warring states careerist

Chapter 569

"The enmity of a gentleman can be remembered especially in the ninth generation. The grievances of the common people will be invisible in twenty years."

"Young gentleman, if Qi can still win Wucheng 20 years later, the grievances of the Fei people have long since disappeared. In 20 years, with the rise of the Mo family in Sishang and the Wei state's struggle for hegemony in Hedong, I am afraid that the people of Qi will win again in 20 years. Difficult to walk on and up to Sishang."

Tian Qing showed a deep feeling of failure, which Gong Ziwu did not refute.In the Nanjishui battle, the Mohists had already taken the initiative. If the Mohists were willing to make peace now, no matter who is the monarch of Qi, they would agree.

Young Master Wu understood the viciousness of Tian Qing's strategy, or in his opinion, its cleverness.

Burning Wucheng can hold back the Ministry of Public Manufacturing and Metallurgy of the Mohists in the name of righteousness, preventing them from pursuing.

Moreover, it created hatred between the people of Qi and the people of Fei. The Mohist said that the people of the world love each other regardless of each other. This can easily confuse people and make the world think about it.

Burning Wucheng, this is the enmity between Qi people and Fei people, how does the Mohists explain this theory of universal love?

If it cannot be explained, it means that many of the righteousness of the Mohists may not be correct.

If one kind of righteousness is not right, then it can be used as a gap to attack the rest of the righteousness of Mohism.The Mohists shouted too loudly, stood too high, and said it was Tianzhi, so what if Tianzhi's inference is wrong?
For example, universal love, it is said that all the people in the world in the Kyushu should not hate each other and fight each other.But I let the Qi people burn Wucheng and rape the Fei people's sisters, wives and mothers. So the hatred between the Qi people and the Fei people just shows: Does the theory of universal love for the world not work?
Qi State has been a big country since the time of Taigong Wang, and now there are disputes among the nations, and in a world of great contention, Qi State also has a heart for the world.

It's just that the situation is compelling, and the Mohist school can no longer talk about benevolence and righteousness. The Mohist school has become a famous school in the world, and the definitions of benevolence and righteousness are now being favored by the Mohist school.

Talking about benevolence, lectures, and benefits, they can't talk about Mohism, and now they have caught up with Nanjishui's big defeat. Even if the situation in Qi State is stable, it will take more than ten years of dormancy to say the least.

However, the place where the Mo family gained a firm foothold was too close to Qi State, which blocked Qi State’s access to the Central Plains and Sishang. Tian Wu had to consider the confrontation with the Mo family in the next 20 years.

He pondered for a while, then came up with another plan in his mind, and said: "Not only can we burn Wucheng, but those Feidi nobles who want to follow us back to Linzi can also participate."

"In this way, not to mention that the people of Qi and Fei cannot love both, even people of the same country cannot love each other. In 20 years, Qi can neither rule the world as one, but let no one in the world be able to rule the world. .”

Tian Qing praised and said: "Young master's opinion is exactly in line with mine."

"One of the two loves."

"If the nobles of Fei land burn Wucheng, then the Fei people will complain. If the people of Fei complain, the nobles of Fei can only commit themselves to the land. Once there is a change in the Mo family in Sishang, they can't just borrow troops to return, but can only do the same. It is impossible to be the doctor of Fei again."

"Doctors guard their homes, and nobles guard their land. The people on the soil are subordinate to the soil. This is the way to draw their salary from the bottom of the pot, so that they will not be able to return by themselves in the future besides relying on us. It can only belong to Qi and not to them.”

Tian Wu hadn't considered this point yet, and after hearing Tian Qing's words, he really felt enlightened.

It is said that doing benevolence and righteousness is exactly the meaning of taking the rabbit's hole.In my own fief, I can't do too much. Although the exploitation must be exploited or the northwest wind must be drunk, but in addition to the exploitation, some warm and affectionate things should be shrouded to cover up the dirty and bloody.

Tian Qing asked the nobles of Fei country to do it, that is to destroy the foundation of the nobles of Fei country's self-government.

In the future, if there is a problem in Sishang and the Mohist family declines, those nobles who fled can no longer call on the people in the form of restoration of the country. They can only choose to attach themselves to Qi State and make Feidi a county of Qi State.

At least at this time, these nobles still have value to use.

The Tian family has no way to shout the slogan of "protecting the rites" and turn the matter of the Fei country into a dispute between the righteousness of the Mohists and the existing rites in the world, because the Tian family is the family that is least qualified to say "rituals".

Even the three Jins of Han, Zhao, and Wei are more qualified than the Tian family to protect the ceremony. At least the Marquis of Jin is still there, and it has not been said that it has been abolished.When Qi and Chu were attacked back then, the three families were still in the name of the three ministers of Jin.

Tian's own country was not right—whether it was from Zhou Li or Mo Yi, it was not right—so at this time, the nobles of Fei Kingdom still had some value in using it as a reason to seize Fei land in the future.

After discussing these issues, Tian Qing began to prepare for Shuai Jun's return, which was also a troublesome matter.

The news of the Nanji Water Battle must have also reached the State of Lu. The State of Lu used the excuse that it was Qi's internal affairs and not something that the Non-Attack Alliance had to face.

This reason is very far-fetched, and it obviously offended the Mo family, but the Mo family did not spare the energy to question Yu Lu.

Now that the menacing Qi army has just arrived in Wucheng and is about to return, and the [-] Qi army in Nanjishui was wiped out in the first battle, the attitude of Lu State will inevitably change.

Once Lu Guo suddenly turned his face, thinking that the Mo family was more powerful, and thus turned his face against Qi, it would be troublesome.

Taking Yimeng Mountain back to Ju is a road that Tian Qing would never choose.

One is that the road is difficult and the supplies are not good.

The second is to return to Ju, and then arrive at Linzi. I am afraid that the Mo family has already captured Linzi.

Not returning to Wenshui is equivalent to completely abandoning all Qicheng in the southwest of the Great Wall, and it will not pose the slightest threat to the main force of the Mo family. At that time, the Mo family will drive straight in, and the Qi army will be in Ju. There will be no one behind the Mo family. The failure will be much more serious than currently expected.

Therefore, Tian Qing hoped to set off as soon as possible, and quickly pulled the army to the Qufu area without waiting for the Lu State to respond.As long as the army is hoarded near Qufu, the state of Lu has no time to react, even if it agrees, it has to agree, and if it doesn't agree, it has to agree.

And if you want to confront the Mohists in Wenshui, and use the threat of cutting off the rear as a threat to prevent the Mohists from really attacking Linzi, you have to rely on the food and grass of the State of Lu for a period of time.

As long as the army arrives, the State of Lu can take out food and grass.And if the army can't arrive, the state of Lu will inevitably shirk.

This series of plans was going on in full swing, and the nobles of Fei Kingdom in Wucheng were in a state of panic all day long.

The execution ground for those who were close to the Mohists before Che Chai is still there, and the words that those who were car cracked said before they died - there is no car crack on the body, but there is a shooting, they are all dead - I vividly remember it.

Originally, these words had no power, and they sounded like the curses and wailings of dying people. They did not make the nobles feel panic, but at most they felt angry: the common people could be brave enough to oppose them.

But when the news of the Nanji Water Battle came, the words that sounded powerless like a curse at the beginning were full of power.

Now in the south of Wucheng, the remaining Mohist forces led by Gong Zaoye are confronting outside Wucheng. They dare not confront the Linzi Army, but choose to build a fort on the road south of Wucheng, making it difficult for the Linzi Army to capture.

To the south of these fortresses, the Mohists have already started land reform in Fei.

Open fields, destroy well fields, distribute the land of the fugitive nobles, and demolish the private castles on the fiefdoms of the fugitive nobles.

Every day there is news that today his fief is divided among the common people, and tomorrow his horses, cattle and sheep will be distributed among the common people...

It is impossible to go back. If you go back, you will not die. Without the fief, how can you live?Really go farming?Really want to be a craftsman?Then how can you maintain the aristocratic temperament?No way, apart from collecting land rent and labor, there are no other means of making a living.

In the battle of Nanjishui, the [-] Qi army, which looked bloated and aggressive, was destroyed, and it was like rows of nooses hanging down in front of these nobles who had fled to Wucheng.

It is not that there were no escapes before the world, and escapes abound after the failure of political struggles.

However, before fleeing, those families whose land was most allocated to the victors had never been divided among the common people.

The Battle of Nanji Water made this upside-down even more cloudy, and it was about to cover Feiguo's last idyllic aristocratic Pure Land Martial City.

The only way they can go now is to follow these Qi people to Linzi and live a fugitive life there.

At least, the real nobles still have money, horses, jewels, gold and silver in their hands.Even if there were not so many minor nobles who fled with them, they could still serve as sergeants in Qi's army by virtue of their ability.

Wasn't Bi Wan also an ordinary man back then?But didn't he go from ordinary man to Shangqing with his own ability?Of course, the starting point of this ordinary man is different from that of the common people. He has the blood of the nobles and the skills of the off-the-job training department in his hands.

But it sounds like at least it left a lot of hope for those low-level nobles to survive, and they will not be reduced to the common people and peasants they least want to be.

There are more and more rumors in the city, and for the nobles, all they hear is news that they care about.

For example, I heard that the Mo family had captured Pingyin and was about to capture Linzi.It is also said that the Mo family will capture all the fugitive nobles and hang them all.It is also said that all fiefs may be deprived and demoted to civilians.

The first two are not terrible, but the latter is more terrible than death, which means that the descendants of their family will have the same identity and the same starting point as those untouchables. This is unacceptable, and they can die for it.

If the righteousness is different, you will not hesitate to die.

They disagree with the Mohist righteousness, and naturally they will not agree with the equality and universal love in the Mohist righteousness.

The premise of universal love is equal people, and the concept that all people in the world are all people in the world.

People with equal personalities can love each other.

The people of the world are not Qi people, Lu people, Fei people, Jin people, this is the cornerstone for people all over the world to love each other.

This is unacceptable to the nobles.

It may not be that none of them have a heart of compassion, and it may not be that none of them does not care about the common people and peasants in their fiefs, but once they are equal and love, the meaning will be completely changed.

(End of this chapter)