Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 267 The Eternal Perfect Man Wang Yangming ([-])
One month later

Linhu County

"kill!"

Hundreds of officers and soldiers from Shu County rushed into Linhu County, which had already surrendered.

A month ago, when Peng Li's anti-thief water army was fighting with the officers and soldiers of Lujiang County to a state of anxiety, the Danyang soldiers from Danyang County rushed to support in time and defeated the anti-thief.

The defeated rebels fled all the way south, and robbed Linhu County by the way. They robbed everything from powerful nobles to ordinary people in the county, and killed those who refused to obey.

Most of the insurgents were like this. They were oppressed by the government. After the uprising, while resisting the government, they oppressed other low-level people.

However, in the eyes of ordinary people, the officers and soldiers are actually not much different from the rebels. Shu County soldier Cao [Selling Melon Sun] led a group of officers and soldiers into the county, and started killing in the county. directly burned.

The poor people in Linhu County were just robbed by the rebel army who "made justice for the sky", and now they are about to be robbed again by officers and soldiers who "obtain the order to seek thieves". In the chaos, some local hooligans took the opportunity to rob and set fire.

Pooh! ——

After killing a commoner who dared to resist, Bingcao [Selling Melon Sun] wantonly collected wealth from his family, and excitedly said: "This **** is much more than the salary of the imperial court."

At this time, Wang Yun, the magistrate of Shu County, arrived in time. Seeing the tragic situation in the city, he frowned: "I just let them attack the city and kill thieves. Why do they want to loot in the city?"

"After conquering the city, looting is the practice of all dynasties. It is a very normal thing. It would be strange not to loot!" Zhou Jing, the county magistrate on the side, said with a smile, but he had already seen it away. In troubled times, there are as many as a cow's hair, and if you see too much, you will become numb and get used to it.

"Oh." Knowing that this is the practice of the past dynasties, Wang Yun couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "Everyone says benevolence and righteousness love the people, but when they captured the city, they indulged in looting. Isn't this a disunity of knowledge and action? The emperor, Eunuchs, relatives, gentry, all of them say they love the people, but no one is willing to be a little softer when it comes to taking away the fat and anointing of the people."

He felt very sad about the current situation of the big man. There are many people who are not in harmony with knowledge and action, but there are almost no people who are in unity of knowledge and action.

His grandfather Wang Wei can be counted as one. If he said he loved the people, he really loved the people. His ancestor Wang Kang can also be counted as one.

However, the Yuan family in Runan, the Wang family in Langya, the Cui family in Qinghe, the Xun family in Yingchuan, etc., are almost all people with different hearts and minds. They talk about benevolence and righteousness and love the people all day long. They were all gone.

"The common people can't farm in peace, they always want to divide the land by the local tyrants, the emperor's nobles can't achieve the unity of knowledge and action, and everyone just talks about loving the people. This is the reason for the turmoil in the world."

"If, as Confucius said, the ruler is a ruler who loves the people, and the people are loyal to the ruler, and the upper and lower classes live in peace, and the lower classes do not rebel against the upper classes, and the upper classes do not abuse the lower classes, then the world can enter Datong society, enter the real rule of saints in the period of Three Emperors and Five Emperors!"

Wang Yun is a true Confucian scholar. He also achieved the unity of knowledge and action, and worked hard to practice the ideas of Confucius.

According to the philosophy of Confucius, the various classes should not change, but should follow the Zhou rituals. The emperor will always be the emperor, the princes will always be the princes, and the common people will always be the common people. Peace and prosperity.

But now?

The emperor always thought about making money, the eunuchs and relatives always thought about fighting for power and profit, the gentry always thought about expanding their family's territory, and the common people always thought about subduing the superior and rebelling to divide the land.

Everything is messed up, the rituals are broken, and the music is broken, that's probably it!

"How can the sage of Confucius achieve the governance of the world?" Wang Yun muttered to himself. Unlike ordinary scholars, he really wanted to realize the Datong society of Confucius.

"How can Jia Yi's strategy of [the common people shoulder their responsibilities, and the barbarians defend China] be fully realized?"

As a true Confucian scholar, he has a vision of peace and prosperity in the world, but also as a true Confucian scholar, his thoughts have not jumped out of the big framework of Confucianism.

As a true Confucian scholar, what he pursues is that the common people live and work in peace and contentment, and that he will not be extorted by the court, rather than pursue some JJGM.

As a Confucian scholar, he was able to persuade the people not to rebel and the court not to impose excessive taxes. This is already a real gentleman.

Instead of being asked to be an XX equal GM across time and space by some people in later generations, and because he did not engage in an XX equal GM, he was criticized as not a good person, and even said that he did not deserve to be called this name.

Confucius also asked people to be hierarchical, so is Confucius not a good person?
As a true Confucian scholar, wouldn't it be okay for Wang Yun to ask people to have a hierarchy?
He is a Confucian scholar, not a JJGM fighter, please don't use the current JJGM to ask him.

He also has limitations, but he has done well enough within the limitations, because others of his contemporaries are even worse.

At this moment, Wang Yun, as a Confucian scholar who has truly achieved the unity of knowledge and action, naturally cannot be like the princess next to him who talks about loving the people, but thinks about corruption in his heart.

He first ordered Zhou Jing, the county magistrate: "Go and stop them from burning, killing and looting in the city, and then arrest the officers who took the lead in massacring the city. Officers beheaded, so as to quell public grievances, and let other officers and soldiers know what conscience is, so that they try not to massacre the city in the future."

After giving these instructions, he silently wrote a memorial, in which he persuaded the emperor to reduce the corvee and taxes of the people in Yangzhou, and let them recuperate as much as possible.

While writing this memorial, he will also supervise the officers and soldiers by the way, and let the officers and soldiers work hard to wipe out the rebellious people.

As a modern person, I may not be able to understand what Wang Yun did.

You say he doesn’t love the people, he wrote a letter to persuade the court to reduce taxes for the people, let the people recuperate, you say he loves the people, he will not show mercy to those people who have rebelled because they don’t have enough to eat, they must be suppressed with iron blood!

This is him, Wang Yun, who can not only love the people, but also be loyal to the emperor and the country.

I hope that the imperial court will reduce or exempt taxes. This is an expression of love for the people. Helping the imperial court to wipe out those people who have no choice but to rebel because of lack of food is an expression of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.

Love the people, but also loyal and patriotic!
Why is this?

Because he, Wang Yun, is a Confucian scholar!It's a Confucian scholar!It's a Confucian scholar!Not some XX fighter!

After a while, the three officers who took the lead in massacring the city, and [Selling Melon Sun] who was in charge of commanding the massacre were brought up.

"Your Majesty, massacres and robberies have been the practice of all dynasties. You actually want to kill me for a group of ordinary people? Is this reasonable?" Bing Cao [Selling Melon Sun] was very puzzled, he just did something that everyone was doing He didn't understand why the county magistrate Wang Yun wanted to behead him.

"Alas..." Wang Yun sighed, and in front of the looted people in the city, he ordered to the left and right: "Cut!"

(End of this chapter)