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Chapter 691 Serving the People

In mid-May of the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor of Qin Dynasty, the father of the pavilion at Shimen Pavilion, ten miles north of Panyu City, just got up and planned to feed the chickens. However, he saw two soldiers who had come to stay last night. They were already standing in the courtyard chatting, holding cattail fans and complaining.

It was hot in Lingnan, and the prisoner they were escorting: the man with black hair in brown clothes was squatting on the ground, tinkering with something in his hand...

The name of the Mohist is "Zhong", and everyone in the Moh clan calls him Ah Zhong. He was one of the three people who were exiled two months ago because they refused to provide precision technology to the Lishanling Underground Palace.

They arrived by chance. It was midsummer, and Lingnan was like a big steamer. Two of Azhong's senior brothers got sick at Yangshanguan. They couldn't hold on until they reached Sihui. If they went any further, they might die, so they had no choice but to stay there to recuperate.

, only Azhong was left to continue on to Panyu, where he stayed overnight at Shimen Pavilion yesterday.

Seeing that Ting's father had gotten up, Ah Zhong handed over the thing in his hand: "Old man, come and take a look at this thing."

The father of the pavilion greeted the two soldiers, but he saw in Azhong's hand a bell carved from wood. The bell was upside down, with a rope on top and a wooden hook on the bottom...

Father Ting was a little surprised: "What is this?"

Azhong said: "I heard you complain yesterday, saying that Lingnan is hot and humid, and there are many insects and ants near the pavilion. They swarm in when they smell the fishy smell. Even if you hang the fish on the beam, they can still crawl on it."

Go up, but with this thing..."

He asked the father of the pavilion to get some water and gave him a demonstration: fill the wooden bell with water, hang a freshly caught fish on the hook below, and hang it on the beam. After a while, red ants smelled the fish.

But this time, before they could climb onto the food on the hook below, they drowned in the water poured into the wooden bell. After a while, the wooden bell was filled with dead ant corpses.

"You're such a smart kid!"

Shimenting's father was amazed. This thing seemed simple, but they never expected that the Mohist named Azhong just listened and did it casually, and solved the problem that had troubled him for a long time.

Tingfu thanked him endlessly, but A Zhong said: "Zi Mozi said, if a husband loves others, others will love him; if he benefits others, others will benefit from him. Loving and benefiting others are all what a Mohist should do.

There is no need to say thank you, sir. When I arrive in Panyu, I will ask craftsmen to make hundreds or even thousands of these things so that every pavilion and camp can use them."

After giving the two wooden bells he made early in the morning to Ting's father, Azhong also left Shimenyi and headed south at the urging of his soldiers. They would arrive in Panyu within today...

"correct."

After he put on the shackles again, he turned around and smiled at Tingfu: "Let's call this utensil 'an angry ant'."



"Junhou, three Mohists sent from Xianyang have arrived in Lingnan, but two of them are recuperating in Sihui, and only one came to Panyu the day before yesterday..."

When Li Cang came to report, Heifu was busy drawing lines on the map. He just nodded and said, "I understand."

He had also heard about what happened in Xianyang. After all, Heifu had friends with the Mo family and the peasant family, and he had been friends with Cheng Shang, the giant of Qin Mo for many years.

When he heard that Shaofu Yao Jia asked Mohist to help repair Afang Palace and Lishan Mausoleum, he couldn't help but cursed: "Isn't this deliberately provoking trouble?"

To put it mildly, the Mohists are a group of fanatical believers who treat the Mohist Scripture just like Christians treat the Bible. They are well-organized and armed. There are 180 Mozi soldiers who can be put to death.

, I will never give back my heel.

Although Qin Mo abandoned non-aggression in order to achieve unification and great harmony, the nine chapters of universal love, advocating the virtuous, advocating unity, understanding ghosts, non-joy, frugal burial, and frugal use have always remained as before.

"Let the Mohists who are opposed to luxury and generous burials go to build Afang Palace and Lishan Mausoleum. What is the difference between this and the British giving bullets greased with lard to the Nazis?"

As expected, the three Mohist young men who were assigned to Lishanling quit their job and were sent to Lingnan.

It is common for hundreds of officials and families to be exiled. Of the 300,000 soldiers and civilians under Heifu's southern expedition, one-third were exiled for crimes. Can you believe it?

However, Heifu still smelled a hint of conspiracy.

"Yao Jia, Zhao Gao, if these two people get together, it would be easy to accuse the Mohist to suffer... Do you want to attack the Mohist family and then Prince Fusu?"

This trick was not clever at all. Heifu shook his head. Lingnan was too far away from Xianyang and he was beyond his reach. He could only analyze the outdated situation through delayed news.

Regarding the Mohists, Heifu's attitude is: if you can protect it, you can protect it.

Although this organization is under the banner of Minggui, it has delved deeper into natural science than anyone else. Under Heifu's persuasion, Cheng Mo published the "Jing Shuo" related to optics, mechanics, levers, etc. a few years ago, and

Scholars led by Zhang Cang are studying together. In time, it may become the cornerstone of the Chinese scientific system.

The Mohist family's exquisite skills in offense and defense were the key to making the Qin Dynasty's military efficiency lead the other six countries. Some of Heifu's ideas must be realized by relying on them.

A few years ago, Li Si proposed a ban on poetry and books in the world, and the Mohist school was also among them. It was Heifu who proposed to Qin Shihuang to "promote the study of industry and agriculture" that allowed the Mohist school to be retained because of its "usefulness".

In the past two years, the more than 100 orphans from the six countries adopted before and after the Unification War have gradually grown up and become the mainstay of the Mohist family. At the same time, they rely on Mohists to travel to various counties and teach skilled craftsmen in engineering schools. The Mohist family is enjoying a revival...

In addition to being useful, Hei Fu also respects the Mohist philosophy from the bottom of his heart...

There are hundreds of schools of thought, with various academic disciplines and different positions.

Yang Zhu is extremely self-interested and stands on his own side.

The Taoist Huang Lao advocated inaction, and Zhuangzi also protected his life throughout his life. Huang Lao was more involved in the world, trying to combine the governance of the body with the governance of the country.

The characteristics of each Confucian school are active participation in the world and an emphasis on personal social and family responsibilities. However, in terms of stance, only Mencius dared to shout that "the people are more important than the country and the king is less important". Although the other schools said "heaven"

"Listen to the people" emphasizes the people's orientation, but those etiquette outlines are all tips for rulers. To put it bluntly, they stand clearly with their feet among the common people, sit with their buttocks among the scholar-bureaucrats, and stretch their heads to the feet of the emperor.

Already...

Needless to say, Legalism emphasizes respecting the emperor and centralizing power from beginning to end, with the goal of enriching the country and strengthening its military, and annexing the world. After that, it only considers the life and death of the people. Although it also incorporates some Confucian ideas of "loving the people",

Dharma officials like this also have the idea that "the Dharma is the order of the world", but it is by no means the mainstream.

Although the peasant theory is from the perspective of small farmers, it hates merchants and even proposes that everyone should return to the original and farm together, which is too narrow-minded.

In short, looking at all the schools of thought, Mohists are the only ones who stand completely on the standpoint of "the people". The Mohist school of universal love emphasizes that love does not distinguish between closeness and distance, no distinction between high and low, and it loves all people equally.

, that is, "love without distinction".

For this reason, Mozi did not hesitate to put his own efforts in order to benefit the world. In the words of later generations, the philosophy of Mohism is: "Serve the people!"

Before unification, Qin Mo could still get along harmoniously with the relatively honest Qin government. But after unification, it would be strange if there were no conflicts between the monarchy-based court and the people-oriented Mohist school.

The exile of the three Mohists to Lingnan is just a microcosm of this big contradiction. Heifu believes that the contradiction between the two will definitely intensify in the future and cause even bigger troubles.

He was not too worried. Although Qin Shihuang had become increasingly arrogant in recent years, the superiors still had some sense and would not indiscriminately kill people indiscriminately.

Heifu did not expect that the young faction within the Mo family had become so radical that they wanted to "kill violence", and he thought optimistically:

"If something goes wrong, let it happen. It's best to take over the Mo family and bring them all to Lingnan to work for me!"



It was not until three days later that Hei Fu found time to meet with the Mohist Azhong.

When Azhong arrived at the commander's tent, Hei Fu was playing with an "angry ant" made in a workshop. Although this thing is simple, it is extremely practical. When he saw Azhong come in, he said:

"I heard that you are a disciple of Mr. Cheng, but your character is nothing like the loyal Cheng Shang. You have only been here for a few days, and you have caused trouble again."

Azhong remained silent, he knew best what he had done.

"I heard that you threatened in the workshop that you would make hundreds or even thousands of these things, and you would kill all those hateful ants who were greedy and greedy and used them to build giant nests.

?”

Azhong responded in a nonchalant manner: "That's what I said."

Heifu smiled and said: "Zhong, is it the ants you want to piss off, or someone in the court, His Majesty the Emperor?"

Just like in Han Yu's article about offering sacrifices to crocodiles, he was criticizing crocodiles, but in fact, he was criticizing the vassal commanders who supported military separatism and corrupt officials who preyed on the common people. Ah Zhong also meant something...

Epang in Lishan is a huge ant nest, so who is the queen?

Heifu suddenly became serious, slapped the table and scolded: "Do you know how much effort Cheng Juzi put into saving your lives? He also wrote a letter saying that the three Mo people are all from the north and asked me to take care of you. It's better for you.

, you are new here, but you don’t hesitate to speak. If these words reach the ears of the supervisor, and they are investigated, you will be slandered for the second time, and not only Kunfa will be exiled! Do you want Cheng Juzi to send the white-haired man to the black-haired man?

Are you even willing to harm the entire Mo family?"

"Marquis Changnan, I...I have always been outspoken and heartfelt, but I was just not angry for a while and didn't think so much."

Azhong knew that Marquis Changnan was a friend of the Mo family and a close mentor. He felt ashamed for a moment and bowed to Hei Fu, bowing his head and admitting his mistake.

"This incident never happened. Similar words cannot be mentioned again."

Heifu also understood that for Qin Mo, they risked the price of betraying Mo Jing and abandoning "non-attack" in order to pursue Shang Tong and made great contributions to the unification of the world.

But now the emperor's governance is contrary to Mo's ideals, which will definitely make Qin Mo, who is full of longing, feel that he has been let down.

"However, your craftsmanship and thought are indeed extremely skillful. Our army is in need of a calligrapher who can outline and carry out craftsman's work."

Heifu asked Ah Zhong to get up and patted his ashes, treating him like a nephew.

"Instead of complaining all day long, why don't you use your clever thinking to make me angry and find a way to help me end this waste of money and people as soon as possible."

Azhong whispered: "Marquis Changnan, I...I still don't want to build a murder weapon..."

Heifu had already expected this: "I'm not Yao Jia or Zhao Gao. I can't force someone to lock up a man."

"I don't want you to build a murder weapon. I want you to help me build a ship."

"Ship?" Azhong was puzzled. He heard that Changnan Marquis had hundreds of boatmen and countless craftsmen under his command. What kind of ship needed Mo's help?

"This is no ordinary ship."

Heifu asked Azhong to come to the case and pointed to the sketch on the paper: "It is a 'ship' driven by a paddle wheel and can go upstream in the stagnant water!"


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