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Chapter 196 The Strong City Still Fears the Disaster of the Xiao Wall ([-])
Three hundred poems, a tribute to elegance.

There are songs of the Son of Heaven, there are songs of princes, there are songs of great officials, and there are songs of scholars.

The song "Northern Mountain" is exactly what scholars should sing.

The man playing the sword is also considered tall, since he is concentrated here, he is naturally a sergeant, proficient in all six arts, playing the sword as a shot, and he is also imposing.

Zhibi Beishan, said to pick its Qi.Together with scholars, work day and night.The king's affairs are exhausted, worrying about my parents.

Under Putian, is it the land of the king; on the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers.Doctors are not equal, I am engaged in Duxian.

The four males are peng peng, and the king is next to him.Jia I am not old, I will be fresh.The brigade is strong, and it operates in all directions.

Either Yan Yan lives in rest, or serves the country to the fullest; or rests in bed, or keeps going.

Or I don't know the name, or I work miserably;

Either drinking happily, or being miserable and afraid of blame;

After the song "Bei Shan" was sung, another section was repeated.

"Under the Putian, is it the king's land; on the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers. The doctor is not equal, and I am a single virtuous."

After the song, he met Mo Di's gaze and asked with a smile: "Doctors are not equal. I am a sage? The Mohists also guard Shangqiu. I also heard that there are many warriors among the Mohists. Their swordsmanship is amazing. I don't want Mr. Mo Di to just let me Waiting to fight, but not letting the Mohists fight!"

"Bei Shan" is originally a song of complaints, except for the princes of the emperor, it seems that everyone has their own complaints.

The song is sarcasm everywhere: the doctor praises me for being really capable, then the doctor doesn’t go to work and asks me to do it, and then praises me when I’m done...

This is the dissatisfaction of the scholar class with the patriarchal clan system. They expect the lower class to be one level lower than them, but expect to be equal to the upper class.

After complaining, you are actually blaming the Mohists: You praise us as warriors, but you don't send people to fight, but let us fight.

You, Mo Di, are so unfair!
Flicking the sword and complaining is probably a necessary skill for the scholar class. After all, doctors and ministers don't need to complain, and the lower classes don't have swords.

Gongsun Ze was a little angry when he heard the words, and said in his heart: "Since they are guarding the city, the Mohists don't eat the king's salary. They go if they want to go, and they don't go if they don't want to go."

"We are soldiers. Since the country is in trouble, it is natural that we go first. What is there to complain about?"

He glanced at the swordsman, thinking that he must come forward to reprimand him, and he was afraid that he would say some bad words again, which would affect everyone.

He sighed secretly, but didn't think that Shi didn't even refute, but turned around and said a few words to the Mozhe beside him.

The sword-and-ink man next to him actually imitated the man who sang just now, playing the sword with his fingers to make the beat, and sang loudly.

"The sandalwood is cut in the rough, and the river is dry, and the river is clear and rippling."

As soon as the Mohist got up, Gongsun Ze sighed faintly, and said in his heart: "For this person, the skill of arguing with others, I'm afraid it's true Mo Di's true biography, and it's very likely to be out of the blue. In this way, what's the face of the people?" ?”

He wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

The ink player playing the sword sang in the local dialect of the Song Dynasty. At the beginning, his fingers were jingling, just cutting sandalwood, and then he knocked hard at the back, with a golden and copper sound.

The sandalwood is cut down in the rough, and the river is dry, and the river is clear and rippling.

No crops, no crops, three hundred grains of rice?

If you don't hunt, don't hunt, Hu Zhanerting has a scorpion?
He gentleman, don't eat vegetarian food!
The ridges and ridges are cut and radiated, and they are placed on the side of the river. The river is clear and straight.

If there is no crops, no crops, 300 billion yuan will be taken?

If you don't hunt or hunt, Hu Zhanerting has county characteristics?
He is a gentleman, not a vegetarian!
The hurdles are cutting the wheel, and the river is so thick that the river is clear and rotten.

If there is no crops, no crops, how about three hundred yuan for nothing?

If you don't hunt or hunt, Hu Zhanerting has a county quail?
He is a gentleman, he is not a vegetarian!
The scholar class has the complaints of the scholar class, and the lower class also has the complaints of the lower class. This kind of complaint has a special taste after singing.

After singing, the swordsman sang loudly again: "You gentleman, don't be so good!"

After singing, Mo Di first said: "I am a farmer."

Shi also said: "I am a shoemaker."

The rest of the Mohists also revealed their identities one after another.

"I am a potter."

"I am a coppersmith."

The swordsman beside him said: "I was originally from Qi, but now I am a Mohist."

Shi sneered and said: "We are not scholars at first, so naturally we can't eat vegetarian food. Mohists have no king, no father, no country, no country, and they don't eat the king's salary."

"You are scholars, you have a king, a father, a country, and a state."

"At this time of national calamity, you have to ask us why we are not with you. Are you willing to be a vegetarian?"

"As a shoemaker, I have no land, no slaves, no boy servants, and no salary, but I have to pay the tax and the tax. Not to mention that since I am a Mohist, I have no country, monarch, and I am not a Mohist, do I? Do you want me to guard Shangqiu?"

"You have fiefs and salaries. Could it be that Shangqiu is besieged, and you go out to attack the city, and you want to mention it to the cobbler?"

"Isn't this ridiculous? In the old days when the Marquis of Qi was slaughtered, the people of Linzi refused to obey the law, Yan Zi cried bitterly in the courtyard like Cui Zi, and the soldiers surrounded everyone thinking that he would die. Could it be that Yan Ying would say: the people of the country do not obey the law, so I don't have to personally In danger, cry in court with Cui Zi?"

Shi laughed and said: "If you compare like this, that's okay. In the future, your fiefs will be cancelled, you will pay taxes together, and you will no longer have salary, so you can compare."

After he finished speaking, the man with the sword was ashamed, retracted his sword and bowed back: "This is my ignorance, please don't laugh, I have already made a mistake."

The rest of the people present are scholars after all, and they still have some morals and face, so I won't say more.

Gongsun Ze thought about what Shi said just now, and what he had argued with Shi Xiang before, and he said in a low voice: "The Mohist only said that power and obligation are relative, but this is what it means? Without power, there is no obligation, so it is said that , the people of Shangqiu don’t really have to guard the city?”

"But...it doesn't seem right. I also said that the courtesy is not inferior to common people. Could it be that I think it's wrong? Common people shouldn't observe these rituals? But...but..."

He couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure out the key points, but felt that what Mo Zhe said seemed to be right, but it seemed to be completely wrong, and he couldn't refute it with words.

When he was young, Mo Zi said: "Now the people of Chu are busy harvesting wheat, and they think that the city will only defend to the death. This is the time to go out of the city to attack and harass."

"The Mohists guard the city for the benefit of the world, for the sake of righteousness, but not to fulfill their obligations."

All the scholars were blushed by the last sentence of the song "Fat Tan", he said that he is not a gentleman. At this time, he explained the truth clearly, and after all, it was difficult to refute, so they had to say: "If you eat the king's salary, don't you fight to the death?" ?”

After saying these words, many terrifying thoughts suddenly appeared in Gongsun Ze's mind.

"If you eat the king's salary, don't you fight to the death? If you eat the king's salary, don't you fight to the death? If you eat the king's salary, don't you fight to the death..."

Mumbling and repeating these few words, Gongsun Ze suddenly thought of what Shi Shi had said to him a few days ago: Who does the land and wealth belong to?
His body turned cold, and he couldn't help thinking: "If... if the Mohist's principles are practiced in the world, the land belongs to all people, wealth comes from hard work, and a gentleman is no more than a silverfish... then... then where does this salary come from?"

"If the land is not owned by the monarch, then the salary will come from the people... Could it be that when the time comes, you will eat the people's salary, and you won't fight to the death?"

"No! No! There must be something wrong! It shouldn't be like this!"

When he thought of what he had learned in the past twenty years, his mind became confused and he became a little crazy.

"Under the Putian, is it the king's land; on the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers."

"All the land in the world belongs to all people; under Haotian, all people are ministers of heaven."

"Only one of the truths in the world is right, but which one is right? If Mo Zhe is right, then under Pu Tian, ​​Wang Tu is wrong!"

The more he thought about it, the more chaotic he became, and finally he let out a long sigh, thinking: "I'm afraid...the world is really going to be chaotic!"

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Outside the city, in the camp of the Chu army, the Mohists had not yet come to form an alliance with the Chu people, but they released all the captured Chu people in the city.

These released Chu people first became the means by which the king of Chu invited people to buy people's hearts.

Before Wanjun, the King of Chu announced loudly: When he formed an alliance with the Mohists, he still did not forget those captured people, no matter nobles, scholars, peasants, businessmen, as long as he served the king, he would never forget them.

This was a rare situation before, and the captured Chinese were either released after the armistice, or they were captured as slaves.

When the nobles were captured, they usually bought them back with heavy gifts. For example, during the Jin-Chu struggle for hegemony, many captured nobles usually paid ransoms in exchange for their return.

As for common peasants, businessmen, unless there is a complete truce or a big country wants to gain prestige, they are rarely redeemed.

After the king of Chu said this, there was really thunderous cheers, and all the troops cheered for victory. With just a few words, the king of Chu won the support of the peasants, businessmen, and businessmen.

After all, if the royal power wants to fight against the nobles, it can only rely on the bottom of the country.

The rest of the nobles were dissatisfied, but there was nothing they could do.

The king of Chu felt that Mohists were really good, and it seemed that as long as he said that he would benefit the world in the future, Mohists would have the possibility of entering Chu, and he was very happy.

However, a few days later, the king of Chu was patrolling the barracks at night, and he felt the deep malice of Mo Zhe!

The nobles who were released were fine and had no complaints.

But those peasants, businessmen, and warriors who were released back were full of morals and complaints.

There is no need to talk about the peasants, businessmen, and those complaints have always been there, but after being captured and returned, these complaints have become more systematic, clearer, and clearer.

The King of Chu actually liked the complaints made by the scholars there, but the rest of the nobles would definitely not like it...

Thinking about the contradiction between the nobility and the royal power in the big tent before Shi Shi, he opened his mouth, and the king of Chu knew: I am afraid that he has fallen into the trap of the Mozhe, and will be roasted on the fire by the Mozhe!

Several samurai who were released sat around the campfire and chattered, causing a riot.

A soldier who was captured and returned happily talked about his captive life in the city, and said: "The feeling in the city is much better than the feeling of besieging the city here. It is very boring here, and there is no wheat cake to eat. Go inside , Mohists are all talented, their speech is reasonable, and they can watch dance dramas... I actually..."

After he finished talking about these interesting stories of being captured, he said again: "If you want to say, it is not bad for the Mohists to say that they should promote the virtuous. If you have the ability, you will be promoted, and if you are incompetent, you will be demoted. If you ask me, many people are incompetent. If the world is really able to promote the virtuous Why are we just soldiers..."

Those who were captured and released were still there preaching the favorite principles of the scholar class, and the people sitting around praised them one after another, which was quite reasonable.

The King of Chu, who was patrolling at night, and the nobles around him looked at each other in blank dismay.

The king of Chu thought to himself, what I said is very reasonable. If I can honor the virtuous, how can the Chu country be thousands of miles wide, but it has been repeatedly defeated by Jin?It's just... these words are likely to cause dissatisfaction.

The nobleman thought, what he said is indeed reasonable, but what should we do if we honor the virtuous?I am the eldest son of the Dazong, so I can inherit everything. Is it really a matter of talent?Even if I am talented, how can my children and grandchildren also be talented?So I can't make sense.

So a few nobles said: "During the siege battle, if you criticize political affairs, you must deal with them!"

The king of Chu cursed secretly, who will I rely on in the future when I deal with them?Is it by you guys who can coup d'etat at any time?But if I don't deal with it, how can you be willing to use your life?
Just when he hesitated and couldn't think of a complete solution, a close servant whispered: "Someone in the city fell down the wall and only said that there was a secret to report to the king."

(End of this chapter)