The sage said that human beings are originally good by nature! From a moral perspective, there is nothing wrong with this statement when it comes to persuading people to do good. However, reality is not an ideal moral palace. At the beginning of human nature, there is no such thing as good or evil, right or wrong. It should be said that human nature is selfish.
Humans are a species that pursues self-interest. This has nothing to do with morality. This is just human animal instinct. A child who is babbling does not understand what humility is. He will eat when he is hungry and drink when he is thirsty, in order to satisfy his survival instinct. , he can snatch food and water from anyone.
At this time, no one thinks the child is selfish, adults only think the child is cute! But the cute time is short-lived. When the children start to grow up and gradually integrate into society, constraints will arise.
You have to respect the old and love the young, you have to abide by the law, you have to abide by all the overt and hidden rules of this society, you have to learn to dance in the jungle of barbed wire, you can't get bruised all over your body, and you have to get rid of all the wounds. The dance of these decades of life is beautiful.
Human nature is inherently selfish. Our ancestors understood this thousands of years ago. Why do binding things like laws, morals, and even religions exist? In fact, this is also a great wisdom of mankind. These troublesome constraints are actually human society. Each fuse ensures that competition between people will not evolve into self-destruction.
You can use your mouth but not your fists, you can use your fists but not the knives, you can use the knives but not the guns, you can use the guns but not the nuclear weapons and we will all be finished together.
Look, this is to put a rope on human selfishness and desire, so that competition can be in a state of order, instead of complete chaos and complete self-destruction.
But no matter how reliable the order is, it is undeniable that what it is bound to is a very terrible selfishness. It's like a military expert points to a nuclear bomb and tells you how strong the shell is and how high the safety is, but no matter how good he says, it can't change the fact that the nuclear bomb contains the horror of destroying the human world. devil.
Xiao Letian is now encountering such a problem. It is precisely because of his appearance that Western learning has entered China earlier and entered a practical stage earlier. A super-large force centered on Ryukyu is gradually taking shape.
The huge amount of money has armed Xiao Letian's army to the teeth. The addition of armored warships has brought the maritime order of East Asia into a period of reorganization. The latest financial forces are desperately absorbing nutrients from the accumulated wealth of society. The rapidly developing special economic zones have made Xiao Letian's army more capable. Power has a productivity that ordinary people cannot imagine.
Technology, military power, finance, industrial power... these are the basic elements that must be possessed to enter a modern country. Under Xiao Letian's baton, the storm has begun to spread its spiral arms, and has now entered a stage of rapid development.
But...but there is only one thing, and Xiao Letian has not found the answer until now! Yes, Xiao Letian can arm the hands of the Chinese people and provide them with the latest weapons and equipment and the most advanced war concepts. But until now he has been unable to arm the Chinese soul.
Can ignorant Chinese people really wake up with just a few nationalistic slogans? Can strong military power create a modern national consciousness among the people?
wake up! When the Manchus entered the country, the Han people did not resist much. On the contrary, when the order was issued to keep their hair or not, the people all over China went crazy against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
Why? Because the country belongs to the emperor, and if this emperor falls, there will be another emperor, and the hair belongs to me, so it’s not okay for you to interfere in my life! I originally wanted to pay you taxes and be an obedient citizen, but you insist on interfering in the life of my little family. Now you have stung a hornet's nest.
China seems to have had the concept of nation and nation since ancient times, but that is completely different from the concept of nation and nation in the modern sense, because the core value of the Chinese people has always been to cultivate oneself, manage one's family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world.
This is not only China’s step-by-step direction of struggle, but also a manifestation of its core values. In the final analysis, self-cultivation is the most important thing. This is the foundation of everything, followed closely by family management. Family is the second most important factor closely following personal interests.
Chinese people must first ensure the interests of themselves and their families. In other words, when they and their families are well off and prosperous, they will have a little interest in thinking about governing the country and peace of the world.
That is to say, when the ideal of governing the country and bringing peace to the world conflicts with the interests of himself and his family, he will definitely choose himself and his family who are closest to the core of value.
This is the root cause of the current chaos in Tanggu and the source of the pressure that Xiao Letian is under.
Xiao Letian must admit that he has not been able to come up with a new set of values that can arm the souls of the Chinese people. He must create a new value system and find a balance between selfish desires and justice so that the Chinese people can be stable. Entering the new world...
God, Xiao Letian was asking for trouble. He was completely confused. The extra two hundred years of experience could not provide him with an answer, because until the 21st century, there was no perfect answer to this question.
The only thing that makes Xiao Letian thankful is that this problem was exposed very early. This is the only thing worth gratifying. The power under Xiao Letian's command is not super big now. It should be at the stage when the ship is small and easy to turn around. At least it can give some relief. This gave Xiao Letian enough time to think.
Unable to remain silent any longer, Xiao Letian took a deep breath, "Thank you! It's a good sign that you can express your demands in such an open and honest way... At least you didn't choose to connect secretly, and finally wear a yellow robe. ! Nor did he choose the direct betrayal method like Yang Zhi..."
"You can give me time to think about it, and you can have a showdown with me before the situation completely deteriorates. I really thank you! I can't answer this question, please give me a little more time!"
Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun, Wang Huaiyuan and Luo Huo lowered their heads. On the surface, they seemed very moved, but they were secretly communicating with each other from the corners of their eyes.
These few secretly thought, "Prime Minister, I'm really sorry... In fact, we have secretly designed six plans to force people to wear yellow robes! It's just that you don't know..."
"Prime Minister Xiao! Our Mr. Xiao... If you can't come up with a solution to this problem within three years, then I'm really sorry for you. Should you put on a yellow robe... You really can't do this. Lord!"
Xiao Letian never thought that his men were actually secretly carrying out a secret plan against him. Xiao Letian thought he could control everything? In fact, this is not the case. After he single-handedly created a super huge force, the backlash of this force against him has always been there and has never stopped.
At this moment, the Frenchman Pierre, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke in his Chinese without four tones, "Um...can I say a few words?"
Note: Well, this is the third update of the legend!
