warring states careerist

Chapter 35
In the village community.

Liuzhi, who dug a hole with Shi and knew where the seeds were hidden, had been beaten to pieces, and still gritted his teeth, just cursing.

He and Shi have been together for a very long time, and he is also one of the people who most believe that Shi Shuo's ghosts and gods will not bring disasters.

Even if there are no gods, there may not be no persistence between heaven and earth.

Liuzhi, who was tied to the tree, had a swollen face, thinking about the oath he had made, and said in his heart that even if I die, I will never tell these bad guys where the seeds are hidden.

He is convinced that what Shi said, these seeds can only save the world if they are in the hands of the Mohist.

For those princes and nobles, after they find that the yield per mu is extremely high, they will definitely increase taxes, and it is impossible to simply maintain the original amount of taxes.

Liuzhi licked the chapped lips caused by too much pain and sweating, and said to himself that if I died without opening my mouth, I would be worthy of my original oath.

The more it hurts at this time, the stronger the sense of satisfaction of a slightly indescribable martyr in the heart and spirit.

This is not what is recommended, but it is what some people pursue unintentionally.

After all, Liuzhi is only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child, and many ideas have not really matured. What he can persist at this time is this kind of spiritual satisfaction, so as to resist the pain that the body cannot resist.

It's not good, but there's nothing wrong with it, it's just a kid after all.

Physical pain and spiritual satisfaction, these two things that seem to have nothing to do with each other, have achieved a kind of unity here in Liuzhi, although it is suitable or not.

Now most of the men in the village community followed Shi to Binshan to pull stones. Although the remaining women were angry, not to mention Liuzhi's mother's heartache.

But Lu Hua remembers what Shi Shi told her before she left, if something happens, don't fight with the prince and nobleman, just endure it first.

He said this before he left because he was treating a gentleman with a villain's heart, and the only thing he was worried about was that Gongsun Ze might make trouble.

He is very sure that only a gentleman is not afraid of retaliation for provoking Mohists.And the day when my identity as a Mohist is exposed must also be the day when I become a Mohist.

But he didn't expect that Xiao Qiang was the cause of the disaster, and it was the people in the village who betrayed the hope of everyone in the village.

At this time, Lu Hua let everyone bear it, and she ran towards Shangqiu City in a panic, wanting to ask if there are Mohists in Shangqiu City, and if there is anyone in Shangqiu City who can help them.

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At this time, I was driving an ox cart with the men in the village, only seven or eight miles away from the village.

The pain is added to others, and you will never feel it.

The men in the village community were still dreaming about hope, unaware that a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child was suffering severe physical pain for their hope.

When Liuzhi was screaming from being beaten, these people were laughing and talking about Maifen's dream after returning home, singing another cheerful song.

There are several stones pulled on the cart, some are used as grinding discs, some are used as rollers for pressing grain, and some are used as small rollers for leveling the land.

Every stone is an unprecedented hope.

The cow pulling the cart is dissatisfied with the rings on the nose and the heavy stones on the cart, but is satisfied with the slightly modified harness.

Dissatisfaction and satisfaction meet and balance each other, and the whip behind him becomes something higher than dissatisfaction and satisfaction.

Someone stared at Shi's high-raised whip, and suddenly asked, "Shi, if one day the Promised Land is built, who will hold this whip?"

Shi didn't answer, just acted like he didn't hear it, and hummed a song.

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In Shangqiu City, Mozi and Qin Huali took time out to come to the shoemaker's shop where Shi was born and raised, and wanted to ask what kind of person Shi was like in his daily life.

Deer is still reticent as always, he is a person who talks less and does more.

Although Shi's sister-in-law has a lot of teasing words on weekdays, she doesn't take seriously the Mohist's idea of ​​saving the world, and often jokes that Shi can't support herself, but she wants to save the world.

When Mo Di, whom everyone in Shangqiu city regarded as a sage, came to her home, she still teased him.

It's just this kind of teasing, but it's a sly teasing.

"Oh, this is suitable, Mr. Mo Di, you must tell him about him. He is not helping his brother at home, but going out of the city to do what is right. I am a woman, where is he?" Do you know what Mo Zhe is righteous? He is not a good boy in my eyes."

"He, he sold the clothes I made for me, and used the money for righteousness. He dressed himself in tatters. When people in the city saw it, they thought that I, a sister-in-law, was the kind of A person with a bad heart is reluctant to make a new dress for my uncle."

"Last time I had to compete with a young master, and asked his brother to make leather finger cots for him. When I came back, I carried two rabbits. I was bitter, black and thin, but I was reluctant to eat them. If someone who doesn't know I must think that my sister-in-law and his elder brother are reluctant people, and I need two rabbits to make finger cots. What if I ask the neighbor to come in and see me and his elder brother eating rabbits, and then look at him black and thin Hei thin makes people feel distressed, but what do you think of us?"

"Being away all year round, when you come back when you have time, you must carry some firewood. I said to him, as a brother or a sister-in-law, you will support whatever you do. If you do this, others will think that we are the kind who always ask him to do things on weekdays." If we don’t do something, we will be scolded. Where are we like that, what he did made us like that.”

"This time I went outside to pull stones, and said that I would come back to do something, let me sell a new kind of food. I also said that my parents died young, so I was grateful to my brother and I for raising him. I didn't say such things before because He thinks that doing is more useful than talking. It will be done soon, so he said it. I was unhappy at the time. If I said a few more words on weekdays, I would feel more comfortable... I am a stupid woman, how can I understand him The truth of doing first and then talking? He treats me like Mr., isn't he stupid?"

A few words were full of accusations, and there was a lot of dissatisfaction in his eyes.

But these few accusations are full of praise, just like a street knight who is kind and righteous before he speaks.

Sister-in-law's eyesight is in the market, and she doesn't know much about what Mohists do, but she has a kind of cunning in the market.

It's always like this when those market women praise their children.

I seldom praise directly, but say something seemingly angrily, asking people to quickly respond to the words "this is a good thing", and then pretend to be enlightened after listening to others' persuasion, but in fact I am secretly happy.

Deer did not speak, only let his wife speak.

What kind of person is Mozi?I have been a scholar, I have been a craftsman, I have studied Confucianism, I have met princes...

He couldn't understand the meaning of such words.

Although his skills are superficial, he believes that he is also such a person on weekdays.

Everyone has the heart to praise their relatives.Even if the skills of praise are not good, it is enough that those things that can be praised exist.

People like Mozi, who can talk to dukes and lords, and butchers in the market, don’t think that one kind of praise is better than another, and only care about those things about praise.

Qin Huali smiled when he heard the words, saw Mo Zi nodding, and thought that this is suitable, he really wants to become a member of my Mo family.

It is best to have such a person to resolve the aftermath of the Shengchuo incident.

Just when Mozi was about to ask Shi about who he had friends with before and what knowledge he had learned from whom, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door.

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl rushed in recklessly, saw Qin Huali and Mozi, saluted a man, and asked, "Is Mr. Mohist a giant? I asked him in the street. Some people say that you are here. My name is Lu Hua, and I am also a Mohist. Someone is going to rob the Mohism’s treasures for the world!"

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In front of the village commune, Gongsun Ze stopped the carriage and saw clearly that the child who was tied to a tree and beaten was the six-fingered child who won the shooting competition with the people he taught last time and was compared with the gentleman ten years later. child.

He had seen the person who beat him, but he was not familiar with it.

He had seen the person next to him beating him, and he was a little familiar. He was not the friend who rode with him that day, but he was also a friend who hunted racing cars together on weekdays.

That friend met Gongsun Ze and came over to pay his respects. Gongsun Ze returned the gift and asked, "What's wrong with this child?"

"Grant land for private use, do not pay taxes, confuse people's hearts, and do not abide by the law of Tian Zheng."

As soon as Liuzhi heard this, he immediately scolded them with the words that Shi once taught them: "Brother Shi said that the tax of tithes has long been fixed, and one stone of corn is taken for ten mu. We have paid these taxes a long time ago, and those who grow What belongs to us is ours, and no one can grab it. Brother Shi said that even a king should keep his word. He gives us fields, and we pay a tax of ten mu and one stone. This is the promise. The power of the king! Yoo!"

Gongsun Ze originally thought that these people would not pay taxes after listening to Shi's bewitching, but when he heard Liu Zhi's words, he immediately realized that this was not the case.

He glanced at his friend and asked coldly, "What exactly do you want?"

Seeing this, the friend had no choice but to say: "I want the seeds mentioned in "Promised Land". You must know that these lands do not belong to them. They planted on them. According to the law, they must choose one out of ten. In the past, planting millet, of course It’s one stone for ten acres. Now they should choose one out of ten of the black jade and sweet potatoes they plant, and we just want to get back the part they should pay.”

Gongsun Ze has heard "The Paradise" countless times. He thought it was a deceptive thing, but now it seems that it actually exists.

To him, whether there is such a thing is a dispute between Confucianism and Mohism, and it is only a dispute of ideas.

Even if it belongs to the Mohist, if it is not your own, you cannot take it.

Originally Confucianists were quite dissatisfied with the tithe, but now seeing the child covered in whip marks, they felt even more angry.

He said in a cold voice: "I'm afraid that everyone is innocent, but he is guilty of carrying jade! Don't you know such a story when Duke Yu went to the country because of greed? If you are greedy for this person's grain now, what will you be greedy for tomorrow? ? Isn’t the chaos in this world caused by greed? Taking what is not your own is greed, the source of disaster!”

After finishing speaking, he looked at the friend coldly, and said bitterly: "You understand the truth, so you and I are friends. You and him are also friends. If you see the other party making a mistake but don't stop it, then I will make a mistake in the future." How can you stop it? Can such a person be a friend?"

The friend blushed and was about to defend himself.

Gongsun Ze drew out his saber, cut off the long sleeve of the Chinese suit with a swipe, and threw it directly on the ground.

"The Master said: There are three ways to lose a friend, and you should make friends. If you are kind and gentle, you will be a sycophant. If you know the damage, you will not stop it, and you will be a sycophant! Between you and me, there is no friendship anymore!"

"I, Gongsun Ze, don't have a friend like you!"

The sleeve robe fell to the ground, it was extremely heavy, the friend who was talking about it was blushing, looking at the sleeve robe on the ground, his face seemed to be on fire.

Seeing this, the little nobleman on the side sneered and said, "You don't know what is good or bad. I heard that these people have humiliated you and made you ashamed a few days ago. Are you a person who doesn't know how to be ashamed?"

Gongsun Ze looked at Liuzhi who had won him before, and said with a loud smile: "I am ashamed of not having enough confidants, almost brave! If you lose, you lose. What do I have to be ashamed of? My shame, don't be ashamed like you scumbags. Shame is put together. I do things in a righteous way, and I have no shame in my heart. Whether it is shame or not is not something you can judge!"

The little nobleman clicked his tongue and asked back: "You want to meddle in this business? Why do you meddle? You are not a Sikou, what right do you have to meddle?"

Gongsun Ze glanced at this person, and said with disdain: "It has nothing to do with this child, and I don't want to care about it. I just used this child to recognize a bad friend. Please don't say anything about me being ashamed and defeated. This matter has nothing to do with me!"

He glanced at Liuzhi, and said in a low voice: "My child, the Tao is chosen by you, and you have to bear the pain yourself. I don't save the world, I only straighten my heart. The Tao is chosen by you, I don't save you, but thank you Let me recognize a sycophantic friend."

After finishing speaking, he took back his saber, knelt down on the ground with his sword across his knees, said nothing, and never looked at Liu Zhi and his former friends.

Bow your head for a moment, and write a line on the ground with a branch to straighten your heart.

"The Master said, when you see someone who is not worthy, look within yourself."

(End of this chapter)