When Confucianism is at the head of the family, the world is governed by loyalty and filial piety.
After Taoism replaced Confucianism, although it overthrew loyalty and filial piety, it did not find a suitable replacement. Taoism is not Legalism, and it is not easy to rule the world with law. Taoism talks about governing by doing nothing. How can we govern the world without doing anything? Therefore, Taoism was resurrected.
Since then, many Taoist sages have been committed to solving this problem.
Finally, a consensus was reached within the Taoist sect, taking the word "morality" from Taishang Taozu's five thousand words and replacing "loyalty and filial piety" with "morality".
In the Confucian era, people were often labeled as "disloyal and unfilial"; in the Taoist era, people were labeled as "immoral and immoral".
However, this "morality" is not the "morality of benevolence and righteousness" of Confucianism.
Confucianism teaches the principles of ethics, which is actually the order of hierarchy. Therefore, the king is the ethics of the ministers, the father is the ethics of the sons, and the husband is the ethics of the wife.
If Taoism wants to oppose Confucianism, naturally it can no longer talk about principles and principles, so Taoism talks about equality.
Taishang Taoist Patriarch said: "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as stupid dogs."
The Taoist Master of Nanhua once said: "Looking at it from the Taoist perspective, things are neither noble nor cheap."
Heaven and earth treat all things equally, and there is no distinction between high and low in all things.
Because of this, the Daxuan court abolished humble status and military status, and no longer imposed specific restrictions on scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. Taoist priests were strictly prohibited within the Taoist sect from treating Taoist people as slaves, and personal attachment in the master-slave relationship was not allowed. At the same time, it also abolished the kneeling ceremony and multiple concubines.
system, etc.
In the past, children had to kowtow when greeting their parents, kowtow when meeting their superiors, kowtow when meeting their teachers, and kowtow when meeting their friends’ parents and elders. Even when they were friends, they had to kowtow to each other. Nowadays, it’s all
No worries, just stand and salute. So when Qiniang scolded Qi Xuansu, he just stood up and listened with his hands down. In the past, he had to kneel and listen.
Of course, there is no absolute equality in the world, only relative equality, so there is still a grade system within the Taoist sect, and many new systems can only be implemented in Yujing. Outside Yujing, they are still influenced by Confucianism. The Taoist sect wants to use it for two hundred years.
It is still very difficult to completely erase the traces of thousands of years of Confucianism through restructuring.
As a result, there are two consequences.
The first consequence is that Confucianism still has great influence, especially after Xuansheng unbundled Confucianism in order to suppress Buddhism. In terms of attitude towards Confucianism, there have always been two sides within Taoism.
There are two lines of dispute, one is the complete de-Confucianism, and the other is the unification of the three religions. The two sides are in dispute, which gives Confucianism a certain degree of room for maneuver.
The second consequence is that "losing morality" is an extremely serious crime within the Taoist sect. For example, the third-grade Youyi Taoist priest who was demoted for abusing his servants would be nothing if placed outside the Taoist sect. But inside the Taoist sect,
But the career of a high-quality Taoist priest was cut off. Another example is that for people from Confucianism, having sex with prostitutes is a romantic and elegant thing, but for people from Taoism, it is a moral issue.
Now Qi Xuansu is about to become a fourth-level Taoist priest of wine sacrifice. He is no better than the unknown person before. Such a rapid promotion speed is too eye-catching. It will inevitably hinder the eyes of others, or he may offend someone without knowing it. You must be especially careful.
In this regard, if you are accidentally labeled as "immoral", your future will be ruined.
This kind of thing doesn't require any ingenuity. Find a young and beautiful female Taoist priest to have some relationship with Qi Xuansu, and then find a pen to write two sympathetic articles. They ignore the facts and make a fuss about personal ethics.
Creating public opinion in Yujing and using public opinion to force decision-making can cause a promising young man to capsize in the gutter and become irreversible.
Therefore, Zhang Yuelu kept telling Qi Xuansu'er all the way, just to be careful, careful, and more careful.
At this time, the two of them had already boarded the flying boat back to Yujing. Of course, they were not debriefing. At this time, the Jinque discussion had not yet ended. It would take at least half a month to reach a result after two days of deliberation.
The two of them had to transfer from Yujing to Longmen Mansion by flying boat. Since they both came to Jinling Mansion on official business, they did not need to spend money on the return flying boat. They only needed to buy tickets to Longmen Mansion.
The return journey was smooth and windless, and we successfully arrived at the port outside Yujing City.
Zhang Yuelu took him home by the way, but Qi Xuansu did not follow him back, but went to buy a boat ticket.
Although Zhang Yuelu is not the kind of woman who likes to let men pay the bill, this time it was Zhang Yuelu who accompanied Qi Xuansu to attend the class reunion, so Qi Xuansu consciously bought the tickets for two people.
As a result, Qi Xuansu only had the last one hundred peace dollars left. He could not blame Qiniang, otherwise Qiniang would say that she had a wife and forgot about her mother, and he could not tell Zhang Yuelu clearly that the regular money in the past few months was
It was Zhang Yuelu who handed it to him personally. He couldn't explain where the Taiping money went, so he could only eat Coptis chinensis while being mute, unable to tell the story of his suffering.
Qi Xuansu took two tickets and sat on the bench in the waiting area. He was bored and took out the book "The Legend of the Ghost Fox" and flipped through it.
Chapter name "Painted Skin"
The story is not complicated. A scholar met an unidentified beautiful woman and took her home to play songs every night. Later, a ghost-catching Taoist priest told the scholar that he had met a ghost. The scholar was half-believed and lay outside the woman's window at night to peek.
, I saw an ugly and ferocious evil spirit in the room drawing a piece of human skin, and the figure on the human skin was exactly that woman.
The scholar was frightened and went to the Taoist priest for help, but he was still cut open by the evil ghost. The Taoist priest used a mahogany sword to kill the ferocious ghost to death. The scholar's wife went to seek help from a crazy monk under the guidance of the Taoist priest. The old monk asked his wife to
After swallowing the phlegm he spit out, the scholar's wife did as he was told. When she returned home, she spit the phlegm into the scholar's mouth. The scholar grew a heart and came back to life.
Qi Xuansu subconsciously touched his chest. If nothing else, he had a new heart. And this story undoubtedly warned men not to be deceived by beauty, lest they be harmed by evil spirits in human skin.
At this moment, a woman walked towards Qi Xuansu. She was not wearing a middle coat, only wearing a waistband and a trousers, revealing a piece of white greasy on her chest, which was quite the legacy of Sheng Qi.
Although it is summer now, it is still freezing cold on the top of Kunlun. The woman dressed like this is undoubtedly very eye-catching and attracts the attention of many passers-by.
The woman looked around, walked straight towards Qi Xuansu, and then sat on the other end of the bench where Qi Xuansu was.
Qi Xuansu, who had just been given a thumbs up by Zhang Yueluer, glanced at the dazzling word "painted skin" again and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
It can't be such a coincidence, right?
Qi Xuansu folded the copy of "The Legend of the Ghost Fox" in his hand and wanted to leave.
The woman lightly opened her red lips: "I have heard about Master Qi's name for a long time, but when I saw him today, he is indeed extraordinary."
Qi Xuansu stopped and took a closer look at the woman. She was about 25 or 26 years old, with an oval face, pink and phoenix eyes, and willow eyebrows. She was very tall, and was a bit better than Zhang Yuelu.
Seeing Qi Xuansu looking at her, the woman reached out and brushed her black hair from her temples, revealing a section of her tender wrist with a red rope tied to it.
"I haven't asked for advice." Qi Xuansu said cautiously.
The woman grinned: "Beichen Hall, Li Zhuyu."
Qi Xuansu asked: "Are you from the Li family?"
"Yes, but she is just an anonymous adopted daughter, so there is no hierarchy." Li Zhuyu said.
Qi Xuansu had long heard about the large number of adopted sons and daughters in the Li family. Generally speaking, the more important adopted sons and daughters were ranked according to their seniority. For example, Li Minghuang, who abandoned Zhang Yuyue, although he was born as an adopted son, he had
Another example is Li Qingnu. Although he belongs to the generation with the character "ming", he cannot be compared with Li Minghuang, so there is no character for generation in his name.
Qi Xuansu was secretly surprised at the news that Beichen Hall was so well-informed. When he returned to Yujing, they knew that he was indeed a Shangsan Hall.
However, Qi Xuansu kept his face quiet and asked: "I wonder what Miss Li is doing?"
Li Zhuyu's eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and he answered the question: "In Beichen Hall, the file of Chief Qi was originally only one page, and it was no different from the file in Tiangang Hall. It was just that Bingzi of the Wanxiang Taoist Palace was born in the Jiabao Department, and the master
He died, but now it has been compiled into a three-inch-thick book. Especially since Master Qi survived the catastrophe, it is even more curious."
Qi Xuansu's heart was already lifted.
His experience was indeed a bit outrageous. It wasn't that Zhang Yuelu couldn't see the strangeness, but she chose to believe Qi Xuansu, but the Li family would not be polite to Qi Xuansu. Even if Qi Xuansu was fine, they would still have to make some fuss, not to mention Qi Xuansu's background.