Chapter 3 Chapter Three: The Story of Stopping Chu from Attacking Song

Mozi is an outstanding thinker and political activist who pays great attention to practice.His wisdom, firmness and courageous actions have won the respect of the people of all ages.Mr. Lu Xun wrote the famous novel "Fei Gong" based on "Gongshu" in the book "Mozi".In order to reappear the glorious image of Mozi in front of the readers, it is advisable to reintroduce this story: Gongshu Pan made a siege tool for the state of Chu, the ladder, and planned to use it to attack the state of Song.When Mozi heard the news, he hurried from Lu State to Chu State, trying to prevent the outbreak of war.He forgot about his fatigue and didn't care about rest. After the old calluses were worn out, new calluses appeared on his feet. Finally, in ten days and ten nights, he overcame the unbearable difficulties of ordinary people and rushed to the capital of Chu State—— —Ying, and met Gongshu Pan.

When Gongshu Ban saw Mozi, he asked, "What can you learn from traveling so far, sir?" "Someone in the north insulted me," Mozi said, "I want you to kill him..." The public loser is not happy. "I'll give you ten taels of gold!" Mozi continued. "I don't want to kill anyone!" Gongshu Ban said. Mozi straightened up very touched, bowed twice, and said: "I have a few words to say. I heard in the north that you built a ladder and you are going to attack Song. What crimes does Song have? Chu has more than What is lacking is the people. Killing what is lacking to fight for what is more cannot be called wisdom; the Song State has no crime, but it is not benevolent to attack him; you know it clearly, but you do not fight against the king of Chu, you cannot be said to be loyal. "Even if you have argued with the king of Chu, if you have fought but failed to achieve your goal, you cannot be said to be strong; according to the principle, even a few people should not be killed, but the majority should be killed, this cannot be called a wise class."

Gongshu Pan didn't answer. "Then, shouldn't we stop?" Mozi said. "This is impossible," Gong Shu Ban said, "I have already told the King of Chu." "Why don't you take me to see the king of Chu?" Mozi said. "Yes." Gongshu Ban said. "Now there is a man," said Mozi when he met the king of Chu, "who doesn't want a car, but wants to steal the old neighbor's car; What kind of person is this?" "That must be a sneaky disease." Chu Wang said. "The land in Chu has a radius of 5,000 miles," Mozi said, "but the state of Song has only 500 miles, which is like cars and broken cars; the state of Chu has Yunmeng, full of rhinoceros [sisi], elk, Yangtze River, Han There are so many fish, turtles, turtles, and turtles in the water that no one can match them anywhere, but the state of Song doesn't even have pheasants, rabbits, and crucian carp. It's like rice, meat, and bran crumbs; Wenzi, nanmu, and Yuzhang, Song has no big trees, just like brocade and short felt jackets. So according to my ministers, the king sent troops to attack Song, and this is the same problem. I think if the king launches a war, It doesn’t make sense in theory, and it doesn’t achieve the goal in fact.”

"That's true," said the King of Chu, "but Gongshu Ban is already building a ladder for me, so I have to attack." In order to dissuade the king of Chu from attacking the Song Dynasty, Mo Zi and Gongshu Pan tried out the methods of attacking and defending the city with ladders in front of the king of Chu.Mozi untied his belt, bent it into an arc, and regarded it as a city, using some wood chips as weapons for attack and defense.Gongshu Pan used nine methods and attacked nine times, but was repelled by Mozi.Gongshu Ban had exhausted all his siege equipment, but Mozi still had more means of defense.

The public lost like a failure, but he said: "I know how to win you, but I won't tell." "I also know how you beat me, but I won't tell you," Mozi said. The king of Chu asked what they said.Mozi said: "Gongshuzi just wanted to kill me. He thought that if I killed me, no one in Song could defend and could attack. But my student Qin Huali and 300 people had already taken my The defense equipment is on the city of Song State, waiting for the enemy from Chu State. Even if you kill me, you still cannot attack." "It's a good idea!" The King of Chu said emotionally, "Then I won't attack Song State."

From the above stories, we can recognize the immortal image of Mozi, a wise and brave philosopher.Mozi was not begging for peace from the invaders.In addition to defending the aggressors with just words, he also fully realized that there must be a force to defend peace.Facts have proved that Song was protected from aggression with the support of a strong force to defend peace.In order to realize his ideal, Mozi went on a long journey and even risked his life to put out the flames of the war of aggression that was about to ignite.Mozi's great action fully demonstrates the fine tradition of the Chinese nation in opposing wars of aggression.To this day, it still has practical educational significance for us, and it is worth remembering by every one of us who loves the motherland and loves peace.