Chapter 57: Good and Evil in the Human Heart
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "Yes! At that time, I was still an official in the court, and my opponent wanted to kill me in order to attack me. www.biquge.info But they knew that I had been taught by strangers since I was a child, and that I was strong in martial arts, so they thought of using Lin Zhongxiao to get rid of me. ”
Duan Hongyu said: "Lin Zhongxiao is also Mr.'s opponent!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "I am dedicated to being an official in the court, and my martial arts have been somewhat wasted, so I am definitely not Lin Zhongxiao's opponent." Lin Zhongxiao died not long after Cuihong, playing the rivers and lakes alone, drinking every day, playing cards and gambling for money, and living a wandering life. He squandered money with righteousness, was happy to take revenge, and killed corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and became famous in the rivers and lakes for a while. My opponents felt that if they wanted to kill me, they couldn't do it, so they deliberately spread my notoriety in his ears. In their mouths, I not only embezzled and took bribes, but also robbed men and women, forcibly occupied fertile land, and basically did all kinds of bad things. Lin Zhongxiao was furious when he heard this, so he came thousands of miles to take my head. Originally, with my character, I would never give in to it, as long as he came, it would definitely be a duel to the death, who would have thought that the words of those villains had aroused Lin Zhongxiao's vigilance!"
Duan Hongyu said: "Presumably they scolded you too much, which made Lin Zhong laugh suspiciously!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "That's right! If they only say that I am corrupt and take bribes, Lin Zhongxiao will definitely cut me off after they meet." Because there were too many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, it can also be said that there are no officials and no greed, and he doesn't need to be verified at all, but these people say that I am not only corrupt and oppressive, but also rape my stepmother and force my sister to be a prostitute, which is worse than beasts, so he became suspicious!"
Duan Hongyu smiled: "These people are too stupid, how can there be such a villain in the world?"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "Of course Lin Zhongxiao didn't believe it, so he was secretly observing. When he saw that I was honest and honest and worked for the benefit of the people, he finally voted for me!"
Duan Hongyu said: "This is also a good story in the green forest world, but I don't know why Mr. Shangguan abandoned the official and was willing to live in the green forest, was he really forced by those traitorous ministers?"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "Those are all rumors on the rivers and lakes, but they are not the truth. The reason why I abandoned my official position and fell into the grass was completely voluntary. Just imagine, with my martial arts and Lin Zhongxiao, no one will avoid me, how dare they frame me?"
Duan Hongyu said puzzledly: "The people of the Green Forest Road all want to recruit the imperial court, including great heroes like Song Gongming and Ye Jianfei, but Mr. Shangguan does the opposite, which is really incomprehensible!"
Shangguan Jinpeng sighed: "I fell into the grass, and I was forced to do it. The court is so stupid, the loyal ministers will be slaughtered, the traitors are rampant, and it is difficult for me to do anything if I stay in the court, so I finally chose to leave!"
Duan Hongyu secretly thought that if he could persuade Shangguan Jinpeng to quit the martial arts, Wanjian Mountain would have one less big opponent, so he said: "Mr. Shangguan's choice is too surprising, in fact, with Mr. Shangguan's temperament, it is also a good choice to return to the mountains and forests and be a sage who cultivates books and helps the world!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said with a smile: "What kind of retreat to the mountains and forests, cultivating books to help the world! That's just some shameless people advocating themselves." In any generation, if we want to save the common people, there is no third way to go except to be an official and a thief! Since I can't be an official, I can only be a thief!"
Duan Hongyu said with a smile: "It's the first time I've heard of such a statement!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "Don't forget, everything in the world is human-centered, and anyone who is committed to a certain idea is a stupid person. Ideological writings are nothing but human tools. If it is useful, take it, and discard it if it is useless. If a person only knows how to write and speak, but does not act, he will have no effect in the world. Because it's people who change the world, not one or two books. If the same work falls into the hands of a good man, it can become a good medicine for ruling the world and saving people, but if it falls into the hands of a careerist, I am afraid it will become a tool for deceiving the world! A person can write a hundred books, but how can he explain them all in the hands of the government, and what is the use? Take Song Jiang as an example, whether he is a great hero or a big thief is not all in the words of the imperial court? When the imperial court needs him to be a thief, he is a heinous thief, and whenever the imperial court needs him to be a hero, he will immediately become a great hero who kills the rich and helps the poor! If a person is absent or his mind has changed, even the greatest writings are useless. ”
Duan Hongyu said: "In Mr.'s opinion, any thoughts and writings are not important, what matters is people's hearts!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "Exactly! There are too many sages in our country, and we have already thought of all the strategies for governing the country that we can think of, and we no longer need to study them, and we have not surpassed the wisdom of our predecessors." Each of the hundred schools of thought is remarkable. Let's just talk about the present! Our nation has fallen to the point where it is today, not because our path is wrong, but because our hearts have changed. It can be said that if Confucianism teaches people to kill people and set fires, it will perish on its own without our objections. The reason why our country is bullied by others is by no means a mistake of faith, but that people's hearts are old. It is no exaggeration to say that with the treacherous nature of our people today, no matter what you believe, it will be a dead end after all. If a person can't walk on the right path, it's not that the road isn't straight, but that the legs aren't straight. A lame person walks on the road to Tongjing, and the footprints left must be crooked, while a person with intact legs and feet, even if he walks on the mountain path, the footprints he walks are still straight. As long as the people are good-hearted and become an upright and simple nation, no matter what road they take, they will step into the right path. ”
Duan Hongyu said: "Mr. is also reasonable!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "It's useless to just preach, whether a person is a hero or a villain depends entirely on how much strength he has." I threw myself into the green forest to build up my own strength, and only by doing so can I finally achieve my goal!"
Duan Hongyu said with a smile: "What Mr. means is that the winner is king, and the loser is the villain!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "That's exactly what I mean. Don't always pursue what is good and what is wrong, but study the truth of victory and defeat. ”
Duan Hongyu said: "Don't you think that justice is not important!"
Shangguan Jinpeng said: "It's not unimportant, but don't forget that it is strength that determines the victory or defeat of the struggle, and the banner of justice is only a part of strength." If the difference in strength is too great, no matter how righteous the ideal is, it will only fail. The most important thing is that good and evil can be transformed into each other, while victory and defeat cannot be transformed. Therefore, there is only victory and defeat in war, and the lessons of history have proved this countless times. In fact, what we call good and evil is not a certain person and a certain thing, but a measure of external things in our hearts, and it is precisely because of this that there is no absolute good and bad in the world, and it is not a simple sentence or a banner that good and evil are not a simple sentence, it only exists in people's hearts, and this is what I often tell my disciples about the good and evil of the human heart. Just imagine, even the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which everyone hates now, as long as it can finally seize the world, hundreds of years later, our people will bow down to them, and even worship them as gods, this is the mystery of the transformation of good and evil, and those who blindly pursue justice and deny the rules of struggle will eventually fail. ”