Ma Jiamen: I was forced to fight for supremacy

Chapter 138 Becoming sworn brothers with Ji Wuchen

Ji Wuchen smiled apologetically at Ma Zhan: "I almost forgot about my brother's business."

"Those who discuss Taoism fight on horseback; those who discuss Taoism, Mohists, win."

"Congratulations to the discusser."

After all the Mohist disciples congratulated in unison, they lowered their heads to study the waterwheel.

Ji Wuchen asked Ma Zhan a little shyly.

"Um, brother, these things..."

Ma Zhan stood on tiptoe, patted Ji Wuchen's broad shoulders, and spoke earnestly.

"Brother, with your cultivation, wealth and glory will come easily to you.

But you spend every day at the Jixia Academy, improving agricultural tools for the people of the world. I can only say one thing: you are a righteous man.

I got these things from a secret place, where there are countless high-energy products.

But I am not very knowledgeable and cannot learn it.

These things are prepared for the Mohists, and only in the hands of the Mohists can they play their greatest role and be used by the people of the world."

Ji Wuchen clasped his trembling hands together again.

"On behalf of all the disciples of the Mohist School, I would like to thank you, brother."

Ji Wuchen took Ma Zhan's hand and said, "Brother, follow me..."

Besides the Mohist disciple who was studying the waterwheel by the stream, Kou Ping was the only one left standing disheveled in the wind.

"What's going on? Ji Wuchen, what are you going to do?"

Ji Wuchen brought Ma Zhan to a stone gate, pressed the mechanism, and the stone gate weighing dozens of tons slowly opened.

Ma Zhan glanced at the hill that was several dozen meters high and thought, "What could be hidden inside such a small hill that would require such a large door?"

After entering the stone gate.

"I'm shocked."

The secret is not in the mountains, but underground.

"This...Brother, I can't even see how deep this is."

"Forty-nineth floor."

"Ingenious workmanship."

As we walked down, we could hear the sounds of iron hammering, flowing water and sawing wood.

Slowly, Ma Zhan saw a scene beyond his cognition.

Dozens of water wheels rotate simultaneously under the impact of the water flow, and the hydraulic hammers and hydraulic bellows connected to the water wheels operate automatically.

"Is this the strength of the Mohist School? Why am I showing off? I feel so ashamed."

Ji Wuchen said as he walked: "Brother, we can afford these water wheels engraved with array patterns, but ordinary people cannot.

Once my brother installs the bearings on the waterwheel, all the people in the world will be able to use the waterwheel for irrigation.

Brother, your contribution will be remembered for generations to come."

"Brother, please stop making trouble. I'm not worthy..."

The two came to the bottom of the underground palace. With the sound of the mechanism, the wall automatically cracked open, and the Mo family's ancestral hall appeared before their eyes.

The Mohist Patriarch Hall is more like a miniature museum.

In front of the statue of the founder of Mohism, there are a ruler and a compass floating.

Other statues or portraits are on the wall, with ink fountains, planers, carving knives, etc.

Stunned Ma Zhan suddenly thought of something.

"Brother, you won't let me join the Mohist school, right?"

Ji Wuchen laughed heartily: "I am not as cunning as those teachers. I always bring you here to become your sworn brother.

From now on, you and I will call each other brothers. As long as you say a word, I will go through mountains of swords and seas of fire without hesitation."

"Oh~" Ma Zhan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then I, the younger brother, will climb up to the high branch of Big Brother."

"OK."

Ji Wuchen knelt before the founder of the Mo family and said loudly:

"I, Ji Wuchen, and Ma Zhan have become brothers today.

We do not seek to live together, but to die together. Please bear witness to this, Master."

'Oh my god, am I saying you're being genuine or are I saying you're being careless?

You are several decades older than me, but you still want to die together. Have you ever considered my feelings? "

——At the gate of Jixia Academy, another wave of messengers flew away.

Ma Jiu, dressed in black, had a face that was almost the same color as his clothes.

He learned swordsmanship from Gongshu Geng of the Mohist school. Ma Zhan and Ji Wuchen became sworn brothers, that is to say.

That brat is not only Lao Qi's uncle, he's also my uncle...

Ma Qi patted Ma Jiu's shoulder sympathetically, meaning.

"You have to call that brat uncle too."

Ma Wu patted both of them on the shoulders at the same time, showing real sympathy.

Ma Qi and Ma Jiu looked at Ma Wu at the same time, the grievance in their eyes was obvious.

"Fifth brother, do you think Hu Zi will go to Lun Dao Za Jia?

If Mr. Zu Mang of the Miscellaneous Family wants to become sworn brothers with him again, shouldn’t you, Fifth Brother, also call him uncle?”

Ma Wu's face changed.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible..."

Kou Ping finally waited for Ma Zhan by the stream. Seeing that it was almost noon, he took the initiative to ask.

"Nephew, should we go to my place for dinner first or continue to the next one?"

"Uncle Kou, let's go to the next one."

Ma Zhan had no appetite now, as he had just discovered that there were loopholes in the intelligence he had obtained about the Legalists.

Or rather, not precise enough.

The real Legalists saw things differently from Ma Zhan. The rule of law was just a cloak for the Legalists; what they really studied was tactics and power.

I have to thank my good brother, Ji Wuchen, for all this.

This Mohist knight, though rough in appearance, actually has a very delicate mind.

From the Legalists' performance over hundreds of years, he deduced the true core of the Legalists.

Hundreds of schools of thought compete with each other based on their own abilities.

Most of the ways of this world are still in the hands of those in power.

The Legalists made adjustments, taking law as the basis and techniques as the means, and went with the flow.

I have to say that the Legalists are truly pragmatic.

This sudden change made all the preparations Ma Zhan had made invalid. You were talking to them about the law, but they were talking to you about tactics. We were completely on different wavelengths.

The company that I thought I would definitely win now has almost no chance of winning.

The reason why Ma Zhan chose to go to the Legalist School to discuss Taoism was that Chunchun wanted to save time and not miss lunch.

He was thinking along the way, and when he got there, he would do whatever he wanted, no matter whether it was law, technique, or power.

I just output for one meal, then go eat, and continue in the afternoon.

Unlike the Confucianists and Mohists, more than a dozen Legalist scholars had already been sitting in front of the statues of the Sage of Law, Shen Gong, and Guan Zi, waiting for those who wanted to discuss Taoism to arrive.

Ma Zhan looked at it and said, "You are all lined up to be scolded, then you can't blame me."

"Those who discuss the Dao, Ma Zhan, come to discuss the Legalists."

A middle-aged man in the lead responded.

"I am Han Tu, a legalist, and I welcome those who wish to discuss the Dao.

Those who discuss Taoism have always won over Confucianism, and Mohism is truly a young talent."

Ma Zhan deliberately puffed out his chest. To be honest, he was a little weak inside.

As soon as Han Tu opened his mouth, he felt a sense of pressure. He was afraid that if he cursed too much, he would be beaten to death by these dozen people.

'What are you afraid of? Can they really beat me to death?

I just don't believe it. As long as they show any intention of taking action, I will admit my mistake and apologize.

They must be too embarrassed to do it.'

Ma Zhan, who had prepared himself mentally, adjusted his breathing and saluted the three golden statues of Fasheng, Shen Gong, and Guanzi in turn.

'Please protect me from getting beaten...'

"My fellow legalists, I come from humble backgrounds and my words may be crude. If I have offended you, I hope you will forgive me.

I have read the books of the Legalists, and I fully agree with the idea of governing the country by law.

However, I cannot agree with the current actions of the Legalists."