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

Chapter 507 Humanity and Freedom ([-])

Two years later

Spring of the third hundred and third year of Duke Yan (513)
Lin Zhi was blacklisted by the Chang'e City Political Council and banned from entering Chang'e City, and Lin Zhi's descendants were also prohibited from entering.

However, he did not give up, but came to Yandu again and asked Jiuqing to replace the mayor.

However, he couldn't even see Jiuqing's face, because his status was not noble enough, he was not a nobleman.

"Citizens are becoming numb tools, but you are going to sit idly by?" Lin Zhi said angrily.

But no one paid any attention to him. In order to support himself, he became a tutor to the daughter of a rich merchant.

In the time since then, I have seen those noble people disregarding the lives of the common people, treacherous and greedy, and among the humble people, there are some childlike people who have never slept at heart. They are full of longing for the world and always provide what they can for those around them. s help.

"Whether a person is noble or not lies in the character of his actions, not in his family background and lies."

"Those of noble birth, they talk about the principles of saints, but what they actually do are despicable things."

He borrowed the manuscript of "Journey to the West" from the noble girl and saw a wider world.

"The monarch of Sasan is a truly benevolent monarch, but he was not born in our country of Yan."

"Barbarism can never defeat civilization, but it can destroy corruption. If Yan is really destroyed by barbarians, it can only show that the rulers of Yan are corrupt and incompetent. It is definitely not the fault of ordinary Yan people."

"I don't think there is anything wrong with the Empress Dowager Liu Chuyu of Jin. She is just pursuing her own freedom."

Two years later, Lin Zhi wrote a short story "Xing Fan". Based on the information he collected from the folks about the Xing Fan pirate group more than 100 years ago, he made up some plots in his own brain, and then wrote it into a novel.

In the propaganda of the Yan State, the Xingfan Pirates, just like the Yellow Turban Army, only burn, kill and loot. The so-called equality of everyone is just to fool the common people. The real purpose is to enslave the common people after usurping the power.

However, Lin Zhi dared to reverse the case of such an anti-thief organization that had been wiped out, thinking that it was the greed of the Yan Kingdom that led to the rampage of the Xingfan Pirates.

"They themselves are greedy and shameless, but they do not allow the enslaved to resist."

"Confucius is just an ordinary person like you and me. When he was down and down, he was a family dog. We should not worship him blindly. Only by breaking the personality cult and the authority of saints can we truly understand Confucius, the ancient wise man. "

"If I have to say that the rulers of the Yan Kingdom have any advantages, then their only advantage is that they do not treat men and women differently."

"Women, like men, are spiritual beings in the world. Women are also independent individuals, not men's vases."

"More than 100 years ago, there was such a group of warriors who resisted oppression and slavery, and for the freedom of the people of the world, they roamed across the vast sea. They are the star-studded pirates that our fathers said would only burn, kill, and plunder."

"Man should live for his own free humanity, not for authority."

"Those theoretical viewpoints that have been correct since ancient times, are they really necessarily correct?"

"We always believe that the older the more accurate, why not?"

Lin Zhi's words were written into his novel "Xing Fan" in an open manner, and even after finishing the book, he told ordinary people who could not read the content of the book.

Soon, this matter spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and finally reached Jiuqing's ears.

at night
With the bright moon half hidden, there was a knock on the door of Lin Zhi's house.

Boom boom boom!
Lin Zhi opened the door, but what he saw was Yandu's inspector.

"Someone came to the Governor's Mansion to report that you have deceived the public with false rumors, colluded with Goguryeo, and intended to rebel!" The inspector directly showed his token and said rudely to Lin Zhi: "Mr. Lin, come with us."

Lin Zhi was brought to the governor's mansion by the inspector, and the governor said indifferently to him: "Lin Zhi, you have deceived the public with your lies, do you know your crime?"

"I'm not guilty!" Lin Zhi replied firmly.

"You slandered the saint, and you actually slandered the saint as just an ordinary person, how dare you say you are innocent?" the governor snorted coldly.

After finishing speaking, the governor took out the Four Books and Five Classics, and angrily scolded Lin Zhi, "Where have you been reading the books of the saints, huh?"

"I read in my heart, not in books." Lin Zhi replied lightly.

"Hmph!" The governor snorted coldly: "Do you know how much trouble you have caused the world to be deceived by your deceitful words all these years? A saint will only feel ashamed to have a disciple like you!"

"A saint is a saint, and I am me. Whether he is ashamed or not is his business." Lin Zhi replied.

In the following year, the governor's office burned all the books written by Lin Zhi and prohibited anyone from reading or re-editing them.

The three books "Xing Fan", "Self" and "Children's Heart" were even listed as banned books in the country of Yan. Once someone was found to spread the contents of these books, they would be arrested and imprisoned immediately.

Confucian scholars also intentionally tampered with Lin Zhi's "The Peony Girl", and adapted the romantic story of an innocent boy who loves a beautiful girl into a wretched boy who has dirty thoughts about a noble girl.

Not only must Lin Zhi be destroyed physically, but also mentally, and his books must be tampered with so that his original ideas cannot be spread.

Liu Bao, Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, treated Wang Yun in this way, and now Yan Guo treats Lin Zhi in the same way.

A year later, the governor came to visit Lin Zhi again, and said that as long as Lin Zhi is willing to reform himself and admit in front of the world that what he said back then was nonsense, then Yan Guo can release him without charge .

To untie the bell, the person who tied the bell must be asked. Let the person who created the idea admit that his idea is nonsense, which is the biggest blow to this idea.

Killing people directly is just a common method, which is not very clever.

"I'm not guilty, why do I need to be released again?" Lin Zhi's clothes were disheveled, his body was covered with bloodstains, it seemed that he had been tortured during this year, but he remained calm and composed.

"I really don't cry when I see the coffin!" The governor was furious, and scolded Lin Zhi, "Do you really want to die that much?"

"Everyone's life is precious. If I can live, I certainly don't want to die, but if I live as a numb tool, what's the difference from being dead?" Lin Zhi said slowly, he respected life, Think life is precious, but the premise is that this life is a free life.

Another month later, Lin Zhi was escorted to Chang'e City, where he was executed in his hometown.

Looking at the familiar land, Lin Zhi said with emotion: "I'm fifty-four, how can I die?"

The governor stepped forward and questioned him one last time: "Lin Zhi, you will be beheaded soon, and you still have one last chance. As long as you admit in public that you are lying to the public, the imperial court can absolve you of all crimes."

"I'm not guilty, why should I be exonerated?" Lin Zhi faced death calmly. He had been fighting against Confucian ideas, but before he died, he quoted a sentence from Confucian Mencius: "A man of lofty ideals never forgets in the ravine, and a warrior never forgets death." Qiyuan."

"Stubbornly obsessed! Obsessed with obsession!" The governor was very angry, and ordered to the executioner: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and behead this demon who deceives the public, and return the world to a bright future!"

"Execution!"

As soon as the words fell, the executioner quickly chopped off Lin Zhi's head, and everything seemed to be over.

However, under the execution platform, there are many people weeping, and everything seems to have just begun.

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He is the last thinker of the old age and the first thinker of the new age. The old age is ending and a new era is opening. ——"General History of the World Song Qin Hui"

(End of this chapter)