In the Gu family's small courtyard, spring is passing and autumn is coming.
It seems that the heat of summer has just passed, and the bleak autumn wind has already fallen on the world.
Countless people on the earth are busy on days like this, and the increasingly fierce wars will slow down a little every time this season comes.
Food is the most important thing for the people. No one can really live without food. If there is no food, they will starve to death.
From princes and generals to common people, everyone knows the importance of this season.
But this year is destined to not have a good harvest, and this is true for the entire Big Moon world.
Yuzhou, which is supposed to produce the most grain, has been caught in a war that has lasted for more than a year. The members of the White Lotus Sect are still fighting and fighting with the people in the court.
Although the White Lotus Sect seemed to be unable to resist and began to make some concessions, the land of Yuzhou was vast and vast, and they were still struggling to retreat, and they would not be able to clear it all in another three to five years.
As for Huang Chao and Huang Tianjun, they have always adhered to the appearance of a group of powerful bandits. It is true that they rarely rob the poor people, but they really don't let anyone go from the big families!
Even the identified blood relatives within three generations of those wealthy families were slaughtered without leaving any trace behind, with murderous intent rising into the sky.
But Yangzhou is sandwiched between Yuzhou and Yuzhou. The wealthy families living in Yangzhou are extremely unlucky.
If you run south, you will hit the Four Nations Allied Forces. You will definitely die!
When you run north, you encounter members of the White Lotus Sect, and life is worse than death.
If you stay where you are and don't run away, Huang Chao will be there, and your whole family will be killed!
Trouble and sitting on pins and needles, this is the mood of those wealthy people who stay in Yangzhou.
Of course, if they were really willing to spend all their wealth and join Huang Tianjun, Huang Chao would not be unable to tolerate them.
Only those big families who stubbornly resisted and even spent money to recruit troops to support the court or try to resist would be so ruthless.
Unfortunately, almost all wealthy families refused to bow to him.
Then there is nothing more to say.
kill!
In the past two years when they were hunted by the imperial court, Huang Tianjun's number not only did not decrease, but actually increased.
It can even be seen with the naked eye that more people will join them soon.
Because most of Yuzhou has been lost!
From the thirty-seventh year of Zongming's reign to the autumn of the second year of Kangjing's reign, it took the four-nation coalition forces a full three years to capture Yuzhou.
This kind of speed seems to be unsatisfactory whether compared with Huang Chao or the leader of the White Lotus.
In fact, it cannot be calculated like this.
The Allied Forces of the Four Nations came for massacre, and even massacred several cities as soon as they entered Yuzhou. Although their original intention was to warn subsequent cities to give up resistance, they would not massacre the city if they did not resist.
But before they could shout these words, Mo Qiu and three thousand Mo people killed the culprit directly.
They were the party that was supposed to put pressure, but they became the party being put under pressure!
This incident achieved Moqiu's reputation as a saint in the world, and at the same time aroused the common hatred among the people of Yuzhou!
Because failure means death!
No matter how much trouble Huang Chao and the White Lotus leader made, they mostly fought against the government and coerced the people. If they had to order the people to be caught and deliberately tortured and massacred, it really didn't happen. At most, they would only force some of them to death.
Ordinary people can join them with a hoe and directly become a part of them. Everyone can eat soil, meat and meat, and live one day at a time.
What about the Four-Nation Alliance?
Kill them all, burn them all, rob them all and just ignore them, and people won't accept them.
Even if someone wants to join, they can't find a way!
In this way, how can the people not fight with them?
Not to mention, Mo Qiu, who was wanted by Dayue, actually led the Mo family to defend the city. The key is that the Mo family really knows how to defend the city!
To be precise, when it comes to city defense, no one in this era has done more in-depth research than the Mohists. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Mohists represent the highest level of city defense at this time.
Don't think that people in the Mohist family are the type of saints who believe in "I'll never hurt you if I'm good to you."
On the contrary, since the establishment of Mohism, Mo Qiu has always said: bring benefits to the world and eliminate harms to the world!
For this goal, it is natural to choose the greatest benefit and the least harm!
Defending a city is a big thing, but an individual is a small thing.
The Mo family is definitely not only able to reason, but also able to raise a sword.
Once Mo Zhe's order to defend the city is implemented, anyone who disobeys or goes beyond the limits will be beheaded by Mo Zhe himself.
There was a friend of the Mohist who wanted to go to the rescue because there was a fire in the city, so he left the place he needed to guard. As a result, the Mohist shot him with a bow and arrow, even though he knew he had good intentions.
This is the Mohist style.
It is too one-sided to simply regard the Mohist as a holy mother, an ascetic, or a good person.
This is a group of people who are not afraid of death for their ideals.
The lack of fear of death does not only include themselves.
Before many people became Mohists, they could not be called good people in the worldly sense!
But no matter how powerful the Mohists defend the city, they can only defend. If they can't stop it, they can only withdraw.
By forcefully dragging the Allied Forces of the Four Nations to Yuzhou for three years, the Mo family has already contributed greatly to the world of Dayue. The Mo family who followed Mo Qiu has changed several times in the past three years, and they really can't ask for more.
Faced with an increasingly corrupt situation, it is also difficult for temples to cope.
The most important thing is that the first batch of the guilt money collected by Emperor Kang Jing has already been spent!
But there is no more money in the treasury!
How to do it?
Let’s discuss sin money again?
Emperor Kang Jing did not dare to do this.
In order to save money, Emperor Kang Jing, who really couldn't find a better way, chose to give up Yuzhou temporarily, leaving some people to pursue Huang Tianjun for the time being, and most of the remaining people to encircle and suppress the White Lotus Sect with all their strength!
The price of grain in Otsuki has risen to the winter price in autumn. This is the autumn harvest season!
If Yuzhou is not pacified quickly, no one will dare to tell us how alarmingly food prices will soar after winter.
Since Zong Ming and Zong Ming, the ancestors have been unknown, and another word has begun to spread quietly.
Kangjing, Kangjing, no peace, no peace!
Internal troubles cannot be quelled, and external troubles cannot be stopped. This is really disappointing.
The situation is going to collapse step by step.
Autumn is over and the cold winter is here again!
When the icy cold snowflakes begin to fall from the sky to the earth, there are not many people who can sigh that the auspicious snow heralds a good year.
Most of them were hungry people shivering from the cold, with pale faces.
Gu family courtyard.
Occasionally there would be cheers in the courtyard.
Xiaoying was building a snowman in the yard, her hands and feet were all red from the cold.
Xun Ke stared at the sky blankly, his eyes were blank, and his mind was wandering.
He has been teaching Cang for nearly half a year.
It can't be said that half a year of teaching has had little effect, it can only be said that it has no effect.
Except for letting Cang recognize some words, everything else was basically in vain. It is normal for the left ear to go in and the right ear to go out.
And now there is a seemingly simplest problem in front of him.
Since we want to teach children, we cannot avoid talking about human issues.
So the question is, how to teach?
Is human nature good or evil?
There is a way to be good, and there is a way to do evil.
The education that most people in this world have received is that "human nature is inherently good", which is also the most acceptable statement to everyone.
But if human nature is good, why did Dayue's situation deteriorate to this point?
This is completely unreasonable!
If it weren't for the endless intrusion of evil thoughts, how could there be such a situation?
Master Mo once stated his own opinion. He is considered a centrist, and he agrees with it somewhat.
[Zimozi said when he saw someone dyeing silk, he sighed and said: If it is dyed blue, it will be green; if it is dyed yellow, it will be yellow. What enters changes, and its color also changes. If it enters five times, it will become five colors! Therefore, dyeing should not be done carelessly! It is not just silk that is dyed, the country is also dyed.】
To put it simply, human nature is inherently amorphous, and whatever is affected by it is what it is.
When you come into contact with many evil people, you will naturally be prone to do evil; when you come into contact with good people, you will naturally be willing to do good. Not just people, but also countries!
Master Mo emphasized that the good and evil of human nature are not static, but may change at any moment.
This is of course a good answer. The only problem is that this answer requires a certain degree of understanding of the world and a relatively objective attitude towards world affairs.
But using Master Mo's words to teach a three-year-old child would seem too profound.
It is simply impossible for children to truly understand, not even understand, let alone use it for enlightenment and learning?
Others didn't know that Xun Ke was racking his brains on such a problem.
Whether human nature is inherently good or inherently evil, once the conclusion is made, it is almost impossible to change, and all teaching plans thereafter must revolve around the same theme.
There is no room for compromise between good and evil.
As for the delicate gray in the middle, it is not an issue that newly enlightened children need to consider.
Xunke stretched out his hand and wrote line after line on the snow.
The advantage of the theory of goodness of nature is that it can lead to conscience. Everyone has four hearts - the heart of compassion, the heart of shame, the heart of respect, the heart of right and wrong, which can lead to benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom.
But people are clearly born to benefit, born to lust, and born to have diseases and evils!
The current world situation in Otsuki is the best way to describe it.
He simply nodded and acknowledged the theory of good nature. When Cang grows older and really walks out of the small courtyard and sees what it is like outside, will he ask him: "Since everyone is a good person, why did it become like this?" Human nature is good, isn't it? '
When that time comes, what should I tell Cang?
If the initial point of view cannot be established, all subsequent knowledge will become a piece of waste paper and empty talk.
If you can't even convince yourself, how can you dare to use this knowledge to measure the morality of the world, so that thousands of generations can learn and think from it?
This point of view seems trivial, just a choice.
In fact, the impression would be extremely profound, so profound that Xun Ke was still unable to come to a conclusion.
In other words, I dare not draw a conclusion.
Xun Ke hesitated for a long time, then suddenly remembered that Cang had not studied with him today.
He stretched out his hand to wipe away the writing on the snow in front of him, and looked around the yard. Xunke asked Xiaoying, who was still happily building a snowman in the yard, "Where is Cang? Where did he go?"
Xiaoying was looking at a big snowman she had built. When she heard Xunke's question, she said casually: "Cang went out with the book."
The snowman that had been piled up in front of Xiaoying was much taller than her. Although it was made of snow, it was carefully managed by a pair of skillful hands to make it come alive. It vaguely looked like Gu Dan, but she wasn't quite there yet. satisfy.
Uncle Gu is so good-looking, why can't this snow look like that?
And Uncle Gu always likes to wear a green robe. Green leaves in winter are hard to find. If he really puts a robe on the snowman, his mother will beat him, right?
After all, my mother said that many people now don’t even have clothes to wear, so she must set an example and not waste anything.
If I really put a robe on the snowman, my mother would not kill her?
That won't work!
"Cang went out with a book? What was he going to do?!"
Xun Ke's voice suddenly rose and he shouted in disbelief.
Are you kidding me? That little brat is making a fuss when he learns Chinese characters for an hour every day. How could he like reading?
"It seems that he went to play with the little girl from the aunt's house next door, right? As a child, you have to find a playmate."
Xiaoying was still looking at her newly made snow sculpture, preparing to wait for Gu Dan to come back and give him a surprise, "Let's see if the snowman I made looks like Uncle Gu?"
Xun Ke glanced at it and nodded slightly, "It does look a bit like it."
"What do you mean it's somewhat similar? It's very similar, okay! It's just that the face can't be done well. It's not as good-looking as Uncle Gu." Xiaoying tilted her head and thought.
"How can dead things compare to living people?"
Xun Ke said uneasily: "How about I go find Cang? I really can't imagine what that little kid is going to do when he goes out with a book!"
"Oh, why do you act like an old woman? Cang is just going out to play. Staying in the yard all the time is either causing trouble for the flowers I raise or pestering you to tell stories so that you can feel cleaner when you go out." Xiaoying said impatiently. He waved his hand.
The little brats who are just three years old are really annoying. They no longer have the cuteness of being allowed to be manipulated when they were young. Instead, they have a more naughty nature. Occasionally, a whim can cause them some unexpected little trouble.
Although he is still a little boy with short legs, he can't sit still at all and is running around everywhere. I really don't know where the energy comes from.
Last time, she had a sudden idea and planned to take care of Cang Lai to appease her sudden maternal brilliance. However, she was exhausted after taking care of him for only half a day.
Or she tried her best to find a playmate for Cang - let the little guy go out and cause trouble to others, don't worry about demolishing his own courtyard!
She agreed with both hands and feet that Cang was willing to go out and cause harm to others.
However, God did not fulfill people's wishes.
As soon as she finished speaking, the door to the small courtyard was pushed open.
A little kid walked in and immediately took a look at the snow sculpture Xiaoying had just built.
"Wow!"
Cang shouted excitedly and ran over quickly on her short legs, "Sister, did you do this? It's so tall, so powerful!"
"Yes! Does it look like Uncle Gu?"
Seeing Cang's appreciation, Xiaoying also smiled and said with some pride.
What answered her was Cang's small black hand suddenly slapping the snow sculpture.
Two small black palm prints were imprinted on the pure white snow sculpture.
"Hey, now I have my share too!"
Cang shouted happily.
"Hiss~"
Seeing this scene, Xun Ke couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
How dare you? !
"Cang!!!"
There are no surprises.
A roar echoed through the sky.
When Gu Dan pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, he saw Cang Zheng lying on Xun Ke's lap, crying hoarsely.
Xiaoying clenched her teeth, holding a book in her hand, and spanked Cang's little butt fiercely.
"What are you two doing?"
Gu Dan was surprised, why are men and women matching now?
"Uncle Gu, come here and beat him up!"
Xiaoying was extremely angry, "This little guy started eating everything inside and outside. I have to beat him to death today!"
Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly and asked doubtfully: "Eating everything inside and out?"
"He took Xun Ke's books and burned them, saying he wanted to help people keep warm!" Xiaoying said through gritted teeth.
(End of chapter)
