The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2575 The beginning of all laws is called principle!

"So, what about a big landowner? Even if he doesn't take the initiative to be a bad person, he is very powerful and will inevitably do bad things inadvertently, such as persecuting farmers when annexing land, lynching his own servants, or hoarding, What will such a person do to drive up prices and disrupt the market? Let the law make it easier for you to annex land, find ways to reduce the penalty of death, and find ways to reduce the upper limit of punishment for driving up prices and disrupting the market. Therefore, it is not difficult for everyone to understand what I said earlier. When officials gain power from the monarch, they will find ways to avoid themselves. The death penalty will inevitably lead to the enactment of robber laws.”

Fang Yun smiled and said: "Okay, we have finished talking about the laws of justice and the laws of bandits. You may think that the descendants of the bandits are bad, but just like the scum and reverse species among our high-moral Chinese people, they Among ethnic groups, there will also be people who are deeply aware of their own problems. They will Try to be better and avoid becoming like their ancestors. After all, people are progressive. However, quite a few of them not only fail to restrain themselves, but also commit more brutal bandit crimes than their ancestors! Moreover, why are bandit tribes naturally hostile to kind tribes?”

"Because they used evil means to occupy the land and establish the ethnic group and the country. They cannot accept an ethnic group that did not use this method to establish the country. Just like, if a good person is among a group of extremely vicious gangsters, he will inevitably be destroyed. Hostility and oppression may even lead to death.”

"They know that the means they used to build the country are dishonorable, so they must have created various imaginary enemies in their hearts. They speak loudly and show kindness when encountering weak aliens. However, if they encounter powerful aliens, they will If you find that the other party can threaten you, you will inevitably activate the gangster instinct in your body, and you will find ways to repel or even attack."

"Some people may say that I am denying those bandit tribes. No, I am just stating a fact. Moreover, the bandit tribe has advantages in many aspects. They have no moral constraints, so they can use all kinds of despicable and shameless methods. They use means to enhance themselves, and they value interests more than morality.”

"On the other hand, we kind-hearted tribe often pay more attention to morality and ignore interests. When the interests are lost bit by bit, over time and accumulated too much, it is likely to ruin the entire tribe. Therefore, we should learn the survival instinct of the bandit tribe to a certain extent. ”

"We don't want to learn from them to rob and plunder, but we can learn from them to safeguard their own interests and balance ethnic interests and morality, rather than focusing too much on morality. We don't want to learn from them that they extremely reject enemies who can threaten them, but we also need to learn from them. They should not overly believe in foreigners or even worship foreigners. We cannot learn from them to put murderers and victims on the same footing, but we must ensure that kind-hearted citizens are more equal.”

The following paragraphs are more like clichés, or excessive. Many people have the feeling that Fang Yun has more important things to say.

Fang Yun paused for a moment, leaning forward slightly with a determined expression.

"With the foundation I mentioned before, we can continue to discuss what I have in mind."

"I strongly oppose the king making laws. I don't think the moral standards of the human race can determine all laws. I also don't think the laws established by the Legalists are necessarily correct, because we humans simply cannot formulate perfect laws. We We can only imagine that there is a perfect law, and what we humans have to do is to formulate laws that are infinitely close to this perfect law.”

"Since perfect law cannot be formulated by humans, it must be born before humans. We can call it natural law. It can be said to be a law born naturally, or it can be said to be part of the way of heaven. Therefore, we will find that in the law In terms of implementation, Legalism is far superior to Confucianism, but in terms of understanding the origin of law, Confucianism is superior to Legalism. After all, Confucianism recognizes the existence of the way of heaven. The ancient Legalists completely handed over the law to the emperor, which was a devaluation of the law. level.”

After hearing Fang Yun say that Confucianism is superior to Legalism, many Legalists looked angry or even angry.

However, after hearing what Fang Yun said, the highly educated Legalist not only lost all his anger, but also showed a look of surprise.

Because Legalism has always had a huge shortcoming, that is, the Legalists were born dependent on the imperial power, so later they could only continue to consolidate the imperial power. In fact, the Holy Way of the Legalists at that time was often mixed with political tactics, which was very similar. Today's miscellaneous family has only been gradually purified in recent years.

The fundamental intention is not high, which prevents the Legalist Holy Way from making a real breakthrough.

Legalists have been struggling to get rid of imperial power until Fang Yun and the Constitution appeared.

Fang Yun proposed the concept of natural law and proposed the intention to move closer to the way of heaven, which allowed the Legalists to completely break through the original constraints, surpass the imperial power, and reach a higher realm.

The reason why Confucianism is powerful is that Confucianism relies on the supreme way of heaven. The foundation of Confucianism at the beginning is ritual, and ritual is sacrifice to heaven. Confucianism presided over sacrifice from the beginning, which is the relationship between heaven and king, heaven and country. , the hub of heaven and other people, and is the only one that can directly communicate with heaven.

On the other hand, the existence of other hundreds of schools of thought is only based on the ordinary holy way. Even if they have the concept of heavenly way, it is not as thorough as Confucianism.

The high-ranking Confucians present began to get nervous, because they monopolized the communication between the human race and Heaven. If the natural law established by Fang Yun could really be recognized by Heaven, Confucianism's monopoly would inevitably be broken.

This is no longer an ordinary dispute over the Holy Way, but a dispute over the origin of the Holy Way, a real fight to the death.

Confucius once punished Shao Zhengmao, and he would certainly punish Fang Yun who divided the origin of the Confucian Holy Way!

Fang Yun seemed not to see the expressions of the Confucian scholars, and said: "Legalism is Legalism after all, Confucianism is Confucianism after all, or in other words, all schools of thought respect Confucianism and the Way of Heaven, but they cannot monopolize the Way of Heaven, so natural law cannot be the Way of Heaven."

Many Confucian scholars secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that fortunately this was a Holy Way literary gathering, and all forces would be formed in the end. If it was an ordinary literary gathering, Fang Yun said such words, and I don’t know how much trouble it would cause, and I am afraid it would force the semi-saint to take action.

On the high platform, Fang Yun looked down at the whole audience, smiled slightly, and said: "I have pondered and studied the classics of the saints, and picked out a word from it. This word may have a broader meaning, but so far, it is suitable for natural law to be placed on it."

All the scholars in the venue instinctively took a deep breath, then held their breath and looked at Fang Yun with wide eyes.

"It is called 'reason', which should be the beginning of all laws!"

There seemed to be thunder in the sky, but it disappeared immediately, as if it was just an illusion.

Chen's plum garden.

An old man wearing a washed blue gown, like a general ready to go, was about to walk out, but stopped at the door and looked up at the sky.

"Young people are formidable!"

After the old man finished speaking, he turned back to the house, took off his gown, changed into casual clothes, sat on a recliner, closed his eyes and rested.

Qingguo, Jiutaoju.

Two identical people are playing chess.

The two men each held a chess piece, stopped in mid-air, and stood still.

Wolf Barbarians.

A huge wolf, lying like a mountain, looked up at the sky, the fear in his eyes flashed, and then revealed a cruel look.

"When the great saints return, it will be the time for the human race to perish!"

By the way, the concept and nature of natural law have never been unified, there are many schools and sayings, and Shengyuan Continent is obviously not suitable for promoting positivism, or positivism and natural law have defects, so the best way is to establish a natural law system with Shengyuan Continent characteristics. As for the theory, it will unfold slowly.