warring states careerist

Chapter 21

After listening to Shi's questioning, Gongsun Ze broke out in a cold sweat.

In an instant, he had gone through everything he had learned in his mind. He wanted to bypass the reasoning method of Mohism's dialectics to counter this sentence, but he couldn't figure out how to counterattack.

Benevolence is the foundation of the way of governing the country believed by Gongsun Ze, which is the most important principle under the influence of heaven and man.

The so-called people move the sky with their actions, and the sky responds to people with their actions.Only with benevolence can the ruler move the heavens, and the heavens will respond to this, and the world will be peaceful.

Therefore, in the second year when Lu State implemented the initial tax per mu, there was a severe drought in Lu State, locusts ravaged, and countless people died of starvation.A real gentleman should regard this event as a happy event and a good event.

Because of inhumaneness, there are locust plagues.If Duke Xuan of Lu could wake up after experiencing this natural disaster and restore the law of the well field, the contribution of this locust plague will be greater than no disaster.Therefore, a gentleman should be deeply happy and lucky.

Ren can basically explain all the history, from Shang Tang's extermination of Xia to Wu Wang's defeat of Zhou, from severe drought to locust plague to wind, dust, rain and snow.

But what is Jen?It was difficult for Gongsun Ze to answer, but the sentence that Shi Shi asked was benevolent after the former apprentice turned his back and was killed so bloody.If not, then King Wu won the world cannot be explained by benevolence, and the entire system of interaction between heaven and man will be completely collapsed.

Shi watched Gongsun Ze's face quietly from the side, knowing that King Wu's benevolence cannot be denied at this time, and disputes over beliefs are too easy to kill.

Although it was just a meeting, since he was able to come here to question himself and dressed so politely, it was obvious that this Gongsun Ze was a gentleman.

If you are a gentleman, you will let go of most of your hanging heart.

A gentleman can deceive him.He is not afraid of reasonable gentlemen, but unreasonable villains.

As long as the other party is a virtuous gentleman, he will not seek his own government if he is not in his position. If he is not a big criminal, he cannot commit a crime and kill himself.And the real big Si Kou, before he figured out that he was not a real Mohist, would never dare to do anything to himself.

A real gentleman can't be the great leader of the Song Dynasty. The more powerful he is, the more he is afraid of death and the less willing to make enemies, especially the internal power struggle in the Song Dynasty is extremely vicious, and the Mohists are famous outside. .

The issue of Wu Wang's inhumanity had completely angered Gongsun Ze before, but Shi also knew that this kind of anger was also profitable.

When Gongsun Ze's face had changed from angry red to angry purple, he finally reprimanded: "The villain is sophistry! The master said, he is a wicked husband and sycophant! To you villains who can only talk sophistry No need to argue with you!"

Shi was laughed angrily by the other party, and spread his hands and said: "Zhong Ni also said, if you can talk without talking, you will lose people. A wise man will not lose people. Is a gentleman unwise? In fact, I think that King Wu is benevolent. There is no mistake in the bleeding and floating pestle, but the person who interpreted the book interpreted it wrongly, so that King Wu bears the name of inhumanity."

If it is suitable, it is like a ray of light shining in the east in the dark night sky, or like the lightning flashing across the sky when dark clouds cover the sky, which makes Gongsun Ze see hope instantly.

Shi seduced and said: "Since you are a gentleman, how should you answer when someone asks about the matter between King Wu and Piaochu? Zhong Ni said that you are sensitive and eager to learn. You are not ashamed to ask. Zhong Ni also asked Yu Tanzi, Chang Hong, Shi Xiang , Lao Dan, and said that three people must have my teacher."

After saying this, Shi looked at Gongsun Ze with a smile and said, "If you ask me as a courtesy to study, I can answer it so that you can know what the sentence originally meant. If someone asks you in the future, you can also answer it." What happened to Churen and Piaochu? Anyway, I have asked many people this question, even if I accidentally die, Yang Zhu, Li Kui, Wu Qi and others will ask you this question..."

Every time he said a name, Gongsun Ze's heart skipped a beat, and he murmured a curse: beast, heresy...

The heresy word originated from Zhongni.Attacking heresy is also harmful.Yang Zhu Mo Di is a beast, pig and dog, Li Kui and Wu Qi are heresies, they are not the same.

But despite scolding, he knows that once these fallacies and heresies are spread to these people's ears, it will be more difficult to refute them in the future.

In his eyes, he is just a villain, a commoner, and can't afford to be a teacher in this threesome, but if he doesn't ask clearly, he will feel unwilling in the end, and worry that someone will use this to make trouble.

What is appropriate is that a gentleman can deceive with reason, and can deceive with reason.

He deceived him to ask himself a question, and he can be regarded as a teacher of one word. After deciding on this, as long as the other party is a gentleman, this person will not be able to kill himself in this life.

Nowadays, the only ones who want to kill themselves are real gentlemen; those who are not gentlemen, even if they hate these things, dare not kill them because of the fake Mohist name.

A gentleman spares his life, a villain spares his life.

Now is the most dangerous time, as long as you cheat for a while, when Mozi comes back from Qi, he won't even bother to talk nonsense with this kind of person.

At this time, most of the people in the village had gathered around, either to watch the excitement, or to see if Shi really understood the truth and could persuade this young master.

Although these days, there has been a lot of propaganda to break the hierarchy, but the hierarchy is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The common people in these villages still have some indescribable feelings for the son who wears straight trains and wears jade: it seems that reasoning with the common people is not a skill, but being able to reason with the son is the real skill.Although the status of the son is hereditary and has nothing to do with his own knowledge, but after hundreds of years of indoctrination, knowledge and morality have been bound to blood and blurred together. This is not a problem that can be solved in a few months.

When everyone in the village heard Shi said that the young master wanted to ask him for advice, and that he had to ask him for advice as a teacher, everyone was terrified, thinking how could this be possible?

Some of the ones who walked closest to Shi on weekdays quietly went over and pulled Shi, meaning to let him take a step back.

But he didn't want to stand beside Shi Shi's reed flower, but he saw stars in his eyes, probably felt that Shi was the same as the vague Shi in his dream at this time, stretched out his hand and opened the villager who was trying to pull Shi .

Gongsun Ze stared at Shi viciously, looking at so many villagers around him, knowing that Shi was forcing him, but there was nothing he could do.

He didn't agree with most of what Shi said, but he also felt that if he was a real gentleman, he should ask questions when he encountered learning that could be used for reference.

Even if he asks for advice, it is only to ask questions about King Wu and Piaochu, not to say that he is really convinced by the rest of his theories.

However, he also knows that common people are ignorant.

These ordinary people don't think so, this person in front of him is a shameless villain, when he talks to this ordinary person, his question is equivalent to agreeing with all his statements... Common people are stupid, of course they don't think so much.

Seeing that he was still hesitating there, he took a strong medicine and shouted: "You don't understand the meaning of Piaochu. It is unkind to fall into the benevolent name of the king of martial arts; it is unwise to not ask this question even though it knows that it can be answered." ;Knowing that the future sage king may be misunderstood by others, but not trying to figure it out, is rude; Knowing that one is wrong but not ashamed, is not courageous. Unkind, unwise, impolite, and uncourageous, you have Why is Peiyu called a gentleman?"

The saliva splashed and splashed straight onto Gongsun Ze's face. Gongsun Ze's face turned red, and all the things he had learned in his heart were crowded together, and he lost his mind.

After a long time, he finally took a step back, saluted Shih angrily, and said in a low voice with hatred, "Please advise!"

This ceremony, this asking for advice, immediately attracted countless exclamations from around.

These villagers did not expect that a real son would come to ask Shilai, who was dressed in sackcloth and worked with them, for advice... This is simply a rare thing in ancient times, and everyone's mouths seem to have eaten something from "Pseudo-July". Like the kind of red hot vegetables, it cannot be closed.

Since the young master has come to ask for advice, it is obvious that what Shi said is true, otherwise how could the young master come to ask for advice?
Gongsun Ze's crotch was covered in yellow mud, so he couldn't tell.What he asked for advice was basically the problems in Confucianism, not those things of Mohism.

Although the Mohists also talk about wisdom and courage, it is obvious that knowing shame and being almost courageous is the definition in the set he learned.The same word has different meanings in different schools of thought, and sometimes it is a chicken-and-duck talk, to refute the original definition.

But the question in front of him was suitable for discussion in the values ​​he had learned, forcing him to ask, and asking this was not because he was going heresy, but to maintain the right way.

This is like a scholar arguing with a hooligan. The two methods must be different, but the terrible thing is that if the hooligan doesn't do anything, he will do nothing, so there is nothing he can do about it.

Seeing that he had already saluted, he said to himself that you would have no chance to kill me in this life, so he pretended to be like Zixia who was passed down by his master back then, pretending to be old-fashioned, nodding and saying: "Be brave when you know your shame, don't be ashamed to ask, you can pass it on." That's what you mean!"

Gritting his teeth angrily, Gongsun Ze touched the cowhide of the pendant jade several times to suppress his anger.

Shi shook his head and said: "Since you asked, I will answer you. In the future, if someone asks you this again, you can maintain what you think is the right way."

Gongsun Ze's originally anxious mood was suppressed by the sentence of maintaining the righteous way, and he asked for advice again.

"Forget it, I'll tell you."

"In the old days when King Wu defeated Zhou, the year was at Quail Fire, the moon was at Tiansi, the sun was at Ximuzhijin, the Chen was at the handle, and the star was at Tianyuan. The night battle is not over and it rains."

"Heavy rain poured down, and the battle was fought in Muye, so there is the last sentence in "Da Ming", which says that if you want to attack the big merchants, there will be Qingming. It means that after the first battle in Muye, the sky and the earth will clear up."

"I also know that Taigongwang knows the art of war well. Although King Wu will make an alliance with eight hundred princes, he still treats tens of thousands of soldiers with armor, and King Wu has few soldiers. As Taigongwang knows, the soldiers must be deployed near the river. The formation is arranged near the river, with the river as its flank. , if you have few soldiers, you must use this formation."

"From this it can be deduced that King Wu set up an army near the river, King Zhou raised troops, Taigong Wangqin drove a four-wheeled chariot to attack, and the disciples defected, and King Zhou's soldiers slaughtered the defected soldiers, blood mixed with rain, and flowed down along the river. Only then did the blood flow. Say."

A very simple inference, although there are many loopholes, is enough to solve Gongsun Ze's doubts.

Gongsun Ze secretly said: "If he said that, not only can he explain the blood flow, but also prove that Shangfu knows soldiers, King Zhou is cruel, and King Wu is benevolent... In this way, all doubts are solved. No The record of the blood flow is wrong, but what the person who interpreted the book said is wrong..."

This is an excellent result, fully explaining in an acceptable way a phrase that is bound to give rise to much controversy.

He is also a person who has been on the battlefield. Hearing what he said, combined with the article "Da Ming" in the Book of Songs, the scene of Makino seemed to appear in his mind after 600 years.

At that time, the five stars gathered in the west, but there was heavy rain within a few days. Everyone thought that the destiny was not in the week, but Wu Wang Shengduan was the only one.Shangfu was in charge of the army, and set up an army along the river to protect his flanks. Shangfu, with a seventy-year-old body, personally drove the chariot to attack. , the blood flowed into the Qing River, the disciples scrambled for their lives, and jumped into the blood-stained Qing River, the shield floated up, and King Wu couldn't bear it...

The more I thought about it, the more fascinated I became, and I couldn't help but praise it. In this instant, all the previous anger disappeared.

Just when he was about to thank the despicable businessman in front of him for explaining this sentence, Shi Shi's next sentence almost made him spit out a mouthful of blood.

"This is the reasoning technique of my Mohist school of reasoning. Without this technique of my Mohist school, King Wu would be wronged by inhumanity!"

(End of this chapter)