warring states careerist

Chapter 217

Before Shi could answer, Mozi said, "Don't be impatient. They may do a lot of things. Not only burn the granary, they may poison the well, they may launch a mutiny, they may assassinate me, they may collude with Chu people, and they may besiege me." Song Gong... all kinds of things are sinister, and they all involve thousands of lives and deaths.

"I just thought of this possibility, but there are so many possibilities, how can we prevent them in advance?"

"Just like a big river is surging, once a heavy rain pours, it may burst and drown millions of people. You just said that as long as the embankment of the big river is raised a hundred feet in advance, there will be no worries! Is it possible to do it?"

Gong Zaoye gritted his teeth and thought for a moment, then apologized to Shi Shi: "It's my fault, I shouldn't ask you like this."

After the apology, Gong Zaoye suddenly asked Mozi again: "Sir, you said earlier that you wanted to lure the snake out of the hole. If the people who set fire can be caught tonight, but the granary has already been burned... You said that there may be too many, not all of them." Taking into account... this disciple has a question that I would like to ask for advice."

Mozi nodded, Gong Zaoye said: "If we can know in advance that we will set fire to the granary, but the person who set the fire may be caught and really lead the snake out of the hole, should we choose to do this? Even if the final result is beneficial to the world."

After asking Mozi, he looked at Shi again and asked, "Shi, what do you think?"

Mozi said sternly: "If we can know in advance, we must stop it! Even if it may benefit the world in the end, we still have to stop it!"

Gong Zaoye raised his eyes to look at Shi, but Shi avoided the question and laughed aloud: "I think if there are enough seeds for those newly planted sweet potatoes and ghost fingers, even if the granary is burned, there will be no famine. It can always survive. Therefore, if I have enough seeds to spare, then the matter of burning or not will not involve the lives of thousands of people, so I don’t think it’s okay if I don’t stop it. Of course, if I don’t have the ability to stop the next one famine, it must be prevented.”

Gong Zaoye nodded and sighed.

Mozi waved his hand and said: "There is no need to mention this matter again. The granary is not an ordinary place. Send people to put out the fire immediately. You should bring a team to prevent such things like rebirth! If you can catch one or two, it would be the best!" "

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In the early morning of the next day, just before dawn, the drums of the Chu people outside the city shook the sky again, as if they were about to launch a more violent attack on the city.

In order to share Mo Zhe's thoughts, not only attack the city openly, but also dig underground tunnels openly, showing all possible siege tactics that can be used.

Someone took advantage of the chaos to leave the city last night. The Chu people may not really want to break through Shangqiu, but they just want to make a good gesture.

Real digging, fake digging, or real digging without actually using this method to attack must distract the defenders from dealing with it. This is the purpose of the Chu people.

The losses in the night have been paid back. Part of the granary was burned, and the stored grain was lost so much that it could not last for too long.

This news cannot be blocked, because people with a heart have already spread it before dawn.

After Gong Zaoye returned with those guarded people, his face was full of anger, but he was helpless.

He guessed that people in the city did it, and he could even guess who it was, but he didn't have the slightest evidence.

When he rushed there, there were a few corpses left behind, but these corpses had self-destructed before they died, and they could not be recognized at all.

The sword worn on his body is a waist-retracting short sword with the characteristics of Chu. However, there are many people with this kind of short sword in the hands of ink masters. This cannot deceive those who want to find out the truth, but it is enough to deceive the public .

Gong Zaoye knew from those who had ruined their faces that these people must be dead soldiers raised by nobles. In order to prevent being traced after doing things, they often used such methods.

Because the person who left the scar on Gong Zaoye's face once talked to Gong Zaoye about the deeds of the dead man, and he also mentioned that before doing some big things in the market, the ranger would use such a method in order not to implicate his family.

It's just that even if he knew, he couldn't accuse the nobles in the city without evidence. Gong Zaoye was angry that these nobles would do such evil deeds for their own benefit, which would lead to a famine in Shangqiu a year later.

He has passed the age of relying on his own martial arts to calm the injustice in the world, so he can only report this matter to Mo Zi, asking what to do and how to punish those people.

Mozi asked: "Punishment is to make people stop doing such things, so Mohists punish those who harm the world, never hide their purpose, and will tell the world about their deeds that harm the world. But now you just guess who did it, after all, you can't do it right now!"

"Just wait, there will be a chance. Have you forgotten how long it took you to deal with those Wu Zhu, those officials, and those big clans in Pei County?"

Speaking of Pei County, Gong Zaoye finally calmed down his anger, thinking that in order to deal with those people, Mo Zhe had prepared for two years before taking action, and knew that even if he wanted to punish him today, he could only wait.

Mozi said again: "Today the Chu people are attacking the city again, and the people in the city are afraid that people will panic. The affairs on the city wall depend on you and me; the affairs under the city wall still depend on the people from the Shihe Xuanyi Department. This is Make the best use of it. Go and rest for a while, don't worry."

Gong Zaoye took the order to retreat, and the drums of the Chu people outside the city were like thunder, Gong Zaoye was not worried, because the Mohist still had many methods that had not yet been used.

And before, Shi also said something like leading a snake out of a hole, and Gong Zaoye also knew that Mozi must have a backup, but because what he did really made him angry, he couldn't rest assured.

Now that Mo Zi is indifferent, he also knows the temperament of his husband, and he knows that it will not be so simple, so he rests at ease to reserve his strength and prepare for the possible fight in the future.

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Inside the city, those people who did not have their turn to guard the city wall were discussing what happened last night.

The Mohists neither tried to stop nor captured those who talked about these things, because this is just a fact, not exaggerating the power of the enemy or disturbing people's hearts, and not violating the prohibition.

The so-called non-prohibition, only harm innocent, is the foundation of the law of the Mohist.

Those who want to spread the word have a smooth logic.

A few days ago, when the Chu people attacked the city, they were obviously planning to attack and break the city, but the Mozhe defended so hard that the Chu people could not break through.

So the Chu people used the secret work in the city to burn down the granaries in the city.

Therefore, the Chu people rushed to attack the city again this morning. Obviously, the fire last night was to cooperate with today's siege.

This logic is extremely smooth.

But the public doesn't care about this seemingly logical story.

All they care about is that the granary is burned, the Chu people attack the city... Will there be a tragedy like the Chu people besieging the city and changing their sons to eat.

As for who burned the granary, it doesn't matter, what matters is that they may starve, or even starve to death!
Those who experienced that tragic siege are now dead.

As their descendants, the original stories and memories are still passed on.

So this morning, a strange situation appeared in Shangqiu City.

Outside the city, the drums of the Chu people shook the sky, and the people inside the city were panicked.

The people in the city are not worried that the Chu people will break the city.

What they were worried about was that Song Gong would not surrender and continue to resist.

Most of the people were thinking, what does the Chu people have to do with them?Why should I help Duke Song defend the city?
Meat eaters seek it out, this is what most people think.

It is both a habit and a matter of course, because meat-eaters gain benefits, so it is natural for meat-eaters to seek it out.

Shangqiu people have defended the city many times, and the most tragic one was because when Song Gong was a son, he was kind and generous, so that the old and poor in the city would not die of hunger and cold.

The current Song Gong and the dead Gong Gong have never done such a thing, so it is impossible for the people in the city to support themselves to the point of breaking their bones, because there is no sufficient reason.

The Mohist said that when the Chu people came, they would conscript labor, which made sense, so they had to defend the city.

But this reason is not enough to guard to the point of changing children and eating.

This reason seems to be enough to keep on until exhausted.

The people in the city thought a lot: Now that the granaries in the city are being burned, if the Mohists defend the Chu people's attack on the city again, what will happen if the Chu people choose to besiege the city again?
No one wanted to starve to death, and the large tracts of farmland outside the city could not be cultivated. Many people had already begun to hope that the Mohists would not be able to hold on, and they would simply let the Chu people capture Shangqiu.

In fact, the Xuanyi Department of the Mohists has been talking about "why we should defend the city".

But none of the truths he said was a matter of course like "this is his own capital, so he must guard it", but he was just telling the people that Chu people might conscript labor when they came.

This is a weird propaganda, Yu Shoucheng is better than no propaganda, but the direction of the propaganda has a huge problem.

This kind of propaganda hides a doubt: If the price paid for defending the city is greater than that of Chu people's conscripting labor, is there no reason to defend the city?
No one thought about this kind of doubt before last night.

But this morning, more than one person was thinking about it.

With the tragedy of the siege mentioned by the nobles, more and more people think this way, and their way of thinking is exactly the "benefit" that the Mohists have been silently promoting.

Those seeds that were quietly planted a few years ago, accompanied by the fire last night and the rumors this morning, began to germinate.

Just like a tree, it can grow straight or bend.

But in the germination, whether one likes the crooked or the straight, there is joy in the sprout itself.

Shi Shi visited many people in the city, and after hearing their doubts, they couldn't stop laughing in no one's place. The way of thinking of these people is gradually being influenced by the Mohists, and the people's hearts are available.

Xiao Sikou's eyeliners reported back after hearing the doubts of the people. The nobles such as Dayin gathered together and laughed endlessly.

What I want is one life, and what the nobles want is a moment, but after all, one life includes this time, but this time does not include one life.

Both Shi and the nobles have their own goals.

Since both sides think that the hearts of the people are available, and the people seem to be the same group of people, it can only be seen who can make good use of the hearts of the people.

(End of this chapter)