Shi Bufan said this sentence "Ancestors are used to scold", this sentence really shocked Li Shimin. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Such words are simply speechless, obviously Li Shimin does not understand this very much. It stands to reason that ancestors should be used to praise, and the ancients paid attention to respecting heaven and ancestors, which is actually to respect God and learn from ancestors. And the meaning of this law in ancient times was to imitate and do things according to the rules set by the ancestors. But now Shi Bufan actually said that the ancestors were used to scold, which made him very speechless. What kind of logic is this, so Li Shimin also doesn't understand it very much.

"Your Majesty, in fact, you just have to think about it, if you say that the slavery system was practiced during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the nobles could enslave and kill slaves at will, and even slaves did not have any freedom and were forced to do things. Do you think this is right? Shi Bufan asked.

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "No, such a large-scale enslavement of the people is really inappropriate. So later, since the Warring States period, there are almost no slaves, even if my slave and maid of the Tang Dynasty, although they are actually called slaves, their lives are basically guaranteed, and it is impossible for the master's family to kill them casually. Generally, if you really want to kill, you will only be executed if you have committed a major crime. But if all the people in the country are slaves, then this is obviously not right. ”

"Your Majesty, don't you approve of letting the whole country be slaves?" Shi Bufan asked.

"Of course!" Li Shimin replied.

Shi Bufan continued: "Your Majesty, aren't you scolding your ancestors like this? They didn't think so, but when they didn't, they thought slavery was justified and just. But now you think it's wrong, so how do you explain your thinking? ”

Li Shimin couldn't say a reason for this ......, as if it had been so many years since the abolition of slavery society, Li Shimin actually thought of this problem for the first time.

If it is said that the people of those days practiced slavery, the people of that time may think that it was right, and even if the slaves wanted to be free, they would not think that slavery was wrong. So this obviously made them a little confused, even Li Shimin now feels as if he thinks differently from the ancients.

"Your Majesty, do you realize? Now that you are the emperor of my Tang Dynasty, your thinking is different from that of the nobles during the slavery period many years ago, which means that the times are changing, and people's thinking has also changed. Maybe it was right many years ago, but when it came to my Datang, it became wrong. However, maybe our current Datang is right, but in more than a thousand years, it will be wrong. ”

"So, I'm afraid that one day, I will also be scolded by future generations, thinking that we are stupid and wrong. But we don't have to worry, because later generations scold us, in fact, it is also a kind of progress, because we, as ancestors, we can't predict what kind of changes will happen in many years. What we think in this era will be very wrong for future generations. However, we also can't understand the thoughts of later generations, and perhaps in our eyes, the practices of later generations are also incomprehensible, and even think that the etiquette is broken. So why do you have to be obsessed with the so-called history of the emperor, we just need to do our own thing. As for future generations, all of us who are doing will be scolded by future generations for being a bloody dog. ”

Li Shimin asked again: "The same is true for Sage Kong?" ”

"That's right, including Sage Kong, they will also be scolded for being a bloody dog." Shi Bufan replied.

In later generations, what Confucius was scolded for, this Shi Bufan knows very well. However, if you are in the rational view of history, in fact, the ancestors were scolded by descendants, it is actually normal, everyone has been scolded by descendants, especially celebrities. Later generations criticized Confucius for supporting the so-called Zhou rites, arguing that this was a defense of slavery.

In fact, if you only think of yourself as the Confucius of the past, then you can actually understand it. Confucius was born in that era of slavery, and as an ancestor, he could not have predicted the world more than 2,000 years later. Although Confucius was a "sage", he was only one person, and an ancestor could not have predicted that after many years, slavery would collapse, and the times would progress, so he would be scolded from generation to generation.

Li Shimin was a feudal emperor, so he naturally scolded slavery. But in the future, those who are capitalist will also scold feudalism. When the time comes, altogether. Industrialism will also scold capitalism as a bloody dog. Therefore, with the world in which Confucius lived back then, his worldview was actually that era, so he thought that maintaining the superiority and humility of Zhou Li was actually the most appropriate idea that could be done based on the understanding of the world at that time. Of course, this is of course inappropriate for people more than a thousand years later, so he was scolded. But this kind of scolding is absolutely normal. The times are advancing, and the thinking of the ancients cannot adapt to the progress of the times many years later, so it is indeed an inexplicable. Unless the ancients can travel back, he will not be able to learn the knowledge of later generations at all, and he will not be able to know the development of later generations. Neither could Confucius, nor could Confucius have predicted that slavery would collapse and society would progress. He could only use his limited knowledge to implement his ideas as much as possible, so he at least did his best. Even if future generations scold him, it is actually a kind of progress, because everyone will be scolded by future generations.

"Later generations scolded the ancients for being stupid and feudal and independent. Tailoring. What are they? Perhaps people in the 21st century can unscrupulously scold their ancestors, think that their ancestors are wrong, think that Confucius is to defend slavery, and think that Confucianism is to maintain feudal tyranny. The doctrine of the system. However, in fact, people in the 21st century will not be scolded by future generations? People in the 21st century may also be scolded by people in the 31st and 41st centuries in the future, and even scold you for being a bloody dog. Shi Bufan thought.

Shi Bufan is very open to the ancients being scolded by later generations. When the thinking of future people to understand the ancients, it is natural to feel that the ancients were very backward and were doing something stupid. Therefore, many descendants often use their own thinking to measure the thinking of ancient people, so they naturally think that ancient people are unjust, backward, and decadent.

Shi Bufan also knows that even those who have been scolding the ancients, they will one day become "ancients", and they will also be scolded.

The biggest possibility is that people in the 21st century will say that they will not be paid, and they will not work anymore. But if once a total is realized. In a proletarian society, they see that people in the 21st century don't do things if they don't have a salary, so maybe they will also say, these people in the 21st century are too selfish? From this, it is concluded that people in the 21st century are selfish and contribute to society, so how can they ask for wages?

So history is so funny, feudalism scolds slavery, capitalism scolds feudalism, communism. Industrialism scolds capitalism and socialism. In the initial stage of huiism, in fact, not all of them are scolded layer by layer, there is no difference. Therefore, no matter what the ancients did, no matter what they said, once his ideological and theoretical system could not adapt to the times of later generations, he would always be scolded. If you are not scolded by future generations, it shows that you have no place in history. The more miserable you are scolded by future generations, the higher your status in history. Therefore, later generations naturally scolded Confucius to death, but Shi Bufan did not think that this was Confucius's bad luck, this was Confucius's honor!

No one can predict what the future society will be, so even in his previous life, Shi Bufan would not casually insult the ancients, because he knew that the ancients could not predict the future world. And he knows that as a person in the 21st century, he will one day be scolded by future generations. However, this is not sad, but it shows that the times are progressing, and the ancestor was scolded that means that he has contributed to this history, so he left his name. And once the name is left, it will one day be scolded miserably.

"So Your Majesty, you don't have to care about anything. Life is just a few decades, and it is enough to do our part well and assume the responsibilities that history has given us. What happens after we die, we will always be scolded one day. I never expected me to be truly immortal, because the times will gradually progress, and the thoughts of people in our era of Datang cannot predict what future generations will think. So no matter what we do, we will always be scolded to death by future generations. Since we are all going to be scolded, why should we pursue any posthumous reputation? The so-called merits and demerits are only relative. Perhaps slavery was right years ago, and today we think it is wrong. And if we do this now, then future generations will definitely think that we are wrong. There is no real right and wrong, good and evil in this world, only the thoughts of people in different eras. Therefore, since we cannot predict the thoughts of future generations, we will also think that future generations are absurd. And future generations will also scold us, because future generations will not be able to understand us, because we cannot predict the future and do not know what they think. The pursuit of eternal prosperity is just some pipe dreams. ”

Li Shimin's heart is like passing by 10,000 grass and mud horses, because Shi Bufan's words really broke the idea that many ancients could live forever. Which ancients, especially those with a certain status, all hope to be able to be passed down through the ages, and they all hope to be praised by future generations. But Shi Bufan smashed this idea fiercely, and Shi Bufan thought that future generations would definitely scold their ancestors for being bloody. If future generations don't scold their ancestors, then it's a strange thing! If future generations do not scold their ancestors, it is that the times are not progressing, but the times are stagnating or even regressing.

Later generations scolded their ancestors for being a bloody dog, which is not only not a bad thing, but should be thought of. Everyone has a time when they are the ancestors of others, and everyone will have a time when they are scolded by future generations. As the productive forces progress, the society progresses as well, and advanced societies will naturally think that the ancients were obsolete, that the ancients were rotten and unhealthy, and even that the ancients were evil.

"Didn't our ancestors bear the blame for this era? Your Majesty, maybe you will be scolded one day, and I will be scolded too, we are just carrying the black pot for the sake of this era. We are not to blame for this, but only the whole era. However, you must know how many people want to bear the blame for this era, but they are not qualified! It is our honor to be able to bear the blame for this era, because we have made a contribution to the progress of history. It's a pity that I don't even have the qualifications to carry the black pot, that's sad. Sage Kong carried the black pot for that era of slavery, and future generations will scold him. And we will also have a day of carrying the black pot, so don't worry about that. ”

Li Shimin finally said helplessly: "Okay, since this is the case, then why do we have to care about the eternal future." We just do our thing well, and we don't care what posterity thinks. Anyway, by that time, we won't be able to see it! Do a good job in front of us, as long as I can make my Datang rich and strong, and let the people of Datang live in peace, then it will be fine. It is really unimaginable to expect any descendants to be able to pass on us through the ages. It seems that what I can do is to do as much as possible for the people. ”

Li Shimin is gone, I don't know if I can be satisfied, but at least I won't be ashamed of the so-called killing of my brother and forcing my father to abdicate. Because as Shi Bufan said, the essence of this world is "no right, no error, no good, no evil", and the essence of this world is actually like this. There is no evil, where there will be right.

People in different eras have different views of right and wrong and values, so naturally future generations think that their ancestors are evil, and this is the difference. Everyone will bear the blame for the era in which they live. Although he was scolded, the reason why he was scolded was because later generations were scolding the backwardness of ancient times, so he carried the black pot for that era. Not only the ancients, but also the people of the 21st century will also have such a day, and no one can avoid it. Today you can scold the ancients, but in the future, some people will also scold you, but some people will scold you, which shows that the times are advancing, and Shi Bufan will not feel that the ancients are really decadent and backward. Later generations just use their values to measure the ancients, so naturally they think that the ancients are wrong.

Instead of thinking about whether future generations will scold you, it is better to consider doing your current things, anyway, you will be scolded in the future, no matter how good you do, it will always be backward in the eyes of future generations. If you fall behind, you will be scolded and beaten, this is an eternal truth. (To be continued.) )