warring states careerist

Chapter 756
Having said that, to make everyone feel at ease, in fact, I feel a little nervous in my heart.

Now the Sishang Tianxia faction is the mainstream, he used the Tianxia faction to suppress the non-offensive nationalism faction, and instigated a frenzy for benefiting the world.

This matter is good in the long run, but in the short term, there must be backlash, that is, no matter what happens now, it must be done.

Otherwise, if the public opinion is boiling and then suppressed, it will be a chaotic trend of thought, and the turn of public opinion in the past few years will be meaningless; the future unification war will also be affected.

Even if it is to completely suppress the non-aggressive national faction, this battle must be fought.

The situation of Song State is very embarrassing for Sishang. If Song State can guarantee complete neutrality and not be controlled by other princes, it is actually the most beneficial situation for Sishang.

In that case, the Song State is nominally independent, but in fact it is Sishang's market, raw material base, and reserve population supplement, and it is a perfect buffer state.

Five years ago, Shi Shi gave up the southwestern region of Qi and returned all the occupied land of Qi State and the rich Wenshui plain area against all opinions, in order not to want the Mohists to be involved in the chaos of the Central Plains prematurely.

The terrain of Song State is more sensitive than that of Qixinan.

The various policies and covenants after the coup of the Song State 20 years ago were all for one purpose: to let the Song State act independently and become a country in name, but in fact it was a piece of independent fiefs and cities.

It was possible to take advantage of the contradiction between the royal father's family and the rest of the nobles about centralization or decentralization, but now the two sides have abandoned their previous suspicions and at least worked together in front of the enemy, which made it difficult for the Mohists to do so.

The state of Song was too close to Sishang. It suffered from the fact that industry and commerce were not developed enough, and that industry and commerce had already developed.

The pain of the old era has not been erased, and the pain of the new era has come. On the matter of equality, the farmers are much more radical than the Mohists. They call themselves the true egalitarians. They are against both the old nobles and those who have transformed into business The new nobility of landowners.

The large number of landless peasants in the Song State has greatly increased the influence of the more radical farmers in the Song State in recent years.

The Mo family has been controlling the situation in Sishang, but what the nobles have done has made the Mo family unable to control it.

Under the raging anger, if the peasant family rebelled, it would be much more radical than the Mohist family, and the nobles were still trying to die. In this situation, if the situation in the Song Dynasty is quickly quelled without troops, then the world will be shaken.

Hatred can be accumulated, and it goes both ways. The nobles can kill the common people, and the common people can also kill the nobles in turn.

Killing is of course possible, but if the killing is too much now and the country of Song is too chaotic, it is not good, at least it is not good for Sishang.

After saying those words that reassured everyone, Shi said: "If we can control the situation in Song Kingdom within a month, then the situation can be said to be completely beneficial to us."

"After Young Master Bao took over Song, other countries also wanted to send troops to intervene, but once Song's political situation stabilized, all countries had to hesitate to give up."

"Now we are still standing behind Song State. In a month's time, it is impossible for Wei, Chu and South Korea to prepare for war."

"Emperor Yueling dared to yell against Mo, so we let him die as soon as he finished yelling. After controlling the situation in Song Dynasty, we will rely on envoys to solve the follow-up problems."

Gong Zaoye, who was getting old and already old, said: "The imperial father's family and the rest of the nobles of the Song Dynasty, together, there are about [-] soldiers, and it is impossible to be more."

"But they are scattered all over the place, and we can defeat them one by one. In fact, what we have to face is the private soldiers of the imperial father's family and some nobles in the western part of his fiefdom of Song State. The maximum is [-]."

"Liuzhi has been waiting in Song Dynasty. Three infantry divisions plus one cavalry division should be enough to defeat them quickly."

"But general mobilization is still necessary."

"Our current standing volunteers should have no problem dealing with Song, Qi, and Yue, but it is not enough to quickly make all countries give up their intentions of going to war against us."

"Whether to fight or not to fight is not up to us. We can only deduce that Wei Chuhan may not send troops according to the art of knowledge, but people's hearts are unpredictable, so we must be prepared for them in case they send troops."

Everyone agrees with this view, and being prepared is better than not being prepared.

Shi Jiatun smiled wryly and said: "This is equivalent to spending money to buy militias. A general mobilization will cost countless, even if there is no fight, the mobilization must at least be maintained until the situation in Song State is stable, no country can send troops, and the diplomatic mediation is over."

"Less say, it will take three months. Food, military supplies, horses, summer harvest... all these will be affected."

"However, if we mobilize after a fight, we may lose even more. I agree with the general mobilization to scare Wei Chuhan."

Shi looked at the others again, and they all nodded in agreement, and they all voted, and they all passed the opinion of sending troops to the Song Dynasty and Sishang general mobilization immediately.

Everyone present understands that war is for politics.

To fight or not to fight, you must think about how to end before you start.

If countries send troops regardless, there is no need to think about it. A protracted war may continue until either the countries are exhausted or the world is unified.

But if the countries do not send troops, the future situation of Song State is something that everyone should consider clearly.

The vassal states under the Zhou rites were ruled based on the patriarchal system, ritual law, blood relationship, and feudal system.

But the old means of governing have failed, and the new means of governing are still immature.

For example, the Han inherited the Qin system in the later generations. In fact, there are still many differences. The Western Han Dynasty was regarded as a commoner emperor, relying on self-cultivating farmers to maintain the system, and always suppressed heroes, wealthy households, and big families. The Yellow Emperor used the power of the common people to suppress the powerful until the end of the Han Dynasty. Haoqiang couldn't suppress it at all.

This is considered the first choice of most monarchical countries after the patriarchal system and feudal system were overthrown. Otherwise, they would not be able to completely suppress the aristocratic families. Batches of self-cultivating farmers are a solid foundation for the monarchy, and they can also be regarded as a means of smearing.

With the rise of Sishang and the spread of new technologies, most of the reforms in various countries have this tendency to be the monarch of the people, not the princes of the emperor or the king of doctors.

This kind of change is exactly what Shisuo has always been vigilant about.

Because in this way, it is easy to have thoughts like the Qi and Zhao families.

As for the State of Song, it is even more impossible to allow them to centralize power successfully, so they can only find ways to continue to mix sand and muddy the water.

Sishang needs a powerful Song State as a neighbor, and does not want a centralized Song State as a neighbor. It only needs a Song State that is loose, chaotic, fragmented, and can only protect itself and cannot attack.

The emperor's father Yueling has ambitions, but he is too wary of the riots of the people and the power of Sishang, so he can only choose to make peace with the nobles.

Dai Cong has ambitions. He is not the biggest nobleman in the first place. Why don't he give up his own things and become a "spokesman for the common people" instead, so as to seize power.

Sishang had a consensus on this point for a long time, Shi had scolded Dai Cong a long time ago as a prostitute who dressed himself up the way Sishang liked, and if he could please Sishang today, he could also please Wei Chuhan tomorrow.

But the Mohists started out as spokespersons for common people, so they couldn't explicitly oppose Dai Cong's reforms, but had to support them.

Once troops are sent out, it will definitely wipe out the old nobles of the Song Dynasty.

Either choose to give up the fiefdom and buy it by almost robbery, and buy a new big mu with the yield of the small mu in the old era for 20 years. This is actually similar to robbery, but it sounds nicer; point.

Because it is impossible for Dai Cong to seize power under the internal rules of the nobles, since he can't get it, he wants to destroy what others might get.

Therefore, he borrowed the principle of equality from the Mohists, and advocated in the Song Dynasty that the people choose sages as the great ministers of the Shenzheng Yuan, that is to say, to break away from the shackles of the Gentlemen's Court and borrow the power of the common people to come to power.

He also saw that the Mo family had no intention of annexing the Song State for the time being, so he could use the power of the self-cultivated peasants to become the Great Yin of the Consulting Yuan, reorganize the original Gentlemen's Yuan and the Common People's Yuan, and then slowly gather power.

The Mohists need a Dai Cong to stabilize the situation in the Song State, and to turn the Song State into an aristocratic coup, at least an aristocratic coup that deceives the ears and steals the bell: if they don’t even cover their ears, even if Chu and Wei don’t want to take care of it, it’s hard to find a reason; Dai Cong also knew that the Mo family needed him, so he tried his best to promote the righteousness that his heart was for the common people.

Once the matter is successful, a large number of nobles will either die or flee, and a large amount of land will be vacated, and the internal conflicts of the Song Kingdom will be resolved immediately. It is also a certainty that Dai Cong will become the first real democratically elected Yin of the Song Kingdom.

The weird system after the Song Dynasty coup 20 years ago can be said to be a matter of course.

The rites collapsed, the patriarchal system collapsed, and a feudal vassal state needed a new political system to bridge and integrate a country.

In the whole world, is there any king's land, and the emperor entrusted the princes to guard their land, so the princes have a country, and the officials have a family.Now that the patriarchal system has disintegrated, rituals have collapsed, and music has collapsed, what is the legal principle of the country's existence?

Before the rites collapsed, the nobles belonged to the nobles, and the monarchs belonged to the monarch. Except for tribute and feudal military obligations, the monarch had no right to manage the nobles' fiefs, nor did he have the right to tax the nobles' land.

It's like the coup d'etat in Lu State, and the reaction of various nobles and noble retainers in the Sandu incident: noble retainers are not vassals of the monarch.

However, with the collapse of rites and the disintegration of the patriarchal system, the vassal states are in an embarrassing situation.

The royal power has not yet been centralized, and the power of the aristocracy is still strong. It is said that this is a country, but it is actually divided; it is not a country, but it is regarded as a country from the outside.

Originally, the etiquette and patriarchal system were restricted layer by layer. The monarch only needed to govern the nobles directly under him, and the nobles governed the retainers, so that the country could effectively exist as a whole.

The disintegration of the patriarchal system created a situation in which the three clans were divided into Jin, the Tian clan replaced Qi, and the Qimu disordered Zheng and Song.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, the original patriarchal system of feudalism was transformed into a republic of the monarch and the nobles of the common surname, which restricted each other and separated powers.

The monarch is not good at speaking, and there are conflicts among the nobles, and it is necessary to maintain the existence of a monarch.

The clan system before the Spring and Autumn Period, the distinction between the country and the country, and the tradition of people intervening in politics gave the people in the capital a right to speak in political affairs.

For example, in the Zheng-Chu War 20 years ago, the people of Zheng State opposed the war against Chu, and they were all captured when they fled.

So 20 years ago, on the basis of "Little Situ You asked the responsibilities of all people to move the capital, establish a monarch, and form an alliance", and based on the original aristocratic and oligarchic republic of the three surnames in the Song Dynasty, the Gentleman's Court and the Common People's Court were created. hospital.

At that time, when it was done, it was for the sake of the Court of Gentlemen and the Court of the Common People to fight one day in the future, because the power of the nobles was still very strong at that time, and the people did not know what kind of power they should have. Who in the hall sued the official situation.

Now that the mission is over, Keshi will absolutely not allow Song to have a cohesive political system. He has to find another way to continue maintaining Song in a situation where he can only defend himself and not centralize power.

(End of this chapter)