Chapter 256: No More Superfluous
The contents discussed by the high-level of the Mo family behind closed doors are each related to tens of millions of people and to Zhuxia and Kyushu.
In the great era, no one can be left alone, and no one can stay out of it.
The waves that have accumulated slightly have made the fate of many people have to merge with this era, and choose their own destiny in this magnificent era.
"If you are rich, you will be rich, and if you are poor, you will be poor; If you live in the crowd, you will be in the crowd, and if you are outnumbered, you will be outnumbered; If you are in trouble, you will be in trouble; If you live long, you will live, and if you die, you will die...... This prince and minister spoke foolishly to the people. There is no such life in this world. ”
But doesn't it mean that there is no connection between man and the world, the times, and even the universe? As Yang Zhu and others said, can people be separate and detached from society? How should we understand the statement of the Yang Zhu school? ”
In a room on Peiyi's newly built university campus called Xuan Xu, a Mo artist is speaking in Sishang dialect with a Wei and Jin accent, telling the Mo family's "Fate".
The lecturer held a plaster pen in his hand, and there were a few lines of words written on the wooden board behind him, and there were two maps hanging on the left and right of the wooden board, one was the general idea of Zhuxia and Kyushu, and the Yellow River in the shape of a few characters was very easy to recognize, but in fact, the drawing was not very perfect; Next to it is a map called "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which indicates the land outside Kyushu, and some places have strange translations, which were translated by Solushen after returning from his westward journey.
Ximen Yan, who had been in Si for half a year, stopped the pen in his hand that was transcribing these contents, and left many ink-colored horizontal and vertical characters on the slightly yellowed paper.
In the half a year since he came to Sishang from Yecheng, there was no life of Zhong Ming Dingshi, and there was no entertainment of field hunting, which made Ximen Yu feel very fulfilled and happy.
People who don't know what they want have no joy and no pain.
When the morality of the Mohists began to spread in Yedi, Ximen Yan always felt that he was the superfluous person in the world: in the economic system of Mojia morality, they were silverfish.
They are well educated, dissatisfied with reality, but do not know what to do.
They think they have the responsibility and ambition to help the world and save all the people, but they can't do it.
After reading some books, they are full of sympathy for the people, but they find that their sympathy is lonely in the environment in which they live.
They are melancholy, hesitant, and need something to fill the emptiness they have had received a good education and have been well fed.
But now, all this is gone, and he has found belonging, found himself, and found a dream.
The Mo family attaches great importance to education, which Ximen Yu has known for a long time, but he did not expect to attach importance to it to such an extent.
After he came to Sishang, he was soon placed in the preparatory class, and most of his classmates in the class were from Wei, Han and Zhaodi, with similar accents, half of them were children of declining nobles, and a small number were concubines of big nobles like him.
The university called Xuan Xuan is still under construction, and it can be used as it is built, and many people are attracted here by the Mo family's Nine Heavenly Chronicles, but it is very difficult for them to come to the Xuan Xuan Order.
The order was divided into two subjects, arts and sciences, and Suo Lushen, who had returned from his journey to the west, served as the head of the liberal arts, while the chief of the science department was the best of those disciples who had brought with him when he traveled to Chu in the appropriate year.
These out-and-out noble children or noble concubines from outside did receive a good education, but the education they received was not completely in line with the education of the Sishang Mo family, and some things were even inferior to some children in elementary school, and it was difficult for them to get into the science subjects in the Xuan order.
And the strictness of education in the Sishang Mojia is very special: everyone only has one chance in their life.
The Mohist family's explanation for this is: This may indeed miss a lot of gifted people, but it ensures the fairness of more people, if you can take unlimited exams, then the children of rich and noble families will always have more advantages than the children of poor families, and it may also cause a family to focus all its energy on one child so that the rest of the brothers and sisters suffer, after all, it is still extremely expensive to study part-time at this time.
Most of those who fail the exam will be arranged to some special schools, or learn craftsman skills, or be arranged to be Mr. Xuetang in Huaibei.
Ximen Yu originally wanted to study the science in Tianzhi, but it was only after coming to Sishang that he realized that what he had learned was not comparable to those peers who had received a complete set of education since childhood: those people were discussing the content of mercury in the Xuanlin tube, and he couldn't understand it at all.
And after he came, he also had a very injured experience: after the end of the First World War in Nanjishui, the Mo family recruited a large number of students from the Xiliu Military Academy and the Surveying and Mapping Department to go to Qi to help measure the land.
Ximen Yu felt that these people seemed to be a little discriminated against in Sishang, not only discriminating against their aristocratic status, but also discriminating against them for not learning and not knowing...... But in fact, Ximen Yan felt that he had studied hard before, but many of the things he learned were not used at all.
After a short period of confusion, he finally had a dream again, that is, to be admitted to the Xuan Xuan Liberal Arts, follow some disciples brought back by Suo Lu Shen's westward journey, learn Persian and Greek, as well as some Hu languages, hoping that one day he will be able to travel thousands of miles west like Suo Lu Shen and hollow out the Western Regions.
If there were no magnificent times, Ximen Yan would not feel that he was a superfluous person, and he would not be ridiculed for the uselessness of those things he learned.
He spent many years practicing driving and archery in the car, which is the six arts elsewhere, but this was not as valued as the artillery school students who had studied geometry and nine numbers for a few years after the reform of the military system in Sishang, and even the Yishi was about to abolish the chariot formation.
He spent many years learning etiquette and learning how to eat, but the chopsticks of the Mo family in Sishang rarely used knives and forks, and even some ink people who were originally from the nobility did not care about the etiquette of not using chopsticks for non-vegetables.
He learned from his father how to command a war, but the things he learned were incompatible with the military system in Sishang.
Originally, if there was no Mo family, everything he learned would be useful and something he could be proud of.
Today's Mr. Preparatory Department talked about life, but he was thoughtful and enlightened.
When he was in Yecheng, he fantasized about what the Mo family's school would learn, and he also guessed whether the first thing the Mo family's school would do after entering was to instill those concepts such as equality.
But he didn't expect that the first lesson he entered the preparatory class was "history".
Who are we? Where did Zhuxia come from? How did people live during the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in ancient times? Why was there a saying of Zen concession at that time? Is it inevitable that Yu will start the world? What about the alternation of Shang and Zhou? The genealogy between the princes can be traced back to the ancient times of Yan and Huang, is it a family?
As a son of a nobleman, Ximen Yu certainly studied history.
However, it was the first time he had come into contact with such a cold perspective to look at history.
The Mo family is not fateful, but these historical books are expounding a kind of "fate" or "heavenly will" from another angle.
In such historical writings, there are no visions from the sky, no snow and flowers, and some are just extremely cold "differences between countries and fields, armed colonization"; Some are just extremely boring, "under the combination of bronze, bone, and stone, in order to maintain the rule of the aristocracy, the most reasonable way is to dare to govern private affairs."
Here, rites have become something created by princes and nobles to maintain system governance, rather than an eternal and difficult thing.
Here, the transition from the natural law of Taoism to the emergence of the state and then to the election system to the hereditary system is only a tortuous inevitability.
When it comes to allusions, few of the young people who have received Sishang's learning since childhood are Ximen Yan's opponents, and when it comes to one or two allusions, these people will be at a loss.
When it comes to the analysis of history other than allusions, the vision of young people who received Sishang's learning from an early age is far broader than that of Ximen Yan, a noble child.
Today, when Ximen Yu heard Mr. talk about "non-fate", he couldn't help but have some doubts when he thought of his own fate and the inevitability that the Mohists thought were inevitable.
If there is an inevitability, then is this inevitability a fate?
Is an accident other than necessity a kind of fate?
Is the life in "non-fate" and the life in "destiny" a kind of life?
Immersed in this kind of nihilistic thinking, Ximen Yu did not hear the sound of the brass bell outside, and played with the brush in his hand until someone tapped him on the shoulder.
"Eh, your father is in the newspaper."
A sentence pulled Ximen Biao back from his thoughts, and the classmate next to him handed the newspaper in front of him, and on the "newspaper" that had been circulated many times, which had been somewhat blackened, there was a line of eye-catching headlines.
"The Siege of Handan Will Be Resolved, and the Mohists Urge Wei and Zhao to Conclude a Peace Treaty to Relieve the Suffering of the People's Soldiers"
The title does not have the name of his father Ximen Leopard, but the content is naturally inseparable from the name of Ximen Leopard, the commander of the Wei army in the Siege of Handan.
The articles in this newspaper are divided into four main sections.
First of all, Zhao Gongzizhang sent people to Gaoliu and swore an oath with the people of Gaoliu: to grant land to the people, give the people autonomy, ask the people to send troops to defeat the Zhao Gongzi Dynasty and the Wei State that launched the unjust war, and describe the content of the oath.
Then he talked about Qu Jiangzi and the people swearing to the south, defeating the main force of Que and Jun and Gongzi Dynasty, and marching towards Handan.
Then he commented on Ximen Leopard, affirmed his behavior of benefiting the world from his water control and water conservancy, and criticized him for being loyal to the Marquis of Wei and participating in the unjust war.
Finally, he talked about the situation facing Wei now, the restoration of Zhongshan is a foregone conclusion, and the defeat of Wang Ziding is irretrievable, indicating that the siege of Handan is about to be lifted, and the withdrawal of Wei has become inevitable.
Ximen Yan looked up and saw many of his classmates looking for the names of places in the newspaper against the map near the wooden board.
He lowered his head, thinking of the scene when he had advised his father not to submit to the unrighteous war, and he did not know how to feel in his heart.
After thinking about it for a long time, he put a pen on a brand new piece of paper and wrote a very simple letter to his family in the local script of Wei, telling about his misses, family affection, and his happiness.
As for the righteousness and unrighteousness, he did not mention a word.
He thought, his father was already anxious, how could his understanding of righteousness compare to those mouthpieces of the Mo family? Don't say it, don't say it......