warring states careerist

Chapter 839 Constraints
Sometimes it makes sense to swing people's heads there.

Xu Ruo glanced at the head, thinking that Gong Zaoye also reasoned like this when he was in Pengcheng in the past, and sometimes it is really useful to reason like this.

It's just that the truth is not clear yet.

No matter whether the nobles present were willing or not, at least they agreed at this time, because they all knew what kind of people Si Ziyang's remaining party was.

Don't talk about killing a nobleman in the name of benefiting the country.

After the coup that year, Duke Zheng Sui became the king of the country and Dazai Xin was very powerful. The rest of Si Ziyang's party all wore plain clothes and killed generals from outside the city to enter the city. A few nobles still have the courage to make an example of others.

The nobleman of the Si family raised his head and said: "Since what the Mohist said is reasonable and can preserve the country, then we must implement it."

"Those who defend the city will be rewarded, those who demolished the house will be accompanied, and the besieged city needs food... All of these require us to give a part of it."

"Part of the gold and silver, part of the grain and corn, and some fields that will be rewarded to the slaves of the common people in the future. If it is for the community, start with me."

After all, the policy proposed by the Mohists this time is very compromised, and it only touches the ownership of the means of production, and does not touch the property. The wealth in the treasury of Zheng Guo is simply insufficient.

The nobles must not offer too much, not none, but if they really want to offer too much, some who may not die after breaking the city may not be willing to sincerely resist.

The rich, those with a lot of land, and big businessmen in the city need to spend part of their financial and material resources to help defend the city, and the big nobles who are really in power need to be "models" at this time. It is not realistic to take it from the middle class, and what is taken out may not be enough.

After Zheng Jun and the leader of Siziyang Yu Party signed the contract and set many rules, they came to the city together with the Mo family.

After announcing the promise of change and orders such as rewards for meritorious service in front of the organized people, he pretended to apologize to the people.

The Mohists quickly organized Mohists in Xinzheng’s bright side and some progressive taxi classes according to organizational skills and years of experience in defending the city. clear.

Four days later.

A new city defense that has begun to take shape has been established behind the old city wall in Wei Han's main attack direction, which is an unprecedented speed.

There are not only organizational and technological progress, but also the spiritual power of the people who are sincerely willing to work.

However, when Zheng Jun saw the large-scale city walls, the well-organized people struggling to dig, the Mohists who preached the Mohist morality together with the people, and the rebellious songs sung among the people, After singing the ballad, start to panic at the power of the people.

How could the close minister who had asked him to sell the resistance of the people of Zheng State at a good price when he heard Zheng Jun's sigh, not understand what it meant?

Facing this matter, he said: "What your majesty sees is what I worry about that day."

"Your Majesty, do you remember the affairs of Duke Suu back then? Duke Sui killed Ziyang, but the people did not move; the rest of Ziyang's party entered the city and killed Duke Suu, but the people did not move."

"Your Majesty, have you ever seen people so dedicated to one thing?"

"In the past, it took [-] days to build the city wall, and the amount of earthwork built in these four days was not as much. The Mohism's righteousness is that everyone is equal, and there is no distinction between high and low. Now the people only know the Mohism, but they don't know the king."

"In the past, the people did not move on public affairs. If something happened to the emperor today, how would the people be willing to move? If one day the Mohists said that all the kings and princes were guilty and did not conform to the will of heaven, what would the people do?"

Zheng Junyi sighed and said: "Sishang said that the people are the water, and the king is the boat. The water can carry the boat or overturn it. This statement is true. The events of Song, Teng, Xue, and Fei are vivid in my mind... hey."

The close minister said again: "Your Majesty, do you know what a big river breach looks like? There is never a huge gap all at once, but a small opening first, and the water rushes out because of the gap like an ant nest, and it gets bigger and bigger until it cannot be reached." control."

"The same is true for the people. Today, if you promise them to increase the tax, you need their consent. Tomorrow, they will abolish the monarchy to achieve equality. Once the people are organized, their power is terrifying."

"Of course, they can stop Wei Han, but Zheng Guo is no longer yours, so what good is it for you?"

"Besides, the rest of the Ziyang Party has a lot of wealth and a vast land, and the people are grateful for them. In the future, they will raise their arms and call out, just like the Tian family, what are you?"

"So, what the ministers ask the emperor to consider is for the benefit of the emperor."

"Once the people are bewitched by the Mohists, Wei Han will also be terrified. This is what they don't want to see. If they fail to attack the city, they will be even more frightened and panicked."

"The city has never been single-minded, and now it is implementing such a policy of seizing the interests of the nobles and nobles. At that time, there must be more people in the city. If you are late, I am afraid that Wei Han will not need you."

"Of course I am for the sake of the emperor himself, but also for the ancestral temple of the Zheng family! When the time comes, please confer the title of emperor and entrust a place to worship the ancestral temple. This is true filial piety! If Jiang Qi, there is no one in the ancestral temple now. Sacrificial sacrifices lead to barrenness, so what will it be like to meet the ancestors in the future?"

Zheng Junyi said with emotion: "Why didn't I ever do it for the ancestors of the ancestral temple? If it was for myself, then I should have died long ago! The rest of the Ziyang party killed the king and set me up. I just wanted to bear the humiliation and think that I could continue the sacrifice of the ancestral temple in the future. "

"Those who don't know me, call me contemptible; those who know me, I'm afraid only Mo Di, who commented on the matter of Wang Zilu during Bai Gongsheng's rebellion..."

The courtiers also knelt down and said: "The king's virtuousness and patience are beyond the comprehension of the world!"

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Outside the city, the camp of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

After a few days of bombardment, Xinzheng's city walls were already crumbling, and a small gap appeared in the direction of concentrated artillery bombardment. It only took a few more days to break through the city walls.

According to the experience of hundreds of years in the past, as long as the city wall is breached, Shuai Yi's army breaks into the gap, and the city collapses by itself.

It's just that Wei Han's copper cannon can't be fired for a long time. It takes a long time to cool down once fired, and the number is not too much.

General Wei Jun sighed: "If there were as many artillery and engineering soldiers as Sishang, Xinzheng would have taken them already. In the past, Wu Qi broke the beam with the help of gunpowder, but after all, it was no faster than the speed of the Mohist attack."

The general of the Han army smiled and said: "It's a pity that the Heze alliance, the princes met, and agreed not to dig the embankment to scour the city wall and flood the three armies. If not, the mere Xinzheng, adjacent to Weiqin, has already been broken."

In other words, the alliance back then was signed by the princes and made public to the world. Whether this kind of treaty can be abided by does not depend on morality, but on whether one party has violence to maintain the continuation of the treaty.

Sishang is becoming more and more powerful now. If the lord digs the embankment or builds a dam to flood the city without the permission of the princes, then if the Mohists really send troops to crusade, once they lose the battle, they will be brought out for trial.

Back then, Qigong Ziwu was executed by shooting, so he thought that the massacre of the city was a trivial matter in the eyes of the nobles, and they were definitely not as good as the real princes of a country when it came to their status.

Moreover, those knights who are very close to the Mohist school and influenced by the Mohist "benefiting the world for righteousness" must also be taken into consideration.If something like this really happened, the knights who wanted to go to justice and become famous would really have the possibility to kill their whole family.

The Mohists are better, they don’t like to use assassination methods very much, but those radical farmers, knights, and some schools that pursue small countries with few people and anarchy often do things like assassination.Now that there is gunpowder again, no one wants to have their family members blown up by a carriage of gunpowder and lose all their bones as soon as they leave the house.

There is no management and control at the grassroots level, and it is common to kill people and run away, and no one dares to move easily.

Besides, even if it is an order from the princes, unless there is a written order, it is impossible for the generals who lead troops abroad to do things that were prohibited by the regulations of the Heze League in the past, such as massacring cities and digging rivers: once there is no written order, in the future they will I'm still afraid of being blamed. Assassins and knights emerge in endlessly. Tens of thousands of troops are waiting for death. It's not good to be arrested and shot at a public trial.

This time the siege cannot be flooded with water, and Xinzheng City is the capital of a country with tall walls, so the only way to use artillery to break through the gaps in the city is.

The city gate used to be the most vulnerable place when the artillery first came out, but with the spread of some Mohist city defense techniques, Xinzheng built a second wall behind the city gate in addition to building a horse face on the northern city wall. Daomen, it has become the most difficult place to break through.

Even so, the rammed earth structure of the city wall itself cannot withstand the bombardment of artillery, so it has not rained in the past few days, otherwise the city wall may have collapsed now after a heavy rain.

When the chief generals of the Wei and Han armies were discussing the siege of the city, someone came to report, saying that the secret agents in the city had desperately sent the news that the Mo family had already helped defend the city and deployed a new city defense behind the city wall.

General Wei Jun shook his head and frowned after listening to the detailed report, "What does the Mo family mean by this? I have never seen such a city guard. Once the city wall is broken, the city is broken, and it has always been like this."

"They deployed a new city defense behind the city wall... This is unheard of, will it be useful?"

The general of Han Jun said: "Don't underestimate it. The Mohists are the best at defending the city, and they associate the defense of the city with the geometric nine numbers of Tianzhi. I'm afraid there must be a means."

The head coach of Wei Jun nodded. He still can't understand the city's offensive and defensive battles from a rational perspective. Everything comes from past experience, so it's hard to understand what the city is going to do, and can't figure out how to repair it so that it can withstand it. The panic caused by the collapse of the walls.

But the experience not only told him that the city wall is broken, but also the Mohist is good at defending and attacking the city, so that many defensive tactics that are completely unreasonable and seemingly inexperienced have a huge effect.

At least the Mohists have left him experience in the matter of attacking the city without fail and defending the city firmly.

So he had to frown and think about precautions, but he had no good plan.

(End of this chapter)