Chapter 73 (13) Bad guys don’t know their own evil

As I said, the reason why Yongzheng did not kill Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi was to keep them as a negative teaching material, to let the broad masses of the people know how magnanimous and merciful Yongzheng was. The reason why Yongzheng came up with this kind of idea was the inner psychological motivation, or the information passed to him by Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi, which deeply shocked Yongzheng. Yongzheng, like the vast majority of people in the world, has a divine personality of self-awareness. What is divine self-knowledge personality? That is to say, Yongzheng looked at the world and judged things not from the perspective of the objective world, but from the perspective of self-cognition, using self-awareness as the only basis for measuring the world.On the cognitive level, it is Yongzheng's unswerving belief that he is the kindest, most upright, and most benevolent person in the world. What he thinks is right is right, and what he thinks is wrong is wrong. .If he thinks right and others think wrong, then others are wrong; if he thinks good and others think evil, then others are evil.

In a word, Yongzheng's way of thinking is typical of looking outside rather than inside, and he always firmly believes that he is absolutely correct, and that those who are not correct are others. In fact, Yongzheng has always regarded himself as a saint.When he walked, he always avoided people's shadows, and couldn't bear to step on other people's shadows.As for the little ants crawling on the ground, they are the main objects of his care and love. He is always cautious when speaking and doing things, lest he hurt others. But in fact, all those whose thinking and cognition completely start from themselves like Yongzheng are all evil people.This is because human nature is both good and evil. Human nature has a holy side and a dirty and evil side.No matter how perfect a saint is, he still has dirty selfish desires; no matter how evil a villain is, he also has a shining point of human brilliance.For example, Yongzheng never admits that he also has evil selfish desires, and pushes all the exclusive rights of evil to others.In this way, once this person who considers himself a saint punishes what he thinks is evil, he will use cruel and vicious means—this is exactly the kind of mentality that Yongzheng showed when he punished his political opponents.

People like Yongzheng have never realized the filth in their human nature, and they firmly believe that they are good people. Once they conflict with others, they will think that the other party is a bad person.Since the other party is a bad guy, why be polite to him?Of course it was a ruthless blow and a brutal struggle. Therefore, only a primitive man with strong self-awareness like Yongzheng would invent tricks such as mass movements, mass struggles, and street parades.This is because they think that their opponents are bad people, and of course the crimes of bad people should be announced to the world and severely punished.

Similarly, people like Yongzheng would be extremely shocked when they heard that he was the bad guy.As for this shock, Yongzheng was so shocked that he lost his normalcy from Zeng Jing's accusations against him: murdering his father, forcing his mother, murdering his brother, slaughtering his younger brother... these objective things.He really couldn't understand, how could such a kind person like him leave such a wrong impression on others? Therefore, Yongzheng must keep Zeng Jing from killing him, and use this living teaching material to tell the common people all over the world: He Yongzheng is really a good person, it is absolutely true, and it is true.

But Qianlong stood aside, watching the fire from the other side, but he could see clearly, knowing that Zeng Jing's accusations against Yongzheng were mostly related. Therefore, Yongzheng must keep Zeng Jing, hoping that everyone in the world will know that he is a kind person. However, Qianlong insisted on killing Zeng Jing, hoping that people in the world would not know that Yongzheng was actually a bad person. In a word, the bad guy Yongzheng didn't know he was a bad guy, so he wanted to do good deeds and leave Zeng Jing alone.And Qianlong knew that his father was a bad guy who couldn't be worse, so he must kill people to silence him.

Compared with Yongzheng, who was obviously a bad guy but didn't know he was a bad guy, Emperor Qianlong was obviously much smarter.From the very beginning, he knew he was a bad guy. Therefore, what Qianlong considered was not to make the people respect and love him as a good man, but to make the people fear him. To be frightening is the highest level of a bad guy.