Chapter 636: The Book of Ink

"Relaunch of the revival system, spatial integration: 1%... 16%... 51%... 99%”

"Successful restart, the heart of Huaxia science and technology plan, the science and technology tree is lit"

Wang Yao was woken up in his sleep by the familiar mechanical sound of the system, and his consciousness was involved in the revival space, but this time it was not in the red bricks and green tiles filled with humanistic atmosphere, but his feet were stepping on a vast starry sky, there was a glass-like tree in the center of the starry sky, and the shape of the whole tree was somewhat like a banyan tree, but every leaf and branch was glass-clear, flashing with various colors and bright lights.

【Huaxia Tech Tree: Level 1】

[Basic Classification: Natural Sciences/Life Sciences/Space Sciences/Humanities/Philosophy/High-tech Sciences]

【Heart Energy of Huaxia Science and Technology: 1000】

[Science Value: 0]

[Reconstruction and Development Mission: None]

The attributes of the technology tree were presented in front of Wang Yao, in addition to this, there were several options under the basic category [Small Category] [Shop] [Building] [Parallel Time and Space]

[Sub-categories] are the sub-categories under each science and technology category, such as the natural sciences are divided into 'mathematics', 'chemistry', 'physics' and other categories, but most of the categories are gray and have not been activated.

The [Shop] is a commodity that can be exchanged for revival value, divided into 1~10 level goods, but not all of them are items in the mainstream technology of Gaia Star now, from practical product design drawings to theoretical monographs in the store, but they are all scientific and technological monographs in ancient China.

Among them, the level 10 "Ink Sutra" is the most conspicuous, not only because it requires 1.3 billion technology values and 30 billion energy resources.

It's because this book is the foundation of Huaxia Science and Technology.

The definition of the word technology has only appeared in the past two hundred years, and all definitions are divided into narrow and broad senses, and now it is hoped that the technology represented by the science and technology is technology in the narrow sense, which is based on the philosophy of Western theological masters, plus the rational thinking and deductive mathematics laid down during the Greek scientific renaissance.

This kind of science and technology in the narrow sense, after Qin Shi Huang unified China, disappeared in China, and before, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of the hundred sons of the Mo family, there are conditions that meet the conditions of science and technology in this narrow sense, and the "Book of Ink" is a book of science and technology foundation in the narrow sense.

The currently unearthed cultural relics of the "Book of Ink", which was recorded 2,300 years ago, completely record the basic theoretical points of modern science, such as mechanics, limit theory, naïve view of time and space, geometry and small hole imaging theory.

Compared with Western science of the same period, these theories are more complete and refined.

However, due to the particularity of Chinese civilization, Mohist is still a 'school of governance' rather than a 'school of development', just like the other schools of thought.

At that time, Mohist and Confucianism were called the two major schools of the time, and the so-called Xianxue was the most popular doctrine of the era, and it was also the school that laid the foundation for the rulers to adopt.

There were many factors in the final defeat of the Mohists and Confucianism in this battle, the most important of which was the difference in their positions.

Different from the Confucian 'gentleman's doctrine', the Mohist 'slut's attention is a school of thought and solution from the perspective of the grassroots level.

This slut is not a derogatory and scolding word now, but the self-esteem of Mozi, the founder of the Mo family at that time, noble and cheap, is a corresponding word, Confucianism is noble, and the Mojia side is respectful.

Mozi does not feel that there is any difference between nobles and sluts, and he will not feel inferior because of this, he believes that these two definitions are just a description and have no practical meaning, so when he lectures, he calmly admits that he is a 'slut', that is, a low-level commoner, different from the Confucian nobles, but there is no fundamental difference between the two.

The Mohists were striving for what people now called 'equal rights', the Mohists insisted on carrying forward, the common people were no different from the gentlemen, and all the classic ideas of the Mohists were from the perspective of the common people, so they also won the love of the people, and became one of the two great scholars among the hundreds of sons at that time, and even in the Mencius era, the Mohist school was more prosperous than Confucianism.

"The Book of Ink", compared with the classics of other schools of thought, it is indeed the most simple and easy to understand. But while it is the most understandable, its connotations are extremely profound. It hides the profound essence in the simple surface, and wantonly narrates the great wisdom of religion, life, management, politics, etc., so that the IQ of the common people is closest to the class that rules them compared with other nations and countries in the world, which has to be said to be a great humanistic miracle in human history.

In terms of modern doctrine, the democracy insisted on by US imperialism is actually the doctrine of early Mohists.

However, because of the particularity of Chinese civilization at that time, the Mohists were finally defeated in the struggle of Confucianism, and the curtain came to a bleak end.

The Mo family's love and non-offensive ideas have also disappeared in the land of China.

Since then, in the Chinese Confucian law, the words of the world are not returned to Confucianism, but to the law.

Mencius's righteousness is in some ways to absorb the righteousness of the Mohists, after all, Confucianism is a school of continuous development with the strengths of a hundred schools.

In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, he thought that Meng Sheng, the giant of the Mo family, was his friend Chu Guoyang Chengjun Shoufeng, and none of the 183 people he and his disciples retreated, and all of them died in battle!

The disciple Xu Miao advised Meng Sheng, believing that this was the case, and that death would not do Yangcheng Jun any benefit, and that this move would cause the Mo family to suffer heavy losses, and it was more likely that "the one who would destroy the ink would die in the world".

Meng Sheng thinks that his relationship with Yangcheng Jun is not shallow, if he does not die, I am afraid that no one will trust the ink man in the future, and he will pass on the position of the giant son to Tian Xiangzi of the Song State, and he is not afraid of the ink master.

Xu Wan listened to Meng Sheng's words and went to die first.

Meng Sheng ordered three people to pass on the location of the giant in Tian Xiangzi, and then went to die, and about 180 people followed Meng Sheng to the dead.

After the three told Tian Xiangzi to succeed as the giant, they were going to return to Chu and die with Meng Sheng, and Tian Xiangzi ordered the three to stay with the status of the giant who had just taken over, but failed.

Meng Sheng had a saying before he died: If you don't die, from now on, you will not be able to ask for a strict teacher, you will not be in ink, you will not be in ink, and you will not be in ink if you are a good minister. Death, so the righteousness of the ink practitioner and the successor of the karma.

"Lü's Spring and Autumn Period: Going to Private Chapters" notes: "The ink giant has a belly, lives in Qin, and his son kills people. King Hui said: 'The gentleman is old, and unless he has a son, the widow has ordered the officials not to be punished. The abdomen said: "The law of the ink, the murderer dies, and the wounder is punished, although the king gives it, the belly must not practice the law of the ink." 'Kill his son'

The son of the giant belly who told him killed someone, and the king at that time felt that it was extenuating and did not need to be investigated, but the giant belly thought that the Mo family law was that the murderer paid for his life, and the wounder was punished, and it had nothing to do with whose son he was, and if he did not follow the rules as a giant of the Mo family, then who else in the world would be willing to accept the Mo family, so he killed his son by himself.

This is the earliest trend of thought that 'the Son of Heaven breaks the law and commits the same crime as the common people'.

You must know that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the transformation of feudalism from slavery has not been completely completed, and the murder of the son of a Mohist tycoon is not a big deal according to the general thinking at that time, which shows that the rise of Mohist thought is of great significance.

The struggle between the Mohists and Confucianism is, after all, a struggle for governing the country.

The ideas advocated by the Mohists at that time are enough to make Marx embarrassed today.

Mo Zhai, a Mohist tycoon, put forward the earliest 'national concept'

The "concept of the state" means that before the rise of the state, society was in a "state of nature", there was no unified standard of right and wrong, and it was very chaotic.

The state was created to stop the chaos that arises from people going their own way. Therefore, there must be a monarch who is elected according to the will of heaven, how the monarch is elected, and who is elected.

It is not the inheritance of rulers by blood in ancient times.

In the selection of rulers, he put forward the idea of 'Shang Tong': Mozi's political program in response to the chaos of the country at that time.

Mozi believed that the chaos in the world was due to the lack of good leaders who conformed to the will of heaven, so he advocated the selection of "benevolent" and "sage" as leaders at all levels. This kind of thinking is basically the same as Shang Xian's theory, which is a criticism of the rule of the aristocracy at that time.

It is the current mainstream attention of the West dominated by US imperialism, democracy, and democratically elected regulations.

'Love': Unequal love is a kind of idealized and noble love, loving the world as oneself, loving other people's fathers as one's own father [treating the father of others as his father]

This is the same as the concept of 'servant of the people' and 'son of the people' in modern times.

In order to support his own theory, Mozi used another theory, and here we can see the difference between him and Marx, Marx advocated that family affection is unnecessary or universally applicable in a communist society with highly developed productive forces, and Mozi used the "Tianzhi" [heaven and the world and love it] that our ancients loved to use.

Heaven loves each of us equally, so we should do the same.

Because there is a sky, there must be ghosts and gods, so there are "bright ghosts".

Here Mozi criticizes the Confucian idea of equal love. Because of his opposition to the hierarchical differences between people and the Confucian "rites", especially the poverty and hard work of his own laborers, and the sacrifice of the dead, Mozi advocated "festival burial".

Because of the destruction of production by war, the destruction of industrial laborers, industry and commerce, Mozi advocated "non-offensive".

As a school of thought, Mohist is different from other schools of thought in that Mohist is a tightly organized social group.

A very systematic group of people with similar aspirations. Its leader is the "giant", the internal brother is commensurate, everyone is equal, and the giant is equal to everyone else, and only has power in leadership.

And the Mohists mastered almost the most advanced science and technology at that time.

But despite this, even the Mohists, who overpowered Confucianism during the Mencius period, ultimately failed, because they were too idealistic, too advanced in thinking, and too much in the strength feared by the aristocratic class at that time.

The Mohists had the deepest concept of the people's hearts, the most sympathetic to the people's action, and the top armed science and technology strength at that time.

The existence of such a school of thought was intolerable to the ruling class at that time.

Therefore, the Mo family was doomed to failure, unless the Mo family had the ability to dominate the world at that time, but due to the strict self-discipline of the Mo family, the Mo family did not allow itself to take the initiative to provoke a war.

It was also this point that was seized by the aristocratic class at that time and finally eliminated it.

After the world returned to Confucianism and law, the Mohists disappeared from the land of China, not only the idea of governing the country disappeared, but also those advanced basic theories of science and technology, as well as amazing technologies.

Coupled with the suppression of Confucianism, the craftsman profession was despised and a single education policy of 'everything is inferior, only reading is high', so that China did not make any achievements in the development of science and technology.

However, despite this, under the wisdom of the ancient working people, there are still technological techniques that transcend the times, such as "Heavenly Objects", "Qi Min's Techniques", "Building the French Style", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Xu Xiake's Travels", etc., which have realized the development of ancient science and technology from all angles, but they lack the most fundamental systematic theory and support, and there is no way to burst out of industrial achievements like after the Renaissance.

But it does not mean that there was no technology in ancient China.