Emperor Hanwu's"To Popularise Confucianism and Mohism" in Records of the Historian

It was recorded in Chapter of Legend of Zhufu,the Duke Pingjin in Records of the Historian written by Si Ma Qian that Emperor Hanwu wantedto popularise Confucianism and Mohism.The sentence has been generally paraphrased as that the Emperor wanted to popularise Confucianism only and Mohism here was just mentioned incidentally.However,this kind of expression did not appeared in any historical records before Records of the Historian.In fact,Emperor Hanwu not only respected Confucianism as the ruling thoughts,but also made efforts to prosper the culture at the same time.This seemed to be contradictory to his policy ofto abolish all thoughts except Confucianism.Therefore,Mohism in this sentence had an equal status with Confucianism,i.e.both of them represented all philosophical thoughts since the Wars Period.And the Emperor wanted to popularise all philosophical thoughts other than Confucianism and Mohism.