warring states careerist

Chapter 570
If I were a nobleman, I would stand above the ground, I would have a heart of compassion, and I would care for the serfs in my fiefdom. This is my virtue, and it is a virtue that can be praised for hundreds of miles.

But if it is equality, if it is universal love, caring for equal people under equal status is completely unacceptable.

These nobles have naturally heard the stories of Nie Zheng. For example, Nie Zheng had been a friend of Yan Zhongzi before going to Lushui to help righteousness.

In addition to Yan Zhongzi's hundred gold congratulations, the most important point is Yan Zhongzi's identity: as a nobleman of a country, it is great virtue and great respect to visit a lowly market person. , It is possible for scholars to die for it: inequality is a matter of course, and under such a natural situation, it is such an honor that the great nobles actually come to visit themselves, and they should die for it.

But if they are really equal, it is hard to say: everyone is equal, I, Nie Zheng, is a chivalrous man, and you, Yan Zhongzi, are not compatible with me, and you are not a hero, why should I consider you a friend?Baijin cares about me?Is a hundred gold enough for me to work hard?

Without the natural truth of the unequal world that has been passed down for hundreds of years, there would be no story of Nie Zhengxu as Yan Zhongziyou.The key to this story does not lie in the hundred gold, but in the identity difference between Yan Zhongzi and Nie Zheng. If they are equal, then this is a vulgar story of a hired killer worth a hundred gold. He would sacrifice his life for this hundred gold, and under the premise that equality is a matter of course, Yan Zhongzi has no possibility of becoming friends with Nie Zheng.

By extension, many things are the same.

There is a difference between high and low, and it is a virtue for a doctor to care for the common people.

The world is equal, and those who govern one side are formed for the benefit of the world, so caring for the people is an obligation.

The Mohists will make the world immoral, which is the consensus of the nobles.

In terms of the land system, the Mohists smashed the material foundation of the nobles.

They also want to use things like equality and universal love to smash the foundation of the nobles' spiritual superiority and aloofness.

This is something they could not have agreed to anyway.

Different from the rumors that the nobles were concerned about, the rumors that the soldiers who were forced to take to Wucheng at the beginning naturally also focused on their vital interests.

For example, some soldiers heard that their hometown had been divided, but they did not disregard it because they were conscripted to follow the nobles to Wucheng.

For example, when some soldiers heard that the Mohists had won a great victory in the battle of Nanjishui, the Qi people would leave if they were not sure. They might also be forcibly taken away from Feiguo to Linzi with an army and abandon their family and parents.

For example, some soldiers heard that the Mohist family did not touch the land that their own family originally reclaimed. The Mohisth just allocated the fiefdoms of those nobles and turned the slave peasants on the fiefdom into civilians.

For example, some soldiers heard that their brothers actively participated in Fei Guo's volunteer army because of the land distribution. Even if they couldn't fight, they would choose to deliver food and grass...

Anyway, even if the Mo family took down Wucheng and hanged the nobles, they would not hang them. They didn't care about the news that the nobles cared about.

So after the news of the Nanji Water Battle came, dozens of soldiers whose hometown was in the south fled over the wall every day.

The scale of this kind of escape is accompanied by the news that they will follow the people of Qi to withdraw to Linzi, and it has become difficult to stop.

It is not uncommon to kill chickens to scare monkeys, and military orders are strictly enforced, but they can't stop this turmoil of fleeing.

On the city wall of Wucheng, a patrolling noble walked past worriedly, with an ugly expression on his face.

There was news yesterday that the Mo family had divided his fief, and there was not a gentleman in his fief, saying that these lands should not belong to him and refused to accept it.

In his view, a gentleman is not necessarily an aristocrat, but a kind of spirit, a kind of temperament, and keeping the etiquette is a gentleman.If it shouldn’t be yours, you can’t want it, don’t think about it, and don’t want it from others. In this case, even a common peasant can be a gentleman.

His own fiefdom was given to him by the king. Is it possible that the land of the king in the whole world is placed in a country, and the land of a country is also owned by the princes.

But when the monarch gave him the land, it was his own, and the peasants and peasants on his fief didn't even refuse these things that didn't belong to them at all, and just accepted them so readily.

This made the nobleman very sad. He felt that he was on the side of guarding the soil and educating the people. Even if he didn't say that everyone is a gentleman, and he doesn't pick up lost things on the road and doesn't close his account, at least a few people will stand up.

At least, there should be at least a few people. When the Mo family distributed the land certificates to them, they should refuse and tell the Mo family solemnly: This is not mine, I can't take it!
But none.

At least he hadn't heard of it, because yesterday he caught a messenger in the city, and after careful inquiry, it can be said that everything was going well for the Mo family in the south, and there was no large-scale public resistance and anger that this was not their own land and refused to accept it.

The rumors in the past few days are not good for the situation, which is also the reason why he looks worried. He may have to follow the Qi people to evacuate to Linzi.

Although his wife, parents and children are all around, it means that he will give up the sacrifice of his ancestors. Who can worship his ancestors when he is reduced to Qidi?
I can be regarded as benevolent in the fiefdom, but for those ordinary people who are like villains, will anyone remember his kindness and take the initiative to sacrifice to their ancestors?

While feeling depressed, I suddenly heard someone shouting near the city wall: "Gentleman! Help me!"

When he turned around sharply, he saw more than 30 people tied together on the city wall, calling for the man to kneel on the ground and scream loudly.

No need to ask, the noble also knew that these people must be soldiers who fled and were captured. Nowadays, the laws are strict, and all fugitives will be beheaded, and their heads will be hung on the city wall as a warning to others.

Dozens of heads have been hung on the city wall now, but there are still some who are not afraid of death and want to escape.

Calling that person, the nobleman had a vague impression that it was a family on his fief. That year when he was hunting, his wheel broke and it rained heavily, so he took a rest at this person's house.

These captured people will be executed unless someone pleads for mercy. The nobleman heard the miserable cry of the man, and he couldn't help but feel compassion, thinking of the feeling of avoiding the rain back then.

He was also a kind and righteous gentleman, so he walked over, and the bound man immediately asked for help, but the nobleman sighed and asked, "Aren't I usually a benevolent gentleman? Am I not a good person?"

The man who was bound was startled, nodded and said: "Gentleman benevolent, please save me!"

The nobleman sighed and said, "Every spring, I take the lead in planting. One is to pray to God to make the weather smooth, and the other is to let me know the hardships of farmers."

"Whenever I need labor, I only call you when the farming is slack, and I never ask you to build houses when the farming is busy."

"After the winter festival every year, I will share some drinks with you, and sometimes I will take some meat from my warehouse for you to eat after the winter festival."

"I've done well enough. There are very few benevolent gentlemen like me within a hundred miles."

"Nowadays, the Mohists are unrighteous and turning the world upside down. I am in trouble, don't you have the slightest sense of gratitude to follow me?"

"I don't talk about military orders, I only talk about friendship. Is it true that you are not polite to ordinary people? Can't talk about courtesy with you? Can't you be expected to be gentlemen?"

"Lowly people really can't have moral character."

The bound man was furious when he heard this, and said: "Gentleman benevolent, I beg you to save me. But you can't say that we are low-minded people without virtue. Don't low-level people have no morals?" Will you be angry?"

"Yes, after the winter festival, you will give us some wine, and sometimes some meat. But... you don't have enough crops, where do you get all your wine and meat?"

"That's our thing!"

"So, you can say that I violated the military order, but you can't say that people like us have no morals. It's like you go to the market, give a merchant a copper coin, but remove all his cloth, you give Our things are not enough for us to follow you."

The noble said angrily: "How can you believe such heresies? Why do those things belong to you? Where is the reason for this? Except for the heresy of the Mohist school, how can it make sense? But the Mohist's That's right, that's wrong."

"The son of heaven confers feudal lords, feudal lords confers great officials, and great officials confers scholars. Farmers return to the land and pay tribute. This is the principle in the world. Why do you say that those things belong to you?"

"People like you are villains. I can't talk about righteousness with you, I can only talk about profit with you. A little bit of profit will make you forget righteousness."

The nobleman was full of anger, and shouted: "If you say, you are homesick. If you say you have parents and wives at home. If you say you are worried about your family and run away... I can save you and forgive your capital crime. "

"However, you have been bewitched by the heresy of the Mohists. I cannot accept this kind of reasoning to respond to me. The world will be chaotic, and it is necessary to purify people's hearts and educate the common people. Obviously, you can no longer be educated. die."

After all, he left without looking back, and there was a faint scream behind him, and he didn't look back.

Shaking his head in the wind, he said to himself: "The world will be in chaos, and the world will perish. If you want to save the world, I'm afraid you really have to eradicate those who have had contact with the Mohists. Their theories can bring chaos to the world."

"It's like a willow tree by the river, sprouts sprout from the roots everywhere. If you want to completely eradicate it, it is not enough to just cut down the willow tree. You have to dig out the roots and burn them, and even burn the nearby soil. Bake it for three days, so that the catkins hidden in it can be removed."

"Although it is possible to roast those plants that are not catkins to death, it is necessary to get rid of willow trees, otherwise those willow trees will take root everywhere, so how can we stop them?"

"The world is the most important, and the world is the most important. To secure the world, such means should be used, this is Daren."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the location of Pengcheng, Peiyi, Sishui in the southwest, and thought: "If one day in the future, the princes of the world wake up and invade Surabaya, they will slaughter the people of Pei and Peng. From Huling to Xiapi, From the East China Sea to Peize, no one should be left behind, and all should be slaughtered."

"Leave the land, but not the people. Then move the people from all over the world here, so as to put an end to the heresy that messes up the world."

"Although this incident is brutal, it is also for the common people of the world. If the Mohism is not eradicated, the world will be in chaos for a long time, and the casualties will be even heavier. If those people infected by the heresy are not killed, these heresies must be spread to other places, and the world will still be in chaos. Only by killing them all is the benevolence and righteousness of the world."

"I also have a heart of compassion, but I have the world in my heart. The world is the most important, and the world is the most important."

As if a heavy burden fell on his shoulders, he nodded firmly, clenched his fists, thinking: benevolence is like civil and martial arts, and he also punishes Shang Zhou.

(End of this chapter)