As for the philosophical part, Li Hui wanted to copy some directly from the political textbooks in his memory, but one day he had a better idea after talking to Yan Fu about the pre-Qin era.

There are countless thinkers in ancient China, especially the sons of "a hundred schools of thought" more than 2,000 years ago, and they thought of almost everything that might have been thought of at that time, and even in the successful route in history, most of the ideas and opinions can actually be found in some ancient Chinese writings or accounts.

In this case, why not simply pretend that it is based on the various theories of ancient China, and a small amount of Western ideas are absorbed and fused with Li Hui's own innovations? Thinking of this, Li Hui's train of thought suddenly opened

Thankfully, Li Hui had a comprehensive understanding of ancient Chinese thinkers, especially the teachings of the pre-Qin princes, before his travels. Because of the good classical Chinese skills cultivated since childhood (although he can't write, even if it is a pre-Qin article, he doesn't need a reference book to understand it.) ）。

Long before the crossing, Li Hui had read almost all the surviving works of the hundred schools of thought, and the main contents of them had been memorized, and after the social practice after the crossing, Li Hui's understanding of these ideas was also more profound.

After some comparison, Li Hui was pleasantly surprised to find that except for a small number of concepts, views and expositions such as "productive forces and production relations", almost all other aspects can be pretended to be ideas derived from ancient China, which accounts for almost three-quarters of the total, and nearly ninety percent of these three-quarters are the results of the period of a hundred schools of thought, you must know that it was more than 2,000 years ago!

And the West barely reached the level of China until after the Enlightenment, and the development of the social sciences in China was too advanced!

Although this is not a good thing for the progress of civilization after China in history, Li Hui is still deeply proud of the wisdom of his ancestors

Among the many schools of thought of the pre-Qin princes, because there are the most commonalities, the Mohist doctrine, which has disappeared in China for many years, is naturally designated by Li Hui as the core of it.

The mysterious and sudden disappearance of the Mo family in history was also considered by Li Hui to be a huge advantage, which was just convenient for him to explain the origin of his relationship with the biochemical soldiers and the advanced technology and weapons and equipment they mastered, for which he did not hesitate to fabricate a large number of pseudo-histories about the Mo family.

Anyway, there was no trace of the Mo family after the Warring States period until he crossed over in history, as long as these pseudo-histories can be logically self-consistent, he is not afraid of anyone doubting, after all, every biochemical soldier is a "witness"!

However, the adoption of Mohist thought, even if it is a modified version of Mohist thought, has a difficult hidden danger that it is fundamentally opposed to Confucianism, which has ruled China since the late Western Han Dynasty.

However, Li Hui considered that his future land reform would still make the Chinese landlords and gentry disagree with him, and although the Mohist doctrine had long been discontinued, its ideas still had a great influence on the Chinese people, especially among the lower-class civilians, such as "chivalry" (Note 1), even if it would make the old Chinese literati hate it to the core, as long as the lower-class civilians did not resist, it did not matter.

If there are not enough intellectuals. Li Hui would rather cultivate from scratch, anyway, even if the old literati come to vote, they must also be trained and transformed before they can be used

What's more, the situation may not be so bad, China in the late Qing Dynasty was bullied by foreign powers, and the disadvantage of Confucianism not being able to strengthen the country was exposed, and many people of insight began to abandon it and seek another truth that could save the country. Historically, after Mohist thought was reintroduced back to China, it not only did not arouse the opposition of intellectuals, but was vigorously praised by Liang Qichao and others.

Therefore, Li Hui felt that the new Mohist thought he launched should still attract some people of insight.

For example, Yan Fu, who was later considered to have become a conservative in history, the reason why he turned to defend the old culture represented by Confucianism was only because he was worried that Chinese civilization would tend to die out after Westernization, and it did not mean that he was really loyal to it

Besides, after more than 2,000 years of development, Confucianism has actually unconsciously absorbed some old rival concepts, even a reader who has never been exposed to Mohist thought before, after seeing Mohist classics for the first time, will definitely have a little sense of déjà vu, which is undoubtedly of great help to the intellectuals of the late Qing Dynasty to accept Mohist thought.

However, after all, Confucianism and Mo are still fundamentally opposed, except for the part that is already common, the unique ideas of Confucianism can be used very little, as for the so-called "great Confucianism" after the pre-Qin period, it is very good to be able to leave one or two famous sayings.

Even Wang Yangming, the patriarch of "Xinxue" whom Li Hui personally admired, was also abandoned. The reason is very simple, the ideas of the new Mohists are mainly used for governing the country, and naturally any idealist ideas are not allowed, and the study of mind can be circulated among the people in the future, but it will never have the opportunity to affect the national policy

There are many philosophical commonalities between Taoist thought and Mohist thought, and the "Book of Ink" is a typical example of the fact that it was mixed with the Taoist collection that the "Book of Ink" was saved from being lost.

It's just that Taoism stands on a completely objective perspective of staying out of things, while Moism is more suitable for guiding the people in the middle to transform the world, so although the two are consistent in many places, Li Hui also did not absorb much of the unique ideas of Taoism

Unlike the three schools of thought of Confucianism, Momo and Taoism, the Legalist thought, which had a greater influence in the pre-Qin period, did not have much of a worldview component, but more about the methodology of how to solve problems.

Because of this, even after Confucianism had fully established its dominance, Legalism remained influential in the land of China, and the so-called "Outer Sage Inner King" (i.e., Outer Confucianism and Inner Law) was actually the case

Note 1: In fact, not all of the chivalrous characters in the pre-Qin Dynasty were from the Mo family, but the Mo family was the only school that advocated the chivalrous spirit.