Chapter 17 Reform is Difficult to Move Forward
In the past few days, Jorden's mood has been like a roller coaster, from the beginning of the enthusiasm, to the past few days, his heart is full of helplessness and depression.
Since that day, Luo Shang summoned the Yizhou Ministry to explain his plan, which immediately caused an uproar. Even if Luo Shang took out the edict of the Son of Heaven, it still couldn't stop everyone's opposition.
"Lord Jun, in the last year of the Shang Dynasty, Wang Ji did such a thing, which was to destroy his own body and reputation, so that Lord Jun must not quit. Yizhou engaged in Lu Qiang first objected.
"Wang Ji was virtuous and virtuous back then, and there was no distinction between high and low, and there was no reward and punishment. "Qi Wanghuangfu and others have carefully studied the reform of Wang Ji back then, and naturally have a detailed response to this. It was precisely because Qiao Deng particularly appreciated Luo Shang's restructuring that he was recruited by Luo Shang as his son-in-law. At this time, it was inconvenient for Luo Shang to speak, so naturally he would fight the soldiers. "The new measures have different titles of different fields, which is precisely aimed at this drawback. Through this difference, let the monks of the world know that only those who have made meritorious contributions to the imperial court can receive additional rewards. It is not the current system of Lilu inherited from the Great Zhou. This system only encourages everyone to practice for themselves, not to encourage everyone to contribute to the imperial court. ”
"Xi Dongzi said that those who eat Lu do not compete with the people for profit. If you change the private land into a well field, isn't this a competition with the people?" The person who said this was square-faced and broad-mouthed, and he was very rich, and Qiao Deng saw that it was Yizhou who was engaged in Ma Long.
"How wrong it is for the horse to do this. Qiao Deng confidently retorted: "It is precisely those wealthy families who occupy a large amount of spiritual land that compete with the people for profit. After the surplus spiritual field becomes a well field, the income produced is still used in various states and counties, how can it compete with the people for profit?"
"But every family's spiritual field is the private property inherited from their ancestors, if the state and county implement this policy, what is the difference between it and the robbers?" said Ma Long with a blushing face.
"Each family's private property?" Qiao Deng sneered and said: "Dare to ask Ma Zhi, those spiritual fields of your family have been owned by your Ma family since ancient times? Your ancestor of the Ma family is a person from Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and he followed the ancestor of Shu merchants to come to Shu. Since your grandfather, you have only been here for three lifetimes, and you have owned no less than 1,000 acres of spiritual land. Dare to ask Ma Cheng, could it be that these thousands of acres of spiritual fields were inherited from your ancestors?"
Qiao Deng's face was even more red when he asked Ma Long, and after a while, he said angrily: "You Qiao family Lingtian is missing, but you still say that my Ma family." ”
"That's one of the things I'm going to say. Qiao Deng stood proudly in a green robe and said loudly on the spot: "Someone must start with this reform, since this is the case, then please start with our Qiao family." ”
After Jordon said that sentence in a high-spirited manner, tragedy ensued. When he led his group to his hometown in Shu County, he was halfway on the road, and he was blocked by his father who came to hear the news.
"Today you will either immediately return to me and resign from this position, or you will step over my corpse. Qiao Deng's father, Qiao Lian, held a sword to his neck and said to Qiao Deng, "Deng'er, you are going to go on the road of Shang Chaocuo." Instead of our Qiao family suffering from disasters at that time, it is better for me to die in front of you today. ”
Naturally, Jordon didn't dare to let his father commit suicide in front of him, and amid the laughter of the onlookers, he reluctantly returned to the CD.
"If Gao Ming were to deal with this matter, what method would he take?" and while he was thinking about it, he suddenly thought of Gao Ming, with whom he had a few small talks.
Thousands of miles away someone remembered him, Gao Ming naturally would not know, and there would be no phenomena such as sneezing. Of course, if he knew that a man was thinking about him, he was afraid that he would not sneeze or something, but his hair would stand on end.
He didn't know Jorden's predicament thousands of miles away, and he was a little embarrassed, but it was much better than Jordon.
Since Huang Ang and Guo Gui were publicly sentenced that day, the name of Gao Qingtian that he had hoped for did not appear, and more people looked at him with a layer of alienation in addition to the previous awe.
As for Guo Gui's younger brother Guo Wen, although his attitude towards him was even more respectful, he could still feel that he did not have the closeness to him that he had revealed in his words and deeds. And because he sent Guo Gui to the county office, he felt uncomfortable when he saw Guo Wen these days, as if he had done something sorry for Guo Wen, as if he had done something wrong.
Even the mother and daughter duo who Guo Gui used means to occupy him, after Gao Ming did this, they were not as grateful as Hu E, but at a loss, and then cried that without Guo Gui, our mother and daughter will have no support, and they will not be able to return to their previous home, how should we live in the future.
Hu E was found hanging from a tree the day after his verdict, and she committed suicide. The mother and daughter who Guo Gui occupied were also found guilty of throwing themselves into a well the next day, and the 14-year-old daughter knelt on the side of the road and was willing to sell herself to bury her mother.
This made Gao Ming even more at a loss, and he doubted his life and doubted whether his previous three views were right or wrong.
Faced with these results, poor Gao Ming was completely confused.
He's just an otaku who was educated by the government system of that world since he was a child, and has some simple and simple worldview values, some values that he thinks are unquestionable.
Only now, he suddenly realized that those simple values contradicted each other, and he had not been aware of them before.
This discovery made him really scared for days.
"Your lord, you have done nothing wrong. Du Chou, who has been officially hired as his master, explained him and said: "There are clouds in the Book of Changes: the way of heaven is bright and benevolent, and the way of earth is humble and ascending. My lord, you are a king here, so you should follow the way of heaven. You are a minister, so you should do the authentic way. ”
"Walter?" Gao Ming, who first heard this sentence, was puzzled, and couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of the language of that world, "What is the light of heaven? What does this mean?"
"Lord, look, does God have any feelings?"
"Nope. Gao Ming shook his head and said.
"That's right. Heaven is constant, not to survive, not to die. God will give you more sunshine because you are the Holy Lord, and less sunshine because you are a tyrant. Du Chou paused here when he said this, and after seeing Gao Ming nodding to show that he understood this truth, he continued: "Then what is the truth expressed by God?"
"It's fairness, it's selflessness, it's wholeness, it's no subjective feelings, it's the avenue. ”
When Gao Ming heard Du Chou's words, his heart seemed to be busy, and a little light flashed in the darkness, and then he wanted to look for it, but it was darkness. Vaguely, he understood something, but he couldn't figure it out.
"My lord, you are like God to the people of our Hou Kingdom, you only look at the whole, and don't care about the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of the individual. If you don't deal with what Huang Ang has done in this way, then everyone will follow Huang Ang's example, how will our Hou State be governed in the future? How will it be run? If you are like Guo Gui and rely on your status as the lord and you to take advantage of it, then do you think the people of our Hou Kingdom will follow Guo Gui's example in the future?"
"If you pity the woman Guo Gui snatched and had no choice but to commit suicide, instead of judging Guo Gui like that, Guo Gui and that woman would not have to suffer such a tragic fate, but what about the others? Everyone learns from Guo Gui, what has become of this Hou Congress? . ”
"So, my lord, the way of heaven is bright and benevolent. All you have to do is follow the way of heaven. God cares about the individual's wealth or poverty, does he care about the individual's misery or luck, does he care whether the individual hates God or loves God? Heaven is constant, when it should be summer, it is summer, and when it should be winter, it is winter. It's not going to change summer to winter just because someone says I'm going to die of heat, does it?"
At this moment, Gao Ming suddenly opened up.
"Dare to ask sir," Gao Ming's attitude was even more modest: "What is the meaning of being humble and going up?"
I really didn't know how to learn before, Gao Ming sighed again in his heart.