Chapter 7 The Giant of the Mo Family
Refer to God's rules so that you can be protected by God? Le Xin thought about it repeatedly, and felt that this sentence had a deep meaning. The other nobles and wizards www.biquge.info were silently pondering what this meant.
The common people here were not as knowledgeable as the nobles, they only heard Gongziyan himself admit that he was under the protection of God, and the more they believed that he was Xuanzi, so the more fanatical voices rose to the sky, and everyone cheered and ran to Dai Yan, as if the closer they got to him, they could share the protection of God.
Behind the many fanatical or thoughtful eyes, there is a pair of eyes that are incomparably calm. He didn't understand, obviously the copper rod and the copper cage were built by him, why the two of them would have completely different endings when they were also struck by lightning?
It seems that it is necessary to report this matter to the giant, I am stupid and can't understand such a miraculous thing, the giant will definitely be able to understand. He thought silently.
In a low hill at the junction of Fengyi and Dangyi, a middle-aged man in short brown clothes with calluses on his hands was hurrying away regardless of the wind and rain. At this moment, a person suddenly appeared on the side of the road and blocked his way. The middle-aged man did not panic, he took out a bamboo plaque, and shouted at the person who blocked his way: "Love, not attack." ”
The man came over and looked at the token, and then asked, "The source of knowledge is to know, hear, speak, and kiss, dare to ask your Excellency what kind of knowledge you know?" The middle-aged man replied: "Name, reality, combination, and for." Then the man who stood in the way smiled and said, "It turns out that Your Excellency is a man sent by me, please come with me." ”
So the two of them walked into this world together in a small valley surrounded by mountains. But I saw that all kinds of houses here were neatly arranged and laid out neatly, but the entrance was covered with various defensive tools. If a general with troops came in and saw such a variety of defenses, he would definitely give up his intention to attack this place. Deep in the valley are many crops, all neatly arranged. Even though it rains heavily, you can still see people working in the fields. From house to house, you can hear a variety of sounds, some of which are of machines grinding, others of reading, and some of which are screaming of people. Unfazed by this, both men stopped in front of a house in the center of the complex, and the guide quickly left, leaving only the middle-aged man here.
This middle-aged man was naturally Uncle Tong who had helped Dai Yan build a copper cage and a copper rod, and he walked straight to the door and shouted into the house: "Uncle Tong, a disciple of the Mo family, asks to see the giant." ”
"Enter." A neutral voice came from inside the house.
Uncle Tong hurriedly walked in and saw Tian Jiu, the giant of the Mo family, who was intently holding a pair of bamboo slips in the house and watching carefully. The giant Tian Jiu looked to be around 50 years old, dressed in a short-sleeved brown coat and with a sheathed short sword pinned to his waist.
"Uncle Tong, the Mo family and love are all brothers, sit down. I remember that you were in Fengyi as a sword-forging business, and your annual contribution was not short, which is very good. With your ability, you should not offend the nobles of Fengyi, what is the matter with you here today? Tian Jiu asked lightly.
Uncle Tong was also unceremonious, and sat down directly in front of the cushion in the room, and then saluted Tian Jiuyi: "Tell the giant, the disciple is here today, it is really a strange thing that happened to me in Fengyi recently, and the disciple really can't figure it out, so I came to ask Mozi to answer." ”
"Oh, what the hell is going on?" Tian Jiu asked.
So Uncle Tong asked Dai Yan to help him build a copper cage and a copper rod, plus Dai Yan and Bu Xian outside the east gate of Fengyi were hit by thunder and lightning at the same time, and the final outcome of the two of them was told to Tian Jiu in detail, and he also relayed the words that Dai Yan later preached to the people of Fengyi: If you understand the rules set by God, you can get God's blessing.
"Hehe, it's a strange thing, it's interesting." Tian Jiu was a little interested, "You come with me" Tian Jiu instructed Uncle Tong.
So Tian Jiu took Uncle Tong into front of a courtyard in the depths of the valley, and then went straight in, and the guards saw that it was Juzi himself, and they didn't dare to stop him, so they also followed Tian Jiu in. Tian Gu went straight into one of the ordinary rooms, and there was a bronze cage in the room, and there was a black bear in the cage.
"Move this bear out with the cage." Tian Jiu commanded the guards. So the guards went to move the cages, and when the bears in the cages saw the hateful people approaching, they became irritable, and were about to pounce on one of them with their paws, when the dove scolded: "Evil animals, they have not been honest for so long, and it seems that they still need a lesson." Before he could finish his sentence, his right hand suddenly took the short sword in his hand, and with the sheathed short sword against the outstretched bear paw seemed to be an understatement, and the black bear immediately retracted the bear paw and began to howl.
"Hmph, a beast is a beast." Tian Jiu put the short sword back into his waist, not paying any attention to it.
Soon the guards moved the cage and the black bear to a tall tree outside, and then Tian Jiu instructed the disciples of the Mo family to install a long copper pole to fix it against the tree, and then connect it to the cage. However, there were far less thunders on this day than when Dai Yan and Bu Xian competed that day, so Tian Jiu waited here for a long time, during which he instructed his disciples: "Go and call the disciples of the Ming Ghost Academy and the Tianzhi Academy, and let them put aside the things at hand, and there is an important matter today, let's refer to it together." ”
So soon more than 30 people came, and everyone sat around the dove, quietly listening to the giant's admonition.
Tian Jiu then explained to everyone in detail what happened in Fengyi, and then said Dai Yan's sentence: If you understand the rules set by God, you can be blessed by God.
A disciple was the first to stand up and said, "Giant, isn't this kind of thinking very close to the idea of our Mo family? "Sutra" says: Those who know the material, know the also, and do not need to know, if it is clear. Isn't it true that we want to understand the knowledge of the nature of heaven and earth, and if we understand the knowledge of the nature of heaven and earth, if we have knowledge, we will not be afraid of the harm given by the nature of heaven and earth, and this is the blessing of God. Could it be that Ziyan was helped by my disciples? ”
"I can guarantee that I did not send any of my disciples to help this son." The giant said lightly.
At this moment, there was a thunderous explosion in the sky, and the disciples of the Mo family saw the lightning and thunder on the top of the big tree. But fortunately, the disciples of the Mo family are not ordinary people after all, they have a strong belief in going to the soup and not turning their heels, and this group of Mo disciples belongs to the Mo of the Deng Ling clan, and they are the most warlike rangers of the Mo family, so everyone is indifferent, not panicked, and there is no trace of the Fengyi people who kneel down in the face of the thunder.
At this time, the disciples of the Mo family also saw that there was still an electric light flickering on the cage, and the black bear was lying on the copper fence in the cage, but there was nothing at all. For example, the Mohists actually made a lot of profound research on the phenomena of the natural world in the Warring States Period, and they had already discovered common sense such as copper being able to conduct electricity, so they even invented the addition of an owl to the building to protect against lightning, and recommended it to the princes and nobles of various countries.
"What do you think about this?" Tian Jiu asked.
Another disciple of the Mo family stood up: "Giant, if it was a simple copper rod connected to it, it is estimated that this bear would definitely be electrocuted to death, but this bear was shocked and unharmed, could it be because of this cage?" Copper can conduct electricity, but it doesn't conduct electricity when it's made in a cage, as it is. ”
The giant Tian Gu smiled and said, "How can things be so simple, is this the protection of the gods?" So he instructed his disciples to open the cage door and release the bear, and he wanted to go into the cage himself to experiment!
The disciples persuaded him bitterly, fearing that he was in danger. He only said lightly: "Prove by example, who else can I be." Then the disciples did not dare to persuade him. So the disciples opened the cage door, released the black bear and locked it in the house, and Tian Jiu opened the cage door and entered the copper cage. Before entering the cage, Tian Jiu just lightly ordered: "If I have something, I will take over the position of the giant with a tangler." Then he sat down silently and ignored it.
When the disciples of the Mo family saw the giant behaving like this, they also sat in the wind and rain with them.
After waiting for a long time, another thunderclap hit the lightning rod, and a flash of lightning flashed on the cage. Tian Jiu touched the cage body with his hand, and could even feel the electric light on the cage body, and his body could feel a slight numbness, but after all, he was safe and sound. So he came out of the cage and ordered a pig to be tied to a copper pole, but soon after the lightning struck, and the pig was blackened.
The disciples of the Mo family looked at this scene and pondered silently, why were they all conductive copper, and after the thunder and lightning were drawn, there would be such a completely different appearance?
"We're outdated." This is Tian Jiu's speech. "That prince of the Song Kingdom was able to know the knowledge that the copper cage could withstand lightning strikes safely, either by himself or by others who told him. If it is for him to understand it himself, it can only be said that he is truly blessed by God. If not, then," a cold light flashed in Tian Jiu's eyes.
The Mo family disciples present all knew what the giant wanted to say. Since the death of Lao Mozi, the founder of the Mo family, the Mo family was quickly divided. Later, Han Fei said: After Confucius, Confucianism is divided into eight; After Mozi, Moli is three. As a highly disciplined and powerful academic society, although they all believed in the ideas of both love and non-aggression put forward by Lao Mozi, their division was by no means as harmonious as Confucianism. Among the three factions of the Mo family, the ink of the Xiangfu clan entered the Qin State because it was close to the Qin State, and helped the Qin State to enrich the country and strengthen the army with its strong scientific research strength, which is the ink of the West. And Xiang Liqin's disciple Wuhou is the descendant of Wu Zixu, because Wu Zixu was mostly in Qi after that, so Xiang Liqin's ink also began to take root in Qi State, which is Dongmo. Because of the relationship between the Qi State and the Qi Palace, Qi Feng is easy to argue, so the people of Dongmo have a good eloquence, plus the enlightened academic atmosphere of Qi State, so the ideas of Dongmo began to blend with the ideas of Confucianism and Taoism, and many scientific research achievements have been made. And because Deng Lingzi is a Chu person, Deng Lingzi led the Mo family to start developing in the Chu State at the beginning, which is Nanmo. Nanmo also absorbed many of the ranger atmosphere spread in the southern countries such as Chu, Chen, Cai, and Song, so this school pays attention to the hands and mouths, and pays attention to righteousness, and belongs to the ranger school of the Mo family.
However, it is precisely because of Nanmo's emphasis on righteousness that Nanmo has experienced a very serious loss, which almost shakes the foundation of Nanmo.
It was more than thirty years ago, as a giant of the Mo family, Meng Sheng declared his allegiance to the king of Yang Chengjun of Chu State. Because Yangchengjun participated in the rebellion of the nobles of Chu against Wu Qi, and finally even destroyed the body of King Mourning of Chu, and then he was liquidated by King Chu Su, Yangchengjun fled in fear, so King Chu wanted to take back Yangchengjun's fief. At that time, Meng Sheng was stationed in the fief of Yangchengjun, and when Yangchengjun left the fief to participate in the rebellion, he gave Meng Sheng one of the two connected pieces of jade, and promised that only when the two pieces of jadeware were combined, Meng Sheng could hand over the fief, and when the king of Chu came to return to the fief, of course, there was no jade, and Meng Sheng could not resist the army of the king of Chu, he felt that he could not protect the territory of Yangchengjun, and did not fulfill the obligation of "scholar", so he must apologize with death. His disciple Xu Miao advised Meng Sheng, believing that this was the case, and that death would not benefit Yangcheng Jun, and that this move would cause the Mo family to suffer heavy losses, and it was more likely that "the one who would not be able to destroy the ink would die in the world". However, Meng Sheng thought that his relationship with Yangchengjun was not shallow, and if he didn't die, I am afraid that no one would trust the ink master in the future, and thought that this kind of action was the real "ink master in the world". So the giant Meng Sheng and his disciples, a total of 180 people, calmly went to die, Meng Sheng sent three people to the Song State before his death, and informed the current giant Tian Jiu that Meng Sheng had passed the position of the giant to him. Then after the three of them informed Tian Jiu of the news, they immediately turned back to Chu and followed Meng Sheng to their deaths, and Tian Jiu failed to persuade the three as the new giants.
And now Tian Jiu is also known as Tian Xiangzi in the world, leading the disciples of the Mo people, in the Song Kingdom, the origin of the Mo family for more than 30 years, this can be able to make Nanmo regain its vitality, the Mo family has always been forbidden by order, absolutely obeyed, without Tian Jiu's order there will never be Mo to help Dai Yan. So now that the trajectory of the suspected Mohist thought and Mohist disciples has appeared in the Song Kingdom, and it is so close to the base camp of Nanmo, what is this for?
It's possible that Dongmo will start to grab our territory! This is the common voice of all the Mo disciples present. Unlike Confucianism, the Mohists were as disciplined as the army, and they did not concede to the army in terms of combat effectiveness. The Mohists are strong in battle, and the arrogance in their hearts is equally strong, for them, although they have a strong enemy of such a single faction as Confucianism as a whole, the other two factions within each of the three factions are even more resentful of themselves. Actually, this is very, very easy to understand, and there is a saying in Western history that heretics are more hateful than heretics. The same is true for the Mo family.
"Uncle Tong," the giant Tian Jiu began to speak, "You go back to Fengyi now, and carefully investigate whether there are any Mo family disciples around Song Gongzi Yan!" Report back as soon as you get accurate news. ”
"No." Uncle Tong left immediately after receiving the order, without getting rid of the mud and water, and the strong execution power between the Mo family organizations was fully revealed.
"Disciples, I hope that there are no Dongmo people around Gongzi Ziyan." Tian Jiu's face began to soften, "If there is indeed no ink artist around Ziyan, then it means that Ziyan is either a real "Xuanzi", as those ordinary people said; Either he has gained a more sophisticated knowledge of the natural world than the Mohists like us, which is equally important for us to overwhelm the other two factions. More importantly, we have been waiting for the Mo family to develop in the Song State for more than 30 years, but the Song State is a small country after all, and I was thinking about moving the foundation to the Southern Chu State. Now it seems that the Song Kingdom, as the origin of our Mo family, still has room for continued development. The people here are similar to my Mo family's way, and it has always been only because the upper echelons of the Song Kingdom are ruled by the Gong family, and there are few people in the Song State Gong Family who are close to my Mo family, so I am unwilling to continue to stay here. Now, if we can find a Song family similar to our Mo family to give support, then in the future, we may be able to thoroughly implement the Mo family way left by our ancestor Mozi in the Song Kingdom, and if we can succeed at that time, the Song Kingdom can love each other and benefit each other, and then we can slowly implement it to the world. In this way, we can realize the ideal of our ancestor Mozi, and our Mohist school will definitely become famous for future generations! ”
"Obey the orders of the giant." All the disciples of the Mo family bowed together, and their hearts were also agitated.