Chapter 5235: Public morality enters the political hall
Liu Jingxuan murmured: "Yes, if it is just for the selfish interests of one's own family, to harm the country and harm the people, then such filial piety is immoral, not virtuous. In this way, those high-ranking families, for the sake of their own children and grandchildren
And seeking personal gain, turning the people of the world into their private property, and treating them like cattle and sheep, isn't it also for the sake of family filial piety and kindness, and harming the people of the world?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "Yes, filial piety is a good thing, but it can only exist within the family, at most within the family. If you use your family, family resources, and industry to fulfill your filial piety, there is no problem.
But if people who have power and high positions use their power to harm the interests of the people in order to fulfill their filial piety and kindness, then the nature will completely change."
"If a most filial person is sincere and does not even risk his own life or health, but also fulfills his filial piety for the sake of his mother, then once he has the power, will he use this power to do things for his mother?
Is my mother happy? Just like my family, although my mother was born as the daughter of an official, she has hardly lived a good life since she married into my family. She has worked hard to raise three sons, but she cannot see anything.
A son has to endure hardships, so she asked me to let Daolian live a good life to compensate for the hard work of Daogui and I who have been away from her for so many years and have relied on Daolian's farming to support the whole family.
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Liu Jingxuan nodded: "This is not wrong. Before Daolian became an official, everyone thought that Daolian was a filial and good man, and he should be worthy of these rewards."
Liu Yu sighed: "The fault is mine. I broke the court's rules and regulations because I wanted to fulfill my filial piety. When Daolian had never served as a village chief and was upright, he did not have any political ability.
Under the circumstances, just because of my mother's request, Dao Lian was made a high official, in charge of six counties in Jiangbei and the parent official of hundreds of thousands of people!"
"What's even more terrible is that after I made him an official, I thought that by recruiting some children from aristocratic families to assist me, I could manage Jiangbei, which has always been poor and has few people and few people. I thought that Jiangbei had not been developed and had a very small population.
It's a desolate place that even the noble families look down upon. There's no luck here, and nothing big will happen to Dao Lian as an official. But reality slapped me hard in the face. He made people angry here, and the people
He even started to fall in love with Hulu Nanyan, almost causing a catastrophe."
"And in the end, I can't punish Dao Lian for this. Since I can't deal with Dao Lian according to the national law, I can't deal with the officials of those noble families according to the national law. I can only remove them from office, seize titles, and send them home to solve the problem. In this way, these two have the same effect.
Over the past few years, the administration of officials in various places has been very bad. Many people have followed suit and become corrupt in office. They seek benefits for their own children and nephews without caring about the life and death of the people. This time, the monsters and thieves are causing chaos. Wherever they go, powerful and powerful people from all over the country
The people responded one after another, almost recreating the situation in Wu during the Tianshi Dao Sun En Rebellion. Isn't this the result of my wanting to fulfill my filial duty and harming the national law and public welfare?"
Liu Jingxuan let out a long sigh: "Jinnu, let the past go by, it can't be undone anymore. I know your true intention is for the world and the people, but the law of this world is this kind of kissing
Hiding from each other, filial piety comes first, using these as reasons and excuses, even if you don't show mercy, others will seek personal gain for their own family. How is it possible to want everyone to serve the people who have never met, the people of the world?
Woolen cloth?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "Since what I want is a common world, I must fundamentally reverse this trend. As a human being, it is necessary to be filial to your parents and love your children and grandchildren. This is also basic morality, but this kind of morality cannot
The interests of the people of the world cannot be harmed at the expense of using public power. This is what I must emphasize. The reason for establishing such an organization to restrict the emperor and even evaluate officials is to make it clear that public power cannot be used for personal gain.
Use this."
Liu Jingxuan's expression changed: "Do you want to change customs and change the thoughts and behaviors that have been formed by people for thousands of years?"
Liu Yu nodded: "Yes, if we don't carry out the ideological enlightenment of the world as a common people, then all my ideas will be impossible to realize. The emperor can use the banner of Daitian herdsmen, and the noble families can use the banner of Daitian herdsmen.
For the first reason of filial piety, if you abuse the power in your hands, instead of benefiting the common people, you will think of enslaving and controlling the people of the world and working for yourself. In the end, you will become disengaged and the people will be filled with resentment. Once there are external forces
Join, whether they are barbarians, monster thieves, or ambitious people who want to seize greater power. As long as they start a rebellion, the people will join one after another. In the end, even if the rebellion is successful, the country's vitality will be greatly damaged.
From the high-level aristocratic families to the common people at the bottom, everyone will suffer heavy losses, and who will benefit?"
Liu Jingxuan gritted his teeth: "But if we don't use filial piety as the standard of moral assessment, what else can we use? If a person is not even filial to his parents at home, how can we expect him to be public-spirited?"
Liu Yu smiled slightly: "So, we need to change this standard for assessing morality. We cannot use simple filial piety as the only criterion for a person's conduct. In my opinion, moral conduct and personal ability as an official are indispensable in this power organization.
In terms of the criteria for joining, both are indispensable. Because this organization is used to monitor the behavior of officials and even the emperor, and conduct removal or impeachment. If they have never been an official themselves or have been in charge of politics, how can they evaluate others?
What about work? Therefore, these people must be experienced officials and generals, and the assessment of their moral integrity is based on their performance as officials and generals, not whether they are filial to their parents at home. In a word
, what I want to look at is their public morality, not their private morality!"
Liu Jingxuan nodded thoughtfully and said: "I understand what you mean. In fact, what you are examining in this way is the political achievements of officials and the military merits of generals. So what does this have to do with morality?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "It's because some people don't have enough character and become officials for the sake of merit and quick success. They don't care about the life and death of others. They just want to climb up and be promoted. After all, now they are awarded titles for military merit, and with titles as officials, they will also be in the future."
It will be relaxed to the point that governance can also be based on merit, promotion and progress. Therefore, the kind of eager for quick success and squeezing the people and subordinates, for example, when you are a local official, you ignore the suffering of the people in order to collect taxes;
Soldiers live and die, and even kill good people and take credit for their merits. Such people may be promoted based on merit, but they must not be allowed to enter the political hall based on their conduct!" (End of this chapter)