201 Mohist History
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Liu Ce stopped and said to Huangfu Zhai: "I heard a little, but I don't know it in detail. There are some rumors about the secret records of Han Wang in the Yuanzhou City. Unfortunately, it is hard to tell the authenticity? Could it be that Mr. Huangfu, do you know..."
Huangfu Zhai said: "Of course I know that the history of poor dynasties is clearer than I know about the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, and even the entire world."
Liu Ce stopped immediately and turned around and said to Wei Ding: "Go to the city stairs to guard. Without the orders of the military governor, no one is allowed to approach..."
Wei Ding shouted: "Abide by the order!"
After Wei Ding left, Liu Ce brought Huangfu Zhai to a wall and asked the guards who were watching to leave. After saying to Huangfu Zhai, "Mr. Huangfu, this military governor may now understand why the Mo family was beaten into a rebellious school by the Great Zhou royal family and prohibited from spreading and teaching in various parts of the Great Zhou. However, I still want to say it from you, as a giant. Don't worry, since this military governor knows that your identity has not been mentioned, he will always protect your safety, unless this military governor dies before you..."
Huangfu Zhai said: "With this sentence of the Military Supervisor, I believe that I will naturally be able to save my life. Mr. Supervisor, the history of the Mo family is closely related to the flash in the pan of the poor dynasty.
More than a thousand years ago, after Han King Wu annexed the Yi Kingdom and annihilated the Yu Dynasty royal family, it officially ushered in a heyday that belonged to only a poor dynasty. In addition to his outstanding martial arts, Han Wu attached great importance to the cultivation of cultural governance.
In that era, many schools of thought emerged, including Confucianism, Taoism, law, fame, military, lunarity, medicine, commerce, agriculture and other schools of thought emerged, and at that time, the theories of various schools of thought began to form a prototype.
After thirty years of development, it has a similar effect with the hundreds of schools of thought in the military governor. The Mo family also had its original prototype at that time. Unfortunately, all this beauty was just a flash in the pan. In just sixty years, this dynasty completely disappeared because of the orphans of the Yu Dynasty.
There are indeed factors such as betrayal of powerful officials. However, the fact that the Han Wangxian transitioned to requisition of labor and repair the two rivers.
In order to consolidate the embankment along the Long River and avoid flooding from the beginning of the Yu Dynasty, Hanxian had worked hard. 40% of the collection of the national treasury was used to control the river embankment, and it has not stopped for twenty years.
Over time, the people could not understand the practice of Han Wang Wu. The endless work made them bored. Gradually, they lost their loyalty to Han Wu, and were eventually used by the descendants of the Yu Dynasty, becoming the fuse to subvert the poor dynasty.
Finally, when the construction of the Changhe Dam was completed, the north and south channels were completed, and when the future was still enjoying the achievements brought by water conservancy, this poor dynasty that had only existed for sixty years was completely destroyed due to war, but the Yu Dynasty attributed all this contribution to itself.
Fortunately, at that time, the various schools had already achieved their momentum and came out to speak up for King Han, which was also a precious legacy left by King Han. Among them, a young man who was only sixteen years old in the year even went to the palace to denounce Zi Kang Wuyi and scolded him in person, which made the civil and military officials of the hall and Prince Yu, ashamed of the people. He admitted his mistake in front of him. Do you know who the military governor is..."
Liu Ce thought for a while and said, "Is it your Mo family master, Mo Zi?"
Huangfu Zhai smiled and shook his head: "No, that person is Confucius Sheng of Confucianism! And Mohism has not yet been born!"
Liu Ce was shocked when he heard this, but saw Huangfu Zhai continue to say: "Accident? The Confucianism at that time had a sharp understanding of the theory and had a very high reputation. Unfortunately, Confucius' actions angered the royal family of the scholars. Although he was supported and respected on the surface, Confucianism has never entered the house since then and can only become a vassal.
Confucius ran around throughout his life to ask for his orders for the people, trying to restore the ritual system of the Han Dynasty and give the poor sons the opportunity to move to serve the country, but they encountered a wall everywhere. In his later years, Confucius Sheng was also discouraged and simply opened the door to teach to lay the foundation for the revival of the poor family in the future.
Among the many successful disciples, Meng Gong was born out of nowhere. After Confucius passed away, he naturally inherited his mantle.
However, Meng Gong discovered that the radical philosophy of Confucius was ultimately unable to cater to the king's way. Only by moving Confucianism into the temple could the rise of poor families be achieved. He gave up the revival of poor families advocated by Confucius and instead tampered with Confucian classics against the royal family of the gentry, and even integrated the life advocated by Confucius.
He changed the "literary ability to argue and accept" in the Confucianism theme to "loyalty, filial piety, courtesy and righteousness". Although this starting point is good, Confucianism may bring great opportunities to the common people after gaining power, but this action angered a disciple of Meng Gong's sect. He was the ancestor of Mohism, Mozi, and the first great son of the Mohism family."
"So it turns out that Mozi studied under Confucianism?"
Liu Ce frowned and muttered to himself, still calmly listening to Huangfu Zhai's words.
"My master Mozi strongly opposed Meng Gong's practice of betraying his school beliefs in order to cater to the emperor's art. He repeatedly argued with Meng Gong's reason, but let Meng Gong explain it,
Master Mozi still could not accept his tampering with Confucianism, and predicted that once this precedent was opened, it would not only bring blessings to the common people, but would also harm the land of China in the future. Confucianism should not tamper with its original purpose because of these setbacks.
However, everyone in Confucianism at that time was self-disciplined and humble, which was completely incomparable to the present. When his master Mozi saw that Meng Gong and many students could not understand his hard work, he ran away from Confucianism in anger. Many years later, he created his own school of Mohism and competed with Confucianism.
The master at that time was so energetic that he created the extrinsic school with ten major concepts and put it into practice. In the end, he formed a school to call Mohism, Confucianism and Taoism together. Although Mohism among the three schools was not as famous as the previous two, Mohism had the most prominent influence among the people!
In this way, Mohism was the first to enter the political center of the dynasty, while Confucianism was still only spread among the people. However, at the same time, Mohism's excessive radical manifestation eventually laid hidden dangers for its later decline.
Although the Mohist family strongly advocated treating everyone equally, how could they be willing to be the same as the common people as the imperial family? The reason why the Mohist family was able to enter the temple was mainly because the Mohist family had a great influence among the people. The creativity of the ingenious work and the powerful ranger army could bring prosperity and stability to the dynasty. Only when they were firmly held in their own hands can their power be completely stable.
But would the emperor be willing to keep an uneasy factor around him? Obviously it is impossible. The Mo family has been centered on the giants throughout the years. Any Mo who is an official in the court must pay the salary he earns to the giants to distribute. This practice is undoubtedly a faction outside the dynasty and is a taboo at any time.
However, the Mo family was strong at that time, and the Iron Guard in the Mo sword in his hand was extremely brave. The emperor and monarch of the Yang Dynasty could only use the means of winning over to appease the Mo family and serve him. Unfortunately, this balance was completely broken with the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty.
After Wei Huang destroyed the Yang family, he took the opportunity to launch an unprecedented offensive against the Mo family. As a result, the Mo family was defeated and completely lost the opportunity to return to the court. He could only retreat behind the scenes and hide and the mountains and fields. After that, the Confucian school, which had always been irresistible to the Mo family, tampered with Confucian classics and gained the trust of Wei Huang, and finally got his wish to enter the court.
Sure enough, everything was expected by the master. After Confucianism entered the temple, it quickly became popular with the support of the Wei royal family and began to crazily suppress the living space of other schools, and eventually became the dominant trend. Among them, the Mohist school was the most miserable, and it directly became a rebellious theory, and could no longer walk in the sunshine..."
After hearing what Huangfu Zhai said, Liu Ce sighed in his heart. He didn't want the struggle between schools to be so fierce, no less than the battle on the battlefield, and was also accompanied by bloody storms.
Huangfu Zhai said: "Mr. Military Governor, do you know what other reasons Mohism is slowly declining besides Confucianism? That's because all the history recorded by Mohism is real, and the royal family will never allow this truth to be made public. If you refuse to compromise, you will be destroyed!
They only want to see what they want to see and hear, and will not listen to anything they don’t want to hear or see. This is reality, the essence of the decline of the Mohist family!
Just like now, no one in the Great Zhou court would care about the life and death of the people of Heyuan, but only care about whether the thieves were wiped out, whether Duan Hong was killed, and what kind of pain the people experienced, do they care?
This kind of tragedy will continue to happen. Even I am unwilling to watch, listen, or even think about it. I dare to assert that the military governor’s trip to Heyuan is not the end.
On the contrary, a greater disaster is about to fall on the entire land, and the people will be even more miserable than now. The dynasty songs are about to be played, and countless people will die in this disaster! It is far ten times more miserable than now! The land of China is very likely to fall into darkness..."
"Boom~"
As soon as Huangfu Zhai finished speaking, a crack suddenly flashed through the sky, followed by a burst of muffled thunder, as if responding to his words.
"God, are you going to stop me again?" Huangfu Zhai pointed to the sky and said excitedly, "Even if it is a thousand times, I, Huangfu Zhai, can still defeat you so ashamed!"
"Mr. Huangfu, calm down!" Liu Ce gently patted Huangfu Zhai's shoulder and comforted him, "This military governor knows that the Mo family's masters bear too much responsibility, but you must remember that in this land, you are not the only one who wants to do something for the people, at least, this military governor is also working hard to prevent all tragedies from happening!"
Huangfu Zhaiping regained his excitement, bowed to Liu Ce, and said, "Sorry, Governor, I'm too out of control, I hope I'll forgive you..."
Chapter completed!