Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Four The New Great Son of the Mo Family
Zhao Kuo already understood that these guys were not asking for his own theory at all. Previously, Zhao Kuo used his punctuation to re-annotate the works of his ancestors. He explained those remarks according to his own ideas, such as the force, speed, light that Mozi once proposed, and so on. He gave new concepts according to his own ideas, plus the gravity and gravity of later generations to interpret the Mohist thoughts more clearly.
In fact, this is not a random fabrication of Zhao Kuo. The explanations of Zhao Kuo can be found in the Mo Jing. Although Mo Zi did not find the attraction, he distinguished the gravity and weight. Although he did not say that the light propagates along the straight line, he conducted a small hole imaging experiment. Although he did not say the accurate concepts of time and space, he proposed a view of time and space similar to the theory of relativity.
What Zhao Kuo did was just to summarize the meaning Mozi wanted to express in simple words. The more he read the Mo Jing, the more surprised Zhao Kuo was. Looking at the strange experiments above, looking at the simple and advanced concepts proposed by Mozi, and looking at the philosophical thoughts of Mozi, Zhao Kuo could be said to be convinced... Love can be the basis for everyone's equality, and it is also the basis for the stability of the country's unified society. Tianzhi is an affirmation of unified rules and regulations.
The Ming Ghost is to make the nobles afraid, and the destiny of heaven is to exert human subjective initiative... When Zhao Kuo used the experience of his descendants to summarize these contents for thousands of years, the Mo Jing became unrecognizable, and even the Mo family members could not understand it... Zhao Kuo's final summary gave him a very high evaluation of Mo Zi, believing that he was the number one genius in the Xia Dynasty. When Zhao Kuo's annotation spread, it quickly brought a huge impact.
Qin Mo naturally immediately absorbed this new version of the Mo Jing. They began to learn the Mo Jing and gained a lot from it, including Mo Zi's mechanical theories. After Zhao Kuo interpreted it, it became much simpler. Mo Zi's only disadvantage was that he thought his descendants were too smart or overestimated. He mentioned so many wonderful arguments in one stroke, and even did not explain them too much.
The descendants of the Mohist school often were confused when they saw these things and could only understand them with their own ideas.
Chu Mo and Qi Mo were not as well-behaved as Qin Mo. They were very angry and believed that Zhao Kuo's approach was to slander Mozi and distort the Mo's thoughts. Chu Mo had no way to come to Qin to cause trouble for Zhao Kuo, so he hoped that Qi Mo could come to debate with Zhao Kuo. However, Chu Mo did not know that Qi Mo was ecstatic after seeing these contents, because they had not achieved success in the years and were no longer a rival to Confucianism in the long-term debate.
The Confucians in Qi often pointed at them and scolded them, but they could hardly win. If they convinced each other, those shameless people would go to Xunzi, and then Xunzi pointed at them and cursed them. They could only bear it with their heads down... The development of Confucianism was too fast, and various academics and advanced theories were bursting out. Under the influence of Xunzi, the Confucians of Zixia had completely inherited the theory of unification, and even lobbled local people and nobles everywhere to promote the importance of unification.
Of course, Qin State was very happy and used several Confucian scholars of Zixia. In the Xianyang Academy, there were Confucian scholars who held official positions.
The Confucian scholar of this great unification school is called Chen Xiao, who is Xunzi's disciple and Li Si's senior brother.
Compared to constantly changing his Confucianism, Qi Mo naturally did not read enough. When Zhao Kuo's annotated version of the Mo scriptures was passed to Qi State, Qi Mo looked at the work with a critical look. Then, they found that what Zhao Kuo said was very reasonable! Because of Shang Tong, the Mohist school even replaced the Confucian Zixia theory and became the first theory to advocate unification. Qi Mo couldn't sit still, so they hurried to Xianyang.
However, they were not here to cause trouble, they came to Zhao Kuo to learn the new Mo Jing.
This seems a bit sad. The orthodox descendants of the Mo family wanted to find an outsider to learn his own doctrine. Zhao Kuo had no idea of hiding his own private life. In the following days, he took out the Mo Sutra he had commented and taught these people seriously. Zhao Kuo never stopped reading and studying in recent years. As long as he had free time, he was studying hard, and everyone admired his hard work very much.
Zhao Kuo can now speak the words of the seven countries, and he has mastered the rest of the words besides the words of Chu... and he is about to finish reading the classics of hundreds of schools. Everyone knows that Ma Fujun loves to read, so they like to give books when giving gifts. The King of Qin even lent Zhao Kuo all the books privately collected by the royal family to read... After the destruction of South Korea, most of the books in South Korea fell into Zhao Kuo's hands.
Zhao Kuo almost became a walking library. When teaching Qi Mo, Zhao Kuo could answer whatever Qi Mo asked. Sometimes, even the classics cited by Zhao Kuo could not understand by the people of Qi. Qin Mo was not unfamiliar with this feeling. When they faced Xunzi, they had felt their ignorance... and the body of Wu Chenghou in front of him was inexplicably oppressive like Xunzi.
When people meet someone they respect, they will probably experience this situation, which is restless and particularly restrained.
Zhao Kuo first gave lectures to Qi Mo, but later, even Qin Mo came to listen to the lectures together. Qin Mo and Qi Mo had not been so happy for a long time, especially at the core of both sides. Now, they are all gathered around Zhao Kuo and listened to Zhao Kuo's narration of Mozi's theories. Zhao Kuo was a little excited. As a descendant, I couldn't help but feel excited when I saw my ancestors put forward such advanced theories.
However, when Zhao Kuo saw these Mo people in front of him, he felt a little disappointed. What a good knowledge, why is there no successor? In the eyes of later generations, the demise of many schools came from the prosperity of Confucianism. In fact, the king chose Confucianism, and Confucianism also developed the idea of unification, which can assist the king, while the other doctrines that are not favorable to the king can only die helplessly because they are not valued.
This is not the king's oppression on them, but because they have no effect on the king.
This cannot be said to be the fault of the king. Unification and centralization are both historical trends and an inreversible process. Unification is to be advanced than division, and centralization is to be advanced than local separatism... Backwardness is to be eliminated, and advanced until a more advanced one appears to replace it... The Moists can probably find the disappointment in Zhao Kuo's eyes. This feeling is like the look of disappointment from the elders, which makes people feel ashamed.
At present, a Mohist family that recognizes the unification and can develop useful technologies to help the country is of course useful to the king, and is not so easily eliminated. This can be seen from the attitude of the King of Qin. The King of Qin has continuously increased its funding for the Mohist family. After the Mohist family developed the water wheel, the King of Qin was very happy. He immediately ordered the establishment of water wheels in various places, which has a great effect on agricultural irrigation.
The Melancholy all received promotions in their titles as their reward.
Qi Mo's performance made Zhao Kuo realize that he might have spent a lot of energy to annotate these theories, which was helpful to these people. Now that he has been teaching for more than two months, Chu Mo has also come to Qin. This is simply an incredible thing. Chu Mo is a staunch non-aggressive genitalist, so they have absolutely no goodwill towards Qin, which always provokes wars.
In addition, most of these Chu Mo were raiders. Rangers were absolutely not allowed in Qin State and were arrested and shave their beards. It was a brutal thing for them to take the initiative to come to Qin State. Of course, they came as scholars, and Qin State did not expel them, but just sent warriors to supervise them. Chu Mo came to Xianyang with great momentum. Instead of looking for Zhao Kuo, they found Tian Xuan of Qi Mo.
"Wu Fu... Why are you here in person?" Tian Xuan looked at Chu Mo's leader in front of him and asked in surprise.
"Why don't I come? You said you were coming to Wu Chenghou to debate, but there was no news as soon as you went there... I thought you were killed by the Qin people!" Wu Huo's temper was not very good. He was a little irritable and angry. He asked, "After I arrived, I heard that you were studying with Wu Chenghou here. Are you here to debate or study?!"
Tian Xuan said seriously: "Of course I'm here to debate."
"What do you mean?"
"Ahem..." Tian Xuan cleared his throat and said, "The Mo family in the past was the world's prestigious scholar, and Confucianism also had to give in and dare not argue with us. However, over the years, the schools of various schools have been developing, and only us remain unchanged, and we have even begun to fail to understand the ideas of our ancestors... If this continues, the Mo family will sooner or later disappear. Qi Mo disappears first, Chu Mo becomes a group of gossipers who make trouble, and Qin Mo becomes a group of craftsmen."
Tian Xuan's eyes were a little sad, and he said, "Do you really want to see such a future?"
Wu Xiao calmed down a little, and his expression became solemn. Although the Mo family was divided into three families, the three families were also powerless in the face of the Mo family's future. Their disciples were fewer and fewer, the nobles and kings no longer met them, and the people were unwilling to listen to his theories... Wu Xiao asked, "Then what are you doing?"
"You don't know how angry I was when the Mo Sutra compiled by Wu Chenghou came to Qi State. It made me feel ashamed and angry... The first time I read it, I really couldn't read it, and I almost burned the book. When I opened it the second time, I began to think about the contents of the book. Maybe my ancestors really had this idea? When I opened it the third time, I started to learn the contents of the book."
"This new Mo Sutra fully interprets all the thoughts of the ancestors, making me feel as if I saw Mo Zi sitting in front of him and telling me these contents... I understood everything, I understood everything... I understood that if I want to make the Mo family strong, I must make changes. This is my purpose in coming to Qin. I want to get more knowledge from Wucheng Hou and prevent the Mo family's thoughts from being eliminated..."
"Do you understand?"
Tian Xuan asked.
Wu Fu looked at him, his lips trembled, and then he said, "I looked through it once, and then burned the book... But then, the nobles of Chu began to look for me. They took the Mo Sutra and wanted to listen to me telling them about the Mo family's thoughts. Many young people came to me and wanted to learn from the Mo family... When we went to teach others, we could speak very well based on the content in the book, and they could understand..."
Igua said with some shame: "The reason why I sent someone to come here is to test your voice. I didn't expect that we were thinking the same."
Tian Xuan thought the other party would scold him, but he didn't expect that Chu Mo thought so too. He couldn't help but laugh and asked again: "Then why didn't you come to study earlier?"
Wu Huo said helplessly: "Although Wu Chenghou is very accomplished in Mo Jing... but he is an outsider after all. It is really inappropriate for us Mo Jing to come to him to learn Mo Jing. I can't give up my face..."
Tian Xuan narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "I have a way to solve this."
Then, Tian Xuan called Qin Mo's chime over. Of course, Qi Fu knew Wu Fu. After seeing him, Qi Fu frowned. Qin Mo hoped to be unified, Qi Mo hoped that there would be no war, so both sides were mortal enemies, Wu Fu also had a stern face and did not go to see him. Tian Xuan smiled and pulled him down, then said: "Although the pursuits of the three families are different, we are all children of the Mo family, so we should not be opposed to each other like this."
Chi said coldly: "I am still busy making hydraulic smelters. Is there anything important to call me?"
"Ha, it seems that you have become pure craftsmen... Qin uses the machinery you have built to kill people. Do you still remember the non-aggression and love at the same time?"
"Being a craftsman is better than wandering around with a sword. Do you know Shang Tong and Tian Zhi?"
When the two met, the atmosphere suddenly became cold. Tian Xuan shook his head and said, "Don't argue... I called you this time for a big event, not for analytics... If you want to debate, you can take your disciples outside the academy to debate..." Tian Xuan stopped the quarrel between them and then talked about his own thoughts. Wu Huo, who had already known his thoughts, said nothing, and Chiu was stunned.
"Is this really OK?"
"Marquis Wu Cheng is not even a disciple of the Mo family..."
"Why not? What we value is his contribution and achievements to the Mo family..."
When the leaders of the three Mohist sects appeared in front of Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo realized that Chu Mo had arrived in Qin. Zhao Kuo looked at the strong and burly man in front of him and greeted him. Then the three of them said their thoughts.
"Wu Chenghou...We want you to be the master of the Mo family. I wonder if you are willing?"
Chapter completed!