Chapter 27 Distinguishing Sima Guang
Sima Guang stepped forward again and bowed and said, "Dare you ask the prime minister, how will he rule the world?"
Xu Ping said: "Govern the world with benevolence and righteousness."
"How can we know benevolence and righteousness? How can we exercise benevolence and righteousness? How can our husbands benevolence and righteousness?"
"The world is the way, and the court is virtue. Benevolence and righteousness are the distinction between virtue. If benevolence and righteousness are complete, virtue will be established, and virtue will be established, and the sages will be established, and the world will be governed. Therefore, by knowing that governing the country with benevolence and righteousness, seeking the virtue of the world can achieve the world's governance."
If destiny and divine power leave the state power, their legitimacy must be provided by investigating the state's governance and chaos. When governing, there will be no problem with the legitimacy of the regime. Once the governance turns from governance to chaos, the regime will face a survival crisis. In the growing period, countries need legitimacy from the good and evil motivations of governance. In the non-growth period, countries will degenerate from religion and private world, or take a step back and ask for legitimacy from the clan.
A global economic crisis has emerged, and everyone has no way to seek governance, and religion and clan culture are revived.
Sima Guang said again: "How can I know that my husband is seeking morality with kindness?"
"Heaven and earth are divided, and all things are born. People are mixed among animals, gathered together to form groups, and then gathered into countries, and all countries are combined into the world. Lao Dan, a historian of Zhou, recorded it in bamboo and silk, and later generations can check morality, so that they can know it. What is Lao Dan? He said that Tao produces one, one produces two, two produces three, and three produces all things. Where does Tao come from? Tao is born from existence, and existence is born from non-existence."
"What is nothingness? When people are mixed with animals and are not distinguished from all things, people are still ignorant and do not know that they are human beings. What is existence? Life wisdom, knowing oneself as a human being, knowing oneself as a different person from all things. If there is life, the Tao will stand, so it is said that Tao will give birth to one."
"What is Tao? What is virtue? People come out of animals and gather to form groups. If their groups are tribes, then the world is Tao, and their tribes are virtue. If they gather to form a country, then the world is Tao, and their country is virtue. If their countries are united, then the world is Tao, and their countries are virtue. If their countries are united, morals will be in harmony, and sages will come out."
"So, we know that morality is the way of man. Human virtue is not the way of heaven, nor the virtue of heaven. If heaven and man are separated, seek the principles of heaven should be sought outside of man. If we seek the principles of heaven and be in harmony with morality, then the unity of man and man will be the same in a great harmony? "
Morality records how the period of ignorance of the Han civilization came from one person to another and became China. This is just human history, which records the birth and growth of civilization, and that is, the period when civilization was born. As for the laws of nature, that is, science and technology, it is not within this system, and it is not possible to develop productivity. The laws of nature have developed to the extreme, and the world is extremely rich in material, and there is whatever you want. In the world of harmony between man and nature, a communist society will come.
This is the civilization memory of the Han civilization. Focusing on unity does not necessarily mean that civilizations in the world are formed in this way. Philosophy is a kind of civilization memory. Germanic ethnic identity may be conquered by force. Two people meet together, fight, whoever defeats whoever is the master, and the other is a slave. When two tribes meet together, fight, the one who wins is the master, and the one who loses is the slave, so the first period of primitive society will be designated as a slave society. Negation may be the display of this kind of civilization memory, which is suitable for them, and it may not be accepted by other civilizations.
Is there any slave in China during the Shang and Zhou dynasties? There must be. But the regime is not based on slavery, it is just the production relations in the country. The nature of the regime has cultural factors. The unity of the regime is believed that production relations are everything, and culture is cut off from civilization. Culture is only left to eat, drink, play, talk, learn, and sing, and only entertainment. If the regime has no soul, the cohesion and sense of identity of the country will gradually disappear. In addition to material enjoyment, people also have spiritual pursuits and cultural identity.
Culture, culture, refers to the means of forming a sense of ethnic identity. The extreme emphasis of Han civilization on literature is the memory of the formation of ancestor civilization, believing that identity is the first and military development is the second. The literary official becomes the civil servant because civil servants use the method of culture. King Wen governs internal affairs, and there are two of the three in the world. King Wu raises troops and prospers in business. Civil affairs are the basis of martial arts. Without the foundation of literature, the military development of military forces will have no origin. It can destroy Shang but cannot serve as a proxy for Shang, which is a dynasty but no inheritance of civilization.
In the etiquette system, the winner should serve the loser as a guest, and the world will expand rather than destroy your country. My civilization defeats you is the fundamental reason, your people have already recognized me, and force is just a last resort. Only by obtaining the other party's territory and land, managing the people under their rule, and gaining a sense of identity, can the world expand and complete.
The world is the sense of identity of the regime, and the country is the place where the regime controls it. The world is greater than the country when the literature is declining, and the country is greater than the world when the literature is declining.
The etiquette system has the meaning of civilization later. Civilization dissipates, and the etiquette system adhered to is just an annoying rule, the old etiquette passed down, and it loses its vigorous spirit and no soul. Why did Xu Ping hate old etiquette in his previous life and think that many of the rules of foreigners are standard? Because their set of things have not yet lost their souls.
When the two civilizations confront each other, they first gain the recognition of most of the other party by using literary means, and then they can easily be destroyed. The two civilizations are united to form a new civilization, which is the expansion of the world. Therefore, when they are opposed to the Huns, the Han Dynasty will also allow them to move inward and assimilate and slowly become their own people. The balance of power is changed and they will be destroyed in one fell swoop. When the Song Dynasty was destroyed by Mongolia, the role of literature was lost. Mongolia's purely violent enslaves the Song Dynasty personnel can still gain recognition and destroy them entirely by force. The Song Dynasty can be destroyed by force, but cannot inherit civilization. When the entire regime threw the sea, the Han civilization that continued had disappeared. Later, the Han people's stubbornness towards the revival of civilization was just the ancestors deep in their souls calling.
Han civilization prospered with literature and died with martial arts. Later, the subconscious rejection of culture was also a civilization memory of the ethnic group.
Sima Guang bowed: "What Xianggong said in ancient times, the world was ruled by great rule, and saints followed one after another. Etiquette lost and music collapsed, Tao lost and virtue dispersed, and it was difficult to find the world's governance. How dare you ask Xianggong, can you find the virtue of the world with benevolence and righteousness?"
"It can be found. The Tao is lost, and the world collapses and becomes a country. Virtue is divided into benevolence and righteousness scattered between heaven and earth. What is it? Daocheng gathers people, virtue establishes virtue and return to the people. The people in the world know their own people. It is like when a man is born, wisdom is born from ignorance, and when a friend is known to others. The "Book of Changes" is "seeing the dragon in the field, the world is civilized"? Is this what it means? The world has not collapsed, and virtue has not been lost. People only know their own friends as Zhou people, and know the emperor of Zhou but not his king. The world collapses.
, Tao lost virtue and lost it, and people did not know that they were the people of Zhou, but knew that they were the people of Qin, Chu, Jin, Qi, and Yan, but they knew that their king did not know that the emperor of Zhou did not know that they were the emperor. How could be benevolence and righteous? It was preserved in etiquette. The Master said that the loss of etiquette was found in the wild, and they knew that they were scattered in all directions. The Master must ask about etiquette, and the question was not how to perform etiquette, and the benevolence and righteousness were asked about etiquette. We were benevolence and righteousness and ruled the country. Benevolence and righteousness were fulfilled, and virtue was born. With benevolence and righteousness in the Tao, the world was established, and the sages came out."
This process refers to the death of civilization. The Zhou Dynasty gradually lost the sense of identity of the people in the governance, and the world slowly collapsed. The world is where the people with a sense of identity produce and live. Virtue is the sense of identity of the people for the world. The disappearance of civilization means that the morality is scattered. Civilization and barbarism are only related to the sense of identity of the regime, that is, virtue, and have nothing to do with whether the people under their rule are good or bad.
"How can the court seek virtues of benevolence and righteousness? Benevolence is to establish a system; righteousness is to govern; virtue is to educate and transform. Establish the system of the court with benevolence and carry out the government of the court with righteousness. Then the people's hearts go to the court and admire education and transformation. Benevolence and righteousness are fulfilled, and the people educate themselves. The virtues are born and rituals are formed, and the world is one. Benevolence and righteousness can be sought, and virtue can be achieved. Therefore, we know that the virtues of the world can be found."
This process talks about the rebirth of civilization. How can a regime be established to gain the sense of identity of the people? A regime without a sense of identity has no centripetal force, a regime without cohesion, and a country without civilization. When the system and governance of the regime gain the recognition of the people, the system and governance methods of the regime will be imitated by the people. This is education. After education, the sense of identity of the whole world is very strong, the cohesion of the regime is achieved, virtue will be born, and civilization will be formed.
Benevolence, harmony and righteousness, that is, the system and governance are carried out by the court, and virtue means education, and it is passive. Ethics are etiquette among the people, and etiquette is the active imitation of the regime system and governance behavior by the people of the Han Dynasty. The Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues are etiquette, which is the great sense of identity of the Han Dynasty's regime for the Han Dynasty, and actively imitates the Han Dynasty regime that governs the world with filial piety to govern the family.
The dynasties after the Han Dynasty were different from the system and governance of the Han Dynasty. The rituals of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Ones gradually disappeared, and Han civilization had entered a period of decline. The destiny of heaven could no longer be recognized by the people of the world, so we must not seek recognition. The revival of Confucianism initiated by Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan, and the discussion of human temperament was to regain the recognition of the people of the world, seek morality with benevolence and righteousness, and civilization would rise again.
The people's sense of identity with the regime comes from material needs, which is shown in the theory of governing the country, which is to investigate and control chaos. The other is psychological identity, which is shown in the theory of governing the country, which is psychological identity of the theory of temperament. It is from this perspective that Xu Ping realized that the United States in his previous life was trying to identify the material needs of investigation and control chaos, and strive to achieve psychological identity, and turn from a country into a civilization.
Morality, benevolence and righteousness are the theory of governing the country. Later, it became the benevolence, righteousness and morality of human beings, which shows that civilization has died and only leaves fragments of memory. This set can only be required for the regime. If you are not the Han Dynasty, you are forced to the people to recommend the Three Bonds and Five Constant Permanences to seek virtue, and the regime will not become civilization. Forced to force the people of the world to do things according to one method, which is forced to seek virtue, and failure to educate is called violence. The Qin Dynasty is this example. If you cannot force it without virtue, you will soon destroy the world. Therefore, being called tyrannical Qin is not because the ancestors discriminate against this dynasty, but only an objective description. Violence only means the method of doing things in the Qin Dynasty, and does not damage the merit left by this dynasty for the descendants.
The rough style is the virtue left to future generations by the Qin Dynasty, the etiquette scattered among the people. Xu Ping saw countless examples in his previous life. This dynasty did not leave its own culture for future generations, but just forgot that it was left by them.
Civilization has no joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, no character, and only merit and virtue at this height. Qin Shihuang will always be the great man who laid the foundation for Han civilization and completed the unification of the world. However, his virtue has disappeared and his great achievements are still there.
That day Xu Ping saw the giant lying in a pool of blood. He found the merits of his ancestors, he saw the rise and fall of the Zhou world, and he saw the prosperity and decline of the Han civilization.
Today, Xu Ping stood in the Wende Hall to have morality in the regime. Later, he implemented benevolence and righteous politics and sought virtue for this regime. Virtue came to pass, civilization was reborn, the world was established, and the saints came out.
Xu Ping has surpassed himself. He has his own joys, sorrows, sorrows, desires and desires, but when it comes to politics, he has no personal position. If Xu Zheng commits a death sentence, he will still kill him. At the same time, he will fulfill his responsibilities as his son, even if this responsibility is to sacrifice his life. If you are afraid of this, stay away from politics and not be an official.
Xu Ping has become one with the world, with a broad mind, establishing systems, implementing benevolent policies, fulfilling benevolence and righteousness, and becoming a martial virtue. He has found the meaning of the remaining fragments of civilization in his memory of his previous life, which is the process of the transformation of the regime into civilization.
Those who are connected by interests are called criminal groups, and those who are connected by blood are called tribes. They are not enough to be called civilization. Only when the divine power and destiny gain a sense of identity can they be called civilization. Destiny of heaven leaves and the power of heaven does not exist. If you want to establish a new civilization, you can only seek from every people under the rule of power.
It is not enough to serve the people wholeheartedly. We must also find ways to make the people believe that the regime serves the people wholeheartedly, so that we can gain a sense of identity. This is the trust of the regime, the people's trust in the regime. Only with faith can we have virtue and educate.
Xu Ping knew that Sima Guang was a diehard and had strongly promoted the Three Bonds and Five Constant Persons in history. It was enough to know that Sima Guang had not truly recognized benevolence and righteousness. Xu Ping looked down on Sima Guang from the height of civilization, and the court's distinction was not worth mentioning.
This has nothing to do with Sima Guang's character, his intelligence, his morality, and his civilization has no personal morality, no personal character, or ability evaluation. Xu Ping was able to look down on Sima Guang today, and he had made contributions to Sima Guang and traveled through time by himself.
Extraordinary to become a saint, benevolence and righteousness are fulfilled, and literature and martial virtues are achieved. Xu Ping is in mind, and no one can question the virtues of the world. It is not that he dares not, but that he cannot. No matter how strong a person's individual personality is, he cannot defeat the overall personality composed of the world. Virtue is the people of the world. Today he will distinguish the officials here and carry out his own morality. After that, he will govern with benevolence and righteousness, and the virtues of the world are in hand. Any small interest group that blocks the way will be crushed into powder, whether formed by blood or greed.
The Party is composed of people with close political positions, and friends are composed of people with close interests. Xu Pingde is not worth worrying about the fact that the parties are not worth worrying about. He has already included the political stance of everyone, and has taken the interests of the people of the world, and has cut off the foundation of the parties.
Great virtues arrive, people come from afar, and the great way is completed. This is the way to expand Chinese civilization.
In this era, Xu Ping wanted to re-help the slowly weakening Han civilization and stand on the top of the world. Virtue is the way to reach the end, and the world is formed into a whole, and it is a world of great governance. The sage is the combination of virtue, it has nothing to do with personal character, it has nothing to do with intelligence or stupidity, it has nothing to do with ugliness or beauty, and the height of civilization has nothing to do with personal evaluation. The world is public, it has nothing to do with private morality. The sage is just the praise of the people of the world after they gain a sense of identity.
Xu Ping wants to make Zhao Zhen a saint who has a new civilization resurrected.
Chapter completed!