A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 75 The continued struggle between Mo Ru and Bai Guo

Three hundred and twenty-two years of the Bai Kingdom
Mo Zhai left Qufu with his disciples and traveled to other countries. However, there were still many disciples in Qufu who did not have deep hatred against Confucianism.

Three hundred and thirty-two years of the Bai Kingdom
Mo Zhai was forty years old. During his travels in various countries, he accepted many disciples, making Mo Zhai disciples all over the world. In order to distinguish the types of Mo Zhai disciples, Mo Zhai divided his disciples into two categories. One type is engaged in debate, which is called debaters. "Mobian"; a type of person who engages in chivalry is called "Moxia". However, both groups were led by Mo Zhai.

In this year, Mo Zhai returned to the Song Dynasty to continue his studies, concentrating on the study of specific subjects such as mathematics and optics.

This year, Bai Ren bid farewell to Mo Zhai, saying that he would return to the Bai Kingdom and promote Mohism on the land of the Bai Kingdom. Mo Zhai agreed, so Bai Ren returned to the Bai Kingdom with the Mohists who were born in the Bai Kingdom.

Bai Ren, dressed as a Mohist, returned to his long-lost hometown, and an inexplicable emotion emerged in Bai Ren's heart. Twenty-four years ago, he left the White Kingdom with the idea of ​​being dissatisfied with the academic atmosphere, and now he came back with the idea of ​​changing the academic style.

Back home, Bai Jiu looked at his almost unrecognizable son and couldn't believe it, "Are you Bai Ren?"

Bai Ren smiled and said to Bai Jiu: "Of course, father can't recognize him now?"

Bai Jiu really couldn't compare the former young master with tender skin and tender flesh, dressed in a fluttering white shirt, with the current rough-skinned, thick-fleshed, dark-faced, calloused hands, dressed in rough brown clothes, and wearing straw sandals.

Bai Jiu looked at his greatly changed son and asked, "You, this? Are you okay?"

Bai Ren looked at his surprised father and said with a smile: "Very good, beyond your expectation. Don't look at me pretending to be ignorant, but now my heart is extremely pure."

Bai Jiu nodded, said nothing more, and let Bai Ren go down to rest.

Today, Bai Jiu is already seventy-five years old, and Master Bai is already eighty-two years old. Now the young master Bai Yi is in charge of political affairs.

On this day, when Bai Yi was thinking about how to get rid of the predicament of Bai Kingdom, he was walking on the road to Bai Mansion. Whenever Bai Yi had a problem, he liked to go to Bai Mansion, because the fierce academic collision in Bai Mansion could make Bai Yi better think.

Soon, he came to the field of speculation.

I saw dozens of Confucian disciples and a few people wearing brown clothes and straw sandals debating.

Bai Yi stepped forward, stepped on a stone, and looked into the crowd.

"You disciples of the Mohist sect are really shameless. Not only have you polluted so many countries in the world, but you also want to pollute the Bai country. Don't you know that the Bai country is the holy land of our Confucian sect? Brothers, we must not let these Mohists be allowed to live in Baiguo. The country acts recklessly.”

"Yes, we cannot let them act recklessly, we must drive them out." "Get out of the Holy Land of Confucianism." "This is not the place where you Mohists should come." "Don't say that you are unforeseen!"

Bai Ren looked at the excited Confucian scholars, as if he had returned to the scene where he and his husband had a verbal battle with Confucian scholars. I saw Bai Ren looking at this group of Confucian scholars, smiling slightly and saying, "Let's draw a path! Fighting with literature is still fighting with force!"

The Confucian scholars stopped after hearing this and discussed among themselves what to do. At this time, they elected the most knowledgeable person among them to speak on behalf of everyone.

The Confucian scholar said: "I heard that you Mohists walk all day long, taking your own suffering as the ultimate happiness, and you like to fight bravely and show off your strength all day long. If I compete with you in archery ceremony, but you are a group of people who do not respect etiquette, so I compete with you in martial arts. , I don’t think there’s anything comparable.”

Bai Ren looked at the Confucian and said with a smile: "That's Wen Dou!"

The Confucian scholar had also heard of the Mohist scholar's reputation as an eloquent speaker, so he suppressed his uneasiness and said, "Of course!"

Bai Ren said: "Let's make a proposition!"

The Confucian was a little hesitant and didn't know what to choose. At this time, someone in the crowd shouted: "Bai Guo!"

After hearing this, the Confucian scholar thought of the prevailing Confucianism in the Bai Kingdom, so he said, "Let's discuss the Bai Kingdom! Let's see which theory can govern the Bai Kingdom better."

Bai Ren agreed and said, "Then you come first? There are many of you."

The Confucian scholars were not polite anymore and started talking eloquently: "Actually, there is no need for me to say anything more. Nowadays, the prosperity of the Bai Kingdom is obvious to all. Using Confucianism to govern the country can make the people know the etiquette and make the people harmonious and happy.

Confucianism is also good at teaching and educating people, so there are many gentlemen in the Bai Kingdom. It can be said at least that they never pick up things on the road and never close their homes at night!
Now that everyone can gather here to talk, it is not because our Confucianism can educate talents and make the Bai Kingdom prosperous. I heard that you also studied in a university before. You must have also benefited from my Confucianism!

Who among you here has not been influenced by Confucianism? If Confucianism was so bad, would so many people still like it and stick to it? I heard that even your husband Mo Zhai was born in Confucianism? Isn't it the credit of our Confucianism that you can stand here and debate with me today? "

"Okay!" "Colorful!" "Wonderful!" the brothers behind the Confucian said loudly. The surrounding students who were watching also nodded.

When Bai Ren saw that the Confucianists had won the city first, he was not panicked and said: "I don't deny the advantages of Confucianism in teaching and educating people, but is the Bai Kingdom really so well governed by Confucianism as you said?

Although Confucianism has made the atmosphere of the Bai Kingdom very good, the Bai Kingdom has not become stronger, right? The current situation in which the Bai Kingdom lives and works in peace and contentment was not brought about by Confucianism.

It was created by the Bai family and their ancestors over hundreds of years. It was not because of the implementation of Confucianism that there were no wars in the Bai Kingdom, but because of the lack of wars, Confucianism was able to flourish in the Bai Kingdom, wasn't it?
Confucianism was founded by Confucius. Before Confucianism entered the Bai Kingdom, the Bai Kingdom was already a peaceful and stable situation. After Confucianism came in, it was still stable and peaceful, but with some unnecessary etiquette. Is the Bai Kingdom strong because of Confucianism? Is it stronger than Jin? Is it stronger than Qi? So what compared to Qin? no! What you are doing is just the icing on the cake.

On the contrary, you continue to promote the prosperity of the Bai Kingdom to the lower-class people, but you do not tell them how the common people outside are living, making the people only content with the status quo and not thinking about progress. This is also the reason why I abandoned Confucianism and embraced Mohism.

Do I need to say more about the reasons why my husband, Mo Zhai, did not join Confucianism and established Mohism on his own? You Confucians talk about it all day long, without understanding how many grains the farmer harvested or how many pieces of cloth the weaver girl woven.

You know how to say, 'Come and learn etiquette! After learning the etiquette, growing food will no longer be painful, and weaving will no longer be tiring. Isn't this a lie? "

Then Bai Ren turned to the crowd of onlookers and said loudly: "On the other hand, my Mohism is different. My Mohism understands the sufferings of the people and tries to find ways to make the farmers work easier, to allow them to grow more food, so that the Weaver Girl can no longer So tired, let them weave a few more pieces of cloth.

When they are bullied, we will stand up and lead them to resist the nobles, so that the nobles will not dare to bully them wantonly. From this point of view, isn’t Mohism better than Confucianism?
We don’t do things that are icing on the cake, we do things that provide help in times of need! "

"Okay!" "Excellent!" The crowd of onlookers gave Bai Ren endless applause.

Seeing this situation, the Confucian scholar couldn't help but look a little unhappy, so he said: "No matter what, your ideas are too radical. What good will it do to the common people if you anger the nobles and monarchs?"

Bai Ren said tit for tat: "Is it right for you to defend those worms who take advantage of the people and blame the people for not working hard enough?"

The Confucian scholars couldn't help roaring: "Your ideas are too radical and the price you have to pay is too high. You will not succeed."

Bai Ren also said loudly: "What's the use of your soft opinions? The common people suffer if they don't listen to you, but the common people still suffer if they listen to you. So what's the difference between listening and not listening?"

Seeing this, the Confucian scholar knew that there would be no results if he continued to quarrel, so he said: "We have different ways, so we don't want to conspire with each other!" After saying this, he walked away.

Seeing this, other Confucians followed suit.

The Confucians behind Bai Ren couldn't help but complain: "These Confucians are really weak-minded!"

Bai Ren turned to look at him and said seriously: "They are not weaklings! Will the weaklings commit suicide because their ideals are disillusioned? Will the weaklings hit the pillars because the monarch does not adopt their opinions? Just like he said, We just have different ways, but our purpose is the same! The world is unified!"

The ink man felt ashamed and said, "I thought it was shallow!"

Bai Ren said: "We can say this internally, but we must come up with anything to target Confucians, otherwise Mohism will disappear in the bloody academic forest."

The inkman cupped his hands and said: "Senior brother, junior brother has learned a lesson!"

At this time, some onlookers asked Bai Ren: "What should we do if we want to understand Mohism in detail?"

Bai Ren raised his hands to the students around him and said: "Those who want to learn about Mohism can go to the Dingziyuan of the school. We rented Dingziyuan as the academic research institute of our Mohist school. You can go there to listen to our lectures.

No matter what time you come, we have someone there. "

After saying that, he led his fellow disciples away. They also wanted to use the books in the library to study the art of mechanism.

After listening to the debate between Mo and Ru, Bai Yi had some ideas in his mind, but they were immature. Back at Bai Mansion, Bai Yi asked someone to find Bai Jiu to learn about Bai Ren's experience.

Soon, Bai Jiu arrived and said, "I've met the young master!"

Bai Yi quickly helped Bai Jiu up and said, "No need to be polite, third uncle, sit down quickly." After saying that, Bai Yi helped Bai Jiu to sit down on the seat, and then returned to the seat and sat down.

"I came to see my third uncle this time because Bai Ren. I want to know something about this brother of mine. After all, I haven't seen him for more than 20 years. I don't know how he entered Mohism, and I want to know everything about Mohism." Learn more."

Bai Jiu heard that Bai Yi wanted to know about Mohism, so he smiled and said: "I know Mohism very well. It can be said that I saw it coming from scratch. The head of the family also knew about it at the beginning."

"Oh? Father knows too? I've never heard him mention it!"

Bai Jiu smiled and said: "After all, your father is also one of the great sages of Confucianism! No matter how good Mohism is, it is based on Confucianism. It is normal for him to have a grudge in his heart.

Your father's ability to remain silent and not exert Confucian influence on you is the best he can do as the head of the Bai family! "

Bai Yi said thoughtfully: "I understand. I said that I asked my father how to treat Mohism, and my father asked me to distinguish it myself. That's what happened! Please also elaborate on the origin and everything of Mohism. .”

Bai Jiu recalled: "It all started when I became a ranger..."

(End of this chapter)