Ma Zhan and Yuan Xue are a couple (although they claim to be brother and sister), but one is from Bohai and the other is from Xi. However, since their great-grandfather's generation, it has been sinicized, and the old dialect has not been spoken since the mother's womb, except for the Bohai and Xi people registered in the household registration book, it is exactly the same as the Han people.

They were all graduates of the Eastern University of the Great Liao Kingdom, and their families were well-off—Ma Zhan's grandfather and father were both martial artists, and his uncle served as a Sima in the Caucasian Governorate. Yuan Xue's family has also been officials for generations, and her aunt is still the handkerchief of the current queen of Liao, and she is a close friend in the boudoir. According to the popular saying of the Song people, they all belong to the "authentic Zhao family".

After graduation, the two were not in a hurry to seek progress, but were ready to go south for a trip of "reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles".

It's just that they are a little alone, Cheng Qi feels a little strange: he and a well-off family like Huangyang in Jiangnan have to bring a few maids and servants when they go out, why do these two nobles of Daliao still have to carry their own boxes when they go out? Is it a swindler?

However, they are indeed quite well-educated when they talk, and they can't tell the appearance of half a bottle of water swaying when they talk about astronomy and geography and history.

Guo Shan took everyone to a restaurant that looked quite good out of his own pocket, and called the singer to cheer up. Cheng Qi noticed that Ma Zhan's face was a little wrong, so he asked; "Brother Ma thinks this restaurant doesn't suit the taste?"

Majan was a little awkward; "No ......"

Yuan Xue was even more cheerful: "We don't like to be served...... Or invite this girl to eat at our table, or it doesn't have to be that way. ”

Guo Shan thought that this was a pair of strange people, so he waved his hand to let the singer go down, and the singer holding the pipa was also very strange about the pair of troubled outsiders, and when they left, they seemed to complain that they had caused him to make less money.

Ma Zhan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "A few people don't know, we have always believed in Mohismism and advocated self-reliance. You don't need servants to go out for thousands of miles, three meals a day are very simple, and these dogs and horses have never been arranged. ”

Cheng Qi suddenly realized that they were a pair of ascetics.

After everyone sat down, Huang Yang, a curious baby, couldn't help but call the so-called Mohism, and Ma Zhan knew everything and answered for him endlessly.

It turns out that Mohismism has a history of several decades in the Liao State, and it advocates the main principles of "equality, equality and peace", which is known as the three main purposes. Equality is to advocate that there is no distinction between the high and the low in society, average is to advocate the economic to go to the rich, and equality is to call for the sovereignty of the people.

These three purposes are obvious, none of them is welcomed by the ruling faction, and no matter how the political situation of the Great Liao changes, Mohismism has always been the object of suppression.

But it's also paradoxical to say, the more the court suppresses it, the more young people love it. On university campuses, Mohismism was welcomed by the students, especially among the young aristocracy, and the belief in Mohismism became a trend. But the so-called forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. After Mohismism became popular, it was also divided into several branches, including the hermit school, the imperial examination school, the physiocratism, and the Huayi doctrine.

These two young men belong to one of the more radical groups, and their giant leader has angered the imperial government with a letter of 10,000 words last year, and has been sentenced to exile for 3,000 miles in the Arctic Circle. After losing the backbone, each family was ordered to restrain their children, and they were unwilling to be in the company of those dull "Lu beetles", so they came to the country of freedom and the hometown of civil rights to take a look in the Great Song Dynasty.

The intellectuals of this era vote with their feet when they disagree. If the Great Liao can't stay, he will go to the Great Song Dynasty, and if the Great Song Dynasty can't get out, he can go to the South China Sea, to the European countries, to Goryeo and Japan, which is really quite a bit of the legacy of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

A writer in the Liao State once shouted: "Knowledge has no borders, and scholars have no nationality!" It is said that the most radical of these advocates the abolition of all governments and the establishment of a universal world in which all people are equal, fraternal, and self-reliant.

Cheng Qi was very interested in their ideas, and Ma Zhan was also an honest boy who said all the ideals in his heart: "Our ideal is to build a society without aristocrats, usurers, national oppression and gender bullying in the future." In this society, everyone has food and clothing by virtue of their own work, and everyone discusses things that involve everyone. There is no such thing as a parental official, the power of the administration is all in the hands of oneself, and the same is true of the judiciary. Workers and peasants do not need to pay exorbitant interest on borrowing from others to obtain working capital, let alone sell their children or even go to prison because they are unable to pay off. All ethnic groups are equal and united, and women and men are the same, and they can express their opinions on national affairs and all matters in the family. There are male workers and managers in factories, and women in business don't need to look good to please shoppers and customers...... All we want is a new society in which there is no hunger or cold, no oppression and, if any misfortune, only natural causes, and a society in which all people come together. ”

"It's a beautiful new society." Cheng Qi said: "But how to reach such a new society? ”

"Some of our comrades believe that the key lies in education, as long as we support the constant cultivation of new people from generation to generation, in the future a generation of new people with noble sentiments will realize that sharing is better than monopoly, the landlords will take the initiative to give up the land deeds, the factory owners will no longer exploit the workers cruelly, men and women will be equal, and all nobles and commoners can breathe the same air freely and equally."

"There are also those who advocate that the key point is to mobilize the masses, arouse the vast majority of the people who are sleeping, tell them that oppression and discrimination are against the way of God, and let the majority of people rise up to fight and defend their rights."

"There are also those who advocate assassination and extermination – this is what we oppose, and the assassination of one or two royals or prime ministers, while effective in the short term, will not benefit our cause in the long run."

"We still have comrades who donate their family's territory and share it with the people in the territory to build a small and equal society, and when everyone sees the benefits in the future, it will be extended to the entire Daliao - and even the world."

Huang Yang also seems to be a little infected by their idealism: "This is really a great ideal...... Datong world, this is really exciting to think about! I'm sure you'll make it! ”

Guo Shan held the opposite opinion: "Mencius said that those who have constant production have perseverance. Giving all the property to the poor does no good other than turning oneself into a poor. Ziyun: The gentleman Zhou is in a hurry not to help the poor. There are so many poor people in the world, how can one or two hot-blooded people who rely on good deeds be able to save them-it is the Bodhisattva who can save them. ”

Huang Yang said: "Since it is a bodhisattva industry, then the public will also do it, and if you do it, you can become a bodhisattva, and if you can't do it, you can save people." ”

"I don't think it's feasible, space thinks." Guo Shan shook his head vigorously: "Since ancient times, there has been no absolute equality, and there are always thousands of differences between people. The same is true of the law of successive dynasties: dynasties were created and large tracts of land were allocated to yeoman farmers, but after one or two hundred years, land annexation intensified, and a new round of reshuffling began. This is the law of history and the law of nature. The same is true of the accumulation of wealth, and the same is true of the accumulation of power. It always flows from the many to the minority, and finally forms a pointed bamboo shoot, and to change this shape, it is necessary to go through bloody wars. And after the war, it is just a new process of accumulation. The so-called Datong world, where everyone is rich and poor, there is no difference between the top and the bottom, it can only be a myth - there is a difference between Bi Ma Wen and the Jade Emperor in the myth. ”