Chapter 279 Final Chapter (End)(1/2)
The Qin people sighed at the top of the hills, and no one disturbed them.
Not long after, there were a few more clouds in the spring sky, and then a cold rain fell.
The followers took out the oil-paper umbrella and opened it, asking Wei Yang if he wanted to go back to the carriage.
At this moment, a sound of running came from the distance of the hill, sometimes mixed with the vibrant shouts unique to young people.
The youthful and energetic sound passed through the wet rain, as if the world soaked in the rain was shaken by these energetic sounds.
The few people running in the front were exposed and shirtless.
The spring rain is still a little cool, but these people seem to enjoy the feeling of running in the rain.
The people in this group look not old, the older ones are only less than thirty years old, and the younger ones are only twenty-one or two years old.
In addition to those who were running shirtless, there were a few people who were dressed very special, wearing straw sandals, short brown clothes, and shaving the hair of the workshop workers. But it was obvious that these young people were not workshop workers. If they were working, they would have time to come to such places.
The person dressed in this style is either a radical self-defeating faction within the Mohist school, or a truly equal faction divided by the peasant family.
After running to the top of the hill, these people only looked at Wei Yang a few times, but didn't look much.
A tall young man running shirtless in the rain said: "Kong Zhongni said that quality is better than literature, then it is wild; literary quality is better than quality, then history, then it is gentleman. What is gentleman? I think it means being civilized and being savage, and only this can be considered a gentleman."
"Only shirtless in the rain, swimming in the cold winter, climbing mountains and swimming in the river, and reading history books and learning principles can be said to be gentle and kind."
"I once heard that Solusan traveled west in the past and saw a mountain called Olympus in the extreme west. Every four years, he held a competition for his physical fitness. There were also people in the country who were well-versed in poetry and calligraphy, but they were similar to the gentlemen in the Middle Land. It can be seen that there were also gentlemen in the extreme west, which was no different from the Central Plains."
"Civilized spirit can tell how to benefit the world. A barbaric body may hold a gun and hold a sword to benefit the world. Being gentle and kind is one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, the other is righteous."
Kong Zhongni was Modi's lifelong enemy, and he admired and opposed it. In addition, when the Mo family rose in Si, Confucius's legitimate grandson was still there, and Wei Yang knew that when he was studying when he was a child, the general Gou Bian of the Wei Kingdom was recommended to Wei Jun by Confucius' legitimate grandson.
Time has not passed too far. Of course, Wei Yang had also heard the saying "Cijing Binbin", but he did not expect that only a few decades have been given to these young people another new meaning of "Civilized, civilized, savage, and qualitative".
So he glanced at the young men curiously. The young men chatted for a few more words, and the shirtless men put on their clothes first and saluted and paid silence to the monument together.
After a moment of silence, the young people sat down next to them by a wooden chair, but did not talk about the young people's favorite romantic love, but they opened their mouths to the world.
A young man wearing short brown straw sandals said: "The world has been settled for twelve years. In my opinion, it is still far away from the paradise. I think that if you want to reach the real paradise, you need to constantly change. Old contradictions are resolved, and new contradictions arise again. Nothing is everlasting."
"It is said that the world has been decided, but now it seems that this is not the case."
"You just talk about the silk weaver gathering at the Sanglin Society last year. For those silk weavers, they weaved the best silk in the world and sold it in the Western Regions and the South China Sea, but they themselves could not afford to wear such silk."
“Is this reasonable?”
"For these weavers, they sent the nobles underground, but fell into exploitation by the workshop owners."
"Twelve years ago, the benefits of the world did not benefit everyone. The most profitable were the merchants and workshop owners. For the people, the results produced by blood and sweat flowed into the warehouse of a small group of hateful purses."
"What did those people do back then? The Emperor of Zhou failed to borrow money and forced them to pay taxes. But the overall situation of the Battle of Shangqiu was settled, and they didn't dare to launch an uprising to capture the almost empty Zhou Palace. They were useless and had no martial ethics. Now they are enjoying their success."
Wei Yang, who was eavesdropping on the side, heard about the incident of the Sanglin Society and demanded a hike of the minimum wage. As a result, he was suppressed by cavalrymen from the village community farmers, and hundreds of people were exiled to the South China Sea "in accordance with the law".
There are factions within the Mohist school and they have always existed, but they can be suppressed because of the prestige of giants.
Since the peasant family was criticized for fantasy, they have also begun to explore the origin of human inequality. They have divided different factions, just like the Confucian six-point period back then.
After a series of economic policies were introduced that year, Zhu Xia seemed to be united but divided into new classes, which led to the spread of various thoughts.
The world, which was originally divided by the territory enfeoffed by the Zhou emperor, is now divided by classes.
Land is privately owned, allowing for buying and selling. With the support of new technologies, the profits of capital profits increase, and the speed of mergers also presents an unprecedented picture.
More and more people have lost their land and entered cities to work to make a living, while the suffering under steam, coal and iron is worse than the situation when they were self-cultivated farmers.
After the young man wearing short brown and straw sandals said this, someone objected and said, "In my opinion, this is not a problem."
"Shizi said that the paradise cannot be built in one day, and I think these sufferings are inevitable processes."
"So, according to me, we young people should do more practical things and talk less morality. As long as the machinery develops in the future, Tianzhi knows that a mu of land can produce 500 kilograms of grain, and a person can produce cloth worn by one hundred people a day, then we can be called a paradise at that time."
"Now, these are all processes that must be gone through. These suffering people are just the fertilizer that is necessary to achieve the paradise."
"Besides, isn't it much better now than before? How much has the total wealth of the world increased in twenty years? It's something that has not been able to catch up in the past hundreds of years."
"Mo Zi said that there are three forms of pros and cons in the world to rely on. Isn't the total wealth of the world one of the three forms?"
"If we are really determined to benefit the world, we should not ask about politics or morality, but do our best to do our best."
"Shizi said that he is subjective and self-interested, objective and altruistic. Just like the person who improved the spinning machine a few years ago, he may not be willing to benefit the world. He did that just to make money, but in the end, the cotton cloth in the world is cheaper, and more people wear cotton cloth, right?"
When he said less about morality and more practical things, there were many fans, and several people agreed: "It's like this. Since it is impossible to overcome it, I think our generation should not interfere with morality, but do more practical things, explore the ambition of heaven, and improve machinery. This is the right way to benefit the great ambition of the world."
The man said again: "Now is the best time. As long as you work smartly, you can achieve fame and wealth. At least there is no distinction between people, and they are equal."
"But if it is true equality, how is that possible? People are originally different. Some are born stupid, and some are born smart, so there will naturally be a gap between rich and poor, which is also true."
"The right child says, "The fittest will survive, and the fittest will survive. In fact, the same is true for people. Those who work are either lazy or stupid, while those who are rich must be diligent and smart. This is the truth of the world and cannot be changed. If people act against the law and have to be truly equal, it will definitely not work."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone next to him sneered: "Your grandfather was just a bamboo craftsman back then. At that time, there was a difference between high and low. A gentleman was proficient in the six arts, but your grandfather couldn't even recognize a word."
"According to what you say, the fittest will survive. Then your grandfather deserved to be a bamboo craftsman for the rest of his life. Why should he rise up and create a rebellion for the nobles?"
The man blushed and cursed: "Don't involve his family and ancestors!"
The man who scolded him stood up and said, "I not only scold you, but also beat you! You are not worthy of talking about benefiting the world!"
Some of the people who did more practical things without talking about morality stood up and said, "What are you worthy of? Do you think you deserve it?"
The two sides had a disagreement, but they were really gentle and savage, and they were about to fight together.
Wei Yang, who was already preparing to leave, saw these people fighting when they had disagreements, and thought that this was really a bit like the world when he was young. At that time, he fought and fought when he had disagreements in the market and killed people and fled, which was common.
However, these people did not fight in the end. The grandson of the bamboo craftsman may have been defeated in momentum, or he did not dare to take action when he saw many people. Finally, he said: "Then what is the root cause of the difficulty of equality in the world?"
The young man wearing short brown straw sandals was silent for a while and finally said: "Private ownership. Private ownership is the origin of inequality among people in the world."
"You also know that the letter Solusan wrote to Shizi before he died of illness was later made public, saying that the truth became clearer and clearer as the more he argued. So, since the power of the nobles cannot be hereditary, why can the machinery and land accumulate in wealth be hereditary?"
"You said that there is a gap between people in intelligence and physical fitness. I believe that... Is the gap between a large workshop owner with thousands of weavers in terms of intelligence and physical fitness, which is not as good as the gap between people and dogs raised in wealthy families?"
"Dogs and pigs eat people but don't know how to be frugal. Do you think the gap between people will be as big as the gap between people and dogs?"
His words were too radical at this time, and nearly half of his partners said, "You are too left-handed! You are going to eliminate the property you earn and the property you get from your own labor, and to eliminate all the property that constitutes the basis of personal freedom, activity and independence."
"On the basis of equality of everyone, wealth comes from labor, and everyone's wealth is not caused by the strong wind in the sky, but by individuals earning and own labor!"
"Subjective self-interest, objective and altruistic. I work hard to get wealth. Even if I don't have the heart to benefit the world, our father runs a workshop, feeds hundreds of hired workers, and manufactures thousands of clothes, cotton and ironware. Is there anything wrong with this?"
The man wearing short brown straw sandals sneered: "What a job you get, what you earn, what you earn yourself!"
"Are you talking about the property of the big workshop owners, the kind of individual craftsmen and small farmers who used to appear before the big merchants? That property does not need us to eliminate it. The development of the times has eliminated it, and it is being eliminated every day."
"Or where do you think those who go to the workshop to work come from? How did those big landowners who have acquired tens of thousands of acres of land for land mergers get so much land?"
"Isn't it because of the use of machines and coal and iron steam that the little craftsmen cannot compete for the machine workshop and go bankrupt? Isn't it because the small piece of personal land cannot withstand the disasters of nature and market?"
"How can we say that we are going to destroy them? It is obvious that they are being eliminated by the private ownership of our fans. What does it have to do with us?"
"We don't need to destroy it. One day, most people in the world will have nothing. There is no land, no machinery, no assets."
People from both sides are still arguing and are about to start a fight.
Just then, a sound of horse hooves came from afar.
The rider on the horse's back held a copper bell in his hand, shaking while running. A white mourning cloth floated on the rider's head and his body was covered in white.
Such a copper ringtone has not sounded in Si Shang for twenty years. The last time it sounded was the last time it was the mobilization before the war. Moreover, the rider who sent the order that time was wearing black clothes and would never wear a solemn mourning dress.
Both young men on both sides of the argument stood up and looked into the distance.
From a distance, the rider's hoarse shout came.
"Shizi died of illness in Pengcheng yesterday!"
"Shizi died of illness in Pengcheng yesterday!"
Wei Yang, who had been listening to the young people's arguments, was stunned.
After a long time, he faced the southeast and murmured: "Our era... has passed."
He and Shi were not of the same generation. When Shi became famous, he had just been born.
But he always felt that he and Shi were people from the same era.
In their time, Wei Yang felt that it was a time of great struggle, and who would the world belong to? The wind and clouds were surging, each showing its ability, and the purpose seemed to be to end this chaotic world for the whole world.
If there is a winner, there will be a loser.
The winner is called the emperor, and the loser goes to the Western Regions. It seems that this is what it is.
He looked at the young people in the distance who were still arguing and were already speechless at this time, thinking about the topic they had just argued, and murmured: "Our era... has passed."
In a time of great struggle, the era of princes competing for power has passed.
The world has been united.
But as the young people said just now, the old contradictions disappeared and new contradictions emerged. Fifty years of changes and the slightly violent means in the next twenty years made the Jiuzhou and Xia no longer have the possibility of aristocrats restoring their country.
The world is united, and there is no possibility of recurrence.
But is the end of history when the world returns to the same end?
The world changes constantly, the stars change, and life is nothing more than dust.
To be continued...