warring states careerist

Chapter 16
The news of what happened in the valley field of the village community quickly spread throughout the village community along with those fast-talking women, attracting many people to watch.

Those ants haven't dispersed, but there are more of them, and there are quite a few butterflies staying on it, which is shocking.

Shi came to the village not long ago, and no one knew what he was doing, but the things he did were impressive.

The harvest is about to be harvested. It is suitable to say that the flail is good and saves effort.So there were flails in the village community.How to install and how to drill holes, so that the agricultural tools that can save the effort of bending down are made by him with a group of children.

During the drought a few days ago, Shi said that watering was in line with the will of heaven.So men, women and children in the village dug big pits by the ditches, made square troughs out of wood, and irrigated the fields with simple oranges.The crops here are excellent compared to other places.

The children said yesterday that they could have a meal of fish soon.Why, just because it is appropriate to say.So the village community really ate fish today, and it was all fresh, and even the net was useless, so it was up to those children to move their hands casually.

And now these ants and butterflies have brought a great impact to these people.

Many people were trembling or excited, occasionally thinking of the paradise-like life they talked about on weekdays, and felt that it was really possible to achieve it.

However, some people objected: "It is appropriate to say that if the heavenly ghost is dead, there will be ghosts in this world, but they cannot be seen, touched, or communicated with the world. In their Mohism, there is no existence."

But some asked rhetorically: "If not, why do these ants gather here? Maybe we can't see ghosts, but they will give us enlightenment, just like we burn tortoise shells for divination."

More and more people gathered around, those open fishes were under the sun, people even forgot.

Soon, Liuzhi quickly ran to Luhua's house and shouted, "Brother Shi! Go and have a look!"

Luhua thought that someone had fainted from the heat or something was wrong, and was thinking that the things she had learned could be used, but she didn't want Liu Zhi to shout: "There are so many ants in the valley... everyone said that ghosts and gods are rewarding them." And you……"

Shi Chi laughed, and cursed: "If ghosts and gods really want to reward me, they should know what we Mohists want. They don't give us what we want, but give these things. Even if there are ghosts and gods, they don't know what people want. What's the use of ghosts and gods? As I said earlier, ghosts and gods can't be seen or touched, so they don't exist for us."

Liuzhi shouted: "I said the same thing, but they don't believe it."

Shih let out a hey, and led Luhua and Liuzhi to run towards the valley field.

Before they got there, someone shouted that he was coming. Dozens of people moved out of the way, and some people looked surprised, as if Chen Sheng's disciples in front of Daze Mountain had heard a fox barking.

Even, some people are a little in awe.

Lu Hua also stared blankly at the ants on the ground. He heard Shi said that Tianzhi, ghosts and gods were the most common.

But such a thing just happened, and Shi said that seeing is believing... Now that I saw it with my own eyes, if it wasn't the will of ghosts and gods, how could I explain it?

After Shi walked over, he stomped many ants to death.

A few people screamed strangely, as if the foot had stepped on themselves, thinking that this was the manifestation of ghosts and gods, how could they use their feet to step on it?
After stepping on one foot, he squatted down pretendingly, squeezed a little soil with his hands, got up and said, "I told you that these ghosts and gods are not connected to the world, and the only thing left is the will of heaven that can be learned and pushed out." The heavenly ghosts are dead, how can you still believe that they are ghosts and gods?"

This has been said more than once, and many people believe it, but now they are still a little confused after seeing this.Those who have always believed in the theory of ghosts and gods questioned: "You often say that seeing is believing. Isn't this seeing?"

Shi smiled and asked back: "What did you see? Where is the ghost? It's obviously an ant. Could it be that you don't know this?"

The man anxiously said: "This...but..."

Shi said again: "As I said, seeing is believing. Let me ask again, are you seeing ants or ghosts?"

This time, everyone said together: "What we saw was ants, but the ants must be driven by invisible ghosts."

Shi shook his head and smiled: "You are right if you want to say that. But it cannot be said to be a ghost, but Tianzhi. What Tianzhi? It is the Tianzhi that ants like sweet taste, which cannot be changed. It is nothing more than which one Children who are greedy and playful went to get honey and sprinkled it here, in case you would blame them for being playful, so I didn’t say anything.”

At this time, he sold Liuzhi again and said: "This kind of thing often happens. You didn't let the boy Liuzhi go to play in the water, did you hide it from you? It's the same, I'm afraid you don't allow him to play with wild bees Afraid of being stung to death, so the child sprinkled it here after getting it, just don’t dare to say it.”

Liu Zhi was behind Shi, feeling very wronged, thinking, brother Shi, why did you tell me?

Lu Hua smiled and solved the doubts in her heart. Even if she didn't squat down to taste the soil, she believed Shi's words, and she must be so.

So she knelt down, took out her fingers and pinched a handful of soil that hadn't dried up, tasted it and spit it out, "It's really sweet, it tastes like honey."

Many people squatted down when they heard the words, and had no respect for those ants who were respectful just now. After spitting a few mouthfuls, and speaking to that six fingers just now, they all believed what they said.

After waiting for everyone to calm down, he said: "Seeing is believing, it is true. But what you see are only ants, not ghosts. So, you can only say that you saw ants gathering together. But why did they gather together?" It might be ghosts, it might be honey, it might be raining... This is not nonsense. I have already said that the heavenly ghost is dead, and the ghosts are not connected with the world, so why don't you believe it?"

Wei grinned at the side and said, "I believed half of it at first, but I don't believe it anymore when I saw the ants gathering today. Hearing what you said, I believe even half of it."

Everyone laughed, and then said: "Come on, don't care about these ants, it's a pity for the honey. Let's eat fish today."

The self-directed and self-acted scene completely cleared up the half-belief of these people, and the sophistry that Tianzhi can be mastered and manipulated also made these people understand a little bit.

Everyone thought, the ants and butterflies like sweets, isn't this Tianzhi?This cannot be changed, the will of heaven is endless and explains everything, but knowing that ants and butterflies like sweets can explain what happened just now.

According to those children, isn't the method of catching fish and mice before Shizuo just mastering some will of heaven that others don't know?The pot was top-heavy with rats in it, so of course it would fall over and be blocked by stones. This kind of ambition can be used for the oranges that were used to fetch water during the drought a few days ago.

These people remembered that the children said that this kind of will is called leverage, which can be used in many places, and can calculate how much effort can be saved.

This kind of will can be learned and understood.

Thinking that they might know a part of Tianzhi, many people were both excited and scared, as if they vaguely understood something, but they didn't seem to fully understand it yet.

After this incident, everyone just thought it was a joke, from half-doubt to deep-belief, and then from deep-belief to the other side of deep-belief, so all kinds of doubts began to arise in their hearts.

"What is Tianzhi?"

Someone asked this question, and answered with the simplest principle: "There is a long sword, you will die if you pierce your body; if you don't pierce your body, you will not die. Then it is much simpler to follow the will of heaven, it depends on what you want to do. Think To die, just stab into the body; if you want not to die, don’t stab into the body. But before that, you must know that if you stab into the body, you will die, this is the will of heaven.”

Someone wondered: "So simple?"

Shi smiled and said, "Is it simple? How do you know that you will die if you stab your heart?"

"Listen to what people say, listen to what your parents say."

"Then how did they know? In the earliest days, there was always a person who stabbed with a sword, and then others would know about it, and then you could hear about it and believe it. Therefore, to understand the will of heaven, you can listen to what others say. This is hearing and knowing. You can see it with your own eyes, which is acquaintance; you can also see the death of others and push yourself to die, which is knowledge. This is what Mr. Mo Di once said, the truth between all things can be deduced, many The truth of things is also interlinked, if you understand the truth of all things, you can understand the will of heaven. But except for the dead ghosts, no one can understand the whole will of heaven.”

Someone shouted, "Can't the Mr. Mo Di you always talk about? Can't the Zhongni back then too?"

Shi smiled and said: "Of course not. Heaven's will is infinite. If you know all of heaven's will, you need to know how big the sky is, how wide the earth is, when it will rain, when there will be solar and lunar eclipses, when there will be drought, How to cure all diseases... Who in the world can say that they have mastered all the will of heaven? But these things can be learned. The more you learn, the more you will be able to obey the wish of the heavenly ghost, The easier it is to build the Ninefold Paradise in the world."

These people often heard Shi talking about Tiangui, Tianzhi, Minggui, Jiuchong Paradise, etc. Today, they were so teased by him, and they were full of curiosity and fantasy, and asked one after another: "According to what Tiangui said Do the people on the Nine Heavens know how big the sky is, when it rains, and when there are solar and lunar eclipses? What does the Ninth Heaven look like?"

Shi smiled and recalled the world before he traveled, so he didn't have to make up or imagine it because he was so familiar, and said loudly: "The ninth paradise... people can know when it will rain three days in advance, they can know how big the sky is, they can Traveling for nine days, you can go down to the five oceans to catch turtles. People know why food grows, so they follow the will of heaven, and the yield of corn is ten stones per mu; people know why thunder and lightning happen, so every family has candles borrowing the power of lightning; People know why the clouds float in the sky, so they can fly from the state of Song to Linzi in the state of Qi, and it only takes a moment..."

Even the most imaginative people at this time can't imagine such a life.There are always loopholes in imagination, but Shi is a person who has really lived in Jiuzhong Paradise, so his description is absolutely not stagnant, and it is the most immersive for these people.

These suffering people heard this, looked at the sky one by one, and imagined what it looked like.That is not a paradise that can only be reached after death, it seems to be a paradise that can be built on earth, maybe a thousand years, but there are endless shortages of children and grandchildren, and it can always be achieved.

In a daze, someone realized that this is the ultimate paradise, not the current paradise.

So he shouted: "Shi, what level is the paradise we can reach now? What does it look like? Those are too far away, we want to know what we can see."

"Yes, tell me."

"That's right, tell me..."

Shi smiled and asked, "Want to know?"

"miss you!"

He stretched out five fingers and said, "Now, the paradise closest to us is the fifth level, and it can be reached in this life. It's in the world, it's in the world, do you want to go?"

"I think! Since it is a paradise, it will definitely be better than now, but tell me, how can we get to this paradise? At least, tell me what it looks like?"

But Shi laughed and said: "Even if you know what it looks like, you can't just think about it. The fish will stink if you don't touch it. Let's talk slowly while drinking fish soup, eating millet rice, and sunflower vegetables. "

(End of this chapter)