It's hard to say whether he is a bad person or not, but he is definitely not a good person.
Throughout Qi Xuansu's experience, from the beginning of the Longhu Club in Wanxiang Taoist Palace to the murder of his master, he did not offend anyone, but suffered various injustices. Fengxiantang did not give him justice, and Beichentang did not give him one either.
Justice, it was he who sought justice himself.
After such an experience, if he could still recognize the so-called rules, he would be a saint. So he killed Wan Xiuwu without hesitation, instead of thinking about collecting evidence to sue Wan Xiuwu. If it weren't for the Taiping Inn
It was really difficult to kill someone, so he would not let Yue Liuli off easily.
How could a person who was accustomed to the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, believe in the Taoist priest of Huayuan? Even if he was forced to believe it in words, he would not believe it in his heart. Qi Xuansu has never been a Xuansheng, he is a small person, and everything depends on himself.
From a standpoint, those who treat me well are good, and those who hate me are evil. This may be his limitation, but he has to admit that experience will determine people's thoughts.
What is the law of the jungle? That is, after Qi Xuansu suffered injustice, he only hated himself for being too weak, rather than resenting the unfairness of the world. After this seed was planted, it was destined that Qi Xuansu was unlikely to be a reasonable person.
However, this world is inherently unfair, and the law of the jungle has always been preyed on by the strong. If Qi Xuansu was Zhenzhi Zhenren, then he would not kill Wan Xiuwu himself. He would only give orders, and someone would immediately go to investigate. Since then,
Many parties involved were investigated, and with a large amount of witness evidence, the case was overturned and the procedures were complied with. In the end, the criminals were brought to justice and all the people who had shielded the case were held accountable.
But Qi Xuansu was not the real person of Shenzhi. When he killed Wan Xiuwu, he was just a seventh-level Taoist priest who faked his death. Even if he knelt in front of Fengxian Hall for three days and three nights, no one came to reverse his case. He could only
Use your own methods to seek justice.
To put it bluntly, if you have power, you should pursue justice in the process; if you have no power and power, you should pursue justice in the result.
If you have no power but insist on pursuing justice in the process, it will probably drag on for three to five years, endless wrangling, every step is within the scope of the rules, but the result is nothing.
Because of this, the common people will praise the knights who come and go in the storybook. From the perspective of Legalism, the so-called chivalry is actually the use of lynching. The process is wrong. The knights have no right to decide what is right and wrong.
Everyone has his or her own justice, and your justice is not my justice, but why do people like, recognize and praise chivalrous heroes? Probably because justice is in the heart of the people, and probably because ordinary people have no power or power.
A person who has no power and money cannot afford to hire a lawyer.
If Qi Xuansu was born in Yujing, like countless Taoist priests in the flower garden, and grew up in a civilized environment, maybe he would believe in the Taoist laws from the bottom of his heart, regard justice as the golden rule, and regard justice as the golden rule. Unfortunately, there is no place for him in the flower garden.
He is just a wild grass growing wildly in the wild jungle, and he is just trying to live a good life.
Because of his own experience, Qi Xuansu naturally has a great distrust of laws and rules, so when he encounters problems, he always trusts his own sword. As for why my justice is not your justice, it is simple, either let me
Go see the King of Hell, or go talk to the King of Hell yourself.
Summer insects cannot talk about ice, how can people in two worlds have the same ideas? Qi Xuansu has long been fed up with these red tapes since he returned to Taoism. If he had Qiniang's level of cultivation, maybe he would choose to be Wei Wugui,
Rather than Qi Xuansu.
As for Zhang Yuelu, except for Qi Xuansu, who is in the eye of the lover, probably few people think that Zhang Yuelu is a good person in the traditional sense. Many people's evaluation of her is: she is not easy to get along with, has skills, strong ability, and dares to take responsibility.
He is willing to do things, and even needs to be radical and extreme, but he does not have selfless, impartial and strict evaluations.
Zhang Yuelu has said more than once that she is selfish. Although she has never been greedy for money, she clearly knows that her subordinate Sun Yongfeng has a lot of unexplainable gray income, but she acquiesces to this fact. Because when the water is clear, there are no fish, and she wants to have her own
If you want to have your own followers, you cannot be a morally perfect person.
Although Qi Xuansu said that Zhang Yuelu's heart was bright, Zhang Yuelu directly denied it, because compared with Qi Xuansu, Zhang Yuelu was indeed bright, but in fact, Zhang Yuelu knew that her philosophy was not Xuansheng's philosophy. What she had always said was change.
Taoism, rather than saving the world. She knew that her ability almost ended here, and she could not bring peace to the world, and she could not create peace.
Changing the Taoism lies in eliminating contradictions and redistributing interests. Situ Xinglan once evaluated Zhang Yuelu, saying that she is a young person who advocates change. Change will inevitably touch the interests of others. As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. It is a life-and-death struggle.
, how is it possible to follow the rules again?
What Zhang Yuelu wants to do is to be a powerful prime minister with mixed reputations, not to be a moral saint. This is also the limitation of Zhang Yuelu's background. She has no experience at the bottom, she only sees the evil at the top.
However, her experience made her firmer in her thoughts. The two major Jiangnan cases eventually became unsolvable. This made Zhang Yuelu understand a truth. Procedure is procedure, just a means. It has nothing to do with right or wrong.
It has nothing to do with justice, it is just a game process, and there is no need to give it the name of justice.
The two major Jiangnan cases have case files that are impeccable and there are no errors or omissions in the procedures. What is the result? The result is that the mastermind behind the scenes is at large and the abuses are getting deeper and deeper.
Although many people object that winning is right, they have to admit that this is a fact.
To put it bluntly, the so-called procedural justice is debate. Zhang Yuelu believed it in her early years, but later she stopped believing it. Why? Because she suddenly discovered why these so-called procedural justice were cases involving powerful people?
She had never heard of an eighth-grade Taoist priest receiving justice through procedural justice, but second-grade Taoist priests were often acquitted due to procedural justice.
Who is constantly advocating procedural justice while belittling result justice? They all seem to be proficient in legal codes?
She also read the case files of the Ministry of Punishment. Ninety-nine percent of the prisoners were poor, and eighty percent of the prisoners could not afford to hire a lawyer. The outcome of the same case could be very different whether there was a lawyer or not.
Because we can’t hire a lawyer, we can’t find loopholes in the procedure. So where is the so-called justice?
So-called procedural justice and consequential justice, no matter which one you choose, the powerful people will get the so-called "justice", so what's the difference?
If you have power and money, you can pursue procedural justice. If you don't have money, power and power, then you can do whatever you want.
There is essentially no difference.
Perhaps there has been some progress, but it is absolutely not worthy of the word "justice".
Zhang Yuelu was not opposed to this kind of Legalist thought, but she also did not want to uphold it as a guideline and vigorously defend it, so she only regarded it as a means rather than an idea. Even when she chose to help Qi Xuansu, she cleverly made use of the so-called correct procedures, that is, according to the
According to the rules, if Shangguan Jing's case needs to be investigated again, Jin Que must first ask for instructions, and then go to Beichen Hall to review the case files, completely cutting off Wuxu Palace's retreat.
In Zhang Yuelu's view, since all laws must be judged and implemented by people, and cannot be separated from people's will, there is no essential difference between procedural justice and consequential justice. They should go hand in hand, and the final implementation must be based on the facts.
We cannot fall into the mold of the Legalists, we cannot let the provisions of the code of law become a holy scripture that cannot be changed, and we cannot let the litigants and others become the priestly class with the sole power to interpret the holy scriptures. Taoism is the Taoism of Taoism, not the Taoism of Legalism.
Zhang Yuelu's idea may not be right, but among Taoist sects, it cannot be wrong. Because Taoist sect is not the Daxuan court, Taoist sect does not directly face the people, and even the lowest Taoist priests are also Taoist priests. As the saying goes, chivalrous men use force to violate the forbidden
, this is a group where everyone has the ability to use force to break the ban. They cannot be satisfied by just food and clothing. They have more needs. If they cannot be convinced, then people like Qi Xuansu are by no means a minority.
If the Taoist sect is governed with the same ideas as governing the common people, I am afraid there will be big problems. The common people will never rebel until they are unable to survive. The common people are used to enduring suffering. But this is not necessarily the case for the Taoist priests.
Sharp weapons make murderous intentions everywhere, and the eight tribes rebelled from the Taoist sect simply because of the disagreement in their ideas. It is conceivable that if the conflicts within the Taoist sect continue to deepen, the lower-level Taoist priests may not dare to resist the high-level Taoist priests, even if some of the high-level Taoist priests have
The existence of immortals.
Immortals have great power, they can turn Yunjin Mountain upside down, and they can also execute the deposed Tianshi Zhang Jingchen, but they cannot kill all the low-level Taoist priests who are the cornerstone of the Taoist sect.