The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

"The numerous people killed in Chang'an City, do you have anything to do with it?" Lu Deming asked.

He had many guesses.

Now it seems that he guessed right.

"It has something to do with it." Li Fu said: "In the past few years, once I leave Chang'an City, there will be a lot of trouble."

"To put it bluntly, it's all for profit."

Li Fu flipped through the book and said: "People die for money, birds die for food, this is really reflected in them. If it weren't for this matter being too bloody, I really want to compile it into a story to teach students."

"What you learn from books is always shallow, and you have to practice it yourself to know it. Look, hundreds of people have practiced it for this."

Li Fu's words were neither salty nor bland, but you can hear the strong irony in them no matter how you listen to them.

Lu Deming didn't say anything else.

The incident in which hundreds of people died at once seemed too bloody after all, but if you think about it carefully, if these people didn't have the idea of ​​​​Li Fu, how could His Majesty want to kill them?

Those who kill will be killed. If you do something wrong, you should pay the price for it.

If Li Fu did not react in time and was killed by this gang, the whole Jingyang Palace would be in trouble, and Li Fu would be the one who died.

This is a matter of life and death, and it is not cruel or not.

The two chatted in the study.

The years are quiet and good.

Li Fu suddenly remembered something.

He spread out the paper and started writing on it.

As he was writing, Li Fu raised his head and asked Lu Deming.

"Old Lu, have you heard of Dou Yanshan?" Li Fu asked.

Lu Deming was confused and puzzled.

"No."

"Oh, I know."

Li Fu responded and drew something on the paper.

He wrote a large piece of paper, then he stood up and came to Lu Deming.

"Old Lu, take a look at this. How about teaching students this and enlightening them?" Li Fu asked.

Lu Deming took the paper from Li Fu's hand.

"Three Character Classic?" Lu Deming saw the title and continued to read on with curiosity.

"At the beginning of life, human nature is good. Natures are close, but habits make them different."

"At the beginning of life, human nature is good. This is the view of Master Meng, although I don't quite agree with it." Li Fu said, "But change the explanation and teach students to be good."

"Otherwise, write that at the beginning of life, human nature is evil."

"You don't agree with Master Meng's view?" Lu Deming looked at Li Fu, wanting to hear how he explained why Master Meng's view was wrong?

"Human nature is evil. Because human nature is evil, there are laws." Li Fu said, "This matter has to start from the pre-Qin period, the era of various schools of thought and a hundred flowers blooming in the pre-Qin period."

Although Confucianism was the only school of thought later, there were also some Confucianism and legalism in it.

"People in the world are born to love profit, so there are disputes over wealth and land." Li Fu looked at Lu Deming: "Do you think what I said is right? Otherwise, why would there be wars?"

"It can't be said to be wrong, it can only be said that it is a bit biased." Lu Deming said thoughtfully.

"Born with greed, there are thieves, violence and killing. Born with extravagant desires, there are sensual pleasures. The evil of human nature must be corrected by law. The law should be used to prevent evil desires and guide human nature. Only then can human nature be good and orderly."

"Mencius said that human nature is good, and attributed the merits of governing the world to the goodness of human nature, and the sins of chaotic times to other things. He just wanted to reiterate the theory of benevolent government and rule by man and the restoration of the past in that era, returning to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties." Li Fu said: "Everything is good for those who have not experienced it, and no one dares to say that shit is fragrant if they have not eaten it."

"What Huairen said is the theory of Shang Yang in the pre-Qin period, right?" Lu Deming said.

"That's right." Li Fu responded: "Then I will talk about my own views next. If there is anything wrong, please correct me, Mr. Lu."

Lu Deming nodded slightly.

"What is good and what is evil? They are all defined from the perspective of human interests. For example, if I see a starving person, I kill a fish for him to eat in order to save him. This is nothing more than following the law of the jungle. Heaven and earth are not benevolent and treat all things as straw dogs. It is meaningless to discuss good and evil. Therefore, my understanding of Mencius's human nature is good is different on a certain level."

"What I said about human nature being evil is in the acquired sense, while Mencius's human nature is good, perhaps innate. A gentleman becomes a saint by cultivating himself through the pursuit of knowledge and is united with the innate origin, which is good.

And human nature is evil, which is acquired nature. The acquired nature of human beings is profit-seeking and can be corrected by law within limits."

"Law is the bottom line of morality."

"Whether people are good or bad can mostly be restrained by morality. For example, if you live in Zhuangzi, if you have a bad human nature, people around you will automatically distance themselves from you and not associate with you. If you encounter something, youNaturally, you can't expect others to help you regardless of past grudges. This is a moral constraint, which is to be constrained by kindness. "

"But what? Some people are just careless, with low morals. They don't care about other things. I only care about myself and whether my life is comfortable. I can do anything to live a good life.

Such people have no morals. Therefore, the law has given a red line. Once it is crossed, it will be severely punished. The law punishes the worst. "

"The distinction between good and evil is also greatly affected by the acquired environment. Therefore, I think that when human nature is young, ignorant, and does not understand good and evil, it needs parents, elders, and teachers to give correct guidance. "

"There is a saying in Buddhism that you can become a Buddha by putting down your butcher knife. Isn't this about guiding evil people to be good? ”

Perhaps some people would say, why can’t good people become Buddhas after practicing hard, but evil people can become Buddhas by putting down their butcher knives?

I can only say that it is superficial.

Evil people not doing evil is also a kind of good, so has he really become a Buddha?

Can you respect materialism and the scientific outlook on development?

Huairen was fooled into becoming a good person, isn’t that good?

Materialism and idealism, of course, you should believe in whichever is more beneficial.

Just like the gods in folk myths.

If he is useless, can the people worship him to become a god?

Li Fu combined his own experience and believed that human nature is evil at the beginning.

What is left eye twitching for wealth, right eye twitching is the involuntary contraction and twitching of eyelid muscles, which may be due to mental tension, poor sleep or excessive smoking and drinking...

"Because as a teacher in the college, we should guide students to the good side, so the explanation that human nature is good at the beginning is correct."

Lu Deming nodded seriously.

"Well, but I still need to think carefully about what you said and understand it more. ”

Lu Deming did not immediately agree with Li Fu's point of view, but planned to digest it for himself.

"If you don't teach, your nature will change. The way of teaching is to be focused. In the past, Meng Mu chose a neighbor, and when her son refused to learn, she broke the loom. "Lu Deming continued to read: "These two sentences are good. "