Rebirth of the Viking King

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 Exemplars".

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

To put it bluntly, the "24 Filial Exemplars" is the "Bible" of the Eastern Continent 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 because this story teaches children the first and most important lesson.

The core of this lesson is called "patience".

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

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

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

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

In the eyes of Confucian scholars, self-patience for the sake of family harmony, to protect the face of the old father, and not to let the family's shame be exposed.

This is the right way to do it

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

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

"Once the old mother dies, there will be 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 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 State 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 emotions between the boy from East China and the congressman aroused such great disgust from the gentleman Shang.

If he were in the Tang Dynasty, he would not hesitate to draw his dagger and kill them on the spot at the dinner table!

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

“Culture doesn’t happen by accident!”

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

“In times like these, we might as well take a look at this exquisite hand-drawn map of Senator Gannix’s home

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

"What we see is a closed fertile land!"

Hoffman stood up and walked to the edge of the map, stretched out his palm and pointed at the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

"It is surrounded by the sea in the southeast, and there are huge mountains towering into the clouds in the west that separate Datang and Tianzhu. As for the north, in order to guard against Xianbei and Khitan, the great Qin King Yingzheng in the pre-Qin period began to build the Great Wall."

"Including this city wall, the Liangjiang River Basin has completely turned into a fertile land that is vast and easy to defend but difficult to attack."

“The fertile land fed by strong rivers was ideal for farming and ideal for settlement.”

"In such an agricultural civilization, older 'old men' are very useful."

"There is an old saying circulating in the Eastern Continent - having an elder in a family is like having a treasure."

"In the two undertakings of cultivating fields and raising livestock, the elderly can use their rich experience to help the ethnic group even more."

"They've survived long enough to experience everything that this land can experience."

"The elderly can keenly judge whether there will be rain in the future based on the weather, and can judge based on experience whether to hoard food this year. They can also use the knowledge in their brains to judge whether livestock are sick and whether they need to be slaughtered in advance."

"In the story of 'Guo Ju buries his son', the poor farmer Guo Ju seems to be doing it to fulfill his filial duty, but is it actually possible that he is doing it for a better survival?"

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

"After decades of repeated four-season farming, no one knows her few acres of thin fields and more than a dozen livestock better than this old man. She can accurately judge this year's weather in the spring, and she can judge the livestock When you feel listless, is it because of hunger or illness?”

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

"All members of the family know that as long as the old mother is here, they will never go hungry, no matter the years of good times or disasters."

"On the other hand, keeping the son alive is just adding a labor force to the family. Teenage children consume much more food than the elderly, and they are not suitable to survive in disaster years."

"Execute a person who has a 90% chance of death, and let the leader of the family survive. All this seems to be in the name of "loyalty and filial piety," but if we expand our sights to the entire farming civilization."

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