Qin Huali looked at the bamboo slip in his hand. There was no gorgeous rhetoric on the bamboo slip, but a dry record of the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the country from some states.
Then he listed the benefits that the people at the bottom received after the Huaiguo army arrived. One after another forms a sharp contrast. This makes Qiu Lili, who has always believed in love without attacking and protecting the weak as his own duty, feel like his common sense has collapsed.
In his impression, war can only bring pain and disaster to the invaded people, but in this bamboo slip, it is said that the people would not do anything to eat pots of pulp to welcome the Huai army.
"The Mohist family loves and does not attack, and its purpose is for these grassroots people. How are these people living now? If you only listen to Gu's words, you must not believe it. In this case, Gu can issue an edict and send a team of soldiers to escort you. How about going to the state to come to the country?" Wang Pu said with a smile.
Qin Huali looked at Huaigong in front of him. He was handsome, graceful and like a god, but he always felt a little cold in the back of his body.
But he still had to go and see for himself to know what was going on. Qin Huali didn't think much, and immediately agreed, preparing to lead dozens of Mohist disciples to Zhou Laiguo, and then decide whether the Mohist disciples should continue to serve as officials in Huaiguo.
Qin Huali took many scholars of the Mo family to Zhou Laiguo.
When the group of people arrived at Zhou Laiguo, they discovered that everything in front of them was completely different from what they had imagined after the war. There were no ruins, no dead and wounded everywhere, but instead, everything was full of life.
The people in the city had smiles on their faces and were in a hurry. When they saw the Huai soldiers, they would give way and even give some fruits to the soldiers. There is an endless stream of people coming and going in the city, and it does not look like a city that has just experienced a war.
Although those people were dressed in shabby clothes, they had smiles on their faces. Qin Huali even suspected that Huai State wanted them to see this, so he forced the people to do this.
But after he deliberately avoided the Huai soldiers, and then went privately to question the people in Zhou Lai, he found that what they saw was true. Although Qin Lili was mentally prepared, he was still shocked.
In his opinion, Huai's attack on Zhoulai was an unjust war, but why was the unjust war welcomed by the people of Zhoulai? It was only after he questioned these people in detail that Qin Huali came to his senses.
The state regards the people as slaves and exploits them wantonly. The people are extremely poor, have no land, no personal freedom, and no clothes. How can the people of the state be allowed to defend the country to the death?
After the Huai Kingdom distributed food, land, cloth, salt, and houses to the people from these states, and barely gave them wives, the hearts of the people from the states completely belonged to the Huai Kingdom.
Wherever Huai's army went, the people all ate pots of milk to meet the army. Huai easily captured Zhoulaiguo, and after capturing Zhoulaiguo, a large number of Legalist scholars were sent.
The state has a radius of two hundred miles, and hundreds of thousands of people quickly succumbed to it. After the land is distributed here, there will be a lot of tax revenue in the second year, and the Huai State can even recruit tens of thousands of troops here.
After two generations of planning by the Huai State, Zhou Laiguo was easily occupied by the Huai State. As for the nobles and officials from the state, they were basically moved to Kuaiji.
Qin Huali stayed in Zhoulaiguo for three full months with these Mohist disciples, and visited almost every corner of Zhoulaiguo before finally returning to Jinling.
When he saw Wang Pu, Qin Huali was not dissatisfied at all. He respectfully paid homage to Wang Pu and said, "The Huai State is benevolent and righteous. The state and the state expropriated violently and treated the people as cattle and horses. Now that they have been abandoned by the people, they deserve it!" "
Wang Pu laughed and said, "How are the people living in this country living?"
"Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous. The people from the state will be allocated thirty acres of land, and the women will receive fifteen acres. All of them will be registered. According to the taxation of Huai State, next year they will no longer suffer from hunger. They will have clothing and silk to keep out the cold for two years and three years will be enough." Eating meat, this is the scene of the ancient holy kings." Qin Huali said.
Wang Pu shook his head and said: "You can eat meat for three years. To say that you are a holy king is a bit exaggerated."
"Do you agree with me that I will attack the state this time?"
Qin Huali said: "The state government is oppressing the people of Li and the people are suffering. Your Majesty, this war is not an unjust war."
"However, Your Majesty, I still oppose Huai Kingdom's foreign war."
Wang Pu smiled and said: "What you said is too limited. Attacking and occupying the state alone is also in line with the Mohist philosophy of universal love and non-attack."
"Your Majesty is joking." Qin Huali didn't believe Wang Pu's words at all.
But Wang Pu continued: "If you don't believe it, just listen to Gu's story, and you will naturally understand Gu's concept of 'universal love and non-aggression."
"Universal love means that people from all countries in Xia must love each other, not just one country."
"The monarch of Zhou Lai is unkind to the people, oppresses wantonly, and exacts excessive taxes. Although Gu is the monarch of Huai, he also loves the people of Zhou Lai. Since Gu sees the people of Zhou Lai being exploited by the monarch, naturally he cannot ignore it. . Therefore, I feel that I should have an obligation to help the people from this state."
"Therefore, Gu's attack on Zhoulaiguo is also part of universal love. Your understanding of universal love is too one-sided."
"As for non-offensive, what I understand is not being oppressed. The people of the state are oppressed by the nobles, nobles and monarchs. How can I endure this kind of behavior? Therefore, in order to stop the oppression of the people by the king, nobles and nobles of the state , I decided to launch a non-attack on them..."
Wang Pu said righteously. These words made Qin Huali and the many Mohist disciples around him stunned for a moment. Many people would nod along when they heard the wonderful points.
Qin Liuli was speechless for a moment. Is Wang Pu's statement wrong? Yes, universal love does include people all over the world, so people from all over the world are naturally included. As for non-offensive, on the surface it is against aggressive wars, but isn’t opposing aggressive wars just to oppose oppression?
Then the people of the state are oppressed by the king and nobles, so they need to protect them from oppression without attacking. From this, it seems that they are indeed opposing the invasion and defending themselves to protect the people.
So from these perspectives, Huai State's capture of Zhou Lai is indeed the Mohist idea of "loving all, not attacking". However, Qin Lili couldn't turn around for a while. He always felt that he had overlooked something, but he couldn't remember it.
Wang Pu looked at the stunned Qin Huali and the many students of the Mo family who were fooled by him, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He had been thinking about this rhetoric for a long time. The Mohists advocate universal love rather than aggression. If they really want to recruit a large number of Mohist students, once the Huai Kingdom invades other countries, these Mohists will most likely rebel immediately, and the Huai Kingdom will become the laughing stock of other vassal states. .
These people have skills, knowledge, and ideas, and using them can make the country strong, but it is difficult to use them well. With this set of rhetoric, these Mohist disciples can be allowed to continue to serve the Huai Kingdom.
