Type-Moon, a human love simulator

Chapter 160: The collapse of rituals and music, has it really collapsed?

"By the way, Su Zi, you really don't plan to become an immortal?"

During her travels, Yu Ji still hadn't changed her mind about making Su Kai an immortal.

Su Kai simply didn't understand immortals, so he couldn't solve his blood-sucking urge, and he had no motivation to solve this problem.

If he also became an immortal, Su Kai would be very anxious to resolve the blood-sucking urge and regain all his strength.

After all, it is not a good thing for anyone to use part of his strength and spirit to constantly fight against this impulse that comes from his blood.

"...Yu, I don't want to live forever, and I am always ready to give up my life."

Su Kai looked up and sighed, "The splendor of life does not lie in its length, but in the brilliance it creates. If you sleep like this for hundreds or thousands of years, what's the point even if you have an immortal life?"

"Yu, you still have a lot to learn, starting with how to be a human being."

Su Kai looked at Yu Ji with empty eyes, reflecting her confused expression: "Immortals are also a kind of human. Your blood-sucking impulse has never been a big deal. Let's put it aside for now!"

Yu Ji couldn't understand what was hidden in Su Kai's eyes. She could only see the emptiness without any highlights, but she didn't care at this time. She just smiled and said, "That's right. Anyway, I can still live for a long, long time. Before you die, I can always solve the urge to suck blood!"

“…He is truly my disciple!”

Su Kai shook his head. This was his second time to take a disciple. He thought he had some experience in teaching people and maybe he could correct the Xianyu Immortal.

"Suzi, where are we going next?"

It’s no wonder that Yu Ji asked the question. After the two of them left the forest, they walked for more than ten days. Yu Ji was a little curious about the outside world at first, but when she saw the city inhabited by humans, she was obviously disgusted, but she could still endure it.

This is how immortals are. Suppressing the urge to suck blood is self-restraint, and being able to endure the disgust that comes from the soul is also a kind of self-restraint.

"Yu, do you hate humans?" Su Kai did not answer, but asked back like a riddle man. Yu Ji couldn't suppress her temper for a moment, but she took a deep breath and whispered to herself, "I can't beat them", and finally controlled her temper.

"I never hate humans." Yu Ji looked at Su Kai, then looked at the city, and said seriously: "But I hate civilization."

“Every time I see these cities that require the development of nature and the felling of trees to build, I have an urge to destroy them.”

"I understand, environmentalist." Su Kai nodded. There was no way to criticize this. Immortals were indeed children of nature. However, he still asked in confusion: "But there were also immortals in your time period who became tribal leaders and taught civilization to mankind, right?"

"They want to eat people. Do you think immortals only know how to eat and don't care about anything else?" Yu Ji stretched out her fingers and counted: "Before the Yellow Emperor rose, the total population of the entire Central Plains was less than one million. If the immortals all ate as much as they could, it wouldn't take long for them all to be eaten up."

"To allow humans to reproduce naturally, we need to provide them with a comfortable life, so that they are willing to live under the command of the immortals even if they know they will be eaten."

"In short, everything was done for the sake of the blood-sucking impulse. It was not until the Yellow Emperor solved the blood-sucking impulse that the immortals discovered that this curse rooted in the soul could actually be removed."

"A single leaf blocks one's view of the mountain. This is the obstacle of knowledge and perception." Su Kai nodded. If no one reminds him, no one will notice that many common sense are wrong, but because they can tolerate it, they just put it aside and ignore it.

Just as people in slave society could not imagine feudalism, people in feudal society could not imagine that there was...

Because in the cognition of the slave society, slaves must have masters, and in the whole world, there is only slaves and masters, and there is no third identity.

But under the feudal system, how can we survive without an emperor?
These are all obstacles to knowledge and views.

"Not only humans are limited by the obstacles of knowledge and perception, it seems that immortals are also limited. Perhaps this is a characteristic of all intelligent life." Su Kai raised his eyes. He was worthy of being Emperor Huangdi. Although he lived in the tribal period with limited cognition, he was still able to carry out his will and was not affected by the obstacles of knowledge and perception.

"Knowledge and insight...obstacle?" Yu Ji read these three words and nodded in agreement: "What an apt description, Su Zi, perhaps your achievements and abilities are really not inferior to those of the Yellow Emperor."

"That's natural. I'm not weaker than anyone."

Su Kai nodded unceremoniously and said, "It's just a pity that I didn't live in the same era, so I couldn't see Huangdi with my own eyes and discuss Taoism with this first ancestor of humanities."

The sages can be respected, but not honored.

To respect him, you just need to be generous with your praise, but to honor him, you need to kneel down to express your obedience.

Maybe there is no physical form, but the spirit has knelt down forever.

"It was right to follow you out!" Yu Ji was not surprised to hear Su Kai talking about Huangdi in a testing tone. In this era, and even in more ancient times, surpassing their ancestors was the expectation of their ancestors.

Anyone who has some ambition will compare himself to the ancient sages when hearing about them, or think that his own talents far surpass those of the ancient sages.

This proud and self-confident spirit of the Huaxia people continued until the Song Dynasty. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the trend of respecting the past and despising the present emerged. Anyone who dared to compare himself with the ancient sages would be ridiculed for overestimating his own abilities. Gradually, everyone began to think that they were no match for the ancient sages.

As long as it is said by ancient sages, it must be right. As long as it is said by ancient sages, it must make more sense than what is said by today's sages.

"Next we will go to Yingdu, the capital of Chu."

Su Kai smiled and answered Yu Ji's previous question: "I heard that there are two scholars who are performing magic in front of the King of Chu and discussing their respective theories."

"It just so happens that I'm still in the research stage, so I went to take a look."

"Is it necessary for someone like you to go and see others discuss ideas?" Yu Ji curled her lips. It was obvious that she really didn't like going to the capital of a vassal state. It would make her even more irritable.

"Even though I already knew the path was there, it didn't stop me from taking a look at how to achieve real relief."

Talking about his own philosophy, Su Kai's empty eyes seemed to be burning with fire: "My path is definitely not wrong, but how to make it through, I still need to learn more..."
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Chu State, the capital of Ying.

The people of Chu were very stubborn. Even though the capital was moved several times, each new capital was named "Ying".

Many countries moved their capitals from one city to another. For example, the original capital of Wei State was called Anyi, but it was later moved to Daliang. The original capital of Han State was Yangdi, but it was later moved to Xinzheng after it destroyed Zheng State.

But Chu was different, wherever the capital was, that was Ying. At this time, Ying was very lively, because the two masters of Gongshujia and Mozi, Mozi and Gongshuzi Gongshuban, were showing the principles of their own schools to the King of Chu.

Mozi advocated universal love and non-aggression, opposed the Chu State's frequent invasion and annexation of other countries, and brought his own experience in defending a city.

Gongshuzi didn't care about all that. He just liked the art of ingenuity. If he wanted to continue studying ingenuity, he needed someone to invest money and provide financial support.

If the King of Chu was willing to support Gongshuzi's research, then Gongshuzi was also willing to present the siege techniques he had researched to the King of Chu.

The King of Chu once proclaimed himself king because the Emperor of Zhou refused to promote his title. In the following hundreds of years, he kept shouting "I am a barbarian" and attacked other countries without any reason. This did bring him many benefits, and the country's territory expanded rapidly.

But there were also disadvantages. Every overlord of the princes had to lead a coalition to fight him, starting from Duke Huan of Qi, Duke Wen of Jin, and even Duke Xiang of Song all led people to go to war with the State of Chu, but Duke Xiang of Song was too polite and never fought.

But in fact, the Chu State was still a member of the Xia Alliance. Their sacrifices, wars, rituals and writing all originated from the Xia tribes. Moreover, the Hufang tribe, once the largest barbarian tribe in the south, was destroyed by the Chu State. All of Hufang’s writing and ritual vessels were burned by the Chu State, leaving only a short line of words in the history books.

It was not until later archaeological excavations that bronze artifacts from the Hufang tribe were unearthed and the writing system of this barbarian tribe was restored. It was indeed different from the oracle bone script, which was the origin of the Xia writing system.

Nowadays, times have changed, and the Chu State’s trick of saying that it is a barbarian is no longer effective. Not to mention calling you a barbarian, even if you are a beast you cannot hit others!
At this time, inside the palace, the King of Chu was very annoyed because Mozi was bothering him again.

But he could not fail to see that in this era, the monarchs of various countries clearly valued and desired talents, and it was very obvious. They would never play hard to get and treat others poorly.

After all, this is an era where if you miss the driver when distributing meat, they will dare to take you to the enemy camp. Treating and despising others will only make them become your enemies.

If the King of Chu dares not to meet Mozi today, then before his death, scholars from other schools will never come to Chu again.

This was true even for the Confucians and Gongshujia who were at odds with the Mohists. This was an era when various schools of thought flourished, an era that truly belonged to scholars and thinkers.

"Mozi of the Mohist school pays his respects to the King of Chu." Mozi bowed but did not stand up.

"I have met Mozi."

After Mozi paid his respects, the King of Chu also returned the greeting solemnly. After both sides paid their respects, they stood up together.

Mozi sat opposite the King of Chu. Since Mozi was not a minister of the King of Chu, he naturally did not join the ranks of ministers and sat opposite the King of Chu as a guest.

"Mozi, do you have any insights to teach me today?" The King of Chu knew what this guy was going to say next, but he still pretended not to know and asked the question.

Because he didn't ask, Mozi couldn't say anything, this is also courtesy.

If Mozi didn't say anything, he would continue to fight with him.

Although it is often said that rituals and music collapsed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, what the people of the Warring States Period thought was a collapse of rituals and music was already the most polite episode in the eyes of later generations. Over the next few thousand years, the moral bottom line of the Chinese people will only get lower and lower.

The King of Chu signaled to his waiter with his eyes to invite Gongshu Ban. This was the case several times before. Whenever Mozi came to comment on his national policies, he signaled his subordinates to stop them. After all, as a king, he had to be humble and accept advice in order to attract talents from various countries. Even if he was not like that, he had to pretend to be like that.

And Mozi has already begun: "I have heard that a wise monarch will not use what he has less to fight for what he has more. This is not what a wise monarch does."

"Mozi, you are right, you are right!" The King of Chu nodded repeatedly, but in his heart he was calculating how far Gongshu Ban was from here.

"I have heard that Chu is a vast country with a sparse population. Although launching a war rashly may expand the territory, it will definitely result in casualties. Chu is not short of land now, but of people. Why would you use your scarce things to fight for the surplus things?"

People in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period spoke so straightforwardly, and they didn't care about other people's lives.

But the King of Chu was very clear-headed. It was true that people would die in a war, but those who died were others. However, all the benefits were his, so he was the vested interest.

He didn't have to pay anything to reap the benefits, and the people of Chu who came as a price were just a string of numbers to him.

Moreover, after expanding the territory, it can also absorb new population, and within a few generations all the people will be Chu people.

Not to mention the Chinese and the barbarians, even the nobles and feudal lords within the territory of Chu had forgotten after several generations that it was Chu that had destroyed their country and cut off their ancestral temples, and they considered themselves Chu people from the bottom of their hearts.

"Excuse me, but this is not what a wise monarch does. Aren't you afraid that your country will become weak in the future and other princes will take advantage of it?"

"Then please ask Mozi to teach me." The King of Chu finally found his own rhythm. Next, he began to flatter Mozi's mechanical engineering. The implication was that as long as you bring Mozi's mechanical engineering to Chu, then we will not be afraid of losing the war.

Didn't you say that a country will be invaded by other countries if it becomes weak? Then wouldn't it avoid being invaded if it just used its mechanical skills to win all the time?

The logic of the King of Chu shocked Mozi. He finally realized that it was impossible to impress these stubborn monarchs with words.

At this time, Gongshu Ban also arrived and heard Mozi threatening the King of Chu, "Mozi has ten commandments and nine distances to avoid attacking mechanical devices. Unjust wars will never break through..."

Gongshu Ban was just itching to put his skills to use, and the siege equipment he had just researched could come in handy.

"You are wrong. There is no justice or kindness in war."

But before he could speak, Su Kai walked in from the main gate leisurely, looked at Mozi and said, "Talk to people in the right way. When talking to a monarch like the King of Chu, you have to tell him that your mechanical technology can defeat the State of Chu, then he will be afraid."

"From different perspectives, people have different understandings of benevolence and righteousness."

Su Kai looked at the King of Chu and said, "For politicians, benevolence and righteousness are meaningless things."

Seeing Su Kai coming uninvited, the King of Chu did not chase him away. Instead, he looked at Su Kai and asked, "Who are you?"

"Su Kai, a mere traveler, greets the King of Chu."

"So it's Su Zi. It's said that Master Kai is proficient in all the magic in the world and is known as the ancestor of magic. It's a great honor for Mo Di to meet him today."

Mo Zi stood up and saluted. Without waiting for Su Kai to return the salute, he stared at him sharply and said, "Not only did Su Zi come uninvited today, but what do you have to say?"

You start criticizing everyone right away, whose side are you on?
(End of this chapter)