warring states careerist

chapter 138
When Wu Qi hoped to recruit some rebels to the state of Wei, and when King Xiongdang of Chu hoped to get some useful things from the Mohists, a new department was established among the Mohists far away in Peidi.

Shi, who is young but has been emerging since entering the Mohist school, according to a certain saying, is "promoted".

The newly established department was called the "Xuanyi Department". After being nominated by the giants and most of the Mohists agreed, it became the first head of the "Xuanyi Department" of the Mohists.

At the same time, he also served as the secretary of the book secretary and the school guide of Peiguo Township School.

If you only look at the number of radicals, Shi can be regarded as one of the real high-level Mohists, and it is a real high-level.

Although he has been following the giant as a secretary since he entered the Mo family, he can also participate in the internal high-level meetings of the Mo family.

But the identity of the secretary is embarrassing after all, and the status is not embarrassing.

According to the appropriate understanding, this is the secretary of a giant, who is responsible for sorting out paperwork and other work, which means that he can get the moon first if he is close to the water.

The word Xuanyi is not easy to understand at this time, because this word Xuanyi has two completely different concepts at this time.

In "Shangshu, Gaomo", there is the phrase "Risk to proclaim the three virtues", where Xuan means to proclaim and proclaim.

If you look at the Xuanyi Department in terms of the Xuan characters in "Shangshu, Gaomo", it seems that the duties of the secretary of the book overlap.

One of the duties of the original secretary was to sort out the words of the giant and publish them.

Another meaning of Xuan at this time is the meaning of widespread dissemination.

For example, in the case of "Uncle Xianghe Poor", the word "proclaim his virtues" means to spread widely.

This story happened before the rebellion of the Six Ministers of the Jin State. Han Xuanzi had just become a minister, but his family property was insufficient, the land was not much, and he didn't even have the money to entertain guests with other ministers.

After Yang Tongue heard about it, he went to see Han Xuanzi and explained a lot of reasons. In short, he hoped that Han Xuanzi would "Xuan De Xing".

The Xuanyi Department newly established by the Mohists uses exactly this meaning of Xuanyi.There is no need to explain the righteousness, and the duty of the Xuanyi Department is to widely spread the righteousness of the Mohists.

This is a newly established department, which is suitable for the personnel arrangement of the first Xuanyi department head. It is considered that Juzi and Qiwuhai both agree. When the mohists get together, as long as there is no opposition from half of them, it will be approved.

The process went smoothly, but there were some situations. One of the Mozi not only objected, but also personally met Mozi, thinking that it was not suitable to be the radical of Xuanyi.

The person who objected was Gao, who was also a direct disciple of Mozi, and he was very young, only seven years older than Shi.

As a Mohist, Gao is not too young.

But as Mozi's direct disciple, Gao's age is considered to be only older than Shi.

Before he joined the Mohist school, he had already made a name for himself in Weiguo, and he was praised for his eloquence. At that time, some people called him Gaozi.

After arriving at the Mo family, he called himself Gaozi by his own name.

Originally Zi is an honorific name, but in Weiguo, people called it Gaozi, which is respect.

But after arriving at the Mo family, he couldn't bear the title of Zi internally. There were too many people with noble backgrounds than him in terms of talent and ability, so he changed his name himself, and this Zi was just a name.

This person is very famous.

Anyone who is famous enough knows this person.

As long as a highly used word is mentioned, you can know that this person is definitely not an ordinary person.

"Eating sex is also!"

This sentence is often passed down as what Confucius said, which is what Gao Zi said.

This is the original historical line, after Mo Di died, when Gao Zi went to argue with Mencius, he used it to refute Mencius's view of benevolence and righteousness and the theory of "human nature is inherently good".

Mencius was full of emotions, and the two of them had a long chat, and finally came up with the magnificent article "I have what I want for a fish, and I have what I want for a bear's paw".

Meng Ke was regarded as the leading talker after Mo Di's death, and the person who can argue with Meng Ke and force Meng Ke to write a book to refute, it can be seen that his debating skills are very high.

But this person who can talk to Meng Ke is often ridiculed in the Mohism.

After Sheng Chuo's defection, many Mohists were very bored and joking, thinking that Gao Zi would be the next one to defect.

However, this bet has been maintained for more than a year, and Gao Zi has not defected until now, which is beyond everyone's expectations.

Gao Zi is very clever, it can be said that he is smarter than more than half of the Mohists, and he can understand Mozi's meaning very well.

But long before Shi came to the Mo family, someone ran to complain to Mo Zi.

Say yes: Zimozi, Gaozi talks about righteousness all day long, but he doesn't do righteous things, so let him be fired.

But Mozi said: "Oh, he can listen to my righteousness, so he is not useless. At least he hasn't directly opposed my righteousness, and even said that your Modi's righteousness is wrong. He just didn't do it, and he can't say he is useless, or Continuing education is possible.

It may be that Gao Zi heard Mo Di's evaluation, restrained his behavior, and started to act righteously.

In fact, everyone knows why Gaozi has such a change, because Mozi can recommend people to be officials...and those who recommend people to be officials must have ability, be able to speak clearly, and be able to do justice.

Although I dare not say that I would directly let my disciples achieve the positions of senior officials and ministers, Duke Luyang, Lord Yangcheng, Marquis of Lu, Bo Zheng, Duke Song, and King Yue should give Mo Di some face.

And with a little activity, it is not difficult for disciples to become doctors.At that time, there was a disciple who had been a doctor in Zheng Guo for a few days, and thought that Zheng Bo was not up to the righteousness of a Mohist, so he turned away and left.

So after Gaozi changed his appearance according to Mozi's liking, he went directly to Mo Di and said bluntly: "Zi Mozi, I can govern the country and govern the country, please let me become an official."

But Mozi said: "Government affairs, if you can speak well, you must implement it. Now you can speak well but you can't implement it. This is your own contradiction. If you can't manage yourself, how can you manage the government affairs of the country? You Let’s settle your own conflicts first.”

Maybe Gaozi was still unwilling, so he found a few classmates who did not laugh at him, ran to Mozi and said, "Gaozi has already started to do righteous deeds. This is a person who can do righteous deeds."

Mozi said: "Not necessarily. Gao Zi's righteousness is like standing on tiptoes to make himself taller, and lying down to make his area bigger. It can't last long. So I don't plan to let him become an official."

This sentence ruined Gao Zi's dream of becoming an official.

Many of those who entered Mohist school and studied with Mozi initially wanted to be petty officials, but Mozi taught them to understand righteousness through education.

As for a person of commoner background, starting from the Mohist school, the only option available for him to be an official is to be recommended by Mo Di.

After all, in addition to Mo Di's face, there are many Mohist figures who are officials outside, or are nobles themselves, and there are many paths.

When Sheng Chuo defected at that time, many Mohists believed that Gao Zi's defection was sooner or later based on the few things Gao Zi had done before.

Gao Zi didn't take it seriously, and there were many mohists who hated him, but he still felt that Mo Di's knowledge still had a lot to learn.

After the [-]-day meeting of the Mohists after the expulsion of Shengchuo, and the initial reorganization of various departments within the Mohism, Gaozi's hope was rekindled.

He wants to have power, not for the salary of an official, but just for the feeling of having power.

Although these positions within the Mohists do not receive much salary, they still have power after all.

In one place, Gao Zi’s view of human nature is that “there is no good or evil in human nature”, which is somewhat similar to Shi’s idea, and it is also very similar to the view of human nature held by Mohists who have been quietly changing, so he still likes to work in Mo inside.

Gao Zi didn't have any other ideas when he chose Qiwuhai.

People like Qin Huali, Mo Chengzi, and Gongzaoye are all stronger than him in terms of ability, knowledge, righteousness, and prestige, so he is convinced.

The number of Mohists is small, but there are a complete set of radicals, a total of 500 people, and a bunch of departments. Gaozi felt that it was a little difficult to mix radicals, but he also got a position of official chief.

He is famous for his rhetoric, except for the giants, Shi Meiqianqian 54 is the leader.

Making bamboo strips to celebrate the age of the year can be considered eloquent, but sometimes the words are complicated and sometimes miss the point, which is worse than Gaozi.And when Zao Mi Qisui went to Bashu, Gao Zi himself was not willing to do this hard work, and he did not object to the fact that the person who chose the book secretary went to Bashu.

But now that a new Xuanyi Department has been established, and Bian 54 has taken up the post of Mobian again, Gao Zi is confident that the radical of the Xuanyi Department is completely in his pocket.

Who would have thought that as soon as the list came out, it turned out to be Shi who had just arrived at the Mo Family, which made Gao Zi extremely dissatisfied.

At this time, the internal discipline of the Mohists is not too strict, lively yet serious, and the number of people is not too large. If there is any internal matter, it can be directly expressed in the Mohism gathering, or conveyed through the secretary. .

It's just that Gao Zi was extremely dissatisfied with being the head of the Xuanyi Department, and it was impossible to convey his dissatisfaction to Mo Di through the secretary, so he went directly to Ju Zi and expressed his dissatisfaction.

A lot of people gathered under the tree outside the house, but they were not there. He took a few people from the Propaganda Department to Niasang Township to deal with some matters and he has not returned yet.

Under the tree, Mo Di, Qin Huali and others are all there.

Gao Zi knelt on the ground, and said bluntly as before: "The radicals of Xuanyi need to be sharp-tongued and be able to explain the righteousness of the Mohists clearly. The master thinks that my righteousness will not last long, but he also thinks that I can Explain clearly the righteousness of the gentleman. If this is the case, shouldn't I be the chief of the Xuanyi Department?"

"Do you think that my tongue is not suitable? His words are extremely vulgar, and he doesn't even understand elegant language. On the contrary, he speaks clearly to those farmers who are farming dung. I'm afraid it can't spread the meaning of the Mohist very well. So don’t you think you’re wrong, Mister? Is it true that my tongue is not as good as I can’t even speak elegant words?”

Gaozi originally thought that Mozi would explain the truth, and at least he would comfort himself. Even if he couldn't do the radical of Xuanyi, at least it was possible to be a minister.

But he didn’t want to, Mozi refused directly: “Yes, I just think that your tongue is not suitable, so you are not qualified for the duty of the Xuanyi radical. Don’t you remember what I said when the Confucian scholar Cheng Zi came to debate with me? talk?"

　Gao Zi said "food and sex are also".Gao Zi left records in the "Mo Jing", basically "second and third sons" went to Mo Zhai to complain, hoping to expel this speculator... Mo Zi was also interesting, thinking that he could educate well, so he was not expelled.In the end, I really don't know whether he betrayed Mo or not, but the heated argument with Meng Ke forced Mencius to write a lot of articles specifically to refute Gao Zi's words.Sacrificing one's life for righteousness, fish and bear's paws, are actually trying to create a concept of benevolence and righteousness that is opposed to Mohists: Mohists believe that profit and righteousness are unified.If unified, then there is no question of taking fish or taking profit.Once Mozi died, the situation would be that Mohist and Yang Zhu would clash, Confucianism and Mohist would clash, and Yang Zhu and Confucianism would clash... Some Taoists, Huang and Lao, would reconcile the contradictions between Confucianism and Mozi...

　　
　
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