Humane Yongchang

Chapter 270 The Shackles of Ego (Silver League Plus 820)

The wheelchair rolls on the rising sun.

When the people of Chen County came and went, seeing Chen Sheng pushing the wheelchair, the first reaction of all men, women, old and weak, was to come over and greet him with excitement.

When he came back to his senses, he was so nervous that he groped around his body, as if he wanted to find something to present to him... I don't need any treasures, but even if there is a chicken or a piece of steamed cake, it is not a rare encounter. Go to Chen Sheng once.

It was not until Chen Sheng smiled at them and shook his head slightly, they finally gave up groping around on their bodies, and took the initiative to retreat to both sides of the street to make way for him, pinching their palms and bowing at his figure.

Even when salute, there are still many people, so excited that they don't even know how to place their hands and feet...

There is no idealized concept of equality between officials and the people in Dazhou.

The legal principle that "the prince breaks the law, the common people commit the same crime" advocated by the Legalists is higher than the concept of the powerful, and it is still just a fart.
"No punishment to the doctor, no etiquette to the common man" is a broad concept that is recognized by all classes in Da Zhou.

"You can't punish the doctor" is easy to understand.

But the etiquette in "No Courtesy to the Common People" does not just refer to etiquette.

The meaning of this sentence is not the literal meaning of "the rich and powerful do not need to bow to the common people".

But all the etiquettes and specifications recorded and stipulated in the "Zhou Li" are not implemented on the common people!
The concept that extends from this concept is that the common people are not human at all... but livestock, slaves, and property!
The rich do not treat the people as human beings.

The people never consider themselves to be in the same category as the powerful.

In the past, let alone the head of a county, even if it was just an official of the county, the people had to retreat to both sides of the road, bowed their heads, and couldn’t look directly at the officials!

And the place where the officials have fallen into the teaching, the common people must not be in the same room with them!
If the people dare to disobey, the light ones will be whipped and punished, and the heavy ones will be exiled with tattoos!

In maintaining the uniqueness and detachment of their own class, the powerful and powerful people in Dazhou are surprisingly united and law-abiding...

Until Chen Sheng came to power, he told the people under his rule with practical actions: You are all human beings, like me, I am not more noble than you, and you are not lower than me.

It is not easy to change this notion that has lasted for thousands of years and has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

Even if this concept is changed, it is obviously beneficial to these people, they will still be suspicious, and still instinctively and stubbornly abide by the old rules.

This is not absurd, nor is it difficult to understand: in an environment where offending and disobeying the powerful can be justifiable and punishable, following the rules set by Chen Sheng will not benefit them, and following the old rules will definitely not go wrong. , it must be safe too!

dignity?

In Chen Sheng's eyes, that thing might be more important than life!
But in the eyes of these people at the bottom who have long accepted and are used to their status as cattle and horses, that stuff is not as affordable as a steamed cake!
Fortunately, Chen Sheng has enough patience.

Fortunately, Chen Sheng and Li Zhong are a capable subordinate...

After round after round of activities and publicity.

Today, the people of Chen County still instinctively follow the old rules.

But they can already be sure that Chen Sheng is really different from those aristocratic families who used them as bulls and horses...
Chen Sheng really treats them as human beings, and has really been giving them the chance to be human!
Language and words can be deceiving.

But the real thing cannot be deceived.

The food delivered to them is the best proof!

Up to now...

Although Chen Sheng's frame passed, the people along the road would still take the initiative to make way for him.

But they have dared to express their admiration and love for him in front of Chen Sheng.

This is already a qualitative leap!
……

"Master County Governor, eat eggs!"

A little girl with sparse yellow hair that was randomly tied into a horn braid suddenly ran from the street to Chen Sheng, tiptoed and handed a boiled egg to Chen Sheng, her big clean eyes that flickered and flickered, full of hope. color.

Chen Sheng was startled, turned his head to look in the direction where the little guy came out, and saw a young couple standing in their Chaimen, looking at this side with fear and excitement.

Obviously, the young couple had a lot of good things to say about Chen Sheng to this little guy on weekdays.

More obviously, the young couple couldn't keep an eye on this lively little guy just now.

At this moment, Chen Sheng looked at the little guy with a big nose in front of him, and felt a little emotional.

He saw something called hope in this little guy.

Only after experiencing the long dark night without shouting will one understand the value of the rising sun.

He bent down and took the boiled egg from the boy's hand with a smile. After peeling off the egg shell, he divided the white egg into two, and stuffed half of it into the boy's mouth. The other half is fed into the mouth with the shell.

"It's so fragrant!"

He chewed and said with a smile.

The little guy ate the sweet eggs, and also bent his big eyes into crescents, and said vaguely, "We still have it!"

Chen Sheng rubbed his messy hair indiscriminately, and said with a smile: "Then the elder brother of the governor will come to eat next time, okay?"

The little guy nodded vigorously: "Okay!"

Chen Sheng will turn around and gently push forward: "Go home quickly, your parents are still waiting for you to eat!"

"Brother the governor, go slowly!"

Xiao Budian leaned over and waved to Chen Sheng, then let go of his two short legs and ran back to Chaimen, and threw himself into his parents' arms.

The young couple put their arms around their youngest son and looked at Chen Sheng with excitement and trembling.

Chen Sheng bowed his hands with a smile: "Thank you for your hospitality."

After speaking, he nodded again, then pushed the wheelchair in front of him and continued to walk forward.

The people who were looking at this scene from a distance looked at him with even more fiery eyes.

If the eyes really have temperature.

Chen Sheng has already burned only a puff of ashes...

In the rear, among the large group of officers in plain clothes in the county of Chen who were adorning Chen Sheng, Li Zhong grabbed one of his subordinates, clicked on the rudimentary firewood door, and whispered, "Be subtle..."

The political cadre nodded in understanding, then took a deep look at the humble firewood door, turned around and left the team quickly.

……

Chen Sheng pushed his wheelchair, walked slowly, and whispered softly: "Before the drought broke out last year, my Chen family had a noodle stall here, you should have eaten pasta after you came to Chen County? At that time, the business of this noodle stall was quite decent. Even I had queued here... It's a pity that the food in the county is still very tight, and it is barely enough to feed the hundreds of thousands of people in this county. There is no food circulation, and most of the commerce in the county has been abandoned, silver is no longer valuable, and the chickens, ducks, and woven cloth that the common people raise are all exchanged for food, and they are neither bought nor sold.”

Sitting on the wheelchair was a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face who was blindfolded with a black cloth, and his two trousers and calves were hanging empty under the wheelchair.

He was pushed all the way by Chen Sheng, and he never said a word.

It was only then that he said softly, "I really want to see this place with my own eyes..."

Chen Sheng couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Aren't you stammering when you speak?"

The middle-aged man with the face of the Chinese character: "Originally, I stuttered. After I became blind, I stopped stuttering. Maybe I can't see anymore, so I don't have to think about so many things anymore. I just need to figure out how to speak."

Chen Sheng walked forward slowly: "So, this is still a good thing?"

The middle-aged man with the national character face: "Naturally, it's a good thing. Anyway, when I saw it, I never saw the world clearly, but I couldn't see it, and I saw the world clearly."

Chen Sheng pondered for a few breaths, and said softly with approval: "That is indeed a good thing."

The middle-aged man with the face of the Chinese character was also silent for a moment, and then suddenly said: "Tell me, what do you want me to do, as long as I can do it, I will ask for anything!"

Chen Sheng thoughtfully pushed him forward.

The middle-aged man with the national character face: "Why don't you answer?"

Chen Sheng said truthfully: "I originally wanted to ask, why don't you hate me if I took your half of your life, but after thinking about it, I feel that you really have no reason to hate me."

The middle-aged man with the national character face asked suspiciously, "Why?"

Chen Sheng said indifferently: "Apart from me Chen Sheng, besides me Chen Jun, who else and where can I help you realize your ambition?"

The middle-aged man with a face with a Chinese character made a light "ha" and confronted him unconvincedly: "So what? You stabbed my eyes and cut off my legs, why don't I hate you? ?"

Chen Sheng also made a "ha" and mocked: "You have eyes but you don't know people, what's the use of your eyes? You have legs but you are standing in the wrong position, what's the use of having legs? You will end up in such a situation, all of them are You take the blame for yourself, why do you hate me?"

The middle-aged man with a Chinese character face who just raised his head, suddenly slumped like a defeated cock for a long time, and was pushed by Chen Sheng for a long time before he said weakly, "You are right!"

Chen Sheng ignored his sluggishness and said in a low voice, "What I want you to do is very simple, just do what your legal family should do!"

The middle-aged man with Chinese characters turned his head and pointed a black cloth-covered face at Chen Sheng, as if he wanted to distinguish Chen Sheng's face through the empty eye sockets.

As the pillar of the current Legalists, he knows better than anyone the attitude of those in power towards Legalists!

To worship the law means to cut power!

No one in power would like to have the power in his hands not to be weakened!

If he likes it, he can't become a ruler!
"Why?"

He asked in a deep voice, and there was no sluggishness in his voice.

Chen Sheng said calmly: "I remember your Legalist famously saying: 'The prince breaks the law, and the common people do the same'."

The middle-aged man with the national character face instantly grasped the meaning of his words and asked excitedly, "Do you agree?"

If other people in power said this, he would just laugh it off.

But Chen Sheng said so, and he was willing to believe it.

Because Chen Sheng is indeed doing this...

Chen Sheng said lightly: "If I don't agree, I won't let you die."

The middle-aged man with the national character face became more and more excited immediately. He directly ignored the fate of his life, pulled the wheelchair and struggled to straighten up, and asked, "All?"

Chen Sheng pressed him back into the wheelchair, motioned him to stop, and then replied casually, "For the time being, there are reservations."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man with the face of the national character was stunned for several breaths, then sneered, turned around and sat upright, and said with a loud laugh, "I didn't expect that the 'Ran Chen Thief', who is famous in Kyushu, is also a person who made a name for himself. !"

"You don't need to provoke me!"

Chen Sheng said calmly and slowly, "How did I get started, and what's going on with my Chen family, I think you already know something about it these days."

"I ask myself to be a decent person, and I am willing to do my best to make the people under my rule live a more decent life."

"But that doesn't mean that I can be absolutely selfless and even kill my relatives righteously."

"I can not do it!"

"I don't want to do it either!"

"It's even more impossible to let others force me to do it..."

"So, I'll definitely have reservations until I'm sure the people I care about won't bump into me and send them to the butcher's knife."

"Otherwise, once something goes wrong..."

"Whether it's me covering up the people I value, the laws we've made become nothing."

"It's still me being coerced by my own laws to point the butcher's knife at people I don't want to."

"It goes against my original intention of doing this!"

He didn't have any cover, he broke it apart and smashed it to express his concerns clearly.

His unscrupulousness caused the middle-aged man with the face of the Chinese character to sneer, and sneered: "You are a 'gentleman'."

Chen Sheng ignored his yin and yang anger, and said again: "It is precisely because this matter is not easy to do that I will let you do it!"

"If I just need an executive to oversee the enforcement of the law, why should I need you to do this?"

"I have brothers Paoze who will not disobey any of my orders. Give them a knife. They will never do worse than your own supervision!"

The middle-aged man with the national character face sneered again, as if to laugh at him for not knowing the breadth and depth of legalism, but he did not speak again.

Obviously, deep in his heart, he also vaguely agreed with Chen Sheng's statement.

If only a group of people is needed to supervise the execution, those soldiers in the red shirt who only obey Chen Sheng's orders are indeed more suitable than him.

"I also understand the essence of your legalism."

Chen Sheng continued: "It's not perfect, it doesn't match the truth, let's not talk about it for the time being."

"The biggest problem with your legal family is that your essence is only stored on bamboo slips and within the legal family. You don't supervise temples, and you don't supervise the countryside. It's just the entertainment of a small group of people in your legal family. Have fun!"

The middle-aged man with the national character face heard the words, and immediately opened his mouth to refute, but don't interrupt Chen Sheng first: "Don't refute, this is the truth, otherwise I will ask you, you promote the supreme concept of Legalism, that the prince breaks the law, the common people Same crime', do the commoners understand why the high-ranking prince breaks the law and should be punished by the law like their insignificant commoners?"

The middle-aged man with the Chinese character face opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't utter a single word. People in their forties, like a child who made a mistake, lowered their heads with red-faced ears.

He didn't want to admit it.

But what Chen Sheng said is true.

"This is where the problem lies!"

Seeing that he had accepted his point of view, Chen Sheng continued: "If you want everyone to abide by the law, you must first let everyone understand the law!"

"If you randomly come up with a bunch of laws and regulations, and the people below have never even heard of them, you will break the law and have to be beheaded..."

"Are you saying they were wronged?"

"Are you saying that other people are willing to accept it?"

"Do you think such a law is necessary?"

"That's why I can't give you absolute power to enforce the law in the first place."

"I believe that the people I value are also good people like me. Even if there are evil people among them, if he values ​​me as much as I value him, then he will obey the laws I implement. If he doesn't pay attention to me, then the law I'm promoting doesn't need to let him go."

"I'm just afraid. They don't even know what their actions are against the law, and they hit the butcher's knife of the law... He was wronged, and I can't do anything about it."

"So, what you have to do is to first formulate a strict law that is in line with reality, and then popularize the law you made for all the people under my rule."

"Don't worry, I will let your senior brother assign you a group of capable swordsmen and writers. You just need to move your mouth and grasp the general direction."

"As for how to supervise enforcement, that's after the law is popularized."

"Well, I can first give you the death penalty and all the law enforcement powers other than the criminal law that can cause disability, including but not limited to the law enforcement powers such as dismissal of official positions, confiscation of family property, execution of corvée... In your hands, you can leave him as a whole person for me, and I can toss with you for the rest!"

"Of course, this privilege is only temporary, based on the premise that I don't think they don't understand the law. When I feel that the time has come and that they have been able to abide by the laws we have implemented, I will take back this privilege. "

"At that time, treat them equally!"

Hearing the last four loud words, the middle-aged man with the national character turned his head again, raised a big face covered with a black cloth, and faced him directly: "What about you? Do you also treat me equally?"

Chen Sheng said without hesitation: "Official affairs are another discussion, and private morals are treated equally!"

The middle-aged man with the face of the Chinese character was hesitant to say something, and then he stopped talking, and finally he couldn't hold back and asked, "What do you want?"

Chen Sheng pushed him, walked into the bright sunshine, and said softly, "Have you ever heard the story of 'The dragon slayer becomes a dragon'?"

　PS1: Drop, three-story building evolves, four-story building!
　　PS2: The way of thinking a few days ago was a little messy, and I always felt that I couldn’t grasp the key points, so that the plot might disappoint the gentlemen, not so exciting, Fengyun asked the gentlemen to give Fengyun a little time, I have caught the context Now, I'm already trying my best to adjust, and it will get better soon...

　　PS3: There are only twelve chapters left in the silver-colored Mengjia update of the Nuanyang boss.

　　
　
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