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Chapter 341 Tian Yuan Forced and Cornered ([-])

Even if there is the threat of Qi State in the north, King Yi of Yue understands that the battle of accusing Mo Di must be fought.

However, he also knew that he could only let the Mo family back down, but it was impossible to directly send troops to the Mo family's lair. After all, if they entered the Mo family's lair, it would be equivalent to starting a war against Song.The Mo family made it very clear in the letter that this battle was after Teng Kaogong invited Mo Jiali and Teng Er to restore the country, not the war between the Song State and the Yue State.

At this time, the State of Yue was already at the point where it was strong from the outside, and Yi, the king of Yue, also understood that Teng was originally a remote place, and in fact, it was not of great benefit to the State of Yue at this time.

However, the recovery of Teng Kingdom means that a bunch of small countries in the Surabaya Valley will have different ideas.

When Fu Chai was fighting for hegemony, he deposed the king of the state of Zou. After Gou Jian destroyed Wu, he used the name of the cruelty of the king of the state of Zou to interfere in Zou's internal affairs, deposed Duke Yin of Zou, who was pro-Lu, and promoted Cao He, the son of Duke Yin, to the throne. A vassal state of Vietnam.

The state of Zan, which was close to Qi in the past, was destroyed by the state of Yue when Qi was unable to interfere with the people of Yue.

The state of Tan, which stood on the side of Qilu, was also destroyed by the state of Yue.

The small state of Zou and the state of Ni had already paid tribute to the state of Yue before the Marquis of Lu drove his chariot to the king of Yue.

Fei State, which Ji Sun master separated from Lu State, originally had a constant grievance with Lu State, and was nominally a vassal state of Lu State, but Ji Sun, who controlled the state affairs of Lu State in Zhongni's time, separated to establish a state in exchange for He no longer interferes in Lu's internal affairs, so he also pays tribute to Yue.

Now King Yi of Yue understands that the Yue Kingdom can no longer sustain in the north, but once the hegemony system disintegrates, conflicts within the Yue Kingdom will always erupt.

The state of Teng is an introduction to the outbreak of internal conflicts in the state of Yue.

If Teng is restored and not retaliated by Yue, then these tributary states and vassals will soon not recognize Yue's hegemony.

In this way, the situation of Yue State in the north will be precarious, and there is no choice but to shrink in an all-round way.

But once it is fully contracted and abandons the situation opened in the north after going through a lot of hardships during the Goujian era, Yue will completely lose the opportunity to become a big country, and there is no possibility of turning around.

This is the reason why King Yi of Yue gritted his teeth.If it was just a small Teng country, its interests would not be enough to take the risk of Qi's back stabbing, but there are too many factors behind the small Teng country.

However, it is not easy for the army to go out.

When the [-] troops marched, they had to accompany some peasants and soldiers with their supplies, and they had to mobilize a batch of rice along Hangou, and they also had to mobilize local Yue people from Wuyue to go north to garrison Langya to prevent Qi from counterattacking.

All this will take at least a year.

After listening to the reward of the prey, King Yi of Yue went to attack Tengdi with 2 people. The Yue Kingdom could not afford to be defeated, and another failure would bring a series of chain reactions.

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teng country.

The new Teng Hou Ji Te has already ascended the throne, and after hiring Shiwei as Prime Minister, the second thing Ji Te did surprised the people of Teng.

After Ji Te entered the palace, because he had no money, he dismissed all the servants in the palace. They all made a living on this, and they also served the Yue people when they were here.

At the rental price of [-] yi per year, some palaces and houses will be rented to the Teng State Consulting Yuan, which will be established as the highest power center of Teng State.

He knew his position very well, so he made the smartest choice.

During the rally seven days after the capture of Tengcheng, people from most households in the capital of Tengguo sent people there.

The Mo family opened the treasury, checked the grain collected by the Yue State declared by everyone, and paid them all.It's not that no one opportunistically reports more, but the number is very small, and there are still a few who have been reported, so the gain outweighs the loss.

Just this one incident, something that the Mohists have long been accustomed to defending the city, immediately won the hearts of the people in Tengdi.

During the seven days of waiting for the assembly, the peasants who followed from Pei County had already begun to repair the city wall of Tengdi. They had to work for a month and returned to Pei County before harvesting the wheat.

In the rally, while the Mo family won the hearts of the people, because the local clans in Tengdi were basically wiped out, the Mo family followed the list drawn up by Pei County and followed the policy of Pei County to draw up officials at all levels. Some of them were formerly small officials in Tengdi.

These small officials in Tengdi need to re-study for two years. After two years, if they pass the examination, they can continue to be officials. If they fail, they will be dismissed.

As Prime Minister, he planned a three-year "military and political" stage, during which the Mohists took over all the powers of Tengdi, mobilized the people and publicized ideas within three years, and elected the Advisory Council three years later and selection of officials.

Therefore, even if the Xunzhengyuan was established, it would be completely different from the Song Dynasty - at this time, all the lists in the Xunzhengyuan were all Mohist's own people.

Most of the officials are Mohists who have been assigned, and there are more than 200 cadres who are responsible for the future land reform, village community integration and other policies.

The only one who was regarded as a local official was Teng Shuyu, who led a few people to become a role similar to a magistrate who specialized in managing market order.Of course, this is also temporary.

During the rally, in view of the fact that the return of the collected food has won the trust and support of the people, there is no need to use means such as migrating to establish a letter.

After two days of assembly, it was directly announced that the laws of Pei County would be temporarily used and become the statutory law of Teng Kingdom. After the military and political period ended three years later, the laws and policies would be determined after the election of candidates for the Advisory Council.

Originally, Tengdi also practiced the aristocratic secret law, especially after the Yue people came. Naturally, the political system of the Yue Kingdom cannot be compared with the Sanjin and Zheng in the Central Plains.

Later, Shi announced that the statistics of public land and private land of the fugitive nobles would be auctioned voluntarily, and all the money required for the auction would be returned within 15 years.

Among them, the landless have a fixed number of priority, and at the same time, those who operate more industries are allowed to buy and sell land, but after the landless have priority.

Tengdi does not need to suppress problems such as mergers for the time being. Even now, the handicraft industry centered in Pei County is developing extremely fast, and a large number of laborers continue to flow into the city.

In the case of being able to own their own land and the land tax, most people will not be willing to become handicraftsmen. This is inevitable, especially now that the average land is more.

This problem is suitable to be solved in the future and need not be considered for the time being.

The public land tax will be exempted this year, and the land distribution will be completed before next year. From next year, one-tenth of the land tax will be collected, which will be temporarily collected as a tax in kind.

During this period, Shi Shi ordered the people in Teng to perform hard labor and build city walls. In addition, they also had to build fortresses in three places outside Teng City to deal with possible counterattacks by the Yue people.

During the construction of cities and fortresses, it is considered semi-compulsory, but the Mohists will pay a certain amount of Mohist currency.

You can buy ironware, salt, or cattle and horses in the supply and marketing cooperatives set up by the Mohist as long as you have enough money.

During this period, part of the grain will be paid from the treasury, and at the same time, part of the grain collected by Pei County will be shipped over, and the next year's tax in kind will be used as collateral for priority repayment.

On the basis of thousands of civilians who are used to this kind of excavation work, the local people of Teng country are organized. This month is to let them familiarize themselves with this kind of collective excavation and learn to use new tools.

More than 100 Mohists, plus some farmers recruited from Pei County who are familiar with the new planting techniques, will teach the techniques of these Tengdi people who organized together to build the city wall in more than half a year.

Before planting winter wheat in winter, these people will also be asked to come forward to help, so that Teng can develop as quickly as possible, and at the same time complete the grassroots organization of the Mohists here.

In addition to these people who were responsible for excavating and building the city wall, a team of 500 people was selected as a priority to set up volunteers in Tengdi to conduct full-time military training.

Temporarily providing them with food and issuing a certain amount of currency by the Mohists is actually tantamount to finding a new and huge market for the Mohist ironware.

It's just that the money issued may not be affordable.And after the ironware is sold on credit, in addition to technological changes, the exchange commodities and food that Tengdi can provide will be greatly improved within a year, and the Mo family still makes money in the end.

And from next year, Tengdi will collect tithes. In fact, after the land reform and agricultural transformation are completed with the population of Tengdi, it will be more than enough to support [-] full-time soldiers...Of course, guns and cannons are not counted. , otherwise it cannot be supported at all.

After Shi became Xiangbang for more than a month, he was extremely busy.

Pei County plans to send cadres and personnel here to provide support. He will preside over matters such as measuring land, selecting soldiers, surveying and mapping city walls, and so on.

Fortunately, the talents cultivated in Peixian County in the past few years are quite usable, and they will not be so busy that they will lose their limbs.

The more at this time, the more he knew that the Mo family wanted to make things happen, and there was no rush.

He said that the successful revolution known to later generations was based on the millions of middle school and primary school students left over from the Beiyang era. Without these people, it would be impossible to build the grassroots cadres needed by a perfect country.

Now the foundation of the Mohist school, according to this kind of grassroots control, will develop in the Sishui River Basin.Otherwise, even if he wins the world, he will either be usurped by the nobles or counterattacked by the nobles. He is very clear-headed, he can't be fast but slow.

These Mohists who have practiced in Pei County for several years and some young people from schools can master most of the things like measuring land, and the overall progress is very smooth.

There is no need to redistribute at the expense of the interests of the living. The land is either public land or lutian of the fugitive nobles, or part of the Yue people's forcible occupation.

Tengdi is close to Lu State, which first implemented the initial mu tax, and is also close to Ji Sunshi’s tyranny, which first implemented land private reform. There are many private lands here that have already been recognized. Part of the support of the operating landlord class against the old aristocracy.

When the collection of summer grain and wheat comes, the "unowned" land around the capital of Teng State has been measured, the new city wall with corners and concave surfaces has been compacted, and two new brick workshops have also begun to be fired. Bricks for strengthening the walls.

At this point, Meng Sheng led most of the volunteers and the farmers who accompanied the army back to Pei County, leaving a brigade of volunteers responsible for maintaining local order, and at the same time took 500 volunteers from Tengdi back to Pei County for training, and there were more than 400 volunteers. A Teng person who does not want land but is willing to become a craftsman.

(End of this chapter)