"I think … it's because it can help people find the 'right' path."
"What do you mean?"
Ning Yi shrugged as the mountain breeze blew on the mountain path of Hedeng.
"In this world, everyone wants to find the right path. When doing something, everyone asks whether it's right or wrong. If it's right, it'll work. If it's wrong, there'll be problems. Right and wrong are the most important concepts for ordinary people. " He paused for a moment before continuing, "But right and wrong are not accurate concepts …"
"… Farmers plant rice seedlings in spring and harvest in autumn. They kill insects when there are insects. From Hedeng to Jishan, they have to take mountain roads and waterways. Looking at it this way, right and wrong are easy. But how did right and wrong come about? Through thousands of generations of observation and trial, people saw the rules clearly and knew how to achieve the desired goal. When a farmer asked a learned person, "When will I transplant seedlings?" The learned person said, "Spring," resolutely and decisively. This was right, because the question was very simple. But what about more complicated questions? "
"… If a person runs a small shop, the way to do it is right. With some effort, they can figure out some rules. How can it be right to open a shop as big as Takeshi's? Is it right for the Chinese army to attack Chengdu and occupy the Chengdu Plain? If you want everyone to be equal, what's the right way to do it? "
Ning Yi smiled, "Get a group of educated people to sit together and discuss according to your own ideas. Then, you have to weigh the pros and cons and make a decision. Is this the right decision? Who has the final say? A thirty year old genius? A 90-year-old learned scholar? Looking back at this time, the so-called right and wrong is something that transcends people. Farmers ask educated people when to plant rice seedlings, and spring is right. Then, the farmers no longer have any burden in their hearts. Is what the educated people say really right? Everyone makes a relatively accurate judgment based on their experience and the rules that they see. After the judgment, they start to do it. They have to go through another judgment from the heavens and the rules. It's hard to say if there will be a good result. "
"It's hard to find right and wrong when you're in charge of a shop or a country. You need to find a group of knowledgeable people to discuss, and in the end, you need to come up with an idea. You don't know if this idea will pass the judgment of the heavens, so you need to feel more urgency and more caution. You need to rack your brains every day and think about it countless times. Most importantly, you have to make a decision and then accept the judgment of the heavens … Only by being able to bear this sense of urgency can you become a responsible person. "
"Many people entrust their future to right and wrong. Farmers entrust their future to learned scholars. However, every responsible person could only place the burden of right and wrong on themselves. They had to make a decision and accept the trial. Due to this sense of urgency, they had to work a hundred times harder than others to reduce the risk of the trial. You will refer to other people's opinions and opinions, but every responsible person must have their own way of weighing things … Just like the path of the Huaxia army, I have thought about it ten thousand times. When an unreliable scholar comes to debate with you, when he can't win, he will ask, 'Are you sure that you are right?' Ah Gua, do you know how I treat these people? "
Watermelon, who was walking to the side, smiled. "You just drive them out."
"I can't wait to slap them and kick them out." Ning Yi also smiled. "Asking this kind of question proves that this person's thinking ability is in a very low state. I'm happy to see different opinions and make reference, but this kind of person's opinion is mostly a waste of my time."
He paused and kicked a stone on the side of the road. "People like to hear stories of people accepting advice, but every capable person must have their own headstrong and self-opinionated side, because the so-called responsibility has to be borne by oneself. If things aren't done well, the result will be very uncomfortable. If you don't want to be uncomfortable, then you have to deduce and think about it ten thousand times and try to consider all the factors. After thinking about it ten thousand times, a guy comes and says, 'Are you sure that you are right?' He thinks that this question is brilliant, so of course he only deserves a slap in the face. "
Watermelon pursed his lips. "So the Maitreya Buddha can tell people what is right."
Ning Yi didn't answer. After a moment, he said something strange. "The road of wisdom will become narrower and narrower."
"Hmm?" Watermelon frowned.
Ning Yi looked at the trees on the road ahead and thought of the past. "Ah Gua, more than ten years ago, we were in Hangzhou that night. I carried you on my back, and there weren't many people on the road. I told you that everyone could be equal. You were very happy and high-spirited. You felt that you had found the right road. At that time, the road was very wide. Cowardice is wrong, so you give people a steamed bun and force them to pick up a knife. Inequality is wrong, equality is right … "
"But the further you go, the road based on wisdom will become narrower and narrower. You will find that giving people steamed buns is only the first step. It can't solve the problem, but forcing people to pick up a knife will at least solve one step of the problem … The further you go, you will find that from the beginning, making people pick up a knife may not be the right path. Those who pick up a knife may not get a good result … To walk to the right result, you need to take one step after another, all the right steps. In the end, we don't even know which step will be right next. People have to exhaust their thinking on every step, take this step, and accept judgment … "
The wind from the mountain blew over, making a whooshing sound. Ning Yi was silent for a moment. "Smart people may not be happy. For smart people, the clearer they see the world and the more carefully they understand the rules, the narrower the right path will become. In the end, there will only be one path, and even that one correct path will become blurry. Ah Gua, it is like what you see now. "
"Everyone is equal, and everyone can control their own destiny," Ning Yi said. "This is the end point that human society may not reach even after ten thousand years. It is not a system that we can construct out of thin air just by thinking about it. There are too many prerequisites. First, there must be material development. With material development, we must build an education system that everyone can receive. The education system must constantly explore and integrate some necessary and basic concepts into everyone's spirit. For example, the basic social structure. Today, almost everything is wrong … "
He pointed to the foot of the mountain. "Today, everyone looks at the world around them. In their imagination, this world is fixed and unchanging. 'It has nothing to do with me', 'I don't do bad things, so I do my duty'. Then, in everyone's imagination, bad things are done by bad people. Stopping bad people is the responsibility of good people, not the responsibility of ordinary people. But in reality, a group made up of a hundred million people, everyone's desires would cause the group to slide and sink at any time. Even if there were no bad people, based on everyone's desires, the social class would continue to sink and widen until it finally collapsed … The real structure of society was this kind of system that kept sliding. Even if they wanted to maintain this system in its original state, everyone had to put in their own effort. If the effort is not enough, it will continue to slide. "
"This kind of understanding makes people feel a sense of urgency. After having this sense of urgency, we need to analyze how to do it in order to walk on the right path. If ordinary people want to participate in a society, they need to know what is happening in this society. So, we need a news and information system for ordinary people. In order to let people get the real information, someone needs to supervise this system. On the other hand, we need to let the people in this system have dignity and self-respect. At this step, we also need a good enough system to let ordinary people properly play their power. In the process of this social development, mistakes will continue to appear, and people need to constantly correct to maintain the status quo … These things, one wrong step, will completely collapse. Being right is never half the same as being wrong. Being right is one out of ten thousand paths, and the rest are all wrong. "
"Equality, democracy." Ning Yi sighed. "Tell them that all of you are the same. You can't solve the problem. Let ordinary people raise their hands on everything, it will be a dead end. Ah Gua, we see a lot of fools among the scholars, are those who don't study better than them? Actually, that's not true. People don't study at the beginning and don't like to think about things. Reading books and thinking about things is also wrong in the beginning. Many scholars are on this wrong path, but if you don't study and don't think about things, you can't even touch the right path. Only when you walk to the end and touch the right path, will you realize how difficult this path is. "
"Ah Gua, you can walk until here." Ning Yi reached out and touched her head.
Watermelon's character was hard on the outside but soft on the inside. She usually didn't like Ning Yi treating her like a child, but at this time, she didn't resist. After a while, she sighed. "… Maitreya is still the best."
"Yes, religion always gives people half the right path, and it doesn't need to be responsible." Ning Yi tilted his head. "If you believe, you are right. If you don't believe, you are wrong. Half and half, what a happy world."
"But it can't solve the problem." Watermelon smiled.
Ning Yi shook his head. "In terms of the ultimate proposition, religion actually solves the problem. If a person blindly believes from a young age, even if he is a slave for a lifetime, he will still be at peace from beginning to end. Living and dying at peace is not necessarily a kind of perfection. This is also a compromise system that people use their wisdom to build … But people will eventually wake up. Apart from religion, most people still have to pursue a better world on the surface. They hope that children will suffer less hunger and cold, and that people will die as few innocent deaths as possible. Although in the best society, there will be differences in class and wealth accumulation, but they hope that hard work and wisdom can make up for this difference as much as possible … Ah Gua, even if we exhaust our entire lives, we can only take one or two steps forward, laying a material foundation, and letting everyone know that everyone is equal is not easy. "
The two of them walked forward for a while, and Ning Yi whispered, "Actually, those things in Hangzhou were all made up to fool you to save my life …"
Watermelon kicked over, and Ning Yi easily dodged it. He saw the woman put her hands on her hips, looked up, and said, "You are only in your thirties. Anyway, I will go further!"
"Okay, okay, okay." Ning Yi nodded repeatedly. "You can't beat me, so don't easily make a move and humiliate yourself."
"Let's see who will humiliate themselves … Ah —" Before Watermelon finished speaking, she let out a low cry. Although her martial arts skills were high, as a wife, it was difficult for her to display her skills in front of Ning Yi. She moved a few times in front of the indescribable martial arts skills, scolded, "You are shameless," and turned to run. Ning Yi put his hands on his hips and laughed. Looking at Watermelon running into the distance, he turned back and said, "Going to the meeting! Du Sha, you follow her! "He continued to walk away, and then his pompous smile disappeared.
Du Sha slowly approached. Seeing his Miss's smile, he also smiled. "Boss, you have troubled yourself again."
"Young Ke spread a rumor today, saying that I was beaten up by Liu Xiaogua. If I don't teach her a lesson, it will be difficult for me to uphold my authority." Ning Yi smiled slightly. "Well, she ran away. Old Du, you are the witness. When I want you to speak, you can't hide."
"I didn't see anything …"
As the two of them walked forward, Ning Yi was not surprised by his response. He sighed. "Sigh, the moral degeneration of the world is getting worse …"
As he sighed in a low voice, Watermelon ran for a while before stopping. Recalling what had happened just now, she smiled, and then sighed with a complicated look in her eyes.
The road of wisdom would become narrower and narrower …
But other than that, there was no road.
As she thought about this, the weather in the afternoon was just right. The mountain breeze and clouds were accompanied by a pleasant autumn feeling. As they walked forward, they soon arrived near the meeting room of the General Political Department. They greeted the deputy and took the files and documents. When the meeting began, her husband also came over. His expression was solemn and calm as he greeted the people attending the meeting. This meeting was to discuss the handling of several major violations of discipline during the war outside the mountains. Many people from the army, the Military Law Department, the Political Department, and the General Staff Department were present. After the meeting began, Watermelon peeked at Ning Yi's expression from the side. He sat there with a calm gaze, listening to the speakers, and his expression was dignified. It was very different from how casually the two of them had been on the mountain.
After everyone had expressed their opinions, Ning Yi sat quietly in his seat for a long time. Then he swept his gaze over the crowd and began to scold people.
Well, the way he scolded people was really too handsome, too powerful … At this moment, Watermelon thought in her heart.
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