Chapter 459
Chapter 459
Chapter 459
Seeing that the people of Qin didn't answer, he said, "Solucan came back from the far west. He learned and heard along the way, and knew that he could make a profit from trade. Zimozi once said in "Jiebuan" that there is a country of justice in the west of Qin. When a relative dies, he gathers firewood and burns it, and smokes it, which is called Dengxia'. The customs are quite different from those in the Central Plains."
"This time Suo Lucan came back, traveled to Linhu Loufan, and returned to Central China via Zhaodi. I heard that it was Qin and Yiqu who started the war."
"If you don't talk about benefiting the common people, you can talk about benefiting Qin Jun. In my opinion, Qin Jun's benefits and public ambitions lie in the west and not in the east."
Yiqu is an ancient country that has existed since the Shang Dynasty. Over the years, it has been in contact with the Qin State, and it has begun to shift from nomadic to farming. This is a major stumbling block for Qin's expansion in the west.
There are rumors in later generations that the place where the Yellow Emperor sat down with Qibo to discuss medicine is also the hometown of Qihuang, which is the capital of Yiqu today.
After occupying the land of Longdong, according to Suo Lucan's knowledge, the Yiqu has already turned to farming and learned to build a city.
In a battle between Qin and Yiqu 20 years ago, Yiqu actually used a very formal "farming" tactic, relying on city defense to exhaust the Qin army, and then mobilized heavy troops to counterattack the Qin army under the city.
Mozi has been active in the Central Plains for a long time and has never entered Qin Dynasty, but he also knows the funeral customs of Yiqu. Yiqu is also a state with a sense of presence in the Central Plains. It is a bit similar to Jizi North Korea. Few people have been there, but Many people have heard of it.
The land occupied by Yiqu is all land that can be cultivated. Originally, Qin State did not have much advantage over Yiqu.
It's just that times have changed now. Once the Mohists give Qin the technical support for ironware, with the benefits of gunpowder and the strength of ironware, the balance of power between Qin and Yiqu will change dramatically in just a few years.
It's not that there is any great Qin complex, but considering the concept scope of the world in the future, cultural dissemination and other factors, now that the world is in chaos, it is better to take this opportunity to let Qin State assimilate Yiqu and expand westward.
Although those people in Shengchuo are rebels against Mohism, and although the changes they carried out cannot last long, one thing they used the official script of the Mohist school, compile the system, and unify the culture; of.
In terms of Mohism's morality, the world must be unified and have the same meaning.At the beginning of synonym, we must have the same text.This alone is enough to support Qin's westward expansion.
Others don't know the strength of Wei's soldiers, but Wu Qi knows it.
Although Yiqu has the ability to ride horses, after the reform, the Qin State Lianzhan Lianjie, and the rebels who came with Wu Qi also know it.
Therefore, when it was mentioned that Suo Lucan and others could make a hundred times more profit in the Far West by carrying silk and other items, their eyes lit up.
Qin still implements tax in kind, and suppresses domestic merchants as much as possible, but trade between countries is still necessary.
Whether it is some novelty goods from Mohist, or copper and tin from Chu State, etc., they all need a lot of money.
If this trade could be monopolized by the state, it would greatly increase the revenue of the treasury.
What the west of Yiqu looks like, they just heard about it, and Suo Lucan and others roughly said that there are tens of thousands of miles of land west of Yiqu, and there are even big countries that are not weaker than the princes of the Middle Kingdom, with a lot of gold and silver.
In the eyes of the Qin people, the west was already considered a place of bitter cold, but now after hearing this statement, they never thought that the land of the extreme west would turn out to be a place with dark willows and bright flowers after thousands of miles of bitter cold.
After Wu Qi thought about it for a while, he asked a little puzzledly: "In today's world, the warring states are in chaos, and the princes are vying for supremacy. The Mo family is far away from Sishang Huaibei. One, in the troubled times of the Warring States Period, helping others is tantamount to weakening oneself.”
"Qin changed, and the Mohists criticized it a lot. How can we help Qin?"
Shi Lang laughed loudly and said: "Trickles and trickles eventually converge into the sea. The trickle or the heart of comparison, in order to compete for the majesty. The sea will not compete, let alone jealousy because of the surging water of the river, fearing that the river will compete." Go wide."
"Since the Mohists uphold the will of heaven, they must be confident with the theory. Since the Mohists keep the will of heaven, they must be confident with the system. In the future, the world will be what the Mohists inferred. To achieve that appearance, ironware, literacy, printing, Cattle farming and gunpowder are indispensable.”
"The Mohist's heart is in the hundred generations. The Mohist's eyes are in the world. If Qin is rich, isn't the world also rich?"
"The Mohist is not helping Qin, but helping the world. It is not helping Qin Jun, but letting the people of Qin have the benefits of iron; let the culture and writing spread to the Western Regions, so that they will have the same meaning in the future."
"The power of the world is already established, and whoever decides the world must use this system. The world has no power, and using this system means that people will die and the government will rest."
"The meaning of the Mohists is that one family, one country, one surname?"
What he said was eloquent and there was no cunning. The faces of the rebels showed shame. Today, they know that the Mo family is changing the general trend of the world, but he has been unable to participate in this wave.
Wu Qi knew that the Mohist people were self-confident and arrogant, and they had a kind of fanaticism in the will of heaven they believed in, and they were fanatical in promoting it to the world in the past.
What Shi Shi said made Wu Qi feel a little ashamed.
Under the brilliance, compared with the ambitions of the Mohists, there is a world of difference between my own ambitions.The world will change, not to mention whether what the Mohists said is really what they said, but this kind of bearing has already shamed many heroes.
However, feeling ashamed, Wu Qi suddenly thought of something, stood up and saluted, and said: "The heart of the Mohists is indeed like the sun and the moon. However, if this trade route is established, the goods that can be sold at a profit are nothing more than glass, silk, pearls, jade, etc. Wait, the land of Qin is changing, and men farming and women weaving can be used for their own use. The Mohist lures the Qin people to expand westward, so the silk workshops and glass workshops in Sishang are the only ones who will benefit from it?"
Shiqi asked, "Can't the people of Qin resell it for profit?"
Wu Qi was speechless, so he could only say: "I can make a profit, but it's just a resale profit."
Shi asked again: "Can't all parts of the Central Plains benefit from the unimpeded Silk Road?"
Wu Qi said again: "It is indeed beneficial."
Shi smiled and said: "Righteousness and benefit. Everyone in the world can benefit. This is a righteous act. Why don't the Mohists support it?"
Wu Qi asked again: "Then the Mohists criticized the changes in the Qin land..."
Shi spread his hands and said: "A cow, the coat color is black, I can say that this cow is ugly. But because of this, do I think the meat of this cow is ugly?"
"The Mohists are powerless to change the Qin land, so they can only criticize it. However, Qin's actions that are beneficial to the world cannot be considered wrong just because of these mistakes."
"If you take a closer look, what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong."
Wu Qi suddenly figured out something, and asked: "If you look at the heroes of the Mohist school, if I enter the Qin Dynasty, open up the Silk Road in the Western Regions, and create grammar and spread the text, so that the east and the west can communicate with each other, I will be considered a great success. Good for the world?"
"If I were in Qin and took one hundred thousand soldiers to Xihe and sent them to Nanzheng, in the eyes of the Mohists, it would be an unjust war and an act of harming the world?"
"Whether the heroes of this world are right or wrong, is it up to the Mohists to decide from now on?"
Shi smiled and said: "It's not known yet. It's just that Zhongni is doing the Spring and Autumn Period and discussing it in terms of propriety. If the Mohists are doing history, they must discuss it in terms of righteousness and benefit to the world."
"The great talent of the public is known all over the world, and I, the Mohists, have heard a lot about it. This time when I entered Qin, the Qin land is thousands of miles away from Sishang, and there is a danger of praise valley from Nanzheng. How is the Qin land? I don’t have much to do with the Mo family.”
"But it's different when it comes to benefiting the world. The changes in the Qin land are both good and bad. The Mohists praise Shiqing's fields and open fields and well fields."
"Now that iron tools have been produced, the benefits of farming are far better than nomadism. Even though the people of Yiqu are still tribes and keep slaves, if the people of Qin can make Yiqu change customs and make it closer to the will of heaven, it will be of great benefit to the world."
"Besides, the middle land is rich. If the Qiangs in the Western Regions are still farming by slash-and-burn, and they have nothing to gain but looting, then we must find a way to prevent this from happening. Treating the symptoms and changing the customs is the root cause. This is the righteousness. Why don't the Mohists support it? "
After saying this, Shi looked at Wu Qi and said: "There are great talents in the public, but time does not forgive people. When you are close to Jiazi, you have great ambitions, but there is no time."
"The military soldiers of Xihe were trained by the Lord with one hand. If he attacked Xihe with his own soldiers, how could he bear it? Besides, although there have been changes in Qin, the strength of the military soldiers may not be able to win in ten years."
"Nanzheng in the Kingdom of Shu is run by the Mohists, and it is getting richer and richer. It is difficult to praise the valley, and it is difficult to operate. The Mohism is good at guarding, and the world knows it. If you don't raise a large army, Nanzheng can't go down. If you raise a large army, the difficulty of transporting the food and grass needed is also needless to mention. Han and Wei are looking at the wolf in the east of the river again, how can the Lord of Qin be willing to gain Nanzheng and lose Luoshui?"
"If you want to have ambitions, you don't want to benefit the world, and you don't want to be evaluated by my Mohists, so you have to expand westward and build a city."
"If you open up thousands of miles, you will follow the government of the Central Plains, the same as the words of the Mohists, granting land to divide the people, and dividing the land to weaken the world. Let the things of the Central Plains flow into the Western Regions, and let the gold and silver from the extreme west flow into the Central Plains, so that they can be seen. , everyone gets their own benefits, this is the big ambition, the big ambition.”
"Ten years will make things happen. When future generations talk about the benefits of the world, they will never forget your contribution of Wu Qi to empty the Western Regions."
Although Wu Qi was touched by these words, but from the mouth of the Mo family, Wu Qi still felt that something was wrong.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked: "I heard that the Mohists are not attacking and stopping the war...how can you be suspected of instigating war?"
Shi shook his head and said: "The Mohist's non-aggression and cessation of war is just an interpretation taken out of context. Zi Mozi once asked: To attack an unrighteous country by setting it up, to encourage the people to fight, and not to encourage the people to fight. How much merit is there for a fighter who advances alone?"
"Suppose attacking an unjust country, punishing an unjust king, and cutting down an unjust act, the Mohists should not only support them, but also strive to be the first to be the ones who drum the crowd into battle."
"The battle between the righteous and the unjust, the righteous king and the unjust king, the righteous deeds and the unrighteous king, Zi Mozi said, I have the will of heaven like a craftsman has rules, and there are three signs and three troubles."
"Enabling the world to be rich, the people to be prosperous, and political affairs to be governed are the three manifestations of the meaning of evaluation."
"The people cannot eat when they are hungry, cannot have clothes when they are cold, and cannot rest from their labors. These are the three problems that define injustice."
"Three appearances and three troubles are the Mohists' rules of support and opposition. As for the definition of the world's riches, the Mohists also have a saying. Those who conform to it must be supported, and those who do not conform to it must be opposed. That's why Solucan had to argue that day. The land It is not the only way to increase the total wealth of the world."
"The Mohists do not abide by rituals, but only follow the rules of the will of heaven. Although there are injustices in Qin's reform, there are also actions of righteousness. Yiqu Xiqiang, neither willing to take the initiative to belong to the Central Plains in order to carry out the Central Plains' politics, in order to conform to the If the theory of a happy land in the Iron Age changes actively, it is naturally unjust. The injustice should be punished, changing customs, disseminating words, recruiting officials, and enforcing written laws are of course supported by the Mohists."
(End of this chapter)
Seeing that the people of Qin didn't answer, he said, "Solucan came back from the far west. He learned and heard along the way, and knew that he could make a profit from trade. Zimozi once said in "Jiebuan" that there is a country of justice in the west of Qin. When a relative dies, he gathers firewood and burns it, and smokes it, which is called Dengxia'. The customs are quite different from those in the Central Plains."
"This time Suo Lucan came back, traveled to Linhu Loufan, and returned to Central China via Zhaodi. I heard that it was Qin and Yiqu who started the war."
"If you don't talk about benefiting the common people, you can talk about benefiting Qin Jun. In my opinion, Qin Jun's benefits and public ambitions lie in the west and not in the east."
Yiqu is an ancient country that has existed since the Shang Dynasty. Over the years, it has been in contact with the Qin State, and it has begun to shift from nomadic to farming. This is a major stumbling block for Qin's expansion in the west.
There are rumors in later generations that the place where the Yellow Emperor sat down with Qibo to discuss medicine is also the hometown of Qihuang, which is the capital of Yiqu today.
After occupying the land of Longdong, according to Suo Lucan's knowledge, the Yiqu has already turned to farming and learned to build a city.
In a battle between Qin and Yiqu 20 years ago, Yiqu actually used a very formal "farming" tactic, relying on city defense to exhaust the Qin army, and then mobilized heavy troops to counterattack the Qin army under the city.
Mozi has been active in the Central Plains for a long time and has never entered Qin Dynasty, but he also knows the funeral customs of Yiqu. Yiqu is also a state with a sense of presence in the Central Plains. It is a bit similar to Jizi North Korea. Few people have been there, but Many people have heard of it.
The land occupied by Yiqu is all land that can be cultivated. Originally, Qin State did not have much advantage over Yiqu.
It's just that times have changed now. Once the Mohists give Qin the technical support for ironware, with the benefits of gunpowder and the strength of ironware, the balance of power between Qin and Yiqu will change dramatically in just a few years.
It's not that there is any great Qin complex, but considering the concept scope of the world in the future, cultural dissemination and other factors, now that the world is in chaos, it is better to take this opportunity to let Qin State assimilate Yiqu and expand westward.
Although those people in Shengchuo are rebels against Mohism, and although the changes they carried out cannot last long, one thing they used the official script of the Mohist school, compile the system, and unify the culture; of.
In terms of Mohism's morality, the world must be unified and have the same meaning.At the beginning of synonym, we must have the same text.This alone is enough to support Qin's westward expansion.
Others don't know the strength of Wei's soldiers, but Wu Qi knows it.
Although Yiqu has the ability to ride horses, after the reform, the Qin State Lianzhan Lianjie, and the rebels who came with Wu Qi also know it.
Therefore, when it was mentioned that Suo Lucan and others could make a hundred times more profit in the Far West by carrying silk and other items, their eyes lit up.
Qin still implements tax in kind, and suppresses domestic merchants as much as possible, but trade between countries is still necessary.
Whether it is some novelty goods from Mohist, or copper and tin from Chu State, etc., they all need a lot of money.
If this trade could be monopolized by the state, it would greatly increase the revenue of the treasury.
What the west of Yiqu looks like, they just heard about it, and Suo Lucan and others roughly said that there are tens of thousands of miles of land west of Yiqu, and there are even big countries that are not weaker than the princes of the Middle Kingdom, with a lot of gold and silver.
In the eyes of the Qin people, the west was already considered a place of bitter cold, but now after hearing this statement, they never thought that the land of the extreme west would turn out to be a place with dark willows and bright flowers after thousands of miles of bitter cold.
After Wu Qi thought about it for a while, he asked a little puzzledly: "In today's world, the warring states are in chaos, and the princes are vying for supremacy. The Mo family is far away from Sishang Huaibei. One, in the troubled times of the Warring States Period, helping others is tantamount to weakening oneself.”
"Qin changed, and the Mohists criticized it a lot. How can we help Qin?"
Shi Lang laughed loudly and said: "Trickles and trickles eventually converge into the sea. The trickle or the heart of comparison, in order to compete for the majesty. The sea will not compete, let alone jealousy because of the surging water of the river, fearing that the river will compete." Go wide."
"Since the Mohists uphold the will of heaven, they must be confident with the theory. Since the Mohists keep the will of heaven, they must be confident with the system. In the future, the world will be what the Mohists inferred. To achieve that appearance, ironware, literacy, printing, Cattle farming and gunpowder are indispensable.”
"The Mohist's heart is in the hundred generations. The Mohist's eyes are in the world. If Qin is rich, isn't the world also rich?"
"The Mohist is not helping Qin, but helping the world. It is not helping Qin Jun, but letting the people of Qin have the benefits of iron; let the culture and writing spread to the Western Regions, so that they will have the same meaning in the future."
"The power of the world is already established, and whoever decides the world must use this system. The world has no power, and using this system means that people will die and the government will rest."
"The meaning of the Mohists is that one family, one country, one surname?"
What he said was eloquent and there was no cunning. The faces of the rebels showed shame. Today, they know that the Mo family is changing the general trend of the world, but he has been unable to participate in this wave.
Wu Qi knew that the Mohist people were self-confident and arrogant, and they had a kind of fanaticism in the will of heaven they believed in, and they were fanatical in promoting it to the world in the past.
What Shi Shi said made Wu Qi feel a little ashamed.
Under the brilliance, compared with the ambitions of the Mohists, there is a world of difference between my own ambitions.The world will change, not to mention whether what the Mohists said is really what they said, but this kind of bearing has already shamed many heroes.
However, feeling ashamed, Wu Qi suddenly thought of something, stood up and saluted, and said: "The heart of the Mohists is indeed like the sun and the moon. However, if this trade route is established, the goods that can be sold at a profit are nothing more than glass, silk, pearls, jade, etc. Wait, the land of Qin is changing, and men farming and women weaving can be used for their own use. The Mohist lures the Qin people to expand westward, so the silk workshops and glass workshops in Sishang are the only ones who will benefit from it?"
Shiqi asked, "Can't the people of Qin resell it for profit?"
Wu Qi was speechless, so he could only say: "I can make a profit, but it's just a resale profit."
Shi asked again: "Can't all parts of the Central Plains benefit from the unimpeded Silk Road?"
Wu Qi said again: "It is indeed beneficial."
Shi smiled and said: "Righteousness and benefit. Everyone in the world can benefit. This is a righteous act. Why don't the Mohists support it?"
Wu Qi asked again: "Then the Mohists criticized the changes in the Qin land..."
Shi spread his hands and said: "A cow, the coat color is black, I can say that this cow is ugly. But because of this, do I think the meat of this cow is ugly?"
"The Mohists are powerless to change the Qin land, so they can only criticize it. However, Qin's actions that are beneficial to the world cannot be considered wrong just because of these mistakes."
"If you take a closer look, what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong."
Wu Qi suddenly figured out something, and asked: "If you look at the heroes of the Mohist school, if I enter the Qin Dynasty, open up the Silk Road in the Western Regions, and create grammar and spread the text, so that the east and the west can communicate with each other, I will be considered a great success. Good for the world?"
"If I were in Qin and took one hundred thousand soldiers to Xihe and sent them to Nanzheng, in the eyes of the Mohists, it would be an unjust war and an act of harming the world?"
"Whether the heroes of this world are right or wrong, is it up to the Mohists to decide from now on?"
Shi smiled and said: "It's not known yet. It's just that Zhongni is doing the Spring and Autumn Period and discussing it in terms of propriety. If the Mohists are doing history, they must discuss it in terms of righteousness and benefit to the world."
"The great talent of the public is known all over the world, and I, the Mohists, have heard a lot about it. This time when I entered Qin, the Qin land is thousands of miles away from Sishang, and there is a danger of praise valley from Nanzheng. How is the Qin land? I don’t have much to do with the Mo family.”
"But it's different when it comes to benefiting the world. The changes in the Qin land are both good and bad. The Mohists praise Shiqing's fields and open fields and well fields."
"Now that iron tools have been produced, the benefits of farming are far better than nomadism. Even though the people of Yiqu are still tribes and keep slaves, if the people of Qin can make Yiqu change customs and make it closer to the will of heaven, it will be of great benefit to the world."
"Besides, the middle land is rich. If the Qiangs in the Western Regions are still farming by slash-and-burn, and they have nothing to gain but looting, then we must find a way to prevent this from happening. Treating the symptoms and changing the customs is the root cause. This is the righteousness. Why don't the Mohists support it? "
After saying this, Shi looked at Wu Qi and said: "There are great talents in the public, but time does not forgive people. When you are close to Jiazi, you have great ambitions, but there is no time."
"The military soldiers of Xihe were trained by the Lord with one hand. If he attacked Xihe with his own soldiers, how could he bear it? Besides, although there have been changes in Qin, the strength of the military soldiers may not be able to win in ten years."
"Nanzheng in the Kingdom of Shu is run by the Mohists, and it is getting richer and richer. It is difficult to praise the valley, and it is difficult to operate. The Mohism is good at guarding, and the world knows it. If you don't raise a large army, Nanzheng can't go down. If you raise a large army, the difficulty of transporting the food and grass needed is also needless to mention. Han and Wei are looking at the wolf in the east of the river again, how can the Lord of Qin be willing to gain Nanzheng and lose Luoshui?"
"If you want to have ambitions, you don't want to benefit the world, and you don't want to be evaluated by my Mohists, so you have to expand westward and build a city."
"If you open up thousands of miles, you will follow the government of the Central Plains, the same as the words of the Mohists, granting land to divide the people, and dividing the land to weaken the world. Let the things of the Central Plains flow into the Western Regions, and let the gold and silver from the extreme west flow into the Central Plains, so that they can be seen. , everyone gets their own benefits, this is the big ambition, the big ambition.”
"Ten years will make things happen. When future generations talk about the benefits of the world, they will never forget your contribution of Wu Qi to empty the Western Regions."
Although Wu Qi was touched by these words, but from the mouth of the Mo family, Wu Qi still felt that something was wrong.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked: "I heard that the Mohists are not attacking and stopping the war...how can you be suspected of instigating war?"
Shi shook his head and said: "The Mohist's non-aggression and cessation of war is just an interpretation taken out of context. Zi Mozi once asked: To attack an unrighteous country by setting it up, to encourage the people to fight, and not to encourage the people to fight. How much merit is there for a fighter who advances alone?"
"Suppose attacking an unjust country, punishing an unjust king, and cutting down an unjust act, the Mohists should not only support them, but also strive to be the first to be the ones who drum the crowd into battle."
"The battle between the righteous and the unjust, the righteous king and the unjust king, the righteous deeds and the unrighteous king, Zi Mozi said, I have the will of heaven like a craftsman has rules, and there are three signs and three troubles."
"Enabling the world to be rich, the people to be prosperous, and political affairs to be governed are the three manifestations of the meaning of evaluation."
"The people cannot eat when they are hungry, cannot have clothes when they are cold, and cannot rest from their labors. These are the three problems that define injustice."
"Three appearances and three troubles are the Mohists' rules of support and opposition. As for the definition of the world's riches, the Mohists also have a saying. Those who conform to it must be supported, and those who do not conform to it must be opposed. That's why Solucan had to argue that day. The land It is not the only way to increase the total wealth of the world."
"The Mohists do not abide by rituals, but only follow the rules of the will of heaven. Although there are injustices in Qin's reform, there are also actions of righteousness. Yiqu Xiqiang, neither willing to take the initiative to belong to the Central Plains in order to carry out the Central Plains' politics, in order to conform to the If the theory of a happy land in the Iron Age changes actively, it is naturally unjust. The injustice should be punished, changing customs, disseminating words, recruiting officials, and enforcing written laws are of course supported by the Mohists."
(End of this chapter)