"I don't know."

Under the expectant gaze of everyone, Lin Chen said this sentence calmly.

"Huh?!" Zhang Zhiping's always calm face was shocked for the first time.

"Then what did you just say so much, Lao Tzu believes it!" Xiao Wu and the others opened their eyes even wider.

Lin Chen just smiled lightly in the face of everyone's surprise:

"Although I can't give you a road to heaven, I can give you a little bit of the way forward."

"I hope Mr. will advise!" Zhang Zhiping's face was solemn, and he hurriedly bowed his hand to listen.

"Since the world has changed, but the hearts of the people. If we want to achieve eternal peace, I think there can be two ways. ”

"One, it is to restrain people's hearts with something that will not deceive people."

"Second, it is to stop people from deceiving each other."

Lin Chen said slowly.

"Something that doesn't deceive?" The middle-aged man muttered on the side, "I have been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, my eyes can deceive people, my ears will deceive people, and people will deceive people, what is there that will not deceive people?" ”

"Even the sage classics will be missing because of the passage of time, so they will lose their meaning, and they will bring the opinions of others because of the differences in commentators......," Zhang Zhiping also muttered, "Not to mention that people will not deceive people, which is almost impossible." ”

With a smile on his face, Lin Chen said softly: "Indeed, everything in this world will deceive people, but I don't think there is one thing that won't." ”

Well?

Zhang Zhiping and the middle-aged man looked at each other, and then clasped their fists and said, "I hope Mr. will advise!" ”

"Before I do that, I want to ask a question, what is five plus seven?"

Hearing this, Lin Chen did not answer directly, but asked with a smile on his face.

"I know, it's equal to two!" Before everyone could answer, Xiao Wu, who finally found an opportunity to interject, raised his hand directly.

Well?!

"Look, five fingers, plus seven, isn't the number of such roots equal to ......" Looking at everyone's eyes, Xiao Wu's voice gradually lowered, and the whole person was also stunned.

"Our kid is stupid, I hope Mr. doesn't care." The middle-aged man resisted the urge to hit someone, and hurriedly apologized.

Zhang Zhiping on the side groaned for a while, and said thoughtfully: "What Mr. said, but arithmetic? ”

"That's right, arithmetic, also known as mathematics by me, I don't think this thing can deceive." Lin Chen said word by word.

"Mathematics? That's impossible! When Zhang Zhiping heard this, he shook his head directly, "The annual tax revenue of the imperial court on the account book is at most only the income of one state in the past, which is obviously impossible." ”

"The numbers on the ledger are accurate, but the taxes are decreasing every year, which is obviously false, so how can mathematics not deceive?"

When Lin Chen heard this, he was not annoyed, and asked rhetorically: "What if you add the taxes taken away by corrupt officials and landlords, does it not match the output of the field?" ”

"This ......" Zhang Zhiping was obviously stunned.

If that's the case, it seems, there's nothing wrong with that.

"So it's never the math that deceives, it's that someone is hiding key data." Lin Chen shook his head, and then continued, "But if our society can strictly follow mathematics. ”

"Three points of each man's output shall be given to the dynasty, and seven points shall be used for himself. Each of the three cents of the tax has a clear discrepancy, and it is turned into open and transparent data for us to observe. ”

"The output and consumption of the whole society have been reduced to numerical control on the surface, open and transparent, according to the prescribed mathematical analysis, and distributed to those who create value according to their work, so will there be no oppression and no exploitation?"

"But after all, the number is controlled by people, and since it is controlled by people, then it can do something on it, so that it is not empty?" Zhang Zhiping quickly caught the loophole.

"But what if it's not people who control it?"

"This ...... What does this mean, sir? Zhang Zhiping was surprised.

"What do you think would happen if our social morality was not in words, but in numbers? What do you think would happen if the people who control social data and are responsible for law enforcement are not human beings with joys, sorrows, and volatile hearts, but things that are as cold and ruthless as the way of heaven? ”

Zhang Zhiping was stunned for a while.

"Whether it's morality or something as cold and ruthless as the way of heaven. They will not be selfish, and naturally they will not be biased. ”

"In addition to their own survival needs, they will turn the output of society into data, which will be distributed mathematically and fairly to everyone. As long as the data is not in the hands of people, and then there are strong law enforcement methods, so that any link of data does not match, sanctions will be imposed. And if the law enforcers have no emotion, they will naturally not keep their hands, and the behavior of exploiting and harming the public and private interests will be curbed, which ......"

The more Zhang Zhiping thought about it, the more he felt that Lin Chen's words seemed to have some truth.

While he was analyzing, the eyes of the middle-aged man and others on the side were getting brighter and brighter.

Most of them were forced to collect several rounds of taxes by the landlords and corrupt officials, and by making false accounts.

For them, they just want to pay their taxes and live with peace of mind, and this method makes them feel unstoppable.

"But how can that be done?" Thinking clearly, Zhang Zhiping sighed, "And I think that using mathematics to manage society is a little less...... Human nature? ”

"So I thought about the second way, which is that people don't lie to each other." Lin Chen said with a smile.

"I hope Mr. will advise." Zhang Zhiping arched his hand and listened again.

He understood that every word and method Lin Chen said was not untargeted and exaggerated, but had the possibility of opening up peace for all generations, so he naturally didn't dare to miss a word.

"What kind of person does the old gentleman think will not deceive people?" Lin Chen was the first to ask.

"Gentlemen with noble character, they speak, every sentence is worthy of their hearts, and they will not deceive people." Zhang Zhiping said solemnly.

The gentleman he speaks of is a real gentleman, not a self-proclaimed villain.

"Then if everyone is a gentleman and everyone is upright, then do you think people will still deceive each other?"

"This can't ......" Zhang Zhiping's face flashed with surprise, and he spoke again, but the next moment, he closed his mouth.

Isn't it the ultimate goal of the ancient sages to create morality so that everyone is like a gentleman, not to deceive each other, to uphold the right path, so that the world is in harmony?

"But now that the world is declining and people's hearts are not ancient, how can we restore the prosperity of antiquity and make the customs simple?" Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiping let out a long sigh.

"Not necessarily. For example, a child who has received a good education and grew up in a kind environment since childhood, no matter how bad he is, he can have his own bottom line. ”

"If we can inject kindness, simplicity, sincerity and other qualities into everyone's thoughts, then no matter how bad he is in the future, he will not become a heinous bad person, and this is not a method?"

To put it simply, it is a steel seal of thought.

Using the means of ideological steel seal, inject kindness, upwardness, honesty and other fine qualities into everyone's mind, so as to completely change the atmosphere of the whole society, so that everyone can communicate with each other and work together to create a prosperous world!

"This ...... And how can it be done? Faced with this almost impossible thing, Zhang Zhiping groaned.

Whether it is to use mathematics to control society, or to inject good thoughts into people's hearts, these are simply impossible to do in the current situation.

Could it be that this eternal peace will never be possible, no matter how hard we work and how much blood we pay, in exchange for it, it is only a three-hundred-year reincarnation?

Just when Zhang Zhiming felt a little desperate, suddenly, he saw Lin Chen's smiling look.

Then, as if he understood something, his face was solemn, and he quickly stood up, and then knelt on the ground.

"I hope that Mr. will pass on our way to save the world!"

Seeing this, the middle-aged man and the others also knelt down one after another.

"I hope that Mr. will pass on our way to save the world!"

Xiao Wu looked at it, a little reluctant, but hesitated for a moment, and still knelt down.

Seeing this, Lin Chen's face was not moved, but with a move of his sleeves, everyone felt a huge force to help him up.

"Why do you need to make such a gesture, don't you hear that the avenues of this world are all sought by yourself step by step, how can you ask for it from others?"

"I saw the ancient sages, traveled around the six countries, saw the cruelty of the law, saw the incompetence of the monarch, and saw the smoke of interests, and finally after thinking about the empirical evidence again and again, I finally understood that the key to moral restraint is to restrain people's hearts."

"Since then, he founded Confucianism, preached the world, and established the spiritual core of civilization in one fell swoop, and since then it has a long history and is endless!"

"Even the sages have sought the Tao through hardships and hardships, do you think that with one sentence, you can find this road to heaven? Isn't it ridiculous and generous! ”

"The avenue of this world, only if you have practiced it yourself, can you understand whether it is correct or not!"

"Seek knowledge through facts, and seek the Tao through empirical evidence!" I didn't even have a personal experiment, so I easily pinned my hopes on others? ”

"You must know that in this world, there is only the Tao, which is used to seek, not to take shortcuts!"

"Seek the Tao by studying things, seek the Tao by empirical evidence, and in this world, only the Tao is sought!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhiping straightened up and muttered, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

I haven't even done it myself, so how do you think this path is not feasible?

In ancient times, when etiquette collapsed and wars were rampant, sages were able to risk their lives to travel the world and build a great way to live for generations.

So today, why can't I follow the aspirations of my ancestors and try to walk out of my own way?

"Sir is right, I haven't tried it, how do you know if it's possible?" Zhang Zhiping saluted again and said respectfully, "I hope that Mr. can let me follow me around, always listen to Mr.'s teachings, and walk out of a road to peace for all generations." ”

Threesome, there must be my teacher.

Although you are older, your knowledge and ideas are deeper than mine, so I naturally recognize you as a teacher.

"Haha, you don't have to! My Tao is not in peace, my Tao is different, and I am not in conspiration! Lin Chen laughed, rejected his request, and then said, "But if you really want to find a way to peace, maybe you can go to Jiangling to have a look." ”

"Why is that?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this.

Lin Chen smiled lightly and didn't reply, but stood up: "The rain has stopped, I should go, I hope to see you again in the future." ”

Just when everyone didn't react, Lin Chen jumped and walked out of the temple gate.

"Sir, wait!" Zhang Zhiping was stunned and hurriedly chased out.

When I opened the temple door, I saw that the clouds disappeared and the rain was gone, the moon was bright, and there was no one in front of the temple, as if everything just now was an illusion.

"This!"

An exclamation woke up Zhang Zhiping and others, and when he looked back, he saw a man in black, pointing to a clearing, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

Everyone was shocked, because the location he was pointing to was the place where the young man in white had just lit the fire.

There had just been fireworks, hay and half-charred firewood, but now there was no trace of it, leaving only a small clearing.

"Immortals!" Everyone knelt down and worshipped, thinking that they were immortals, and they exclaimed in amazement.

Only two people were still standing on the field, their eyes reflecting the bright moon in the sky, and their eyes were as bright as stars.

One is Zhang Zhiping, the former prime minister of Daqian, and the other is a black-clothed young man called Xiao Wu.

"As long as everyone is good, can we achieve peace for all generations......

"Is the arithmetic master......

The cool breeze after the rain swept across the long forest and brushed the faces of the two of them.

Many times, the turning point of history often occurs in a casual little thing, an inconspicuous place, and the people who experienced it at that time often do not notice.

It's only many years later, when people go through history, that they suddenly realize, oh, it was at this moment that the world changed because of this.

Who knows that in this ancient temple, the scene where they met the young man in white like a dream will become a famous turning point in history in the future?

We are all making history, and no one knows whether we will become a person in history.

So, sometimes when you think about it, it's quite exciting.

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Hundreds of years later, when later generations flipped through the historical records, they stumbled upon a broken ancient book, on which a piece of the past was written.

【Wild History】

In the last years of the former Qian, at the beginning of summer, the Confucian sages and the Taiping Taoist masters met strange people outside the wilderness.

Its white clothes are better than snow, like a swimming dragon, and like an immortal.

The two were fascinated by it, so they talked with him, and found that he knew astronomy, geography, and the changes of ancient and modern, and couldn't help but admire in his heart.

During the conversation, the strange man sighed: "The situation has changed through the ages, but the hearts of the people!" ”

The two couldn't help but be shocked, got up and bowed down, and begged for the law of peace.

The strange man said with a smile: "Ge things to know, empirical evidence to seek the Tao, since ancient times, only heard the sages seek the Tao, how to get the Tao from others, you should be self-reliant." ”

The two pleaded again and again, and the strange man remotely guided: "There is purple qi in the southeast, shrouding Yunmengze." ”

Then they dispersed with the wind, and everyone saw it, thinking that the ancient sages, the true immortals, guided all beings, and bowed to the ground one after another, and then went down to Jiangling.

To the fire in July, in the middle of summer night, there is a purple micro star moving, bright in the middle of the sky, after the star falls Daze, shocking the world.

The changes through the ages have been born since then, because of the heavenly law, descending to the world!

(End of chapter)