warring states careerist

Chapter 982

For the elite figures under the old system and old rules, I don't really want to talk about these things with them.

Chickens and ducks have different basic views, and it is impossible to argue about right and wrong on a specific matter. In the end, it is only the turn to talk about the most basic things, and those things are difficult to convince each other.

There was a rumor that King Wu asked Jizi about his fate after defeating Zhou. After listening to it, he became nervous and seriously ill, and died the next year.

I'm afraid it's talking about mysterious and mysterious things such as theocracy, orthodoxy, and legal principles.After all, for businessmen, the gods they recognize are the ancestors of the Yin and Shang royal family, and they are a family. If Zhou wants to talk about the destiny, he can only change the meaning of God, but it is extremely difficult.

At this time, the question that the scholar is talking about is actually similar in a sense.

The foundation of Confucianism is to change the system from the ancient times. They think they are right. It originated from the ancient times of Yao, Shun and Yu. Some things are eternal and unchanging, so their morality is legal.

Now that the scholar finished laying the groundwork, he said again: "Zhongni is a great talent. However, after Zhongni passed away, there were Confucians of the Zizhang family, Confucians of the Yan family, Confucians of the Qidiao family, Confucians of the Zhongliang family, and Confucians of the Lezheng family. Confucianism."

"Confucianism is divided, and the choices are opposite and different, but they all claim to be true Confucianism. Those who say anything else are heresies and revisions."

"Zhong Ni can't be resurrected, who will be determined as a true Confucian? Who will be a heretic? Who will be a revisionist?"

"The root cause of this is that the events of the Yao, Shun and Yu eras cannot be known. They are all speculations or fabrications. In this way, anyone can say that they are true Confucians, and then denounce others as heresy and corrections."

"Confucianism is like this, so isn't Mohism in such danger?"

"Now that Shizi is still alive, the Mohist school can still be one, united and united, and comrades are of one mind. The Mohist school does not shy away from life and death, so if Shizi dies, wouldn't the Mohist school split into many factions, each thinking that they are orthodox and rejecting each other as Heresy, correction?"

"It's foolish to think that the success of the Mohists is synonymous, and its failure is also synonymous."

Shi smiled and didn't refute directly, but asked: "Why is success also synonymous and failure also synonymous?"

The scholar glanced at Shi, and said with a smile: "How can Shizi not know? He just wants to hear what I say, and then find flaws in my words to criticize me, avoid the main problem, and learn from my words." A small mistake to overthrow everything about me."

"But it doesn't matter. I don't want to defeat Shizi in terms of words. I just need to say it. If Shizi avoids the important and ignores the light, then even if I am refuted by Shizi because of a small mistake in my speech, then I am the winner, because My purpose is not to refute Shizi in words, but to make sure that Shizi knows and cannot refute, winning or losing depends on my purpose."

This kind of unilateral declaration of victory before arguing made many people present laugh.

The scholar was not shy, and said calmly: "Success is synonymous, needless to say, I only say failure is synonymous."

"The giants of the Mohists must have the right to interpret the will of heaven. Then this will fall into the situation of Confucianism: every giant must let the upper and lower be synonymous, agree with his own interpretation of 'True Mo', and denounce others as heresy corrections , It’s just attacking heresy and doing harm.”

"At that time, there will be endless internal struggles, everyone will think that they are the real Mo, and everyone will think that others are the heretics. The Mohism can be divided infinitely, and eventually the world will be in chaos."

"In today's troubled times, Mo Zhai knows both the will of heaven and the battle formation, and so does Shizi. Therefore, Shizi can explain Tianzhi and think he is a giant, and he can hold the military power in his hands. No one in the world will dare not to follow. Will people be able to know the will of heaven to explain nature? Then how will this problem be solved?"

The words of the scholars are just a variant of the legalist theory that has just begun to be circulated and carried forward at this time.

Originally, the situation that "Confucianism and Mohism are infinitely divisible" did appear in history. Confucianism did not mention eight points, Mohism also had three points, and after three points, there were three points. In the end, both went to Legalism and Taoism On the other side, there are also those who have gone to the retro samurai spirit.

Criticize each other, fight each other, and finally have to respect one school and think it is orthodox. This is a civilized struggle for theocracy in a broad sense.

I have to say that the problem the scholar mentioned does exist, but in fact it is not dangerous.

After the reorganization of the Mohists in Shangqiu City, Shi did not choose to take the route of training troops to seize military power, and then wait until later to clean up the military coup.

But from then on, he was the first person to abide by the rules of the entire Mohist school. He started as the secretary of Mozi, mastered the power of internal party building and ideological interpretation, and then focused on the economy and military, which were only auxiliary. He has the great righteousness of "interpreting the natural will of heaven", and thus became a giant, not a military coup.

He has no way to solve the situation that the scholar said, because from the very beginning, he was prepared to let the Mohist school be smashed to pieces and separate into many different schools in the future.

What Mohism now represents is the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, and it wants to crush the small peasants, small citizens, and small producers who were the basic base of Mohism.Of course there will be resistance and dissatisfaction. This resistance and dissatisfaction will be crushed to maturity by the wheel of history. Until one day, when these crushed classes have nothing but to sell their labor, the problems of the world will be much simpler. .

Just like Shi’s usual approach: he couldn’t solve the question that Qufu people asked Mozi back then, that is, I love Zou people more than Yue people, Lu people more than Zou people... Shi’s solution is to get rid of Lu people The Yue people, the Zou people, became the people of the world.

Similarly, he can't solve all kinds of struggles in the future, so let the problem be simplified, so that there are fewer and fewer opposing parties that have contradictions, and turn the colorful into light and dark.

That's why he didn't care whether the Mohist school would split in the future, and that's why he would keep the peasant family with a strong fantasy element to repair it with them, and he would also maintain the internal self-suffering faction.

At this time, the scholar asked this question, which is a bit like King Wu asked Jizi back then.

Shilue thought for a while, and asked the scholar, "I know that you said that Confucianists attacked each other's heresies. But you said that Confucianism and Mohism are the same, and they all imitate Yao, Shun and Yu. In fact, it is not the same. The one you mentioned later If you want to solve the problem, you must first figure out whether the Mohist imitation of Yao, Shunyu and the Confucianism of Yao, Shunyu are the same thing.”

Scholars said: "Differences in the law and different choices are all called true Yao, Shun, and Yu. You can say that it is different from the choice, but you can't say that the method is different. For example, the Mohism came from Yao, Shun and Yu. What Confucianism brings is moral eternity, but it’s all ancient, isn’t it?”

"Your so-called equality, universal love, synonymousness, and the principle that Tao follows nature, that land should belong to all people in the world. Isn't this Fagu?"

"Under the whole world, is it the king's land? If it is not Fagu, how can we conclude that it is correct that the land belongs to the people of the world?"

"Because you need to be correct, you must recognize that it was correct in ancient times. It was correct in ancient times, but Yin was more than [-] years old, Yu and Xia were more than [-] years old, and the way of Yao and Shun was [-] years old. Knowing what was going on at the time, it will lead to everyone being able to say that they are true Confucianists and true Mohists.”

Shi laughed and said: "I thought that you came here to make high-level remarks, but I didn't want to make some wild speculations. It is very clear in the books of the Mohists that the reason that the land belongs to the people of the world comes from nature. , the so-called Dao follows nature, not Dao follows Yao and Shun.”

"It's just that in the time of Yao and Shun, it happened that the land belonged to the people of the world. Yao and Shun were indeed saints, but even saints, how can they compare with the natural will of heaven?"

"The Mohist legal system, the law comes from nature, not the ancient sages."

"The Mohist regards Yu as a holy man, which is to praise Dayu's wind and rain to benefit the world, not to praise Dayu's everything. At the time of Dayu, all the manpower and material resources in the world were used to control the water. Could it be that the Mohists are taking all the manpower and material resources in the world now? Has the water been cured?"

"It is for the benefit of the world to dredge the river in spite of the wind and rain so that people will not be fish and turtles; it is for the benefit of the world to study the will of heaven, invent machinery, master techniques and distribute land. What the Mohists admire is the soul of Yu, not his government."

"Zi Mozi said: Yao was good at governing, and it has been in ancient times since ancient times. Since ancient times, Yao has not been able to govern."

"Yao was a person who practiced good governance, but it was a policy that was in line with the actual situation at the time. At that time, slash-and-burn farming, Yao burned and planted in spring, which can be called good governance; but now that he has planted wheat, if he still burns in spring, it will be harmful. politics."

"If the present is in the past, Yao is good at governing; if the past is in the present, Yao's government is harmful."

"What is good governance? It benefits the world."

"How do you know whether the world is benefiting? Zimozi has three words, whether the so-called population has increased? Has the sum of genius wealth increased? Has the increased wealth benefited most people?"

"Mohists believe that the will of heaven is eternal, while Confucianism believes that loyalty, propriety, righteousness and morality are eternal. This is the essential difference."

"Zimozi looked at the image of a concave mirror in the past, and thought that the image of a concave mirror is called the center of the sphere. But in the past in the city of Shangqiu, I used grass and silk to do things like flying birds and saying that the shadow does not move. Zimozi said that experience is the first. After verification, it was found that the image of the concave mirror is called the focus rather than the center of the sphere."

"Zimozi looked at the pulley and the inclined plane in the past, and pointed out that pulling the object on the inclined plane is less labor-saving than pulling the object directly in the air, so someone proposed the quadrilateral law of force in the preface today."

"Zimozi thought in the past that force was the reason for the shape of objects. But now it has been verified that force is the source of changing the original state of objects rather than the movement of objects."

"So nature is eternal, and the reason why people interpret nature can be changed. Only nature is eternal and can be judged from right to wrong."

"So Mohists can make mistakes, and they can be pointed out that they are wrong."

"And if morality is eternal, and loyalty, propriety and righteousness are eternal, then the most moral people are the ancient sage kings such as Yao, Shun and Yu, so they are the closest to eternal morality, so there is no good governance by Yao, and it has been in ancient times. From ancient times to the present, it is a problem that Yao cannot govern. Yao’s government must be a good government, and this will lead to the situation you said that the seven hundred and two thousand ancient sage kings in the Yin and Shang Dynasties all depended on making up.”

"Because morality is eternal, so the sage king is correct, so the ancient law is reasonable, so it is compiled. Why did the Mohists compile it? Yao's policy was good at the time, but now it is harmful to the government. Our law is nature, and the rule of law comes from Tao. Then we What are you doing to compile the ancient government?"

"It's not because Yao and Shun valued the virtuous, so it is right to promote the virtuous, but because it is right, so Yao and Shun are the sage kings. Yao only planted grain for one season, and you can't say that Yao only planted one season. The government must be good governance, but we must think that it is harmful to the government now, but it is good governance under the circumstances at that time.”

"The legal system of Mohism is nature, and what Juzi inherits is a method of understanding the natural world, not an unchangeable conclusion. The legal system of Confucianism is morality, and what Confucianism inherits is an eternal morality, which is an unchangeable conclusion. This is the difference , so what you are worried about is nothing at all."

"It is deduced from the method that in the future, I can be B, but now I am doing A, so in the future they will naturally be able to say, 'Good governance is the same as in ancient times. Since ancient times, it is not suitable for governance'. What's so scary about that?"

(End of this chapter)