Chapter 122: Ink Scholar Shihuai, Craftsmanship is Prosperous
Just when the ink scholar was debating in all directions in the school palace and swept the school palace, Mo Zhai also came to the Huai Palace.
Wang Pu really wanted to meet this great sage from the bottom, so after Mo Zhai came to Jinling, he personally went to the palace gate to greet him and invited him into the palace.
"Love is not attacking, and frugality is the way of the sages, and it is deafening to hear it."
Mozi said: "Huaiguo has been inherited for more than 400 years, and I have never heard of the rebellion of the public family, and the countries of Bangzhou and Zhou are not as good as it, in my opinion, Huaiguo has achieved both love, and at the same time, the Huaiguo office has all the people, but it uses frugality, not to mention the burial, which is breathtaking."
"If all the countries in the world are like Huai, presumably the people will be able to live and work in peace and contentment."
Wang Pu has a lot of respect for Mozi, and in his opinion, the character of these people in the Mo family is very great. It's just that the world he expects may not be able to do it thousands of years later.
Wang Pu shook his head and said, "Mozi, what you want to make other princes like Huai is almost impossible."
"It's almost impossible to make the country live in peace. You want to settle the world through non-offensive methods, and I don't think about that."
"Everyone has selfish intentions, let alone a country?"
"It's like a war between two countries, how do you stop it?"
"The Mo family has all kinds of weapons to defend the city, if the enemy comes to attack, they will find that they will not be able to break through the city with heavy casualties, at this time, the monarch will have to consider whether it is worth continuing to fight, if the gain is less than the pay, presumably this war will stop." Mozi said.
Wang Puyao shook her head and said, "Mozi, what you said is also correct, but how many wars do you think you can prevent? The kingdoms of heaven and earth are swallowing each other and increasing their strength, because they understand that if they don't become stronger, they will be eaten by the powerful."
"As long as the state exists, this kind of war is almost inevitable."
"You may be able to prevent one or two wars, but that will only postpone the war, not settle it."
"You want to stop the war, and with all due respect, the war will not end as long as there are different countries in the world."
Wang Pu said seriously.
Mo Zhai shook his head slightly and said, "Although it is impossible to achieve it in this life, this is not the reason why I gave up the pursuit, Confucius pursued the world harmony back then, and he didn't see it until he died, did he change his pursuit?"
"What a terrible thing it would be when everyone in this world stopped believing in these good things and stopped pursuing them?"
Wang Pu was silent for a long time when he heard this, and then said, "You are a true sage, although you are the lord of Huaiguo, you are also an ordinary man, and you want to change your way."
"I'm not a sage, just a seeker." Mozi shook his head and said.
"Mozi, the Mohist school you created is not liked by the princes, or even by those in power, and the Mohist family will be difficult in the future, and even disappear in the end." Wang Pu sighed and said.
Almost all rulers want to make the people obedient to the people, let them oppress and drive without resistance, and Mozi's idea is to unite the people, help each other, and resist oppression, so how can those in power like the Mohist doctrine?
Mo Zhai said with a smile: "The people of the Mo family may sacrifice or perish, but the thoughts and spirit of the Mo family will not die, and even the classics and culture of the Mo family will be passed on."
Wang Pu smiled and said, "Then please leave your thoughts, doctrines, and books, and the Huai Association will preserve them and spread them."
After Mo Zhai met Wang Pu, he came to the Huai Kingdom's Tibetan Guarding Room, where a large amount of classic knowledge was recorded, and Mo Zhai also began to read it carefully in the Tibetan Guarding Room, constantly improving the doctrines and theories of the Mo family.
The Mohist doctrine attaches great importance to logical reasoning, but it also has a weakness, that is, the Ming ghost. Wang Pu asked about these when he communicated with Mozi, and then he also figured out that Mozi firmly believed in the existence of ghosts and gods, thinking that they would reward and punish violence for human monarchs or nobles.
This is to persuade people to do evil when they want to be evil, for fear of being punished by ghosts and gods
Good.
The debate between Confucianism and Mohism continued, and Confucianism, after being caught off guard by the Mohists, began to seriously study the ideas of the Mohists.
At the same time, Huai Guo also began to recruit a large number of Mo family children into Huai State. The chivalrous spirit of the Mo family's children is too suitable for serving as an inspector.
At the same time, the Mo family is extremely proficient in mechanical arts, and its ingenuity is breathtaking.
Huaiguo invited a large number of skilled craftsmen of the Mo family, which made Huaiguo's technology improve rapidly again. The application of water conservancy by the Mo family is very strong, and after receiving the help of the skilled craftsmen of the Mo family, a large number of water conservancy workshops appeared in Huaiguo.
At the same time, the arrival of the Mo family also made the forging of iron go further.
The progress of iron forging not only promoted the development of agriculture, industry and commerce, but also made the weapons and armor of the Huai Kingdom begin to be updated.
After iron forging became more mature, Huai began to forge weapons and iron armor. Huaiguo developed a knife from the forging technology of Wu Hook, and compared with the long sword, the knife chopping has a greater advantage. Huaiguo forged a straight knife in the books left by Zijue that year.
Compared to bronze swords, straight swords have more obvious advantages.
As for the iron armor, it is even more powerful, in the past a bronze armor was incredibly heavy and extremely valuable, and it was difficult to produce it in large quantities. However, after the advent of iron tools, people found that armor made of iron was far stronger than bronze armor.
The defense, lightness, and price of iron armor are better than those of bronze armor, and the rattan armor army of Huai State has also begun to change its outfit.
The rattan armor army did not give up the rattan armor, but adopted the method of wrapping the rattan armor. The armor of the rattan armor is already light, and a layer of iron scales is wrapped around the outside of the rattan armor. Not only is it lightweight, but it also has a lot of protection.
Wang Pu let a large number of Mo family disciples go out, with the help of the power of the Mo family to rectify the court, these Mo family scholars are all people who can't rub sand in their eyes, and for a time the government of Huai is very clean, and the speed of operation has also improved a lot.
In addition to these changes, Huai's push for agriculture and handicrafts is also evident. Improvements in looms have made cloth production faster, and improvements in farming techniques have led to greater grain yields.
At the same time, the various theories of the Mo family are also converging little by little, and after Mo Zhai has read a lot of books, he has a clearer understanding of his Tao.
In Wang Pu's view, even if the Mohist ideology and doctrine were not accepted by the princes, their exquisite utensils were what the princes pursued.