Chapter 128: Wang Pu: Aggression? No, this is both love and non-attack
The bird slipped away and looked at the bamboo slip in his hand, there was no flowery rhetoric on the bamboo slip, but it was just a dry record of the living conditions of the people at the bottom of some states.
Then he listed the benefits that the people at the bottom had received after the arrival of the Huaiguo army. The contrast between the front and the back is stark. This makes the birds, who have always believed in both love and non-aggression, and defended the weak as their own responsibility, have a feeling of common sense collapsing.
In his impression, war can only bring pain and disaster to the invaded people, but in this bamboo slip, it is said that the people will not eat pot pulp to welcome the army of Huaiguo.
"The children of the Mo family love non-attack, the purpose is for these grassroots people, how are these people doing now, if you only listen to Lone's words, I guess you don't believe it, in this case, Lone can issue an edict and send a team of soldiers to escort you to the state and country?" Wang Pu said with a smile.
The bird slipped away and looked at Huai Gong in front of him, his plump and handsome, graceful demeanor, like a god, but he always felt that his back seemed to be a little cold.
But what happened was still up to him to see for himself. Yu Huali didn't think much about it, and immediately agreed, preparing to lead dozens of Mo family children to the state to come to the country, and then decide whether the Mo family students would continue to work in Huaiguo.
The bird slipped away and took many scholars of the Mo family to the state to come to the country.
When the group came to the state and came to the country, they found that everything in front of them was completely different from the scene they imagined after the war, there were no broken walls, no dead and wounded, but full of life.
The people in the city had smiles on their faces, and they were in a hurry, and when they saw the soldiers of Huai, they would take the initiative to give way, and even give some fruits to the soldiers. The city is full of people, and it doesn't look like a city that has just experienced a war.
Although those people were dressed in shabby clothes, but their faces were full of smiles, and they even suspected that Huai Guo wanted them to see this, so he forced the people to do so.
But after he deliberately avoided those Huai soldiers, and then privately questioned the people from the state, he found that what they saw was true. Although the bird was mentally prepared, he was still shocked.
In his cognition, Huai's attack on the state was an unjust war, but why did the unjust war make the people of the state welcome? It wasn't until he questioned the people in detail that the bird slipped away.
The state and the country regard the people as slaves, wanton oppression, the people are poor, there is no land, no personal freedom, and they are not clothed, so how can the people of the state come to defend the land to the death?
After Huai distributed grain, land, cloth, salt and houses to the people of these states, and almost gave them to their wives, the hearts of the people from the state completely belonged to Huai.
Wherever the Huai army went, the people all ate pot pulp to welcome the army, and the Huai country easily captured the state to the country, and after the capture of the state to the country, a large number of Legalists were sent.
The state came to the country within a radius of 200 miles, and hundreds of thousands of people quickly joined the people. After the land is allocated here, there will be a lot of taxes in the second year, and even Huai can levy tens of thousands of troops here.
After two generations of planning by the Huai State, the state was easily occupied by the Huai State. As for the nobles and offices of the state, they were basically relocated to Huiji.
The fowl slipped away from these Mo family children and stayed in the state for three whole months, almost every corner of the state and the country, and finally returned to Jinling.
When he saw Wang Pu, he no longer had a trace of dissatisfaction, and respectfully saluted Wang Pu and said: "Huaiguo is benevolent and righteous, the state comes to the country to levy and extort violently, and regards the people as cattle and horses, and now they are abandoned by the people, and they deserve it!"
Wang Pu laughed and said, "How are the people from the state doing well?"
"The king is benevolent and righteous, the people of the state have thirty acres of land, and the women have fifteen acres, all of which are registered, according to the taxes of the Huai State, they will no longer starve next year, they will have clothes and silk to keep out the cold for two years, and they can eat meat for three years, which is the scene of the ancient holy kings." Said the fowl slipping away.
Wang Pu shook his head and said, "Three years of edible meat, it would be a bit too much to say that the Saint King is a bit of an exaggeration."
"Can you agree to attack the state this time?"
The bird slipped away and said, "The state comes to oppress the people of Li, the people are poor, and this battle is not an unjust war."
"However, the monarch and the ministers still oppose the foreign war of the Huai State."
Wang Pu said with a smile: "What Qing Zhi said is too limited, and the solitary capture of the state is also in line with the concept of both love and non-aggression of the Mo family."
"Your Majesty laughed." The bird slipped away from believing Wang Pu's words at all.
Wang Pu continued: "If Qing doesn't believe it, then listen to Gu's story, and you will naturally be able to understand Gu's concept of 'love and non-aggression.'"
"Simultaneous love means that the people of all countries in Zhuxia should have both love, not just the love of one country."
"The monarch of the state is not merciful to the people, wantonly oppresses, and expropriates violently, although Lone is the king of Huai, but he also loves the people of the state, since Lone sees that the people of the state come to the country are oppressed by the king, he naturally cannot ignore it. Therefore, I feel that I should have an obligation to help the people of the state."
"Therefore, Lonely's attack on the state is also love. Qing's understanding of love is too one-sided."
"As for non-attack, what Gu understands is not to be oppressed, the people of the state and the country are oppressed by the nobles and the king, how can this kind of behavior be endured, so in order to stop the oppression of the people by the monarch and the nobles of the state, Gu decided to carry out a non-attack on them.......
Wang Pu said righteously, hearing this remark, the birds slipped away and the many Mo family disciples around were stunned, and many people would nod their heads when they heard the wonderful places.
The bird slipped away for a while, and was speechless, is Wang Pu's statement wrong? That's right, love does include the people of the whole world, so the people of the state and the country are naturally among them. As for non-offensive, on the surface it is to oppose a war of aggression, but isn't opposition to a war of aggression also to oppose oppression?
Then the people of the state are oppressed by the monarch and the nobility and need to be attacked to protect them from oppression, so it seems that they are indeed opposing aggression and protecting the people in self-defense.
So from these perspectives, Huai's capture of the state is indeed the Mohist's proposition, "love and non-attack". But the bird slipped away for a while, and he couldn't turn around, and he always felt that he had ignored something, but he couldn't remember it.
Wang Pu looked at the stunned bird and the many students of the Mo family, and breathed a sigh of relief, he had been thinking about this set of rhetoric for a long time. If you really want to recruit a large number of Mo students, once the Huai State invades other countries, these Mo people are likely to jump back at the first time, and then the Huai State will become the laughing stock of other vassal states.
These people have technology, knowledge, and ideas, and they will strengthen the country if they use them, but it is difficult to use them well. With this set of rhetoric, it is always possible to let these children of the Mo family continue to serve Huaiguo.