warring states careerist

Chapter 488
Meng Sheng said it lightly, but Xu Ruo couldn't let it go in his heart. After all, this is related to the lives of tens of thousands of people.

He glanced at Meng Sheng again, and said very solemnly: "Since the name is right and sound, what is the name? Our righteousness, our benevolence, and our world are fundamentally different from the old world of benevolence and righteousness. Don't we have to respect it?" Original name?"

Meng Sheng likes passionate young people like Xu Ruo very much, as if he could see himself when he was young. If he faced such a situation when he was young, he might think the same as Xu Ruo.

But now it's different.

Xu Ruo asked again: "What are you worried about?"

Meng Sheng said in a low voice: "I'm worried that the people will shed more blood. If this uprising succeeds, the people may choose to only seek their own interests, and it is impossible to meddle in affairs hundreds of miles away from the capital. At least most people will be like this. However, if you don’t mobilize the people hundreds of miles away, so that they can also benefit, the benefits obtained by the people in the capital will eventually be taken away by the nobles, and they will eventually fail... If we don’t intervene. The king can treason, can the nobles Wouldn't they invite the soldiers of Wei Qi to slaughter the people of their own country?"

Xu Ruo clapped his hands and said: "That's the truth, so we should come forward now and guide the people to explain the truth clearly. Do you have to wait until the people know that they are wrong and regret it before we intervene?"

Meng Sheng nodded and said, "Shi said, there is no medicine for regret in this world. But Feiguo is too close to the Sishang Mo family, so there is medicine for regret."

"The country of Fei is too small, but the world is too big. You have also seen the drama performed in Pengcheng, Sishang. There is always a rehearsal before the official performance. The country of Fei... let it be a preview of the world's big drama, and let the people know that when they meet again like this Who should be trusted, what should be done, who should be guarded against, who should be executed... Troubled times are the stage, and the people of the world are the actors."

Xu Ruo sighed and said, "Then we can only watch from the sidelines? Regret after watching the people choose a short-sighted path?"

Meng Sheng waved his hand and said, "It is the people of Fei who chose a short-sighted path, and the people of the world will not regret it in the future. The road... still has a long way to go. What we have to do now is not to watch from the sidelines, but to put forward some reasonable ideas. Suggestions. For example, public security in the city, food prices in the city, land distribution, tax rate setting... As for whether the people of the capital will abandon their best allies... those farmers on the land of the nobles... that is the capital of Fei Kingdom decided by the people."

"Sishang is very strong to Fei country, so you can take it slowly. Sishang is not strong to the world, so you have to plan ahead. It is not Fei country that is planning, but the people of the world know what to do when faced with such a choice. what to do."

Xu Ruo pondered for a moment, finally nodded and said, "So, you convinced me. I hope this time it's not a wrong judgment."

Meng Sheng nodded his head to indicate that he also understood in his heart that under the internal system of the Mohist School, once this matter was misjudged and the situation in Feiguo was unfavorable, someone would have to take the blame and take responsibility.

Qiwuhai and Juzi are collective decisions, which represent the will of the Mohists, so the Mohists cannot make mistakes, and only individuals can make mistakes.

Sishang's situation was dominated by Shi, who convinced everyone and gained everyone's support.Once something goes wrong, Shi may completely stay away from the position of the giant. So far, Shi's judgments are basically correct. Everyone in the Mo family has a kind of trust in him that is second only to Mo Zi's life, and this trust must always be maintained go down.

Meng Sheng has received far more information than Xu Ruo, knowing that Shi is dancing on the tip of a knife. While striving for a bigger situation for the Mo family, he is also delaying the time to become an enemy of the world.Once this balance is not well grasped, both may be lost.

As a high-ranking Mohist, he expected Shi's judgment to be correct, so he could explain the truth to Xu Ruo with a smile, but he was worried in his heart.

In the final analysis, the affairs of the Fei country are not the affairs of the Fei country, but the affairs of the countries in the Central Plains.

In the end, Fei's uprising turned into a rehearsal and experience for the whole world, and the Mohists were able to completely control the surrounding countries; or did the Fei's uprising end up being a tragedy, and Wei Qi and other countries did not go all out according to the situation that was properly arranged in advance. Intervention dragged the Mohists into the quagmire of troubled times in advance?

This is unknown, and can only be judged by the art of reasoning, which is dangerous and dangerous.

Before Mozi's death, the expectations for Mohist belonged to two places, one was Tianzhi, and the other was Mohist rules and regulations.

Whether it's because of the trust that I have always judged correctly, or because I have persuaded you one by one before the meeting, there is no problem with the procedures and rules, so even if someone objects, once it is settled, you must follow this method. , even at the cost of failure.

Temporary victories and failures are nothing compared to the rules, systems and procedures that Mozi believes can survive forever.

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But all the rules are made by people, so they can always be changed when necessary.

The chaos in Fei Country, since Ji Sunluan spoke out in support of the people, has actually evolved into a chaos of changing the rules.

The victory of the capital city is inevitable, which is a remnant of the clan era and the system of people discussing politics, the difference between the country and the country, and the people's service.

Unlike scattered villages, the people in the capital can be organized effectively. In order to survive the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch had to allow the people to organize themselves to maintain their own military power.

Under this kind of self-organization, for the monarch of a small country with a city and fief structure, the power of backlash is also strong enough. The people of the country can decide whether the monarch can secure his seat to a certain extent, but the main messenger behind it in the past is a clear face. Nobles, but this time it is the hidden Mohists.

The person standing behind is different, which determines the difference in the rules.In the past, what changed was only the monarch, not the rules.

This time, it seems that just like before, only the monarch has been changed, but the rules have actually been changed.

Ji Sunluan, who had been unable to hide all this time, finally showed up under the protection of "guards" after the palace was occupied by Zhe Yangzi and his soldiers.

The first thing he did when he showed up was to reiterate what Weirang had said when the crowd gathered.

He has no choice, if he backtracks, the people who are still agitated are likely to drive him away—everything is different from the past, and now some people feel that everyone is equal regardless of age, young or high, and some people have even learned from the Mohists. A series of institutions without a "blood" monarch was learned there.

If in the past, the people had no choice, Ji Sunluan might be able to throw Wei Rang aside.But now, the people have another choice, so Wei Rang has become what Ji Sunluan considers a "best friend".

Now, he is considered the king of Fei country, as long as he is willing.

It's just that the monarch of the Fei Kingdom can only govern an area the size of the capital in name.In the past, Fei Jun had four realms in terms of rules and etiquette, but now Ji Sunluan only has the capital within [-] miles.

The coup d'état is only a prelude to whether the position of the monarch can be secured, and it is far from the time when it can really be decided.

Many things need to be dealt with.

What about the nobles who were captured?
What about those doctors who are far away in the fief?
Can the system of granting public land to farmers in the capital city of Fei be implemented outside the capital city?
What if the nobles disagree and rise up to resist?
What kind of military system is in place?
How to collect taxes?

How are officials selected?

How to pay officials' salaries?
How to maintain it?

How to make a law?

All of these seem to require the monarch to consider, but at this moment none of them have anything to do with Ji Sunluan.

The people have already elected their own sages, and the people need to consider the formulation of the system themselves. The people don't even need a monarch, but because of their past habits, they need someone who can explain the situation to other countries.

Ji Sunluan felt that he, the monarch, was like a memorial tablet.

If it is said that a pig has the blood of the male clan, I am afraid that this pig can also be regarded as a king.

This may be unbearable for those who really want to be a monarch.

But for Ji Sunluan, he betrayed the nobility, the public clan, and the old rules, and the "sages" of the old era could not be used by him.

And these "sages" in the new era are either full of passion and energy, or they are deliberate and powerful, and no one is willing to let the monarch really take power.

After going through so much, Ji Sunluan already felt that Wei Rang played a role in these things, but it was not important.

The important thing is that the two people are still friends on the surface, and the income from the redemption of public land is still Ji Sunluan's. In the future, Ji Sunluan can still invest in any industry with a large amount of income and his status as a monarch. This is the most important thing. .

Ji Sunluan is not a virtuous young man, but he is not a fool either.

Judging from the performance of these Tian Weirang, if Wei Rang really wants to be the king, he can support the co-government of the people of the country.And what he said in front of the people that day was enough to make it impossible for Wei Rang to learn the process of being a virtuous minister first and then taking abdication, which is unnecessary.

So Ji Sunluan quickly figured out his own situation: policies are decided by the people, and those who are in power are actually elected sages.

What I have to do is claim it, stamp it, collect money, manage my own property, think about how to spend the collected public land redemption fee, and what to do if something goes wrong and flee to Sishang...

So the first thing he thought after he finally showed up was that once he stabilized, he would put the proceeds from the redemption of public land into the gold bank in Sishang, or exchange it for Mohist banknotes for the future.

"If it doesn't work, I'm going to run away. Maybe they won't allow me to run away, they insist on letting me be here, but prepare in advance, run away if the wind is not good, or say something about my lack of talent and virtue to give way to the virtuous, Then we can go."

"The money earned can no longer be invested in the workshop industry in Feiguo. It is not stable here. It is best to invest all the money in Sishang. It is best if you can invest in some industries in Sishang. If not, you can become a rich man and be the same as before. as well as better than ever.”

"If the Mo family in Sishang is also defeated, you can follow them and flee to the South China Sea and Yangyue. It is not bad to plant sugarcane there to refine sucrose, but I heard about those hot virus snakes, but some people have built cities and settled there. , It wouldn’t be too bitter to think about it. The world is so big, even if the princes work together, can they still catch up to Yang Yuehai?

(End of this chapter)