warring states careerist

Chapter 573

The news of the massacre of thousands of households was nothing more than four simple words such as massacre and burning the city in the mouth of the scouts.

Even with the astonishment and grief on the scout's face, it is difficult to tell the cries of thousands of women and babies among them.

Gong Zaoye had a relaxed expression on his face before, but the emotion of being shocked by the news was frozen at this moment, and he even forgot about the change of expression.

Massacres of cities are common in times, and it is even more common for people to be forced to relocate.

But Gongzaoye has been in the Mohist School for decades, and he has heard too many theories of universal love, benevolence and righteousness, and benefiting the world. In his heart, he has already regarded things that are normal in this era as unusual.

After being stunned for a long time, Gong Zaoye realized that the Mohist family was a different kind of world after all, and he had stayed in the Mohist family for so long that he forgot the original appearance of the world.

After a long time, he waved his hand feebly, indicating that he knew the news.

Sitting alone in the tent for a long time, he suddenly shouted, "Come on wine!"

He hadn't been drunk for a long time, the last time he was drunk was the day when the news of Nie Zheng's assassination of Qin reached Sishang.

The wine on Sishang was very strong, it was the first time in many years that Gong Zaoye, with his beard and hair all white, got drunk again.

The Mohists have discipline, especially the Mohist who joined after the reorganization of the Mohist Association in Shangqiu more than [-] years ago, discipline is the first thing to abide by.

Gong Zaoye used to be a hero in the world. When he was a hero, the Mohist school had not yet been reorganized. Even though he was one of the Seven Enlightenment Hazards 20 years ago, he obeyed the discipline of the Mohist and would not drink before a battle in the military camp.

But today he missed the days when he was a hero, holding a sharp knife, and asked the world, who has something wrong?

Since the man whose legs were soaked in sweat from running around decades ago had a long talk with him for a few days, he recognized the discipline of the Mohist school, the righteousness of the Mohist school of non-fighting and non-aggression, and since then he has no longer Instead of being a hero, he became a Mohist.

Today, he suddenly missed the time when he was a hero.If it was still a few decades ago, when I was in the prime of life, with a long sword in hand, the people who ordered the massacre of the city today, even if they risked their own lives, would take their heads and drink in the downtown area, and wait until the soldiers surrounded by soldiers die. After that, the armor-breaking soldier with a sword floated away.

Even if you die, even if you don't succeed, you can at least do it, with a happy heart and no regrets.

Nowadays, the things to do are getting bigger and bigger, but the enjoyment of decades ago is missing.

After getting drunk, he studied ink and wrote two letters.

Early the next morning, a messenger ran towards Pengcheng with a letter from Gong Zaoye, who had been a hero all night last night.

The messenger couldn't read the contents of the letter. The handwriting on the letter was extremely scribbled, with a drunken madness.

In addition to telling the news about the slaughter of Wucheng, only in the last line, a simple line of words was written with a breath of flamboyance and phoenix dancing, as if the words were drunk and about to fly off the paper.

"Please sign the order to punish the injustice. Anyone who orders the slaughter of Wucheng can be killed in the name of the world!"

As a giant, he is the head of the Mohist family. He can issue orders to punish unrighteousness and call on the Mohists all over the world. Of course, this requires the approval of the Mohist Association before the giant can issue it.

The righteousness of the Mohists emphasizes "only harm is innocent", but the order of punishing unrighteousness is not included in this list.

It has been so many years since the Mohist family, the last time the giant issued an order to punish injustice was when the Mohist family had just settled down in Peiyi and killed those witches with poison.

At that time, those witchcrafts were also regarded as "no crime for only harming", because there was no law saying that it was a crime to harm the people and deceive the people into offering sacrifices with living people.

Mohism pays attention to treating people equally. If it is a crime to sacrifice a living person, then almost all the princes in the world must be killed. Many princes still sacrifice the living. The most barbaric state of Qin even ordered it after Nie Zheng assassinated Prince Qin to seize power. "Stop martyrdom, and it is forbidden to sacrifice a living person to Hebo."

That time, what Mo Jia used was the order to punish injustice issued by the giant, killing Wu Zhu in the name of harming the world.

That was already 20 years ago, when the giant of the Mohist family was Mo Di, who had passed away forever.

At that time, the Mohists discussed the scope of application of "only harming innocent" and "decree of punishing injustice". Since then, Mohist giants have the right to issue two kinds of Juzi order.

One is the "amnesty order", which is applicable to the Mohist family law, the so-called "pardon but not sin", the amnesty order exempts the punishment within the Mohist school but does not pardon the person's guilt.

The other is the "Decree of Punishment of Injustice", which is applicable to the world. Once this order is issued, all Mohists in the world will be enemies of the person wanted by the order, or assassinate or plot, and take their heads. "Sentenced in the name of benefiting the world. This person is sentenced to death".

This needs to be proposed by the giant and voted by the fellowship, as long as more than half of them do not object, it can be passed.

The rules were established 20 years ago, and the Mohists never used them once 20 years ago. When the prince of Chu was fleeing to Zheng, some people thought that the prince of Chu would flee to Zheng. It is better to kill one person to benefit all the people of Chu.

Even so, the order to punish injustice was still not issued.

Now, the drunk Gongzao Ye showed his madness and directly suggested the use of the "Decree of Punishing Injustice" that had not been used in 20 years. This matter will definitely shake the world.

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A few days later, Pingyin city head.

On the remnants of the city walls that were bombarded by artillery and gunpowder, Shi Shi watched the righteous soldiers stepping over these remnants, and received a letter from Fei Guo signed by Gong Zaoye from the messenger.

The emergence of gunpowder has changed the mode of warfare, not only in field battles, but also in attacking and defending cities.

The old-style city walls were difficult to stop the bombardment of gunpowder, especially after the Mohists formed special engineers for digging pits and burying explosives, even those new-style city defenses that used geometry and Mozi's "walking walls" were also difficult to defend.

Now that the Mohists have conquered eighteen cities, almost all of them are bloodless, but Pingyin has wasted some effort.

This is an important border town of the Great Wall of Qi, and a large number of nobles along the Jishui River fled here to defend it.

Shi concentrated his troops and waited for the arrival of the heavy copper cannons, which were not suitable for field battles, to feign an attack on Chengyang. They took two days to capture Pingyin City, and more than one day was left for the engineers to dig a hole. .

The 200 Qi army was wiped out, more than 400 nobles died in the city, and more than [-] nobles were captured. Among the captured people, there were more than [-] people from the Nakatian clan and its branches.

The destruction of Pingyin means that Qi's defense line has collapsed. The only Linzi army that can fight is still in Lu State.

After crossing the Great Wall, you can go straight to Linzi. More than [-] years ago, when the Three Jins attacked Qi, they broke through Pingyin.

The situation today is not much worse than it was then.Although there was the Niuzi and Gongsunhui rebellion back then, there is also the Nanji Water War today. Except for the Linzi army, Qi has no power to resist the Mohists.

At this time, it must be the setting sun like blood, because the siege battle had ended at noon since the attack began. With the collapse of the city walls and the collapse of the city gates, Qi's organizational strength was simply unable to organize street fighting at this time. Pingyin has been taken.

What's more, if you wait until evening, I'm afraid you will order to attack again tomorrow, and it is not convenient to enter the city at night.

A few days ago, he had already heard about the massacre of Wucheng.

I received a letter from Gongzaoye today, probably related to this matter.

There is still an aftertaste of gunpowder smoke, so it is suitable to open the letter, skip it hastily, and can't help sighing.

Gong Zaoye's letter was as simple as his usual speech, he didn't introduce too much about the massacre of Wucheng, but directly said some painful and appropriate words.

"suitable."

"The dispute between Qi Tian Tan and Tian Wu, you once said, I believe in your reasoning about the situation. In this battle, there must be a dispute between Qi Tian Tan and Tian Wu."

"I heard that you won a big victory in Nanjishui. I expected it. If one day, you pass a letter to Sishang saying that you killed Tian Qing and captured Tian Wu, I will not be surprised. It is only natural."

"When you do things, ask for 20 or [-] years. When you do things, you don't look at the present, don't show off heroic courage, calm and calm, and I always think that you don't love the world or the world at all. But every time the result, maybe five years It took ten years for me to understand."

"When you do things, if you have any objections, you always like to say 'keep this as evidence, and we will see it later'. If you do it again and again, no one among the Mohist objects to your opinion. Even if you have doubts in your heart, those things before have made you They naturally feel that their thinking is not thoughtful and long-term enough."

"I know that if you really capture Tian Wu, the best way is to release Tian Wu and let Tian Tan and Tian Wu fight, so that the Mo family can benefit from the world in the future."

"If it was in the past, I would agree."

"Today, Wucheng was slaughtered."

"If you capture Tian Qingtian Wu and release him, I will definitely oppose it."

There is no righteousness or reason in it. It is not like an exchange letter between Mohists, but more like a private letter between a hero and a friend.

Gong Zaoye didn't talk too much about the truth, he just wrote a sentence at the end of the letter that I disagree with, and then his name and date of inscription, nothing else.

The orderly who delivered the letter had no other words.

Shi looked at this letter for a long time, and at the end of the letter, Gong Zaoye's seemingly indifferent words that he would object, suddenly felt that this letter was extremely heavy.

Gong Zaoye understood his thoughts, and his thoughts were also connected with the high-ranking Mohists.

In history, Tian Wu killed his elder brother and came to power, and the dispute within the Tian clan that lasted for decades after Tian He's death finally came to an end.

Tian Wu's murder of his elder brother also laid the foundation for his son King Qi Wei's centralization reform.

The relationship between Tian Tan and Tian Wu is a bit like the relationship between Zhao's son Zhang and his son Chao, except that it was Zhao's "Tian Tan" who won the Zhao family, and Qi's "Zhao Dynasty" who won the Qi victory.

Gong Zaoye's letter is actually very heart-wrenching.

But Shi could understand Gongzaoye's resentment when he wrote this letter.

So he chose a relatively flat piece of city wall soil that still smelled of gunpowder and sulfur, and just before all the troops entered the city, he asked the messenger to bring brushes and paper.

Spreading out the paper, I didn't write too much righteousness, and wrote a reply in a tone like a personal relationship.

"Brother."

"Mohism is for the benefit of the world."

"Seizing the world is just a means rather than an end."

"To benefit the world, it is necessary to change customs, reverse the world, and reshape the meaning of the world."

"If I release Tian Wu for the sake of the Mohism's victory over the world, that would be to reverse the purpose and means."

"At that time, how is my Mohist different from those unrighteous kings who raise unrighteous soldiers for the sake of the world?"

"Mohists should benefit the world, benefiting the world is the goal, and the world is just a means."

"And I am the Mohist."

"You and I have the same heart and mind, no need to say more."

(End of this chapter)