warring states careerist

Chapter 575

After Shi finished writing the letter, he sent it to Pengcheng as quickly as possible.

He expressed his attitude, and expressed his support for the issuance of the order to punish injustice as the deputy second giant and Nanwukai. This is the first attitude to express.

This attitude does not mean that there will be some gaps between some radicals in the Mohist school and him.

The purpose of expressing this attitude is to achieve unity among the Mohists, and to highlight the importance of the "righteousness" of Mohism and the uncompromising nature of the issue of "righteousness".

However, after expressing this attitude, a series of future influences must also be considered.

Once the order to punish injustice is issued, if Tian Qing and Tian Wu are not captured in the decisive battle against the Linzi Army in the future, then even if the war is not over, a condition for peace talks with Qi must be added: an order to issue the order to massacre the city this time implementer and executor.

If you can't catch it, you need to make psychological preparations for a long-term war with Qi after defeating the Linzi Army, or even break Linzi to force Qi to accept it.

In terms of the external situation, the powerlessness of the Wei state can already be determined, but how much impact and shock will it have on the princes when breaking the capital of a country?

The nobles fought each other, and Han Hou killed Zheng Bo. In the eyes of the princes, this was just a private enmity between families. It is understandable and the most blamed.

But if people like the Mohists, who advocate the equality of nobles and nobles, break through the capital of Qi State in the name of righteousness, and shoot Tian Qing Tianwu, it will not be as simple as accusing the princes of other countries.

The next five years at the most may be the last chance for the Mohists to develop with peace of mind. Perhaps this will require extensive mobilization and an army-first system after the alignment war, as well as a thorough promotion of the Mohist slogan of the true goal of one world.

When there are hundreds of people in strength, you can call for righteousness.

When the strength is several counties and two counties, you can call for the world.

This reference to the sword of the world was originally a slogan used by Shi Qian to persuade Mozi, but he himself didn't take it seriously, and he didn't want the Mo family to be the supervisor of the world's princes at all.

Originally, his plan was to take advantage of the victory in the First World War to stabilize the north, take advantage of the centralization and decentralization of power in the Chu State, and take advantage of the historical trend that the King of Chu will die for a few years at most, to make a major event in the Chu State. It's time to fully reveal the Mo family's ambition to conquer the world.

It's just that this kind of thing happened, and under the premise that the order to punish injustice must be issued, it will be much more difficult to do things in Chu State in the past few years.

Without telling the essence of the expansion of the classical military state, it is impossible to educate the people so that they can still believe in the possibility of universal love. This time after the massacre of the city, the propaganda of the Propaganda Department must set such a tone.

But to tell the essence, even if you don’t talk about the purpose of the Mohist school, some people who read the Mohist article will naturally think: since the Mohist said that the essence of brutal war is the issue of land ownership, then the way of doing things with the Mohist way of treating the symptoms and the root must be To solve this essential problem.

He wrote this letter not only to set the tone of propaganda for the Propaganda Department, but also to let the people understand the "essence" of war-although wars will still occur under private ownership in essence, it is just that the initiators of the wars have changed from land aristocracy to The big bourgeois who have not yet been produced at this time—but under the limitations of this era, it is still easy for the people to understand these hatreds and disputes in the world because the nobles want to get benefits, the monarch wants to get benefits, and It's not that the people of Qi hate the people of Fei, and the people of Qin hate the people of Jin.

It is also to let the senior Mohists think about the consequences of this incident, and to prepare for these consequences: Sishang has not yet been fully mobilized, and the songs are sung and the wine is drunk. Once this order is signed, it must be done well. The possibility of capturing Tian Qing and Tianwu in the battle and completely breaking Linzi will require more troops, supplies, supplies, and logistics; the cadres who were originally planned to be used in Huaibei, Donghai and other areas of the original Yue State this year will be transferred to Qi State to conduct Long-term confrontation and land reform; bringing all the attention to the direction of Yue to the side of Qi... etc., this is only something to consider this year, and it is not considered to be done in the next few years after this year.

Righteousness comes first.

There are things that can be compromised and things that cannot be compromised.The Mohists have come to this point, and they can no longer compromise on this matter. A large number of radical young people are already somewhat dissatisfied with the Mohist's strategy of being slightly conservative and making money in silence these years.

The messenger had already left, and Shi felt that his words had not been fully explained, so he rewrote another letter, wasting pen and ink, trying to explain the problem as clearly as possible.

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Wucheng.

This important city that Lu Xianggong built in 19 years is now like hell.

Zhongni passed by this place in the past, and his disciple Ziyou was the governor of Wucheng at that time. Zhongni saw that the city was singing and dancing, and the common people were playing the piano and singing like a gentleman, so he joked: "How can you kill a chicken with a bull knife?"

The allusion of using a ox knife to kill chickens comes from Wucheng. Afterwards, Zhong Ni, who likes to joke with his disciples, also told the disciples around him: Second and third sons, I was joking with you before, and Ziyou was right to do so.

The geographical location of Wucheng is dangerous. In the past, Wu Guo went north to interfere in Lu's internal affairs, and after capturing Wucheng, he could go straight to Qufu.

After the three capitals, the Jisun family gave up Feiyi and finally established the country. Wucheng also changed from the south gate of Lu State to the north gate of Fei State.

It has been decades since Zhongni saw the prosperity of Wucheng culture and joked that killing chickens with a ox knife has gone through a series of wars such as Jisun's usurpation, Luhou's relocation of people, and the destruction of Wucheng in the battle of Mohism. A few days ago, Wucheng was still a prosperous city with a large population.

But now, the sound of crying, the smell of blood, the flies flying all over the sky and the white maggots wriggling on the corpses all make this city a ghostly forest.

More than 4000 people in the city were slaughtered, more than 6000 houses were burned, thousands of women were raped, and the bodies of many children were reduced to ashes together with the thatch.

The remaining women in the city were too old and weak to pick out the bodies of their own family members and bury them.

When the volunteers from Gongzaoye and Fei Guo's capital troops entered Wucheng, it was already a few days after Wucheng was slaughtered.

Before entering the city, many young volunteer soldiers rushed out of the marching team covering their mouths, squatting on the ground and retching.

The bloody smell of rotting human flesh is like a latrine that hasn't been dug for many years, and someone suddenly broke the dry shell of the skin, allowing the smell inside to come out.

It was summer, and the buzzing of flies in the city even covered the cries of those women. As soon as they entered the city, a cloud of flies was aroused.

The volunteer soldiers couldn't bear the rising smell, and they vomited for a long time before their noses got used to the stench.

They are all young people under the age of 20, and they are the first group of young people who grew up after the Mo family established a foothold in Sishang.

The education they have received since childhood is universal love, at least they know that massacring the city is wrong.

But when they really stepped into the battlefield and saw the tragedies, they realized that the righteousness of Sishang is nothing but indecent to the world.

Young people who have received the education that universal love is right, seeing the tragedy of massacring the city, are like people who have been used to the sun rising from the east and setting in the west, suddenly one day saw the sun rising from the west and setting in the east.

They believe that people should respect life, at least in that way they are considered individuals.

Human nature is like Susi, they grew up in the 20 years after the Mohists came to Sishang, their cognition of "human being" is completely different from that of the world's nobles.

Today, in this city where Tantai Mingming and Zengdian were born; Confucius once lamented that the culture here is prosperous and joked that there are dead bodies everywhere in the city, but there are few people in hemp and mourning, because most of their houses are destroyed. Burning, I can't even get the linen.

Gong Zaoye resisted the stench of the rotting death of more than ten thousand people, stood in the middle of the road, and asked a few soldiers to go to a ruined house on the side to see if there were still people there.

A few soldiers walked over, and there was a strange bang, like a dull gourd being trampled to pieces, and a black, evil green juice sprayed out from the strange sound.

Gong Zaoye knew that it was the sound of a decomposed corpse being trampled and exploded. There is a cavity in the human body, and the cavity will first mold and ferment a large amount of gas, which will cause the dead body to swell and burst.He has traveled all over the south of Hebei and the south of the Yangtze River in these years, and he can often hear this kind of popping sound in the years of great famine and after the war.

A veteran who has experienced many wars opened a corpse. The face of the corpse can still be seen clearly. The flesh has not completely rotted, but dark brown mold has grown, just like his own steamed buns. After a long time, it looks like long hair.

Gently took the man's body with both hands and wanted to move it away. The rotten flesh and bones were separated, and the rotten flesh was sticky in his hands. A few maggots dragged their long tails from the rotten flesh on his hands. Falling down, shaking his fat body and getting into the corpse.

This is a dead woman.

It seemed that he was still crawling into the house in front of him before he died. The veteran wiped his hands in the ashes next to him, but stared at the thatch that had been reduced to ashes, thinking, maybe her child is in the house ?If not, why do you have to crawl into the house when you are dying?
Wherever he looked, the veteran finally found the answer in his heart. A baby that had been burned to black was holding a clod of soil tightly with both hands, probably because it hurt too much during the burning, and its body curled up uncontrollably.

The veteran swallowed the saliva that kept gushing out because of the stench, and felt a little nauseous. He once ate a delicacy, which was the toad by the Sishui River. Throwing down the toads, these strong toads will cling to the poultry eggs that have become poached eggs because of the severe pain, and blend into one.

Now the burned babies are like those boiled toads, with their arms around the unburnable clods of the house, which always seem to be colder than the flames.

The old soldier walked over and tried to break open the baby's hands, rubbing the rotten flesh, but he couldn't break them apart.

Perhaps it was because of too much strength that the old soldier broke off his burnt and rotten arm. The old soldier held half of the baby's arm and cried out loudly.

Before the expedition, his youngest child was playing with his military medal at home and refused to let go. He also forcefully broke the child's hand. At that time, he smiled and told his wife that this child is really strong, and he will be a good soldier in the future.

But now, holding the dead baby's arm that was broken by himself, he cried, "Why are you so energetic, why do you hold it so tightly?"

(End of this chapter)