Chapter 125: Everyone Like a Dragon

Since ancient times, all acts of teaching and transformation have been from top to bottom.

Starting from the emperor, down to the high officials and nobles, Confucian scholars and academies, then to local powerful families, and finally to the common people.

The subsequent implementation of national decrees was also the same.

After the upper layer changes, the lower layer will naturally change.

As the ruler, receiving the words of the sages, having realization in the heart.

Serving as an example, the high officials follow, the nobles follow, and the Confucian scholars naturally follow.

Layer by layer, pushing the teachings of the sages into practice, changing the civilization structure of the Human Race's inheritance.

This is almost the most perfect path, a way to carry out teaching and transformation in a society with a complete hierarchical structure.

However, just because it has always been this way, does it mean it is right?

Li Xiang shook his head and said to himself.

"Why must one start by influencing Confucian scholars and academies?"

"They might have great influence, but the Human Race is not entirely composed of them."

"These people live in luxury, so how can they understand the lives of ordinary people?"

"Whenever there is a reform, there must be a cause. In the end, it is nothing more than the decline of Humanity. Since you want to change the status quo, why not start by changing Humanity itself?"

"And those who can represent the vast Humanity, shouldn't they be the common people, the masses?"

"If the common people could all live in luxury like Confucian scholars, if the common people could all read and write like high officials, if the common people could all receive the words of the sages like kings, if my Human Race were all like dragons, why worry that Humanity would not flourish?!"

In the tavern.

Li Xiang's still somewhat immature voice fell calmly, but it made the two hearts jump wildly.

Everyone like a dragon!

In an instant.

In front of the two, they seemed to see an indescribable scene.

It was like what was mentioned in ancient books, an era that had once been born in the infinitely distant past.

Everyone like a dragon, a Supreme Divine Dynasty, that was an age where the most ordinary humans could create miracles.

It is rumored that the people of that era were all heaven-sent talents, peerless geniuses, and whether it was cultivation or questioning the heart, they had extremely terrifying achievements.

Knowing the wonders of the rotation of the Heavenly Dao above, and understanding the principles of the growth of all things below.

It is heard that in that era, even the Heavenly Dao was controlled by the Human Race, and even the Underworld was acquired by the Human Race, and the theory of reincarnation was no longer a fantasy.

The supreme saints of the Human Race were in that era, setting the position of the Human Race as the destined protagonist.

It is just a pity that later the Divine Dynasty collapsed, the years changed, and even the traces left behind were only some legends.

Completely unable to find any traces.

Even many Great Confucians have doubted the authenticity of that period of history.

Is there really such a dynasty in the world?

Suppressing the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths above, pressing the ancient Underworld below, reincarnation and stars, heaven and earth and the firmament, all within the coverage of Humanity.

It is simply like a child's dream, unbelievable.

At this time, the two listened to Li Xiang's words, but felt that this matter was very promising!

If one were to really do it, not to mention the distant future.

Just looking at the present.

If the people of my Great Liang were all well-fed and clothed, and all knew how to read and know the classics, just these two items alone, the benefits brought would be extremely terrifying.

The implementation speed of the King's political decrees would reach a terrifying degree, and the stability of Great Liang would also reach an unimaginable degree.

If the Liang King could truly let the thousands of people in the court be well-fed and clothed, then his political achievements would exceed all the kings of his ancestors.

He would be a wise king counted among the ages!

"It's just that this matter is fine to say."

"If it falls into practice, I fear it is extremely difficult, harder than ascending to heaven!"

After pondering for a while, the two said so.

Sorrow hung in their eyes.

"The common people do not know characters, do not know the classics, so how should they be taught and transformed?"

"Peddlers and pawns, weak in body and small in strength, even if taught and transformed, how can they influence high officials and nobles, and how can they reverse the chaotic situation of Confucian scholars?"

"Great Liang is so big, with the bodies of you and me, doing this heaven-defying thing, can it be achieved in a thousand years? Can it be achieved in ten thousand years?"

"At that time, when future generations mention it, wouldn't it be laughable?"

Sighing longly, sorrow in their hearts.

But they looked at Li Xiang again.

The scene he described was good, but no matter how they thought about it, they still felt it couldn't be done.

Perhaps, this little master who proposed the theory could give them some suggestions.

Looking at the decadent appearance of the two, Li Xiang laughed.

Laughed in anger.

If the two were to practice it, to do it on people's livelihood, they were both first-class experts.

Proficient in skills, peerless in medical skills, how come when talking about classics and theories, they are like wood.

No wonder those Confucian scholars are not interested in these things.

This is simply rootless water, achieving nothing, not even knowing what the goal they are striving for is.

Like headless flies, flying around everywhere, what good results can there be.

It was only because Great Liang was seeking change, seeking to become stronger, that it accepted the change of the Hundred Schools.

No wonder the other six kingdoms did not accept this kind of thought at all.

Nonsense, this kind of ideological change, they don't even know what they want to become.

How would outsiders know what you want to do?

Immediately, Li Xiang refuted.

"In the matter of reform, how can one not act against heaven."

"If we talk about the difficulty of teaching and transformation, ancient Humanity was like a wilderness, not knowing rites and laws, not understanding teaching and transformation, like humans but not humans, what is the difference from demons and beasts?"

"Isn't it still the prosperity of Humanity, turned into the current appearance?"

"The common people may not understand characters, do not know various classics, and cannot understand the stories of the Hundred Schools of Thought citing classics."

"But don't the common people understand human hearts, don't they know cold and warmth, don't they know who is better to them?"

Li Xiang stood up, his eyes looking at Lu Ban and Bian Que.

These two were both great talents who left their names in history books.

Not by conduct, not by virtue, but purely by talent.

If the brain were more flexible, carrying it forward, why couldn't it change Humanity?

"Mohist mechanism art, Confucian scholars can learn it, Mohist disciples can learn it, can't the common people learn it?"

"If you have a few more of those bellows fire control arts, make the common people cook faster, farm faster, build homes faster."

"When one day, you are no longer here, they can also do these things."

"Will the common people forget these?"

"Perhaps they can't remember your names, can't they remember your Dao?"

"You go to reform, is it to seek fame, or to seek action?"

Every word echoed, every word vibrated.

Scenes were outlined and flashed in the hearts of the two.

The common people haven't read books for a few days, but they know what is good and what is bad in their hearts.

If the lives of the common people can be lived well, then layer by layer of feedback, the entire national destiny of Great Liang, the trend of Humanity will increase and rise significantly.

"Don't say that Great Liang is too big, that even if you teach and transform for a lifetime, you can't finish it."

"Since you want to reform, why look for old methods?"

"In the past, you taught and transformed from the king, and later pushed by countless Confucian scholars, spending a hundred or a thousand years, and finally the Dao was achieved."

"Now that you want to push from the grassroots, it is no longer a path, if you still rely on your own legs, how long will you run?"

Li Xiang looked at the two calmly, a flash of expectation in his eyes.

"Since the object of spreading the Dharma is the vast common people, have you really considered what the common people like?"

Speaking of this, the two were stunned for a moment.

That's right.

When they spread the Dharma, they would still think about what Confucian scholars and kings like.

Standing from their perspective to do problems.

Using ways that are more in line with their interests to spread the Dharma and research.

What do kings like? Kings like the prosperity of the dynasty.

Whatever can make the dynasty flourish, they will adopt.

What do Confucian scholars like? Confucian scholars like to be famous through the ages, like wealth, like privileges.

If pushing new laws can give them these, they will firmly stand on the side of the new laws.

But what about the common people?

What do the common people like?

This was the first time the two seriously thought about these questions.

Lu Ban and Bian Que were not from the common people, and their families were all from large clans.

It is very difficult for them to empathize with these common people, and very difficult to think about it properly.

It's just that they have more contact with the common people and know a little bit.

But if they really put themselves in their shoes, it is far from enough.

Li Xiang shook his head and continued to speak.

Sure enough, these guys have been away from the masses for too long.

"Have you considered writing a book, making up a story, or simply turning it into a play?"

"The common people study nothing more than those few things every day."

"Maybe they don't know what the king's name is this year, but if you ask them how much grain costs, how is the weather?"

"Who is the red-faced character in the play who rode alone for a thousand miles, passing five passes and killing six generals? They can all say it quickly."

"What they ponder every day is nothing more than how to have more harvest, how to earn more silver."

Li Xiang described seriously, telling them that if your things can benefit the common people.

Can let the common people earn money.

Perhaps the situation will have many different changes.

"By then, the common people will spread it by word of mouth, and their children will be the most firm supporters of the new learning."

"If writing books and establishing traditions, it should not be written too metaphysically, but closer to people's livelihood."

"Have you considered using vernacular to write about the inheritance?"

"That is, let anyone who sees it understand the content."

"Or even if you don't need to understand the content, you know how to do it, how to build Mohist mechanisms, how to do it, how to treat typhoid fever yourself."

"Valuing skills over the Dao, valuing the root over the face."

The two were stunned for a moment.

Write in vernacular?

This behavior, if it reached the capital and let the Confucian scholars see it.

I am afraid they will ridicule them a lot.

After all, if you write in vernacular, it will make people feel that they are from the village.

But if you think about it carefully, if there is really such a book.

It can change the lives of ordinary people, and use the methods they like to spread the Dao inside.

Maybe some old man stole the technology, then earned silver, and married the pretty widow next door.

Maybe some young man shouted 'Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river', got the inheritance of the gods, and since then farming is like a god's help, in just over ten years, he wore gold and silver, and became a powerful family.

"Using the ways they like, the stories they like, hide our technology, our inheritance, in it."

"Like this."

"Spreading the Dao for a thousand miles, is it still a fantasy?"

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