My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 737 The Thriving Qin

The majestic voice of Qin II came from above, like a magic needle that stabilized the sea, giving these elderly and middle-aged people a shot in the arm, so that they no longer worried about the many unknown changes that would occur in the reform.

If there is a need for reform, it means that the future will be uncertain. Feng Quji, who attaches great importance to practical interests and actual results, is not trying to obstruct the reform, but is afraid that Fusu and his group of passionate young people will not turn back until they hit the wall.

"Industry?" Feng Quji asked again, stroking his beard.

"Yes, I will develop industry in Daqin. Women will work in handicrafts, and men will work in industry. Industry will be divided into light industry and heavy industry."

When the young emperor talked about these things, he knew them by heart, and his tone was calm and composed.

"In the future, as long as one person works, he or she can support himself or herself, and even support a family. In addition, they can also produce a lot of surplus."

“And the surplus produced will become the country’s main source of tax revenue.”

"Prime Minister Feng is worried that allowing business to develop will undermine social trust. I have the same worry. And the only people in the court who can make a difference in the people's livelihood and economic affairs are the two prime ministers."

Fusu spoke slowly.

Feng Quji glanced at Wang Wan who was sitting quietly on the side.

Wang Wan still looked embarrassed.

"Business must be under the control of the state. As long as I live in this world, I will never allow business to develop."

"The so-called order of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, in the future, maybe the workers and farmers will be on the same level, or the workers will be higher than the farmers. But merchants will definitely be the lowest in social status."

"If people in a country were all thinking about packaging something that cost five cents and selling it for ten cents, there would have been a trend of vanity in society. Would people at that time still have the energy to produce? Would they still have the energy to farm? I'm afraid they would be thinking about how to package it and how to fake it."

After Wang Wan listened, his frown finally relaxed and many of the wrinkles on his forehead disappeared.

"Your Majesty understands the harm that business can bring to the country. Just for this reason, I believe that Your Majesty will never issue an order that will harm the country."

Feng Quji turned sideways in surprise and looked over.

You have to know that Wang Wan is a man of high moral character and prestige. As soon as he came back, many of Feng Quji's former vassal officials ran back to find Wang Wan.

In the past, when Wang Wan assisted Qin Shihuang in administrative affairs, he had no shortcomings or mistakes; more importantly, Wang Wan almost never boasted or praised Qin Shihuang.

Even after Qin Shihuang completed his great cause of unifying the world, Wang Wan never praised him.

But today, Wang Wan actually gave such an evaluation of Qin II just because the emperor said a few words, just a few words.

Feng Quji almost thought he had heard it wrong.

"Right Prime Minister, based on these few words of His Majesty, you have concluded that His Majesty will never make mistakes in governing the country in the future. Isn't that a bit hasty?"

Wang Wan looked over with a smile, "Rash?"

Wang Wan shook his head and said firmly, "Your Majesty can understand the harm of doing business and insist on putting businessmen in the lowest position. Then I think no matter how Your Majesty reforms in the future, my Qin State will not make any big mistakes."

Wang Wan's voice is like a loud bell.

Younger generations such as Zhang Han, Meng Tian, ​​Feng Jie, Li Xin, and Zhao Tuo all looked over involuntarily.

They looked up at the young emperor and at Wang Wan at the same time.

"Although I don't know how your majesty plans to develop industry. But I heard that when your majesty was the crown prince, he used half of the wealth and salary of the entire Hengyang Palace to support the Mohist school to encourage them to invent."

"Your Majesty even built a three-story tower for the Mo Pavilion in the Imperial Academy and employed many skilled craftsmen in it, saying that he wanted to develop science and technology."

"I wonder, Your Majesty, whether what I heard is true?"

Fusu nodded naturally, "What the Prime Minister heard is true. I have indeed been trying my best to build a new Mo Sect, and for this purpose I have abandoned the Qi Mo Sect."

"I have made every effort to divide the Mohist School into two directions of development. One is dedicated to theory, in order to perfect the concept of world peace."

"I want to take advantage of the fact that Mozi has not been gone for too long and his spirit is still alive in China, so that the spirit of this venerable man can continue to be carried forward."

"Love all, do not attack. Promote the virtuous and employ the capable. These are the goals that the Qin Dynasty will strive for in the future."

"And the other branch of the Mo Sect will develop towards industrial technology. In other words, it will focus on scientific and technological inventions, so that Daqin's industrial technology, military equipment, and daily necessities will all be at the forefront of the world."

"Momen, in the past, the Mohist School was integrated into our Qin State and became a part of our Qin State. Now, we will once again carry forward the spirit of Momen, and Momen will also make our Qin State great again."

Qin II was ambitious.

Fusu, who has always been committed to injecting the essence of both Chinese and Western civilizations into the heart of the Qin Dynasty, chose Mo Men as a breakthrough point.

When the ministers heard this, they were all surprised.

In the past, taking Mohist thought as the soul of Qin's governance was just an immature idea in Fusu's mind.

But now, he became the emperor.

The emperor's will will become the law of the country and the decree that all subjects must obey.

When the nine ministers heard this, they were all surprised.

Yes, some of them thought that Fusu would choose the Huang-Lao school of thought, some thought that Fusu would follow the Legalist school of thought, and some thought that Fusu would impose culture and education on the world and would use the Confucian school of thought.

No one thought that Fusu would choose Mohism.

When the answer was revealed, everyone's face was filled with shock.

Yes, no one expected that after the establishment of the great Qin Empire, the second generation of the helmsman of the Qin Empire would choose the Mohist school that no one cared about.

After hearing Fusu's decision, Wei Liao suddenly felt his eyes become moist.

Wei Liao tried hard to raise his head three times in a row to prevent some liquid from flowing out of his eye sockets.

Meng Tian's heart was also greatly shocked.

The emperor actually chose Mohism.

The Second Emperor was such a great strategist, such a resourceful and courageous person, he could have chosen the Legalists. With his strategy and the establishment of some systems, the Qin Empire could have lasted for at least a hundred years.

But he chose the most ideal path - Mohism.

Li Xin has always only read military books, and after reading them he felt that they were all nonsense. He still had to rely on actual combat to summarize his experience.

He had only heard some superficial knowledge about Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism.

As for Mohism, he knew even less.

He only remembered a few things about Mohism. The Mozi mentioned by the emperor was a man who once went to the fields to help farmers grow crops, and who rolled up straw mats and took his disciples everywhere to make better farm tools for the people.

The ideals of the Mohist School are rather vague.

At that time, he had just learned the Mohist school and was discussing Mozi with his friends on the dam, saying how unrealistic he was.

To make an old man love his grandchildren is like a man loving a woman.

In his eyes, strangers should also have the same love as familiar people.

It is such a vague and unrealistic idea.

Li Xin looked at Qin II in surprise, then looked left and right to see why no one stood up to oppose him.

Only Zhao Tuo felt a sudden blow in his heart.

Once upon a time, his idols were Qin Shi Huang and General Meng Tian. But before he knew it, Zhao Tuo discovered that Qin II Fusu was his ultimate idol.

It turns out that the phrase "Establish a mind for heaven and earth, establish a mission for the people, and create peace for all generations" was not just something the emperor said for fun.

The ministers all began to look at each other in confusion, just like Li Xin.

They didn't know what to say.

This is a very interesting part of history.

Historically, the last emperor of mankind, Emperor Xin, once wanted to launch reforms and establish a new ideal country.

However, in the process of execution, he offended too many people and did not pay attention to the methods and approaches during the execution, which ultimately led to failure.

More than 800 years later, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty was doing the same thing.

Even if it was the case, Fusu had already used the method of enfeoffment to force the vested interests to leave on their own initiative.

Even so, Fusu had used his wisdom and power to make his subjects willing to follow him.

Even if Fusu was not a lustful person, he would not do such things as greedily exploiting the people and indulging in luxury.

However, these ministers were still afraid of Fusu's idea.

Because of the Mohist School mentioned by Fusu, the ministers of the pre-Qin period had to face again the controversial topic between Yao and Shun more than a thousand years ago - love.

Zhuangzi said that when Huangdi ruled the world, the world was at peace.

Why was the world peaceful when Huangdi ruled the country? What was the reason?

Zhuangzi said that it was because the people of that period were all stupid, that is, they were in a state of chaos, and the people were simple, dull, and pure.

No one loves others, and correspondingly no one hates others.

Since you don't know how to love someone, you won't hate someone either.

If there is neither love nor hate between people, the world will be at peace.

In other words, five thousand years ago, people were not attached to appearances, and before the birth of the two interdependent desires of love and hate, people were in a state of chaos.

But when Emperor Yao came to rule the world, he advocated benevolence and encouraged love, which led to the beginning of disaster. Once you love some people, it means you hate others.

Once you get close to some people, it means you are alienated from others. There will be a gap and distance between people, and there will be something wrong with the world.

The so-called problems in the world, after all, are problems in the relationships between people.

This is the beginning of man’s fall. Man falls into the world of lust, starts to be attached to appearances, and starts to leak.

The history of the abdication of Yao and Shun is actually a false story. According to the Bamboo Annals, Shun took over the position of Yao.

This is a very important fact.

When it came to Shun, it was Yao who opened this valve and promoted love.

Shun not only advocated barriers, but also introduced a competitive mechanism to select talents and encourage competition for jobs.

For what? Fair!
As long as there is competition, there will be inevitable results.

Some people made it, some didn't. And those who made it were only a small number, while those who didn't were the majority.

So everyone scrambles to climb up and steps on others.

There will be struggles and conflicts between people.

By the time of Dayu, competition had turned into struggle, and struggle had turned into war.

The world was in chaos, wars were frequent, and swords were flashing.

You kill me, I kill you.

By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the original wars were just cart-pushing games among the nobles, but later they turned into large-scale massacres.

Then a hundred schools of thought emerged, and people from various sects and schools began to look for a way out and a way to be liberated in this world where human beings had collectively fallen.

However, at the same time, nearly a hundred years had passed since Siddhartha Gautama led many monks and nuns to Nirvana in India.

By the time this true wisdom reached China, it seemed to be already very late.

However, even if it was brought back during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it would be useless. Given the situation in the Middle Earth at that time, Siddhartha Gautama's wisdom might be used by bad people to cause immeasurable consequences, or it might be completely burned.

But even though the situation in China improved later, it still faced the same problem - being exploited by the rulers and used to discredit the bad guys.

This incident only once again confirmed what Lao Tzu said after Confucius visited him and talked about many things with him.

“Can the water of a great river flow backwards?”

How do you close a valve that is already open?

We have all fallen into this pit, and no one can climb out.

nobody!
People always have too much good feelings towards Yao, Shun and Yu. But who knows that when they want to promote love, they release hatred.

When Yao, Shun and Yu wanted to bring better and more valuable things to the country and the nation, they opened Pandora's box and released all the monsters.

From then on, people became pitiful, trapped in the seven emotions and six desires, trapped in love and hate, trapped between desire and failure to obtain.

However, the water of the river has already flowed out.

The valve of love, hate, lust has been opened.

People can only follow this downward "leakage" trend and do as much as they can.

There are only two people in history who were able to break free from the constraints of heaven and earth and escape from this river that keeps flowing downwards - Lao Tzu and Siddhartha Gautama.

As for the others, they reincarnate again and again.

This is the so-called secret of heaven and earth.

It is not a secret at all, but people nowadays are confused by the prosperous world and no longer listen to the true wisdom from the teachings of ancient sages, so they do not know the truth.

The truth is not invented, not created, not tried out, not tested, but rediscovered!

What could Qin II do?

What can he do if he knows everything?

Can the water of a river flow backwards?
No way!
All he can do is to improve material productivity, enable people to master higher technology, use the power of technology to observe the world, discover more truths, and help future people get out of their wrong cognition.

All he can do is reveal those dusty historical truths to the world, and all he can do is introduce those truly good things to everyone.

But Fusu had no say in what people chose.

Because they are all in this river flowing downwards, and the river water cannot flow backwards.

What else can be done!
The floodgates have been opened, who can turn back the floodwaters?!
When love is discovered, hate has also been discovered.

Pandora's box has been opened.

But it doesn’t mean that there is no solution just because the water from the river has flowed out.

Just because the monster has been released doesn't mean there is no way to deal with it.

There are ways to change the situation.

That is to change the course of the river, let the river go in the right direction, so that the river will not flow downwards all the time!

This is the only thing people can do.

Changing the course means that people have to find their own pace, so that the river does not flow downward all the time.

This is the value of the Book of Changes to human beings, and it is also the root of Fusu’s desire to spread culture and education.

Because the Book of Changes is the solution that the Chinese people came up with when faced with the reality that "the water of a great river cannot flow backwards."

The Book of Changes tells people how to behave in the world.

The I Ching gives the 'degree.'

Love has its limits, and hate also has its limits.

Once the monster is released, you can only lock it up yourself.

The ministers of the Qin Dynasty were limited by time and space, and by their own concepts, and could not understand what Fusu was thinking.

Fusu is probably the loneliest person in this time and space. He explored the truth and discovered the truth.

What finally greeted him was endless loneliness.

The lonely cold winter always made him shiver because no one talked to him.

Even so, he could only enjoy it silently, hoping that maybe one day someone would be able to step on the ladder of truth and accompany him, so that he would never feel lonely again.

Fortunately, although the ministers did not understand Fusu.

But in front of such a wise man, no one will despise him.

In front of a truly benevolent person, no one would want to betray him.

It cannot be said that all the ministers of the Qin Dynasty were moved by Fusu. Men are not creatures that are easily moved and cry like women.

And these powerful people in the world who stood before Fusu after competition have a heart that is different from ordinary people.

They were overcome by something indescribable.

In Zhangtai Palace, all the ministers were silent for a long time.

Men can talk about everything without batting an eyelid or speaking righteously, but when it comes to the matter of love, everyone is too embarrassed to discuss it.

Feng Quji, the most faithful believer in reality, took the initiative to ask, "Mozi said that we should put the people first. Food is the most important thing for the people. Your Majesty is determined to develop industry and let the people provide for themselves, but what about agriculture?"

"Agriculture?" Fusu came back to reality and suddenly felt that he was not so lonely.

Although everyone does not understand themselves, everyone is trying to understand themselves and respect themselves, and that is enough.

After all, it was he himself who discovered that there was something wrong with the world, so he wanted to gain wisdom and resolve the doubts in his heart.

He had chosen this path on his own and felt lonely many times, so he couldn't blame anyone else.

"I will invent many machines, and in the future two people will be able to cultivate fifty acres of land."

The ministers looked at each other again.

"How is this possible?!" Feng Quji thought his ears were broken.

"With me here, nothing is impossible."

Ministers: "..."

Feng Quji put his hands in his sleeves, sat upright, and sighed helplessly, "Okay."
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[PS: This book is about to be finished.

Every chapter and every sentence in this book was written after careful consideration. It may seem boring to some people, but every word is the result of my hard work.

I don't hope, nor do I expect you to understand me personally. Because I am just a loser, not worth mentioning. After I finish writing this book, I will leave and live my life writing cool articles.

What I really hope is that some of you will be willing to re-understand the thoughts of the great predecessors through my book, and be willing to choose to use reading to learn more about the truth of history and the truth of life.

The Book of Changes, Buddhist scriptures, Taoist classics, and Confucian classics are all good things. I hope that the essence left by our ancestors will not be lost in our generation. 】

(End of this chapter)