warring states careerist

Chapter 657
Each of the content discussed behind closed doors by the top Mohists is related to tens of millions of people, and is related to Zhuxia and Kyushu.

In the great era, no one can be alone, and no one can stay out of it.

The finely accumulated waves make the fate of many people have to integrate with this era, and they choose their own destiny in this magnificent era.

"If you live rich, you will be rich; if you live poor, you will be poor; if you live many, you will be many; if you live few, you will be few; if you live well, you will be orderly; if you live chaotically, you will be chaotic; if you live long, you will live long; if you live young, you will die... These princes and ministers are speaking foolishly. There is no such life in this world."

"But it doesn't mean that man has absolutely no connection with the world, the era, and even the universe? As Yang Zhu and others said, man can be a person who is alone and detached from society? How should we understand the statement of Yang Zhu's school?"

In a room in the newly built university campus named Xiangxu in Peiyi, a Mohist is speaking in Sishang Dialect with a Wei-Jin accent about the Mohist theory of "Fate".

The gentleman who gave the lecture held a piece of plaster pen in his hand, and there were a few lines written on the wooden board behind him. Two maps were hung on the left and right sides of the wooden board. One was the outline of Zhuxia and Kyushu. In fact, the painting is not very perfect; the next one is a map called "Shan Hai Jing", which shows the land outside Kyushu. Some places have strange translations, which were translated by Solucan after returning from his journey to the west.

Ximen Shu, who had already arrived in the first half of the year, stopped the pen in his hand to copy these contents, leaving many ink-colored horizontal and vertical characters on the slightly yellowed paper.

In the six months since he came to Sishang from Yecheng, without the life of bells and whistles, without the entertainment of field hunting, Ximen Zhu felt very fulfilled and happy.

People who don't know what they want have neither happiness nor pain.

When the morality of the Mohist school began to spread in Ye, Ximen Shi always felt that he was a redundant person in the world: they were moths in the economic system of Mohist morality.

They are well-educated, dissatisfied with reality, and don't know what to do.

They think they have the responsibility and ambition to help the world and save the people, but they can't do it.

After reading some books, they are full of sympathy for the people, but they find that their sympathy is lonely in the environment in which they live.

They are depressed, wandering, and need something to fill the void left by their well-educated and well-fed families.

But now, all of this is gone. He has found his belonging, found himself, and found a dream.

The Mohist school attaches great importance to education, which Ximen Shu has known for a long time, but he did not expect to pay such attention to it.

After he came to Sishang, he was quickly assigned to the preparatory class. Most of the students in the class were from Wei Han Zhaodi, with similar accents. Half of them were descendants of fallen nobles, and a small number of them were from great nobles like him. Bastard.

The university named Xiangxu is still under construction, and it will be used as it is built. Many people are attracted here by the Mohist's nine numbers of astronomy, but it is very difficult for foreigners like them to obtain Xiangxu.

Xiang Xu is divided into two subjects of arts and sciences. Suo Lucan, who has returned from the westward trip, is the head of the arts department, and the head of the science department is the best among the disciples he brought with him when he traveled to Chu at a suitable age.

These downcast aristocrats or concubine sons of great aristocrats have indeed received a good education, but the education they receive is not completely in line with the education of Sishang Mohists. Some things they are even inferior to some children in elementary school. It is difficult to pass the exam.

And Sishang Mohism's strictness in education is extremely special: everyone has only one chance in a lifetime.

The Mohist’s explanation for this is: This may indeed miss many talented people, but it guarantees the fairness of more people. If there are unlimited tests, then children from rich families will always have an advantage over children from poor families. It will cause a family to focus all its energy on one child so that the rest of the brothers and sisters suffer. After all, it is still extremely expensive to study out of production at this time.

Most of those who fail the exam will be assigned to some special schools, either to learn craftsman skills, or to be assigned to Huaibei as a school teacher.

Ximen Zhu originally wanted to study science in Tianzhi, but only after he came to Sishang did he realize that what he had learned was incomparable to those of his peers in Sishang who had received a complete set of education since childhood: those People were discussing the content of the height of mercury in the Quirin tube, but he couldn't understand it at all.

And after he came, he also had a very traumatic experience: after the end of the First World War in Nanjishui, the Mohists recruited a large number of students from the Xiliu Military Academy and Surveying and Mapping Department to Qi State to help measure the land. The young people who signed up formed a long queue, but when they went to sign up, they were directly beaten back on the grounds that they didn't know how to do it.

Ximen Shu felt that he was a bit discriminated against when he was here, not only for their status as aristocrats, but also for their ignorance... But in fact, Ximen Shu felt that he had studied hard before, but he learned by himself. There are many things that Sishang doesn't use at all.

After experiencing a brief period of confusion, he finally had a dream again, which is to be admitted to the Xiangxu liberal arts department, follow some disciples brought back by Solucan's westward journey, learn Persian and Greek, and some Hu dialects, and hope that one day he can also Traveling thousands of miles westward like Solucan, hollowing out the Western Regions.

If there were no magnificence of the times, Simon would not feel that he was a superfluous person, nor would he be ridiculed to learn those things that were useless.

He spent many years practicing driving and archery in the car. These are the six arts of other places. However, after the reform of the military system in Sishang, it was not paid more attention to than those students of the artillery school who had studied geometry and nine numbers for several years, and even The volunteer division has almost canceled the chariot establishment.

He spent many years learning etiquette and learning how to eat, but the chopsticks of the Sishang Mo family rarely used knives and forks, and even some Mohists who were originally from aristocratic backgrounds didn't care at all that they should not use chopsticks except for dishes. etiquette.

He followed his father to learn how to command and fight, but what he learned was incompatible with Sishang's military system.

Originally, without the Mohists, everything he had learned would be useful and something he could be proud of.

Today, the preparatory teacher talked about fate, but he was thoughtful and enlightened.

When he was in Yecheng, he fantasized about what the Mohist school would learn, and wondered whether the first thing he did after entering the Mohist school was to instill concepts such as equality.

But he didn't expect that the first lesson he entered the preparatory class was "History".

What we learn is who are we?Where did Zhu Xia come from?How did people live during the time of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in ancient times?Why was there the saying of giving up at that time?Is it inevitable for Yu to pass on his family to the world?What happened to the alternation of Shang and Zhou?Is the genealogy among the princes dating back to the ancient times of Yan and Huang?

As a son of aristocrats, Ximen Shu has of course studied history.

But it was the first time he came into contact with such a cold perspective to look at history.

The Mohists are not destined, but these historical books use another angle to explain a kind of "destiny" or "the will of heaven".

In this kind of historical writing, there are no visions from heaven, no flowers in the snow, some are just extremely cold "differences between countries and fields, armed colonization"; Under the circumstances, the most reasonable way to maintain the rule of the nobles is to dare to govern private affairs after public affairs."

Here, ritual has become something created by the princes and nobles to maintain the system, rather than something that has never changed and is not easy to come by.

Here, the transition from Taoism to nature to the emergence of the state to the election system to the hereditary system is just a tortuous necessity.

When it comes to allusions, there are not many young people who have received Sishang's learning since they were young are Ximen Zhu's opponents. When it comes to one or two allusions, these people will be at a loss.

When it comes to the analysis of history other than allusions, the vision of a young man who has been taught by Sishang since he was a child is far broader than that of the son of a nobleman, Ximen Zhi.

Today, Ximen Zhu heard his husband talk about "non-fate", thinking of his own destiny, and thinking of the inevitability that the Mohists believed, he couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

If there is inevitability, then is this inevitability fate?

Is a chance other than necessity a kind of fate?
Is the fate in "unfate" and the fate in "destiny" the same kind of fate?
Immersed in this kind of nihilistic thinking, Ximen Shu didn't hear the sound of the copper bell outside at all, and played with the brush in his hand until someone patted him on the shoulder.

"Hey, your father is in the newspaper."

One sentence pulled Ximen Zhi back from his thoughts, and the classmate next to him handed the newspaper in front of him, and circulated it many times. On the somewhat blackened "newspaper", there was a line of eye-catching headlines.

"The siege of Handan is about to be resolved, the Mohists urge Wei and Zhao to conclude a peace agreement to relieve the suffering of the people"

There is no name of his father Ximen Bao on the title, but the name of Ximen Bao, the coach of the Wei army in the siege of Handan, is naturally inseparable from the content.

The article in this newspaper is mainly divided into four parts.

First, Zhao Gongzizhang sent people to Gaoliu to make an oath with the people of Gaoliu: to grant the land to the people, to give the people autonomy, and to ask the people to send troops to defeat Zhao Gongzi Dynasty and Wei who launched the unjust war, and described the content of the oath.

Then it is said that General Qu and the people swore to be teachers, and they went south to defeat the main force of Que Yujun and the son's dynasty, and they were marching towards Handan.

Then he evaluated Ximen Leopard, affirmed his behavior of benefiting the world from his water control and construction of water conservancy, and criticized his loyalty to Wei Hou and his participation in unjust wars.

Finally, he talked about the current situation facing the Wei State, the restoration of the Zhongshan State is a foregone conclusion, and the failure of the Prince's decision is irreversible.

Ximen Shu raised his head and saw many students looking for the place names in the newspaper against the map near the board.

He lowered his head, thinking of the scene when he advised his father not to obey the unjust war, he didn't know how to feel.

After thinking for a long time, he took a pen and wrote a very simple family letter on a brand new piece of paper in the local language of Wei, telling about his miss, family affection, and his own happiness.

As for the righteousness and injustice, he didn't mention a word.

He thought, his father is already in a state of desperation, how can his understanding of righteousness compare to those of the Mo family?Don't say it, don't say it...

(End of this chapter)