warring states careerist

Chapter 935
With that said, everyone's minds became active.

I thought to myself, the giant's order was a feint, and on the premise of achieving this big goal, it is possible to make some small moves.

If it is not won, it will not affect the overall situation. If it is won, it is a great achievement, and it must be reported to be honored.

Several key members discussed it and studied the information brought back by the scouts, and they all felt that it was extremely feasible.

After the decision was made, he immediately dispatched people to report to the superiors, and at the same time mobilized more than 40 elite backbones, most of whom were Mohists, led by the deputy brigade commander to attack Shangcai.

The whole brigade would set off at night, and wait until dawn if they successfully opened the city gates.

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At this time, Shangcai did not feel the imminent danger.

Compared with the past, the city was a bit depressed, and many men were either arrested to join the army or recruited to transport food and grass.

The terrain here is flat, a plain, and there are almost no rocks. Before the catastrophe of the Yellow River breaking through and taking the Huaihe River into the sea, this place, like Sishang, is an extremely suitable place for developing agriculture.

As long as the technology is right and the population is not too large, and the Yellow River is endless, this is the best basic commodity grain base.

After the spread of wheat, ironware, ridge farming, and new crops, this city near Chen and Song became more and more prosperous.

Shangcai planted a lot of sesame seeds, and many people in the city opened oil-pressing workshops to trade with Sishang.

The yield of wheat is very high, and it can also be regarded as the granary of the Huaixi area of ​​Chu State.

After Wang Ziding's rebellion was put down, this place became the place where the reforms in the non-capital area of ​​Chu State were the deepest and earliest.

A large number of local nobles were purged because they participated in the rebellion. The king of Chu was brutal, and he was much more ruthless in killing people than the Mohists, because the Mohists also paid attention to morality and law, and the royal power did not need to deal with the rebellion.

After the nobles were slaughtered, the land was given to the people, and the people didn't have much sympathy for the heads of the nobles who were killed. People's sorrows and joys are always different.

When the land was awarded, it was the honeymoon period between the Chu State and the Mohists, and the common enemy of the Three Jins, and the Yue State, who stood up for the Chu State, and the large amount of loans and agricultural tool technology that the King of Chu needed. This makes the activities of the Mohists here extremely extensive.

In addition to not having the power to collect taxes, conscription, and law enforcement, the people will directly choose to ask the Mohist people to solve any problems.

With the help of reforms, the king of Chu reorganized the division of Chen Cai, which also made the Chen Cai area more and more prosperous.

However, the morality of the Mohist school predestined that the richer the place, the more popular it would be. The depth of Mohist infiltration is directly related to the wealth of the vassal states.

The prosperity and reform of Shangcai also made the moral lectures of Mohists popular in Shangcai.

Although the king of Chu began to perceive the danger a few years later, the penetration has been deep and it is difficult to remove.

After the coup by Prince Liangfu, great changes took place in Chencai area.

Before the coup, the officials of Shangcai were appointed by the rank and file. They were not genuine aristocrats and had no fiefdoms. Instead, they received the salary of the King of Chu, which either came from taxes or loans from the Mohists.

The dissemination of paper and simple characters has enabled more down-and-out people to learn knowledge and have the ability to rule, breaking the monopoly of the great nobles—under the wooden slips and Chu seal scripts, the cost of literacy is extremely high, making the nobles monopolize these knowledge .

The down-and-out scholars have basically been reduced to the status of common people. They have no fiefs and no big families. As officials, their power base comes from the king of Chu, not their own family.

Therefore, these reformist scholars promoted by the King of Chu are loyal to the King of Chu, and they are also loyal to the official prince. Even if the prince Zang is infertile, this does not prevent them from obeying the orders of the King of Chu.

As the saying goes, scholars die for their confidants, and the king of Chu gave them the opportunity to become officials and even county magistrates, and they would naturally choose to repay them.

The basic military forces of the Chu State Reform Party are only the Wang Shixin Army directly under the King of Chu, and the self-cultivating peasant army in the Chen-Cai area after the Chen-Cai Revolution.

After the nobles took care of the capital master, the Chencai area certainly could not escape the fate of cleaning.

One of the mistakes made by the king of Chu in the reform was that he was worried about the infiltration of the army by the Mohists, so that the chief officials of Chen Cai's division were all royal nobles.

After all, the purpose of King Chu's reform was not to be a public servant of the people, but to use the power of the common people to suppress the nobles and maintain the rule of his direct family.

The infiltration of the Mohists among the people was beyond the control of the King of Chu, and he could not control it; but the infiltration in the army made the King of Chu extremely disturbed, so he could only train a group of new nobles to join the army.

After the coup, these nobles in the army immediately joined their real allies—Prince Liangfu and the old nobles.

Because if they want to resist, they will cause chaos, and none of them is qualified to inherit, so why should they resist?
On the contrary, some officials who were loyal to the King of Chu either committed suicide, revolted with private soldiers and were executed, or were demoted to common people.

Now that the land in the Shangcai area has not been taken back, the nobles also understand that it is impossible to get back the things that have been distributed. After all, the old force nobles who really have interests here have been killed by the King of Chu.

The new county magistrate is no longer an official, but a nobleman. Being entrusted here is basically equivalent to semi-hereditary.

Although the policy has not changed much, the lives of the people have been greatly affected by the war between Chu and Mo.

It is difficult for industrial and commercial people to do business, and the salt, cloth, iron and other things in Chencai and other places basically come from Sishang. At the same time, the sesame oil and other workshops in Chencai area also earn money from Sishang.

Although farmers do not engage in business, but not to mention the rising salt price, they have to bear more taxes.

To fight a war, one must have money, food, civilian husbands, and people.

Chen Cai is rich, so of course Chen Cai has to pay more money, more people, and more food.

Conscription, labor, food transportation, city building... In just a few months, people's hearts are full of resentment.

The most resentful group of people found the county party committee of the Mo family who had lurked in Shangcai and turned to underground activities early on, and the rest of the people could only accept the resentment.

The propaganda of the Mohists cannot be stopped at all. There are rumors in the market all day long that when it was time to go to Yingdu, the king of Chu had a secret talk with him, saying that the future generations would do harm to the people, and the Mohists should please get rid of the harm.

The rapid lethality of this kind of rumor is not because the people are so loyal to the King of Chu, but because the people have more and more recognized the theory of harming the people and benefiting the people.

The more prosperous the place, the easier it is to breed the soil of Mohist activities, and the morality of Mohism can be explained more clearly.

On the contrary, when it is dark, people have never seen the light, so they don't care about resistance; and the most looking forward to the light is not a dark night, but the time when the east is white and can vaguely see the light.

Rumors and nursery rhymes are circulated every day.

People are panicked, people are uneasy.

A while ago, someone chose to flee in order to avoid becoming a civilian husband. After being caught, he was given ink punishment, that is, tattooing on the face, which is one of the five punishments.

It not only punishes the prisoner as a warning to others, but also does not affect the soldiers and civilian husbands.

However, in the city, the arrested man shouted and asked: "My surname is not Mi. I am a member of the Xia Dynasty in Kyushu. The princes have a state, and the doctors have a family. What does the rise and fall of Chu have to do with me?"

Execution in the street, people like ordinary people can say such words, the nobles were shocked, and hated the Mohists even more. They felt that the morality of the Mohism and the spread of words and papers were too deceptive, and even ordinary people could not speak. To say something so outrageous.

So in order to warn others, he changed Mo Xing to Xing Xing and cut off his nose.

As a result, there were rumors the next day, saying that this is what the aristocratic law does not know, and that the punishment is what it is, there is no specific law as a standard, and the Mohist law is better.

The nobles immediately sent people out to refute the rumors, explaining: If the law is too clear, then bad commoners will take advantage of the loopholes in the law to do illegal things.The reason why the written law is not used is precisely to protect the common people. The common people should trust the real gentleman, so that those who commit crimes cannot find loopholes to take advantage of.

At that time, everyone in the city laughed, thinking that these truths had already been debated in the market for more than a hundred times seven or eight years ago, and you people are still talking nonsense after seven or eight years. .

Although the people complained, the ruling order was still there, and no one raised their arms and shouted.

Because those who really want to raise their arms and shout, have the ability to organize, and have prestige, have basically become local Mohists or peripheral members, obeying the orders of their superiors, and lurking.

After all, Shangcai originally had two governments.

One is Ming, which is responsible for taxation, taxation, corvee, and punishment.

The other is dark, responsible for associations, handouts, education, medical care, and business.Although things such as medical treatment are really simple, and at most they are some simple means, they are better than nothing.

This was supposed to be one body and two sides of the government, but it was divided by the Mohists in the vassal states.

Lectures, medical care, industry and commerce, technology, these are all cheap industries, and the nobles don't care about them, but the real ruling class is the blood nobles.

Now this split is more obvious, which has led to the temporary stability of Shangcai: the government in the open is collecting taxes and taxes, and the government in the dark is not moving. Naturally, there is no third-party force to stand up to instigate and organize.

Because of the means of communication, the Mohists in the city didn't know about the Mohist's sneak attack plan this time. The order they received at the beginning of the Chu-Mo war was to hide and wait for the opportunity.

So even the Mohists in the city don't know that an army of the Mohist family has been lurking within [-] miles of the city.

It is night, the moon is twilight.

More than 40 elites have been lurking below the city.

The city wall of Shangcai is not high, only six or seven meters, and it is an old-fashioned rammed earth wall.

The small shovels and ropes, daggers and flint blunderbusses in the hands of these sneak attack elites are all elite forces in the brigade, and they are skilled and bold.

In the middle of the night, the deputy brigade commander took the lead and quietly came to the city wall, and quietly dug out a small hole in the city wall with a small shovel.

He is an officer, and also the Mohist representative of this team's dying organization, so he must take the lead in this kind of thing.

The six or seven-meter-high city wall has a certain slope, and it can be climbed after digging a few small holes.

After climbing up the city wall, several Chu soldiers who guarded the city as usual had fallen asleep, because the war seemed to be far away from Shangcai, and they were not too vigilant.

The four who went up first stabbed two Chu soldiers to death, then lowered the rope, and the rest of them also climbed up along the rope.

These people curled up on the city wall until they saw a few flashes of light coming from outside, knowing that the main force had already arrived outside the city.

The signal to convey the message is a simple signal light made of mirrors, bronze and whale oil candles.

At this time, there was still some time before dawn, and they had to wait until it was about to dawn before attacking, because there were not many organized defenders in the city, and there was no need to rush to cause chaos at night, and it was indeed inconvenient to sneak attack at night.

When it was almost dawn, these 40 people had already been divided into several groups and reached near the city gate.

There were only a few soldiers guarding the gate, and they were all too sleepy, bracing themselves and waiting for dawn.

Suddenly a few black shadows flashed by, and the soldiers guarding the gate fell silently on the ground, leaving two mouths to gag, and the deputy brigade commander took the lead and quietly opened the city gate.

(End of this chapter)