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Chapter 972: A person who does not act is not a Taoist


If King Chu Wei is not a king who wants to dominate, he only wants to manage the state of Chu well and let the people live a good life.

Consolidate the national defense, so that the other princes will not dare to invade.

In addition, other vassal states are willing to follow the model of Chu, just like the Song State follows the model of Qiyuan.

Taoism is not impossible to be an official, and it does not have to be hidden in the wilderness, but it is also possible to live in the market and hide in the city. can also be an official, and he is hidden in the court.

Just like Song Rongzi, he was an official in the court of the Song State and was trusted by Song Quecheng.

Of course, being a Taoist official is not entirely a means of survival, but doing your best to save the world.

And to treat the great hidden in the dynasty as a mixed day, with a high salary but not doing practical things for the people, that is a misunderstanding of Taoism.

That kind of person is not really a Taoist, but just under the guise of Taoism or deliberately distorting Taoism and discrediting Taoism.

When you can do good for the people, do your best.

When you can't do things for the people, you should protect yourself.

Instead of messing around, inaction, no position, bottom line, and grass on the wall.

It's not about occupying an official position and enjoying an honorable life for that high salary.

People who mess around, do nothing, have no position, have no bottom line, are grassy on the wall, and occupy official positions for the sake of that high salary, are all pseudo-Taoists, and they are not "big hidden".

These people are all hanging the brand of Taoism, smearing Taoism, or deliberately distorting Taoist doctrine and thought.

Zhuangzi didn't want to go to Chu as an official because he didn't want to waste his time on the court of Chu.

In addition, during the period of King Chu Wei, he may reuse you and treat you as a person.

And when it comes to the time of his son, the time of the future king, he will not necessarily reuse you anymore.

Or King Chu Wei is reusing you now, maybe he won't reuse you in the future.

Or maybe King Chu Wei just asked you to go to Chu to save face for him, indicating that he reuses talents.

And when you get there, political disagreement will put you on the shelf.

After determining that Zhuangzi was a great talent, for the sake of safety, the state of Chu did not openly hire Zhuangzi with great fanfare.

Because King Chu Wei knew that Zhuangzi was persecuted by Song Kuocheng in the Song Kingdom.

If you talk about it with great fanfare, it will inevitably cause trouble to Zhuangzi's family.

If that were the case, Zhuangzi would not necessarily come to Chu.

On the contrary, he also resents the state of Chu.

Therefore, King Chu Wei secretly sent two eloquent envoys, with heavy money, to invite Zhuangzi.

When Zhuangzi's doppelganger came back from the Chu State, he thought in his heart: How can I shirk it and not go to the Chu State to be an official.

And they must not offend the state of Chu.

It's like turning down King Wei Hui's invitation, not only can you not offend, but you can also become friends.

In this year, that is, in 339 BC, King Xian of Zhou was 30 years old, King Chu Wei was 1 year old, and Zhuangzi was 31 years old.

He gave birth to another son, and conceived again.

Now in Zhuangzi's family, there are already five babies, plus the child is pregnant again, you can imagine what life will be like With the lavish spending of Zhuangzi and sellers, no amount of silver is enough to spend.

Of course, today's Zhuangzi is no longer the Zhuangzi of the past, and today's sellers are not the sellers of the past.

But in fact, they still kept a hand.

In the past, the gold, silver and jade that Song Quecheng rewarded Dai Liu'er had already spent "almost" during Dai Liu'er's time.

In addition, during the two-year Anti-Japanese War, Dai Liuer donated some gold to Song Quecheng.

Basically, in the eyes of Song Kuocheng and outsiders, this money is gone.

In fact, otherwise, there are many others who have been sold and hidden.

What I did in the past was all superficial, and I did it for others to see. so that others think that their family's money has been spent, and only in this way will they not be remembered by thieves.

There is also a lot of silver that was brought back from the lacquer garden before.

There is also the silver brought back from Wei last time, which is basically untouched.

But in order to pretend to be poor, you have to pretend to be pitiful like that.

From one day onwards, Zhuangzi picked up the craft of weaving straw sandals again, and opened the door of the courtyard early every day so that the people who rushed to the market could see him weaving straw sandals.

In the morning, when the market was gone, he went down to the fields again to do farm work and keep himself fed.

In addition, he also asked Zhang Shan and his sister-in-law to help him manage the reclaimed land in the Mo family's sub-altar, and hire someone to cultivate or sublease it.

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Now the policy of the Song State is to encourage people to reclaim new land, and there are fewer people who rent mature land to cultivate, and generally go to reclaim new land by themselves.

In any case, as long as new land is cultivated in the specified place, no tax is levied.

Therefore, no one is willing to rent the land that Zhuangzi cultivated on the side of the Mojia branch altar.

But you can hire someone to do part-time work.

At the end of the night, they were given silver and Song State knife coins, and many people rushed to do it.

For the poor, if they can earn some cash, they are still willing to squeeze out some time.

They can choose to do it for Zhuangzi's family during the day, and smear it for their own family as soon as possible.

Zhang Shan and his sister-in-law also have to live, and they also cultivate a lot of land.

In any case, to sustain oneself, one must be self-reliant.

In order to pretend to be poor, in order to supplement the nutrition of the family, and pretend to have no money to buy meat to eat, Zhuangzi had to often carry a bow and arrows to hunt in the mountains and forests of the Mojia Altar, and go to the river to fish or something.

Sometimes, the prey and fish caught can be taken to the market and sold for some silver.

Over the years, the image of Zhuangzi has basically been set: the poor family has no surplus silver.

The baby can't be raised.

In addition to getting pregnant and giving birth to babies and educating dolls, selling children is to take time out to embroider.

She's busy all day long, and she's not pretending to be at all.

And I can hear her crying every day, and I am angry with the babies.

The seller who used to look very rich is now so thin that only a skeleton remains.

Of course, Mai'er didn't cry in pain, but cried with a wreak.

To be honest, she was crying happily.

But the crying of the seller, for those who don't know the inside story: it is because of poverty, because the family can't live, and there are many children, that they cry.

For the misunderstanding of outsiders, the seller also learned to pretend to compare, never explained, and acquiesced.

On the contrary, she also followed the words of others.

"The baby is disobedient and naughty, and he is reluctant to fight, so he can only cry by himself."

Mai'er was still crying again as she spoke, looking very painful and helpless.

"Who let you have so many babies, you have fewer babies," someone kindly advised.

"There's no way, woo woo, I'm pregnant again," Seller cried.

"You can't sleep separately from Zhuangzi, you won't have a baby if you sleep separately."

"Woo woo" pretended to be embarrassed and did not defend himself.

"Alas, you can't live that day, Ping'er, my mother, I still have a piece of dried meat at home, I'll give it to you later, and I'll give it to you to make up for the baby."

Ping'er is Zhuang Ping, the first son born and raised by Zhuangzi and Mai'er.

Because of sensibleness, everyone likes it.

So selling children has become "Ping'er and his mother".

"Don't, don't want your family to have a hard time," the seller excused.

"When my family was poor, you also helped me now, and now I am repaying my kindness Anyway, my family's life is better than your family, and my baby can live when he grows up" aa2705221: