Last year, in the 35th year of Qin Shihuang, the most impressive thing to the people of Xianyang was that Wushi Yan brought envoys from various Western Regions into the capital. The tall and majestic "Tianma" with high horses, camels with peaks on their backs, bright Western fruits, white and bright Khotan jade, Huma maids with high noses and deep eyes, and even Daxia people with high noses and deep eyes, all made them feel fresh.

And just after the beginning of the spring of the 36th year, another team of people came to Guanzhong after trekking thousands of miles. The things they brought back once again caused a sensation in the court and the public.

The beginning was the elephant walking on both ends. This was actually the garrisons who went to Nanjun and Hengshan to rest and recuperate, at the request of the deputy military supervisor Ziying, captured in Changsha County, but were regarded as tributes from Lingnan. There were originally four, but unfortunately two died on the way. For the people of Guanzhong, whose elephants have been extinct for thousands of years, this was a rare giant beast. For a time, thousands of families in Xianyang came out of empty rooms and squeezed into the street to watch.

There were also two peacocks in the wooden cage, one female and one male. Unfortunately, they were depressed by the long journey. They were watched by so many people all at once. The male peacock felt dangerous and opened the large screen at the tail. Unexpectedly, the passers-by shouted louder, which made them very scared. They were scared to death before entering Xianyang Palace...

Fortunately, there are hundreds of colorful kingfishers, which are said to be "emerald". Their feathers are the favorite decorations of thousands of beauties in the Emperor's Palace.

The carriage was carrying hundreds of polished snow-white ivory, dozens of precious rhino horns, five hundred tortoiseshell purple shells, several kilograms of pearls, and hundreds of kapok cloths.

In addition, there are Yue people with broken tattoos and hair, wearing shackles and walking behind.

After the Southern Expedition Army reoccupied Panyu, at the request of the Shaofu, he sent local specialties to Xianyang. After seeing this, Emperor Qin Shi was very happy and asked someone to place the elephant, jade and other products at the twelve Jin people in front of the Xianyang Palace to display it to promote the great martial arts of the Qin Dynasty.

He wanted to tell all those who opposed this battle how rich the territory seized by the Southern Expedition Army was, and that it was not the "useless land" mentioned by Confucian scholars.

Yes, look at the pearl, which is big and round, and is completely in the Central Plains.

If you smell the agarwood, you will breathe the aroma for ten steps. The white wood fragrance tree can form agarwood south of the Wuling River, but in the Wuling River, it is just an ordinary wood with no fragrance...

Qin did not give birth to these treasures, but Your Majesty pleased them, so he came to Qin.

The court officials and officials praised these rare things, but did not mention them at all. These rare things were not what ordinary people needed.

Only a passerby Mo family disciple, looking at the countless rare things in Lingnan, couldn't help but shivering in this sunny sky.

His master, also Qin Mo's new "giant", Cheng Shang, noticed his trembling and turned around and looked at him in surprise.

"Shilin, what happened?"

This young Mohist disciple was named Shilin, who was from Song Dynasty. His parents were shoemakers and unfortunately died in the War of Unification.

After the unification of the world, Qin Mo traveled around and adopted these war orphans a lot. Now, this group of people has gradually grown up and become a new generation of Qin Mo. They are active in Xianyang and various iron officials and mines, and have opened "engineering" to teach craftsmen's skills.

Shi Lin still couldn't stop his trembling. He held his arms and whispered: "Master, I'm afraid."

"What scares you?"

Shi Lin said: "I remembered the Master's lesson on "Jieyi" and told a story... Zhou was an ivory chopstick, and Jizi was horrified."

"Ivory chopsticks will definitely not be placed on clay vessels like ging, and they must be matched with rhinoceros jade cups. Jade cups and ivory chopsticks will definitely not be used as containers for beans, cabbage leaves, but will be served with delicacies such as elephants and leopards. Such utensils will definitely not be worn in short brown and live in thatched huts to eat. They must have nine layers of brocade clothes and a wide room."

"Jizi saw Zhou starting to use ivory chopsticks, and then he saw the ending. In this way, one day, the wealth of the world would not be enough for one person to spend. Sure enough, five years later, Zhou of Shang built wine ponds and meat forests, set up firecrackers, climbed the hills, and the Shang Dynasty was destroyed..."

The two of them had walked to the feet of the huge golden man. Shi Lin raised his head and said:

"Now in Xianyang Palace, there are high platforms and spacious rooms, nine layers of brocade clothes, delicious food, rhinoceros and jade cups, tortoiseshell ivory chopsticks. Master, Jizi is the one who fears the disciples. The wealth outside the Jiuzhou region is concentrated in Xianyang, decorated with the harem, filled with the palace, entertaining the heart and enjoying the eyes and ears, but Your Majesty is not satisfied. He is still building the palace and tombs, and still seeking immortality. I am afraid that this Qin Dynasty will suddenly overturn like the Shang Dynasty like the Shang Dynasty..."

"Be careful!"

Cheng Shang quickly stopped this bold disciple and pulled him away from the palace gate where the onlookers were watching. The public opinion of the Qin Dynasty had long been tightened, and since the crime of "slander" was issued last year, no one dared to criticize the court and the emperor. Once this statement is reported by someone who is interested, let alone Shi Lin is punished, the entire Mohist school will also be implicated.

The Mohist and the farmer survived the catastrophe of "banned books" just a few years ago. Now they still have to work for the Qin government, summarize various skills in engineering and teach them to craftsmen in order to prove that they are "useful".

When the master and apprentice returned home, Shi Lin, who had been holding it in for a long time, whispered: "Master, I just don't understand that the useless expenses, the way of the sage king, and the great benefits of the world. This is what the Mo Sutra says, and it is also what the Master taught me. But why did the court assisted by Qin Mo go against the meaning of Mo?"

“It wasn’t like that at first.”

Cheng Shang sighed. The principle they believed in was "officials are unpredictable and noble, but the people are not inferior" and "the meaning of the same day".

Mozi believed that different government orders could only lead to social chaos, so we should implement top-down management and unify everything above. This highly centralized idea coincides with the Qin Legalists. Qin Mo wanted to help Qin unify the world and let all voices come out of one's mouth, so as to eliminate the war and finally realize the ideal of being the same as the world.

At the beginning, Qin State was indeed simple and solemn from a king to an official. The Mo Man was like a fish in water in this system and established an efficient military system of Qin State.

But after unification, the water gradually became turbid.

"Unfortunately, I was told by Xiangli."

Cheng Shang couldn't help but remember the conversation with the Mozhe Xianglige more than ten years ago when he followed the Heifu to attack Chu, outside the small town of Chu.

"The King of Qin is greedy for the reputation of victorious victory, and every year he will be conquered. I heard that once he succeeds, he will destroy the enemies, write the princes and pavilions, and build palaces in Guanzhong. Even if the Qin people's livelihood has not caused much damage to the Qin people, it will be compensated by looting the six countries. If the King of Qin is destroyed, but the King of Qin is greedy and despised and continues to fight abroad, what will happen? To prepare for war, he must extract more money to recruit soldiers and horses and prepare weapons. I dare to say today that the King of Qin will be generous to the people, seize the people's food and clothing, seize the people's use, and waste the people's benefits. The people cannot eat hunger, clothes, and labor cannot rest. In the long run, even if the country is big, war will be destroyed."

Faced with Xiang Lige's question, Cheng Shang's answer at that time was: "Qin Mo would strongly advise the king to rest with the people and eliminate the war and disaster..."

But he was slapped in the face by reality. Just look at the joy of being sent to the frontier last year. The advice was guilty, and everyone learned to be smart and kept silent.

Today's Qin Dynasty is farther and farther away from the "righteousness of the same world" that Mozhe expected. After Cheng Shang succeeded as a master, he learned from his disciples who traveled to various counties that the rift between the former places of the six countries and the Qin officials and the Qin army was getting deeper and deeper. And what Qin Shihuang liked and did was completely opposite to the Mozhe's insistence on "either love, not attack, use, and burial".

"In my opinion, what Your Majesty values ​​are about color, music, pearls and jade, and what you care about the people!"

Shi Lin became more and more angry as he spoke, and even began to criticize Mozhe's good friend. A few years ago, Changnan Hou came.

"The same is true for the Marquis of Changnan. It was a good thing to seize Nanyue without too many casualties, but how could he offer extravagant things to the emperor and put money into the fire?"

Cheng Shangshao must not explain to his friends: "This has nothing to do with Changnan Marquis. This is what the young mansion wants, and it is also searched by two military supervisors, Changwu Marquis and Ziying. Changnan Marquis was also ordered to act."

Cheng Shang sighed, "Besides, what is the result of the Southern Expedition? He must give His Majesty a clear and tangible explanation."

In Heifu's words, this is a "project interim report". You have to tell the boss that everything goes according to plan and achieves remarkable results. Don't send someone to urge progress every month...

“But it’s too inaction…”

Shi Lin was still dissatisfied. In the eyes of this young angry young man, all the civil and military officials in the court were all sitting alone, watching the world deviate and falling into the abyss. Changnan Hou was smart and ran to the south by himself to avoid all this, and it was not much better.

He gritted his teeth and asked, "Teacher, what should the Mozhe do in this world?"

"How to do it? You can only make profits and make harm..."

Cheng Shang felt tired. He never thought that he would be chosen to be a giant. This may be related to his ten years of hard work in studying the concepts in the Mo Jing and doing many experiments to prove that the hypothesis proposed by Zi Mo Zi and gained great reputation. At the same time, Cheng Shang also brought a group of disciples to develop hydraulic equipment to the extreme with the prototype of water spines. For example, there are water trucks, water mills, and water drainage in various places today, and the efficiency has indeed been greatly improved.

By relying on the skills of skilled craftsmen to promote the "productivity" mentioned by Heifu and he made great contributions to the world, perhaps the negative impact of heavy labor service caused by heavy taxes?

Among the Mo people, the majority of people agreed with this concept. When the previous giant, Master Tang, was old, chose Cheng Shang to succeed him according to the Mo family's "supering virtuous" tradition and handed over the Mo ruler to him.

But Shi Lin, a disciple of Cheng Shang, is not a conservative faction, but rather radical, and has his own ideas...

Seeing that Master Mu was in a state of depression, he stopped asking, silently retreated, and after coming out, he said intimately:

"As a giant, the Master is too inaction? He only knows that the emperor's orders are the ones who follow him all day long, and hopes to make up for profits, but this big harm cannot be compensated by small profits. In my opinion, the holes are getting more and more."

He stopped suddenly and said to himself: "Apart from the success, can't we... remove the harm!?"

Even though it was the radical among the Mozhe, Shilin was still shocked by the sudden thoughts that appeared, and quickly shook his head and threw it away.

But when it was March, even though Shi Lin wanted to follow the teachings of Master and make good progress and make profits better, he had to come to the Mohist school by himself.

Yao Jia of Shaofu ordered that the construction period of Afang and Mount Li was tight, and the construction had reached a stage where exquisite technology was required. Therefore, the Shaofu required that the Mo people must send people to assist in the construction of Afang Palace and Mount Li...

This demand caused a dispute in Qin Mo, and more than a hundred people were divided into two factions, and they were excited and quarreled.

In the end, the giant Cheng Shang barely suppressed everyone and obeyed the government's request.

The one who went to Afang Palace in Shilin stood there, and Young Master Fusu was in charge, but he did not demand too much from the Mo and forced everyone to do things that were contrary to his beliefs.

But the brothers sent to Mount Li have a big problem.

In mid-March, Deputy Supervisor Zhao Gao reported to Emperor Qin Shi:

There were three people in Mo who said that they followed Zi Mozi's "Jianwu" and refused to provide precise skills for the crossbows and arrows in the tomb of Mount Li. They even spoke badly, saying that Your Majesty was extravagant and did not know how to use it for money, and that they were guilty of slander. The court officer should be imprisoned and investigated!
Chapter completed!