Chapter 5 Asymptomatic Line (Part 1)

"Under the heaven, everyone is born equal." As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was silent.

Before this, Zhu Chongjiu also proposed the idea that "the four people are equal, no one has high or low", but that can be regarded as an obsession that he personally became influenced by Maitreya, or an instinctive feeling that he had personally felt when he was bullied when he was a butcher. No one wanted to implement this obsession to the end in the daily operation of the Huaiyang General Administration Office, and no one would try to elevate it to the height of "The Book of Zhou" and "Three Chapters of the Constitution", and become the foundation of the future founding of the entire Huaiyang Group.

However, in desperation today, Zhu Chongjiu formally put forward the sentence "Under the heaven, everyone is born equal." He also declared that he would use this as his contract with all the people of the world and become the mother of all laws in the future country. This completely shattered all the expectations and fantasies in everyone's hearts. The future political and laws of the Huaiyang General Manager will also use this contract as the starting point. Anything that is contrary to it may have to be revised.

However, no matter how shocked everyone was, no one could hate Zhu Chongjiu himself.

After all, it was Zhu Chongjiu's initial time and did not force everyone to accept his views. In fact, although this person has always advocated equality among the four people and has always "respected the common people and was slow to the scholars and officials", he always gave scholars the most opportunities and the greatest courtesy when selecting talents.

And according to the current operation of the Huaiyang General Administration, the gentry and the owners of the manor and the fortress are also the ones who make the most profits. As long as they do not deliberately fight against the General Administration, they will even be more likely to earn ten or even a hundred times huge returns than they did under the rule of the Mongol Yuan.

In addition, some of the laws and regulations and decrees implemented by the Huaiyang General Administration in the past were imitated in the Song Dynasty, some were moved to other Red Scarf friendly forces, and even a large part was copied from the Mongolian Yuan. Zhu Chongjiu did not have much resistance to it. As long as the following people can explain the reasons for adoption and prove that it is necessary to implement it, they will immediately release it with seals.

The monarch and ministers have almost reached a tacit understanding. No matter what their own ideas are, they can do things that are beneficial to the development of the General Administration. As long as they can be implemented, they can be implemented.

However, just today, just half an hour just now, a fool suddenly jumped out and completely smashed the above tacit understanding and compromise. Let me ask, after witnessing the whole process with my own eyes, who should everyone hate?

Immediately, whether it was a staunch Confucian disciple, a staunch Legal disciple, or even a die-hard follower of Zhu Chongjiu, Huang Laowai and Jiao Yu, all looked at Liu Bowen with anger, wishing to push him out of the door immediately and dismember the five horses to restore the original harmonious and happy atmosphere of the entire sect mansion.

Liu Bowen himself had already put life and death aside. He wanted to be Wei Zheng, Zhu Chongjiu's mirror of integrity, and to repay Zhu Chongjiu's kindness for his understanding with the courtesy of a national scholar, so he didn't care about being crushed to pieces.

After he recovered from the initial shock, he took a few breaths quickly and deeply, then ignored the angry or puzzled gazes around him, and bowed to Zhu Chongjiu again, "Thank you for your words, so that Liu can suddenly understand. Under the sky, everyone is born equal, very wonderful, very wonderful. I heard that the lord is rich enough to compete with the country. I ask the lord to share it equally with the lord."

"Yeah." After a while, several generals who were straightforward, such as Hu Dahai, Ivanov, almost laughed out loud on the spot. Everyone is equal. OK, you can share half of your family's money first. Otherwise, why are you so rich, but I eat savory vegetables all day long?

"Since everyone is equal, why should you take away the money that originally belonged to Zhu?" Just as Hu Dahai and others worked very hard to hold back their smiles, Zhu Chongjiu shook his head gently and used a rhetorical question to refute Liu Bowen to a complete decent.

Equality itself means that there is no distinction between each other. Of course, no one has the right to seize other people's wealth for themselves. In this way, Liu Bowen's previous sarcasm has completely become a malicious misinterpretation of equality and has no convincing power at all.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became relaxed. Many civil and military officials who had originally had tense faces began to shake their heads and smile, looking at Liu Bowen, with no longer hostility, but as if they were merciful.

Today's advice is impossible to succeed. Even if Liu Bowen is willing to die, he will not be able to make any concessions from his lord, because General Zhu is such a stubborn temper. The more you follow his rules and "tear" him step by step, the more he will be willing to accept the advice. The more you force him, whether it is good or malicious, the effect may only be counterproductive.

However, as the person involved in the advice, Liu Bowen could not take the initiative to retreat because he knew deeply that this was the last opportunity in his life to bring the lord and the Huaiyang General Administration back to the right path. If he admits defeat, he may not be able to pluck up the courage for the second time in the future, and he will never be able to receive any response and support from any colleagues.

Therefore, he took a few deep breaths, first considered the words in his mind, and then sneered: "The lord's tongue-talking technique is beyond the reach of Liu. However, private money is easy to settle, but official affairs and state affairs may not be so easy. If everyone in the world is equal, then who will be an official, who will rule, and who will educate the people. Everyone cannot control their personal affairs, close their house and never interact with each other."

This is a matter of fact. Since ancient times, any dynasty has had officials, officials, kings, and ministers. Otherwise, no one will take the lead in building roads and controlling water, bandits in the countryside, no one will organize young and strong people to arrest them, disputes arise between neighbors, and no fellow villagers or government officials will make a decision.

Unfortunately, for Zhu Chongjiu, who has integrated his memories of two lives, this question is not a problem at all. He first nodded at Liu Bowen friendly, and then he gave an unexpected answer, "The way of the great way is that the world is for the public, chooses wise and capable, and is faithful and harmonious. Therefore, friends do not only care about their relatives, not only their sons, but also their sons, so that the elderly can have something to do, the young can have something to do, the young can have something to do, the young can have something to do, the young can have something to do, the young can have something to do, the men have a share, the women have a return, the goods are abhorred, and the goods are abandoned on the ground, and there is no need to hide them in themselves; the strength is absent from the body, and there is no need to do it for themselves. Therefore, the plan is closed but not to prosper, theft is a thief and the thief is not to do it, so it is called great harmony."

"Ah, ah." A burst of amazement rang out in the room, not only for Zhu Chongjiu to recite the famous chapters in the Book of Rites, but because of the description of the rule of the Three Dynasties given in this passage.

When choosing talents and abilities, officials are selected based on their character and ability, not because of whom he is, who is his son or grandson, nor do they care about his surname and who is from which clan he came from. This is the legendary rule of the Three Dynasties, which is not contrary to what Zhu Chongjiu believes in, "Equal All".

Looking at Liu Ji again, I found that Zhu Chongjiu was deliberately distorting the words of his ancestors and using the Confucian spear to attack the shield of Confucianism. He immediately gave up his entanglement with the latter in terms of classics and avoided the truth and made the false. "What the lord said makes the person suddenly enlightened, and selecting the virtuous and capable, and there is no difference between people. How can we still distinguish between the virtuous and the foolish? "

"Bo Wen's words are wrong." Zhu Chongjiu smiled again and shook his head, "It is everyone who is born equal, not that people are no different from others. At the beginning, people are like a piece of white paper. However, some people are interested in learning, some are lazy, some are eager to be righteous, some are despicable and selfish, and they choose those who are good at learning, deep wisdom, strong ability, and public will be the greatest equality for everyone, not to work hard, not be good at learning but not learn, but the final result is the same."

He was not angry at all now. Liu Ji forced himself to clarify his goals in public. On the contrary, he was even a little grateful to Liu Ji for giving him a great opportunity to explain what he thought in his heart and explain clearly to everyone, so he quickly turned his eyes to everyone. Zhu Chongjiu added with a smile: "For example, now, Zhu and all the kings sacrifice their lives to expel the Tartars. Those who enjoy their lives will naturally be under our jurisdiction, because we have paid our passion and even our lives at the price. Since everyone is born equal, why do those who have been willing to be slaves enjoy the things we have exchanged for for nothing?"

"The Grand Chief Executive said that made us suddenly understand."

"The chief executive is mighty."

"The chief executive has a vision and is far-sighted."

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately cheered around him. Not everyone regarded the Confucian concept of governing the country as the highest creed like Liu Ji, nor were everyone willing to be a loyal minister like Liu Ji. Most of the people in the audience today actually valued the following two things: First, will their property be taken away by others, and second, will the rights they have finally obtained be divided by others.

According to Zhu Chongjiu's explanation, it is precisely because everyone is born equal that others have no right to infringe their money. It is precisely because everyone is born equal that they gain the rights they have through hard work that others have no right to easily deprive them of this. How can they not feel happy? As for whether "everyone is born equal" should be explained like this, who cares, the general manager said it is, anyway, it only benefits everyone and has no harm.
Chapter completed!