In the first year of the establishment of the Wu Dynasty, on September 17, in Gyeongju, northwest of China, a vote that seemed unimaginable and whimsical at the time took place in the city of Gyeongju. Regarding the condition that Ning Yi had previously proposed, he regarded it as his method of checking and balancing, but he did not reject it in the end. In such a world, who can say what the situation will be after three years, no matter who gets this place, there are a lot of ways to go back or cheat after three years.
The army that returned to the mountains took away more than a thousand newly recruited soldiers, and they only left a team of two hundred in Yanzhou to supervise the interests of Xiaocanghe in the northwest from being harmed. During the period of peace and quiet, various materials rhymed by the members of the Ba Dao Camp in the south began to pass through the northwest one after another and entered the mountains of Xiaocang River. fill up.
At the same time, the Xiaocanghe side also started trade with the Xixia side. The reason why it went so fast was because the first person who came to Xiaocanghe and expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Black Flag Army was an unexpected force: it was the envoy of the Hebei Tiger King Tianhu. Expressed his willingness to cooperate in the hinterland of Wu Dynasty and cooperate in the sale of green salt of Xixia.
The rule of the Wu Dynasty north of the Yellow River and south of Yanmen Pass was no longer solid at this time. The one who took over the important task of running in this area was the well-known boss Zong Ze, who persuaded some leaders of the forces by running. Fight for the Wu Dynasty. However, the righteousness has been suppressed, and the verbal war is war. For things such as selling contraband goods and making money, it is no longer a taboo for these rising rash forces.
Tian Hu's response was so fast, who is behind the planning and hosting, you don't have to think about it to know the answer. Lou Shuwan's movements were very fast, and the Black Flag Army defeated the Xixia people. She immediately drew up a large number of items that the two parties could trade, and handed the list to Ning Yi, until Ning Yi made a positive reply. The food and supplies over there are already on the way.
There is a reason why Lou Shuwan reacted so quickly. Although she was heavily used in Tian Hu's army, after all, as a woman, she couldn't make mistakes. After Wu Ruiying rebelled against the monarch, Qingmu Village became the target of public criticism. Tian Hujun, who had had business dealings with him, cut off contact with him. Lou Shuwan came to the northwest this time. First of all, she wanted to connect with the King of Xixia, and by the way, she had to be ruthless. Yi gave a hand, but the King of Xixia could not count on it, and Ning Yi made it clear that he had become a snake in the northwest. If she goes back in dismay, things will probably become quite embarrassing.
And when Ning Yi occupied the northwest, he couldn't hold back his connection with the surrounding areas. Rather than being taken advantage of by others. She could only make the "best" choice at the time, that is, to show affection to Xiao Canghe first, at least in the future business, she would have a better chance than others.
Such a quick and "correct" decision, in her heart, what does it feel like. Hard to know. And when she received the news that the Huaxia Army gave up Qing and Yan, what kind of emotion was in her heart, and whether it would be a poop on her face, maybe no one would know for a while.
And in this October, the green salt shipped from Xixia and a large number of materials from Tiger King will be traded for the first time with the participation of the Huaxia Army. In a sense, it is a good start. .
After the Black Flag Army left, Li Pin went to Dong Zhiyuan to see the stone tablet that had been built. After being silent for a long time, he burst into laughter. In the midst of the sky's decay, the laughter sounded like crying.
"I understand, haha, I understand. Ning Liheng is so cruel..."
Tie Tianying next to him looked at him suspiciously. Li Pin laughed for a while, and then gradually became quiet. He pointed to the stone tablet and clicked a few times.
"He's... feeding Gu, he has no mercy at all! There were originally many people, but he could save them..."
"Master Li." Tie Tianying hesitated, "Don't think about these things any more..."
"He..." Li Pin pointed to the monument, "The food in the northwest is not enough. He used to divide the people according to the head, so he could save a lot of people from dying. He returned Qingzhou and Yanzhou to the seedlings, and the seedlings had to be picked up. , However, this winter, the number of people dying of starvation will multiply! Ning Yi, he let the Chong family take the blame, and the power of the Chong family has been lost. He will always be reminded of his Huaxia Army. At that time, those who suffered a lot would willingly join his army."
Tie Tianying hesitated for a moment: "He doesn't even want these two places. He should have a good reputation. Also, will he consider not having enough soldiers..."
"Should?" Li Pin laughed, "But do you know, he originally had a way, even if he occupies Qingzhou and Yanzhou, his business with Xixia and Tianhu has already started! The things shipped from the south have also arrived. For at least half a year and a year, no one in the northwest really dared to provoke him. He can keep many people alive, but it’s not enough. He occupies two cities, and he has food, so he really can’t recruit troops? He just wants to make these people understand clearly, not to be confused!"
"Tie Zaitou, did you know?" Li Pin paused, "In his world, there are no neutrals. Everyone has to find a place to stand, even these ordinary people who don't do anything on weekdays, You must know exactly where you stand! Do you know what this kind of world looks like? He is letting go on purpose and forcing people to die! Let them understand."
Li Pin's words echoed on the wasteland, and Tie Tianying thought for a while: "However, if the world is overturned, who can be alone. Master Li, Shu Tie said bluntly, if his world is not good, your world is. What is it? What does it look like?"
Li Pin fell silent and stood there in a daze. After a long time, his eyes moved slightly. Raised his head: "Yeah, what is my world like..."
He closed his eyes: "Ning Yi has something to say. What he said is right. Confucianism should change... I should go. Tie Caitou..." He tilted his head. Looking at Tie Tianying, "But... no matter what, I always feel that there should be a way for ordinary people to live in this world..." At the end of this sentence, it was as thin as a mosquito and a fly, so sad that it couldn't help itself, like a moan, like a pray…
Ning Yi returned to Xiaocang River at the end of October, when the temperature had dropped suddenly. Zuo Duanyou, who often debated with him, was also rarely silent about Ning Yi's various behaviors in the northwest. The old man couldn't understand the decision he made, especially those two votes that were like farce. Ordinary people saw a person's madness, but the old man could see more things.
At the beginning of November, the temperature suddenly began to drop, and the chaos in the outside world had already begun to show some clues. People only regarded these things as the left and right clumsiness of the farmers who suddenly took over the two places, and they were in the valley. Some people also began to come here, hoping to join the Huaxia Army. Zuo Duanyou occasionally came to discuss a few words with Ning Yi. In some of Ning Yi's lectures to young officers, the old man could actually understand some of the other party's intentions.
"...I have won once or twice. The most fearful thing is that I feel like I have the rest of my life and I start to enjoy it. Thousands of people are placed in the two cities of Gyeongju and Yanzhou, and soon you may have problems, and the thousands of people will have problems. No matter how powerful the team is, there will inevitably be people who will make up their minds. Suppose we stay in Yanzhou, as long as people with bad intentions are ready to defeat 3,000 people, they may take the risk and return to Xiaocanghe, leaving 200 people outside. They dare not do anything."
"... Moreover, Qing and Yanzhou are in a state of waste. To sort them out, we have to spend a lot of time and resources to plant the seeds, and we can start pointing to the harvest after a year or two. We can't wait. And now, all the things you earn are in your pocket... You have to appease the emotions of everyone in the army, and don't worry about the gains and losses of one place and two places. After the publicity of Gyeongju and Yanzhou, soon, more and more Many people will come to defect to us, at that time, there is no place to want... "
However, on the old man's side, it was not these superficial things that really bothered him.
At the end of November, after a long time of running and thinking, Zuo Duanyou fell ill, and the children of the Zuo family came here one after another to persuade the old man to go back. On this day in December, the old man sat in the carriage and slowly left the snow-covered Xiaocang River. Ning Yi and others came to see him off. The old man drove away the people around him and spoke to Ning Yi.
"I understand some things here." The old man said slowly with a hoarse voice, "The method of training soldiers is very good. I understand it, but it is useless."
"Well..." Ning Yi frowned.
"They... take their lives, they are people who really fight for themselves. The part they wake up is heroes. If there are heroes, how can there be a place for cowards to stand? I can't use this method... "
Ning Yi nodded slightly.
"There are so many things I can't figure out..."
"Don't think about it, go back and take your grandson."
"Haha..." The old man smiled and waved his hand, "I really want to know, do you have any clues in your heart? They are heroes, but they don't really understand the truth. I have said it many times, you use this It's okay to fight for the sake of the country, but it's not good for these people to know what they know. Do you understand... And the other day, you mentioned it by accident, you have to use the three words 'reasonableness and law'. Ning Yi, you really feel this way. want?"
The goose feather-like snow fell, Ning Yi raised his head, and was silent for a moment: "I have thought about it, the core of governing the country is also thought about."
The old man closed his eyes and said, "Be reasonable, you are really not allowed in this world..."
"Well, old man, but I can be sure that the word 'reason' will come first in this future." Ning Yi sat down on the carriage and pulled the thick curtains as far as possible, "You really want to know, I only said it once, and I won't tell anyone else."
"you say… "
"The core of the problem actually lies in the people you mentioned, old man. I have awakened their blood. They meet the requirements of war, but they do not meet the requirements of running a country. That's right. So what kind of people meet the requirements of running a country? , Confucianism talks about the gentleman. In my opinion, the standards that constitute a person are called the three views, the outlook on life, the world view, and the values. These three are very simple things, but the most complicated rules are between these three. time."
The old man listened to him and held the quilt. Lean in the car. His body was not in good condition, and his brain could not keep up with what Ning Yi said, so he could only listen, and Ning Yi spoke slowly.
"The so-called outlook on life is to determine what kind of person this person will go to in his life, and it is good, just like a Confucian family, who set his mind for the heaven and the earth. Kai Taiping, it is good to do this. And the so-called world view: the world is isolated from the outside, the world view is in each of us, what do we think the world is like, and how do we understand the laws of the world in our hearts Yes. The outlook on life and the outlook on the world are combined to form values. For example, I think the world is like this, and I want to set my mind for the world, then. I want to do something, these things are valuable to my life pursuit, others There is no value in doing that. This positive and negative determination is called values.”
"And people are in this world. The biggest problem is that the outlook on life and the world outlook, many times it seems, are contradictory and contradictory."
"You and I have been watching this world all my life. In order to understand its laws, we only know what we can do to make the world better. But many people stop at the first step. I came down, like those scholars. After they became adults, they were accustomed to the darkness of officialdom, and then they said, "This is the way the world is, and I want to go along with it. Such people have a wrong outlook on life. Some people have naive ideas." , until death does not believe that the world is like this, his world view is wrong. The world view of life is wrong, and the values must be wrong. Either this person does not want to make the world better, or he wants the world to be better, but he is ignorant. All the choices these people make are meaningless."
"For example, the people in Gyeongju and Yanzhou, I said to give them a choice, but it's not a choice. They don't understand anything. If one of the two things is foolish and bad, all their choices are meaningless. I lied. When it is hard to ask for it, I believe that giving everyone a choice can make the world a better place, which is impossible. The first hurdle for a person to truly become a human is to break through the confusion of the outlook on life and the world. The world outlook must be objective and the outlook on life must be On the positive side, we need to know how the world works, and at the same time, we also need to have the idea of making it better, and this kind of people's choice can make a difference."
"And the world is extremely complicated. There are too many things that make people confused and can't understand it. It's like doing business and running a country. Whoever doesn't want to make money, whoever doesn't want to make the country good, if they do something wrong, will definitely go bankrupt. Cold and ruthless, whoever is reasonable wins."
Ning Yi paused: "It is very important for Confucianism to take the order of reason, reason and law as the core, because this world developed from the state of few countries and small people, the country is big, all kinds of small places, valleys and valleys. , Governing with the word love is more beneficial than reason and law. However, at the national level, with the development of the past thousand years, what the court has always needed is the word of reason. It is not to avoid relatives when it is raised internally, and it is not to avoid suspicion when it is raised externally. What, this is li, the word li is the way of heaven and earth. Confucianism says that monarch, minister, minister, father, father and son, what does it mean? The emperor should be like the emperor, the ministers should be like the ministers, the father should be like the father, the son should be the son It seems that the emperor did not do a good job, the country must pay the bill, it is not a fluke."
"But these years, human feelings have always been based on reason, and there is a trend of becoming more and more strict. When the emperor talks about human feelings more than reason, the country will be weak, and when the ministers talk about human feelings more than reason, the country will also be weak, but why? There is no internal incident? Because the internal requirements for human relations are becoming more and more stringent, making the internal weaker and weaker, so as to maintain the rule, so it is absolutely impossible to resist external aggression. "
"Gewu will develop, Zuo Gong, you don't have confidence in it, but one day, it will change what you see tenfold and hundreds of times. Gewu is more cold and objective, it can't tolerate a trace of human feelings and taking things for granted, the law is The law. Just imagine that a workshop can increase the manpower tenfold or even a thousand times. The person who studies it will talk about human feelings all day long. Sooner or later, he will be confused by human feelings. The person in charge of this matter talks about human feelings. It won't come up. If something goes up into the sky, as long as there is a single mistake, it will fall down. If the person in charge can't be strict, what will happen?"
"The bigger and more developed the country is, the more urgent the demand for truth. Sooner or later, everyone in this world will be able to study, and they will no longer face the loess and turn their backs to the sky. They want to speak and become a part of the country. What you should understand is the objective truth, because just like Gyeongju and Yanzhou, one day, someone will give them the power to be human, but if they are not objective enough to treat things, they are addicted to village wishes, take it for granted, and all kinds of other things. He's dichotomy, they shouldn't have that kind of power."
"Zuo Gong, you said that scholars may not be able to understand reason, which is quite right. Today's Confucian scholars, who have read the books of sages and sages for a lifetime, can understand the reasoning. I can foresee that in the future, everyone in the world will be able to read books. At times, there will not be too many people who can break through the unity of opposites between their outlook on life and world outlook. They are limited by whether they are smart or not, limited by the way knowledge is passed on, and limited by their usual life influence. The point is already set at birth, but the inheritance of knowledge can be changed, and the influence of life can also be changed.”
"When the world continues to develop and the world keeps progressing, I assert that one day, the biggest dregs of Confucianism that people will face will inevitably be the order of the three words 'emotion, reason and law'. A person who does not understand reason and does not understand reason cannot see clearly. A person who is obsessed with various aspirations according to the objective laws of the world, his choices are meaningless. If the core of a country’s operation is not about reason, but about human feelings, the country will inevitably face a lot of internal friction. Our roots lie in Confucianism. , our biggest problem is also in Confucianism.”
"No matter what kind of people you need, or what kind of country you need. That's right, I want to get rid of reason and law. It's not that I don't care about people's feelings, but that the word must come first." Ning Yi tilted his head, "Old man, you Asking me about these things may be meaningless in a short period of time, but if I say what the future will be, what I see, this is it. I may not be able to do it in my life, maybe laying a foundation, the next seed, what the future will be, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it, or maybe I can't support Jin Rennan."
He smiled: "In the past, when Qin Siyuan and the others chatted with me, they always asked me what I thought of this Confucianism, but I didn't say. I can't see the outcome of things, but since the beginning, I can only do my best... Let's say goodbye. Zuo Gong, the world is going to be in chaos. Nango, if you live to be a hundred years old, maybe we can meet again one day in the future. Whether you want to sit and talk, or have a fight with me, I welcome you."
He raised his hand and patted the old man's hand. Whether his temperament was extreme, or he didn't show a good face to anyone, Ning Yi was not afraid of anyone, but he was in awe of human wisdom and respected those who possessed it. The old man's eyes trembled, his eyes were complicated, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it in the end. Ning Yi jumped out of the car and summoned others to come over.
The specially made carriage started walking along the rugged mountain road. Ning Yi waved his hand over there, knowing that he might never see the old man again. After the convoy left, he raised his head and took a deep breath, turned and walked towards the valley.
In this white world, Xiaocanghe has a strange vigor and vitality. The mountains are far and the mountains are near, and the wind and snow are on the eyebrows.
This year is the second year of Jingping in the Wu Dynasty, the first year of Jianshuo, and soon it will pass. (.)
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