warring states careerist

Chapter 572 Stunned
When he said the word "dead in the world", as if he could no longer contain the sadness in his heart, he fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

After a long time, he raised the bronze sword stained with blood and meat sauce, flicked his slender, aristocratic nails vigorously on the sword, and cried and sang a song.

"The other millet is lili, the seedling of the other millet. The walking is sloppy, and the center is shaking. Those who know me say that my heart is worried, and those who don't know me say what I want. The heavens! Who is this?"

"The millet is lili, the ear of the millet. The pace is sloppy, the heart is drunk. Those who know me say that my heart is worried, and those who don't know me say what I want. The heavens! Who is this?"

"The millet is separated, the reality of the land. Walking and walking, the center is like choking. Those who know me say that my heart is worried, and those who don't know me say what I want. The heavens! Who is this?"

After singing, he knelt down and cried out in pain: "God on high, who made me leave home? God on high, who made me go away from home?"

A song called Mi Li, expressing his sorrow, was sung by all the people present, and many people shed tears.

It was as if he had seen decades later, when he returned to his fief, and saw the scene where the fortress and manor that once belonged to him were all ruined.

It seems that after decades, I return to my fief, and see the corn covering the ancestors’ graves, and the sprawling sweet potato vines covering the field where the horses used to hunt.

Grief was spreading, and the crying man got up for a long time, and said with a determined face: "For the country, seeing evil is like a farmer's work, go to the grass, and the barbarians worship it, cut off its roots, don't let it be able to reproduce, then the good Believe me."

"Eliminate evil and do everything! To eradicate evil, we must cut grass and roots!"

"God will not blame us for the fire in Wucheng. Youyou Cangtian and Haotian God must be able to see it. This is because the evil of the Mohists spread like grass, which led to the slaughter of Wucheng."

"If the Mo family didn't have those evil principles, how could Wucheng be burned?"

"The Mo family values ​​ghosts and gods, and these tens of thousands of dead souls will one day take revenge on the Mo family under the Nine Springs!"

The last trace of psychological barriers of the people present was also lifted. Those who cried because of the sorrow of Mi Li thought, this is the truth!

If it weren't for the evil righteousness of the Mohist family, which made it difficult for the people of Wucheng to be educated and instigated to do evil, how could they be slaughtered?
Besides, this is to keep the world alive. Is there anything God Haotian loves more than this?
Crying and crying, sorrow is over, and everyone discussed the matter of massacring the city and setting fire to it.

You can't kill them all, otherwise the Mo family will not be able to provide disaster relief when they come, so they can continue to pursue them.

But you can't kill too few, otherwise the survivors will be angry, anger masters are not afraid of death, and when the time comes to gather together to pursue, it will be dangerous.

So it was agreed that at that time, all the houses in Wucheng would be burned, and all households would be tricked into standing near the city wall by saying that they would strengthen the city wall and separate men and women.All men were killed, leaving only women and old men who could not work and go to war.All the boys who could gather near the city wall to carry earth and rocks were killed, and the remaining boys must be young at home and could be set on fire to death.The girl can't be killed, because the girl can't join the army for revenge after she grows up, but can stay for the Mo family to take care of her.

Moreover, it is women and villains who are difficult to raise, so you can tell the truth to those women who don't kill: it was the spread of the Mohist's evil that led to the massacre of Wucheng this time. .

Burn all the half-ripe wheat along the way, and do not leave any of the Mohist volunteers as army rations.All the wells in the city were poisoned.

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A few days later, fifty miles to the south of Wucheng, in Gongzaoye's big camp.

Gong Zaoye was in a good mood and was joking with some Mohists.

The reason for this joke is that because it was the time of the summer harvest, someone told the story of Mi Zijian governing his father.

The story is actually very simple. At the time when Qi and Lu were fighting, Mi Zijian was the governor of the single father, the Qi army was coming fiercely, and the wheat outside the city was just ripe.

It was all wheat from the public fields, and there was no time to harvest it, so someone suggested to Mi Zijian: "It's better to let the people harvest it, and you can harvest as much as you want, than to be cut off by the people of Qi for military rations."

Mi Zijian refused, and said: "There is a distinction between good and evil in the world. You can't promote evil and curb good. Now that the people of Qi are away, let the people harvest the wheat that doesn't belong to them and belong to themselves at this time. This is to encourage evil. Short-term Looking at it, Qi people benefit, but in the long run, the people of Shanfu know good and evil and can be educated, which is good in the long run."

So the people were strictly ordered not to go out of the city to harvest wheat, and the people of Qi passed through Shanfu and harvested wheat for food, which happened to be enough to encircle Qufu.At that time, people all over the world praised Mi Zijian's virtue, thinking that this is the person who can truly educate the people and the good governance that can make the world rule.

Because of this story, Gong Zaoye said with a smile: "I am looking forward to more gentlemen in Qi. In this way, the Pingyin army will be destroyed, and the young and strong will not survive. It can be temporarily borrowed as army rations, but we can really attack all the way to Linzi."

As the coach of one party, he said because of this story: "The distinction between good and evil is ultimately a major issue in the world. What is good and what is evil? This requires synonymousness. Where does this righteousness come from? It must be from the will of heaven. It is deduced by the art of explaining knowledge. Therefore, the good that exists in the world is not necessarily good; the evil that exists in the world is not necessarily evil. That’s why I just said that virtue is not eternal, but changes with the times.”

"What's more, even if some goodness is good, it is not right to need normative rules of conduct to determine goodness and evil. Zimozi said: It is also a person who conforms to his habits and justifies his vulgarity."

"Why did Zimozi say that? Then Mu Mu secretly buried his grandmother after his grandfather died, and Yi Qu Guo burned the body to ashes after his death. This is their custom to show their respect for the dead. "

"Taking this moment as an example, it is good to respect the dead, but is it necessary to have a heavy burial after death to respect the dead? We have to change customs, what are we changing? What are we changing? This is unavoidable. Make it clear."

He was already thinking about the reconstruction of the Fei Kingdom, and the changes in Huaibei, Huaihe Estuary, East China Sea, and Wenxia under the Sishang situation that had been stabilized after the Qi victory.

Because the news of the Nanji Water Battle had already come in a few days ago, and it was done through a regular route, which was much more accurate than those rumors.

It said that in the battle of Nanji Water, the Mohists lost no more than [-] people, [-] Qi troops were wiped out, and [-] Qi troops surrendered.

Now that the army is deployed, it has met the suspicious soldiers and heavy artillery that surrounded Chengyang, and is besieging Pingyin.

In another letter, Shi also wrote clearly the opinions of those former enemies, suggesting to continue to pretend to attack Linzi and see the reaction of the Qi army.However, it is also necessary to prevent the situation that the Qi army is not in a hurry to return to Linzi but confronts Wenshui, and it is said that political reforms will be used to force the Qi army to take the initiative to attack.

Gongzaoye needs to cooperate with appropriate actions, which is actually very simple, that is, to follow these troops behind the Qi people who are retreating, neither far nor near, neither aggressive nor timid.

Always maintain a posture that is neither near nor far, so that Qi people can't walk fast, and at the same time can force Qi people to tire Qi people.

In case Tian Qingfei is mediocre, and the army is stationed in Wenshui, the Ministry of Public Works and Metallurgy must cooperate appropriately. Putting diplomatic pressure on Lu to sever Qi-Lu relations and prohibiting borrowing food can also threaten the rear and supplies of the Linzi Army.

The Gongzao Metallurgical Institute has a small number of troops and focuses on defense. It is also to guard against the Qi army in the direction of Ju, Jimo, and Gaomi.

But things have developed to the present, and the Qi people's army in Jiaodong is no longer a threat.

90 years ago, when Wu and Qi were fighting for hegemony, the state of Wu sent Xu Cheng, a senior official, to lead a boat division navy, set out from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and fought a battle with the navy of Qi in the coastal waters of the south of Jun. As a result, the navy of Qi won a complete victory.

Afterwards, Yue State destroyed Wu, and Yue State and Chu State fought many battles on the Yangtze River. They were also defeated by Chu State's fleet improved by Gongshuban, but their strength still remained.

In the Battle of Lushui, King Yi of Yue was captured, and he presided over the negotiation. As a price for buying the King of Yue, he bought a group of ships from the State of Yue and Xiliu Shui Army. After that, the Mohists infiltrated into the East China Sea, continuously increasing the strength of the fleet, and even organized a fleet from the Yangtze River. voyage to the mouth of the Pearl River in the Wild South.

This time, the Yue Kingdom was about to withdraw to the south, and the Mohists also had a series of contacts with the Yue Kingdom. At the cost of hiring [-] pieces of iron, [-] muskets, [-] cannons, and [-] barrels of gunpowder, they persuaded King Yi of Yue Secretly dispatch troops, and the navy is under the banner of the Mohist school.

The Xiliu navy of the Mohists, born out of the navy of the Yue State, and the navy of the Yue State joined forces, starting from Langya and heading north, directly threatening the hinterland of the Qi State.

In the first battle in the waters near Jimo, the entire Jiaodong boat division of Qi State was wiped out, and the Mohists could directly threaten Jimo, Gaomi and other cities in the hinterland of Jiaodong Qi State.

Xiliu's navy was stationed near Buqi Mountain, also known as Laoshan Mountain in later generations, which was only a hundred miles away from Jimo, so that the legions in the Jiaodong area of ​​Qi State did not dare to move.

Poetry Cloud:

Gradually the stone becomes higher.The mountains and rivers are far away, and Wei Qi is tired.The warriors marched eastward, not a dynasty.

Gradually, the stone will die.The mountains and rivers are far away, why are they gone?The warriors marched east, but the emperor did not go out.

There are hogs and white hogs, and they are wading through the waves.After the month is over, it will be torrential.When warriors march eastward, they will not be emperors.

This is a song about the hardships of the Eastern Expedition. Because it was the emperor’s Eastern Expedition, or the Eastern Yi, the soldiers saw a lot of mountains to the east. When the Mohists drew the map, they relied on this gradual stone, called it Don't use the mountain as Laoshan, take the mountains and rivers far away, and use it as a sentence of labor.

There are also villages and settlements there, which used to belong to Jiaoyi, but are now naturalized. They trade grain with ironware, and transport grain from the vicinity of Rizhao, the descendant of Langya.

The Mohists are also well-known for being good at attacking cities. Qi’s Jiaodong Army and Ju’s Army did not dare to disturb them. The destruction of the navy cannot cut off the supply of the Mohists. The attack on the Mohist camps that are not in the mountains may be less effective: Qi The human scouts also know that the Mohists Xiliu are all elites. At this time, they are mostly fighting on board. After the Mohist warriors with swords and shields were replaced by muskets and spears from the army, they went to Xiliu Shuishi and passed them down. They also resisted the mountain and defended it, and transported supplies by sea. It was five times that they could not attack.

In this way, Gongzaoye could boldly enter Feidi and organize the Qi army's pursuit this time.

The people of Qi already seemed to be retreating, and Shi's letter also clearly stated: Regardless of whether Tian Qing is mediocre or not, after the Battle of Nanjishui, the Qi Linzi Army will definitely return.

Gong Zaoye supports Shi's point of view. At this time, the overall situation has been decided. Regardless of the Mohist's strategic goals, at least they have won by seven points. How can he not be happy?

When he was thinking that it would only take three to five days to chase and besiege the people of Qi, an orderly ran into the tent with a look of astonishment and anger. His trembling lips trembled for a long time, and then he said in a tone of extreme resentment: "Qi! The army retreated to the north... Those nobles who fled to Wucheng set fire to Wucheng, and thousands of people in Wucheng were slaughtered!"

(End of this chapter)