warring states careerist

Chapter 467 Tian Xiangzi

The public opinion in sharp contrast was quickly incited.Once public opinion is stirred up, it is difficult to calm down in a short time.

The senior officials of the Mo family had already prepared for this matter. In order to prevent other countries from interfering, they had waited for so long before taking action. With the ferment of Wu Qi and others' entry into the Qin Dynasty and the Prince Zhang's court in Handan, this opportunity finally arrived.

In order to accept public opinion, the Mohist School, as an organization of the Mohist School, sent a high-level envoy to Feiguo. Led by Meng Sheng, they put forward a total of more than 40 "reform" proposals in order to "save the people from the three problems." ".

Since it was led by Meng Sheng, the specifications of this mission group were already very formal. It seemed that the Mohists did not use force to exert pressure, but were still persuading with persuasion, hoping that the king of Fei and the nobles would change spontaneously.

Those more than 40 proposals were taken for granted by the people of Sishang, and they felt that all of them should be completely achievable and should be taken for granted.

But from the very beginning of the appointment, the senior officials of Shihe Mohist School knew that these more than 40 suggestions were absolutely impossible for Fei Guo to accept.

If Meng Sheng's trip was just to persuade benevolent government, it would be useless.

But if it is not just for the purpose of "persuading" benevolent government, then this may not be in vain.

Apparently, the Mohists believed deeply in the theory of interests and knew about the theory of contradictions, but they still drew up a fantasy-like forty-point proposal, which was supposed to be rejected by the king and nobles of Fei Kingdom.

If you accept it, it is not good.

With Meng Sheng leading the mission, Pengcheng's law-making public justice association is still going on, and it will not end in a short time.

The Propaganda Department went all out to publicize public opinion. A tearful article titled "Three Troubles of the Common People" used the method of "interview" reporting for the first time, showing the details of the slaves of the common people in Feiguo from a detailed first perspective. bitter.

This gathering of righteousness seems to last for several months, maybe even longer.

And the newspapers of the Mohist School, every day, are spreading the debates and discussions at the public righteousness meeting that are more radical, more rebellious, more rude, and more and more related to the analysis of interests. discuss.

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The capital of the country of Fei, the second room pavilion.

Later generations called it Lanling or the second chamber of Zaozhuang, which was the capital of Fei.

Tracing back the history of the ancestors of the Fei Kingdom, it can be said that the spirit of the nobility is everywhere, and the history of the ancestors' fortune is the epitome of the aristocratic era.

In the old days, Qihou's younger sister, Wen Jiang, married to the State of Lu. After she got married, she still had an affair with her elder brother. After her elder brother sent someone to kill her brother-in-law, her younger sister's son came to the throne as Marquis of Lu.

Lu Hou wanted to get married, but Wen Jiang, the mother, insisted that Lu Hou win his brother's daughter, that is, Qi Xianggong's daughter—his niece, or his own man's daughter, depending on where you come from.

Wen Jiang gave birth to Marquis Lu and Jiyou, the ancestor of the Jisun family.Ji You and Lu Hou are brothers with the same father and mother, but He Qingfu and Shu Ya are half brothers.

Lu Hou listened to his mother Wen Jiang and married his wild father's daughter and his uncle and cousin.But the married wife, Ai Jiang, had an affair with Qing's father and had no children, so a daily life among the nobles unfolded like this.

Ji You and Lu Hou worked together to kill the fourth younger brother Shu Ya, then Ji You killed the second elder brother Lu Hou, the eldest brother Qingfu and Ai Jiang killed Lu Hou's son in chaos, and Ji You found the other youngest son of the second brother from other places , using this as a legal principle to kill his elder brother Qingfu and support his underage nephew to succeed him, it can be said that he had the last laugh in this decades-long nobleman's daily life.

As a result, the Ji family gradually gained power in the state of Lu. Although Qingfu and Shu Ya died separately, their heirs still had fiefdoms.

The Kingdom of Fei was originally a vassal state of the State of Lu. At the beginning of Duke Zhou's enfeoffment, all the major states had vassal states. The vassal states did not directly communicate with the Emperor Zhou, but were controlled by the suzerain state.

However, the vassal state of Fei is not an ancient country from King Wucheng or even the Xia and Shang dynasties, but was enfeoffed by King Zhou Xuan after he interfered in the internal affairs of Lu, because King Zhou Xuan killed Luhou, interfered in Lu's internal affairs, and enfeoffed the grandson of Luhou Because of Faber, there is such a legal principle as Fei Guo.

Jisun's fief is in Fei, and it is divided into four parts of Lu State, Jisun's occupies two points, and the descendants of Qingfu and Shuya occupy the other two points. They have seven thousand private soldiers, and Lu Hou can't control them.

After more than a hundred years, Ji Sun's power gradually weakened, Lu Hou regained power, and the contradictions between the two sides became more and more serious. Finally, a compromise method was adopted, using the legal principles of Fei Bo, who was once entrusted by King Xuan of Zhou, to recognize Fei as the king of the state. Instead of Yi, in exchange for Ji Sun's departure from Lu's internal affairs.

However, Feiyi was eventually taken back by the State of Lu. The Fei State of the Jisun family did not usurp, but used the legal principles of Feiber at the time of King Xuan, except that the fiefdom was not in Fei, but in the land south of Wucheng. Borrowed the inheritance of Faber's name.

This is similar to the fact that after the state of Chu destroyed Chen and Cai before, King Ping of Chu was appointed as the Duke of Chen and Duke Cai. It is Chen Gong and Cai Gong who are above these two legal principles.

If the Jisun family claimed the country with their fief Feiyi, it would be "overreaching".

If it is borrowing Faber's existing legal principles, calling it a country, and acting as a vassal state of Lu in name, then it is not "overstepping".

At that time, the three items had not yet been divided into Jin and the Tian family had not yet come together, so it was really not easy to make too much publicity and violate the Zhou ritual system in this world.

At this time, the world is in chaos, and the etiquette of Chu Fa Suisui who can only ask "I'm not guilty" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and this nominal vassal relationship has long since ceased to exist.

Nowadays, all major countries are reforming and seeking strength, but for a small country like Fei, there is no driving force for reform.

Such as Qin, Chu, Zhao, and Qi's reforms, it means that the countries still have their foundations. After the reforms, they can compete for supremacy in the world, and the monarchs still have ambitions.

But it is a country with only a few towns, with Qilu in the north, Manyue in the east, Song Mo in the west, and Jingchu in the west. Moreover, the country is small and the people are few, and the monarch has no ambitions at all, and he dare not have it at all.

Rich country and strong army?Even if it is ten times or twenty times stronger, it is still not enough for Qi Chuwei to pinch with one hand.

In this situation, the nobles were really drunk and completely depraved.

What I think about every day is the self-interest of those fly-by-dog dogs, and there is really nothing to think about other than that.

After these years of reproduction, the Jisun family has many heirs, and there are many retainers back then, each of whom is divided into feudal titles.

If external expansion is possible, the nobles may still support the war, and there are so-called "martial virtues", but Fei Guo's external expansion is a dream, so it is degenerate, closed, conservative, fearful of change, no big picture, drunken and dreamy, and the remnant. The normal state of these nobles can be seen in Feiyi.

With food in hand, fiefs in hand, no worries about food and clothing, and dare not coup d'état or expansion.

Once trapped in such a situation, such aristocrats are the most greedy and depraved group, not only losing the aggressiveness of their ancestors, but also losing the motivation to take the initiative to change.

If it is really Lu Qiang, they will be close to Lu, and the stronger they are, the more they will submit. As long as their fiefdoms and food towns are guaranteed to remain unchanged, anyone can be the one on top of them.

Therefore, when the First Battle of Lushui was over, Fei Guo immediately joined the Non-Attack Alliance, hoping that the Mohists who were determined to wipe out the world could guarantee their survival and prevent them from being annexed by other countries.

After the Battle of Lushui, the Mohists only formed a loose alliance of these small countries in Sishang because they were worried about the interference of other countries, and quietly waited for the world to change for the follow-up actions.

At this time, a well-known sage in the capital of Fei Kingdom lived in a mansion in the capital of Fei Kingdom.

The name of this sage is Tian Rang. If there is no appropriate appearance and change, he should have been the fourth giant of the Mohist family, and he is called "Tian Xiangzi" by later generations, which means that Meng Sheng passed the position of giant to his disciples. that person.

But now, Tian Rangming is just a businessman who lives in Fei country and works in Sishang Song country, Wei country and other places.

His secret identity is a secret Mohist, except for a few members of the Mohist family, no one knows the identity of his secret Mohist.

There was a famous dialogue between Tian Rang and Wei Jun in history, and now this dialogue must no longer be possible.

But the meaning revealed in these words can reveal some of Tian Rang's views on the world.

Wei Jun asked Yu Tian Rang, saying: "The widow confers a marquis for thousands of miles, and rewards all the imperial palace with silk, but the scholars don't come, why?"Tian Rang said to him: "The king's reward can't be as good as it is!"The king's punishment cannot be avoided.He raised his stick and called the dog, and stretched his bow to wish the rooster.Although there is fragrant bait, if it cannot cause harm, it will cause harm.

Wei Jun asked Tian Rang, why don't all the sages in the world come here when I enfeoff land and reward people?
Tian Rang said: "My lord, the rewards you give to others (it all depends on personal preferences) cannot be obtained by meritorious service."The punishment you give to others (also depends entirely on the king's words) has no law or reason to base it on.It's like calling a dog and attracting a chicken.

From the perspective of personality, Tian Rang feels that Wei Jun's attitude towards scholars and courtiers is like that of human beings to chickens and dogs. This is something Tian Rang cannot accept. It seems to me that this is a personality problem—it’s like raising animals. They can be very good to animals, but few people treat animals as people, but just like a dog will not bite its owner even if it is killed Similarly, this is exactly the idea that the world does not need at this time, and it also completely suppresses the temperament and personality of scholars.

This kind of view on personality would be a rebellious statement in later generations, but it was common during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it was very popular among scholars.

It is precisely because he had such an idea before joining the Mohist school, so he was accompanied by Mohist thoughts such as "there are laws to follow in rewards and punishments, the world has principles to follow, human nature is liberated, there are only differences in rights and responsibilities between the top and bottom, and everyone is equal in personality" Spreading, he was quickly attracted by the philosophy of Mohism.

Just as flies are always attracted to stinky meat, or butterflies are always attracted to bright flowers.

Originally, he was from the Song Dynasty, and he had a reputation in the Song Dynasty early on, so he could be regarded as the first to get the moon. When the Mohist family made those big events, he came to Sishang as a scholar.

Similar to Changsang Jun and his apprentice Qinyue who came to Siyou to welcome the high-level officials of the Mohist school, his reputation in the Song Dynasty also welcomed some high-level Mohist people to greet him in a low-key way, and they had many exchanges with him in the following year. , he joined the Mohists as a secret Mohist.

Externally, as a sage and businessman, he travels between countries and does some transshipment business. In some places where the Mohists are inconvenient to come forward directly, he will make contacts.

Whether it is about a country, the world, or even their respective personalities, these Mohist explanations are in line with Tian Rang's heart, so he participated in the most magnificent cause of "benefiting the world" as a hidden behind the Mohist in the world among.

After the Mohist reformed the organization, the organization became more and more tight and no longer loose. It cannot be said that one can become a Mohist if one identifies with the Mohist in a private capacity, but one can only be regarded as a true Mohist on the basis of agreeing with the Mohist morality and obeying the Mohist rules and organization. By.

And he is now in the capital of the country of Fei, so he naturally has a mission.

(End of this chapter)