Chapter 183: Clothes and Shame (Seeking Perfection)

Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is a necessary condition for human beings to be able to evolve from ancient apes to the present.

If it weren't for this talent, tens of millions of years ago, the weather was suddenly cold, so that there was a shortage of food on the trees, and the ancient apes would have starved to death if they didn't jump down from the trees to find food.

This excellent gene has always been inherited in the human body, along with the progress of civilization.

And shirking responsibility is also a special gene branched out of the pursuit of advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

This gene also created the earliest internal divisions in human beings.

When the first human to blame their teammates appears, this gene is activated, which leads directly to a chain effect, and even more terrifyingly, this gene may accompany the human race until its demise.

Wang Xu gave Li Zuoche and Zang Di half an hour to find out a perpetrator among more than 20,000 people, in fact, this is not a particularly difficult thing, because with a little differentiation, you can plan the overlapping scope of communication with the injured savage, and then interrogate in turn.

But the problem is that Zang Di and Li Zuoche are worried that if it is really the mistake of their subordinates, if they admit it, they will also be punished for the crime of joint sitting.

The crime of joint sitting has existed since ancient times, and it should be a criminal law handed down from the Xia and Shang periods, and was later consolidated by the Legalists as a means of governing the people, among which the Shang Dynasty was the most successful in promoting the Qin Reform Law.

When Shang Ying changed the law, the method of sitting together, ten families were together, and if there was a problem, they should correct and expose each other, otherwise they would sit together. If he does not commit adultery, he will be beheaded; Adultery is the same crime as surrendering to the enemy.

The law of slacking off and collecting children includes the wives of commoners who are poor due to laziness, and they are not allowed to enter the government as slaves. Li Dian and Wu Lao also sat together because there were people in the area under their jurisdiction who did not report "crimes".

Although they don't know how many people will sit together as Wang Xu said, they know that they will definitely not escape the responsibility of serving as the township head, so they all want to pass the whole charge on each other.

As a result, the remnants of Yandi, who were originally united, were instantly divided into three factions.

Li Zuoche and Zang Di, and a group of neutral people watched the excitement.

Seeing that the time was about to come, Li Zuoche and Zang Di were still at a stalemate, which made the atmosphere in the city more and more solemn.

If it weren't for the fact that the Shennu and Lan Jia troops on both sides of the road were too fierce, and the ballistas next to the Fire Phoenix Army on the city wall were too terrifying, Zang Di might have preemptively led the crowd to fight Li Zuoche.

Since coming to Maodu, Zang Di has completely given up his ambition to 'conspire with Li Zuoche' at that time.

Not only do they have free food and clothing, but also free housing, and they will also allocate free arable land, and even plough cattle and livestock.

However, he now also knows what greed is the original sin, although he is not sure if it is his own subordinates who committed the crime, but Zang Di still feels that his original idea of wanting to occupy the capital for the sake of the guest is too stupid.

How could such a rich city not have a complete military force?

He can now say that his intestines are all repentant.

And after seeing Wang Xu, Zang Di was even more sure that with such a mysterious and unpredictable monarch, he would have a bright future, so he didn't want to be implicated in today's incident.

"Mr. Zuo Che, the injured man is indeed entangled with his subordinates under your jurisdiction, why do you have to die and refuse to admit it?" Zang Di looked at the sundial and said with a frown.

"The general's words are wrong, the injured person is not entangled with my rule, but the place of work is similar, there is no direct relationship and intersection, they don't even know each other, there is no injustice in the past and no enmity in the near future, why do you want to commit murder and hurt people?" Li Zuoche shook his head and said, "On the contrary, it is the confession of the wounded companion, saying that some of your subordinates seem to have had a dispute with the injured man before." ”

Zang Di's face did not change color, "Even if there is a dispute, what about it?" It's just a guess, not a witness, and the place where the injured man fell unconscious is a city away from us, if it was really my brother who committed the murder, would no one see it? ”

Li Zuoche raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he had thought of something, "This is really weird, no one really sees it." ”

Zang Di also frowned, "What do you mean, sir." ”

"Could it be that the wounded's companions committed murder?" Li Zuoche squinted, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth.

Zang Di was slightly stunned, his eyes nodded and said, "Maybe it's possible, the perpetrator may not be under the rule of you and me, but it is easier for companions to quarrel, and these savages are not civilized with different etiquette, and it is inevitable to act in a hurry." ”

Li Zuoche smiled and nodded, and stretched out his palm, "Why don't we report this conclusion to the Emperor, and then listen to the decision?" ”

Zang Tu thought for a while, high-fived Li Zuoche and smiled, "Very good." ”

When Mo Ji, the chairman of the neighborhood committee, reported this conclusion to Wang Xu, Wang Xu was not too surprised, if Li Zuoche couldn't even find this kind of logical loophole, it would mean that Li Zuoche was not the same person as the one in history.

"I want the wrongdoer, not the conclusion, since the time is up, they have not found the wrongdoer, then the crime of joint sitting is established, and the punishment is to go out of the city to work without clothes, work naked, and the time limit is one month." Wang Xu looked at the military report from Tu Tan and Wang Li today, and then said.

"Huh?" Mo Ji was stunned, "That's it?" ”

"You don't think the punishment is enough?" Wang Xu raised his eyes and smiled at him.

"The weather has warmed up, even if you are naked, you will not feel cold, and you are hot and dry from work, and the emperor seems to have punished too mercifully." Mo Ji knelt down and said respectfully, "The minister thinks that it is better to punish the working hours, and the daily workload will be increased by thirty percent." ”

Wang Xu shook his head, "The effect of physical punishment is not as great as you think, but this kind of mental humiliation makes them remember it even more, after all, they are the remnants of Yandi, and they are a little different from the lonely bamboo people, the lonely bamboo people first dressed to keep warm, and they dressed to be honest." ”

"We also have shame in our clothes." While dealing with government affairs, Mo Lian raised his head and said angrily.

"Uh-huh, got it." Wang Xu chuckled and said perfunctorily, turned his head to Mo Ji and said, "Just promulgate it, if they have bad intentions and don't make trouble, they will be dealt with according to the regulations, and the light ones will be whipped, and the heavy ones will be confined and expelled." ”

Mo Ji took the order and got off the Xuanniao car to issue the order.

"The Emperor already knows who the wrongdoer is?" Mo Lian asked curiously.

"I don't know, maybe I accidentally knocked unconscious or was injured by the livestock." Wang Xu shrugged his shoulders, and a smile on the corner of his mouth could not be concealed: "Do you also think this punishment is light?" ”

"It's just naked, and the weather is not cold, and they will take off their clothes when they work in the field itself, of course." Mo Lian frowned and said, "The Great Emperor is really too merciful, these remnants of Yandi need to be treated with fierce medicine, otherwise they may become disasters in the future." ”

"Press, the side of the hall is said to be cheap, so it is wide. The hall of the Son of Heaven is nine feet, the princes are seven feet, the big households are five feet, and the scholars are three feet. The sides of the hall are as high as they are. At the beginning, Lian refers to the straight edges and corners of the house, which cannot be bent, and the bend is leaked, and the Tianzi Hall is nine feet high, indicating that the height of Lian is not visible to ordinary people, and the scholar is three feet high, and everyone can see it. Wang Xu chuckled and explained, "And shame from the heart, ear voice, meaning the voice of the heart, the voice of the heart, most of the voice of the heart, most of them can not be known to others, so they are ashamed, and the combination of the two words represents the integrity of the scholars, everyone can see, so everyone has a shame in their hearts, Guan Zhong called the courtesy, righteousness and shame the four dimensions, and regarded it as the four-sided pillar of heaven for governing the country and herdsmen, which is the beginning of the Central Plains civilization. ”

Mo Lian blinked her big watery eyes, and looked at Wang Xu as if she didn't understand, "So, if you don't let them wear clothes and be naked in the world, it is equivalent to exposing their ugliest shame?" ”

"Clothes can hide a lot of things in addition to keeping warm." Wang Xu smiled and shook his head, "Although I still can't see people's hearts, but it is indeed a great test of people's hearts, you will soon know the importance of clothes for the people of the Central Plains, Kong Qiu said, microtube Zhong, I was sent to the left." ”

Although Mo Lian has not been exposed to too many Central Plains books, he still knows the distinction between the left and the right, and the Central Plains people regard the right as civilized and the left as barbaric, "But these Yandi remnants were not clothed at first." ”

"This is the difference between civilization and barbarism." Wang Xu smiled, "Although civilization may be forced to return to barbarism due to external factors, once it settles down, it will pick up civilization as soon as possible, and barbarism, whether it is stable or war, can only afford to fight." ”

Mo Lian puffed out her cheeks and nodded.

"It's a pity that I don't have the Central Plains collection in my hand to show you now." Wang Xu sighed, "I hope that Tu Tan can bring back all the good things in Jixia School Palace, so that he can fill the foundation problem of the Guzhu Country, and know the honor and disgrace of the Cangqiao and the etiquette of the Lonely Bamboo Country, although the Guzhu Country is now worry-free, but the concept of honor and disgrace and etiquette still lack too much." ”

Mo Lian pouted, burying her head in dealing with the government affairs at hand, she still felt that it was more important to be fed and clothed without the scourge of war.

Wang Xu glanced at Mo Lian's small appearance, smiled and shook his head, this is the cultural difference, there is no doubt that the Guzhu Kingdom is the orthodox culture of Yin Shang, but after being forced into the barbarian land by the Zhou Dynasty, the problem of survival has wiped out the orthodox culture too much, and after being assimilated by the barbarians for such a long time, it is inevitable that there is some pragmatism.

In her eyes, the role of clothes is to keep warm, as for the beauty and shape is not important, not only her, but everyone in the Lonely Bamboo Country has such a role in clothes.

Although Wang Xu is not a formalist, he does deliberately cultivate the aesthetics of the people, because aesthetics is one of the cornerstones of civilization promotion, and only by establishing the correct aesthetics can we make the right choice.

Of course, this aesthetic does not refer to the material, but to the spiritual.

Just like Wang Xu's punishment of Li Zuoche and Zang Di, it is not physical, but mental, I believe that after these people work naked for a month, they may improve their spiritual realm.