The 1220th section collapse of the scholar-officer (1)
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The Mohists are indeed the biggest weirdo among all the schools of thought except the Yang Zhu School.
Some people even called Mohism and Yang Zhu School Yin and Yang.
In layman's terms, they are the two sides of the same coin.
Compared with Confucianism, Legalism and Huang Lao, a very important difference between Mohist thought is that Mohist thought is a dialectical thought.
Depending on the situation and the era, the Mohist view of justice and interests and value orientation are also different.
It can be said that Mohist thought is one of the most advanced thoughts among all schools of thought.
However, Mohism also had fatal flaws.
It was this flaw that prevented it from surviving the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and thus fell into decline and demise in the early Han Dynasty.
The flaw is that the Mohists have no basic base!
As a school of thought that is rooted in grassroots and laboratory innovation and creation.
In fact, the Mohist family has never had any reliable allies and supporters at the top, let alone interest groups.
In this world, whether a political faction or academic organization can be supported by a reliable and stable interest group is crucial, even a key condition for life and death.
Like Confucianism, its supporters and base are big landowners, powerful nobles and scholar-bureaucrats.
As long as these people still exist, no matter how the people in power treat and hate them.
But Confucianism will never perish.
Don’t you see it, in future generations, even after the campaign to smash the Confucius Temple.
However, in the new century, hasn’t Confucianism ignited another spark?
As for Legalism, its base is small and medium-sized landowners, the bureaucracy, and huge military interest groups.
As long as these people are still active and exist, Legalism will not perish.
Just as Emperor Wu in history dismissed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism.
However, because of the war, Legalists were actually the beneficiaries.
At its peak, Legalism was riding on the head of Confucianism. It was called "External Confucianism and Internal Law", but in reality it was the bones of the law and the skin of the law.
However, it was a poison pill smeared with honey.
When Confucianism gradually eroded these basic foundations of Legalism through various events during the Zhaoxuan period, Legalism collapsed.
By the Song and Ming dynasties, Confucian scholars simply promoted the emphasis on literature over military affairs, completely cutting off the legalists' possible reliance and possibility of revival.
In comparison, who can the Mohist family rely on in this court?
Which class or interest group is willing to live and die together with the Mohists and advance and retreat together?
The answer is no!
Even the military was actually friendly to the Mohist family because of Liu Che's face and because it wanted to take advantage of the Mohist family.
If one day Liu Che falls out, look at it, will the army currently defending Mo Yuan attack the Mo family with a butcher's knife?
Facts have proved that any faction, even the emperor Liu Che, needs a reliable interest group that can be relied on and share weal and woe as a trump card.
Those who don’t have it will surely perish!
Liu Che knew this very well.
He understands better, who does the stability of his rule depend on?
The vast number of small and medium-sized landowners and farmers are the biggest allies and backbone of his stable rule.
Therefore, Liu Che will ensure that the interests of this class are not harmed no matter what.
In this way, a strong middle class can protect him and his empire, making it strong and developed until it reaches the top of the world!
As for the Mohist fundamentals and interest groups?
At present, there is no possible shadow that can appear.
Perhaps in the heavy industrial base of Nanyang, or in the future world, the Mohists can find a reliable interest group that can develop and prosper with it.
But not now!
As for the organization and power of the Mohists taking root at the grassroots level?
That can only affect one place at most...
Moreover, it is impossible to exert any influence on the upper levels.
Besides, do you think that in this pre-Christian era, the people really had any power?
History tells people that power that cannot be gathered into a fist is not strength!
Thinking of this, Liu Che also shook his head.
I feel sorry for the Mohists.
After all, among hundreds of schools of thought, Mohist thought is actually the most advanced.
But, it's just a pity.
He is the emperor, not a common man.
People can decide who to support based on their own preferences.
But the emperor cannot deviate from his thoughts and academics.
History tells Liu Che that the result of doing so will not produce any other results except disaster.
Emperor Wu dismissed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism, ending the glorious classical era.
Zhu Yuanzhang used Neo-Confucianism and Eight-part essay to govern the world, but the result was that his thoughts were imprisoned and left endless sequelae.
While Liu Che was thinking about this, Yang Yi on the stage did not stop and continued to explain Mohism's understanding and views of the world.
He said: "That's why Zi Mozi said: If you want to bring great benefits to the world, you must not be virtuous!"
"Why honor the virtuous? The poem goes: Tell the girl to be worried, teach the girl to be a noble, who can hold the heat and rarely need to wash her hands? This is what the saying goes, if you are a noble, you will be honored, if you break the ground to seal it, you will never tire of it for the rest of your life!"
This sentence really spoke to the hearts of all the noble lords and ministers!
Countless people cheered and jumped, looking longingly at Liu Che, who was above them, thinking in their hearts: Your Majesty, we wrongly blamed you! I thought that Your Majesty used the Mohist School to embarrass us? How could I have imagined that the Mohist School's proposition turned out to be
So good!
Look, what others say is so good!
As a monarch, of course you must be virtuous.
Use wise ministers to govern the country!
And since we have employed talented people, we should naturally give them power, titles, wealth, and even kingdoms. We should not be suspicious of those who employ them, and trust them for life!
Thinking of this, some princes even burst into tears.
He remembered that the emperor had repeatedly hinted and made it clear since he came to the throne that in the future, he would entrust the princes and princes to the poisonous places in the Western Regions, so that the heroes would open up the country, build the country, and start a new generation!
It turns out that many people also thought that this might be a way to appease hunger.
But looking at it now, it is already a definite fact!
You see, Your Majesty has liked the Mohist family for a long time.
The Mohist school also advocates treating meritorious officials, sages and ministers well, and making them rich, honorable and dignified!
What a great knowledge!
It is much more straightforward than the convoluted Confucianism.
It’s much more refreshing than the Legalist rules that set up all kinds of constraints and restraints at every turn!
This school of thought must be supported!
Support even if you die!
Some people even lamented: "Today I know why the Mohists in the past were known as a prominent scholar! With such thoughts and demands, if the Mohists were not a prominent scholar, who would be?"
As a result, some people who committed suicide quietly thought in their hearts: "Since Mohism is such a misunderstood school..."
So……
Is the Yang Zhu School also misunderstood?
Well, I'll go back and find a Lao-Zhuang scholar to ask.
Anyway, Yang Zhu and Lao Zhuang have a deep connection in legend, so maybe you can get some of Yang Zhu’s things to take a look!
Little do they know that this kind of thinking is completely seeking death!
As for the scholar-bureaucrats and celebrities from hundreds of schools of thought, their hearts are broken at this moment. (To be continued.)
