warring states careerist

Chapter 463
The external environment is just to strive for more favorable conditions, and since it is a condition, it naturally has a purpose.

This time, borrowing Wu Qi's fame, Mohism's technical and cultural advantages, and Zhao's chaos will undoubtedly bring a great sense of oppression to Wei.

The nations are in dispute, and the nations distrust and suspect each other.

In particular, there have been many conflicts between Wei and Zhao before, and Wei Hou has been secretly communicating with Zhao Hou and Gongzi Chao.

Marquis Zhao was about to die of illness. In such a short period of time, Wei Jian and Zhao Zhang had no time to communicate, and there was no other way to ensure the security of Wei State except armed intervention.

Once this created alliance of Zhao, Mo, Qin, and Chu, which does not exist in fact, is formed, Wei State will fall into complete passiveness, which is unacceptable to Weihou.

Qin and Chu have always been married, Wei and Chu are fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains, and Qin has been instigating Chu to do things in Xihe to help Chu share the pressure.Although Zhao Guo's armed force is not strong now, it has also undergone the reform of Gong Zhonglian. Once it jumps back to the Three Jin Dynasties, Wei Guo's situation will be very ugly.

There is also a lack of trust between Wei and Qi, although the Qi Guotian family has just asked Wei Jian, and Lai Qili has obtained the title of Marquis.

However, historical issues such as the conquest of Qi by the Three Jins, the demolition of the Great Wall, the scramble for the buffer vassal state of Wei, Qi's military rescue of Yuguan Daliang of Chu, and the suppression of Qi by the Weiyue alliance will all cause Wei to have a lot of doubts: once Zhao If the country jumps back, will the Qi Congress take the opportunity to bite itself instead of forming an alliance with itself.

This kind of suspicion and jealousy, the Mo family left it to Wei Qihan and other countries, and won the time for a major event that they have always wanted to accomplish internally.

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Fifty miles northwest of Tan State, where the Mohist governed, a small river winds its way.

On the other side of the river is the state of Tan, which fully implements the policies of the Mohists. It is the state of Tan in name, but it is actually a county under the rule of the Mohists.

On the opposite side of the river is the country of Fei, which has joined the African Union, but maintains the name of independence and sovereignty.

After the Battle of Lushui, Fei, Xue and other countries joined the non-aggressive alliance one after another. Compared with the hegemony that needed to pay tribute to Yue, the Mohists organized these small countries together in the form of non-aggressive alliances, and did not collect tribute, silk, etc. .

There is no reason for the internal affairs of each country to "act on its behalf", because Fei, Xue and other countries still have monarchs for the time being, while Tan and Zong countries were "liberated" by the Mohists from Yue, and they have "not found" to inherit His direct heir, so he acted on his behalf.

Geographically, the power north of the Huaihe River in the State of Yue was completely lost. The First Battle of Lushui shook the foundation of the State of Yue. The drama of father and son killing each other did not happen because the Mohists needed to keep the State of Yue and disgusted the State of Qi, so they sent troops to intervene. However, King Yi of Yue Can't stay in the north anymore.

Mohist volunteers stationed near Langya in the name of helping to suppress the rebellion. The King of Yue had already begun to repair the old capital in the former place of Wu and Yue in the south of the Yangtze River, and he had the intention of abandoning Huaibei and moving back to Jiangnan.

In this case, except for a few cities, they have basically become the territory of the Mohists, or moved people to reclaim wasteland and build cities, or built coastal cities to dry salt...

In this way, the situation of a small country like Fei that still maintains its sovereignty becomes extremely closed. Except for exchanges with Lu in the north, the rest of the direction is completely blocked by the Mohist, becoming a country within a "country".

Although the power of the Mohists rose sharply after the First World War in Lushui, in order to prevent Qi and Wei from interfering and causing shocks in the world, they did not completely solve the problems of Fei Guo and other small vassal states, but waited for the opportunity, accumulated strength, developed production, and changed the foundation .

The country of Fei also has volunteers, and the volunteers are composed of people from the country of Fei, and the Mohists provide weapons. As a military force of the non-offensive alliance, they maintain the systems of small countries such as Fei while ensuring that they do not interfere in the internal affairs of Fei.

Members of Fei Guoyi Division are mostly self-cultivating farmers in Dayi, the capital of the country.Because the money and equipment of this righteous teacher came from the Mohists and had nothing to do with the people of Sishang, so the Mohists subsidized some of the ironware of these self-cultivating farmers, and at the same time vigorously promoted some radical remarks of the Mohists.

Over the past few years, these self-cultivating farmers who had returned from military service began to organize under the leadership of Mo Zhe.

The system of Fei country has undergone some changes early on, such as the initial tax mu system, which has led to the emergence of many self-cultivating farmers.

However, taxes are extremely high.

After the system was formed, due to the low productivity, a part of the land needed to be "set up", that is, the idle land was fallow, and the fallow part also needed to be taxed.

Fallow farming was originally necessary, which was equivalent to the May Day tax.And with the spread and development of soybean, corn, wheat, cotton rotation technology from those farmers who returned from volunteers, these fallow fields also began to be planted, and the nobles and rulers of Fei Kingdom also rose, and the original fixed "May [-]st Tax" was formed into a system.

In addition to the self-cultivating farmers who owned land, a large number of noble fiefdoms still existed as the basis of noble family rule.

These nobles still have the power to control the peasants in their fiefs, but because of the terrain and terrain, this place is completely different from the series of operational manor reforms along Danshui and Surabaya in the Song Dynasty.

A minor aristocrat and landlord class in the Song Dynasty were closer to Sishang, and there had been an incident of Chinese interference in politics in Shangqiu before, and they had gained certain political rights.

Second, transportation is difficult nowadays, and roads are not repaired, so water transportation is still the best mode of transportation.The development of industrial and commercial cities such as Peiyi and Pengcheng turned grain and raw materials into profitable commodities, but they were limited to transportation. This spontaneous transformation of production relations also occurred in the plains along the river in Song Dynasty.Fei country is mountainous, and there is no river that can go directly to Pengcheng Peiyi, so this kind of reform took place very slowly in Fei country.

After the First World War in Lushui, the Mohists and Feiguo took Jiashui, a tributary of Yishui River, as the boundary in the southeast.

In addition, the most reluctant condition for the nobles of the Fei Kingdom is the designated border... Once any escaped serfs escape to the border, the Fei Kingdom will not pursue it, and the Mohists will organize them to cultivate.

Under this policy, a large number of people escaped from Fei country and entered the directly-administered territory of Sishang Mohism every year.

In addition, a large number of goods and luxury goods are pouring in, and the income of the nobles is obviously not enough to maintain their higher standard of living, so strategies are urgently needed.

Under such circumstances, Fei Guo finally began to "force change", but this change was against the trend of history.

The nobles and Fei Jun promulgated the "Forbidden Death Order", announcing that the nobles have absolute control over the farmers on the land closures, and that they must "finish official business before doing private matters", and must complete the "obligatory" public land work for the land owner. Able to manage their own farmland.

It is forbidden to hide fugitive farmers, and if caught, the one who helps hide is as guilty as the fugitive.

Once the fugitive flees, if he resists, the pursuer has the right to kill him.

Under the impact of Sishang commodities and the comparison of Sishang system, the internal contradictions in Fei country became more and more serious.

Because it was a land closure system, the nobles continued to expand their land after obtaining ironware and horses.Expanding one's own land increases income, but also requires more labor.This again required an increase in the level of labor in "official affairs", doubling the burden on the farmers on the fief.

The land system and reclamation conditions along the river in Song State are different from those in Fei State.

Especially in the vicinity of Taoqiu, where the economy is developed, private ownership of land has long appeared, and a large number of private lands are rented.The appearance of coal also makes Chaicao Mountain meaningless, and Sishang's textile industry mainly focuses on cotton and raising sheep is not so profitable. Therefore, the non-cultivated land in the fiefdoms of small nobles is not worth developing.

Therefore, due to the development of productivity, some landlords and small nobles along the river in the Song Dynasty took back the rented land, drove away the excess labor force, and let them roll to Sishang or the city to make a living.

In Feiguo, however, another situation occurred due to the emergence of iron ox farming and ridge farming.The aristocrats took advantage of patriarchal relations and their dominance over fiefdom farmers to expand the amount of "public land labor exploitation", increasing their own land and the labor time of farmers on public land, so as to make profits in another way to increase income.

This kind of situation will inevitably lead to the escape of a large number of farmers on the closed fields. The Mohists are eyeing the sidelines, but they cannot defeat the Mohists, so they can only adopt more stringent laws to strictly prohibit the farmers from fleeing, so as to protect the interests of the nobles.

More and more time is spent on "official affairs", and less time is spent on "private affairs", and the income of farmers on closed fields is lower. The Mohists only bought ironware in installments and rented cattle and horses after the land reform in Sishang. For the inside of Feiguo, they only said "there is nothing to help", which led to the farmers on the closed fields singing "Shuoshu" every day.

It is:

Shuo Shu Shuo Shu, I have no food!A three-year-old woman who is willing to take care of me.The passing away of women, suitable for the happy land.Happy land and happy land, it is my place.

Shuo Shu Shuo Shu, no food for me!Three-year-old girl, Morkende.The daughter who is about to die is suitable for the country of joy.Happy country and happy country, love me straight?

Shuo Shu Shuo Shu, no food for my seedlings!Three-year-old female, I am willing to work.The passing away of women, suitable for the suburbs of music.Lejiao Lejiao, whose name is forever?

After singing Shuoshu, "The Promised Land" naturally spread. For the serfs in the southeast, the Promised Land was only separated by a river.

Escape to the past, it is a paradise.

If you can't escape, you will be eaten by Shushu for a lifetime.

If you are caught while escaping, you may die, you may be punished as a slave, and you may have increased hard labor.

But hope can always overcome the threat of death.

Every year, a large number of farmers on the closed fields will flee across the river. Once they cross the river, the private soldiers of the nobles who are chasing after them will not dare to cross the border, and there will be volunteers belonging to the Mo family guarding the river.

Now stationed near Tanyi along the river is the expanded Sixth Division of the Yishi Division, which was expanded from the Sixth Brigade in the Battle of Lishui.

At least a few months ago, the first division stationed in Tanyi was still dominated by the wealthy self-cultivated farmers Liang Jiazi in Peiyi, but the first division was transferred to the vicinity of Huling a few months ago, and most of the personnel were former Yue slaves. , the escaped serfs, and the escaped cultivators who had just received the allotment of land, formed the sixth division.

If it turns out that the soldiers of the First Division were full of sympathy for the peasants who fled to the river, and most of the soldiers of the Sixth Division, in addition to sympathy, also had a kind of sympathetic hatred for the nobles that had just passed away.

(End of this chapter)