Online articles that comment on the ancient book "Shang Yang Shu" from the pre-Qin period can be seen from time to time. After reading it, I immediately looked up the original text of "Shang Yang Shu" in combination with Shang Yang's reform measures. It would be better not to read it, but after reading it, I suddenly realized that this thousand-year-old antique, which was monopolized and read secretly by the despotic monarchs of all dynasties and passed on to the crown prince, is so similar to the words, writings and behaviors of the contemporary party leader Mao Zedong. Isn't Mao Zedong Thought a modern version of "Shang Yang Shu"? If you don't believe me, let us first appreciate the main purpose of "Shang Yang Shu" and Shang Yang's reform measures together, and then compare Shang Yang's teachings and deeds with Mao Zedong's.

The main purpose of "Shang Yang Shu" and Shang Yang's reform measures can be roughly summarized into four aspects: weakening the people and impoverishing the people, abandoning business, destroying the wisdom and fooling the people, and barbaric war views:

Weakening the people and impoverishing the people.

Shang Yang divided the people into three categories: strong people, weak people, and treacherous people. Strong people are mostly rich people and gentry. They are few in number but have great energy. They are talented, intelligent and far-sighted. Weak people are hardworking and simple farmers. They are ignorant and ignorant. In addition to farming and feeding the rulers, they also have to fight for the monarch. Evil people are idle and evil villains. They are capable of nothing but stealing, gambling and being a thief. For the sake of petty profits, they can do anything bad. They are called ruffians and lazy farmers in the countryside, and now they are called rogue proletarians.

Shang Yang proposed an abnormal theory: "When the people are weak, the country is strong, and when the country is strong, the people are weak. Therefore, the country with the way should weaken the people." Ways to weaken the people:

One is to "use the weak to eliminate the strong", use the weak to eliminate the strong, and even use the evil to control the good people, and implement rogue politics. "A country that uses good people to rule evil people will inevitably be in chaos and weaken; a country that uses evil people to rule good people will inevitably be governed and become strong."

Second, unify thoughts. The whole people are allowed to have only one thought - everyone works for the monarch. Lobbying people get official positions by their slick words, which is of no help to farming and fighting. Therefore, "banning people from officialdom and highlighting people who work for farming and fighting." The purpose is to unify people's thoughts according to the will of the monarch and achieve the goal of "national customs can be transformed and people follow the system."

Third, tire the people, build large-scale projects, make the people tired and have no time to take care of other things.

Fourth, "let the people form groups of ten and five, and collect and punish each other. Those who do not report evil will be beheaded, those who report evil will be rewarded with the same reward as beheading the enemy; those who hide evil will be punished with surrendering to the enemy." In this way, the people are controlled and the trend of informing is promoted. Even husbands and wives, brothers, nephews, relatives, friends and good neighbors cannot cover up for each other, and they must report to the government. As a result, everyone is in danger, everyone monitors everyone, and everyone lives in terror.

Fifth, deprive people of their personal assets and impoverish the people. Deprive them of surplus money and food, except for what is necessary for survival. Otherwise, the old strong people will be eliminated and new strong people will emerge.

Sixth, if there are still remnants of strong people, launch foreign wars, kill strong enemies outside and strong people inside.

Seventh, "heavy punishment", heavy punishment for minor crimes. "To stop adultery and stop wrongdoing, there is nothing better than heavy punishment. If the punishment is heavy and must be obtained, the people will not dare to try."

Eighth, ban all industries except farming, and only allow agriculture to exist. The country only needs one kind of "people" - people who farm and fight, that is, farmers. Farmers only do one thing, that is, farming and fighting: farming in peacetime and providing military rations; joining the army in wartime and killing enemies on the battlefield. Others such as "students", "merchants", "skilled people", "scholars", and "profiteers (interest earners or investors)" are all "lice" that endanger the country and must not be allowed to exist.

Abandon and destroy business.

Among the hundreds of industries that were exterminated, business was the first to be affected. The solution was to increase the customs duty on goods, which was ten times higher than the cost. The employees of merchants had to serve in the army, and the labor market was abolished. The grain trade was banned, so that merchants could not buy and farmers could not sell. Merchants could not buy rice, so they had to grow their own crops. Farmers could not sell rice, so there was no grain market. The state would buy the rice farmers sold, and the price was always set at the cost price. If they collected three or five buckets more, they would be taxed three or five buckets more. When farmers delivered grain to the government, they were not allowed to hire other people's carts; when their own carts were empty on the return trip, they were not allowed to take on any goods. Shang Yang used all means to exterminate commerce! As a result, all people were farmers, and they were all confined to the land to cultivate. They could not acquire knowledge, nor did they need any knowledge. All people could only become the production tools of the monarch.

Eliminate wisdom and make the people stupid.

Han Feizi wrote a passage that was not written in "The Book of Shangjun": Shang Yang taught Qin Xiaogong to "burn the Book of Poetry and Books to clarify the laws and decrees." It can be seen that the burning of books had been implemented in the Qin Dynasty during Shang Yang's time. Shang Yang was the first to do it, and Qin Shihuang followed suit and expanded it. Shang Yang advocated the rule of law, which was incompatible with the Confucian idea of "following the ancient kings", so he burned Confucian classics. He also called rituals and music, poetry and books, cultivating goodness, filial piety, honesty, integrity, benevolence, and refusing to fight as the "six lice" that endanger the "country". He used the policy of cultural authoritarianism to fool the common people.

Barbaric view of war.

Shang Yang believed that "fighting is fine even if it is fighting; killing is fine even if it is killing; punishment is fine even if it is heavy punishment". He was a person who only advocated military unification abroad and tyranny at home, and the two were used in conjunction with each other.

In foreign wars, Shang Yang created a set of military laws, and awarded titles according to the number of beheadings. That is, "Twenty ranks of nobility were established, and those who captured heads in battle were awarded one rank," "Those who beheaded one person were awarded one rank." The lowest rank was "gongshi," and as long as one captured the head of an enemy, one could obtain this title, which was not just an empty title, but also could get 1 hectare of arable land and 9 mu of residential land. Therefore, every time the Qin army attacked a city, the number of beheadings ranged from 10,000 to 240,000. It can be imagined that when the Qin army killed people, the wounded, the surrendered, and the dead were all beheaded. Even the old, weak, and women were killed. Soldiers all fought with heads hanging around their waists, and the enemy was frightened and fled without fighting. In total, the total number of beheadings in Qin's dozen major battles against various countries reached more than 1.5 million. Therefore, it is said in history that the Qin army "pursued the enemy to the north, with millions of corpses buried and blood flowing on the oars." If the beheading target was not met, the head would be presented, or the humiliating punishment of stabbing the face and cutting the nose would be accepted under the city. Then the only way was to be a deserter. However, the Qin army was a squad of five. If one of them deserted the battlefield, the four people in the same squad would be beheaded. They supervised each other. For soldiers who were passive in fighting or afraid of death, not only would they be punished, but their entire families would also be punished. Therefore, soldiers must fight without hesitation and kill the enemy to take the head. Even if it was not for themselves, they had to protect the safety of their families. This was really protecting the family for the country.

For the sake of the Qin King's selfishness, all means that could harm the people's livelihood were used. The Qin State, which was located in the northwest, was originally regarded as a backward barbarian by the Chinese princes and refused to join the alliance. However, the Qin State did not think about progress, but only practiced business and law, and developed ignorance into barbarism. The Qin State society became a human prison. The six eastern countries all called Qin "a country that abandoned etiquette and righteousness". "Etiquette and righteousness" are the core of Chinese civilization, and "head merit" is rewarded according to the number of beheadings, which is not a bit of humanity. Li Si, an important minister of King Qin Ying Zheng, did not hide the fact that Qin was not benevolent and righteous in its wars. He openly said to his teacher Xunzi: "Qin has won four generations, and its army is strong throughout the country, and its power is prevalent among the princes. It is not for benevolence and righteousness, but for convenience." This "convenient" means to do things conveniently. As long as it can defeat the enemy, any means can be used, and the most cruel "first merit" should naturally be used.

In short, "Shangjunshu" is a book that is de-Sinicized and a book that is de-Qin's excellent traditional culture.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong of Qi State first created the Legalists. Guan Zhong was the prime minister of Qi, and Qi State became the first of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period. The Legalists were originally a progressive school, but in the Warring States Period, the Legalists went to the "extreme left", became a side path, and deviated from the right path of the development of Chinese culture. "Shangjunshu" can be said to be a collection of the ugliness and insidiousness of the variant Legalists, and is a book of "extreme left" Legalist thought.

"Shangjunshu" was written by Legalists headed by Shang Yang. We have always regarded Shang Yang's reform as a progressive achievement. Now, after the study of historians with a spirit of public knowledge, we understand that "The Book of Lord Shang" is a reactionary book that harmed and destroyed the pre-Qin Chinese civilization. The most serious harm was the emperor's method of governing the country and controlling the people, which trampled on the people of ancient China like grass and made them obedient. But in the two thousand years after the demise of Qin, it was used by monarchs of all dynasties as a tacit secret weapon to govern the country and consolidate the rule of monarchical autocracy.

Therefore, from Sima Qian, Jia Yi, Ban Gu, Zhu Xi in ancient times to Zeng Guofan and Tan Sitong in modern times, all historians and thinkers who defend Chinese civilization have denounced Shang Yang's method of controlling the people, and he did not hesitate to "violate etiquette and abandon ethics", and he did not hesitate to sacrifice people's livelihood and lives.

So, how did Mao Zedong, who loved to comment on ancient books throughout his life, comment on "The Book of Lord Shang"? When Mao Zedong was in middle school in Changsha, he read "Records of the Grand Historian: Biography of Shang Yang" and wrote an essay: "On Shang Yang's Moving Trees to Establish Trust". Mao praised him, saying: "Shang Yang's laws are good laws. Now let's look through the records of our country for more than 4,000 years and find the great politicians who benefit the country and the people. Isn't Shang Yang the best?" But Mao only commented on Shang Yang when he was young. Although he read "The Book of Lord Shang" again and again, he should have understood it and expressed it in his writing. But Mao was uncharacteristically not commenting on it. Isn't it strange!

It's not strange! Mao Zedong's non-commenting is actually the best comment. Why do you say that?!

Mao Zedong always mentioned Qin Shihuang, and Qin Shihuang practiced the teachings of "The Book of Lord Shang". Therefore, Mao's supreme evaluation of Qin Shihuang and his series of words and deeds comparing himself to Qin Shihuang are a wonderful evaluation of "The Book of Lord Shang".

Was Qin Shihuang's unification of China progressive or reactionary? This is the first question we need to answer. Of course it was extremely reactionary! Which of the series of wars launched by Qin Shihuang was not an anti-human war to exterminate the advanced Chinese civilization and its carriers, the Chinese ethnic groups. The "special" in his "special military operations" is "abandoning etiquette and morality, and advocating first merit". It caused the death of millions of soldiers and civilians during the Warring States Period, seriously damaging the main force of young and strong social productivity. Moreover, after Qin conquered the six countries, it governed the country in the Qin version of "fascism". The cry of "the world has suffered from Qin for a long time" is ironclad evidence. This laid the foundation for the establishment of the extremely autocratic imperial system in China for two thousand years. And because of the premature death of the pre-Qin people-oriented thought, it also planted the seeds of modern China's backwardness behind the advanced Western civilization. Therefore, people from ancient times to the present have all cursed Qin Shihuang. No emperor in the past dynasties, whether wise or foolish, dared to compare himself with Qin Shihuang. Even the leaders of the Communist Party today do not dare to compare themselves with Qin Shihuang.

However, after Mao gained control of China, he became so proud that he risked the world's disapproval and openly announced his ambitions that were hidden in his heart. For example:

In the May Day slogans initially drafted by the Central Propaganda Department in 1950, the last two were originally "Long live the People's Republic of China! Long live the Communist Party of China!" Mao Zedong added "Long live Chairman Mao!" at the end without authorization

In response to people's criticism of the brutal suppression of counter-revolutionaries and the conspiracy against the right, Mao Zedong said at the Second Session of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in May 1958: "What is Qin Shihuang? He only killed 460 Confucian scholars, and we killed 46,000 Confucian scholars. We suppressed counter-revolutionaries, but we didn't kill some counter-revolutionary intellectuals! I have debated with democratic personages. You call us Qin Shihuang, but that's not right. We are a hundred times better than Qin Shihuang. You call us Qin Shihuang and a dictator. We always admit that what they say is not enough and often ask us to supplement it." When he was excited, he stood up from his seat and laughed when he was happy.

In the 1958 steel campaign, the targets issued by Mao Zedong were far from being completed. Mao felt that his prestige was greatly damaged and challenged. Therefore, in August 1958, Mao Zedong said at the Beidaihe Conference that "there must be control, and democracy cannot be the only thing. Marx and Qin Shihuang should be combined, and democracy and centralization should be combined." Mao actually "welded" Marx's democracy with Qin Shihuang's despotism, revealing the true meaning of democratic centralism. In essence, he wanted everyone to absolutely obey his personal will and complete the targets he set under the banner of Marx and Qin Shihuang.

Mao Zedong did not forget to praise Qin Shihuang even when he met with foreign guests several times, saying that Qin Shihuang was the first person to create a situation of great unification in China, and that it was Qin Shihuang who really did something in Chinese history, and Confucius only talked nonsense. "I am also Qin Shihuang. Lin Biao also called me Qin Shihuang. I support Qin Shihuang, not Confucius." This was said when he met with Egyptian Vice President Shafi in 1973. Therefore, Mao Zedong came to a conclusion: "To solve China's problems, we need Marx plus Qin Shihuang"; "I am Marx plus Qin Shihuang!" became Mao Zedong's catchphrase in speeches to high-level party members.

We regard Mao Zedong's constant reference to Qin Shihuang and his self-proclaimed Qin Shihuang as recognition and praise of "The Book of Lord Shang". However, if we compare the many political movements that Mao Zedong carried out with the content of "The Book of Lord Shang", we will feel that the similarities between them are vivid and exactly the same.

First, split ethnic groups and divide people into classes according to their wealth - in rural areas, Mao divided villagers into landlords and rich peasants, which are equivalent to the strong people in "The Book of Lord Shang", and upper-middle peasants, middle peasants, lower-middle peasants, poor peasants, and hired peasants, which are equivalent to the weak people in "The Book of Lord Shang". The latter two include lumpen proletarians. Then he mobilized today's "weak people" to fight today's "strong people", depriving them of their land, confiscating their houses and money, and some were killed on the spot, while the rest became modern serfs under the control of the "weak group".

Second, in order to consolidate the CCP's rule at the grassroots level in rural areas, Mao completely abolished the clan power controlled by the respected gentry and replaced it with a gangster politics in which lazy farmers and ruffians were in power. The basis was "the poorer the more glorious", "the poorer the more revolutionary". There is a popular joke in rural society: "If you are lazy and like to eat, you will be in a good class; if you are diligent and work hard, you will be beaten." Mao really learned the method of "ruling good people with evil people" in "The Book of Lord Shang". In fact, as early as 1927 when Mao launched a large-scale peasant movement, he praised the revolutionary nature of the "ruffian movement". He even said: "Fighting depends on gangsters" and "Brave elements should also be used! We started the war with those gangsters, who were not afraid of death. There was a period when the army wanted to purge the gangsters, but I didn't agree."

Third, at the beginning of the KMT-CCP civil war, Mao carried out violent land reform in his liberated areas, depriving the landlords of the land of the "strong people" and giving it to the "weak people" peasants. Soon, they threatened the peasants with "Chiang Kai-shek's revenge" and called on them to support the front and join the army with the slogan "protect the fruits of victory". As a result, millions of peasants who were given land were transferred to the front line, some transporting food with the army, and some forming militia to charge into battle. Millions of peasants thus served as cannon fodder for the regular People's Liberation Army, consuming the bullets of the National Army. Regarding this cruel human wave tactic, Shanghai's Ta Kung Pao reported: "It is really sad to say that our so-called military conflict has reached the most outrageous level. The offensive tactics often use unarmed civilians as the vanguard, with machine guns and mortars supervising the battle from behind... The unarmed vanguards fell in piles and groups, and only after consuming the opponent's firepower did the war officially begin... It has reached the most outrageous level, forcing the people in the city to fight... Do you really want to sacrifice 200 million compatriots across the country to win the victory?" At that time, Ta Kung Pao was the most fiercely critical newspaper of the National Government, and even published articles praising the CCP. It can be seen that the CCP's use of civilians as cannon fodder is not groundless.

In today's world, civilized armies go to war, open up humanitarian channels, and transfer civilians to safe areas; but Mao asked civilians to block bullets for his army, and called it "people's war." Qin Shihuang used the "first merit" to mobilize peasants to go to the battlefield. The peasants had the possibility of dying in the battle, but they also had the possibility of obtaining land by being spared from death by making "first merit". However, driven by Mao's human sea tactics, once millions of peasants went to the battlefield, it was impossible for them to survive. They could only exchange their lives for land.

So, what was the fate of the peasants who supported the front? 

What about the farmers who supported the front? Take the Huaihai Campaign for example. According to official statistics, the number of farmers who supported the front reached 5.43 million. Let me ask: How many farmers are left? How many are still healthy? How many families can be reunited? Which house is still intact? Food was donated, cotton cloth was donated, everything that could be used at home was donated, even the door panels were removed and used to build bridges. After the war, I wonder how they lived? !

Chen Yi, who experienced the Huaihai Campaign and was known as a Confucian general, did not have the courage to answer. But in his "Records of Huaihai Frontline Observations", he said with relish: "The victory of the Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the people with carts"! Isn't this the same as Mao Zedong's praise of the human wave tactics? Chen Yi also wrote a poem - "Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers can't get through, horses and carts deliver food, follow the army to the east and west, and fight for merit on the front line. The stretcher team has not slept for several nights. Steady and light walking to ask the wounded: Comrades, flowers are the most valuable, can the pain be reduced?" Who cares if the lives are in charcoal or not!

After 1949, Mao Zedong fully implemented violent land reform in the mainland of China and set a target for shooting landlords. The peasants were given land and liberated. But in the blink of an eye, the land that the peasants had obtained from fighting against the landlords was forcibly taken back by the collective on the grounds of realizing agricultural collectivization. In addition, the implementation of the dual household registration system of urban and rural areas has bound the majority of peasants to the fields all year round, and they have cultivated the fields for generations. Peasants could not go to the city to work. Even during the three years of the Great Famine, militias were sent to guard the village entrance to prevent the hungry people from going to the city to beg, and they starved to death at home. On weekdays, even going into the city to hawk or set up stalls was strictly prohibited, saying it was "cutting off the tail of capitalism." It can be seen that today's farmers, like the farmers in the Qin Dynasty, are just tools for Mao Zedong's farming and warfare.

Fourth, Mao Zedong believed that the commodity economy was breeding capitalism at every moment. So, all private stores in urban and rural areas were banned and replaced by state-owned stores and cooperative stores. While abolishing the commodity economy, the first thing to do was to implement the policy of unified purchase and sale of grain - planned purchase of grain and planned supply of grain. The period of planned economy that my country has been in place for more than 20 years began.

From then on, various tickets flooded into society. By 1961, the number of commodities supplied by tickets in the market reached 156. You need food tickets to eat, cigarette tickets to smoke, and wine tickets to drink. Even if you buy a box of matches for one cent, you have to use match tickets. You have to use the corresponding tickets to buy any commodity. If you go out without a national food ticket, you can't move an inch. If you get a bicycle ticket, it's like a Lin Daiyu falling from the sky. The most ridiculous thing is the "awakening ticket", which is a voucher for exchanging food or food coupons with the nature of reward, and is intended to hope that everyone will talk about "awakening". Mao's method of destroying merchants is more clever than the method of "Shangjunshu", and it can be said that the disciple is better than the master.

Fifth, in order to implement Mao Zedong's "May 7" instructions, "May 7" cadre schools were set up in rural areas across the country. The majority of cadres and people from all walks of life, especially in places where "intellectuals are gathered", must go to the "May 7" cadre schools to "re-learn" and participate in agricultural and sideline labor. Because it is a "great opportunity", you can "roll in the black mud and temper a red heart", so why not go!

As the educated youth of the urban population, they are required to "go to the mountains and the countryside" as a whole and learn from the illiterate poor and lower-middle peasants. As a result, a movement that affected hundreds of millions of families of underage urban youths and involuntarily moved to the "vast world" swept across the country. Isn't this also a replica of the "Everyone is a farmer" in "The Book of Lord Shang"?

Sixth, persecution of intellectuals by launching literary inquisitions. The anti-Hu Feng counter-revolutionary group in 1955, the anti-rightist movement in 1957, and the Cultural Revolution from 1956 to 1976 are examples. Aren’t these three major literary inquisitions and the thought reform movement that runs through the CCP’s governance the same as the “destroying wisdom, destroying wisdom, and destroying wisdom again” in the Book of Lord Shang?!

In March 1958, Mao made a big statement at the Chengdu Conference: “The knowledge of bourgeois professors should be regarded as shit, equivalent to nothing, and should be despised, looked down upon, and scorned, just like the power and knowledge of the British and American Western world should be despised, looked down upon, and scorned.” During the Cultural Revolution, “the more knowledge you have, the more reactionary you are”, “You can still make revolution without learning ABC”, “For medical education, three years of study after graduating from high school is enough”, “What Peking University, Renmin University, which university is better! I am from Green Forest University, and I learned something there”, “Education must be revolutionized, the school system must be shortened, and the phenomenon of bourgeois intellectuals ruling our schools can no longer continue”, “Abolish the college entrance examination system and recommend workers, peasants, and soldiers to go to college”. All these strange and bizarre theories are called the highest instructions.

Seventh, the political cadres who received the returning prisoners of war from the Korean battlefield first asked: "How did you come back alive?!" They believed that being a prisoner of war was a crime and that they should fight to death rather than surrender. Therefore, the returning prisoners of war were gathered together for political review. Their end result was expulsion from the army and the party, and they were sent back to the countryside to be lower-class citizens who were discriminated against for life. Some were criticized and struggled against in political movements and became "side dishes". This way of dealing with returning prisoners of war was only fifty steps and a hundred steps different from Shang Yang's treatment of Qin soldiers who returned without merit.

Eighth, in the endless political movements, class struggle was the key link, and denunciation and criticism were advocated. In the past, Shang Yang's informing and collective punishment were popular. The style of petty politics dominated by the left became the norm. As a result, countless people were convicted. Moreover, if one person was "guilty", the whole family would suffer, and relatives and friends had to draw a clear line and stand firm on their class position. As a result, couples turned against each other and divorced, children exposed their parents, students fought against their teachers, relatives and friends cut off contact, and people looked down on each other on the street. The traditional virtues of China were completely destroyed. Even in daily life, if you said something careless, you would be convicted by the left-wing villains. Therefore, during the movement and in daily life, a series of new class enemies were created. Because they did not meet the conditions for sentencing, they were sent to the rural social prison for control.

The social prison did not have high walls and electric fences, but was "a prison made of a line of land". The landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and rightists, as well as the stinking ninth class and capitalist-roaders who were beaten during the Cultural Revolution, were all insulted and called monsters and demons. If the family members who were implicated were counted, the number of people would be in the hundreds of millions. It was comparable to the human prison in the Qin Dynasty.

The social prison controlled monsters and demons in the name of the so-called "mass dictatorship". In fact, the masses did not take charge of the house, and the farmers among them were deprived of the right to go to the city to make a living. Land reform deprived the landlords of their land and put it under control, turning them into serfs. The cooperative movement deprived the peasants of their land and bound them together to work, turning them into serfs. The people's commune, in the name of "one big and two public", further deprived the peasants of their land and, under the strict control of "militarization of organization, combative action, and collectivization of life", turned them into serfs - serfs of the state.

Although the status of citizens was higher than that of peasants, they had no freedom of residence and were forcibly relocated to the countryside at any time; they had no freedom to choose their careers, let alone the freedom to go abroad; if they even said that they wanted to visit Hong Kong, if they were reported, they would be charged with "treason and surrender to the enemy"; if they cut off the red sun on the back of the newspaper while cutting newspapers, they would be charged with "active counter-revolution" if they were reported. Every political movement was a crime that trampled on the constitution, human rights, and humanity. The social prison created by Mao was no less inferior to the human prison in the Qin Dynasty society.

Ninth, Mao Zedong's most harmful view of human life is that he regarded human life as worthless. During the three-year famine caused by the Great Leap Forward, Khrushchev, the leader of the "Soviet revisionism", wanted to provide food aid to China. Mao Zedong said to his health doctor Li Zhisui and secretary Tian Jiaying: "Starving to death is a small matter, but losing one's chastity is a big matter. China has a population of hundreds of millions, and tens of millions of people starved to death is not a big deal! Let women give birth freely, and tens of millions of people will die again! Why should we eat Khrushchev's charity?" This is really like saying that human life is worthless, and it will grow again after being plucked.

In dealing with nuclear war, Mao Zedong's lofty talk makes people sweat. According to the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong: Internal Affairs", in 1955, Mao said many times at the high-level party meetings: The Third World War should be fought early, fought hard, fought as a nuclear war, and fought in China. I suggest that the Soviet Union pretend to sit back and watch, and I will lead the Chinese people to attract the US army to the Chinese battlefield. We pretended to retreat, ... When the United States put its main forces into the Chinese battlefield, we asked the Soviet Union to suddenly launch an atomic bomb on the Chinese battlefield to annihilate the main forces of the United States on the Chinese battlefield in one fell swoop. In such a world war, China may lose 400 million people. But it is worth it for China to sacrifice two-thirds of its population in exchange for a world of great harmony. After 400 million people died, there are still 200 million people left. In a few years, China can restore its population to 600 million.

On May 17, 1958, Mao Zedong spoke about the issue of war and peace at the Second Session of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and clearly stated: "We have no experience in atomic warfare now, and we don’t know how many people will die. The best is to leave half, the second best is to leave one-third, and the five-year plan will develop from more than 2 billion people. In exchange for the complete demise of capitalism and the achievement of permanent peace, this is not a bad thing."

In 1969, a conflict broke out on the Sino-Soviet border. The Soviet Union stationed millions of troops on the border and vowed to fight a major war, a nuclear war. But Mao Zedong said: China has six million people, and three million will remain. We can still build our homeland on the ruins. Brezhnev was so scared that he shook his head and sighed: I really can't imagine that Mao Zedong has such an idea. You know, the Soviet Union at that time had less than two million people.

The names of Shang Yang and the kings of Qin in succession were in the millions; Mao Zedong's insignificant lives were a disaster for all mankind. Maybe this is what Mao said, "Struggle with the sky, the joy is endless; struggle with the earth, the joy is endless, struggle with people, the joy is endless."

Mao Zedong's view of nuclear war not only scared Brezhnev at that time, but even "Putin the Great", who is currently fighting the Russian-Ukrainian war and often talks about nuclear weapons, would admire him. No wonder Putin once said that he admired Mao Zedong.

In a word, after the above comparison, Mao Zedong's set of ideas is really beyond the reach of his ancestor Shang Yang; Mao Zedong's practice of "Shang Yang Shu" is even better than that of Qin Shihuang.

However, the CCP uses the five volumes of Mao's Selected Works, which expounds Mao Zedong Thought, as the guiding ideology for conquering and governing the world, saying that it is the product of the combination of Marx and the practice of the Chinese revolution. But Mao Zedong Thought is far from what this publicly published patchwork can contain. Mao Zedong's speeches secretly delivered at the top of the party and government throughout his life, and his sensational speeches at the International Communist Movement Summit, are the whole and true meaning of Mao's thoughts. But we have not seen the public release of Mao's complete works in China so far, because they are all demonic lies that cannot see the light of day.

It can be seen from this that Mao Zedong's practice is by no means Marx's theory, but the paradox of "Shang Yang Shu" followed by Qin Shihuang. Mao Zedong's thought is Marx plus "Shang Yang Shu", an absolutely modern version of "Shang Yang Shu". If the Confucianism criticized by Tan Sitong was a disguise of Confucius and the implementation of Shang Yang's Qin system, then Mao Zedong was a disguise of Marxism and the implementation of Qin Shihuang's autocratic tyranny.

On August 9, 1976, Mao Zedong dictated his will to Wang Dongxing on his sickbed: "My Self-Evaluation". Zhang Yufeng recorded it and Zhang Hanzhi compiled it into a text. There is a passage in it:

"There is a China in the world because of one person: Qin Shihuang. The world is what it is today because of one person: Marx. China can be what it is today in the world because of me, Mao Zedong. I, Mao Zedong, am Marx plus Qin Shihuang. This is not a secret, I have said it publicly many times." This top-secret manuscript has yet to be further verified; but whether it is fabricated or not, it can be regarded as a true portrayal of Mao Zedong's conceited and arrogant "revolutionary" career.

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