Su Yonglin had long been very unhappy with some strange idealistic sophistry remarks by Confucian scholars in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Can you do whatever you want by pulling the big flag into a tiger's skin?

The classical era has passed, and the era of filial piety is greater than that has passed, and the era of treating filial piety as political correctness to seize profits and maintaining privileges has passed.

Now I still want to reverse history and go back to an era when killing people for filial piety is not a sin.

As a good moral character, the direct direction of filial piety must be beautiful, and it should always be a spontaneous behavior of individuals, and only for personal behavior.

Any behavior that involves irrelevant people for personal filial piety or uses public resources to perform filial piety is improper.

Taking filial piety as one of the criteria for whether one can be an official or whether one is a good person will only cause weird operations such as the "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" that make people's views broken.

The suppression and restriction of personal personality for political correctness is one of the important components of feudal patriarchy and an existence that Su Yonglin and the Ming Dynasty must break.

Governing the country with filial piety?

Pooh!

Use filial piety to control people!

So Su Yonglin was about to start a fight...

"Although the emperor of the Southern Dynasty was purely filial, why did his personal filial piety involve his identity as an emperor? Filial piety must spend billions of money to build a luxurious palace? Filial piety must watch the people die and starve all over the world, and then take the most luxurious food in the world to worship the Supreme Emperor?

Is this filial piety? In my opinion, true filial piety is in my heart, in my words and deeds, in my wholehearted consideration of the elders and mothers, and in my own efforts to spend their old age in peace. It is companionship, care, and practice. This is filial piety as a human being.

The emperor is a person's identity, and filial piety is the act of repaying the grace of parents as a son of man. It is not the fact that the emperor uses his identity to build a luxurious palace for the Supreme Emperor without regard for the life and death of the people!

What the emperor needs to do is to govern the world, to allow the people to live and work in peace, to make the world peaceful, without war, and everyone can live a life of full food and warm clothes. This is the emperor's duty. The behavior of the Southern Emperor is not filial piety, but to practice tyranny in the name of filial piety!”

Su Yonglin slapped the handrail and stood up, pointed at Chen Kangbo and scolded angrily: "You are so hateful, sophistry! How can you let me slander you!"

Su Yonglin's loud and rebuttal shocked Chen Kangbo.

Before Su Yonglin finished speaking, he wanted to refute and stick to his own opinions, but he was frightened to find that he could not find enough arguments to refute Su Yonglin.

Because even he felt that what Su Yonglin said was very reasonable.

He was just a sophist, and there was no big reason to stand firm. As long as someone who was determined to use the concept of benevolence and righteousness, he could break his argument, but he did not expect that Su Yonglin was so sharp that he would kill people and even kill them.

He directly took over the right to speak and initiative.

So Chen Kangbo was speechless and could not even speak a word that was refuted.

The civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty felt extremely proud of the remarks of their emperors and were extremely proud of his righteous and glorious image.

In contrast, the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty were deeply bowed.

No matter how unwilling they were to accept it or how sophistry they were, they could not change the fact that Zhao Xing used billions of funds to build a luxurious palace for Zhao Gou to meet Zhao Gou's needs.

On the one hand, they were hungry and needed to ask Ming to reduce the annual monies, while on the other hand, they invested billions of dollars in building luxurious palaces.

No matter how they argue, it is impossible to change. No matter how they argue, the palace is there and is still under construction, and it is hard to say that it can be completed within several years.

And there are actually a lot of unscrupulous tastes here

Zhao Gou had been reluctant to come back after running away because of Xu Tong's bold behavior. In order to get him back, Zhao Xing had no choice but to order the construction of a luxurious palace for Zhao Gou to persuade him to return to Lin'an, continue to create the illusion of prosperity of father, filial son, and consolidate his dominance.

filial piety?

Hahaha, it’s just a matter of opinion.

Yu Yunwen and Lu You didn’t know the secret here, but Chen Kangbo, as a person in the decision-making circle of the Southern Song Dynasty, knew a lot.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Kangbo was particularly depressed and embarrassed, and he didn't know how to refute it, so he was speechless.

The suffocating quiet lasted for a while, and Su Yonglin was preparing to launch the final attack.

"Did you realize your mistake after not speaking for a long time? If this is the case, it is great to know that you can correct your mistakes. This matter should be considered as never. You can rest for a few days and go back!"

When Chen Kangbo heard this, this was not possible. Although Zhao Xing's original intention was to let them investigate Mingguo's war preparations, he also had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the situation.

And more importantly, if the Ming Dynasty let go on this issue, it means that the Ming Dynasty did not intend to go south to attack Song in the short term, and wanted to sustainably exhaust the pond and fish, and the Southern Song Dynasty would have more time to strengthen itself.

If the Ming Dynasty refused to let go and insisted on killing the Southern Song Dynasty and causing the economic collapse of the Southern Song Dynasty, it would mean that the Ming Dynasty's future is not far away from attacking the Song Dynasty.

This is a topic that can tell the problem very well, so even if you are fighting for social death, Chen Kangbo must continue this issue and draw a clear conclusion.

"The foreign minister will tell our emperor about the issue that His Majesty cares about after he returns, but His Majesty should also understand that even if the money for building a palace is used to provide relief to the victims, it is impossible to solve all the problems. Our country's problems are serious. We really need help from our country. We also ask our country to give mercy!"

Chen Kangbo put himself in a very low position, explaining reason and moving emotions, trying to exchange his low position for the softening of Su Yonglin's attitude.

But who would have thought that Su Yonglin would not take this trick at all?

"Well, this problem is indeed very serious. Even if all the money for building a palace is taken out, the problem of the Southern Dynasties may be just a drop in the ocean. The Southern Dynasties need more money, which is indeed quite difficult in this regard. So...

With that, I heard that the salaries of officials in the Southern Dynasty were quite generous, including basic salary, additional expenses, meals, jobs, tea and public money. In addition to getting copper coins, there are more additional benefits. Such a generous salary shows that you are deeply grateful to the country.

Not to mention anything else, I heard that a magistrate of the Southern Dynasty could get a monthly payment of thirty to fifty stakes, as well as seven stones of rice, ten stones of noodles, and hundreds of kilograms of meat. Can one eat it alone? Why not give it all to the victims, how many people can live?

At this time of crisis, why don’t you come forward and take the initiative to reduce your salary to make money for the country? There is no need to cut too much, and each one refuses a certain welfare. What is left to the court is a particularly huge amount of money, enough to use it for disaster relief, right?"

Chen Kangbo was stunned again.

Cut my own salary?

Ah this...

Of course it won't hurt if a knife is cut on someone else's body, but it's a bit...

It’s not that I don’t want to, but... Is it a little unhappy?

It’s obviously my money, but I have to use it to help those lowly mud legs I’ve never met before?

Why?

I have been tortured for ten years and have been sorely struggling that I have found the status and welfare of my head. It is my own fault in my own home. Why should I give it to those mud legs for nothing?

The noble mentality of noble scholars and men is a little unrestrained.

Not to mention Chen Kangbo, the members of the envoys who followed him to the palace also had some opinions in their hearts, and they felt that doing so was quite unhappy for them.

They have always only exploited the mud legs, and how could the mud legs suck their blood in turn?

Isn’t this a confusion between black and white?
Chapter completed!