First of all, I admit that my pen is not enough, but I always have to dream when writing a book, and I have to write something I want to write.

That's why there is this Red Mansion.

The Red Mansion I want to write about is a Red Mansion that acts as the mainstream world like five beetles; And how can you get ahead in a world like this.

After all, everyone understands that when you can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

So, I hope you can see what a five-beetle is! I also hope that after learning the truth about this world, I still have a passion for life.

In 234 B.C., King Yingzheng of Qin saw two very special articles in the bamboo slips in front of the bookcase, the content of the text was shocking and the words were sharp, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt cold sweat.

After that, Ying Zheng not only expressed his feeling that if he saw his author, he would die without regrets, but also took the theory in the article as his guiding ideology for dominating the world.

This article is Han Feizi's five beetles.

The five beetles are from the 49th article of Han Feizi, which is a political treatise of the Legalists at the end of the Warring States period.

This article not only provides a theoretical basis for Qin Zheng, but also exposes the core of the feudal dynasty and the nature of the royal society.

To sum up, there are hypocritical robbers standing above, and ignorant people standing below.

This is a fact that cannot be changed!

So how to manage the hypocritical robbers, and how to deceive the people so that they can maximize their productivity, has become a matter that the ruler must think about.

The so-called five beetles refer to the five categories of people: Confucianism, Zonghengjia, rangers, troublemakers and illegal traders;

The victim is also a civil servant who is afraid to take responsibility.

Silverfish, which means borer.

Therefore, what I want to write is the story of the five types of people, and I also want to tell everyone that it is useless to be a good person.

So what are the specific beetles talking about, I will roughly translate them.

In ancient times, when there were few people and many trees, the people were always attacked by wild beasts. At this time, a saint appeared and asked people to build a tent in a tree, and the people embraced him and elected him to be the lord of the world.

This person is Youchao!

At that time, people ate raw meat, wild fruits, and rotten hearts, and many people became seriously ill from it, so there was a saint who taught people to use drilled wood to make fire, and then the people embraced him as the lord of the world.

This person is the Suiren clan.

In the Middle Ages, Dayu eliminated the floods of the Central Plains, and then in ancient times, the Shang and Zhou kings ended the tyranny of the Emperor.

All of these people, without exception, have become the lords of the world.

But today, if there are still people advocating the construction of scaffolds in trees and the use of drilled wood to make fire, it will definitely cause the people to laugh.

Similarly, when advocating the imitation of Yao Shunyu's system and the etiquette of King Zhou of Shang Tang, people must think that his brain is not normal.

King Wen of Zhou once relied on benevolence to influence Xirong, but King Xu Yan was destroyed by the state of Chu because of benevolence.

Emperor Shun once had people dance on the border of Xirong with shields and axes, and he called this Dezheng, and finally did influence Xirong.

But now, if you go to someone's door with a sword and dance, I'm afraid that all you can bring is war.

Therefore, when times have changed, so should the methods.

People in antiquity competed for morality, people in the Middle Ages competed for resourcefulness, and people today resort to force.

This is the change of strategy brought about by social change.

Therefore, the sages will not copy the ancient law, do not talk about the old rules and customs, and what kind of method should be chosen to govern the world according to the actual situation of the current society.

In ancient times, men did not have to farm, and women did not have to weave, because there were few people and sufficient resources, so it was difficult to have chaos, and the people did not have to fight.

However, today, there are many people but limited resources, and it is often difficult to exhaust enough to eat, so it is inevitable that there will be chaos and competition.

When Emperor Yao ruled the world, food and housing were too simple, and there was not much difference between the monarch and the people, so he was able to support him.

But today, the life of a noble slave is very different from that of the common people.

So don't say what kind of emperor he is, even the county order is reluctant to resign from authority.

The ancients despised wealth because there were plenty of resources, and there was little difference between competing and not.

Nowadays, people value rights, because resources are scarce, and if you don't fight for them, you won't have anything to eat.

Therefore, there is no change in human nature in ancient and modern times, only the difference between interests and systems.

Confucianism advocates following the ancient law, saying that if you want to govern the world, then the relationship between the monarch and the minister must be like that of father and son.

But if you say so, there will be no disputes between father and son in this world.

What's more, it is impossible for a monarch to love the people more than parents love their children, this is a very straightforward truth.

When Lu Jun saw his subjects being punished, he shed tears for it, and he called this benevolent government.

But in fact, tears are just tears, and they should be punished or punished.

Moreover, the people of this world are accustomed to power, and they are rarely influenced by benevolence and righteousness.

Even under a saint like Confucius, there are only more than 70 people.

In the system of the state of Lu, the Duke of Lu Ai was the king, and Confucius was the minister. If you want to talk about benevolence and righteousness, Lu Aigong is bound to be inferior to Confucius, but Confucius succumbed to Lu Aigong.

Obviously, Confucius did not succumb to benevolence and righteousness, but to the power of Lu Aigong.

The logic of Confucianism is that the monarch should be the main disciple of Confucius, and the people should be the disciples of Confucius, which is certainly not possible.

Suppose there is a bastard son now, who does not listen to the advice of his parents, does not care about the reproach of his neighbors, and ignores the teachings of his teacher. However, when the official on official duty came to his door, he felt scared and regretful.

It can be seen that love can only be exchanged for arrogance, and only power can make him submit.

Throw a dozen feet of cloth on the street, and any person will start when he sees it.

But if it was a thousand degrees of gold water that had just melted, even if he was a thief, he wouldn't dare to do it.

Therefore, the reward should be abundant, so that people may covet it; At the same time, the criminal law should be harsh and make people fearful.

In this way, whether he is a good person or a bad person, he can naturally become a law-abiding person.

But now because of his merits, he is rewarded with official positions, but he despises him as an official.

Because he refused to be an official, he alienated him, but he admired him and disdained fame and fortune.

For those who have food and clothing without labor, praise him for his ability. For those who can obtain official positions without merit, praise him for his talent.

This kind of ability and talent will only lead to the decline of national strength and the desolation of the land.

Appreciating such a figure is bound to lose national strength.

This is the ideological concept of the general of the five beetles.

Because this article appeared 2,000 years ago, which coincided with a period of great schism, some of the ideas may be limited.

If you find it difficult to accept, it is either because the times have changed, or because the lecture is too thorough.

Confucianism used literature to disrupt the law, but it was allowed by the monarch.

The Ranger uses force to break the law, but it becomes the force of the nobility.

What the decree opposed, became the reuse of the monarch. And those who should be punished have become the ones who are supported by the powerful.

In the face of such a contradictory rule of law system, even if there are ten Yellow Emperors, it is impossible to govern the world well.

There was a benevolent man in the state of Chu, and his father stole someone else's sheep, so he found Ling Yin to report and expose his father who stole sheep.

As a result, Yin thought that he was unfilial to his father, and finally sentenced him to death.

There was an unknown soldier in the Lu country, and every time he followed the king to fight, he was the first to flee every time. Later, Confucius asked him why, and he said that there was an old man in the family, and he did not dare to die in battle, but Confucius thought that he was a filial son, and finally elected him to be an official.

Loyalty to the monarch became the father's rebel, and the father's rebel became the monarch's loyal servant.

Ling Yin killed that person with good character before, and after that, the evil of Chu State was never reported again.

Since Confucius rewarded a deserter, since then, the soldiers of the state of Lu have to flee every time they fight.

Therefore, as early as when Cangjie coined the characters, it was known that the relationship between public and private was inevitably contradictory.

If the monarch is in favor of private interests, he will inevitably damage his own national strength.

Those who have killed the enemy should have been rewarded, but after returning to the army, the monarch shouted benevolence.

The person who attacked the city and destroyed the enemy should have been knighted, but when he returned, what did you say and love?

Such a relationship between the monarch and the minister is inevitably unstable.

The prosperity of the country depends on the peasants, but it gives a high status to the Confucian students who do not work.

Soldiers were needed to conquer the city, but they sent goods to the rangers.

The person who gets the benefit is not the person who wants to use the government, but the person who wants to use the government is not the person who gets the benefit.

So no one was engaged in agriculture and went to war in the army; On the contrary, all kinds of hypocrisy are prevalent, and it is bound to face decline.

There is no hint here about Teacher Sima and the Virgin

These were actually the problems of the later Song Dynasty.

Therefore, it is not about the wisdom of words, and if the people cannot understand the laws that are made, then it will be difficult to obey them.

He who can't even eat chaff will not seek beautiful food, and he who can't even wear coarse cloth will not think about those beautiful clothes.

Therefore, instead of adopting the principles that ordinary people understand, but looking at those teachings that are difficult for smart people to understand, it can only bring counterproductive effects.

For the people, there is no money to use, no power to rely on, so they can only advocate honesty.

But the monarch is different, he can use power to reward and punish clearly, so why seek any loyalty?

Besides, there are few loyal people today, but there are hundreds of officials needed to govern the country.

So the best way to do that is to enforce the rule of law.

As long as the rule of law is strict enough, he is honest enough.

Like those who open their mouths and speak well, the whole court is full of rhetoric; A few empty words can please the monarch, who will do a practical thing?

So you see, now every household has the code of Shang Jun, but the Qin State is getting poorer and poorer, the reason is that they are all talking about farming and no longer engage in hard farming.

Every household has a book of Sun and Wu's soldiers, but the army is getting weaker and weaker; The reason is that they are all talking about the art of war and no longer participate in the battle for their lives.

Therefore, Mingjun is good at using the power of the people and does not listen to those high-minded talks; Reward people for their merits and forbid useless words and deeds.

In this way, the people will contribute to the monarchy.

If farming brings abundance, then no matter how hard it is, there are people who will do it.

If serving in the army can bring dignitaries, then no matter how dangerous it is, there is no shortage of soldiers.

But now there are 100 people talking, and only one is working in the fields; 100 people are officers, and one person is instructed to fight.

Further down, 'Therefore, a democratic country has no books and simple texts, and the law is the teaching; There is no word of the first king, and the officials are the teachers; ’

This is the source of book burning.

It sounds brutal, but in fact it happened one after another in every dynasty.

What kind of emperor's technique is nothing more than a foolish people, a way to control the people.

The so-called Lianheng is to rely on strong countries to attack weak countries.

The so-called cooperation is to unite weak countries against strong countries.

But once it is connected, it is necessary to offer land or interests, and present the seal of the monarch to gain the trust of the powerful country.

But then the territory of the country will shrink, and the prestige of the monarch will continue to decrease, and before he has time to reap the benefits, he will already enter into chaos.

In the same way, once you go to the aid of a small country, you are going on a separate path.

Victory does not necessarily lead to benefits, and defeat leads to the destruction of the country.

It's not a good way out.

(I said that this was all said by Han Fei, and I myself did not express any opinion on the preferential treatment of Ni Yi).

Therefore, the combination of vertical and horizontal did not see the effect, but the person who engaged in vertical and horizontal cooperation earned enough fame because of it.

The status of the monarch is declining, but the rulers are rising.

If you want to unify the world, the premise is to be able to defeat other countries; If you want to be safe, you need to ensure that your country is not violated;

If the country is strong, it can defeat other countries, and the court will be stable and not violated.

Therefore, the Zongheng family is just instigating the fight, just like the chess player profiting from it.

(I don't have a problem with diplomatic pimps.) ）

In this world, the better the thing, the easier it is to achieve results; The more resources, the easier it is to succeed.

Therefore, when the country is strong, it is easy for the strategy to succeed, and the more the national strength declines, the more likely it is for the strategy to make mistakes.

Therefore, it is not that the courtiers of the Qin State are smart, nor that the ministers of the Yan State are clumsy, but because the conditions of the two countries are different.

People are accustomed to thinking about comfort and self-interest, and deliberately avoiding danger and poverty.

If they are forced to go to the battlefield; Forward, may be killed, retreat, and face military law. In this way, he gave up his personal family business and endured the hardships of war. Faced with such a dangerous situation, how could they not find a way to escape?

That's why they took refuge in the aristocracy, hoping to be exempted from military service and bribe those in power with money to put an end to danger.

In this way, there were fewer and fewer people who contributed to the public, and the power attached to the nobility became more and more large, and eventually all the people and nobles became enemies of the monarch.

How can this enrich the country and strengthen the army?

So what should be done?

First of all, it is necessary to formulate appropriate policies to minimize the number of traders, to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, and to allow them to participate in agriculture.

If these people have no way to loot the wealth of the people, they will naturally not be opportunistic.

Therefore, the reason for the confusion among the nations is that those who write books and speak pretending to be morality to preach the law of the kings, pay attention to etiquette, and cover up the truth of hypocrisy. Disrupt the prevailing decrees and shake the monarch's resolve.

Then there are those who are deceitful, swaggering, and deceiving, using the power of a country to achieve their own private goals.

and those ranger assassins who flaunt righteousness, in order to make a good name, and violate the forbidden rites of the nations,

and those who evaded military service, a large number of clothes and powerful nobles wantonly bribed and damaged the fighting power of the nations.

There are also unscrupulous traders who make crude utensils and accumulate huge wealth, and they are waiting to sell them at the same time, making huge profits from the toiling peasants.

This is the origin of the five beetles.

(End of chapter)