warring states careerist

Chapter 159 Yu Sheng's old law Sishui Qing ([-])
When Mozi said this, he laughed unconsciously and said, "This is what you said, take advantage of the contradiction between the ruler and the nobles. Your theory of contradiction is very useful."

Everyone laughed, and said quite complacently: "If you only do things in Peidi, Song Gong is happy to do so. But no matter what, sir, it is impossible for you to be in power, prime minister, Shangqing or Lingyin. It is to let how become a spear, and let the princes and nobles join hands as a shield."

Mozi thought of some of his previous thoughts, and thought of the fantasies he had had for decades in Xingyi, and sighed.

"Shi, I originally thought that your ability to use a sword or shoot a bow is not strong. Even if it is the gunpowder you made, you are only a mediocre person when you throw it. I thought, you and Grandson Gao, Wumabo stays in Peidi, leading the affairs of Peidi..."

"But I thought about it. You should go to Shangqiu together. Before you go, do everything you can think of about Peidi."

"Defending Shangqiu is not just a question of whether we Mohists can defend it, but also the discord among the people, nobles, Liuqing, and Song Gong in Shangqiu City. You, the chief of the Xuanyi Department, can do a lot of things in Shangqiu."

He hummed, he knew that his ability to use a sword was really mediocre, and he might not be as good as Liuzhi who had studied with Gongzao Ye for two or three years.

He also knows that war has no eyes and is very dangerous. Even high-ranking officials like the king of Chu were shot blind, and high-ranking officials like Ling Yin were forced into alliances in the middle of the night.

But he still hopes to be able to participate in this battle of defending the city, and he must find a way to make enough meritorious deeds to let many Mohists know that even if he is not good at it, he is not a coward, and he hopes to make some military achievements meritorious service.

Shi also knows that now Mo Zhe has tacitly agreed that Pei County is the last lair of Mo Zhe, so it must be managed well.

From Mo Zi's words, Shi felt that Mo Zi recognized his own governance ability, otherwise he would not have thought of letting him stay in Pei County with Wu Mabo and Gao Sunzi.

At the same time, I can also feel that Mozi has gradually realized the importance of propaganda and agitation. Sometimes these things are no less than thousands of elite soldiers, so I hope that Shi Ye will go to Shangqiu together.

The siege of Shangqiu can be predicted to last for a long time.

As an ancient city that can be called a thousand years old at this time, Shangqiu has its own majesty.The people of Chu know the existence of the Mohists, so they may not choose to besiege them. Maybe it will last ten months or even longer, triggering a new round of Jin-Chu struggle for hegemony.

It has been nearly a year. The iron smelting workshop in Pei County has just been established, and the seeds of those new crops can also be promoted on a small scale. It can be said that everything is thriving.

And the seedlings are the most vulnerable. If Mo Zhe wants to maintain this "nest", he must manage it carefully.

This time in the defense of the city, they will only lead the 600 volunteers from Peixian County, plus some basic Mohists, totaling no more than [-] people.

Even if iron smelting needs to be carried out in a semi-conscripted labor method, it is still far from the extreme mobilization force of Pei County.

In the matter of iron smelting, one out of five households is drawn out, not one out of five households. This is not the Qin State after the reform, and there is no forced separation of families, so there are more potential forces.

How to use these potential forces to consolidate the foothold of the Mohists in Pei County is something that Mozi, Qiwuhai, and other ministries must carefully consider.

One year is too long, and many things must be set in advance.

This is the meaning of convening a high-level Mohist meeting this time. Judging from the number of participants, it can be regarded as an enlarged meeting.

I have thought about it a lot before, and there have been discussions among the Mohists, so I will not hide it at this time.

"I think this year, we will mainly do two things."

"One is the digging of irrigation ditches; the other is the title deeds of private fields and well fields for transformation."

"The conditions are ripe for digging ditches. The iron tools first meet the needs of Peidi, which can be said to be more effective than others, and it is easier to dig than other places."

"Back then, Fucha could make people dig Hangou. At that time, copper, bone, and stone were probably used. Now there is iron, and there is no need to dig a river as long as Hangou. It is not difficult."

"It doesn't have to be completed within one year, but we must start digging as soon as possible, even if it is divided into three, five, or even ten years, but we can't stop doing it just because it looks difficult."

"We have destroyed Wuzhu, and we always need an existence that does not worry about floods and droughts."

Mozi nodded in agreement, and said, "You once said that Ximenbao of Yedi once said that 'the people can be happy, but they can't know the beginning'. Whether this is true or not depends on the canal in Pei County."

At this time, Ximen Leopard was running Wei State in the north, which was inserted into the wedge of Zhao Handan and Zhongmou. Ximen Leopard really felt this way about repairing water conservancy: the people are ignorant, they are happy to see success, but they can't think about what to do before success Start.

Judging from Peidi's operation of the iron smelting workshop, this may not be true.

Shi laughed at this and said: "Ximen Bao is not necessarily wrong, our method can't be used in Ye; but also, his method can't be used in today's Pei."

"This is the role of the Xuanyi Department, to let the people know why they should do it and what benefits it will bring after doing it. And the words of the Xuanyi Department can be believed by the people because the Mohists have indeed done many things that are beneficial to them. This is They complement each other and are indispensable.”

"The Propaganda Department has already made preparations for digging the canal, so don't worry about it. The specific river area and the direction of the canal have also been prepared in advance."

"Before and after the summer harvest, the people can be mobilized to do this. However, I still think that this matter should be done before the summer harvest and before the Mohist go to Shangqiu."

"Because this thing and the second thing must be done together."

Some people already know why they need to do it together, and some people don't know it yet.

But soon, Shi clarified his meaning.

The second matter is the private distribution of public land, the recognition of private acres, the collection of taxes on private acres, the transformation of military taxes into taxes, and the transformation of conscription into compulsory military recruitment, which involves the interests of a large number of people.

Touching interests, such as killing parents.

Mohists need to have an armed force in their hands, ready to deal with the counterattack of the local nobles who have been violated.

It is not necessary to divide the land of the nobles, it is not necessary, but to cut off the personal attachment relationship between the serfs and the nobles, which is enough to make those little nobles desperately.

Originally, public land and tax land were owned by the nobles, and the serfs on them belonged to the land. They had to perform feudal obligations for the nobles: planting, harvesting, reclamation, hunting, ice mining, charcoal burning, construction, etc.

The monarch gave these public and endowed land to the nobles in exchange for the nobles to fulfill their military obligations to the monarch, because under the conditions of chariot warfare, the owners of four-horse chariots are actually similar to feudal knights.

Not everyone can shoot arrows on a chariot, and not everyone can drive a chariot to charge. This requires full-time military nobles.

Before the infantry has fully risen, without chariots, there will be no military power.It is extremely necessary to support a corporal with the labor of a hundred apprentices.When a chariot is used well, it can drive away more than 100 poorly trained soldiers.

Once the private land system is changed, ironware appears again, and Mo Zhe has money and the heart of benefiting the world, those serfs who were originally attached to the land will definitely find a way to escape.

One can only be a serf for the rest of his life and be bound to the land; the other can become a self-cultivator, and there is still a large grassland wasteland that can be reclaimed... It doesn't take too much brain calculation to know the consequences.

The old aristocrats hope to continue to maintain the original personal dependency relationship and obtain the most benefits.

This has nothing to do with the Mohists coveting their land, what the Mohists covet is just the kind of personal attachment.

With the advent of iron, this personal attachment can be broken.It seems that this kind of personal attachment is just broken, but it is actually a large-scale escape of serfs, and the land without serfs cannot obtain benefits.

It's very simple, if you liberate the serfs into self-cultivators, and you Mohists provide iron tools and loans for them to cultivate, then even if we nobles still have land, there is an egg to use?Shall we farm the land ourselves?

You Mohists recognize private land, reform feudal obligations, provide loans and iron tools to support large and small yeoman farmers, and serfs flee to those wastelands one after another. No one will farm land for us nobles. Is our land still valuable?

The serfs were freed from personal attachment, and there were no disciples behind the four-horse chariot, so we took a chariot to fulfill our feudal obligations to the prince?Without military superiority, why do we have privileges?
This is an irreconcilable contradiction.

The Mohist can be very determined, because the Mohist do not need the feudal military obligations of these small nobles.

The State of Wei has begun to reform its military system, and the infantry phalanx has gradually become the main force of the war.

The Mohist can do very bloody things, because the Mohist don't need these little nobles as grassroots managers.

Although the school of the Mohists was first established, a large number of talents who can be called "scholars" have been concentrated in the small county of Pei.

It must be resolute, bloody, and not allow external forces to interfere. The best time is when the people of Chu are besieging the Song Dynasty, and the great nobles of the Song Dynasty have no time to take care of Pei County.

And this foundation requires the Mohists to have an armed force that can be suppressed at any time.

Three or four hundred Mohists, plus more than 300 rigorously trained volunteers from Pei County, can completely deal with those small nobles in Pei County.

But once a large number of Mohists leave and volunteers go to Shangqiu to gain the autonomous status of Pei County, the small nobles may find an opportunity to counterattack.

Farmers conscripted to smelt iron are a force, and if the mobilization force in Pei County can be pushed to the limit in the name of digging canals, it can guarantee an absolute advantage and extinguish any counterattack.

According to the basis of the Peixian Wanmin Law, the Mohists are actually not qualified to govern the nobles in Peiyi in terms of law, because they did not sign to recognize the Twelve Grass and Silk Law.

But now that the power is enough and the timing is good enough, if you still think about those ridiculous legal principles and rationality, the Mohists can disband now.

The Mohist said that the feudal rights of nobles are unreasonable, and after explaining the truth clearly, asking the nobles to sign and acknowledge it... This is obviously ridiculous.If you accept death and feel that the nobles do not recognize or sign, then there is no legitimacy... Mohists don't have to think about benefiting the world.

Do it first.

This is an appropriate idea, and it is also an idea that the Mohists' senior officials basically agree with. Therefore, without disturbing the small nobles, first gather the people in the name of digging canals, and then distribute weapons to force the nobles to give up the public land. feudal rights.

With a clear mind, the Mohists can not toss them, let them evolve into operating landlords, and let them transform into the exploiting class under the new production relations.

Those who are not clear-headed, the Mohists have ten thousand ways to encourage the serfs on the public land fiefs to flee.

Just like the debate with Ren Ke at the beginning, can the land generate wealth if no one cultivates it?

(End of this chapter)