It's no wonder that in history, he was sent to the frontier by Ying Zheng to serve as a military supervisor in Mengtian... In fact, it was also training.
It seems that this guy Fusu has been brainwashed by Chunyu Yue's pedantic ideas. No matter what he does, he pays attention to benevolence, justice and morality, even marching and fighting.
The most important thing in marching and fighting should be "the soldiers never tire of deceit", otherwise wouldn't it be like Song Xianggong and become a joke for future generations?
But it was obvious that Fusu did not understand this truth.
At the same time, the young Fusu didn't learn much about anything else, but Chunyu Yue learned a lot about the big principles. He talked so much about benevolence, righteousness and morality that several people didn't know how to deal with it.
While Shen Bing was thinking about it, Fusu raised his hands in Shen Bing's direction and asked:
"What do you think, Lieutenant General?"
This is clearly a declaration of war against Shen Bing, and Shen Bing will not be able to respond this time.
After thinking for a while, Shen Bing replied:
"I wonder if you, sir, have heard of a story?"
"There is a wolf in a certain mountain. This wolf specializes in eating deer in the mountain, and this deer specializes in eating flowers in the mountain."
"If it were up to the young master to make the decision, how would he protect the deer in the mountains?"
Fusu thought for a while and replied:
"What's so difficult about this?"
"All you need to do is raise deer in the mountains and feed them with flowers from the mountains!"
Shen Bing smiled and asked instead:
"Yeah?"
To be honest, Fusu's answer was a bit beyond Shen Bing's expectations.
Because most people’s first reaction to this answer is to kill wolves instead of captive deer...Wolves are usually negative, ferocious and dangerous, and killing them is normal.
But Fusu was not even willing to kill the hungry wolf, which proved his inner kindness.
This should be said to be an advantage, because to rule the world you need such a benevolent king, but it's just too much.
But this is much better than cruelty. If you are like Ying Zheng, you may not be able to change even if you want to.
Everyone in the hall found the story interesting for a while and started talking among themselves.
Fusu asked Shen Bing disapprovingly:
"If not, what advice does the lieutenant have?"
Shen Bing replied:
"If we raise the deer in the mountains in captivity, the deer will multiply wildly."
"When there are too many deer, they will eat up all the flowers in the mountains and prevent the flowers from growing. Eventually, all the deer in the mountains will starve to death."
"Master, do you think so?"
Everyone in the hall nodded in agreement, and Fusu was speechless. He really did not expect this series of consequences.
The growth of flowers is cyclical. If all the flowers are eaten by deer in a short period of time, they will have no time to grow and will have no flowers. The result will be that the deer will starve to death.
This analysis is reasonable and irrefutable.
At this time Xu Ying interrupted and said:
"What if I wait to plant flowers in large quantities?"
This is indeed the consistent thinking of farmers.
They always think that as long as there is enough food, people will stop fighting, so there will be no war.
However……
Shen Bing shook his head and replied:
"If we plant flowers in large numbers, the result will be enough food for the deer to multiply."
"Because deer reproduce in large numbers, wolves also have enough food to reproduce in large numbers."
"The result is that wolves still eat deer and deer eat flowers, but the number has increased. In the final analysis, there is no change."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
After hesitating for a moment, Fusu asked back:
"Lieutenant General, what does this have to do with the battle of benevolence and justice we are talking about?"
Shen Bing replied:
"If you regard war as wolves, people as deer, and food as flowers, then it will matter."
Everyone in the hall couldn't help but "coax" and started talking.
This metaphor is very appropriate. Isn’t this the relationship between war, people, and food?
If there was no war and people were allowed to be born in large numbers, but the land would not increase and productivity would be low, wouldn't the people starve to death in large numbers?
Shen Bing's invention of the rice pounding waterwheel actually only increased productivity, which is equivalent to the variety of flowers Xu Ying said. What it can affect is to increase the number of people but cannot determine the war.
On the contrary, it is Fusu's view that war can be eliminated by ruling the world with benevolence and righteousness. That is almost impossible and unrealistic... If his ideal state really occurs, that is, everyone understands that benevolence and righteousness develop together without war, the final result will be That means a large number of people starve to death.
The relationship is complicated and difficult to understand if we use human terms, but if we use the relationship between wolves, deer, and flowers to explain, it is clear at a glance.
Therefore, war exists objectively and does not depend on human will. It cannot disappear at any time. If war disappears, another crisis will break out.
At this time, not only Fusu was deep in thought, but Xu Ying also frowned.
Because what Shen Bing just said unintentionally negates the core of the peasant family... It is almost impossible to eliminate war through the development of agriculture.
After a while, Xu Ying finally asked:
"Then, as the deputy general, how can we break the situation?"
Shen Bing replied:
"Why break the situation?"
"This is a biological chain. What we have to do is adapt to the situation and try our best to maintain it instead of breaking it."
"For example, there is another possibility that has not been mentioned. If there are too many wolves and they are too ferocious, the balance will also be disturbed."
"The wolves eat all the deer, and the deer don't have time to reproduce, and eventually the wolves starve to death."
"That is to say, the war cannot go too far, otherwise the land will be starved to death and the people will not survive."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Fusu asked back:
"So, can the war we are waiting for now be called a 'pass'?"
Shen Bing replied:
"Before this, it was indeed 'passed'."
"Because there is a shortage of labor in the Huaihe River area, it is about to lead to a lack of food and a large number of people will starve to death."
"But after my subordinates made the rice-pounding waterwheel... we can't forget it."
Xu Ying said "Oh" and said:
"The rice-pounding waterwheel just plants a lot of flowers, so it can support more deer in a short period of time, which means there are a lot more wolves... which is just the right balance."
Shen Bing nodded and said:
"exactly."
Then he turned to Fusu:
"So I believe that making a rice-pounding waterwheel is for the right path and not for war. Do you think so, Master?"
At this time, no one dared to speak.
Although they all knew that what Shen Bing said was right, that was the young master Fusu, the future king.
Even though Fusu doesn't have much real power now, it's obviously not a good thing to offend him.
Therefore, Yang Duanhe secretly winked at Shen Bing.
Shen Bing knew what it meant, he just wanted him not to make Fusu unable to step down.
But Shen Bing didn't think so.
If Fusu really learned the connotation of Confucianism, then he should know his mistakes, be able to correct them, and have the courage to admit his mistakes.
Because this "benevolence, justice and morality" not only requires others, but also requires ourselves, and even more requires ourselves.
If you can't do it yourself, it means saying one thing and doing another is just "pedantic" on the surface.
Fusu was a little embarrassed, but after thinking about it, he finally handed over to Shen Bing and said:
"What the deputy said makes sense, Fusu has learned a lesson!"