Old Ancestor Kunpeng, Ancestor Minghe, and people like Zhen Yuanzi...
They were like old relics from a bygone age!
Fixed notions had already taken root in their minds.
They had their own logic, ways of handling things, and worldviews!
No one could talk them out of those!
If someone forcibly thrust another worldview upon them, Zhen Yuanzi might refute it with righteous indignation.
But a sly old bastard like Old Ancestor Kunpeng would probably say, "Yes, yes, absolutely," to your face while secretly sneering, You fucking idiot!
The best way to make people like that recognize the issue...
Was to make other people recognize it first!
Make them question their own ideas, then let their outdated notions crumble naturally from deep within!
The way to deal with old relics was to make them deal with themselves!
Xu Tong was very satisfied with his own plan.
He selectively ignored the fact that he, Kunpeng, and Minghe were all old relics from the same era.
But Mencius was different!
Having cultivated for less than two thousand years, he had already become Confucianism's Second Sage, and the principle of his Confucian school was that human nature was inherently evil!
Although Mencius had always called upon gentlemen to embrace the ideals of bringing peace to the world, safeguarding themselves, and sacrificing their lives for righteousness...
He had never been sparing with his ill will toward anything in the world!
Once, while speaking with the ruler of the State of Wei, Mencius had said:
"Thought brings preparedness; preparedness wards off calamity. We thrive amid hardship and perish in comfort."
Simply put, Mencius's principle for governing the world was to consider the evil others might do even when nothing was wrong, and prepare to counter it!
Thousands of years later, that woman of the queue-wearing dynasty