In Luoyi.
Zhou Tianzi witnessed the battle outside the south gate. The battle of immortal artifacts seemed thrilling, even though the third grandpa went to the heavens to seek help in person, the heart of Zhou Tianzi was still extremely gloomy.
Back in the court hall, on the dragon chair, Zhou Tianzi felt heavy in his heart.
This sitting is the noon of the next day.
At noon, it was the occasion of the court meeting of the ministers. As for the battle in the south of the city yesterday, a group of ministers also secretly watched, and when they watched, they all felt a wave of panic.
News came from the south of the city that the Qi State sent a hundred Chilongs, invincible, and the army was completely powerless to resist. However, the people of Qi State in the south of the city are women's hearts, and they actually released all the remnant soldiers back.
Originally, the ministers had other ideas. Seeing the battle of immortal artifacts in the south of the city, everyone's hearts sank to the bottom of the valley.
During the court meeting, everyone was depressed to the extreme.
"Everyone, don't worry, the heavens will send immortals down soon!" Emperor Zhou comforted.
"Immortal?" The officials' eyes lit up. Many people rekindled their confidence.
"Son of Heaven, I don't know how long it will take to wait for the immortals in the heavens! Yesterday, I suddenly saw a weakness of the Qi people in the south of the city!" A minister took a step forward.
"Oh? Aiqing, tell me quickly!" Zhou Tianzi's eyes lit up.
"I found out that the leader of Qi State in the south of the city may have some benevolence for women!" said the minister.
"Huh? What does Aiqing mean?" Zhou Tianzi asked in confusion.
"Son of Heaven, if you let the army break through the siege again and again, you just let the army be stained with a trace of the golden dragon cloud. As long as you break through and arrive at Chu, the emperor, you can use the golden dragon cloud contaminated on them to project. Your projection will appear in Chu, or The clan with the surname Ji, in that case, the Son of Heaven, can you personally ask the clan with the surname Ji to take action?" said the minister.
"good!"
"The leader of the Qi State in the south of the city, with the benevolence of a woman, treats the army softly. Son of Heaven, if a large number of people go out, will the leader of the Qi State be ruthless and kill them all?" said the minister.
"Send people to break through?" Zhou Tianzi's expression changed.
"That's right, Qin and Jin are both ruthless and ruthless, killing them all, but this is not the case in Qi. They don't even kill the army, and the people naturally won't kill them. As long as the people break through, then we may succeed." Already!" said the minister.
Zhou Tianzi's eyes lit up: "That's right, the leader of the Qi State, indeed he has this weakness."
"But, are the people willing?" another minister worried.
"Hmph, the people of Luoyi have bathed in the grace of the king for generations and enjoyed the blessing of the emperor. Now that the country is facing a crisis, who can back down. The disaster of the emperor is a national disaster, so they can't help it!" The minister said coldly.
"That's right, heaven and earth, master and teacher. If the king is in trouble, the untouchables will die!" All the ministers echoed.
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South of the city.
The big pregnant beast ate another Kyushu cauldron fragment. At this moment, its body was stretched out of shape again, and it lay on the side to rest.
A group of chilongs scattered in all directions to guard Luoyi City. A group of imprisoned Confucian disciples were not abused, but their cultivation bases were sealed and an area was designated for them to live in.
The top of a mountain. There is a big tree on the mountain.
Under the shade of the big tree, Jiang Tai and Mencius sat on the stone table and bench below.
Jiang Tai and Mencius drank green tea and looked at Luoyi City in front of them. Mengmeng is by the side.
"Mr. Meng, the arrangement here has just ended, and I want to bother you again, let's continue our previous chat!" Jiang Tai said with a smile.
Mencius took a sip of his tea, smiled wryly, and felt helpless.
"Prisoner under the ranks, how can you talk about it?" Mencius shook his head and said.
"No, Mr. Meng. Didn't the former King of Zhou realize the Book of Changes only after he was imprisoned in Chaoge? Isn't Shang Tang enlightened about the future because he was imprisoned in Xiadu? At this moment, Mr. Meng may be the same!" Jiang Tai laughed.
"Really?" Mencius asked strangely.
"Why not? Mr. Meng, that day you and I talked about that everyone is equal, but Mr. Meng didn't think so. But I was curious, why can't people be equal to others?" Jiang Taifa asked.
"Confucianism follows the rituals of Zhou, the heaven and the earth have their own order, the way of heaven is like this, we cannot force it!" Mencius said in a deep voice.
"Order of heaven and earth? What is that?" Jiang Tai asked.
"The order of heaven and earth is the difference between high and low, high and low, senior and young, relatives and estrangements. Everyone's lifestyle and behavior must conform to their family status and social and political status. Different identities have different behavioral norms. This is etiquette. Rites of Zhou follow the order of heaven and earth, so I, Confucianism, respect Rites of Zhou!" Mencius explained solemnly.
"Confucianism, people are born different, identity and status are predetermined, and there are distinctions between high and low, high and low? Some people are destined to be noble, and some are destined to be low?" Jiang Tai sneered.
Mencius frowned: "If you must understand this way, then it's about the same!"
"Is the emperor and the common people the same as the noble and the humble?" Jiang Tai asked.
Mencius thought for a while, nodded his head and said, "That's right, the emperor's respect is more important than the community, and he guides the world. The people follow the crowd, but they are not as good as the emperor!"
"From my point of view, the so-called rituals of Zhou are just a political tool, a deception used by the powerful to belittle the common people and highlight their nobility. People are born without distinction!" Jiang Tai said solemnly.
"Huh?" Mencius frowned slightly.
"Why must the emperor be noble, and why should the common people be inferior? If there are no common people, how can the emperor be the emperor? Without the common people, who can be sure that the emperor is the emperor, the people are water, and the emperor is a boat. Mr. Meng, you can listen Have you ever said that water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it?" Jiang Tai asked.
Mencius frowned slightly. In the education that Mencius received, there is no such thing as "water can carry a boat and overturn it". The Son of Heaven is born noble, otherwise why would he become the Son of Heaven
"Confucianism respects the Son of Heaven. In this chaotic world, Confucianism cannot yet convey to the world, but I think that once the world is settled, Confucianism can immediately become the top of a hundred schools of thought, because Confucianism follows Zhou rituals and supports the ruling class to be naturally noble. In this way, Can get the full support of the ruling class, can be used to ignorant the people, can make the power of the ruling class more consolidated, this is not some order of heaven and earth, but a kind of flattering order, just to please the ruling class, in exchange for one's own status It's just a theory of weakness!" Jiang Tai said in a deep voice.
"Confucianism, following the rituals of Zhou, is not to charm the king!" Mencius said in a deep voice.
"Isn't it? In my opinion, Confucianism is all about flattering the superior and bullying the inferior. Rituals of Zhou? Rites of Zhou can represent the order of heaven and earth? Mr. Meng, do you still think that the fate of the people is inherently inferior to the king?" Jiang Tai said in a low voice.
Mencius frowned slightly.
Confucianism divides society into superiority and inferiority. But in Mencius' mind, the common people are not necessarily sluts. Just as Jiang Tai said, if there are no common people, then the king is no longer a king. Besides, he was also born a commoner, so he was born lowly
Jiang Tai stared at Mencius and said: "You just said that the respect of the emperor is more important than the community? Then where are the common people?"
"People?" Mencius frowned deeply.
"What is Sheji? Without people, is there Sheji? Without people, the Son of Heaven is alone, what is it? It's like a person thrown on a deserted island and unable to leave. What dignity is there for him?" Jiang Tai asked.
Mencius was lost in thought.
The Confucianism in my heart suddenly felt a little shaken. respect? High or low? Really right
At this moment, there was a loud noise from a distance south of the city.
"I won't go out, don't force me!"
"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
"Father, save me!"
"Let me go!"
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In the south of the city, there was a sound of crying.
Mencius turned his head to look, but saw a group of soldiers beating some civilians with whips, forcing them to leave the city.
But the group of civilians didn't want to at all.
"Crack!" "Crack!"...
One after another whip marks hit the people's bodies, bloody and hideous.
"The emperor has ordered you to leave the city as soon as possible and go to Chu State!" A group of soldiers drove the civilians away.
"ah!"
A pregnant woman was beaten and fell to the ground.
"Hurry up, you untouchables, you dare to disobey the order of the emperor, are you planning to rebel?" The soldier kicked the pregnant woman.
"Bastard!" Mencius shouted angrily, his eyes widening.
A group of common people were humiliated and beaten. Rush out of town.
Maybe the soldiers who broke through the siege died countless times, so the people did not dare to come out, they were terrified, but the soldiers in the city kept chasing, whipping, kicking, and forcing each other with swords.
Such a miserable scene, in the eyes of Mencius, is also a burst of anxiety.
However, Jiang Tai's eyes lit up, and he turned to look at Mencius and said, "Mr. Meng, this is the Confucianism you follow. The king is the most expensive, the society is second, and the common people are the most humble? The untouchables are used to humiliate and beat the king? The king Order, why don’t these untouchables listen? You should let the Confucian disciples teach them what is superiority and inferiority, what is high and low, the king wants the people to die, and the people have to die!”
"Stop talking!" Mencius was extremely irritable for a moment.
"This is Zhou Li. Zhou Li is just like this, it is just a tool to maintain the ruling class. In the past, the Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty King Zhou was said to be innocent, violent, cruel and loyal, and hard-serving the people. For the evil of the world , but so what, he is a king after all, he is respected, others are base, the king is above heaven. What is wrong with King Zhou? He killed Zhongliang, so what? He is the son of heaven. He can do whatever he wants? In the past, King Zhou and King Wu of Zhou, that was called rebellion!" Jiang Tai said anxiously.
"No, no, the king of Zhou didn't have no way! It's the king of Zhou who has no way!" Mencius shook his head, irritatedly saying.
"That's not the same as now. The emperor of Zhou forced the people to die. In the past, King Zhou of Shang just killed a few disobedient officials. Why is the emperor of Zhou right and King Zhou of Shang wrong? Which one is wrong and which one is wrong? Is there a way?" Jiang Tai said anxiously.
Mencius looked at the tragic scene in the distance.
I thought in my heart that there was a distinction between high and low in Zhou etiquette, but at this moment, I couldn't harden my heart.
this is not right
Could it be that the ideas I had accepted before were all wrong? Looking at the pregnant women being beaten and kicked in the distance, why should I say hello
Mencius couldn't do it, and he was suffering in his heart.
"Mr. Mencius, the way of heaven is not the rituals of the week, and the rituals of the week are not the order of heaven and earth. The way of heaven is in the hearts of people. Follow your heart, ask your heart, what kind of society do you want to see, what kind of world do you want to see, what do you think What is the order of heaven and earth to see? What is the way of heaven?"
After Jiang Tai asked, Mencius fell into deep thought, follow his own heart? Yeah? What do you think in your heart
Looking at the tragic scene in the distance, I thought about what Jiang Tai said just now, the people are water, the emperor is a boat, water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize it
Gradually, Mencius seemed to feel a kind of blessing coming to his heart. In an instant, the demeanor of the whole person seemed to be undergoing earth-shaking changes.
All of a sudden, countless rays of light descended out of thin air, heading straight towards Mencius.
Mencius' eyes slowly became brighter.
"I understand. It turns out that I was wrong before. It turns out that I was wrong. The way of heaven should be 'the people are more important than the community, and the king is the least important!'" Mencius said solemnly.
As soon as Mencius finished speaking, the whole body of Mencius burst into dazzling colors in an instant.
At the same time, in the sea of rules, in a remote place, the branch of the mulberry tree where Mencius was located surged up in an instant.
"Boom!" Mencius' thoughts were expanding rapidly. Branches and forks are also undergoing drastic thickening.
"Ah? What? Isn't Mencius caught?"
"Mencius' realm has broken through? And,...!"
"What happened? Mencius broke through?"
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In the sea of rules, there was a sound of astonishment.
In the outside world, Jiang Tai also opened his mouth to look at Mencius.
Mencius was shrouded in the sun, obviously, the change of thought led to the rapid advancement of the realm.
Jiang Tai looked at Mencius in astonishment.
I just want to reverse Mencius' thinking. I just want him to accept Buddhist ideas, but he has broken through the realm
"Boom!"
Sunshine is soaring into the sky, Mencius's breakthrough this time is not trivial, as if there is more than one realm.
"The people are more important than the state, and the king is the least!" Mencius' voice resounded through the world.
Not far away, thousands of imprisoned Confucian disciples looked blankly at Mencius who was not far away.
Everyone was full of excitement. After all, Meng Sheng made a breakthrough. This is very good news for Confucianism, but what did Mencius just say
The people are more important than the king? How can it be? Did I hear wrong
"Boom!"
There was a soft sound from Mencius' body. Obviously, a force broke through his own seal.
Jiang Tai's face darkened, and Mengmeng was also facing a formidable enemy. Not far away, King Chi also changed his face.
The surrounding glow slowly dissipated, and the aura around Mencius also gradually subsided. He took a long breath, as if returning to ordinary life again.
Mencius turned his head and looked at Jiang Tai.
Jiang Tai stared at Mencius, but was slightly on guard.
But Mencius suddenly made a big gift to Jiang Tai.
"Thank you, Mr. Jiang, for your enlightenment, otherwise, I might embark on a path against my will!" Mencius laughed.