Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 476 Under Heaven ([-])

Having said that, Wang Xiaolie raised his head and looked at the sky.

The sun was covered by clouds, leaving only a vague shadow.The clouds are layered upon layer, like waves, like the sea hanging over their heads.

Still no wind, still hot and unbearable.The cicadas on the tree suddenly seemed to have strength, and screamed heart-piercingly.

"What is heaven and what is Tao? Actually, we don't understand it clearly. Xunzi said that the way of heaven is permanent. It does not exist for Yao and does not perish for Jie. If it is governed by it, it will be good, and if it is disordered, it will be evil. That is to say , The matter of heaven probably has little to do with human affairs. To say that he is the son of heaven is actually to say that the king of Zhou treats heaven with courtesy. It is hard to say whether heaven recognizes this son in the world. When there is turmoil and the people are in disorder, there should always be something to express. Some people ask God for divination, some people burn incense and pray. Others say that natural disasters are warnings, and auspiciousness is God's approval. All kinds of methods .Today, it seems that they are unreliable.”

Speaking of this, the corners of Wang Xiaolie's mouth curled up slightly.When the Jin army besieged the Kaifeng mansion, the rulers and ministers of the Song Dynasty didn't know what to think. They found Guo Jing and said that there were some Liujia soldiers, and staged a farce in front of the army.

"In addition to these, there is another way. The Thai oath said, the sky sees the people, and the sky listens to the people. For this sentence, since ancient times, there is still a lot of lack of understanding. Instead of asking God for divination, it is better to believe what the Thai oath said What the sky sees is what the people see. What the sky hears is what the people hear. It may be more appropriate for the people to see and hear the way of heaven."

Hearing this, the people below couldn't bear it and couldn't help whispering.This sentence comes from "Shangshu" and "Mencius" quoted it.Everyone is familiar with the classics, so they naturally know it.But how to understand, I have never heard what Wang Xiaolie said.

Wang Xiaolie said: "The key here is that the people see and listen to the people, which people? In other words, among the people in the world, which ones are the people and which ones are not? There are thousands of people in the world, who are they watching? Who's listening?"

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolie sighed: "If this question is not clear, this sentence is equivalent to saying nothing. He said that Minshi is black, and another person said it is white. So is Minshi black or white? He It is said that Minting is rain, and another person says it is wind, so is Minting wind or rain? It is not so easy to understand this question."

"To solve this problem, we must clarify the relationship between the individual and the whole. To clarify this problem, it is not enough to just clarify the relationship between the individual and the whole. We need to be clear about what the people see and the people listen to, and how to know The people watch and the people listen."

"We live in this world. First of all, we are alone. We have our emotions, our hopes, and our dislikes. Besides, we have parents, brothers and sisters. When we are adults , will also form a new family with a woman. Parents, husband and wife, plus children, make a small family. Add brothers and sisters, plus grandfather, grandmother, and other relatives, make a big family. Many big Families are combined to form a clan. Clans are combined to form a nation. Nationalities are combined to form a country. Many countries form the world. The world plus the land outside the square is the world. This world is one A ring is a ring, there are both individuals and different wholes."

"The key is, in addition to the wishes of individuals, do these groups also have their own wishes? The so-called people's viewing and listening to the people, in addition to the viewing and listening of individual people, do they also need to add the viewing and hearing of these groups? How to distinguish it from Tingting? And how to sum it up to become MinTV and Minting? There is so much chaos, how do we know what we need to know?"

Having said this, Wang Xiaolie stopped.After recollecting what I said just now, I feel as if I didn't say anything, a little nonsense.This problem may start with nonsense, and slowly sort out your thoughts.

"I think that in order to truly understand FTV and FTV, you have to figure out the relationship between the individual and the whole. This issue is a big political issue. Once there is ambiguity, people will take advantage of the big loopholes."

Having said this, Wang Xiaolie suddenly stopped.Looking at the crowd, I feel a little speechless.

How easy is it to figure this out?Throughout the ages, how many things have been so confused.When you talk about it, it’s extravagant, but when you do it, it’s a mess.How many systems seem perfect, but are full of loopholes in use.

After a while, Wang Xiaolie said: "Everyone, write this question down and think about what you want to do. In a word, the political thinking of our Han people is that there is heaven, and the people are governed by the way of heaven. What is the way of heaven? It can be said. That's more."

"Businessmen do divination, and finally lost the world. Zhou people ruled the country with Zhou rituals, and finally the rituals collapsed. The first emperor burned books and buried Confucianism, ordered the world to use officials as teachers, and state affairs were all based on his own ideas. These lessons tell us that it is useless if you just borrow the name of the way of heaven and let your tongue bloom like a lotus flower. The way of heaven must really use the way of heaven to govern the country.”

"When Sima Junshi was the prime minister, he once said that the prime minister uses Dao to guide others, and he uses the rules? If he uses the rules, he will be a subordinate! Now it seems that Sima Junshi may be right, but he really doesn't know what Dao is. If you want to be an official, you must know the way of heaven. When doing things, you really don’t need to use examples, and you don’t have to be like a public official. However, you must know the examples, and you must clearly understand why the examples are like this. When you enter school, you must learn both theory and knowledge. Some examples. Learning examples is not so that you can copy them when you become an official in the future, but to understand why."

"The things I'm talking about today are big and general, and they can't be taught in schools. What I said earlier is the understanding of the way of heaven. We believe that the way of heaven is not about asking God for divination, not looking at natural disasters and auspiciousness, let alone guessing. It's about seeing the people. Seeing, listening to, and knowing what the people want. It is not enough to just do what the people think, but to do it correctly. This is not easy, so we have to choose excellent talents to be officials. "

"It is a process from asking gods and divination, to talking about the ritual system, to the first emperor's world being determined by one person, to the monarch and his ministers assisting each other, to the current dynasty and the scholar-officials to rule the world together. The problem to be solved in the future is how to clearly know what the people of the world see and hear, and how to know their wishes. Regarding the way of heaven, from looking up to the sky, to looking for traces of natural disasters and auspiciousness everywhere, and then to asking the people, I think it is a Progress. This progress can solve many of the problems we are facing now.”

Having said that, Wang Xiaolie shook his head.Some helplessly said: "But to be honest, no matter what solution we find, as long as the rulers and officials give up their ideals, the solution will be useless. Under the law of heaven, officials must have ideals. There are no ideals, only Thinking about the human fireworks in the mortal world is not acceptable. If you want to change the system because you have no ideals, it will be even more unacceptable.”

"When a person is an individual, he has his own emotions, and he can live his life according to his own ideas. But officials are different. They cannot act according to their own emotions, but must act according to the rules. In other words, as officials, I don't think what to do, only what to do as an official. I don't think so, but what should I think as an official in this position. Officials must consider the overall thing, and the individual cannot be ignored. This one Things are by no means as easy as you thought before."

"In this world, we are like actors, playing each role. Some are farmers, some are businessmen, some are husbands, some are doctors, and some are workers. The role of officials has high requirements for actors. It's the hardest thing to do."

(End of this chapter)