Chapter 5134 No distinction is made between good and bad
Bai Hu laughed loudly: "Master Xuanwu said it so well. The desire engraved in human bones and souls, the desire to be rich and noble for a long time, to live on top of others, to be able to manage people, to rule people, to have such privileges, and then use these privileges
These selfish ideas of passing on to children and grandchildren are Liu Yu’s truly invincible opponents, because he can defeat his enemies on the surface, but these ideas will cause his comrades, colleagues, and relatives to turn against him in the end.
The fundamental reason is that he will find that unless everyone in the world is as selfless and selfless as him, he will eventually become the enemy of everyone in the world."
Xuanwu said coldly: "Liu Yu like that will become another king of the Shang Dynasty. Of course, if what you said is true and the Shang Dynasty is the origin of the Tiandao League, then King Shang will definitely be the god of the Tiandao League.
Zun, wants to use all the material resources in the world and the lives of all the people in the world to help him become a god and cultivate immortality, and become the evil gods in the sky. That is also an enemy of the whole world, but compared with Liu Yu, this is extreme.
Liu Yu is selfish and despicable, but Liu Yu is extremely selfless and noble."
"But so what? The world is drunk. He is sober and fights with the idea of being selfless and saving the people of the world. But do the people of the world need him to save them? He wants to calm the world, end the troubled times, expel the barbarians, and overthrow the noble families.
, but to do all this, he needs to levy the people, collect more taxes for war and construction, drive the people to fight, and rescue the tenants who have been serfs for decades or hundreds of years from the family's manor.
Come out, allocate fields, and become homesteaders, allowing them to be self-reliant and solve a series of problems from farm tools to irrigation to seeds."
"As a result, people's resentment has become very big. Ordinary people don't care whether the Hulu will go south. Anyway, I didn't see the Hulu or the monsters today. The world is peaceful. I just need to live my life well.
That’s fine. If you ask me to work harder or become a soldier for a slogan that I don’t believe in, that’s absolutely impossible.”
"I am in the manor of the masters of the aristocratic family. I have land, farm tools, seeds, and fertilizers provided by the owner. I only need to plant the land well. In this way, at least my family will have no worries about food and clothing. As for whether the land is mine or not,
I rent someone else's house, does it matter?"
"If there were no adults from the family, no old bosses who have been taking care of us for decades, and I was asked to support myself, hey, I would never make those farm tools, I would have to buy the seeds myself, and I would have to worry about the irrigation water for this new land.
Let God do it. After a year of hard work, if there is a disaster or a bad harvest, the whole family will starve to death."
"In their view, it doesn't matter whether they can accumulate more wealth with their own hands or whether the land is allocated to them. Doesn't it mean that allocating land from the country and returning it when you retire is not working for others?
Have you? This land will not belong to your family from generation to generation."
Qinglong murmured: "Well, in this way, what Liu Yu wants to fight is not the Tiandao Alliance or the Hulu, but basic human nature. People always have greed, selfishness, power, and short-sightedness.
Only looking at the present and not looking at the overall situation, the more small the people are, the more so. Liu Yu tried his best to protect them and to benefit their descendants, but in their eyes, this is just a more greedy and greedy person.
They oppress and enslave even deeper rulers."
Baihu said in a deep voice: "Yes, just like the Great Wall built by Emperor Qin. This was originally to protect the people and resist the Hu barbarians from marching south from the grassland. It was to protect all the Han people in the Central Plains from being ridden by barbarians from the north every day.
They rob, loot, and attack the land. The Great Wall may not be able to prevent every Hulu attack. But without the Great Wall, the Hulu can penetrate into the Han Dynasty for hundreds of miles every day and all the time in small groups.
After thousands of miles of hunting grass and valleys, the people in the border areas will never have peace in the end. Either they send out large armies to attack the grasslands, which is laborious and ineffective, or they can only move all the people in the border areas, and then retreat step by step to the interior, handing over the north to the barbarians.
Hu Qi."
"So Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall. At least it was an early warning and a delay for the Hulu to move south. This was a good thing that greatly benefited the people of the Central Plains. Of course, it also required huge manpower. It took decades or hundreds of years for countless people to
Pain, sweat, and tears to complete."
Qinglong added without hesitation: "So what is related to the Great Wall is the tragic story of Meng Jiangnu, the cruelty and great achievements of Qin Shihuang, and the abuse of people's power and enslavement of the people in the world for the sake of his own selfish desires and the retention of people in history. People wish that there was no Great Wall.
There are no tragedies about the people who suffered and sacrificed because of the construction of the Great Wall, but they don't consider that if Hu Qi goes south and even wants to seize the Central Plains, how many innocent people, how many poor women and children will die in the war, and how many lives will be lost.
Well. Not to mention anything else, in the battle of the Northern Wei Dynasty to conquer Hou Yan, almost the entire land of Hebei and Hedong was completely destroyed, and more than half of the population was lost. How many literati would go to avenge these tragic deaths?
Woolen cloth?"
Bai Hu said sternly: "So, if it is a big project that will benefit the future, even if it is to protect the lives of the current people, if people's power is used, they will be resented by the people. This is the reason why a big country can't ask small people lightly when planning things.
This is also the meaning of Confucius's sentence that the people can let it be done but not know it. We cannot ask all the people to be public-minded and know the importance. Therefore, these decisions need to be made by the rulers who care about the world. Unfortunately, most of the time,
Children of aristocratic families, or rulers from noble families, they know what they should do, but they mostly make other choices for themselves and the family's private interests. Aren't we here now for the same reason?
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Xuanwu said calmly: "We reached a consensus last time. It is not that we must oppose Liu Yu, but we must remain alert enough to this kind of power concentration in one person, and when he falls into madness and misdirection,
, there must be a way to restrain him. There are many cases of single-minded thieves in this world who were very wise when they were young, but became dull when they were old. Or, like King Zhou, who was extremely talented but eventually became willful, it is also a common situation.
There are people here, and high-ranking families have their various weaknesses, but it is undeniable that we represent the most talented and best-educated people in the world. If these people cannot serve the country, even
If they are squeezed out by Liu Yu and his soldiers, then we have to find ways to restrict or even seize some of the power from Liu Yu and return it to the family." (End of Chapter)
