Chapter 580 9.2 Gannix Family Dinner (2)

Chapter 580 2 Gannix Family Feast (2)

The silence of the Legalist mentor stems from the fact that the story called "One Hundred Patiences Make a Family" is well known to everyone in Donglu.

This story is the first of the "24 Filial Piety".

During the Tianbao period when Confucianism was dominant, all children in the Tang Dynasty of Dongtu started to learn to read and write from the "24 Filial Piety".

To put it bluntly, the "24 Filial Piety" is the "Bible" of Donglu and the most popular book.

The reason why the story of "One Hundred Patiences Make a Family" was placed first by the Confucian mentor is that this story teaches children the first and most important lesson.

The core of this lesson is called "patience".

The core philosophy of Donglu people emphasizes "communitarianism". People cannot ignore others for their own selfish desires.

"Do not impose on others what you do not want others to do to you"

"Do not do good deeds because they are small, and do not do evil deeds because they are small"

This is the philosophical thought engraved in the soul of Donglu people.

In the eyes of Confucian scholars, they endured for the sake of family harmony, safeguarded their father's face, and did not let the family scandal be exposed.

This is the right way to do it.

Hoffman smiled and looked at the Roman nobles who were whispering on the long table. The dancing flames reflected the white faces of each of them painted with powder into a fiery red color, like a vivid oil painting.

"Dear adults, don't rush to express your opinions."

"I can see that you have begun to have doubts in your hearts. This is a good thing, which shows that you are all individuals with independent thinking."

"Let me finish the next story first."

"This is also a story from Donglu. This story is called "Guo Ju Buried His Son."

"In the year of the great disaster, there was a shortage of food. A man named Guo Ju planned to kill and bury one of his two sons in order to keep his old mother alive during the famine."

"His reason was 'sons can be reborn after death, but there is only one old mother'."

"After the old mother dies, there is no more."

"Mr. Lanying, can you understand his thoughts?"

This time, Hoffman asked a handsome boy sitting next to Senator Ganniks.

Unlike the group of councillors and merchants around him who were wearing loose Roman robes, this 17-year-old handsome boy was wearing a well-cut close-fitting short shirt. The short shirt was woven with gold threads, revealing the hard and white chest muscles on his chest.

The close-fitting clothes accurately outlined the boy's body shape, and the exposed skin did not look vulgar, but added a bit of youthful atmosphere that belonged exclusively to young people.

The more obvious feature was that this handsome boy named "Xu Lanying" was not a Roman.

From the outside, he and the two Donglu mentors had the same yellow skin and black hair.

This was obviously a descendant of Yanhuang from the Tang Dynasty in the East.

He sat next to the fat councillor, like a proud peacock.

"Respected Bachelor, I grew up in the palace. Apart from dancing on tiptoe, I don't know much about the outside world."

"I only know that if there is a famine in the 'Dance Academy', if I am in charge, I will save all the food for the children who have just enrolled.

Because I know that we can only lead the school so far."

"And these seemingly insignificant children have unlimited possibilities. They can push the niche dance of 'ballet' to a higher level, if our dance can be known to the world."

"Every instructor in the dance academy can rest in peace forever."

Member Gannix raised his glass and was very satisfied with the boy's answer. After the two clinked their glasses gently, the councillor drank it all, then moved his thick lips over and gently kissed Xu Lanying's earrings.

The 17-year-old boy blushed immediately, but it was not difficult to see that he looked at the elderly councillor with infinite love in his eyes.

The hot scene in front of him made the young legal teacher choke on the wine. The proud young man of the Tang Dynasty was molested in public by a fat foreign man who looked like a greasy pig.

He subconsciously reached for the scabbard hanging on his waist, but the instructor beside him flicked his sleeves gently under the long table.

"Remember, this is not the Tang Dynasty, and we are not the masters of this place."

"The barbarians have their own barbarian laws, don't impose our principles on them."

Shang Junzi nodded, sat upright again, put on the face of listening to the Imperial College in the Imperial College, and listened carefully to the speech of the old scholar.

During the Tianbao period, the extreme strength of the country made the Tang Dynasty prevail in decadence. All this originated from Li Longji, the "ancestor of stealing ashes" who kidnapped his daughter-in-law into the room.

If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked.

Influenced by this trend, the Tang Dynasty nobles were extravagant and gay love was common.

But this was during the Yuanhe period.

The Legalist mentor worked hard to reunite a broken country. After a long and arduous process of reducing the power of the feudal lords, the power to rule the world returned to the emperor.

When everything settled, they must cut off the extravagant style.

The first thing to be eliminated is gay love.

During the 60 years of the An-Shi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty lost nearly 40 million people. Now that they have finally managed to survive, men and women should get together to have children.

If men dare to live with men as partners, they will waste their efforts and fail to produce the population that the kingdom urgently needs.

Haha

In the eyes of the Legalist mentor, "death" is a word full of mercy.

It is for this reason that the abnormal feelings between the young man from the East Land and the congressman aroused such great disgust from Shang Junzi.

If he were in the Tang Kingdom, he would draw out his dagger without hesitation and slaughter them on the table!

"Through these four stories, I will call the Western Land culture centered on Rome the 'patricide culture', and the Eastern Land culture centered on the Tang Dynasty the 'son-killing culture'."

"The formation of culture does not appear by chance!"

"The popularity of a culture must be because it is conducive to the development of the ethnic group, otherwise it is impossible to spread it on a large scale!"

"At this time, let's take a look at this exquisite hand-painted map in the home of Congressman Gannix.

When we focus our sight on the Tang Dynasty, what do we see?"

"We see a closed fertile land!"

Hoffman stood up and walked to the edge of the map, stretching out his palm to point to the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

"The southeast is surrounded by the sea, and the west is separated from the Tang Dynasty by huge mountains that soar into the clouds. As for the north, in order to guard against the Xianbei and Khitan, the great Qin King Ying Zheng began to build the Great Wall in the pre-Qin period."

"With this wall, the Liangjiang River Basin has completely become a fertile land with a vast geographical area that is easy to defend and difficult to attack."

"The fertile land nourished by the strong rivers is very suitable for farming and settlement."

"In such an agricultural civilization, the older 'elderly' are very useful."

"There is an old saying in the East Continent - having an old man in the family is like having a treasure . "

"In the two businesses of farming and raising livestock, the elderly can use their rich experience to help the tribe more."

"They have lived for a long enough time and have experienced everything that can happen on this land."

"The elderly can keenly judge whether there will be rain in the future based on the weather, and can judge whether to store food this year based on experience. They can also use the knowledge in their brains to judge whether the livestock are sick or not and whether they should be slaughtered in advance."

"In the story of "Guo Ju buries his son", the poor farmer Guo Ju seems to be fulfilling his filial piety. , but is it possible that it is for better survival? "

"In his family, the oldest mother is the one with the most farming experience. "

"After decades of repeating the four seasons of farming, no one knows her family's few acres of thin fields and more than a dozen livestock better than this old woman. She can accurately judge the year's harvest in the spring, and can judge whether the livestock are listless because of hunger or illness. "

"You can also accurately reserve food and seeds for the next year through accurate calculations in the fall. "

"All members of the family know that as long as the old mother is there, they will not starve regardless of good years or bad years. "

"On the other hand, letting the son survive is just to add a labor force to the family. Teenagers consume much more food than the elderly, and it is not suitable for them to survive in bad years. "

"Execute a person with a 90% probability of death, and let the helmsman of the family survive. All this seems to be in the name of "loyalty and filial piety", but if you expand your vision to the entire farming civilization"

"Perhaps this choice is the "optimal solution" to let more people survive!"