Inside the main hall.

Li Zexuan saw that the fire was almost over, so he stood up and said: "Giant, all the previous causes and effects have become a passing cloud, but they will also become a lesson from the past~!" Today's Mo family, if you don't want to let it continue to decline, you have to make some changes~!

Mozi founded the Mo family back then, didn't he want to rely on his talent in instrument manufacturing to let the farmers of the world live a good life~? Although the Mo family is in decline now, Mozi's knowledge must have been passed down, but you are in a safe corner, forgetting Mozi's original intention of relieving the world, and in the long run, only the Mo family is completely extinct~! ”

Mozi claimed to be a "contemptible person" and was called a "man of cloth". He used to be a doctor of the Song Kingdom, and he was a scholar with considerable cultural knowledge and relatively close to the small producers of workers and peasants. He boasted that "there is no matter of the king above, and there is no difficulty of cultivating the peasants", and he is a scholar who sympathizes with "the people of agriculture and industry".

Mozi once studied under Confucianism, learned the art of Confucius, praised Yao Shun Dayu, and studied Confucian classics such as "Poems", "Books" and "Spring and Autumn". However, he gradually became tired of the cumbersome rituals and music of Confucianism, and finally abandoned Confucianism and formed his own school of Mohistism.

Before the rise of Legalism, which represented the interests of the new landlord class, Mohism was the largest school of thought in opposition to Confucianism in the pre-Qin period, and it was ranked as "Xianxue". "Han Feizi Xianxue" records: "The world's Xianxue, Confucianism and Moye." Where Confucianism goes, so does Confucius; Where the ink goes, the ink Zhai also. ”

At this time, Mo Huai sighed heavily, glanced at Li Zexuan with a complicated expression, and said: "After the death of the Holy Ancestor Immortal, the Mo family was divided into three factions - the ink of the Xiangli clan, the ink of the Xiangfu clan and the ink of the Deng Ling clan. ”

Speaking of this, Mo Huai took out the ink-colored long sword on his waist, looked at the sword body with a solemn and sad expression, and continued: "Mo Xue Jianming, the world is the same, only the heart does not move~!" From ancient times to the present, the giants of the Mo family have always adhered to this belief even if they died in battle~! As the forty-fifth generation of the Mo family, the old man has not recognized the root cause of the decline of my Mo family until today, and he really deserves death, my Mo Huai is sorry for the Holy Ancestor~! ”

After that, two cloudy tears dripped from the corners of his eyes.

Li Zexuan said with relief: "The giant doesn't have to blame himself~!" It's not too late to make amends~! To be honest, the reason why the kid can answer all of the three questions of the previous giant is because the boy's engineering and the Mo family's ink have a lot in common~! If the giant is willing to bring the disciples of the Mo family to Yanhuang Academy to teach, then we can not only discuss the knowledge together, but also carry forward the engineering and ink studies, so that the students can bring these knowledge to benefit the people of the Tang Dynasty~! ”

Mo Huai was puzzled: "Engineering~? What is Engineering~? ”

Li Zexuan asked with a smile: "Didn't the giant read the previous issues of "Datang Daily"~?" ”

Mo Huai was suddenly embarrassed and said: "I've heard people talk about it, but I haven't seen it in person~!" ”

It's not that he can't afford newspapers, but he feels that as a Mohist giant, he has to lead by example, and he should stay away from newspapers that are just for entertaining the public~!

Mo Zhong and Mo Yun hung their heads one after another, feeling that their "boss" was embarrassed and embarrassed.

Li Zexuan didn't care, and patiently explained: "Engineering is the science of engineering, which takes serving the needs of the people and improving people's lives as its main purpose, and realizing the prosperity of the whole people as the ultimate goal!" Folk houses, palace pavilions, river embankments and water conservancy, city walls and imperial tombs, and agricultural production are all inseparable from the support of engineering~! In short, engineering is only for the benefit of all the people in the world, not for the school to fight~! ”

Mo Huai was stunned for a moment and muttered: "Engineering is only for the benefit of all the people in the world~? How similar this is to the purpose of my Mo family~! ”

The purpose of the Mohist school is "for righteousness", and Mencius said that it is "for the benefit of the world". "Zhuangzi Tianxia Chapter" says that it is "the urgent need to prepare for the world". The Mohists gathered disciples to give lectures and practice themselves, and were the main opposition to Confucianism. In order to realize his ideas, Mozi personally led his disciples to various countries, so that Moxue could bring convenience and benefits to the people of the world.

After a while, Mo Huai replied to his senses: "Forgive the old man for being presumptuous, sir, you said that your engineering has many similarities with Moxue, I don't know if there is any empirical evidence~?" ”

Things have developed to the present, and Mo Huai's attitude towards Li Zexuan has also undergone a great change, from the arrogance and contempt at the beginning, to the impressive look when he lost the gambling game later, and now he has heard that Li Zexuan has started his own engineering school, and he has regarded Li Zexuan as a peer.

From ancient times to the present, a capable person, no matter how old or young, beautiful or ugly, will be respected wherever he goes~!

Li Zexuan laughed and said: "What's so difficult about this~? Mr. Li, can you ask the servants of your house to go to the boy's house to help get two books back~? ”

Li Gang was unrelenting, and a moment later, a small family member in Li Gang's family rode an old horse, came out of the back door, and ran to Yongle Fang.

A few people in the house were not idle, and after Li Zexuan saw that Li Gang arranged for someone to get the book, he said to Mo Huai:

"Giant, to be honest, for the three questions you just raised, the kid was very surprised, originally the kid thought that in astronomy, mechanics, engineering, these aspects of the sideline, only the kid was studying, never expected to meet like-minded people today, if the giant is convenient, can you tell the previous three questions, where are they from~?"

Without him, the reason why Li Zexuan asked this question was mainly to determine whether Mo Huai was a traverser or not, after all, Mo Huai's three questions just now were really shocking, so he couldn't care less.

Mo Huai heard this: "Those three questions are all the questions recorded in the notes or classics left by the Holy Ancestor back then, the old man thought that he only needed to use one of them to stump the lord, but he never thought that the lord could study these things so well at a young age~!" It's a shame to say that the old man, as a giant of the Mo family, is not as good at studying as you, the lord, and can only guard the knowledge left by the Holy Ancestor and survive~! Alas~! Not only the old man, but also the previous forty-three giants, no one can match the achievements achieved by the Holy Ancestor~! ”

After Mozi, there was never a single thinker who was a master of the Mohists, and there was no further refinement of the Mohists' ideas to maintain their vigorous vitality, and they did not keep pace with the times.

And other schools of thought like Confucianism, after Confucius, there are Mencius, Xunzi, Dong Zhongshu and so on. When I got home, after Lao Tzu, there were Zhuangzi, Liu An and so on. Legalism is even more valued by the ruling class. Especially in the early Western Han Dynasty, when the country was governed and the ruler needed a good policy for governing the country, the Confucian Dong Zhongshu wrote "Spring and Autumn Dew" and "Three Policies of Heaven and Man". Taoist Liu An presents "Huainanzi".

However, the Mohists did nothing in scholarship and statecraft at that time.

This can be regarded as one of the reasons for the decline of the Mo family.

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(End of chapter)