Chapter 367 There Must Be a Moon

Early in the morning, Zhou Tieyi woke up naturally from sleeping in the courtyard of the Mohist leader. After washing up, he enjoyed breakfast with Bai Mei's service. He had already learned about the situation of the court meeting in Tianjing from Hao Ren last night.

The situation developed a little quickly.

Zhou Tieyi said in his heart, but he was not surprised, instead he was prepared.

He wanted to use the Mohist school, so he had a long conversation with the Mohist leader that night.

But the leader of the Mohist school is not a fool, nor is he a puppet who does whatever he says. As the most powerful person in the world, he naturally has his own plans and the ideals of the Mohist school.

The Mohist ideal is also very simple: love for all the people in the world.

When the original path was blocked, the leader of the Mohist school saw hope for a new path from himself and wanted to give it a try, but he did not want to gamble everything that the Mohist school had.

So the leader of the Mohist school bet both him and himself on the article "On Wealth".

The reason why the Emperor of Daxia treated "On Wealth" so lightly was that, on the one hand, he really wanted to kill me, and it would be difficult to kill me if he was recalled to Tianjing.

Because it is easy to destroy your own body, but it is difficult to give the world a reasonable reason.

Even though Confucianism and themselves are now at odds with each other, if the emperor of Daxia really kills people for speech, Confucianism will try its best to stop it, because the other schools of thought will never agree with this reason. Even in the heyday of the emperors of Daxia, they could only drive out the eclecticists and the diplomats from the court, but there was no such thing as killing people for their speech.

Because the various schools of thought not only control speech, but also control power. The power controlled by the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism is no less than that of the Daxia royal family.

In the eyes of Confucianism, the best outcome is to be imprisoned in the Zhou Mansion for life, but this is not the best outcome for the Emperor of Great Xia.

The best outcome he hoped for, of course, was for him to turn into the moon and disappear in Taihang Mountain, or be killed by the gods, thus completely resolving this hidden danger.

On the other hand, it is because the second author of "On Wealth" is Mo Qu, a great figure of the Mohist school.

If he was someone who might pose a threat to the Emperor of Daxia in the future, then Tian's father was capable of posing a threat to the Emperor of Daxia now. It was impossible for Daxia to kill a leader of the highest rank in the world and one of the nine families in the court just because of a false interpretation of a Confucian sentence.

The Emperor of Daxia would not act rashly before thinking through how to deal with the leader of the Mohist school.

The autumn rain came with the wind, like silk threads thrown from the sky, forming a curtain that enveloped the entire Mo City in a veil.

Looking down from the mountain road in Mocheng, the vast rice fields after the autumn harvest are dyed green and yellow. From far to near, they are connected to the simple blue bricks and black tiles, white walls and maple trees at the foot of the mountain, forming a gradient and hazy painting.

The autumn rain naturally separated from both sides above Zhou Tieyi and the Mohist leader's heads, as if an invisible big umbrella was opened. Behind Zhou Tieyi, Bai Mei followed lightly.

During the days they lived in Mo City, taking a walk together after dinner had become a habit for Tian's father and Zhou Tieyi.

"I've been thinking about what you said before these days."

On the way to Moyuan, Tian's father took the initiative to speak, but did not mention the changes in the political situation in Tianjing.

"Which sentence?"

Zhou Tieyi withdrew his gaze from the pastoral scenery and turned to look at Tian's father. Although he had disdained Mocheng before, that was only based on the Mohist utopian ideal. But sometimes people just need to have some ideals, so during the past few days living in Mocheng, he felt it was particularly good. At least it was a very good place for travel, leisure, or retirement.

"Continuously liberate and develop productivity to meet the people's growing material and spiritual needs..."

Zhou Tieyi nodded slightly.

Father Tian thought for a moment and said, "We should add a sentence at the end, which is to ultimately achieve the self-growth of the people and the perfect development of society."

Zhou Tieyi thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Are you not going to discuss the good and evil of human nature?"

Father Tian thought for a moment and said, "Let's not discuss good and evil. Good and evil are just a means of labeling doctrines. People's own standards of good and evil are also changing with the times and society. The changes in the standards of good and evil are ultimately the result of the development of human society as a whole. The development of human society is made up of ordinary people. So while meeting their needs, we still have to guide them. Our ultimate goal is the growth of people as individuals and the common development of human society. In this process, the morality and ideals we originally advocated have practical value and meaning, and even some evil has meaning."

At this point, he looked at Zhou Tieyi through his tortoise-shell glasses, and then he said, "Who in this world can be called absolutely good? Good and evil are originally relative concepts, and even good and evil themselves are a process of constant change. The so-called nature of man is good or evil at the beginning, which is nothing more than a figment of the imagination."

After listening to this, Zhou Tieyi clapped his hands and laughed, "It really is worthy of being the best in the world."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and looked at Tian's father, "Write another article?"

There was a hint of teasing in his smile as he looked at Tian's father.

Tian's father knew that Zhou Tieyi was implying that he had not obtained his consent, so he published an article "On Wealth" in the name of both of them to test the waters, and at the same time tied Zhou Tieyi and him together in this matter.

This is naturally wrong and therefore evil.

But he needed to do this, just like Zhou Tieyi deliberately told his theory to himself instead of Gongshu Ting.

Father Tian didn't care about Zhou Tieyi's teasing expression at all. He thought for a moment and answered seriously, "They don't have the heart to listen to us right now. Plus, with the newspaper company's affairs, any words we say now can't be published in Tianjing's newspapers."

As the two were talking, they had already arrived at the Moyuan Palace, the core of Mo City. It was an academy-style building, and also managed the entire Mo City.

As a utopian city, the Mohist Master is the leader of the Mohist school and has great authority, but at the same time, the Mohist Masters of all generations have been extremely restrained in using their power, so a kind of academy-style governance model has been formed. The Mohist Master is the "dean" of the Mohist Academy. Through ideological teaching, he makes the Mohists consciously abide by the Mohist orders, which is also the reason why the universal love tax can be evaded.

The two first came to the newly established "Steam Feipeng Research Institute" in Shanggong of Moyuan. Slightly different from Gongshujia, Zhou Tieyi proposed the concept of steam airship, and Gongshujia started to study the prototype directly. During this process, Zhou Tieyi only needed to report the requirements, and Gongshujia would tell him whether it could be done and whether it could be done safely.

However, the Mohist School attached great importance to the feelings of Zhou Tieyi, the "user". Before the prototype was made, they had already produced many model drawings, hoping to use these model drawings to figure out more knowledge "hidden" in Zhou Tieyi.

Zhou Tieyi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, as expected of a white lotus and a science and engineering man, they consider different things when doing things.

After staying in the Steam Feipeng Research Institute for half a day, Zhou Tieyi and Tian's father entered another core mechanism manufacturing room alone. This mechanism manufacturing room is also the most advanced manufacturing room of the Mohist School.

This manufacturing room itself is like a giant tower spiraling downward. The reason why it is not hidden in another separate space is because the giant tower is connected to the earth vein formation of the entire Mo City, continuously absorbing the energy of the earth veins and supplying it to the entire manufacturing room, achieving the effect of clean energy. However, even with such an advanced mechanism manufacturing room, if it is not a major mechanism project that can be jointly decided by the entire Mo Academy Palace, it will generally not be agreed to be opened.

This is also the limitation of Mo City itself. Due to the need to save money and concerns about inkstone pollution, Mo City will choose to give up most of the machinery manufacturing even if it knows there is better technology, thus reducing the production efficiency of the entire city. For example, although the Mo family's Steam Feipeng was intended to test Zhou Tieyi, its construction speed was much lower than that of Gongshujia who started working directly.

At this time, the extremely rich power of the earth veins surged into a ring, forming a dark yellow halo, covering a piece of space in the middle that appeared concave and convex, like a sphere. This is what Zhou Tieyi, Mohist school and Gongshujia wanted to create together.

The moon is bright.

This thing is just like a steam airship. Zhou Tieyi already has the theoretical components, but to actually manufacture it and achieve the desired effect, or even better results, the three parties need to work together.

Of course, in this process, Zhou Tieyi is more about providing ideas and models. Whether to evolve the specific ideas and models into practical mechanical creations depends on the abilities of Tian Fu and Gongshu Ting.

"Teacher Gongshu, how are your preparations going?"

Zhou Tieyi looked at Gongshu Ting outside the dark yellow halo and asked with a smile.

The day Zhou Tieyi visited Mo City, Gongshu Ting had already visited him secretly.

The Mingyue Mechanism is the key to solving the Moshi disease in Gongshu family's six-ring mechanism city. Gongshu Ting certainly couldn't let the Mo family do it alone, as he himself was not unfamiliar with the technology.

However, the impact of the leader of Gongshu clan and the giant of Mohist school putting aside their prejudices and working together to create the mechanism was too great. Gongshu Ting was even less courageous than Tian's father, so he acted in a hurry and chose to study the Mingyue mechanism together with Tian's father and Zhou Tieyi in the form of a secret visit.

Tian's father naturally agreed with this and promised not to spread the news that Gongshu Ting came alone.

As for Zhou Tieyi calling Gongshu Ting "teacher", it was Gongshu Ting's insistence. During this process, he also taught Zhou Tieyi everything he had learned without reservation.

The floating mechanism brought Gongshu Ting to the two of them. Gongshu Ting looked solemn, "The 'fetus' itself is ready. Now it depends on how you 'engraved' it. Although the method you called 'engraving' has been discussed, improved, and assisted by the two of us, the success rate is very high, but can you bear the consequences of failure?"

Zhou Tieyi was quite relaxed, "I can handle this result."

The first step of the entire mechanism Mingyue from the embryo to the engraving stage is very simple, which is to use a refined kingdom of God as the carrier of rules, and Zhou Tieyi will engrave thirty-six dragon seals symbolizing [Hua Yue] on it.

This seems like a simple matter, but it is actually extremely complicated, because the Dragon Chapter represents the ever-changing rules of heaven and earth. Zhou Tieyi knows the method of [Transformation into Moon], but that doesn't mean he can let other people know the method of [Transformation into Moon] in an instant, nor does it mean he can give any object the power of [Transformation into Moon] at will.

Therefore, Zhou Tieyi connected the process of the Queen of Heaven transforming into the moon, his own method of divine descent, and the Confucian method of pacifying the people, and tried a method of engraving that was unique to him.

The core of the method of divine descent is the fusion of essence, energy and spirit with the external ancestral energy of heaven and earth, so as to achieve the unity of heaven and man and continuously obtain the power of heaven and earth, but eventually one's own spirit will be lost in heaven and earth and return to nothingness. Therefore, the descent of gods requires someone to be sacrificed and bear the entire price. When the essence, energy and spirit of the victim return to nothingness, the gods will withdraw from the state of divine descent.

In the state of unity between man and nature, man can borrow strength from heaven and earth, and conversely, nature and heaven can also obtain supplementary rules from man, but most people don't think in this way. This is the core concept of Zhou Tieyi's engraving method.

The Confucian fifth level "An Min" has improved on this, using the great righteousness and the scope of rule to artificially divide a small world and connect it with all living things, sharing the erosion of the ancestral qi of heaven and earth on human spirit, and exiting the state of unity between heaven and man before the threshold is reached. Therefore, the Confucian fifth level "An Min" is regarded as the most advanced means of attack among all schools.

Of course, this is also limited by whether you can keep the people safe. If the people under your rule are living in poverty and the people themselves are full of complaints, while using the method of keeping the people safe, Confucianism itself will suffer backlash.

On the contrary, if the country under your rule is peaceful and the people are extremely wealthy, and there are many practitioners, then the ancestral qi of heaven and earth that you can borrow and bear will exceed the scope of the fifth level.

Zhou Tieyi combined the two. The Gongshu family used the method of returning to emptiness to clean up the kingdom of God, which was close to the Buddhist emptiness, but it also completely retained the space-time fetus.

The Mohist school used the earth vein formation as a node to guide the power of heaven and earth into the fetus in a controlled manner, so that it was full of changes, but would not immediately exceed Zhou Tieyi's current ability to bear.

Finally, it was Zhou Tieyi himself who completed the fusion with the fetus through the method of divine descent, allowing his own moon-transforming rules to be completely engraved in the fetus with the help of the power of heaven and earth, and finally completed the artificial moon wheel.

Since Zhou Tieyi had already made up his mind, Gongshu Ting was not one to be shy, so he looked directly at Tian's father and said, "Let's get started."

Father Tian nodded seriously and looked up at the sky. The next moment, the dome of the entire top-level mechanism manufacturing room opened, revealing the night sky outside. One after another, Mohist mechanism array diagrams emerged out of thin air, covering the top floor of the Mo Academy's upper palace, forming a huge complex array of dozens of acres. At this time, the bright moon in the sky had just risen. The bright moon, which was just after August 16, was still filled with vast lunar power. Under the effect of the Mohist array, a pillar of light was connected from the bright moon to the ground, illuminating the entire mechanism room that led directly to the belly of the mountain, except for the constantly changing divine fetus in the middle, which appeared increasingly dimmer.

In the midst of a great light, Gongshu Ting stretched out his hand, and imaginary numbers formed a bridge, bypassing the huge earth vein power and the dark yellow halo, penetrating the inside and outside of Mingyue's fetus. Zhou Tieyi stepped onto the imaginary bridge and walked into the uneven and changing space and time.

First, two dragon seals appeared in Zhou Tieyi's mind, and together they became [God's Descent], which was his own authority.

The next moment, one dragon seal after another appeared in the extremely rich moonlight, and in the extremely thick and dark yellow ring of the earth veins. They were naturally connected with [God's Descent], forming new changes.

Zhou Tieyi opened his eyes and looked at the divine fetus which was surrounded by darkness. "There must be a moon."

(End of this chapter)