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Chapter 339 Breaking the city with surgery without blood ([-])

Qin Huali read a trace of relief from Mo Zi's expression, he had seen this kind of expression before.

When he was young for three years and finally won the approval of Mozi, when he climbed Mount Tai to drink together and teach the art of city defense, Mozi once showed such an expression. There will be successors."

Compared with today's Mohist's evaluation that they are no longer afraid of the world, it is still lower after all.

Qin Huali was not jealous, he had no wife and children like Mozi, and was already old, all he was thinking about was the inheritance of the Mohist school.

Mozi let out a long sigh, and said slowly, "I am over seventy, and you are also old. In the past few years, I have felt that my body is weak and my chest is tight, and I will be buried in the ground in a few years."

Qin Huali didn't comfort him either, the Mo family didn't shy away from death, they even asked for a light burial after death, and they didn't care about life and death.

After hearing what Mozi said, he also nodded and said: "My life is probably only ten or eight years. How many people in the world can live past fifty? I am already sixty, and I am considered a long-lived person .”

Mozi said leisurely, "I was worried about one thing."

"After Zhongni's death, Confucianism was divided into six, each of which believed to have inherited Zhongni's theory. I have always worried that after you and I die, our Mohism will also suffer the same disaster."

He has been worrying about this problem.

The mortal enemy of Confucianism and Mozi, although Mozi slandered and insulted Confucian scholars a lot, he admired Zhongni a lot.For a person like Zhong Ni, after his death, his disciples passed on their own traditions and regarded themselves as orthodox.

Zixia, Zizhang, Zisi, Yanhui, Qidiaokai and others inherited their culture.

Now the Mohist school has not yet been divided into three, and each thinks it is orthodox, and each chooses a giant, so many things in the Mohist school have not changed.

Among the six famous schools of Confucianism in the world today, the Confucianism of the Qidiao family is the closest to the Mohists. The Confucianism of the Qidiao family pursues "no expression of submission and obedience on the face, no cowardly and evasive look in the eyes; I am wrong , Even to the slaves, you must avoid it; if you do right, you dare to resist even to the princes."

Nowadays, many Confucian students of the Qidiao family also come to Pei County to study, or they want to join the Mohism, or cooperate with the Mohism as tourists.

Mozi didn't know how to do it himself. After his own death, Qin Huali was too old, and it was difficult for Meng Sheng to fully convince the crowd after that. In addition, Wu Qi's desperate counterattack completely split the Mohism.

Even the Mohists who stayed in the Song Dynasty had completely abandoned Mozi's violent struggle theory of "attacking the unrighteous country and encouraging the people to fight", and developed into the most heretical pure pacifist.

For example, Song Rongzi, the fourth generation of the Mohist school, advocated that "the establishment should not fight, the acquisition should not follow the enemy, the prison should not be shamed, and the insult should not be humiliated."

That is to say, don't fight at all, don't take revenge at all, don't feel ashamed and resentful when you sit in prison, don't feel shame and shame when you are bullied, and use love and tolerance to create a better world.

This school completely violated Mozi's original intention, but it still became the prominent school at that time, and it was named Mozi.

Mozi didn't know what his learning would be misinterpreted in the later stage, but he felt the potential crisis of Mohism from the already six-point Confucianism.

He looked at Qin Huali, and said solemnly: "We and Confucianism are said to be inherited from the line of Yao, Shun, and Yu. The line of Yao, Shun, and Yu is divided into Confucianism and Mohism because of the ambiguity in their understanding of their principles. One For example, Confucianism has six points, which means that there is ambiguity in the understanding of Zhongni's morality."

"Actually, why is there no ambiguity in the knowledge of the Mohist school? Even if it is necessary to pay attention to the same meaning between upper and lower, how many people can understand the connection between love and non-attack, and attacking the country of injustice, and loving oneself and others? "

"Some people think that non-offensive means laying down their weapons and not fighting. Some people find out from what they have said that attacking the unrighteous country Mohist is the drum to make the people go to war. This is a disagreement."

"Some people think that if you love both, you have to love others without loving yourself, but some people know that what I mean is to love others as you love yourself, so as to get feedback from others and get multiple times of love."

"Some people think that the synonym of centralization of power should be decided by the princes and nobles alone, but some people think that the synonym of centralization of power is to gather the public will into one."

Mozi took a long breath and said with a wry smile: "These differences still exist among the Mohists, don't they?"

How could Qin Huali not know?It's just that because Mozi is still around, so is his ingenuity, and the power of interpretation is in the hands of Juzi, so it cannot be said that Juzi himself doesn't know what he means.

But Qin Huali also knew that, outside of the Mohists, everyone's understanding of Mohism's morality gradually approached the latter that Mozi just said.

Because Shi is in charge of the Xuanyi Department, the meaning of Mohism that is publicized to the outside world is interpreted according to Shi's understanding.

So Qin Huali asked: "Sir, do you agree with the appropriate interpretation?"

Mozi shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't completely agree with his interpretation, but his interpretation is the interpretation that can best guarantee that Mohism will not appear in the Confucian six-point situation."

After that, he took out a piece of paper, randomly dotted many ink dots on the paper, and said: "These ink dots are just like what I usually say. I know why I dot these ink dots, and I know why I dot them there. , but...many people can't find the connection, and they have to find the answer from the ink dots when they encounter anything."

"Can these ink dots of mine solve everything? No, we can't let future generations find similar ones from these ink dots when they encounter problems."

He picked up the pen, sketched a few times, and connected these ink dots together. Qin Huali found that the seemingly random ink dots were drawn out as a figure, and the turning points had their own rules.

Mozi smiled and said, "What Shi Shi has done these years is to form a system of these ink dots and find out the rules. Therefore, according to his interpretation, there is no need to look through these ink dots, you can..."

He picked up the pen and clicked outside again, and then connected, not abrupt, but more perfect, and said: "You can guess where the next ink point should be drawn."

"The times are changing and the world is changing. For the future, you can't just find the answer from the past words, and I can't list all the situations that the Mohist will encounter in the future. So this requires a system, one that can conform to the Mohist logic. A system that directs what to do next within the framework of the

Qin Hua pondered for a while, and Mozi said again: "The matter of light and shadow I summed up can be summed up as 'principle of small hole imaging' and 'eight methods of optics'."

This is not something that Mozi is very proud of. He just researched it out of boredom and concluded that the images formed by the plane mirror are of the same size and symmetrical in distance and near, but the left and right are reversed.If two or more plane mirrors illuminate each other, repeated reflections will occur and countless images will be formed.The imaging of the concave mirror is to form a positive image within the "middle", the image formed when it is far away from the "middle" is large, and the image formed when it is close to the "middle" is small, and it is as large as the object at the "middle"; In addition, an inverted image is formed, the near "middle" image is large, and the far "middle" image is small.A convex mirror only forms a positive image, the near image is larger and the far image is smaller.

Mozi went on to say: "For example, the eight methods of optics, if you give me a bronze mirror, I can know what kind of image it will be based on years of experience. However, the theory of applying light to travel along a straight line gives why it will be like this Like, and made an imaging system."

"Then in the future, as long as the mirrors I have never seen and the mirrors I have not mentioned how to form images, as long as they follow his system, they can get correct results. I can't list all the mirrors in the world and tell future generations how Imaging, but his system can..."

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of Mozi's mouth.When I was discussing the Eight Methods of Optics with Shih, I drew it and told Mozi that "center" is not the center of a concave-convex surface, but the focal point, and gave the method of calculation and drawing. After careful consideration, Mozi also found out A sentence of emotion: He thought that "center" was the center of the ball, but in fact it was not, so sometimes he would take it for granted.

Mozi didn't know that in the past few years, there was no one else in the world who could discuss light traveling along a straight line, shadows not moving, time and space being inseparable, and so on.

Now he talks about the system from the knowledge of the Mohist school, and also talks about the eight methods of optics, just to convince Qin Huali of one thing.

When Qin Huali heard this, he already understood it, and said solemnly: "Sir, what you mean is that if one day I become a prince and choose the next successor, deputy second prince, I should vote for it?"

Mozi nodded and said: "Yes. Because a few years ago, after the reorganization of the Mohists in Shangqiu Daju, and the system of synonymousness between upper and lower levels became a system of collective discussion and concentration, Juzi...must be the one who can explain morality, and Juzi must also have the "Mohism" The right to interpret 'the righteousness'."

Nearly ten years ago, Mozi met for the first time in Shangqiu, and Mozi finally understood what changed after that time.

When the original tycoon is changed from the top to the bottom to the current system of centralized decision-making and discussion, Shi has become the most suitable person to be a tycoon.

For nearly ten years, the right to interpret the morality of the Mohist school has been in the hands of this inconspicuous book secretary and head of the Xuanyi Department. The lower righteousness of the Mohist school must be his righteousness.

Otherwise, if he is not the tyrant, or if someone who disagrees with him is the tyrant, the Mohism will inevitably split.

Seeing Qin Huali nodding, Mozi said again: "He is a person who likes to reason, and he is a person who thinks his reasoning is irrefutable. Therefore, he is very confident, so he can tolerate people with different opinions. The Mohists will remain consistent under the system, and at the same time have different factions. This is very important.”

"and……"

Mozi smiled and said slowly: "Besides, according to the current rules and systems, he has a great advantage. So if he becomes a giant, he will not break the rules of the Mohist family, and there is no need to break the rules of the Mohist family."

"But if he doesn't become a giant...he will not hesitate to use some means to destroy the current system and rules of the Mo family, just for the benefit of the world as he thinks."

Qin Huali suddenly said: "This is one of the reasons why the master agreed immediately when he said at that time that he would command the army to settle the land. He had already planned this battle beforehand. In fact, any Mohist can follow this plan to win the battle." Go down to Tengdi..."

Mozi laughed and said: "Exactly. The righteous teachers of the Mohist family are not the private soldiers of the brigade commander, nor the peasants of the fiefdom. The command right belongs to the Mohist giants. The Mohist giants are elected by the same people. Therefore, under the system, he has the most advantage, so he doesn't need to use his brains. Therefore, the greater his advantage, the less he will break the Mohist rules. Because he doesn't need it, because the rules increase with his prestige and reputation. It's as if it was tailor-made for him."

"Li, the Mohist's ideas are endless in the world, relying on the will of heaven."

"The Mohists want to do things to benefit the world, relying on internal rules and regulations. The centralization of the upper and lower levels, the Mohists assign companies, and the selected Mohist giants and Qiwuhai are in charge of the volunteers. There is no need to personally lead the soldiers to make the soldiers surrender. As long as If you can persevere, and if you are assisted by the will of heaven, why worry about the disadvantages of the world?"

"In order for this rule and system to continue and become a habit, instead of being broken as soon as you and I die, and causing the Zheng Jiushi Rebellion and the Shangqiu Coup in Song Dynasty to lead the army to seize power, so what? It's not for him. , because of the rules and regulations of the Mohist school, only with the rules and regulations can we do things with one mind and benefit the world."

(End of this chapter)