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Chapter 553 I feel pity, what an old thief

(The question of wrong numbers cannot be corrected, it is actually Chapter 551)

After leaving Zhen’s mansion and returning to the carriage, Li Su quickly calmed down. After all, all his impulses were physiological reactions, which were pure lust, and had nothing to do with other factors.

When you see the color, you will feel relieved naturally if you can't see it.

Sitting in the carriage, his heart was already in calm planning, and he was looking for a way to avoid suspicion for his long-term governor of the three southern states next month.

Liu Bei's trust in his subordinates was undoubtedly greater than that of Liu Xiu, and farther than that of Liu Bang. This is not a gap in personality, but also a gap in history. After all, it has been four hundred years since the Han Dynasty, and Li Su has personally promoted the "On the Blessings of the Palace", so Liu Bei had no need to be suspicious of the gods.

However, after all, Guan Yu is still recovering from his injuries and will be responsible for the northern battlefield where Hedong-Bingzhou confronts Yuan Shao in the future. Therefore, Li Su's authority to take control of local real power in Liu Bei's camp has actually surpassed Guan Yu, and he is truly above ten thousand people.

When he took Zhuge Liang to tour the world last year, he left his wife and children in Chang'an, and only brought his concubine and a Taoist companion to the road. In addition, the temporary control of the southern regime was based on the defeat of Yuan Shu. After Nanyang and Jingbei changed hands, he handed over power. The power was only half a year long, so there was no big problem.

This time I went to Xiangyang again, just to promote the southern region to accept reforms and rectify the newly surrendered areas of Jingzhou, it would be impossible to deal with it in less than a year. Perhaps I also have to be on guard against Cao Cao and lure Sun Ce. The total time required is really difficult to predict.

It is possible in one to three years.

Although the term limit for the "Interim Governor XXX State Military" is three years and has given the power an insurance policy, it is still not enough.

Liu Bei was not worried about Li Su, and Li Su was not worried about himself, but he realized that this action would be cited as a case by the "ancestor's law" that has been around for at least hundreds of years in the world.

How did Li Su do the first governor of several states today? The future emperor will also learn from today's practice of the future governor's outreach. Li Su himself is a saint who entered the Confucian Temple and is not afraid of his autocracy, but those who achieve this high position in the next few hundred years will not be saints.

"If you leave your wife in Chang'an for two or three years, it will not be appropriate. If you neglect your wife for too long, you will be able to make bad examples. Why don't you leave your son? Leave a concubine to raise your son so that you can take the wife away."

Li Su thought about it and said that the ancients still attached great importance to inheriting the family line, and their wives and daughters were not worth it. But Li Su was still a modern concept on this issue. He didn't want his son before traveling through time, so let's leave his son as a hostage.

This is not surprising, but it is related to Li Su's personality. For example, he understands the mentality of saints and those who have cultural pursuits in later generations.

Later Dinks also included real Dinks and pseudo Dinks. In the era of advocating reproduction, many social cultures that were originally tolerant of Dinks also turned to promoting reproduction. The most common excuse was "I couldn't afford it when I was young, and I promoted Dinks. Men over 40 can still be born but women cannot have them. If the man regrets it, the woman will be sad."

Li Su's view on this issue is very calm. He feels that it needs to be divided from the motivation: First of all, it can be divided from whether the young people are "poor and humble couples are sad" to "have to give up because they can't afford to raise" and "because they can afford to raise but choose to give up on their own initiative".

Of course, it is false to be forced, and there is no question of firm belief. The type that can be supported is mostly a pursuit in life, and at this time, it must be divided into two categories according to their pursuit in life.

One type is for money and money-related careers. For example, entrepreneurs are obsessed with starting a business and have no time to manage their children. These types of people feel unstable when they fail to achieve their careers and do not want to drag them down.

Once the family is rich and no one inherits it, it is naturally easy to regret it. The woman who accompanied Dink when she was young was most miserable later was the entrepreneur's wife. Because there is no company in the world that has been around for thousands of years, the world's judgment on the success or failure of an entrepreneur is also determined by "whether his business will be successful in the end, and the foundation will last forever."

Even if a person has been the richest man in the world, as long as he goes bankrupt in his later years, he will still be forgotten by the world, and no one will use him as a role model.

Another type of people, in the words of Marx Weber, their career pursuits are for "value rationality" rather than pure "instrumental rationality". Translated in human terms is not for money and things that can be bought. For example, if you want to be a landmark scientist, writer, philosopher, and saint.

Even if such a person is successful in his career, he rarely regrets "there is no son to inherit his family business." The most determined true DINK is often born from such people. The women of these DINKs are often happy to the end. (The positive DINKs interviewed by TV stations who have been happy until their old age are basically writers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs.)

Because the society's standards for judging sages and judging entrepreneurs are different. Entrepreneurs who pursue instrumental rationality have mostly denied their previous honors when their company went bankrupt. There are not many enterprises in the world that have lasted for hundreds of years, but there are too many universities in the world that have lasted for hundreds of years, and academic schools that have been circulating for thousands of years are common.

Lao Tzu Confucius and Mencius, Socrates Plato Aristotle, who is still a great man after thousands of years? His academics are immortal, and his reputation is immortal. Why do you need a family of biological descendants to inherit? With more descendants, you might be able to provide some "Yan Shenggong" who surrendered to the thief, which is better than shooting on the wall than shooting on the wall.

When Confucius was alive, his official position was in poverty and a lost dog affected his reputation? Socrates was finally sentenced to death to drink poisonous celery water, but will his reputation collapse like a bankrupt entrepreneur after drinking water?

This is the difference in resistance between Weber's value rational suitors and instrumental rational suitors when facing the wheel of history. The former can be physically eliminated and the fire will be passed on forever. There are only destructive dynasties in the world, but there are universities that can be opened forever.

Because Confucius had always had a descendant, his persuasion was still a little less, but it was different to substitute Socrates. Or to change to a more extreme example: Gautama Siddhartha had a son, Rahula, but when Rahula was young, he practiced together, so Gautama's grandchildren were gone. But there were hundreds of millions of people who believed in him in later generations. Which of these people lived forever by physics?

In Li Su's eyes, the descendants with flesh and blood will only affect the purity of the saint.

If his views and even Li Su's own deeds were written into online novels by later generations, it might be difficult to understand and feel that they are not substitutable.

But this cannot be blamed for him. The main reason is that the protagonist of the online novel does not really regard becoming a saint as his life goal. Readers of online novels do not want to be substituted for a saint without human fireworks. (The "saint" here is a saint of philosophy, and it is not called a saint if it is a little supernatural.)

So, Li Su made such a happy decision. He planned to take his wife away when he took office, but let his wife go to the palace to talk to Concubine Zhen. He left his son who had just been weaned for two years. Of course, he could not be said to be a custody in name, but to marry the second princess who was only one year old.

In the following hundreds of years, whenever the imperial court needed to confer the governor of several state affairs, he would leave the eldest son as a hostage before taking office, and make a marriage with the princess or get married.

If the emperor's daughter is not enough, he can be adopted from the royal family. Just like when he was married to the Huns, there was always a way to make her enough if the princess was not enough. Anyway, the effect was to keep the eldest son of the governor from several states in Beijing.

...

Because of his lust, Li Su's thoughts were divergent on the way back to the house, and finally he made up so many tricks. As soon as he got home, he told Cai Yan about his plan.

Although Cai Yan was a little reluctant, she felt that her son was only one year old by late autumn this year. However, considering that this was a national event, and she could go south with her husband without having to part for several years, she could still bring her daughter, so she agreed and said that she would go to the palace next year to chat with Concubine Zhen.

Anyway, Liu Bei would not treat Li Su's son badly. He must be as delicious as the prince and princess.

After getting over the family affairs, Li Su drank a lot of wine today, so he packed up his bath and prepared to rest. Because Zhou Ying and others who had served him had become concubines, there were fewer opportunities to do such rough work.

Now, it was the bridge that entered the mansion to serve as a slave to help him bathe more than two months ago. Li Su didn't touch her before, and always felt that the atmosphere was wrong.

Li Su was aroused by the beauty during the dinner today. Naturally, she would not be polite to me at this moment. She grabbed her shoulders and leaned over and pressed the bridge on the bathtub counter, picking up the other party's legs and soaked them in the pool.

The yarn skirt was not soaked for a while, floating on the hot water, covering up the activities under the yarn.

"I feel wronged?" Li Su heard the cry of pain and begged for mercy, and then he regained some mercy. After all, he was a family member of a criminal, and his body as a slave, and obviously could not be compared with free love.

"No, no, I... I just want to be merciful." Daqiao trembled and begged for mercy.

Li Su changed his breath deeply, and did not lie: "I just felt lustful today, and you will know from now on that. I am such a person. All this today cannot change the national laws. Your family still has to work and serve their sentences in Zuo School. Even if Yuan Shu dies, you have to regard your whole family's performance in serving your sentence. Don't resent me."

Oqiao Beitie trembled and complained: "I know my identity and dare not make any requests. It is a blessing in disgrace to be able to fall into Sikong's hands."

...

The next day, Cai Yan entered the palace to pay homage to Concubine Zhen and expressed her expectations. Zhen Jiang was not rejected, and was even a little surprised.

Zhen Jiang is about the same age as Cai Yan, only a little one or two years younger. She knew that when Empress Wu had just given birth to the crown prince three and a half years ago, she tried to get engaged to Li Su's daughter, but Li Su didn't want to be a relative of the foreign affairs and caused trouble to the world, so she refused.

He also said, "If you ask for a concubine for the prince, you should ask for marriage among the down-and-out nobles, you will not expect that your wife is vulgar and unwilling to be vulgar and unwilling to be despised by Liang Ji and He Jin, nor will you expect that your relatives will interfere in politics."

Because of this, Zhen Jiang gave birth to a daughter later, but she didn't want to make trouble, so she asked to marry the Li family. Unexpectedly, Cai Yan asked to come to the house now.

Zhen Jiang just asked: "Aren't Mrs. Li doing this, aren't she afraid that Empress Wu will be unhappy?"

Cai Yan responded appropriately: "If the imperial concubine has a son and asks to marry a daughter, we will still advise Your Majesty to take back the life. Princess Shang is no more a relative than a foreigner, does not have any authority, and will not interfere in politics.

My husband is just thinking that future generations gradually move away from authority, concentrate on studying and preaching, and achieve eternal pride. Although Yang Goods have great authority, now eight hundred years later, how many people know about his actions? Who doesn’t know about Confucius’ words and deeds?”

Zhen Jiang covered his mouth and smiled: "Sikong and his wife have a good idea. If their daughter doesn't send her away, she lied to me again. Well, I'll go and talk to His Majesty."

Cai Yan talked with Zhen Jiang for a while and then left the palace. It was lunch time, and Liu Bei accompanied Zhen Jiang to have dinner on that day, so Zhen Jiang told him about it.

Liu Bei was quite surprised: "This matter is a good thing, I'm afraid that Boya will be cautious."

Zhen Jiang: "Your Majesty is wrong today. How dare I have a private idea of ​​this? It was Mrs. Sikong who came to ask for a meeting today."

Then, Zhen Jiang also recounted Cai Yan's political considerations.

Liu Bei thought for a while: "So that's the case, Boya has also put in good intentions. He is afraid that he not only wants to make a profit from a daughter, but also wants to provide an example for the emperors of the later generations of the Han Dynasty."

Zhen Jiang was stunned: "Is that so? I didn't realize it. It turned out that there was such a deep meaning."
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