"Mencius has clouds: everyone has compassion and shame...... Therefore, human nature is inherently good, and when it is taught with etiquette and guided by morality, then the war and chaos in the four directions can be eliminated, and the world and Kyushu are the same! ”

"The Confucian saying is bad, babies are born to compete for milk, compatriots are not willing to give in, and when they grow up, they will compete for fame and fortune, and even do not hesitate to kill innocents, so human nature is evil, and only by ruling the country can the world be peaceful!"

"Amitabha Buddha - the four major worlds are empty, how to talk about the distinction between good and evil, or to practice penance in this life and wait for the next life......"

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On the issue of the goodness and evil of human nature, hundreds of students have started a debate, among which Confucianism, Moism, and Yin and Yang all support the theory that human nature is inherently good, while Legalism, celebrities, and vertical and horizontal scholars oppose it, believing that human nature is inherently evil!

Buddhism, on the other hand, is unique in that it is believed that people should abandon academic beliefs and embrace religious beliefs to save the world with boundless Buddhism, which Taoists support, but believe that the local Taishang Laojun is far more effective than the Buddha in the West.

The children of each family took turns on the stage and engaged in heated debates, some of which were full of words and endless words, and some of which were skillful and clever...... Fortunately, there are hundreds of schools of thought in the contention, and although the arguments are fierce, they maintain mutual respect.

Cui Jun, Shi Tao, and Meng Jian are all people who are full of wealth, and they still had an attitude of watching at first, but then they were really itchy, and they also appeared on the stage to participate in the debate, and won bursts of applause!

People who really do learning, the most taboo to learn alone and have no friends, this kind of gathering of hundreds of schools, thousands of people debating the scene, it is simply too much to their appetite, listening to the students around them, there are 10,000 people debating in the university, it is really exciting!

Xiao Yat is also listening carefully, in fact, the good and evil of human nature are just appearances, and what the students are really arguing about is the rule of law, the rule of virtue, the issue of theocracy, and the future direction of the Chinese nation......

With the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the original idea of "deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism" has also been greatly impacted, and the country will sooner or later be unified, and with the establishment of a new dynasty, there must be a new idea to rise!

Today's controversy will be just a small test, sooner or later the hundred schools of thought will go into battle shirtless, whoever can suppress the rest of the schools will be able to become the national school of the new dynasty, and then develop and grow and become the head of the hundred schools!

Buddhism and Taoism were first denied, although Xiao Yi was a child of Taoism, he never wanted to establish a '****' country, because the divine power was too strong, which would not only threaten the imperial power, but also suppress scientific progress!

In Europe, where there are no later generations, how many great scientists have been persecuted by theocracy, there is no shortage of people who have been burned alive, and there is also the 'curry country' of later generations, the whole people are immersed in mythology, and the deformed child has a small tail, and can be worshiped as a monkey god, and there is really no one!

"Qi Qi Da Sima, someone took advantage of the army banquet and neglected precautions to steal a few war horses, but fortunately they were all captured......"

"As soon as the army triumphed, they dared to derelict their duties, the patrol captain beat a hundred military sticks, and the rest of the soldiers beat fifty, and if there is any negligence, they will not be spared, bring the prisoners and stolen goods!"

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I was listening to it, and the soldiers came to tell Xiao Yi that there were thieves who stole the war horses in the camp, and when they were marching and fighting in the past, they often lost their war horses, or the enemy rangers did it, or the bandits and grass bandits did it!

Because of the chaotic times for hegemony, war horses are scarce resources, and the war horses in Xiao Yi's camp are all good horses that are good at galloping, and they can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars if they are pulled out at will, so there is no shortage of outlaws who come to make money with their lives!

This time it was completely different, the thieves stole the horses, not in exchange for money, but ...... roasted and eaten, Xiao Yi was surprised, but also felt that this matter was very interesting, and it was related to this debate, maybe it could whip hundreds of students!

"Da Sima has an order, and the person who leads the horse thief is guilty!"

"Da Sima has an order, and the person who leads the horse thief is guilty!"

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After a while, the 'stolen goods' were brought up first, and the three fat and strong horses, dismantled and scattered, were also roasted to a half-cooked state, and they were covered with large and small tooth marks, as if they had been torn and bitten by a group of wild beasts, but the discerning person could see that those were clearly human tooth marks.

The criminals were also brought in, not the most vicious robbers, but hundreds of ragged, yellow-skinned people, both gray-haired old men and women with children in their arms, their eyes fixed on the roast horse meat, but oblivious to the raised swords and guns!

Without interrogation, I knew that these people, hungry and cold, pretended to have the courage to steal a few war horses, not in exchange for money, but slaughtered and roasted them, only to be discovered by the patrol soldiers, and a person came and took the stolen goods.

According to the law of the army, if the stealer of the horse dies, these people should all be beheaded, but the people are hungry and cold, so they take risks, if they kill for the horse, they really can't bear it!

But release these people, where is the majesty of military law, and what should be done with someone stealing war horses in the future, the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in the anthill, and the majesty of the law is trampled once, and people can no longer be restrained.

The people who were arguing endlessly were all speechless, and this thorny case could not be properly resolved regardless of the legal system, the human system, and the rule of ethics.

"Whoosh! --Click! --Click! ”

The world is the biggest eater, Xiao Yi waved his hand lightly, the soldiers around him scattered, and the hungry people instantly rushed to the roast horse meat, you fight for me, gobble up, eat like a ferocious beast, but the hearts of people watching are cold!

The Chinese people are the most industrious and the most patient, as long as there is still a mouthful of food to eat, they will not resist, but they are really desperate, the anger of the people is enough to burn everything in the world, the invincible Great Qin Empire, isn't it overthrown by the hungry people, and the Han is almost following in its footsteps!

"The country is people-oriented, the people are food-oriented, and it is the fault of our superiors to let the people endure the suffering of hunger and cold!"

After a little sigh, Xiao Yi waved his hand again, and the soldiers carried the big altar of wine and distributed it to the hungry people to drink, even the children poured a few sips!

These people are so hungry that they suddenly eat a lot of horse meat, which is easy to break their stomachs, and drinking strong liquor can help digestion, relieve pressure on the stomach, and also have a neutralizing effect on cold horse meat.

After eating and drinking, the hungry people sat still, and some even closed their eyes, obviously they regarded this meal of wine and meat as the last 'severed meal', but it is better to eat a full meal before death than to be a starving ghost?

"Tell me your origins, why you have become thieves, as long as there are extenuating circumstances, this great Sima can be extrajudicially merged!"

"Let the people suffer from cold and hunger, and the local officials can hardly escape the blame, and summon the officials of Yang'an, Yangcheng, and Fupi counties, and check the household registration, money and grain books!"

Xiao Yi waved his hand again, and the soldiers took hundreds of sheepskins and distributed them to the hungry people in turn, although the style is not very good-looking, but it can shelter from the wind and cold!

After the hungry people were full of food and drink, and had fur to cover their bodies, they finally had some anger and saw the hope of living, and then crawled out of a few old people and cried about their misery......

"We are all farmers in Yang'an County, who make a living by cultivating silkworms and never dare to do evil, but the continuous fighting in the south has transferred all the young and strong people in the village away, leaving only some old and weak women and children!

There was a big drought this summer, there was no rain for five months, the crops in the field all died of drought, and the mulberry trees also died, and it was impossible to raise silkworms!

However, the government continued to recruit soldiers, collect grain, and collect taxes, and forcibly took away the teenage children in the village to serve for labor, and the rations and seeds were also snatched away.

For example, today's cold ground is freezing, the wild vegetables can't be dug up, and half of the people in the village starve to death, and the rest can only become thieves in order to survive, so they steal the horses of the military masters...... Whining! ”

The hungry people told their experiences and cried, and the surrounding generals, strategists, and students all cried, knowing that after a big war, the people were miserable, and they didn't want to suffer to this point!

"War, natural disasters, man-made disasters...... If you don't rectify it well and let the people recuperate, I'm afraid it will be full of yellow sand! ”

Xiao Yi has this account in his heart, because of years of war and great damage to the vitality of the Han family, the population of the Central Plains is less than 10 million, and there are more women than men, only more than 4 million men, less than half of the young and middle-aged men, and the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled!

Before Cao's army marched south, dispatching 400,000 soldiers and millions of people, plus garrisons in other places, it can be said that all the young and strong men in the Central Plains went to the battlefield.

The Chinese nation is the most industrious, even if there are only some old and weak women and children left, they will cultivate the land, raise silkworms, and work hard to live, but in addition to the country's men, it also continues to collect food!

Cao Ying's 400,000 soldiers, millions of people's husbands, and millions of mules and horses consume countless amounts every day, eating up all the imperial treasury, and the huge logistical pressure falls on the old and weak women and children, and there are two additional burdens: one is layer upon layer of deduction, and the other is road consumption!

As the saying goes: no business, no treachery, no official is not greedy, geese pluck their feathers, beasts leave their skins, even if they encounter an iron rooster, the official can scrape a layer of rust down.

For example, the imperial court asked for 100,000 hui of grain, and the order reached the state pastoral level, the number became 150,000 hu, (the extra is the official benefit fee), and at the county guard level, the number became 200,000 hu, (the reason is the same as above), the county order, the township covenant, the pavilion chief, and the lizheng......

Layer by layer, layer by layer, when it comes to the people, the number will be several times, or even more than ten times, the men have gone to war, the grain production in the field has been reduced, and then such a murderous looting, how many grains of rice can be left? How many grains?

100,000 grains were sent to the front line, thousands of miles apart, and the people had to eat more than half of them, plus the sunken ships, overturned cars, and those burned by the enemy...... In the end, it was sent to the soldiers, and it would be good to have 10,000 loads.

The gap between the front and back is hundreds of times, even though the Cao Ying Group has a big business, the treasury is also exhausted, and the people are either dying of cold and starvation, or taking risks, so the people are in all directions, and there are groups of thieves!

If it is not resolved quickly and properly, the big ship of Caoying Group is even in danger of sinking!

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