warring states careerist

Chapter 398

The purpose of calling a group of ministers today is to agree on this matter.Weiss is old and knows that his time may not be long. If he dies, the country will be unstable, and the master and his ministers are suspicious. At that time, Wu Qi cannot be used, and he dare not use Wu Qi. The best effect is to play the card of the prince before death.

If Daliang is won, Zheng Guo’s Suanzao and other cities can also be snatched, and Zheng Guo can be divided up with South Korea, and Zheng Guo’s corpse can be used to gain South Korea’s support and continue to suppress Zhao Guo.

Once Zhao Ji died, his younger brother had to form a friendship with Wei Guo in order to ensure that his son would succeed in the future.

Weiss thought to himself, in this way, he would leave his son a perfect environment before he died.Going south or fighting west is fine, as long as you are not too dull, the situation in Wei State will be opened.

At this time, there is no point in provoking the Sishang Mohists, who he has no power to touch.And the conditions given by the Mohists are already generous enough, and it seems that they really have some idealistic color of "benefiting the world and eliminating soldiers".

Of course, the most important thing is that the Mohist family is strong enough to be eligible to form an alliance with the great power, and King Yi of Yue gave the Mohist family a big gift.

Now Weiss looks around, Li Kui is old, Tian Zifang and Duan Ganmu are also dying, and the ones he can take care of are his younger brother, Wu Qi, Ximen Bao, and Beimen, but these are already in their fifties at this time people.

The State of Wei couldn't let the public clan grow bigger, so that the embarrassment of the Chu State would arise; and because they were born in the Three Jin Dynasties, they would not allow Wu Qi, Ximen Bao, and other military heroes who were not from the public clan to grow big, because they started their careers in this way.

He also understands that Wu Qi is the best choice for the state of Wei, but it is the most dangerous choice for his family.

Now that he is old, the last two things he can do during his lifetime are to ensure that Qi State has no way to go south and develop in Sishang, defeat Chu State and split Chu State, and pave everything for his son, counting on Wu Qi, Ximen Bao, The North Gate has been stabilized within ten years of these veterans' administration, and he can't see what happened after that, and he doesn't want to think about it anymore.

Children and grandchildren have their own affairs, he only needs to make plans for ten years later.

At this time, all the sages of the Wei State were still there, and there were a lot of talented people. They had a little discussion about the alliance with the Mohists. Seeing that everyone did not object, Wei Si agreed.

If Wei Guo participates, then South Korea will participate.If Han Wei participates, Qi will participate.If Han Weiqi participates, then Lu and Song will participate.

In this way, the location of the alliance given by the Mohists is Meng Zhuze in Song State.

Weiss was too old to participate in the alliance himself, so he asked Zhai Huang to participate in the alliance.

Apart from meeting the alliance, the Mohists also put forward a somewhat weird proposal, hoping that Marquis Wei could send ten brave men to the west to see how big the world really is.

In fact, Weiss didn't have much interest in this matter, or even said that he was not interested in it, but it sounded a bit weird, and everyone felt that the Mohism was still a school after all, and it was really a mistake to want to explore these meaningless things. normal.

All the ministers discussed for a long time, but they didn't know what the Mohists were going to do. They only thought that the Mohists were fighting against Yang Zhu, Lie Yukou and others.

The matter of the alliance has been agreed upon, and this matter is not bad, Weiss immediately decided to choose twenty elite warriors to follow the Mohist mission to the west.

When they were selected, they also knew that the Mo family would still contact Qin, Zhao and other countries, so they told the twenty elite warriors not to ruin the reputation of Wei.All the warriors gladly took orders, and each had their own rewards, needless to say.

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Sishang, Tengcheng.

King Yi of Yue has been captured for more than two months. He has been imprisoned for these two months. Although he has a lot of food and clothing, his original kingly demeanor has been exhausted by the two months of imprisonment.

In the past two months, he has not been in the dark, but he can meet with the captured ministers and nobles every day, let them relax together, and the food gradually becomes more delicious...Although he needs to keep accounts, King Yi of Yue is happy to do so.

Within two months, the king of Sishang continued to send envoys to Tengdi Peidi to talk with the Mohists. Everyone knew that the situation of the Yue Kingdom was gone and it was unable to maintain its hegemony in Sishang. Attacking the alliance, so I want to know how the Mo family will treat these small countries.

At the end of October, when King Yi of Yue was having dinner with the ministers of the temple area, a piece of news came, and the crowd immediately made an uproar.

Yu, the younger brother of King Yi of Yue, hopes that the people and nobles of the country will elect him as the monarch in the name of the king being captured and that the country cannot live without a king for a day.

And in the name of "the king is captured, life and death are unknown, the Mohist family is powerful, and the young monarch cannot rule the country", he abolished the succession rights of Prince Yi, the king of Yue, Zhu Yu.

The excuse to the outside world is exactly the phrase "the hope of the Mo family" that was used to intimidate King Yi of Yue at the beginning.

The coup was not too successful, the crown prince Zhu Jiu took advantage of the chaos and escaped, Zhu Jiu's two younger brothers were killed, but Zhu Jiu fled from Langya overnight to the old land of Wuyue to contact the tribe.

Yu proclaimed himself king in Langya, Zhu Jiu fled to the old land of Wu and Yue, and the state of Yue tended to split into South Vietnam and North Vietnam.

This kind of thing was expected, Yue Wangyi was calmer than those noble ministers, after two hey heys, he thought it should be so, if he was in the position of his younger brother, he would do the same, otherwise he would be foolish.

It's just that the younger brother's methods are too rough, and he is really incompetent to let his son escape.If he wants to do it, he must first kill all those who have the right to inherit, and then take advantage of the opportunity of the Gentleman Army's destruction of everyone's panic to appease everyone, I am afraid that the event has already been accomplished.

Since a coup d'état is required, it is ridiculous to find some reason first, but the reason is only found after the coup d'etat. Wouldn't finding a reason first make the political opponents aware?

At this moment, a Mohist shouted at him: "Yi, come out!"

King Yi of Yue has long been used to being called a Mohist guard, which is impolite and impolite, but since things are like this, he can only accept it.

Several people guarded him, and came to a room. Yue Wangyi looked at the people, and his heart moved. In addition to the few people opposite, there were also several high-ranking figures of the Mohist family. I've seen two of them.

His own army was destroyed, and all the captured people were escorted to Tengcheng. They had food and drink every day, but some people needed to work.

In addition to working, those Yue people who were born as apprentices had to listen to the propaganda of the Mohist Propaganda Department every few days, and King Yi of Yue didn't know what they were talking about.

He raised his head, saw Shizheng sitting opposite, and asked, "What's going on today?"

Shi said indifferently: "The Yue State is in civil strife, the nobles are fighting each other, the princes are fleeing, and the uncle Yu is on his own. The Yue State is in great danger of war, and the people will inevitably suffer from military disasters. This is what the Mohists do not want to see."

"Now you are the only one who can stabilize the situation in Yue. This is for the sake of the people of Yue not being killed or injured, and for the benefit of all the people of Yue."

"After discussing with the Mohists, I asked you if you would like to be the King of Yue again for the benefit of the people of Yue Kingdom?"

This is exactly the kind of pie in the sky, Yue Wangyi hardly realized it, and when he realized it was not a joke, he nodded quickly.

In this situation, the first thing my younger brother wants to do is to make peace with the Mohists. I am afraid there will be some kind of deal in the dark... For example, let the Mohist poison him to redeem those gentlemen. For this reason, he can give up many benefits and even the territory of the city , which need not be considered.

But the Mo family chose to reset him at this juncture, how could King Yi of Yue be unhappy?
Shi took out a stack of treaty contents transcribed in Vietnamese, handed it over and said: "If you really want to benefit the world, take a look at these, and if you agree, we can discuss the rest."

Yue Wangyi took it and glanced at the first few pages, amazed at the generosity of the Mohists.

This time, as long as the Mohism takes Shushui as the boundary, King Yi of Yue admits that he was a tyrannical government before, that the Nine Kingdoms Restoration Mohism governed on his behalf, and acknowledges the Sishang Non-offensive Alliance, vowing not to invade Sishang Yunyun before his death.

For King Yi of Yue, the Mohists were too generous in these contents. With his understanding of the world, in fact, for this sake, with the strength of the Mohism, they could unite with Lu, Qi, and Chu to carve up the Yue Kingdom.

According to his understanding, within a hundred miles, enfeoffing a person as a nobleman is enough.

But he didn't know that the Mohists governed a hundred miles, and what they needed was an organization of nearly a hundred people. It was impossible to adopt that kind of enfeoffment model. At this time, the scope of the jurisdiction was already the limit.

When King Yi of Yue read the next few pages, his face changed slightly.

It said that the Mohists would release the soldiers and gentlemen of the Yue Kingdom, as well as the Yue King Yi and all the officials and nobles.

But before that, King Yi of Yue needed to go to Mengzhuze to meet with the princes for an alliance. The expenses, food and consumption during the period were borrowed from the Mohists in the form of loans.

In addition to the nobles and weapons redeemed in the future, as well as the expenses needed by the Mohist family to appease the people after the restoration of King Yi of Yue, etc., all of them need to be borrowed from the Mohist family.

And in order to maintain the rule of King Yi of Yue and suppress those nobles who made troubles, the Mohists will dispatch two brigades to station near Langya to protect King Yi of Yue and suppress the noble coup in Langya.

All this is equivalent to grain, a total of 350 million pebbles, which will be paid off in 30 years, including interest. Within 30 years, the principal and interest will be paid in total, which is equivalent to 600 million pebbles of wheat.

Among them, 80 shi was paid in wheat, which was the grain consumption of the captured people of Yue and King Yi of Yue.

The rest is the cost of buying weapons, hiring Mohist engineers and artillery to help break the city and seize the throne, buying noble gentlemen, stationing to help suppress noble coups, etc. Mohist does not pay cash.

In other words, what the Mohists need to pay is only 80 shi of grain and some of the seized weapons.

In terms of the repayment method, the Mohists do not require grain, but demand that the price be denominated in copper.

During the time of Goujian, Ji Ran had priced the grains of the Yue State, which was exactly: Jia’s millet, [-] shi; B’s millet, [-] shi; C’s red beans, [-] shi; D’s rice millet, [-] shi; For wheat, thirty stones; for soybeans, twenty stones.

The 350 million shi grains were paid by the Mohists in Wuhuo wheat, including interest and principal, the total amount was 8000 million shi.

It seems like a lot, but in fact, the principal and interest will be repaid 18 guan in the future. If the productivity develops for a thousand years, the estuary of the Yangtze River, the Huaihe River, and the north and south of Jiangsu controlled by Yue State today, 18 guan may be affordable by some wealthy households.

But now, for Yue Wang Yi, this is an astronomical figure.

Calculated on the basis of two and a half coins, the Yue State needs to pay a total of 30 million catties of Mohist copper within 500 years, which is equivalent to paying 16 catties of copper per year, which is equivalent to the copper consumed by [-] cannons per year.

This is something that the Yue State cannot afford at all, because the productivity of the Yue State is backward, and there is too little grain for commodity exchange, so there is only a price of [-] yuan for a small grain of millet.

The stone at this time is a small stone, which is about 27 or [-] catties, which is equivalent to a catty of corn and can be exchanged for two or three coins.

The personal production capacity of Pei County is completely different from that of Yue State, and the exchange ratio of grain and copper makes it impossible for Yue Wang Yi to pay back the money.However, the Mohists don’t want food at all, they only want copper. If they don’t accept it, then they will contact Yu to see if he is willing to settle their grievances...

The Mohist also expressed very considerately that if all payments were to be made in copper, it might lead to King Yi of Yue exploiting the people and causing the people to suffer. method.

(End of this chapter)