warring states careerist

Chapter 851
Sending off the high-spirited Liuzhi, Shi leaned over his desk in a drunken mood, and wrote a letter to Shengchuo, who had never been in touch since the reorganization of Shangqiu, in the name of the third giant of the Mo family and a disciple of Mozi.

The letter used extremely straightforward language, describing his various conjectures.

The general idea is that, according to reasoning, the state of Qin has reformed, and has gradually become stronger in the past few years. It is likely to attack Xihe in the next few years.

The distance is too far, and the Mohists can’t control it. Although the Mohists hope that the world will be peaceful and there will be no wars, even though it is unjust for Qin to attack Wei, even though Qin’s current reforms are considered by the orthodox Mohists to oppress the people...

But this is an inescapable fact.

Shi said, although Sheng Chuo had conflicts between the two of us, although you rebelled against the Mohist school, and even though you were not even qualified to mourn for three days when Mozi passed away, I still hope that you will remember more or less the time when Mozi died. teach.

Once you attack Xihe, please don't hurt the lives of the people too much, don't slaughter lightly, don't use methods like burying prisoners alive to massacre the city, this is an act that harms the people...

This letter is completely like a ridiculous letter written by a righteous person like Song Xianggong.

But Shi believes that Wu Qi and others will understand Shi's meaning: everyone in the world knows that Wu Qi is good at seeking the country but not himself, that is to say, history has changed and he did not die in the coup in Chu, but his character must remain the same .

In the letter, Shi used the technique of "speaking knowledge", which means, Wu Qi Shengchuo, you are old, you have made a lot of contributions, and you are outsiders with foreign surnames.I heard that last winter, Qin Jun gave birth to a son. According to human nature, he wanted to leave a good political situation for his son. infer.

In addition, in the past few years, the Wei State has lost more than it won, and its national strength is declining, so I guess you will attack Xihe soon.It's not good to leave such a big military merit to the future courtiers. After all, the children are still young, and when the time comes, the aristocrats and nobles have great power and are likely to repeat reforms;

Ah, we are against this kind of dog-eat-dog war, but we are powerless to stop it, so the only thing we can do is to hope that you will kill less people.

This is a letter full of conspiracy, telling the Qin State that it is the best opportunity for you to attack Xihe in the next few years, you don't know, I will tell you.

After writing it, I took the letter away and asked someone to send it back to Pengcheng. After it was passed by Qiwuhai, I sent it out in his personal capacity. Save the file, explain what should be explained clearly.

After writing the letter to the Qin people, Shi wrote another letter to the general who was about to lead the army and join forces with Chu to go northward to Zheng. This is an open letter to be used in the future.

The letter said that in the future, they will attack Wei and Han together with Chu, and the Mohists will negotiate with Chu about what kind of situation they will eventually reach.

It's not clear yet, but nine times out of ten there must be a talk about Beng. Once the news of the talk about Beng spreads, no matter what happens, immediately retreat.At that time, we must also be prepared for the possibility that the Chu people will suddenly turn their faces. Although this possibility is very small, we have to be prepared.

The route of retreating troops should be planned in advance, so as not to be caught blind at that time, it is best to retreat all the way along the Yingshui River to the Huaihe River, and the organizations along the way will come forward to respond.

When fighting with the Chu State, you should fight, but don’t carry out missions that are obviously death-death missions. When to use cavalry and when not to use them, the initiative is in your own hands. Once you clearly see the mission Is to die, refused to execute.

After finishing writing this letter, Shichang breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Xinzheng, which is located in the northwest of Shangqiu, and thought: "The back road has been prepared for you, and the series of events caused by the coup in Song Dynasty will also end in Xinzheng. Do you know what kind of trouble you will make? Do it boldly, if something goes wrong, I will take care of it for you."

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Xinzheng, Xu Ruo and the others naturally don't know what they have prepared for Xinzheng, and the people in Xinzheng who have followed them and gradually started to rebel and pursue their interests.

But they are convinced that since the letter said that they should adhere to the principle of benefiting the people and not compromise too much, it is obvious that they will cause a lot of trouble, and they did not mention how to solve it. Obviously, Sishang will go all out to support them.

As for how to support it, that's not what Xu Ruo and others have to think about. Sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean that the army must be conscripted to the city of Xinzheng to support it.

They have defended the city for [-] days. It seems that if Wei and Han don't increase their troops and artillery, they can defend for a longer time.

At least Xu Ruo was full of confidence.

His method of abandoning old walls and building new city defenses has been tested in actual combat. In 20 days, the Wei and Han coalition forces left a lot of corpses, and the people defending the city became more confident.

The strength of the nobles is constantly being consumed, because some necessary counterattacks require organized and active offensive combat power of the nobles' private servants.

The people are supported by the city, and their organizational strength is gradually improving; the elite private soldiers and slaves of the nobles cannot be trained in a day or two, and the power in the city is really ebb and flow.

As far as the Mohists are concerned, there is really no more pleasant promotional opportunity than defending the city.

The aristocrats need the people to be strong in order to defend the city, and when the city is closed, the people are all organized together. The effect of propaganda is really getting twice the result with half the effort.

After more than 20 days of defending the city, the people in the city have gradually gotten used to the organization of the Mohists, and life in the city can be regarded as orderly.

In the evening, they taught literacy, told stories, and sang some songs full of violent resistance.

During the day, guard the city at the head of the city, and practice on the open space in the city.

Every day is spent like this, and more and more people know what kind of Zheng they should want.

For example, if you join the Feigong Alliance, you will neither pay tribute to the Jin Dynasty nor Chu State; for example, everyone will be allocated a piece of land that cannot be bought and sold, and the land outside this piece of land can be bought. For example, the king's taxation should be agreed by the people; for example, the feudal labor rent and feudal obligations should be abolished; for example, the son of heaven and the princes have not always existed...

All these have given Zheng Guo people a real program to imagine a perfect Zheng Guo, even though many are unrealistic, but after all, this is the first time that Zheng Guo people have tried to use reason to build a Zheng Guo that belongs to them.

They gradually understood the root of suffering; gradually understood the lie that the noble are always noble; gradually understood the fundamental reason why the nobles were more educated than the common people; gradually understood that the existence of the king and the nobles was simply unreasonable.

Zheng Guo is the easiest place to engage in this kind of propaganda, because Zheng Guo is one of the last remaining countries with the strongest folk discussion tradition, and there have been many cases of expulsion of the monarch, domestic coups, and refusal to serve. kind of thing.

The defection of five people who entered the city from outside the city while singing songs that day made many Zheng people learn more songs full of rebellion, and recalled the suffering they had endured in the past.

The king of Wei and Han is not a good thing; the king of Zheng Guo and a group of nobles are not a good thing either; knowing that these are two piles of dung, why do you have to choose one of the two piles of dung?

There was no choice before, but now there seems to be another choice.

The mood in the city became more and more radical, and there were even several incidents in which the people did not obey the orders of the nobles and clashed with the nobles.

Not long after, because of the fact that several nobles stored food privately in their homes and did not distribute it publicly, a great chaos broke out in the city: the Wei and Han coalition forces attacked outside, and the guards on the city wall were supposed to guard, but the remaining people in the city burned down the houses of those nobles. , The few nobles were tied up and demanded to be executed, and bloody conflicts occurred when they attacked the noble houses.

Although in the end this matter was suppressed by the Mohists and the nobles by taking a step back and compromising, the problem was not resolved, but was suppressed forcibly.

In this case, not only Zheng Junyi was terrified, but the nobles were even more terrified.

For the nobles, if the Chu State sent troops, would the Mohists be the only force they could rely on?
Choosing to rely on the Mohist school is an expedient measure, and the sequelae are too great. The Song Dynasty is an example. The sequelae are that it is likely that a large number of nobles will be killed by the people in 20 years.

For Zheng Junyi, the state of Chu is not the best choice.

To him, the nobles are bastards who share power and profit, and he is a puppet; the people are not good things, and they seem to be more terrible than the nobles.

Just at night, Zheng Junyi in the palace was standing on the inner wall, and there were waves of songs that he would be executed if he sang before, and the bonfires in the city flickered, as if the bonfires were instigated by these songs and danced and swayed.

Zheng Junyi frowned. After besieging the city for more than 20 days, there was no panic in the city. It is said that as a king of a country, he should be happy, but he was not happy.

The news of communication between the city and the outside has been cut off, and no one knows what is going on outside.

The senior officials of the Mohist School knew that the Chu State sent troops but the Mohist School would not send troops on a large scale; however, Zheng Guo did not know that the Mohist School did not send large-scale troops.

The singing sounded again and became more passionate. Zheng Junyi said to the close minister who spoke that day: "Have you heard the singing? Do you know what it means when the people of the country start to sing some songs?"

The minister nodded, he knew very well what it means for the people of the capital to gather together and sing, which is often the prelude to the riots of the people in the country.

In the past, riots by Chinese people had no program, and they were standard anti-people but not against the system.

The people of the country have political power, and they still have the right to register in name, but they don't have the right to inherit. At most, they think that the monarch is a jerk and change another one.

But now it is different. For the first time, something programmatic appears in the "rebellion" under the sun, which is remarkable.

Zheng Junyi looked at the flickering bonfire in the city, and suddenly asked: "Do you still remember what happened in the eighth year of Duke Xiang? When I think about what happened back then, and now, I feel terrible."

(End of this chapter)