warring states careerist

Chapter 76 Bone Melting Zhu Rongxue ([-])

When it was time to arrive in Pei, Mozi had arrived for six days.

The Mohist who went to Peidi this time did not come out in full force.In addition to the things that have been decided before, Fu Jujin still has some Mohists who will stay in Shangqiu to deal with the craftsmen's association.

Including the people brought by Gongzaoye in advance, there are only 150 people.

Peicheng is a small city, not big, with a circumference of only six or seven miles, and the longest wall is only two miles.

It is built on the mountain, in the south of Weishan.Weishan is just a mound, and there are no stones on the mountain.As a small city, Pei cannot have too long walls, and each has its own system.

Before Shi Shi entered the city gate, Qi Sui, who followed Mozi one step ahead, was already waiting on the road.

Seeing the carriages led by Shi from a distance, he hurried over to check them and asked, "Are you okay on the road?"

"It's okay. Although there are not many people, no one dares to do anything. Where is the giant?"

"Handouts outside the city. Juzi said you're coming. Gongzaoye found some things here, and this place is no different than Shangqiu."

Shi looked at the small town, and handed the bamboo slips in his hand to Zao Mi Qisui and said, "You take someone there first, and I'll be there in a while."

Farewell to making strips to mark the year, Shi first went to the place where Mozi gave lectures.

Before he got close, he saw several inkmen with swords patrolling there.Seeing Shi, he nodded his respects and called Shi to go.

After getting close, he found more than 30 Mohists kneeling on the ground. Luo Xiaoli maintained the posture of asking questions, and the expression on his face seemed to have been persuaded.

After approaching, I heard Mozi say: "...Although the customs of China are still the same. Killing the father and rewarding the son, why eat the son and reward the father? If you don't use benevolence and righteousness, how can you be a barbarian?" People eat their sons? Later Lu Yang Wenjun asked me again..."

I don’t know if other philosophers also have the habit of calling China, but Mozi did call China China directly, and he did not change the word to the original meaning, not only the geographical concept but also the dual identity of the cultural concept.

As soon as he heard Mozi talk about this, he felt a little emotional in his heart. A character like Mozi had a lot of friends and told stories differently from him, the shoemaker's son.

As the shoemaker's son, he told stories, but he could only talk about common and trivial things.And Mozi usually speaks, "When Luyang Wenjun sees me, when Luhou begs me, when Chuwang talks to me, when Qihou asks me about political affairs..."

Feeling emotional for a while, Shi Shi listened to the lectures of Mozi and these Mohists, and roughly understood the cause and effect.

At that time, Luyang Wenjun once said that there was a country of barbarians in the southwest of Chu, called Qiao.

People in Qiao Country have a habit of eating their first child and calling it Yidi.Whoever makes the first child delicious will present it to the monarch, and the monarch will reward him.This may have been casually mentioned by Lu Yang Wenjun and Mozi when they were chatting, so he asked Mozi whether it was ridiculous or not.

Mozi replied, "Isn't the custom in China the same?"The father is forcibly conscripted by the monarch to fight unjust wars, and he exchanges his death for the son's wealth. Isn't this the same as giving the father to the monarch to eat and the son receiving the reward?There are also nobles who recruit labor to build palaces, and people often die of starvation. Isn't this cannibalism?Those barbarians who cannibalize people at least give rewards, but they don't even get rewards for building palaces and cannibalism.

So to change these unrighteous atmospheres, there will be no more unjust wars in China, and the nobles will no longer often recruit farmers for their own self-interest... After doing this, let's mock those barbarians.

He is a person who is good at finding common ground, otherwise he would not be able to summarize the geometric definition of a circle, nor would he be able to use induction to find out the eight foundations of optics.

Shi just arrived, I don't know why Mo Zi talked about it.After listening for a while, I realized that Mozi was using this incident to prepare for the future.

It is probably because there are too many unrighteous customs in the world, and they need to be carefully distinguished. It is not necessarily true that what has always existed is in line with righteousness.

Therefore, since Luo Xiaoli feels unrighteous about offering sacrifices to collect money here, he must also recognize other unrighteous things in the world, be good at distinguishing them, and oppose them all in the future, even if they are deeply rooted customs.

In the end, it seemed that Luo Xiaoli was praised a few more words, and he only said that he should keep his mind of being angry at the injustice, so that he can distinguish more injustices in the future, and his sword skills will never be exhausted.

Then he talked about some things that seem to be taken for granted and have been passed down for a long time, but they are actually unrighteous and ridiculous, and they need to be changed in the future.

Mozi often commented on the policies of various countries, and he would always criticize them in front of the monarchs of various countries, and the monarchs had no choice but to criticize the unjust policies of various countries among these Mozi.

It sounds like Mozi seems to have the intention of changing customs and changing the three views of the world.I changed my mind and thought again, isn't that the so-called synonym?Instilling what is good and what is wrong, hasn't it been done in ancient and modern China and abroad?It is nothing more than the difference between time, space and geography, right and wrong, good and bad are different.

Not long after, Mozi finished his speech and saw that Shi was listening there, so he waved to Shi and said, "It's just in time for you to come. You heard these things just now, and Mr. Sai and Tang Han know a lot of things. I don’t know if you’ve heard of Qiao Yi’s cannibalism before? What’s your comment?”

After thinking for a while, he said, "Mr. Tang Han's meaning is similar to that of a giant. Mr. Sai seldom talks about righteousness, he only talks about the origin. He has a few words about the cannibalism of Guoqiaoyi."

As soon as Mozi heard that Shi talked about the origin of things, he also became interested. He is a person who likes to explore the origin of things, and asked, "How do you say that?"

"The giant also knows that Mr. Sai has the theory of the Nine Paradises. He also knows that many barbarians live in groups of marriages, knowing that their fathers do not know their mothers. According to Mr. Sai's division, the bridge barbarians should be at the end of the two paradises. Originally, women collected men. Hunting, living in groups and interbreeding, children only know their fathers but not their mothers."

"After realizing the will of heaven and learning to cultivate by slash-and-burn farming, a man can support his family, so he naturally hopes to pass on his blood. But the custom of group marriage is still there, so he killed the first son, because he didn't know whether the first son was his own blood. The so-called appropriate Brother, what is appropriate is actually the continuation of the blood of the farming man."

"If it breaks the custom, we must not only have the rites of the holy king, but also innovate the method of farming and labor. The former is light, and without light, there will be no shadow, and the change of light and darkness may change the shape of the shadow; the latter is a thing, and there is no thing. There is no shadow, what kind of thing there is, there will always be what kind of shadow."

He briefly said some similar things, including the issue of the well field military system, and everyone nodded, thinking it made sense.

Mozi pondered for a moment, then praised: "Indeed, that's why you said that to reach this Paradise, you must have ironware, grass and trees, characters printed in mud, and eight-stroke official script? These are things. Only with these objects can we cast shadows that match the objects? Otherwise, the transformation of light and darkness will not last long?"

Shi nodded, Mozi stopped talking, and was still pondering the questions Shi just said, the more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, and he was a little surprised.

I have heard so many things, and I have always believed that everything has its origin, but I never thought that these things that seem to be just customs actually contain these principles that are in line with the origin of things.

Thinking of applying a similar method to evaluate the military system of enfeoffment in the well field, I felt even more eager to see with my own eyes what the world would look like after the popularization of ironware, writing, and silk.

Seeing that Mozi was still thinking, he took the opportunity to instill some similar principles to those Moziers. They were all simple principles and were only for enlightenment.

After talking a lot, when everyone was fascinated by what they heard, Mozi looked at the sky, let the people disperse first, and told them to prepare dinner.

He also said that the more than 20 people he brought with him also came, so after dinner, the corporal leaders from each Mowuzhong gathered together to listen to Gongzaoye's talk about Xiapeidi and discuss countermeasures.

Mo Zhe's trip, even if he didn't come out with all his strength, he made a long-term plan and brought bottles and cans.Ask people to buy corn and bury it in the wild for cooking.

After the meal, more than 30 chief Mo Wu gathered together to form a semicircle.

Mozi sat in the middle in front of the crowd, on the left were Qi Wuhai, Qin Huali, Mo Chengzi, Gongzaoye, etc. who were present, and on the right were those who were waiting for the secretary, responsible for recording, and those who were not Qi Wuhai. Officials of the first and subordinates.

Gong Zaoye first briefly talked about Peidi, and then talked about the ethos of offering sacrifices and collecting money here, which is why Mozi, Luo Xiaoli and others gave lectures in the afternoon.

According to Gong Zaoye, on the fifth day of May this year, there will be a big sacrifice outside Peidi.Not only to collect money for sacrifices, but also to use living people as sacrifices.

At this time, it is also normal to sacrifice a living person, or to use a person to be buried.The customs of the Central Plains gradually changed, but even in Qin, one of the Seven Heroes, the custom of sacrifice and sacrifice had to be changed after the exiled prince Lian succeeded in seizing the throne.

"Historical Records" once recorded: In the first year of Xian Gong, Fang Zhi died.Even if the state of Qin is like this, it is normal for a living person to be sacrificed in this former land of the earl of Xia and Shang.

According to Gongzaoye's investigation, the witch wishes for these sacrifices were originally the witch wishes of various ancient Xia and Shang kingdoms. There are some means of sacrifice and divination, which seem to be of a very high level, as if they really have the skills to reach heaven and earth.

After the country was destroyed, the original monarch's family either went into exile or was taken back to be raised by the big country. Those who stayed here used these ancient customs to make money and win people's hearts.

At this time, witches, historians, and doctors had just separated, but in these ancient places, the three belonged to one family.

I feel that these people may have used their own means in the village community, and at the beginning they mastered some methods of curing diseases. At the same time, they are not good at conducting sacrifices by themselves, and these people are professionals. It is very hard to win people's hearts. possible.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help laughing inwardly, thinking that I had met my opponent.

After thinking about it again, I felt that this was simply hitting my own hand. It was really Lu Ban who was holding a big ax in front of the door, and compared it with myself, a person who had been watching science for ten years, to engage in feudal superstition.
If I go back to science and practice feudal superstition tricks, who in the world can do it?

However, it is also clear that the root of the problem is not the use of means to break the superstition, but the interests between these local big families and those old nobles.

Invoking the sacrificial power is tantamount to completely uprooting the ruling foundation of these old aristocrats.In addition, making money is like killing parents, and the entire Peidi, which is easily incited, opposes the Mohists.

The Mohists have no foundation here, and if they fight, it will easily cause the world to wrath and join forces to kill them, so they can only play side-by-side.

The so-called pulling one hair and moving the whole body is not as simple as what I did in the village.

To deal with such a thing, it is necessary to use a two-pronged approach. A pair of iron fists from the materialistic peasants will hit it, and then kick it out with the legs of popular science. It will definitely cure both the symptoms and the root causes.

It's a pity that he has the ability to popularize science, and he should be able to understand basically any feudal and superstitious methods that the other party's Wu Zhu can use at this time.At this time, this little trick may not be comparable to him using honey to lure ants.

But Mo Zhe hadn't practiced those pair of peasant iron fists yet. At this time, it wasn't even a slap, at most it was a little finger.

Don't beat someone who doesn't hurt you and then break your own bones...

Half of the Mohist heard that their eyes were wide open, and they were all exactly what Luo Xiaoli had looked like back then. When they heard that they were going to burn the living people to sacrifice, they wished they could kill the other party's whole family right now.

But the remaining half of the mature people understand the difficulty of doing this.As Gong Zaoye said, if you kill people directly, those who have been deceived will hate you instead, and it may be difficult for Mohists to gain a foothold here.

So half were passionate and half were silent, but they couldn't think of a really effective means of doing justice.When everyone was at a loss, they stood up and said, "I have a solution, I can try it."

(End of this chapter)