Chapter 13 The Mohist Annexation
"What do you think of Childe's statement that love is not attacked?" Tian Jiu asked Dai Yan again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Love and non-attack? As a history lover, Dai Yan still has some understanding of the thoughts of the hundred schools of thought. Of course, he understands the love proposed by Mozi. To put it simply, there is no difference in love: if you regard the country of a man as if it were her country; Regard the home of a person, as if it were his home; Regard the body of a man as if he were his body. If everyone in the world can do this, then where in the world will there be disputes? Instead of attacking, it advocates peace and opposes war. However, although the Mohists opposed the war, they did not advocate non-resistance, and the Mohists even went into battle for the concept of non-aggression. Historically, Mozi personally went to the Yingdu of Chu to deal with Luban's siege of the city with the method of defending the city, thus helping the Song State get rid of the invasion of the Chu State.
"Love is good governance, but in the eyes of the boy, it is very difficult to do." Dai Yan replied.
"It is very difficult to say that love is very difficult, and my ancestor Mozi has refuted it. The way of love is not only beneficial to others, but also to those who practice the way of love. Not only altruistic, but also self-interested. Dare to ask Childe why does he think it is difficult to do? Tian Jiu asked rhetorically.
"Since the giant said profit, why does the giant think it is profitable?" Dai Yan asked.
"The pros, the advantages, and the opposite of the disadvantages, everyone knows, what is the doubt?" Tian Gu replied.
"The giant said that profit is good, and I deeply believe it; However, the giant also said that the other side of the good is the disadvantage, so the advantage is also the meaning of avoiding the harm. It is good to do what is good for me, and to avoid what is harmful to me. Then the boy dared to ask the giant: If there is a person who really does things that he loves, he regards the country of man as his country, the house of man as his home, and the body of man as his body; The other person is not able to love both, so he only benefits himself and does not benefit others. So how will the two get along? It is inevitable that those who do and love will be harmed, and those who cannot and love will be benefited. How can such a saying of love avoid harm? Therefore, the boy thinks that the law of love is only beneficial to others and not to himself, how can he pass the world? Dai Yan retorted.
Tian Jiu was speechless for a while.
Dai Yan has actually thought very clearly about this point for a long time. A famous case in later generations: a young man picked up an old man who had fallen, but was blackmailed by the old man, isn't this the best result of the friendship between the lover and the non-lover?
Dai Yan said: "If we talk about love between countries, it is even more infeasible. During the reign of Duke Hui of Jin, there was a famine in the Jin Kingdom, so he asked the Qin State for help; Baili Xi and Jian Shu both believed that natural disasters were inevitable, so they persuaded Qin Mugong to lend grain to the Jin State, and the grain of the Qin State started from Yongcheng, and escorted the grain along the Weishui from west to east five hundred miles of waterway, and then changed to a car transport, and then changed to the Shanxi Fen River to transport north, directly to the Jin capital Jiangcheng, eight hundred miles of road end to end, endless. However, when the Qin State encountered a famine and asked the Jin State for help, Yu Shu thought that when the Jin State had a famine, the Qin State did not come to attack, which was simply stupid, and the Jin State should take advantage of the famine in the Qin State to destroy Qin, so he persuaded Jin Huigong to send troops to attack the Qin State. This is the consequence of love between nations. ”
Tian Jiu was silent. Then he sighed and asked, "Childe has a lot of wisdom, but I can't do it." However, today's situation is becoming more and more intense, and the nations are fighting for land and killing people; Fight for the city, kill the city. Childe thinks there is any way to solve this situation? His last sentence was filled with some respect, and his words became solemn.
Is this asking me how uncertain the world is? Dai Yan thought in his heart. If we follow the thinking of Confucianism and Legalism, the world is determined to be one. That is to say, as long as the whole world should be unified and the whole world should become one country, then there will be no disputes between the nations, and the world will be stable.
In Dai Yan's view, this idea does have some truth and can be realized, and in history, the Qin State truly unified the six kingdoms and built the first truly unified dynasty in Chinese history. However, does unification like this really make sense? The purpose of unification is, of course, to prevent endless wars and killings between nations, but the whole process of unifying the world must have a strong smell of blood, in the battle of Changping in the late Qin and Zhao periods, Qin killed 400,000 prisoners of Zhao. Before the Han Dynasty settled the world, Xiang Yu killed 200,000 Qin troops. These were just cold numbers in the eyes of later generations, but what did this mean for the people of the time? After the Battle of Changping, there were almost no adult men over the age of 16 in the entire Zhao Kingdom. And after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the surname Win even disappeared from history, what kind of disaster was this for the people at that time?
And even if the whole of Huaxia Kyushu is truly unified, will war be avoided forever? Not to mention the invasion of the northern barbarians on the land of China, just to say that the dynasty collapsed once every three hundred years, which was a more tragic thing for the people than the Warring States Period. Although there was no war in the Warring States Period, no one did not fight, but the people in the lower classes of the Warring States Period still had a little way to live. But what happened at the end of the later dynasties? In the Three Kingdoms era of "heroes" in history, countless people in later generations yearn for it, wishing that they were Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei. However, who can really understand what Cao Mengde's "white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles" represents? Rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world, this is definitely not the rhetoric of historians, but the true voice of the people. For example, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the total population of the world was about 60 million, and in the Three Kingdoms era, the total population of the world was not even 9 million. Later, after the alternation of the Ming and Qing dynasties in history, a sentence was recorded in the history books: Huguang filled Sichuan. That is to say, after the great turmoil at the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost all the people in Sichuan died, and only the people from Huguang (Hunan, Hubei) moved to Sichuan.
All in all, in Dai Yan's view, unifying the whole world does not ensure peace. Even if there is no war in the world, it is only because the war is suppressed, and more violent wars are waiting for later, and the Qin-style military unification can only establish a short-term peace. However, no one has ever said the harm of unifying the whole world. The world is unified, then the new unified dynasty must hope to establish a permanent rule, the emperors hope that the world will always be a static state, then themselves and their descendants will always be the masters of this land, so the people are fixed on the land and are not allowed to move around at will, so commerce and industry will inevitably be greatly suppressed; Scholars talking nonsense is also detrimental to their own rule, so there was the first initiative of burning books and pit Confucianism, and then there was the initiative of "deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", and the atmosphere of a hundred schools of thought contending in the Warring States Period completely disappeared; The new dynasty needs stability, and the world is peaceful, so the martial spirit and pioneering spirit of the Chinese ancestors who gradually expanded from the Central Plains to Kyushu have also been castrated, and in later generations, soldiers and thieves are almost no different, and the Han people have also become a family of relocation. Industry and commerce were suppressed, speech was suppressed, and the martial spirit was suppressed, and when the Western robbers came to knock on the door of China with industrialized civilization and advanced weapons, the entire Chinese Kyushu could only be slaughtered by these bandits.
Dai Yan from later generations is very clear about the development of history, although the world is determined to be one, although it is a seemingly feasible method of "fixing the world", but the results caused by this method still have many shortcomings.
Dai Yan felt that he might be able to think about the problem in a different way, in the history of later generations, the US imperialist was so powerful, the tonnage of all aircraft carriers in a country accounted for 80% of the world, if the US imperialist was really willing, a country could almost beat the world. But why doesn't the U.S. imperialists unify the planet? Although there are still many disputes in the world of later generations, the world of later generations still maintains a general peace, and Dai Yan feels that wisdom can be drawn from this.
For such a big matter as peace in the whole world, of course, Dai Yan didn't dare to say how good a solution he could be. However, in his opinion with more than 2,000 years of experience, the thinking of the development of the Internet in later generations is very worthy of reference, and the TCP/IP protocol is a very good example, and the Internet can be developed to the grand scale before his crossing, which is indispensable. It's an open network structure, and as long as you follow its protocols, you'll be able to access the network. Can there be a "central website" for the entire network to provide management?
Therefore, in Dai Yan's view, the stability of the world requires strong force to build an order, as long as force can ensure that all countries in the world accept this order, as long as this can be achieved, where is there no unity in the world? And to do this, the difficulty is naturally much easier than Qin's annexation of the world by force.
So he mentioned his thoughts to Tian Jiu: "The current turmoil in the world is because there is no order in the world, as long as a powerful force is used to build an order that is accepted by all countries, then the world will not be stable?" ”
Tian Jiu immediately bowed to Dai Yan and said: "Gongzi really deserves to be the queen of the Song Kingdom." In the past, Jin and Chu fought for hegemony, and all countries in the world were in turmoil, and Song Guohuayuan advocated to the head of the army to fight the army, which contributed to the alliance of the army, so that there was no war between the two great powers of Jin and Chu for more than 40 years, and its merit can be said to be beneficial to the world. Listening to my son's glance today, I really opened up. When I saw Gongzi today, I saw the doctrine of Gongzi, and when I listened to the ideals of Gongzi, I felt that although my Mo family was a scholar in the world, there were many shortcomings. If Gongzi does not give up, he will lead the disciples of the Mo family to learn from Gongzi, I don't know if Gongzi should be? ”
The Mo family giants learn from him? Dai Yanzhi thought that he had heard it wrong, and when he repeatedly confirmed that Tian Jiu was indeed willing to learn from him, he couldn't believe it. Because the Mohist school is very different from other schools, this school is a quasi-military organization. The Mohists learned from him, which implied allegiance to him. In the real history, among the three factions of the Mo family, Ximo was loyal to King Qin Huiwen (now still Qin Bo), Dongmo was studying palace teaching under Jixia, and Nanmo's faction was very strong, and the giant in front of him wanted to see the King of Qin, but he couldn't see it, and finally had to go to Chu to meet the King of Chu and become a Chu envoy to see the King of Qin, and then there was no news. Since then, Nanmo has completely transformed into a ranger faction, and the later Han rangers have probably inherited the spirit of this faction.
This is where history begins to take a turn.