warring states careerist

Chapter 372

King Yi of Yue really had no choice but to break through Tengcheng in one fell swoop and re-establish hegemony to make these small countries more peaceful.

But I didn't want Tengcheng to arrive, and now Wucheng, Lanling, and Zong took a big circle, and they were passive everywhere.

Divide the troops without daring, and if you don't divide the troops, you can't catch up at all. Breaking the city is not a threat but can be done. The volunteers along the way have never committed any crime.

After this circle, many cities have a deep-rooted impression.

A righteous teacher is the teacher of a gentleman, and he does not commit any crimes in the autumn, and runs around for the benefit of the world.

The king of Yue was a cruel and warlike king, and the people who collected food and grass along the way were not the masters.

When the army of [-] rushed back to Zengcheng, the righteous army broke through a small town dozens of miles away and then slipped away, leaving only some traces of preparing to attack the city near Zengcheng. Fortunately, he defended until the King of Yue arrived.

In the small town next to it that was attacked, the volunteers expelled the local nobles of the Yue Kingdom. They were more resolute than distributing the grain in Wucheng. They directly divided the public land and lutian belonging to the nobles of the Yue people, and released all the slaves. .

The Volunteer stayed in that small town for only ten days, but in these ten days, relying on the powerful propaganda and organizational skills of the Mo family, he has completed the rough division of the land in this small town, helped the poor families, punished They expelled some notorious officials, drove away the Yue nobles in Lutian, liberated the slaves, and by the way, publicized the vision of "Happy Land", and even performed a few plays here...

Anyway, what the Mohists want to fight for is to be farmers who can become self-cultivated farmers, and to deal with nobles in a state of war with Yue. He issued a call to action with the old system.

This time King Yi of Yue was really furious. It has been six months, the previous alliance was disrupted by the volunteers, and now it has become a complete joke again.

After he took back the small town and collected food and grass in Zhuancheng, he first asked the king of Fei to build the city defenses and gather Fei's army in the capital.

Then steadily and steadily, he led the army from Zang Kingdom to Lanling slowly, and then slowly walked back to the vicinity of Ni City along the way from Lanling. land.

When King Yi of Yue arrived at Nicheng with his army, it was already the season of fire in July. From April to July, the army was exhausted.

What's worse, Ni Zi waited until the king of Yue arrived, and hurriedly pleaded guilty, saying that all the food in the city had been taken away by Mo Zhe.

The King of Yue didn't believe this at first, but the Mo family had never done anything wrong before, since it was named as a righteous teacher, no matter how they looked at it, they couldn't do such a thing.

Ask again, can't help cursing.

It turned out that not long after the volunteers captured Ni City, Ni Zi, who was going to the Yishui League, hurried back. However, on the way back, he was captured by some volunteers from Tengdi and educated on the "government of benevolence and righteousness".

This involves an issue of the right to interpret ideology. It is said that education can only be done by Zhou Tianzi, overlords, and monarchs of great powers.

But the Mohists have been emphasizing the will of heaven, and they have been saying "I have the will of heaven like a craftsman has the rules", so educating Ni Zi is "teaching on behalf of the sky". Mastered the will of heaven.

Because Mozi used to scold Uncle Qin for being warlike today, the king of Yue for being warlike tomorrow, Marquis Lu for being stupid the next day, and Marquis Qi for being mentally retarded occasionally.

Whether Ni Zi accepts it or not depends not on the truth itself, but on the military power of the Mohists.

If Zhou Tianzi can kill the Mohists, it can be said that the emperor is qualified to talk about the will of heaven, but Zhou Tianzi does not have this ability, so Ni Zi can only listen.The rest of the princes want to talk about the principles of "rituals", they have to wipe the shit off themselves first, but they don't have a system of principles and ideology, and now the theory of five virtues has not appeared, Confucianism is on the decline in general, in terms of ideology No one in the system can compete with the Mohists.

As for whether Tianzhi is inviolable to private property, whether it is a matter of course for the nobles of the world, whether it is the king's land under the whole world, whether it is the righteousness of the nation, whether it is self-restraint and restoration of rituals, or the entrustment of the world, or even the divine right of the monarch, that is its own reason. system problems.

Mastering the power of interpretation, like the imperial examination itself, is an excellent civil servant selection system, and the key lies in what is tested.

The Mohists claim to master the will of heaven, or the Confucian scholars claim to master the way of benevolence and righteousness, or the church claims to master the will of God. This is not a problem. The key to the problem is how to explain the problems of the world.Science itself is also a way of explaining the world. If it proves to be effective, it must be accepted from an early age and subtly influenced. This is normal.

Shi is not afraid of going wrong, because he himself knows how to explain the world, so the slogans of the Mohists are "sameness", "equality", and "universal love".

The one of the three colors was changed to the synonym of the Mohists, because the Mohists did not need to encourage absolute freedom to fight against the royal power and the nobility, and because the handicraftsmen and petty bourgeois were too weak at this time to have any possibility of success.Rather than advocating absolute freedom against feudalism, it is easier for the vanguard to get rid of the Shiqing nobles.

Based on synonym and "God of Heaven", after they came forward to teach Ni Zi a lesson, the Mohists of Tengdi used money and iron tools to buy the grain in the hands of the people of Tengdi, which was originally distributed by the government treasury.

The people were all enthusiastic and helped to send the grain carts to the fort built on the border of Tengdi.

But the Mo family didn't buy all of them. Apart from the people's rations, they also left part of the food. Ni Zi wrote a letter to the King of Yue as a witness.

The letter said: The two armies should not disturb the people when they are fighting. This is God's will, and there will be no luck if you violate it.Now the righteous teacher has bought the grain of the people in Ni land, and also left the ration seeds. The giant said that the king of Yue is a brutal and warlike king, so the Mo family is worried that you, the king of Yue, will collect the people's rations, so they left enough for an army of [-] for half a month. Please don't plunder the people's food to survive the famine.

Ni Zi is the witness.

Next, it is written that King Yi of Yue owed the Mo family a total of [-] shi of corn, which will be returned after the war. This stone is the small stone of the Zhou system. The Zhou system is different from the Yue system.

The amount of food was clearly written one by one, and the Yue king was yelling at him, but there was nothing he could do about it. This letter had already been read by Ni Zi in the city, and the people all accepted it.

King Yi of Yue wanted to be the overlord of these small countries, but he couldn't completely disregard the thoughts of the people in the capital, and the Yue country didn't have the ability to destroy the country and set up counties.

After scolding, the army was fed and rested for three days, and they ate cattle and sheep to beg for land!

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Outside the fortress twenty miles outside Tengcheng, Gong Zhiye and Shi Shi were observing the terrain, and many people were burying some huge logs in front.

This is a common method of defending the city of the Mohists. The function of these giant trees is to measure the distance, and they will be used as markers on the battlefield in future battles.

At the previous military conference in Peixian County, a decision had been made to fight a decisive battle instead of a siege and counterattack relying on the fortress.

Because the top Mohists have reached a unified strategic goal: use the First World War to solve the threat of the Yue State, completely erupt the internal contradictions suppressed by the Yue State, form a deterrent to small countries and force them to join the non-offensive alliance, and at the same time show the Mohist righteousness Field combat ability - if the Qi State takes the opportunity to pick the fruit, then it will also help the defeated Yue people to deter the Qi State from going south in the name of the world's non-offensive.

All in all, it is to weaken the State of Yue and force the king of Yue to abandon the north, but must retain enough power to intimidate the State of Qi, and cannot drive away the State of Yue and bring another State of Qi.

The confrontation of defending the city and counterattack is actually the safest, but it is also the most uncontrollable.Once the time dragged on for a long time, and the people of Qi seized the opportunity to backstab Yue Guo, then the situation of the Mo family here would not be so perfect.

Therefore, whether it is the circles that were said to be for the purpose of "summer harvest" before, or the various preparations now, they are all preparing for a field battle to defeat the King of Yue in one fell swoop.

Ten days ago, the six brigades and engineers led by Shi had already returned, leaving the army of Yue State far away, and had rested in the fortress for ten days.

During this period, the Mohists also completed the summer harvest and summer planting work in three counties, basically not delaying this year's summer crops.

The volunteers had also assembled in Tengcheng before, and when they returned, the army gathered, food, gunpowder and various weapons were also prepared, and they were piled up in the fortress and Tengcheng.

There are a total of sixteen infantry brigades, one volunteer brigade of the Mohists, nine heavy cannons that can shoot eight catties of iron pellets, and 36 cannons that can be dragged and maneuvered on the battlefield, can fire three catties of small iron pellets, can A small cannon that follows the infantry.

Five hundred cavalry, more than 80 lightly armed scouts with crossbows or muskets.

In addition, 700 rangers and fighters from all over the country came to "help the righteousness". They are mainly used as a group of people to protect the flanks in the melee, and they are not expected to play a huge role.

This is the limit force that the Mo family can mobilize, and it is precisely because this is the limit that the Mo family does not want to fight back at all.

Even if the fortresses in Tengdi have been built far beyond the level of this era, with artillery, the Yue people have no gunpowder, and they can't attack a fortress for a year.

There are enough well-known battle examples in later generations, not to mention European affairs, that is, after the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising in the later period, relying on artillery and simple wooden castle fortresses, 800 people could block the siege of more than [-] Qing troops. With the support of British artillery, it is impossible to take down a fort with artillery configuration.

If you want to play the excavation tactics suitable for Tengdi and Wucheng, you must have sufficient organizational skills and mathematical skills, and you need a lot of long-range weapon suppression, and most importantly... gunpowder that can blow down the city walls, otherwise It is impossible to implement this zigzag tactic.

Just as the king of Yue was worried about Qi's backstabbing, the Mo family also worried about Qi's taking the opportunity to pick the fruit.

At the high-level meeting of the Mohists after the end of the Tongyi meeting in September last year, Shi said the necessity of this battle.

Jin and Chu have been confronting each other for a year, and the two sides are almost unable to hold on. There is no other possibility except a decisive battle.No matter who wins and who loses between Jin and Chu, it will inevitably lead to the end of the two-power struggle—for the Mohists, the best result is the defeat of Chu, and the prince will enter Chu to split Chu into two.

Once the rivalry between the two powers is over, the Mohists can no longer expand so blatantly in the Sishui River Basin. Instead, they have to wait for an opportunity, and wait until the winner becomes the target of the princes of the world before they can expand again.

So there is not much time left for the Mohists in the Surabaya Valley.

It is necessary to hurt the country of Yue, so that the country of Yue has no strength to maintain its hegemony in Surabaya.It is also necessary to control the situation, not to allow the Qi State to take the opportunity to go south, instead of going to the Central Plains to fight for hegemony, but to go to the Lianghuai area, and when necessary, support the Yue State after hurting it.Since the Yue Kingdom has a tradition of father and son fighting each other and brothers fighting each other to seize the throne, it is easy to have many opportunities that can be borrowed by the Mohists after the prestige of the Yue King plummeted in this battle.

If they want to do big things in the future, the Chu State must also pay close attention to it. Once the Sishui River Basin is opened up, in addition to the successful establishment of the "Surabaya Princes Non-Attack" alliance, they must prepare for the infiltration of the Chu State.The premise is that Chu State was defeated in this battle with Wei and Han. Everyone in the Mohist family is full of confidence in this point. It is difficult for Chu people to beat the current Wei State.

In addition, Shi also talked about economic issues at that high-level secret meeting.

If Pei County does not completely open up the situation in the Surabaya Basin, Pei County's economy will suffer major problems.

Relying on cattle, horses and ironware before, they absorbed a large amount of grain and obtained excess profits. At the same time, they also ensured that there were not too many currencies circulating in the market in Peixian County. With the ability of the Mohists to monopolize some necessary handicraft products, they controlled Peixian County. Food prices in the area.

But now, the loan for cattle and horse ironware has basically been repaid, the price of grain in Pei County has been reduced due to the surge in grain production, a large amount of currency is circulating in the market, and there are not enough handicraft products to satisfy this market, all of which will cause a series of problems.

All in all, there is no shortage of technology, lack of people, lack of handicraftsmen, lack of a broader market within the Mohist system to eliminate currency, and a lack of more people who can change jobs.

The self-cultivating peasants in Pei County, as the basis for conscription and political stability, must not be moved, so the problem can only be solved by the population of the remaining small countries in the Sishui River Basin.

This monster in Pei County also needs a wider market. If the aristocratic system of Shiqing is not broken, the consumption capacity and market in various places are too narrow.After the reform of Peixian County, the consumption power of [-] households in one county has been accumulated for nearly ten years, which is far better than that of several big cities, even the center of the world like Taoyi.

It is the self-awareness of this monster to transform the world in a way that is easier to suck and devour.The basis of the transformation is to get rid of the feudal system that binds the nobles of the world and the personal land, to increase productivity, thereby increasing consumption capacity, and filling the market with more commodities.

Furthermore, the Mohist workshops are mainly smelting and military industries. Daily necessities such as ironware and agricultural tools have been temporarily saturated in Pei County. After that, more handicrafts must appear, and they are non-military handicrafts in order to continuously obtain local food. stabilize the currency.

This requires the development of craftsmen and cities.After the division of land in Kepei County, there is no motivation to change industries, and it will take decades or hundreds of years to rely on the natural accumulation of land to merge and create a large number of migrant laborers. Moreover, these places, as the foundation of Mohist soldiers, will not allow this to happen. , can only be controlled.

The Mohists in the Song Dynasty can reach out, but they are not as handy as after they got Surabaya, so this battle must be fought economically.

Shi led six brigades outside for three months, spreading the truth of the Mohist school, which created a contrast between the inhumanity of the king of Yue, which laid the foundation for the rapid occupation of this place after the end of the First World War.

And after these three months, King Yue had to fight decisively. He couldn't afford to wait, and he didn't dare to face the risk of being unable to attack the city and the volunteers relying on mobility to overtake the rear.

This decisive battle on the selected battlefield was chosen by Wang Yi who can't go beyond, and he had to fight if he didn't fight.He didn't know that the Mo family couldn't afford it, but he knew that he couldn't afford it himself, so he didn't dare to spend it any longer.

(End of this chapter)