After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 424 Interest Words
"Let's talk more about the word 'benefit'." Qin Yu pulled up the fishing rod, and after finding it was an empty hook, Shi Shiran baited the hook, then threw the rod into the river and continued.

"The prosperity of the world is all for profit; the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit."

"The wages of avarice is death."

"It's all about benefits."

"Creatures in the natural world fight to the death for the nest, and male animals fight to the death for the mate. These natural behaviors of them are all for the benefit."

"It can be seen that the pursuit of profit is the nature of living beings, and there is no shame in it."

"The pursuit of profit should not be a derogatory term, it is the way of heaven."

"Man's pursuit of interests is of the same nature as the various natural behaviors of thousands of creatures in nature."

"That's why the Yellow Emperor said in the "Sheng Jing", 'The one who benefits, the Tao also.' All creatures in nature will die because of benefits, and human beings naturally want to pursue benefits. Tao follows nature, so pursuing self-interest is the way of heaven."

"For the people of the world to give up pursuing their own interests without asking for anything in return, then it is against the way of heaven."

"Is there anyone in the world who doesn't ask for anything in return, but only knows how to give?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Of course there is, isn't it Confucianism?" Qin Yu said, "Not only do they make people give without expecting anything in return, they even ask others to pay for their lives, such as "sacrificing one's life for benevolence", giving up one's life for righteousness, and sacrificing oneself for others."

"They ask people to pay for 'ideals', not for lairs, food, clothes..."

"Such behavior is doomed to no one buying it for them."

"For example, in Cao Rui, at the end of Ming Dynasty, during the Eight Kingdoms invasion period, the common people carried ladders for foreigners."

"I hate some people who talk about egoism. Ask yourself, can people really be selfish? Is it selfish if I want to eat when I'm hungry? Is it selfish if I want to wear clothes when it's cold?"

"Since people are hungry and cold, they will find ways to feed themselves, wear warm clothes, and benefit themselves."

"Man is higher than animals, so he also seeks benefits other than food and clothing."

"It's natural to be selfish."

"Burning yourself like a candle to illuminate others?"

"Candles won't be hungry, and won't be afraid of the cold."

"Using inanimate things to compare people with flesh and blood is outrageous in itself."

"Sir, these words are full of Dao rhyme!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed after listening.When he was a monk in the past, he heard other people say some reasonable words, and he would say that what others said contained Zen ideas.

What he said now is that Qin Yu's words are full of Dao rhyme.

"China has a history of 5000 years. Why didn't natural science develop after the Qin Dynasty? Why did the entire land of Kyushu fall into the continuous cycle of feudal dynasties?" Qin Yu continued,

"Break through the thick fog."

"I found that there are only two words of interest in it."

"The feudal aristocracy and the ruling class, in order to safeguard their own interests, chose Confucianism that was in line with their own interests."

"Similarly, for their own benefit, they use the art of controlling the people to suppress the people without a bottom line. Foolish people, weak people, poor people, and humiliating people make the entire Chinese nation lose their creativity."

"Someone asked the Empress Dowager Cixi who is more hateful, America or Tsarist Russia. Cixi didn't even think about it. What Tsarist Russia wants is land, so just give some land. Although the United States was helpful to the Qing Dynasty, he asked the Qing Dynasty to establish a constitution and surround the town of fishermen. The separation of the three powers must be incompatible. It can be seen from this that the feudal ruling class can sell its own land at will for its own interests."

"Everything is for profit."

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded when he heard the words, "All the creatures in the world, including all human behaviors, are almost driven by interests."

"The pursuit of profit is the way of heaven. Birds know how to work hard for a bite to eat, let alone people? Whoever wants to stop people from pursuing interests is going against the sky." Qin Yu said, "And those who go against the sky will eventually lead to fail."

"China's thousands of years of feudal history failed, and its scientific civilization lagged behind others for hundreds of years."

"The key to this is that the minority feudal nobles, in order to consolidate their own interests, do everything possible to prevent the majority of the bottom-level people from pursuing their own interests reasonably."

"Then try every means to oppress the people, oppressing too hard."

"As a result, they have been struggling for food and clothing for a lifetime, and there is no room for invention and creation."

"The ancients in China have relatively high wisdom. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there appeared Laozi, Confucius, Mozi and other 'sages'. And the 'bad guys' with high IQs, the more destructive they do."

"They constantly changed and developed Confucianism, and finally formed a complete set of ideological control system with almost no flaws."

"As a result, this land has been stagnant for more than 1000 years without development."

"In ancient times, some ambitious emperors and people with lofty ideals could not see this because they ignored Taoism. As a result, they had empty ambitions and could not accomplish any great things."

"Interests are the levers that move everything."

"If you can use the lever of 'interest' reasonably, you will find that it is not so difficult to do things. It turns out that it is not difficult to manage the dynasty well."

"Let's say this time."

"Tie the vital interests of the hundred families with whether they can manage the province well, and they will try their best to manage the province well. Even if they have their own shortcomings, they can still give the court a satisfactory answer. .”

"So, the key to governing the dynasty well is ultimately to regulate interests?" Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have realized something.

If you want an official to do things for the people, his personal interests must be firmly tied to the interests of the people.Let the people have the power to decide whether they will stay or not. The people have the most say in whether they are living well or not.

Instead of sending a censor to supervise, the supervisory censor cannot speak for the people.

If you want the Cuju team to play well, you have to link their stay and salary with winning or losing.

If you want to make a large number of friends quickly in a strange place, you just need to spend some money.

"Interests are a master key." Qin Yudao, "It's practical in every aspect of the life of ordinary people in the market, as large as governing a dynasty."

"Taoism has mastered the basic law of the operation of all things in the world-birds die for food, and all things live happily after dying."

"That's why Taoism regards the pursuit of interests for all living beings, including human beings, as the most basic needs of life, and as the way of heaven."

"Confucianism, on the other hand, uses morality to kidnap subjects and make them selflessly pay for the ruling class and be loyal to the emperor without reason. This is undoubtedly contrary to the way of heaven and the essence of all things pursuing their own interests."

"Historical experience has also told us countless times that Confucianism violates the way of heaven and only uses the cage of thought to kidnap people morally, which leads to the backwardness of civilization and the replacement of dynasties every 300 years."

(End of this chapter)