Mencius had not yet become a talent, the Jixia Academy had not yet been established, the theory of the Five Elements and Five Virtues had not yet been integrated, and Mo Di had not yet passed away.

At this time, Confucianism and Mohism fought each other, and the Mohism had a comprehensive advantage, and they basically won the verbal tricks between Confucian scholars.

When Mo Di and Cheng Zi, Gong Mengzi and other Confucian scholars debated, Gao Zi had not yet joined the Mo family, but they must have heard of those stories long ago.

After hearing what Mozi said, Gaozi was a little puzzled and asked: "Mr. Is it not understandable that the disciple said this. Does Mr. think that this person can debate with Confucian scholars and win? If Mr. thinks that, then I can also debate with Confucian scholars and win. So I am not inferior to that person."

Mo Zi smiled and shook his head and said, "Say, you can debate the victory of Confucian scholars. But can you debate the victory of the farmers on the edge of the field?"

Gaozi's face changed, and he felt that Mo Zi was insulting himself, and said seriously: "I cannot accept what sir. The farmer next to the ridge of the field is dull and argues with them, just like who flies higher than the cicadas on the tree. You say this, it will not make the swan proud, but will make the swan feel that it is an insult. Shouldn't swans fly higher than the eagle and falcon?"

Mo Zi smiled at the sky and stopped laughing for a long time and said, "If a swan does not fly to the height of a tree, it is not that it cannot fly, but that it does not want to fly. The cicadas cannot fly to the point where they can bathe in the clouds, it is not that it does not want to fly, it cannot fly."

"You should think carefully about what I said when Cheng Zi and Gong Mengzi argued with me. If you still can't understand, then you are not smart anymore."

Seeing that Mo Zi was talking solemnly, Gaozi lowered his head and thought, recalling the debate he had heard countless times, and also recalling the personalities of those who argued with Mo Zi, gradually savoring a little bit.

Gong Mengzi likes to use metaphorical stories to reason, while Cheng Zi doesn't like telling stories to be metaphorical. Instead, he likes to use a scattered paradigm to overwhelm the other party.

Gong Mengzi is slightly lower in level than Cheng Zi, and has a slightly more market-friendly taste; Cheng Zi is a gentleman who is a gentleman who attaches great importance to legitimacy and is extremely self-controlled.

Before Gong Mengzi came to debate, he sighed that Mo Zi was living too hard and was running around every day.

Mozi said: People nowadays like to pursue beauty; even if beautiful women don’t go out, those who pursue them will squeeze out the door at home. People nowadays don’t like to pursue righteousness and kindness, so righteousness and kindness cannot be waited for others to come to ask for it at home, but need to go out and spread it themselves. Yiheshan is not a beauty, but an ugly woman.

There are only two solutions to the problem. Either let the world change the view of beauty and ugliness, then the ugly woman will become a beauty, just sit at home and wait for others to come and ask for it; or if the world does not change the view of beauty and ugliness, the ugly woman will have to go out to pursue others by herself.

After hearing this, Cheng Zi, who came with Gong Mengzi, felt that Mo Zi's words were vulgar and were like a metaphor for the market. He mocked Mo Zi's words for being too secular and could not imitate the great principles spoken by the previous kings and saints.

Mo Zi immediately became arrogant and no longer vulgar. He directly developed the four principles of chasing Confucian scholars to disrupt the world. He used Cheng Zi's favorite parallelism sentence pattern. Cheng Zi looked ashamed and got up and left.

As a result, Cheng Zi was scolded by Mo Zi as soon as he got together, and then knelt down and said helplessly: You are slandering Confucianism, I can't talk to you anymore.

But Mozi said: If not, I said, this is called slander. If there is, I will tell you, it is just a statement of the facts.

Cheng Zi was speechless and said that Mo Zi was not unified before and after his words, both vulgar and lecturer-making, both civil and saintly king, which is ridiculous.

However, Mozi believed that being able to answer with common words is reasonable, which shows that this person is very good at knowing. When the other party argues sternly, I will definitely respond to the enemy. When the other party gives in, I will definitely respond to the words slowly. If the words of socializing must be reasonable, it will be like holding the shaft of a carriage and knocking on a moth.

In other words, people of different levels should use different languages ​​to reason.

At this moment, Mo Zi was still happy when he saw that Gao Zi was still thinking and seeing that some expressions of enlightenment appeared on his face.

At his age, he was no longer angry with a person like Gaozi as he was when he was young and energetic. All he wanted to do was to find more advantages of this person and find ways to guide him to the path of righteousness.

Among the Mo people, there are many speculative people who want to become officials. At least the initial purpose is that there are many such people.

But Mozi believed that people could change, and he could completely persuade these people to change.

However, it is believed that these people can be educated, but they still have to find ways to make them both righteous and satisfy their desires, and at the same time have sufficient constraints. He knew that there were too few idealists in the world and needed a large number of speculators in it, otherwise they would not be able to do anything and could easily become a strange ascetic community.

There was silence around. Most of the disciples sitting on the left and right had already understood Mozi's truth and why Mozi chose to be the first person, Xuanyi radical.

However, Mo Zi did not speak immediately, but just waited quietly, and only spoke when Gao Zi finally nodded.

"I believe that you can debate with Confucian scholars and win. However, when you talk to farmers and craftsmen in the fields, you are just as reasonable as you debate with Confucian scholars. It is not that the reason you are talking about is wrong, but that others may not be able to understand the reason you are talking about."

"Are you not justifying the truth and preaching the notes to make others understand? Doing righteousness is to benefit the world, and enduring hardship is also to benefit the world. But if you take ending hardship as your goal, it is wrong."

"You are reasoning with the farmer on the ridge of the field and using the words of debate with Confucian scholars. Isn't it exactly what I said, "Boil the moth and hit the moth"? You are holding the shaft of the car to slap the moth, and you may not be able to slap the moth with a reed broom. Are you trying to lift the shaft of the shaft? Or are you not as good as a woman? It's not that you are not good at slap the moth."

Mozi naturally used the words in "The Encouragement of Learning", which divided many kinds of situations that were not good at lie in things. He also said that what Mozi said about "the lotus roots and the moths" also belonged to being not good at lie in things.

Gaozi lowered his head and said nothing.

Mozi felt that after explaining the truth, he needed to make people like Gaozi understand their standards appropriately, so as not to be too proud and arrogant, and to appropriately undermine this person's confidence.

He said seriously: "Besides, there are fifty-four people who debate with Confucian scholars, Yang Zhu, Lie Yuko and others. Do you think you are better than fifty-four in this matter?"

Bian Fifty-four is considered to be the first whistleblower of the Mo family after the death of those disciples of the quarrel. Gaozi has always admired him. After hearing what Mozi said, he was not angry, but only convinced and knew.

As Mozi said, saying that nothing is an insult, slander, slander, and saying that something is just a statement of facts.

After a while, Gaozi knelt down and bowed his head and said, "I understand what sir said. It seems that it is indeed more suitable for being the Xuanyi radical than me."

Mo Zi nodded with relief, asked Gaozi to get up, and said to the disciple who was sitting next to him: "I once said that people are nothing but old and young, noble and humble, and they are all ministers of heaven. If you are capable, you will be exempted; if you are incompetent, you will be exempted. Although you are young, you can be competent for such responsibilities. There is nothing to be confused about."

"Give him a position and power, not to reward him, but to make him do things. This is what I have always believed in as an official, and the purpose is to benefit the world and accomplish things. If you take official positions as a reward, then you are not the real Moscow."

The disciples saluted one after another and said, "Sir, we have recorded the matters of Xuanyi Department. We also think that it is competent for the power he has, and the power he has deserves."

Gaozi, who had already believed, once again felt a little passion and jealousy when he heard the word "power".

Because the power of the Xuanyi Ministry seems to be a bit great.

With the emergence of grass and silk, the articles that promoted the meaning of the Ink master have been spread to the capitals of various countries, and they have been spread quickly with the help of shops, craftsmen associations, etc. that were laid out there a year ago.

At the beginning of the establishment of Xuanyi Department, four subordinate departments were established.

It is called a traffic officer, a farmer official, a craftsman official, and a school student official.

The word "traffic" is not the most familiar meaning of traffic, but is taken from the "Book of Changes, Tai Gua": Heaven and earth communicate with each other, and all things communicate with each other, and their ambitions are the same.

This hexagram can lead to two vocabulary: transportation and comrades.

The transportation here means that the heaven and earth are connected, and the whole country is connected, and the upper and lower parts are the same, and the one and the other is the same.

Transport officials are established in the capitals of various countries, relying on the sales departments of craftsmen's associations, shops, and novelties to carry out activities in various countries.

In various capitals and cities, the meaning of the Mo people widely communicated, spreading many theories produced in Peiyi. At the same time, some secret Mo people need to develop, but the ultimate responsibility for this matter is the secretary, but it is suitable for both positions and can be used to play.

The two departments of farmer and craftsman are exactly what they mean. One is for farmers and the other is for craftsmen.

The school student officials are completely in charge of the ideological work of Peiguo Township School, and instilling some ideas from an early age, so that those children who are learning and growing up in the township schools believe in the meaning of "Everyone is equal".

If we count it, the department under the jurisdiction of the Fifty-fourth defense department could be incorporated into the Xuanyi Department and become a special subordinate, responsible for the exchanges with the nobles and various schools.

However, the Mozhe initially took the upper-level route. Even if he tried to change it, the idea of ​​the upper-level route was deeply rooted. Therefore, a person like the Defence Fifty-four, who is specifically responsible for theoretical propaganda and debate, is a special department.

In Gaozi's opinion, the propaganda of craftsmen and farmers was just that. He was not good at it and did not think it was of great significance.

However, the subordinate department of the Transportation Officer made Gaozi's eyes scared.

Much of the Mozhe's income comes from the big cities and towns of other countries, and the Mozhe organizations there basically only have two or three departments to deal with the most, and it is obvious that the Xuanyi Department will deal with the most in the future.

Therefore, this is a great power facing the world, and farmer craftsmen are only in Pei County. Moreover, some positions within Pei County are only within one county, which is much worse than the traffic officials of the subordinate departments of Xuanyi Department spread throughout the world.

Moreover, the amount of money required every year is also quite large, and the amount of gold that the Xuanyi Ministry can spend is so much that it makes the face of Jiatong in the city look like earth.

Gaozi was naturally a little jealous.

But he didn't know that what he was jealous of was not the things he cared about the most, the most complacent, and the most joyful thing he cared about.

In the eyes of the situation, he got what he wanted most before Mozi passed away: the right to interpret ideologically.

If it is now, it is the right to explain issues such as heavenly ambition, righteousness, benefit the world, the world, legal power, benevolence and righteousness, profit and justice, cognitive theory, etc.

For the Mohist school, which has synonyms with the upper and lower levels, this is the most important thing.

Mo Zi is alive, and this position seems meaningless, it seems to be just a sound tube.
Chapter completed!