warring states careerist

Chapter 352

A month later, it was already August, and the weather was getting a bit cooler.

Mohists from all over the country who were notified to participate in this fraternal meeting returned to Pei County one after another, some from Pengcheng, some from Chu, or from Song and Qi Dynasties.

It happened that Gao Sunzi came back a few days earlier, and Tengdi is very close to Peixian County. The city wall of Tengdi and the three fortresses guarding the four borders are under construction, and everything is step by step without any mistakes.

The riders scattered to report the movement of the Yue people every day, and the inkmen in Wuyue in Qidi also brought back the information they needed.

Now it seems that the Yue people are in contact with the Qi Guotian family, but it is impossible to mobilize troops for the time being, at least until next spring and summer.

Hu Feizi has done a good job in Qi State, Tian's is repairing the Great Wall bordering Yue State, and the section of the Great Wall that was demolished by San Jin near Yinyin is also quietly being built.

Wei Zheng and Chu fought fiercely, Qi State did not dare to send troops directly this time, but it still provided enough help to Chu State, and wanted to rely on Chu State to contain the power of the Three Jins, and at the same time, take advantage of the situation after the Mo family captured Teng State and restored the country , in a planned way to guard against the country of Yue.

Although Tian knew that the Mo family's help to restore Teng State this time had nothing to do with Qi State, but everything had already been done, and Qi State was naturally happy to see Yue State's decline.

There is no need to send envoys to communicate with each other, this matter involves Tian's own interests, and the distance of thousands of miles still makes Yue State not sure what Qi State's attitude will be, and dare not easily launch troops.

Under such circumstances, it is appropriate to think that this year can be passed safely.

Now that all countries want to send troops, they need enough preparation time.Although Jin and Chu have fought year after year, the real decisive battle has not yet begun, and the scale is 5 to [-] people every year. It cannot be bigger, and the logistics of the two countries will be difficult to support.

At present, Pei County has not yet carried out comprehensive war preparations. This matter can only be carried out after this fraternal meeting, and it must be approved after the appropriate opinions have been approved.

After returning to Pei County, Shi did not go to visit other Mohists or friends, but went to see Mozi directly.

Mozi was sick and a little thin, but he seemed to be in good spirits.

After Shi Shi entered the room, Mo Zi waved at Shi Shi, and said with a smile: "You came back early. Needless to say, there are reports on Tengdi's affairs every few days. Since you came back early, there must be some For anything else, just talk about it.”

Shi smiled, knelt down next to Mozi, took out a few books from the package behind his back and said, "These books, please have a look at them."

Mozi took it, looked at the bibliography, and saw that the title was "The Essence of Mohism", and he already understood the meaning of appropriateness in his heart, and said with a smile: "You are thinking that I may die of old age, and you want me to die before I die. have a look?"

Shi bowed his head and said: "Mohists are not afraid of death, understand ghosts and respect heaven, and don't ask for things in festivals. Death is like life. The disciple knows what the master thinks, and it is only for the benefit of the world, so the secretary of the book was compiling this set of books before, and the master knows .And my disciples have learned something from thinking hard about the meaning of Mohism in Tengdi. In order to allow more people to understand it, I compiled this volume of "The Essence of Mohism" in some plain language, and please read it, sir."

Mozi nodded, flipped through it casually, and then continued from the side: "Zhongni said, explain it but not write it. He can do Confucianism, but Mohism can't stop doing it."

"Confucianism admires the past, so it can describe the past. Confucianism is old-fashioned, so it must not do it. Mr. said, 'Yao is good at governing, since the present is in the ancients. Since ancient times, Yao can't govern', then the Mohists have to do it."

Confucius stated but did not write. The meaning of this work is change and revolution.

To state without writing means to state the wisdom of the ancients without adding your own thoughts.Not making means not changing, not adding your own understanding.

This is completely different from Mohism.

Both Confucianism and Mohism praised the ancient sage kings, but the Mohists believed that "Yao's good governance has been in ancient times since today."From ancient times to the present, Yao cannot govern.

It is believed that the "benevolence" heart of the ancient sage kings, love the world, can be learned and praised.

But the "righteousness" of the sage kings in ancient times cannot govern the world today.

I know that Mozi has been a non-Confucian all his life. After saying this, he couldn't help telling a joke about the non-Confucianism of later generations, saying: "There was a man in Chu who crossed the river. His sword fell into the water from the boat, and he jumped into his boat , Said: 'This is where my sword falls'. The boat stopped, and the one who had signed it went into the water to ask for it. The boat has already moved, but the sword can't. If you ask for the sword like this, isn't it also confusing?"

Mozi laughed loudly when he heard this, and said: "That's the reason. Confucian scholars can't rule the world if they carve a boat and ask for a sword. Yao's political righteousness can't be regarded as good governance at this time. Are the morals of Confucian scholars? Is it possible to rule the world?"

Amidst the laughter, he coughed a few more times, and looked down at the compiled set of "The Essence of Mohism" sent by Shi.

He understood Shi's meaning. He was about to die, so if he wanted to prevent the Mohist school from being divided into Confucianism, he, the founder of the Mohist school, had to leave a complete theory to avoid being taken out of context.

In the 28th year of Duke Xiang of Lu in the past, Cuizi of Qi State rebelled, and the Qing family married the Lu family. Some people objected: "The Qing family and the Lu family are both descendants of the Jiang family. How could you marry Qing Jiang from the same clan?"

The Lu family replied: "Qingshe does not avoid the same clan, and wants to marry her daughter to me. Why should I avoid it? It's like someone truncated the "Book of Songs" and only took the part he needed to express his own meaning. I also only take what I want, so why bother about different clans?
The matter of taking meaning out of context has existed for a long time, and Mozi also knows the reason why Confucianism is divided into six parts, so he is very concerned about this book in his hand.

Originally, as a book secretary, it was to sort out the opinions of the giants.This was established a few years ago when the position of secretary was first established.

The book secretary has been tidying up, and Shi did not relax, and only then did this volume of "The Essence of Mohism" that Mozi saw now.

He flipped through it and found that this set of books is divided into three parts as a whole.

The first part is his daily remarks, which were sorted out by some disciples and the secretary. The genre is similar to "The Analects of Confucius" and a bit like "Warring States Policy". It can be said to be Mozi's life speeches, or It is a model for some debates between Mozi and other schools of thought.

The first part is subdivided into several volumes.

It is appropriate to use the first two characters of the beginning as the title in accordance with the conventions of the Analects of Confucius.

The five chapters "Gengzhu", "Gongmeng", "Guiyi", "Luwen", and "Gongshu" all existed in the first place.

But in addition to these five, there are two others.

The first two words of an article are "Sheng Chuo". Although it is named after a rebellious ink, it is actually a private product suitable for adulteration.

Since Shangqiu Daju Shengchuo rebelled against the Mohists, I mainly wanted to write the praise that Mozi gave to himself back then, but after all, I was too embarrassed to use my own name as the title of the bibliography, so I had to borrow the name of Shengchuo first. .

At that time in Shangqiu, Mo Zi vigorously praised Shi as a person who was "beneficial to the world" in order to satirize Shengchao and boost the noble heart of Mohism, and also to use Shih to remind other Mohists.

This compliment is the first record that I can handle, so I remember it very clearly, so I wrote it out.

The second extra article, titled "Juyi", is mainly to record the speeches of the Mohists at several conferences in the past few years.

These are all truthfully recorded, and Mozi took a closer look, and he was sure that there was no major problem. After all, Shi didn't have the nerve to boast about himself, but left a lot of space to record other things.

Looking back, Mozi can see that the second part can be regarded as the "morality" and "political philosophy" of Mohism, which is the essence of Mohism's righteousness.

Inside, a series of revisions and revisions have been carried out in the same way to form a complete system as much as possible.

Originally existing pages include "Shangxian", "Feigong", "Jianai", "Jieyong", "Feile", "Minggui", "Shangtong", "Feiming", "Tianzhi", Eleven articles including "Jie Zan" and "Fei Confucianism".

Shi has secretly changed a lot, even some titles have been changed, and a lot of content has been added.

The three chapters "Farewell", "Festival Burial" and "Feiyue" are combined into one article, and the content also follows Mozi's original principle of frugal use and development of people's livelihood, and is integrated into "National Wealth", which is used to add some labor creation. Wealth, integration of wealth development industry, etc.

The title of "Shangxian" has not been changed. In addition to Shangxian, the content also includes the "imperial examination system" approved by Mozi after the advent of paper, pen and printing.

In terms of content, it first uses Mozi's words to explain the importance of elevating talents, and then points out "how to realize elevating talents", which includes a similar examination and selection system.

However, Mohism itself emphasizes that "everyone can be a virtuous person", so the content of the examination includes a lot of "Tianzhi" content in the third part.

"Tianzhi" and "Minggui" are combined into "Tianzhi", which explains what "Tianzhi" and "Tiangui" are. conclusion".

The title of "Fei Confucianism" has not been changed. This one is not suitable to be changed, the level is not enough, and it is still the same as before.

The title of "Shangtong" was changed to "Yiyuan".Borrowing the core of Mozi's belief that "a hundred people have a hundred righteousness in ancient times, everyone chooses the righteousness that best suits everyone's interests, and forms a moral law" to expand it.

In fact, the content of "Yiyuan" can be regarded as a kind of historical idealism theory of the origin of sovereignty in the people. Spirits come together.

It expounds the emergence of the Son of Heaven, the generation of morality and laws, and the continuous change of morality and laws with the development of the times, so that "Yao is good at governing, and it has been in ancient times since ancient times. Since ancient times, Yao cannot govern in the present."

Finally, it also expounds the legitimacy of the centralized system of public discussion within the Mohist School and the public will of Peixian County. This is a declaration that it is reasonable to rebel against the nobility.

"Fei Gong" and "Jian Ai" were integrated into an article called "Land of Paradise", which described a perfect social conception.

It is regarded as a companion chapter of "Yiyuan". "Yiyuan" talked about the reason for the rebellion of the nobles, and "Land" talked about the overthrow of the old system after the rebellion, and what kind of new system should be established.

The title of "Fate" remains the same, and the content is also about "people's efforts can change fate, there is no such thing as fate in the world." and so on.

"Fate" is in conjunction with the revised "Tianzhi", and is used to create a heavenly emperor who "will no longer care after the rules are formulated", so as to complete the rationality of "fighting to change fate".

(End of this chapter)