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Chapter 258 The public opinion of the nobles, business and government (2)

Shangqiucheng was also very busy when discussing the first candidates for the common people's college.

On the one hand, we must build momentum for the autonomy of Pei County, and on the other hand, we are also leading public opinion and preparing to reach a relatively peaceful first Inquiry Council meeting.

You cannot ask too much to be irreconcilable, thus cutting off the opportunity for people to learn and grow.

We cannot ask for too little, so that the people's armed organizations have not yet obtained enough benefits to disappoint the people in such a good form.

In addition, people were also called on to prepare wood and make wheel ink trucks to transport grain from Pei County and support Shangqiu to survive the years of unreconcilable life.

He has experience in all these things and can be considered to be able to plan them together. After Mozi discussed with the senior Mohist leaders, he naturally asked Shi to be responsible for these things.

Now his reputation is already well-known in Shangqiu. He is no longer the son of that little shoemaker, but a Mohist radical who can incite and call on the people.

When he was busy, in order not to divert the attention of the nobles and monarchs, the Mo family came up with the third article to mediate disputes, which is the promise of the dead in the chaos.

The Mohist school opposed grand burials and always wanted to be buried in festivals, but this kind of requirement for burials is only valid for internal Mohist school.

It is impossible for ordinary people to have the opportunity to have a grand funeral, so there is no need to tell too much, because property has deprived them of the opportunity to have a grand funeral, so there is no need for the Mohist family to "deprive" their "power to have a grand funeral".

The funerals of the nobles and scholars were not Mozhe, and because of Gongsun Ze's request before his death, this grand funeral was inevitable.

The story of the King of Chu who was so thin, was to give the king a leading role. Since the King of Chu was so thin, and the palace was mostly starved to death, the Duke of Qi was so purple, and Linzi was so purple, then Mozi seemed to have a good burial of the king, then there would be many burials below.

As the saying goes, the upper and lower effects are effective. Mozi mentioned the story of Duke Wen of Jin who likes coarse cloth clothes, so many ministers also wear coarse cloth clothes. This is still useful for changing customs.

However, now the Mohist school has gradually had political purposes and is no longer a simple academic group. This time the funeral ceremony has a different meaning.

The Mo family understood that this was to delay time and divert the attention of the king and nobles, so that they could not face many changes in the city.

Confucian scholars can preside over funerals, and Confucian scholars are originally priests.

Although there are many rebellious scholars and many full-time priests in the Mohist school, it is impossible to preside over the burial theory because of the theory of burial.

Mo Zi also knew the real purpose of this incident, but he was finally suspicious and asked, "Will this be the promotion of the burial of a grand funeral?"

Some disciples also replied: "Gianzi, even if we don't do it, will they not be buried with a grand burial? Our rules are not the rules of the world after all. All of this is made for the sake of our rules becoming the rules of the world in the future. The disciples think there is nothing wrong with it."

Mo Zi also knew it, but still sighed: "Shi once said that filial piety is in the heart but not in the action. People have no filial sons when it comes to doing things. This principle is correct, but if the world's burials are booming, wouldn't everyone in the world pursue this trend?"

"Now that I have mastered the Tianzhi, it seems that the people's wealth will be more and more. So those who were not able to have a strong burial will also be buried. This is even more so for those who were able to have a strong burial."

"What's the use of these wealth buried underground in vain?"

"If everyone in the world thinks that a grand funeral is right, how can more people join the Mo family? This matter still needs to be considered for the pros and cons of our future."

Seeing that the disciples were still talking, Mo Zi waved his hand and said, "I know, I know. After all, we do not participate in this matter. The monarch and nobles also want to bury those scholars. We must conquer everyone's hearts and not make people dissatisfied."

"Now that the coup has failed, the death of those people has no meaning: they have changed nothing and died of unfaith. In this case, if they do not have funerals, they are afraid that the scholars will be dissatisfied."

He sighed and said, "When will the people of the world know that burying these wealth into the ground for nothing is something that the Emperor of Heaven doesn't like? It is also a bad benefit to the world?"

After sighing, I thought that I was old and aging, but the rules of the world have only changed a little, and it was a bit of a flaw in the end.

In the city, under the persuasion of many parties, a funeral was held in such a complicated and complicated way to bridge the conflict between the nobles and the monarchs on the surface.

Every time you get a little more time for the right time to promote something.

Gongsun Ze's body was wrapped in lime and still smelled slightly.

This gentleman who longed for his death before he died, did not want to see everything he didn't want to see. He died before the chaotic times of the Warring States Period, so he still smiled before his death.

In a large house in the city, there were many taxis who died in the coup. Many of them responded to Gongsun Ze's call and came to rescue Gongsong on their own.

Those who were not dead at that time were not killed for violating the ban on defending the city of the Mo family, but many people committed suicide and became a taxi that kept their promises.

Did these people die for Song Gong, which also made Song Gong understand what he could rely on or Zhou Li: because he was Song Gong, these people died without hesitation, not because he was Zitian.

How many people in Shangqiu City can be sacrificial?

Zitian didn't know, but he knew that these people who could be martyred were the power he could rely on.

Just like the feelings his predecessors made when they fled abroad: When they were the king in the palace, the soldiers praised the monarch for their bravery, and the close ministers praised the monarch for their beauty, but few of them actually accompanied him to escape.

Nowadays, the people are unreliable, let alone the nobles. Zitian knew that he had to make a good attitude: to safeguard Zhou Li, that is to protect himself.

In the room filled with the slight odor of the corpse, Gongsun Ze's body had been washed, and the rotten blue-purple wounds were carefully sewn.

A new quilt covered Gongsun Ze's body. This quilt was about the money of a farmer from a farmer in the field for a year.

The Confucian scholar who was responsible for summoning the soul wore a solid-colored garment, with his top and lower garment connected together, and inserted his neck between the belt to fix it.

When the time came, he walked out of the house, climbed up the eaves on the east side from the ladder, stood in the middle of the ridge, and took out a set of wardrobes.

Facing the north side, he shouted loudly: "Hey! Gongsun Ze is back!"

After shouting for three consecutive times, he threw the waving obedience down from the roof. The person below carried the suitcase, found the right position to catch it, and then carried the suitcase into the house and covered Gongsun Ze first.

The Confucian scholar who was responsible for summoning the soul walked from the roof to the west and climbed down from the eaves to the west, which was considered to have completed the first ritual of summoning the soul.

The Mozhe, who was watching the other side, was secretly dissatisfied and thought that this new quilt was only a year before a farmer could accumulate it, so would it be buried?

Furthermore, those clothes are not cheap clothes. Wouldn't they be good for the poor people in Shangqiu?

What they thought was just how to benefit the world and was incompatible with these etiquettes.

The original formal ceremony, in the eyes of these Momen, was indescribable. They had accepted the view of Mozi Jiezhan and rejected this complicated etiquette from the bottom of their hearts.

After the wardrobe was covered, another person in charge of the sacrifice used a horny ritual vessel to pry Gongsun Ze's upper and lower teeth, and then fixed his legs with a short table. On it, it placed a lot of dried meat, meat sauce and sweet wine according to the identity and specifications of the scholar.

This fee was all paid by the nobles who participated in the coup at that time, but in the final analysis, these things were obtained from their fiefdoms, or the income from using the fiefdom's wealth to reclaim interest.

The closest person in Gongsun Ze's family stood on the east side of the west stairs, facing south, and instructed a person to report the deceased.

"Gongsun Ze died, please inform the king to repay the death."

After repeated salutes, the person who reported the deceased received the thanks, got up and left, and informed Mr. Song who had already known him that this was a process that must be completed.

A curtain began to be laid in the hall as a mourning hall.

After sending someone to report the death, Gongsun Ze's closest family entered the house and sat in the east of the corpse bed. His brothers and cousins ​​all stood behind the person facing west.

The wife and concubine who are the mourning sit facing east and west of the bed. The father, brother, sister and sister of the deceased are in the inner room. The relatives outside the five robes are the woman sitting outdoors and the man stands north under the hall.

Gongsun Ze's attendants were also qualified to stand north under the hall, and the ones wearing their belts were the mourning clothes that disciples should use.

Mr. Song, who had already known the news, immediately sent someone to pay his condolences after completing the procedure and receiving the report of the death.

Given that the status of a scholar is too low, it is impossible for the duke to go to pay his respects in person, so he must send someone.

Even if many people died in that accident, Mr. Song could not send people at the same time. Instead, he had to wait in the palace for one person to report the demise. After receiving the news, he sent people to pay his respects to the condolences one by one.

Not only Duke Song, but also those nobles who participated in the coup also needed to perform such rituals.

Those sent by Gong Song to pay their respects must arrive first, and then the people sent by the nobles to pay their respects will arrive. This has been practiced and is in order.

When the mourning person arrives, the curtain is immediately removed, and the mourning person will go out to welcome the monarch's messenger, but cannot cry.

After the ceremony, the mourning person first entered the door and stood on the right and faced north. The monarch's messenger came in from the west and faced east.

Then, according to the whole set of rules, a few words of the monarch's grief and other words, the person who is mourning will start to cry and must cry.

Not only do you have to cry, but you also have to kneel on the ground and cry. When you cry, you have to bow your head.

After buckled his head, he immediately got up, patted his chest, and cried loudly. This is called crying. At this time, even the throat that must be crying cannot speak normally to express his grief.

After crying, the messenger who was mourning left, and the mourning man immediately stood up, calmed his cry, sent him out of the door, and then worshiped him again.

Nobles like doctors need to be present in person, but at this time there is no need to go out to greet them, but just greet them directly inside.

Crying still requires crying, but you must not bend your chest and cry hard at this time. That is a crying method that can only be used by the messenger who receives the king...

All of this took nearly half a day, and this was just the beginning.

Because of the special nature of this incident, although Mr. Song was unable to come to pay his respects as soon as possible due to his identity, he could send a car to come and give him some items such as clothes after the condolences.

The person who is in a mourning position should expose his left arm and welcome the king, and then let the king sit in the house and touch Gongsun Ze's chest, and the rest avoid it.

After the chest is touched, the person who is the Lord's mourning is summoned to enter, and then the person who is the Lord's mourning is ordered to touch the body. The person who is the Lord's mourning cannot touch the chest because that is a place where the king can touch...

Such cumbersome etiquettes have many death taxis, and in order to conquer the hearts of the people and maintain their own etiquette,

These dead taxis bought about five days for Shiduo. Gongsun Ze, who had been obsessed with Shi before his death, also used his body to the extreme and asked someone to tell Mr. Song about his words before his death and his call, forcing Mr. Song to spend a lot of time to come in person.

All these cumbersome and ritualistic etiquettes were presided over by Confucian scholars. In the eyes of the Mohist people, this cumbersomeness was extremely ridiculous, but secretly happy - time, the time that the Mohist family lacked the most was won by these corpses.
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