The Hao Pond is located near the site of Haojing, the old capital of the Zhou Dynasty. Nowadays, the city-state of the illustrious Zhou Dynasty can no longer be seen. All we can see are elk wandering among the ruins, and a field of golden millet, standing on the roof of an abandoned water mill beside the pond.
, you can also catch a glimpse of the Afang Palace under construction in the distance, where 100,000 people are working hard. Novel .
As night fell, four black figures approached the abandoned mill one after another. They met by the pond and then walked into the mill. They saw a person waiting inside. With the last light before nightfall, they could see clearly that this was
The eldest disciple of Qin Mo giant Cheng Shang: Shi Lin.
"Shi Lin, did you send the black paper kite?"
The leader of the four was lame, named Yang Yi. He took out the black paper kite from his arms and held it between his two fingers.
The paper is dark brown in color and is made using a special method. The folding method is very special. Only those who know how to fold it can accurately fold it in one step. This is the secret code for the Young Masters in the Mohist family to communicate with each other and gather together.
No need to be surprised, the Mohists are a well-structured organization. They once had powerful weapons that made the princes look at them. Although the number is small, only 180 people, they cannot withstand the advanced technology, and they are all dedicated to the ideals of the Mohists.
Fighting can make you go through fire and knife, and you will die without hesitation!
Later, although the Mohist school split and declined and was no longer a prominent school, Qin Mo, who took root in Yongzhou, still retained strict discipline. In recent years, Qin Mo's internal divisions have become increasingly serious, and the young faction can't stand the inaction of the giant Cheng Shang.
, and followed the ancient path and started a secret society.
"Yes, I did it."
Shi Lin's expression was a little sad: "The day before yesterday, I sent three brothers who were sent to Lingnan to do hard labor to Baqiao. They returned them today. I have given them the clothes that the second and third sons asked me to send."
It turned out that in mid-March, the Mohist family was asked by the Shaofu to send people to the Lishan Mausoleum to provide advanced technology and help the craftsmen solve engineering problems: it is said that the Lishan Mausoleum has been built to the key underground palace, and the depth has reached three springs, and the mercury
He imbued hundreds of rivers and seas with the mechanism, astronomy at the top and geography at the bottom, and ordered craftsmen to make mechanical crossbow arrows...
These incredible ideas require Mohist technology to realize them.
But helping the monarch build a mausoleum is contrary to the philosophy of Mohist. Among the ten principles of Zi Mozi, frugal burial and frugal use are extremely important.
Although the tycoon Cheng Shang decided to obey the order of the Shaofu and send his disciples to assist, when the three disciples arrived, they were surprised by the scale of Lishan Mountain and the amount of money and labor consumed, which was far beyond the bottom line of what Mohists could tolerate.
, after discussion, they refused to cooperate and decided to imitate Mozi’s disciple Gao Shizi and betray his fortune for the sake of righteousness...
This was a big mistake. Zhao Gao, the deputy supervisor of Lishan Mausoleum, deliberately complicated the matter and asked the Mohists: "Is His Majesty's law more powerful, or the meaning of the Mohist scriptures?"
Although the three Mohists were stubborn, they were not stupid and kept silent. However, they were arrested by Zhao Gao and reported to Qin Shihuang, saying that the Mohists believed that the court was unjust and did not provide technology. How could Qin Shihuang care about such a trivial matter? He waved his hand again.
Order Tingwei to deal with it.
In the end, the three of them were sentenced to the same sentence as Xi and were sent to Lingnan to serve as secretaries because the Marquis of Changnan had just requested from Qin Shihuang that Panyu would build a shipbuilding workshop and needed the help of Mohists and craftsmen...
From the perspective of the wealthy man Cheng Shang, this was the commutation he had obtained after arguing with the Tingwei and the Shaofu several times. However, the young men in Qin Mozhong did not think so.
“That’s really good!”
Yang Yi walked lamely to the stone mill, punched it on the head, and gritted his teeth and said: "Zimozi said, nothing should be valued more than righteousness! There are many people who betray righteousness and yearn for salary, but there are very few people who refuse salary and yearn for righteousness. Three
Although people have traveled far, they are worthy of the name of Mohists, but the giants are too weak."
After saying this, he raised his head and said: "Shi Lin, Cheng Juzi is your master, what do you think?"
"We are all dissatisfied with the giants, otherwise we would not be able to connect with each other and make a difference."
After experiencing the innocent exile of his brothers, Shi Lin had a profound enlightenment. There was no longer confusion in his eyes, and he said to the four of them:
"I asked you to come here today because I have something to discuss with the Second and Third Sons!"
By this time, it was completely dark, and the five of them could only huddle together and whisper.
Shi Lin said: "Zimozi said in "Universal Love" that those who do things for benevolent people must seek to bring benefits to the world and eliminate harm to the world. I dare to ask two or three sons, before unification, which harm to the world is greater?
"
Yang Yi said: "The harm to the world at that time was naturally that big countries attacked small countries, everyone disrupted small families, the strong robbed the weak, the masses oppressed the few, deception led to foolishness, and the nobles despised others."
Shi Lin said: "However, what caused this is that the world is divided into seven countries. The princes compete for power and use their weapons, poison, water and fire to kill each other. The world is unified. If the merger can be completed and the seven countries become one country,
Then the disputes will be eliminated. In order to achieve 'songyong', we, Qin Mo, will not hesitate to violate the meaning of 'non-attack' and help Qin Tianxia..."
This process was bloody. Shi Lin and the four people present, except for Yang Yi, who was born and raised in Guanzhong, were all orphans left over from the war. They knew how much the reunification had cost.
Out of guilt over his violation of "non-aggression", Qin Mo adopted the homeless people, raised them, and taught them the Mohist scriptures. Everyone's sense of identity with the Mohist family was far greater than that of Qin.
"But what about now? The princes have been destroyed, and feudalism has been abolished in counties and counties, but wars have not been eliminated. In the past, the people of the seven kingdoms resented each other, and the people were still poor and precarious. However, the court became more and more extravagant, taxing miscellaneous labor, making the world boil.
"
Shi Lin glanced at the crowd and asked vigorously: "I dare to ask the two or three sons, at this time, which one is causing the greatest harm to the world?"
The four of them opened their mouths, but none of them said anything.
"Don't dare to say?"
Shi Lin smiled: "Then I will say it for you!"
He stood up and jumped onto the millstone. His face was distorted with anger, and he said in a suppressed voice: "Nothing can cause greater harm today than the unkindness of a ruler! Nothing can cause greater harm today than your Majesty's arrogance."
Brutal!"
"The First Emperor of Qin, he is the greatest danger to the world today!"
…
This statement was like a stormy wave! It swept everyone's hearts and minds. Even if they had complaints against the imperial court, no one dared to say it due to the authority that the emperor had established over the years.
But after all, they are the Mohists who were scolded by Mencius as "without a father and without a king"! Within the Qin Dynasty system, who else should figure this out most, besides the Mohists?
After a brief silence, Zhao Yin, an orphan who had been rescued from the ruins of Handan by the former tycoon "Tang Fuzi" many years ago, boldly asked: "May I ask Shi Lin, how can we get rid of this great harm today?"
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Shilin's answer once again caused a stir.
"Kill him!"
"ah!"
Even though they were prepared, the four of them could not help but take a few steps back. Some people immediately lay down by the window and looked outside guiltily, fearing that they would be dead if they were eavesdropped. Others were close to the wall, wondering if they should do it at this time.
Time to run away...
Qin Law, if you don’t report the suggestion of rebellion to the official, you will be implicated!
But Shi Lin was aggressive and continued to say these words, which were enough to dismember him and wipe out the three tribes!
"A Confucian scholar once asked Zi Mozi: In the past, when Yu conquered the Miao Dynasty, Tang conquered Jie, and King Wu conquered Zhou, why were they all established as sage kings?"
"Zimozi said, this is not called 'attack', but 'kill'!"
"Confucian scholars believe that punishing the superior and punishing the inferior is called killing. But we, the Confucian scholars, think otherwise. As long as the punishment is violent and unjust, it is punishment!"
Mohist punishment has nothing to do with rank, but is the punishment of justice for injustice.
The lowly Guizhou prisoner, faced with the cruelty of the princes and generals, fought hard to kill him, which is also justice!
It’s no wonder that Mencius, who also agreed with “killing a husband”, had nothing to do with the Mohists’ punishment of violence and scolded them: “Without a father and a king, they are just like beasts.”
After Mozi's death, the Mohist school split, and the teachings of each faction deviated. Among them was the "Xia Mo" group. They lived in plain clothes, helped the poor, killed cruel officials, and eliminated tyranny. They hoped that the light of universal love could shine on the suffering people.
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But of course, this faction was suppressed by the princes and attacked by other Mohist factions, and soon died out.
However, today, the banner of punishing violence was once again carried by a young disciple of Qin Mo:
Shi Lin's eyes were fearless, he walked towards the four people and said plausibly:
"As a monarch, even if he is an emperor, if he imposes tyranny and does not repent and refuses to listen to repeated advice, it is natural that he will be punished by everyone! This is to eliminate harm to the world!"
"No!"
The first person to refuse was the lame Yang Yi.
He blocked his ears with both hands and kept shaking his head.
"Although I am a Mohist, I am also a Qin person in Guanzhong. I am not one of those assassins who think about the Six Kingdoms all day long. I will not rebel against Qin or overthrow the country of my parents!"
"I will pierce my eardrums, bite off my tongue, pretend I didn't hear anything, and I won't report you!"
As he said this, he was about to leave the mill. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the door, he bumped into someone!
…
A figure suddenly appeared outside the door. Except for Shi Lin, everyone in the mill was shocked, thinking that their words had been eavesdropped.
But the man at the door raised the open flame in his hand, waved it in front of his face, then threw it to the ground and stamped it out.
Everyone had seen his face clearly, and Yang Yi was the most surprised.
"Tang...Mr. Tang."
The visitor was none other than Tang Duo, who had a conversation with Hei Fu at the Yangcheng Wall with Cheng Shang many years ago. But unlike Cheng Shang who became Hei Fu's friend, Tang Duo became a guest of Prince Fusu and is now in Shaofu.
Serving, he is Qin Mo's second-in-command and the soul of the Young Heroes sect.
"Yi, you are wrong, very wrong!"
Tang Duo stepped into the mill and forced Yang Yi back.
"Zi Mozi once said that when you look at other people's country, you look at your own country; when you look at other people's homes, you look at your own family; when you look at other people's bodies, you look at your own bodies. This is the Mohist philosophy of mutual love and mutual benefit."
"Not to mention that now the world is unified and the princes are one family. Even when it was still divided in the past, as long as you enter the Mohist sect, there will be no distinction between countries. We will only have one identity left: Mohist!"
Yang Yi stepped back step by step, but still argued: "Ink is also Qin ink, the ink of the West!"
Tang Duo shook his head: "It's true that your native place is Guanzhong, but what about the others?"
He pointed at Shi Lin and others and said: "Shi Lin's native place is Song Dynasty, Zhao Yin's native place is Handan, there are also people who live in Huaiyang, Taoqiu, Qin Mo's young generation, most of them are orphans and come from all over the world..."
"Qin Mo, the Western Mohist... That was an old name a hundred years ago. Now, how can there be Qi Mo and Chu Mo, Southern Mohist and Eastern Mohist? There is only one kind of Mohist left in this world..."
He eloquently said: "The best person in the world!"
"Therefore, the ink of the people in the world should bring great benefits to the world and eliminate great harm to the world, and should not be limited to the selfish interests of regional clans!"
Yang Yi had nothing to say, but still looked doubtful.
As the real planner of this gathering, Tang Duo sighed and began to persuade Yang Yi for the final time. His attitude determined whether those Qin people from Guanzhong among the Mohists were willing to participate in this plan.
Tang Duo slowed down his tone: "So, we are definitely not going to rebel against Qin, nor are we going to overthrow the imperial court, nor are we going to split the world. We are different from those nobles from the six countries. They each have their own home, but Mohist is for
People in the world are punishing violence so that the old and dim Qin Shi Huang can no longer harm the world!"
Yang Yi suddenly asked, "May I ask Mr. Tang, what will happen after the violence is punished?"
Tang Duo said matter-of-factly: "As long as the First Emperor dies and a successor succeeds to the throne, the administration of the government will be easier. All those useless expeditions can be recalled, and those extravagant palaces can be stopped immediately. The imperial court will use less money, rents and taxes will be reduced, and the common people will be able to live in peace."
Without corvée, men will enjoy their duties and women will cultivate their professions, and the hatred between people in the world will also be alleviated..."
Everyone is yearning for it, that is the ideal world in the mind of the Mohist!
Yang Yi was even more shocked and thought of a possibility: "Successor? Da Qin has not established a prince yet. Mr. Tang, are you talking about the eldest son?"
He looked back at Shi Lin in shock: "At today's gathering, the treasonous remarks intended to attack His Majesty were all instigated by the eldest son? Does he... want to kill his father?"
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As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other in shock. If this was true, the image of the eldest son in their hearts would completely collapse...
Tang Duo immediately denied it: "The eldest son has a benevolent, virtuous and filial nature. Don't talk about killing the king and killing his father. Even if His Majesty orders him to commit suicide, he will not hesitate to raise his sword to kill himself."
He took out the "Mo Jing" he carried in his arms, knelt down on one knee, and swore to the sky: "I, Tang Duo, dare to swear in front of the ghosts and gods, eldest son, I have nothing to do with this matter!"
The Mohist family understands ghosts and believes in the punishment of ghosts and gods. This is the most solemn vow. For a while, Yang Yi and everyone believed Tang Duo's words.
Tang Duo told the truth: "Even if the young master can endure it until the day the emperor dies, the people who are suffering cannot endure it. There are some things that we can no longer hesitate about!"
"As a Mohist, I see that the emperor, in order to satisfy one person's desires, seizes the people's use and wastes the people's benefits. Thirty million people are working hard, and the world is about to collapse. I cannot sit idly by and ignore it. Therefore, without telling the eldest son, I summoned
You have gathered together to use the power of Mohists to eliminate this great harm to the world!"
At this time, Shi Lin raised a difficult problem: "Mr. Tang, the First Emperor had tens of thousands of guards and thousands of Lang Wei to protect him, and his whereabouts were secretive. Fortunately, anyone who spoke out about his actions would be punished with death. Since the last time Li Szhi
Afterwards, I became even more vigilant. No matter who it was, I didn’t know where it was, so how could I kill it?”
Tang Duo smiled mysteriously: "We are in Xianyang, we have official positions, and we are well-informed. The chance of success is higher than those of the assassins of the restoration of the country lying on the mountain road, waiting for the emperor to pass by, right? Believe me, there will be a chance soon.
Already."
He immediately became solemn and glanced at everyone in the room: "But first, we have to press the Mo Sutra and make an oath in front of the punishment of ghosts and gods to eliminate the great harm in the world together and never betray!"
Looking at the moonlight outside the window, Shi Lin immediately stepped forward, followed closely by Zhao Yin, and the other two Mohists hesitated slightly and followed.
Only Yang Yi was left. This lame ink writer who was born in Guanzhong and grew up drinking Weihe River water was caught in a dilemma. He clenched his fists for a while and looked at the door of the mill. But after hesitating several times, he still
He limped to the side of his senior brothers.
A total of six people formed a circle around the stone mill. Tang Duo placed the ink sutra he carried on the millstone, and then pressed it on with one hand.
"The ghosts and gods are above, and Zimozi is the witness."
Tang Duo took the lead in swearing an oath, his voice full of faith in the cause of justice: "For the great righteousness of Mohists, and for the common people in the world."
"In order to eliminate war in the world, there will be no more attacks."
Shi Lin seemed to see his parents who died in the Unification War. Their deaths and the sacrifices of countless people were exchanged for a better world instead of this terrible world.
After everyone had finished speaking, only Yang Yi was left.
He closed his eyes: "For the day when the people of the seven countries will love each other regardless of you and me!"
"For Great Qin to truly become a country shared by all people in the world!"
The six people spoke in unison, and in this dim mill, they made a shocking statement:
"Be like the ink master of ancient times, punish violence and eliminate harm, go through fire and sword, and never return to death!"