A Study On Shang Yang’s Thoughts Of Enriching Country And Strengthening Army

Although Shang Yang attaches importance to farming, he is against the view of making farmers wealthy, and he insists on making people weak and obscurantism. Although Shang Yang puts forward the concept of "Mo","Mo" not only include private merchants, and "Mo" also include cultural and scholars. Though Shang Yang stresses "Reward" and "Punishment" simultaneously, he absolutely biases "Punishment". Although Shang Yang requires to restrict powers of monarch, he stresses that the laws formulated by the monarch. Internal contradictions in Shang Yang’s historical view show that thoughts of Shang Yang are conservative and exclusiveness. When Shang Yang puts forward the views of "war to eliminate war" and "punishment to eliminate punishment", he uses the dialectic of the robber.