warring states careerist

Chapter 793
Since he is clearly a lobbyist, he may be visible or invisible.

Now that the war has progressed, there is no suspense about the victory or defeat. The Sishang army has already occupied a salient fort. As long as it can defend until evening, the simple defense system of the protruding fort will be completed before nightfall. If you go to the bulge or the sheep's soil mountain dug by the engineers, the defense of the entire city will completely collapse in a day at most.

The lobbyist came at this time, all he wanted to do was to persuade him to surrender, but in the view of the emperor Yueling, there was nothing he could do to persuade him to surrender.

Since he chose ambition or ambition, his ambition was too high, even if he was spared the death penalty, it was not something the emperor Yueling could bear.

If it is fine to execute him, I am afraid that the Mo family will not execute him, but let him go to the street to clean fallen leaves, or go to work in the textile workshop, and ask people to point out that this is a nobleman, sweeping the ground is not as clean as a one-armed veteran Class words.

That was a humiliation he couldn't bear.Especially the thought of possibly having to work with some people of humble origins, it is simply life and death.

Wanting not to be seen, stubbornly resisting in a corner, or committing suicide in order not to be humiliated, I don't want a counselor next to me to cough lightly and say: "Maybe we can see it."

The imperial father Yueling glanced at the doorman, and asked in a cold voice: "Like a dog wagging its tail and begging for mercy? It's not like death."

The doorman said loudly: "When a man dies, he will die. If you want to come here, you are not afraid of death, and I am not afraid of death."

"He died here at this time, no one knows. There may be rumors in the world that the emperor's family was defeated and killed himself, or that the emperor's father Yueling committed suicide knowing that his crimes harmed the people."

"If you don't pretend to discuss the matter of surrender with the Mohists, under the watchful eyes of the envoys from all over the world, you will denounce the Mohists, commit suicide in anger, and let the princes of the world know that we are not afraid of death."

"Yu Yi, let the princes take pity on us, or we can send troops."

"Yu Shi, we are resentful of what the Mohists have done, and we will reprimand them before we die."

"Wouldn't it be better to die here in obscurity?"

The emperor's father Yueling took a deep breath when he heard the words, and suddenly felt that the words seemed quite reasonable. If he died here, no one would know whether he died because of fear or because he was defeated and knew he was incompetent. This is all unclear.

If he could fake a truce, and under the witness of the Mohists and the envoys from various countries, he would commit suicide in anger. Before he died, he would angrily denounce the tyrannical behavior of the Mohists, regardless of high and low, which might attract the sympathy of the princes of all countries.

When the time comes to die, of course he is dead, but before he dies, he will also attract the sympathy of all countries and make his own contribution to the eradication of the Mohists in the future.

Compared with dying in obscurity, that is really a worthy death.

He knew that these scholars who followed him and said they were going to die might not necessarily die, nor might they choose to be martyred, so he didn't blame him.

After pondering for a moment, he opened his mouth and said: "The living must die, and things must come; the rich and the noble, the poor and the widowed, it's true. Those who go through the market ignore it. If you like the morning, you hate the evening, and forget what you expect.”

"Those who pass through the market expect things, we may expect justice, or life, or interest, or name. Today I want to die and die for righteousness, and those who expect righteousness can follow me; those who expect name, life, and profit can go first Disperse."

"I have family wealth, and I use it mostly for military preparations, and the rest can be taken by those who want to go."

He was telling those diners, just like people who go to the market compete for the door because there are goods they want in the market, and everyone's pursuit is different.

Some people pursue fame, some pursue righteousness, some pursue survival, and some pursue benefits.If you are pursuing righteousness, then please die and be martyred with him; if you are pursuing wealth, profit and fame, he will not complain if you leave now, and these people can take away the remaining money in the family.

As soon as the words fell, six or seven people stood up at the same time and said: "We are willing to sacrifice our lives for righteousness!"

The rest of the people either bowed their heads or were ashamed, but in the end they still chose not to stand up.

The emperor's father Yueling sighed, hearing about Song Guozhao's official affairs in the past.

Song Zhaogong went into exile. As for the contempt, he sighed and said: "I know that's why I died. Thousands of my courtiers, who made political decisions, all said: 'My king is a saint!' Serving hundreds of people, being obeyed and standing, all said : 'I am a gentleman!' My faults are not heard inside and outside, so this is the end!"

The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the toughness knows the honest minister. If you don't experience a seemingly irreversible failure, you will never know who is loyal and who is just a slogan on weekdays.

Among the six or seven people who stood up, there were three that he didn't like to see very much on weekdays, because they were too arrogant and spoke a lot of sarcasm, which sometimes made him unable to step down at all.

But when they were going to be martyred today, these three people stood up.

The disciple who suggested that he reprimand the Mohist family in front of the Mohist family and envoys from various countries and then die was also among them, with a determined look on their faces.

The tree fell and the monkeys scattered, it was now, and there was no need to reprimand those people anymore, the emperor's father Yueling smiled lightly, threw out the key of his treasury, and said: "You can take whatever you want, and we will use it with righteousness." For treasure."

Those people looked ashamed, and finally two of them couldn't bear this shyness, and chose to stand beside the emperor's father Yueling again.

Everyone can be a coward, everyone can be... a hero, sometimes only in a split second.

However, after all, there are too few people who dare to sacrifice their lives for righteousness. After these two people stood up, there was no one else.

The emperor's father Yueling no longer cared about those people, and took the nine people to meet the lobbyist of the Mo family.

It's all up to now, and there is actually nothing to say, because the negotiation has no strength.

The emperor's father, Yueling, was a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, so he could speak in a gorgeous manner at this time, and he couldn't bear the blood of soldiers, and he couldn't bear the killing of Xia.

The Mohist's lobbyist scolded in his heart, if you really benefited the people, what would you have done earlier?After doing a lot of bad things, I can no longer struggle, but I have to say something decent when I finally surrender, it's really disgusting.

The lobbyists slandered, but they could only flatly say yes. After all, if they could persuade them to surrender, not only would many people in the city be saved, but the attacking party would also save dozens of people from dying.

This time the Mohists prepared well for the siege battle, and they were close to Pengcheng with sufficient logistics. They exchanged gunpowder for human lives, iron bullets piled up with money and barrels of gunpowder, in exchange for less than a hundred casualties. I hope that these veterans will die in a situation where the overall situation has been determined.

More importantly, the Mohists wanted to judge the emperor's father Yueling, which was a political consideration.

These nobles, these nobles who used to be unconsciously inferior to others when they were seen by ordinary people, should be dragged to the market, let everyone step on their last dignity and pride, and completely shatter the order of dignity and inferiority, and never stand up again.

Or cruel, or ruthless, but it doesn't matter.The important thing is to do this a few more times. In the future, no one will feel safe and secure about being superior and orderly, and all the psychology of the old system will be smashed to pieces.

Just like the trial of Tian Wu back then, all the top Mohists knew that Tian Wu was a fake, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that the people knew that even if you were the prince of Qi, you could still be judged by public opinion.

At this time, the Mohism does not want procedural justice, but the utilitarian Mohism pursues the justice of the result.

What was trampled on was not the dignity of Tian Wu and the emperor's father Yueling alone.

What the Mohists want to trample on is the dignity of the class they represent, paving the way for equality.

The premise of equality is not shouted out, but sheep can kill tigers, and sheep can trample on the dignity of tigers, otherwise what is shouted out of the mouth is a joke.

Taking this as a strategy, the lobbyists who come this time need to be very particular about their speaking skills.

You can't just talk about promises, say that you won't judge the emperor's father Yueling, and so on; you must try your best to persuade you to surrender, but it will be tonight at the latest. If there is no decision tonight, then the defense of the fortress of the protruding horn has been stabilized. Even if some people die, the whole city can be taken down.

Therefore, even if the emperor's father Yueling said some words such as benefiting and loving the people, the Mohist as a lobbyist only agrees with his reasoning, but does not think he is a good bird: even Shang Zhou and Xia Jie, if Xia Jie said The sun rises from the east and sets to the west, and this sentence itself cannot be denied just because he is Xia Jie and Shang Zhou.

The lobbyist really didn't expect that the negotiation would be so smooth this time, and the emperor's father, Yueling, who went smoothly, seemed to have changed half of his personality overnight.

A few days ago, he was a butcher who hanged people suspected of Tong Mo on the city wall. Today, he can talk about bloodshed among the Xias after his failure, which made this lobbyist want to laugh.

But you can't laugh, and you can't swear what you want to swear in your heart. This is the most basic quality of a lobbyist.

In the end, the details were finally negotiated.

Before this evening, the emperor's father Yueling will gather the remaining soldiers in the city, but it cannot be called a surrender, but it should be called an voluntary renunciation of resistance for the sake of Zhuxia's bloodshed.

These are all meaningless words, if you do the math, at most you can get him a trial from the death penalty to lifelong exile to the southern service, desertion, labor reform and construction of a paradise.

But after all, no matter what he thinks, no matter what he thinks, he can finally surrender in exchange for more than a hundred lives of Mohist veterans. Summer will bleed no more."

At that time, the emperor's father, Yueling, asked to surrender in front of the envoys of various countries and the Mohist commanders. The location was chosen to be on the wall on the left side of the Protruding Fortress. The section of the city wall had a total of [-] steps, and he chose to do so in the center of the city wall.

After the agreement, the Mohist lobbyists hurried back to return to their orders, and the emperor's father Yueling also began to plan his own death, how to die tragically, so that the princes would cry with pity, and let the gentlemen who are loyal to the old era think him a hero, so that the future will fade The people who had a moral dispute felt that he was a hero, and the Mohists forced the hero to death.

This is very easy. The Mo family thinks that he will surrender, and he will not be too careful. At that time, he will carry the sharp blade himself, or hand it over to his confidants. Before he dies, he will make a statement so that the nobles will feel sorry for him after hearing it. Yan, let the scholars hear that this is the last noble speech, which has been passed down through the ages, waiting for the moral dispute to fade and become a tragic hero, that is completed.

As for wanting to take advantage of the chance of false surrender to assassinate the head coach of the Mo family, forget it, one-third of the knights in the world are Mo scholars, one-third are sympathetic to the morality of the Mo family, and the remaining one-third are self-identified. They want to save the world, but even if the Mo family asks for one-third, the majority will come forward to help.

Among them, there are many Mohists who are good at fighting with swords, and this kind of close-range assassination is not even considered.

(End of this chapter)