At this moment, a handsome Confucian scholar about thirty years old took the initiative to stand up and pushed away the at a loss on the stage. He first bowed to Gaozi very gentlemanly.

This is the first time since the debate on such etiquette.

Gaozi hurriedly replied the gift, feeling proud, and thought that he was not afraid of many people coming again.

The Confucian scholar looked at Gaozi and said, "Just like gunpowder, it can be used to dig ditches or make guns and cannons."

"We all know the debate on human nature, not about the truth or falsehood, but how to make the world stable."

"The reason you think human nature is like that is because your way to make the world stable requires human nature to be like this. It just happens to be true."

"And the reason why we think human nature is like that is not necessarily true that we Confucian scholars said is just to make the world stable."

"Human nature is used to stabilize the world. Human nature is not used to seek the truth."

"In order to stabilize the world, what does it matter if human nature is inherently good and not truth?"

"If people are born with high and low levels, this is true, then everyone is born with equality, that is false."

"But, within Si Shang, the young people believe that everyone should be equal, and that everyone equality is what you call an unchangeable ambition."

"Beyond Si Shang, from Shang Tang to this time, there is a difference between high and low, and people have always believed that people should really have a difference between high and low."

"The two are contrary to each other. If one is true, then one must be false."

"Can it be true to spread to the world? In Si Shang and outside Si Shang, one is true and one is false, or all is false, but people inside and outside Si Shang will believe in this truth and one is false or all is false. For the common people, they only know what we teach."

“Is it important to be true or false?”

"The important thing is to make the world stable, and to make the world no longer have the act of leading beasts to eat people. Your Mo family pursues the so-called unchangeable ambition, have you ever thought how many people in the world will die because of you?"

With a word, Gaozi's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his originally proud expression immediately restrained.

The helplessness in my heart and the mentality that seemed to be talking to the child was suddenly alert, and I was a little excited.

Just a few words, Gaozi already felt that the other party was powerful, completely different from those people just now.

But the Confucian scholars in the audience have already cursed: "Traitor!"

"Get down!"

"You are not a Confucian scholar at all!"

"Get out! Bitch!"

"What they said is fake, there is a difference between high and low, this is destiny. You actually say that they may be true? You traitor!"

"Shameless!"

Facing the abuse, the Confucian scholar was unmoved.

Gaozi didn't scold him in his heart, but he just vaguely did not underestimate the person opposite him.

The Confucian scholar stared at Gaozi and said, "Your heavenly ambition can be used to study all things in the world, but not people. Because your heavenly ambition requires verification to judge the authenticity, but if the world is used to verify, countless people will need to die."

"So when it comes to the issue of human nature, even if you are talking about the truth, you cannot let the people of the world know it."

"You and I know that the Master was not the one who created Confucianism. Zhou Gong made rituals, and the Master just systemized the entire Confucianism, just like your deity that Mozi's doctrine of benefiting the world can be completed in a self-consistent cycle."

"The Zhou Li is a sword. When the rituals collapse and music are broken, they have already rotten."

"It was the Master who systematically formed this sword and cast a mold so that everyone in the world could cast this sword himself. He knew what it should look like and why it should be like that. In the future, the world will also have a way to melt the Zhou Li era in this way."

"The world is in chaos, and there are many deaths and injuries. The only thing Master can see is that before the rituals collapse and music is destroyed, the world will be stable. Then, this proves that only when the rituals collapse and music are destroyed, the world will be stable."

"Why should we restrain ourselves and return to courtesy?"

"Because the Master knows that human nature. However, everyone wants so much, the better. There are only so many things in the world. How can this satisfy everyone?"

"That is why we must restrain ourselves and restore etiquette so that everyone's behavior, food, clothing, housing and transportation are in line with etiquette and law."

"The root cause is that there are only so many food and cloths that can be produced in the world, but human desires are endless. Therefore, etiquette and law must be stipulated, self-restrained and rituals must be restored, and hierarchical systems must be established, so that people in the world can live within the hierarchical levels, so that the world's property can be distributed according to the hierarchical system and needs it according to the hierarchical system."

"This can make the world stable."

The Confucian scholars below shouted: "Get down!"

"This is not the case with Master!"

"You don't believe it at all. Why do you say you are a Confucian scholar?"

"Restraining oneself and restoring rituals is the Master's ambition, but it is not what you think. Get out of your mind! You are not a real Confucian scholar!"

"What did you think of your Master?"

"Get down!"

Scolding sounds are everywhere.

The Confucian scholar was still unmoved.

Gaozi felt even more excited and nervous, and sweat faintly emerged from his palms.

After a long debate, there was no one who could argue. Gaozi was quite disdainful.

What this Confucian scholar, or the Confucian scholar who was called a "traitor", finally made Gaozi excited from the depressedness of disdain.

According to the Confucian scholars' understanding, benevolence and righteousness, self-restraint and self-restraint and ritual are not like this.

It is because people should restrain themselves and return to rituals, so they should restrain themselves and return to rituals.

But this Confucian scholar expressed the origin, at least in Gaozi's view, this is the origin, and in the Confucian scholar's view, this is the so-called origin of rebellion, which forced Gaozi to deal with the Confucian scholars on the other side carefully.

"You Mohist family says that everyone is equal, so what is equality?"

"I want to be equal to my master."

"The farmers in the fiefdom want to be equal to the doctor."

"Doctor Baili wants to be equal to Qianli Shangqing."

"Qianli Shangqing wants to be equal to the king of Wanli."

"What is your Mo family advocating about the art of reasoning? Have you never thought that such a world would be in chaos?"

"How can doctor Baili be equal to Qianli Shangqing?"

"If you have a fiefdom of hundreds of miles, you want a fiefdom of thousands of miles. The fiefdoms are not equal. How can people be equal?"

The pursuit of equality is a major crime of the Mohist school.

This is not only true at this time, but in the hundreds of years that followed, equality is a sin.

Just like everything that Shi Shi was instilled since childhood, he may not know why people are equal and why they have to be equal, nor how they argue that people should be equal.

But everything he accepted since childhood was that equality was a natural concept.

However, at this time, equality is a sin.

Sin is unforgivable.

Hundred and fifty years later, one of the crimes given to the Mo family among the twelve sons in the world was equality.

The so-called: "The superior function is great frugality and despicable, which is not enough to distinguish between the different monarchs and ministers; however, the reason why they maintain it, the truth of their words is enough to deceive the foolish people. They are the disciples of Mo Di."

Han Feizi believed that he advocated utilitarianism and practicality, valued frugality and looked down on the difference in ranks, and did not even allow distinctions and differences between people and the world, nor did he allow a huge difference between the monarch and the ministers; but they made arguments with evidence, and they explained the arguments in an orderly manner, which was enough to deceive and deceive the ignorant people. Modi was such a person.

Among them, the Mohist family has two crimes.

One is to advocate utilitarianism and practicality, which means that Han Feizi believes that the Mohist school is too utilitarian and criticizes the Mohist school as utilitarian.

The Mohist school has to accept this "crime".

Originally, the Mohist school had to accept this "crime", especially the morality before joining the Mohist school, which was very utilitarian.

Utilitarianism is divided into narrow and broad senses.

Utilitarianism in a narrow sense is reflected in the word "power" in the Mohist school. It is utilitarianism in a narrow sense, which is to weigh the pros and cons, take the big benefits and make the small benefits.

In a broad sense, utilitarianism is an ideology that believes that human nature is to avoid suffering and seek happiness, and human behavior is dominated by utilitarianism. Pursuing utilitarianism is to pursue happiness; and for society or government, pursuing the greatest happiness of the most people is a basic function.

Why did Mohist people die for the benefit of the world? Because the Mohist morality at the beginning believed that making most people happy is the most meaningful thing in the world, and it is happy - eating well and dressing well, that is just a superficial enjoyment, and the real happy thing is that kind of spiritual enjoyment - to benefit the world, short brown straw sandals, die for the benefit of the world, this is the real happiness.

In other words, the Mohist school should be a "spiritual aristocrat", abandon the happiness of food and clothing of external things, and believe that spiritual happiness is the true happiness, so as to encourage many people of kindness and ambition to devote themselves to the great cause of benefiting the world.

This is an important reason why the Mohist school was able to obtain hundreds of idealists who were like ascetics before joining, who were never rushed to benefit the world.

I benefit the world, both for the benefit of the world and because benefiting the world is my spiritual happiness. This is why Han Feizi believes that the Mohist school is "utilitarian".

No theory can be separated from its era. Without a material basis, some theories are simply impossible to appear.

"Pursuing the greatest happiness of the most people" and "pursuing the liberation of all mankind" are a concept that seems similar but is actually completely different. That is, the Mohist school is essentially a "Enlightenment Theory": the Mohist school pursues equality and pursues the happiness of the majority, and perceptually feels that people in the world are inequality, but does not delve into the origin of human inequality.

Because at this time, the greatest inequality was the inequality of bloodline under the real hierarchy. Although it was essentially caused by the possession of means of production, the Mohist school did not study so much, so it was normal to discover problems, solve them, and turn its attention to inequality under the hierarchy order.

In addition to later revising the morality of the Mohist school, they were all maintained on the basis of the "Enlightenment Theory".

The revised three meanings of Mohism are synonyms, equality, and love, but the current Mohism view of human nature, economic theory, the majority of people benefit and weigh the majority of people's big and small benefits are actually just a variant of the enlightenment theory.

Just as the Mohist school was not Taoism, but like Taoism, standing on the same front in the matter of anti-ritual law, it also led to the fact that after the Mohist school was weak, there was a school of Huang-Lao's studies that always wanted to reconcile the contradiction between Confucianism and Mohism. The morality of the two sides was not exactly the same, but they influenced each other and reconciled.

As for another "crime", equality, it is even more confirmed.

At this time, people are unequal, so it is natural.
To be continued...