Chapter 613

With the example of Hufu riding and shooting, Merton Kun FA's treatment of lice immediately became persuasive. Even Li Shimin couldn't help but be convinced. The Tang Dynasty was extremely open, and the advantages of Kun FA were obvious to all. For a moment, many people's resistance decreased a lot.

"What is filial piety in our debate today? I'm afraid it's a partial topic." Quan Wanji immediately turned the topic when he saw that the momentum was wrong.

Merton saw that the effect had been achieved and did not entangle more on this topic! Instead, they reopened the debate on filial piety: "Filial piety is more important than form, but we put the cart before the horse. The most obvious one is that in the Han Dynasty, observing filial piety and honesty was very popular. At that time, many scholars did everything they needed to show their filial piety in order to be an official. The boy believes that the purpose is to be an official, not filial piety! More people resort to fraud in order to be an official. Baopuzi by Ge Hong, an eminent Taoist He once satirized this phenomenon, saying: if you raise scholars, you don't know books; if you observe filial piety and honesty, your father lives separately. The cold is as white as mud, and all the courtiers in gaoman Dynasty are silent.

"The boy also believes that people all over the world should pay more attention to filial piety before death than burial after death. A greeting before death is better than crying for three days after death, and a bowl of hot rice before death is better than three years of filial piety! This is the filial piety that parents all over the world need, rather than allowing some people to gain fame for themselves in the name of filial piety and righteousness. It will lose the essence of filial piety, which is a greater stain on filial piety!" Merton's words were enlightening, and everyone couldn't help thinking for a while.

"Filial piety is not obedience!"

"Filial piety before death!"

"A greeting before death is better than crying for three days."

"A bowl of hot rice before death is better than three years of filial piety!"

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Unprecedented views have directly impacted the Three Outlooks of the people in the court. In this era, once their parents die, they must be filial for three years. Ordinary people will be filial for three years. Their families will lose their livelihood and suddenly become poor. Officials will be filial for three years and their official career will be interrupted. Now Merton can speak everyone's voice.

"This is the real filial piety, the purest filial piety in the world, without any utilitarian filial piety!" Merton was sonorous and powerful word by word.