warring states careerist

Chapter 458 Seduction
The essence is the hardest to find.

Wu Qi saw the difference, but because of the constraints of the times, it was difficult to think clearly about the inner difference.

The only thought in my heart is: "Adjust measures to local conditions. Qin is different from Sishang. Although Sishang's government is good, it cannot be used in Qin."

Keeping this idea firmly in my heart, I also think that in today's warring states and chaotic times, it is necessary to unite the top and bottom to be able to dominate.

But the Mo family's Sishang was weirdly tight, and the mere issue of food prices attracted everyone's discussion.In the opinion of the Mohists, it is a good thing for the people of the country to discuss politics, and it is not hindered, so that everyone can express their own beneficial ideas and form a party.

This discussion of politics should be the business of Shangqing. If the people are ignorant, if they want to still discuss politics, won't Sishang be in chaos?Don't the Mohists even understand this truth?

With this question in mind, Wu Qi brought the topic to the issue of food prices, and also talked about the duties of this representative of public opinion.

Shu Qing Wang said: "There is nothing strange about this. Everyone needs to know their own interests before they can know what kind of world is in line with their own interests."

"Exactly, everyone knows to seek profit, and the world can change. Everyone knows great benefits, and the world can be governed. Nowadays, there are still many people in the world who don't know their own interests, and it is far from the time when the world is governed."

"It's said that our Mohists caused chaos in the world and people's minds benefited. It's strange... Isn't it a good thing that everyone benefits? It's really ridiculous to hear that the people want to benefit, and exclaim that the world will be in chaos."

King Shuqing thought about what he had learned in the village or county over the years, and said it casually.

Wu Qi listened to these casual words that caused a sensation in other places, and seeing that everyone was accustomed to saying them here, he thought to himself: "In the past, Zhougong system rituals have been passed down for hundreds of years, and there are no fewer than a hundred scholars who died for rituals. Thousands. Now that the Mohist's "ritual" has been completed, there are no less than a hundred thousand scholars who can die for it."

"Since it is said to be beneficial, it is also true when you think about it. Shiqing observes the Zhou rituals and gains benefits; the people abide by the ink rules and gains benefits. If the two benefits are in conflict, one will die. It just depends on who is more willing to die."

"Let's look at the future...whose family's rules will be passed on to the world?"

As the saying goes, read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles.

Although Wu Qi's trip to Sishang this time was less than ten thousand li, what he saw and heard far surpassed his time, and the impact it brought can be imagined.

In this way, I bid farewell to this village, and with my head full of thoughts and my stomach full of doubts, I stopped and went, watching the customs of Sishang on the way.

Seeing it a lot, he had to stop to ask what it was, but when he arrived in Pengcheng, Wu Qi was no longer surprised, thinking that no matter how strange he saw, he could accept it.

In Peiyi, he saw a hot cloth bag that can carry people in the sky. Since it can fly up to nine days, what else can cause shock?
Outside Pengcheng, there stands a place shrouded in smoke and dust, which is the largest group of furnace iron workshops in the world at this time, and it can be said that it is the largest group of furnace iron workshops in the world at this time.

Burning workshop, ore crushing workshop, cast iron farm tool casting workshop, wrought iron mixing furnace workshop, casting mold workshop, military workshop...

The entire Sishang, along the Yangtze River in Chuyue, and even some of the iron used in Qilu are all produced from here. With the benefit of water transportation, the scale is expanding day by day.

Just watching from a distance, Wu Qi reckoned that including those who worked in the mines, this huge group of workshops, at least 2 people were among them.

Above the river, water drains are spread all over, either for crushing ore or for drawing water.

Thousands of sails race, and river boats transporting coal and iron go back and forth. I heard that people in Pengcheng use less firewood and more coal, which consumes a huge amount every day.

There was a section of wooden road paved on an important road. From Wu Qi's point of view, it looked like two chopsticks side by side. The wheels were stuck on the two logs, and the horses pulled it, which was several times the goods that could be pulled on the flat ground.

Looking at Pengcheng from a distance, Wu Qi and the people around him sighed: "The wealth of Dan and Si all belong to Pengcheng."

The Danshui River and the Surabaya River meet here, flow down to the Huaihe River, and connect with the Yangtze River through the Hangou. The prosperity here is no less than that of the big city in the Central Plains.

Even worse than that, Taoqiu is also prosperous, but most of them are transshipment goods. In the end, ironware, glass, mirrors, gunpowder, etc. must be purchased in Pengcheng and Peiyi after all.

A person next to Wu Qi said: "In the past when Yan Zi was envoy to Chu, he said that there were many people in Linzi, sweating like rain and rubbing their shoulders. In the past ten years or so, Pengcheng has had the splendor of Linzi. The Mohist's political talents are indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people."

Wu Qi nodded and said: "Peng is connected to three rivers and close to Wuze, and has the advantages of coal and iron. Linzi can become a big city in the world only by taking advantage of fish and salt, and Pengcheng will become the capital of the world in the future. Just look at the group of workshops, you can manage this workshop If you are a doctor, you can also rule a city."

He knows that mining is the most difficult thing to manage.Being able to manage the operation of a group of workshops with more than [-] people or even more, in the past, it was easy to be a doctor in a city.

But now, within the Mohist School, those who govern this large group of workshops may not necessarily be the top figures of the Mohist School.

Seeing the departure of merchant ships loaded with iron goods and the arrival of cargo ships full of grain and cotton on the river, Wu Qi sighed deeply.

I thought, so prosperous, is it just the location of Pengcheng?Or do you really have a will to rule the world if you need to understand the source?
Qinchuan is thousands of miles away, Weiluo intersects, will Qindi be so prosperous and people live in peace one day?

After several sighs and disappointments, I finally entered Pengcheng, bypassing the hurrying people in the market, and was arranged in the building.

In the early morning of the second day, a member of the Mo family came to the building with a letter and directly invited these people to meet.He also said that he heard that Wu Qi, the guardian of Xihe in Wei, was also there. He had heard of the style and had never seen it before, so he happened to go with him.

Wu Qi was not surprised either, knowing that his whereabouts might not be concealed from the eyes of those Mohists, they all have active contacts in the giant cities and big towns, using the channels of businessmen, the speed of news spread is often several times faster than that of the monarch.

Now that his identity has been revealed, Wu Qi no longer concealed it, changed into his own fancy clothes, jade pendant and sword, and went together.

Inside a heavily guarded place in Pengcheng, it is suitable to sit there and wait for Wu Qi and others to arrive.

When he came to this world, he had already met many important people, and talked and laughed with princes, but he was only curious about Wu Qishi.

If 20 years ago, he really wanted to ask, there were two kinds of rumors in the world, one said that Wu Qi killed his wife in order to seek generals, and the other said that Wu Qi divorced his wife and imposed strict laws, which one is true?

However, 20 years ago, it would have been impossible for Wu Qi to even look at him, the two were not of the same class at all.

Twenty years have passed with the snap of the fingers, and this curiosity may still be in my heart, but it is unlikely to be asked after all.

He and Wu Qi had never met each other, but they knew each other's names, so they had been friends for a long time.

There is no doubt about Wu Qi's talent.It's just that the cornerstone of the Mohist school is rules and discipline, which are not suitable for the display of one's talent. Therefore, the Mohist school has no intention of recruiting Wu Qi, the No. 1 soldier in the world.

This time the negotiation with the Qin people was presided over by Shi, but the content had been agreed before.

After Wu Qi and others came in, the two parties greeted each other, each boasted about the other's reputation, and then began to talk about business.

The real thing, of course, is the negotiation of Qin Xiaoyi in the north of Nanzheng in exchange for the technical support of Mohist iron smelting.This matter is fully presided over by those rebels, and this is appropriate, so both parties are inevitably a little embarrassed.

At that time, it was through Sheng Chuo's incident that Shi and Mozi reorganized the Mohist school and expelled these people. At the end of Mozi's death, these people were not allowed to mourn in the uniform of his disciples.

Back then, these people were all Mozi who had followed Mozi for many years, but in the appropriate year, they had just joined Mozi for a few months.The stars have changed, and now Shi is the number two figure of the Mo family, and these rebels have also gained a firm foothold in Qin.

After the personal grievances and hatreds were resolved along with these embarrassments, they had to discuss the transaction based on their respective interests.

Shi was not in a hurry, looked at Wu Qi with a smile, and said, "I have heard of the great name of the Duke for a long time, and if he enters Qin today, he must be reused by the Lord of Qin. I just don't know. From a public perspective, where is the way out for Qin?"

Wu Qi was startled, then asked again: "Your Excellency is training soldiers in Xihe, and the soldiers are completed, even if you leave Xihe, the system of soldiers still exists, I'm afraid it will be difficult to capture Xihe?"

Wu started his head, and said with a lot of confidence and emotion: "The strength of soldiers is far from what the current Qin division can fight against the enemy. Xihe is also dangerous in the mountains and rivers, and it is solid. If you attack it easily, it will damage morale. .”

This is not just Wu Qi's confidence in the soldiers he has cultivated, but the transformation of Qin land involves many problems.

If you want to change, you must have military power and prestige. At the beginning of the change, you can't win the battle. You can only rely on victory to win the hearts of the people who granted the land and subdue the nobles.

Wu Qi knew this very well.

The appropriate mention of Xihe is precisely because of this topic. Qin has no ability to retake Xihe for at least ten years.

Ten years is not too long, the Mohists have been preparing in Sishang for 20 years before they can stand alongside the princes of the world.

However, the Mo family waited for 20 years, because he was only a teenager 20 years ago, and he could afford to wait.

But what about Wu Qi?From Wei to Qin, he was sixty years old, and he couldn't afford to wait ten years.

Shi didn't know Wu Qi very well, and Gong Zaoye had dated him when he was young, but it wasn't considered a deep friendship.So Shi Shi didn't know what Wu Qi wanted, and the only direction he could lure was the four words "make contributions".

He only mentioned Xihe, implying Nanzheng.Qin State wants to develop and strive for hegemony, and now it seems that there are only two ways to go.

One is to take back Xihe and threaten the Central Plains.The other is to get Nanzheng to enter Bashu and continue to power.

The Mohists started their activities in Bashu more than ten years ago under Shi's determination, and now Nanzheng has been captured. Even if it is not stated clearly, there are examples of the Mohism's battles in the past few years, and there are mountains and rivers to separate them. It is difficult to capture Nanzheng. No less than taking back Xihe now.

In particular, Wu Qi has seen the Sishang area where the Mohists ruled these days, and knows that once the Mohism takes root, it will be like a weed and cannot be eradicated. Even if he tries his best to win Nanzheng, the harm will outweigh the benefits.

For a person who aspires to make great achievements and be famous all over the world, but can only live for another ten years or so, the "Qin's way out" that Shi just asked is a serious question.

The road to Xihe was his own legacy in Wei, and he blocked it himself.The road to Nanzheng has been blocked by the Mohists, and it involves iron smelting transactions.

So, where did Qin Guogang go?I don't know where to go, and how can I express my ambition?
(End of this chapter)