warring states careerist

Chapter 265 Prince Ben Zheng Mi Bingyao ([-])

Gengchen year, spring.

The well-known [-] BC is only due to the early appearance of gunpowder and the reorganization of Mohism. It is not known whether the concept of AD still exists after that.

At least according to the Mohists, this is the first thousand and six hundred years of Yu Sheng's calendar, and it is also the year of Gengchen.

This is the first year when Zhou Tianzi Ji Jiao changed his name to the Yuan Dynasty, and it was also half a year after the King of Chu encircled Shangqiu.

For the first time in the ancient city of Shangqiu, the sound of firecrackers sounded during the spring sacrifice.

Although the once shocking sound was still rare and expensive, after all, someone started to set it off, and it was no longer that scary.

Just as fire, which can destroy all things, loses its mystery after being mastered.Gunpowder finally began to lose its mystery, and was accepted by the people of Shangqiu in the center of Kyushu.

It was the craftsmen association in Shangqiu who set off the firecrackers. They were celebrating the profits of the craftsmen association last year. The firecrackers were sent by disciples of the Mohist school. sign of the day.

A lot of things happened in Shangqiu City last year, new and old.

Coups, wars, aristocratic conspiracies, and power struggles, all of these are old and vulgar, so vulgar that Shangqiu people have no interest in discussing them.

Even though the Advisory Council was established, those conspiracies and struggles for power and profit have not changed, but have continued to exist in a different form.

The wisdom of the people has not yet been fully developed, but the propaganda and agitation of the Mohist School has opened the minds of many common people, and they no longer think of nobles as mysterious.

After breaking the siege of the Chu people in June last year, the first meeting of the Advisory Council was held in July.

When the Chu people formally withdrew their troops, it was just before the meeting of the Political Council in July, and the Chu people's farmers were looking forward to going back to harvest, after all, it took time to walk.

Before leaving, Chuyou Yin Zhaozhiai was ordered by the king of Chu to meet with the Mohists, the radicals, and the Mohist giants, and asked the Mohists to help build Yuguan and Daliang with brick and stone technology.

His reason is that building a pass city is like letting soldiers have shields but no swords. If a sword cannot penetrate a shield, then those who hold the sword will not easily move troops.

Kuang Chu had made an oath with the Mohists to abide by the covenant of eliminating soldiers, so the protruding part that broke into the Central Plains became a city gate that the Chu people must vigorously manage.

At this time, the beam that belonged to Chu and later became the capital of Wei State was finally breached by Wang Ben with the plan of flooding. The most feared thing about the rammed-earth city wall is flooding.

Because the king of Chu had seen the masonry technology of the Mohist school, he used lime to solve the problem of bonding the masonry. Therefore, the king of Chu always hoped to use the masonry technology to strengthen the defense of Daliang and Wuyang.

These two places are the bridgeheads breaking into the Central Plains, and they must be strong enough.

In this regard, the Mohists did not refuse, but relying on the craftsman association, they organized some brick and stone craftsmen to contract the repair work of Wuyang City and Daliang City.

Shi did not refuse, and even hoped that the Mo family would preside over the repair of the city defenses of Wuyang City and Daliang City.

He doesn't love the king of Chu or the people of Chu, but he knows that there will be a big battle in these two places within ten years. Therefore, he hopes that when repairing the city defense, some "back doors" or "loopholes" known to the Mo family will be left behind.

When nobles need to die in battle in these two cities, the back door and loopholes reserved at this time will play a great role.

Shi Shi's sinister intentions were naturally spoken out with high-sounding reasons within the Mohist School, and it was also approved by the rest of the people.

This is also a good thing for the Craftsman Association in Shangqiu, because it is suitable to tell them that they may be able to contract repairs in cities of various countries in the future, and the Craftsman Association has changed from mainly carpenters to stonemasons, coppersmiths and other craftsmen.

Later, some members of the Artisans Association were also elected as representatives of the Common People's Chamber and participated in the first consultation meeting of the Advisory Council.

The process was very chaotic, many rules were incomplete, and each had loopholes. Fortunately, there was no fight. In the end, many things proposed by the Mohists were basically accepted.

The terms themselves are some compromises and concessions. While maintaining the old habits of Zhou etiquette, some new things have been added.

The emperor's father, Zang, was publicly elected by the People's Court as the ruler of the Song Dynasty and the Minister of the Consulting Court, and the position of Sicheng was still retained.

Because of the covenant of the previous coup, the position of the Six Ministers is still the position of the ministers, and will not change for at least ten years.

The aristocrats' fiefdoms will remain unchanged, and the aristocrats will still not have to pay taxes for the time being, and the privileges of the aristocrats will basically remain unchanged.

The only thing that has changed is part of the power and interests of the Shangqiu people, as well as a series of land system reforms, taxation reforms, etc. that are limited to Shangqiu City.

The first thing that the emperor's father Zang did as Ling Yin of the Consulting Council was to repay the Mohists who supported him, which was considered to have fulfilled his political promise.

After all, he had no choice but to do it under the hype before, otherwise he would be an unbeliever.

In addition to paying a certain amount of taxes every year, Peixian County is self-governing except for belonging to the Song State and performing military obligations to guard the Song State.

Compared with the fiefdoms of the nobles, this power is still a bit smaller, and the obligations are still a bit more, but it is the first city to self-organize, and it is also the first city where no nobles are the governors.

For the governors who are elected by public election, it is enough to report to the Duke of Song and go through a formality, but whoever is the governor of the city, the Duke of Song and the Consulting Council, etc., have no right to appoint or dismiss.

Afterwards, Gongzaoye, with his great achievements in defeating the Chu battalion, was granted the formal title of Pengcheng garrison, fully responsible for Pengcheng's government affairs, just like the power of Wu Qi and Xihe in the state of Wei.

Mozi does not accept enfeoffment and fiefdom, because he is a giant, and a giant of the Mohist school cannot be a subject of others, unless the monarch uses the righteousness of the Mohist school.

But the disciples of the Mohist school can become officials, as long as the Mohist family discusses and approves it.

Gongzaoye is just a name, and the real power is still the Mohist Qiwuhai and the radical meeting.

At the same time, more than a thousand households who moved to Shangqiu with no land or little land, or helped others to make a living, went to Pengcheng.

Just after these two things were completed, Chuyou Yin Zhaozhiai, who stayed in the Song Dynasty to observe the ceremony, conveyed the order that the King of Chu had already drawn up, and once again reiterated the special status of Peidi, in order to tell all countries not to think about monopolizing this place .

So far, the goals set by Shi Cong three years ago by using the plans of the Chu people to go north, the Song people's civil strife, gunpowder weapons, etc. have been basically achieved.

Once the Yue people moved south, once there was civil strife in the Chu State, the nobles of the Song State used various means to consult the government, the Tian clan in the Qi State fought for the patriarch, and the succession disputes and the three Jins turned against each other because of the accession of Zhaohou's land in the Three Jins... Pengcheng Peixian In the entire future Western Chu, the sky will be high enough for birds to fly, and the sea will be wide enough for fishes to leap into.

Can fly for at least 20 years.

As for the Shenzhengyuan in Shangqiu City, the Mohists no longer have much interest, or at least they will not spend too much energy on it.

What the Mohists had to do was to gradually infiltrate the Common People's Court in Shangqiu City by means of artisan associations, sacrifices and preaching after the meeting of the Consulting Council, so as to maintain a smooth influence.

In August, after the meeting of the Advisory Council, the people also prepared enough wood, craftsmen will come forward to make a large number of ink carts, and some people have already started to repair the road.

A large amount of gold earned by the Mohists by using ironware, spirits, wheat flour, etc. was paid in advance to the Craftsman Association, and then the people of Shangqiu repaid the selling price of the ink carts in installments.

At the end of August, Shangqiu organized thousands of people to push carts to Peixian County to deliver grain.

Those children who were selected to study in Pei County, and the bright young people selected within a company, returned to Pei County with the Moche team.

The volunteers of Peixian County and some of the Mohists who were full-time armed forces returned to Peixian County first, and suppressed two local aristocratic turmoil. Things about the fields.

Immediately afterwards, the entire Shangqiu organized autumn plowing and winter wheat planting in groups of five or ten, sowing hope for next year.

At the beginning of September, the Sanjin sent envoys to Shangqiu to express their approval of the Consulting Yuan, and then met with senior officials of the Mohist School to discuss some matters.

The Mohists also sent a sufficient number of envoys headed by Qin Huali to the capital of Wei to discuss the elimination of the military meeting.

Qin Huali is well-known in the state of Wei, and he is friends with Duan Ganmu, Tian Zifang and others, and he is the next great son of the Mohist family, so this weight is enough.

The people of Wei want a lot of things, and the Mohists can give a lot. The only one who knows that the matter of eliminating soldiers will be impossible to succeed proposes to ask Qin Huali to discuss it more carefully.

He wanted to procrastinate until the death of the king of Chu, until the militia soldiers would be completely wiped out, and until everyone in the Mohist family gave up their fantasy of attacking the king.

It's just that others don't know his thoughts, so what he said sounds very reasonable: the elimination of soldiers will be a major event, and the reason why the three-year agreement was made at the beginning is because many things need to be discussed, so Qin Huali, as the representative of the Mohist school, , must be clearly explained to the people of Wei, Han, and Zhao.

To make it clear, it must be slow, and it will inevitably be delayed until the death of King Chu, which will make the disappearance of soldiers a joke.

Those who followed Qin Huali to the north to the Three Jins included some Mohists who were skilled in throwing gunpowder weapons, and Bian 54, who was going to have a verbal dispute with Lie Yukou and Yang Zhu.

At the beginning of October, the people of Shangqiu who transported grain from Pei County returned to Shangqiu. They not only brought back grain, but also brought back a lot of ironware. The Mohists lent them to the people of Shangqiu. The payment was still in the form of installments. The people of Shangqiu had already owed the Mohism a lot. money and food.

In addition to these real objects, there are many strange experiences in Peixian County, as well as more hopes.

At the end of October, Zang Yin, the emperor’s father, who was ordered by the Inquiry Council, agreed to the decision of the Common People’s Court to dig a canal in Shangqiu, and won the support of the people in Shangqiu. The affairs officer hired by the Advisory Council.

In the next two months, Shangqiu City did not experience any major changes or circumstances. Everything was as usual, but everything was brand new.

Such is the routine after July, and what is new is the new of hundreds of years old rules.

For example, the craftsmen association who are setting off firecrackers to celebrate, put the cost of the public ink carts paid to them by the Mohists before into the iron smelting workshops opened by the Mohists, and they can get dividends every year. This is a very new form.

In the end, the money was still transferred back to the hands of the Mohists, and the concentrated capital began to attract those cultivators, landless people, craftsmen, etc. from various countries, and they continued to go to Pei County.

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the artisans were preparing to drink a few glasses of strong wine and eat a meal of wheat flour to celebrate, when there was a sound of neighing horses outside, and the two horses collapsed at the door because of exhaustion, foaming.

A sturdy middle-aged man, wearing a short brown and black Mohist scarf, holding a black iron plate and a piece of paper with a seal, shouted loudly: "Please prepare a car and horse with me, I will go to Peiyi immediately to see you." Giant!"

The Craftsman Association itself is a stronghold of the Mohists in Shangqiu. The person in charge, Fu Jujin, saw clearly the shouting person, and asked in surprise, "General Qu? What happened to Chu?"

(End of this chapter)