Blue and White Society

  Chapter 283 Mozi doubts

"According to what you said, if the containment really existed, it existed as early as the time of Yanshi. After six hundred years, it was handed down to Gongshuban, and then it was given to Mozi, and then because of the Mohist suffering. Severely suppressed and completely annihilated and disappeared without a trace? Why didn't you start with Chi You? Chi You also has seventy-two 'brothers' who bite stones and swallow gold." Mo Qiong asked with a smile.

Yingfei said: "That's too long ago, there's no need to get involved in everything, at least there are clear records in the pre-Qin period. We modern people can say that Liezi made up the prostitution in Yanshi, but Liezi is familiar with it. If the palace notes of the royal family of Zhou Dynasty are false, it means that he is planning the affairs of the late King Zhou Mu, and this behavior is not a trivial matter."

"The story of Yugong Yishan, it is said that there is no problem with his making up fables. After all, it is about ordinary people in the mountains, and it is very philosophical. But King Mu of Zhou hated the fact that the puppet seduced his concubine. There is not a single word or phrase recorded, is this something that Liezi dared to preach based on his imagination? At that time, the Zhou royal family ruled, and Zheng Guo was also one of the vassal states with the surname Ji, Liezi dared to make it up so purely?"

"First of all, it's not about whether the royal family will make trouble for him. In terms of public opinion alone, countless gentlemen will reprimand and tease King Zhou Mu for nothing. This is simply challenging the bottom line of gentlemen. Heroes', we must use this as a crime."

   "It was not allowed in the social atmosphere at that time to make up fables to King Mu of Zhou, unless... Zhou royal palace notes clearly had a prototype. Maybe even the more knowledgeable people at that time knew that there was such a thing."

   "Otherwise, I don't think Liezi would write something irrational out of thin air."

  After listening to Yingfei's words, Mo Poor bowed his head in thought.

   It seems reasonable to be told by Infineon...

  Yanshi's prostitution is probably a fact that Liezi mixed in many fables.

  This kind of thing, to modern people, looks like a fable imagined by Liezi. But is this really a fable? What philosophy? What's the point?

  Xue Tan Xuexu's fable is to tell people that there is no end to learning any skill, and don't be complacent with a little achievement.

  The fable of Yugong Yishan tells people to persevere, and where there is a will, there is a way.

  The fable of Bian Que’s heart-changing is to tell people that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and they should learn from others’ strengths to make up for their own weaknesses.

   "Yanshi makes prostitutes, emmm..." Mo Poor thought for a long time, but he didn't expect the truth of this story.

  If I have to say it, it is the last sentence of this fable: After hearing what happened to Yanshi, Lu Ban and Mozi dared not mention their superb skills anymore.

  Is this the philosophy that Liezi wants to say? If it is, isn't it repeated with "Xue Tan Xuexuan"? And it's not as good as that one.

  Because the whole chapter of Yanshi Making Prostitutes mainly talks about Yanshi offering wooden prostitutes to King Mu of Zhou, only the last sentence mentions Lu Ban and Mozi’s shame, and never mentions the art of wooden armor.

   It would be a stretch to say that the central idea is to keep people from becoming complacent.

   Wouldn’t it be nice to have ‘Xue Tan Xuexu’? Why bother to write about Yanshi again, and bring out the dead king?

   It might be better to say that Liezi is expressing: Mozi and Lu Ban are nothing special. At the beginning, Yanshi presented a wooden prostitute to King Mu of Zhou. These two people are not the pinnacle of wood armor art, Yanshi is.

  Yingfei said: "It's more like Liezi is showing off what he saw in the palace notes, and it's really against Mozi's small skills."

   "This..." Mo Poor smiled but didn't take it seriously.

"It's a pity that Lu Ban died early and didn't see what Liezi said, and Mozi didn't know if he saw it or not. But Mozi's spirit lies in studying the principles of the art of wooden armor. Even if he saw it, he wouldn't care. What Liezi said. Liezi didn't understand Mozi's thoughts at all, and he didn't hit the key point." Yingfei said.

   "Oh? You mean that Mozi's inventions are more oriented towards practicality and exploration of principles?" Mo Poor asked.

Yingfei nodded and said: "Yes, Mozi once reprimanded Gongshuban for making things that are not beneficial to people. Building a wooden bird that can fly is not as good as the wooden poles made by ordinary craftsmen. The wooden poles are installed on the axles, and the car can fly." A thing that bears fifty stones. And what is the practical use of a wooden bird? What a carpenter makes is called skillful if it is beneficial to people, but clumsy if it is not beneficial to people."

"This is Mozi's attitude, and it can even be said to be close to the scientific spirit. Therefore, Mozi made crossbows and ladders, four-wheeled vehicles and balances, pistons and resonators, and even made research on optics and mechanics, and proposed the early atomic On... I think that even if Mozi is the user of the containment object, he will probably just laugh at what Liezi said: You don’t understand what I want to do. It’s not that I’m not as good as Yanshi, but Yanshi is not as good as me. Don’t compare me to Yan Shibi, he is just a mediocre man who makes playthings to serve the powerful."

"Mozi's "The Will of Heaven" has made it very clear that the sky includes everything in the universe, and the will of heaven is the law of nature. His thought itself is a materialist with a scientific spirit, but he also understands ghosts...he put the laws of nature Combined with the human heart, it expounds a theory that is both idealistic and materialistic."

  Mo Qiong said: "This is Mozi's desire to use ghosts to restrain people's hearts, so as to save the chaos of rites and music. To respect heaven and ghosts, so that people will not do evil things."

Yingfei said: "Don't all living beings believe in ghosts and gods before he proposed to explain ghosts? He is simply unnecessary. In terms of Mozi's pragmatic character, being a hero is more meaningful. Good and evil will be repaid, and ghosts will not be repaid. The Mohist came to report. Facts have also proved that the role of Ren Xia is even greater. At that time, Mohist disciples traveled all over the world in full bloom. Abandoning the family and abandoning the son, raising the sword to kill the one who came to the door."

"During the heyday of Mohism, the public security was surprisingly good wherever there were Mohists. Because if you kill someone without reason, the Mohist will hear about it and will repay you with a sword. If you kill a Mohist, all the Mohists within a hundred miles will take the initiative Put down the hoe, go home and take a sword to find the door. If you kill all the Mohists in a hundred miles, the Mohists from all over the country will gather here, and even more... There is a way to kill all the Mohists in the world, otherwise the dignitaries will die, and the king will also die. Can't keep it."

"The matter of understanding ghosts is just verbal use of ghosts to frighten the world, but in fact, it is the thousands of Mohists who frighten the monarchs of all countries. When the Mohist school is not behind, what is the use of ghosts? It's a ghost."

  Mo Poor knew what Yingfei meant, if ghosts were useful, they wouldn't be so polite.

   Strengthening people's awe of ghosts and gods is not as good as Confucianism strengthening morality.

  Since Mozi is a knight, it is impossible not to know that ghosts are useless. Judging from his actions, he is clearly a pragmatic person. It is very clear that the sword of the Mohist is more useful than the heavenly ghost who monitors the world and pursues the will of heaven.

   "You want to say that Mozi wavers between materialism and idealism?" Mo Poor asked.

Yingfei shook his head and said: "No, Tianzhi is his worldview, and Minggui is also his worldview. He just added Tiangui to make up for his theory in the natural law of Tianzhi, because he feels that there are only The laws of nature cannot explain all the doubts in his heart, and an idealistic variable that changes according to the human heart must be added to make his 'universe model' tend to be perfect."

   "How does this idea... differ from Newton's?"

  Mo Qiong was taken aback. As a member of the Blue and White Society, he certainly knew that Newton was a pioneer in the thought of the Blue and White Society. Newton studied theology in his later years because the containment subverted his materialist scientific view.

  Newton did that because he touched the containment, not because he was old and wanted a sustenance.

  So... what about Mozi? What did he touch?

"Mozi is a researcher with a scientific spirit. He is different from Yanshi in that what he pursues is not how lifelike the products after the wooden armor art are, but why... that thing... can make wooden armor wonders." Mo Qiong followed Yingfei's train of thought and said.

   Yingfei said happily: "That's right! He is the same as Newton... No, Newton, like him, is using the scientific spirit to study the contained objects. You and I know the consequences of this."

  Of course Mo Poor knows that if you study the contained objects with a scientific attitude, you will inevitably be at a loss.

  Because the containment often has an idealistic variable, such as the reverse song that reverses the physiology according to the inner gender cognition. If you think you are a man, you will turn into a woman. What kind of idealism is this?

   There are even some contained objects, the definition of "one" is directly judged by the holder. For example, if a person's lower body is completely annihilated, is the remaining part considered a "person"? As far as Mo Poor knows, there is a contained object that will be judged according to the human heart, which will cause two people to use it with different effects, because one thinks it is a 'half person', and the other thinks it is a 'one person', just the lower body It's just ruined.

  Even the Lanbai Society couldn’t figure out why the contents were like this, let alone Mozi? It is impossible to know why.

"Mozi must have possessed the contents, but he has a scientific spirit, so he wanted to study the "will of heaven" from the contents, that is, the laws of nature. He did it. After all, it is the art of wooden armor. It's normal to figure out some principles of optics and mechanics, and to figure out the principles of crossbows and the like. But so far, he can't thoroughly study the thing itself and the products such as the wooden man derived from it. .”

"So, he feels that the will of heaven is still flawed. Not everything in the universe is in the materialistic laws of nature, and an idealistic variable must be added. That is the heavenly ghost...a kind of will that is really based on human will, That is the absolute characteristic."

  After listening to Yingfei's speculation, Mo Poor was filled with emotion.

   I have to say that this guy is really capable of persuading his superiors to allocate money to support him in his search for the 'Art of Wooden Armor'.

  The things he said are enough to impress the Blue and White Society, and they will spend a few dollars to support it.

  What if you find it?

   However, INFINAIR has been looking for it for several years but has not found it, and it is no longer supported.

   "My special funds are gone, and my superiors will not allow me to search and excavate the ancient tombs of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties without authorization."

"But I didn't give up. I discovered another ancient tomb some time ago, from the pre-Qin period, and it was on the route of Qin Shihuang's east tour. Because it is not a noble tomb, it seems to be just an ordinary person's tomb, but it is surprisingly big. I plan to dig it out on my own..."

   "Ahem... can brother support some funds?"

   "..." Mo Poor had a strange expression on his face.

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   p.s: Sorry.

  (end of this chapter)