The big man has a living father

Chapter 13: Master Dong gasps
The carriage sped along the official road and soon arrived at Dong's Mansion.

Normally, he should have handed in his business card, but Shi Qing was in a hurry like a ghost and had no time for such formalities, so he just barged in.

"Master Dong! Master Dong!"

Dong Zhongshu is now nearly sixty years old, but he is still in good health and is still pulling the bow.

Hearing the shout, he was unmoved and shot the arrow in his hand. Then he turned around and saw that it was Shi Qing. He put down the bow and saluted respectfully! "Brother Shi."

Shi Qing was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, jumping up and down: "Brother Dong, something big has happened!"

Dong Zhongshu smiled slightly and said, "Brother Shi, etiquette cannot be abolished."

Shi Qing had no choice but to return the greeting to Dong Zhongshu solemnly: "Brother Dong."

Dong Zhongshu then pointed the way to the side, and the two of them walked to a place where the servants could not hear them: "Brother Shi, what's going on?"

Shi Qing was so anxious that he jumped up and down: "The one that your majesty appointed as the Prince's attendant is Huo Qubing's second brother, Huo Hai!"

Dong Zhongshu laughed loudly: "I know about this. Huo Hai paraded through the streets of Lingyi today. His essays and poems were very good. I saw them too."

Shi Qing grabbed Dong Zhongshu's wrist and said, "Did you know that he is the descendant of Mozi?!"

Dong Zhongshu was stunned for a moment, and his face became serious: "What did you say?!!!"

In the pre-Qin era, Confucianism was just a small sect and had no influence at the beginning.

In the middle and late Warring States period, Confucianism became one of the top doctrines, or even the number one doctrine.

However, in the middle and late Warring States period, when discussing academic issues or schools of thought, all articles and documents would first talk about Confucianism, then Mohism, and then other schools of thought.

In other words, throughout the Warring States period, Mohism was in confrontation with Confucianism and was its rival.

Moreover, Mozi was a descendant of Confucianism. He felt that Confucianism worshipped Zhou rituals, which was too much trouble, so he proposed to respect Xia rituals, which went against Confucianism.

Confucianism believes that everything is determined by destiny, while Mohism believes that everything has its own reasons and has nothing to do with destiny.

Moreover, Shi Qing and Dong Zhongshu followed the Gongyang School, which had an additional conflict with the Mohist School. It could almost be said that all the Gongyang School members were warmongers, while the Mohist School advocated universal love and non-aggression.

The two sides are almost completely opposite.

Dong Zhongshu: "What happened? Please explain it in detail."

Shi Qing described in detail what happened after Huo Hai met the crown prince: "Brother Dong, think about it, nowadays, who would deliberately ignore etiquette and say something like 'We don't need to do that, we are just friends, let's not talk about these etiquettes'? This is said to the crown prince!"

Dong Zhongshu listened to Huo Hai's story from entering the Prince's Palace to meeting Chen Zhangsui and paying homage to the Prince, and deliberately mentioning that there was no need to observe etiquette, but he still felt: "I'm afraid this can't be said to be the successor of Mozi, right?"

Shi Qing: "Brother Dong, do you know what he did afterwards?"

"What did he do with the prince... what did he do? Experiments, yes, experiments. They were doing optical imaging experiments, and the specific method was to use a box this big..." Shi Qing gestured as he spoke, "It's this big."

"Drill a hole, leave a board on this side, and light a lamp on this side. The shadow of the lamp will hang upside down on the board on the other side."

"The prince was deeply attracted and asked him why the light was reversed."

Dong Zhongshu frowned as he listened: "Wait a moment."

Dong Zhongshu rushed to his own library.

Here, there is a room that is locked with more than a dozen locks, and there is a Luban lock on it.

Dong Zhongshu opened the Lu Ban lock, opened several locks, and opened the door.

There are many bookshelves inside this door, filled with bamboo slips. Judging from the style of these bamboo slips, they are very old.

Dong Zhongshu walked to the innermost part and lifted a piece of black cloth, revealing a large box. The box was locked with a big padlock and a message "Do not touch" was written on it. This was what Dong Zhongshu was going to burn before he died.

Now, Dong Zhongshu opened it.

After opening the box and rummaging for a long time, Dong Zhongshu finally found it.

【When Jing arrives, at noon, there is Duan and Jing Chang, talking about Duan. 】

This is the "Mojing" or "Mozi" collected by Dong Zhongshu. This sentence means that the shadow is inverted compared to the object because the light is turned upside down after passing through the end point, with the light from the upper part going to the lower part and the light from the lower part going to the upper part.

When Dong Zhongshu read Mo Jing before, he understood all the other descriptions of light in it, except this sentence.

Now I understand.

"Pinhole imaging, it turns out that this is the mechanism."

Shi Qing pointed at this paragraph and said, "I have read this paragraph. In the past, my father had a retainer who was a disciple of the Mohist School. He brought a part of the Mohist Scripture with him. I have read this paragraph and know that this is the method of the Mohist School!"

Dong Zhongshu: "Then, is there a possibility that he, like you, has only watched the performance of the Mo family?"

Shi Qing: "Brother Dong, this is weird!"

"My father and my brother died in this position one after another, and Gongsun also died in the teaching position."

"Ever since I became the prince's tutor, I have been keeping a careful eye on things."

"Even when His Majesty proposed to build a reception pavilion for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince so that he could receive all kinds of guests, I didn't say anything. Don't you know why, Brother Dong!?"

How could Dong Zhongshu not know?

If His Majesty had truly fully accepted Confucianism and Gongyang School, he would not have only adopted their own theories without doing anything himself.

Although His Majesty accepted the idea of ​​letting the Crown Prince study Confucianism, he clearly wanted to maneuver around it.

Now, it seems reasonable for Your Majesty to arrange a descendant of Mozi to be by the prince's side.

Although Dong Zhongshu's reasoning process was wrong, he got the correct answer.

What Liu Che hated most in his life was being threatened and coerced. Dou Ying and Tian Fen, one was a relative from his grandmother's side, and the other was a relative from his mother's side, both were in-laws.

What happened in the end?
Liu Che has been trying to find ways to replace Dong Zhongshu's things.

Of course, Liu Che never succeeded.

However, Dong Zhongshu did not succeed either.

When Liu Ju was still alive, he was no longer interested in Gongyang School, but instead became interested in Guliang School of Confucianism.

Although Liu Ju died early, the emperors who followed him were still not interested in Gongyang School and preferred Guliang School.

This led to Guliang School replacing Gongyang School and becoming the mainstream, and its influence even lasted for two thousand years!
The game between Dong Zhongshu and Liu Che directly affected the entire Chinese landscape, the appearance of Confucianism, and even directly led to too many corrupt scholars in later generations.

At this time, Dong Zhongshu was certain that Liu Che was dissatisfied with him. Dong Zhongshu did not expect that his real enemy was hidden within himself. After listening to Shi Qing's words, Dong Zhongshu also felt that Huo Hai was most likely deliberately arranged by Liu Che.

Dong Zhongshu said solemnly, "At the beginning, I proposed two conditions to Your Majesty, 'All those who are not in the six arts and Confucius' teachings should be banned and not allowed to advance' and 'Abolish all schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone', Your Majesty only agreed to the latter. Now it seems that Your Majesty not only did not agree to the former, but also found my weakness through this sentence."

Shi Qing wiped his sweat and said, "Brother Dong, your condition is indeed a bit too much."

Dong Zhongshu: "What do you know? The first condition is the same as asking for someone's death, and the second condition is the same as asking for all his money. If a gangster stops someone and asks for money, the person may not give it to him, but if you say you want to kill him, then he will be willing to give you money."

(End of this chapter)