Treasured Moonlight

Nameless Traveler, "If you could bring the martial arts, Inner Strength, Daoist skills, Divine Skills, and other abilities you've learned in the game into reality, would you play such a game?"
Gamer, "Of course, I would play. Is there really such a great thing?"
Nameless Traveler, "Then, if you were to die in the game, and you would also die in reality, would you still play?"
Gamer, "Let me think about it—um, I think I would play, as long as I'm careful to avoid provoking higher-level monsters."
Nameless Traveler, "What if the game was so difficult that a Little Monster at the entrance of a village could easily chop you down, would you still play?"
Gamer, "……"

Absolute Destiny Game

The rulers of Hua Country are Emperors, and Emperors of course wish to be supreme, so there needs to be a kind of ideology to control the people.


Qin Shi Huang chose the Legalist thought to prescribe the Emperor's supremacy with laws, and evidently, he failed.


Thus, the Han Dynasty learned from this experience and chose Confucianism, the so-called "ruler be ruler, minister be minister, father be father, son be son," linking loyalty and filial piety together, morally elevating the Emperor to the highest throne.


An Emperor, of course, hopes that his position will be unthreatened, so Confucianism is the best. Meanwhile, the "do nothing and everything will be done" of Taoism, and the "universal love and non-aggression" of the School of Mohism, don't meet the Emperor's requirements and naturally became unnecessary—conceptually beautiful as they might be, how could a mighty Emperor accept being on the same level as the common folk?


Chapter 48: Telling Stories with Morals_2