warring states careerist

Chapter 194 The City Is Still Fearing the Disaster of the Xiao Wall ([-])
Liuqing can think of the food problem, which is the foundation of Shangqiu City after the Mohists participated in the defense of the city.

As Shi Shi, who has never been afraid to speculate on the behavior of the nobles with the greatest malice, he would naturally think of it, but he didn't say it when he thought of it, just like Gong Shuban didn't say anything when he thought of it in front of the King of Chu: Shi Shi didn't know whether Mo Zi could think of it, but he never said it. Will not speak out.

Sending charcoal in a timely manner, rioting by the people of the country, persecuting Duke Song, dividing the nobles... These are the means that Shi began to think of three years ago.

The Song State cannot reform the law, and the Song State cannot centralize power. The Song State needs the aristocratic decentralization to check and balance, so that the fledgling Mohists can have enough living space.

This will kill a lot of people, or a lot of innocent people, so it is not appropriate to share my thoughts with other Mohists: Many of them are too idealistic, and what Mohism needs is a person who knows the cruel reality to be a secret pusher .

If one line of nobles dominates and centralizes power, then the Mohists will lose their living space—whether it is the Magna Carta or the three-level conference, they all originated from the era of feudalism and were the result of the struggle between royal power and nobles. It is impossible for the aristocratic kingship to rely on the help of the yeoman and the bourgeoisie to fight against the aristocracy.

As the person in charge of the Xuanyi Department and the Secretary of the Book, there are artisans in Shangqiu as eyes and ears, who also know all the news that the Mohists know, and the nursery rhyme that is undercurrent in Shangqiu city is himself fabricated.

I don't know about the conspiracy among the six ministers, but I know that under the pressure of the situation, these nobles will definitely choose to fight to the death.

Except for the highest level of the Mo family, no one knew that the Mo family planned to fight back against the Chu people on their own and lift the siege of Shangqiu.

Because they didn't know and didn't dare to imagine, everyone thought that sending troops from the Jin Dynasty was the only way to break through the siege, and it was doomed that the conflicts between the pro-Jin Sichenghuang family and the other six ministers could not be reconciled.

Once the Jin people came, the other six ministers would have no chance at all.

Shi even looked forward to the early chaos in Shangqiu city, the Xuanyi Department had already grasped the public opinion propaganda in the city.

Knowing that there will be no chaos in the city, the Propaganda Department and the Artisan Association will use an unprecedented method to control the initiative of the people and public opinion, so Shi hopes that the nobles will launch a "rebellion".

Of course, the Mohist must be neutral, not only neutral, but also watch the fire from the other side, and when necessary, help Song Gong, a third party, as a third party, to balance the internal power of Song State.

In the entire Song Kingdom, the power of the Mohists has not been able to stand on top of each other at this time.

But in the besieged city of Shangqiu, the strength of the Mohists is enough to be one of the tripartite tripods.

Food is the only possibility for the pro-Chu faction to win, especially after the Mozhe showed enough defensive skills.

With such thoughts in mind, Shi Shi took a few swordsmen to obtain a warrant from Mozi after busying with the tasks of surveying staff, and went to inspect Shangqiu's treasury and granary.

The food in the treasury itself is not too much, but before the siege, the Mohists organized a compulsory food collection, using some small nobles as chickens to scare the chickens, and then using clear accounts to return and other rhetoric, they collected enough food to last for eight months. .

Saving some food and implementing a rationing system later should be able to barely last a year.

One year is the limit of the Chu people. If they besieged the city for one year, if they could not get food according to the locality, they would also face the dissatisfaction of the county soldiers and the food shortage in Chu.

Among the guards of the treasury, there are no Mohists. There are not many Mohists, and they are basically assigned to guard positions.

Those Mohists who will fight to the death in the future are not the army at this time, but more like a death squad of a grassroots officer corps. It is impossible for them to do this kind of guarding, which is a waste.

However, Mozi also attaches great importance to food guards. There are many people stationed here, some are guards, and some are specially used to deal with things like fire fighting.

According to the rules of defending the city, even if there is a fire in the city, the people on the city wall are not allowed to fight the fire at will, even if they are out of good intentions, they must be executed, so there must be a special fire fighting team in some critical places.

The soldiers guarding the treasury and the granary are not old or weak, but they are not elite either. There has never been a situation where grain was burned in the city before, and they are not strictly guarded against such things.

Shi walked around the warehouse for a while, and found that many places were not rammed earth but logs, so he asked the swordsman beside him seemingly unintentionally: "In your opinion, if Mo Zhe set fire in the city and suddenly burned the granary, he might succeed." ?”

The swordsman smiled and said: "Xuan Yishi, in my opinion, if there are only a few dozen people to prepare the city gates, the treasury can be burned. Even if not all of them can be burned, the food here is half of the city."

He didn't know why Shi Shi asked this question, Shi Shi didn't say anything, and turned around a few more times.

The guards also knew Shi's name, and saw that he had Mozi's warrant, so they didn't stop him.

After going out, when he was about to go to the workshop in the distance, he unexpectedly met Gongsun Ze on the road. The two of them could be regarded as dating, but they were not on the city wall at this time, so they had to say hello to each other.

Thinking of seeing Gongsun Ze on the city wall before, Shi asked curiously, "Didn't the giant let you nobles guard the battlements?"

Gongsun Ze raised his head and said: "Your giants obeyed the orders of the king to defend the city, so I obeyed your orders to defend the city. The Chu people do not attack the city. They have a rest today and have something to do."

He is a righteous person, but so is Shi. He shook his head and said, "It was the Duke of Song who asked the giant to guard the city, not the Duke of Song who ordered the giant to guard the city. The giant is not from the Song Dynasty."

Gongsun Ze laughed loudly and said: "Mr. Mo Di, even if you are not from the Song Dynasty, everyone knows that you are a shoemaker from Shangqiu because of your proper name. In the whole world, is it the land of the king; on the shore of the land, is it the minister of the king? Don't you Not from Song Dynasty?"

"You Mohists always say that you love the world, and you often say that Mohism is from the world and Kyushu, but not from Song, Chu and Jin. I don't know something, so I still ask for advice."

Shixin said, it's definitely not a good thing for you to ask for advice, but the other party has already saluted, and it's hard for him to refuse.

Gongsun Ze asked: "If one day, the order of your giant and the king's order conflict, whose order will you listen to?"

Without even thinking about it, Shi said, "Of course it belongs to the giant. I am not from the Song Dynasty, but from the world, Kyushu, and Zhuxia. Why should I listen to the king?"

Gongsun Ze's face turned red, half mocking and half annoyed, he said, "Rebellious ministers and thieves are people like you. Don't you think there are any farmers among you Mohists?"

Shi nodded, of course there are farmers among the Mohists, and there are quite a few of them.

Gongsun Ze seemed to have found a breakthrough point, and said loudly: "So, isn't the farmer's land the king's land? The whole world is the king's land, and the emperor divides the nine states among the princes. The farmers among you Mohists plant the land, but don't obey the princes' land. Isn't this a betrayal?"

This question was asked sharply, and the swordsmen around Shi were quite dissatisfied. Shi said calmly: "The Mohists never thought that this land belonged to the princes of the emperor, so they never thought of betraying the word. This land belongs to the people of the world." Yes, then don’t we not betray?”

Gongsun Ze laughed loudly and said, "It's ridiculous! You are the worst morals in the world! Could it be that you say that the leaves are red, and from then on, the green ones will be red?"

Contrary to Gongsun Ze's expectation, Shiji nodded calmly and said, "Yes, that's what I think. As long as our principles become the highest morals in the world, then we are not considered betrayal. Is there anything strange about this? "

Gongsun Ze said angrily: "Your "Shan Hai Jing" said that the ground under your feet is round. So from Jin to Chu, you can reach both south and north. Would you choose to go north?"

"If you want not to betray, the easiest way is to obey the orders of the monarch, instead of letting your principles become the principles of the world. What is the difference between you doing this and Jin people going to Chu and Zhebei?"

After shaking his head and sighing, he sneered, "But we don't want not to betray, we just want to make their principles become the principles of the world, and not betraying is just incidental. Just like when you draw a bow and make your thumb callus, why don't you Is it for cocooning or learning to shoot?"

"If you learn archery, you will naturally form cocoons; if you just want to cocoon, of course there is an easier way. The Mohists never conceal their views. We just want to let our principles prevail in the world, and the rest are just incidental. "

Gongsun Ze looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "This is the Mohist who has no king and no father! Not only are you not ashamed to say that..."

Shi Ye laughed and said: "That's right, I'm proud of it. You see, I used the Mohist's method of explaining knowledge to keep the benevolence of King Wu; now the giant uses the Mohist's method of defending the city to keep your king. , what else can you say?"

"You have to remember, it was Song Gong who asked the giant to guard the city, not Song Gong ordered the giant to guard the city. If he dares to order him, hehe, I'm afraid Shangqiu won't be able to defend it!"

In Gongsun Ze's view, defending the city is a matter of course. He has never thought about a question: he has enough reasons to defend the city, but is the Mohist's reason for defending the city different from his?

As a low-ranking nobleman, he still enjoys the privileges and land under the feudal system, so as long as the principle that the land of the king is right, then the privileges and obligations of the feudal system are reasonable.

He is a direct subordinate of Song Gong, not a scholar under the sub-divided doctor, so he can only be loyal to Song Gong.And those scholars under the doctor are not loyal to the Duke of Song, but the doctor above them, but the doctor is loyal to the Duke of Song, so the scholars under the doctor also participate in the defense of the city, in order to fulfill their feudal obligations to the doctor rather than to the Duke of Song feudal obligations.

In essence, Gongsun Ze is different from the Mohists, and from the scholars under the doctors.

Gongsun Ze believed that defending the city was an obligation, so he believed that the people who guarded the city at this time were out of duty, so he was dissatisfied with the superior attitude of the Mohists.

But Shi clearly told Gongsun Ze that it is not an obligation for the Mohists to guard the city, but out of the Mohism's morality for the benefit of the world, so failing to do so is not a violation of the obligation, but a violation of the Mohism's morality.

With this kind of confidence, his speech was extremely harsh, which made Gongsun Ze extremely dissatisfied. It seemed that people like Gongsun Ze who guarded the city out of obligation should thank the Mohist for their mobilization and defense.

Thinking of this, Gongsun Ze said angrily: "Since you guard the city, even if it is not your duty to guard the city, why did you not get the permission of Song Gong to form an alliance with the Chu people? Everyone in Shangqiu knows this, and a gentleman always dies. Did the latter make peace with the enemy first?"

(End of this chapter)