warring states careerist

Chapter 950

The quality of the soldiers in the areas controlled by the peasant family is very good, their combat effectiveness is very strong, and they are full of energy. They are much stronger in spirit than the soldiers who work as agricultural laborers in some places in Sishang.

This is worthy of recognition. The best soldiers in Sishang are mainly three types.

Some are soldiers from Sishang Village, some are public miners in public mines and other places, and there are small producers and small handicraftsmen in cities who have not yet been squeezed by workshops and handicrafts.

In the beginning, Song State was actually an economic colony of Sishang, which provided Sishang with cheap raw materials and a large amount of labor, so it acquiesced that Song State carried out land annexation near Sishang.

There is no problem in providing raw materials and food for the colonies, but the number of soldiers is much worse.

In areas controlled by peasant families, nearly 8000 people were recruited last year to form a division.

Armaments and armaments are paid by the overall taxation, and the rear security is solved by the collective labor system of the farmer's village community. In addition, most of them believe in the morality of the farmer's family, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

Now that the conscription continues, another second-line garrison of a division can be pulled out.

In addition, once the war broke out, the position of the farmer's family would definitely bear the brunt, so the farmer's family wanted to negotiate terms with the Mohist family.

Kyushu is so big, farmers want more land and population to practice their morality.

This point was discussed within the Mohist school before coming here. The Mohist self-suffering and extreme faction recognizes some morals of the farmer's family, so they support the farmer's family emotionally.

Shi did not directly mention the decision made by the Mohist Central Committee, but first asked Xu Xingdao: "Where are you going to develop?"

Xu Xing also had plans on his side, so he said, "I want to go to Yan and Jizi North Korea."

Shi nodded, and asked again: "Why?"

Xu Xing sighed and said, "As you said, in the end, the merger of the land and the wealth of those who have more wealth are all caused by private ownership. And those who support private ownership the most are precisely those small farmers and small producers. At that time, they will be most likely to be annexed It's them too."

"They are supporting a path that makes them poor, but they like it."

"In the countries of the Central Plains, since the beginning of taxation, private ownership has become popular. Whether it is propaganda or development, it is extremely difficult for us."

"Father and Shizi argued about the paradise in the past. There is another disagreement between farmers and Mohists. It is the Mohists' view that the land is privately owned, then merged, and then small farmers become hired labor and farm labor, and then they can reach the eve of the next paradise."

"Father believes that under the system of enfeoffment, there is a basis for collective labor, so why can't we just skip the process of private ownership, mergers, bankruptcy, and public ownership? Why not just skip these suffering processes in one step?"

Shi's face was expressionless, neither supporting nor opposing this statement.

After a moment of silence, Xu Xing said: "Private ownership of land has become a major trend in the countries of the Central Plains. However, Yan and Jizi North Korea have not changed much since King Wu defeated Zhou. The feudal system was established, public land was worked, and there were few private lands."

"So, we thought, it might be easier there."

"Moreover, the land there is often stretched out, thousands of miles of fertile soil, all of which are plains, which are more suitable for collective labor to cultivate more land, and are also suitable for raising horses and cattle. However, the land in the South China Sea is barren and the land is small, so it is not suitable A way of working that shares joys and sorrows and shares benefits equally."

Hearing this, Shi laughed loudly and said, "The hero sees the same thing. The result of our discussion is also similar."

What the farmer conceived and considered was ultimately what was deduced from the set of theories brought by Shi. Although the two sides had quite different differences, the farmer had been misled by the Mohists in terms of the method of analyzing the problem.

Indeed, Liaodong and other places where Yan State and Jizi Korea are located still retain a strong remnant of the old system.

This old system is older than the old system that the Central Plains wants to overthrow and change, and it can be called a living fossil of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Clans, village communities, enfeoffments, public lands, and registered lands, which have undergone gradual changes for more than a hundred years in the Central Plains, are still mainstream there.

It is not suitable for the development of large-scale industry and commerce for the time being, and the theory of farmers is just applicable there: there is a lot of land and most of them are plains; the cold weather can only be planted for one season and there is a long slack time; the rough Sishang agricultural methods are more suitable for large-scale land. A sparsely populated land; large tracts of uncultivated land must be collectively worked together to be easily reclaimed...

All of these are advantages for the peasant family, as long as they can maintain this kind of benefit to the world, they are indeed very suitable for the rural village community where this kind of amendment is carried out.

As for the Central Plains, it is indeed more suitable for the Mohist theory that self-interest is altruism, in order to quickly realize land annexation, and wait for the steam engine to drive the population from the villages to the cities.

Or, a large number of landless people will be enriched in the frontier in the future, land will be granted to emigrate, and so on.

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It is appropriate to inspect the northwest of the Song Dynasty with great fanfare this time, and have friendly talks with the peasants. This has a different intention when the princes will meet the emperor in Luoyi.

He not only inspected the village community under the jurisdiction of the farmer's family, but also inspected several nearby cities.

At the same time, the Mo family's field army in Sishang also assembled in Song Dynasty, with the same fanfare as Shi, and they were not going to hide anything.

Soon after, the old, weak, women and children in some villages under the jurisdiction of the farming family began to move eastward, while the young and strong population gathered to transport grain to Taoyi, Shangqiu and other places after harvesting the summer grain.

It seems that this is about to start a war in Song Dynasty.

The public opinion on Sishang also began to turn to rhetoric such as the war of benefiting the world.

The law of war says, so go up to the army to attack the plan, secondly to attack the cross, secondly to attack the army, and then down to attack the city.The method of siege is a last resort.Repairing sculls and equipment, and equipment, will be completed in three months; distance from the mound will be completed in three months.If the generals are overwhelmed by their anger and ants attach themselves to them, killing one-third of the soldiers, but the city cannot be pulled out, this attack will be a disaster.Therefore, those who make good use of soldiers should subdue their soldiers instead of fighting, uproot their cities instead of attacking them, and destroy their country instead of perpetuating them. The law also.

The way the Mohists developed in Sishang before was either to attack or to attack. Unless it was absolutely necessary, they would use the contradictions among the princes to attack the city.

Such as taking advantage of the contradictions between Jin and Chu to gain a foothold, using the contradictions between Wei and Zhao to attack Qi, using the contradictions between Wei and Chu to break dreams, taking advantage of Zheng to take Song and so on.

But this time, the Mohist's stance seemed to be completely different from that of a plan or a fight, but that they were going to attack the city head-on.

Sun Wuzi's thesis about "siege the city from below", because of the emergence of some weapons and tactics, has become inapplicable to this era, at least not applicable to the Mohist side.

Because the Mohists are using gunpowder and explosives to attack the rammed earth city that defends the bronze sword. This is an asymmetrical war.

Changing "below" to "next" and changing the extremely difficult siege warfare into an extremely simple siege warfare has led to a 30-year drastic change in tactics and military system throughout the world.

This time the princes gathered in Luoyi, it seems that the failure of the Mohism's "cutting diplomatic relations" did not rely on the contradictions of the princes, no longer use diplomatic means to solve many problems, but instead agitated public opinion and the princes within Sishang It means full-scale war.

Many people shook their heads and thought that the Mo family had gone the wrong way, and they were a little arrogant.

But the upper echelons of the Mohist family know that they have come to this point, there is really no need for diplomatic relations, and there is no room for diplomacy to break the situation.

Obviously it's a matter of life and death.

This is not the original vassals fighting each other, they can borrow strength from each other to contain each other.

But the Mohists want to force the princes and the nobles under the prince system to death. It is already useless to cut diplomatic relations, so it is better to plan early.

The incident of going to the northwest of the Song Dynasty naturally triggered panic and responses from all countries.

Although the feudal lords were still arguing in Luoyi, all countries responded immediately to the fact that Shi inspected the western border of the Song Dynasty with great fanfare and the Sishang Field Army gathered in the Song Dynasty.

Qi's elite gathered in the west of Linzi, watching Sishang nervously, and the scout horses who delivered the news dozens of times a day.

An army of [-] marched southward, in places such as Linqiu and Chengyang, not far from the armies of Wei and Wei.

In Taoyi and other places, Mohist scouts have already begun to enter Qi and Wei, and there is a tendency to take the initiative to attack and break the alliance while the oath of the feudal alliance has not been fulfilled.

The transportation of food, grass and ammunition is endless, it seems that the alliance of princes is hard to come to fruition, but the Mohists are adding fuel to the fire and insisting on promoting a result.

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At this time, at the harbor at the mouth of the Huaihe River, soldiers from two divisions were boarding the ship.

The troops of these two divisions have been here for a long time, and they have been preaching to the outside world that they are preparing to fight Vietnam.

Moreover, it has been said in many propagandas that only a few divisions are needed to pacify the Yue Kingdom.

Not only the soldiers and civilians of Sishang believed in this propaganda, but also the king of Yue and the northern princes also believed in it.

The Yue Kingdom did not dare to cross the Jiangbei Expedition, so it could only cower in the land of Wuyue, pinning all its hopes on the northern princes, because the Yue Kingdom knew how weak and helpless it was at this time, especially after the boat master was wiped out.

At this time, the Huaihe River did not flow into the Yangtze River, but had a separate mouth into the sea.

After the Yellow River seized the Huaihe River in later generations, the mouth of the sea was gradually silted up. From the Song Dynasty to the later generations, silted up the size of a county.

At this time, the mouth of the Huaihe River is the busiest port in Sishang and perhaps the world.

Sishui, Danshui, and Suishui connect Sishui, Jishui, and Heshui of the Yellow River; It is the most important shipping route in Sishang. After the rise of shipping, it is quite prosperous here.

It is not far from Hangou, and the troops of the two divisions have been stationed here for half a year, and they have been practicing boating for the past six months, so as not to get used to the bumps.

It seems that these two divisions are clearly going to land in Kuaiji and Wu from Yongdong, which was blocked by the Mohists and planned to be exiled by Goujian in the past, and go straight to the core of the Yue Kingdom.

The State of Yue was very nervous, and naturally believed that the forces of these two divisions were for attacking the State of Yue, and the princes also believed it.

But in fact it is not, this is just a trick.

Originally, the strength of these two divisions was prepared to attack Jimo and Gaomi by boat and threaten Linzi after a full-scale war with the princes.

But not long ago, a decision was made at the internal meeting of the Mohists to change the plan, from defensive counterattack to active attack, to launch the war before the princes are ready, and to catch the princes by surprise, so as to seize the initiative of the war.

On the one hand, this year's summer grain harvest is bumper, and on the other hand, the stability of the rule and the conscription work in Jianghan, Nanyang and other places are much better than expected.

This made the top Mohists adjust their strategy according to the situation.

Therefore, Shi went to the west of the Song Dynasty with great fanfare to inspect the villages of the peasants; Sishang responded to the field army of the princes gathered near Shangqiu and Taoyi to make a threat to Qi, Wei, and Wei.

And the soldiers who have been trained to prevent seasickness at the mouth of the Huaihe River for half a year will board the ship and land at the port ceded by the Mo family in Jiaozhou Bay during the Qi-Mo War. .

At that time, we will join forces with troops from Jucheng and other places on land to attack Jimo and Gaomi.

Taking advantage of the harvest season of summer grain and unharvested autumn grain, he destroyed the rule of the nobles of Qi in Jiaodong in one fell swoop, forced land reform with the most violent means, encouraged the people to harvest the grain of the fief nobles for their own, and expropriated summer grain at the same time.

Once Gaomi and Jimo were conquered and the rule of the Qi nobles in Jiaodong was destroyed, they went west to Weishui and threatened Linzi, forcing Qi to withdraw its main force.

Once the main force of the Qi State is transferred away, South Korea will not dare to send troops out of Nanyang, thereby relieving the pressure on the western front.

The land of Jiaodong is occupied but not defended. Once the main force of Qi State gathers to the east and prepares to attack, it is ready to abandon Jiaodong and retreat southward.

With the soldiers of the two divisions, mobilize the main force of the Qi State to be exhausted, prevent the princes from joining forces, buy more time, completely disrupt the possible deployment of the princes, and hold the initiative of the war in their own hands.

(End of this chapter)