Chapter 3 The Juniper Tree Talks the World (Part II)
Only then did everyone know that Mr. actually used this story to talk about the general trend of the world.
I know that the old gentleman in front of me has always cherished the common people in his heart, and has practiced his ideals all his life, just to love and not attack. Hearing Mr. sigh, he also sighed accordingly.
He had just crossed over, and he had not traveled to all parts of the world, and he had not personally experienced the suffering of the peoples and the rebellion of conquest, but he knew that his sigh must be what his husband liked.
Sure enough, after sighing, the gentleman glanced at Shi Shi and bowed his head slightly to show encouragement.
"Just now, when I talked about the story of buying shoes, and when I talked about the dialectics of the ink man, it can not only be used to argue with others, but also can be used elsewhere, so I feel this way. In this troubled world, we ink scholars will eventually take the end of the troubled times as the righteousness, and the rest are small paths. ”
Speaking of this, Mr. remembered that he had been running all his life, but now the world is more chaotic than when he was young, and he thought of his previous serious illness and the questioning of others in the illness, even if he never showed helplessness and fatigue in his life, he sighed several times again and again - the time limit is approaching, can his ideals be realized? Can these disciples of his own carry forward the study of the Ink Master? Will this troubled world one day end to everyone's well-being?
There is not much time left for him, and today he doesn't know why he has such a sigh, looking at the group of young people sitting on the ground, these are not his personal disciples, but they still said these words like an autumn wind.
"In my life, I have scolded Confucian pigs and dogs, but I have praised Kong Zhongni. The only bad evaluation is that someone asked me, you Mo Zhai said that you should choose a saint as the Son of Heaven. If so, Zhong Ni is exquisite in the six arts, and he is proficient in etiquette and poetry, this is exactly the saint, shouldn't he be chosen as the Son of Heaven? ”
Rumo has always been at odds, and of course everyone under the tree knows it. Confucianism said that the ink was a beast, and the ink said that the Confucian was a pig and a dog. At this time, the six arts of Confucianism still have the art of imperial archery, and there are even more swordsmen and rangers on the ink side, and the two sides not only move their mouths but also do their hands, and the contradiction is deep early.
Everyone under the tree looked up, wondering what their respected and beloved gentleman had answered.
The old man's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he were recalling a long time ago, and the sunlight seeping from the leaves fell on his face, shining the wrinkles into mottled furrows.
After a long time, the old man's throat moved, and he said slowly: "I said, those things of Zhongni are not his own thoughts, but just what his predecessors did and he learned, this is like counting the numbers on other people's contracts and saying that he is rich, this is not a saint, of course he can't choose his son." ”
"After King Wu was defeated, he sealed his relatives and formulated weekly rituals, so he was naturally a saint. But if it has changed today, the feudal system has made the world chaotic, and the Zhou rites are so old-fashioned that no one abides by them, what is the use of learning at this time? ”
"What is a saint? Four hundred years ago, it was divided into feudalism and enacted the next Zhou ceremony, and it was the people of Xia Jun who were saints. Now that the stars change the sun and the moon more easily, and if you use those again, of course, you will no longer be a saint. Whoever can formulate the rules of the feudal system after the war, who can formulate new good and evil etiquette and make everyone abide by it, and who can put an end to this troubled world, who is a saint, can be elected as the Son of Heaven. ”
"Just like making a wheel, of course, the rim needs to be thin, but if the spoked wood is also to be roasted over fire, it is unwise and pedantic. The rim is different from the spokes, how can the saints of 400 years ago be the same as the saints of today? This feudal system of Zhou rites and ceremonies is the wheel, but unfortunately it is not the wheel frame but the spokes of the wood in this world. ”
People are old, and their words must be good, but the old man in front of him is square, there is a little bit of gold and iron intersecting firmness, his heart is like a stone, self-confidence in the body, of course, it can be said loudly, like a broken jade.
In today's world, there are not many people who are qualified to evaluate Confucius in this way, but the old man in front of him is definitely one of the most qualified to say so.
The deceased master is too dazzling, creating a precedent for private learning, and he is even more knowledgeable in his life, so that people don't know what he is best at, and he knows too much, and there is light everywhere, but people can't see the most shining place.
Only these dying old men of the previous era knew that the deceased master was most proficient in not etiquette and spring and autumn poems, but driving and archery. Knowing so much that people don't know what the most dazzling thing is, this is terrifying, admirable, and lamentable.
Such a person naturally deserves the respect of the gentleman in front of him. But even if you respect it, if you don't agree with the concept, you still disdain the characters and even have a hint of disdain. I'm afraid that there are still some regrets in my heart, and I can't argue with it if I can't be born a hundred years early.
Confucianism and Mo's mortal enemies are intolerable, and their positions are contradictory.
But stance and wisdom have nothing to do with courage, it is only a feedback of economic attributes, depending on social status. Putting aside this unchangeable position, the person who best understood Confucius's wisdom and courage at this time was probably Mozi. Heroes always cherish each other.
The past is the same, the romantic characters are all in the past, but this troubled world has not ended, who will be the romantic person in the world in the next few decades? Whose doctrine can save the nations from fire and water in this chaotic and new age?
Mozi looked at these young people under the tree, thinking of those personal disciples who died earlier than himself, and his old body gave birth to a sense of pride, and said freely: "When Zixia accepted apprentices in Xihe, you all know what kind of characters he taught. The characters from Xihe are Li Kui, Wu Qi, Gu Liangchi, and Ram Gao...... Are these people the same as Jonny's? ”
Zeng Shen questioned Zixia, saying that these things you taught were different from what the teacher taught, but everyone thought that this was the master's truth, and even thought that you were the master. It is a great sin that you have betrayed the teachings of the gentleman. Zixia cried bitterly and was heartbroken. ”
"Only a hundred years after Jonni's death, his disciples thought that his teachings could be corrected."
"My reasoning is different."
"As far as the world is concerned, the principles of non-aggression, love, virtue, and synonym are irreversible."
"To abandon my doctrines and ideas and to study other doctrines is like to abandon the corn of the land in the autumn and not to harvest it, but to gather the remaining ears of grain from other fields. Using other people's ideas and doctrines to attack and deny my doctrine is like an egg hitting a stone. Even if you smash the eggs in the world, this stone will still stand, and there will be no cracks! ”
"Whoever believes in me will do what is righteous. Whoever does not believe will eventually be like an egg striking a stone, and the egg will be all over the ground, and the smell will attract flies. ”
These words attracted unanimous applause from everyone, but Shi Shi chuckled in his heart and was stunned.
He really didn't expect Mozi to be such a Mozi, these words were extremely flamboyant, infinitely confident, and even ...... So arrogant.
The thought of shock flashed through his heart, and his face couldn't help but show a trace of shame.
After all, this is Zhuxia's adolescence, proud, brave, flamboyant, and full of curiosity about everything.
Even the old man is still full of edges and corners, and the person who pierces it hurts a little, making him, a person who is used to being sleek and hornless, mistake self-confidence for arrogance.
However, in these troubled times, it is not enough to be holy, and not to be delusional is not enough to preach.
Sleek and weak, it is not the color of this era, and it is impossible for such a person to shine in such an era.
Zhuangzi criticized the theory of the world, and said bluntly at the beginning: "There are many people in the world who are engaged in academics, and they all think that their learning has reached the peak." Of course, although he didn't say it explicitly in the world, he definitely felt that he was at the top, which was pretending to be invisible.
Xunzi commented on the twelve sons, sprayed the well-known sons one by one, and wrote a book to commemorate after scolding, except for the master, he is either a fool or a bad mind or a rotten person, anyway, there is no normal person.
Rumo calls each other pigs and dogs. The beasts and the pigs and dogs scolded each other, and listening to the conversation between the Confucian disciples was like entering a breeding farm.
Yang Zhu is rightly unruly, regards hundreds of schools as crickets, and kills people if they disagree with each other in the market...... Looking at the sons at this time, there is no one who is mellow and mediocre without edges and corners, because if you take a step back, you will be forced to die by other theories to the Jedi.
Even the gentle-mannered and polite master, when he encountered a conflict of ideas, once said angrily: I want to expel Ran Qiu from Confucianism, and you will beat the drum and attack him to fight him down and criticize him!
This is indeed an era of insolence and self-confidence.
Such a traverser, although young, has a bit of a decadent atmosphere of dying old age in this era, especially compared with the old man in front of him.
But this shame was only fleeting, and he didn't have time to think about his own obsolescence, but what he thought about was to take this opportunity to say a few more words to deepen Mozi's impression of himself.
So when everyone was still pondering Mr.'s arrogant words, they stood up and bowed solemnly, and said loudly: "What Mr. said is right, it must be feasible to uphold Mr.'s truth to do righteous deeds to save the world." If it is not done, it is not that Mr. is wrong, but that he has done it wrong. Just like using an axe to cut wood, if the chop is skewed, how can it be blamed on the straight ink line? ”
This is very problematic, it is common to any concept, it is very much a refuge fanatic, and it sounds like this sentence does not sound inconsistent with any other family, and Mozi will not fail to understand this truth.
But Shi feels that the meaning of saying it at this time is very different.
The gentleman in front of him is indeed full of self-confidence and flamboyance, and he is indeed wise and invincible, and his heart is as strong as iron, but he is old after all.
It's not that you're willing to listen to these hypocritical words when you're old, but that your body can be old, but will the truths you practice really pass on after you die? Could it be that a character like Zixia will also appear under the door? Will someone change the Mohist school beyond recognition?
Mo Zhai's eyes flashed, staring closely at Shi Shi, who was still in a bowing posture, and secretly wondered in his heart.
This young man named Shi had only listened to a few lectures, and there was nothing amazing at all on weekdays, and he only learned the name of this young man today.
But today, this young man has repeatedly said amazing words, and he praised a sentence of jade carving before, but now he heard such an answer, and he couldn't help but have some interest in this young man.
He doesn't care about the compliments of others, but he knows that what he needs most now is someone who truly believes in his ideas.
Shi didn't raise his head, but continued to maintain a bowed posture, without trying to secretly observe Mr.'s expression, but there was a faint coolness dripping with sweat behind him.
His own family background and today's reality have determined that if he wants to make a big deal in this era, there is only one way to become a disciple of Zhuzi. In this era of extreme poverty in the material and spiritual life of cooking and reading books and pounds, you will go crazy in a dull life.
The sweat behind him kept coming out, and it was constantly dried by the wind, and I didn't wait for another word of praise from Mr. for a long time.
"It's noon, that's all for today, let's disperse first."
After a long time, Mozi's voice reached the right ears.
What kind of statement is this? Do you think that my heart is as strong as copper and iron and can be accepted as a personal disciple? Or do you think that I have the heart of a villain and speak treacherous words?
The dice are rolled, but they are not lifted for a long time, and the process of waiting for the result is always painful.
It's just that since Mr. has already said so, he can only wait, and he doesn't dare to say anything. I don't know if the sentence I slapped the horse on the horse's buttocks or on the horse's hooves.
When he looked up again, Mozi had already left, leaving only the young people around him who were still immersed in the truth just now, dancing with their hands and feet to think that they had attained the Tao.
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Mozi returned to the room, this time is no longer the time when the Song people did not know so that he could only take shelter from the rain under the city gate, the Mozi Qilu Song Zheng Kingdom is the most, and Shangqiu is a gathering of disciples, and it is not a problem to live.
I flipped out a piece of bamboo that had been cut, and there was no writing on it, so it was clean.
There was also a pile of bamboo slips that had been worn in cooked cowhide next to it, and it was obvious that this new bamboo slip would be strung together with those after being covered with large seals.
In the previous bamboo slips, it was the essence of the Mo family that he wrote, and it was also what he thought all his life, and he should have waved his hand, but he didn't mention a word in the past few days.
Thinking of the confident words under the juniper tree today, there is a knot in my heart that has not been untied.
He can say that Shangxian, non-attack, and love are all righteousness, and there is nothing wrong with that, so he said that.
But there are other things in the Mohist creed, and the rest are the knots in his heart that have not yet been untied, so they are not mentioned in the words.
A serious illness a while ago made him stop his righteous footsteps and stay in Shangqiu to recuperate.
After recovering from his illness, some disciples had doubts.
"Mr. has been enlightened all his life, and believes that ghosts and gods are wise, and that ghosts and gods will be rewarded if people do well, and ghosts and gods will bring disaster if they do not do well. Now that my husband is sick, there are only two possibilities. Either the ghosts and gods are unwise, or there is something wrong with the gentleman's reasoning that makes the ghosts and gods angry. Inferring from the dialectics that the master said, the disciple can only come to these two conclusions......"
Although the answer was given at the beginning, there was no loophole in the logic, it was nothing more than the relationship between the necessary and the sufficiently unnecessary, but he knew in his heart that there was still some quibbling after all.
Everyone in the world knows that Mohist dialectics are unparalleled and logical, but Mozi also knows that in his own truth, it is really logical to succeed and logical, and the biggest loophole is the theory of ghosts.
Confucian scholars can talk about intimacy and sparseness, and they can talk about hierarchy, because it has always been like this, so it is a matter of course.
And if he wants to talk about both love and non-attack, and talk about being virtuous and still the same, there must be a reason, because this is completely different from the times.
It's good to have love, but why love? Sang-hyun is good, but why Sang-hyun? Because the Mohists talk about logic, the biggest problem arises, and it can only be said that because this is Tianzhi, this is what ghosts and gods like.
In addition to this, the Ming Ghost is also a kind of supervision system for those in power. Confucianism talks about the self-cultivation of those in power, and the Mohists think that they have to rely on supervision, who will supervise? At this moment, racking your brains, you can think of the theory of ghosts and gods.
Because the step is too big, I am at a loss, and I have the most vulnerable vulnerability.
Facing the blank bamboo slips, thinking about the doubts of his sick disciples, Mozi found it difficult to write and fill in the loopholes that he knew.
Controlled by the times, of course he didn't know that four hundred years after him, the solution used by the Fanbang people tens of thousands of miles away was that everyone was the heir of the Emperor of Heaven, so everyone was a brother and sister, so to love others was to love his own brothers and sisters, and it sounded like there was a truth that could be accepted by the foolish people of Qianshou.
I don't know that much later, relying on the theory of the wealth of nations in political economy and Ricardo's theory of land rent, it was explained that the aristocratic landowners in the hierarchy were moths; Relying on the ideas of the Enlightenment, the solution to supervision and equality was theoretically given.
It's not that he is inferior to others, it's just that he was born too early, precocious to the point that he still uses plowing and plowing, and now it is rare to see cattle ploughing, and there is no paper, let alone printing...... This is the limitation of the relentless history from which it is difficult to extricate itself.
The economic foundation determines the superstructure, but who would have thought that when Hongmeng first opened the road and the blue wisps of clouds and mist, there were many people who saw through the morning sun outside the clouds and mist, trying to tear apart the mist above the shroud, thinking that they could see a clear and perfect world under the shroud of the rising sun.
After all, it's too early.
It's just too early.
Thinking that I am already seventy this year, and my time is short, the biggest loophole in the doctrine that I have practiced all my life is why I should practice the cause of the rest of the fruits of the virtuous and the same, and how to make up for it? How to make up?
After being silent for a long time, there was no answer, so I put it down first.
He's different from Jonny.
Zhongni Seventy can do whatever his heart wants, and that is because the heart is one, and this moment is the moment that exists in the world.
Mo Zhai is also seventy, and he can do what he wants without exceeding the rules, and he is also the unity of the heart, but his moment is not the moment in the world.
What's even more terrifying is that after that serious illness, the knot in his heart caused by his disciple's doubts made him start to worry.
Thinking of the praise of the young man named Shi just now, his heart was even more worried, so he was not too happy, but said lightly to let everyone disperse.
"How can a young child of a shoemaker's family understand this? It's really interesting, and if you have the chance, you can take a look at it again. ”
Just as I was thinking about whether to go back to the lecture in a few days to see how this young man was doing, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door.
"Sir! Mr! Something happened to Qi Guo. Tian Mourning died, Gongsun accused Tian He of killing his brother to seize power, Tian killed Gongsun Sun, Gongsun would stand on his own in Liqiu, and ask for help from Zhao's ......"
The disciple gasped heavily, apparently rushing all the way to bring the news back.
Xiaqiu is in Yuncheng, not too far from here, and it is the throat of Qi, Lu, Sanjin, Song, Zheng and other countries, if something happens here, there will definitely be chaos.
This place is too important, not only the affairs of the Qi State and the Zhao family, but also the war of the entire Central Plains countries.
More importantly, there are many disciples of the Mo family in Qidi, some of whom are officials or some of whom are samurai. Gongsun Tian's family is in control of the national affairs of the Qi State, and now it is in chaos, and the Mo disciples there need the orders of the giant in order to stand on which side, or the two do not help each other.
There are also some people who may have received small favors from the Tian family or the Gongsun family, or they may do small righteousness without knowing the great righteousness.
After hearing this, Mozi knew that he had to come forward in person in this matter, in case the disciples of the Mo family of Qi were at a loss and didn't know how to even meet each other as their main soldiers.
The affairs of Qi are too complicated.
Back then, Tian Changguang collected the harem, and hundreds of concubines couldn't sleep, so they asked the guests to help sleep in order to have children. It doesn't matter if he is his own seed or not, as long as there is a big drop of blood and he is nominally the heir of the Tian family, in the end, there are seventy or eighty sons alone.
It has been three generations now, and Jiang Qi is certainly in power, but the Tian Chang family, which has more than 70 sons, has also branched out so far, and the civil strife has not stopped.
Tian Hu, Tian He, and Tian Mourning Zi are brothers or uncles, plus hundreds of cousins behind them.
The Gongsun Society is also a branch of the Tian family. With Gongsun as the clan, most of them are the descendants of the sons of the eldest son of the non-grandson, and there is no official fief, and there is no surname and really no identity, so they mostly take this as their surname.
Although Tian Chang is not the fifth lord certified by Zhou Tianzi, and the descendants directly call the grandson a little arrogant, but the ancestor of the Tian family is also the monarch of the Chen State, the real marquis, one of the three kes, and the husband of the eldest daughter of King Wu of Zhou, so there is no problem.
Gongsun's branch is reversed, and the Tian Hu and Tian He, who are large sects within the Tian family, may not be close to each other, plus some people who are loyal to Jiang Qi will definitely take the opportunity to do things, so it can be said that it is a mess.
The surrounding Yue Kingdom has moved its capital to Linyi, looking for opportunities to open up the situation in the Central Plains at any time; If Sanjin wants to establish his prestige, he will not give up this rare opportunity, and Gongsun Hui has already come forward to ask for help from Zhao; It is impossible for the state of Chu not to seize the opportunity to expand its advantageous situation in the Central Plains; If the Qin State could not seize the opportunity of the Three Jin Dynasty to attack Qi and launch a counterattack in Xihe, it would not be the Qin State......
Almost instantly, Mo Zhai understood how big this matter was, and what it meant to the many ink masters of the Qi Kingdom.
It is precisely because it is too chaotic and complicated that Mozi must come forward to give a clear instruction to all the ink masters, which is the most important thing and the obligation that the giant must do.
Mozi didn't think much about it, packed his bags, made straw sandals, carried food, secretly summoned the Mo disciples of Shangqiu, and hurried towards the Qi country.