Chapter 158: The world is the most important
If I am a nobleman, I am high above, I have compassion. I will care for the serfs on my fief. This is my virtue, and this is a virtue that can be praised and praised for hundreds of miles.
But if it is equal, if it is both loving and caring for equal people under an equal status, it will not work at all.
These nobles naturally heard the stories of Nie Zheng. For example, before Nie Zheng went to Yan Zhongzi's help, he had promised to be Yan Zhongzi's friend.
In addition to the hundred gold medals from Yan Zhongzi, the most important point is Yan Zhongzi's identity: as a noble noble of a country, visiting a lowly person in the market is a great virtue, and it is a great respect, and it can be used to make the scholars die for him: inequality is natural, and under such natural circumstances, the great nobles actually come to visit him. What a glory is this, and this should be used to die for him.
But if it is really equal, it is hard to say: everyone is equal. I, Nie Zheng, have all the skills and are chivalrous and righteous. You, Yan Zhongzi, are not incompatible with me, and are not a hero. Why do I treat you as a friend? A hundred gold is enough for me to work hard?
Without the unequal world that has been passed down for hundreds of years, there would be no story about Nie Zhengxu being Yan Zhongziyou. The key to this story is not the hundred gold coins, but the difference in identity between Yan Zhongzi and Nie Zheng. If it is equal, then this is a vulgar story of an hired killer worth hundreds of gold. With Nie Zheng's character, he will definitely not work hard for this hundred gold coins. On the premise that equality is natural, Yan Zhongzi has no possibility of becoming friends with Nie Zheng.
Extending, many things are the same.
There is a difference between high and low, and doctors care for the common people, that is virtue.
The world is equal, and those who govern one party are accomplished for the benefit of the world. Then caring for the people is an obligation.
The Mohist school will make the world unvirtuous, which is the consensus of the nobles.
In terms of the land system, the Mohist family smashed the materially superior foundation of the nobles.
He also wanted to use equality and love these things to smash the spiritual superiority and supremacy of the nobles.
This is something they cannot agree to anyway.
Unlike the rumors that the nobles were concerned about, the rumors that the soldiers who were forced to be brought to Wucheng were naturally concerned about their vital interests.
For example, some soldiers heard that their hometowns were divided into land, but they did not ignore them because they were summoned to follow the nobles to Wucheng.
For example, some soldiers heard that the Mo family won a great victory in the battle between the Nanjishui River, and the Qi people might have to leave, and they might be forced to be taken away from Fei Guo and marched to Linzi with them and abandoned their family and parents.
For example, some soldiers heard that the land they had originally reclaimed in their families was not moved at all, and the Mo family just allocated the fiefs of the nobles and turned the original fiefs into civilians.
For example, some soldiers heard that their brothers enthusiastically participated in the charity army of Fei State because they had divided the land. Even if they could not fight, they would choose to transport food and grass...
Anyway, even if the Mo family conquered Wucheng and hanged the nobles, they would not hang them. They did not care about the news that the nobles were concerned about.
So after the news of the Battle of Nanji River came, dozens of soldiers from their hometowns fled over the wall every day.
The scale of this escape has grown with the growing growth of news that it would be followed by the Qi people to withdraw back to Linzi, and it is no longer possible to stop it.
Killing a chicken to warn monkeys is common. Military orders are strictly enforced, but they cannot hinder this storm of escape.
On the walls of Wucheng, a patrolling nobleman walked by worriedly, his face very ugly.
News came yesterday that the Mo family distributed his fiefdom, but there was no gentleman on his fiefdom, saying that these lands should not belong to him and refused to accept them.
In his opinion, a gentleman may not be a nobleman, but a spirit and temperament, and a gentleman should be respected. He should not be his own, so he cannot ask for it. He should not think about it, and he should never ask for it if others give it. In this way, even a commoner can be a gentleman.
My fiefdom was given to me by the king. All the lands in the world were kings. If they were placed in one country, the lands of a country belonged to the princes.
The king distributed the land to himself, which was his own. The common farmers and subordinates on his fief did not refuse these things that did not belong to them at all, and just accepted them happily.
This made the noble very sad. He felt that he was guarding his territory and educating the people. Even if everyone was not a gentleman, and he would not pick up any remains or close his doors, at least a few people would be able to stand up.
At least, there should be at least a few people. When the Mohist family distributed the land vouchers to them, they should refuse and told the Mohist family righteously: This is not my thing, I can't ask for it!
But none of them.
At least he didn't hear that, because he caught a detailed work of conveying messages in the city yesterday. After careful inquiry, everything went smoothly in the south. There was no large-scale public resistance and rebuked that this was a situation that did not belong to his own land and did not accept it.
The rumors in the past few days are very unfavorable to the situation. This is also because he is worried. He may have to follow the Qi people to retreat to Linzi.
Although his wife, parents and children are around him, it means that he will give up the sacrifices of his ancestors and fall to Qidi who can sacrifice his ancestors?
I am also kind in the fiefdom, but will anyone remember his kindness and take the initiative to sacrifice his ancestors for those common people like villains?
While I was depressed, I suddenly heard someone shouting near the city wall: "Gentleman! Save me!"
He turned around and saw more than 30 people tied up on the city wall, shouting that the man was kneeling on the ground and screaming loudly.
Needless to ask, the nobles also knew that these people must be soldiers who were caught after fleeing. Now the laws are strict, and anyone who fled will be killed and hung their heads on the city wall to warn others.
Now dozens of heads have been hung on the city wall, but some people are still afraid of death and want to escape.
He shouted at that person, and the nobleman had a vague impression that it was a family on his fiefdom. When he was hunting that year, the wheels broke and it rained heavily, so he rested at the man's home.
These arrested people will be executed unless someone pleads for mercy. When the nobles heard the man screaming miserably, they couldn't help but feel compassion, thinking about the love of sheltering from the rain back then.
He was a gentleman with affection and righteousness, so he walked over and the man tied up immediately asked for help. However, the nobleman sighed and asked, "Aren't I a kind gentleman? Am I a good person on weekdays?"
The man tied up was stunned and nodded, "A gentleman and kind, please save me!"
The nobles lamented and said, "Every spring day, I take the lead in planting, one for praying for God to make good weather, and the other for letting me know the hardships of farmers."
"I only use you in the slack farming period when I need labor, and I have never asked you to build a house during the slack farming period."
"After the winter festival every year, I will divide some wine and drinks with you, and sometimes I will take out some meat from my warehouse for you to eat and use after the winter festival."
"I have done well enough. There are very few gentlemen who are as kind as me within a hundred miles."
"Now, the Mo family is unrighteous and is in a mess. I am in trouble. Do you have no gratitude and follow me?"
"I don't want to talk about the military, but I only talk about friendship. Is it really a matter of etiquette that cannot be inferior to common people? Can't we talk about etiquette with you? Can't we expect you to be gentlemen?"
"A lowly person really cannot have moral character."
The man tied up was furious when he heard this and said, "A gentleman is kind, I beg you to save me. But you can't say that a lowly person like us has no moral character. Wouldn't a lowly person be angry?"
"Yes, after the winter festival, you will give us some wine and sometimes some meat. But... if you don't have crops or fruits, where did your wine and meat come from?"
"That's our thing!"
"So, you can say that I violated military orders, but you can't say that people like us have no moral character. It's like you went to a market and gave a merchant a copper coin, but you wanted to move all his cloth away. The things you gave us are not enough for us to follow you."
The nobleman said furiously: "How can you believe such heresy? Why do you have to do with those things? What is the reason for this? Apart from the evil sayings of the Mo family, how can it make sense? But the reason for the Mo family is wrong."
"The emperor grants the title of princes, the princes grants the title of the doctor, and the officials grant the title of the officials. The common people return to the land and pay tribute. This is the truth in the world. Why do you say that those things belong to you?"
"A person like you is a villain. You cannot talk about righteousness with you, you can only talk about profit with you. A little bit of profit will make you forget righteousness."
The nobleman looked angry and shouted, "If you say, you are homesick. If you say you have parents and wives at home. If you say you are worried about the people in your family, I can save you and forgive your death sentence."
"But you have been bewitched by the evil sayings of the Mo family. I cannot accept this to respond to me with such a reason. The world will be in chaos, and it is necessary to purify people's hearts and educate the common people. You are obviously unable to be educated and die."
After saying that, he left without looking back, and a scream came from behind, and he did not look back.
Shaking his head in the wind, he said to himself: "The world is about to be in chaos, and the world is about to perish. If you want to save the world, you may really have to eradicate those who have had contact with the Mo family. Their theory can cause trouble to the world."
"It's like the willow trees by the river, sprouting from the roots everywhere. If you want to completely eradicate it, it's not enough to just cut off the willow trees. You have to dig out the roots and burn them, and even bake the nearby soil with a fire for three days, so that you can get rid of the hidden catkins in it."
"Although it may also barbecue those plants that are not catkins, it is necessary to get rid of willow trees. Otherwise, those willow trees will take root everywhere, so where can they be cured?"
"The world is the most important thing, and the world is the most important thing. To be able to safeguard the world, you should use these methods, and this is the great benevolence."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the location of Pengcheng, Peiyi, Sishui, southwest, and thought to himself: "If one day in the future, the princes of the world wake up and attack Sishui, they will slaughter the people of Pei and Peng. From Huling to Xiapi, from the East Sea to Peize, they should not stay and slaughter them all."
"Leave land, not people. Only by moving the people from all over the country can we eliminate the evil sayings of chaos in the world."
"Although this matter is brutal, it is also for the people of the world. If the Mo family does not eliminate it, the world will be in chaos for a long time, and the casualties will be even worse. If the people who are infected by evil sayings do not kill them, they must pass these evil sayings to other places, and the world will still be in chaos. Only by killing them all is for the great benevolence and righteousness of the world."
"I also have compassion, but I have the heart of the world. The world is the most important, and the world is the most important."
Chapter completed!