Chapter 343: Rat or human!
Li Shanchang was noncommittal.
People are selfish, especially after a collapse of rituals and music. How easy is it to re-establish an upward system? If it were really that easy, His Majesty wouldn't be thinking about his personal agenda anymore.
Li Shanchang looked at Xia Zhibai, pondered for a while, and said, "Do you think what you said will come true?"
Xia Zhibai said with certainty: "Yes."< br>
"why?" Isn’t the world moving from chaos to great order?”
Li Shanchang shook his head.
He picked up his chopsticks, picked out a piece of fish, and said while eating, "Do you really think the world is heading towards great peace?"
Xia Zhibai suddenly fell silent.
Li Shanchang snorted softly and said indifferently: "You may have seen the current situation in the world. People's hearts are all selfish. Being able to repair and repair the world after the war is the current extreme. I want to go further. There is no support from all sides."
"You have fighting spirit, ambition, and drive. I can understand it, but people have to face reality."
"This is the reality. . ”
“And can the great governance in history really be regarded as a prosperous age? How can there be so many bones in the prosperous age? It is impossible to support so many people and manage a huge system. This is the problem for everyone. The Ming Dynasty is facing all the problems.”
“You have always known about some things.”
"I just don't want to accept it."
"Maybe some of your views are very exciting and exciting, but the facts will always come to fruition, and rhetoric that cannot be grounded will eventually become a laughing stock. I don’t know what you said to His Highness, which made him change a lot, but I need you to remember that nothing in the world is easy.”
“It is easy to change a person.”
“But to change the whole world, we must exhaust the hearts of the people.”
“The Ming Dynasty was created by our ministers. We have deep feelings for the Ming Dynasty and do not want the world to appear like this. There are too many fluctuations, and we don’t want the world to go backwards due to some ridiculous and ridiculous behaviors, or even exchange people for food, and the people are in dire straits.”
"The troubled times are really too miserable."
Xia Zhibai smiled faintly.
He looked at the calm Li Shanchang, with a look of contempt on his lips, and said: "No matter what the Grand Master says, he is still planning for his own family. It doesn't matter whether the world is moving or not. Is it up to the ministers to decide? The decision-making power is never in the hands of you or me, but in the hands of the emperor and the people of the world."
"When the people think that the world needs reform, no matter how hard the court tries to stop it, it will always happen. Someone will make an earth-shattering sound."
"The Grand Master's feelings for Daming are really a bit snobbish, not pure, and not sincere."
"If the Grand Master is really thinking about the world."
"The Grand Master may say a few other words to me."
Li Shanchang frowned.
He looked at Xia Zhibai suspiciously and asked puzzledly: "Oh, what words do you think I should say?"
He was also interested for a moment.
"There are no heroes in Ming Dynasty's dictionary!" Xia Zhibai said word by word. Hear the words.
Li Shanchang’s face changed wildly.
Looking at Xia Zhibai, his eyes were filled with shock, anger and dissatisfaction.
Xia Zhibai drank all the wine in the glass, then wiped the corners of his mouth happily and said with a smile: "This is the real selfishness of human nature. In fact, these ministers who founded the Ming Dynasty have already Got the world’s response In return, you are now in a high position, enjoying a wealth and splendor that is unmatched by ordinary people, and are praised by the people of the world. You have gained both fame and fortune. Normally, your contributions to the world have been paid in full."
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"It's just that you are not satisfied, and you are not willing to stop here."
"The desire is hard to fill."
"This mountain always looks up to that mountain."
"Always I felt that I had made such a great contribution to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and that I should enjoy more benefits as a matter of course. However, I never thought that the fame and fortune that I should have enjoyed had actually been realized early in the founding of the Ming Dynasty. What you should really do now is to contribute to this new empire, so that you can gain the fame and fortune you deserve."
"This is only fair."
"But how many people today can 'start over'? Most of them are resting on their past achievements, resting on their laurels, standing still, or even not thinking about making progress. Moreover, many people are still complacent and always hold on to the achievements of the past. Are great achievements overwhelming? ”
“Isn’t this making people laugh?”
“I don’t deny that most people in the world are interested in the selfishness of the family, but the Grand Master only sees the selfishness of the officials below. If you don't have your own 'greed', if you don't If the people at the top cannot position themselves correctly, how can the officials below follow suit? "
"As the saying goes, the more you do, the more you get. If you are in a high position, even if you only do a small thing? , the reward was thousands and hundreds times, but even so, you are still not satisfied. You still think that you have been slighted and that the court is unfair. "
"You even teach the officials below not to be too greedy."
"How ridiculous."
Xia Zhibai sneered and shook his head, his eyes full of teasing and sarcasm.
Li Shanchang's face became angry, and his eyes looking at Xia Zhibai were full of anger, but he did not explode in the end.
Xia Zhibai did not pay attention to Li Shanchang's anger and continued: "If the Grand Master wants to ask me why His Highness made a change in a short period of time, I can indeed answer it for the Grand Master, just like in history The same goes for Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty."
"There is such a short article in Li Si's biography."
"When I was a young official in the county, I saw a rat in the toilet of an official's house. It had nothing to eat and was close to people and dogs. I was frightened. When I entered the barn, I saw the rat in the barn, eating accumulated millet. It was living under the large veranda. No humans or dogs were seen Worry. So Li Sinai sighed: "The virtuous people are like rats, it depends on where they are."
Li Shanchang nodded.
Of course he knows this allusion.
Why did Xia Zhibai suddenly mention 'Li Si'?
Xia Zhibai said leisurely: "Li Si's allusion may be an inspiration to many people, but if combined with Li Si's life, it will give people more warning, because whether it is a rat in the toilet or a rat in the hamster No matter what, he is still a mouse.”
"No matter how the mouse changes its position, it is still a mouse, and its essence will not change."
"So Li Si cannot escape the fate of a mouse!"
"So this allusion, in my opinion, , actually has two meanings, one can put oneself in the position of a mouse that moves, or one can be a person who observes the mouse and uses it as a warning.”
“But most people in the world just do that. I want to change from a rat in the toilet to a rat in the hamster.”
“I don’t want to stand up as a human being.”
(End of this chapter)