Chapter 3015 Three-Legged Tripod
Diao Guangdou and Song Ci, like Wang Anshi and Sima Guang in the Northern Song Dynasty, also have different positions since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Just like the legalists and the illegalists, is it more important to protect the interests of the members within the law, or to regulate the behavior of everyone? I am afraid there will be no answer.
At least in the Southern Song Dynasty of Diao Guangdou and Song Ci, there was no answer. Diao Guangdou must have believed that the interests of the literati should be protected first, which is human nature. Song Ci believed that the emperor was guilty of the same crime as the common people, whether it was a relative or a leader, as long as the law was broken, it should be handled impartially, and he treated his father-in-law like this.
Even if the father-in-law's case was just an accident, a crime is a crime, only the behavior is considered, not the subjective thinking.
So their confrontation can be said to be difficult to determine the winner, even in modern times, the illegalists and the legalists still coexist, and neither side has disappeared.
As the investigation deepened, Mao Li and others learned more about Diao Guangdou. This person is very cunning and cruel.
Diao Guangdou is also a member of the illegal faction. In his opinion, only the scholar-official class is considered human, and other people are not human.
Obviously, although Diao Guangdou and Di Renjie are both members of the illegal faction, their practices are completely different. Di Renjie's illegal faction mainly protects those poor people who cannot achieve their demands through the law, while Diao Guangdou only protects the scholar-officials within the scope of the law, and other people are not considered human.
It can be said that what Di Renjie wants to protect is exactly what Diao Guangdou wants to hurt, but both of them are illegal factions. They all believe that the law is nothing more than recognition.
"That's why I don't agree with Di Renjie." Song Ci investigated a lot of content, and still believed that people of the illegal faction would only make the situation worse.
"What are you talking about?" Mao Li asked.
Song Ci told Mao Li: "There are two factions in our detective group, one is the illegal faction and the other is the legal faction, which is based on the ancient legalists in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods." He told Mao Li the concept of the illegal faction and the concept of the legal faction.
Mao Li called it complicated. He didn't expect that the detective would have such an idea?
Conan didn't expect that this was not only a duel between detectives and criminals, but also a duel between detectives, which he didn't expect. It turns out that detectives also have different positions.
"The illegal faction represented by Di Renjie believes that the law is nothing more than human feelings. But look at what Diao Guangdou did. He doesn't take the law seriously. He only protects the interests of corrupt officials. Because the corrupt official system is too big to fall, he can do bad things with peace of mind and even blame everything on human nature." Song Ci said angrily: "So the illegal faction should not exist."
Unfortunately, in fact, the legal faction is the weak party, because there are many illegal factions, not only in the Central Plains, but also in the West. Religion is a typical illegal faction. People in religion are brothers and sisters, but people outside religion are pagans and deserve to die.
A religion is an illegal faction. Because the illegal faction and the illegal faction protect different systems, they are also in conflict.
So there are many illegal factions, but few legal factions.
The legal faction is weak, because the legal faction seems to protect the interests of everyone, but it cannot favor the interests of anyone. The emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people. This is a good ideal, but if everyone is guilty of the same crime, who will support it?
Some people say that of course the common people will support it. Unfortunately, the common people said sorry, they want to support the law that is good for them, and they want to support the law that is biased towards themselves.
If it is not biased towards themselves, it is the law of the jungle, and the common people will definitely not have an advantage. Just like the common drug prices, pharmaceutical companies sell high-priced drugs, no problem. Patients can't take medicine, no problem, no money means no medicine, right?
If it is not biased towards patients, then patients without money should be eliminated, this is the law of the jungle. But the problem is that even the animal world has the habit of protecting the weak, because life cannot always remain strong, lions and tigers also have a juvenile period that needs protection, not to mention humans.
If it is really a complete law of the jungle, then humans are almost extinct, because the weak are constantly eliminated, but the weak will not disappear, the strong will continue to weaken and become weak, and finally the strong and the weak will be eliminated together.
At this time, illegal factions like Di Renjie need to take action, and they must be biased towards patients and the weak.
But there are also people like Diao Guangdou who are biased towards the literati. For example, Heshen once said that officials should be saved first when rescuing disasters, and disaster victims are not considered human beings. From his perspective, this is absolutely correct, because both he and Diao Guangdou's illegal faction are biased towards the literati.
So both the illegal faction and the legal faction have flaws. The illegal faction must fight against the illegal faction and the legal faction must fight against the illegal faction. But overall, there are more illegal factions and fewer legal factions.
Because the legal faction protects everyone, it means that it protects no one and has few supporters. It sounds good that the emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people, but the emperor can lie down and do nothing, and there are people to serve him, but the common people have to run around and work hard, and the probability of making mistakes on the road and on the construction site is much greater than that of the emperor.
The emperor can stay away from the criminal environment, but the common people cannot. So even if they are guilty of the same crime, the emperor is very peaceful, and only the common people will commit suicide.
So Di Renjie believes that people with extenuating circumstances should be given the opportunity to make mistakes, as long as they can correct them, it is good. He is lenient to the people and strict to the officials.
Diao Guangdou and Heshen are the opposite, strict with the weak and relaxed with the strong. They do not allow the weak to make mistakes, but the strong can make mistakes at will.
In short, the confrontation between the legal faction and the illegal faction is very fierce, and Diao Guangdou's provocation also angered Conan.
Conan will never let Diao Guangdou go, because he is so hateful. Now he is investigating the old case from ten years ago with all his strength, and found more clues and finally got evidence.
With evidence, he will find Diao Guangdou.
Diao Guangdou also knows that Song Ci will definitely find him, but nothing will change. Human nature determines everything. The world has not changed, and he is still the winner.
"It's really as noble as before." Diao Guangdou said that Song Ci's look is still so annoying: "It's as if you are the only good person in the world, and everyone else is a despicable villain." He believes that if Song Ci is different from everyone else, he should reflect on himself instead of changing the world.
Is he different from the world, or is the world wrong? Can he be above the world? Diao Guangdou believes that Song Ci must be wrong, and the world will not be wrong.
As a minority, the legal faction cannot be said to be wrong, but it does have few supporters. If the emperor and the common people are compared together, the emperor has too much advantage, so the common people must need a law that favors them. The legalists may allow the emperor and the common people to have equal opportunities, but the emperor's advantages cannot be eliminated. Even if the opportunities are equal, the common people are still inferior to the emperor.
So Song Ci, a staunch legalist, is indeed incompatible with the world, but it does not mean that he is wrong. The world needs the legalists to check and balance the illegalists. The birth of the legalists naturally has its reasons and space. Because it is necessary, it will appear.
The illegalists are biased, and everyone has their reasons, so they need the rational voice of the legalists. In short, since they exist, they are reasonable. Unfortunately, they have different positions, and they will eventually stand on the opposite side to confront each other. Confrontation requires strength, and they need to get more people to support themselves. Then the impartial theory of the legalists will suffer a lot.