I am noncommittal about Confucius's benevolence and righteousness.

Benevolence, righteousness, benevolence, and righteousness, it sounds good.

The benevolent one is divided into two; The righteous are also trapped in their chests.

Throughout the ages, how many people have killed because of the word "benevolence and righteousness"?

Not to mention far away, let's just say that a few years ago, Zifu, the gentleman of the Song Kingdom, who lived in the word "benevolence and righteousness" all his life.

When he was young, Zi Zifu pleaded in front of his father Song Huan Gong to give up the position of the crown prince to his brother Muyi, and said: "Muyi is older than me, and he is loyal and benevolent, please make Muyi the king." ”

Duke Song Huan told Mu Yi about Zifu's thoughts, and Mu Yi refused to accept the position of the crown prince after hearing it, saying: "Isn't it the greatest benevolence to be able to give me the country?" No matter how kind I am, I can't catch up with my brother! Besides, it is not in line with the etiquette system. ”

In order to avoid Zifu's Rangxian, Muyi fled to Weiguo, and Zifu's position as the crown prince was not given up, so he inherited the unification and became Xianggong.

In the spring of the thirteenth year of King Xiang, Song Xianggong met the princes for the first time in Ludi, and the monarchs of Qi and Chu gathered together.

Xiang Gong assumed the position of the leader of the alliance, which caused the dissatisfaction of the king of Qi and the king of Chu, and made his own opinion, without the consent of the state of Qi and the state of Chu, he agreed to meet the princes again in Yudi in the autumn of that year.

Mu Yi persuaded him that Song was a small country, and if a small country wanted to be the hegemon, it would bring disaster, but Xianggong did not listen.

Before arriving at Yudi, Mu Yi persuaded him to bring the army with him, in case there was a change, and the people of Chu were not trustworthy.

Song Xianggong said: "I proposed it myself without an army, and I have made an appointment with the Chu people, how can I not keep my promise?" ”

Therefore, Song Xianggong did not bring the army to the meeting.

On the appointed day, the kings of the six kingdoms, including Chu, Chen, Cai, Xu, Cao, and Zheng, came, and the Chu State had already laid an ambush for the army.

Song Xianggong and King Chu Cheng had a dispute because they were vying to be the overlord of the princes, and King Chu Cheng suddenly ordered someone to capture Song Xianggong and take him back to Chu to imprison him, hoping to capture Song State.

It was not until the winter of the same year, when the princes met in Bodi, that Duke Xiang was released under the mediation of Duke Lu.

After Song Xianggong returned to China, he heard that Zheng Guo supported King Chu Cheng as the overlord of the princes, so he decided to attack Zheng Guo.

Muyi dissuaded him, but Xianggong still didn't listen.

In the early winter of the fourteenth year of King Xiang of Zhou, Song Xianggong led his troops to attack Zheng State, and Zheng State asked Chu State for help.

The state of Chu sent the general Cheng Dechen to lead his troops to attack the capital of the Song state.

Song Xianggong feared domestic losses, so he had to retreat from Zheng State, and the armies of the two sides met at Hongshui.

The Chu army began to cross the Hongshui River and rushed towards the Song army.

Mu Yi said: "There are many Chu soldiers, but our army is small, take advantage of the opportunity for them to cross the river to destroy them." ”

Song Xianggong said: "We are known as the teachers of benevolence and righteousness, how can we take advantage of others to cross the river to attack? ”

The Chu army crossed the river and began to set up formations on the bank.

Muyi said, "It's time to attack." ”

Song Xianggong said: "Wait for them to line up their positions." ”

When the Chu army set up the military array, the Chu soldiers rushed forward and defeated the Song army, and Song Xianggong was also shot in the thigh by the Chu soldiers.

The Song army suffered a defeat and suffered heavy losses, and they all complained that Song Xianggong did not listen to Gongzi Muyi's opinion, but Song Xianggong taught a lesson: "A gentleman with a benevolent heart does not attack the injured enemy when fighting, and at the same time does not attack the elderly whose hair has grayed." Especially when the ancients fought, they did not rely on the barriers to win the battle, and although the outnumbered Song Kingdom was about to perish, it still couldn't bear to attack the enemy who had not set up a good formation. ”

In the summer of the fifteenth year of King Xiang, Song Xianggong suffered an arrow wound left in the Battle of Hongshui and died.

Throughout Song Xianggong's life, he was burdened by the words benevolence and righteousness, and he also died by the words benevolence and righteousness.

Benevolence and righteousness are not shallow in harming others.

But I didn't stop Concho from leaving.

Everyone in this world has a path under his feet, he has his way, I have my way, our way may be different, but the determination to walk on this path is the same.

He believes in benevolence and righteousness, but in fact, he believes in the goodness of human nature.

Who in this world is born good?

Selfishness and ugliness are the nature of human beings, which is why there is edification in this world.

I looked at the back of Kong Qiu striding away, and I only hoped that one day, if his ideas were shattered by reality, he would still be able to walk between heaven and earth in such a dashing manner.

After Kongqiu left, my life returned to its former peace.

In addition to the addition of a little follower named Ge Tian by his side.

Like Kongqiu, he is also an ordinary person.

Or rather, he is one of the few ordinary people among Confucius's personal disciples, and he was specially found for me by Confucius.

One thing to say, before I set off for Qin, I dismissed Xiangyi's domestic servants and resumed my lonely life, and then returned to Peixian County, and there was only an old cow by my side, and I didn't feel anything wrong after so many years.

Now that there is suddenly an extra waiter around me, I just found out......

It's really boring to have people waiting.

I can't do this, I can't do that, I don't think I'm a little old man in my old age.

Although my age is indeed not young, but because of the perennial practice of Qi, my physical condition is much better, although not as good as the fifty-year-old but like the twenty-year-old Kongqiu, but more than the average person in his fifties.

In my situation, serving only makes me feel burdensome.

And when Kong Qiu stayed, this kid's mouth was still broken, and he had to wave all day long.

If this thing can be said to be serious, but it can be regarded as a relief from boredom, but this dog thing is obviously one of Kong Qiu's several personal traditions, but there is no serious thing at all, and what is in his mind all day long, such as "Qimen Dunjia", "Yin and Yang Five Elements", "Yishu Divination" and the like.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a serious person.

I once asked him what his future goals were.

He said he wanted to build a big clan.

Suddenly, I was noncommittal about this dream.

In these troubled times, building a clan is a simple and difficult goal.

To put it simply, as long as you find a woman who wants to live with you and have a bunch of children, then you are a clan.

As for the difficulty......

There are thousands of clans in this world, and there are very few who can be called big clans, but most of them have one thing in common.

It's all alien.

Ordinary people want to establish a huge clan, without the extensive knowledge of Kong Qiu, and without the courage of the Qin Guoying clan, it is simply a dead end.

"Then I'm going to take this dead end."

That's how Ge Tian replied to me.

At that moment, it was as if he was no longer the little attendant of the saddle and horse beside me, but the head of a shining clan.

He believed that he would be able to become the head of the clan.

Believe and practice.

I asked him, "Why are you so confident?" ”

He scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "Actually, I used the method of divination to calculate two hexagrams for myself before, I know that fortune-telling for myself is a taboo for divination, but I am still quite curious about my future, so forget it, the results of the two hexagrams are unexpectedly similar, both show that the Ge clan will have a big clan in the future." ”

"And the hexagram also said that my descendants of the Ge clan will definitely produce a dragon among people in the future."

Saying this, he also shook the Qimen Dunjia on his hand whose book cover was torn.

I twisted my brows, and I felt that I could describe these words in a word: unreliable.

But even so, I didn't say anything.

It is good to have ideals, and in this chaotic era, ideals can often give people the belief to persevere.

If there is no faith, it is really sad.

Moreover, it is not entirely beneficial to keep him.

At least he's talkative.

With him by my side, I was able to block a considerable number of people who came to study with him, and I had a lot of time to concentrate on my practice.

Is this a blessing or a curse?

Broken mouths are also considered advantages to some extent...... Probably.

Cultivation is a boring process, but it will also receive a sense of accomplishment, and watching the meridians in the body grow little by little, that sense of satisfaction can fill any emptiness in the heart.

But it's a pity that my dantian has never been broken.

The sea of qi is like a heavenly mound, between me and the dantian, as long as there is it, I can only be regarded as practicing qi, not practicing qi.

Time passes day by day, month by month, year by year.

Ge Tian also joined the ranks of cultivation.

Although he didn't feel it, it didn't matter.

Yin Xi didn't feel Qi either, but he could absorb Qi into his body through spitting.

As long as there are meridians in the body and there is a place to practice Qi, Qi can be introduced into the body.

But I'm not optimistic about Ge Tian's cultivation.

Yin Xi has been instilled with the method of breathing since he was a child by the "fireball", and he has not stopped for a moment for so many years, but he has never felt Qi, which shows that the simple method of inducing Qi is not very useful except for strengthening the body.

If you want to truly enter the cultivation, you should first feel the Qi, then guide the Qi, travel the meridians, rush the sea of qi, enter the dantian, and finally practice the Qi for your own use.

This is the most likely approach that Confucius and I have come up with.

Not being able to feel Qi means that the cultivator is in a state of blackening his eyes on the Yuan Qi introduced into his body, and there may be a fork in the meridians when he even walks the meridians, not to mention running Zhou Tian and returning to the sea of Qi.

I told Ge Tian about this, but Ge Tian did not feel depressed, but worked harder.

He said: "I haven't been vomiting since I was a child, but I can start from now on and raise my breathing into energy; I don't feel it, but I can memorize all the meridians, and the blind can touch the elephant, not to mention that I have the guidance of the meridian diagram, and I will definitely not go wrong. ”

As he says, it is.

I had no reason to persuade him, so I let it go.

The cold comes and the summer comes, and the autumn goes to the spring.

I didn't break through the sea of qi, but I saw Kong Qiu again, only this time, he didn't have the same vigor as before.

Obviously, he is over forty years old, and his face is not more than forty years old.

But above this forty-year-old body, there is a heavy twilight.

This time he didn't bring anyone else, only himself.

The two of us discussed for a while, and Kong Qiu suddenly said: "Brother Li, you are right, what is benevolence and righteousness in this world, and what is human nature?" I can't see clearly. ”

I asked, "What happened?" ”

At this time, Kong Qiu told the story.

There was a driver named Zihoe Shang in the Shusun clan, and this person caught a unicorn in the process of collecting firewood in the field.

Kirin!

I was shocked and listened carefully to the rest of the story.

But the rest of the story is even more surprising.

When this man named Zi Hoe Shang caught the unicorn, he didn't know it at the time, and he couldn't identify what it was.

He didn't recognize the animal, he didn't know what it was weird.

Without knowing it, he broke the left front foot of this unicorn!

Human beings are a very peculiar thing.

In the face of an unknown object, who is a living being, the act taken is such a cruel means.

Why?

What kind of humanity does a person have, so that he can have such a reaction.

Although it is understandable that people will feel fear when they encounter a monster, that is, something they do not know, the result of fear is first of all self-defense, and the positive way of self-defense is to strike at the other person.

This attack force caused the Kirin to break his left forefoot, making him unable to hurt anyone.

But the evil of human nature is unintentionally exposed.

Zihoe Shang brought back the injured unicorn, and when the uncle and grandson saw it, it was a strange thing, and they didn't recognize it.

Weird things are not auspicious.

So he ordered this bad thing to be killed and thrown out of the city.

After that, the uncle probably felt that there was a mystery to solve, so he sent someone to tell Kong Qiu about it.

Kongqiu ran to take a look.

Okay, Kirin!

Others don't know it, but he does.

A once-in-a-lifetime unicorn!

It's a beast, like a phoenix.

When the unicorn and phoenix descend on the world, it is like a messenger of peace to bring auspiciousness and bring a prosperous era to people.

It is actually proclaiming the Gospel, bringing blessings to everyone, and it turns out that it has been greatly hurt by such ignorant and cruel people.

Kong Qiu was very sad and asked at the corpse of the Qilin, "Why did you come to this world?" ”

Such a chaotic, indistinguishable world, without knowledge, and very tyrannical.

It's such a dirty time......

Why come?

What is charity?

What is justice?

Are people really born good?

So why is there so much strife in this world?

I looked at Kongqiu and suddenly felt a little pity for him.

I don't know him, but I know myself.

He's actually a lot like me.

What would happen to me if my Word were to suffer such a blow?

Such a strong barrier, such a strong will, such a high degree of perseverance, a soul that has not been hit by any force in the world, but now it seems to have carved a hole.

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Then tears welled up from his eyes.

Kongqiu cried.

This once high-spirited man, a man with the best talent in the world, was defeated.

He decided to put down the half-written "Spring and Autumn" and devote himself to practice.

I know that he has put down more than just the unfinished "Spring and Autumn".

It was the first half of his brilliant life, and it was also the second half of his singing life.

Now he's left it all behind.

He didn't stay, he took the Qi method and the meridian diagram from me, and strode away in a dashing manner.

He saw his back, but it wasn't as strutting as he had been.

Faintly broken circles like jade fell, splashing ripples on the ground.

Maybe it's not so chic either.

Now he is the real Confucius.