"No matter how hard you work, if you still wear hemp clothes and eat coarse rice, people will lose the motivation to make progress. If people don't want to make progress, the world will not be able to progress. You should know this truth. Zhuangzi said that the Mohist family is the opposite of the world. This is why The words are true.”
This result was expected by the scientist, and he was not surprised.
He and Ying Chengyu have known each other for a long time. Their like-minded interests and ability to count hundreds of millions of dollars have made him a customer of Ying Chengyu.
The master's philosophy has always been different from his.
If the two agree on the same views and have the same thoughts, he will no longer be the Mohist giant.
He had long known that when Ying Chengyu saw the scene in Yiyang, he would never let him take charge of Han. The reason why he took the initiative to go to Ying Chengyu to ask for Han land was to retreat in order to advance.
If you don't give Han land, why don't you take Yiyang back?
"Your Majesty's words always make sense."
The scientist's face was indifferent.
The scientist was in a bad mood when the ideals and beliefs he had worked hard for his whole life were criticized in this way and he was not allowed to stay in Yiyang.
"It sounds like you are unwilling to do so."
Ying Chengyu stroked the horse's head, and the horse lowered its head, snorted, and nudged Ying Chengyu.
"If you have any different opinions, just say it. If it doesn't make sense, it won't make sense, and the truth won't be clear."
He lowered his head and smiled bitterly.
"As long as you are human, no thinking is foolproof. Everyone will make mistakes. No one can guarantee that he is right before the results appear. The King of Qi said that those who can stab their mistakes in the face will be rewarded, and even Chenglong can do that.
"For so many years, I have always wanted to use my thoughts as the foundation to change the world. My thoughts are clear and my actions are self-evident. In the end, I was wrong. I can only practice enlightenment and observe the power of hundreds of schools to eliminate the bad and keep the good. The way forward is for you and me. Let’s open up together.”
Develop together... The scientist chewed these four words silently, and the cold look on his face became much less intense.
"I think the actual situation is exactly the opposite of what your Majesty said. It is precisely because the Mohists have always prohibited luxurious life and refused to enjoy it. The Mohists, the Mohists, can make rapid progress."
Ying Chengyu was speechless.
In the past, he was called Shuzi, or called himself Shuzi, but today he wanted to call the scientist Shuzi.
"Shuzi, are you speaking in human language?
"The Qin State wanted a wider territory, so it prepared troops to fight and destroy the six countries. The Qi State wanted to stay in a corner, but in the end the whole country surrendered, and all the wealth in the East China Sea returned to Qin.
"The difference in the outcome between the two countries is that Qin has the desire for a better life, but Qi does not?
"Now you are saying that only by banning luxurious life and refusing enjoyment can Mohists make rapid progress, are you serious?
"I'm asking you to give me advice and expose my faults, not for you to talk nonsense and treat me like a fool."
The scientist's eyes were serious, and he looked at an idiot with the same look that Ying Chengyu looked at.
Both think the other is stupid.
"Qin was able to dominate the world because Qin was located in the far west, close to the Hu people and the Rong and Di, and life was difficult. The reason why Qi fell was because Qi was rich. From top to bottom, from the king to the people, everyone was eroded by wealth. This That's why Qin was able to destroy Qi. Your Majesty, you are just talking nonsense.
"Xibo Hou Jichang performed the "Book of Changes" under imprisonment. Confucius wrote "Spring and Autumn" when he was in trouble. Qu Yuan was exiled and wrote "Li Sao". Zuo Qiuming lost his eyesight and wrote "Guoyu". Sun Bin had his kneecaps amputated and wrote Published "Sun Bin's Art of War". Stuttering was forcibly summoned to Qin State by the King of Qin, and then he wrote "Speaking of Difficulties" and "Lonely Anger". There are three hundred poems in "Poetry", all of which were written by sages out of anger.
“Only when people in the world don’t live a prosperous and wealthy life can they use all their energy in the right direction.
"Su Qin said, 'How can I have two hectares of land in Luoyang to match the seals of the six kingdoms?'. Mencius also said, 'When Heaven is about to entrust a great responsibilities to the people of this country, they must first work hard on their minds, strain their muscles and bones, and deplete their bodies before walking. It messes with what they do, so they are tempted to endure and gain what they can't do.
"Be born in sorrow and die in happiness. Why don't you understand, Your Majesty? Only poverty can achieve something. A rich life will only wear down one's ambition!"
Ying Chengyu fell silent.
His face looked very ugly, as if he had been touched on something painful, as if he was retorting without words.
He silently led the horse forward, step by step, walking extremely slowly.
After saying a lot of words in one breath, the scientist who sighed happily followed Ying Chengyu silently, with a very ugly expression on his face.
Because Ying Chengyu didn't ask him to stay, he had to follow Ying Chengyu back to Xinzheng to continue his research.
The scientist likes handicrafts very much, and he likes to be a Qin Mo, but he even wants the Mohist theory to be carried forward. There is no disciple who does not want his own theory to be carried forward, even selfless scientists are no exception.
If Mohist theory can be carried forward and people in the world benefit from each other and love each other, this will be a prosperous age.
"Please come back, giant."
Ying Chengyu said suddenly, got on his horse and rode Juechen so fast that even the scientists could not react.
The horse's hooves kicked up the soil half a foot, and some of the flying dust fell on the scientist's linen clothes.
The fields in all directions were covered with sparse weeds, and grass clippings were trapped in the soil and swimming in the air.
The sunset is huge and red, falling from the sky on the mountain.
Ying Chengyu's figure became smaller and smaller in the scientists' eyes, heading towards the sun that was no longer dazzling, as if he had rushed into the sun.
The speed of the horse is astonishing, it should be the fastest.
"I was wrong?"
The scientist stood there blankly, looking at the lord's thin back until he was out of sight.
"Did what I said just now be too harsh, or... I really did something wrong."
The scientist was originally Qin Mo. When he met Ying Chengyu, Ying Chengyu was not the Lord of Chang'an, but the Young Master Chengyu.
Mr. Cheng, who was still a child, especially liked to go to Qin Mo. At first, the scientist was very concerned about it, but he was not in the mood to coax his children to play.
Later, I found out that this grown-up young master was neither noisy nor fussy, but just watched them do things eagerly. Then I felt a little better, but he only regarded him as a royal prince who did not do his job properly.
——The prince of the royal family should manage the government and participate in state affairs, rather than watch the work. This is not what the prince of the royal family should do.
What really made scientists, and even the entire late Qin Dynasty, have a great change in their view of Mr. Cheng was that one time Prime Minister Fan Ju ordered Qin Mo to unite with farmers to increase land production.
——Qin's attack on the six kingdoms required a huge amount of food, but there was never enough food.
Qin Mo, the farmer tried his best and tried all kinds of methods without success.
For thousands of years, there has been a limit to how much food the land can produce, so it cannot be said that production will increase.
Ying Chengyu, who often hung out with Qin Mo, put forward a suggestion that was absurd at the time - burying feces and urine in the soil would increase food production.
Qin Mo, the farmers are all speechless about this young master. Food is something you eat to survive. How can the land where food is grown be mixed with filth like feces?
Just thinking about it makes me sick. How can I eat this? How could this increase food production?
No one does it.
So, Ying Chengxiang found his grandfather, King Qin Zhaoxiang, Ying Ji. Ying Ji, who loved Ying Chengyu in every possible way, glared and issued a royal order to Qin Mo. The farmer followed his great-great-grandson's order.
The king's order has been issued, Qin Mo, no matter how reluctant the farmers are, they can only hold their noses and irrigate the fields with feces and plant food.
In the second year, grain production increased.
Qin Mo, a farmer, was astonished to Ying Chenglong from then on. Some people in the farmhouse even thought that Master Chenglong was the reincarnation of Houji, the God of Agriculture.
At this time, no one complained about spreading excrement to grow food, and no one refused to eat it.
Everyone just thought it smelled really good.
There is no order of learning, the master is the teacher.
After this incident, the scientist who was the leader of Qin Mo followed Ying Chengyu like a follower.
Under Ying Chengyu's rhetoric, scientists used their outstanding hands-on skills to create things such as glass, curved plows, waterwheels, and textile looms, which truly raised the Qin Empire's economy by several levels.
When it comes to supporting Ying Chengxuan, scientists definitely belong to the first echelon.
Ying Chengxuan did not show his true face in Yiyang City today. If he takes off his bamboo hat, these Mohist disciples who are willing to be poor will swarm around him and look at him with eyes that respect scientists.
Scientists who do not believe in heaven, earth, ghosts, and gods, in order to lead the Mohist disciples, poor people.
In Yiyang County, Ying Chengyu was promoted as the emperor.
In the Mohist philosophy, the emperor represents heaven to rule the world, and the emperor is extremely important in the Mohist family.
In Mozi's view, monarchs and ministers were created for the benefit of the people. They were set up from among the people as a last resort to restrain the people. The meaning of their existence was to safeguard the interests of the people.
But in order to achieve effective governance of the social state, the relationship between monarch and ministers is not so democratic.
If you hear something good but is not good, report it to the superior. Whatever is above must be so. What is wrong above must be wrong.
The Emperor is the God on earth, and what the Emperor says is absolute authority. What he thinks is right is right, and what he thinks is wrong is wrong. The ministers only need to agree with it, and the ministers must be absolutely obedient to the Emperor.
Including him, a giant of the Mohist family, he was also a minister and had to obey the emperor's orders.
What the ministers have to do is to convey the emperor's orders to the people, and then report the various situations of the people to the emperor, so that the emperor can reasonably manage the entire country and promote advantages and eliminate disadvantages.
This is because Mohism believes that in order to realize the interests of the common people, the absolute authority of the emperor must be established. The emperor is the same as heaven, the emperor issues orders on behalf of heaven, and the people can only obey the emperor. This is Mozi's idea of "shangtong".
In fact, the "giant" of the Mohist school is a reduced version of the "emperor" - Mohists must obey the orders of the giant.
The Mohist system was organized through this model.
The founder, Mozi, believed that this form was necessary in order to achieve the greatest good.
Scientists think so too.
If that's the case, the Mohists seem to lick the monarch harder than the Legalists, and the Mohists should not be defined as speaking for the people.
The difference between Mohism and Legalism is that Legalism legislates for the monarch to govern the people, while Mohism establishes the emperor for the people. The reason why Mozi used the emperor instead of the king was to use heaven to limit the king.
——Floods, droughts, and all other natural disasters are signs of God’s anger and are signs that the Emperor has done something bad.
Mozi left such a back door to limit the monarch's power.
But even so, when the Mohist giant proposes someone as the emperor, even if it is a beggar, he will immediately be able to command the entire Mohist family.
And the emperor who can make the current Mohist giant believe wholeheartedly and want the entire Mohist family to serve.
The First Emperor, who was sitting on the throne, could not do it. He had to follow him since he was a child and was now the Lord of Chang'an.
The scientist who has gone through too many ups and downs with Ying Chengyu, the scientist who can chat with Ying Chengyu all night long about the future, the scientist who can let Ying Chengyu give one of the only three pistols in the world to him for self-defense .
Able to perceive most of Ying Chengyu's emotions and understand most of Ying Chengyu's thoughts.
Please come back, giant... The scientist thought silently in his heart. What he sensed in these four words was alienation.
"According to Your Majesty's temper, if you are said to be angry and angry, you should say go back..."
The scientist looked step by step in the direction where the master was leaving for a long time. The sky was getting dark and the moon and stars were sparse.
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"Lord Juzi, why are you here so late?"
The two guards in front of Yiyang City Gate were concerned about the tunnel.
It was the person in front of them who gave them a goal in life - to rescue brothers and sisters like them. They no longer lived for the sake of living, but were like a walking zombie.
"Nothing, nothing..."
The scientist forced a smile and walked into Yiyang City under the worried eyes of the two guards.
"Master Juzi, how should we set up here?"
Someone pointed to the beams of the house and asked. As the scientist explained, he worked with others to set up the beams and fixed them with a mortise and tenon structure.
"Lord Juzi, is it really possible for you to know everything?"
Someone held up "Mozi Tianzhi" and asked, and the scientist explained it carefully.
"Yes, when someone does something evil, no one sees it, no one hears it, no one notices it, but God will know it immediately. Heaven can see everything in the world and knows everything that people in the world do. Heaven Those who have their own will punish the good and punish the evil.”
Scientists do not believe in heaven, earth, ghosts, and gods.
But in this era where there are no overly strong restrictions, he must use these to make the people have scruples and feel at ease.
The scientist then taught the disciples who chose farming how to fertilize the soil, and taught the disciples who chose the art of war how to defend a city.
Lying on the bed, the scientist who had just finished his work had dull eyes again. He didn't know what he had done wrong.
"Maybe the master is wrong..."
Ying Chengyu did not turn back to Xinzheng. He galloped wildly on the vast wilderness to express the depression in his heart.
He didn't expect that the scientists who were closest to him and had the most similar thoughts also thought the same way.
"Does Confucius want to be punished? Does Qu Yuan want to be exiled? Does Zuo Qiuming want to be blind? Does Sun Bin want to be tortured? If you tell them to endure all this suffering, they will succeed, will they accept it?
"Why should all this be attributed to suffering! What made them, if they could, would they want to choose such suffering? What a fucking statement!
"Suffering is not worth singing, poverty is not worth persisting in!"
Ying Chengyu breathed rapidly. He was very angry. He was angry that it was a scientist who said these words.
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