The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2072: Advice from Scholars

Some scholars wanted to object, but now they gave up trying to stop Fang Yun.

After Zhao Hongzhuang left, Fang Yun continued to handle official business. Within a quarter of an hour, great scholars came in one after another.

In the hall, purple robes stood in a row, and the righteous spirit was stirring.

Fang Yun held the brush for reviewing official documents, put it into the brush washer and gently swung it, lifted it out of the water and gently flicked it, put it on the pen holder, and looked at every great scholar present.

More than 20 great scholars said nothing and looked at Fang Yun calmly.

Fang Yun did not change his face and behaved calmly.

"Please take a seat." After Fang Yun finished speaking, the yamen runners brought chairs one after another.

After the great scholars sat down, Fang Yun asked: "I wonder what you all came here for?"

Some great scholars laughed helplessly. Although Fang Yun did not want to be hostile, there was resistance between the lines.

Everyone looked at each other, and finally their eyes fell on the oldest great scholar Tian Songshi.

Tian Songshi has white hair and beard, warm eyes, wrinkled skin, but bright eyes, and a friendly face, which makes people not have any guard at first sight.

Tian Songshi smiled and said: "Since you are not good at speaking, then I will rely on my age and get straight to the point. Fang Xusheng, although it is strange to confer Zhao Hongzhuang as a female dress, it is reasonable. However, today, granting her an official Jinshi and promoting her to the chief of Zhenjun is really against etiquette."

"Etiquette does not allow Zhao Hongzhuang to serve as an official Jinshi?" Fang Yun asked back.

Tian Songshi smiled and said: "Fang Xusheng, we are not here to argue today. You can say these words to the left party, but they are useless to us old guys."

"Do you want to hear the truth?" Fang Yun asked.

The great scholars nodded gently.

"If you keep improving, you will improve every day. If the etiquette is old, you need to change it to a new one. That's all." Fang Yun's tone was extremely leisurely, as if he was discussing which cabbage was fresh in the countryside.

"We all understand Fang Xusheng's reasoning. However, this woman is an official, and the hen crows at dawn, which is too new. It has exceeded the old law and become a new ritual. It is to re-define the etiquette!" Tian Songshi said.

"If the old etiquette is blocking the progress of the human race, if it cannot represent the most advanced political system development of the human race, what's wrong with re-defining the etiquette?" Fang Yun still seemed to be chatting in the vegetable garden.

"You can't say that!" A great scholar said in a deep voice.

Jiang Hechuan smiled bitterly and said, "Fang Yun, you took too big a step."

"If you don't take a big step, the monsters will catch up." Fang Yun said.

"Okay, then tell me, what do you want to do?" Tian Songshi asked.

Fang Yun said: "I see that there are women who are no less than men. If we promote them equally, what else do we want?"

Tian Songshi still smiled and said: "You don't have to hide it. Are you targeting the women's imperial examination?"

"Not really." Fang Yun replied.

"I don't mean it. I hope you can tell me the truth." Tian Songshi said.

Fang Yun smiled indifferently and said: "The women's imperial examination is a matter of great importance. It will definitely come naturally and it is difficult for human power to interfere. How stupid is Fang Yun to target the imperial examination?"

"Then why have your Fang Academy and library been accepting women to study, why do you support the Women's Society, and why do you let Zhao Hongzhuang serve as a senior official?"

Fang Yun said: "Zhao Hongzhuang has made great contributions and has both talent and strategy. She is more than enough to serve as the head of the Zhenjun. If she is tempered, she can even serve as a frontier official. As for the word "support" in supporting the Women's Society, it is not appropriate. It is nothing more than God helps those who help themselves, and I help those who help themselves. Those women have made enough efforts and have enough knowledge , but they don't have the corresponding status. I lent a hand, that's all. The so-called admitting women to study is even more absurd. Some of those women were abandoned by their parents, some were beaten and humiliated, some were from poor families, and some had nothing to do and wanted to study. What law did my academy and library break by admitting them? What's more, what does it mean to admit women to study? Do I stop men from coming to my academy and library? "

Tian Songshi said helplessly: "Fang Xusheng, there is no need to quibble in front of us."

A group of great Confucian scholars were also very helpless. As great Confucian scholars, they were extremely sensitive to everything. Obviously, Fang Yun's words were correct, but they were not the point.

"I just do what I should do." Fang Yun said.

"But what you do has exceeded the rules of the world."

"Aren't the rules of the world meant to be broken?" Fang Yun asked back.

"Don't talk nonsense." A great Confucian scholar objected.

Fang Yun said solemnly: "The morality of the human race may be different, but they all follow a basic bottom line, that is, do not harm innocent people. Any words and deeds that convict innocent people are immoral and beastly. They should be punished at the least, and should be eliminated from the human race at the worst, because they are not worthy of being human! Let me give you a very simple example. When the ten countries were in opposition, my Jing country defined Qing country as an enemy country. Everyone knows it."

Fang Yun glanced at everyone and continued: "In the war between the two countries, we did not formulate detailed rules, but there are some things that everyone knows. For example, when we encounter the enemy's soldiers, we will try our best to kill them. When we encounter civilians who attack us, we will also regard them as soldiers and should kill them. However, most civilians do not want to fight. Even if the food they grow helps the enemy, we will not start a massacre after we win. Some people will say that this is the law and morality. No, not killing innocent civilians has nothing to do with other things. The most fundamental reason is that the human race is protecting itself. Each of us must try our best to let the human race reproduce and try to avoid being killed. It's like saying, I won't kill you indiscriminately, and you don't kill our people indiscriminately. How about everyone making concessions? This sounds ridiculous, but it can really protect yourself and it is really effective."

" When trying a case, the most important thing is to pay attention to evidence, and try to avoid innocent people being convicted. Why? Because if the most basic concept of punishing evil and promoting good cannot be implemented, if people are not held accountable for arbitrarily harming others, and no one cares when innocent people are harmed, then the order of the human race will collapse immediately, and the human race will inevitably be exterminated in a short period of time because of infighting. "

"So, we can determine that 'Qing people are annoying', we can determine that 'I just don't like Qing people', we can determine that 'I just don't want to buy things from Qing', and of course, we can also determine that 'I am willing to buy good things from Qing', and there is nothing wrong with that. If we are more ruthless, we can determine that 'Qing soldiers holding weapons should die', 'Those Qing people who are hostile to Jing should die', and 'Those who intend to harm Jing should die'. Although these are not tolerant enough, they are understandable. After all, we Qing people have been hurt too deeply by Jing. "

Fang Yun finished speaking, paused for a moment, and continued to speak.

"However, we cannot assume that 'all Qing people can be killed', nor can we assume that 'we can rob all Qing people of their property', and we cannot assume that 'I can rape all women, children or men in Qing'. No matter who spreads this kind of thing, our team will not spare him. Such people are not worthy of being human. Any country or group that spreads this kind of thing should be destroyed! They should all be killed! Why? Because they have broken the bottom line of morality, they have launched 'human self-destruction behavior'. Even if such a country wins, it will soon split, and then each party will think that 'all the other party's people can be killed', which will eventually lead to the extinction of the human race."

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