Chapter 316: Two Memorials Left Behind

At the end of July, Tianjin Feipeng Airport.

Huge flying rocs took off and landed one after another, and their huge propellers stirred the air flow, forming a strong wind that fell from the sky and blew away the clouds.

Today, the entire Tianjing Airport was temporarily blocked, just for the travel of a special investigation team led by Zhou Tieyi, Chief Censor Deng Zhenquan, and Minister of Justice Cui Wanxia.

Just as Yuchi Jing, the grandson of the Right General's Mansion, understood, he never thought that people who rode Feipeng were a privileged class, because in the face of true privilege, the entire Feipeng Airport could be blocked.

With such a large inspection team, there was naturally a lot of people coming to see them off.

Especially on Zhou Tieyi's side, whether it was military honors, chambers of commerce, or even big figures from the Mohist school and other schools of thought, if we add in the people who saw off Zongxian, who represented Confucianism, and Cui Wanxia, ​​who represented the Legalists, almost half of the real powerful people in Tianjing were in this airport.

And when we said goodbye this time, everyone also discovered an interesting place.

First, the way the Minister of Works Mo Qu looked at Zhou Tieyi almost made everyone wonder whether Mo Qu wanted to swallow Zhou Tieyi directly into his stomach.

Of course, if you think about it for a moment, you will know the reason.

The conversation about "Everyone in the world can be a scholar" spread a few days ago, and then there were more reports of Zhou Tieyi confessing to this statement.

To most people, these words sounded like the remarks of the Mohist school, especially to the Mohist people. If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Tieyi was already well-established, the Taoists and the military school were not easy to mess with, and the Buddhists were eyeing him covetously, the Mohist people would have long been eager to say that Zhou Tieyi was the true seed of their family.

Even Mo Qu has put forward a statement in public banquets and other occasions in the past two days.

That is, Zhou Tieyi has the "knight-errant spirit" of the ancient sage Mozi.

This is not only a very high evaluation, but also means that they want Zhou Tieyi to switch to the Mohist School, and are even willing to help Zhou Tieyi withstand other pressures.

In the path of cultivation, the Mohist five grades are the standard, and the fourth grade is the knight-errant.

Renxia, ​​with the help of authority, courage and financial resources, supports the weak and helps others.

Thinking about it this way, it is very similar to what Zhou Tieyi is doing now, except that Zhou Tieyi's foothold is higher.

In addition, with the establishment of the Railway Chamber of Commerce, everyone knows that the steam engine was a concept first proposed by Zhou Tieyi and completed by Gongshu Sheng.

With such attainments in mechanisms and a chivalrous spirit, the Mohist scholars who had been watching Zhou Tieyi fight against the Confucianists in the court have become very agitated in the past two days. They have begun to appear in public and cheer for Zhou Tieyi.

Of course, compared to the restlessness of the Mohists, Gongshu Jia felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten shit.

The feeling of having your own cabbage growing well but suddenly growing crooked and ending up in the house of your most annoying neighbor is something that not many people can understand.

If Gongshu Sheng had not been on the front line, he would probably have been urgently recalled to the family to discuss this matter in the next two days.

Gongshu Jia could tolerate Zhou Tieyi being a Taoist and a military strategist, but he absolutely could not tolerate Zhou Tieyi switching to Mohism!
The struggle between Gongshujia and Mohism has a long history. Although the two schools came up with the same mechanical technique, they ultimately ended up with very different ideas.

If it were in modern times, Gongshujia would definitely be more accepted by the world.

Because Gongshu Ban, also known as Lu Ban, is the person who would say something like "How many teachers does the God you believe in have?"

So when Gongshu Ban was discussing with Mozi, he asked Mozi directly, "Does the 'righteousness' you believe in have hooks and shields? The boat I invented has them!"

Gongshu Ban was a person who truly believed that technology could change the times, so he also believed that as long as he mastered advanced technology, he could end the entire chaotic world.

In the face of absolute technological advantage, neither benevolence, righteousness, nor morality is worth talking about first, but should be discussed after the chaos is over.

Therefore, the Mohists have always called Gongshujia a hegemonic person rather than an evil one.

There is also love-hate relationship between the two.

They both slander each other and learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses.

Precisely because Gongshujia believed that technology was the first priority, we could often see Gongshujia making mechanical modifications to the human body. This was criticized by various schools of thought. Even until now, except for Gongshujia himself who was able to install mechanical arms and other structures, Daxia had expressly prohibited the installation of these mechanical structures on the people. Of course, Moshi was also partly responsible for this.

Therefore, Gongshujia was better than Mohist school at cultivating wood and steel, a technology with a biological orientation.

But the Mohist school is different. Although the Mohist school also established its school based on mechanical engineering, before learning mechanical engineering, Mozi studied Confucianism!

Mohism has a distinct Confucian color.

But there is a good saying.

Heretics deserve to be burned on the cross more than pagans.

It is precisely because Mohism was derived from Confucianism that it realized the drawbacks of Confucian "ritual system" and wanted to change Confucianism from the root.

When others criticize Confucianism, they may not have hit the root of the problem, and Confucianism would just laugh it off. But when Mohists criticized Confucianism, it was really quick, accurate and ruthless, forcing Confucianism to fight to the death.

If you don't work hard, then it is natural for your disciples to switch to Mohism in the future, and there will be no obstacles in the process of switching. The more disciples you train, the more you will do for the Mohist school.

Therefore, mechanical engineering is only the superficial aspect of Mohism. The core of Mohism is still "benevolence", or "righteousness" transformed from "benevolence".

If Gongshujia is compared to an engineering man who is determined to change the times with technology, then Mojia is a half-hearted white lotus in Gongshujia's eyes. What's more terrible is that Mojia, this white lotus, has completely dominated Gongshujia, an engineering man.

The core of Gongshujia from the ninth rank to the second rank is the art of mechanical engineering.

But starting from the fourth rank of Ren Xia, the style of Mohism became strange in the eyes of Gongshujia, an engineering man.

The third level does not believe in fate, denies fatalism and the theory of destiny, and believes that people should live through their own efforts.

The second-rank official, Tianzhi, advocated the unification of weights and measures and the distinction between the noble and the humble.

The first level of universal love is complete, impartial, and undifferentiated love.

In Gongshujia's eyes, they had been fighting with the Mohists over mechanical arts for their entire lives, but in the end, the Mohists told them, "I don't want to play with mechanical arts. My ideal is still the kingly way."

What a huge irony!
If he can tolerate this, then there is really nothing that Gongshujia cannot tolerate.

It's like.

You are wholeheartedly trying to catch up with the first place in the class, but in the end someone casually says that test papers are all for exam-oriented education and cannot improve your knowledge. Knowledge is dead, but people are alive. We should pay more attention to the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor.

Even if it was just to vent his anger, Gongshujia wanted to defeat Mohism in exam-oriented education.

But unfortunately, apart from seeing some signs of progress in Zhou Tieyi's steam engine, they have really been suppressed by the Mohist School over the years.

If the Mohist school had not been suppressed by the other schools in the court, Gongshu Jia would have been driven out of the court by the Mohist school long ago.

Facing Mo Qu's fiery gaze, which was like looking at a lover in mad love, Zhou Tieyi took a step back.

Sorry, we're not a good match.

In fact, the main propositions of Mohism are good, but Zhou Tieyi estimates that most modern people cannot accept Mohism just because of one point.

That is, the Mohists had to pay a "tax of universal love".

Yes, this is a heavy tax independent of national taxation. Every Mohist is obliged to pay it to support the weak. The most popular doctrine in Tianjing's poorhouse is not the doctrines of the three well-deserved saints of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, but Mohism!

And the more you get, the more you pay, and you will eventually achieve the goal of 'mutual benefit', which is absolute egalitarianism.

For example, Mo Qu, the Minister of Works in front of Zhou Tieyi, was exempted from taxes in many cases by the Great Xia Dynasty, but he had to pay a large amount of "universal love tax" to the Mohist school.

What do you think of the Mohist "tax of universal love"?

From an outsider's perspective, of course, everyone agrees with it, but if you really have to pay, Zhou Tieyi can't imagine how painful it would be.

Moreover, absolute egalitarianism has been proven to be a utopian ideal country that cannot be achieved before the productivity is highly liberated. Therefore, Zhou Tieyi declined the Mohist school.

Zhou Tieyi did not go forward to greet Mo Qu in a familiar manner. Everyone saw that Mo Qu looked sad.

What was even more interesting to those who were seeing him off was that although Mei Juncang, Zhou Tieyi's only disciple, came this time, he did not stand next to Zhou Tieyi. Instead, the person Zhou Tieyi gave the most instructions to was Hao Ren, the manager of the Railway Chamber of Commerce.

There were many people seeing Zhou Tieyi off. Even if everyone exchanged a few words, half an hour easily passed. Cui Wanxia, ​​a legalist, coughed softly, walked to Zhou Tieyi, and reminded him, "Lord Zhou, it's getting late."

Zhou Tieyi smiled, took out two memorials from the white jade chessboard, and handed them to his brother Zhou Tiege in front of everyone, "I will not be able to make it to the court meeting tomorrow, you present these two memorials to His Majesty."

Hearing these words, everyone's eyes focused on the two memorials that Zhou Tieyi handed to Zhou Tiege.

They are curious.

What kind of memorial would prevent Zhou Tieyi from entering the palace to meet the emperor today?
Perhaps for other people, entering the palace to meet the emperor is not so easy, but Zhou Tieyi is definitely not one of them.

Thinking back to the time when the emperor had not yet become a Taoist and still needed to avoid the officials, he was able to meet Zhou Tieyi one after another. This was already a great favor.

In addition to why Zhou Tieyi did not go to the palace to meet the emperor today, there is another question: why did Zhou Tieyi hand over the two memorials to Zhou Tiege in front of everyone today? Couldn't he have handed them to Zhou Tiege at home?

Isn't it obvious that Zhou Tieyi has already guessed some changes in tomorrow's court meeting and made corresponding preparations!

Everyone understood this point.

Shock, obvious shock!
I, Zhou Tieyi, left Beijing knowing that you were going to do something, but before you do that you have to guess whether I am right about what you are going to do?

If you guess wrong, I'm sorry, but I have anticipated your possible plan and it just happened to hit me.

When Cui Wanxia saw the two memorials Zhou Tieyi handed over, his curiosity pricked like a cat's claws, and he said tentatively, "Lord Zhou, don't you need to explain it again? After all, this is a matter of family and country, and we still have time."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "No, it's getting late. Lord Cui, wasn't he very anxious just now? You are so anxious for me to leave Tianjing. You must have left a memorial for me to report to the court tomorrow morning, right?"

Cui Wanxia: ...This is definitely naked revenge!

(End of this chapter)