Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 266 The Eternal Perfect Man Wang Yangming ([-])
Pengli (Chaohu Lake)
"Today, I will board the boat with everyone. In the upcoming battlefield, facing the rebels who have lost their conscience and ignored the laws of nature, I want to talk about...conscience!"

On the official warship, Wang Yun stood at the bow, standing with his back to the wind, and said this to the officers and soldiers of the Han army.

A group of officers and soldiers of the Han army looked at Wang Yun, not understanding what was going on. A scholar and county magistrate suddenly ran to the warship and told them these inexplicable things.

"Conscience is the law of heaven, and it is human nature. Without conscience, one is like a beast."

"The reason why man is a man and not an animal is because man has a conscience, but animals do not."

"Conscience is all around us, in every aspect of our daily life, and it is the most basic code of conduct for us as a human being."

"The tenant farmers must be loyal to their landlords, the common people must be loyal to their country, their children must be loyal to their parents, their subordinates must be loyal to their superiors, and barbarians must be loyal to our great China."

"This is conscience!"

"If the tenant farmers divide the land from local tyrants, if the people rebel, if the children do not respect their parents, if the subordinates do not obey their superiors, if the courtiers do not respect the court, if the barbarians do not pay tribute to China, and if the wife refuses to be widowed by her husband, then she has no conscience. !"

"The ruler guides his ministers, his father guides his son, and his husband guides his wife. These are only part of conscience, but they are not the whole of conscience."

"A person must have a conscience before he is alive. If he does not have a conscience, he is no different from being dead."

"Now, in our Yangzhou, there is a group of rebels. They have no conscience, because they actually burned and looted in Yangzhou, and divided the land and wealth of the gentry. This is annihilation of humanity!"

"The common people are restless in farming, but want to subdue the local tyrants to divide the land. The gentry don't want to rule the country, but want to usurp the throne. The wife doesn't want to be a widow for her husband, but wants to find an honest man to remarry. As long as they live well, the barbarians don’t want to pay tribute honestly, but want to take control of the Central Plains. This is the reason for the turmoil in the world, because the conscience of the people in the world is losing.”

As early as the period of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, the Han court established that "the emperor is the guide for the ministers" is the first of the three cardinal guides, and Wang Yun combined Jia Yi's idea of ​​"performing their own duties and the world can be safe" on the basis of "the ruler is the guide for the ministers". Thought, to further strengthen the sanctity of Confucianism.

The common people farm honestly, the gentry govern the country honestly, and the barbarians honestly guard the frontiers for the empire. Don’t reshuffle forces, don’t carry out class mobility, and fix all people and things forever, and the world will be stable. There will be all kinds of intrigues and intrigues, and even chaos in the world.

A group of soldiers were confused and didn't understand very well. They didn't understand the three principles and five constant principles, they didn't understand the monarch and ministers, and they didn't understand the unity of knowledge and action and the extension of conscience. .

They only know that they are doing things for money, and when the imperial court pays them salaries, they will work for the imperial court. It's just such a simple relationship.

Don't talk about such big principles as monarchs, ministers and ministers here, I don't understand, I just come here to make money to support my family, you give me money, I will work for you, it's that simple!
Seeing that the crowd of Qiu Ba could not understand the [Tao] he realized, Wang Yun shook his head and sighed, worrying about the country and the people: "The world is ruined because the way of the saints cannot be carried forward."

This time, the six counties of Yangzhou have joined forces to attack the rebel Zhanghe, and the chiefs of each county can temporarily recruit Xiangyong as officers and soldiers, and take these officers and soldiers to exterminate the rebels.

The prefect of Lujiang County recruited two thousand Xiangyong to fight against Pengli's water bandits, and Wang Yun took his soldier Cao [Selling Melon Sun] on a boat to teach the way.

[Grandson Selling Melon] There is a son named Sun Zhong, who is only eight or nine years old this year, but he looks tough. It seems that he will be an expert in selling melons in the future. Who dares to look at the melons and not buy melons, and specifies that he will not eat good fruits.

Although the uneducated soldiers of Qiu Ba couldn't understand Wang Yun's Tao, Zhou Jing who was on the same boat had endless aftertaste, and finally exclaimed: "When you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening! I didn't expect the county to respect your sage's way. The understanding is so deep, the scholars of the Central Plains will be ashamed!"

"Wow wow wow!"

woohoo-

Just when everyone was still in the fog, many pirate ships appeared in front of them, with a big "chapter" on a big flag on the ship.

"Not good! It's a traitor! Prepare to fight!" The head of Lujiang County shouted at the officers and soldiers of the village.

"Eat his mother, drink his mother, King Zhang doesn't pay for food when he comes! Fathers and folks on the opposite side, you are just cannon fodder temporarily recruited by the court, why don't you abandon your secrets and join King Zhang's army to destroy the court together?" A voice on the thief boat The huge rebel leader yelled at the officers and soldiers.

"Boldly rebelling against the thief, you, as a man of mine, actually rebelled. Your behavior simply doesn't take the three cardinal principles and five permanent principles into consideration. You have no king and no father at all!" The rebels were persuaded, and he in turn yelled at the rebels who had no king and no father.

"What's the difference between a man without a king and a father? You rebels are nothing more than beasts!" Standing at the moral high ground, the princess rebuked the rebellious people justly.

"It's a joke, you can scrape the people's flesh and blood, but we can't rebel? You say I have no king and no father, but I just want to have no king and no father. What can you do to me?" The anti-thief leader laughed. The sage's truth is in the eyes.

"It's really a beast without humanity and no conscience." Hearing the arrogant words of the rebel, Wang Yun couldn't help shaking his head. It's really terrifying to dare to have no king and no father.

"You beast who is disloyal to the king and patriotic, has no king and no father, and doesn't understand the three principles and five constant principles, you will be wiped out today, and you will be used to build a capital with your heads, so that you can be worthy of a saint!" The princess was very angry. The heads of these rebellious common people built the capital, so as to be worthy of his status as a scholar, and this is called benevolence, otherwise it would appear that he is not benevolent enough.

Because our gentry are benevolent, we can do unrighteous things, and because you rebels are unrighteous beasts, you rebels are not allowed to do unrighteous things.

Because I am civilized, I can be uncivilized, because you are uncivilized, so you can't be uncivilized!

"Don't talk to your grandpa about these messy sage principles. Grandpa, I only know that the imperial court's exorbitant taxes made me hungry, so I want to rebel, it's that simple!"

"I don't understand benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith. I only know that if I have nothing to eat, I will starve to death. If I don't want to starve to death, I can only rebel!"

The rebels jeered on the boat across the lake.

The officers and soldiers and the rebels were evenly matched, and no one dared to take the initiative to approach each other to fight, so they were stalemate and scolding each other while preparing for the battle.

(End of this chapter)