The next evening, the mayor sent someone over to ask Zhuangzi what to do with those who were imprisoned.

After a day of attacking the heart, those clever people were scared, and one by one they voluntarily handed over the things that were hidden and not handed over.

The people at the post station counted it, and not only recovered all the looted property, but also some more. In order to reduce their responsibilities, many people paid some more. There were at least four or five bowls of flour and some more other grains.

Those people handed over everything they had robbed, and if they didn't let them go, it would arouse public indignation. So! The mayor sent an uninjured man to ask Zhuangzi.

At this time, Zhuangzi was in the room where he was selling children, talking with the gray-clothed protector and the black-clothed senior brother about how to govern the lacquer garden.

Since Zhuangzi came to Qiyuan as a town official, many Taoist protectors have come one after another. These protectors did not come directly to recognize Zhuangzi, on the contrary! He also secretly observed and inquired about Zhuangzi's personality and understanding of Taoism.

For this young inheritor of authenticity, they are not completely at ease. Although Zhuangzi is the inheritor of Yang Zhu, although Zhuangzi has had a good reputation since his debut, from Zhuang Zhou to Zhuangzi. But if they don't witness it with their own eyes, they still don't feel at ease.

If? Are people in vain?

From calling a person by name to calling a person a "son", it is necessary for that person to have a certain degree of influence and be recognized by the people. Calling Zhuang Zhou Zhuangzi is the same.

With so many Dharma protectors around him at once, Zhuangzi's confidence skyrocketed all at once. He can implement his plan, use the Lacquer Garden as a base, and use the Lacquer Garden as his dojo.

No! This is not his plan, this is designed for him by his father-in-law, Bai Gui. But! He thinks that the old man's plan is very good and feasible.

Right now! With so many mage protectors, he didn't need them around him to protect him, he had to put these people to use.

As a Taoist, Taoism is reborn, cherishes life, does not need others to protect you, you must have the ability to protect yourself. A person doesn't even have the ability to protect himself, and he still mixes yarn?

He wanted to send all these people to various places in the lacquer garden, so that they could maintain social order and help him preach. Other than that! The main thing is to develop military power.

As an individual, you must have the ability to protect yourself, no matter what kind of society it is, even if it is an old society that eats all kinds of evils, you must have the ability to protect yourself.

As a family, you must have the ability to protect yourself, and you must also unite your family to form a team as a family unit. No matter what kind of society it is, even if it is an old society that eats people in all evil places, this family team centered on you is more powerful, more adaptable to society, and more able to survive in it than individual people who are single-handed.

As you in society, as a person who is willing to take responsibility for society, you must have the ability to protect yourself. If you want to control society, you must have a strong military backing it. Without the backing of the military, you don't want to control society. If you just want to rebel, it's hard. Without the military as a backing, you are a yarn mixer?

Zhuangzi did not tell the gray-clothed mage and the black-clothed senior brother about his ultimate intention to develop military strength. He just said that Taoism rules the world, and all the people are soldiers. Teach the people the ability to protect themselves, not the open development of military power, but the way to break up the whole into parts. On the surface, families are encouraged to practice martial arts to protect themselves. In fact, when war comes, everyone is a warrior.

It was also when Zhuangzi was discussing the development of military strength with the gray-clothed mage protector and the black-clothed senior brother, and the mayor sent someone to interrogate.

"Release?" Zhuangzi thought for a moment and said, "People are meant to be released!" You go back and tell the mayor that not everyone is released immediately. But! Let the honest first, the poor, and those who really have an urgent need to go home. And then! Then put the others, batch by batch. Those who are clever and unconvinced, not only are they not in a hurry to let go, but if they make trouble, they will be beaten! ”

"This?" The official sent by the mayor of the town did not understand it. Ask: "Is there any testimony to this?" ”

"I'm talking about the testimonies! Is there anything unreasonable about what I said? ”

Seeing that the man was still puzzled and refused to leave, Zhuangzi explained: "We Taoists rule the world, lawless!" Whoever rules the world and who says it is wrong, so that those who are clever cannot find the basis, and they can't find my fault. That's it! The honest and the poor will be put first, the people who are from the crowd, and the clever ones will be put last, and they will be released tomorrow. Not convinced, isn't it? Those who are not convinced will be beaten again! ”

The two gray-clad mages couldn't help but laugh when they heard this. The IQ of the senior brother in black is still a little worse, and he didn't understand what Zhuangzi meant.

Seeing that the official still didn't leave, Zhuangzi said again: "If you do something wrong, you won't have ********!" That's it! ”

Seeing that the official was still not leaving, the two gray-clothed mages said, "You can go back and tell the mayor of the town, don't ask why!" Here in Taoism, you can't ask why, Taoism can't. Taoism governs the world, and there is no law. Our works are the law! We are responsible for our actions. ”

"That? How can we do without the law? How can you do without a code of conduct? How do we know it's right to do this and it's wrong to do that? The official said with a stiff neck.

"You can live as you used to live, and if you don't live according to your old way of life, what law do you need? Again! Even if there is a law, do you walk according to it? If the law is useful and beneficial to you, you will follow it. The law is not good for you, it is useless, and you will not obey what you are forced to do! You said? What is the use of asking for the law? ”

"This is the law that does not affect the lives and survival of others! Not being influenced by others, this is the law, the law of survival. The senior brother in black also came over and interjected. He understands a little bit about this.

"But?"

The official was quite stubborn, and asked again: "Since it's released?" Why not put them all? Instead of letting the honest and the poor go first? And finally, what about the clever ones? This? Isn't that unfair? ”

"Fair? Who's going to tell you about fairness? It's you? Or are they the ones who play tricks? ”

"How can those who are clever talk about fairness? When they robbed other people's things, why didn't they think of fairness? ”

"Whoever shouts for fairness will be locked up for a few more days! That's fairness! When they rob other people's property, why don't they think of fairness? ”

The official stalked his neck again and said: "Everyone robbed it, why is the clever person unlucky and let it go in the end?" This is your Taoist 'foolish policy', smart people are unlucky, honest people are good, fools are good. Oh, yes! Honest people, fools are easy to manage! In this society, it is easy to manage by fools. ”

"Listen to what you say, it seems that the smart people in the world, the clever people are not likable, the Taoists don't like them, and the Taoists like honest people and fools when they manage society. Smart people and clever people don't rob it, and Taoists don't need to find trouble with them? They broke the law and did something wrong to get them in trouble? ”

"He's calling it stealing beams and changing pillars! Sweeping. From the clever people who broke the law to all the smart people in the world. Originally, it was said that those clever people who were locked up in the Qiyuan Town Ya and robbed the property of the post station, after such a quibble, they became Taoists who don't like all smart people in the world. Hey! Begging for a beating, isn't it? ”

A gray-clothed protector stepped forward in a fit of morale and kicked the official over with one kick.

"Get out!"