Chapter Twenty-Nine: Defense

The emperors of the ages wish to be safe! Thousands of teachings speak only one good word!

It can be seen that since ancient times, only when the people are kind will the country be stable and will not be in turmoil! But how to make the people kind, how to teach the people to be good is the biggest problem for all rulers or federal management!

Based on this beginning, the people of later generations are constantly looking for various ways to solve the problem, some create sects, some pursue the rules of heaven and earth, some spread ideas, and some use fear to revise the criminal law to suppress, thousands of methods, countless methods! Later, after a long period of evolution, they slowly departed from the original intention of human beings, and some treacherous and cunning people used these ideas to satisfy their selfish desires, so that the world was constantly strife, and there were many years of trouble, and there was no peace!

Looking at the whole world, all creatures follow the laws of heaven and earth, one thing descends to another, but human beings are a race that cannibalizes each other while eating all things, and the final result is inevitably that everyone, including themselves, will continue to experience the pain caused by war!

The law of heaven and earth cannibalism cannot be changed, if human beings do not eat, they will die, but the acquired man-made wars and strife can be changed.

In general, the things that lead to strife are as follows:

One: Injustice!

Second: desire!

Third: laziness!

Fourth: jealousy!

According to the above four points to correct, groom, management, will inevitably achieve the greatest degree of stability!

Throughout history, most of the reasons for the death of rulers are due to the dissatisfaction of desires and the injustice of the rules caused by constant demands, which leads to the instability of the grassroots and the destruction of the country. Most of the reason why people are poor is because of laziness! Most of the conflicts in the group stem from jealousy!

The Ming Dynasty writer Zhang Dai mentioned in the book "Night Sailing Boat".

Once upon a time, there was a monk who stayed on a night boat with a scholar. The scholars talked loudly, the monks were afraid, and they slept with their fists and feet.

The monk heard that there was a flaw in his words, and said: "May I ask Xianggong, is there one person and two people?" ”

The scholar said, "It's two people." ”

The monk said: "Wait, Yao Shun is one person and two people? ”

The scholar said: "Nature is a person. ”

The monk smiled and said: "Speaking of this, wait for the little monk to stretch his feet."

The ancient dynasty fell, the merchants changed, and the rich and poor were all like the scholars, who only knew how to go up, but did not know how to fix down! Like a gorgeous and decaying carriage, the driver only knows how to walk forward, but does not know how to stop and check. So much so that the slightest loosening is a car crash and death. On the surface, it looks unfathomable and powerful, but the real situation is that you must not encounter the slightest sloppiness.

The inheritance of ancient and modern Chinese civilization is like that monk, silent, standing on the edge of the abyss, moving forward cautiously, although it did not win the conquest of the world, but it was invincible! When the time comes, you can easily break through the enemy with just a little 'stretching your feet'!

Therefore, if you want to govern the country, institutions, systems, and companies, the first thing to do is not to expand the territory, but to protect the family and defend the country.

The long river of the history of the world has proved to us that those dynasties and empires that once thought they had stepped on the pinnacle are nothing more than a recorded history with the passage of time! Huaxia is different, he is the only immortal history in the whole world! The main way to run is to keep it!

Guarding is stability! Stability is the only way to win!

The premise of stability is balance! The so-called balance is embodied in the society, fairness, justice, this is not just a slogan, is a rule that must be run, otherwise there will be disputes, disasters!

To be fair, it is impossible, yin and yang are changing every day, things happen every day, unfair things will appear every day, and what managers do is to turn these unfairness into fairness and smooth out injustice! Follow the movement of heaven and earth, day after day, year after year, without stopping! If there is a little laxity, then the accumulation of unfair things will form a fixed thinking, the people who have gained the benefits are unwilling to compromise, and the people who have lost the benefits insist on recovering them, and over time it will be like a building rotting roots, and the whole society will collapse.

The second is desire: desire is something that everyone has, it is the nature that cannot be eliminated, what the manager does is to control the desire within a feasible range, and satisfy the desire under the premise of stability and peace, otherwise excessive desire will lead to disaster, affecting stability and peace!

Therefore, in order to solve these problems, various doctrines and various sects appeared, such as: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and even the pre-Qin princes, a hundred schools of thought, a hundred flowers bloomed, and the root cause of this was to stabilize the people so that they would not be in disputes.

Some intellectual ideas have even formed a religious situation to spread, but all religions teach people to be good and peaceful, all those who educate and persuade people to do good in the name of religion are desirable, and all those who destroy others in the name of religion are evil and distorted religions! And the creation and integration of religion is the easiest way to gain the trust of the people!

Safety, is stability, goodness is operation, stable operation is long-term continuity, and there will be all kinds of chaotic and confusing appearances in the operation, which need to be discovered and unraveled by the wise!

The third is laziness: general laziness we all refer to individuals, but the concentration of personal power is a big country, and because laziness is innate, so it cannot be changed, so we can only let people recognize the consequences of laziness, so that people are afraid, uneasy, and worried in order to move forward bravely, so the ancient Yasheng Mencius said: Born in sorrow and died in peace.

Whenever a country or a human individual reaches the pinnacle, they will want to rest, want to stop, at this time they will only immerse themselves in their own peak, but forget the people behind them who are constantly trying to catch up, there was the prosperity of Tang Taizong in ancient times, Zhenguan's rule is a reference, and now there is a lesson from the decline of the West, it can be seen that laziness, or laxity is one of the roots of the rapid decline of the country!

Actually: jealousy!

Jealousy is also nature, easy to produce evil hearts, and it is better to be jealous of the enemy, but if you want to be jealous of the people in your own group, then the group will begin to fall apart from the inside, so the ancients said: I would rather use the pure-hearted mediocrity than use the witty and treacherous material, which is the truth, although the mediocrity cannot lead the whole forward, but at least it will not destroy the existing state, but the witty and treacherous impure person is a material that can be created, but the slightest carelessness will overturn the whole, So that the original efforts are all in ashes, and the gains outweigh the losses! Jealousy is especially taboo among the princes, and if the princes have it, the country is in danger!