warring states careerist

Chapter 951 Distance Creates Beauty and Fear
Jiaozhou Bay, which once belonged to Qi State, is now a typical colonial city.

Colonization is not a very later term. King Wu conquered Zhou and conquered the east to divide the country, and built cities to divide the country, which is a classical colonial method.

At the narrowest mouth of Jiaozhou Bay, two stone fort fortress buildings control the waterway in and out of Jiaozhou Bay, densely covered with heavy cast iron cannons.

Inside the fortress is the core area of ​​the city, which is a military area. Once it is besieged, it will be able to use the supplies at sea to hold on.

Enough iron cannons and strong city walls, as long as more than a thousand troops are stationed, it is enough to last for half a year or even longer.

Outside the fortress, there are cities developed due to trade.

After the battle between Qi and Mo, the [-] miles around Jiaozhou Bay belonged to the Mohist rule, in exchange for handing over many cities in the southwestern part of Qi.

Because the Mohists do not recognize the legal principle that the land of the king is all in the world, they do not recognize that the land of Jiaozhou Bay belongs to Qihou, but to the people of Xia and Wanmin in Kyushu.

But the legal principles belong to the legal principles, and the real benefits still have to be talked about. After the Qi-Mo war, the strength of the Mohist family is not enough to completely challenge the old order, so for the sake of stability, a sum of money will be given to the Marquis of Qi every year.

This is not a rental fee, but a sponsorship fee for "purchasing ironware for the people of Qi to benefit the people's livelihood". In essence, it is to give some money so that Qihou will not strongly oppose it, but the statement is quite different.

The rule within thirty miles has already been localized. The people have allocated land, immigrated and settled down to form villages that are easy to rule, popularized village elections, improved the military service system, and improved the simplest education system.

Every year, a large number of Qi people flee here.

Some families came from land, some came by boat, and some were trafficked by human traffickers.

The center of the city is in the urban area of ​​Qingdao in later generations, where there was originally a fishing village.

In recent years, with the reactionary reform of Qi State, serfdom and the development of industry and commerce in Sishang, Jiaozhou Bay has become a very busy port.

The cotton, grain, silk, etc. of the nobles of the Qi State were transported along the river to the port, where they were loaded on ships and transported to Sishang.

Then the cotton cloth, silk, kiln, ironware, sugar, ceramics and even arms from Sishang were transported to Jiaozhou Bay for trade.

From Jiaozhou Bay to Huaihe Estuary, it was a very busy shipping route at this time.

The complementarity of the economic policies of the two parties has given birth to the prosperity of Jiaozhou Bay, and more and more people have fled here, either working on ships or doing small businesses.

In more than ten years, a group of emerging citizens has emerged.

There is no difference in ethnicity, and the dialects are quite similar. The culture of the Mohists in Sishang soon became the mainstream within [-] miles of Jiaozhou Bay.

There is no garrison formed by Sishang in the Jiaozhou Bay area today, but an army formed by local people serving in the military.

A standard infantry brigade, a cavalry company, plus a boat division composed of [-] sailors.

At this time, the cloud of the Great War was shrouded, and there were many preaching and agitation words in the newspapers in the city every day, but the full-scale mobilization had not yet started in Jiaozhou Bay, and the retired veterans were still at home, but they had only registered but had not started recruiting.

One day in July, somewhere in the city was very lively, and the local powerful forest whale was holding a banquet to celebrate a big event.

Lin Jing is also a person who fled, but he did not flee to Jiaozhou Bay at first, but migrated here later.

The direction he first fled was Penglai, which is also a port controlled by the Mohists, and an important port leading to Yan State, Jizi Korea and the tribes of the Korean Peninsula.

When he fled to Penglai, he was so poor that he didn't even have any clothes.

Few people know his details, but if they know the details, it is similar to the experience of many powerful and wealthy households in Jiaozhou.

In fact, he was originally from Yeyi, with a name and surname, and he was a down-and-out scholar.

He learned swords when he was young, and he was a well-known knight in the market. He killed someone and was hunted down by his enemies. He went to the port occupied by the Mo family in Laidi by himself and became a seaman. He mainly traveled to Liaodong in Laidi. trading.

After working for a year, something happened, the boat sank due to strong wind.

He and seven others drifted to the coast.

He has been in the market, has been a ranger, and has prestige among the crowd.

It was also lucky that they encountered such a thing as waiting for a rabbit, and the eight of them unexpectedly encountered a short-limbed pilot whale stranded on the coast, which weighed five or six thousand catties.

In those years, Sishang’s industrial and commercial development urgently needed a large amount of whale oil for lighting. Penglai and other places often saw whales in the offshore, and the whaling industry had many oil refining workshops in Lai, which was occupied by the Mohists.

At that time, it was said that if you are lucky enough to go out to sea to catch a whale, you will have no worries about food and drink for several years. Although the risk is high, there are many brave people who do it.

Lin Jing and the eight people were really lucky. The eight of them harvested whale oil and boiled it with earthen pottery. Finally, they met a passing boat and returned to Laidi.

After getting rich overnight, Lin Jing picked up a surname and gave himself such a name.

With the first pot of gold, he returned to Yeyi, killed his enemy, and gathered more than 30 people in the market who were not engaged in production.

After returning to Laidi, he bought some goods and went to Jizi North Korea to sell them.

It's called selling, but in fact, if there are too many people, it will be sold, and if there are few people, it will be robbed.

More than 30 people recommended him as the leader, became brothers with each other, and made great things in the deep mountains of Liaodong.

There used to be a small fishing and hunting tribe of more than 50 people. These 30 people pretended to sell ironware, but secretly killed all the members of the tribe, leaving no women, children and children behind, and robbed the tribe of furs and gold.

Either cheating, robbing, or plundering, in three to five years, more than 30 of them have already become quite wealthy.

He is also sober-minded. Some trading stations were established in Liaodong seven or eight years ago, and looting is already a risk.

He discouraged everyone from doing it anymore, it is better to clean up, most people support him, but there are still five or six people who want to go out and continue to do it.

Lin Jing displayed the spirit of democracy. After discussing with his confidantes, the minority obeyed the majority and sentenced the six brothers to death.

Pretending to go to sea to kill all six people, pretending to be a shipwreck, ruining the lives of six former brothers at the cost of a small boat.

After the news died down, he packed up the gold and silver wealth, left Penglai, and headed for Jiaozhou Bay.

The primitive accumulation has been completed in Liaodong, and the developed trading port in Jiaozhou Bay is naturally like a fish in water.

He has invested in shipping, engaged in trade, opened two workshops for reeling tussah silk, organized people to go to the Korean peninsula to traffic "long-term workers", and engaged in sugar futures...

Changing his appearance and obeying the law, he actually invested in education, set up a village school, and donated money to the poor in the past few years...

Now that I have a successful career, a high prestige, and a lot of wealth, after satisfying the material needs, I think about a higher level of spiritual needs.

Today's big banquet is to celebrate my becoming a "Viscount".

After the Mohist family and the old system completely turned their backs, in order to disgust the Zhouli enfeoffment system and to make Zhu Xia completely free of the so-called aristocratic spirit, many names were changed.

For example, representatives of public opinion at the township level and political participants are commonly known as barons.

Representatives at the county level, commonly known as viscounts.

And so on.

Because the best way to destroy an existence that sounds lofty is not to ban it, but to make it commonplace, so that it is common to everyone, so it is easy to destroy that sense of superiority.

The state of Chu refused to accept Zhou, so it called the county magistrate a public, and there are a lot of publics in the state of Chu.

Sishang is a step further than Chu State, since Mozi said that in ancient times, the emperor was elected, and the princes were also elected.

Well, then the selected people will all use traditional names.

After the name was changed, there were more than 600 marquises, countless earls, and even more viscounts, and a baron in the village toilet might be pouring water in the corner.

And the number of these titles increases every few years, because the representatives are not hereditary, but elected.

This caused the people to have no fear of a certain duke and a certain marquis: for example, the village head of a certain village in Sishang was elected as a marquis because of his excellent performance, and the villagers often chatted with the marquis at the gate of the village.

This makes names such as son, princess, earl, viscount, and marquis have become a kind of bad street existence in the places controlled by the Mohists.The son of the village chief may be the son of an earl, and the blacksmith in the military workshop may be a viscount. The beautiful fantasy and fear of the nobles because of the distance suddenly disappeared.

The Jiaozhou Bay area is at the county level. After completing the original accumulation by killing, arson, and robbery, Lin Jing transformed into a good person who subsidizes education and donates to the poor. This time, he was elected as a representative of the people at the county level. This rather vulgar and fishy-sounding name was changed to Viscount Lin.

A banquet is held today to celebrate this event.

As the banquet was about to begin, someone galloped in and whispered in Lin Jing's ear, "Suddenly a warship approached the port with a lot of sails. It should be a troop transport ship."

Lin Jing was startled, and understood that if it was really difficult for ships from other countries to enter the port, the troops on Sishang would surely die. Wouldn't it be that they wanted to align with each other and start a war?
Thinking about it again, I couldn't get the news before, and I was even more puzzled.

Not long after, everyone at the scene knew the news, and soon someone came to inform him that he would go to the county for a meeting in the future.

At the banquet, people were discussing this matter, and someone asked: "I don't know if the Viscount knows about this matter?"

In the banquet venue, the Viscount sat seven or eight people, but everyone knew that the sentence the Viscount was asking was Lin Jing.

"I don't know. I'm afraid it's going to war?"

He thought about it for a while, and he understood that the law is strict, and he is more aware of the various prohibitions of the Mohist family under the state of war, so he wanted to come forward and say a few words at this time.

So he said: "Today's banquet is all talents from Jiaozhou. The war is for the benefit of all people in the world. How should we support this matter?"

"The bond has been bought, and the children are serving, it goes without saying. But I'm afraid that some people don't know how deep they are, and they want to hoard food when the war starts, or do Qi army secret work for money... I have to warn everyone, absolutely not. "

He is not interested in benefiting the world and the people, but he knows the depth of the Mohism, once a war starts, there are a few things that he absolutely cannot do.

These words are not only to remind everyone, but also to make a high-profile statement in line with his status as a Viscount. He must always consider the overall situation, at least he must say something that takes the overall situation into consideration.

(End of this chapter)