warring states careerist

Chapter 571
When the resolute nobles returned to the place where the nobles of Fei Kingdom gathered, they heard the news that they were ordered to burn Wucheng.

By the time he stepped in, the nobles were already arguing, and not all of them agreed with the idea.

It's not because I think it's unrighteous to do so, because in the world's cognition at this time, massacring cities, beheadings, and building temples are all normal things. The development of the world continues to produce progress, and it cannot be demanded that people at this time feel that massacring the city is a wrong thing.

A dissenting nobleman shouted loudly: "The Son of Heaven confers feudal lords, and feudal vassals confer the title of Dafu. The Dafu guards his land and sacrifices to his ancestors. It is a city of food."

"We fled to Linzi this time, and we panicked like a bereaved dog."

"But if Wucheng is burned, there will be no homes there. Even if the mob occupies Wucheng, we will be able to come back one day. But if Wucheng is burned, why do you keepers come back?"

"In the past, Shang Zhou was killed by King Wu, but he only burned himself in Lutai, but he didn't turn the whole court song into ashes!"

His face was excited, and he understood that the nobles still need the shell of "benevolence and righteousness" after all. Only in this way can they stabilize their rule in the fief.

This time the people of Qi asked them to burn Wucheng, that is to say that they are severing their own fiefdom. How can the people support it when they return in the future?
The nobleman who had strengthened his resolve shouted: "The people of Wucheng have already returned to the wrong path. When the chariots smashed the demagogues before, the people of Wucheng showed their unbearable expressions. Now the city applauds the battle of Nanji Water. "

"Such people can no longer be educated, but can only be purified. If they are not slaughtered, it will be like a plague, and it will surely infect the world in the future. Don't you want to see a world where everyone is equal, regardless of high or low? "

The nobleman who opposed sighed and said: "The gangsters lack wisdom and need to be educated. If we are punished without education, how are we different from Shang Zhou? Now that we are incompetent and have retreated to Wucheng, how can we slaughter the people because of it? Then God will be angry."

Someone snorted and said: "Villains can only talk about profit, not righteousness. It is too difficult to teach them to be gentlemen. On the contrary, the theory of Mohism is like an epidemic, which will eventually catch the world. I think Wucheng should be purified."

"Besides, the Mohists have already won the Nanji Water War. Qi people can't stay in Wucheng, we are already bereaved dogs!"

"If Wucheng is not burned, and Gongzaoye's army will follow behind, we will be flanked by Kai Zhishi and Gongzaoye, and will be surrounded by Wenshui. At that time, you and I will die!"

"Don't forget, you also agreed to split those people in the car!"

Hearing the words, the person who objected also sneered and said: "Indeed, I also agreed with those people who were smashed by the chariot. It was because those people tried to burn food and grass to attack us. When the chariot smashed them, I thought that one day the Mohists would attack us." The consequence is nothing more than death."

"A real man is born in the world, and he dies when he dies. How can he punish the people without teaching them?"

"I hate Mo Di, I hate the bird's hair, I hate the suit... I hate the theory of the Mohist school. If I have the ability, I can learn everything from Nie Zheng and assassinate these people, but I won't do this because I am afraid of death." move."

"This matter is not in line with the way of a gentleman."

After he finished speaking, he looked at everyone present and said earnestly: "Masters, we oppose the Mohist school because the morality of the Mohist school will disrupt the world and is not the way of a gentleman. However, we are afraid of death, and we do things that are against a gentleman How can we stand up for righteousness when we oppose the Mohists?"

"If we are defeated today, we may die. But as long as we abide by the way of a gentleman, there will still be a chance for the world to rule in the future, and there will be a chance for the morality of the Mohist to perish. We will count as death. One day in the future, the world will rule and return to orthodoxy. What a pity?"

"But today, if you want to survive and go against the way of a gentleman, if you survive, the world will not be governed after all. What's the use of us being alive?"

No one can refute his reasoning. Except for those who think that the only way to completely purify the people of Sishang is, most people think: "You think that you should sacrifice your life for righteousness, but we don't want to die. How about it? Righteousness is here now. In your mouth, if you don't die, how can we live?"

Seeing that everyone was silent, the person who opposed knew that everyone didn't care about what he said, so he got up angrily, put his hand on his sword and said, "I object to the burning of Wucheng. Expensive? Not because of our blood, but because our virtues are far better than those of the untouchables. If we destroy our virtues with our own hands, wouldn’t it make the Mohists’ righteousness more reasonable?”

"If you have to do this today, unless you kill me."

He was about to raise his sword when he heard someone behind him say: "Okay! Then I will kill you!"

As soon as the words fell, the nobleman felt a chill down his back. Before he could react in his mind, it took him a while to realize that he had been stabbed, but he had no strength left.

Several people next to him stabbed out with swords and chopped the man into meat. One of them asked loudly, "Who else objects?"

No one made a sound anymore, and after a while, someone worshiped: "I will obey."

Raising his sword to assassinate the man, he said with a serious face: "There are long and short things. In the past, Goujian was humiliated by tasted dung, and King Wen was also imprisoned in a prison. But they will not seek their own death because of a momentary insult."

"Today's matter, if Wucheng is not burned, the Ministry of Public Construction and Metallurgy will follow us, and we will die on the banks of Wenshui. After we die, how can we stabilize the chaos in the country? Besides, most of my family's fathers and uncles died in the At the hands of the mob in the capital city, the revenge of father and brother can be avenged for nine generations, how can he die for a momentary gentleman's righteousness?"

"Besides, we are still aristocrats when we are in exile. Bi Wan can be a minister if he becomes a commoner; Baili Xi can be a minister if he is captured as a slave; The Huitian family is still the doctor of Wei. As for the matter of Tian Chen replacing Jiang Qi, let alone mention it."

"Today, it's not that I'm afraid of death, but because I want to save my life and think it's revenge for my father and brother! Don't talk about this, but I have to experience the humiliation of Gou Jian's taste of dung. How can I die like this?"

This is just a just reason for those who were ashamed by the opponents just now. What everyone lacks is such a reason, and they all said: "We also mean the same, but the words are dull and can't say it."

The man said loudly: "I also know that you understand this truth in your heart but didn't say it, so I said it."

He pointed to the corpse of the nobleman who had been chopped into meat sauce and said, "What he said, he only knew the small righteousness, not the great righteousness."

"In the past, the state of Zheng attacked the state of Chen and won a complete victory. But the state of Zheng could no longer hold on, so he sent someone to seek peace with Duke Huan of Chen. Duke Huan Chen refused. I agree with Zheng Guo's request for peace, because Zheng Guo is evil, and my own request for peace can only breed evil in the world."

"Therefore, Zhou Ren, the ancient virtuous doctor, once said: For the country, seeing evil is like a farmer's job to get rid of the grass, and the barbarians worship it, cut off its roots, and don't allow it to reproduce, then the good will believe it."

"The so-called cutting the weeds and removing the roots. When a farmer sees weeds, he must get rid of the roots and dig out the roots, so as to prevent the spread of the weeds. Only in this way can we get rid of the evil and let the good breed to make people trust."

"The righteousness of the Mohist school is evil. Our righteousness is good. Therefore, we cannot compromise with the Mohist school. We must cut the grass and root out."

"When Chen Huan was defeated by the Zheng people, he still did not agree to make peace. It was because what the Zheng people did was not in line with the principles of the world. Therefore, he would rather be in a state of panic all day long than make peace, otherwise the evil will spread."

"It's the same thing today."

"Last year, Zheyangzi killed the king, and the mobs were in chaos. They only said that everyone is equal, but they wanted to destroy the rice paddies and well fields, as long as we hand over the fiefdom."

"At that time, there were tens of thousands of mobs, and I couldn't wait for a hundred people. I was in danger."

"However, what they asked for was evil, not good. We also know that if we agree, we will not have to worry about our lives."

"However, we cannot agree, because once we agree, it will encourage evil. If we agree to an evil deed today, the good will give way and the evil will grow even more!"

"For this reason, we disregarded the danger of our lives and the risk of our ancestral temple being destroyed, and gathered in Wucheng. Is it because we are afraid of death?"

"No! Because we, like Chen Huangong, believe that goodness cannot be lost and evil cannot grow! We cannot agree to those evil deeds and evil righteousness, so we chose to resist the government of the mob!"

"What is good? What is evil? There are differences in the world between high and low, and everyone observes their own rituals. Common peasants are obliged to pay tribute, and nobles keep their land and offer sacrifices. This is goodness."

"What is evil? The land belongs to the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven divides it between the princes and us. It is not the common people's, but they want things that don't belong to them. This is evil, and it cannot be encouraged!"

He looked at the crowd, his worry about the world was on his face, he let out a long sigh as if he was lamenting the troubled world that was about to perish, and the tears seemed to burst out of his eyes, and he sighed: "Your lords! You lords! We don't care about what we have in our hands. Those lands and fiefdoms, but the rules, systems, rituals, righteousness, goodness, and evil behind them!"

"Those lands cannot be given to the common people, because their demands are evil. We don't care about our own land. What we worry about is that they don't obey the rules and ask for things that don't belong to us!"

"Don't we have compassion? It's just the rules. It's our land. We can reward the common people, but they can't take what we don't reward. Once we agree with them, then we are promoting evil and destroying good! "

"Once the evil in the world becomes good, and the good in the world becomes evil, this is the end of the world!"

"Changing the surname to another name, such as the Tian family replacing Qi, and the three families dividing into Jin, that is nothing but the subjugation of the country."

"There is no distinction between good and evil, heaven and earth are reversed, and everyone is equal regardless of high or low. That is the death of the world!"

(End of this chapter)