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Chapter 749 Preemptive Strike

In terms of benefits and disadvantages, it is not only the Song Kingdom, but if it is only the Song Kingdom, preemptive strikes are only beneficial and harmless.

Several people chattered about some disadvantages, and the leader recorded them one by one, and asked: "Now that we have finished talking about the disadvantages, let's talk about the advantages."

There are advantages and disadvantages, and there are many advantages.

The excited mohist who just objected to compromise and forbearance said: "If we talk about benefits, the first point is whether we can succeed in preemptive strikes?"

"If you can succeed, then you can naturally talk about the benefits. If you can't succeed but fail, then there is no benefit at all."

"I still say the same thing, we and those old nobles are fighting to the death. Because in our paradise, everyone is equal, and there are no nobles; There is only one relationship between the two.”

"It doesn't mean that they will respect us if we are so compromised and tolerant. Nowadays, the princes of various countries fear us more than respect and trust us. They dare not touch us now. It is not because of our forbearance, but because of our war in the Central Plains five years ago. Let the nobles be terrified."

"So, it's the same with the Song Dynasty."

"It's done, and it's earth-shattering. Instead, the princes of various countries may fear us, at least they dare not kill all our comrades who are active in the capitals of various countries. I dare not say that it must be the case, but at least there is such a possibility."

"But if we are so tolerant, the princes of all countries will feel that...we don't even care about the Song Dynasty, and give up in order not to fight, then we will at most protest and oppose us when we deal with us elsewhere, but it will encourage us to deal with us."

"Four years ago, the law of war of the Heze League was followed by the princes of all countries not because we persuaded them, but because we shot Qi Ziwu. The princes and nobles of all countries must consider what if they do similar things What if we catch him and shoot him?"

"If someone thinks that it is because of moral principles that the nobles believe that not killing is righteous, it is ridiculous."

There are several people who support pre-emptive strikes, and they all nodded after hearing what this person said.

Before and after the Heze meeting four years ago, the Sishang Mohists said a lot of outrageous things, even the envoys who came to be canonized by the emperor of Zhou didn't bother to contact them, and categorically rejected the matter of being a marquis.

If this was in the Spring and Autumn Period, at least it would be a crime for the king of Chu to aspire to the throne, and all countries would send troops to intervene to maintain the old system.

Chu State could aspire to the top, could call itself a barbarian and watch China's politics, and could call itself a prince, but in the end it still relied on the battlefield to speak.

Four years ago at the Heze League, the princes of various countries only verbally scolded some, but did not take much action.

Without him, it is only because the Sishang fisherman benefited from the Central Plains War and suffered the least damage, so no country dared to continue the fight.

The same is true for Song Guo.

If the Song Dynasty preemptively strikes, it may cause the princes of various countries to slaughter the Mohists who are active in the open, but there is also a possibility that they will be sent out of the country.

This kind of dialectical consideration is that the more fierce one side is, the more polite that side is; the more forbearing one side is, the more vicious that side is.

The disagreement with the old aristocracy is really life and death.As this person said, in the world planned by the Mohists, there is no place for nobles; in the world planned by the nobles, there are no equal seats.

War is inevitable, this is something that the Heze Huimeng made it clear four years ago, from the moment the Mohists stopped talking about non-aggression and instead enacted the law of war.

Some things don't need to be said too clearly or too straightforwardly.

The change of the propaganda slogan from "non-aggression" to "the world is a great benefit, the solution to non-aggression is universal love, and the premise of universal love is to eliminate the differences between Qilu, Yuejin and Jin people" is very clear.

The reason why there is no fight now is because all countries, including Sishang, feel that time is on their side, and the longer it drags on, the more beneficial it is, and they are all seeking to reform and centralize power.

The geographical location of Song State determines that Song State is not Fei State. Once something happens to Song State, the entire Central Plains will react.

The State of Song decided the most important passage for the three Jins to go south; it decided the most convenient passage for Chu to go north; it also decided the safety around Sishang and the passage to the Central Plains.

Pulled around and moved the whole body.

Everyone was silent for a moment, and the person in charge said: "Since it is said that we can only talk about the pros and cons if we win, then looking at it now, how likely is it that we will win if we don't consider sending troops from Sishang?"

The Mohist who supported preemptive strikes said confidently: "Seventy percent, at least."

"We have a lot of people in Shangqiu, and we can organize at least four companies of soldiers at any time."

"The private soldiers of the imperial father's family are still far away from Shangqiu. In two days, we are enough to control the situation in Shangqiu."

"Shangqiu has been won, and the Dai family is quite popular. Moreover, after the coup 20 years ago, the people have always been armed. The so-called non-offensive city."

"Once the situation in Shangqiu is under control, at least [-] soldiers can be armed. Although we don't have cavalry, we have an advantage in artillery."

"Fight in the field, but don't be afraid. In a decisive battle in Shangqiu City, you may not lose to the emperor's family."

"Even if there is no decisive battle, if we stick to Shangqiu, the emperor's father Yueling will not be able to attack. At that time, whether Sishang sends troops or not, the time is on our side."

"After the expansion of the army, the three divisions will be in Surabaya, in case of any changes in the Song Dynasty, the six fingers will be the commander, and they can control the situation in the Song Dynasty with lightning speed."

"As for Wei Chu and other countries, it is difficult to send troops."

"For one thing, whether Wei Guo sends troops or not needs to consider the attitudes of Qin Guo and South Korea."

"Secondly, in Chencai and other places, the king of Chu has centralized power and reformed. There is no lord with real power. If the Chu State wants to send troops, it must obtain the permission of the king of Chu, instead of having a lord and private soldiers who can directly use the county. The soldiers go out first, forcing the king of Chu to declare war."

"There will be no troops on Sishang. The matter of Shangqiu is the Dai clan's rebellion in the mouth of the emperor's father."

"If all countries send troops in the name of Dai's Rebellion, they will definitely not dare to touch our comrades who are active in other countries. If he dares to touch our people, it will not interfere with the Song Dynasty, but start a war against Sishang. Against Sishang If we go to war, we can go directly to the east of the Wei Kingdom and the Chencai region of the Chu Kingdom, and they may also consider it."

"So, as long as we can accomplish something, there is a lot of room for maneuver. Sishang Central will naturally respond."

"But if we directly compromise and forbear, then lose the initiative, could it be that we give up the Song land?"

"If you don't give up on the land of Song, then we will come out of Wu...without the old name. To launch a war in the name of benefiting the world and harming the world is to declare war with all countries. As long as we can succeed, then we can also send troops in the name of helping Dai .”

What this person said was very confident, and the reason for this confidence was because Shangqiu was the headquarters of the Mohist family outside of Sishang, and that was where the Mohist family started.

20 years ago, there was an action of placing all kinds of Mohist soldiers in the woodwork factory, and it is even more so now. The power of the Mohism in Shangqiu is far beyond what the emperor Yueling could think of.

Control over the grassroots is a paradox.If Emperor Yueling could centralize power, control thought and speech, control Mohist activities, and accurately grasp the various situations in Shangqiu, then he wouldn't even be able to deal with the nobles who have separated power.

This year, not anyone who wants to centralize power can centralize power. In the original history, since Wu Qi fled to Chu State, Chu State wanted to centralize power. After more than a hundred years of centralization, it still failed to integrate.

Although the emperor's father Yueling was talented, he was from the old times after all. The situation in Shangqiu City was a major change that he had never faced with the aristocratic ruling technique that he had learned and inherited from his family. He vaguely felt the changes of the times, but It is still far from summing up a new ruling technique.

The situation in Shangqiu City is far more complicated than the emperor's family imagined.

Mills, carpentry workshops, large blacksmith workshops, there are many soldiers who have retired from the establishment, and they are often rotated. They seem to be civilians on weekdays, and they can be directly restored together with officers and the like as soon as they are needed.

He thought that those peasants who lost their land were influenced by the Mohist rhetoric, but they were actually peasants who were truly egalitarian. After careful consideration of the morality of the two sides, there was actually a huge difference.

He thought that the local farmers and industrialists and merchants would be like the pawns of the chariots on the old battlefield after the arrival of their own private soldiers. In fact, the organized Mohists inside were not only uncrowned and hidden grassroots regimes, but also could be transferred at any time. for military organizations.

In addition, the Mohists have been active in Shangqiu for too long, and the people are very recognized and have a high reputation. After the local coup in Shangqiu 20 years ago, the people have always been strong, and they often participate in military training to defend the city.

Although not as good as those full-time soldiers, compared with ordinary farmers and soldiers, their organizational skills are still much stronger.

Not counting the private soldiers controlled by the imperial father Yueling, it can be said that the imperial father Yueling's influence in Shangqiu City is not too strong.As for those organized private soldiers, as long as they succeed in preemptive strikes before arriving in Shangqiu, these private soldiers will be trapped under the city of Shangqiu.

The people of Shangqiu lack regular cavalry, but there is no shortage of infantry, and they will soon be able to pull together a volunteer army of tens of thousands of Chinese people.

The possibility of a preemptive attack in Shangqiu is extremely high, so it is qualified to talk about pros and cons.

As for the next thing, it needs the Mohists of the whole world to bear the consequences, but the consequences themselves have to be borne, sooner or later, maybe it is just in advance.

What's more, what this person said was right, even if he forbeared, it made the princes feel that Sishang did not want to fight now and was extremely weak, and might instead form an alliance.

Apart from the "non-offensive" self-cultivating peasants and handicraftsmen who can spontaneously organize for the defense of the city, there is a more radical force that can be borrowed.

That is the land-lost peasants pouring into the city. Before the nobles wanted to instigate conflicts between the self-cultivating farmers, industrialists and businessmen and the land-lost peasants, the Mohists resolved it, which made these land-lost peasants increasingly resentful.

When Shi Jiatun came to Shangqiu that year, the conditions proposed were widely publicized.Sishang paid money and sent people to relocate these people to reclaim the wasteland. It was precisely the emperor's father Yueling and the nobles who opposed it, because he made a request that the nobles could not accept.

Now the outlet for this resentment is those nobles who use various means to occupy land. These people are also a force that cannot be underestimated and is extremely destructive in the capital.

The advocacy of the real equality of "sages and people farming and eating together", "equal distribution of land", and "the price of the market is not equal" of the peasant family is very influential among these people, and the relationship between the peasant family and the Mohists is very good , at least at this time is a fully cooperative partner.

The person in charge pondered for a while, closed the little book that recorded the pros and cons, and had to consider the huge destructive power of these landless peasants.

If this time forbearance, it is only the Mo family who forbear, and those who are truly egalitarian from the peasant family will definitely not forbear.

At that time, the situation in the Song Kingdom will be even more chaotic than expected, until it is completely out of control.

The state of Song is a quagmire. For Sishang, what is needed is the stability of the state of Song and the continued neutrality, not complete chaos. Now a completely uncontrollable riot of "truly equal" Chinese people led by peasants broke out.

The disadvantages do exist, but as the person said, preemptive strikes, grasp the initiative, and there is more room for maneuver in the future; but if it is a late strike, it is meaningless except to win the sympathy of the world.

After thinking for a long time, he thought of what Shi Shi said to him when he was on Sishang.

"Nowadays, we have our own education, our own army, and our own talent training system. The sympathy of those people in the world is irrelevant, as long as they support our morality and think that we can benefit the world, including them. Enough. No matter how many scholars come to Sishang, they still need to learn the new system from scratch, not 20 years ago when there were only so many literate people in the world.”

"Those who sympathized with our mission to benefit the world 20 years ago can be regarded as comrades with the same heart; but now, it is enough to let them be our friends."

(End of this chapter)