warring states careerist

Chapter 937
Sad and indignant but unable to do anything, he could only watch helplessly as the Mohist army outside the inner city began to gather for an attack, and the people were organized to transport firewood or earth and stones to this side.

This further validated his inference.

In the places near Jianghan of Chu State to Ba State, the people in those local villages suffer much more than here. The food is not as good as here, the clothes are not as good as here, and the things used are not as good as here. , but the people of the village community or the people of the city there are the most stable.

The life of the people in Shangcai is much better than in other places that have not been reformed, but looking at these people now, they are the most unstable, and they can be organized to attack the county magistrate with a little persuasion by the Mo family.

However, there is no time for him to change all this, and there is no time for him to realize his ambitions.

He knew what would happen if he was captured by the Mo family, it would be endless humiliation and cruelty.

I may be assigned to work in the mine, and after working, I may be allocated hundreds of acres of wasteland. The Mohist insult to the nobles is to let them engage in the cheapest industries that the nobles despise, such as farming and mining.

It may also be sent to the ship with some seeds and agricultural tools. Those ships trading in the South China Sea may choose a place such as an estuary during the voyage and throw the exiled nobles down.

King Wu defeated Zhou, and after Yin and Shang were destroyed, there were still Song and North Korea; Goujian destroyed Wu, and still returned hundreds of households and lands to King Wu;

But the Mohists let the nobles become actors and musicians, farmers and craftsmen, and exiled outside Kyushu, no matter which one is a kind of immoral and immoral.

He knew that he was invincible, and he also knew that he didn't want to be captured, so he thought of suicide.

Looking at the few cronies, servants and slaves around him, he wanted to say something, but finally said: "I rebelled against Mo, not because I violated my interests as the Mohist preached, I didn't do it for profit, I rebelled for righteousness ink."

"The world should not be what the Mohist said. The noble should be noble, and the humble should be cheap. Otherwise, the world will be in chaos."

"The farmer wants to be a scholar, the scholar wants to be a doctor, and the doctor wants to be a high official...Ambition is rampant. How many people will die?"

"In the age of etiquette and law, the patriarchal clan was clearly hierarchical, the emperor was wise and his ministers were virtuous, and the people were happy with their profession. Why was there any chaos?"

The scholar didn't know how to answer, Shang Caigong sighed for a long time, made up his mind, and said to the people around him: "After I die, you can surrender. Goug out my eyes, if there is a chance, bury him in Pengcheng. I want Let's see how the Mohist family perished! If it doesn't die, I want to see if the people in this world choose equality instead of order, and whether they will regret it in the future."

"If the Mohists achieve equality in the world, with my own eyes, I will curse the Kyushu to flow into rivers of blood and cleanse those ignorant fools."

After all, he wanted to draw his sword to kill himself, and the scholars next to him were at a loss for what to do.

I don't know whether Shang Caigong is pretending to die or really dying.

If you really want to die, then you shouldn't stop it. How can nobles be afraid of death?

The matter has come to this point, the king has been captured, and there are many rebellions in Chu. At this time, as the county magistrate, he cannot put down the Mohist family and restore the country, and he cannot use the means to govern the country to make the country strong. It is shameful to live on.

Since there is no way to live, then the easiest thing to do is to die, which saves a lot of humiliation and washes away one's incompetence.

Death is an excellent choice, there is no better choice.

If so, there should be no hindrance.

But if he pretended to die, if he didn't reach out to stop him, then it would be quite embarrassing.

If after talking so much, you still don’t want to die, but just hope that the people around you can know his words and deeds, and then persuade him not to die, then you have to persuade him.

When the crowd didn't know what to do, a scholar who really didn't want the county magistrate to die held down the sword that was about to kill himself.

The scholar thought to himself, the young master has lost his will to die, if it is a normal dissuasion at this time, I am afraid it will be useless.

The only way is to find another way to motivate him not to ask for death.

The Duke of Shangcai County felt his hand being held by a scholar, and shouted: "I have no will to die. Do you want me to be humiliated by a bitch?"

The scholar said in a loud voice: "Young master is dead now, isn't he not humiliated? Doesn't the Mo family do little to insult the dead like this?"

"According to the Mohists, death can't solve any problems. Unless you are sure that you can't solve it and fight with death, death is a kind of cowardice."

"The Mohists would say that 30 years since your rise to Sishang, you have been given 30 years of opportunity for princes and nobles, but you princes and nobles are useless."

"Thirty years ago, the Mohists had only a few hundred people."

"In 30 years, Wu could not send troops to calm down these hundreds of people, but let these hundreds of people grow to the land of three states, and the warriors were incompetent."

"In 30 years, the government has not been able to make the country prosperous and the people safe, and the people are sincerely convinced. On the contrary, the people are resentful, and the nobles are incompetent."

"You too."

"The Mohists would say, even if the righteousness is different and the way is different, even if you princes and nobles don't want to benefit the world, but according to your righteousness, what have you done?"

"You were born as a nobleman. If you have the talent, according to your righteousness, have you stabilized the patriarchal family system for so many years? No, you haven't done it."

"For so many years, have you allowed Chu to have a military force that can compete with the Mohists? No, you still haven't done it."

"I haven't done anything for so many years, and when Zhan Luan was surrounded here, I committed suicide. What is this waste? If you never had a chance, it is understandable that you committed suicide is the only thing you can do for righteousness; but obviously For decades, you have done nothing, and then committed suicide just to gain a good reputation, the Mo family will laugh and scold you, pointing to your bones and saying, look, princes and nobles are trash..."

When he said this, his intention was to arouse the mind of the county magistrate, so that he would not die, but leave a useful body, so that he could always do something in the future.

The heavy words that should be said have been said, and it is necessary to make a turning point to let him survive first.

But what he said was inserted into Shangcai County Lord's heart. The lie that he had hidden in his heart to deceive himself all these years, making himself believe that he was capable and talented, was exposed at this moment.

For 30 years, these nobles have done nothing.

He was suppressed by the King of Chu for 20 years, and finally survived until the death of the King of Chu, and was beaten horribly by the Mo family. If this is not incompetence, what is it?
One of the reasons why the Mohists say that nobility is not constant, is that the nobles of Shiqing are all trash, who can't fight the kingship in internal struggles, and can't beat the Mohists in external wars. This is a group of moths.

These heart-pricking words made Shang Cai Gong furious, his face was vermilion, and he shouted: "Zhu Zi dares to insult me! Could it be that he has an affair with the Mohists?"

After finishing speaking, he kicked the scholar away, drew out his dagger and plunged it into the scholar's belly.

The scholar died immediately, and Shangcai Gong also returned his sword and slayed himself, his eyes widened with anger.

After the people next to him confirmed that Mr. Cai was completely dead, they glanced at each other, but they didn't dig out their eyes.

Everyone has their own thoughts, but they also talk about it.

Finally someone broke the silence, coughed lightly and said, "The Mo family is about to attack the inner city. The Patriarch is dead, and he asked us to gouge out our eyes and bury them in Pengcheng..."

"But if those words he said are exposed, those who hide their eyes will suffer disaster. The Mo family will not forgive them, and the people will be furious."

"This……"

The meaning of this is also very clear. It is said that the relationship between master and slave has been separated for so many years, and it is not incomprehensible to tell them to learn from Wu Zixu's bowing their heads before they died.

However, who knows if anyone reported it after he buried his eyes?
It is not a sin to bury one's eyes, but if the curse of burying one's eyes is spread, the person who buried one's eyes will surely suffer disaster.Although the Mohists do not believe in the method of witchcraft, if the people hear about it, they will have no good fruit to eat.

They are not high-ranking nobles. As long as they surrender, at most they will study a few years of forced labor and take back the land, but they will distribute the land elsewhere. Although it is worse than before, the gap is not as big as that of the nobles.

Some of them have fiefdoms, some are non-fiefdoms, and some are domestic servants and slaves. They all have some skills. As long as they don't die, there will always be opportunities in the future.

In the past, with their own abilities, they could always serve others.

There are too many nobles who support soldiers, and the fiefdoms of nobles must be managed by someone, and war also requires an elite who can fight.

However, the Mohist set of things made them useless within the Mohist.

The Mohist army is not a combination of chariots, soldiers and slaves, plus peasants and soldiers.

The Mohist way of ruling is not a feudal system, and the nobles rely on scholars and supporters to maintain the system.

Once the gunpowder and the military formation are released, the samurai skills that have been practiced for more than ten years are useless.

As soon as writing and printing came out, the literate population in Sishang increased sharply, and the things they learned were not in the same system as Sishang, so they were unable to become an official.

In addition, after the Mohists captured them, they would all be sent to labor camps, and they were extremely opposed to the Mohism.

However, in this situation, you can't escape, you can't run, you still have to live.

Now that everyone can report someone else, it is impossible for everyone to really want to take this risk.

After several people questioned each other, someone finally said: "The master has a destiny, and he shouldn't disobey it. However, as a scholar, he should follow the righteousness and not the king. Before the master dies, he wants the blood of Kyushu to flow into rivers, which is inconsistent with righteousness. Things shouldn't be done."

He found a reason to obey righteousness and not obey the king, and the rest of the people were overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "It should be so."

Thinking about it again, it is meaningless to resist in the corner. If you surrender, you can also use the reason of "unbearable benevolence of soldiers' deaths and injuries" as an excuse to strive for leniency, so several people discussed it and unified their caliber.

He said what the county magistrate said before committing suicide, and told the Mo family that he did not do it for righteousness.

He also said that before the death of the county magistrate, they were not allowed to die, but let them fight to the end. These people couldn't bear the death and injury of soldiers, and they were all from Kyushu, so Kaesong surrendered.

This is beneficial to everyone present. After unifying the caliber, they raised the white flag and declared their surrender.

The locals in the inner city had almost run away, and the rest of the core people who did not run away were in the interest. After the surrender, those words were said, and they were recorded as a basis for judging whether the labor reform will be lenient for a few years in the future.

(End of this chapter)