Chapter 78 Achievements and careers
The sixteen-year-old Wei Yang talked in front of everyone. He seemed to be calm, but in fact he was also pounding his heart and was nervous.
At this time, there was no Jixia Academy, and it was unlikely that there would be Jixia Academy. The rise of Si Shang made it difficult to move the academic center of Zhuxia. Originally, the situation of Qilu and Wei and Xihe was divided into two parts of the world, and Si Shang was the academic center of Zhuxia today.
Those who want to become famous and those who want to become famous all over the world seem to be the shortest way, that is, to become famous on Si. Once they become famous, they will be known to the world.
Wei Yang was a closed disciple of Zijiao. He was talented and intelligent. He liked the study of punishment since childhood.
He hunted all kinds of Li Ku's reforms, Wu Qi's reforms, Deng Xi's Zhu Zheng. The military merit title itself was the beginning of the Three Jin Dynasties. The words "Tian 100,000" by Zhao Zi can be regarded as the ancestor of military merit titles. Everything Wei Yang learned under this influence has the mark of the environment.
He was talented and had ambitions at a young age, and wanted to become famous and make achievements. Therefore, he did not study abroad and joined the Mo family because it was too difficult to become famous within the Mo family. The theoretical system of the Mo family was already stable, and the successors were at most to repair the mistakes. Moreover, it was too difficult to become famous in one fell swoop under the strict organizational discipline within the Mo family as Wu Qi used to be.
The fastest way for a scholar to become famous is to go to Si Shang, but don’t join the Mo family, because once you join the Mo family, you will only be a member of the organization in this life, like a drop of water from the sea.
The sea is vast and thousands of people admire it, but no one will praise a drop of water in the sea.
The main reason why Si Shang became famous is that whether it was Mozi, Qinzi, or the current Shi, they were first the leaders of a school, and secondly the leaders of the Si Shang regime.
It is of course good to be praised by others, but the meaning of being praised by people of different identities is very different.
People from various schools are now gathered in Si. As long as they can get a word of praise or two, or they can make one of them speechless for a while, then from Cangwu in Chu to Lone Bamboo in Yan; from East Sea in Qi to Desert in Qin, the world will be known within a few years.
His husband, Zijiao, was not from the Mo family, but had some communication with the Mo family in terms of cosmic view. The concept of universe was also the first proposed by Zijiao: the four directions are called Yu, and the past and present are called Zhou.
Zijiao gives the accurate definition of the universe, that is, infinite time and space.
If he is really given a school name, he can be regarded as a miscellaneous school, not a kind of miscellaneous school of Lu Buwei, but an intermediate product of the dispute between Confucianism and Mohism, and a miscellaneous school of Taoism that harmonizes Confucianism and Mohism to absorb Confucianism and Mohism.
He was also the first to give the concept of "the people are water, the king is fish, if there is no water, the fish will die, and the fish will die, but the water will still exist", and in history, it had a great impact on the Confucian reforms launched by Mencius in later generations.
However, he, a miscellaneous family, supports the absolute monarchy, and his closed disciple Wei Yang also grew up under the cultural background of the Three Jin Dynasties. He can be said to be a friend who has forgotten his age.
After all, the first reforms started by the Three Jin Dynasties, such as military merits and titles, and criminal law, all originated from the Three Jin Dynasties. Many ideas have their own ideas, which are somewhat inconsistent with the Mohist school.
Before the Mohist school was corrected, the Mohist morality was considered a variant of Leviathan. At that time, due to the limitations of the times, the means of restraining the monarch could be imagined to use the supervision of God, ghosts and gods similar to religion, and forced the king not to do evil.
The idea of zijiao was deeply influenced by the original morality of the Mohist school, but in addition to the morality of the mutant Leviathan, the Mohist school also had more ideas such as loving the people and benefiting the people. With the changes of the times, the power of the people gradually awakened, and the contradiction between the monarch and the nobles became increasingly intensified, which forced the Mohist school to change. In the end, Taoism was also influenced by both sides and some people tried to reconcile the conflict between the two sides, which eventually opened an era of a hundred schools of thought.
In the big debate four years ago, Zi Jiao and Shi discussed space and time, discussed the "relativeness" of the above, lower, left and right, and made the final supplement to the Mohist theory that the earth is round: because the upper, lower, left and right are relative, and there is no absolute meaning in the infinite space, up, down, left and right, so even if the earth is round, the top of the head of the person under his feet is still up, not down, which solved the doubts of many scholars - if the earth is round, wouldn't the person under his feet be facing down?
It can be said that there is no argument for Zijiao about the universe, space and time. It is difficult for Mohist theory that the earth is round to move to the entire Jiuzhou, because the ability to explain the appropriateness of this era is definitely not as good as Zijiao.
This is a consensus on the view of the universe, but when it comes to the political concepts in the world, the differences between the two sides are actually very large.
In logic and cosmic perspective, Zijiao is very close to the Mohist school. For example, the concepts of reality and name that have been emphasized in "Mo Bian" are the unity of reality and name, the continuity of time and space, relative and absolute, etc., which can be said to be affected, or it can be said that Zijiao has his own understanding.
At the same time, the theory of "stop being virtuous and not being filial" in the Mohist school of "respecting virtuousness" is quite supportive, and even very support the theory that "stop being filial" is obviously a way to make aristocrats' jobs.
But there are many different places. Zijiao supports the absolute monarchy. Because of appropriate revisions, the Mohist school did not support the absolute monarchy, but inherited and developed "everything is right, and if the superior is wrong, it slandered it", forming a new political system.
After combining the knowledge of Mohism and Confucianism, Zijiao proposed the saying "wealth is benevolence and force is righteous", abandoning the original right to interpret benevolence, and did not agree with the Mohism's idea that benevolence is love. In a more common sense, "wealth is benevolence and force is righteous", which is actually to enrich the country and strengthen the army.
Zijiao believes that absolute monarchy and legitimate punishment can restrict the nobles in the country, protect the interests of the people to a certain extent, and reduce internal consumption to the greatest extent, thus making the country strong.
Under the premise of believing that "the king is the fish and the people are the water", the monarch's power is infinitely strengthened, so that a dual structure of the people and the king can be formed, so that the monarch becomes the symbol and executor of a country's sovereignty. If it can be done, then in this monarchy country, the monarch does not need to embezzle property, because the entire country is the monarch's wealth, and the sum of the people's wealth is the wealth of the country, that is, the wealth of the monarch, because the monarch is the sovereign entity of a country.
Before starting to revise the Mohist theory on a large scale, this was undoubtedly similar to some of the Mohist ideas. It was also a thought that was in line with the times that emerged in the context of chaos in the world, the nobles fighting for power, the king's power, and the suffering of the people.
Shi Jiao had no objection to the Mo family, and he always believed that the Mo family's methods in Si Shang were very consistent with his ideas. He did indeed achieve "taking wealth as benevolence and power as righteousness". It seemed that there was no monarch in Si Shang, but in fact it was a political system that could concentrate power and do major things and suppress rebellion.
Shi Jiao discussed it with his disciple Wei Yang, and the results of the discussion were very subtle.
His disciple Wei Yang believed that the policy of Si Shang was very good, but it was limited to Si Shang and could not be copied elsewhere. If you want to achieve fame, you must not learn from Si Shang's methods, but you must never replicate the methods of Si Shang, because except for the Mo family, there was no other prince with tens of thousands of people, a synonym and a heart and virtue organization, and copying the methods of Si Shang to other countries, it would be a disaster.
If you want to make achievements in other countries, you must support the absolute monarchy, govern the country with punishment, ban the superiors and inferiors of the upper and lower levels, respect the virtuous and talented, and suppress the nobles. It is best to be able to achieve the level of "elected, absolutely powerful, hereditary princes".
It can not only rely on the power of the people, but also obtain the legal rationality of the throne in the environment of collapse of rituals and music. It denies the legal principles of the emperor's power and the power of the emperor's power and the power of the emperor; but instead becomes the legal principles of the king's power and the people's power and the law that cannot be reclaimed once it is granted.
These words inspired Zijiao very much, and then the young Wei Yang also put forward his own views on some schools of various schools of thought.
He believes that the growth and growth of farmers depends on "true equality" to attract people.
The growth of the Mohist school was based on "hypocritical equality of personality hidden under property inequality" to attract people.
What the princes had to do was to choose "unequal and unequal equality clearly stipulated under strict laws" to strengthen the country.
That is, the law should not pursue any fairness. All it needs is equality that everyone must abide by under the law, but it also clearly defines an unequal status and gives the bottom a ladder to climb up. Only in this way can it grow and grow under the background of the collapse of rituals and music and the Mohist school that the people of the world pursue their own rights.
At this time, even the most elegant Taoist schools of thought are still a school that is worldly. As long as you have the heart of the world, you will always have the heart of the world.
For a young man, the temptation of making achievements and making achievements with a fame in the world, taking charge of a country, and striving for great struggles is really an irresistible delicacy.
Wei Yang had great ambitions and wanted to achieve success and fame. What he admired most was Wu Qi, who swears to his mother that "I won't be able to do well, and I won't come back." In the end, he became famous all over the world.
This great ambition also destined him not to join the Mo family, because those who joined the Mo family mostly thought about collectivism of "ambition for the world", suppressing the pursuit of fame and fame that "fames the world", and indeed he could not make the achievements of "one person shocks the world, and one person strengthens the country" in Si, which is full of talents.
People in Si Shang integrate into the organization and system. Without Si Shang, many people are just middle-aged people and do not have the talent of heaven and earth. However, the organization and system in Si Shang are so excellent that people in the middle-aged people can compete with the so-called top figures in the world with this system.
Wei Yang doesn't like this.
Besides, Si Shang is already very strong, and Si Shang has its own system organization. He is young and is about to make achievements. Why choose Si Shang, a person who is destined to be submerged in the founding of Mozi, a stable bird, and a perfect fit for these three generations, and even if he is at the peak, he will be destined to be forgotten?
Chapter completed!