As the saying goes, "A red plum becomes redder if he is near a red plum," the evil woman Ruonan snorted loudly at Zhu Ping'an to express her contempt.
"Ms. Ruonan really has a sincere heart like a child." Li Shu smiled slightly and said softly.
A sincere heart of a child?!
Do you mean I'm childish?!
The demon woman Ruonan understood the implication of Li Shu's words and was immediately dissatisfied. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Madam, what do you mean? Am I wrong? Does that mean Zigong is wrong for doing good deeds? How could Zigong be wrong? Zigong used his own money to do good deeds and did not ask for reimbursement from the treasury. Isn't he a moral role model? If this person's words and actions are all wrong, then there are no good people in the world."
Li Shu smiled slightly, "Men and women should be patient. When Zigong redeemed people, he refused to reimburse the national treasury for the ransom. After Zide took on the ransom for the sake of the country, people around him praised him for his noble morals. Youyang Zigong was a generous person who did not ask for anything in return, and a great man who was kind to the country..."
"Right, this is the reaction of a normal person. Unlike some people who are rich but unkind..." the seductive woman Ruonan immediately responded.
"Soon after Confucius heard about what Zigong had done, he went to Zigong in great excitement..."
Li Mei continued her sermon.
"Oh, it must be Mrs. Kong who is very pleased and excitedly praises Zigong, saying that he will inherit his legacy and bring honor to his master's school."
The demon woman Ruonan spoke to herself.
Li Shu shook her head and said slowly, "Confucius found Zigong and scolded him, saying that his actions were against heaven and earth and brought disaster to countless people in Lu who were in trouble."
"Ah? What?! Confucius scolded Zigong, he must be sick..." Upon hearing this, the charming woman Ruonan opened her mouth in shock. She couldn't help but stand up for Zigong and angrily denounced Confucius for being sick.
Zigong paid for the ransom himself, and asked for nothing in return. He refused the reimbursement from the national treasury and volunteered to share the ransom for the country. No matter how you look at it, he is a very good man, a good man that most people cannot be. Why did Confucius scold Zigong
And the curses were so harsh! So ugly!
Scolding Zigong for doing evil to the heaven and harming countless compatriots from all over the world?!
Confucius is confusing right and wrong, closing his eyes and violating his conscience to throw dirty water on Zigong!
"Did Confucius feel that Zigong stole his limelight and the honor of being a saint?! Was he afraid that Zigong would be more famous than him?! How petty he is. No wonder so many people secretly scolded Confucius for being hypocritical and pedantic behind his back. They really didn't wrong him. From the incident with Zigong, we can see that Confucius really deserved to be scolded. He was sanctimonious, unable to distinguish right from wrong, petty-minded, hypocritical and immoral. He was simply not worthy of being a role model..." The evil woman Ruo Yi Qingji was very excited. The saint Confucius in her mouth became the object of her verbal criticism and was almost turned into a negative example by her and was sent to the rack of shame.
"Miss Ruonan, you have misunderstood Confucius." Li Shu shook her head slowly and said softly to the enchantress Ruonan.
"Did I misunderstand? How could I possibly misunderstand him? Zigong was doing good things with good intentions, but he scolded him. Do you think he deserved to be scolded..." the evil woman Ruonan said indignantly.
Then the demon girl Ruonan thought of something else, looked at Li Shu warily, and asked with a questioning look on her face, "Or is it that the young lady is bullying me because I am not well-educated and deliberately made up a fictitious story to scare me?"
Li Shu looked at the demon Ruonan with a frank face, helpless and speechless, "Why would I lie to you? This story is recorded in the book "Lüshi Chunqiu". If Miss Ruonan doesn't believe it, I will ask Qin'er to go to the study to get "Lüshi Chunqiu" and Miss Ruonan can read it herself."
"No need, I trust the young lady."
The enchantress Ruonan waved her hand. She had not been wandering around the world for so many years in vain. Her ability to read people's expressions was not something that could be achieved by ordinary people. From Li Mei's expression and words, she could tell that Li Mei had not lied to her.
Besides, she didn't want to go through the slapping experience that the child had just had, and she wasn't inclined to like people.
"Shao Tianren said that I misunderstood. How could I have misunderstood the person named Kong? Zigong had good intentions and did good things. Why did he scold him for being evil and bringing disaster to the State of Lu?!" the evil woman Ruonan continued to ask.
"After Confucius scolded Zigong, he taught him with great sorrow, saying that what saints do is to change customs and habits and teach the people, not just for their own behavior. The original laws of Lu State stipulated that what they sought was the "morality" in the hearts of the people. As long as everyone saw their compatriots in trouble and felt compassion and spent money to redeem this person, they would have completed a righteous and good deed. Afterwards, the state would compensate and reward him, so that the person who did good would not suffer any loss, and would also be praised by everyone. In the long run, more and more people would be willing to do good deeds, and everyone would compete to do good deeds."
"You, Zigong, redeemed people without asking for compensation from the country, which certainly won you more praise, but it also raised everyone's "moral" requirements. With your example, those who save their compatriots from disaster and ask for compensation and rewards from the country may not only no longer be praised, but even be ridiculed, despised and spurned by the country. People will ask them, why can't they not accept compensation and rewards like you, Zigong, and reduce the burden on the country?!"
"So, if things go on like this, people will turn a blind eye to the people of Yin State in distress and will no longer be willing to rescue them. Because people are not as rich as you, Zigong. If they redeem people and go to the treasury to get reimbursed, they will be laughed at, scolded and abandoned by the people, so they will just turn a blind eye. So you, Zigong, have harmed countless people of other countries in distress by being unreasonable."
Li Mei stared at the enchantress Ruonan with her ink-black eyes, and spoke slowly and clearly in an organized manner.
"ah?!"
When the demon woman Ruonan heard this, she suddenly understood the key point. Then she couldn't help but open her mouth wide and exclaimed in shock.
I didn't expect things to turn out like this. I didn't expect that something that seemed to be done with good intentions would end up being a bad thing.
"Confucius taught Zigong that all morality that most people cannot achieve is false morality, and all false morality is evil morality. False morality is not only useless to the country and the people, but also harmful to the world, bringing disaster to the country and the people, and causing endless harm."
The voice of Li Shu's summary was as loud as a huge bell, echoing in the mind of the evil woman Ruonan word by word, awakening the eyes.
"Life is achieved through struggle, not charity. Life encourages struggle, not getting something for nothing. If the rich donate their wealth and property to the poor, will anyone be willing to struggle to get rich? Wouldn't it be better for everyone to lie down, be poor and wait for donations?" Li Mei said calmly.
The evil woman Ruonan was speechless for a moment.