"Whether it's giving charcoal or adding flowers, it's for others. Who can be given to, we have to recognize. You see, the Guo family didn't recognize it, what happened now? ”

This family, which would affect the situation in the late Warring States period and eventually became a nobleman and entered the court by relying on merchant Sufeng, is now gone, not that everyone is dead, but that it no longer has influence.

An old man among the businessmen sighed and said, "Guo's fate has long been doomed. He chose the wrong one, not because he took refuge in the Gongzi Dynasty, but because he came from the Mo family to Handan to work with him and his father did not agree, even if he chose the wrong one. Die early or die late or don't die, they're all finished. ”

"Guo Zong, this kid, just wants to fight one last time, once Gongzi Dynasty wins, his family can turn over. But think about it, why did he fight like this? Originally, whether it was Liehou or Wugong, did the Guo family need to fight? They only need to wait for the new marquis to succeed to the throne and offer gifts, it is the Mo family who has forced him to the point where he has to fight. ”

He stretched out his right hand, pinched his little finger with his thumb and said, "The capital of the Mo family, there is." If you take out your fingers, you can crush us all to death, in business, if you don't seek a noble identity, just in business, don't provoke the Mo family. ”

With vivid experience in front of them, how can these people not believe it?

Zhao Guo is not bad, after all, it is farther away from Sishang.

Closer to Sishang, some of the local handicrafts and local merchants have been severely affected, and they have no choice: either to become "compradors" or to invest their money in Sishang, or to go bankrupt or even have nothing and go into debt.

After this war, the local iron-smelting industry of the Zhao State has been completely destroyed by the Mo family, and only the iron-smelting industry controlled by the Mo family remains, because the negotiation of Gongzizhang also involves the iron-smelting franchise, and even the franchise rights in each region have been divided, and the profits have been distributed to some merchants who support the Mo family.

Under the suppression and dumping, internal and external collusion, the budding iron-smelting industry of Zhao State has no place to turn over, and the collapse of the Guo family also means that the iron-smelting industry within Zhao State, which is related to people's livelihood and military affairs, was strangled to death by the Mo family "colluding" with local businessmen in Zhao State.

It was precisely the previous suppression of those uncooperative industrialists and businessmen that made Handan's businessmen see a reality: either cooperate with the Mo family, or wait for their demise.

But they are not necessarily forced.

"Even if it is someone else's business whether to send charcoal or add flowers, even if the Mo family itself does not have so much money to crush us, in addition to all this, we should support the Mo family, or support the Mo family."

"The Mohists said, righteousness and benefit. Different classes have different interests, and therefore have different meanings. ”

"You say, is the righteousness of the Mo family good?"

The crowd did not speak, but the man laughed and said, "If you don't speak, I will say." The righteousness of the Mo family is certainly not the best for us. ”

"Because the righteousness of the Mo family is the righteousness of the people of the world after the concessions of the peasants and industrialists, but it is not the righteousness of complete businessmen. The Mo family's argument that the poll tax seems to be the fairest, but in fact it is the most unfair, and that they still have to collect business tax, all show that their righteousness is not the best righteousness of our businessmen. ”

"The best righteousness of our businessmen is not to collect commercial taxes, all the land in the world can be obtained by public money, and when the law is made by collecting public opinion, we should divide how much public opinion we have......

The wonderful future he depicted made many people present nod their heads and praise, but they also thought that they could only give charcoal or icing on the cake after all, and they were evaluated as "weak" by the Mo family, and now they do not have the strength to dominate a world where "righteousness" is the righteousness of merchants.

After sighing, the man who spoke said: "Compared with the righteousness of the princes and nobles, I think it is still the righteousness of the Mo family, which is better." One is the wine, the other is the wine with urine, we are now in the desert, we can only choose one, and I can only choose the one with the urine in the wine. ”

As he spoke, he took out a "newspaper" that had been transmitted here not long ago, shook his wrist and shook the paper, and said, "The Mo family is closer to us than those princes and nobles after all. Not to mention that they are all sluts, just look at the content of this newspaper, and know that the Mo family is still reliable. ”

Every month, the newspapers printed by the Mo family will be circulated in the giant city, and the merchants have seen a lot, but they don't know which one this newspaper is.

The person next to him looked at it curiously, and couldn't help but wonder: "This was three months ago, and in Sishang, it must have been five or six months ago." ”

Everyone was not the slightest surprised that the previous person said that they would let the "noble lord" not be able to splash water, but they took it for granted that they could not be involved, that is, in case the franchise would be taken back by Zhao Hou one day in the future.

As for the fact that one day Zhao Hou and the Mo family had a conflict, these businessmen already knew which side they should stand on: of course, it was the side of profit, as long as the price given by Zhao Hou was high enough, but now it seems that Zhao Hou could not give enough price.

And the princes and nobles are tigers, and the Mo family now seems to be a tiger that eats meat but is very disciplined and distributes the meat residue to others, and the two tigers can only stand in line when they compete with each other, if there is a tiger and a cat, then there is no need to think about it: compared with life, life is more important.

However, what is the attitude of the Mo family, and what will be it in the future, this needs to be carefully pondered.

I thought that the newspaper had seen some new statements and attitudes of the Mo family, but I didn't want it to be a newspaper for a few months, and the people present were suspicious.

After several people looked at the date, they glanced at the contents of the newspaper again, and one couldn't help but laugh and said, "Hey, which one is my Dao?" It turned out to be this one? ”

"Isn't this just the spread here, let's all say that the group of people in Sishang really don't do the right thing, such a big thing as the law of the people, they discussed it for a few months, and the discussion first made it clear, what is a father, what is a mother, what is a husband and wife, what is a child......

As soon as he said this, the merchants present burst into laughter.

The people on the Mo family's side are talented, but they are still a school of thought, so some things inevitably make these businessmen feel a little ridiculous.

At the mention of this, many people remembered the newspaper and laughed.

From before the outbreak of the Qi-Mo War, the Mo family had been gathering the opinions of the people to act as the law, and the content of the discussion at the beginning would make these businessmen who read the newspaper cry out from time to time, and even inevitably cause some discussions, such as the abolition of the five punishments and hanging, beheading, and the division of the corpses of the five horses.

But I didn't expect that after a few months, there were a lot of jokes, especially after the people of the Mo family began to dominate this collection of public opinions, and there were even more jokes.

For more than half a year, it was easy to finalize and start writing the voting statute, but the initial content was a bunch of useless-sounding and even ridiculous nonsense.

For example, the definition of what is maintenance and what is maintenance.

For example, what is a parent and what is a relative.

For example, what is a child and what is a husband and wife.

And last but not least, like what is human.

At that time, after the newspaper printed with these contents spread to Handan, many people felt that it was really ridiculous that a group of people had made these things for more than a month.

As a prominent school, the Mohists led the revision of the law, and the beginning of the chapter was to tell everyone what it means to be a father and son, which is indeed difficult for many people to accept.

Thinking back to this newspaper now, the businessmen present still couldn't help laughing, and it was difficult to understand how the content could be seen to be reliable by the Mo family.

The businessman, who attached great importance to this, waited for everyone to laugh, and then said in a deep voice: "In this law, there are yourself, parents, relatives, and children. There were also hired hands and servants. But there are no kings, feudal kings, and patriarchs. The Mohists said that under the Emperor of Heaven, there is no distinction between the old and the young, the noble and the low, and everyone is equal, and under the equality of everyone, some relationships can exist, and some relationships themselves do not exist under the righteousness of Sishang. ”

"I have sinned, it is my sin, not my son's. The sin of my son is the sin of my son, not mine. ”

"I have a son, and if I don't raise me, I will be guilty, but in the same way, I give all my money and property to my son, and no one can control it...... Including my possessions after I have sinned. ”

"The content that the group of people in Sishang talked about for more than a month is not ridiculous. People are people, just people. I am me, I have parents and children and relatives, but I am still me. ”

"I don't need to look at the content behind, I can know one thing, in the law of Sishang, there is no Yi tribe. For a clan is a clan, a man is a man, I am me, and my father and mother and wife are themselves. ”

"Because I am me, my son is my son, I am my son's father, but I am first man, then me, and finally my son's father. My son is my son, but he is first a man, then himself, and finally my son. ”

"Again, if you look at it this way, in terms of the Chamber of Commerce, I am me, and then I am a member of the Chamber of Commerce. I have sinned, and you are both members of the Chamber of Commerce, are you guilty? ”

"If this chamber of commerce is in Sishang, if something really happens, the only ones who are guilty are the people who have been selected to make the chamber of commerce how to do it, and we are still ourselves, and our money is still our own money."

He figured out in his heart why he had to figure out the legal provisions on the relationship between people and people first, and also figured out some of the connections between the laws on the Sishang side through some follow-up content, but after all, he was not one of those people who studied dialectics in the Mo family, and it was difficult to explain the essence of it to the people around him in simple terms.

Explained vaguely and ignorantly, those merchants who had laughed at it also seemed to smell a trace of it, in the Mohist law, the bearers are all people, not anything other than people: including family, father-son relationship, husband and wife relationship, etc.—those are just relationships, not people, and they don't apply to the law, so there is no way to punish them.

The Mo family not only wants to let the people of the world be the people of the world, but also to break down the family, family, and even the fief and the country into one by one. In other words, the subject of the Dharma in Sishang is based on the fact that "all the old and the young, the noble and the low, are equal under the Emperor", not the family that has no ability to bear before the Fa.

It's not that the Mo family doesn't recognize the existence of the family, whether it admits it or not, the family exists, but people are to the law what red and green are to color; And the family is to the law what the north and the south are to the color. North and South exist, red and green also exist, but in the face of color, only red and green make sense.

And since there is a separate thing of man, then man must have something to be punished: life, health, free activity, wealth, property...... The corresponding is the death penalty, imprisonment, imprisonment, forced labor, fines, and confiscation.

Only with life, health, free movement, wealth, and property can people be subject to death, imprisonment, imprisonment, forced labor, fines, and confiscation.

This is a simple truth, but this truth is not simple for merchants, and even enough for some of them to pay for their lives in pursuit of this simple truth.