Chapter 408
Time is ruthless and heaven and earth glow
Chapter 408 Time is ruthless and heaven and earth are glowing ([-])
All these are attempts, Qu Jiang has never done it, and neither have those young people who went forward with enthusiasm, but they will always have a general direction if they do it in accordance with the morals of the Mohist school.
Success or failure is hard to say, and victory or defeat is hard to determine, but as long as morality exists and policies are formulated on this basis, there will be no brains and hips, nor will they be skewed to the sky.
The layout in Zhao State is divided into light and dark, and the bright line is Qu Jiang, who has made enough influence on the border of Gaoliu, thus prompting Zhao State to carry out a series of reforms, and make Wei Zhao lose face earlier.
The dark line is Gongzizhang's side. Six secret Mohists who have not revealed their identities have been placed. They were introduced by Mohist friends in Zhaodi, and Xun Xin's approval was added. The country is uncomfortable.
The state of Wei will definitely interfere in Zhao's internal affairs. Brothers and brothers' sons still have prestige and reputation, which will inevitably lead to big problems.The State of Wei took advantage of the prince in the State of Chu, and the current Marquis of Wei, Wei Chi, would naturally think of taking advantage of the civil strife in the State of Zhao to do something.
All of this is for the activities of the Mo family in Surabaya.
The state of Chu has been trapped by the Mohists. The blind spots left by the construction of Daliang City, the sale of gunpowder, new siege techniques, and stirrups all caused great losses to Chu State in the Battle of Daliang.
Not only did many soldiers die, but also because so many princes died, the King of Chu saw an opportunity to centralize power.Although the prince decided to split the state of Chu, if the centralization reform can be successful, it will far outweigh these losses. After all, the king of Chu could not directly govern those places.
But to change, the country will definitely be in chaos for a while, and the southern line of Sishang can be guaranteed to be stable for more than ten years, and the king of Chu has no choice but to show his face and invite the Mohist family to enter Chu to help train the new army and so on.
Sishang's danger lies in the north, and the way to the south of Qi State is blocked by the Mohists.In the last year's war against Zui, the Mohists intervened shirtless, but Qi returned without success.
If you can't beat the Three Jin Dynasty, then it is likely to form a good relationship with the Three Jin Dynasty. The Tian family needs the support of the princes. If you put down your dignity and become the younger brother of the Wei State, you may be able to be a legitimate Marquis of Qi.
The reconciliation between Qi and Sanjin is something the Mo family absolutely does not want to see.
On the issue of non-offensive, the Mohists have actually betrayed Zheng Guo morally, using Zheng Guo as a bait can make South Korea unintentionally die, and Zheng Guo's corpse is enough for South Korea to eat for several years.
This point has caused turmoil within the Mohist school. Some idealists believe that the morality of the Mohist family should be carried out from beginning to end, and they should support Feigong to help Zheng Guo defend.
But those who belong to that school think that if Sishang is gone, the Mo family will be finished, let alone benefit the world, so they can't take care of Zheng Guo's broken affairs, they can't afford it.
This is actually a continuation of the disagreement about whether to eliminate soldiers in the Central Plains or advance eastward to Sishang, but Shi Shi still won the support of the majority after all.
This support must be at the expense of Sishang's radical policies, otherwise it is impossible to uphold morality.
The current policy is too soft. Except for the few countries where Fuguo is acting on its behalf, the remaining Mohism, a small country in Sishang, can only infiltrate and encircle and deepen internal conflicts, but it is not yet possible to make too radical slogans and actions.
It cannot be said that the internal policy of the Mohist family is to oppose the Shiqing nobles and the bondage of the land to the serfs, but let Sishang continue to maintain the old policy, then the Mohist family will inevitably explode.
But to do that, you must need a stable external environment, otherwise the interference of various countries is really untenable.
Valued money has been planning for more than ten years, and finally made Chu State temporarily powerless.
The state of Qi is alone and has not yet been reformed. The Tian family has not yet replaced Qi and has no ability. The only threat is the state of Wei.
If Wei and Qi are reconciled, Chu State is half dead now, and the Mo family really needs Zhao State to rise up, to stab Wei State in the back, or to attract Wei State's attention.
Once the Three Jins turn their backs, the Mohist family can immediately implement a more radical policy in Sishang. The Mohist family is waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to make troubles in Chu and be radical in Sishang, but the other countries are unable to interfere.
And this can only rely on Zhao Guo.
It's a weird thing that doesn't seem to connect.
For example, if the Marquis of Zhao died, the Sishang princes would suffer.
For example, when Wei was besieged, the old nobles in Sishang would suffer.
But there is a connection.
Qu Jiang understood that the things he and his fellows went north to do were not for the current Marquis Zhao, but for Prince Zhang.
It is not only to find a way out for the state of Zhao, but also for the sake of Zhao's domestic turmoil in the future. Gong Zizhang has to admit some established policies of the Mo family in the north.
Civil unrest, need support.Even if Gong Zizhang wins the coup d'état in the capital in the future, he must gain the support of more nobles and local forces, so as to resist the possible interference of Wei State.
As for whether the State of Wei interfered with the succession rights of the State of Zhao, it was hard to say now, but what Qu Jiang and others did in the north was to force the State of Wei to interfere.
The increase of Zhao's strength and the appearance of stirrups lead to Zhao's possible military system reform. All these will force Wei Jian to intervene. This is a move that must die.
If you don't interfere, Zhao Guo is strong, and Zhao Guo will take the initiative to turn his face in the future; to interfere, the Mohists really let go of their hands and feet in Surabaya, and they can force the Yue Kingdom to retreat southward, take over all the forces of the Yue Kingdom in the north of the Huai River, and Qi State confronted.
Therefore, the better General Qu does in the north, the greater the chances of Wei Guo intervening in the future crisis of Zhao Guo's succession rights, and the Sishang Mo family's situation will be better.
Wei Guo... or Wei Jian, does he really like to see the allies of the Three Jins grow bigger, and would rather be stabbed in the back than desperately suppress the spirit of "internationalism" of the Sishang Mohists?
…………
The country has the interests of the country, and the king has the interests of the king. The king is not equal to the country, let alone the nobles under the king.
For example, the state of Qi.
After a hundred years of hard work, Tian's doctor who fled to Qi after the collapse of the country finally became the first family that controlled most of the situation in Qi.
The descendants of Jiang Taigong basically lost their fiefs, and the Lu family was weak.
The Guo and Gao clans sent by Emperor Zhou to monitor back then were still able to lead the five divisions and Qi Huan as the left, middle and right armies in the Qi Huan era, but now they have basically disappeared.
Taking advantage of the contradictions among the various nobles, the Tian clan staged a series of coups no less than the rivalry between the six ministers of the Jin Dynasty, relying on the number of bloodlines of Tian Chengzi letting the guests sleep at will, and concubine concubines giving birth to sons to divide the city Yi, relying on small fights to borrow big fights to win the hearts of the people, and relying on the abolition of Qi Huan's "official mountains and seas" policy in the fief to win the support of wealthy merchants, the Tian family has become the dominant family.
Now the picture is clearer.
Originally, civil strife also broke out within the Tian Clan. Tian Mourning Son, Gongsun Sun, Gongsun Hui, Xiang Ziniu, Tian He, Tian Hao... these brothers or cousins who were all qualified to be the head of the family fought Infield battle.
Taking advantage of this civil war, Tian He and Tian Hao killed Xiang Ziniu, Gongsun Sun, and Tian Mourning Zi, and the two brothers could finally sit down and have a good talk.
With the continuation of this civil war, relying on the co-operation with Wei Guo's acting, the crime of not recovering the [-] corpses of the three Jins against Qi was placed on the head of Qi Hou; nothing.
Three years ago at the Meng Zhuze meeting, the Mohists gave Tian a big gift: Yue returned the two cities of Jianyang and Juling, and also gave Qi [-] slaves, and vowed not to go north to invade Qi again.
For a time, there was an uproar in the whole country of Qi, praising Tian's virtuousness.
Last year's attack on Lu, the shit bowl was put on Qihou's head again: if he wins, it will naturally be Tian's wisdom.But since the Mohists sent troops to maintain the covenant of that year, it was Qihou's fault.
Not only was it wrong, but it was a big mistake. The people of Qi didn't want to fight, and they also wanted to eliminate soldiers.As a result, Marquis Qi not only refused to abide by it, but also took the initiative to violate the covenant and attack the State of Lu.If he wins, he can also suppress the conflict, but he was defeated by the coalition forces of Mohist, South Korea, and Lu, and the anger in the country is even greater.
Things have come to this point, the Lu family has lost much fiefdom and power, Qihou has long since lost his money when the Guanshanhai policy was shattered, his face has been lost more than ten years ago, and the domestic sentiment has been caused by the war against the most. If you fail, you will boil back to the sky.
In this case, in fact, all that is needed is a "carefully directed political farce". The Mohists have provided Tian with a very good reason in recent years: to choose wise men as princes and emperors for the benefit of the people.
At this time, Tian needs such a reason, because he is still Qixiang, not Qihou.
When the Tian family became the Marquis of Qi, they would naturally give up or even suppress these ideas, but now they are extremely needed.
The Jixia Academy has not yet been established, and the theory of the five virtues has not yet appeared. The Tian family needs a "righteous name" and legitimacy to replace the Lu family.
Hu Feizi, an ink scholar in Qi State, witnessed this farce with his own eyes, and then recorded it with ink and paper, watching with cold eyes and silently sneering.
The Mohism has developed well in Qi State in recent years, and many people listen to it when giving lectures. Qi State's economy is developed and there is enough apprenticeship.
The Tian family acquiesces to the Mohism's promotion of the principle of "choosing the sages as princes of the emperor" in Qi State, because the Tian family has already gained enough reputation before.
But relying on this alone is not enough, an opportunity is also needed to arouse the anger of the Chinese people.
After the failure of the Battle of Sui Sui last year, all this has already started quietly.
First of all, Marquis Qi is happy to drink, especially the spirits of the Mo family that he likes the most in recent years.
So in the spring of this year, a group of people pulled some of the most expensive wine in a carriage along the main road in Linzi to the palace.
On the way, he accidentally bumped into Tian's carriage, causing many wine jars to shatter, attracting many people to watch.
The person who escorted the wine sat on the ground and cried loudly, saying that a jar of high-quality wine needs a thousand stones of grain, which Qihou likes most, but now it is broken, and he can't afford to pay for it, so he will be flogged to death by Qihou.
When the people heard that a jar of wine was so expensive, they were already angry.Seeing the wine escort weeping, he became more merciful, and after being more merciful, he became more angry.
A person got off from Tian's carriage that was hit, and immediately said that it was his own crime, and he should pay for it himself, so that this person would not cry.
The people of Linzi all shouted long live, and they all sang the ballad of Tian Chengzi's time: "The old woman gathers weeds and offers Tian Chengzi."
Not long after this incident, the "Marquis of Qi" issued another order: because of the failure of the attack, the military tax should be increased, and the policy of officials, mountains and seas should be re-executed.
Then Tian was "forced" to carry out the order of Marquis Qi, and the price of salt in Linzi increased from four hundred yuan per kettle to one thousand yuan in one month, causing public grievances to boil.
There are many people in the country who sing: "Dan Xi, why is there no salt? It is bitter, how can there be no sages in Qi?"
(End of this chapter)
All these are attempts, Qu Jiang has never done it, and neither have those young people who went forward with enthusiasm, but they will always have a general direction if they do it in accordance with the morals of the Mohist school.
Success or failure is hard to say, and victory or defeat is hard to determine, but as long as morality exists and policies are formulated on this basis, there will be no brains and hips, nor will they be skewed to the sky.
The layout in Zhao State is divided into light and dark, and the bright line is Qu Jiang, who has made enough influence on the border of Gaoliu, thus prompting Zhao State to carry out a series of reforms, and make Wei Zhao lose face earlier.
The dark line is Gongzizhang's side. Six secret Mohists who have not revealed their identities have been placed. They were introduced by Mohist friends in Zhaodi, and Xun Xin's approval was added. The country is uncomfortable.
The state of Wei will definitely interfere in Zhao's internal affairs. Brothers and brothers' sons still have prestige and reputation, which will inevitably lead to big problems.The State of Wei took advantage of the prince in the State of Chu, and the current Marquis of Wei, Wei Chi, would naturally think of taking advantage of the civil strife in the State of Zhao to do something.
All of this is for the activities of the Mo family in Surabaya.
The state of Chu has been trapped by the Mohists. The blind spots left by the construction of Daliang City, the sale of gunpowder, new siege techniques, and stirrups all caused great losses to Chu State in the Battle of Daliang.
Not only did many soldiers die, but also because so many princes died, the King of Chu saw an opportunity to centralize power.Although the prince decided to split the state of Chu, if the centralization reform can be successful, it will far outweigh these losses. After all, the king of Chu could not directly govern those places.
But to change, the country will definitely be in chaos for a while, and the southern line of Sishang can be guaranteed to be stable for more than ten years, and the king of Chu has no choice but to show his face and invite the Mohist family to enter Chu to help train the new army and so on.
Sishang's danger lies in the north, and the way to the south of Qi State is blocked by the Mohists.In the last year's war against Zui, the Mohists intervened shirtless, but Qi returned without success.
If you can't beat the Three Jin Dynasty, then it is likely to form a good relationship with the Three Jin Dynasty. The Tian family needs the support of the princes. If you put down your dignity and become the younger brother of the Wei State, you may be able to be a legitimate Marquis of Qi.
The reconciliation between Qi and Sanjin is something the Mo family absolutely does not want to see.
On the issue of non-offensive, the Mohists have actually betrayed Zheng Guo morally, using Zheng Guo as a bait can make South Korea unintentionally die, and Zheng Guo's corpse is enough for South Korea to eat for several years.
This point has caused turmoil within the Mohist school. Some idealists believe that the morality of the Mohist family should be carried out from beginning to end, and they should support Feigong to help Zheng Guo defend.
But those who belong to that school think that if Sishang is gone, the Mo family will be finished, let alone benefit the world, so they can't take care of Zheng Guo's broken affairs, they can't afford it.
This is actually a continuation of the disagreement about whether to eliminate soldiers in the Central Plains or advance eastward to Sishang, but Shi Shi still won the support of the majority after all.
This support must be at the expense of Sishang's radical policies, otherwise it is impossible to uphold morality.
The current policy is too soft. Except for the few countries where Fuguo is acting on its behalf, the remaining Mohism, a small country in Sishang, can only infiltrate and encircle and deepen internal conflicts, but it is not yet possible to make too radical slogans and actions.
It cannot be said that the internal policy of the Mohist family is to oppose the Shiqing nobles and the bondage of the land to the serfs, but let Sishang continue to maintain the old policy, then the Mohist family will inevitably explode.
But to do that, you must need a stable external environment, otherwise the interference of various countries is really untenable.
Valued money has been planning for more than ten years, and finally made Chu State temporarily powerless.
The state of Qi is alone and has not yet been reformed. The Tian family has not yet replaced Qi and has no ability. The only threat is the state of Wei.
If Wei and Qi are reconciled, Chu State is half dead now, and the Mo family really needs Zhao State to rise up, to stab Wei State in the back, or to attract Wei State's attention.
Once the Three Jins turn their backs, the Mohist family can immediately implement a more radical policy in Sishang. The Mohist family is waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to make troubles in Chu and be radical in Sishang, but the other countries are unable to interfere.
And this can only rely on Zhao Guo.
It's a weird thing that doesn't seem to connect.
For example, if the Marquis of Zhao died, the Sishang princes would suffer.
For example, when Wei was besieged, the old nobles in Sishang would suffer.
But there is a connection.
Qu Jiang understood that the things he and his fellows went north to do were not for the current Marquis Zhao, but for Prince Zhang.
It is not only to find a way out for the state of Zhao, but also for the sake of Zhao's domestic turmoil in the future. Gong Zizhang has to admit some established policies of the Mo family in the north.
Civil unrest, need support.Even if Gong Zizhang wins the coup d'état in the capital in the future, he must gain the support of more nobles and local forces, so as to resist the possible interference of Wei State.
As for whether the State of Wei interfered with the succession rights of the State of Zhao, it was hard to say now, but what Qu Jiang and others did in the north was to force the State of Wei to interfere.
The increase of Zhao's strength and the appearance of stirrups lead to Zhao's possible military system reform. All these will force Wei Jian to intervene. This is a move that must die.
If you don't interfere, Zhao Guo is strong, and Zhao Guo will take the initiative to turn his face in the future; to interfere, the Mohists really let go of their hands and feet in Surabaya, and they can force the Yue Kingdom to retreat southward, take over all the forces of the Yue Kingdom in the north of the Huai River, and Qi State confronted.
Therefore, the better General Qu does in the north, the greater the chances of Wei Guo intervening in the future crisis of Zhao Guo's succession rights, and the Sishang Mo family's situation will be better.
Wei Guo... or Wei Jian, does he really like to see the allies of the Three Jins grow bigger, and would rather be stabbed in the back than desperately suppress the spirit of "internationalism" of the Sishang Mohists?
…………
The country has the interests of the country, and the king has the interests of the king. The king is not equal to the country, let alone the nobles under the king.
For example, the state of Qi.
After a hundred years of hard work, Tian's doctor who fled to Qi after the collapse of the country finally became the first family that controlled most of the situation in Qi.
The descendants of Jiang Taigong basically lost their fiefs, and the Lu family was weak.
The Guo and Gao clans sent by Emperor Zhou to monitor back then were still able to lead the five divisions and Qi Huan as the left, middle and right armies in the Qi Huan era, but now they have basically disappeared.
Taking advantage of the contradictions among the various nobles, the Tian clan staged a series of coups no less than the rivalry between the six ministers of the Jin Dynasty, relying on the number of bloodlines of Tian Chengzi letting the guests sleep at will, and concubine concubines giving birth to sons to divide the city Yi, relying on small fights to borrow big fights to win the hearts of the people, and relying on the abolition of Qi Huan's "official mountains and seas" policy in the fief to win the support of wealthy merchants, the Tian family has become the dominant family.
Now the picture is clearer.
Originally, civil strife also broke out within the Tian Clan. Tian Mourning Son, Gongsun Sun, Gongsun Hui, Xiang Ziniu, Tian He, Tian Hao... these brothers or cousins who were all qualified to be the head of the family fought Infield battle.
Taking advantage of this civil war, Tian He and Tian Hao killed Xiang Ziniu, Gongsun Sun, and Tian Mourning Zi, and the two brothers could finally sit down and have a good talk.
With the continuation of this civil war, relying on the co-operation with Wei Guo's acting, the crime of not recovering the [-] corpses of the three Jins against Qi was placed on the head of Qi Hou; nothing.
Three years ago at the Meng Zhuze meeting, the Mohists gave Tian a big gift: Yue returned the two cities of Jianyang and Juling, and also gave Qi [-] slaves, and vowed not to go north to invade Qi again.
For a time, there was an uproar in the whole country of Qi, praising Tian's virtuousness.
Last year's attack on Lu, the shit bowl was put on Qihou's head again: if he wins, it will naturally be Tian's wisdom.But since the Mohists sent troops to maintain the covenant of that year, it was Qihou's fault.
Not only was it wrong, but it was a big mistake. The people of Qi didn't want to fight, and they also wanted to eliminate soldiers.As a result, Marquis Qi not only refused to abide by it, but also took the initiative to violate the covenant and attack the State of Lu.If he wins, he can also suppress the conflict, but he was defeated by the coalition forces of Mohist, South Korea, and Lu, and the anger in the country is even greater.
Things have come to this point, the Lu family has lost much fiefdom and power, Qihou has long since lost his money when the Guanshanhai policy was shattered, his face has been lost more than ten years ago, and the domestic sentiment has been caused by the war against the most. If you fail, you will boil back to the sky.
In this case, in fact, all that is needed is a "carefully directed political farce". The Mohists have provided Tian with a very good reason in recent years: to choose wise men as princes and emperors for the benefit of the people.
At this time, Tian needs such a reason, because he is still Qixiang, not Qihou.
When the Tian family became the Marquis of Qi, they would naturally give up or even suppress these ideas, but now they are extremely needed.
The Jixia Academy has not yet been established, and the theory of the five virtues has not yet appeared. The Tian family needs a "righteous name" and legitimacy to replace the Lu family.
Hu Feizi, an ink scholar in Qi State, witnessed this farce with his own eyes, and then recorded it with ink and paper, watching with cold eyes and silently sneering.
The Mohism has developed well in Qi State in recent years, and many people listen to it when giving lectures. Qi State's economy is developed and there is enough apprenticeship.
The Tian family acquiesces to the Mohism's promotion of the principle of "choosing the sages as princes of the emperor" in Qi State, because the Tian family has already gained enough reputation before.
But relying on this alone is not enough, an opportunity is also needed to arouse the anger of the Chinese people.
After the failure of the Battle of Sui Sui last year, all this has already started quietly.
First of all, Marquis Qi is happy to drink, especially the spirits of the Mo family that he likes the most in recent years.
So in the spring of this year, a group of people pulled some of the most expensive wine in a carriage along the main road in Linzi to the palace.
On the way, he accidentally bumped into Tian's carriage, causing many wine jars to shatter, attracting many people to watch.
The person who escorted the wine sat on the ground and cried loudly, saying that a jar of high-quality wine needs a thousand stones of grain, which Qihou likes most, but now it is broken, and he can't afford to pay for it, so he will be flogged to death by Qihou.
When the people heard that a jar of wine was so expensive, they were already angry.Seeing the wine escort weeping, he became more merciful, and after being more merciful, he became more angry.
A person got off from Tian's carriage that was hit, and immediately said that it was his own crime, and he should pay for it himself, so that this person would not cry.
The people of Linzi all shouted long live, and they all sang the ballad of Tian Chengzi's time: "The old woman gathers weeds and offers Tian Chengzi."
Not long after this incident, the "Marquis of Qi" issued another order: because of the failure of the attack, the military tax should be increased, and the policy of officials, mountains and seas should be re-executed.
Then Tian was "forced" to carry out the order of Marquis Qi, and the price of salt in Linzi increased from four hundred yuan per kettle to one thousand yuan in one month, causing public grievances to boil.
There are many people in the country who sing: "Dan Xi, why is there no salt? It is bitter, how can there be no sages in Qi?"
(End of this chapter)