"Whether it is a charcoal or a icing, it is all for others. But we have to identify who to give it. Look, the Guo clan didn't recognize it, so what's the result now?"

This will affect the situation in the late Warring States Period. The family that relies on merchants to surrender to the nobles and eventually entered the court is gone. It is now gone. It is not that everyone is dead, but that there is no influence anymore.

An old man among the merchants sighed and said, "The fate of Guo's family has long been destined. He chose the wrong choice not because he defected to Gongzi Chao, but because he came from the Mo family to Handan Iron and Iron Working with him and his father disagreed. Even if he chose the wrong choice, he died sooner or later, or even if he died, they were all done."

"This child Guo Zong just wants to have a last try. Once the young master wins his family, he can turn over. But think about it, why did he fight like this? Originally, whether it was Liehou or Wugong, did the Guo family need to fight? They just need to wait until the new marquis succeeds to the throne and presents a gift. It is the Mo family that forced him to the point where he must fight."

He stretched out his right hand, pinched his little finger with his thumb and said, "The Mo family's capital is. If you take out your finger, you can crush us to death. If you don't find a noble status, just go to business, don't mess with the Mo family."

With a clear experience in front of you, how can these people not believe it?

Zhao State is still good, after all, it is farther away from Si Shang.

Some local handicrafts and local merchants have been seriously affected by those closer to Si Shang. They have no choice: either become a "comprador" or invest money in Si Shang, or they can only go bankrupt or even have no debts.

After this battle, the local iron smelting industry in Zhao State had been completely destroyed by the Mo family, leaving only the iron smelting industry controlled by the Mo family, because the negotiations with Gongzizhang also involved iron smelting franchise, and even the franchise rights in various regions had been divided and the profits were distributed to some merchants who supported the Mo family.

With suppression and dumping, and collusion between inside and outside, the newly sprouted iron smelting industry in Zhao State had no place to turn around. The destruction of the Guo clan also means that the iron smelting industry in Zhao, which is related to people's livelihood and military, was strangled to death by the local merchants of Zhao State.

It is precisely the previous suppression of those uncooperative industrialists and businessmen that made the merchants in Handan see a reality: either cooperate with the Mo family or wait for destruction.

But they may not be forced.

"Even if it is helping or icing, it is someone else's business. Even if the Mo family itself does not have that much money to kill us. Apart from all this, we should support the Mo family, or support the Mo family."

"The Mohist school said that righteousness and profit are also true. Different classes have different benefits, so there are different righteousness."

"You guys say, is the Mo family good?

Everyone didn't say anything, and the man smiled and said, "If you don't say anything, I will say it. The Mohist family's righteousness is definitely not the best for us."

"Because the Mohist righteousness is the righteousness of the world after the concessions between the peasants, industry and commerce make concessions, but not the complete righteousness of merchants. The Mohist saying that the head tax seems to be the most fair, but in fact it is the most unfair, and that the merchant tax is required to collect the commercial tax, all show that their righteousness is not the best righteousness of our merchants."

"The best thing for us businessmen is to not collect commercial taxes. All land in the world belongs to public money. When we collect public will and make laws, we should share the public opinion according to how much money we have..."

The wonderful future he described made many people present unable to help but nod and praise, but they thought that after all, they could only help in time or add icing on the cake. They, who were regarded as "weak" by the Mohist school, have no power to dominate a world where "righteousness" is the righteousness of merchants.

After sighing, the man said, "But compared to the righteousness of princes and nobles, I think it is better for the Mo family. One is poison wine, and the other is urine in the wine. Now we are in the desert, so we can only choose one, and I can only choose one with urine in the wine."

As he said, he pulled out a "news" that had been passed here not long ago. His wrist trembled and the paper was shaking, and he thought, "After all, the Mo family is closer to us than those princes and nobles. Not to mention that they are all bitches, just look at the contents of this newspaper and know that the Mo family is still reliable."

Every month, newspapers printed by the Mohist family will spread to the great city. The merchants have read too much, but they don’t know which newspaper they are.

The person next to him looked at him curiously and couldn't help but say wonderingly: "This is from three months ago. On Si Shang, that must be from five or six months ago."

Everyone was not surprised by the man who had said that he would let the "National Lord" not be poured into the water. Instead, they felt that it was natural that they could not be mixed in, that is, to prevent the franchise from being taken back by Zhao Hou one day.

As for the fact that one day, the Zhao Hou had a conflict with the Mo family, these merchants had already understood which side they should stand on: of course, it was the side where they benefited. As long as the price given by Zhao Hou was high enough, it seemed that Zhao Hou could not give enough price.

Moreover, the princes and nobles are tigers. Now the Mo family seems to be a tiger who eats meat but is very disciplined and distributes the meat residue to others. Only when two tigers fight can they stand in a team. If there is a tiger and a cat, there is no need to think about it: compared with profit, life is more important.

However, what is the attitude of the Mo family and what will happen in the future? This requires careful consideration.

I thought that some new statements and attitudes of the Mohist school were seen in the newspaper, but I didn’t expect it to be a few months ago, and everyone present was suspicious.

After reading the date, several people glanced at the contents of the newspaper again. One of them couldn't help but smile and said, "Hey, which one is it? It turns out to be this one?"

"Isn't this just spreading to this place? We all say that the people in Si really don't do serious business. The fact that the people made such a big deal is so big. After several months of discussion, the discussion first made it clear what is a father, a mother, a husband and a wife, and a child..."

When they talked about this, the merchants present burst into laughter.

The people in the Mo family are talented, but they are still in the same school, so some things inevitably make these businessmen feel a little ridiculous.

When it came to mention this, many people remembered the newspaper and laughed.

Before the outbreak of the Qi-Mo War, the Mo family gathered the public as a law. The content of the discussion at the beginning would occasionally make these merchants reading newspapers cheer up, and it would inevitably lead to some discussions, such as abolishing the five punishments, hanging, halving, and dismembering the five horses.

But unexpectedly, after a few months, a lot of jokes were made, especially after the Mohist people began to dominate this time, the jokes were even more.

After more than half a year, it was finally confirmed that when I started writing the voting method, the initial content was a bunch of nonsense that sounded useless and even a bit ridiculous.

For example, the definition of what is support and what is support.

For example, what is parents and relatives?

For example, what is a child and a husband and wife?

And finally, the most important thing, such as what is human being.

After the newspapers printed with these contents were circulated to Handan, many people thought it was ridiculous that it was really ridiculous for a group of people to make these things after more than a month of work.

As a school of exoteric studies, the Mohist school led the revision of the law, which began by telling everyone what a father, son, and wife is, which is indeed difficult for many people to accept.

Now that I think back on this newspaper, the merchants present still couldn't help laughing, and it was difficult to understand how the content in it could be seen that the Mohist school was reliable.

After laughing, the merchant who attached great importance to this, he said in a deep voice: "In this Dharma, there are self, parents, relatives, children, and hired workers and servants. But there are no kings, lords, and patriarchs. The Mo family said that there is no difference between old and young people under the Emperor of Heaven. Everyone is equal. Under everyone's equality, some relationships can exist, and some relationships themselves do not exist under the righteousness of Si."

"I have committed sins, not my son's sin. The sins of my son are committed by my son's sin, not my son's sin."

"I have a son. If I don't raise me, I will be guilty, but I will give all my money and property to my son, and no one will take care of it...including my property after I have committed the crime."

"The content that the group of people in Si Shang talked about for more than a month is not ridiculous. People are people, just people. I am me, I have parents, children and relatives, but I am still me."

"I can know one thing without looking at the following content. There is no such thing as the Yi tribe in the Dharma on Si Shang. Because tribes are tribes, people are people, I am me, and my parents and wives are themselves."

"Because I am me, my son is my son, I am my son's father, but I am first human, then me, and finally my son's father. My son is my son, but he is first human, then himself, and finally my son."

"Same, if you look at it this way, in the case of the Chamber of Commerce, I am me, and then a member of the Chamber of Commerce. I have committed a crime. You are both members of the Chamber of Commerce. Are you guilty?"

"If this chamber of commerce is in Si, if something really happens, the guilt is only the people who have chosen to formulate how the chamber of commerce will do, and we are still myself, and our money is still our own money."

He thought in his mind about the legal provisions on the Si Shang's law, why did he first come up with the relationship between people, and also thought out some connections of the law on the Si Shang's law through some subsequent contents. But after all, he was not the one who studied debate within the Mohist school, so it was difficult to explain the essence of it to the people around him in a simple and easy way.

After explaining it in a daze, the merchants who had laughed at seemed to smell a trace of it. In the Mohist law, the bearers were all humans, not anything other than humans: family, father-son relationship, husband-wife relationship, etc. - those are just relationships, not people, and they do not apply to law, so there is no way to punish them.

The Mo family not only wanted to make the people of the world the world, but also to break up the family, family, and even fiefdoms into individual people. The law on Si can only govern people, but not anything other than people. In other words, the corresponding subject of the law on Si is based on people who "there is no difference between old and young and noble under the Emperor of Heaven, and all the noble and humble are equal", rather than a family that has no ability to bear it in front of the law.

It is not that the Mohist school does not recognize the existence of a family, whether it admits it or not, but humans are like red and green to color to law; while the family is like north and south to color. North and south exist, and red and green also exists, but in front of color, only red and green are meaningful.

Since there is a separate thing for human beings, what must a person have to be punished: life, health, free activity, wealth, property... Corresponding to it is death penalty, imprisonment, imprisonment, forced labor, fines, and confiscation.

Only when people have life, health, free movement, wealth, property, etc. can they be sentenced to death, imprisonment, imprisonment, forced labor, fines, and confiscation.
Chapter completed!