warring states careerist

Chapter 269
Debate 54 I don’t know much about Zheng Guo’s ruling Si Ziyang, but I know that after Zheng Guo’s Duke Mu, the seven sons of Mu Gong were divided into seven clans, collectively called Qimu, just like the six ministers of Jin who governed, except that they had foreign surnames with Jin. different.

In any case, these seven families are also after Zheng Gong, so it is more like the situation in the Song Dynasty. The family separated from the public family and gradually came to power.

Zheng Gong has little real power, and Ziyang, one of the seven mus, is in power.

Liezi lived in Zhengdu all the year round, and knew the situation in Zheng, so he asked for advice.

Liezi laughed and said: "In the past, someone said to Si Ziyang, Lie Yukou is a talented man, but he is very poor. This is your chance to treat the worthy man kindly as a ruler. So he directly sent someone to send me a lot of money. Jewelry and food, but I refuse."

"My wife sighed deeply, saying why is she suffering so much? Everyone in the world has heard that everyone is rich, but she is the only one who has to suffer with me."

"I said, Si Ziyang didn't know me at all. He didn't send anyone to find out if I was wise or not."

"He can support me today because someone says I'm wise; tomorrow if someone says I'm guilty, will he come and kill me directly?"

"Besides, taking other people's things, if he is useful to me, I will not die for him, which is unrighteous. But he is a man of no way, if I die for a man of no way, It's still unrighteous. So I didn't accept what he had, and I also believed that he was an innocent person."

"It is good to invite people to buy people's hearts, but not to seek true talents; to listen to other people's words, but not to check and argue clearly. If such a person is in power, Zheng Guo is in danger."

Liezi maintained an indifferent attitude from the beginning to the end. This is his three views and his way of life.

The clothes on his body are not much better than those of the Mohists who suffered from extreme self-sufficiency. Not only did his wife ask me how I lived in poverty after hearing the Tao, but also some disciples asked him.

Liezi's knowledge is the opposite of Mohism.

From cosmology, epistemology, to the concept of destiny, they are all right.

A piece of "Tang Wen" sparked a debate about world outlook and world geography.

A piece of "Li Ming" has sparked debates on whether the destiny of heaven exists, and whether people's life, old age, sickness, death, wealth and poverty are predestined or can be changed after tomorrow.

Bian 54 originally came here to argue about these issues, but when he arrived, Prince Chu was planning to go to Zheng, so he postponed his original plan and asked Liezi about Si Ziyang.

After asking, Liezi said: "You come this time, why doesn't your Mohist with a suitable name come? He asked me whether it is contradictory to write "Yugong Yishan" and "Liming"? I was going to argue with him. debate."

Debate 54 bowed and said: "My son wants to argue, and I am also easy to argue, but now I am a Mohist Mohist, and I will argue first and then. I am afraid that the debate will be postponed for a few days. I need to find out what Zheng people mean."

Liezi clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "If you can live and live, you are blessed by heaven; if you can die and die, you are blessed by heaven. If you can live but not live, you are punished by heaven; if you can die without dying, you are punished by heaven. If you can live and die, you can live and live There is death; there is no life, no death, death or life, there is. However, life, death, and death are neither things nor me, they are all fate, and wisdom has nothing to do!"

"Life and death are destiny, the world has its own destiny, can this be changed by manpower?"

"You Mohists often say that the will of heaven, or that the will of heaven can be measured, isn't this ridiculous? If it is testable, do you know when you will die? If you know, do you know how to reverse it?"

"You can't even know your own life and death, so how dare you claim that you can follow the will of heaven and benefit the world? It is impossible to change fate against the sky."

Hearing this, Dean 54 drew his sword suddenly, and said with a smile: "I want to kill you, so can I say that the fate made you die today? So it is not me who kills you, but the fate? Can it be understood in this way?"

Liezi seemed unable to see the short sword on his neck, and said with a smile: "When Zheng Dengxi was in power in Zichan, he made a law "Bamboo Punishment" written on bamboo slips. Zheng Guo used it , repeatedly made Zichan’s political affairs difficult, and Zichan had no choice but to submit. So Zichan arrested Deng Xi, humiliated him in public, and soon killed him.”

"It can be seen that Zichan is not able to use "Bamboo Punishment", but has to use it; Deng Xi is not able to make Zichan submit, but has to make him submit; Zichan is not able to kill Deng Xi, but cannot Do not kill him."

"Today you are holding a sword to my throat, like a sword cutting on my hair, you can kill me or not. This is the destiny. If you kill me, it is the destiny that makes you have to kill; If you don't kill me, it's the fate that tells you not to kill me."

"This is my fate, isn't it also your fate? I know that the Mo family hides many outlaws, but if you kill me here, you die too, so is this just my fate?"

"It's not that you can't kill me, but because you are Mo Bian and you still have a lot to do, so you have to let me go. This is not something human can resist."

Bian 54 shook his head, withdrew his sword, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "As you said, everything is fate, everything is fate, so what's the use of being alive?"

Liezi said: "A person's life is his life."

Debate 54 sighed, feeling that this was a retort, and there was really no way to refute it, so he asked: "My Mohists want to benefit the world and promote the elimination of soldiers in the world. In this way, the people will be safe and healthy, and the Central Plains will cease fighting. Did some damn people survive?"

Liezi asked back: "How do you know that they are going to die? You think you launched the destiny and know the world? But don't you ever think that the emergence of your Mohist family is itself a kind of destiny? Those people are not destined to die. Damn it, so fate gave birth to your Mo family. If those people deserved to die, then the prince will definitely run to Zheng, and the soldiers will die, and they will still die."

"Do you think that everything you do is changing the world? In fact, this is predestined. What you do is fate, and it is fate if you don't do it!"

Debate 54 couldn't laugh when he heard the words, he just said: "So you are safe? Even if you know that doing something can change your destiny?"

Liezi looked up to the sky and said with a long smile, "Fate cannot be changed. Didn't you hear about Ji Liang's illness?"

"Ji Liang was sick for seven days, and his son thought he was going to die, so he asked a famous doctor and witch to wish him well."

"A doctor said that the cold and heat in your body are out of harmony, and the deficiency and reality have crossed the limit. The disease is due to the oversaturation of hunger and lust, which makes the mind troubled and scattered. It is not the cause of heaven or ghosts. Although it is critical, Still treatable."

"Ji Liang was furious, said he was a quack doctor, and drove him away."

"Later, another famous doctor said that your fate is already determined from the moment you are formed. What can drug acupuncture do to you? It's useless, just wait for your fate!"

"Ji Liang praised this is a famous doctor! So a few days later, Ji Liang recovered from his illness."

"Isn't this just destiny?"

"Furthermore, life and death, even the life and death of relatives, are destiny."

"The son of Dongmen Wu, a man of Wei, died, but he didn't feel sad. He just said: I used to have no son, and I didn't worry when I didn't have a son. Now that my son is dead, it's the same as when I didn't have a son in the past. I have nothing to worry about. Woolen cloth?"

"This is the real fateful person!"

Liezi got up, bowed to Bian 54 again, and said, "You Mo family! You should be like Dongmen Wu."

"In the past, there was no Bingshihui, and the world was in chaos, and the people came here in the same way. Now that there is a Bingbinghui, but it died because of the appearance of Prince Ding, isn't it the same as when it didn't exist? What do you have to worry about?"

Bian 54 was furious, flicking his sleeves and not accepting Liezi's gift, he said angrily: "The Mohists are not destined! The destiny does not exist! Man will conquer heaven!"

"We are not destined to wait, so we have to save and benefit the world! Your knowledge can cultivate one's morality, but it cannot calm down troubled times!"

"If the world is in trouble, I may come to listen to your knowledge, thinking that it is a stone from another mountain. If the world is in trouble, I really can't come to listen to your knowledge anymore!"

After all, turn the straw sandals, twist the short brown, turn around and walk away.

Liezi sang in the background: "How can the destiny be violated? Even if you benefit the world and save the world, it is already destined. How can the destiny be wrong? You don't know what the destiny is, so how do you know that you have reversed it?"

Bian 54 did not turn his head back, put his sword on his body, and said in his heart: "Mr. once said that the gentlemen of the world really hope to make benefits for the world and eliminate harm for the world. Facing the words of 'fate' theory, you can't do it." Make no effort to refute it."

"If these words and deeds are used in the world, and the world lives in peace, thinking that poverty is fate, wealth is fate, and cannot be changed, then the world will be in chaos! Such remarks are the great enemy of my Mohist!"

"Even if I win him in the debate, what can I do? It is suitable to say that the matter of Xuanyi is for the sake of declaration, not for debate. What Mohist needs is declaration, not debate. I will not argue with him today, and I will only wait for famous scholars in the world Gather together, and it will be refuted in front of everyone!"

"Words must win, and my Mohism's power to benefit the world must also be done! In the future, if the world is a paradise, but he still belongs to the destiny, I will assassinate and kill him!"

After thinking about it, the Mohist who was walking with him said: "Let's go to Siziyang's mansion and ask to see him in person. My Mo family wants to know what Zheng people are going to do!"

Not long ago, Qin Huali passed through the state of Zheng, and met Zheng Jun and Si Ziyang, who was in charge, and told about the elimination of the soldiers. Most of them agreed, and only said that if the soldiers were eliminated in the third Jin Dynasty, they would definitely form an alliance.

Now, there is no news from Sanjin that Prince Chu must have joined Zheng, and the military elimination meeting that seemed to be about to succeed, in Bian 54's view, is about to come to naught again.

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Xiong Ding fled to Zheng, which not only caused a shock in the Mo family, but also made the precarious political situation of Zheng State even more weird.

Zheng Guo, who once shot Zhou Tianzi in the shoulder and dominated the Spring and Autumn Period, has now begun to decline, and has long lost the power of the past.

The previous Zheng Jun was killed by Han Wuzi when he attacked Zhengcheng, and the people of the country made the younger brother of the previous Zheng Jun the new king.

Because of this blood feud, he had a bad relationship with Han, so he had to go to Chu. In addition to the in-law relationship between Zheng Bo and the king of Chu, the relationship between Zheng and Chu has always been excellent.

With the strength of a small country, Zheng Guo has sent troops to fight against South Korea year after year, and each has its own victory or defeat.

(End of this chapter)