Chapter 165: Hundred Schools

Although Wang Pu does not agree with Gongsun Ying's system of 'strengthening the country and weakening the people' and 'heavy punishment and light reward', this set of strong country theory still works.

It's just that this set of theories is too brutal for the small people, believing that only the law can oppress the people, forcibly let the people join the army, but they are stingy with rewards, basically opposing the people at the bottom against the state.

It is believed that the strength of the country and the strength of the people are opposites, and that only when the people obey the law and are simple and loyal, will the people not be combined into a powerful force to oppose the country and the monarch, and such a country will be easy to govern and the monarch's position will be firm.

This kind of thinking is fundamentally contrary to the ruling concept of Huaiguo, from Zijue onwards, Huaiguo did not regard the people as antagonists, but believed that the cornerstone of the country is the people, and the cornerstone of the monarch is the people. If the monarch wants to control the power of the country and not be hollowed out by the nobles, he must ensure that the people's lives are not oppressed by the nobles and nobles, and the state can ensure the country's money, food and army through taxation and military service.

Therefore, Huai Guo will not use the art of hegemony, after all, in the storage room of Huai State, the strategy of strengthening the country of hegemony has long been preserved.

Although Qin Law was born from Huai Law, it is completely different from Huai Law. Qin Law imposed heavy punishments, including the re-introduction of corporal punishment that had long been abolished in Huaiguo.

Among them, beheading, palace punishment, slashing punishment, and death punishment were too cruel, so they were changed to prison sentences, and in serious cases, to death sentences.

After compilation, Wang Pu specially ordered someone to compile the Qin State Law Transformation Technique and the Huai State Law Transformation Technique together, so that people can more accurately understand the fierceness of the Qin Law.

Compared with the compilation of the hundred canons of Zhuzi, the compilation of the Huaiguo calendar is more cumbersome, after collecting a large amount of information, and after several years of personal cultivation and comparison by the peasant bachelor, the relatively accurate calendar was finally calculated.

After calculating the accurate calendar, the first generation of Taishi Ling Wang Gao took the calendar that had just been compiled to Huai Gong to dedicate it.

Wang Pu was very happy to see the newly compiled calendar, and immediately issued an edict that all the people in Huai Kingdom should use the new calendar from today, and take the next year as the first year of the new calendar.

At the same time, Wang Pu also sent several official envoys of the Huai State to the nations with the new calendar to inform them of the new calendar.

No matter how unhappy these vassal states are, after seeing the new calendar of Huaiguo, they can only pinch their noses and admit it. What should I do if I don't recognize it? Don't use a new calendar? Or a fight with Huaiguo?

Farming was a major issue in any of the countries of Bangzhou, so after confirming the accuracy of the new calendar, these countries also began to implement the new calendar.

The development of siege equipment in Huai State made other countries in Bangzhou secretly frightened, and they began to study various equipment, but the vast majority of the Mo family children were in Huai State, and there were very few in other countries. It was at this time that the Gong Yi clan appeared.

Compared with the Mo family, who likes to make defensive equipment, the Gong Yi clan is more proficient in the production of various equipment. The Gongyi clan went out of the Lu country, but the Lu country, which could once compete with the Qi state, was weakened and could not realize the ambitions of the Gongyi clan, so the children of the Gongyi clan began to appear in various countries.

Similarly, after Huaiguo learned that Gong Yi was defeated, he also invited someone over. Wang Pu also welcomed the arrival of the Gong Yi clan, the Gong Yi clan and the Mo family are somewhat similar, and they are also proficient in making various instruments, but the Gong Yi clan does not have the Mo family's concept of love and non-attack.

They see themselves more as craftsmen and rely on their skills to achieve high positions in various countries. For this situation, Wang Pu agreed very much, the Gongyi clan was proficient in various instruments, Wang Pu appointed him as the master craftsman, and at the same time included the Gongyi clan in the hundreds of schools.

The Mohists disagreed with the Gongyi clan, and the relationship between the Mohists and Confucianism was very poor, and at the same time they were on the same page as the Yang-Zhu school. Confucianism is plagiarizing, no, it is that after absorbing the ideas of other schools, the relationship with the Mohists has gradually improved, but the Gongyi and Yang Zhu schools are still the same.

The Mohists believed that the Gongshu made engineering equipment to encourage countries to conquer each other, but the Gongyi clan didn't care, they just thought that they were making tools, and the use of tools had nothing to do with them.

As for the Yang-Zhu school, this school was born out of Taoism, but even many scholars in Taoism did not agree with this school.

Even Wang Pu, after seeing the ideology and doctrine of this school, thought that it was a fallacy and heresy.

The Yang-Zhu school was born out of Taoism, advocating life and death, self-esteem, rebirth, and all-nature fidelity.

According to Yang Zhu, he called on everyone to cherish their own lives and protect their own interests, and not to lose their own interests to help others. This practice is a disaster for the small people.

The life of the small people is hard, many people do not even have ploughing cattle, and need to rent, if everyone does not help others, these small people are afraid that they will starve to death. Humans are accustomed to being in the wilderness because it is difficult for humans to live in the wilderness on their own.

As for the rest, in Wang Pu's opinion, it is not so important. As he said, on life and death, the Yang Zhu school felt that no matter whether they were noble or poor, they were all classified as rotten bones after death, and Yao Shun was no different from Ji Xuan.

Wang Pu smiled when he saw this, it's no different because you haven't seen King Wen. The Huaiguo Office is completely different from others, after the death of the office, it will return to the cave and meet King Wen, how can it be like rotten bones and rotten wood?

As for saying that you have even plucked a hair and benefited the world, you don't have to do it. Serve the world and don't take it. No one loses a single bit, everyone is not good for the world, and the world is governed.

If it is really according to what he said, everyone in the whole world is noble, then the whole world will be chaotic, and even the country will not exist.

But is this really possible? Wang Pu feels that as long as people still have selfishness and desires, it is basically impossible to achieve it.

Wang Pu can also forcibly explain the concepts of the Mo family, such as love and non-attack, so that the Mo family can work for Huaiguo, but Yang Zhuxue's theory has no need to transform at all in Wang Pu's opinion, and it is of no use to Huaiguo. However, Yang Zhu's doctrine also attracted many people, so Wang Pu ordered people to spread Yang Zhu's doctrine to other vassal states of Bangzhou.

This doctrine of extreme self-interest is of no use to the state, only a group of selfish and self-interested people will appear, and if a group of such people can appear among the nobles and ministers of the state of Bangzhou, it is believed that the difficulty of defeating and annexing this vassal state will be greatly reduced.

In the academy, more and more schools of thought appeared, and various debates were eye-opening, and the debates between various schools of thought were amazing. The debates of various schools of thought have also continued to provide a lot of luck for Huaiguo, and now the luck provided by the Huaiguo Academy is almost half of the luck provided by Huaiguo.

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