"There is no way! Civilization has come step by step! It can also be said that civilization is built on blood! It was bought with the sacrifices of countless people! Alas! Wei Ying sighed.

"Actually! If all of us learn the Tao, the progress of civilization may not be like this! You say that civilization is built on blood, and I really can't bear to hear it! I don't even know how many years history has been? The visible history ranges from the Fuxi clan to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and what about the invisible history? How many years have passed, and how many people have made sacrifices for the civilization of society......"

Wei Ying comforted: "Our ancestors may have been savages, monkeys or something, from wild beasts to the current human beings, only then did we have the history of human civilization today, isn't this how we evolved?" Barbaric, disorderly, and freely will all be withdrawn from the stage of history! The future history of mankind is an orderly history! Human beings have a common code of conduct, and everyone learns to abide by the ......"

Zhuangzi interrupted Wei Ying's words and said, "What you said is from the perspective of social management and governing the world. In fact! What is the common code of conduct of human beings, and it is not defined by anyone? It wasn't made by the king or you, the jurist! What is the common code of conduct of human beings? Just one word! ”

"Which word?" Wei Ying asked.

Zhuangzi smiled and said, "Sheng! ”

"Raw?"

"Nothing and humanity cannot escape the word 'life'! Life is a goal that everyone pursues! You don't need to make any laws to stipulate it, everyone consciously thinks of their own ways to survive! "Bai Du Yixia performed a new chapter of the Song Hall to cut the mouth

Wei Ying listened and laughed.

"Fools are greedy for life and afraid of death! Does this need to be asked? ”

"Isn't that all there is to it? What else is needed for the law? Zhuangzi spread his hands.

"But?" Wei Ying defended: "Life is everyone's common goal, but everyone's way of survival is different? So it creates conflicts, huh? If there is no law to restrain them, they will all survive for themselves, and they will not be chaotic, fighting, and disunited? Isn't it? So! There is still a need for a common law to bind it! Compel everyone to comply! ”

"Forced? Can't force it! Zhuangzi interrupted Wei Ying's words and said, "Everyone must be willing!" Be conventional! ”

"Conventional?" Wei Ying asked puzzledly, "What do you mean by convention?" ”

"The law is promulgated in the form of a law on the basis of the voluntary observance of the law, and only then does the law obey it voluntarily. In fact! It doesn't matter if it's promulgated or not, everyone has already consciously complied with it, hasn't it? The meaning of convention is that everyone thinks this method is reasonable, and this is convention!

And what you call the law of compulsion! Generally speaking, a jurist like you has formulated a new code of conduct on the basis of conventions and on the basis of predictability! You say, "That's a precaution." Not really! That's self-inflicted! It is the most likely to be exploited.

For example! Death penalty! There are many crimes in the laws of your Qin State that will be punishable by death! But for Taoists, no! As far as the masses of the people are concerned, from the perspective of survival, as long as it does not affect a person's survival, he cannot be sentenced to death. The death penalty can only be imposed if a person affects the survival of others......

For example, someone has a piece of silver left on him to make ends meet, but at this time he is robbed by someone else. This person who was robbed of silver taels can be sentenced to death to the person who robbed him of silver taels!

Another example! Others were left with a life-sustaining steamed bun, a bowl of noodles or a bowl of rice, which was snatched away by others. So! He could have sentenced the man who robbed him to death! Another example is ......"

"Wait, wait!" Wei Yan interrupted.

"I'm not done yet!" Zhuangzi didn't let Wei Ying interrupt him, and wanted to continue.

"I already see what you mean!"

"You see what I mean?" Zhuangzi asked.

"Didn't I hear your master Yang senior say it before? Are you there too? I've got it! You are the inheritor of Yang's predecessors, and you inherit the orthodox Taoist doctrine, just like what your master said! What if it is according to your Taoist meaning? So! A large number of people in the world are going to die! ”

Wei Ying said, laughing!

"Why do you want to die a lot?" Zhuangzi defended very seriously: "As long as others give us a way to live, we are a great good people!" It does not affect our bottom line of survival, and we will definitely not resist! ”

Looking at Zhuangzi's seriousness, Wei Ying smiled even harder. After laughing enough, he asked rhetorically, "Do you think it's possible?" ”

"How could it be?"

"The society has progressed to the era of great unification, and it is no longer what your ancestor Lao Tzu imagined, 'small countries and widows'. Can you Taoists stand alone in the big institution of society? Can you do it? ”

"How could it not be?" Zhuangzi asked rhetorically.

"The world is the world of the Great Zhou, before this, the Great Zhou had the Zhou system, the Zhou ceremony, the law of the Great Zhou, the people of the Great Zhou followed the law of the Great Zhou, and everyone had a common code of conduct. Right now! The world is in chaos! It was divided by the seven vassal states of Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Han, Wei, and Qin, and each vassal state had its own laws, do you say you can stand alone? Can you be lawless? ”

"Not yet? Not yet? Zhuangzi said proudly: "What do you say is the use of the law you have formulated?" For example, what is the use of all the laws and regulations of the Zhou Dynasty, such as the Zhou system and the Zhou rites of the Great Zhou? If it is useful, will the Great Zhou Dynasty decline to this point? The Great Zhou Dynasty has already existed in name only! There is no Great Zhou Dynasty anymore! Isn't it? Why? ”

"What's the reason?"

"The reason is that no one complies with it! What is the use of the law when no one keeps it? No matter how perfect and perfect your laws are, it is empty talk if no one obeys them! Decoration! Useless! So! Laws that force others to accept are not perfect laws! Only the laws that everyone consciously obeys, the laws that are customary, are the laws that everyone needs! ”

"So? What kind of law is the law that we need? Wei Ying's voice was much lower, and he no longer argued.

"Raw! The law that is for the survival of the majority of people is the best law! For example! Your reform of the Qin State! Waste well fields, open up Qianmo, and set up counties and counties are the best laws! It is a law for the sake of the majority. And also! The reform of unified measurement and so on is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and facilitates the ...... of the people."

Wei Ying let out a long breath and said, "You haven't completely denied me, have you?" But? My change has offended the hereditary aristocracy, me? Alas! ”

Seeing Wei Ying's sigh, Zhuangzi persuaded: "I'm happy to see you this time, do you know why?" ”

"Why?"

"I'm just anxious for your life!"

"You're anxious for my life, are you still happy?" Wei Yan looked puzzled.

"Am I not? I want to help you? I'll teach you how to save your life? You have a lot of guts! Why did you move Gongzi Qian and Gongsun Jia to be punished? You? You? Alas! How did you cut someone's nose? How will you let people meet people in the future? You? You're not looking for death for yourself? Isn't it? You say you? Yes? ”

"I'm not enforcing the law, I'm doing things according to the law! How did they, as the prince's husband, teach the prince? ”

"Look at you? You have offended the prince again! Do you dare to cut the nose of the prince's gentleman? You? You don't want to mess around, do you? ”