Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "It sounds very scary, but when I was in Jianyi in Jingkou, I was still in the slave army and was pointed at by thousands of bloody spears on the opposite side. I still faced him head-on.
I have seen hundreds of bows and arrows flying towards me. Of course, thanks to the help of the guards and companions around me, I did not die under the hail of arrows. Yu Gong, you should have experienced this too.
scene."
Yu Yue nodded quickly and said: "Yes, yes, during the battle of Linqu, I was on that handsome platform with you, Brother Mu. When Yan Lu was the closest, the Kong Ming Lantern was flying overhead.
, all kinds of arrows flying overhead, I also know what it means to be a pro-armored arrow."
Tao Yuanming's expression was calm: "You two have indeed been on the battlefield and have seen war. Tao feels ashamed. As of now, I have not been on the battlefield like you and experienced life and death situations, so I
This person doesn’t like fighting, because I don’t like death and pain. However, when dozens of bloody knives and guns were pointed at me, I admit that I almost fainted from fear again.”
Liu Muzhi said sarcastically: "It's unlikely. In my impression, Tao Gong was a great hero who entered the palace of tigers and wolves alone without changing his expression. He could seek skin from tigers and recapture the twelve counties of Nanyang from the violent Qin. At that time,
You are so brave, why do you faint when dozens of demon thieves and soldiers surround you?"
Tao Yuanming shook his head: "Because although I am alone in the palace of the Later Qin Dynasty, facing the civil and military clamor of the Hu people in the dynasty, I know that behind me are hundreds of thousands of troops from the Jin Dynasty.
Tens of millions of soldiers and civilians are the powerful motherland that defeated millions of tigers and wolves in the former Qin Dynasty without letting a single barbarian appear in front of us. If Yao Xing dared to touch me at that time, then General Liu and the great army of the Jin Dynasty would definitely do it.
Those who avenge me will never let me die in an unknown and worthless way."
Liu Muzhi frowned: "Don't you always look down on General Liu, and you don't even want to serve him, so you rejected his invitation to serve in person? Why did you say these things again this time?"
Tao Yuanming said calmly: "I refused his invitation to become an official because I don't agree with his ideas. I am a scholar. I have been taught by sages since I was a child. I agree that there should be hierarchy in the world, that there should be hierarchy.
, there are no rules, no squares, everyone wants to reach the sky in one step, and do things that exceed their status and ability, which will inevitably lead to chaos in the world. Rules are the way to limit people's innate ambition and greed.
And General Liu, although he is the invincible god of war in the world, and although he has the ability to protect the country, he wants to change the rules of this world and change the foundation of our lives as scholars. How can I serve him?
To change my beliefs and sentiments?"
Having said this, Tao Yuanming paused and looked at Liu Muzhi: "Brother Mu, you are a great talent in the world and have a wealth of knowledge. Those soldiers and warriors don't understand the principles I'm talking about, but you don't understand.
, So Brother Mu, I have always been curious as to why you keep helping Marshal Liu do this, or why you never persuade him to do such things that go against the will of heaven?"
Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "Tao Gong, you said how good the way of heaven is, how it should not be changed, how orderly the hierarchy is for the benefit of all people, but can you explain why we scholars and scholars,
We have always abided by this way of heaven, but it has caused chaos in the world, and it has been more than two hundred years since the end of the Han Dynasty."
Tao Yuanming said coldly: "The strength of the Han Dynasty has been exhausted. The heroes have risen together and there are constant disputes. It is also because He Jin, a butcher villain, relied on his sister to become the queen and became a general in one step. It is precisely because the He family was ruined.
Rules will cause careerists and villains everywhere in the world to want to imitate them. Therefore, villains with humble backgrounds such as Zhang Jiao and Dong Zhuo rebelled and made trouble one after another and wanted to change the order. This led to the great chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, and the Jin Dynasty.
Although the dynasty was reunified, the vitality of China has been lost. In addition, in the process of usurping the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao heavily used the method of punishing names. The so-called meritocracy is to appoint those without any background as officials.
You may gain temporarily, but in the long run, it will harm the order and laws of the world."
"From now on, to hold power, there is no need for family inheritance. Without filial piety and these ties of inheritance, the world will no longer have the most basic rules. Although the Western Jin Dynasty wanted to restore the world of aristocratic families, the hearts of the world have been lost. The Eight Kings Rebellion,
To put it bluntly, the high-level officials like the clan princes had ambitions and wanted to seize the throne. This was caused by the destruction of order and rules since the late Han Dynasty. The result of the Eight Kings Rebellion was that the Hulu people were originally conquered and ruled by the Central Plains.
The foreign tribes took advantage of the chaos to raise troops and occupied the north. If the king hadn't still insisted on the principle of serving as a minister, thanked these families and supported the Yuan Emperor to go south and establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty, I'm afraid that today we would all have to fight with the Hulu or the northerners.
Just like a human being, his hair is braided on the left side."
Yu Yue then sighed: "Yes, it's such a pity. If we, the aristocratic nobles, hadn't protected the Yuan Emperor from crossing south, our entire race and civilization would have been cut off. Brother Mu, the order level of this kind of aristocratic family inheritance is
The foundation of our life is just like a great talent like you. If it were not for the ancestors, how could you have the status of a scholar? If it were not for the collection of books at home, how could you have the wealth of knowledge and become the pillar of the country?"
Liu Muzhi sighed softly: "What you two said is bad. You have made the people of the world confused, and the ambitious people have raised armies, and you have all blamed it on a butcher He Jin. Then I wonder if there were no such low-born people before.
Is there a precedent for a person to become a famous official in the world by relying on his true talents and practical knowledge? For example, in the Han Dynasty, the great general Wei Qing was born as a slave, and Wang Mang, the eternal sinner who usurped the Han Dynasty and established himself, was an authentic aristocratic family. According to Tao
The Duke said that it was lowly people like Wei Qing who caused the rebellion, while it was the sons of the noble family like Wang Mang who helped the Han Dynasty, but what was the result?"
Tao Yuanming curled up his lips: "It doesn't mean that talented people cannot emerge from the lower class, nor does it mean that there are not a few disdainful sons among the high-ranking disciples of the aristocratic families. But the probability of this is still too small after all. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are just villains.
He soared into the sky, but without the accumulation of family background, his fortune was not more than three generations. Even after Huo Guang's death, the whole family fell into decline. On the other hand, Wang Mang, although he himself died and his family was wiped out, the Wang family in Taiyuan still had a long history, and later revived until
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were also aristocratic families. Doesn't this prove that the world's talents are still among the noble families? Those little people without family background, even if they succeed for a while, even if they can produce a few talents, they will not last long. In the end
Still invisible to everyone.”()
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