warring states careerist

Chapter 928

External military considerations, once the counterattack on the eastern front is successful, Qi will actually have no resistance. The Mohists have already prepared for the worst, that is, using Nanzheng and Gao Liuyun as sacrifices in exchange for defending Jianghan and eastern expansion.

Although Qi's military strength is acceptable, they are all one-time troops. The main force is wiped out in the First World War, and the rest can only recruit farmers and soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is negligible.

Moreover, the southwestern region of Qi, which is most pro-Mexico, may even directly revolt and reject Qihou's recruitment.

If the Eastern Front wins, there are actually many priority options, each with its own advantages.

The remaining cities of Chu State can directly stabilize the front line of Huaibei Central Plains, and can directly approach Zhengdi, where the people base is also good.

After the failure of the Eastern Front, Wei Guo may not even be able to organize a little force. In addition, the intelligence said that Wei Jian was seriously ill and probably died. In fact, it is the best way to fight.

However, the meaning of Shi is very clear. Once the Eastern Front wins, no matter what else, Qi will be attacked first.

Because after defeating Qi, the remaining cities of Chu could be slowly swallowed up, so that almost half of the entire North China Plain was in the hands of the Mohists.

If Gao Liuyunzhong and Nanzheng are really lost by then, don't worry.

The Mohists sit on most of the North China Plain to the east of the Taihang Mountains, North Subei, the Jianghuai Plain, the land of Wuyue, and the Jianghan Plain. Almost all the most elite lands in Kyushu are already in their hands. Wrong, that is basically a flat push all the way.

Furthermore, it is also suitable for planning for the future.

With the advent of the firearms and iron age, and as far as the current level of technology is concerned, everything will be different in at most a hundred years.

Even if it doesn't take a hundred years, but now, the foreign enemies to worry about no longer need to consider nomads, but the Northeast region and Hetao and other places.

As long as the land suitable for cultivation is in hand, the nomads and fishermen and hunters are not given the opportunity to transform into a mixed farming and nomadic pastoralism. Under the iron and firearms, they have no chance of winning.

Maybe even 5000 people would be enough to sweep the grasslands and establish colonial rule.

The Silk Road communicates east and west. Once the level of shipbuilding and astronomical navigation are improved, the Silk Road on the road will inevitably go to waste before the emergence of railways. The center of gravity of Zhuxia should be to the southeast, control the northeast, and stabilize Yongzhou. Out of the Western Regions.

With sufficient wealth and technological progress, the threats in the west can be easily resolved with minimal cost. The longer the time passes, the greater the technological gap between the western desert grassland and here will be.

If the fight is particularly difficult in the future, what the Mohists have to do is to fight steadily, go north along the coast and then solve the Yan Kingdom, bypass the Taihang Mountains, form a three-sided encirclement of the Three Jins, crush them little by little, and at the same time use the east as the ruling Focus on perfecting a brand-new "nation" consciousness.

Of course, this particularly difficult situation is an extreme consideration. Once Qi is destroyed, the remaining Wei and Han will not last long.

In addition to such rational considerations, the top Mohists are not purely rational machines after all, they also have their own emotional considerations.

The state of Qi has become like this. In the era when the mainstream of the whole world is "granting land to the people, opening rice paddies and destroying well fields", Qi State actually went in the opposite direction and started to strengthen personal bondage and fiefdom rule. It has a great relationship with the development of industry and commerce.

The standard of living in Sishang is far better than that of other places, and the top Mohists know that they are sucking blood from the surroundings.

The people in the central and eastern part of Qi State were trapped on the land to work for the fiefdom masters for free. The root cause was that there was a huge demand for food and raw materials, and after Qi’s industry and commerce were squeezed out, they needed to buy a lot of handicraft products.

Thus formed a very deformed economic system.

The Mohists have always done the method of "returning the strength to oneself and the scapegoat to others". Since they really want to return the world to one, completely abandon the idea of ​​​​building a country without attacking, and want to establish Kyushu as a country, then the peasants of Qi State The suffering must be solved after all.

Compared with other places, their lives are too bitter, which is due to the sensibility of "aspirations to the world".

It is an attitude, an expression of attitude that Sishang will not only attack and establish a country, but intends to treat all of Kyushu as equals.

The matter of counterattacking and attacking first is decided like this.

In the following meeting, Shili put all the opinions aside and personally led the troops to open up the communication lines from Shangcai, Xianghe, Zhuo to Fuli.

One is to be stationed in the Chu army, and the other is to get familiar with the front-line combat activities and prepare for the decisive battle later.

After the vote was passed at the meeting, Shi smiled and said: "Since this is the case, I think we should also arrange funeral affairs in case of accidents. It is not the funeral affairs of the next ten or 20 years, but the funeral affairs of the next hundred years. After a hundred years, you The youngest among me probably doesn't know what will happen, maybe in a hundred years, there will be people who will be able to know who will be in charge of the general direction of Kyushu in a hundred years."

In the troubled times, all the people present are people who value righteousness and despise life. The Mohists do not shy away from life and death, and some things must be decided in advance.

In the next three days, the top leaders of the Mo family held a three-day meeting.

Apart from some future arrangements at the meeting, the most important thing is two things.

First, negotiate with the State of Song. On the basis of transferring part of the wealth, let the Duke of Song announce his abdication and let the State of Song merge into the Mohist family. As a county, the Mohist family has the right to garrison troops and collect national taxes, and the rest will continue the previous policy All counties and other schools are allowed to govern.

This is not difficult. The military power is in the hands of the Mohists, and the economy has already been unified. Now, going around is still the way to go in the future, and there is no need to carry out a big change to sweep away the old ideas and old systems like the Chu.

Second, after the unification of Kyushu in the future, the name of the country will be Han, Han with brilliant stars, and Han with the Milky Way in the sky.

This is the same as the Han of later generations, and the meaning is similar, but it is closer to the original.

The Han in later generations was sealed by the Han River, and the reason why the Han River is called Han River is that its trend is the same as that of the Milky Way in the sky, so the essence of Han remains the same, it is still the Milky Way in the sky.

The Mohist not only talked about Tianzhi, but also had a telescope, so naturally they wanted to look up at the sky. Shi Zeng said with a smile that knowing that Tianzhi would one day be a sea of ​​stars, and the sea was too close, that's why such a Han name was named, and everyone didn't like it. Feel something is wrong.

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More than ten days later, Song State, Sanglin Society.

It took less than three years to trust Song Gonggong to perform the final sacrifice in the name of Song Gong in the Sanglin Society.

This time the sacrifice did not mention something mysterious and mysterious like the destiny, but used the will of heaven and the way of heaven.

The general idea is that in the past, Shang Tang, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty, destroyed Xia, not because of personal enmity with Xia, but because Xia Jie killed the people and could not benefit the world.

Now the Mohist inherits Dayu's behest and wants to end the chaotic world, make the world stable, and everyone loves each other. This is exactly the wish of the ancestor Shang Tang.

Shang Tang's descendants were incompetent, unable to know the will of heaven and the way of heaven, and unable to make the people of the world benefit and peaceful.

Now that the people's wisdom has been developed, the people can understand how to benefit themselves, and there is no longer a need for a hereditary ruler. Therefore, the descendants of Shang Tang want to give up power. This is the will of the real ancestor Shang Tang, and the ancestors will definitely The practice of protecting descendants.

After Shang Tang destroyed Xia, agricultural tools were no more than stones, and weapons were no more than bronze wares, so Shang Tang's policies were in line with the world at that time.The Mohists affirmed Shang Tang's policies at that time.

But the problem is that the Mohists have a special evaluation, which is called "Zai".

Even Yao and Shun's policies at that time were good governance, but they are no longer good governance now, because they are no longer in line with the current situation of the world, but it cannot be said that Yao and Shun's policies at that time were not beneficial to the world.

So is Shangtang.

Therefore, affirming the past does not mean affirming the present, nor does it mean separating the past.

That's why Song Gong said that the world is no longer what it used to be, so the descendants of Yin and Shang can't continue to rule, and they are willing to return the government to the people, as a sacrifice to their ancestors.

After the sacrifice, Duke Song announced his abdication, announcing that all hereditary rights were nullified, and that all descendants would be equal citizens.

After he finished reading according to the script, he let out a long sigh of relief.

The world is already like this, even if it is as powerful as Chu, it still ends like that, let alone the mere Song Kingdom?

The general trend of the world is mighty and unstoppable. Song Gong felt that such abdication was the best choice.

His father chose him to succeed him precisely because he was mediocre and unambitious, so that after the change of the Song Dynasty, he threw his ambitious younger brother to Sishang as a proton to "learn".

The military power of the entire Song State is in the hands of the "instructors" sent by the Mohists. The Song State uses the coins issued by Sishang, buys the goods from Sishang, speaks a language that is almost universal with Sishang, and uses Sishang. According to the set of morals above, this is indeed the best ending.

Otherwise, so what?The Song Guoyi division of a division is stationed in Shangqiu, and the Song Guogong clan can't control it from top to bottom, so what's the use of opposing it?
Coupled with the fact that all schools of thought are in the administration of Song State, Song Gong has actually become a mascot.

After he succeeded to the throne as Duke Song, he worried all day long that the Mohists would "clean up all moths" and deprive him of everything.Once that happens, he actually doesn't even have the strength to resist.

Fortunately, after the transformation of the Mohist School, the economic foundation of the Dukes of the Song Dynasty has been completely changed.

First, the Duke of Song distributed the land to the people for cultivation, and recognized the people's right to use the Lutian of the Duke of Song's family, and most of them had been forcibly bought by the people and returned to private ownership.

The Gong clan also expelled some people from the land outside Shangqiu City, took back the right to use it, and let them go to other places to cultivate. The Mohist paid for the money, and Song Gong hired special people to manage the collected land.

In addition, there are also some shares in Sishang industries such as trade and workshops, which will also be Song Gong's future livelihood.

The change in the economic base allows the Mohists to not care about Song Gong. Since you have already actively or passively transformed, and there is no personal grudge between you and me, then you can be let go. This is not the same as the king and minister of Chu State. thing.

As for the Great Yin of the Consulting Yuan, that’s bullshit. Duke Song still has value to use now, and whether the Great Yin of the Consulting Yuan is useless, because the Great Yin of the Consulting Yuan can be elected, and after the election, the Consulting Yuan decides that the State of Song is not Part of the Kyushu world in the future after entering the Mohist family needs Song Guo to go to the Sanglin Society to sacrifice, but does not need the old Yin of the Consulting Yuan.

There are not many things to be resolved in the Song Dynasty. Although the situation in different places is different, after the war, the old ruling class has been smashed and the production relationship has been changed. In the end, it will always lead to the same goal.

Song Gong announced his abdication, which meant that the Mohists could bypass the non-aggression covenant and formally send troops from Song State to attack the remaining cities of Chu State.

(End of this chapter)