warring states careerist

Chapter 802
What Wei Yang heard can be summed up as moving against the times.

When the time of great controversy has come, and the princes still know that they want to centralize power to suppress the nobles and gather power, the contents of the strategy of the Song Dynasty to build the country given by the Mohists are all reversed.

According to the strategy, the power possessed by Song State's central organization is not much different from when there were many nobles.

According to this, the central organization of Song State only has a few pitiful powers.

As the saying goes, five ratios are Lu, four Lu are clans, five clans are parties, five parties are states, and five states are townships. There are [-] families in a township.

Therefore, in the non-offensive state-building strategy, the Song Dynasty is divided into sixteen townships and four special states.

These four special prefectures are under the jurisdiction of the Mohists, including Fuli and Shashuidu, important border cities in the southern part of the Song Dynasty.

The remaining sixteen townships are all self-governing.

The township should elect a sage association, govern the township with the people of the township, adapt measures to local conditions and customs, but the overall should not be contrary to the laws and regulations of the central government of the Song Dynasty.

Each township elects three people to be the political representatives of the Central Advisory Council. These political representatives are directly elected by the people, and then the representatives of each township are gathered together to select the sages for the Central Advisory Council.

It actually looks like a replica of the Gentlemen's Court and the Common People's Court that disrupted the political situation of the Song Dynasty, except that the members of the Gentleman's Court must be elected by representatives of the townships, which vetoes the original rule that the Gentleman's Court must be held by aristocratic circles.

In view of this policy, stability should be the top priority, so for the first time, election exemption was adopted, and the method of direct distribution was adopted.

Among them, the peasants were assigned to the six townships with the deepest remnants of the nobility in the western part of the Song Dynasty, and the remaining schools were divided into several townships. People from their schools temporarily appointed one person as the head of the township, and people from their school designated three people as the first. Ren's representative of the village.

From this, the candidates for the House of Representatives are formed, and these people select the candidates for the Central Advisory Council.

The first term is five years, and after five years, no appointment will be made, but people from various schools will agitate among the people, relying on people from all villages to select sages.

According to the balanced strategy of the center and the sages arguing with each other and holding each other back, the specific responsibilities, voting methods, respective powers, etc. of the center and the sages have been determined.

The Great Yin of the Consulting Yuan has the power to appoint central officials, but the appointees must be selected from the list provided by the representatives participating in the political consultation.

All representatives can receive a certain salary every year and become full-time government officials.

Borrowing the form of the previous six officials and referring to the precedents of the Sishang tribes, the six officials were reorganized into six departments.

Among them, those in charge of military affairs and education are temporarily held by Mohists, and the rest, such as finance, are provided by the Advisory Council.

Under this strategy, the power possessed by the center of the Song Dynasty is actually pitifully small.

Among them, the right to start the war is not in the hands of Duke Song or the Great Yin of the Consulting Yuan, and must be approved by the Xiangxian Center of Consulting and Participating in Politics.

On the contrary, the right to mint coins has been withdrawn, because in the past, the great nobles with fiefs or mines often minted coins privately, and the value of copper coins was more often used as the currency value, which made the money of Song Dynasty very confusing. .

This time, the right to mint coins was withdrawn, and the townships were not allowed to mint coins privately.

The State of Song will form a standing army of five divisions, which will be trained by the Mohists. Each township will be recruited according to a quota. The service period will be three years and the tax will be exempted for five years.

In terms of education, each township must establish an intermediate school funded by the central government, and the rest of the Kaimeng schools are managed by each township itself.

The taxes and fees on education and military affairs, as well as the expenses of the Duke of Song Dynasty, the expenses of sacrificial offerings, and various necessary expenses on weekdays, are collected by the central organization at a rate of [-] taxes per mu and [-] taxes and [-] tax per mu. .

The various expenses of the remaining townships shall be levied by the sages of each township on their own, including activities such as Kaimeng School, water conservancy construction, etc., and the Center will not take care of them.

All the lands of the fugitive nobles and rebel nobles in the Song Dynasty were owned by the township and the center. The specific distribution method was handled by each township, whether it was divided equally or auctioned off, and the center didn't care.

This is also the reason why the Mohists do not want to participate in the Song State now. Sishang’s model is destined to digest the Song State without discrimination, and the cost is really huge. Education alone is a long-term reward. If it is not done well, it will make Song people feel that Sishang is eccentric.

Rather than doing this, why not just flick your sleeves and jump out of the quagmire of the Song Dynasty, and the rest of the schools can come and go as you like, anyway, the bad has nothing to do with the Mohists.

In view of the fact that the Song Kingdom is now almost reduced to a place of commodity dumping and raw material production in Sishang, and the separation of powers this time is no different from the previous separation of feudal systems, whoever can build flowers in the countryside, then It's really a genius.

Sishang is not greedy at all for the land and taxes in the Song Dynasty. The land tax income in Sishang is not the first income. Instead of relying on that little land tax, it is better to be a raw material production place and market, or else you have to invest a lot according to the Sishang system. , affecting subsequent plans.

The rest of the schools have the opportunity to govern and govern, and it will prevent them from talking nonsense, but they will clean each other up and kill multiple birds with one stone.

Five years later, if the situation in the world has not changed, as long as the Mohist School has not collapsed, the various schools of thought in the Song Dynasty will have to learn to follow the folk road, let go of those high-ranking figures, and no longer think about relying on the permission of the king to get ahead. Whether it is turning to the people, whether it is true or false, it must always move from schools of thought to parties.

The people are not a whole, but a collection of different righteousness and interests. As for whose righteousness and interests they represent, that is something that the Mohists do not want to care about for the time being.

Whether it is chaos or governance, what Sishang needs now is an absolutely neutral attitude from Song State. The world will be settled in Song Dynasty, and the surrounding environment is doomed that Song State is not a cost-effective place for Sishang.

These detailed and seemingly complicated non-aggressive nation-building strategies and these detailed and cumbersome voting rules will affect everyone's way of thinking in the long run, just like the content of equality and resistance subtly instilled in Sishang School since childhood .

However, in an environment surrounded by powerful countries in a world of great contention, these complicated, detailed and cumbersome contents are also destined to drag Song Kingdom into a situation where daily nonsense is endlessly debated.

This is what Wei Yang saw, and it was what Shi wanted to see.

After a long time of discussion, this outline finally got the support of various schools of thought. The Mohist School led the celebrities of each school to sign their names one after another, and the Mohist School would hand it over to Song Gong and Dai Shi. The princes went down a step.

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A few days later, this non-aggressive national founding strategy signed by the names of the world's heroes and celebrities was forwarded to Shangqiu.

There were no traces of war and chaos in Shangqiu City, and everything was in order. Those solder pots, sugar sellers, cloth sellers, and cotton yarn sellers were once again busy with their lives.

Except for the Sishang soldiers with black armbands maintaining order on the street, nothing seems to have changed.

Those who are full of hope, full of disappointment, passionate, indifferent... All kinds of people are waiting for a result, what kind of result the Song Dynasty will have in the future.

Or, for most people in Shangqiu, what they are waiting for is the result of what will happen to Shangqiu in the future.

In the palace room, Song Gongzi Tian looked at the non-aggressive nation-building strategy handed over by the Mohists with a flat face, then put on a beaming expression, pointed to the names on it and exclaimed: "Hey! Shi Jiao, Tian Wushang , Meng Sunyang, Xu Xi... are all talented people in the world, and today they are all willing to enter the Song Dynasty to govern, and the people of the Song Dynasty are blessed."

The envoy of the Mohists felt that Song Gong Zitian's acting skills were a little absent-minded and a little formal, and he was a little embarrassed.

It was Song Guoxian who resolved the embarrassment and asked: "The rebellious emperor's father was captured. After all, this matter will be handed over to Song for trial. I don't know when it will be handed over?"

These words are not only to resolve the embarrassment, but also to express Song Guo's attitude: if you say he is rebellious, then he is, and I admit that he is, this is my attitude.

The Mohist's envoy said: "Emperor Yueling is still in custody, and will be sent back to Shangqiu soon, and all the nobles who were captured will be sent here."

Song Gongdao: "Those fiefdoms were ultimately granted by the Duke of Song. I think it would be better for me to take back these fiefdoms. It can be regarded as my effort for the people of the Song Kingdom and for the Duke of Song."

The fiefdoms of fugitive and rebellious nobles must be taken back anyway.

The State of Song is not centralized, and the Duke of Song has no real power, so it is doomed that his mascot will not hope to use the power of the nobles to turn things around like those princes with real power.

Zitian's words also have some meaning.

He also saw that as long as the country survives and countries succeed in non-intervention, land reform is inevitable.

He is just a puppet, a mascot, put out when needed, and left alone in the deep palace when not needed.

If he doesn't take back the fiefs, those fiefs will also be taken back.

Rather than doing this, it’s better to take it back on your own initiative. With this credit, it can be regarded as currying favor with the Mo family and the people of the Song Dynasty. Even if you really "choose a worthy man as the emperor" in the future, you can also rely on this credit and affection to eat and drink .

The envoy of the Mo family was slightly taken aback. The senior officials in Sishang had discussed this matter before they came. It would be best if Song Gong could take it back.

Because the Mohists really wanted to downplay the "rebellious" color of the coup in Song Dynasty, which would be of great benefit to the situation in the Central Plains, and it could also be regarded as a step up for the princes of various countries, and pave the way for future diplomatic mediation.

The same result, the same behavior, it is not the same thing if the public voted to withdraw it and Song Gong announced that it would be withdrawn. Of course, the result may be the same.

Seeing this, the Mohist envoy praised Tian for a few words, just to say that he has some aspirations to benefit the people, Zitian readily accepted, and asked someone to record today's conversation to be compiled into history as evidence.

(End of this chapter)