Man Bao asked: "This is the first question, what is the second question?"
Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang looked at each other and shook their heads together.
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao took a look at the sun outside together. They saw that the sun was still so bright, but there was no feeling of sunshine anymore. They knew that it was almost evening and the sun might go down soon.
So Bai Shanbao said: "Let's go ask the teacher for advice."
Bai Erlang was unhappy, "No, don't you have classes tomorrow?"
Man Bao said, "It's better to go and ask. We'll have to come back later to settle the accounts and divide the money."
Two against one, Bai Erlang had to submit.
Mr. Zhuang is at Bai's house next door, drinking tea with Mr. Bai and preparing to have dinner together.
Seeing the three children coming with the account books, Mr. Zhuang and Mr. Bai looked at each other and both smiled slightly.
When the three of them saw the smiles on their faces, they couldn't help pouting. Bai Erlang couldn't help complaining, "Dad, how can you be so dishonest?"
But Mr. Bai smiled and said: "This is called talking about business. You drag me to buy out the wheat seeds in the village first. Is this moral?"
Bai Erlang choked and turned to look at his two friends. Seeing that they didn't speak, he kept his mouth shut.
Mr. Bai then taught the three children: "Businessmen pursue profits. If you want not to suffer losses in the future, you have to work harder on your documents so that there will be no loopholes for others to take advantage of. Today I am just opening up the net, and I am just competing."
Half, otherwise you will not only waste so much money."
Mr. Zhuang put down his tea cup and said with a smile, "You have already answered the first question for you. The second question is to change the document. The third question..."
After thinking for a while, Mr. Zhuang looked at Master Bai and said with a smile: "Master Bai, would you like to use your precious land to teach the three children?"
Mr. Bai was about to get up and leave, but when he thought of something, he sat down again and said with a smile, "Sir, just treat them as if I'm not here and just discipline them."
He himself also wanted to see how Mr. Zhuang usually teaches his three children.
Mr. Zhuang pondered for a moment, nodded in agreement, and then asked the three children to find a place to sit down.
Bai Shanbao and the others felt that they had to find stools and chairs, so they simply found a patch of grass under the tree and sat down.
Master Bai's heart trembled when he saw the three children sitting down next to his flowers and plants.
"Something like paperwork cannot be written flawlessly in a short time. You can do this homework slowly," Mr. Zhuang said. "When you grow older, you will be able to understand more principles. You also need to
Study the laws of this dynasty. If the documents you write are to be useful, they must comply with the laws."
The three children expressed their understanding.
Mr. Zhuang stood up, put one hand behind his back, walked in front of the three children, thought for a moment, and then said: "Master Caibai said that businessmen pursue profits. This is true, but he did not say it all. In this world, not only businessmen pursue profits, but also businessmen pursue profits.
Scholars, farmers, workers, even slaves at the lower level, and royal families at the upper level all pursue profit, so it is not shameful to pursue profit."
The three children listened attentively. Bai Shanbao and Manbao thought for a while and then nodded. However, Mr. Bai, who was sitting at the stone table, was stunned and almost threw the teacup in his hand.
This, this statement...
"However, no matter how much you pursue profit, as a human being, you should do something and not do something," Mr. Zhuang changed the subject and said: "I don't know what you will do for a living in the future, or you will just become a businessman.
The third question I give you is a longer assignment, much longer than the second question. Maybe you will have to do this question for a lifetime."
Man Bao was a little worried, "Sir, did we do this wrong?"
Mr. Zhuang was silent for a while before shaking his head and said: "You did nothing wrong, but I can't say that you did the right thing. Things in this world are not decided by the teacher alone. You are all smart, especially in this world."
In fact, he is much smarter than I thought."
Mr. Zhuang glanced at Bai Erlang and said, "Even Bai Cheng, this time is beyond my teacher's expectations."
Bai Erlang was not happy. He looked around and felt a little uneasy. The atmosphere was really strange at this time.
Mr. Zhuang looked down at the three disciples and said: "So you should study hard, read more, and think more. Maybe in the future, you will be able to answer questions that even Mr. Zhuang cannot answer today."
"When we study, we not only want to learn the skills of the sages, but also the conduct of the sages. Benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, and trust are just the Confucian principles of life. After Confucianism, there are Taoists, Legalists, strategists, and Mohists...
…”
Bai Shanbao asked, "Which philosophy of life do you prefer, sir?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly and said: "Among the classics of several families, I have read the most Confucianism and understand it deeply. However, I prefer Taoism when doing things and getting along with others, but I rely more on Legalism. Since I went to the countryside to teach, I
But I also like reading the Mohist school, tell me, which one do I like better?"
Bai Shanbao thought, how did he know that he was not a roundworm in his husband's belly?
Mr. Zhuang understood it as soon as he saw his face, and laughed loudly and said: "Even the roundworm in Mr.'s stomach is unknown, because even I don't know it, but why do I have to know it?"
"Yeah, why do you have to know?" Man Bao also asked, the books in the encyclopedia are never divided into which ones. The books in the encyclopedia are all-encompassing and everything. Keke has never said, you
After reading the doctrine of this school, she cannot read that school again. As long as she can afford the points, she can read whatever she wants.
At the same time, Dr. D and others she associates with never ask, "Which company do you prefer as a person?"
How can this be decided?
Man Bao frowned and asked, "Isn't being a person just about being the person you want to be? Why bother with which school's teachings you follow? Confucianism advocates filial piety, can't Taoist people be filial to their parents? I don't like Confucianism, and I don't like it.
Can’t people who don’t like Taoism be filial to their parents?”
Manbao was still young after all. She didn't know how to express her inner thoughts better. She could only use the simplest language and said: "I feel that these things exist in the world. The so-called teachings on life are just the teachings of the sages."
It’s just a summary. Before Confucius said benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust, wouldn’t the world be benevolent, righteous, polite, wise and trustworthy?”
Mr. Zhuang was stunned by the question. He was in a daze for a moment, staggered twice and almost fell to the ground.
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao were so frightened that Bai Erlang quickly got up from the ground to support him. Mr. Zhuang grabbed Man Bao's hand, his eyes were bright, and he murmured, "Yes, yes, why am I confused? No."
, No, most of the people in this world are confused... Hahahaha, we are arguing about Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, it turns out that we are all confused..."
Man Bao looked at Bai Shan Bao confused.
Bai Shanbao vaguely understood, but not very clearly.
He understood what Man Bao said, and he also understood what the gentleman said before, but now he did not understand what the gentleman said.
Mr. Bai didn't understand either, but that didn't stop him from helping the three children support Mr. Zhuang.