When it comes to Mozi, everyone thinks of the Mo family in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and those Mo family disciples who aimed at "simultaneous love" and "non-attack". They have the people of the world in mind and often travel to the east and west to resolve wars.
Wearing cloth clothes and straw shoes is the public image of Mozi. This statement comes from the "Zhuangzi Tianxia Chapter": "Most of the ink people in the future generations will take Qiu Brown as their clothes and their clothes as their clothes." ”
The "Chronicle of History" says that Mozi served as a doctor in the Song Dynasty, and was also a Lu national like the Gonglu class. Mozi came from a poor background, called himself inferior, and took a completely grassroots route. When he was young, Mozi also studied Confucianism, but soon felt that this set of things was too cumbersome, especially the rules for burying the dead thickly, and the poor and harmful, wasteful. So he gave up this set of tricks, "used Xia Zheng against the zhou", created the Mojia theory, and began to build another mountain.
After establishing another mountain, Mozi established a group with superb martial arts skills, which was the earliest "underworld" in Chinese history. This "underworld" has a complete organizational system, a political platform, and a declaration of action. Its supreme authority leader is called a "giant" and has absolute authority. Mozi was the first "giant".
Completely different from today's underworld, Mozi's "underworld" is basically an angel group, and their slogan is: love, interest, and non-attack. In today's parlance: fraternity, mutual assistance and mutual benefit, and the abolition of war. Mozi's proposition, together with Mozi's organization, had a huge impact throughout the Warring States, with thousands of employees in its heyday.
Mozi's employees are collectively known as "inkers", also known as the short clothes gang, most of them come from the bottom of society, on weekdays short clothes shoes, smell chicken dancing, and engage in martial arts training. "Stringing feet and calloused, the face is black", taking pleasure in suffering. As soon as a weak country suffers and the masses are in difficulty, they immediately go to the rescue and go to the soup to fight the fire, and they will not return the heel. A death squad look.
Mo Zi went abroad several times in his life, although the country and travel style he walked were slightly cold compared with Kong Meng, but the effect was not the same - every time he went out, he could save many lives. When Mozi heard in Shandong that the Hubei people were going to attack the Henan people, he immediately set off overnight, walked for ten days and ten nights, and the straw shoes were all gone, and reached the capital of the Chu State. After a battle of words and hands, an international conflict was stopped.
This matter, according to Liang Tao's "Mozi Xingnian Examination", was done when Mozi was 30 years old - otherwise if he walked for ten days and ten nights, he would be a bit overwhelmed, and he might not be able to walk fast. And thirty years old is a man's golden age.
Mozi saw that the King of Chu had dispelled the idea of attacking the Song Kingdom, so he took the opportunity to send him a book. The king of Chu half frowned, turned it over hastily, and said, "Books are good books, but they are of no use to me." In this way, if Mr. Mo is willing to stay in the Chu Kingdom, I can take care of you. So Mozi didn't say a word and walked back to Luguo.
Mozi's organization is huge, which will bring huge expenses. In order to maintain daily operation, Mozi is self-reliant, training all the short clothes gang to become skilled workers, letting everyone play furniture, build buildings, and build defensive weapons. In the Warring States period, Mozi's short clothes gang was the favorite cheap carpenter of the common people, and the most reliable arms dealer in various countries. The crossbow vehicles, transfer machines, and vehicles they produced became the most powerful and sought-after heavy weapons in the Warring States period. But Mozi's weapons are usually sold only to the defending side, and never to the invaders.
Although Mozi's underground organization is the best private enterprise in all of China, there are also cases of failure. According to the "Han Feizi" record, in 471 BC, the Ministry of Defense of the Song Dynasty discovered that the Gonglu ban had built a wooden plane, and felt that it could be used as a tool for patrolling the city and would be greatly accomplished militarily, so it entrusted Mozi to make a larger and more luxurious wooden plane than the Gongluo ban. It took Mozi three years to complete this, and on the day of the inspection test flight, the plane flew for only one morning and then fell. As a result, a large amount of money was refunded.
The disciples were afraid that Mozi would not be well, so they all comforted Mozi and said, "Teacher, you are really a cow, and you can actually make the wooden bird fly to the sky." Mozi said, "I should be like The Bird Slipper (Mozi's disciple), who used only one foot of wood and a day to make a rut, but he could carry the weight of thirty stones, carry a lot, and run for a long time." You see my broken plane, it took three years to get it, and it broke in one day. I should do what I can!"
That being said, Ke Mozi has been doing things that she knows can't do. Mozi and his angel group strive to build an ideal society of fraternity and mutual benefit, and to have human beings love at the same time, and there should be no difference between relatives and distances.
Ban Gu said in the "Answering Guest Play": "The hole seat is not warm, the ink is not qian", saying that Mo Zi worked all day for the world like Confucius, and did not even have the kung fu to warm the mat and dye the chimney of the stove black. Mozi's whole life has been running for help.
Unfortunately, the Mojia School gradually disappeared into the long river of history because it did not meet the needs of successive rulers, but Mo Zhai's thought still affects us today. This alternative "underworld" boss has also always been respected by people.