Chapter 38 The scourge lives for a thousand years

——Shu Shu Shuo Shu, I can't eat millet! Big rats, big rats, don't eat my millet!Three-year-old girl, no one cares.The daughter of the passing away is suitable for the paradise.Promised land, Promised land, what do you want? Shuo Shu Shuo Shu, no food for me!Three-year-old girl, Morkende.The daughter who is about to die is suitable for the country of joy.Happy country and happy country, love me straight? Big rats, big rats, I have no food for my seedlings!Three-year-old girl, I am willing to work hard.The daughter who is about to pass away is suitable for Lejiao.Lejiao Lejiao, whose eternal name!

—— "Wei Feng Shuoshu" Since when did I realize that I became the kind of person who is not easy to get angry, seeing many things like walking in the corridors of the small town of Wuyue, and turning my face away occasionally to see the thin water droplets under the corridor or the turning time on the corridor floor ——Like the shallow ice on the window in winter, the light and cool trace of the heart. Looking back at "The Rat" now, I don't have the grievances of my youth, but I have a deep memory, because the metaphor of the slave owner into a big mouse in the poem is too vivid, and it is impossible not to be impressed.

I have memorized this poem for so long, and it is clear to death.There is also a personal reason - I am terribly afraid of mice, beyond words.The fear that comes from the deepest part of my heart can hardly be explained in words.He once joked that if you rob me, you don’t need to take a knife, but I’m not afraid of taking a knife. If you take a dead mouse, it’s the same as before, and I’m paralyzed and unable to move. You wouldn't know what it's like if you weren't terrified of something.So you can imagine how painful it was for me to finish this lesson under the teacher's vivid and tireless description, under the shadow of mice, and many big mice.

Let's start with the countryside of Wei State, maybe we haven't seen it, but it's a real picture.Farmers in the Wei State helplessly face the rat plague. Voles run amok in the fields, carrying the fruits of human labor like athletes. On the other side—the barn, the rats are stealing from the farmers for a year. harvest.There was a little hole under the wall of the house, through which the mice came and went, carrying the corn into their burrows in the woods, like a marching army with great morale.They are not thieves, thieves are not so arrogant, they are more like an invading army.No matter the farmer in the field or the old man guarding the barn, they all turned a blind eye to the scene in front of them, because they had already changed from heartache and worry to numbness.

Just like they said when they muttered to themselves: "How can people fight against rats? We have lived here for several generations, and we have exhausted all kinds of methods, but we can't get rid of rats. Everything is in vain. In fact, this world , are ruled by rats at all, and rats are the real rulers of our peasants, and although we hate them, we are powerless to resist." The human world is ruled by rats!It sounds absurd, but it's true in The Big Mouse, and it's also true in a socially realistic sense.Whether it is the raging rat plague in the countryside, or the exploiters sung in poems by farmers who have human skin but are as insatiable as rats, these rats are hated by the people, but they have to support them.They are the real rulers of this world.

Some people will be dissatisfied and refute me: You have a negative view, can't you hear the voice of the slaves' resistance?They are singing: "Women who are going to die, go to the paradise." They vowed to get rid of the entanglement of "Shuoshu" and live in a paradise without disputes and exploitation one day. Yes, I admit that these slaves can't stand the outbreak or have already exploded. Unfortunately, what's the use of that? We have studied politics and know that all resistance and compromise can only alleviate temporary contradictions and pain.It's not that resistance is useless, but what use is it actually?Confucius, who lived after the fall of Wei, met a woman crying for her husband on Mount Tai, crying very sadly.Confucius listened while leaning on the front of the car, and Pai Zilu asked her, "You cry like this, it seems that you have encountered misfortune more than once." She replied, "Yes! My father-in-law died in the mouth of a tiger before, and my husband He also died on this tiger, and now my son was bitten to death by the tiger again." Confucius felt very strange, and asked again: "Why don't you leave here?" The woman replied: "There is no tyranny here." Confucius said with emotion: " The boy knows it, and the tyranny is fiercer than the tiger!" (See "Book of Rites: Under the Bow of Sandalwood")

I think this is one of the most sincere, profound and humane words of Confucius. It is rare that the words are not whitewashed and beautified for the ruler, which makes people feel sympathetic.This statement is very straightforward, and it is not a good phenomenon. Some people have always agreed with this statement, which only shows that in the following thousands of years, "tyranny" has never disappeared due to people's subjective good wishes. One time when I was in a car and passing by a place, I saw a roadside slogan that said "Toll charges are arbitrary, and tyranny is fiercer than a tiger." My heart was startled, and I remembered the situation when Confucius said this sentence.The reality is cruel. Perhaps it is not that tyranny cannot be eliminated, but it is not yet time for it to disappear.

In the Book of Songs, the country of Wei is very small, and the country was destroyed very early. There are only seven "Wei Feng" left in history.Making a novelist's guess, we can imagine that it was destroyed in a huge disaster, and this devastating disaster was probably brought about by "Shuoshu". Is it the revolt of the slaves...or the real plague?unknown.Wei Guo died lightly, but its folk song "Shuo Shu" was branded on the bamboo slips of history with a heavy posture. Later people often used Shuoshu as a giant greedy person who devoured the people's fat, but it is lamentable that there are too many people in the Shuoshu Kingdom.Leaving modern times aside, let’s pick two typical examples from history, one Shi Chong and the other He-gentry.Both of them are greedy, but the law of corruption is different.Shi Chong took the road of commercial development. He served as the governor of Jingzhou for several years. During his tenure, in addition to stepping up the search for people's fat and anointment, he also engaged in dirty robbery.When some foreign envoys or businessmen passed through Jingzhou, Shi Chong sent his subordinates to extort money, and even openly murdered and robbed goods like Jiangyang robbers.In this way, he quickly plundered countless money and jewels, and became the biggest rich man at that time, even the emperor's relatives could not compare with him.It is a pity that the rapid development of commercialization has made Shi Chong's foundation unstable. He is no more than an ordinary official. Once he is involved in politics, he will immediately fall;He gentry is taking a political development path. He has learned all his life and has a little spirituality, just to please Qianlong and make money for himself.Although he also fell suddenly during the Jiaqing period, it was after Qianlong's death. Heshen had been in power for many years, his power was intertwined, and he was related to the emperor by marriage. Although Jiaqing granted him death later, because of the relationship with Princess Heshuo, he did not dare to investigate Heshen's son, Fengshen Yinde.The tree fell and the monkeys scattered, but the roots were not exterminated. This is very rare in a society where the monarchy is supreme. ——Obviously, in terms of cultivation, a nouveau riche like Shi Chong is far worse than a political nine-tailed fox like Heshen, but just cultivating into a Shushu like Shi Chong is already quite Not easy.

It should be noted that no matter what kind of rat, once it puts on the skin of a rat, it will leave behind the human conscience.