Because the Mohists were not a prince, but an organization based on a certain doctrine, including the composition of their political power, which was formed by rational inference of the art of knowledge and was in line with the core, this kind of discussion is quite common.

Lecture notes are discussed every few days so that these issues can be discussed openly.

And this kind of open discussion, as well as the existence of a hundred schools of thought, makes this kind of discussion consume less and less the aura of saints and good people in the Mo family, and finally figure out that the essence is because of the interest group.

Originally, the theory of the great harmony of the world in history originated from the integration of the hundred schools of thought after the end of the Warring States Period, and even the genuine theory of the great harmony in history is also a fusion of the visions of Taoism, Confucianism, and Mo.

They all hope that the world will get better and better, and there is a general fantasy, after all, no one clearly says that a cannibalistic society is good, and the pursuit of beauty is the same.

However, it is precisely because they all hope that the world will get better and better, but on the contrary, it is necessary for the hundred schools of thought to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, stand out from the crowd, and prove that their own doctrine is the correct theory, and the doctrine of the rest of the people cannot reach that level.

In the special environment of Yunmengze, there is less confrontation and more contracts.

But if it is placed in the periphery of Sishang that is sprouted, there are more opposites and fewer contracts.

Although the farmers hope for the great benefit of the world, the same is true for the Mohists, even if it is Yang Zhu, Confucianism, and Taoism, in fact, the vision is the same, and the difference is the process of how to achieve the vision.

As soon as the winter passed, when this issue was once again debated in this small city named Yunmeng, Xu Qiao and others came forward to explain the difference.

Xu Wan asked: "The salt you and I eat, the cloth we use, the muskets and gunpowder used to hunt tigers and pythons, and the farm tools used to reclaim wasteland are not produced by you and me. ”

That's the big difference. If the world is to be determined, there must always be a division of labor. Those who specialize in drying salt must consume less labor than those who dry salt themselves during their leisure time. It is advantageous for the total wealth of the world to increase. ”

"Besides...... Don't forget, we are in a special situation here. Every year, countless money is spent, and it is supported from outside, so that the people of a small country can enjoy themselves. Once there is no support from the outside, I am afraid that our days will be much harder. ”

"Neither salt nor cloth can be self-sufficient. If you cut off contact with the outside world now, do you still think these methods of the farmers are good? ”

"It is the old farmer who learns for a hundred miles for the widows of a small country, a hundred miles can be, thousands of miles, and I am afraid that the world will not benefit from it, but will suffer from it."

These words caused the disciples of those peasant families to be unhappy, but Yun Mengze's situation was really special, and it was indeed difficult to refute it if he thought about it carefully.

A peasant disciple had no choice but to say: "If the world is unified in the future, and there is no more invincible kou, you can be a small town and a widow, and the world is divided into thousands of yi, and each yi is like a cloud dream." ”

"The sage and the people plough together, the market is not the same price, when the farm is busy, when the farm is busy, weave cloth together, meet the food and clothing, and do not sell."

"All land shall belong to the public, and shall be divided equally among the people, and shall not be sold. The exchange of each family, according to the amount of labor, I will not lose, he will not benefit......"

The peasant family is fundamentally a fantasy of the lowest peasant, because the lowest peasant is doubly exploited - the aristocracy and the merchants.

This utopian fantasy of true equality is unrealistic, but it clearly expresses the interests of the lowest farmers.

When Xu Wan heard this, he shook his head with a smile and said, "It just so happens that you also know that the enlarged meeting held in Sishang has been held for nearly two months and has finally come to an end. A few days ago, I also passed the content of some meetings here and distributed them for study. ”

"There happens to be explanations of these issues in it, so I'll just say a paragraph, and everyone is both learning and discussing, so as to reach the same sense of the top and bottom."

It is a bit far from Sishang, and the enlarged meeting, which was originally scheduled to be held in April but Xu Xiao did not participate due to special circumstances, has been held for two months, so it has been a few months before the contents of the various meetings have been passed here.

A lot of things were discussed, most of them publicly, because it was unrealistic to keep a conference of thousands of people in attendance a secret.

There are a few books in the thick study content, and Xu Qiao is also studying these days, listening to the explanation of the person sent by Sishang.

He thought about the contents of the book, and then said: "The giant said, the saying of the Promised Land has long existed, and the song of the rat has a Promised Land." ”

"It's just that people in the world have different opinions about how to arrive in the Promised Land."

"For example, a farmer's house can be regarded as a utopian paradise; The path taken by the Mohists is the rational school of knowledge. Although they are both happy lands, they are completely different. ”

"Dreamers, the moon in the well, the flower in the water. If you want to really get the moon and flowers, but look for them from the well in the water, it is tantamount to going in the opposite direction. The rational method of knowledge is realistic and can be obtained in a real way. ”

The farmer snorted, "How can we say that ours is a fantasy?" What is what you can do with reason? ”

Xu Miao was not impatient, and asked in the face of the many ink scholars who were listening to the lecture together: "The happy land of my Mo family, there is a saying of great harmony, so there is no need to mention it." To put it simply, it is to love and benefit each other. ”

Zi Mozi talked about the basis of love is to love oneself, and also talked about the difference between loving and employing people, the so-called not knowing oneself will not love others. And it is precisely because of a rational inference that I love others, and others love me, then two people I can get twice as much love as I only love myself, three people are three times, and people in the world are countless times. It is the love of oneself and love that is dialectically unified, and love is the highest form of love for oneself. ”

This is a doctrine that existed more than 20 years ago, and after a slight amendment, it has taken shape and has been preached for decades, and the ink scholars naturally understand it.

Xu Miao said: "In the era of Zi Mozi, the problem of the unity of self-love and love was solved, and this time at the meeting, Shizi finally talked about self-interest and altruism, that is, the so-called unity between mutual benefit and self-interest. ”

"Here, let me start with a question. If a person has an altruistic heart, but kills that person, is that altruistic? ”

Everyone said: "Naturally, it doesn't count." ”

Xu Miao asked again: "If a person only has a self-interested heart, but makes others benefit, then is this altruistic?" ”

Everyone also understood the difference between subjective and objective, and said: "Since righteousness is for profit, and materialism is also for profit, then this is naturally altruistic, and has nothing to do with the heart." It's just that...... How can there be such a thing in this world that only seeks self-interest and altruism? ”

Xu Miao smiled: "This is what was discussed at this enlarged meeting. I'll give you an example. ”

"Like a spinning girl, the best at weaving, its cloth is wide and gorgeous."

"The weaver is self-interested, he wants to live a better life, and exchange the cloth for food and wine, so he can only weave the cloth hard, so that the cloth is more beautiful, wider, better and cheaper, so that the more he sells, the more he gets, so he can exchange it for money and buy food and wine."

"Can this spinning girl benefit the heart of the world?"

"No, but because of his self-interest, he has made others wear more beautiful, wider, and cheaper cloth clothes, so that others can benefit, so is this altruistic?"

Everyone began to think about this question, and they all felt that this was indeed the case, and that it was indeed altruistic according to the objective, materialistic, and unified thinking mode of interest and righteousness that had been instilled in the previous 20 years.

But if we look at it from the perspective of subjectivity, idealism, and the contradiction of profit and righteousness, this is self-interested.

Because the Mo family had the tone of the unity of righteousness and benefit from the beginning, it is not difficult to think about this question, because the three views of everyone accept the foundation of the unity of righteousness and benefit, so it is easy to come to the conclusion: the behavior of the textile girl is altruistic.

Taking the three tables of the Mohists as an example, this matter does not involve the increase in population, but from the perspective of the two tables of the increase in the wealth of the people and the total wealth of the world, it is indeed in line with it, so this kind of behavior is moral.

Even so, the unity of self-interest and altruism is still difficult for some people to accept.

So one of the ink masters got up and asked, "In this way, self-interest is altruism?" Isn't this justified by the self-interest of princes and nobles? ”

Xu Miao shook his head and said, "This is not the case. You and I both know that wealth comes from labor, and the spinning girl is earned by labor. ”

And what self-interest do princes and nobles rely on? It depends on the violent appropriation of the land, by the bondage of the peasants to work for them on the land, and by the exploitation of the peasants' servitude. Therefore, their self-interest is actually harmful to others. ”

"Self-interest does not necessarily mean altruism. But the Promised Land is both love and mutual benefit, so the self-interest above the Promised Land is altruism. ”

This question, in other words, is what the world is like, in order to be able to benefit oneself or altruism? Self-interest is not necessarily altruistic, but if the world reaches a certain system that unifies self-interest and altruism, this is mutual love and mutual benefit. ”

"If the system of the world is not like this, so that self-interest is harmful to others, then for us, what we need to do is not to persuade those who harm others and benefit themselves not to harm others and not to benefit themselves, but to change the world and make self-interest a matter of course, because in the new world, self-interest is altruism."

These contents have the foundation laid down in the previous 20 years, and now they are almost a matter of course, and the great development of the budding commodity economy and handicraft industry has clearly appeared in Sishang, so that this kind of thinking is no longer a kind of utopian inference that cannot see the real thing.

The foundation laid after more than 20 years was finally integrated and reached an agreement in this two-month conference attended by more than 1,000 people in Yusi.

From solving the unity of self-love and love, to the unity of self-interest and altruism, and with the saying that "labor creates wealth" that has long been spread all over the world, the Mohists have completed the leap from the hundred schools of thought to the bourgeois enlightenment doctrine, the system has been completed, tends to be perfected, and the feudal patriarchal system has been invincible.

The unity of righteousness and benefit is the basis for looking at the problem objectively, and it is also the cornerstone of the theory of adaptability.

The difference between loving others and loving oneself and loving oneself, there is no good and no evil in human nature, which is the basis for deducing the bourgeois enlightenment theory by borrowing "self-interest", loving oneself is self-interested, loving others is benefiting others, and the final conclusion of love is that everyone's labor is beneficial to me, and my labor is beneficial to everyone.

It is true that Shi has already revised the doctrine of the Mohists, but without the foundation laid by Mozi back then, this kind of revision would be impossible to talk about - if it is believed that righteousness and benefit are contrary, that it is shameful to seek profit, and that the love of patriarchal relatives and so on cannot be corrected, no matter how much it is amended, the enlightenment doctrine cannot be corrected, and at most the most reactionary feudal patriarchal socialism will be corrected, that is, the feudal patriarchal imperial power dressed in the skin of the great harmony of the world.

The Mo family has only held two of the largest enlarged meetings in such a long time, which lasted for more than a month.

One was the reorganization of the Mo family under Shangqiu City a long, long time ago.

One time is the time after the illusion of fighting the world is completely shattered, and it is suitable for the giant to sit in the seat for five years.

All that seems to be left is the fusion between the vanguard theory and the doctrine of the Enlightenment. Because sure enough, someone asked Xu Wan: "If this is the case, self-interest is altruism, what is the use of our ink makers?" ”

Judging from Xu Wan's smiling face, it seems that even this problem has been solved.