warring states careerist

chapter 172
When Song Gong was helpless, Mo Zhe was like the rain of a long drought, which gave Song Gong hope.

Before the previous Duke of Song went to the League, he wanted to go to Peiyi to see if Mo Zhe could really rule the country. He also wanted to let Mo Di, who scolded him, know that his astrology and praying method could really bring the dead back to life. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the chance .

The new Duke Song is young and has always looked down on his father.

Yu Mo also had contact with Mo Zhe on weekdays, and it had not been a day or two since Mo Zhe helped defend the city. After a little discussion, he immediately presented the tiger talisman for defending the city, and handed over all the defense of Shangqiu City to Mo Di.

This is the trust that Mo Zhai has gained in his 50 years of righteousness.

Before Mozi gave the order, he had roughly figured out the emotions of the lower class in Shangqiu City, and smiled at those rumors and nursery rhymes.

One was written by him, and the other was obviously made up to match this nursery rhyme, and he didn't care at all.

Mozhe defended the city, and he had to clarify the order first, so he brought some people from the Xuanyi Department with him in order to clarify Mozhe's order to defend the city first.

The defense of the city is not as usual, so the law of the Mohists is extremely strict.

In the past, when the Mohists preached laws and regulations, they still needed to be conveyed from top to bottom.

Now that there is the Ministry of Propaganda, and some meeting places such as craftsmen's associations, wheat flour shops, and mills that have already been established in Shangqiu, it is much easier to publicize the law of the Mohists defending the city.

Shi is also the first time to see how strict Mohist's city defense laws are.

On several sheets of paper are the contents of laws and decrees dictated by Mozi and written by the secretary.

Shi glanced at it, and there was a neat row of "kills".

The officials, soldiers, and common people imitated those who made the enemy's clothing and military banners, and killed them.

Anyone who disobeys military orders will be killed.

Those who are good at giving orders will be killed.

Those who delay military orders will be killed.

Those who hang down to the city with their halberds will be killed.

Those who go up and down the city and don't cooperate with the crowd will be killed.

They didn't shout indiscriminately in response to orders, kill.

Let go of criminals who lost public property, kill.

Those who make others prestige destroy my ambition, kill them.

Those who leave their posts without authorization and gather crowds to talk nonsense will be killed.

Anyone who hears the sound of drums on the city wall but rushes to the place of work after the drums have been beaten five times should be killed.

Anyone who enters without authorization while not at a service point will be killed.

Those who lead their subordinates to leave their own offices and enter other people's offices shall be killed.

Those who are not apprehended by the staff at the office shall be killed.

Take personal letters, kill,

If someone asks someone to do something private, kill him.

Those who abandon the defense of the city to do private affairs shall be killed.

Those who steal other people's wives and babies shall be killed.

Those who seduce other people's wives during the defense of the city shall be killed.

Those who run around in the army without credentials, kill them.

The enemy's soldiers are few but they are many, the military discipline is chaotic but they are said to be pruned, and the enemy's offensive methods are stupid but they are said to be ingenious, kill.

The enemy shoots letters with arrows, picks them up without permission, and kills them.

The enemy showed hypocrisy to the city, and those who responded were killed.

Letters were shot at the enemy in the city, and those who violated this prohibition would be killed, and their bodies would be displayed in the city.

Those who take advantage of the siege to rob property shall be killed.

Those who set fire in the city will be killed.

If there is a fire in the city, if you leave your post without asking for instructions, even out of good intentions, you will be killed.

Rape a woman, kill.

Anyone who deliberately burns food will be killed.

Those who intentionally damage the weapons workshop will be killed.

... One by one, one by one, counted appropriately, adding up to more than 80 killing orders in the end.

Obviously, this is not the first time the Mo family has defended the city, nor is it the first time such an order has been made, but it has been honed countless times in the previous decades of experience in defending the city, and many Mohists can even recite it.

Now that paper is available, this kind of law is more formal. Dozens of copies have been written, and eloquent Mohists are selected to preach in the city wearing special costumes, trying to let everyone know.

These more than 80 pieces are just beheading.

Then there are more than 30 other punishments, such as three clans, hanging, car cracking and so on.

After reading it, I wanted to add something, but found that I had no chance to add it at all. Mo Zhe's years of experience in defending the city were exchanged with blood in practice.

And these were promulgated not in the name of the Mohist, but in the name of the Duke of Song, because the Mohist was actually helping the Duke of Song defend the city.

It was not the first time that many people in the city had seen Mohist guarding the city. Once these rules were promulgated, they quickly spread throughout Shangqiu.

People from the Propaganda Department will naturally reason, but this time there is no need to reason, but just to explain these laws clearly, at most, to let the people know why they are so strict.

The inkmen in the city are already busy, selecting soldiers, assigning tasks to defend the city, recruiting women to cook, digging toilets, blocking wells outside the city, burning trees within a hundred steps outside the city...

Mo Zhe's organization and action ability surpassed this time, and it was fully demonstrated within a few days.

When Shi returned to Mo Zhe and copied the next legal order accurately, Mozi waved at Shi and said, "Let Xiaosheng do the copying of the legal order first."

Shi took a glance and found that they were all rewards. Mozi explained: "Only when there are rewards and punishments can we keep it. Only when rewards and punishments are strict can we last long. How can everyone return to their hearts if only punishments are not rewarded?"

Shi Shi walked up to Mozi and said, "Sir, today I was watching from the city wall and saw Su Mai outside the city, and I felt uneasy."

Mozi nodded and said, "That's why I asked you to come here. Sumai outside the city, if it is too close, must be eradicated and burned, and cannot be left to the people of Chu. If this matter is not done well, I am afraid that Shangqiu may not be able to do it." Hold on. The people of Chu need food because of the land, and they besieged the city for a year, and I am afraid that countless people will starve to death in Shangqiu."

Shi nodded and said: "Mr. once said that if there is no foreign aid to defend the city, the best strategy is to go out of the city and defeat the enemy. But now Mr. is going to burn Sumai outside the city. It seems that there is only one way to defend?"

Mo Zi kept silent and asked for a while, "What do you think?"

Shi shook his head and said: "Rumors are everywhere in the city, and the disaster of Xiaoqiang is imminent. The people in the city may not be willing to defend to the death. There, it is also necessary to pay food and taxes."

These obvious "treasonous" remarks were extremely pleasing to Mozi's ears.

Originally, the Song State was not the Song State of the common people. If the Mohist wanted to benefit "the world", it was impossible to use such words as the Song State of the Song people to motivate the people, and the truth must be applicable to the world.

Mozi sighed: "I came to guard the city not for the Duke of Song and the Six Ministers, but they are the ones who benefit. In fact, I am not for the people in Shangqiu City, but for the people of the world."

"If the king of Chu can be deterred this time, within a few years, there will be no battle between Jin and Chu. Those who come from Jin to Mo will defend against Jin; if Chu comes, Jin will defend against Chu. Between them, it will be difficult to have a war.”

"Since we Mohists can hold on, whoever fights unjustly in Jin and Chu will be defeated. I think it will always make the monarchs of all countries dare not easily use troops."

Just wanting to say something, Mozi waved his hand and said, "I can't see your sword of covenanting the world. I'm old!"

"Shi, the only way we can use now is this. Can Pei County fight against Jin and Chu, and restrain them from easily engaging in unjust wars?"

"It doesn't work now, so why don't you stop doing things that benefit the world?"

"Your method is right, but that is the future. My method is also right. It benefits the present. I know that people in the city may not be willing to defend it, but this time they must defend it. , can always make the people of Song Dynasty live a good life for a few years."

"It's been 230 years since the Battle of Chengpu, right?"

Appropriately, he agreed, and Mo Zi sighed and said, "The battle of Chengpu was because the people of Chu attacked the Song Dynasty and the people of Jin came to rescue them."

"Since then, how many years has the Song Dynasty lived in peace? This has always been a place where the Jin and Chu countries are fighting for hegemony. The people are displaced and unable to produce."

"If the king of Chu can be deterred, so that he will not dare to send troops easily in the future, Mo Zhe will tell the world that he only defends but does not attack, and shows his methods in the battle of defending the city. Even if he wants to come to Jin, he will not dare to send troops easily."

Nodding helplessly, he understood what Mozi meant. It seems that Mozi wanted to use what he had learned all his life to announce to the world when he was old and dying: "No one can capture the city guarded by Mozi. Anyone who attacks will fail, and others will take advantage of the opportunity to attack, you'd better stop doing unjust wars in the Central Plains while I'm alive."

After a while, Shi said: "Sir, I think there must be a lot of Chu people's spies inside and outside Shangqiu city?"

Mozi smiled wryly and said, "It's not just inside and outside the city? Even inside the Liuqing office, there may be quite a few. How can I not understand their thoughts? They just want to take advantage of this to fight for power and profit."

Shi thought for a while and said, "Since this is the case, the Chu people should know about the burning of the wheat fields outside the city. The wheat fields within thirty miles will be burned. Thirty miles is exactly one day's transportation time. If the people of Chu want to borrow wheat for the army, they must divide their troops to harvest and transport the wheat."

"At that time, the troops will be divided up to besiege the city, and the real power of the Chu people to besiege the city will be reduced. Originally, the Chu people thought that there would be food here, so they couldn't carry too much. They can choose to besiege instead of fighting."

"Once it's a foregone conclusion, it will take time for Chu people's food to be transferred from a distance to athletes. Chu people may have to attack the city if they don't want to."

"If the Chu people don't attack the city, they don't know the methods of our Mohist; when the Chu people attack the city, the Mohist's methods can be known to the world."

There was a look of approval in Mozi's eyes, he beckoned Shi to come closer, and said, "That's right. It's impossible to cut a hundred miles of wheat. If you cut thirty miles of wheat, the Chu people will divide their troops. It's just right."

"Now Mo Zhe still has righteous teachers, and many weapons dedicated to defending the city, as well as the gunpowder you made."

"It is precisely to ring the bell of non-attack in Shangqiu to let the world know."

I thought about the composition of Chu's army, thought about the organizational level of the Chu army, analyzed the organizational ability of Chu's enfeoffment and conscripted troops, and thought about the dramatic "bed tent" that Chu people surrounded Shangqiu more than a hundred years ago. League", said in a low voice: "Disciple, there is another way to make this singing more resounding."

　The bed tent alliance was the result of Dr. Song being able to break into Chu Sima's bed at night, wake up Sima Zifan and negotiate terms... The military organizational strength in the late Spring and Autumn Period was like this.A big Sima can be easily touched into the tent by the enemy...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)