Honglin Wudao "Han Feizi - Eight Sayings" Chapter 31 Persuasion Rice

Honglin Wudao "Han Feizi - Eight Sayings" Chapter 31 Persuasion Rice

In the previous chapter of the Honglin Wudao "Han Feizi - Eight Sayings", Han Feizi told the monarch: Those who are benevolent and violent, and those who perish the country are also. Whether the benevolent one is in the reign or the tyrant is in the reign, the country will be destroyed. Han Feizi refers not only to the monarch who harbors the idea of benevolence and violence, but also to the idea of benevolence and violence itself.

The characteristics of benevolence and violence determine the result of the subjugation of the country, which is determined by objective laws and cannot be changed by the will of man, and man is only the executor of the idea of benevolence and violence. It is not that another person can rule the country, as long as you adhere to the idea of benevolence and violence, no matter who reigns, the country will perish, which is determined by the nature of the idea of benevolence and violence. In "On Protracted War," the leader said that Japanese militarism will eventually fail, and this defeat is determined by the nature of militarism's aggression, and this is the law.

During the reign of benevolent people, the "intolerable" and "good" hearts generated by cihui allow the courtiers to take advantage of the benevolent heart of the monarch to form parties for personal gain and bend the law for personal gain; in any case, if they break the law, they will not be punished, as long as they please the monarch and can still be rewarded without merit, why not enjoy such a good deed? We say that people are the subject of things, human nature has a sunny side, there is also a dark side, social morality and national laws and regulations is to curb the dark side of human nature, carry forward the sunshine side. Governing the country with benevolence and love directly leads to a serious decline in the binding force of social morality and the penal power of state regulations, the dark side of human nature will be infinitely magnified, all order and procedures will be invalid, and the country will naturally fall into chaos.

Benevolence is the cause of the subjugation of the country at the level of governance strategy, and violence is the cause of the subjugation of the monarch at the level of behavior. One is the failure of the idea of governing the country, and the other is the failure of the monarch's way of being a monarch. With the rule of the tyrant, the destruction of laws and the loss of authority, the practice of self-interest in the name of law and law enforcement, the law of the state has been reduced to a tool for the profit of traitors, and the last fairness and justice of society have been destroyed. The monarch's arbitrary atrocities aroused the anger of his subjects, the monarchs and subjects were alienated from morality, the court was divided, the society was divided, the thinking was confused, the people's hearts were not gathered, the subjects complained, and the idea of rebellion had begun to germinate. In this way, it is only a matter of time before the country is destroyed.

After Han Feizi finished speaking about the conclusion of "benevolent violence and subjugation of the country," he still felt that it was not enough, and criticized those who advocated benevolent rule of the country. Han Feizi used a very vivid metaphor to rebuke those who advocated benevolent rule of the country, believing that they were full of people who did not know the false righteousness of hungry people. Han Feizi said, "We cannot persuade the hungry to eat because of the delicacies, nor for the sake of those who can live and be hungry; we cannot persuade the people to give rewards for the grass and millet, and we cannot persuade the rich to give rewards." This means that the inability to provide abundant food and to persuade the hungry to eat is not to be counted as a person who can save the hungry; not to cultivate land to produce grain and to persuade the monarch to give alms and rewards cannot be counted as a person who benefits the people.

Multi-image metaphor, you can not provide food do not persuade hungry people to eat, hungry to eat is human nature, do not need people to remind, the person who says this is false compassion, you have the ability to take out a rich food to let hungry people eat. The person who makes the proposal should be in the interests of things, make suggestions that can effectively solve the problem, know that the country has no food, and you also persuade the hungry to eat, is this not to put the monarch on the fire and roast? Instead of talking big, it is better to persuade the monarch to implement the "cultivation war" national policy of enriching the country and strengthening the army. Such a person cannot be regarded as a person who saves the hungry.

Han Feizi even criticized not thinking about the monarch to "cut the grass and produce millet", but blindly thinking of letting the monarch give alms and rewards, such a person can not be regarded as a person who benefits the people. This kind of person is short-sighted, has no awareness of the overall situation and the overall situation, only wants to focus on things, only wants to solve the problems in front of him, treats headaches and feet, and does not consider solving problems in the long run and fundamentally. I don't want to "throttle" or "open source", but I also want to think about "spending", which is how ignorant it is. Benevolent people are the art of educating people, not the method of governing the country at all, so they never think about how to create wealth, but only think about consuming the name.

Those who advise and advise should put themselves in the interests of things, understand the truth of things, and then carry out the responsibility of making suggestions, so that they can propose reasonable and effective solutions, rather than blindly making suggestions based on momentary passion and self-righteous correctness, otherwise they will not achieve the purpose you want, but will consume the financial resources of the country that is not rich. Those who are persuaded to lend money should put themselves outside the interests of things, and those who do things cannot have the idea of what they can get. In Han Feizi's view, the person concerned not only did not want to "cut the grass and produce millet" in his own work, but instead thought about the reward of the monarch, which was not right.

[We must not persuade the hungry to eat with good food, nor for those who can live hungry; we must not persuade the grass to produce millet and persuade loans and give rewards, nor can we persuade those who are rich for the people.] 】

Those who persuade and advise are outside the stakes; those who persuade the loans are placed in the interests, which shows that the benevolent people do not have the selfless mind to govern the country at all, and everything is for the sake of fame and reputation, and they are exquisite utilitarians.