Chapter 195: Words

"So my aunt is going to force me to choose between the two?"

Always frowning and listening carefully to the words of the eldest grandson queen sitting next to him, Sun Dao also tried to refute a few words. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info But no matter how you look at it, it's pressing step by step, and Sun Dao's face is suddenly a little wonderful compared to before.

It must be a wonderful irony without words.

Last night he was still here condescendingly persuading the girl, as the elders take the juniors for granted; He is still here today, but he is being counter-persuaded by his real elders, just like an aunt who leads a family teaches her own nephew.

They are essentially the same, and they both hope to change each other's minds. Because she and he both think that their concepts are roughly correct, and then in comparison, the other party is going farther and farther on the road of extremism. As an elder, as a person who has come before, she and he are qualified and necessary to correct him and her.

She didn't want him to persist until the end, but in the end she could only regret it; And he simply dislikes her for being too troublesome, and if he doesn't get rid of it as soon as possible, it will hurt each other in the end.

Although they both understand that as children, there will always be a time when they will not listen to their elders; But in the same way, they also believe that the other party is not an ordinary little broken child!

"Just to make you understand that there are some things that you can't succeed if you stick to what you want to do. Many times, we have to make a choice even if we don't want to"

"I think it's better for my aunt to tell your daughter"

"Don't change the subject, it's your business now" Turning sideways, Empress Eldest Sun tapped her fingers twice on Sun Dao's forehead.

This kid has a really strong ability to change the subject, and what he just said is immediately used to ask himself.

After being beaten with "hehe", Sun Dao suddenly laughed inexplicably, with some neurotic meaning, "If your choice is the end of hell, I will fall with you!" ”

"If her fate can't be changed, then I'll step into hell before she does, and I'll leave this problem to her. Whether to overcome the disease and survive with the power of motherly love, or to follow in my footsteps in order to take revenge on me, no matter what she chooses, I will not blame her, waiting for her in hell! ”

"Very sly answer!" Li Shimin, who was sitting there, finally couldn't help but speak.

walked over and took his wife's hand and pulled her back to sit, and Li Shimin easily brought back the pot of tea that should have been cooled for a long time. Throwing it directly into the brazier to heat it, he cast a reassuring look at his wife. When he spoke to Sun Dao again, his voice was the indifferent and frank of the superior: "You told me a long time ago that the only purpose of your coming here is to prove. For this reason, when the green finch touched your bottom line that time, you almost died with me; What you told me at that time is still your proof, your faith. Originally, it was bits and pieces of confusion, but after that incident, it can be vaguely connected, but it always feels a little different. It wasn't until you met Zhang Khan Zhi from Xiangzhou that you told him so much that it all finally came to mind - you want a balanced world, right? The third option outside the boundaries of the so-called strict rational sensibility"

"That's pretty much what to say"

Sun Dao inhaled deeply, ready to accept the next round of ideological bombardment.

"Then you can answer every multiple-choice question you ask Zhang Cambodia?"

"No, so I'm going to find out!"

"Finally, classify and record them, form a code of conduct, and then become rational again?"

"Not exactly, Zhang Cambodia is looking for it!"

"So how do you define the line between emotion and reason to make room for your choices?"

So how do you tell if a person is good or bad? Right and wrong? ”

"Judged by law and morality!"

"A peasant in a village borrowed a cow from the landlord's family to plough the field at the cost of repaying a bucket of rice after the future harvest, and then the weather was not good, and the whole state was in drought, and not only the peasant households, but even the landlord's family could not harvest half a bucket of rice. The whole state is in vain, and the food that the people have spent in the winter is running out. Everyone is hungry, and it just so happens that the landlord's family is the same this year. However, the landlord now has another choice, he can first ask the peasant households to repay a part of the grain, accumulate a small amount, and gather together to tide his family over the difficulties. And in this way, there will be people in the farmer's house on the other side who will have no food rations and may even starve to death! Under these circumstances, the peasant households were naturally unwilling to repay their debts, so the lawsuit went to the yamen, and the county magistrate felt that the landlord wanted to seize the land of the people in the village, so he forced the landlord to postpone the collection of debts. Then you say, who is the good guy among them? Who are the bad guys? Who's right? Who is wrong again? Judge by the law of your Datang or the morality of the county officials? ”

"Or rather, with your pure reason?" Sun Dao stared straight ahead with blank eyes, giving people the illusion that maybe he didn't know what he was talking about.

"And what's your answer?" Li Shimin rubbed his head with a headache.

Since he "discussed" this kind of thing with his wife and this kid, his side has fallen behind. Because there are too many things in the world that cannot be judged by pure reason and emotion, and this alone is invincible on the kid's side.

What's wrong, why do you want to get entangled in this kind of stuff that is getting messier and messier?

Li Shimin grinded his teeth, using this to vent his unwillingness and grievances.

"I don't know" is very casual, and Sun Dao's answer made Li Shimin's teeth itch even more, "Neither law nor morality can solve this problem." If we look at it in a purely rational way, the peasants are renting voluntarily, and since the time is up, they must pay their debts, and they must not let innocent creditors bear the consequences of such natural disasters for them. On the other hand, from an emotional point of view, although this is somewhat unreasonable, as a vulnerable group, it seems that poor farmers are more worthy of sympathy."

"It seems that one party must be sacrificed in order to save the other's choice, and it is basically difficult for an ordinary person to make it."

"And this kind of problem that cannot be solved by simply paying off debts and killing people to pay for their lives, or by comforting and sympathizing with the weak who are safe and secure in their lives, do you think we shouldn't find a new way to solve the problem?"

"Biased towards Bunji? Scholars are familiar with the law and have sensual sympathy? Good at finding balance? At this time, Li Shimin just looked at Sun Dao who didn't know what kind of look in front of him, which also contained that kind of unchanging thinking gaze.

Persuasion itself is a two-way process, and there is a dual possibility of persuasion and anti-persuasion. Of course, Li Shimin, who had long been convinced, could not be persuaded by Sun Dao's words, but this did not prevent him from extracting something worthy of his own use.

But Sun Dao's assumption is a real headache.

"Impossible!" Sun Dao's rare emotions fluctuated, although he still couldn't see his expression clearly.

Li Shimin didn't know what twists and turns there were, but it was obvious that there was something wrong with his emotions, and it wasn't that kind of simple anger and some kind of annoyance. If you have to describe it, it should be a combination of contempt detached from reality and confusion in reality. Looking at Sun Dao's blinking eyes from time to time at that time, Li Shimin finally felt that the confusion of this reality was gradually deepening.

"Scholar, do you think you can always take on a big responsibility?" Completely detached from a certain state, Sun Dao turned his face sideways to look at Li Shimin and Empress Eldest Sun, who had been focusing on him.

So he happened to see that the moment he spoke, Empress Eldest Sun was completely relieved.

"Half of the ministers in the court are scholars!" Li Shimin frowned deeply, and looked at Sun Dao with some displeasure in his eyes. Those people in the eighteen bachelors of the Qin Palace, Sun Dao knew everything, even if they didn't know each other one by one, but at least Kong Yingda and Sun Dao were very familiar, how could Sun Dao not know anything about their conduct!? Although those students of the prince eunuch, he did not have much expectations.

"It's pretty much the same, the difference is just that the group of scholars has not been formed and mature!" And Sun Dao was restored to the original state: "You won't reuse those scholars in the prince's prison, won't your children and grandchildren reuse them?" Can you guarantee that among your descendants of the Li Tang Emperors, there will not be an emperor who is as heavy on literature as Li Tai as heavy on literature and light on martial arts? In particular, after Confucianism has regained the doctrine of "heaven and man" and "great unification", as the ruling class, do you choose the side of the civilian officials who stand on your side with great righteousness on the surface, or choose the military attaché group that holds military power and is so powerful that it may even threaten your ruling position? ”

"Even if you don't, what about your offspring?"

"Ruling by the arch, you think it is a very high political realm. Do you know what my understanding is? The ruler doesn't have to do anything, just the Confucian scholars help you with political affairs, and the country can get peace. What do you think? If they handle national affairs, they will naturally exclude the military attache group, suppress the military needs and power to the minimum, and even in wartime, the military attachés will be subservient to civilian officials, and they will command the battle on paper! If you lose, you will blame the military attache for being disobedient or not having the right time, place and people, and it is impossible to make your own fault anyway. What do you think? In order to protect the interests of their civil officials, and thus satisfy the needs of a luxurious life that they could never satisfy materially, they would exaggerate the Confucian sages in order to promote the legitimacy of their status; After the existence of self-interest in their own team is revealed, they will desperately cover it up, and if they are really helpless, they will use extremely bad means to make that unlucky guy keep his mouth shut, even if that unlucky guy is betraying the interests of the country! What do you think? Satisfied with the status quo, when their homeland is invaded by foreign enemies, they will still fight among themselves there, using gold, silver, treasures, and the land of the country to meet the needs of foreign enemies, in order to seek temporary stability; And once they realize that their country is hopeless, and this big ship has been hollowed out by themselves, they will immediately recognize that the current affairs are handsome, and the good birds choose trees to perch on, surrender to the enemies who destroyed their country, and in turn will force their former emperor to surrender! What do you think? Not only that, but they will also teach the next generation of heirs to the throne, instilling in them the idea that "the Four Books and Five Classics, Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting are elegant things, and an emperor should be familiar with what he likes, and such things as dancing with knives and sticks are not ashamed of a gentleman", so that they will forever look down on and stay away from the military attaché and military, so that when foreign enemies invade, their monarch's first thought after finally knowing about it is that this group of barbarians! What do you think? I may be talking nonsense, maybe I'm stating some kind of fact, what do you think? ”

"Then you agree with Takeshi?" Still with the same thinking gaze, Li Shimin took the warm tea offered by his wife and slowly brought it to his mouth.

"What do you think of the rule of martial arts, the ruler is too reckless, and the military attache is too rational and orderly, or acts with extreme emotion and righteousness?"

"How true is it? How exaggerated? Putting down the teacup in his hand, Li Shimin's gaze at Sun Dao flashed with a strange light that no one could understand, and even the eldest grandson queen beside him was half-understood.

"Half and half," Sun Dao recalled reading several articles, "There was a dynasty whose founding monarch overthrew the rulers of the imperial court who were ethnic minorities, that is, what you now call foreign barbarians, Turkic Tibetans. And the reason why the overthrown dynasty was able to successfully establish a state in the Central Plains was not only because the dynasty that was in the orthodox position at that time was in a corner of peace after repeated defeats, but also because the status of the military attache at that time was too low and repeatedly restrained, and the ruler maintained the rule and maintained the power of the alternative emphasis on literature and light on military force! Their generation of civil officials vividly shows the civil officials' struggle for power and profit and empty talk to mislead the country! This is still the case even after the two generations of emperors were captured and the emperor and queen became the enemy's prostitute! ”

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