Datang romantic little landlord

"Boy, come here, let me ask you. Since you dedicated the waterwheel and the method of improving the land to the court, why did you ask Yang Ming's mansion for cattle as a reward?"

Li Er felt that he had good intentions, but he was doomed to wink at the blind, and his efforts would be wasted.

Li Wangyou was always unhappy seeing this bearded man, and felt extremely bored with his words, so how could he listen to Li Er's lesson.

What's more, the positions of the two sides are completely different, and the views on this matter are naturally completely different.

In the view of Li Er, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, it is only natural that the subjects under his rule have good things to dedicate to the government.

As for rewards, they should be distributed by the government at their discretion, rather than asking for them privately.

In the past dynasties of China, where the imperial power is supreme, there is no such thing as intellectual property protection.

Things that are powerful to the country's people's livelihood, that is to say, are public tools, and the royal power does not recognize the exclusivity of private creation.

This is also the reason why the ancients treasured everything once they had something good.

Self-supporting sects, secret recipes passed down from ancestors, passing on to sons but not to daughters, etc., all stem from this social environment without awareness of intellectual property protection, forcing them to find ways to protect their own interests.

So Li Er stood on the standpoint of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and Li Wangyou's elders, and felt that it was normal for him to teach this bastard a lesson.

Including Fang Xuanling, several important ministers also nodded and smiled, feeling that Li Er's question was right.

If Yang Zuan didn't care about his teacher Yu Shinan's face, and he really cherished Li Wangyou's talent, how could he exchange some farm cattle with him.

Rather than saying it was an exchange, it was more appropriate to say that Yang Zuan gave Li Wangyou a gift. What kind of asking for advice and bargaining was just Yang Zuan's teasing with him.

Li Wangyou didn't think that way, why should he confiscate something he "invented" with just a single word?

It's just gangster logic!

"Aren't these two skills of mine worth twenty oxen?" Li Wangyou replied in a bad tone with a slack in his neck.

Li Er was taken aback when he heard the words: "Of course it is worth it, but how can it be calculated like this? The waterwheel is a public tool that has merit in the community, how can it seek personal gain for itself?"

"Why not? I want to farm cattle for the sake of Tang Sheji."

Li Wangyou's words made everyone dumbfounded. You asked Yang Zuan that he wanted to farm cattle, but he still thought of it for the sake of Tang Sheji. What's the reason?

Fearing that he was talking nonsense, Fang Xuanling quickly coughed lightly: "Why did Xiao Lang say that? Don't be joking."

The smile on Li Wangyou's face suddenly disappeared. He felt obliged to give these great figures of the Tang Dynasty a popular science on why intellectual property protection should be carried out.

"You guys should have read "Lu Shi Chun Qiu", right?"

These court chiefs are all well-educated people, including Li Er, who is also familiar with the scriptures, so they naturally knew what Li Wangyou said, and nodded their heads.

Li Wangyou continued: "In "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", Zigong redeemed people and Zilu received cattle, have you all forgotten?"

What he said made everyone startled, what does Zigong's redemption of people and Zilu's acceptance of cattle have to do with this matter?

188 The two of them were beaten again!

Zigong redeeming people and Zilu receiving cattle is a story recorded in "Lushi Chunqiu".

There is a law in the state of Lu: if Lu people see their compatriots suffer misfortune and become slaves in foreign countries, as long as they can redeem these people and help them regain their freedom, they can get compensation and rewards from the state.

Zigong, a student of Confucius, redeemed Lu people from abroad, but refused the state's compensation.

The Master said: If you take the gold, you will not harm your actions. If you don't take the gold, you will not be able to redeem people.

It means that Zigong does not take money, and no one will go to redeem people for Lu in the future.Because Zigong is not short of money, it does not mean that other people are not short of money.

However, due to the precedent of Zigong, other Lu people may not be ashamed to receive state compensation and rewards. As a result, no one is willing to redeem Lu people from abroad.

But Zilu rescued a drowning man, the man thanked him and gave him a cow, which Zilu accepted.

Confucius said happily: "From then on, the people of Lu will be brave enough to rescue those who fall into the water."

Zigong redeemed people and Zilu received cattle, mainly to illustrate that the morality that goes against common sense and human feelings is the most evil thing in the world.

Raising the moral standard infinitely, or treating personal morality as public morality, the two approaches will only lead to one result, which is to embarrass morality, and make ordinary people change their faces when they hear morality, and then go away from morality.

All the bigwigs present, including Li Er, naturally understand this truth, but they don't understand whether it has anything to do with what Li Wangyou said?

Li Wangyou pointed to the waterwheel by the river and said: "If I don't ask Yang Mingfu for the farm cattle, but donate them to the court for free, who in this world is willing to study things? Studying the world and applying it We should just wait for someone else to create it, and then use it. How is this different from Zigong redeeming people?"

"The so-called prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. Zilu Shouniu seems to have missed the point, but it can encourage people to do good. For the sake of the Tang Dynasty, I asked Yang Mingfu for a reward. Is there anything wrong?"

What he said made Li Er, Changsun Wuji and the others somewhat at a loss as to how to refute.

The truth seems to be correct, but it violates the principle of supremacy of imperial power for thousands of years.

If you pay, you should be rewarded, which is what Li Wangyou meant by these two allusions.

Li Er dissatisfied and snorted softly: "Could it be that the sage asked you for the waterwheel technology, and you have to charge him for the cattle?"

"Why not?" Li Wangyou wondered, "Isn't there any money for the purchases in the palace? Why does the saint want to take away my property?"

"The court will naturally reward you, how can you call it a robbery?" Li Er said angrily.

"Why should I be rewarded? This is what I deserved, why did it become a reward from the court? Take away my things, and then give me alms. Isn't this a robber?" Li Wangyou's eyes almost rolled to the sky went.

Li Eryi was speechless for a while, choking on his words, speechless.

Li Er has the urge to take off his boots and whip him, this bastard, don't give me any face!

I got hit again!

Li Wangyou's words made everyone have the urge to cover their faces with their sleeves, this kid is getting excited again.

Everyone present, except for Yang Zuan, had seen the previous two scenes where Li Wangyou ransacked Li Er.It means that Li Er is open-minded, otherwise the grass on Li Wangyou's grave should be three feet high, right?

Yang Zuan was very anxious, and quickly said, "Ziyou, what are you talking about, please answer!"

Fang Xuanling also coughed lightly: "Mr. Li means that the rewards from the court will only be more. Why did Xiao Lang only use this water wheel and the method of improving the soil in exchange for a mere twenty cattle?"

"I want Yang Mingfu not to give it." Li Wangyou muttered.

Fang Xuanling was also depressed, did this kid understand what he said?

In fact, Li Wangyou naturally knew that if he dedicated the method of making waterwheels to Datang in the name of contribution, he might get far more, and it was not impossible that he might even be appointed an official and a noble.

But the problem is that he is not happy!

One is that he doesn't want to be an official, and the other is that Li Wangyou is also a little stubborn donkey.

As he said, it is obviously my property, and I am willing to sell twenty cattle, so why should those bigwigs reward him with alms?