Chapter 310: Differentiation, Fusion, Alliance, and Confrontation (1)
When he asked in a word, Shi's voice was very loud, not only asking Xu Xi, but also asking Xu Xi's disciples.
The Mohists do not lack a Xu Xi, what they lack is more comrades who are beneficial to the heart of the world, and devote themselves to the coming world of chaos and great governance.
The Mo family did not value Xu Xi, but hundreds of peasant disciples, who were beneficial to the world, and even made some big moves in the Song Kingdom.
The peasant disciples on the right side of the lower head were already nodding their heads one after another when they heard the words, many of them showed some sudden realization, and some of them were eager to get up with their swords, and they were willing to devote themselves to it immediately.
When they came to Sishang, they saw everything in Sishang, including the farmers whose living standards were much higher than those elsewhere.
Under the super-profits, the farmers of the Sishang cooperative village also live much higher than in other places.
It's a vertical contrast, but in the eyes of these people it's a horizontal contrast.
The winner is not necessarily right, but in a way politically correct.
The utilitarianism of Mohists and the logic of some behaviors are not evaluated based on morality as the first starting point.
As Mozi said, the three tables that have been appropriately corrected.
Mozi said that if it is in line with the will of heaven, then how can it be regarded as in line with the will of heaven? Answer: The total wealth of society increases, the majority of people benefit, and the population increases.
It doesn't match the set of morality and heart at all.
And to what extent is the utilitarianism of the Mohists?
Kill one person for the benefit of the world, kill or not? Answer, kill.
Wang Zilu was forced to take the throne but would rather commit suicide, is it benevolent? Answer, bullshit benevolence and righteousness, you can do it, and after you do it, you can get rid of the coup d'Γ©tat and make the people benefit, and you must use the results to evaluate benevolence and righteousness! You wiped your neck and died, leaving behind your reputation, what should the people of Chu do?
Just like the strange ethical logic derived from the people of Sishang, "Although I am not a writer and cannot die for the benefit of the world, but I pay taxes normally, I serve in the military, and I get rich under the premise that the law does not prohibit it, then I am in line with the will of heaven, and I am the best respect for Haotian God by people other than the ink who dies for the benefit of the world", it is more about the result rather than the process.
Pure, only right and wrong moral justice, because virtue is the highest standard, then there is only good and bad, there is no difference between good, very good, good, bad, bad, very bad.
The Mohists' emphasis on the word "right" has led to the fact that it is impossible for the Mohists to take morality as the highest standard.
Power, take the big and abandon the small, take the big and the small and give up the big and the small and the small, then it can't be black and white.
Of course, this may not be right, but it is the best way to take Zhuxia and Kyushu forward in the short term under the great changes unseen in a thousand years, rather than waiting for the sprouts that slowly accumulate and may be interrupted by the "self-transformation of all things".
Is there any justification for the morality of the farmer?
In fact, for the Mo family, it makes too much sense.
Because of the Mohist saying: righteousness is profit.
Different classes have different interests, so they have different meanings. If the small peasants directly supported the brutal industrial and commercial development, it would definitely be a separation of the brain and the hips, and they would be looked down upon by the Mo family.
In the long run, this is exactly the result that Shi wants most: people wake up from ignorance, even if one day the Mo family fails, the people who wake up will no longer be willing to sleep.
The debate between suitability and Xu Xi has been changing concepts from the very beginning.
Xu Xi wants to debate and win.
It is not to win the debate, but to convince the disciples of those peasant families.
The starting points of the two men are completely different.
Did the argument win Xu Xi?
In the end, he still did not solve the problem of "whether the scissors of industrialists and businessmen are unfair to farmers", but secretly changed the concept and changed it to the question of "which one to solve first, the big unfairness or the small unfairness".
It is not possible to explain this issue clearly in three or five days, nor is it something that can be clearly explained now.
Appropriate to turn true/false questions into multiple-choice questions.
The utilitarian nature of Mohists distorts the moral justice of the problem.
Utilitarianism is selective.
Moral justice is only right and wrong, right and wrong, and there is no trade-off.
Xu Xi could feel that this debate was not over at all, but there was no way to continue the debate directly.
Now he throws this question and asks him if he is willing to benefit the world together?
He had to answer. Must answer.
If he doesn't answer, his disciples will be disappointed, and they may go to the Mohist Organization Department to write an application in the evening.
He replied that it was tantamount to acknowledging that it was a choice, not a right or wrong.
Unless he slaps the table now and says I think it has to be perfect and fair, and then Xu Xi understands, with his previous performance, he must ask him what to do?
When the time came, he couldn't find a way.
The disciples followed him, not because the disciples wanted to ask for profit, but because they wanted to benefit the world, but it just so happened that the disciples thought that Xu Xi's morality could benefit the world.
Now the Mo family has also given a better way to benefit the world, with a plan, a routine, a long-term, and a present, and has given enough steps for the farmer: let's get rid of the aristocracy together, and then let's talk about the righteousness of the Kyushu Zhuxia, that is, the benefit, which class is inclined to be inside.
The Mo family is preparing to tear up their faces with the old world, so it can be said so bluntly: we just want to make trouble, we are preparing muskets and cannons, just to benefit the world, and the biggest obstacle to the world is those silverfish, we want to get rid of them, do you want to come together?
The previous inference that the Mo family's top brass would terror the balance within five years; The First Battle of Qi Mo provoked the outcome of the melee between the Three Jin, Chu and Qin; is also the reason why Shi Shi dares to say so bluntly now: I just said that I was going to rebel and come to arrest me!
Wei didn't dare to catch it, because he was afraid that Qin would explode the chrysanthemum.
Zhao Guo didn't dare to catch it himself, if he wanted to catch it, he had to pull Wei Guo, Wei Guo was worried that Qin Guo would explode the chrysanthemum, so he didn't dare to agree, Zhao Guo couldn't handle Gao Liuyunzhong by himself, let alone Sishang.
The state of Chu has just finished a war, the internal problems have not been solved, and the centralized reform is the most intense time, and the king of Chu is now carrying out it with Sishang, that is, a kick on the steel plate will make all the achievements of the reform go to waste. If he didn't take advantage of Chen Cai's huge prestige to change quickly, then King Chu's brain would definitely be rusty.
Qi Guo couldn't recover within five years of being scared, and he was even more powerless.
This is also the external reason why after the whole Shi came to power, the entire public opinion turned on a large scale, and when he came to power, he announced that non-offensive was not a means to benefit the world at this stage, the officer corps was expanded on a large scale, and the merchants were forced to reduce taxes on rice from Chuyue ballast.
It was even before this great controversy between the sons and the hundred schools of thought that the Mo family directly explained the external reasons for inviting the peasants to conspire with great things.
At this moment, Xu Xi has no other choice, whether it is from the attitude of the disciple or the future given by the Mo family that "can be discussed in the future", he can only choose to benefit the world together.
Merchants seeking profit will trample on all the laws of the world for the sake of profit, which is the plight of small peasants in some areas of Chu State, and it is also the source of the market price that the small peasant class hopes the most.
The fact that the feudal lords had to intensify their exploitation in order to maintain their quality of life brought about by the exploitation of labor and land rent, heavy forced labor, and commodity dumping was the source of the small peasant class's favorite "sage and people working together".
The tactics of dumping, monopoly, super-profits, arms sales, and inciting war of the "imperialists" in Sishang have exacerbated this contradiction. Moreover, there is a faction of people in the Mo family who believe that I dump, I forced Qi Chu to be exempted from tariffs, I instigated war, I sold arms, and I made super profits, but I wanted to benefit the world in the future.
Xu Xi didn't think of the latter point, but he was opposing the first two points, and the monopoly pricing of salt and iron in Sishang was also a reason why Xu Xi was able to accept the Mohist truth.
Under the ardent expectation of his disciples, Xu Xi had no choice but to say: "Our peasant family is also beneficial to the heart of the world. As you said, seek common ground while reserving differences, and we can talk about our affairs in the future. But what about the future? β
Shi Dao: "Does Mr. know Zimozi's theory of specimen balance?" β
The specimen in the context of Mohistism is leverage, which Xu Xi still understands.
He nodded, and said appropriately, "The specimen is the lever." How much is the weight, the length is calculated, and the weight can also be known. As long as a balance is reached through the calculation of the will of heaven and the price control is within a range, it will be possible to make all the peasants, industrialists and industrialists benefit and accept it. β
"This is the Sishang Wanmin Law Conference, righteousness is benefit, different strata have different interests, and there are different righteousness, each step back can talk about it, and if it can't talk, it will be fought."
"The peasants and we can still talk, but we can't talk to the princes and nobles, we can't talk, and you can't talk about it. No matter how bad it is, there is also a "Price Limit Decree" in Sishang, and when the floods were raging seven years ago, prices in Sishang were also stable. β
Inside, you must first go outside. There is no doubt that the propaganda of the Mo family in the market has created a common enemy for agriculture, industry and commerce-aristocracy, which is the difference between inside and outside.
Xu Xi did not question the question of why the Mohists were still keen on struggle, because since the Mozi era, the Mohists have said that the punishment of injustice is the embodiment of love, and when the injustice is punished, the Mohist must not only participate, but also be the drummer who "beats the drum and advances".
His attitude towards Sishang was close, but he was a little dissatisfied with Sishang's representation of the interests of businessmen.
So he asked half-smilingly and half-solemnly: "The number of farmers is always the largest, and there are ten or nine people in the world who are engaged in farming. β
"According to the Mohist saying, righteousness is profit. In the future, if the righteousness of the Mohists represents the interests of industrialists and businessmen, the number of industrialists and businessmen will be small...... The Mo family wouldn't be engaged in dividing the proportion of representatives of the people according to property and taxes, right? β
Shi Ye laughed and said solemnly: "No, no!" This is the most basic morality, and it is impossible for us to violate it. Zi Mozi said, righteousness should be in line with the will of heaven, people are nothing but the old and the young, the noble and the lowly are equal, and the matter you said about dividing the representatives of the people according to property and taxes will not happen. β
Xu Xi took a sip of water from the porcelain cup printed with "Profit the world, live and die" in front of him, moistened his throat, which had already been dry, and the disciples under him let out bursts of cheers.
Once the overall situation is decided, the rest of the issues do not need to be discussed with Xu Xi, but are handed over to others.
After the two of them got up and saluted separately, they said goodbye first, and there were two people in charge of the Mo family waiting to talk to Xu Xi.
One is the strategy of the Song direction, and some of the cities of the peasant family in the Song State are very much in line with the interests of those landless farmers, and they develop rapidly.
The other is to arrange a small experimental field of the farmer in Chu State and the farmer to work together in Sishang to benefit the world.
Neither of these needs to be properly discussed.
When the crowd had dispersed, the stenographers were comparing with each other to make up what they had not written down.
The appropriate secretary immediately stepped forward, handed over a form and said, "Giant, this is the arrangement for the past few days. β
Shi rubbed his eyes, a little tired, the secretary understood, and said with a very good memory: "In the evening, you will attend a banquet with the farmer's family. In the evening, I would go to the theater with farmers and Taoists to watch performances. β
"There was also a military meeting in the evening to discuss the change of flint muskets."
"Tomorrow morning, I will first attend a meeting on the Qin State, at noon I will finally draw up a speech at the meeting of princes, and tomorrow night I will go to meet Yang Zhu and Lie Yukou."
"The morning after tomorrow, I will discuss with the corpse about whether the earth is flat or round, such as 'the universe' and 'the upper and lower are relative'......"
Shi nodded, and asked again: "The rest of the sects, after they come, there should be no inappropriate arrangements." β
The secretary smiled: "Don't worry, giant, not only do we have to pay attention to decency, but they also pay attention." Originally, Zi Zhang Zhiru's hospitality standards could have been slightly higher, and they also had places to learn from each other in some things and some of our ideas, and there were also places to support us in some morals, plus the inheritance relationship between Zi Mozi and them. β
"But because of our relationship with Confucianism, the descendants of Zizhang Zhiru took the initiative to say that all the hospitality specifications are the same as those of the rest of the factions...... Confucianism is a sworn enemy, and they don't want to be infamous for betraying Confucianism. They are already cheap, and they don't want to be scolded as concubines like the Confucians of the Lezheng clan. β
"Hmm...... Therefore, a part of the Confucianism of the Lezheng clan hopes that we will not receive it, anyway, we will discuss grammar, grammar, and rhetoric, and we will not be in a hurry to compare things with words......"
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