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Chapter 256 No longer redundant

Each of the contents discussed by the senior Mohist school leaders in the closed doors concerns tens of millions of people and the Jiuzhou of Xia.

In the great era, no one can keep themselves safe and no one can stay out of it.

The waves accumulated in detail have forced many people to integrate with this era, and they have chosen their own destiny in this magnificent era.

"If you are rich, you will be rich; if you are poor, you will be poor; if you are large, you will be numerous, and if you are few, you will be few; if you are governed, you will be governed, and if you are chaotic, you will be chaotic; if you are long, you will be long, and if you are young, you will be young... These princes and ministers use the words of fooling people. There is no such fate in this world."

"But it doesn't mean that people have no connection with the world, the times, and even the universe? As Yang Zhu and others said, people can be separate and transcendent to society? How should we understand the statement of the Yang Zhu School?"

In a room on a newly built university campus in Peiyi called Kaoxu, a Mohist was talking about the Mohist saying "Farewell" in a Si Shang dialect with a Wei and Jin accent.

The lecturer was holding a piece of gypsum pen in his hand, and there were several lines of characters on the wooden board behind it. Two maps were hung on the left and right of the wooden board. One was a rough approximation of Jiuzhou in Zhuxia. The shape of several characters was easy to recognize, but the painting was not very perfect. Next to it was a map called "Shan Hai Jing", which marked the land outside of Jiuzhou. The translation of some places was very strange. It was translated by Solusan after returning from his journey to the west.

Ximen Teng, who had been in Si for the first half of the year, stopped the pen that was copying these contents in his hand. Many ink-colored horizontal and vertical characters were left on the slightly yellowed paper.

In the past six months since I came to Sishang from Yecheng, I have no life of eating with bells and tripods, and no entertainment with hunting, but Ximen Teng feels very fulfilled and happy.

People who don’t know what they want have no happiness or pain.

When the Mohist morality began to spread in Ye, Ximen Teng always felt that he was the redundant person in the world: they were worms in the Mohist moral economic system.

They have received a good education and are dissatisfied with reality, but don't know what to do.

They think they have the responsibility and ambition to support the world and save the people, but they cannot do it.

After reading some books, they were full of sympathy for the people, but found that their sympathy was lonely in the environment in which they lived.

They are melancholy and confused, and need something to fill the emptiness after they have received a good education and are full.

But now, all this no longer exists. He has found his belonging, found himself, and found a dream.

The Mohist school attached great importance to education, and Ximen Ting had known this for a long time, but he did not expect to pay attention to this level.

After he arrived at Si Shang, he was soon arranged to be in the preparatory class. Most of the classmates in the class were from Wei, Han and Zhao, with similar accents. Half were children of the declining nobles, and a small number were concubines of the great nobles like him.

A university called "子子子 is still being built and used as it is built. Many people are attracted by the Mohist school's nine-day-long-date learning, but it is very difficult for them, such as outsiders, to get the "子子子子.

The order is divided into two subjects of liberal arts and science. Solu Chan, who returned from his journey west, serves as the chief of liberal arts, and the chief of science is the best among the disciples he brought when he visited Chu.

These foreign children of down-and-out nobles or grand nobles have indeed received good education, but the education they received cannot be completely in line with the education of the Si Shang Mo family. Some things are even worse than some children in primary schools, and it is difficult for them to pass the science subject in the order.

The Si Shang Mohist school's strictness in education is extremely special: everyone only has one chance in their life.

The Mohist explanation is: This may indeed miss many talented people, but it ensures fairness to more people. If you can take the exam indefinitely, then the children of wealthy families will always have more advantages than children from poor families, and may also lead to a family focusing all their energy on one child so that the rest of their brothers and sisters suffer. After all, full-time study is still extremely expensive at this time.

Those who fail the exam will most likely be arranged to be in some special schools, either to learn craftsman skills, or to be a school teacher in Huaibei.

Ximen Tsu originally wanted to learn science in Tianzhizhong, but only after coming to Si Shang, he knew what he had learned. It was incomparable to Si Shang, a peer who had received a complete set of education since childhood: those people were discussing the high content of mercury in the management of Ching Lin, and he couldn't understand it at all.

And after he came, he had a very injured experience: after the end of the Battle of Nanjishui, the Mohist family recruited a large number of students from Xiliu Military Academy and Surveying and Mapping Department to Qi to help measure the land. At that time, Si Shang was in high spirits, and young people who took the initiative to register were lined up. However, they were directly beaten back when they signed up because they didn't understand.

Ximen Li felt that these people in Si Shang seemed a little discriminated against, not only discriminating against their aristocratic status, but also discriminating against them in ignorance... But in fact, Ximen Li felt that he had worked hard before, but he had learned a lot of things that he had learned, but Si Shang couldn't use them at all.

After a brief confusion, he finally had a dream again, which was to be admitted to the Preface Liberal Arts Department, and follow some disciples brought back by Solusan to the west to learn Persian and Greek, as well as some Mandarin. He hoped that one day he would be able to travel thousands of miles west like Solusan and dig out the Western Regions.

If the times were not as magnificent as the times, Ximen Teng would not think that he was a redundant person, nor would he be ridiculed for the use of the things he learned.

He spent many years practicing driving and shooting archery in the car, which were the six arts elsewhere, but this was not as important as those artillery school students who had studied geometric figures for several years. Even the chariot organization had almost been cancelled.

He spent many years learning etiquette and learning how to eat, but the chopsticks in the Mo family in Si Shang rarely use knife and fork. Even some ink people who were originally from aristocratic origins didn't care about the etiquette that chopsticks were not allowed to be used without vegetables.

He followed his father to learn how to command wars, but the things he learned were incompatible with the military system of Si Shang.

Originally, without the Mohist school, everything he learned would be useful and would be proud of.

Today, the preparatory teacher talked about fate, but he thought about something and realized something.

When he was in Yecheng, he fantasized about what the Mohist school would learn, and he also guessed whether the Mohist school would be the first thing he did after entering was to instill concepts such as equality.

But he didn't expect that when he entered the preparatory class, he actually learned "history".

Who are we? Where did Zhuxia come from? How did people live during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in the ancient times? Why did there be abdication at that time? Was it inevitable that the Qi family in the world? What happened to the alternation of Shang and Zhou dynasties? The genealogy between the princes traced back to the ancient Yanhuang period. Was it a family?

As a child of a noble family, Ximen Tsui has certainly studied history.

But it was the first time he had come into contact with such a cold perspective to look at history.

The Mohist school is undestined, but these historical books are using another perspective to explain a kind of "destiny" or "heavenly aspiration".

In such historical works, there are no strange phenomena from the sky, no flowers from the snow, some are just "the difference between the country and the country, armed colonization" that is extremely cold; some are just "the combination of bronze, bones, stones and tools are used together, and the most reasonable way to maintain the rule of the nobles is to dare to punish private matters after the official duties."

Here, rites became something created by princes and nobles to maintain the system, rather than something that is unchanging and difficult to change from all directions.

Here, from Tao following nature to the emergence of the country to the excessive selection system to the hereditary system, it is just a tortuous necessity.

When it comes to allusions, few young people who have accepted the Si Shang School since childhood are Ximen Tsu. When talking about one or two allusions, these people will be confused.

As for the analysis of history beyond allusions, the young people who have accepted the Si Shang School since childhood have a wider vision than the noble child of Ximen Li.

Today, when Ximen Tsubasa heard his husband talk about "unfaithfulness", he thought of his own destiny and what the Mohist schools thought was inevitable, he couldn't help but feel a little confused.

If there is a necessity, then is this necessity fate?

Is accidents beyond necessity considered a kind of fate?

Are fate in "non-destiny" and fate in "non-destiny" the same kind of fate?

Immersed in this empty thought, Ximen Teng did not hear the sound of the copper bell outside at all. He played with the brush in his hand until someone patted his shoulder.

"Hey, your father has entered the newspaper."

A sentence pulled Ximen Tsui back from his thoughts. The classmate next to him handed the newspaper to him and circulated it on the "news" that was already a little black, and there was a line of eye-catching titles.

"The siege of Handan is about to be resolved, and the Mohist school urges Wei and Zhao to enter into a peace agreement to resolve the suffering of the people's soldiers"

The title does not have the name of his father Ximen Bao, but the content is naturally inseparable from the name of Ximen Bao, the commander of the Wei army surrounded by Handan.

The articles in this newspaper are mainly divided into four parts.

First, Zhao Gongzizhang sent people to Gaoliu and swear with the people of Gaoliu: granting the land to the people, giving the people autonomy, asking the people to send troops to defeat Zhao Gongzichao and Wei, who launched an unjust war, and narrating the content of the oath.

Then he talked about the swearing of Qu General and the people, going south to defeat the main force of Que and Jun and Gongzi Dynasty, and was advancing towards Handan.

Then he evaluated Ximen Bao, affirmed his behavior of benefiting the world from his water management and water conservancy construction, and criticized him for being loyal to the Marquis of Wei and participating in the unjust war.

Finally, I talked about the situation facing Wei State now. The restoration of Zhongshan State has been a foregone conclusion, and the failure of the prince’s decision is irreversible. It means that the siege of Handan is about to be lifted, and the withdrawal of Wei State has become inevitable.

Ximen Teng raised his head and saw many classmates looking for the place names in the newspaper in the map facing the wooden board.

He lowered his head, thinking of the scenes he advised his father not to obey the unjust battle, and he didn't know what to think.

After thinking for a long time, he picked up his pen on a brand new piece of paper and wrote a very simple letter of home in the local text of the State of Wei, telling his longing, telling his family affection, and telling his own happiness.

As for those righteousness and injustice, he did not mention a single word.

He thought that his father was already in a state of great anxiety. How could his understanding of righteousness compare to the mouthpieces of the Mohist school? It’s better not to say it or not to say it…
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