"According to what you said, if that anomaly really exists, it should have existed in Yanshi as early as six hundred years ago. Later, it was passed down to Gongshu Ban, and then to Mo Zi. After that, the Mo family was severely suppressed and completely annihilated, so it disappeared without a trace, right? Why don't you start with Chiyou? Chiyou had 72 'brothers' who bit stones and swallowed gold. "Mo Qiong asked with a smile.
Ying Fei said, "That's too long ago. There's no need to involve everything. At least there are clear records of the pre-Qin period. We modern people can say that Liezi made up the story about prostitutes in Yanshi. But Liezi has read the Zhou Royal Palace's notes. If it's false, it means that he's making up the story about the deceased King Mu of Zhou. This behavior is not a small matter. "
"It's not a problem to say that the story of the foolish old man moving the mountain is a fable made up by him. After all, it's about the ordinary people in the mountains. It's very philosophical. But the story of the King Mu of Zhou seducing his concubine is not recorded in the Royal Palace's notes. Is this something that Liezi dared to spread based on his imagination? At that time, the Zhou Royal Palace was still the world. The Zheng State was also one of the vassal states with the surname Ji. How dare Liezi make up such a story? "
"Let's not talk about whether the Royal Palace would find trouble with him. Just the public opinion alone would be reprimanded by countless gentlemen. Ridiculing the King Mu of Zhou is simply challenging the bottom line of gentlemen. At that time, there would be countless scholars who would curse this' keyboard warrior 'to death and punish him."
"Making up a fable about the King Mu of Zhou is not allowed in the social atmosphere at that time. Unless … the Zhou Royal Palace's notes clearly have the prototype. Maybe even the more knowledgeable people at that time knew about that kind of thing. "
"Otherwise, I don't think Liezi would make up such a philosophical story out of thin air."
Hearing Ying Fei's words, Mo Qiong lowered his head and pondered.
After hearing Ying Fei's words, he felt that it made sense …
Prostitutes in Yanshi was probably a fact that Liezi mixed in many fables.
This kind of thing, in the eyes of modern people, was like a fable made up by Liezi's imagination. But was it really a fable? What philosophy was there? What reason was there?
Xue Tan's fable was to tell people that there was no end to learning any skills. Don't be arrogant and complacent just because you have some achievements.
The fable of the Foolish Old Man Moving the Mountain was to tell people that if they persevered, there would be a way.
The fable of Bian Que changing hearts was to tell people that everyone had their own strengths and weaknesses, and they had to learn from others to make up for their own weaknesses.
"Yanshi was a prostitute, emmm …" Mo Qiong thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure out the logic behind this story.
If anything, it would be the last sentence of the fable: After Lu Ban and Mo Zi heard Yanshi's story, they didn't dare to mention their skills again.
Was this the philosophy that Liezi wanted to talk about? If so, wouldn't it be the same as' Xue Tan Xuexiao '? And it wasn't as good as that one.
Because Yanshi's whoredom was mostly about Yanshi offering the wood to the King of Mu of Zhou. Only the last sentence slightly mentioned the shame of Lu Ban and Mo Zi, and did not mention the art of wooden armor.
It was too far-fetched to say that the central idea was to prevent people from becoming arrogant and complacent.
Isn't it good to have 'Xue Tan Xuexiu'? Was there a need to write so much about Yanshi and even bring up the deceased King?
It was better to say that Liezi was expressing: Mo Zi and Lu Ban were nothing special. Back then, Yanshi offered a wood prostitute to the King of Mu of Zhou. She could sing and dance better than a real person, and even flirted with the King of Mu's concubines. These two people weren't at the peak of wooden armor, Yanshi was.
Ying Fei said: "This is more like Liezi showing off what he saw in the palace notes. It's just a small trick of Mo Zi's."
"This …" Mo Qiong smiled and did not take it seriously.
"It's a pity that Lu Ban died early and didn't see what Liezi said. As for Mo Zi, I don't know if he saw it or not. But Mo Zi's focus was on studying the principles of wooden armor. Even if he saw it, he wouldn't care about what Liezi said. Liezi didn't understand Mo Zi's thinking at all, and didn't hit the key point. "Ying Fei said.
"Oh? You mean Mo Zi's invention is more practical and exploring the principles? "Mo Qiong asked.
Ying Fei nodded: "Yes, Mo Zi once reprimanded Gongshu Ban for making things that were not good for people. A wooden bird that could fly was not as good as a wooden cart made by ordinary craftsmen. The wooden cart was installed on the axle, and the cart could carry 50 stone. But what's the practical use of wooden birds? Things made by carpenters, those that are good for people are called ingenious, those that are not good for people are called clumsy. "
"This is Mo Zi's attitude, and it's even close to the spirit of science. So Mo Zi made crossbows and ladders, four-wheeled carts and scales, pistons and resonators, and even did research on optics and mechanics, and proposed the early atomic theory … I think even if Mo Zi was an anomaly user, he would only laugh at Liezi's words: You don't understand what I want to do. It's not that I'm not as good as Yanshi, it's that Yanshi is not as good as me. Don't compare me with Yanshi, he's just a mediocre person who made toys for the rich. "
"Mo Zi's' Tianzhi 'has made it very clear. Heaven includes all things in the universe, and Tianzhi is the law of nature. His thinking itself is a materialist with the spirit of science, but he's also a Ming Gui … He combined the law of nature with the human mind, and elaborated a theory that is both idealistic and materialistic. "
Mo Qiong said: "Mo Zi wanted to use the Ming Gui to restrain people's minds, to save the chaos of broken etiquette. He used the Ming Gui to make people not do evil things. "
Ying Fei said: "Before he proposed the Ming Gui, people didn't believe in ghosts and gods? His action was superfluous. With Mo Zi's pragmatic character, Ren Xia was more meaningful. Good and evil retribution, if the Ming Gui didn't, the Mo family would. Facts also proved that Ren Xia was more useful. At that time, the Mo family's disciples were at the peak of their power, and the rich and powerful of the countries would rather fool the Ming Gui than the Mo family's disciples. Because the Ming Gui might not come for revenge, but the Mo family's disciples would definitely abandon their families and children and come for revenge. "
"In the heyday of the Mo family, wherever there were followers of the Mo family, the security was extraordinarily good. Because if a person was killed for no reason, the followers of the Mo family would definitely come for revenge. If a follower of the Mo family was killed, all the followers of the Mo family within a hundred-mile radius would put down their hoes and come for revenge. If all the followers of the Mo family within a hundred-mile radius were killed, all the followers of the Mo family in the country would gather here, or even more … If you have the guts, kill all the followers of the Mo family in the world. Otherwise, the rich and powerful would definitely die, and even the country's monarch would not be able to protect them. "
"The Ming Gui was just a verbal threat to frighten the world, but in reality, it was the millions of followers of the Mo family who were frightening the monarchs. When the Mo family declined, what was the use of the Ming Gui? The followers of the Mo family who were like lunatics were the real ghosts. "
Mo Qiong knew what Ying Fei meant. If ghosts were useful, they wouldn't have broken etiquette.
Instead of strengthening people's fear of ghosts, Confucianism would strengthen morality.
Since Mo Zi was a Ming Gui, it was impossible that he didn't know that the Ming Gui was useless. From his actions, he was clearly a pragmatic person. He clearly knew that the sword of the followers of the Mo family was more useful than the Ming Gui who monitored the world and carried out the will of heaven.
"Are you trying to say that Mo Zi was wavering between materialism and idealism?" Mo Qiong asked.
Ying Fei shook his head: "No, the will of heaven is his worldview, and the Ming Gui is also his worldview. He simply added the Ming Gui into the natural law of heaven to make up for his own theory, because he felt that the natural law alone was unable to explain all the doubts in his heart. He needed to add in an idealistic variable that varied according to the human heart in order to make his' universe model 'more complete."
"This kind of thinking … how is it different from Newton's?"
Mo Qiong was startled. As a member of the Blue and White Society, he naturally knew that Newton was one of the pioneers of the Blue and White Society's ideology. In his later years, Newton studied theology because anomalies subverted his materialistic view of science.
Newton was like that because he came into contact with anomalies, not because he wanted something to rely on in his old age.
Then … what about Mo Zi? What did he come into contact with?
"Mo Zi was a researcher with a scientific spirit. The difference between him and Yanshi was that he didn't pursue how lifelike the wooden armor could be, but rather why … that thing … could be used to create wooden armor." Mo Qiong followed Ying Fei's train of thought.
Ying Fei was overjoyed: "That's right! He was the same as Newton … no, Newton was the same as him, using a scientific spirit to study anomalies. You and I both know the consequences of that "
Of course Mo Qiong knew that using a scientific spirit to study anomalies would only lead to confusion.
Because anomalies often had an idealistic variable, such as the song of reversal that reversed one's physiology based on one's inner perception of gender. If you believe that you're a man, you'll become a woman. What kind of idealism was that?
There were even some anomalies that directly depended on the person who held them to determine the definition of 'one'. For example, if the lower half of a person's body was completely destroyed, would the remaining half be considered 'one'? As far as Mo Qiong knew, there was an anomaly that was determined based on the human heart, resulting in different results for two people. Because one would think that it was' half a person ', while the other would think that it was' one person ', only the lower half of the body was destroyed.
Even the Blue and White Society couldn't figure out why anomalies were like that, let alone Mo Zi. It was impossible to know the reason why.
"Mo Zi must've held an anomaly before, but he also had a scientific spirit, so he wanted to study 'Heaven's Will' from the anomaly, in other words, the laws of nature. He did it, after all, it was the art of wooden armor, so it was normal for him to be able to summarize some principles of optics, mechanics, as well as understanding the principles of crossbows and so on. But that was the end of it, he couldn't completely study the anomaly itself, as well as the wooden humanoid products it created "
"Because of that, he felt that Heaven's Will was flawed. Not everything in the universe was based on materialistic laws of nature, there was also an idealistic variable. That is the Heavenly Demon … a type of Heaven's Will that was based on a person's will, an absolute characteristic "
Hearing Ying Fei's speculation, Mo Qiong couldn't help but sigh.
He couldn't help but admit that this guy was quite capable to be able to convince the higher-ups to support his search for 'wooden armor' several times.
What he said was enough to move the Blue and White Society to support him.
But what if he found it?
However, Ying Fei couldn't find it even after a few years, so he was no longer supported.
"My special funds are gone, and the higher-ups don't allow me to search for pre-Qin and Han tombs on my own"
"But I didn't give up, I found another ancient tomb a while ago, it's pre-Qin, and it's on the route that Qin Shi Huang took during his Eastern tour. Because it's not a noble's tomb, it seems to be a normal person's tomb, but it's surprisingly large, so I plan to dig it up myself … "
"Ahem … brother, can you give me some funds?"
"…" Mo Qiong's expression became strange.
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