Chapter 364: There is a beast, and its hair is like blood

In fact, the transformation of the Mo family has begun since the death of Mozi at the beginning, and the prestige of Mozi has been reached by no one of his descendants, and therefore, as soon as Mozi died, the Mo family immediately caused a split due to the orthodox dispute of inheritance, and finally although the integrity of the Mo family was maintained by virtue of the "giant" system established by later generations, it was also because of this system that violated the original intention of Mozi to establish the Mo family, and laid a hidden danger for the complete disintegration of the Mojia thought later!

At the end of the Warring States Period, in the fierce annexation war, in order to meet the needs of the form of war, the Mohists had evolved into three major branches at that time, namely: Moyan who preached Mohist ideas in the face of all beings in the world, from the king to the Li people, the Mojiang who focused on the study of craftsman technology and the axioms of the world, and the Mohist Army, an armed force formed by the Mohists in order to defend themselves in the turbulent times!

Originally, at the end of the Warring States Period, when the three lines of the Mo family were first separated, the leading position of the Mo family was the Mo Yan line, the ink craftsman line was second, and the Mo army was the last, however, because of the frequent outbreak of wars at that time, the status of the Mo army was gradually highlighted, and then became more and more important, and the strength of the Mo army was also developed rapidly, so that soon, the strong strength of the Mo army was even overwhelmed by the combination of the forces of the other two systems, so that invisibly, He already has the ability to challenge the Mo Yan family, who was the leader of the Mo family at that time!

However, at that time, it was the season of war, and the three lines of the Mo family needed to be intimately united to be able to tide over the difficulties together, and it was not long before Mozi's death at that time, his simple words and deeds could naturally have a clear and intuitive impact on the disciples and grandchildren at the end of the Warring States Period, so although at the end of the Warring States Period, all the hidden dangers of the division and decline of the Mo family in later generations had been buried, however. The seeds planted wanted to germinate, but they had to wait until after the Warring States Period, through the Qin Dynasty, until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools and respected Confucianism alone.

I have to say that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed a hundred schools." The policy of "Confucianism alone" is a one-trick kill, which directly hits the lifeblood of all the sons and hundreds of schools!

After all, what most mortals in the world want is nothing more than fame and fortune, and the emperor, who held the real power during the period of great unification, has a unique innate advantage over these two things that the human heart desires! It can be said that the famous Han Wu is tantamount to a great god who is almost omnipotent compared to ordinary mortals!

All that is in the eyes of God, the world will also have, said in the mouth of God. It's going to be real! As a result, under the guidance of Emperor Wu taking advantage of the ruling power of the empire and the desire of the people, step by step, the scattered sons of the hundred schools were almost defeated! A large number of primary and secondary schools inherited from the Warring States Period, such as soldiers, law, agriculture, yin and yang, and vertical and horizontal, were the first to be unable to maintain, and in the end, they completely collapsed and disintegrated in this huge impact from the general trend of heaven and earth.

Because of the collapse and disappearance of the school, the inheritance created by these glorious schools in the past has also been lost, and a small number of classic materials have been preserved. Later, these classics were the Mohists that survived later. The Taoist and Confucian collections that were in full swing at that time have been preserved......

Taoism was the most transcendent, so even though Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued a decree to depose the Confucianism of the Hundred Schools, the loss of Taoism was not serious, but it quickly severed its ties with the world. Successfully retreated bravely, compared to the situation of the Mo family, it was extremely difficult during that period!

In the establishment of the Han Empire, the disciples of the Mohists played a great role, and therefore. After the establishment of the empire, the disciples of the Mohists who were born in the poor in the past also became vested interests in the regime, and the change of identity and status did not only bring honor and promote the Mohist school to a broader world, but on the contrary, because the power status obtained was inconsistent with the purpose of the Mohists, which made the estrangement between the three major factions of the Mohists themselves more obvious!

However, because it was the early years of the Han Dynasty at that time, after the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, everyone from the powerful to the Li people longed for stability, so the social contradictions were eased, and the ruling class admired the Taoist Huang Lao Wuwei's ideology and doctrine of governing the country, so during that period of time, the entire empire was socially stable and economically prosperous! Although the academic world cannot reproduce the beautiful scene of a hundred schools of thought contending in the Warring States Period, the overall progress is still not small, and being able to preserve their own nearly complete inheritance after the Great War at the end of the Qin Dynasty is already a great joy for most of the sons and hundreds of schools, because in the Warring States Period, the academic thought of each school has been extremely complete, and the development of the academic thought of each school after the Warring States Period, at most, is just tinkering on the achievements of the predecessors!

In such a situation, although Mohist thought itself contains the element of contempt for the powerful, it is precisely because of this that the Mohist disciples from poor backgrounds know that compared with the blind contempt for the powerful and hatred of the ruling class, what the toiling masses want most is a stable and peaceful life. Therefore, although in the early years of the Han Empire, even within the Mo family, there was already class differentiation and antagonism, but this fact was diluted with the joint efforts of both sides, so as to maintain the unity and integrity of the Mo family!

- Until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's policy of "deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism" finally destroyed all this!

Objectively speaking, Emperor Wu's glorious life can not be said to be unwise and martial, and the reason why he adopted the policy of deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism is naturally to make the empire's national glory really as the Confucian scholars preached! However, a wise man must make a mistake in a thousand considerations, so the heroic talent is roughly like the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and there will inevitably be blind spots outside his sight!

The First Emperor unified China for the first time, and also successively did various tasks such as unifying the script, weights and measures, and wanted the foundation of the Qin Empire to remain unswerving, but he did not expect that there would be a deeply hidden careerist like Zhao Gao lurking beside him, so that only two years after his death, the Qin Empire died under the scourge of Zhao Gao.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, on the other hand, made almost the same mistake as his predecessor, Emperor Qin!

It's not that he is gullible and reuses the ministers, although these two did cause Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to suffer heavy losses, and even caused him to directly lose the heir he had painstakingly cultivated, so that Emperor Wu died depressed! However, if it is a real comparison. The most fatal mistake made by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was actually the most proud policy of his life, "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" - because the former only caused direct and heavy losses to the country in the generation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, while the latter was the cornerstone of the fundamental destruction of the country, and because of its ideological demagogic power. This policy will eventually poison the world and cause endless harm!

It cannot be said that Confucianism is useless, at least the talent and character of the most holy master Kong Qiu are beyond doubt, but even so, Mr. Zhou Zhuang has already stripped away the hypocrisy and weakness of Confucianism in his "Zhuangzi"! Also, if it weren't for Confucianism, who was born with hypochondriasis, how could the Holy Master of Dacheng, who was full of enterprising and reforming spirit, be depressed in the second half of his life, and even have a family and a country and could not return. In the most difficult times, they are chased by wild people like wild dogs in the wilderness......

As for the "Yasheng" Mencius, not to mention it, "Zhang Yi scolded Mencius in the Qin Palace" Although it was forged by later generations, it also dialectically concluded that the so-called Yasheng is a hypocritical villain! Because a true gentleman will neither have time to think about "sister-in-law drowning, should help her" when he encounters someone drowning, nor will he slander the king behind his back that "he is not like a human king".

Therefore, although Xunzi is also from Confucianism, Confucianism and law are one. Zi Mozi was a disciple of Confucianism, but eventually betrayed Confucianism and founded the Mohists. That's why!

In fact, the original Confucianism was created by the sage Zhou Gong, which can continue the 800-year national glory of the Zhou Dynasty, although it is congenitally insufficient, but it also has certain merits, such as the former Jiang Taigong governed the Qi country and respected the royal family and nobles. Respecting meritorious people, after hearing this, Duke Zhou sighed and said that in the future of Qi Kingdom, the descendants of Taigong will definitely encounter the misfortune of rebellion and usurpation!

Therefore, in order to avoid the birth of this situation, the Duke of Zhou adopted another way of governing the country: respecting the royal family and nobles, and advocating virtuous people! However. Zhou Gong's policy of governing the country was ruthlessly criticized by Taigong: Implementing such a national policy, the descendants of Zhou Gong will be more cowardly from generation to generation!

β€”β€”All kinds of things in this world, after all, can not make there always be predecessors to plant trees and future generations to enjoy the cool, each generation of ancestors will of course do the most for their children and grandchildren, but the same generation of descendants, must also face their own generation must face all kinds of difficulties! It doesn't matter if the world is chaotic, because as long as there are strong and brave descendants, they will still be able to stabilize the world after all, but if there is only a group of cowardly descendants left, then what can they rely on to continue the glory and bloodline of their ancestors?

However, because things in the world are rare to be successful after all, everyone will have the limit of his ability to reach, so if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is just to maintain the longevity of the country, so he respects Confucianism, then although the Han Empire may be like the Zhou Dynasty of the previous dynasty slowly weakened, but it will also be like the Zhou Dynasty, to achieve the long-term prosperity of the country, in that case, although everything can not be perfect, but on the whole, Emperor Wu's approach cannot be considered wrong!

However, because of Emperor Wu's great achievements in character, he made the decision to depose the hundred schools of thought on the basis of respecting Confucianism in order to squeeze the people's power to the greatest extent!

If it is said that the ancient Chinese civilization born in this mysterious oriental land is a dense forest, then every one of the hundreds of sons is a vigorous tree in this forest! It is true that in order to seize more nutrients to nourish itself, every tree is an enemy of each other, but if it is thought that all the trees in the entire forest are killed, leaving only one of them, then can this tree monopolize the nutrients of the entire land, and then grow to the point of covering the sky and the sun?

Of course not, because the trees in the forest are not only competitors to each other, but also companions to withstand countless natural disasters such as sand, storms, droughts, etc.! Therefore, if the original dense forest is finally left with only a lone tree, not to mention whether the lone tree will grow into a towering giant tree in the future because of the unique environment, the fertile soil that was originally covered by the forest will soon become barren under the invasion of natural disasters, and finally, turn into a desert.

Moreover, compared to the Taoists, who are obviously just a towering tree with lush foliage, it is the chosen tree species. Confucianism is obviously congenitally deficient!

If the Hundred Schools of Thought are not overthrown, under the atmosphere and pressure of academic exchanges where the Hundred Schools of Thought coexist, Confucianism may not be able to make Confucianism self-reliant and self-reliant, so as to work together with the Han Empire to overcome all the difficulties in the future, however, excessive uprooting will inevitably lead to disaster. As the saying goes, there are good things at the top and effective at the bottom, and countless speculators have joined Confucianism, making Confucianism, which was already congenitally insufficient, rapidly expand and endlessly bloated, and finally deformed into aliens!

The Han Wu was definitely the kind of tyrant who would uncontrollably oppress his subjects for his own purposes, and he was a deformed Confucian, although he kept saying that he was courteous and benevolent, he also made a face that thought about the ruler and hoped for the long-term stability of the country. However, in the superficial and luxurious interior of Confucianism, in fact, it is full of countless parasites that suck blood and devour flesh, and use Confucian etiquette as a means to not only fool and deceive the common people, but also try to fool their masters, the kings of the empire, and the supreme rulers of the empire, in a vain attempt to steal supreme power. thus oppressing the people and making a blessing. Achieve the dark purpose of your own heart.

Therefore, starting from Emperor Wu, the alienated Confucians will neither stand firmly on the side of the ruler as before, nor will they choose to shelter the common people who are struggling to survive in the world in order to implement the ideals of a large number of idealists such as Confucius. Until the host is taken and replaced!!

Maybe this can be regarded as a sinister human heart! Just as "Xunzi" said: At the beginning of people, sex is evil! However, although Emperor Wu was eloquent and strategic, he grew up in the deep palace since he was a child and did not come into contact with the people. I don't know the suffering of the world, so for people's hearts, Emperor Wu has never understood!

Because of this, a generation of male lords will easily believe the lies of Confucianism, give up the Legalism beloved by his predecessor Emperor Qin, abandon the Taoism that his grandparents agreed with, and choose Confucianism! And to this end, he did not hesitate to help Confucianism sweep away the enemy, and fundamentally destroy all other schools of thought that might threaten the interests of Confucianism!

A spoonful of food, a bean soup, if you get it, you will live, and if you get it, you will die...... Therefore, the people of the hill are the sons of heaven, the sons of heaven are the princes, and the princes are the doctors...... It should be said that although Mencius was morally flawed, his insight into people's hearts was far beyond ordinary people, and he knew that the people were noble and the monarch was light, so the demise of tyrants like Ji Xuan was entirely their own fault for seriously oppressing the common people!

However, Emperor Wu did not understand this truth, and the Confucian scholars around Emperor Wu at that time were just a group of ministers who were in power, not to mention that they did not have the great feelings of Confucius who cared about the world, that is, they could have Mencius's extremely clever ability to penetrate the world, and they would inevitably only have a bottomless line for their own future. Deceive the ruling class and the poor masses.

However, a lie can deceive one person forever, or it can deceive the majority of people for a period of time, but it will eventually deceive all the people in the world.

The ruling class is still ignorant, but a large number of people in the world have long been sober, no matter how clever the Confucian students are, in the growing anger of the common people, they can only be self-comforting, fools and fools themselves! However, the problem is that the rulers who come from the deep palace and do not understand the sufferings of the people will be easily deceived by the lies of these Confucian scholars, so that they think that the country is eternal, and thus they will squeeze the people's power more and more unrestrainedly!

The edict and the white deer coin embezzled the wealth of the wealthy and nobles without a bottom line, and most of the common people were poor and couldn't squeeze much oil and water, so they could only be offset by serving the Yao service - the civil Yao service during the Wu Emperor period, the weight of taxes crowned the entire Han Empire ruling era!

It can be said that in the beginning, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did gain a large amount of wealth in a short period of time because of his change of state policy: however, this was the accumulation of the efforts of several generations before him, such as Henkel and Wenjing, and as this wealth was looted, the consequences of continuous expropriation and extortion over time soon exploded rapidly within the empire.

In just a few years, the people under the rule of the empire, which had lived and worked in peace and contentment, were already struggling to make a living, and the people were scattered!

And where there is oppression, there is resistance! Under such circumstances, overwhelmed peasant uprisings against the government broke out one after another throughout the country. As a result, in order to maintain the stability of his rule, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had to mobilize a large army to be sent everywhere to suppress it!

And it was also during this period that the three major factions of Mohist thought, rooted in the poor people of the lower classes, officially declared a complete split!

The Moyan faction, which has always been in charge of the propaganda of Mohist thought, as a party with vested interests, has completely fallen to the ruling class, while the Moyan faction, which is mostly composed of poor people, has declared a complete break with the ruling class! And as the last of the three major factions of the Mo family. The craftsman department of the Mo family originally wanted to try to bridge the contradictions between the two sides, in a vain attempt to prevent the Momen from splitting, but they did not expect that because of this move, they would become the target of the two sides fighting at the same time, so that in the end, they became the victims of the Momen infighting! With the rapid decline of the ink craftsman line in the ink gate, the precious craftsman culture accumulated by the Mo family for hundreds of years has inevitably been lost!

The remnants of the Inksmith family, which were torn apart by the Momen infighting, were mostly scattered among the people, except for some of them who were absorbed by the two major forces of Moyan and the Mojun respectively. Since then, he has been working behind closed doors, focusing only on the position of a craftsman and no longer asking about the world, so finally, it has completely disappeared in time!

Although the Moyan lineage, as a vested interest in the ruling class, has also obtained the inheritance of some ink craftsmen, when Confucianism has flourished in an all-round way, the Moyan lineage, which still advocates Mohist thought, is also regarded as a heresy within the ruling class! So he was excluded and suppressed!

Later, in the gap of long-term survival. Some of the remnants of the Moyan faction were eventually able to merge with the ideas of the other schools of thought, which were indispensable to the rule and eventually survived within the ruling class, but were also despised and suppressed by Confucianism. Such as the vertical and horizontal family, the soldier family and so on! So much so that later the descendants of the Moyan family became more and more knowledgeable and versatile!

- Yes, the Mojia Moyan family can be regarded as the predecessor of the original Huajian School, but. Before becoming the Huajian faction, the evolution of the Moyan faction was more tortuous and lengthy than that of other demon sects......

And the Mexican army, although it was able to get rid of the shackles of the Moyan family on itself, it also played a counterproductive role because of this. Because of the sudden loss of the guidance of the Mo Yan line, and the whole fell into a state of confusion, therefore, when the Mo family was officially divided, although it remained among the poor people, the action decisions of the Mo army were indeed particularly slow!

In addition, because of the infighting of the Mo family, the three major factions were all incompetent, which led to the fact that when the people of the world were struggling to rise up because of unbearable oppression, the Mo family, which had always regarded itself as the leader of the common people, actually stood by and watched, instead of leading the masses with all its might, resulting in the people's resistance to tyranny always scattered and unable to form a strong and powerful whole. In the end, they were pacified one by one by Emperor Wu's suppression army!

The continuous defeat has greatly reduced the high status of the Mo family in the eyes of the rebel army composed of poor people! However, at that time, the Mo army was on the side of the poor people, but it was powerless to change this status quo, the lack of faith caused by the split of the Mo family, and with the split of the Mo family, the departure of the Mo Yan line, which was originally in the leadership position of the Mo family, made the Mo army family full of confusion about the direction they wanted to move forward in the future, and if these two problems were not solved as soon as possible, the Mo army and the first line of the Mo family would inevitably soon follow in the footsteps of the Mo family split, and fall into cannibalism because of differences of thought!!

At that time, it was the moment when Buddhism, the great enemy of the future competition with the descendants of Momen, for the faith of the poor people in the world, stepped onto the historical stage of the land of China for the first time.

Buddhism, which was born in ancient Tianzhu, has the same foundation as the Mohist and is rooted in the poor people, but its ideology pursues nothingness and teaches the believers to endure, but it is completely contrary to the radical spirit of resistance of the Mohists, and this kind of thinking will be more favored by the ruling class, so it will be favored by the ruling class, and specially invited to compete with the Mohist thought born in the local area for the faith in the hearts of the poor people in the lower strata!

The prosperity of Buddhism in the land of China in later generations undoubtedly shows who was the real victor in that battle! However, at that time, the invasion of Buddhism did not give enough attention to the Mo army that continued to remain among the poor people.

Because at that time, the Mo family and the Mo army were really at the moment of life and death! The Mexican army must find a common belief that meets the interests of all members of the Mexican army as soon as possible in order to continue to maintain its existence, and for this reason, even if this belief is not recognized by the world and will discredit the originally admired Mohist faction, it cannot be cared for.

As a result, the idea of the tomb robber faction with a long history entered the sight of the Mo army, the only remaining line of the Mo family! (To be continued.) )