That night, in a certain house in the workshop area of Fengyi City, Tian Jiu and the disciples of the Mo family gathered together. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Giant, the disciple can't understand." It was Tangzi who spoke, a middle-aged man in his thirties, with a square face and old brown clothes, but he was unusually clean and tidy, very different from ordinary Mo disciples. "Since the creation of my Mo family, my ancestor Mozi, has advocated both love and non-attack, and raised the righteousness of the world, so it has become a manifestation of the world. All the disciples of my Mo family are full of hoops and calluses, just for the righteousness of the Mo family and love the world. However, today the giant son has asked us to learn from a young man, I don't know why? There was already a hint of reproach in his tone.

Tian Jiu didn't care about the attitude of the entanglement at all. He just asked, "You have been following me to study the ways of the Mo family for many years, and you should know what the origin of my Mo family is." In the past, our ancestor Mozi tasted the business of Confucianism and received the art of Confucius. I thought that his etiquette was annoying, and he buried the poor people with rich money, and he was hurt and harmed for a long time, so he used Xia Zheng behind his back. This is the origin of my Mohists, my Mohists were born from Confucianism, so the biggest enemy of my Mohists is Confucianism. However, what is the biggest difference between Mohist and Confucianism? ”

The disciples below began to discuss, which is also a characteristic of the Mo family. Although the Mohists were well-organized and disciplined, they paid attention to orders and prohibitions when they acted. However, it is still very open academically, and there is more emphasis on debate and discussion internally.

Soon after, a disciple stood up and said: "The disciple thinks that Confucianism respects benevolence and propriety, while my Mohist advocates both love and non-aggression; Confucianism is good at fiction, while my Mohists value reality. ”

Then another disciple began to add: "Confucianism respects the Duke of Zhou, and my Mohist admires Emperor Yu." ”

"Confucianism is happy and advocates a generous burial, while my Mo family is not happy and advocates a festival funeral."

Then there are disciples who add one by one, for example, some say that Confucianism speaks for the kings, while the Mohists speak on behalf of the people. There are also those who criticize the hypocrisy of Confucianism and say that the Mohists are kind. The disciples spoke frequently, and soon cleared up the distinction between Confucianism and Mo, which was recognized by the world at that time.

Tian Jiu waved his hand, and the disciples of the Mo family quickly quieted down. "You're right, but it seems to me that you don't really get to the point." Tian Jiu said lightly.

The disciples looked at each other for a while, so Tangzi stood up and said, "Dare to ask the giant to see you." ”

Tian Jiu said: "Everyone in the world knows that my Mo family is famous all over the world for loving and benefiting each other. Love is the foundation of my Mo family, what do you think of my Mo family's love? Those who love love the world, and there is no difference in their size. However, I would like to ask you: Can you love the monarch of a country as well as a common people? ”

All the disciples were silent for a moment.

Tian Jiu said: "I admit that I can't do it myself. How noble is the king of a country, and how low the common people are, the status of the two is very different, who can love both? I tasted the book of the first teacher Mozi, and then thought about it for a long time, and then I did it in advance and loved, then the people in the world must be no different first, and then it can be feasible. ”

There is no difference between people in the world? The sound of all the disciples in the courtyard gasping sounded.

To know what era this is? This was the Warring States Period, and the influence of the aristocratic Shiqing Shilu in the Spring and Autumn Period still existed. What make aristocrats noble? The ancestor of the Ji surname, Houji, was conceived by Jiang Yuan practicing the feet of giants, so the nobles of the Zhou feudal kingdom can be considered to be the descendants of the giant gods. The ancestors of Song, Qin, Zhao and other countries, Shang Songli, said very clearly: the Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao descended to give birth to Shang. This era is still more than 200 years away from Chen Sheng shouting the famous sentence "Princes and generals, rather have a kind of call".

"There is no difference between the people in the world, I want to borrow the concept of flat in the geometry of the son to name it, the people in the world are all above a plane, so it is said to be flat; Everyone is conceived in October before birth, and all people are equal at the beginning, so it is said to be equal; With the two words in one, I call it equality. In my opinion, in order to be able to love in the world, people must be equal. According to logic, equality is a necessary condition for love. What is the ethics advocated by Confucianism? Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons; Confucianism also advocates benevolence, but Confucian benevolence is necessarily differentiated, and it must recognize the inequality of human beings. And if I want to achieve both love, everyone must be equal, so what is the foundation of Confucian ethics? This is the biggest difference between my Mohists and Confucianism. Tian Jiu quickly applied the logical knowledge he learned from Dai Yan.

"In this way, is it true that the giant led us to learn from Dai Gongzi?" One of the disciples stood up and asked.

"That's right." Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Tian Jiu. "Although Gongzi Yan is a nobleman of the Song Dynasty, can you find that his attitude towards the common people is different from his attitude towards us or the princes? There is no difference, that is, everyone is equal. Tian Jiu said what the disciple didn't say.

If Dai Yan knew this, I was afraid that he would also laugh dumbly. Dai Yan came from later generations, although he tried hard to learn the various etiquette of the nobles of this era, but he still had many differences from the real nobles. Therefore, his usual every move actually carries a lot of shadows of later generations, at least at this time, in his opinion, Tang Yingtian Buli and others are just his subordinates and not courtiers. It was naturally not surprising that the giant felt that aura of equality from him.

"However, after all, he doesn't agree with our theory of love and non-aggression." The wrapper couldn't help but say loudly.

Tian Jiu laughed when he heard this, and then he said to the disciples, "I have heard a story. The king of Chu had heard that there was a wizard who could move mountains, and he was very curious, so he invited this wizard to perform the method of moving mountains to him, and the wizard agreed. He first went to one side of the mountain and sat for a while, then ran to the other side of the mountain and sat for a while, and then he told the king of Chu that the method of moving the mountain was finished. The king of Chu was very puzzled and asked him where there was a moving mountain? The sorcerer said to the king of Chu: Where in this world is there a real way to move mountains? The only way to move the mountains is to pass. Gongzi Yan thinks that it is difficult to say that my Mo family loves and does not attack, but it is not that he disagrees with my Mo family's theory. I can also see that his thinking and thinking are unique, and we learn from him, one of which has improved our Mohists, and the other is that he is not influenced by my Mohists. I am not turning my back on the learning of my master Mozi, in my opinion, if you want to truly practice the ideal of your master Mozi, you must ultimately rely on Ziyan. ”

"The disciple is guilty, it turns out that the giant thinks so deeply, the disciple is not thoughtful, and he is willing to be punished by the giant." When Tangzi heard Tian Jiu's explanation, he immediately knelt on the ground and asked Tian Jiu for his guilt.

"What is your sin, O thorn? I know you just care about the future of my Mo family. Besides, if I don't explain such a huge matter to you clearly, you will certainly do what I say, but there will be resentment in your heart. Now that you're clear, are there any doubts? Tian Jiu waved his hand to let the entangler get up, and he didn't care about the reproach that the entanglement had given him before.

Everyone was undoubtedly righteous, and then everyone in the Mo family dispersed.

On the second day, the giant Tian Jiu took people to visit Dai Yan at the Yi Doctor's Mansion, but when he arrived at the door, he found that his gate was blocked by many ordinary people. Tian Jiu walked over to one of them and asked, "What are you doing here with so many of you?" ”

The man was looking at the gate at the gate, and he was not angry when he was suddenly asked, he explained to Tian Jiu: These people, including him, have heard that Ziyan helped Le's and Muhammad solve the dispute yesterday, and divided the disputed land between Le's and Muhammad's. Gongzi Yan has the method of earth surveying that he learned from the gods, and he can measure the size of the land without a bad score, and these people are all people who have land disputes after the flood, so they naturally hope that Gongzi Yan can come out and help them measure them one by one, so as to solve their disputes as soon as possible.

Then he saw Ziyan appear at the gate, and he assured everyone that he would help them to measure their disputed land and settle their disputes.

When Dai Yan saw the doves in the crowd, he had a feeling that he had found a savior. There were hundreds of people present, and there were no less than a hundred land disputes, if he personally went to solve these disputes one by one, how long would he have to be busy?

Then Dai Yan walked in front of Tian Jiu, and he didn't even make a face-to-face ceremony and said to Tian Jiu: "Mr. help me." He then asked Tian Jiu to let the Mo family disciples help resolve so many disputes.

"But most of them haven't fully learned geometry, have they?" Tian Jiu said uneasily.

"Now they don't need to learn all the geometry, as long as they can understand the geodesic formulas." Dai Yan said.

Now it is less than May, and Tian Jiu also knows that the peasants are anxious to divide the land at the moment, and the dispute is resolved as soon as possible, so that everyone can rush to plant grain as soon as possible, and there may be some harvest this year. So he immediately agreed and summoned all the disciples of the Mo family to Dai Yan. Dai Yan first taught these Mohist disciples the formula for calculating various areas in plane geometry, and now is not the time for them to reason and argue, they only need to know it but they don't need to know why.

When everyone left, Dai Yan invited Tian Jiu to sit in the house. Then Dai Yan said to Tian Jiu: "Juzi, after today's events, I only know that I am short of officials in Fengyi, and I dare to ask Juzi to let his disciples help me govern Fengyi." ”

Of course, Tian Jiu is happy to do this. So he said to Dai Yan: "Of course I am willing to hire a member of the Mo family, but does the son know the three principles of my Mo family's disciples?" ”

"I don't know what three principles they are?" Dai Yan asked curiously.

"If a disciple of the Mo family cannot do what the Mo family says, he needs to resign himself; After the disciples of the Mo family come out, Qu Xue, then the giant son can ask the lord to retire; After the disciples of the Mo family came out, all the money they received had to be distributed for the use of the Mo family. Tian Jiu replied lightly.

Do you follow the words of the Mohists? In Dai Yan's view, this does not matter. Because in Dai Yan's view, the Mohist school is actually a somewhat idealistic school, and the Mohist people have some virgin tendencies, which is not too serious. After all, Fengyi is his fiefdom, and some people who are inclined to the Holy Mother should not be too harsh on the people, and a little is enough.

And the third of these three points aroused Dai Yan's vigilance - the income of the Mo family disciples should be shared for the use of other Mo family disciples. He is well aware that if a school of thought can gain enough benefits, it is possible for it to evolve into a real political party in the future. Maybe we should cultivate another opponent for the Mo family in the future?

But that's something to think about later. Dai Yan was relatively open-minded on this point, saying that he was fully able to accept the principles put forward by Tian Jiu.