Jia Xu smiled bitterly inwardly, sighed, and accepted the order.
After receiving Liu Xie's orders, Jia Xu soon dispatched Embroidered-Clothes Envoys once again to find the Mohist School Juzi and convey the news that the Son of Heaven had summoned him.
The disciples of the Mohist School were indeed a difficult bunch to understand, but they possessed a strong chivalrous spirit.
They pursued equality, universal love, and nonaggression, opposed war, and helped the weak resist the strong. Put simply, they helped whichever side was weaker and wanted everyone to get along peacefully without fighting.
However, since the realm had been unified, their ideal of nonaggression had found no arena in which to prove its worth. The wars between the lords vying for supremacy in the Central Plains were all internal affairs of Huaxia, and would ultimately lead to unification. The previous situation of multiple states standing side by side could never return.
Thus, after the Qin Dynasty, the Mohist School stopped taking part in worldly conflicts. Instead, they used their skills and knowledge to help commoners and the poor throughout the land without payment. That was why they were said to possess a chivalrous spirit.
A village at the foot of a mountain in Wei Commandery.
The Mohist School Juzi was now living in seclusion in this village, leading a group of Mohist disciples in helping the local people build irrigation works and improve their livelihoods.
The Mohist School still enjoyed considerable renown among ordinary people and was beloved by them. Although everyone from the emperor down to the officials disdained their pedantic ideals, they left them alone on account of their relatively well-behaved nature.
After entering the village, the Embroidered-Clothes Envoys dispatched by Jia Xu politely asked an old man dozing in the sun at the village entrance,