A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 216
Although Wang Pu did not agree with Gongsun Yang's system of "strengthening the country and weakening the people" and "heavy punishment but light rewards", this theory of strengthening the country is still feasible.

It’s just that this theory is too cruel to ordinary people. It believes that the only way to oppress the people is to use the law to force the people to join the army, but they are stingy with rewards. Basically, the people at the bottom are opposed to the country.

It is believed that the strength of the country and the strength of the people are opposites. Only when the people are obedient to the law, simple and honest, the people will not combine to form a powerful force against the country and the monarch. Such a country will be easy to govern and the status of the monarch will be firm.

This kind of thinking is fundamentally contrary to the ruling philosophy of the Huai State. From Zijue onwards, the Huai State did not regard the people as antagonisms, but believed that the cornerstone of the country is the people, and the cornerstone of the monarch is the people.If the monarch wants to control the power of the country and not be emptied by the nobles, he must ensure that the lives of the people will not be squeezed by nobles, officials, and tyrants. He can guarantee the country's money, food and army through taxation and military service.

Therefore, the Huai country will not use the overbearing technique. After all, the strategy of the overbearing technique to strengthen the country has long been preserved in the Huai country's treasury.

Although Qin Law was born out of Huai Law, it is completely different from Huai Law.Qin Law pursued heavy punishments, and among them, the corporal punishment that had been abolished in Huai State was brought back.

Among them, beheading, castration, torture, tattooing, etc. These punishments were too cruel, so they were changed to prison sentences, and severe cases were changed to death sentences.

After the compilation, Wang Pu specially ordered someone to compile together the techniques of the Qin State Reform and the Huai State Reform, so that people can understand the cruelty of the Qin Law more accurately.

Compared with the compilation of the great canons of various schools of thought, the compilation of the Huaiguo calendar is more cumbersome. After collecting a large amount of data, and after several years of farming and comparison by the agricultural bachelors, a relatively accurate calendar was finally calculated.

After calculating the accurate calendar, Wang Gao, the first generation of Taishi Ling, brought the newly compiled calendar to Duke Huai.

Wang Pu was very happy to see the newly compiled calendar, and immediately ordered that all Huai Kingdoms use the new calendar from today, and next year will be the first year of the new calendar.

At the same time, Wang Pu also sent several Huai Kingdom official missions to various countries with the new calendar to inform them of the new calendar.

No matter how upset these vassal states are, after seeing the new calendar of Huai country, they can only pinch their noses to recognize it.What if I don't recognize it?No new calendar?Or fight Huaiguo?
Matters related to farming are a major event in any country in Bangzhou, so after confirming the accuracy of the new calendar, these countries also began to implement the new calendar.

The development of Huai country's siege equipment made Bangzhou and other countries secretly startled, and they began to study various equipment, but most of the Mohist children were in Huai country, and there were very few other countries.At this time, Gongshu appeared.

Compared with the Mohists who like to make defensive equipment, Gongshu is more proficient in making various equipment.The Gongshu clan left the state of Lu, but the Lu state, which was able to compete with the Qi state, was too weak to realize the ambition of the Gongshu clan, so the children of the Gongshu clan began to appear in various countries.

Similarly, after learning about the Gongshu family, Huaiguo also invited people over.Wang Pu also welcomed Gongshu's arrival. The Gongshu clan was somewhat similar to the Mohists, and they were also proficient in making various instruments, but the Gongshu clan did not have the Mohism's philosophy of both love and non-attack.

They regard themselves more as craftsmen, relying on their own skills to obtain high positions in various countries.For this situation, Wang Pu agreed very much. The Gongshu clan was proficient in various instruments, so Wang Pu appointed him as the master craftsman supervisor, and at the same time included the Gongshu clan in the hundreds of schools of thought.

The Mohists disagreed with the Gongshu family, and the relationship between the Mohist school and the Confucian school was very bad, and at the same time, it was in the same situation as the Yang Zhu school.Confucianism is plagiarizing, no, after absorbing the ideas of other schools, the relationship with Mohism has gradually improved, but the Gongshu and Yangzhu schools are still the same.

The Gongshu family didn’t care about the Mohist’s theory. The Mohists believed that Gongshu’s production of engineering equipment was to encourage countries to conquer each other, but the Gongshu family didn’t care. They just thought that they were making tools, and the use of tools had nothing to do with them.

As for the Yang Zhu school, this school was born out of Taoism, but even many scholars in Taoism do not agree with this school.

Even Wang Pu, after seeing the ideology of this school, thought it was heresy.

The Yang Zhu school was born out of Taoism, advocating the theory of life and death, self-valuation, rebirth, and integrity preservation.

According to what Yang Zhu said, everyone is called on to cherish their own lives and protect their own interests, and not to lose their own interests to help others.This approach is a disaster for Xiaomin.

The life of the common people is difficult. Many people don't even have farm cattle and need to rent them. If everyone values ​​themselves and doesn't help others, these common people will probably starve to death.Human beings are accustomed to the kings because it is difficult for human beings to live in the wilderness by relying on their own strength.

As for the others, in Wang Pu's view, they are not so important.Just like what it said about life and death, the Yang-Zhu School believes that regardless of noble or poor, after death, they all return to rotting bones, and there is no difference between Yao and Shun and Jie and Zhou.

Wang Pu laughed when he saw this, it was no different because you had never met King Wen.The Duke of Huai State is completely different from other people. After the Duke dies, he returns to the cave, and when he meets King Wen, how can he be like a rotten tree?

As for your self-esteem and even to the point of plucking out a hair to benefit the world, I don't agree with it.Know the world and serve as one, don't take it.Everyone does not lose a cent, everyone is not good for the world, and the world will be governed.

If it is true what he said, all people in the world value themselves, then the whole world will be in chaos, and even the country will no longer exist.

But is this really possible?Wang Pu felt that as long as people still have selfishness and desires, it is basically impossible to realize them.

Wang Pu can forcefully explain Mohism's concepts of both love and non-aggression, so that Mohism can serve Huai State, but Yang Zhu's theory does not need to be reformed at all in Wang Pu's view, and it is of no use to Huai State.But Yang Zhu's theory also attracted many people, so Wang Pu ordered people to spread Yang Zhu's theory to other vassal states in Bangzhou.

This kind of extremely self-interested theory is of no use to the country. It will only produce a group of selfish people. If a group of such people can appear among the aristocrats and officials of the Zhou kingdom, I believe that the difficulty of defeating and annexing this vassal state will be the same. significantly reduced.

In the academy, more and more schools of thought appeared, and the various debates were eye-opening, and the debates between the theories of various schools were amazing.The debates of various schools of thought have also continued to provide Huai country with a lot of luck. Now the luck provided by Huai country Academy is almost half of that provided by Huai country.

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