Li Ke opened the placed Wuliangye from the side and poured a glass for Sun Simiao. Sun was a drinker, but he didn't drink much. He basically didn't drink it on a daily basis. He only drank a little during holidays, but he probably couldn't even drink a tael.
Because Lao Sun said drinking alcohol is harmful to the body.
After picking up the wine cup and taking a sip, Sun Simiao continued to speak calmly: "In the eighteenth year of the founding of the Emperor, and in the subsequent major disasters, although I also went to the disaster areas, I did not go deeper, but only in some peripheral areas. Saved some people.”
"Because we go deep into the disaster area, no one can be saved or survive."
"People suffering from diseases need to eat. Without food, even with miracle medicine, they cannot survive, so there is no point in going deep into the disaster area, because even if you save them, without food, the disease will soon disappear. deterioration."
"Sometimes, the world is like some folk customs of cockfighting. A group of chickens fight there, and the one who wins can survive."
"It's the same in this world. When the population of the people reaches a certain level and the world can't support it, there will be either natural disasters or man-made disasters. If a certain number of people die, the rest will naturally survive."
"As for the cruelty, Heaven cannot see it. This is why I named myself a Taoist priest. Sometimes I also doubt whether there is really Heaven in this world, which always maintains the balance of this world."
"Before I met you, I really didn't think about some things carefully, but at that time, I just felt that there was always a balance between this man and the mountains and water around him, just like the human body. The yin and yang and the five elements are the same. If one of them is broken, people will get sick."
"The same is true for the people of this world and the mountains and rivers. If the land is planted more, it will gradually become barren. Without fertilizer, crops will not grow. If crops do not grow, people will cultivate more land, and cultivate more land. It will destroy the land even more.”
"Using what you are teaching now, too much cultivation destroys soil and water conservation, and then floods and natural disasters come. Speaking of which, human beings are the main cause of everything."
"So, whatever you do, you have to pay attention to a balance. If it's too good, it won't work, and if it's too bad, it won't work either."
"Speaking of which, the only good thing Li Yuan did was probably giving birth to a good son like your father, and then your father gave birth to a good son like you."
"Without you, the Tang Dynasty would not be able to accomplish anything unprecedented. Then there will be another cycle of the rise and fall of dynasties."
"Either I say that you are a great boy. You know a lot of truths in this world. It is not unusual to understand the truth. Just like the "The Doctrine of the Mean" in the Four Books of Confucianism, it also emphasizes the golden mean and the natural balance. But knowing the truth, and Implementing principles and the world to form a balance is a real skill."
"Oh, what is this called in school now?" Sun Simiao asked.
"Sustainable development?" Li Ke replied with a few words.
"Oh, yes, sustainable development. This is a good thing to say, and it is also straightforward and popular. Everyone can understand what it means."
"So, do you understand now how big a thing you have accomplished?" Sun Simiao stretched out his hand, patted Li Ke's shoulder with a smile and asked.
Li Ke was silent for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I haven't thought about this. I just do it to the best of my ability, but I don't know how far it will go."
"I didn't think anything of it before, but now that you've said it, I'm under a lot of pressure."
Li Ke was a little helpless. He said this from his heart. Although he had been reforming and developing before, he had been working hard to build Datang into what he imagined.
But Li Ke never thought about what Sun Simiao said. In other words, Li Ke did this based on the obsession formed by the man who lived in modern times more than a thousand years later and had countless regrets in ancient times. , or in modern times, every Chinese has a dream of a great country and a dream of standing on top of the world.
It's just that he was an ordinary person at that time, with no ability, no opportunity, and no ability to implement this dream.
And when I came back here, it was like I had to have this special kind of persistence.
This is the driving force behind Li Ke's efforts.
But what Sun Simiao said was based on a hundred years of personal experience, a hundred years of knowledge, and various experiences of living in this era to tell Li Ke what he had done.
It can be said that what Sun Simiao said was simple, but the pressure on the shop was greater than any pressure Li Ke had ever thought before. Only then did Li Ke truly realize that what Sun Simiao said was that the entire Tang Dynasty had 40 million people. Thousands of lives are weighing on you. What does it mean to be changed because of you?
"Hahaha." Sun Simiao suddenly laughed. He poured half the cup of wine into his mouth, and then said with a smile: "Actually, I think that your heartless temper has led to what you are now. The root cause of the situation in the Tang Dynasty."
"If it were another person with a deep mind and deep thoughts, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to be where he is today if his hands and feet were tied."
"So, this is why old man I didn't leave when I first came to Chang'an. I could see during those major disasters that the one who can cure diseases and save people is not me, but His Majesty who is sitting in the palace."
"But, all the rulers mostly just want to live longer and live better. As for whether they can promote the world and whether they can save more people, they only want to have enough food, clothing and clothing to live a long life. Next, I will pursue more spiritual wealth before I go back and think about saving people in the world and win that reputation."
"At that time, when I stayed, the most I did was to go to see doctors for the people in the imperial city and palace city of Chang'an City. So I was more willing to travel around the world."
"But you are different. What you did from the beginning was from the bottom of the people, from the people of the world. What you did from the beginning was for them. Only in you did I see what I wanted to do. The possibility of promoting medicine to the world, cultivating more doctors and scholars, and helping the world and saving people."
"This is why I, an old man in my nineties, finally decided to jump into this pit of fire, come to Chang'an City, and sell my rotten bones to you." Sun Simiao said with a smile.
"You..." Li Ke was dumbfounded, "What you said is too ugly. I invited you here sincerely."
"Okay, just say it is. Do you really think that I, old man, have lived for more than ninety years and can't see your temptation to me? Of course, I admit that I am also a human being, and I always have emotions and desires. You It really touched my heart, so I came." Sun Simiao said with a smile.
