warring states careerist

Chapter 40
Appropriate said two strange names.

Mo Zi talked about it for a long time, convinced that he had never heard of these two people.

That Tang Han is still understandable.

The country of Tang Yao did not perish until the time of the son of King Wu.

When King Cheng was young, he took a tung leaf and joked with his younger brother, saying that he would definitely give you a piece of land in the future. Zhou Gongdan thought that the emperor had no jokes, so he sealed Shuyu to Tang Yao's hometown, which was later Jin.

The original ancient Tang state was moved to the south of Dudi, and the descendants of later generations may take Tang as their surname.

Sai Yinsi was strangely tight.

Seeing that Mozi frowned in thought, he hurriedly said: "I don't know the origins of the two of them. I asked them at the time, and they said: You can only choose one of the world's knowledge and personal privacy. Which one do you choose?"

I didn't say what I chose, and I don't need to say it.

Mozi understands that if these words are true, then he must choose the knowledge of the world, not personal privacy.

Mozi no longer entangled whether these words were true or not, but asked, "Did those two people create those characters?"

Shi shook his head and said, "Mr. Tang and Han modified it, not created it. Mr. Tang and Han once said that when Cangjie created characters, ghosts and gods wept. They can only be modified and cannot be recreated."

"Mr. Tang Han also said that taking Tang characters as an example, the original meaning is the earthen pond where Tang Yao burned pottery. Later, Tang Yao became a holy king and ruled the world, so this Tang character also elicits the meaning of grandeur, heroism, and faith. These are hidden in The righteousness hidden in history and writing cannot be abolished, only the writing itself can be modified. Tang is still Tang, but it is not written that way.”

Mozi thought for a while, nodded and said, "So, the books you read with the two gentlemen are all written in such characters?"

"Yes. That's why I can know "Poetry" and "Li". Only then can I know Xi Zhong's name and the poem "July"."

This statement is not perfect, but it can be justified.

Mozi was very satisfied with everything that Shi had done before, but he didn't know the origin of Shi.

Although he often talked about ghosts and gods, he never believed in destiny or predestination, so he didn't believe that a shoemaker's son could know those things.

Those few words half a year ago can still be called wisdom; but these things half a year later cannot be explained by wisdom.

Mozi put his hands behind his back, looked at Su Mai in the distance, seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly asked: "He also taught you about the "Land of Paradise"?"

Shaking his head, he didn't answer directly, but said: "Mr. Sai once told me something about Mr. Shi."

When Mozi heard that this person had mentioned himself, he was a little curious and asked, "What's the matter?"

"He said that some disciples once asked Mr., can the future be known? Mr. said, assuming that a person's mother is dying of a serious illness, and he wants to go back and have a look, then there are two cars now. One is a horse, and the car is a circle. the other is a bad horse, and the cart has square wheels. So which one is more likely to see your mother?"

Mozi nodded and said, "Yes, this is the story I told. So I think the future can be predicted."

Seeing that Mozi agreed, he said again: "Generally speaking, you must choose a horse and a round wheel. But the horse may die, and the round wheel may be broken. Therefore, the future is predictable and unpredictable. Mr. Sai Say, the future that can be predicted is called inevitable; the future that cannot be predicted is called accident. The inevitable future can be predicted, but the occasional future cannot be predicted. The poem "Promised Land" is what I predicted after seeing those things It is an inevitable future, but whether it can be realized is an accidental future.”

"Mr. Sai struggled to understand the will of heaven, and finally understood a lot of truths. He also taught me the knowledge of predicting the inevitable future. I have seen many things in "The Paradise". Made after understanding the origin of things.”

When Mozi heard the words, he thought about the demeanor of the two men and sighed leisurely.

Xu Jiu nodded and said: "I believe this. I also admire the intelligence and ability of these two people. However, these two people are so talented. They have seen the chaos of the world and the disputes among the nations, and they clearly know the inevitable future. Why don't you stand up and do righteousness?"

Shi knew that Mozi was a man of action, so he knelt down and grabbed a handful of sand from the cold ground, held his palms tightly, and let the sand gently fall from the gap left.

After a while, all the sand and soil flowed out, forming a small cone of sand on the ground.

"Sir, when the sand falls like this, it is inevitable to form such a pile of sand. It will be a pile of sand like this a thousand times, ten thousand times."

Mozi nodded, then lowered his head again, grabbed the pile of sand just now in his hand, and let it flow out again.

"But, sir, it is the same sand just now, and the same pile of sand, but is the position of each grain of gravel the same? If any grain of gravel changes its position, then we don't let the sand flow out naturally, but want to Shaking every grain of sand may not make the simplest sand pile."

Mozi stared at the falling gravel, thought for a while and asked, "Did the two of them tell you this?"

"Yes, Mr. Sai said, since the sand will eventually form a pile of sand when it falls slowly, why bother to interfere? If you don't reach the Promised Land in a hundred years, maybe you can reach it in a thousand years. And if you interfere artificially, how do you know that it will definitely be fast? ? Or how do you know that there won’t be a river of blood?”

As soon as Shi Shi's words fell, Mozi laughed loudly: "Pedantry! Water drops can penetrate stones, and a piece of good jade can be pierced after a thousand years under water drops. No matter how good a craftsman is, drilling holes in jade may also wear jade. Damaged. However, the craftsmen in the Xia and Shang Dynasties might break a piece of ten pieces of jade, but now they may only break one piece of a hundred pieces. Is it possible that the jade can only be worn by water droplets because of worrying about the jade being broken?"

"This is Yang Zhu's idea. The gravel is like a human being, gathered into a pile of sand; countless hairs and skins form the arms; so the smallest hair-like things should not be damaged. No one can dominate other people's lives. Nature The most natural thing is that the world will be ruled... He thinks well, but isn't the world ruled by those princes who don't understand the will of heaven? If there are no princes who don't understand the will of heaven, it may be like this; My prince, you can't do this!"

After the laughter, Mozi fixed his eyes on Shi, and asked, "What do you think?"

Shi also laughed and said: "Sir, watching this Sumai and listening to that "Land of Paradise", do you still need to ask? Since we know that the sand will gather into a pile of sand in the future, why don't we make these hands? To do the righteousness of the world, all disciples I will die without regret! Sir, please accept me as a disciple, sir, please let me become a Mohist who saves the world, and please sir, let me use this will to reduce the famine in the world! One man is weak, and a crowd can achieve."

After shouting a few slogan-like rhetoric, he bowed and waited.

Mozi looked at the bent over Shih, recalling the hot words just now, thinking about what Shih had done in the past six months, looking at the green wheat, listening to the disciples in the distance who were either exclaiming or joking curiously , finally put his hand on Shi's shoulder.

"Okay. I'll talk to you about other things after I return to the city in a few days. It's the most important thing for you to have the heart to save the world. If you can endure hardship for half a year, you must have a firm mind. Don't mention this in advance. Later If you tell me about the method of deriving inevitability, I will also listen to it."

There was a burst of ecstasy in Shi's heart, knowing that the suffering, tanning, starvation, offending, and fright that he had suffered in the past six months... were all worth it.

This is the first step and the only way for a shoemaker's son to go up in this troubled world.

At least, I don't have to worry about just anyone being able to tie me to a tree and beat me, I don't have to worry about just being killed by someone for the sake of making me happy, I don't have to worry about dying in a siege battle a year or two later. Nameless, don't worry about Zhucheng starving to death in two or three years.

Survive, these three simple words were not truly held in my hands until this time.

Fate in troubled times is cheap, and fate is even cheaper.

After rejoicing that his life was no longer as cheap as grass and trees, he felt that Mozi would definitely ask more about Tianzhi.

Unexpectedly, Mozi said: "You squat down, I will read something, and you write it on the ground in that kind of characters."

Shi didn't know what Mozi was going to do, and felt that it was very unreasonable, and it was very human to do extraordinary things.

Without asking too much, he squatted down, picked up a wooden stick on the ground, and waited on the ground.

"Speaking must have three appearances. What are the three appearances? Those who have the foundation, those with the original, and those who are useful. What is the origin? The upper origin is the ancient sage king's upholding the will of heaven; what is the origin? The lower origin Observe the reality of the people's eyes and ears; what is the use of it? Abolish it as a criminal administration, and observe the interests of the people of the country. There are three expressions in this so-called statement."

According to his own habits, he wrote this paragraph from top to bottom in his familiar characters, and added some vertical punctuation marks on it.

Punctuation marks are very important. With punctuation marks, some things cannot be interpreted indiscriminately.

Without punctuation, the sentence "people can make it known but not made it known" will go to two extremes, and those who point out different punctuation will hate each other and scold them endlessly.

When Mo Zi finished reading and Shi Ye finished writing, he read this sentence carefully and knew that Mo Zi was praising himself.

This sentence roughly means that there must be three standards in doing things: have the origin, have deduction, and have practice.

The original is to know the universal law of things; the inference is to ask the people after making it, and rely on the feedback of the people to know whether it is good or bad; the practice is to formulate laws and decrees after the source and the people’s feedback. Observe whether the country is prosperous and strong, and whether the people benefit.

In addition, words such as fate and destiny are unnecessary.Just use these three things to judge whether something is right or wrong.

Does it conform to the will of heaven and the universal law of things?Does it make the people applaud and agree?Can it make the country rich and strong and the people benefit from the people's well-being?

These are the three forms of the Mohist.

This is talking about Mohist's not-belief in destiny, and it is also a way of praising fitness.

It is suitable to say that he realized some of the will of heaven and the origin of things.It is for this.

Appropriate to do, these things he did in the village community were recognized by the village community.It is for the original reason.

Suitable for teaching, he taught people to grow wheat, grow black jade sweet potatoes and ghost fingers, and taught some children to read and write. Naturally, it is beneficial to people, and it can also be promoted to make the country prosperous.It is for use.

Exactly three tables.

Mozi expressed his appreciation in this way, and observed the characters written on the sand in this way.

He didn't explain why he said these words, but stared at those words, and finally saw some tricks.

"All these square characters can be broken down into six or seven small characters?"

After speaking, he picked up the wooden stick on the side, and drew a dot, a horizontal, and a vertical...

(End of this chapter)