Chapter 381: Ethics
In other words, which of these two children can be counted as their own children? Is it both? Or does one count as one doesn't count? Or neither? Or, is there any difference between the current self and the original Chongzhen Emperor, is he now the Chongzhen Emperor, and the Chongzhen Emperor is himself, and the two have become one?
In fact, there is a clear difference between the child in Lin Yi and Concubine Tian's womb, the former is the matter of the original Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, while the latter is the responsibility between himself, a traverser, and Concubine Tian. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but turning his head and thinking about it, Xiao Mu felt that there was actually no difference, after all, he was still using the body of Emperor Chongzhen, in addition to thoughts and memories, body hair and skin, cells, DNA, all the things that could be seen, touched, and physically existed were all Emperor Chongzhen's own, and the fetus conceived by Concubine Tian inherited the genes of the Ming imperial family represented by Emperor Chongzhen. It has nothing to do with Xiao Mu, a traverser, in terms of blood and flesh - in fact, Xiao Mu's own body is probably still in the time and space of 2007 at this time, and Xiao Mu doesn't know whether his original body still exists, whether he has become a vegetative person, or has simply rotted away.
But despite this, Xiao Mu still felt that the two children were still a little different, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. At this moment, Xiao Mu feels that he is a typical representative of a dove occupying a magpie's nest, and at the same time, he is also like the one in "Journey to the West", who pushed the real king of the black chicken country into the well, and then occupied the fake black chicken king of other people's rivers and mountains - of course, there is still a little difference, that is, whether it is a dove occupying the magpie's nest or a fake king of the black chicken country, they are all bad people with malice and take the initiative to embezzle other people's assets, while Xiao Mu is the Ming dynasty that does not want to steal Emperor Chongzhen's Daming country, The idea of occupying his harem, but he traveled to the time and space of the Ming Dynasty and borrowed the body of Emperor Chongzhen.
All in all, regarding the relationship between Chongzhen and himself, as well as the difference between the fetus in Lin Yi and Concubine Tian's womb, and the relationship between these two fetuses and himself, this series of unprecedented ethical issues in human history cannot be understood by Xiao Mu alone.
So Xiao Mu had no choice but to shake his head fiercely, and no longer thought about this ethical issue that was a hundred times more complicated than cloning sheep, after all, his cold was not yet good, and the excessive use of his brain made Xiao Mu feel a little headache, and he felt that it was better to wait until his mind was clearer - but Xiao Mu reluctantly found that it seemed that since he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, both the flexibility of his mind and the level of memory seemed to have decreased a little bit compared to before, especially during the recent cold period, This phenomenon is particularly pronounced.
So in order to relax his brain, Xiao Mu looked around in Concubine Tian's bedroom, and then he found that in Concubine Tian's bedroom, her female red works can be seen everywhere, almost all of them are some clothes sewn for children, and in terms of quality, I don't know how high it is than the handkerchief that Lin Yi is practicing sewing, or Lin Ye's "masterpiece" is not even qualified to be defined by the word "female red" compared to Concubine Tian.
The last time Xiao Mu came here, that is, when something happened to Concubine Tian that shouldn't have happened, he found that Concubine Tian had a lot of needlework here, and this time the amount was obviously more than last time, and it was obvious that when Concubine Tian had nothing to do on weekdays, most of her time was spent on this. Xiao Mu felt that her fainting this time might also be caused by doing too much needlework, which caused her body, which was originally a little weak because of pregnancy, to be overwhelmed.
Xiao Mu realized that although he "invented" cards and mahjong tiles to give them leisure and fun in order to enrich the lives of the majority of women in the harem, after all, it is impossible to really enrich their lives by playing cards alone.
But Xiao Mu has no way to change this phenomenon, in the current Ming Dynasty, where feudal etiquette and religion are prevalent, and it is a period when the imperial court is extremely weak and there are hidden dangers everywhere, any deviant behavior of Xiao Mu, the emperor, will cause the whole country to shake.
For example, the last time he held a class in the Inner Study Hall, just because of the issue of not letting the little eunuch academy kneel down to worship Confucius, it caused him to have a fierce argument with the hundred officials, and in the end the matter even developed to the point where Xiao Mu fainted when he came to the sect to resign, and in the end, it was Xiao Mu and Lin Yi who spent a lot of effort to finally stay in the sect, so as to resolve a political earthquake without danger.
In fact, whether it was Qian Qianyi or Zhou Yanru, many courtiers were like sharks that smelled blood at that time, ready to compete for the possible cabinet elder seats. These are all after the crisis was inadvertently resolved, Xiao Mu only learned from Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing's report, and after learning that a political disaster almost occurred, Xiao Mu was also shocked into a cold sweat at that time.
It is foreseeable that if Xiao Mu gives the concubines of the harem some of the most basic rights in the future society from the perspective of liberating women's rights and interests, for example, allowing them to go out of the palace to shop and walk around, then he will undoubtedly cause a more serious political disaster, and it is very likely that all the scholars in the capital will run to his palace gate and kneel down to petition him to take back his life. Even, if Xiao Mu's position as emperor is unstable, his position as emperor is likely to be abolished, and there will inevitably be one or two Yiyin Huoguang disciples in the court.
So Xiao Mu finally had to helplessly find that all he could do was to provide the concubines in the harem with a little bit of things such as mahjong and cards, and the rest of the emperor could not do anything.
However, fortunately, the women of this time and space have not yet recognized those rights that seem to be natural in later generations, and the unfree life of the palace is also a natural thing in their eyes, so in fact, their psychological gap is actually not as big as Xiao Mu.