Before talking about it, I had already said that I would not judge it by the criterion of benefiting the world and benefiting the people, but the tall man couldn't help but say that after all.

The most hypocritical hypocrisy is better than evil.

Because the existence of hypocrisy means that good has overcome evil and has become a standard in people's hearts, it is necessary for hypocrisy to appear.

At this time, it is the same reason, because the Mohist doctrine is now too widely spread, and Confucianism has not yet been integrated with things such as the Five Elements of Heavenly Mandate Yin and Yang in the Jixia School Palace, and cannot be accepted and promoted by the ruling class.

It is precisely because the Mohists have become the only prominent scholars that some of the Mohists' criteria for evaluating good and evil, right and wrong, have inadvertently affected the criteria for evaluating the world's character and politics.

Therefore, a tall man cannot justifiably say in front of Solushen that he is doing it for his own selfish gain, because he has been silently influenced by these doctrines.

Solushen adhered to the previous guidelines, shook his head and smiled: "You have already said before, if you don't judge from this, I am not here to criticize you today." It's just that, I want to say, everything you do must always conform to the will of heaven, and if you don't talk about benefits and disadvantages, you will hinder the increase of the total wealth of the world after all. ”

These things have long been defined with the spread of the Book of Ink, and the saying that labor creates wealth has become quite popular, especially among wealthy business landlords, merchants, and craftsmen.

Because only if these principles are correct, merchants, craftsmen, commercial landlords, and workshop owners can justifiably oppose the occupation and privileges of the aristocracy over land.

The butt determines the head, and the profit determines whether to believe or not, and the idea that labor creates value at this time is exactly what these big businessmen, big workshop owners, and new landlords are happy to believe.

After the last time he argued with others, the tall man has been thinking about how to refute the truth of the Mo family from the root, combined with these years of thinking and observation, when Suo Lushen mentioned the statement of the sum of the world's wealth today, the tall man finally thought of a rebuttal.

So he asked: "Suo Lu Shen, the truth of the Mo family now, summed up, is actually nothing more than four words. ”

"The Tao is natural."

"You think that human experience, reason, reasoning, and summarization can know the laws of nature, the laws of the world, and the laws of rise and fall. Only by knowing the law and the law can the world be beneficial. That's right? ”

Soluzan felt that this was right, and nodded, "That's right. ”

The tall man laughed and said, "So, if your inferences about some truths are wrong, is the law of guidance wrong?" ”

Soluzan asked rhetorically, "What law is wrong?" ”

The tall man said: "The saying that labor creates wealth is wrong. ”

"Land, crops, and farming are the only things that increase the total wealth of the world, and labor is not."

"Wealth is a thing, and the source of a thing is not commercial transportation but production. So the production of wealth means the creation of things and the increase of their quantity. ”

"You think that business and industry increase the wealth of society. It's actually not true. ”

"Like work, handicrafts do not create matter, but only change the form of the combination and the original things under the world."

"For example, a lump of clay that you can make into a clay pot. But has something been added to the sky? The clay pot was made of clay, and it was made into a clay pot, and the clay did not increase. This is a change in the form of something that already exists, and it cannot be called an increase. ”

"For example, a kite. This kite is nothing but a recombination of cloth and bamboo and cotton thread. You can make kites, or you can make sieves from these cloths and bamboo chips. Therefore, this is a combination of things that have changed, and it cannot be said to have increased the things in the world. ”

"As for Shang, not to mention, he didn't create anything, he just changed the original earth and time, you can't say that the things under the sky have increased."

When the tall man said this, he was already excited, and he felt that he had won the victory, and it was time to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.

This is an economic point of view, which originated from the "peasant family" that appeared in the Warring States Period, and is essentially an exploration of the truth of heaven and earth, and also a theoretical basis for valuing agriculture over commerce under the premise of "Taoism and Nature".

This view of economics was developed over the millennia and reached its peak before the French Revolution, when the physiocrats were formed.

The basis of the existence of the school is that industry and commerce do not increase the total amount of "things" in the world, and that handicraft industry essentially changes the form of existing things, or changes the combination of existing things in the world.

A tall man once said that if you want to refute the truth of the Mo family, you must draw your salary from the bottom of the kettle, and what you are saying today seems to be able to solve the root cause.

He wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, so he raised his voice, looked into Suo Lushen's eyes and said: "Neither industry nor commerce has increased the existing things in the world, but only farming has increased the existing things in the world. ”

"I plant a seed in the spring, and I can harvest 100 seeds in the fall."

"I raised a calf in the spring, and in the winter the calf grew up and gained weight."

"But not for business. When you make clay pots, you can't increase the amount of clay, but only change the original form of clay. A pound of clay made into a clay pot is still a pound, and it has not increased. ”

"That's why I say that the only way to increase the wealth of the world is through farming. Therefore, judging from your so-called total wealth in the world, what we are doing in Qindi is also correct. ”

After saying that, the tall man looked at Suo Lu Shen with a smug expression, and he felt that Suo Lu Shen could no longer refute it.

If this cannot be refuted, then some of the policies of the Mohists are not in line with the "Heavenly Will", or at least the inference of the Heavenly Will.

As a result, the Mohist policy itself was defeated by the Mohist morality of "Tianzhi is the rule", which is an unavoidable circle.

It seems that the only way to refute it is to solve it from the perspective of whether "Tianzhi is the rule" is necessarily reasonable.

And this statement really sounds like there is no way to refute it at this time.

In fact, this school of thought was not completely abandoned until the rise of The Wealth of Nations and Ricardo. This involves a series of tomes, philosophical and economic polemics.

However, Solushen smiled faintly and said, "You are wrong. ”

"Have you read the latest issue of the Mohist 'newspaper'? Shi Zaishang, let a large cloth bag carry people into the air by the hot air, proving that qi can be divided into light and heavy. He also did some 'experiments' to prove that the qi around him was not empty, but had substance, but you and I could not see it. ”

"And there was also a previous issue that said such an experiment to prove that crops need turbidity in the air to grow. Turbidity is produced after the combustion of yang energy and charcoal, which can make the clarified lime water turbid. ”

"You have also followed Juzi for some years, and you know that Juzi said back then that what you can't see may not exist. For example, his old man's research on sound believed that sound existed, but it could not be seen, and that it could affect the vibration of water, and he made a 'listening urn' to listen to the enemy digging the city wall when defending the city. ”

"I heard from a man named Democritus in the far west that he thought that everything under heaven was made up of atoms, which is similar to what he had said in recent years."

"Farming requires water, fertilizer, and gas, and does not need soil, as evidenced by the 'experiment' of harvesting a few years ago."

"Therefore, farming itself has not increased the number of 'things' in the world, but only changed the form and combination of things. It consumes water, fertilizer, and gas, and becomes fruit. ”

"This is like what you said, if you think that the person who pinched the clay pot and burned the pottery did not increase the things in the world, then the 'thing' you said is not a big thing like a clay pot or clay, but a very small atomic thing."

"So, isn't planting farming the same as pinching pottery and burning pottery? Is there any difference between changing the form and combination of those atomic things, and turning gas, water, and fertilizer into food, and the pinching pottery you said? ”

"So, you still have to read more of those newspapers, don't speculate, think that you know Tianzhi again!"

The tall man was stunned, he usually read the Mo family's newspaper, but he was really too busy to read it at all.

He also knew that the man Solushen, though cunning, did not lie when it came to moral arguments, and could not help but be helpless.

Seeing that Suo Lushen's face showed a look that seemed to be mocking and asked him to read more and study more, his face turned red, and he said, "This ...... This ......"

Solushen laughed, "You, if you want to refute these things from the root, you need to prove one thing. It is not to rely on dialectics to argue, but you only need to prove that qi has no weight, that qi is void, and that crops do not consume water or fertilizer. ”

However, the giant also said it back then. The same thing, either or not, can't be both and no, this is the most basic principle of Mohistism, you won't understand this, right? ”

"Now that Shi has argued 'yes', then it is impossible to be 'no' at the same time, so you can't refute these truths from the root."

"Do you think that those 'newspapers' that have lasted for more than ten years are just to make the people in the market feel magical and like tricks?"

"It's not in vain that you have been studying with Juzi for many years, although you rebelled against ink twenty years ago, but you shouldn't forget those truths. A clay pot is a clay pot, clay is clay, you can't say that clay is a clay pot. ”

"If you think that clay is a clay pot, then you can think that grain is water, fertilizer, and gas."

"You have even forgotten the foundation of Mohist dialectics, no wonder you have forgotten the righteousness of the giant and sought personal interests."

After saying this, the faces of the two people on the other side turned even redder, and they lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Solu.

Suo Lushen sighed and shook his head, and said: "Now that the Mo family's knowledge has been perfected, you use these imaginary knowledge to attack, isn't that like the giant said back then to touch a stone with an egg?" ”

"Or, don't say anything about the benefits of the world and the rules of heaven. Isn't it humiliating yourself that you are doing this for the sake of personal selfish desires, but you want to do something for the benefit of the people and the rules of heaven? ”

"You guys, this is fleeing on the battlefield, but you don't know how to be ashamed, but you have to say that you run away is a kind of bravery, this is the ridiculous part!"

The two of them couldn't refute a few words, and they were speechless.

Mozi once said that the essence of all things in the world is the same.

In a sense, there is nothing wrong with this statement, especially in this controversy in which Solu participated.

Natural sciences, philosophy, and economics complement each other on some levels.

Just as the foundation of the Physiocrats was the belief that agriculture was the only human activity that could increase the "things" of the world.

The complete collapse of this school of thought stemmed from the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, after which Ricardo's labor theory of value was carried forward and completely devoid of believers.

However, this school of thought may not have appeared, because Lavoisier proved that the "conservation of mass" was in 1777, and it was not until a hundred years later that it was truly developed and perfected and accepted by the people of the world.

If the doctrine of conservation of mass had appeared hundreds of years earlier, then the foundation of the Physiocrats would have collapsed, because under the macro and micro concepts of conservation of mass, agriculture did not add "things under the world", then the material basis of this school would not exist.

What can be refuted by economic concepts can sometimes be refuted by natural science, and the world's trends of thought are such magical, and often this refutation is a fatal blow, and the bottom of the kettle is drawn.

Abstract thinking must originate from the material foundation, which is the unchangeable truth, when the material basis changes, some theories have become conjecture before they are carried forward, and it is impossible to be accepted by the world's corporal doctrines.

The system of the world must also originate from the material foundation, which is an unchangeable truth. Therefore, the Mo family has been quietly changing the foundation of the world over the years, using iron tools and oxen to cultivate gunpowder to disintegrate the material foundation of the existence of the Shiqing nobles, waiting for the foundation of the world to mature, and then doing what they want.

Do it slowly and wait for it to happen. Instead of digging a ditch first and waiting for the water to come.

Now this water is not big enough.

And this water is gradually rising, just as natural science and equality and fraternity originate from the foundation of the "Renaissance", and if there is a revival, it must be known that there was annihilation and extinction before the revival, so it can be called "revival".

Now the land of Zhuxia is also the time when a hundred schools of thought are about to contend, if it has not been annihilated, why should it be "restored"?