, please take care of yourself. One day you can't stay any longer, call your family

Go south, and if you live a long life, maybe we can meet again one day in the future. Whether you want to sit down and talk with me, or you want to have a quarrel with me, I welcome it."

He raised his hand and patted the old man's hand. Regardless of his extreme temperament or not giving anyone a good look, Ning Yi is not afraid of anyone, but he is in awe of people's wisdom and respects people with wisdom. The old man's

His eyes trembled, his eyes were complicated, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't. Ning Yi jumped out of the car and called others over.

The specially made carriage began to walk along the rugged mountain road. Ning Yi waved his hand over there. He knew that he might never see the old man again. After the convoy went far, he raised his head and took a deep breath.

With a sigh of relief, he turned around and walked towards the valley.

The Xiaocang River has a unique vitality and vitality in this white world. The mountains are far away and the ridges are close, and the wind and snow are approaching.
Chapter completed!