Seeing that Zeng Shen was still unconvinced, he was there with his neck stalked. Le Ge shook his head and added, "Your husband is deliberately and one-sidedly exaggerating everything he advocates such as Xin. I'm telling you! Don't say anything else! Just say the letter. There are some people who we are born to believe. For example, mother's love! Can you deny it? Even animals have maternal love! Don't you see? ”

"This?"

"Are you still arguing with me? For brutes! How do you tell them the faith? What do they know about faith? Isn't it? But? They are born with faith! Otherwise! Where do they come from? Isn't it? Animals all protect their children, don't they? Did your husband Confucius teach them? ”

"You?" Zeng Shen was so angry that he wanted to fight.

"Don't rush with me! I'm just explaining it to you! I said that your husband's doctrine and proposition are suggested on a certain basis, but you and your husband and others just don't believe it. We Taoists all agree that your husband's doctrine and thought are based on the prosperity of the world, not the truth of 'everything is universal'.

In troubled times! Believing in your husband's set, it may be difficult to survive. Even in the heyday, it may not be completely feasible. To know! There is relatively less darkness in the prosperous world, but it is not that there is no dark side in the prosperous world! Zeng Shen! Zengzi! There is also a dark side in the prosperous world. On the earth! There is always a place where the sun's rays can't shine! Zeng Shen! Zengzi! So! If you completely and absolutely believe in your husband's ways, you will only suffer. ”

"Then you say! What to do! Zeng Shen said with a stiff neck.

"Learn to survive! Learn survival! Survival comes first! Don't follow me with dogma: Do you only care about survival and ignore character and morality? Don't follow the rules? I'm telling you! Survival does not necessarily mean that you don't need character and morality! We've argued this countless times before! Isn't it? ”

"Uncle Le!" Zeng Shen is still not convinced!

"Read on to your arrangement of the Analects! If you raise the bar again! I don't bother to pay attention to you! I'm going to practice my Taoist mind! Le Ge said, waving his arm towards Zeng Shen.

"Yes! Uncle Le! Zeng Shen had no choice but to answer and continue to read the Analects.

Thorn Zicheng said: "It's just a gentleman's quality, why is it a text?" Zigong said: "It's a pity that the master said that the gentleman is also!" Tongue-in-cheek. The text is still quality, the quality is still textual, and the tiger and leopard are like the dog and sheep. ”

"What do you mean?" Lege asked habitually.

Zeng Shen explained: "Thorn Zicheng said: A gentleman only needs to have good qualities in his heart, what do you want those superficial rituals for? Zigong said: It's a pity, Master, that you talk about a gentleman like this. As soon as the word is spoken, the horse is difficult to chase. The essence is like the literary style, and the literary style is like the essence, both of which are equally important. The skin of a tiger or leopard that has been removed from its fur is like a dog or sheepskin that has been removed from its fur, and it has become corpse meat, and it is no longer a tiger or leopard. ”

"What do you mean?" Lege asked puzzled.

Zeng Shen further explained: "Thorn Zicheng believes that as a gentleman, as long as you have good qualities, you don't need to be outwardly literary. But Zigong objected to this statement. Zigong believes that it should be the same on the outside and on the inside. Without a surface form, endoplasm cannot be revealed. There is no endoplasm and only a superficial form, and that is hypocritical. ”

"Who is Thorn Zicheng?" Lege asked.

Zeng Shen replied: "Thorn Zicheng is a doctor who defends the country, and doctors can be called masters. So! Zigong called him Master. ”

"Oh?" Lege nodded. "Read on!"

"Yes! Uncle Le! Zeng Shen said.

Mourning Gong asked Yu Youruo: "The year is hungry, and the use is insufficient, what is it?" If you say, "Thoroughly? He said: "Second, I am still insufficient, how thorough is it?" He said: "The people are enough, who is the king and the insufficiency?" The people are insufficient, who is the king? ”

"What do you mean?" Lege asked.

Zeng Shen explained: "Lu Aigong asked if you said: What should I do if there is a famine and the country is in difficulty? If you answer, "Why don't you implement the law thoroughly and take only one-tenth of the land tax?" Wai Gong said: Now I am not enough to draw two-tenths, how can I implement the Fa thoroughly? If you say, "If the people have enough, how can you not have enough?" If the people don't have enough, how can you have enough? ”

"What do you mean?" Lege asked puzzled.

Zeng Shen further explained: "When countries are suffering from famine, the solution is not to continue to collect taxes, but to reduce them. And also! The aristocracy should also reduce their spending and stop living in luxury. The people are not happy, and without the foundation of the people, where will the pleasures of the nobility come from? ”

"What is the Tho Law?" Lege asked again.

Zeng Shen explained: "Che, a kind of land tax system in the country. Generally, two-tenths of the tax is extracted. ”

"Oh?"

"You should put the people first, not your own enjoyment of life. Without the people's taxes, where would the nobles and kings live in luxury? That's what it means. ”

"Oh? Read on! ”

"Yes! Uncle Le! Zeng Shen said.

Zizhang asked Chongde to discern his doubts. Zi said: "The Lord is faithful, righteous, and virtuous." The desire of love for life, the desire for death of evil, the desire for both life and death, is confusion. 'Honesty is not rich, but also different. ’”

"What do you mean?"

Zeng Shen explained: "Zizhang asked how to improve the level of moral cultivation and the ability to distinguish right from wrong and remove confusion. Mr. said: Focusing on faithfulness, making one's thoughts in line with righteousness, and persevering, this is to improve the level of moral cultivation. It can't be like this: if you love someone, you want him to live, and if you hate it, you want him to die immediately. To want him to live, but also to die, this is confusion. As the poem says: 'Even if you don't hate the poor and love the rich, you still like the new and hate the old.' It's because we don't stand firm and can't persevere! ”

"What do you mean? I didn't understand? Lege asked.

Zeng Shen further explained: "What Mr. is talking about is mainly the issue of personal moral cultivation. He hoped that people would act in accordance with the principles of faithfulness and righteousness, and that they should persevere. Otherwise, emotionally, you will fall into confusion. ”

"Oh?"

Zeng Shen explained: "The main thing is to talk about the word 'constant'! Be persevering, and don't see any strange thoughts! ”

'Oh?' What does it mean to be honest and not rich, but only different'? What's in the Book of Songs? ”

Zeng Shen replied: "These are the last two sentences of the "Book of Songs, Xiaoya, I Do My Way". It is about the anger of an abandoned woman who likes the new and hates the old with her husband. ”

"Oh?" Le Ge replied ashamedly.

I thought: Zeng Shen, this nerd, has really read a lot of books! Ask him anything, and he knows everything. Unfortunately, I have a good memory, but my thinking skills are limited, and I just memorize by rote!

Seeing Zeng Shen looking at himself, he had to say, "Keep reading?" ”

"Yes! Uncle Le!" Zeng Shen Dao.

Qi Jinggong asked Confucius about politics. Confucius said, "Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons." The public said, "Good! Faith is like a king not a king, a minister is not a minister, a father is not a father, a son is not a son, although there is corn, I have to eat everything? ”

"What do you mean?" Lege asked.