"Don't do evil! That's the principle. "Meng Jingye said.
Yan Ningxiao coughed and said, "Fang Xusheng is our Yan Family. You can't undermine me!"
No one had expected that the dignified Confucian scholar would reveal such a bitter look. With a smile, the atmosphere of dispute due to different standpoints just now disappeared.
The fox's tail swayed gently, and a cunning look flashed in his eyes. He said, "Moon Empress, you raised the avalanche problem, but you didn't say what you would do if you were among a hundred people."
All the great scholars and scholars looked at Fang Yun with smiles.
"This time, I support the fox barbarian. Now it's our turn to ask you. If you were among a hundred people, what would you do?" Meng Jingye said.
Xun Pingyang smiled and said, "Fang Xusheng seemed to be neutral just now. Unfortunately, he has to take the field now."
Fang Yun glanced at everyone and found that they were all staring at him. He smiled and said, "From my point of view, I support Grand Scholar Zeng's view. He is a human, and so are we. No matter who kills him without his consent, it's a crime. There's no doubt about it. If I kill an innocent person, I won't be able to sleep and eat well. I'll be discouraged. So, I'll wait for someone else to do it. As Grand Scholar Zeng said, if no one stands out, we will all be killed by the Monster Saint. I think it's acceptable. At least I didn't kill an innocent person to save myself. I didn't do evil. As Grand Scholar Zeng said, I may think a lot, but I can't do it. The law doesn't allow it, and the good side in my heart doesn't allow it. The key is that if I kill him in the name of a large number of people, someone will kill me in the name of a large number of people in the future. Things will become very terrible. Under any circumstances, we can't deprive the rights of innocent people. "
Xun Pingyang smiled and said, "It seems that Fang Xusheng has an answer."
"That's not necessarily true." Yan Ningxiao smiled and said. The other three great scholars also stared at Fang Yun without saying a word.
Hearing Yan Ningxiao's words, all the Grand Scholars immediately understood that some of the words used by Fang Yun were different from others. The Grand Scholars had already noticed it.
Fang Yun continued, "The problem is that we don't live in a truly perfect world. Those few weak people are often ignored and even discriminated against. We often have some high-sounding words about how we should help them and how we should not discriminate against them, but many people still treat them with a sense of superiority. In essence, we can't guarantee their rights because we can't do as we please most of the time. We can even be discriminated against. For example, my identity as a commoner has always been mocked by a group of ignorant aristocratic family disciples. Therefore, other than the Saints who can 'follow their hearts and not violate the rules', our 'not doing evil' is a lie to deceive ourselves. It's not that we want to be evil, it's just that our strength and realm aren't enough to achieve that. "
Some people were confused and didn't understand what Fang Yun was trying to say. Some people listened with great interest. Whether they agreed with Fang Yun or not, they liked to listen to this unique view.
"The purer and simpler it is, the closer we are to the 'not doing evil' realm. If there is only one person in the Saint Origin Continent, his world is only about survival. He has no chance to scold others, harm others, or kill others. Basically, he is infinitely close to 'not doing evil'. Let's make it a little more complicated. In a school, there are dozens of classmates. There will always be conflicts and friction, and there will always be an evil person that we hate. For our own sake, even if we don't want to do evil, we will still intentionally or unintentionally do some wrong things. For example, we will say some hurtful words or misunderstand some people. This is not our intention, and we are different from those evil people. In the school, we can also generally be close to 'not doing evil'. "
"However, there are not only schools around us. We live in cities, villages, counties, prefectures, provinces, and even countries. In such a huge network, the more people we are related to, the harder it is for us to ensure that we don't do evil. Take a prefecture overseer for example. As long as he doesn't violate any clear laws, such as filling his own pockets or committing treason, we can say that he doesn't do evil. But in reality, even if a prefecture overseer doesn't violate any laws, his orders will often affect tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people. There will always be some people whose interests will be harmed. To these people, a prefecture overseer is a great evil person! "
Everyone listened quietly and vaguely understood Fang Yun's meaning.
"If a prefecture overseer wants to get a better evaluation in farming, he will definitely lower the price of seeds and raise the price of grains to benefit the farmers. However, those who eat grains will think that the prefecture overseer is harming them. If a prefecture overseer wants to increase the defensive strength of the prefecture and spend more money on the prefecture's army, then the scholars of the academy will think that the prefecture overseer is wasting money on the military and bringing disaster to the country and its people. Such things are too numerous to mention. "
Fang Yun continued, "As a prefecture overseer, if he really 'doesn't do evil', then he must be really incompetent. If a prefecture overseer says that he doesn't do evil and wants to change a certain decree, it must be because that decree will affect his promotion. It may involve his political achievements, or it may involve an even more important person above him. If a grand marshal is attacking a city of an enemy country and says that he doesn't do evil and wants to leave, then it must be because attacking the city will affect his future, or he knows that he can't take it, or the power of his own country will stop him. Not only the prefecture overseer general, but also the shopkeepers of the big trading companies and anyone who is in charge of others. The higher the position, the more people it affects, and the harder it is to 'don't do evil'. "
Fang Yun scanned the crowd and said slowly, "If King Wen of Zhou and his father didn't do evil to the surrounding tribes, Zhou wouldn't be strong, and wouldn't be able to defeat the Shang Dynasty controlled by the barbarian saints. If Kong Sheng didn't do evil to the four seas and the demon world, he wouldn't be able to give the human race a thousand years of prosperity. If Qin Shi Huang didn't do evil to the six kingdoms, the human race wouldn't be able to write the same books, travel the same rails, do the same things, and measure the same things!"
The room was quiet. Even the four demon kings were staring at Fang Yun attentively.
After a while, Fang Yun's voice sounded again.
"As the scholar Fang Yun, I must work hard to not do evil. But as Xusheng, I must throw away the shackles of 'don't do evil'! Under the avalanche, a hundred people against a barbarian, I will kill that barbarian. One against a hundred barbarian, I will still kill that barbarian. A hundred against one, I will be the first to pick up that saber and kill that person. "
After pausing for a while, Fang Yun scanned the crowd again.
"To bear the sins of a hundred, to do the evil of one, even if there are millions of people, I will still go!"
Meng Jingye was shocked. He didn't expect an outsider to say the famous words of Mencius to be more shocking than when he, the descendant of Mencius, said it.
Fang Yun looked at Hu Li and said slowly, "Go back and tell Seventh Frost Lord that if he rejects the previous conditions, the day the Blood Demon Barbarians attack Seventh Frost City will be the day the human race's troops arrive at Wanxing Pass. I will use my tongue as a sword to cut open the middle of the snow! "
(To be continued.)
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