warring states careerist

Chapter 800
16-year-old Wei Yang talks eloquently in front of everyone, seemingly calm and breezy, but in fact his heart is pounding and nervous.

At this time, there is no Jixia Academy, and it is unlikely that there will be another Jixia Academy. The rise of Sishang has made it difficult to move the academic center of Zhuxia. The original situation of Qilu and Weixihe dividing the world into scholars has taken place. Change, Sishang is now the academic center of Zhuxia.

For those who want to be famous, those who want to be famous in the world, it seems that the shortest way is to become famous in Sishang. Once they become famous, they will be known to the world.

Wei Yang is Shi Jiao's closed-door disciple, intelligent and intelligent, and has loved the study of criminal names since he was a child.

Li Kui's reforms, Wu Qi's reforms, Deng Xi's bamboo punishment, etc., he has all shot and hunted.Military Merit itself is the beginning of the Three Jin Dynasty. Zhao Zi’s sentence Tian Shiwan can be regarded as the ancestor of Military Merit. Everything that Wei Yang learned under the influence of this has the imprint of the environment.

He is talented and intelligent, young and ambitious, eager to become famous and make contributions, so he did not travel to Sishang to join the Mohist school, because it is too difficult to become famous within the Mohist school - the theoretical system of the Mohist school is already solid, and the successors are at most tinkering. In addition, under the strict organizational discipline of the Mo family, it is too difficult to become famous in one fell swoop like Wu Qi used to be.

If you want to become famous as a scholar, the fastest way is to go to Sishang, but don't join the Mohist school, because once you join the Mohist school, you can only become a member of the organization in this life, like a drop of water in the sea.

The sea is vast, and thousands of people admire it, but no one will admire a drop of water in the sea.

The main reason why they became famous in Sishang was that the giants of the Mohist school, no matter they were Mozi, Qinzi or today's Shi, they were firstly the leaders of a school, and secondly they were the leaders of the regime in Sishang.

There are specialties in the art industry, and it is of course good to be praised by others, but the meaning of being praised by people with different identities is quite different.

People from various schools gather at Sishang now, as long as they can get one or two words of praise from them, or can refute one of them for a while, then from Cangwu of Chu to Lone Bamboo of Yan; Go to the desert of Qin, and within a few years the world will hear its name.

His husband, Shi Jiao, is not from the Mohist school, but he has some points of communication with the Mohist school in terms of cosmology. The concept of the universe was also first proposed by Shi Jiao: the four directions are called the universe, and the past and present are called the universe.

Shi Jiao gave an accurate definition of the universe, which is infinite time and space.

If you really give him the name of a school, he can be regarded as a miscellaneous school, not Lu Buwei's kind of miscellaneous school, but an intermediate product of the struggle between Confucianism and Mohism, and he can be regarded as a miscellaneous school that harmonizes Confucianism and absorbs Confucianism and Mohism.

He was also the first to give the concept of "the people are water, the king is fish, and if there is no water, the fish will perish, and if the fish dies, the water will still exist", and has had a great impact on the Confucian reform initiated by Mencius in history. .

It's just that he, a miscellaneous family, supports the absolute monarchy, and his closed-door disciple Wei Yang also grew up under the background of the Sanjin culture.

After all, the reforms initiated by the Three Jin Dynasty first, such as the criminal law granted by military meritorious titles, all originated from the Three Jin Dynasty. Shi Jiao has his own ideas in many concepts, and it is also somewhat inconsistent with the Mohism.

Before the modification of Mohism, the morality of Mohism was regarded as a variant Leviathan, and because of the limitations of the times, the means of restricting the monarch that could be thought of at that time used the supervision of gods and ghosts similar to religion to force the king not to do evil.

Shi Jiao's ideas are deeply influenced by the original morality of the Mohists, but in addition to the morality of the mutant Leviathan, the Mohists also have more ideas of loving the people and benefiting the people. With the changes of the times, the power of the people has gradually awakened. The conflict between the monarch and the nobles is intensifying day by day, which makes Mohism force Confucianism to change. In the end, Taoism is also influenced by both sides and some people try to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides, which finally opened the era of contention among a hundred schools of thought.

In the great debate four years ago, Shi Jiao and Shi discussed space and time, and discussed the "relativity" of the directions of up, down, left, and right, and made a final addition to the Mohist theory that the earth is round: because up, down, left, and right are In contrast, there is no absolute meaning of up, down, left, or right in infinite space, so even if the earth is round, the top of the head of the person under the feet is still up, not down, which solves the doubts of many scholars—if the earth It is round, so isn't the person under the feet facing down?

It can be said that without Shi Jiao's argument about the universe, space and time, it is somewhat difficult for the Mohist theory that the earth is round to spread to the entire Kyushu, because the elaboration ability suitable for this era is definitely not as good as Shi Jiao.

This is the same view of the universe, but it is just that the political ideas in the world, the differences between the two parties are actually very big.

In terms of logic and cosmology, Shi Jiao is very close to Mohism. For example, the "Mo Bian" always emphasizes the unity of reality and name, the inseparable continuity of time and space, and the concepts of relative and absolute. It can be said to be affected, or it can be said that Shi Jiao has his own understanding.

At the same time, I also quite support the Mohism's theory of praising the virtuous, giving up the unworthy, and the nobility is always noble and the humble is no constant baseness, and even very supportive of the theory of "eliminating the unworthy" which is obviously intended to destroy the jobs of the nobles.

But there are many differences. Shijiao supports the absolute monarchy. Mohism does not support the absolute monarchy because of the appropriate revision. Yan", formed a new political system.

Shi Jiao, after integrating the knowledge of Mohism and Confucianism, put forward the idea of ​​"taking money as benevolence and power as righteousness", abandoning the original Confucian right to interpret benevolence and not agreeing with Mohism's idea that benevolence is love. In more common terms, "taking wealth as benevolence and power as righteousness" is actually a way to make the country rich and the army strong.

Shi Jiao believes that the absolute monarchy and justifiable punishment can restrict the nobles in the country, ensure the interests of the people to a certain extent, and minimize internal friction so as to make the country strong.

On the premise that "the king is the fish and the people are the water", the power of the monarch is infinitely strengthened, so that a dual structure of the people and the monarch is formed, and the monarch becomes the symbol and executor of a country's sovereignty. If it can be done, then this absolute In a monarchy country, there is no need for the monarch to embezzle property, because the entire country belongs to the monarch, and the sum of the wealth of the people is the wealth of the country, that is, the wealth of the monarch, because the monarch is the sovereign entity of a country.

This is undoubtedly similar to some ideas of Mohism before starting to revise the theory of Mohism on a large scale, and it is precisely because of the background of chaos in the world, nobles fighting for power, powerlessness of the monarch, and suffering of the people. An idea that fits the times .

Shi Jiao has no objection to the Mohist school, and has always believed that the methods of the Mohist family on Sishang are very in line with his ideas. They have indeed achieved "taking money as benevolence and power as righteousness". It seems that there is no king on Sishang, but in fact it is a A political system where the concentration of power can do great things and suppress rebellion.

Shi Jiao discussed with his disciple Wei Yang, and the result of the discussion was subtle.

His disciple Wei Yang believes that Sishang's policy is very good, but it is limited to Sishang and cannot be copied elsewhere. If you want to achieve fame, you must learn from Sishang's methods, but you must not replicate Sishang's methods, because Except for the Mohists, there are no other princes who have an organization of tens of thousands of comrades with the same heart and one mind. It would be a disaster to copy Sishang's practice and go to other countries.

If you want to make achievements in other countries, you must support absolute monarchy, rule the country with punishment, outlaw superiority and inferiority, honor talents, and suppress nobles. It is best to be "elected by the people, with absolute power, and hereditary princes." this level.

It can not only borrow the power of the people, but also obtain the jurisprudence of the monarchy in an environment where the rites collapse and the music is ruined. It not only denies the jurisprudence of the divine right of the emperor and the power of the princes, but it becomes the power of the monarch and the people. Once granted the jurisprudence is irrevocable.

These words inspired Shi Jiao greatly, and then the young Wei Yang also put forward his own views on some schools of thought.

He believes that the development and growth of the farm depends on "true equality" to attract people.

The development and growth of Mohism relies on the "hypocritical equality of personality hidden under the inequality of property" to attract people.

What the princes have to do is to choose "clearly stipulated unequal equality under strict laws" to strengthen the country.

That is to say, the law does not pursue any fairness. What it wants is the equality that everyone must abide by under the law, but it also clarifies the status of inequality, and at the same time gives the bottom a ladder to climb up. Bad and Mohism make people in the world develop and grow under the background of pursuing their own rights.

At this time, among the hundreds of schools of thought active in the world, even the most peaceful Taoist school, there is a faction that is in the world. As long as you have the world in your heart, you will always have the heart of the world.

And for a young man, the allure of being famous all over the world, ruling a country, and making great achievements in a world of great controversy is really an irresistible delicacy.

Wei Yang has always had great ambitions and always wanted to achieve fame. The one he admires the most is Wu Qi who swore to his mother that "I won't come back if I don't get along well" and finally became famous all over the world.

This kind of ambition is also doomed for him not to join the Mohist school, because those who join the Mohist school mostly think about the collectivism of "aspiring to be famous in the world", and what is suppressed is the pursuit of fame and fame of "being famous in the world". It is true that the kind of achievement of "one person shocking the world, one person strengthening a country" cannot be mixed in a world full of talents.

The people in Sishang are integrated into the organization and system. After leaving Sishang, many people are just middle-aged people, not talented in the world, but the organization and system in Sishang are so good that they are middle-aged. More people can rely on this system to compete with those so-called top figures in the world.

Wei Yang didn't like this.

Besides, Sishang is already very strong, and Sishang also has its own system and organization. I am young, and it is time to make contributions. Why choose Sishang, who is destined to be submerged in the creation of Mozi, a stable bird, and a perfect man? For these three generations, what about people who are destined to be forgotten even if they stand at the top?
He wants to make contributions, he wants to be strong, and his husband provides him with this stage and opportunity, which is today's debate.

(End of this chapter)