warring states careerist

Chapter 3
It was only then that everyone realized that the master used this story to talk about the general trend of the world.

I know that the old gentleman in front of me has always cared about the common people in the world, and practiced his ideals all his life, only for the sake of both love and non-attack.Hearing the sigh of the husband, I also sighed accordingly.

He has just come here, and he has not traveled to the four corners of the country, and has not personally experienced the suffering of the people and the chaos of the conquest, but he knows that his sigh must be liked by the husband.

Sure enough, after sighing, Mr. Shi took a look and nodded slightly to show encouragement.

"Just now I was talking about the story of buying shoes. When I mentioned that Mohist's debate skills can not only be used to argue with others, but also can be used in other places, I have this feeling. In this troubled world, we Mohist will eventually end Those who are in troubled times are righteous, and the rest are small ways.”

Speaking of this, Mr. thinks of his life of running around, but now the world is more chaotic than when he was young. He also thinks of his serious illness before and the questioning of others during his illness. Even though he has never shown helplessness in his life, he also He sighed again and again—the deadline is approaching, can his ideals be realized?Can these disciples of my own carry forward the learning of the Mohists?Will this troubled world end the well-being of everyone one day?

There is not much time left for him. I don't know why I have such a sigh today. Looking at the group of young people sitting on the ground, these are not his personal disciples, but they still said these words like autumn wind.

"In my whole life, I have scolded Confucian scholars as inferior to pigs and dogs, but I have praised Kong Zhongni very much. The only bad evaluation is when someone asked me, you Mo Di said that you should choose a sage as the emperor. If you say so, Zhongni’s six skills are exquisite, and he is familiar with etiquette, righteousness and poetry. This is a sage, shouldn’t he be chosen as the emperor?”

Confucianism and ink have always been at odds, of course everyone under the tree knows.Confucianists say that Mohists are beasts, and Mohists say that Confucians are pigs and dogs.At this time, the six arts of Confucian scholars still have the skill of imperial archery, and there are swordsmen and rangers on the side of Mohists. The two sides not only talk but also use hands.

Everyone under the tree looked up, wanting to know how the gentleman they respected and loved would answer.

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was recalling something from a long time ago. The sunlight seeping from the leaves fell on his face, shining the accumulated wrinkles out of the mottled ravines.

After a long time, the old man's throat twitched, and he said slowly: "I said, Zhongni's things are not his own ideas, but what his predecessors did and learned. This is like counting the numbers on someone else's contract and saying As if you have money, this is not a saint, and of course you cannot choose him as the emperor."

"After King Wu conquered Zhou, he enfeoffed his relatives widely and formulated Zhou rituals. He was naturally a saint. But now the world has changed, and the system of feudalism has caused chaos in the world. What's the use?"

"What is a sage? 400 years ago, the feudal system established the next week's rites for the ruler of Xia and the barbarians. It is a sage. Now that the stars change, the sun and the moon are easier, and of course they are no longer a sage. Whoever can formulate new rituals of good and evil and make everyone abide by them, whoever can end this troubled world, is a sage and can be elected as the Son of Heaven."

"Just like making a wheel, the rim of course needs to be cut, but it would be unwise and pedantic if the spokes also need to be baked with fire. The rim is different from the spokes. How can the saints 400 years ago be the same as the saints today? This feudal system of rites and rites is the wheel, but unfortunately the world today is not a wheel frame but a spoked wood."

People are old, and their words must be kind, but the old man in front of him speaks squarely, with a bit of firmness intersected with gold and iron. His heart is like a stone, and he is confident in his body. Falling emeralds.

In today's world, there are not many people who are qualified to comment on Confucius like this, but the old man in front of him is definitely one of the few who are most qualified to say so.

The deceased master was too dazzling, pioneered private education, and was so knowledgeable throughout his life that people didn't know what he was best at. If he knew too much, there was light everywhere, so people couldn't see the most shining place.

Only these elderly people from the previous era knew that the deceased master was most proficient in not etiquette, spring and autumn poetry, but driving and archery.Knowing so much that people don't know what is the most dazzling thing is terrible and admirable.

Such a person naturally deserves the respect of the gentleman in front of him.But even if they respect it, if they disagree with each other, they will still criticize the characters and even have a hint of disdain.I'm afraid I still have some regrets in my heart, wishing I could argue with it a hundred years earlier.

The mortal enemies of Confucianism and Mohism are not tolerated, and their positions are contradictory.

But stand has nothing to do with wisdom and courage, it is just a feedback of economic attributes, depending on social status.Putting aside this unchangeable position, perhaps the one who understands the wisdom and courage of Confucius best at this time is Mozi.Heroes always cherish each other.

It's all gone, all the romantic people are gone, but this chaotic world is still not over, who will be the romantic person in this world in the next few decades?Whose theory can save the people from suffering in this chaotic and new era?

Mozi looked at these young people under the tree, thinking of those personal disciples who died earlier than himself, his old body gave birth to a sense of pride, and said freely: "Back then Zixia was accepting disciples in Xihe, and you all know that he taught What kind of characters are they. The characters from Xihe are Li Kui, Wu Qi, Gu Liangchi, Gong Yanggao... Are the ideas of these people the same as what Zhong Ni said?"

"Zeng Shen questioned Zixia, saying that what you taught was different from what the teacher taught, but everyone thought it was the master's truth, and even thought you were the master. You betrayed the master's truth, which is a great crime. Zixia cried bitterly. , heartbroken."

"Zhong Ni passed away only a hundred years ago, and his disciples thought that his reasoning could be corrected."

"My reasoning is different."

"As far as the current world is concerned, the principles of non-attack, universal love, appreciating the virtuous, and synonymous can no longer be changed."

"Abandoning my theories and opinions and learning other theories is like abandoning the corn all over the ground in autumn instead of harvesting and picking up the remaining ears of corn in other fields. Using other's opinions and theories To criticize and deny my theory is like hitting an egg against a stone. Even if you smash all the eggs in the world, the stone will still stand without the slightest crack!"

"Anyone who believes in me will be able to act righteously. Anyone who does not believe will eventually be like an egg hit by a stone. The egg liquid is all over the ground, and the stench attracts flies."

This remark drew unanimous applause from everyone, but Shi's heart skipped a beat, and he stood there in a daze.

He really didn't expect Mozi to be such a Mozi, his words were so flamboyant, so confident, and even...so arrogant.

A shocking thought flashed through his mind, and a trace of shame could not help showing on his face.

After all, this is Zhu Xia's adolescence, proud, brave, flamboyant, and full of curiosity about everything.

Even the old man still had edges and corners, and the prick was a bit painful, making him, who is used to being smooth and cornerless, mistake confidence for arrogance.

However, in this troubled time, not being crazy is not enough to be holy, and not being arrogant is not enough to preach.

Smooth and weak is not the color of this era, and it is impossible for such a person to shine in this era.

Zhuangzi criticizes the theory of the world, criticizes the whole world, and begins by bluntly saying that "there are many academics in the world, and everyone thinks that their knowledge has reached the pinnacle."Of course, although he did not expressly comment on the world, he must feel that he is at the top. This is pretending to be invisible.

Xunzi commented on the Twelve Sons, spraying the well-known scholars one by one, and writing a book to commemorate them after cursing. Except for the master, they are either stupid or have a wicked mind or are rotten. Anyway, there is no normal person.

Confucianism and ink call each other pigs and dogs.Animals, pigs and dogs scolded each other with great joy, and listening to Confucian and Mohist disciples talking was like entering a farm.

Yang Zhuli is straightforward and unyielding, Taoism regards hundreds of schools as cockroaches and mayflies, and people in the market will kill people if they disagree with each other... Looking at the scholars at this time, there is no one who is round, moderate, and without edges and corners, because if you take a step back, you will be dismissed by others. Doctrine is driven to death.

Even the gentle and gentle Master once said angrily when encountering a conflict of ideas: I will expel Ran Qiu from Confucianism, and you will beat him with drums and criticize him!
This is indeed an era of arrogance and self-confidence to show self-adherence to ideas.

Even though a traveler like this is young, in this era, he actually has an air of decay, especially when compared with the old man in front of him.

But this shame just passed by in a flash, and he didn't have time to think about his own obscenity, what Shide thought of was to take this opportunity to say a few more words to deepen Mozi's impression of himself.

So when everyone was still thinking about Mr.'s crazy words, they stood up and bowed solemnly, and said loudly: "Mr. is right. It must be feasible to follow Mr.'s principles to save the world. If you don't do it Well, it’s not that the master’s reasoning is wrong, but that he’s doing it wrong. Just like chopping wood with an axe, if the chopping is skewed, how can you blame the straight ink line?”

What I said is very problematic. It is common to any idea. It is a bit of fanaticism. If you replace the principles of Mohism with any other school, this sentence does not sound inconsistent. Mozi will not disagree. understand this truth.

But I feel that the meaning of saying it at this time is quite different.

The gentleman in front of him is indeed full of sharp edges and corners, full of confidence and publicity, and indeed wise and hard-hearted, but he is old after all.

It's not that you are willing to listen to these hypocritical words when you are old, but that your body can grow old, but will the principles you practiced be passed down after your death?Will there be someone like Zixia in his sect?Will someone change the learning of Mohism beyond recognition?
Mo Di's eyes flashed brightly, he stared closely at Shi, who was still in a bowed posture, wondering inwardly.

This young man named Shi had only listened to lectures a few times, and he didn't do anything amazing on weekdays, and he didn't know the young man's name until today.

But today, this young man has repeatedly said amazing things. He praised a piece of jade that can be carved before, but now he hears such an answer, he can't help but become a little interested in this young man.

He doesn't care about the praise of others, but he knows that what is needed most now is someone who truly believes in his own ideas.

Shi Shi didn't raise his head, but continued to maintain a bowed posture, and didn't try to secretly observe the expression of the husband, but there was a faint coolness from the sweat behind him.

My family background and today's reality have determined that if I want to do something great in this era, the only way I can go is to become a direct disciple of the masters.In this era of extremely poor material and spiritual life where cooking depends on pots and reading books, an ordinary life will lead to madness.

The sweat behind him kept coming out, and was blown dry by the wind, and he didn't wait for another word of appreciation from his husband for a long time.

"It's already noon, that's all for today, let's go."

After a long time, Mozi's voice reached Shi's ears.

I thought to myself, what kind of saying is this?Do you think that my heart is as strong as copper and iron and can be accepted as a personal disciple?Do you still think that I have the heart of a villain to speak treacherous words?
The dice are thrown, but it has not been lifted for a long time. The process of waiting for the result is always painful.

It's just that since the husband has already said so, he can only wait, and he dare not say anything.I don't know whether my slap on the horse was on the horse's buttocks or on the horse's hooves.

When he looked up again, Mozi had already left, only the young people around were still immersed in the truth just now, dancing with their hands and feet thinking they had attained the Tao.

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Mozi returned to his room. It was no longer the time when the people of Song didn’t know after saving Song that he could only shelter from the rain under the city gate. Mozi had the most people in Qi, Lu, Song and Zheng countries, and Shangqiu had more disciples, so staying here was not a problem. .

He casually took out a piece of bamboo that had been peeled. There was no writing on it, and it was clean.

There is also a pile of bamboo slips that have been worn with cooked cowhide next to it. Obviously, this new piece of bamboo slips will be strung together with those after being covered with big seal characters.

In those bamboo slips before, he wrote the essence of Mohism, which is also what he thought all his life. He should have waved his hand, but he didn't mention a word these days.

Thinking of the confident words under the juniper tree today, there is still a knot in my heart that has not been untied.

He can say that respecting the virtuous, non-gong, and universal love are all righteousness, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them, so he said those.

But Mohism's creed has other things besides this, and the rest is a knot that has not been untied in his heart, so he didn't mention it in his words.

A while ago, a serious illness made him stop doing righteous deeds and stay in Shangqiu to recuperate.

After recovering from illness, some disciples had doubts.

"Mr. has been aware of ghosts all his life, and believes that ghosts and gods are wise. Ghosts and gods reward people for doing well, and bring disasters to people who do not do well. Now that Mr. is sick, there are only two possibilities. Either ghosts and gods are unwise, Either there is something wrong with the master's reasoning that offends the ghosts and gods. From the debate skills taught by the master, the disciple can only draw these two conclusions..."

Although the answer given at the beginning did not have any loopholes in logic, it was nothing more than the relationship between necessary and sufficient and sufficient and unnecessary, but he knew in his heart that there was still some sophistry in the end.

Everyone in the world knows that Mohism's debate skills are unparalleled and logical, but Mozi also knows that in his own reasoning, there is really a logic of success and failure. The biggest loophole is the theory of clear ghosts.

Confucian scholars can talk about kinship and estrangement, and they can talk about hierarchy, because it has always been like this, so it is taken for granted.

And if he wants to talk about both love and non-aggression, and to respect the virtuous and the same, he must have a reason, because this is completely different from the times.

It's good to love together, but why do you want to love both?It is good to honor the worthy, but why should you honor the worthy?Because Mohists talk about logic, the biggest problem arises. It can only be said that because this is Tianzhi, this is what ghosts and gods like.

In addition, Minggui is also a monitoring system for those in power.Confucian scholars talk about the self-cultivation of those in power, while Mohists believe that supervision is needed. Who will supervise?At this moment, even if you rack your brains, you can think of ghosts and gods.

Because the stride is too big, so I don't know what to do, and I have the most vulnerable loophole.

Facing the blank bamboo slips and thinking about the doubts of his sick disciple, Mozi couldn't write down to make up for the loophole he knew.

Constrained by the times, he certainly didn't know that 400 years after him, the foreign people tens of thousands of miles away used the solution that everyone is the heir of the Emperor of Heaven, so everyone is a brother and sister, so loving others is loving yourself Brothers and sisters, it sounds like there is a reason that can be accepted by the foolish people in Qianshou.

I don’t even know that after a long time, relying on the Wealth of Nations Theory of Political Economy and Ricardo’s Land Rent Theory, it was theoretically explained that the aristocratic landowners in the hierarchical system were moths; Equal solutions and because.

It's not that he is inferior to others, it's just that he was born too early, matured so precociously that he still uses it today, and now there is little cattle farming, and there is no paper, let alone printing... This is the limitation of the ruthless history that is trapped in it.

The economic base determines the superstructure, but who would have thought that when Hongmeng first opened its doors and the blue cloud was shrouded in mist, many people would see through the rising sun outside the cloud and mist, trying to tear away the denseness above the shrouding, thinking that they could see the rising sun shrouded in the rising sun. Clear and perfect world.

After all, it is too early.

It's just too early.

Thinking that I am already seventy this year, and there is not much time left, the biggest loophole in the theory I have practiced all my life is also the reason why I practice the other fruits of emphasizing the virtuous and the same, how to make up for it?How to make up?

Silent for a long time, without an answer, let it go first.

He is different from Zhong Ni.

Zhong Ni Qishi can do whatever he wants without exceeding the rules, because the mind and rules are united, and this rule is the existing rule in the world.

Mo Di is also seventy, and he can do whatever he wants without exceeding the rules, which is also a unity of mind and rules, but his rules are not the rules of the world.

What was even more frightening was that after the serious illness, the disciple's doubts caused him to worry.

Thinking of the praise of the young man named Shi just now, he was even more worried, so he was not too happy, but said something lightly to let everyone disperse.

"How can a young boy from the shoemaker's family understand this? It's really interesting. If you have a chance, you can read it again."

When I was thinking about whether to go to give lectures again in a few days, when I saw how this young man named Shi was doing, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door.

"Sir! Sir! An accident happened in Qi State. Tian Mourning Son died. The Gongsun family accused Tian He of killing his brother and seizing power. Tian's family killed Gongsun Sun. Gongsun will stand on his own in Linqiu and seek help from Zhao Ji..."

The disciple panted heavily, obviously running all the way to pass the news back.

Linqiu is in Yuncheng, not too far from here, and it is the throat of Qi, Lu, Sanjin, Song, Zheng and other countries. If something happens here, there will definitely be chaos.

This place is too important, not only the matter of Qi State and Zhao family, it is likely to cause wars in the entire Central Plains.

More importantly, there are a lot of Mohist disciples in Qi, some of them are officials, or some are warriors.The family of Gongsun Tian's family controls the state affairs of Qi State, and now it's in chaos, the Mohist disciples there need orders from the giant to decide which side to stand on, or not to help each other.

Some people may have received small favors from the Tian family or the Gongsun family, or they may do small righteousness without knowing the great righteousness.

After hearing this, Mozi knew that he had to come forward in person, in case the Mohist disciples in Qi State were at a loss and even fought against each other for their masters.

The affairs of Qi State are too complicated.

When Tian Changguang took over the harem back then, hundreds of concubines couldn't sleep, so they asked guests to help them sleep so that they could have children.He doesn't care if it's his own seed or not, as long as there are big blood drops that are nominally the heirs of the Tian family, in the end there will be seventy or eighty sons alone.

It has been three generations so far. Although Jiang Qi has lost power, the Tianchang family with more than 70 sons has multiplied and has countless branches, and civil strife continues.

Brothers or uncles such as Tian Hu, Tian He, and Tian Miaozi, plus hundreds of cousins ​​behind each form a faction.

The Gongsun Society is also a branch of the Tian family.With Gongsun as the surname, most of them are descendants of sons who are not the eldest son, and there is no formal fiefdom, and they don't have a surname and they really don't show their identity, so they mostly use this as their surname.

Although Tian Chang is not the five nobles certified by Zhou Tianzi, and the descendants directly call Gongsun a bit arrogant, but the ancestor of the Tian family is also the monarch of the Chen State, the real Marquis, one of the three Kes, and the husband of the eldest daughter of King Wu of Zhou. question.

Gongsun's branch has rebelled, and Tian Hu and Tian He, who are the main members of the Tian family, may not be intimate. In addition, some people loyal to Jiang Qi will definitely take the opportunity to do things, which can be said to be a mess.

The surrounding Yue State has already moved its capital to Linyi, looking for an opportunity to open up the situation in the Central Plains at any time; Sanjin will not give up this rare opportunity if it wants to establish a reputation, and Gongsun Hui has already come forward to ask for help from Zhao Ji; Chu State is also impossible If you don't seize the opportunity and expand your advantage in the Central Plains; if Qin cannot seize the opportunity of the Three Jins to attack Qi and launch a counterattack in Xihe, then it is not Qin...

Almost instantly, Mo Di understood how big this matter was and what it meant to many Mohists in the Qi Kingdom.

Because it was too chaotic and complicated, Mozi had to come forward and give clear instructions to all the Mozi. This is a top priority, and it is also the obligation of Juzi.

Mozi didn't think about it any more, he packed his bags, put on straw sandals and carried his food, secretly summoned the disciples of the Mohist school in Shangqiu, and hurried towards the state of Qi.

(End of this chapter)