Section 204, the great brainwashing of the way of the sages

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 On the second day of March, in the Liangshan Auditorium, Wu Song watched more than 100 people sit down, and immediately said

 "On behalf of the more than 30,000 people of Liangshan, I would like to thank you, all of you have worked tirelessly, come to this remote place in Liangshan, yesterday as soon as I went ashore, Brother Deming asked me, what kind of work can I do, you have been reading the sage book for ten or twenty years, I want to ask you first, what is a sage?"

 Confucius said: "The so-called virtuous man is sympathetic to the people for his likes and dislikes, and the choice is the same as the people; The line is a moment in the rope, without hurting the present; Words are sufficient in the world, but not harmful to their bodies; Bow to the husband and wish to be rich, but for the princes and have no wealth. In this way, it can be said that he is a sage, a so-called sage, who knows the great way, who can adapt to changes and is not poor, and who can measure the temperament of all things." A student in his thirties immediately got up and replied.

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 "Okay, okay, are the Suiren clan, the Fuxi clan, the Shennong clan, and the Yellow Emperor sages?" Wu Song raised his hand to interrupt him and continue to recite the ancient text, and immediately asked:

 "Sages, of course," the man replied immediately

 "Well, legend has it that the Suiren clan taught everyone to drill wood to make fire, get rid of the wool and drink blood, and give warmth to the people, it is a sage, that Fuxi created words, knotted ropes as nets, used to catch birds and fish, and gave the people food and clothing, it is a sage, that Shennong clan tasted a hundred herbs, used herbs to cure diseases, and relieved the pain; He also invented agricultural tools to turn over the soil, so that everyone can fetch more food, to give the people well-being, but also a sage, that the Yellow Emperor unified the tribes, ended thousands of years of the most brutal killing between tribes, and gave the people peace Of course, it is a sage, Can we summarize the characteristics of the sage is two sentences, for the well-being of the people, for the peace of heaven and earth"

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 "This 、、、" a room full of people began to talk to each other

 "According to Wu Duwei, is Confucius and Mencius still a sage?" One of the students immediately stood up

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 "According to Confucius's definition, a sage must be able to pass through the avenue, and he must not be exhausted, he cannot defend his family and the country when he travels around the world, he cannot provide food and clothing for the people, and he has to be fed by his students, he is by no means a saint, Confucius and Mencius are just thinkers, wise and wise, at least, Confucius did not say that I am a sage in the world, did Confucius say it? No, it is said that Confucius is a sage, it is his disciple who wants to put gold on his face, the teacher is a sage, he is a sage disciple, in the late Warring States period, there were hundreds of schools of thought, Chinese thought is a hundred schools of thought, Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, imprisoned the thoughts of the Han people, locked the definition of a sage in the iron prison of morality, and could not defend the country when he got off the horse, and he could not give the people well-being when he got off the horse. It's just a national moth that grabs high-ranking officials."

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 "The Three Emperors and Five Emperors are also respected by later generations" A student of the Tao

" Yes, future generations should evaluate whether he is a sage or not, is to see if he can seek peace for the people and for the heavens and the earth, then the Jin man Wang Xiang lies on the ice and begs for the carp, just for the well-being of his mother, that is, the great filial piety and sage, so what about the well-being of the people? It's the great sage and the great sage,"

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 "I think it can be understood in this way, it has been my dream since I was a child to open peace for heaven and earth, when I was in the small hotel next to the Tai Academy, Wu Duwei said that the 'Ten Strategies for Anbian to Resist the Enemy' I wrote was a sword for the frontier to open peace, but unfortunately it was handed over to a group of sheep to use it and could only be thrown in the wastebasket as garbage. I didn't believe it at the time," Ouyang Che said

 "Yes, the way of civil and martial arts, one yin and one yang, if the country is compared to a person, the literati is the yin of the country, the martial man is the yang of the country, a country let the literati and eunuchs who do not know the art of war lead the army is too heavy yin, Fan Chunren, the governor of the political affairs, once played: 'There are still forbidden troops who teach and read bows and crossbows every day, and the fighting power is too heavy. I heard that Su Zhe, the servant of his men, also said that since the salaries of officers and soldiers were lower than those in the Song Shenzong period, the training intensity of the forbidden army should be reduced to make the soldiers more motivated. As a result, up to now, many of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty could not even pull the bow of half a stone, and the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty was not a laborer or a craftsman, and 150,000 horses were by the Yellow River, and they were scared away by the Jin army's big drum

 "Zhuge Liang is also a literati, isn't he also a strange material for leading soldiers" A student immediately retorted

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 "Yes, a literati can also be an expert in leading soldiers when doing martial arts, but before leading soldiers, you must first be familiar with the art of war, and secondly, you must have many years of experience in leading soldiers, and you must achieve the unity of knowledge and action, read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, and combine theory and practice" Wu Song said

 "A good combination of knowledge and action, reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, combining theory and practice, we have read the theory for 20 years is to think of you here to combine practice with you" Ouyang Che said

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 "Some of you may already know that Liangshan is promoting a tiered land tax, and you can talk about your views based on your theory" Wu Song said

 "It's not fair to the rich, why do the rich have to pay more taxes," one of the students immediately said

 "I know that there are many people sitting here, many people have a lot of land at home, we Liangshan advocates that the world is the people of the world, the creation of each dynasty in China is basically to redistribute the land, when the dynasty falls, it is a large number of land annexation, the people are displaced, now thousands of people in the north are fleeing to Shandong and Huaidong every day, we advocate that the rich and capable people should make more contributions to the country, instead of learning from Yang Jian and Li Yan in Shandong have 100,000 acres of fertile land, do not pay a penny to the country, then the soldiers defend the country in the frontierThe ideal of our Liangshan is to seek the well-being of the people, not for the well-being of the big landlords, if you want to have more land, you must make more contributions to the country, this is the purpose of the stepped land tax."

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 "In short, I think that the noble morality of the sages is by no means on the lips, in our Liangshan, those who can open peace for heaven and earth, and seek well-being for the people are sages, and those who want to open peace for heaven and earth first go to Liangshan Military Academy to learn the art of war for three months, and then go down to lead soldiers in hundreds of households, and those who want to seek well-being for the people go to Liangshan Administrative College to study administrative management for a month, and then go to the local master book in charge of land taxation, and now the people of Liangshan are all in Shandong, Huaidong and other parts of the war ladder land tax movement, Of course, I don't agree that those who open peace for heaven and earth and seek well-being for the people are sages, We each give 3 passage fees to come and go, and never force "Wu Song Dao."

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 "I went to study at the Military Academy, I want to see what a Military Academy is" Ouyang Che said

 "Now that the world is in chaos, it's better to work in Liangshan for two years and see what the form is saying" An older student stroked his beard and said.

 "Yes yes yes, I'll go to the School of Administration"

 "I also go to the School of Administration" too many students have signed up to choose, Wu Song looked at it and it was not bad, and did not say that he wanted to go.