Chapter 175 How to Achieve Peace

Boom!

The thunder exploded, just like the sudden appearance of daylight, illuminating the confused faces of everyone in the temple.

"People's hearts?"

The young boy Xiao Wu, who was still wary of Lin Chen, was unconsciously entranced at this moment. At this moment, he even asked subconsciously:

"If that's the case, doesn't it mean that no matter what, whether we live well or not depends on the thoughts of those gentlemen, so the only thing we can do is to hope that they will be kind?"

Zhang Zhiping thought for a while and said solemnly: "I dare to ask, sir, since the changes in the world depend on the human heart, but the human heart is in the belly, unpredictable, difficult to fathom, and hard to satisfy, then can't we just watch everything happen? , not even Daqian can escape..."

Speaking of this, he seemed to have some taboos. Then, Zhang Zhiping closed his eyes slightly and was silent for a while before opening them and facing Lin Chen, he said word by word:

"Three hundred years of reincarnation?"

When Lin Chen heard these words, he asked: "Old sir, do you really think that people's hearts cannot be influenced or even restrained?"

"The human heart is an illusory thing. How can it be influenced and restrained?" Zhang Zhiping thought for a moment and asked.

"That's right, just like when my elder brother beat me, I didn't even know where to offend him..." Xiao Wu said quickly on the side.

But before he finished speaking, the middle-aged man covered his mouth.

"Sir, please don't interrupt!" The middle-aged man suppressed the urge to hit someone and shouted.

Lin Chen smiled slightly at this and said: "How to change people's hearts and make everyone's hearts become good, so as to create peace for all ages. Hasn't this method been given to us by the ancient sages?"

"Huh?!" Everyone was stunned.

Zhang Zhiping had a vague idea, but he still bowed and said respectfully: "I am stupid, please give me some advice."

The way of learning is to put the master first. The level of knowledge and understanding described by Lin Chen has surpassed him, so he deserves to be worshiped.

Lin Chen accepted the gift generously. He knew very well that the person he was paying tribute to was not him, but the brilliant thoughts in the civilization behind him.

After saluting, Lin Chen did not reply directly. Instead, he picked up a crawling ant from the ground and displayed it in front of everyone: "May I ask you, what is the most important thing to this ant?"

"Eat!" Xiao Wu responded immediately.

The middle-aged man stared at Xiao Wu, who immediately shrank back. Then, he thought for a moment and picked it up: "May I ask, sir, but life?"

"That's right." Lin Chen smiled and nodded, and then continued to ask, "Then I would like to ask, what is the most important thing for people?"

"...also, life?" Zhang Zhiping pondered.

"If it's life, then why do you risk your life to save this Mr. Zhang?" Lin Chen pointed at the middle-aged man, and then pointed at Zhang Zhiping, "If it's life, why do you risk your life again?" Safety and insistence on carrying out reforms?”

"This..." For a moment, everyone was stunned.

Then, the middle-aged man spoke first: "We don't have much idea, we just think that people like Zhang Xiang cannot die!"

Zhang Zhiping was silent for a moment, and then said firmly: "For the sake of all the people in the world."

"Then, whether it is the thought that people like Zhang Xiang cannot die, or the desire to risk one's life for the sake of the world, in the final analysis, it is all for the sake of the righteousness in the heart and the morality of society."

Lin Chen concluded, and then continued: "Then I would like to ask, whether this righteousness or morality, are people born with it?"

"Sir, what you mean is..." Zhang Zhiping seemed to understand it completely at this moment, and murmured, "Morality and righteousness are what we learn from classics, and classics are created by sages."

"We who have a clear understanding of morality know right and wrong, know how to restrain ourselves and eliminate the evil in our hearts, and can even go against the instinct of life for the sake of the righteousness in our hearts."

"So, the moral principles created by the sages established the spirit of civilization inheritance and, to a certain extent, changed people's hearts!"

"That's right." Lin Chen nodded, "In fact, the ancient sages have already thought of the method of peace and harmony, and that is moral justice."

"The ancient sages established a moral system and restrained people's hearts with morality and etiquette. They transformed us from animal nature to human nature, and transformed us from a world of the weak to the possibility of a world of great harmony!"

"As long as we follow what the ancient saints and sages did, restrain people's hearts with righteousness, educate nature with morality, everyone can abide by it, respect the old and love the young, be kind to others, be honest and trustworthy..."

"In the end, our entire society will become a society with extremely high moral quality. Even if there is no law, each of us will consciously restrain ourselves, correct the problems caused by the changes of the times, and make up for its shortcomings."

"Everyone has extremely high moral standards. Naturally, they will not engage in corruption or exploitation. Instead, they will consider others, be strict with themselves, and be a gentleman with caution."

"At that time, the entire society will be able to achieve fair distribution and gain from hard work. In the end, everyone will be like a dragon, marching towards the wider world outside, and even the sea of ​​​​stars..."

"That's how it is. Why has the world become like this?" After hearing this, Xiao Wu couldn't help but ask.

"It's not that morality doesn't work, it's that some people trample on it time and time again." Lin Chen said lightly.

"Originally, the morality of respecting the elderly and caring for the elderly of others took thousands of years to form, but being blackmailed for saving an old man and losing his entire family property is enough to cause cracks in this morality formed over thousands of years..."

"And such small things, accumulated over the years in history, will make the efforts of countless saints and ancestors throughout the ages go to waste."

"In the early years of the dynasty, people gathered together to work together to create a prosperous era. But as time went by, they could not control their own desires, and things that corrupted social morality happened one after another..."

"Slowly, from the initial gathering of people's hearts to the continuous corruption of social customs, the world's morals went downhill, and people's hearts were no longer ancient, which eventually led to the emergence of corrupt officials and the rampant landlords, so that the people could not live in poverty and the cycle started again..."

"So I think the decline of the dynasty is the result of the decline of the dynasty. Failure is not a matter of land, taxation, or interests, but a matter of people's hearts!"

"Otherwise, when the basic interests are getting bigger and bigger, how can there be a situation where there is no idle land in the world and farmers still starve to death? In the final analysis, it is still the people's hearts!"

After hearing this, Zhang Zhiping was silent for a long time, and sighed: "First, prove that the changes throughout the ages are nothing but the people's hearts. Then explain that the ancient sages used morality to restrain the people's hearts, and then explain the source of the changes in dynasties from the perspective of morality and people's hearts. If you can have such insights, you must be a wise man left in the mountains and fields, a person with ancient virtues, and a first-class immortal sage!"

"The sages created the avenue and benefited future generations for thousands of years. The true immortals roamed the world, and their original intentions remained unchanged for eternity. I am just a strange man in the mountains and fields who knows a little knowledge. What qualifications do I have to compare with sages and immortals?" Lin Chen shook his head.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhiping bowed solemnly to Lin Chen and asked respectfully: "Then may I ask, sir, in today's world where the teachings of saints and sages are damaged, morals are declining, and people's hearts are no longer as they used to be, how can we restrain people's hearts and create eternal peace?

"I don't know." Lin Chen shook his head and said directly.

"Sir, you are really talented... huh? !"