44. Teaching (II)

"It's difficult, son, because the system on the Spirit Tree Star was formed after thousands of years, and human beings have been deeply rooted in this kind of system, and the aristocratic class has a strong force, even if countless people want to overthrow this system, they have to pay the price of blood, so if you want to abolish the privileged class of nobles, it is definitely not possible to do it in a short time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Yang Siqi explained helplessly.

"Dad said it's difficult, that is, there is a way?" Ma Guohua asked.

Yang Siqi smiled bitterly and said: "Son, it's not that the ruling class can't be overthrown, but it takes countless time and energy to do it, and this is one of them. Second, I don't think overthrowing the aristocracy is the best option, so don't ask why? You'll have to come back and ask me that question after you've been out for a few years, or when you've gone out to practice, you don't have to ask me anymore, because you've figured it out for yourself. ”

"That's fine, I'll ask later." Ma Guohua was a little disappointed.

"Remember, son, you must remember what I just said, this issue must not be raised with anyone. The so-called king is not secret, he will lose his minister, and if he is not secret, he will lose his body. If you expose this idea of yours, the consequences will be unbearable for our Ma family. Yang Siqi warned again.

"Dad, someone scolded me today, saying that I was arrogant, unsocial, and that I was like this." One day, Ma Guohua went home after school to complain.

Yang Siqi smiled and said, "Hua'er, do you think you are arrogant and unsociable?" ”

Ma Guohua touched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "It seems to be a little." ”

Although, Yang Siqi taught his son to lower his stature, to be close to his classmates, and not to reveal his family background, Ma Guohua also did it one by one. However, after all, he was born in a family, and he was still the largest wealthy family in the entire Beicang Province, the future hereditary duke, such a family background made Ma Guohua inevitably a little arrogant in his daily speech and action. Just because I'm a little arrogant, I'm naturally not very gregarious. So, his classmates weren't wrong.

"Do you think it's the right thing to do?" Yang Siqi asked rhetorically.

"Something doesn't seem right." Ma Guohua still knows his own faults, and he doesn't dare to say that he did the right thing.

"The ancients said that if you have heard it, you will be happy, so will you be happy if you have heard it or will you be angry if you have heard it?"

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"People are not sages, if there is no fault, if there is a fault, it will be changed, and the good is great. And the ancient gentleman, who did not hear the goodness and rejoiced, but heard it and rejoiced, just because someone stabbed his own fault and let himself reflect, this is the only way to progress. For others' own mistakes, we must change them if they have them, and encourage them if they don't. ”

"Dad, I see." Ma Guohua knows a little, but he himself knows that Yang Siqi also understands that this is easy to say, but it is extremely difficult to do. Of course, Yang Siqi will not expect that he will be able to make his son understand and correct it after teaching once, and this teaching must be taught for a long time and from time to time.

"Dad, why do you say you're fighting?" One day, I heard that the Tiger Kingdom was at war with the Great Wu Kingdom again, and this time, the Tiger Kingdom did not transfer the Pegasus Legion to the south, but I heard that the front line had suffered heavy casualties. Therefore, Ma Guohua has this question.

"War is the act of intelligent life in order to compete for interests. Behind every war is a great interest, and in the final analysis, it is all for the interests of those in power. "Yang Siqi already has a deep hatred for war, so he is definitely derogatory about war.

"Dad, is Mom also fighting for profit?" Ma Guohua disagreed with his father's teachings.

"War, since ancient times, there has been a distinction between justice and injustice. The so-called just war means that the side participating in the war is in the interests of the majority, and the so-called unjust war is only satisfied with the interests of the few. At the same time, there are wars of aggression and wars of counter-aggression, and the wars that your mother fought were all wars against aggression, all of them fought to protect their homeland, and in this respect, what your mother fought was a just war. Of course, Yang Siqi will defend his wife.

"But, Dad, if the royal family wants to transfer my mother to invade the Great Wu Kingdom, then is this war just or unjust?" Ma Guohua asked an unusually sharp question.

Yang Siqi smiled bitterly: "This one is only afraid of injustice." However, for your mother, such a war is not something she wants to fight, but is ordered by her superiors, so she has to fight, and from this point of view, the original sin of this war cannot fall on your mother, but on the upper echelons of the kingdom. ”

"What if my mother took the initiative to invade the Great Wu Kingdom?" Ma Guohua asked again.

Yang Siqi sighed and said, "Hua'er, I'm afraid this one has to look at the problem from a big angle. First of all, you have to understand the most basic concept, war, is the continuation of politics, and politics is sometimes very bastard, because politics is often only about the result, not about the process, as long as the result is good, then the politics is correct. Therefore, as long as the final result of this war is in favor of the vast majority of people, then this war is just in any case. ”

"......" Ma Guohua didn't know how to understand.

Yang Siqi also felt that what he said was a bit difficult to justify, to explain such a profound issue to a child who was only more than eight years old, even if the child was precocious, it was difficult to explain it clearly.

"I'll tell you a practical example from China. Dad taught you this period of history in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, do you remember? Yang Siqi thought for a while and decided to explain the problem to his son from another angle.

"Remember, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the various candidate states annexed each other, and in the Warring States Period, only the Seven Heroes of the Warring States were left, and the Seven Heroes fought and finally returned to Qin. My father also taught me that later generations commented on the Spring and Autumn Period and said that the Spring and Autumn Period was unrighteous war, which means that the countless wars launched during the Spring and Autumn Period were nothing more than a struggle for power and profit between the powerful, not for the righteousness of the world. For history, Yang Siqi taught hard, and Ma Guohua also learned hard.

"In the process of dominating the world, the Qin Dynasty fought countless battles, and during the war, it also did all kinds of things that made later generations criticize, for example, the Battle of Changping, Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 Zhao troops, and there were many things about slaughtering cities. It can be said that the invasion of the Qin State made the Six Kingdoms suffer greatly from the war, and the people suffered countless casualties, and the people lived in dire straits. Judging from the situation at that time, the invasion launched by the Qin State was unjust. ”

"But if from a long-term perspective, after the Qin Dynasty unified the world, there was no civil war, and the people of all countries returned to Qin and no longer suffered from war, this is another thing of great merit. Although only the second Qin Dynasty died, the people of the world have benefited a lot. From this point of view, the unification war launched by the Qin Dynasty, which lasted for hundreds of years, was just. Yang Siqi then analyzed.

"I don't understand." Ma Guohua said two words very simply.

Yang Siqi smiled bitterly and said, "Hua'er, this question is still a little too profound for you now, and it's normal for you not to understand." It is sometimes difficult to define the justice and injustice of war. Moreover, even just wars are accompanied by many violations of human morality. Since ancient times, only careerists have liked to wage war, and civilians have never liked war. ”

"Dad, according to what you say, if I become the commander of the Pegasus Legion in the future, defend Beicang Province, and the enemy invades me, it is a just war, then, I want to stand on the side of justice, should I surrender without a fight?" Ma Guohua asked a very strange question.

Yang Siqi was stunned for a moment, he thought for a while before he sighed and said, "Hua'er, I don't know how to answer this question." ”

"You're my dad, how can you not know the answer?" In Ma Guohua's heart, his father is almost omniscient, and when he heard his father's answer, he couldn't accept it for a while.

"I'm your father, but I'm not an all-knowing God, kid, sometimes, a lot of things have to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. I don't know whether it is better to teach you to surrender without a fight, or to teach you to fight to the end. If you really encounter such a problem, son, choose according to your own heart. ”

"Dad, have there ever been such historical examples?" Ma Guohua asked.

"Yes, we have had such a great figure in China." Yang Siqi replied in the affirmative.

"Who?"

"Mrs. Xian Tai, the outstanding leader of South Vietnam."

"What has Mrs. Xian done?" Ma Guohua has never heard his father talk about it.

"Mrs. Xian was born in 512 A.D. and died in 602 A.D., and was an outstanding female leader of ethnic minorities in the western part of GD Province in China during the Northern and Southern Dynasties...... He served the Liang, Chen, and Sui dynasties in his life. Her most commendable thing is that after the fall of the Chen Dynasty, she took the initiative to return to the Sui Dynasty. Mrs. Xian was sitting on the territory of more than ten states at that time, and there were at least 50,000 male soldiers under her command, and more than one million people under her rule, coupled with the geographical advantages of Lingnan, she had the capital to cut off the alleged king, if she wanted, she could completely establish herself as the king, but she did not, but took the initiative to return to Shun, to assist the court to pacify the place, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment. When she was eighty years old, she also toured the places and pacified the people, so in the hearts of the people, she was the Virgin. She instructed her children and grandchildren, saying, 'I have served three generations of masters, but I have only one good heart. (What is omitted in the middle is the deeds of Mrs. Xian, Mrs. Xian is a generation of heroines, and there are countless deeds, if you are interested, you can go to Du Niang to check, and it does not account for the number of words here.) ）

Yang Siqi thought about the wording again and said: "Throughout Mrs. Xian's life, ignoring fame and fortune, taking into account the overall situation, understanding the righteousness, thinking about the people under her rule, and never considering her own personal gains and losses, this is the real benevolence and righteousness." Historically, for the sake of their own selfish interests, many people have disregarded the overall situation of the country, divided one side, claimed the king and hegemonized, and let the people suffer from war. Mrs. Xian is not the king when she has the ability to be the king, and she only thinks about the people, which is the most commendable. It is worthy of eternal admiration and learning from future generations. ”

"Dad, if I encounter such a situation, are you in favor of surrendering without a fight?"

Yang Siqi smiled bitterly, what else could he say besides a bitter smile? He found that no matter how he taught, it was wrong, and if he wanted to teach his son to be a good man, then he should surrender without a fight. But how can politics be so simple? It may seem easy for future generations to set an example for the sages, but if you really put yourself in the environment in which you live, how many people can really do things with their hearts?

In a place like Spirit Tree Star, if you just teach your son to be a pure good person, then this son will be useless. It's not bad to be a good person, but how to say it? Alas, it's hard.

"Hua'er, it's hard for me to explain this kind of question to you clearly, your current knowledge is still too small, and it can be said that you are not deeply involved in the world, and you only know a lot of things. However, you can have such thoughts, and Dad is very comforting, which at least proves that you have listened to my teachings. Of course, for this question, Dad still has the answer just now: do whatever you want. Yang Siqi can only say this.

Of course, Ma Guohua didn't quite understand the meaning of casualness, but he also knew that it was impossible to know other answers to this question from his father's mouth. Perhaps, when you grow up, go out to practice, gain knowledge, and grow your skills, you may be able to figure it out.

Time, in the process of Yang Siqi's attentive teaching of his son, passed day by day, and four years passed in a blink of an eye.