warring states careerist

Chapter 666 Go to righteousness, go to your own righteousness

"Whether it's sending charcoal or adding flowers, it's all for others. But for whom, we have to look for it. You see, the Guo family didn't look for it. What happened now?"

This family that would affect the situation in the later period of the Warring States period and finally became aristocrats and entered the court by relying on merchant Sufeng, is now gone, not because everyone is dead, but because it has no influence anymore.

An old man among the merchants sighed and said, "Guo's fate has long been doomed. He made a mistake, not because he took refuge in Gongzi Dynasty, but because he came from the Mohist family to join hands with him in Handan Metallurgy and his father disagreed. Even if they choose wrongly. If they die sooner or later or not, they are all finished."

"Guo Zong, this kid, just wants to fight for the last time. Once the young master wins, his family can turn around. But think about it, why does he want to fight like this? Originally, whether it is Marquis Lie or Duke Wu, does the Guo family need to fight? They just need to wait until the new Marquis succeeds to the throne and presents gifts, the Mo family forced him to the point where he must fight."

He stretched out his right hand, pinched his little finger with his thumb and said: "The Mo family has a lot of capital. If you take out your finger and point it, you can crush us all to death. In business, if you don't seek a noble status, just do business, don't Provoke the Mohists."

The vivid experience is right in front of them, how can these people not believe it?
Zhao Guo is still good, after all, it is farther away from Sishang.

In places closer to Sishang, some local handicraft industries and local big businessmen have been severely impacted, and they have no choice: either become "compradors" or invest money in Sishang, or just Can go bankrupt or even have nothing and be heavily in debt.

After this battle, Zhao's local iron smelting industry has been completely destroyed by the Mohists, leaving only the iron smelting industry controlled by the Mohists, because the negotiation with Gong Zizhang also involved the iron smelting franchise, and it has even been divided The franchise rights in each area are distributed to some businessmen who support the Mohist school.

Under suppression, dumping, and internal and external collusion, Zhao's newly sprouted iron smelting industry has no place to turn around. The demise of the Guo family also means that Zhao's internal iron smelting industry, which is related to people's livelihood and the military's vital industry, has been defeated by the Mohists. The local businessmen who "colluded" in Zhao State were strangled to death.

It was also the previous suppression of those uncooperative businessmen that made the businessmen in Handan see a reality: either cooperate with the Mohists or wait for their destruction.

But they are not necessarily forced.

"Even if sending charcoal or adding flowers is someone else's business, even if the Mo family doesn't have that much money to crush us, apart from all these, we should support the Mo family, or we must support the Mo family."

"The Mohists say that righteousness and profit also exist. Different classes have different interests, and thus have different righteousness."

"You say, is the righteousness of the Mo family good?"

Everyone didn't speak, but the man smiled and said: "You don't say it, I say it. The righteousness of the Mohist school is definitely not the best for us."

"Because the righteousness of the Mohists is the righteousness of the people of the world after the peasants, businessmen, and businessmen have made concessions, but it is not the righteousness of the complete merchants. The Mohist said that the poll tax seems the fairest, but in fact it is the most unfair. Those rhetoric about the tax show that their righteousness is not the best righteousness for us businessmen."

"The best righteousness for us businessmen is not to collect business taxes. All the land in the world belongs to public money and can be obtained. When the public will is gathered to make laws, we should divide the public will according to how much money people have..."

The wonderful future he described made many people present couldn't help but nod their heads in praise. However, they also thought that people like themselves could only help or add icing on the cake. They were evaluated as "weak" by the Mohists, and they still don't have the power to lead a "righteous" "It is the world of businessmen's righteousness.

After sighing, the man who spoke said: "Compared to the righteousness of the princes and nobles, I think the righteousness of the Mohist school is better. One is poisonous wine, and the other is urine in the wine. We are now in the desert, so we can only choose One, I can only choose the one with urine in the wine."

As he spoke, he pulled out a "newspaper" that had been passed here not long ago, shook his wrist and thought about it, and said: "The Mohist family is ultimately closer to us than those princes and nobles. If you are a slut, just look at the contents of this newspaper and know that the Mo family is still reliable."

Every month, newspapers printed by the Mo family would spread to the giant cities and towns. The merchants read a lot, but they didn't know which newspaper it was.

The person next to him looked at it curiously, and couldn't help but wonder: "This is from three months ago, but on Sishang, it must have been five or six months ago."

Everyone was not at all surprised when the person said that the "Master Noble" should not be splashed. Instead, they took it for granted that they should not be allowed to get involved, just to prevent the franchise rights from being taken back by Marquis Zhao one day in the future.

As for the conflict between Zhao Hou and the Mohist one day, these merchants already knew which side they should stand on: of course it is the side that benefits, as long as the price offered by Zhao Hou is high enough, but now it seems that it is obvious that Zhao Hou will give the Mohists a high price. Not enough price tag.

Moreover, princes and nobles are tigers. From the perspective of the Mo family, it is a tiger that eats meat but is very polite and distributes the meat to others. Only when two tigers fight can they stand in line. If one tiger and one cat, then don’t even think about it. : Compared with profit and life, life is more important.

What is the attitude of the Mo family and what will happen in the future, this needs to be carefully considered.

I thought that some new statements and attitudes of the Mo family could be seen in the newspaper, but I didn't want it to be a newspaper for a few months, and everyone present became suspicious.

After reading the date, several people glanced at the contents of the newspaper, and one of them couldn't help laughing and said, "Hey, which one do I know? It turned out to be this one?"

"Isn't this just spreading over here? We all say that the group of people on Sishang really don't do business. It's such a big matter that everyone agrees. After a few months of discussion, the statement that came out of the discussion first made it clear what is father?" , What is a mother, what is a husband and wife, what is a child..."

As soon as this was mentioned, the businessmen present all burst into laughter.

The people from the Mo family are talented, but they are still a school, so some things inevitably make these businessmen feel a little ridiculous.

Mentioning this, many people remembered the newspaper and laughed.

Before the outbreak of the Qi-Mo War, the Mohists had been gathering public opinion for the law. From time to time, the content of the discussion would make these businessmen who read the newspapers happy, and it would inevitably lead to some discussions, such as the abolition of the five punishments and hanging, beheading, Five horses divided corpses and so on.

But I didn't expect that after a few months, a lot of jokes were made, especially after the people of the Mo family began to take the lead in this matter of gathering public will into law, there were more jokes.

After more than half a year, it was finally time to decide and start writing the voting statute, but the initial content was a bunch of nonsense that sounded useless and even a little ridiculous.

For example, the definition of what is support and what is support.

For example, what are parents and what are relatives.

For example, what is a child and what is a husband and wife.

And last but not least, what is a person.

When the newspaper with these contents spread to Handan, many people felt that it was a bit ridiculous that a group of people made these things after more than a month.

The Mohists, as a prominent school of thought, took the lead in revising and enacting the law. The beginning of the article was to tell everyone what a father-son couple is. This really made many people find it hard to accept.

Thinking back on this newspaper now, the businessmen present still couldn't help laughing, they couldn't understand how the content in it could be seen that the Mo family was reliable.

The businessman who attached great importance to this, waited for everyone to laugh, and said in a deep voice: "In this law, there are self, parents, relatives, children. There are also hired workers and servants. But there is no king, lord, or patriarch. The Mohist said that the emperor of heaven There is no distinction between old and young, high and low, everyone is equal, and when everyone is equal, some relationships can exist, and some relationships themselves do not exist under Sishang Yi."

"I committed a crime, I committed it, not my son. My son committed a crime, my son committed it, not me."

"I have a son. If I don't raise me, I will be guilty, but the same thing. I give all my money and property to my son, and no one can control it...including the property after I committed a crime."

"The content that the group of people in Sishang talked about for more than a month is not ridiculous. People are people, just people. I am me, I have parents, children and relatives, but I am still me."

"I don't need to read the following content, but I can know one thing. In Sishang's law, there is no mention of the Yi tribe. Because tribes are tribes, people are people, I am me, and my parents and wife are themselves."

"Because I am me, my son is my son, I am the father of my son, but I am man first, then I, and finally the father of my son. My son is my son, but he is man first, then It's him, it's my son in the end."

"Similarly, if you look at it this way, as far as the Chamber of Commerce is concerned, I am me, and then I am a member of the Chamber of Commerce. I committed a crime, and you are both members of the Chamber of Commerce. Are you guilty?"

"If this chamber of commerce is here, if something really happens, the only ones who are guilty will be the ones elected to formulate how the chamber of commerce should behave, and we are still ourselves, and our money is still our own money."

He figured out why Sishang's law was made in his heart, and why he had to come up with the legal provisions on the relationship between people first, and also figured out some connections of Sishang's law through some follow-up content, but in the end He is not a person who studies debates in Mohism, and it is difficult to explain the essence of it clearly to the people around him.

After explaining in a vague and ignorant way, those merchants who had ridiculed it seemed to smell a little of it. In the Mohist law, the bearers are all human beings, not anything other than human beings: including Families, father-son relationships, husband-wife relationships, etc.—those are just relationships, not people, and do not apply to the law, so there is no way to punish them.

The Mohists not only want to make the people of the world the people of the world, but also dismantle families, families, and even fiefdoms and countries into individual people. The laws of Sishang can only govern people, and cannot govern things other than people.In other words, the subject of the law in Sishang is based on people who are equal under the Emperor of Heaven, regardless of age, high or low, rather than a family that has no capacity to bear before the law.

It's not that the Mohists don't recognize the existence of the family, whether they admit it or not, the family exists, but people are to the law like red and green are to colors; and families are to the law like north and south are to colors.There are north and south, as well as red and green, but in front of colors, only red and green are meaningful.

And since there is a separate thing of man, then man must have something before he can be punished: life, health, freedom of movement, wealth, property... Corresponding to it is death penalty, imprisonment, imprisonment, forced labor, fine , confiscated.

Only when people have life, health, free activities, wealth, and property can they be sentenced to death, imprisonment, imprisonment, forced labor, fines, or confiscation.

This is a simple truth, but this truth is not simple for businessmen, and it is even enough for some of them to pay their lives for this simple truth,

(End of this chapter)