warring states careerist

Chapter 946 Conspiracy
People like Zhuo can't see through the essence of the world. They are only qualified to listen to these rumors, but they are gradually affected.

When Sima Chang saw what Zhuo said, he said, "Young Master Fu fought hard in Luoyi, but Young Master Huan betrayed Xihe in order to inherit the position of lord. The affairs of Wei State were ruined by the bad guys and treacherous ministers around you."

"If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, and if you have done wrong, you will be punished. Soldiers who fight, they should have land. But those people want us to fight, but they don't care about our family's land. If they are not bad people, what is it?"

"Only when the son is in power, can we know our sufferings and protect our family and land."

"Young Master Fu is in Luoyi, controlled by the traitors in the imperial court. He knows that things cannot be done, and he also knows that the soldiers' land will be cut away. He often cries bitterly."

"He said that the soldiers fought for the country, but they couldn't guarantee their land. How can this be? If it is really impossible to fight for it, he is willing to take out his fief to compensate those soldiers who have been cut off, so as to reward them Fight for the country."

"The soldiers are brave, but they are repeatedly defeated. He, the son, is also responsible, but the soldiers are innocent. How can he make the soldiers suffer because of his own fault?"

When he said this, his eyes were full of tears, and he rubbed his eyes with his rough fingers that had been holding the weapon for a long time, his voice was a little choked up.

Several of the soldiers nearby were also infected, and couldn't help but said: "Young Master Fu is a good man, only when Young Master Fu is a Marquis can he lead us to prosperity and prosperity."

"That's right, it's said that the young master is extremely Xiao Wenhou. It would be good for such a wise man to be a king."

Good people can touch others, but they cannot benefit the world.

So far, it has been rumored among the military pawns that Young Master Fu is a good man, and Young Master Xu is a bad man, and that's why there are bad men and treacherous ministers who disrupt the country's government.

These rumors always avoid a question, that is, when a good man like Gong Zifu is in power, what should be done to benefit the people and make the country prosperous and strong?
If you want to build a new army, where will the money come from?Where does food come from?Who pays the tax and who is exempt from it?

What if some taxpayers do not agree to pay taxes?A large amount of land is owned by aristocratic families. What about these lands?
Faced with these substantive issues, these people in the military who spread rumors and incite emotions avoided, because these things cannot be discussed.

Even though these topics were deliberately avoided, when these soldiers were immersed in being moved, there were still some words that destroyed the moving and tearful atmosphere.

"If you ask me, the nobles are not good things. What credit do they have? They are born with so much land. How many of them can fight? We only have a hundred acres of land in our lifetime, but they are just ..."

Before he could finish speaking, Chief Sima was furious. He pulled out a half-burned wooden stick from the bonfire, and swished it on the grumbling soldier's face.

How could that soldier withstand a blow from an old soldier who had been in the army for more than ten years? The rest of the people also knew that it was reasonable for officers to beat and scold soldiers, let alone dare to speak.

Sima Chang said angrily: "What are you talking about? Didn't the ancestors of the nobles make great achievements? Your ancestors are incompetent. Why do you want to covet everything that your ancestors have achieved so hard?"

"Could it be that the land you acquired because of your military exploits will not be passed on to your descendants, but will be distributed to others instead? Isn't this the same reason?"

"Our ancestors were all incompetent, so they were poor and had no great achievements and no land. Those nobles may not have great achievements, but their ancestors did make great achievements, so what's wrong with passing them on to future generations? Don’t you pass your land on to your descendants? If that’s the case, why do you think it’s wrong for them to occupy the land?”

"I think your thoughts are bewitched by the Mohists! If you say this again, you will be severely punished. I will forgive you today."

Zhuo and the others didn't dare to speak, but Weiwei nodded, and the soldier who spoke strangely covered his face and thanked him repeatedly for the grace of impunity.

If you speak strange words in the army, you will be subject to military law.

After the chief Sima reprimanded him, he said to everyone: "Don't listen to what the Mohists said. There is nothing wrong with passing on meritorious service to your children. As long as the king can do meritorious service, he will be rewarded, and if he has no merit, he will be rewarded."

"The reason why you resent the nobles is not because your ancestors were incompetent? If your ancestors had meritorious service in the past, they could also be granted the title of king. What's wrong with that?"

"So, don't say these weird words, just work hard to kill the enemy and fight bravely."

"My son is a sage. If he is a king, he will be able to reward meritorious deeds and punish faults. Instead of working hard, you complain that the world's system is not good. This is why I look down on those people of the Mohist family."

"The land belongs to the people of the world? Huh, isn't it ridiculous? Why should the land in the world be owned by the people in the world? I also said that the land in the world should belong to me. Is it useful?"

I thought to myself, what Chief Sima said is indeed very reasonable.

He thought, just like those servants in his family who are lazy all day long and complain that they have no land.In the past, when the military pawns were first established, their parents did not have the ability to be selected into the military pawns. Who is to blame?

However, some soldiers who secretly read the Mohist pamphlets thought that what Chief Sima said was nonsense.Is there any king in the world? That's because King Wu of Zhou defeated all those who refused to admit these words and died.If those who agree that the soil of the world belongs to the people of the world beat to death those who do not agree with these words, then their words are very reasonable.

When Sima Chang saw that everyone was convinced, he wanted to say something, but what he kept repeating was that the son was a good man, and there were bad people in the court, and occasionally added a few words cursing the Mohists for liberating slaves and maidservants to organize farming together. .

But he couldn't say anything more.

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In Luoyi, Prince Wei is plotting the future with his confidants.

He felt that Pang Juan was indeed a great talent, and he was from Xihe, so he could really be reused.

The age of firearms has arrived, Wei State does not need a group of expensive soldiers, what is needed is a large army of two-legged animals that can be driven by sticks, can pick up muskets and spears, and can talk.

It is not necessary for these animals to know loyalty to the emperor, nor for them to know why they fight. It is enough for their officers and officers to know that war can bring wealth and military exploits.

Soldiers can be recruited from the poor, and officers can rely on a single high-quality soldier to replenish their soldiers for a lifetime, and a new army can be drawn up.

With the army, you can have power, and with power, you can overwhelm the nobles in the country and make appropriate changes.

Their economic privileges can be recognized, but they also need to send troops and military taxes to organize a standing army, and the military power belongs to the monarch. Only in this way can Wei Guo survive in this troubled world.

If not, what can we do?
If it remains the same, the state of Wei has been beaten like a dog in the water. If it remains the same, the country will be destroyed and the ancestral temple will be destroyed.

If there is no external environment, then the feudal lords will take the opportunity to divide Wei.

Si Shang's set is even more impossible.

It is only possible to go the other way.

That is to say, relying on military pawns, new warriors, and old nobles, they are integrated into a large military aristocratic interest group.

Military groups can benefit from external expansion; internal suppression, officers and nobles are the oppressors at the bottom, and they must be united.

Moreover, farmers who know how to seek profit and have self-awareness can hardly bear the misery of today's battlefield: the head of a colleague is smashed by an iron pellet with a whoosh, and the chest of a partner is shattered by a musket a hundred steps away, but he still has to step on the battlefield. Drums keep the formation moving forward.

Since there is no way to learn Sishang's tricks, the best soldiers are those who have been tortured to the lowest level of numbness by life, those farmers who have been trapped in the fief for a lifetime and have never seen the outside world.

The major events of the country are worshiped in the army, and the soldiers are related to the survival of the country. There are disputes among the countries, and the reform of the military system is the foundation for the continuation of the countries.

Of course, this is about the future.

But now, what Young Master Fu has to do is how to seize power in a coup d'état, how to feed the group of soldiers with the dead body of Young Master Huan, how to stabilize the domestic situation, how to fight for Wei Guo not to be divided too harshly, and how to do it in the near future. To obtain the greatest benefit in the anti-ink war.

After conspiring with his confidants for a long time, these confidants also learned some methods from Sishang, and made full use of them to construct a detailed conspiracy plan.

First of all, send people in the capital to pretend to be Mohists to incite dissatisfaction at the bottom because of the defeat and the imminent conscription of troops and taxes.

The main target of this dissatisfaction is a group of nobles, pointing the finger at them and demanding changes, causing panic among the nobles in the capital.

Then use the controlled military pawns to incite emotions. Once there is too much dissatisfaction in the city, the military pawns will be mobilized to approach the capital.

When the time comes, let the military pawns break into the city, and kill the young master to ease his cronies.

Once soldiers enter the city and mutiny, the city will be chaotic, and those dissatisfied people will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble, and the nobles don't know whether these soldiers will riot with the people and lead to uncontrollable.

At this time, whoever can step forward to stabilize the situation will be the chosen one and the best heir.

Prince Fu took this opportunity to return to Anyi, using the forces and officers in the army to control the soldiers, suppress riots at the bottom, guarantee the interests of the nobles, and gain the support of the nobles.

Slaughtering some riots and dissatisfied people at the bottom of the capital, as a vote of honor for the nobles and princes, also forced the Mohists to declare war on Wei, so as to use the threat of the Mohists to force the princes not to squeeze Wei too hard.

Then, he quickly had secret talks with South Korea, expressing that Wei Guo was resolutely anti-Mexico, and took the initiative to provoke troubles in Chengyang, Daliang and other places, forcing South Korea to let the princes reach an agreement as soon as possible.

At the same time, he had secret talks with Qin, and he could cede land, but not too much.With the help of the oppression caused by the declaration of war against Mexico, we can strive for greater benefits for the State of Wei, and allow the State of Qin to partially satisfy its bottom line.

At the same time, because of the early war against Mo, Qi State must be nervous. Wei State used the attitude of suicide to drag the princes into the water, so that Qi State knew that everyone would die together. Anyway, Wei State has nothing to lose, so Qi State can only hope. The princes joined forces to fight against the ink instead of regenerating the war.

Under the mediation of Han and Qi, Qin will not be too persistent.At that time, he will use the son to ease the fiefdoms of his trusted nobles, cut flesh and mend the sores, compensate those Xihe pawns who lost their land due to the cession, fulfill the promise to Xihe pawns, and obtain an army that can be controlled.

Sell ​​Wei's salt, iron and other industries to big merchants who can provide military expenses in the form of franchise rights. If there is no money, there will be no army. Relying on this method of drinking poison to quench thirst, first raise part of the military expenses.

Then, taking advantage of the previous Mohist propaganda in the capital and the intimidation of the nobles by dissatisfaction at the bottom, under the premise of guaranteeing the economic rights of the nobles, the nobles were forced to accept the conditions of paying military taxes and soldiers, turning soldiers into warriors, and expanding a new army.

Then watch the changes quietly, resign to fate, and hope that the Mo family will not win or lose.

The general trend cannot be reversed, Gong Zifu can only do so much, and the Mohists will not benefit Wei no matter if they win or lose, but this is not determined by Wei's military strength at this time.

(End of this chapter)