Su Yonglin had long been very unhappy with some of the weird idealistic and sophistry remarks made by Confucianists in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Pulling a big flag like a tiger's skin, can you do whatever you want with a big flag with the word "filial piety"?
The classical era has passed, the time when filial piety was greater than heaven has passed, and the time when filial piety was regarded as political correctness to gain benefits and maintain privileges has passed.
It is impossible to turn back history and go back to an era when killing people for filial piety was not a sin.
As a good moral character, the direct direction of filial piety must be beautiful, and it should always be a spontaneous behavior of an individual and limited to personal behavior.
Any behavior that involves unrelated persons for the sake of personal filial piety, or the use of public resources to perform filial piety is illegal.
Treating filial piety as one of the criteria for whether one can be an official or a good person will only lead to weird practices such as the "twenty-four filial piety" that will shatter people's outlook on life.
The suppression and restriction of personal personality for the sake of political correctness is one of the important components of feudal patriarchy, which Su Yonglin and the Ming Dynasty must eradicate.
Governing the country with filial piety?
Pooh!
Control others with filial piety!
So Su Yonglin was ready to start a fight. . .
"The emperor of the Southern Dynasties was certainly filial, but why did his personal filial piety involve his status as an emperor? Filial piety means spending billions of money to build a luxurious palace? Filial piety means watching the people suffer and starve everywhere. , and then offer the most luxurious food in the world to the Emperor?
Is this filial piety? In my opinion, true filial piety lies in the heart, in every word and deed, in thinking wholeheartedly for the elderly parents, and personally doing things to help them spend their old age peacefully. It lies in companionship, care, and physical practice. This is filial piety as a human being.
The emperor is a person's status, and filial piety is an act of repaying the kindness of parents in raising them as a son of man. It is not the fact that using the status of emperor to build a luxurious palace for the Supreme Emperor without caring about the lives of the people!
What the emperor has to do is to govern the world, to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, to make the world peaceful, without war, and everyone can live a life with full food and warm clothes. This is the emperor's duty. The behavior of the emperor of the Southern Dynasties was not filial piety. , but in the name of filial piety, they actually practice tyranny! "
Su Yonglin slapped the armrest and stood up, pointed at Chen Kangbo and angrily shouted: "How hateful are you sophistry! How can we tolerate your slander as a filial piety!"
Su Yonglin's eloquent rebuttal shocked Chen Kangbo.
Before Su Yonglin finished speaking, he wanted to refute and insist on his own opinion, but he was horrified to find that he could not find any sufficient arguments to refute Su Yonglin.
Because even he felt that what Su Yonglin said made sense.
He was just sophistry, and there was no great truth that could stand up. As long as someone with a heart used the concept of benevolence and righteousness, his argument could be defeated, but he did not expect that Su Yonglin was so sharp, killing people, and killing people.
He directly took away the right to speak and the initiative.
Chen Kangbo was speechless and could not utter a word in rebuttal.
The civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty felt incomparable recognition of their emperor's remarks, and felt extremely proud of his radiant image of righteous words.
In contrast, the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty lowered their heads deeply.
No matter how unwilling they are, no matter how sophistical they are, they can't change the fact that Zhao Xun spent billions of funds to build a luxurious palace for Zhao Gou to meet Zhao Gou's needs.
On the one hand, people were starving to death, so much so that they had to beg the Ming Dynasty to reduce their annual coins. On the other hand, billions of dollars were invested in building luxurious palaces.
This fact of separation cannot be changed no matter how they argue. No matter how they argue, the palace is over there and is still under construction. It is difficult to say that it will be completed within a few years.
And there is actually quite a bit of a sense of necessity here——
Zhao Gou had refused to come back after fleeing because of Xu Tong's bold behavior. In order to let him come back, Zhao Min had no choice but to order the construction of a luxurious palace for Zhao Gou to induce him to return to Lin'an and continue to create the illusion of prosperity as a loving father and a filial son. Consolidate his dominance.
filial piety?
Hahahaha, benevolence is in the eyes of the benevolent and wisdom is in the eyes of the wise.
Yu Yunwen and Lu You didn't know the secrets here, but Chen Kangbo, as a person in the Southern Song Dynasty's decision-making circle, knew something about it.
It was precisely because of this that Chen Kangbo was particularly depressed and embarrassed. He didn't know how to refute, and was speechless.
The suffocating silence lasted for a while, and Su Yonglin prepared to launch the final attack.
"You have been silent for a long time. Have you realized your mistake? If so, knowing the mistake can correct it, which is a great good. Just pretend that this never happened. You can rest for a few days and go back!"
When Chen Kangbo heard this, he thought this was not possible. Although Zhao Xun's original intention was to let them detect China's war preparations, he also had the idea of taking advantage if he could.
And more importantly, if the Ming Dynasty relaxed on this issue, it would mean that the Ming Dynasty did not plan to go south to attack the Song Dynasty in the short term. If it wanted to fish from the lake sustainably, the Southern Song Dynasty would have more time to strengthen itself.
If the Ming Dynasty refused to let go and insisted on killing the Southern Song Dynasty and causing the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty to collapse, it would mean that the day when the Ming Dynasty went south to attack the Song Dynasty was not far away.
This is an issue that can clearly identify the problem, so even if he is fighting for social death, Chen Kangbo will continue this issue and draw a clear conclusion.
"The foreign ministers will make it clear to the emperor of our country after he returns to the issues that concern his majesty. However, your majesty should also understand that even if all the money for building the palace is used to relieve the victims, it is impossible to solve all the problems. Our country's problems are serious. I really need the help of the higher country, so please have mercy on me!"
Chen Kangbo put himself in a very low posture, acting rationally and emotionally, trying to use his low posture in exchange for Su Yonglin's softening of attitude.
But who would have thought that Su Yonglin wouldn't do this at all.
"Well, this problem is indeed serious. Even if all the money to build the palace is spent, it may only be a drop in the ocean for the Southern Dynasty. The Southern Dynasty needs more money. This aspect is indeed quite difficult, so...
Yes, I heard that the salaries of officials in the Southern Dynasties were quite generous. They included principal salary, supplementary expenses, meal money, job fields, tea soup money and public money. In addition to receiving copper coins, they also had many additional benefits. Such a generous salary is enough to show that you are worthy of it. Deeply grateful to the country.
Not to mention anything else, I heard that a magistrate in the Southern Dynasties could get an additional monthly payment ranging from thirty to fifty guan, as well as seven stones of rice, ten stones of noodles, and hundreds of kilograms of meat, which he could eat by himself. Did it fall? How about giving it all to the victims? How many people can survive?
At this time of national crisis, why don't you stand up and take the initiative to cut your salary to fund the country? There is no need to cut too much, and each of them refuses a certain benefit. What is left to the court is a huge sum of money, which is enough for disaster relief, right? "
Chen Kangbo was stunned again.
Cut my own salary?
Ah this...
Of course it won't hurt if the knife cuts on others, but if it cuts on yourself, it will feel a bit...
It's not that you don't want to, it's just... you're a little bit unhappy, right?
It's obviously my money, but I want to use it to help those lowly losers I've never met?
Why?
I have worked hard for ten years, endured torture and sharpened my brain to get the status and benefits. Even if I die in my own family, it will be considered my own. Why should I give it to those mud-legged people in vain?
The noble mentality of the noble scholars is a bit unbearable.
Not to mention Chen Kangbo, the members of the envoy who followed him to the temple also had some opinions and felt that doing so would be quite unpleasant for them.
They have always been the ones to exploit the mud-legged people, how could the mud-legged people suck their blood in turn?
Isn't this a reversal of black and white?
