warring states careerist

Chapter 175
All the people present quickly reached a consensus. No matter from which point of view, relying on the elite infantry, taking advantage of the chaotic weakness of the Chu army's enfeoffment nobles, and the deterrent power of gunpowder-throwing weapons, piercing through the formation to force the king of Chu to make an oath, he became the only Mohist who could A way to make the Chu people retreat without relying on the Three Jins.

Mozi’s power is still too weak. Mozi said that this is the method proposed by Shi. In fact, he is admiring Shi’s clear "purpose". world.

Soon, the Mohists in the city began to organize troops, prepare weapons, buy food, and register the materials collected by various families.

The order to eradicate all Sumai within [-] miles outside the city was also issued, and the people from the Xuanyi Department began to publicize, saying that even if the eradication was not eradicated, the Chu people would cut off the food for the locality, absolutely not stay.

For Shangqiu people who have experienced dozens of siege battles, they can understand this matter, but only the Mohists can explain it clearly to them instead of directly issuing mandatory orders.

Outside the city, various methods were used to either burn them down, cut them off for horse fodder, or trample them on the spot. The Mohists used their powerful organizational skills to mobilize all the men, women and children in Shangqiu.

Outside the city, Gongsun Ze, who had discussed with Shi at the beginning, was asking his servants to prepare leather armor, bows and arrows, chariots and other weapons. He was going to participate in the battle of defending the city.

He does not live outside the city on weekdays, but there is a small piece of his fief outside the city and the private acres left by his ancestors. Several villages are either serfs in his fief, or rent and cultivate his private acres. farmers.

On his own fief, there is still no winter wheat planted, which is what he insists on.

Even though he was the closest to the village where winter wheat was first planted and the nobleman who had the earliest contact with them, even though the farmers in his private acres had already planted winter wheat and showed results, he remained unmoved.

His ideas are simple and quaint.

Planting in spring, mowing in summer, harvesting in autumn, and performing martial arts in winter.

If the whole of Shangqiu is planted with winter wheat, where to practice chariots in winter?

If the whole of Shangqiu is planted with winter wheat, and the farmers are busy with their own fields, how can they be willing to practice in winter?
What's more, wheat and bean have always been cheap food. If you have to eat cheap food as an aristocrat, then the dignity and inferiority of the world will soon be destroyed.

This is what he cannot tolerate, and he also believes that this will definitely cause chaos in the world.

It's just that the farmers who rented and planted his private acres didn't care about this. They were bitches and non-meat eaters, and they didn't think about meat eaters at all.

Gongsun Ze was wearing a standard samurai uniform, a leather cap, leather armor, a sword at his waist, and a bow in his hand.

Standing on a chariot, the farmers in the fief gathered behind them. They also followed to fight as apprentices, but their task at this time was not to fight, but to eradicate the crops in Gongsunze's fief.

Gongsun Ze didn't plant winter wheat, so at this time they were all spring crops such as millet that had just grown.

An old man persuaded: "Gentleman, these crops have not yet matured. I heard Mohists say that the eradication is to prevent Chu people from eating them. Are they also eradicated before they grow?"

Gongsun Ze said solemnly: "Your general gave Mo Di an order, and Mo Di had an order to eradicate food crops within [-] miles outside Shangqiu City and fill up wells within [-] miles. Isn't this millet a crop? Could it be that this place is less than [-] miles away from Shangqiu?" Is it here? If there is an order, it must be obeyed. This is the order of the king, so naturally it must be obeyed."

These fields are his fiefdoms, and they are also the basis for the full-time production of "Lu enough to farm on his behalf and practice martial arts diligently", but without even blinking his brows, he ordered them all to be eradicated, fill the wells, and demolish the wood on the houses.

He made it very clear that this was an order from the monarch, and Mo Di was only an order authorized by the monarch, so he followed it.

Seeing those farmers busy eradicating the crops that they worked so hard to cultivate, Gongsun Ze looked into the distance, turned his head and said to a young servant holding a bow: "Shooting, you must keep your word. What is a letter? The king granted me the land, so I don't have to do it." I can practice chariots and horses only if it is a trivial matter, so when the king needs it, I will not hesitate to sacrifice my life."

"Shooting, you must observe etiquette. If you meet a Chu doctor in the battle, you must draw the bowstring falsely and pay tribute first, and you must not secretly shoot."

"Shoot, you must be benevolent. If the Chu army is defeated and abandons their armor and drags their troops away, you chase after them. You cannot shoot those who throw their weapons and flee."

"I had a ten-year appointment with Shi that day, and then you were competing with the six-fingered boy in the shooting ceremony. Mo Zhe has come to Shangqiu, Shi has also come, and the boy must have arrived."

"The monarch ordered Mo Di, and Mo Di sent an order for all those who are good at shooting in Shangqiu to register and make a book. Now three years have passed, and your skill is small, but I can't let you stop defending the city just because of the ten-year agreement. If you are not allowed You go, this is not the work of a gentleman."

He knew that the Mohists had strict rules, and he also knew that once the Mohist defended the city, all the Mohist who came to Shangqiu would participate.

What he dissatisfied with was Mohist's appalling morals that would confuse the world.

The young valet holding the bow bowed and said, "I've written down the words of the gentleman. I will definitely fight to the death on the city wall."

Gongsun Ze smiled and said: "Never retreat in a deadly battle, this is the most basic. The Mohists have many rules for defending the city, and you must abide by their rules. But you have to remember, you are not obeying the Mohist, but the king will guard the city." The power and responsibility of the city is handed over to the Mozhe, and their orders are ultimately the orders of the king. Let me ask you, if the order of the king is contrary to the order of the Mozhe, who do you listen to?"

The young valet asked suspiciously: "Since the gentleman said that the Mohists are good at defending the city, whoever orders it can defend the city should be obeyed?"

Gongsun Ze laughed loudly and said, "Can you defend the city?"

The servant shook his head, thinking how could I defend the city?Don't gentlemen know?
Gongsun Ze laughed and said, "Since you don't know how to defend the city, how do you know whose order can defend the city well? But you only need to know the etiquette."

"Orders come from the Son of Heaven, orders come from princes, but not from officials and lowly people. If the order of the Mohist contradicts the order of the monarch, the order of the monarch shall prevail. This is observance of propriety."

Seeing that the servant seemed a little puzzled, and was still immersed in the doubt of whether the king's order could hold the city, Gongsun Ze said coldly: "I ask you, if everyone in the world thinks this way, will there still be disputes?"

"Untouchables plant, work, and serve. Scholars drive and govern. Doctors govern. Shangqing shares the worries of the princes. The princes protect the emperor and Zhou Li. Orders come from the emperor. Those who disobey are conquered, those who are not honored destroy the country, and those who violate the etiquette are boiled and killed... Is the world not stable?"

"Naturally you wonder whether the king's order can keep Shangqiu. But if you don't doubt, and the people in the world don't doubt, as long as the king obeys the propriety, how can the people of Chu have any reason to attack? Even things like defending the city will not happen, and your doubts will disappear by then."

The servant seemed to finally understand, said Sheng Wei, and followed Gongsun Ze to Shangqiu.

Outside the city, farmers within [-] miles were busy, using the ink carts or horse-drawn carts collected by the Mohists in the city, loaded with their own grain, and were forced to relocate to the city.

Mohists in weird clothes kept maintaining order or registering items. Many people were busy cutting down trees or eradicating Sumai, and they were very busy.

Gongsun Ze sighed secretly in the car, looking at those ink carts, double-wheel carriages, mills, remodeled Quyuan plows, and wheat fields full of ink traces everywhere, feeling depressed.

Mo Zhe left that village, and the village that Shi Ye left, but Mo Zhe's thoughts were burning like wildfire in autumn.

With the help of these agricultural tools, vehicles, and planting methods that are indelibly related to the Mohist, the Mohist's prestige is getting higher and higher, and more and more people listen to those truths.

"It's hard to keep the etiquette, but it's easy to go against the etiquette. The morality of the Mohists will eventually bring disaster to the world. If everyone strives for profit and everyone is equal, ambition will emerge in large numbers. How can the world be stable?"

"Now the world is in chaos. If everyone is equal again, then Han, Zhao, and Wei can be princes. How can all countries in the world be stable? I'm afraid there will be wars everywhere."

With a sigh, he shook his head, thinking about how terrifying the world would be if he believed the saying that everyone is equal and all ministers of the Emperor of Heaven.

The world is already in chaos, and if equality is added, there will be countless deaths in this world.

In the distance, those farmers with children and old people, or farmers pushing ink carts or carrying bags, looked back at the uprooted crops from time to time. Every step was so heavy, and the creaking sound of the ink cart brought out It was a little bit cold.

Beside the road, one person held an earthen pot upside down in his hand, beating the beat with his hands; the other stood aside, playing the ocarina, mournful and desolate.

A few others sang loudly along with the mournful beat.

Susu bustard feathers are gathered in Baoxu.The king's affairs are overwhelming, and he cannot be spoiled by millet and millet.

Where are the parents?Long heaven!What do you want?

The susu bustard wings are gathered on the bud spines.The king's affairs are exhausted, and he cannot be spoiled by millet.

What do parents eat?Long heaven!What's wrong with it?

Su Su bustling, gathered in Baosang.The king's affairs are exhausted, so he can't do rice and sorghum.

What about the parents?Youyou heaven!How often?

A very simple tune, a very sad feeling, a very helpless feeling, all in this song "Buddhist Feather".

The tune was wrong, this was Gongsun Ze's first reaction. This tune is more sad, more tearful, and more dissatisfied, but it is also simpler and easier to sing.

The war is unstoppable and the crops are finished. What do parents eat?Yoyo God, when will it be a head...

Gongsun Ze recognized that the beater, the ocarina player, and the lead singer were all Mohists.

Only Mozhe has such strange attire: a short brown body for working, but a bronze sword hanging from his waist that can buy a good suit of clothes, and a jet-black turban on his head.

Those farmers who were forced to burn their crops and go to Shangqiu to defend the city could not bear the desolate tune, helpless mood, and sad mood.

The voices of several people aroused the feelings of the farmers on the road, accompanied by the thick smoke of burning wheat fields and burning trees, singing everywhere.

Gongsun Ze sighed, saw Shi's back, and drove past Shi who was talking to the farmer about the truth that the ink-writers will make the world stable in the future. It's against the rules.

But in the end, looking at those miserable farmers, he didn't say anything.Shaking his head and passing by Shi, he drove towards Shangqiu.

(End of this chapter)