Mencius has not yet become a talent, the Jixia School Palace has not yet been established, the theory of the five elements and five virtues has not yet been integrated, and Mo Zhai has not passed away.

At this time, Confucianism and Moism competed, and the Mohists occupied an overall advantage, and the verbal cannons between Confucianism and Confucianism basically won.

When Mo Zhai debated with Confucian scholars such as Cheng Zi and Gong Mengzi, Gaozi had not yet joined the Mo family, but those stories must have been heard a long time ago.

Hearing Mozi say this, the confession was a little puzzled in his heart, and asked, "When the gentleman said this, the disciple can't understand it." Does the gentleman think that this person can debate with Confucianism and win? Sir, if you think so, then I can also argue with Confucianism and win. So I'm not disadvantaged. ”

Mozi smiled and shook his head: "Sue, you can debate and win Confucianism." But can you argue with the farmer on the edge of the ridge? ”

Gaozi's face changed, and he felt that Mozi was insulting himself, and said, "I can't accept Mr.'s words." The farmer by the ridge is stupid and argues with them, just as the swan flying high in the sky and the cicada in the tree fly higher. When you say this, you don't make the swan proud, but it makes the swan feel insulted. Shouldn't swans fly higher than falcons? ”

Mozi looked up to the sky and smiled, and it took a long time to stop laughing and said: "If the swan doesn't fly as high as a tree, it's not that it can't fly, but it doesn't want to fly." The cicada can't fly so that it can bathe in the clouds, it's not that it doesn't want to fly, it's that it can't fly. ”

"Sue, you should think carefully about what I said when Cheng Zi and Gong Mengzi argued with me. If you still can't understand it, then you're not smart anymore. ”

Seeing that Mozi said it very solemnly, he lowered his head and pondered, recalling the debate he had heard about countless times, and also recalling the characters of those who argued with Mozi, and gradually felt a little taste.

Gong Mengzi likes to use metaphorical stories to tell the truth, while Cheng Zi does not like to tell stories as metaphors, but likes to overwhelm the other party with the momentum of overwhelming comparisons.

Gong Mengzi's level is slightly lower than that of Cheng Zi, and he has a little bit of market taste; Cheng Zi is a gentleman who learns from Zisi, attaches great importance to righteousness and self-control.

Before Gong Mengzi came to debate, he first sighed that Mozi lived too hard and ran around every day.

Mozi said: Nowadays, people like to pursue beautiful women; Even if the beauty doesn't go out, at home, those who pursue it will squeeze through the door. Nowadays, people don't like to pursue righteousness and goodness, so righteousness and goodness cannot be sought by others at home, but need to go out and spread it by themselves. Righteousness and kindness are not beautiful women, but ugly women.

There are only two ways to solve it, either let the world change their perception of beauty and ugliness, then the ugly girl will become a beauty, just sit at home and wait for others to ask for it; Either they don't change the world's perception of beauty and ugliness, and ugly girls have to go out on their own to pursue others.

After hearing this, Cheng Zi, who came with Gong Mengzi, felt that Mozi's language was vulgar and a metaphor for the market. He mocked Mozi's words for being too worldly to emulate the righteousness and truth that the kings and saints had said.

Mozi immediately became angry, and he was not vulgar anymore, and directly opened the four principles of Confucianism, and used Cheng Zi's favorite sentence structure, and Cheng Zi's face was ashamed, and he got up and left.

As a result, as soon as Cheng Zi got up, he was scolded back by Mozi, and sat on his knees again and said helplessly: You are slandering and slandering Confucianism, I can't talk to you anymore.

But Mozi said, "If not, I say, this is called slander." If there is, I say it, and that's just a statement of facts.

Cheng Zi was speechless, and said that Mozi's speech was inconsistent, both vulgar and handout, both market and saint, which was ridiculous.

Mozi thinks that being able to answer in common words is reasonable and reasonable, which shows this person's sensitivity. If the other party argues strictly, I will also respond to the enemy strictly, and if the other party gives in slowly, I will also slow down. If the words of ordinary entertainment must be reasonable, it will be like holding a chariot to strike a moth.

In other words, it means that people at different levels should be reasoned in different languages.

At this moment, Mozi saw that Xuzi was still thinking, and seeing that his face had already shown some looks that seemed to be enlightened, Mozi was still happy in his heart.

At his age, he is no longer as angry as he was when he was young and vigorous, and all he wants to do is to look for the merits of this person and find ways to guide him to the path of righteousness.

There are not a few people who speculate and want to be prominent among the ink scholars, at least there are not a few people who aim to be like this at the beginning.

But Mozi thinks that people can be changed, and he can completely move these people and let them change.

He thinks that these people can be educated, but they still have to find a way to make them both righteous and satisfy their own desires, and at the same time have enough restraint - he knows that there are too few idealists in the world, and a large number of speculators are needed in them, otherwise they will not be able to do anything, and it will easily become a strange ascetic society.

There was silence all around, and most of the disciples sitting on the left and right had already understood Mozi's truth, and also understood why Mozi chose to recommend Shi to become the first person to become the head of the Xuanyi department.

However, Mozi did not speak immediately, just waited quietly, and waited until the confession finally nodded.

"Sue, you can debate with Confucius and win, that's what I believe. However, when you talk to the farmers and craftsmen in the fields, you are as reasonable as you are debating with Confucianism. It's not that what you're saying is wrong, it's that others may not be able to understand what you're saying. ”

"Isn't reasoning and preaching righteousness so that others can understand? Doing righteousness is for the benefit of the world, and enduring hardship is also for the benefit of the world, but if you take suffering as the goal, it is wrong. ”

"When you reason with the farmer and use the words of debate with Confucianism, isn't that what I said, 'Lotus and moth'? You are the woman who beats the moth with the pole of the chariot, and may not be as good as the woman who beats the moth with a reed. Are you here to lift the pole? Or is it to slap moths? Are you not as good as a woman? It's not, it's just that you're not good at pretending. ”

Mozi naturally used the words in the "Persuasion of Learning", which divided many kinds of situations of not being good at faking things, and also said that Mozi's "lotus and moth" are also bad at faking things.

The confessor bowed his head and remained silent.

Mozi felt that after reasoning, he needed to properly let him understand his own level for a person like Gaozi, so as not to be too proud and have no one in his eyes, and he needed to properly hit this person's confidence.

Zhengse said: "Besides, there are fifty-four to do to debate with Confucianism, Yang Zhu, Lie Yukou and others. Do you think that you are better than fifty-four in this matter? ”

Argument 54 is the first cannon of the Mo family after the death of those eloquent disciples, and the confession has always been admired, listening to Mozi say this, there is no anger in his heart, only convincing and self-knowledge.

As Mozi said, it is insulting, slandering, and slandering, and saying that it is just a statement of facts.

After a while, the confessor knelt down and bowed his head and said, "I understand what Mr. said." In this way, Shi is indeed more suitable than me to be a radical of Xuanyi. ”

Mozi nodded with satisfaction, told the confessor to get up, and said to the disciple sitting next to him: "I once said that people are nothing more than the old and the young, and they are all ministers of heaven. If you have the ability, you will be lifted, and if you are incompetent, you will be exempted. There is nothing to doubt about the fact that he is young but capable of such a role. ”

"To give him a position and to give him power is not to reward him, but to get him done. This is what I have always believed to be the way to be an official, and the purpose is to benefit the world and get things done. If you are going to reward you for being a ruler, then you are not really a writer. ”

The disciples saluted one after another, "Sir's words, we have written them down." We also think that the affairs of the Xuanyi Department are suitable for the job, and the powers he has are deserved. ”

The confession, who was already convinced, heard the word power, and once again gave birth to a trace of fire and jealousy in his heart.

Because the power of this Xuanyi Department seems to be a bit large.

With the advent of straw silk, those few eloquent essays proclaiming the righteousness of the Moshi have spread to the capitals of various countries, and have spread rapidly with the help of shops and craftsmen's associations that had been laid out there a year ago.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Xuanyi Department, four subordinate departments were established.

It is said that it is a traffic officer, a farmer official, a craftsman official, and a school student official.

The word traffic is not taken from the meaning of the most familiar traffic, but from the "Book of Changes, Thai Hexagram": heaven and earth are handed over and all things are connected, and the upper and lower are handed over and their minds are the same.

This hexagram can be derived from two words: traffic and comrade.

The traffic here is the meaning of heaven and earth, all countries, the same up and down, and the same will.

The traffic officials were established in the capitals of each country, and carried out activities in various countries based on craftsmen's associations, shops, and sales departments for novelties.

In the various capitals, the righteousness of the ink is widely communicated, and many of the theories produced in Peiyi are disseminated. At the same time, it is also necessary to develop some secret ink masters, but the secretary is ultimately responsible for this matter, but he is suitable for both, and he can play just right.

The two departments of farmers and craftsmen are exactly what they meant in their original sense. One is for farmers and the other for craftsmen.

The school officials are completely in charge of the ideological work of Peiguo Township School, instilling some ideas from an early age, so that those children who grow up in the township school believe in the meaning of the Mo people such as equality for all.

If it is actually calculated, the departments under the jurisdiction of the 54th can be completely merged into this Xuanyi Department and become a special subordinate official, responsible for communicating with the nobles and various schools.

However, at the beginning, the Mozhi took the upper-class line, and even if they tried to change it, the idea of the upper-class line was deeply rooted, so the person who was specifically responsible for theoretical propaganda and debate was a special department.

The propaganda of craftsmen and farmers is just like that in the eyes of Gaozi. He's not good at it, and he doesn't think it's significant.

But the subordinate department of the traffic officer made the eyes of the confessor hot.

A lot of the income of the Moshi came from the big cities and towns of the other states, and the Moshi organizations there basically only had two or three departments to deal with the most, and it was obvious that the most dealings in the future would be the Xuanyi Ministry.

Therefore, this is a great power facing the world, and the farmers and craftsmen are only within Pei County. Moreover, some positions in Pei County are only within one county, which is still much worse than the subordinate departments of the Xuanyi Department.

And the amount of money needed every year is also quite a lot, and the amount of gold that the Xuanyi Department can spend is also extremely large, so much that it makes the city look like dirt.

Naturally, the confession was a little jealous.

It's just that he doesn't know that what he is jealous of is not what he cares about the most, is the most complacent, and the most happy.

In Shi's view, he got what he wanted most before Mozi's death: the right to interpret ideology.

In the present words, it is the right to interpret issues such as Tianzhi, righteousness, benefiting the world, the world, the legal power, benevolence and righteousness, the debate of righteousness, epistemology, and so on.

For the Mohists, who are synonymous with each other, this is the most important thing.

Mozi is alive, and this position seems to be meaningless, it seems to be just a mouthpiece.

However, once Mozi dies, this meaning will be instantly increased several times.