warring states careerist

Chapter 597 The Sun of Mount Tai ([-])

Hearing the news that Tian Qing's army had not moved, the old man sighed and said, "Qingzi led the army in the past. He was brave and diligent, and he was not afraid of the head and the tail. Now, why hasn't he captured Yingyi? If he can't win, he will be in a dilemma... This is terrible. It's really..."

He shook his head, sighed, feeling helpless, and said for a while: "Don't forget in Ju, don't forget in Ju! Don't forget to be brave and decisive in the past, do you want to shrink back when you are old?"

At this time, there is no story about Leyi breaking Qi 72 cities, only Yu Ju and Jimo. Don’t forget that it is difficult to understand this in Ju. It is about the time when Guan Zhong advised Duke Huan of Qi to act like when he was a young man in exile in Ju. Such a brave, diligent and fighting spirit.

The retainer could understand this time, and he didn't understand military strategy, but he felt that since the Patriarch said so, he was probably right.

In the past, the head of the family was also Xiang Ziniu's retainer. He was promoted from a sergeant to a sergeant in several battles of the invasion of Lu, and sealed off four wells of fields.

After Xiang Ziniu failed in the power struggle, the old man asked his son to punish him as a sergeant, and made his son a vassal of the Tian family, and he himself did not become a vassal of Tian He to show his loyalty.

Liang's father was originally from the land of Lu, and the people here were not the basic base of Qi, so the peasants and soldiers on the fief were called my masters.

According to the Zhou system, the sergeant was the leader of a brigade. When King Wu defeated Zhou, the sergeant had to seal off a well. Can be a serf.

In addition to the fiefdom, it also governs the farmers on the land of about nine wells. During the war, the farmers on the nine wells need to provide a chariot, three baggage vehicles, and the following disciples to form a weekly system. In the brigade, the sergeant is the brigade commander in wartime, and the local governor in peacetime.

After Guan Zhong's reform, the military system of Qi State changed, but after the centralization of power, there was the rebellion of the five princes, and the place where the centralized military system was changed at that time was also near Linzi, and Liang's father did not implement it.

The people in these fiefdoms outside Liang's father's city disappeared with the separation of the country and the country, and they also needed to join the army.Not only do you have to join the army, but because you are originally from Lu, you not only have to join the army, but you also have to pay tithes to the monarch in addition to the feudal obligatory land rent to the lord.

The Qi people near Linzi had less tax but had to fulfill their military obligations, and the conquered Lu, Song, Zheng and other places had double the tax and had to fulfill their military obligations when necessary.

The nominal four-well fiefdom is actually more in number, and people outside their own fiefdom also need to fulfill their feudal public land obligations to him.Fiefdoms are similar to private property, while lands outside the fiefdoms belong to the king, at least in theory.

The fiefdoms of the nobles are always increasing, and the nobles can get rewards for every battle.

During the war, it was even more difficult for the local people to pay all kinds of Qiujia tax, twelve taxes, feudal land rent, usury, etc., as private ownership gradually began to appear, and the land granting system was no longer so strict, a large amount of privately owned land was also concentrated in the hands of nobles.

Furthermore, the nobles still have their subordinates to take refuge in them. The feudal lands of the nobles are no longer within the feudal obligations of the monarch. The fiefdoms are for recruiting private soldiers and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The lands outside the fiefdoms are the ones that need to fulfill the feudal obligations for the monarch. of.

As a result, the land and labor force of the nobles continued to increase, which had already broken the original four-well closure.

In fact, the closure of four wells is already against the etiquette. There is only one well granted by the sergeant, but that was the rule when the Zhou Dynasty was founded. Nowadays, the population, wealth and land are constantly increasing, and few people abide by this rule.

The bowing vassals once roughly calculated that the owner’s fiefdom, lutian, private land, etc. were added together, and the rewards later were added. In fact, the actual land owned was about twelve wells, which was about 1 yuan. mu.

In addition to the closed and private lands, about [-] wells of land under the book jurisdiction, some of the public lands that are nominally cultivated by commoners rather than serfs are not all paid to the monarch.

These people who "have done their official business, but dare to seek personal gain" are not the farmers in the land confiscated by the aristocrats, but the farmers in the land under their jurisdiction.

This time, the son-in-law went out with Dr. Liang's father. As the leader of the humble brigade, he brought four chariots and about [-] apprentices according to his rank and duty. He also brought about twenty private soldiers from his own fief. That's the battle. the real main force.

No one thought that the situation of the Qi-Mo war would develop like this. Now that the Mohist army has broken through Qicheng with lightning speed, there are not many private soldiers in the fief. Even if they are all there, how can they resist the Mohist volunteer teacher?

What's more, he is only a sergeant after all, and his strength is not good. Those high officials and low officials have all failed, what's more about a sergeant?

Now there are rumors that the Mohists want to divide the land, and it is intensified.

It's better here. At last, there was no situation like the Nanji River War. A large number of farmers in the army were "bewitched" and returned home. After all, the army is a natural organization, and being captured is far better than a scattered organization of farmers. Easy to publicize.

Now that the city is in chaos, the farmers in these humble places outside the city may have to follow the lord for the rest of their lives before they have the opportunity to leave hundreds of miles away. The city has enough influence, after all, the city at this time is also dominated by agriculture.

Now the nobles of Qi State fled north one after another, or entered Linzi, or crossed the Great Wall, and few of them stayed in their own land.

The vassal was worried in his heart, he had tried to persuade him a few days ago, but today the Mo family had started to spread rumors that they wanted to divide the land, so he had no choice but to persuade him again.

So he said: "Patriarch... the Mo family's visit this time may be difficult. Most of the gentlemen in Father Liang's city have withdrawn to the north, why don't you go?"

"The eldest son is in the army, and there is no danger. If you stay here, the eldest son may be worried..."

"Why don't you pack up the carriages and leave immediately. You can still leave now. I heard that the Mo family doesn't strictly investigate..."

"As soon as the eldest son was in the army, he participated in the massacre of Wucheng. I'm afraid that the Mo family will make trouble by taking advantage of it."

This is what the retainers are most worried about. The Mo family's uproarious decree of punishing injustice has already spread throughout Qi.

The Mo family made it very clear that this is not the hatred between the Qi State and the Mo family, nor the hatred between the Qi people and the Fei people, but the hatred between the princes and the common people. Anyone who participated in the Wucheng massacre must accept it. trial.

In particular, the Mohists clearly stated that Tian Qing and Ziwu must die, just as the Mohist law meant that the murderer was killed and the wounded was punished, and the prince would not be immune.

Don't say that the rules of the Mohist school at this time are more stringent, one thing is the same, that is, in the original history, the son of Qin Mo's son killed someone, Qin Jun personally intervened, and Qin Mo's son still killed the son to correct the Mohist law.

After repeated persuasion by the retainers, the old man snorted and said, "I won't go."

"Isn't the Mohism giving lectures? Since they give lectures, I will give them lectures."

"If the Mohist kills me for being unreasonable, I can let the world know that the Mohist is unjust and ignorant. This is seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence. What is the pity of death? Don't Boyi and Shuqi know that they will starve to death? They chose Starve to death, this is because they asked for it themselves, the ancient sages can do this, can't I do it?"

"What's my crime? Why do I want to run away? My husband stands up to the sky and stands on the ground. If he is innocent, he will never run away. If he runs away, he feels guilty."

"The Mohists talk about righteousness and will, but not destiny. But no matter what they talk about, the good or bad of this world can't be changed, right? Can't it be said that talking about destiny is good, but talking about will is bad? Virtue is eternal."

When the retainers heard the words "seeking benevolence and obtaining benevolence", cold sweats broke out all over their bodies. The Patriarch Xindao may have already developed a will to die!This is to use his own life to let the world know that the Mohists are unrighteous and unkind. They seek benevolence, but don't care about their own lives?

But the retainer didn't want to die, nor did he want the Patriarch to die, so he persuaded: "The eldest son participates in the affairs of Wucheng, with the Mohist..."

Hearing the words, the old man shouted angrily: "Stop talking! Guilty or innocent, why use the Mohism's righteousness to determine?"

This involves some irreconcilable things, and the retainers dared not speak, so they had to change their angles and said: "The eldest son is in the army and in the palace. According to the rules, there is also the punishment of the Yi tribe..."

Of course there is a rule of killing the whole family nowadays, the old man is not ignorant, nor does he know the policies of the Mo family, but when he heard what the retainers said, he raised his head and laughed loudly: "Well said! There are punishments for the barbarians. If you are punished, you will be punished." Well, Shang Zhou also punished the innocent. Punishment is not necessarily a crime.”

"I can be attacked by the barbarians, but I don't recognize the crimes imposed on me by the Mohists. What is my son's crime?"

The retainer thought to himself, Patriarch, why are you so stubborn?But he said: "I'm afraid the father will punish the son for his crime."

The old man asked again: "I can accept the father's punishment for my son's crime. But what is my son's crime?"

"Eating the king's salary is a matter of being loyal to the king. Since you are a minister of Qi and obey the king's orders, what crime is there?"

"Not only is he innocent, but he is also commended. This is a loyal person, and he will not surrender and flee directly because his father is trapped."

"Even if the righteousness of the Mohist family is passed on to the world, does infidelity become good? Does it mean that the two armies will be rewarded if they surrender directly when they fight?"

"If this is the case, Mohism can be said to be without virtue. How can the world know it, but how can it win the heart of the world?"

"Compared to Boyi and Shuqi, don't they not eat Zhou millet, are they also praised as sages? Could it be that King Wu punished them for this? If King Wu punished them for not eating Zhou millet, I am afraid that the world will no longer be loyal. The younger generation, renunciation and detachment."

"If I don't leave today, I will use my blood to sacrifice the virtue of the world."

"If the Mo family wants to kill me because of my son's allegiance to Qi, then the Mo family is inhumane."

"In the old days, Uncle Boyi saw King Wu defeating Zhou, stopped the car to persuade him, and after he established the world, he refused to eat Zhou millet and starved to death on Shouyang Mountain. The virtue of loyalty, no matter when, whether it is the destiny or the will of heaven, I don't believe it can change. It has become bad! If good and bad are reversed, the Mo family will perish."

"In this way, I exchange my bloody head for the world to know that the Mohists are not benevolent. I seek benevolence and get benevolence, which is exactly what I want."

"If the Mo family divides my fiefdom, it would be immoral."

"Under the whole world, there is no king's land. The emperor enshrines the princes as the country, the princes enshrines the high officials as their families, and the high officials enshrines the scholars. This is the righteousness of the world."

"All the land in the world belongs to the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven gave it to the princes, the princes gave it to the doctor, and the doctor gave it to me. Why should the Mohists rob it? How is this different from a robber who robs other people's property in the market?"

"Would people in the world choose to believe in bandits and thieves?"

"If the Mo family divides my land, it will also let the world know that the Mo family has no virtue. If I exchange my fiefdom for the world to know that the Mo family has no virtue, it is also seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence. Why should death be a pity?"

(End of this chapter)