Compared with those strange beasts that can be seen and touched, this strange beast that can affect people's minds and make people think that what they are controlled is their own spontaneous consciousness.

Even though many people have heard of such stories, they are still scared when they are mentioned by middle-aged people.

Some Confucian scholars shook their heads and said, "I don't speak, but my power is in chaos and strange gods."

The middle-aged man who was Fei Mo and Fei Ru smiled and said, "This is just a story of strange ambitions, a story of strange ambitions, but a story of strange ambitions and satirizes the world."

"I just heard Gaozi talk about human nature, and suddenly thought of this story."

"The metaphysical one is the Tao, and the physical one is called a weapon."

"Li is a tool? Or Tao? This cannot be distinguished."

"At the beginning of the creation of rituals, it was just a tool, to make the world more stable."

"But this tool has been used for a long time, just like Shuges in that weird story, he has a self-consciousness."

"Many men and women don't know that they have been alienated as part of the etiquette."

"My sister-in-law fell into the water. The man thought to myself whether I would go to save me? Men and women were not allowed to hand over things, but they forgot that etiquette itself was just a tool for stability in the world at that time. What was the world? Isn't it that there were thousands of people in the world? The etiquette used as tools was to make more people profit, but now etiquette itself has changed from a tool to a strange beast like a cultivator and a ceremonial, making people polite for etiquette."

"My parents died, and they were inexplicably sad. They gave up their family business and served filial piety for three years, but they did not know that etiquette was just a tool, and filial piety was the heart."

"Iron tools have appeared, but they still strictly abide by the etiquette and law. They think that not plowing public fields is a big mistake, but they don't think about what the difference is between plowing public fields and paying taxes for private acres?"

"Many people forget that etiquette is just a tool, but they regard the form of etiquette itself as their ultimate goal, but tools are just for convenience."

"Kong Zhongni founded Confucianism to borrow this tool to make the world stable."

"He is also a great wise man, don't he know the difference between tools?"

"Many of his disciples and disciples regarded the tool of etiquette as their ultimate goal, but they did not know that they were no longer human beings, but were transformed into part of etiquette. When someone stood up and said that etiquette was just a tool, they became furious and rebuked the Confucians."

"When etiquette is no longer a tool but becomes an end, the whole world will be swallowed by etiquette, the strange beast of chuiges, and everyone will become part of it. They are no longer humans, no longer straightforward, and their actions are controlled by etiquette itself."

"For the sake of etiquette and law, we do not know that etiquette and law are tools themselves, and tools are only for people."

When Gaozi heard this, he knew in his heart that he should not argue with this person, but he didn't know which school he belonged to.

When everyone was thinking, the middle-aged man said again: "If you know how to guard it, you will return to Pu. If Pu is scattered, you will be a tool. If the sage uses it, you will be an official, so you will not be cut off from the big system."

"Since you say that etiquette is a tool, it is like a carpenter's work. A big wood needs to be trimmed with a saw first before using a planer. If a wood that has been decorated a lot of wood still uses a saw and an axe but does not use a planer, and think that it was correct to use a saw and an axe before, so it is still correct to use an axe after modification, that is not wise."

"Simple and scattered means a tool, and the great system is not divided. All things in the world are universally connected and they are revealed by themselves. Those who can find out the truth can probably be called saints, and the world can also be stable."

After saying this, not only Gaozi, but also the disciples of all schools present already knew that this person must be from the Taoist school, but they didn't know which branch it was.

This sentence is mysterious and has many different explanations.

But at this moment, there is only one explanation left.

Simplicity is Tao, and the rest is art. The sages know Tao, so they use various tools transformed by Tao to govern the world.

When Gaozi heard this, he felt that he should cater to it. It sounded like the middle-aged man was speaking for the Mohist family in Sishang.

At least, the old man believed that etiquette and law had changed from a "device" used to govern the world to a strange beast like Xiu Ges or a strange beast in the strange story. Many people have turned "for etiquette and law to be ritual and law" and have become alienated in the strange story and controlled by the strange story, but they are confused and unaware that everything is someone who is active.

However, just as Gaozi was about to agree, the old man faced Gaozi again, Yun Danfeng chuckled and said, "Since he said that if he was a simple and scattered person, he would be a utensil. If he used it, he would be a magnanimous person, so he would not be cut off."

"Also, metaphysical means is called Tao, and physical means is called vessel. Tao is invisible, colorless, tasteless, irrelevant, but omnipresent. However, metaphysical means cannot govern the world, and governing the world can only follow the physical means. The same is true for Si Shang."

"I have to use tools to govern the country, but I'm afraid that you, Si, will also have a different beast like the rituals and laws."

"You have no nobles in the Si River, but you have new instruments - officials who are chosen by Shangxian."

"The officials who Shangxian replaced the clan's feudal division, the salary from tax collection replaced the land, the law replaced the etiquette... but it was still a tool."

"One day if this thing awakens, I'm afraid it will be the same in the future."

"I hope that your Si Shang Mo family can control the strange beast of the bureaucrats, and always understand that this is just a simple weapon, but a tool, and you cannot let it transform itself and wake up to the world."

After the old man finished speaking, he didn't wait for others to ask anything. He bowed slightly to Gaozi, who was still standing on the stage, and walked straight out of the crowd.

Not far from the crowd was the place where the cattle and horse carriage were stored. Under the eyes of countless people, the old man turned over and rode on the back of a cow.

The cows walked very slowly, not as fast as horses, but the old man didn't care.

From afar, someone asked loudly: "Sir, can you ask when will the world be truly governed? What will be the joy of peace and harmony?"

The old man did not look back on the cow's back, only leaving a wave of lingering sounds.

"Man is simple and natural, and does not get tired of things or is controlled by tools. If you want to do not use tools to govern the world, you must first use tools to govern it; if you want to do not use tools to get tired of things, you must first seek all things."

"For me, you can cultivate yourself and return to simplicity first."

"If you want to profit and get burdened with everything, you can cultivate the world and be simplistic."

"Be careful, be careful."

The road was long, and the old man rode a cow and wandered around the world, missing, leaving only the warning that the Si Shang was warned to the official system that replaced the etiquette and law.

(Volume 2, end)
Chapter completed!