At noon, in the Imperial College Canteen, students were having a meal. Everyone gathered in groups of three or five at the high-legged dining table, sitting on high-legged seats - chairs, eating while discussing the latest news.

A few days ago, an article was published in the newspaper, titled "Back View", which talked about a father's love for his son.

In the past two days, many students have read this article and used the "my" eyes in the article to see the "father's back". Then they think of their father and their noses are sore.

Most of the students of Imperial College come from other places. They leave their hometowns and go to Beijing to study. Unless they take leave, they can only go home during the winter and summer holidays. Therefore, they live in Imperial College campuses on weekdays and rarely meet their families.

Every time school starts, students leave their hometown, they have to say goodbye to their parents. Such scenes are always sad. The article "Back View" uses simple words to describe the father's love for his son, which touches the heartstrings of readers (students).

Therefore, while everyone was moved, they had a great agreement with the author of the article's "loyalty and filial piety" and thus triggered new thinking: If it were me, how should I choose?

There are many allusions in history that loyalty and filial piety have happened, and the familiar allusions among students are the first to be Xu Shu in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.

At the end of the Later Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. The Han family's relatives, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, were determined to support the Han family. The talented Xu Shu threw himself under the tent and gave advice to Liu Xuande.

However, the treacherous minister Cao Cao led his troops south and swallowed Jingzhou. In the midst of chaos, Xu Shu's mother was captured by Cao's army. Xu Shu had to say goodbye to Liu Xuande in order to serve his mother.

Loyalty and filial piety are in a dilemma. The filial son Xu Shu couldn't give up his widowed mother, so he chose filial piety between loyalty and filial piety.

However, when her mother learned that her son had given up on loyalty for filial piety, she scolded her son for being foolish and filial, she committed suicide, which made Xu Shu regret it. Although she was in Cao's camp, she no longer gave advice to Cao Cao.

This is a story in storytelling, and students basically know it. Of course, they also know that the records about Xu Shu in the historical book "The Three Kingdoms" are very different from storytelling.

Another case is that after the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, scholar Li Mi faced the enthronement of Emperor Wu of Jin, Sima Yan, and refused on the grounds of serving his grandmother, and then submitted it to "The Untamed Biao".

Li Mi started with his unfortunate experience in childhood, explaining his special relationship with his grandmother for life, and narrating his great kindness for raising him and his great righteousness for raising him.

In this "The Untamed Biao", in addition to thanking the court for his kindness, Li Mi also expressed his difficulties in not being able to obey his destiny, his words were sincere, his true feelings were revealed, his language was concise, and his tactful and smooth.

According to legend, Emperor Wu of Jin was moved after reading this watch and specially rewarded Li Mi's slaves and ordered the counties to provide support to his grandmother on time.

"The Untamed Biao" has been passed down to this day and has been read by students from the Imperial College, so I know that this is an example of the dilemma of loyalty and filial piety.

Of course, some people believe that Li Mi, as a surviving minister of Shu Han, was devoted to the Han Dynasty and was unwilling to be a minister of Jin, because of loyalty. Emperor Wu of Jin saw that this man was devoted to his homeland, so he kept sending envoys to urge him to enter the court and become an official.

Li Mi was unwilling to become an official, and his grandmother was sick, so he grabbed the word "filial piety" and made a big fuss, but did not start with the principle. Instead, he made a tactful statement and moved him with emotion, and solved the problem of "not following the emperor's destiny" in a perfect way.

Such behavior is actually a loyalty and filial piety (loyalty refers to loyalty to Shu Han).

There was also a senior member of the Southern Dynasty, Yu Qianlou, who was appointed as the magistrate of Chanling County. He took office for less than ten days. Suddenly, he felt frightened and sweating. He felt that something was wrong at home, so he immediately resigned and returned home.

When he returned home, he learned that his father had been seriously ill for two days. The doctor told me: "To know the good or bad condition of the disease, just taste the patient's feces, and it's better to have a bitter taste."

Qianlou then went to taste his father's feces and found that the taste was sweet. He was very worried. He knelt down at night and begged to die instead of his father. A few days later, Qianlou buried his father and obeyed him for three years.

This is also an example of a son choosing filial piety in a dilemma of loyalty and filial piety.

However, now, by paying attention to current affairs, students find that there are new problems in front of them, that is, "railway engineers" such as the author of the article "Back View". When facing a dilemma of loyalty and filial piety, should they choose filial piety or loyalty?

Railways, trains, and railway transportation that combines the two can be said to be the magical artifact of the country. They are the reliance of the emperor and the court to maintain railway transportation, build railways, and drive trains, which can be said to be loyal to the emperor, just like soldiers who charge in battle.

These technicians and "engineers" must not stay in their hometown for a long time because of their work relationships. So can they give up their loyalty for the sake of filial piety?

It seems not possible, because railway transportation requires a large number of people to participate in it, and the related work is not something that anyone can do, and requires a lot of knowledge.

Railway transportation is an industry with a wide range of complexities. Each technical position, like the gears of a clock at the same time, cannot do anything less. At the least, it will lead to inaccurate movement, and at the worst, it will cause the clock to stop rotating.

The court needed railway transportation and countless people left their hometown for railway transportation. Parents were busy along the railway and between stations. Can these people give up their picks?

Yes, because the court did not say that he was not allowed to resign.

However, everyone has resigned and returned home. Who will keep the railway transportation running?

This is the case for railway transportation, the same is true for steam ship transportation, and the same is true for various steam machinery operations. We can’t everyone go home and let civil and military officials drive the train, the steam ship?

This is a dilemma of loyalty and filial piety under the new situation. What should I do?

You can't waste steamships, trains, and steam engines?

An article in Today's newspaper (Morning News) "New Explanation of Loyalty and Filial Piety" raised this question, which made the students gathered in the cafeteria have a lot of discussion, everyone has their own opinions, and no one can convince anyone.

The author of the article "New Interpretation on Loyalty and Filial Piety" believes that in the era when the sages lived, there were no steamships, trains, telegraphs, and steam engines. People lived a farming life that was built at sunrise and rested at sunset.

Now, times have changed. The steamships, trains, powerful steam engines, and magical telegrams have greatly changed the situation in the world.

In the era of great prosperity of industry and commerce, it is already a bit out of place to evaluate the right and wrong of personal behavior using the view of loyalty and filial piety in the era of agriculture and sericulture.

The imperial court will inevitably build longer and longer railways, more and more trains will be driving on the railways, more and more steam ships will be sailing in rivers, lakes and seas, and more and more steam machinery will be put into use in various places.

At this time, a large number of people need to leave home to work, solve the problems of the court and be loyal to the emperor. So how can loyalty and filial piety be achieved?

The author believes that if a person is the only son in the family, he should stay in his hometown to support his parents and not go out to work, which will lead to the two elderly people being helpless.

If there are brothers, then brothers can divide the work, one of them stays in their hometown to support their parents, and performs filial piety. The other can go out to work and drive trains, steamships, and steam machinery for the court.

Then this person has to send a portion of his salary home to improve his parents' lives, which is also filial piety.

You should know that people who work in the train and steamship transportation industries, as well as those who can operate various steam machinery, have a much higher income than ordinary workers, and pay half of their salary to support their parents, which is enough to allow their parents to live a life of full food and clothing.

The article uses the content written in "Mencius" as an example: the family is poor and the elderly are not a servant, and they are not a servant, and they are unfilial. This means that a son thinks that seeing his family is poor and not going out to make money is unfilial.

Since you have to work in another place, it is a "customer". In order to better manage the migrant population, the government will inevitably require these people to establish a household. So, what's wrong with "father, ancestors are there, and descendants are from different sources and wealth"?

The students thought this article made sense, so...

So the times have changed. Should there be a new explanation for filial piety and unfilial piety?

The students were talking, even after eating and walking on the campus road, they were talking about what this article said today.

Xu Wenyuan, who came out of the office, looked at the newspapers held by the students, listened to the other party's discussions, and frowned.

After the article "Back View" was published in newspapers and magazines, the supporters of the original manuscript of "Mingdelu" finally began to launch a "counterattack". Today's newspaper Xu Wenyuan has read the views of "New Interpretation on Loyalty and Filial Piety", and he intends to write an article to criticize it.

Fallacy! What is the words of the saint who carves a boat and seeks a sword? The words of the saint will never be outdated!

However, Xu Wenyuan knew that things were not that simple.

He vaguely felt that more "new solutions" would appear soon, so what strange "fallacies" would the other party raise?
Chapter completed!