Chapter 158 Two Mohist Schools

Frederick won because he completely swept the rebels who had just put down their shovels and forks, and it could be said that they didn't take much effort at all.

The reason for saying that he was defeated was very simple. Apart from Florence, the gathering place of rebels, Frederick did not even occupy an Italian village. It can be said that in terms of strategy, Frederick completely failed.

Apart from acquiescing the sublime Roman Empire's actual rule over Florence, the Pope did not make any compensation for Frederick. Perhaps the Pope was afraid of Frederick, and perhaps the Pope felt that Frederick's ability to plunder wealth was no longer needed to make up for it.

In short, Frederick hit the cotton with a punch. Unless he is now crazy and wants to indirectly attack the entire Italian peninsula and become enemies with the Pope, the current noble Roman Empire can only accept this unbeaten defeat.

I don’t know if it was because Frederick was not prepared to turn against the pope in his mind, or because he was not prepared to be an enemy of Italy in the military, but in the end, Frederick withdrew his army back to the empire.

In this regard, Bai Zhou just smiled and said that Frederick has not yet become a red beard that can stop children from crying (his beard is stained with the blood of the Italians: Italians), and he is still honestly a Christian on the surface (who will inevitably be dismissed from the church in the future).

Bai Zhou was not interested in Frederick's future actions. After all, he knew that the complex situation in the current Roman Empire and the imperialists' desire for Italian wealth would prompt Frederick to conquer Italy one after another until he drowned during the Third Crusade.

Therefore, Bai Zhou's attention was still on the guests in front of him. Mo Qi, to Bai Zhou's surprise, Mo Yi came together this time.

Although Mo Qi is Mo Yi's uncle, and the specific age of Mo Qi is not visible, it is possible that it is three, four or fifty years old, but it is definitely not as old as the white Mo Yi.

Moreover, Bai Zhou clearly felt that the relationship between this uncle and nephew was definitely not as close as the blood relationship between them.

"Young Master Ankang, Tianyou Da (the Westerners saluted the steadfast to the cypress boat.

"Mo Yi, I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you doing on your side?" Bai Zhou asked first.

They avoided the unnecessary greetings because none of the three people present were very stingy guys.

"Fortunately, the first batch of apprentices on the Iron San side were about to leave. Following the instructions of the young master, the steps of forging weapons were divided into three steps, and each hundred people only taught one of them, so these Swiss locals learned very quickly." Mo Yi paused and continued: "We have already set up a location in Bern, and we are waiting for the young master to raise funds."

Speaking of money, Mo Yi seemed to be more embarrassed, because in his mind, he believed that only after the weapons trade was officially launched, Xi Qin might have free funds to invest in some secondary projects, such as guild construction.

To a certain extent, when Tie San can start working and how well it is, it determines when the Mohist Guild Building will be built. Therefore, Tie San is actually full of energy and dare not slackew.

No problem that can be dealt with with money is a problem, the key problem is that there is no money.

Now what Mo Yi said involves money, so Bai Zhou can only remain silent.

Turning to Mo Qi, it seemed that Mo Yi felt that Bai Zhou was going to say something to his uncle, and immediately said, "Young Master, thank you for your sins. Mo Qi is no longer a disciple of our Mo family, and he himself has long been expelled from the genealogy."

"What?" Bai Zhou couldn't help but be surprised.

You should know that even if the Mohist school does not attach as much importance to clan etiquette and law as Confucianism, the expulsion of clans is a matter that cannot be described simply by shame for anyone, unless the person has no sense of shame.

But Mo Qi didn't look like a shameless person, but now when he heard Mo Yi mention this in person, he didn't say anything except a cold snort.

"Young Master, it was my negligence that I asked him to harass you with my Momen token. It's..." Mo Yi wanted to say something else.

"Enough, Mo Yi, I, Mo Qi, have been upright and always been in a good manner and sitting upright. I ask you, Mo Qi has done something to hurt the Qin Dynasty all my life?" The man, Bai Zhou, was angry for the first time when he saw him. Although it was not the type of anger, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Mo Qi was really angry.

"But you have done something to hurt the Mo Sect. It was you who personally led to the division of the Mo family." The old man Mo Yi stood up with a "wow" and said tit-for-tat.

"Bah..." Mo Qi seemed to be disdainful of this answer, but fortunately he seemed to be concerned about Bai Zhou sitting on the side, without any dirty words.

In the next hour, the two of them completely forgot about Bai Zhou on the side, and they were red in their necks and argued endlessly. The reason why Bai Zhou kept not interrupting them was because Bai Zhou also wanted to know what they had.

If Bai Zhou hadn't known that the Mohists in history not only made serious contributions to science and technology, they were also a quasi-military organization. To put it bluntly, it was a B-society with its own principles of conduct and its own political propositions. Then Bai Zhou really couldn't understand what they were saying.

Bai Zhou sorted out and said that in Momen, of course, it was the previous Momen. There were two kinds of voices inside. One was represented by Mo Yi, who did not like to participate in politics and had a strong interest in scientific and technological research. The second was represented by Mo Qi, hoping to create a "Datong Society".

Of course, if this is the case, the contradiction between these two factions is not irreconcilable, but the problem is that some political propositions like Mo Qi who hold a certain military force will definitely not be liked by the princes of all generations, even if they are constantly loyal to the Qin Dynasty.

Moreover, in the "Datong Society", the idea of ​​equalizing land and dividing property is almost the prototype of socialism that cannot be achieved in thousands of years. People today do not have such noble ideological awareness at all.

(Mohist school is called Xianxue. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, its status is no lower than that of Confucianism, Taoism and Law.)

The result is that fewer and fewer people join the Mo family.

After all, during the turbulent Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the people were embarrassed and they all wanted to have their own fields and assets, but in fact they didn't have them, so the Mohist school had its own unique survival soil.

But once the people's lives get better and better, the Mohist soil will only become smaller and smaller. With the dissatisfaction of the rulers, it can be said that their destruction is a foreseeable thing.

Therefore, people represented by Mo Yi strongly opposed Mo Qi and others.

Although Bai Zhou had no idea why Mo Qi, who actually controlled the military power, was kicked off the stage by a group of "Idiots" Mo Yi, this is the reality. In other words, their uncle and nephew had no personal grudge at all, which was completely different from political opinions. The result was that the Mo family was divided into two, and Mo Qi and his supporters were expelled from the Mo family.

Of course, Mo Qi and others still regarded themselves as the Mo family's personal teachings, believing that Mo Yi and others were rebellious, which violated the original ideas of the ancestors.

(In fact, it is true. If the Mohists did not have this political proposition, their status in history was the same as that of doctors and famous masters. In the evaluation of later generations, they were just a group of guys who liked to study the skills of strange things, and it was impossible to be called "experienced school".)

In other words, Bai Zhou also understood that if there were no Mo Qi, then the training of the "assassin" in the Mo family guild would be impossible - could he still expect Mo Yi, a "scientist", to teach people the way to assassinate?

The meeting ended so badly. Of course, Bai Zhou did not give up any of them. Although they were in the same power, in Bai Zhou's opinion, this was not a problem at all. As for Mo Qi's political proposition, Bai Zhou had not heard Mo Qi mention it yet. Obviously, although Mo Qi himself is a firm supporter of the "Datong Society", he also understood that Bai Zhou would definitely not support this proposition, so he had not mentioned it yet, so naturally Bai Zhou would not ask.

Anyway, for Western Qin, training a group of dead men who are proficient in assassination can be put on the agenda, and Mo Qi is a well-deserved instructor. Perhaps, when he first came to see Bai Zhou, he carried Alberto's head to tell Bai Zhou that he had this strength...
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