Chapter 387: The Benevolent Are Invincible
As a brother, Xia Hongsheng didn't want Duan Zan to stay in the spy camp anymore. Although, Xia Hongsheng's original intention of establishing a spy battalion was to collect intelligence on hostile countries as a subordinate of the military. However, in today's context, the spy battalion must be under the control of the emperor, not the military, because of the information it has. In other words, the military only has the right to use it, but it does not have the right to control it. And under the control of the imperial power, it is being given more functions by the emperor. It is foreseeable that in the future, the emperor is even likely to attach some dark functions to it, and at that time, it will no longer be a pure military intelligence agency, but will become an external intelligence agency, an internal spy agency, and become Li Shimin's "Jinyi Guard".
The pursuit and investigation of the remnants of the rebellious party and the interrogation of the rebellious party were not handed over to the Dali Temple, which should have been handed over, but to the spy battalion, which has already illustrated this trend.
It seems that people who are spies don't end well, especially the spy leaders. Therefore, Xia Hongsheng didn't want Duan Zan to continue to stay in the spy camp, and more importantly, the environment here was too easy to release the demon in people's hearts. When it came to Yousa just now, Duan Zan took it for granted and didn't have any compassion, which made Xia Hongsheng feel a little sad.
Whether it's the Holy Mother, fake mercy, or the hypocrisy of setting up the archway, Xia Hongsheng doesn't have these words now, otherwise he will definitely be able to scold himself. But he still thinks that people should have unbearable hearts in their hearts. Even if you have to do something for some higher ideal or purpose, you should know in your heart that you are objectively right and incorrect in doing so. Those who use the wrong means for the right end are a last resort. So feel sorry. And not as it should be.
It's like the pleasure and revenge and the elimination of violence and peace in martial arts novels - for revenge. And to take revenge "happily", killing people is not the same thing at all, the hand up and down, the hand up and down, the hand up and down, the hand up and down, and you won't do it without blinking your eyes. Although the villains commit murder at will, even if they are decent, they will always harm the innocent. It seems that as long as justice is in hand, they can kill wantonly. This is not right.
Xia Hongsheng hopes that even if it is an extraordinary means used in order to get useful and beneficial information about Datang, then these means are a last resort, and after getting what he wants, he will stop these means, with a trace of guilt, knowing that these methods are not good and are a last resort. If you don't have this trace of guilt in your heart, you don't know clearly that these methods are bad. But when you indulge in the success and results brought by these means, then the demon in the person's heart is released. He will be disrespectful of good and evil. Give up right and wrong, and believe in these methods as beliefs, just like the terrifying Jinyi Wei and the East and West Factory in later generations.
There is a saying in the afterlife, which is said to a small group of people who are addicted to games and have delayed their lives, the original words are: play your game, don't be played by games. Xia Hongsheng wants to change the meaning of this sentence here: control those means, don't let those means control you.
Xia Hongsheng's brain center was thinking about electricity, and he thought about a lot of things. Duan Zan was also suspicious in his eyes, and after tasting it for a long time, he suddenly asked: "Brother, do you think that what inappropriate things have you done for your brother in this spy camp?" ”
Xia Hongsheng looked at Duan Zhan, thought about it, sighed, and said: "Good medicine is good for disease, and good advice is good for action." If it were someone else, I would definitely not have said such a thing. If Brother Duan thinks that the younger brother is speaking a little ugly, please forgive me, the younger brother is also afraid that Brother Duan will lose his heart. ”
Hearing Xia Hongsheng say this, Duan Zhan's face was solemn, and he immediately hugged his fists: "Please also ask my brother to teach!" ”
"Just now I asked Brother Duan if the female assassin was going to die, and Brother Duan looked indifferent. Brother Duan should also know that that kind of mental torture, ordinary people can't hold it for two days, and after three or four days, they will be a little stunned. What about female assassins? Half a month! I knew that Brother Duan must have used other methods that didn't work, so he finally used this method and pried her mouth open. In order to find out the whereabouts of the female thief leader, Brother Duan completely broke off this chaotic party, and for the stability of Datang, the younger brother admired his efforts. It's just that the younger brother can't see the slightest pity for torturing a living person into a mad beast that tears and eats his own flesh and blood from Brother Duan's body, and Brother Duan doesn't care about the life and death consequences of the prisoner after being tortured by this kind of inhumanity. This is not good. Brother Duan may think that the younger brother is making a big fuss, a chaotic party that harms countless people and endangers the Tang Dynasty, and it is hypocritical to have pity for her. But what the little brother is talking about here is the unbearable heart in people's hearts. Didn't Brother Duan find out that the people in the spy camp had no feeling for these tortures? Seeing these tortured people, they not only did not feel pity, but on the contrary, they felt joy and excitement. Gradually, including Brother Duan, they will think that these methods are correct and taken for granted. Once this consciousness is formed, these methods are bound to be abused. ”
Xia Hongsheng looked at Duan Zan and saw that Duan Zan didn't speak, so he said again: "The junior brother doesn't want to see it, and Brother Duan has gradually become a cold-blooded and cruel person without mercy. Brother Duan must not get used to these means, he must stay sober and know that our purpose is right, and these means are actually wrong, just to achieve the right goal, we have to use these wrong means. This consciousness must be engraved in the heart, so that it will not be controlled by those means, and those means will not be abused. The younger brother did not object to Brother Duan using these means to interrogate those who threatened the stability of the Tang Dynasty. What the younger brother objected to was that Brother Duan and the people in the spy camp were getting used to and adapting to those methods, and they didn't think those methods were bad. With this kind of intolerance, these harsh methods will not be abused. If these methods are abused, what will be the consequences, doesn't Brother Duan understand? When the time comes, everyone is afraid of these tortures, so everyone is afraid of the court, and there will be no mutual trust between the people and the court, and there will only be mutual vigilance between officials. Datang will be evil, and our benevolent and filial Datang will become a terrifying Datang. At the beginning, when I taught Brother Duan these methods, I said that these methods should not be used unless absolutely necessary, and I also reminded Brother Duan once before not to be confused by the effectiveness of these methods. Having said so much, in fact, in the final analysis, Brother Duan can use these means to interrogate as a last resort, but don't lose your pity, only see the effects of these means, but forget that these means themselves are very great evils. Please think twice! ”
Many times, in order to break through the darkness, you have to understand the darkness and even become the darkness. But the difference between "good" and "bad" is that the former is in darkness, but he is not covered by darkness, he can still see the light, keep a bright heart, and act according to the light. And the latter, too, fell into darkness together.
Xia Hongsheng is not against getting information from Yousa's mouth, but he just hopes that Duan Zan is the former, and he knows in his heart that these inhumane methods are not good, and he will not rely on and abuse these methods under the guidance of these cruel methods, and become a cruel person.
It's like "a gentleman's kitchen".
It's not that you don't eat meat, it's not that you don't slaughter. And while eating meat, you must also have a heart of intolerance.
I can't bear it, but I don't want it.
With this kind of intolerance, people will be "benevolent". (To be continued.) )