Chapter 822
Next Step
Chapter 822 Next Step
In order to wait for the day when the internal conflicts in Chu State broke out, the Mohists have spared no effort and invested a lot in infiltrating Chu State in these years.
This kind of infiltration and investment, in turn, intensified and gave birth to many contradictions within Chu.
The original speed of technology dissemination is very slow. If you can cultivate cattle in Chu, it will normally not be implemented on a large scale until 200 years later.
The progress of new productive forces catalyzes the disintegration of the old production relations, and the ruling class can no longer rule in the way it used to, which will lead to big problems.
Factors such as the disintegration of the clan system, the disappearance of national distinctions, the lack of effective governance caused by the over-expansion of the Chu State, and the continued expansion of the power of the aristocracy due to the advancement of productivity have actually made the reform of the Chu State more difficult than it was in the original history. Wu Qi, who died at one time, had many reforms.
More than ten years ago, the Mohists began to obtain the right to mine in Chu State, and shared the accounts with the King of Chu. This was one of the economic foundations for the King of Chu to form a new army Wang Shi and Che Guang.
It was more than ten years ago that the iron smelting workshop was opened in Nanyang. With the help of water transportation and the convenience of upstream, iron farm tools were quickly popularized in Chu State. The Mohists do not recognize the king."
In some cities, the banks run by the Mohist family used loans to sell iron wares and repay them in installments. While a large number of agricultural tools were sold, the people of Chu State were very familiar with the Mohist family and would not be unfamiliar with it.
The Mohists control a lot of capital, but some things are not for short-term profits. Although this monster is forcing the Mohists to transform the world in the long run, at least a strong organization will not be too short-sighted in pursuit of short-term profits.
The craftsmen's associations in several large cities are also organized in an orderly manner.
The ruling ability of the Chu State is not enough to reach the grassroots, because the king of Chu does not even have the ability to directly reduce the land directly under the fiefdom, let alone those grassroots?
The Mohist policy in Chu has always been an "uncrowned government".
Today, the understanding of the "government" by the princes of the world is still basically above "taxation, tax collection, and conscription". As for "benefiting the people", in the princes' eyes, this is "benevolent government" rather than "obligation".
That is to say, I have done a benevolent government, which is a high morality.
But I don't do it, and that's right, because it is not the duty of a regime to benefit the people.
However, the theories such as "benefiting the people, benefiting the world, and resolving the three difficulties of the people" that the Mohists have been promoting have actually made many people take it for granted that the meaning of the existence of the government is what the Mohists say rather than what the monarch wants.
The monarch believes that collecting taxes and military taxes, and being able to organize soldiers are all of a regime.
But the people don't see it that way. On the contrary, what the central government of Chu State failed to do, the Mohists are quietly doing it.
This made the activities of the Mohists in the state of Chu like a fish in water.
The best way to deal with this infiltration of the Mohists is to "follow the way of the Mohists, leaving the Mohists with nowhere to go".
For example, the Mohists clamored all day long that the land belonged to the people, so the King of Chu and the ruling class of the Chu State had their own land reforms and their own lives, so would anyone still listen to the Mohist propaganda?
For example, the Mohists clamored all day to solve the three difficulties of the people. For example, when the middle reaches of the Huaihe River were hit by a disaster, if the Chu State could efficiently deliver food to relieve the famine, would anyone still listen to the Mohist propaganda?
For example, there are many, but the idea of following the Mohist road and leaving the Mohist with nowhere to go cannot be implemented at all.
The aristocrats will not kill themselves. Even if the king of Chu wants to use the power of the people to suppress the aristocrats from the perspective of royal power, he has no money or strength.
The Mohist family is not the government of the Chu state, so for example, if there are ten things that can benefit the people, and the Mohist family does one, then the Mohist family is considered "good" by the people of the Chu state. "Bad".
The strategy of first going south and then going north formulated back then is not the same as Wu Zixu's previous strategy of destroying Chu.
Wu Zixu destroyed Chu, and the destruction of Chu did not hinder the restoration of Chu.
If the Mohists want to destroy Chu, they need Chu to have no chance to restore the country, so military affairs are supplemented and politics is the main priority.
The 20 years of infiltration are all for the same purpose: to let the people of Chu know that the Mohists are good, so that the people of Chu will at least not oppose the Mohists from the perspective of "Chu people".
This is also the reason why Shi has been delaying to do it. If this kind of penetration is not done well, it is meaningless.
After all, this is not the same as an uprising within a country. The state of Chu is the state of Chu, and Sishang is the state of Sishang. Although there is a difference in geographical location, ethnicity, language, and even ancestors that have been pushed back thousands of years, the state of Chu is still the same. Some people recognize their identity as "Chu people".
This is also the reason why the Mohists have been promoting "people under heaven" and replacing "vassal states" with Kyushu.
Now the Mohists have opened up Lingnan, separated by the Five Ridges, and the trade exchanges have made the economic exchanges between the people in Chu Cangwu and Dongting area and the Mohism more and more close.
The Mohists occupied Nanzheng, and at the same time reclaimed well salt in Bashu, making the salt trade closely related to the Chu people along the Yangtze River also belong to the Mohism.
The Mohists occupy the lower reaches of the Huai River, and through disaster relief a few years ago, the Chu people in the Huai River area are very familiar with the Mohists.
The Mohists started iron mining and smelting in Nanyang, which made the Nanyang area of Chu State and the commodities produced by the Mohists inseparable.
Witch doctors wearing witch costumes, artisan associations organizing handicraft cooperation in cities, public Mohists who give lectures and spread texts, merchants who traffic in goods, and the Limin Chamber of Commerce that lends ironware to the people...
All these things make Chu people no less familiar with the Mohists than Chu kings, especially in some grassroots areas. If there is any difficulty, find the local Mohists to uphold justice or borrow money or ask questions.
This is the basis for the future to be able to be determined by a single battle and stand firm.
But only the foundation is not enough, the Mohists are still waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity of civil strife in Chu.
In the original history, that is, in the past few years, the reform of the state of Chu presided over by Wu Qi was counterattacked. When the nobles were dying, they fought back wildly and even shot the dead body of the king of Chu with arrows. This has already driven the nobles crazy. Degree.
Although Wu Qi is far away from Qin State, the reform of Chu State is still going on. With the infiltration of Mohism and the help of "gold and silver loans", as well as the help of "trade tariff" and "mining share" besides tax exemption rights, Chu With the money in the hands of the king, there is a new army, and there are more literate class officials who have increased with the spread of paper printing.
Changes in the material base are sometimes greater and more chaotic than those brought about by one or two immortal geniuses.
According to the information collected over the years, the internal conflicts of the Chu State are basically under pressure, until the death of the King of Chu.
The king of Chu is not dead. With his prestige and ability, he can at least control the situation.
When the King of Chu dies, the situation will be out of control.
Is the new king of Chu a reformer or a conservative?This is a question that the nobles must consider, and it is also a question that the scholar class must consider.
This is not a stable era of great unification without real power and nobility, and there is no inertial succession mechanism for the throne.
Coups, fratricide, and usurpation happened from time to time.
The Wangziding incident is an example, as well as the earlier Baigong Sheng Rebellion, the real power aristocrats will not tolerate a monarch who continues to reform.
Because if the change continues, these nobles of the Chu Kingdom know that everything about themselves will be destroyed, even more than the Wu Qi Reform in the original history.
More literacy class, the advantage of the samurai destroyed by guns and powder, the people's desire for a better life brought about by new agricultural tools and high-yield crops...
This is doomed that Chu's regime transfer will be more shocking than the coup before Wu Qi's death in history.
Prince Zang was infertile, which was also a big problem, and his younger brother, Liangfu, had good friends with the nobles, which laid the groundwork for the coup.
Now the king of Chu's ambition and the firmness of the reform have made this contradiction more and more intensified.
The three clans of Qu, Jing, and Zhao firmly controlled the regime system of the Chu State, and the new army of the King of Chu and the loans and tariffs of the Mohist School opposed it, and they could barely be suppressed.
The dissemination of the theory of great benefits in the world by various schools of thought and the pervasive penetration of Mohism actually made the King of Chu understand a problem.
It is impossible to go all the way of the Mohist school so that the Mohist family has no way to go, but at least a few steps must be taken, otherwise the people of Chu State will be affected by this trend of thought sooner or later, bursting out with the power to turn the world around.
This is why the king of Chu was eager to reform. In fact, what he wanted to save was the Dukes of Chu and the blood of the nobles of Chu. Unfortunately, the people he wanted to save blocked all this: these nobles were full-time revolutionaries. Created the perfect foundation for the revolution, the role of one nobleman against two hundred members of the Proclamation Ministry.
In order for the nobles to be able to maintain a balance with the King of Chu, and to have the ability to raise troops when the King of Chu harmed their interests, Shi mainly wanted to convince everyone at the meeting about one thing: to increase smuggling to Chu.Sell guns, cannon, gunpowder, armor...
The reasons for persuasion, besides these issues about the balance of power and political direction, Shi also kept saying that the people who use weapons are not the weapons themselves but the people, the people who use muskets are not the nobles but the people, and the nobles should treat the people as animals that can shoot Driven, then they can be confident enough to fight against the centralized power of the King of Chu, and they can be swallowed by this group of "beasts" who can shoot when necessary.
Large-caliber copper cannons are definitely not for sale, but small-caliber hemp rope cannons and other cannons are sold as soon as they can be sold.
Muskets should not only sell matchlock guns, but also flint guns when necessary.
On the one hand, it will continue to stimulate the expansion of Sishang's military industry production capacity, and on the other hand, it can earn more money and increase its penetration into Chu State.
Every time the nobles of Chu State bought a musket, they had to exploit the people even more cruelly. The Mohists could use the profits to save a doctor in a witch costume in Chu, and a few catties of food would be saved. When the Chu State was in disaster, it was rescued.
By the way, it can stimulate the economy of Sishang. After all, the military industry involves coal, iron and supporting minerals, charcoal, agriculture, transportation and other industries.
Not only must they be sold, but they must be sold at a high price, until the people in many cities have the experience of using guns to serve in the army instead of spears, and they will be sold more fiercely than before.
At the same time, increase the funds for "subversive" activities in Chu State, continue to send Mohists into Chu State for activities, especially strengthen activities in Xiangyang, Xinyang, Dabie Mountains and other places.
The village community that does not recognize the king of Chu must recognize the Mohist; the people who hate the nobles must be close to the Mohist; the simplified horizontal and vertical characters that are more suitable for paper writing on Sishang must replace the city. Yi's Chu Zhuan...
Not only to infiltrate, but also to infiltrate from all directions.
From Nanzheng along the Han River; from Hongze along the Huaihe River; from Nanyang along the Jianghan; from Lingnan along the Xiangjiang River... These are the main external tasks of Mohism in the next few years.
(End of this chapter)
In order to wait for the day when the internal conflicts in Chu State broke out, the Mohists have spared no effort and invested a lot in infiltrating Chu State in these years.
This kind of infiltration and investment, in turn, intensified and gave birth to many contradictions within Chu.
The original speed of technology dissemination is very slow. If you can cultivate cattle in Chu, it will normally not be implemented on a large scale until 200 years later.
The progress of new productive forces catalyzes the disintegration of the old production relations, and the ruling class can no longer rule in the way it used to, which will lead to big problems.
Factors such as the disintegration of the clan system, the disappearance of national distinctions, the lack of effective governance caused by the over-expansion of the Chu State, and the continued expansion of the power of the aristocracy due to the advancement of productivity have actually made the reform of the Chu State more difficult than it was in the original history. Wu Qi, who died at one time, had many reforms.
More than ten years ago, the Mohists began to obtain the right to mine in Chu State, and shared the accounts with the King of Chu. This was one of the economic foundations for the King of Chu to form a new army Wang Shi and Che Guang.
It was more than ten years ago that the iron smelting workshop was opened in Nanyang. With the help of water transportation and the convenience of upstream, iron farm tools were quickly popularized in Chu State. The Mohists do not recognize the king."
In some cities, the banks run by the Mohist family used loans to sell iron wares and repay them in installments. While a large number of agricultural tools were sold, the people of Chu State were very familiar with the Mohist family and would not be unfamiliar with it.
The Mohists control a lot of capital, but some things are not for short-term profits. Although this monster is forcing the Mohists to transform the world in the long run, at least a strong organization will not be too short-sighted in pursuit of short-term profits.
The craftsmen's associations in several large cities are also organized in an orderly manner.
The ruling ability of the Chu State is not enough to reach the grassroots, because the king of Chu does not even have the ability to directly reduce the land directly under the fiefdom, let alone those grassroots?
The Mohist policy in Chu has always been an "uncrowned government".
Today, the understanding of the "government" by the princes of the world is still basically above "taxation, tax collection, and conscription". As for "benefiting the people", in the princes' eyes, this is "benevolent government" rather than "obligation".
That is to say, I have done a benevolent government, which is a high morality.
But I don't do it, and that's right, because it is not the duty of a regime to benefit the people.
However, the theories such as "benefiting the people, benefiting the world, and resolving the three difficulties of the people" that the Mohists have been promoting have actually made many people take it for granted that the meaning of the existence of the government is what the Mohists say rather than what the monarch wants.
The monarch believes that collecting taxes and military taxes, and being able to organize soldiers are all of a regime.
But the people don't see it that way. On the contrary, what the central government of Chu State failed to do, the Mohists are quietly doing it.
This made the activities of the Mohists in the state of Chu like a fish in water.
The best way to deal with this infiltration of the Mohists is to "follow the way of the Mohists, leaving the Mohists with nowhere to go".
For example, the Mohists clamored all day long that the land belonged to the people, so the King of Chu and the ruling class of the Chu State had their own land reforms and their own lives, so would anyone still listen to the Mohist propaganda?
For example, the Mohists clamored all day to solve the three difficulties of the people. For example, when the middle reaches of the Huaihe River were hit by a disaster, if the Chu State could efficiently deliver food to relieve the famine, would anyone still listen to the Mohist propaganda?
For example, there are many, but the idea of following the Mohist road and leaving the Mohist with nowhere to go cannot be implemented at all.
The aristocrats will not kill themselves. Even if the king of Chu wants to use the power of the people to suppress the aristocrats from the perspective of royal power, he has no money or strength.
The Mohist family is not the government of the Chu state, so for example, if there are ten things that can benefit the people, and the Mohist family does one, then the Mohist family is considered "good" by the people of the Chu state. "Bad".
The strategy of first going south and then going north formulated back then is not the same as Wu Zixu's previous strategy of destroying Chu.
Wu Zixu destroyed Chu, and the destruction of Chu did not hinder the restoration of Chu.
If the Mohists want to destroy Chu, they need Chu to have no chance to restore the country, so military affairs are supplemented and politics is the main priority.
The 20 years of infiltration are all for the same purpose: to let the people of Chu know that the Mohists are good, so that the people of Chu will at least not oppose the Mohists from the perspective of "Chu people".
This is also the reason why Shi has been delaying to do it. If this kind of penetration is not done well, it is meaningless.
After all, this is not the same as an uprising within a country. The state of Chu is the state of Chu, and Sishang is the state of Sishang. Although there is a difference in geographical location, ethnicity, language, and even ancestors that have been pushed back thousands of years, the state of Chu is still the same. Some people recognize their identity as "Chu people".
This is also the reason why the Mohists have been promoting "people under heaven" and replacing "vassal states" with Kyushu.
Now the Mohists have opened up Lingnan, separated by the Five Ridges, and the trade exchanges have made the economic exchanges between the people in Chu Cangwu and Dongting area and the Mohism more and more close.
The Mohists occupied Nanzheng, and at the same time reclaimed well salt in Bashu, making the salt trade closely related to the Chu people along the Yangtze River also belong to the Mohism.
The Mohists occupy the lower reaches of the Huai River, and through disaster relief a few years ago, the Chu people in the Huai River area are very familiar with the Mohists.
The Mohists started iron mining and smelting in Nanyang, which made the Nanyang area of Chu State and the commodities produced by the Mohists inseparable.
Witch doctors wearing witch costumes, artisan associations organizing handicraft cooperation in cities, public Mohists who give lectures and spread texts, merchants who traffic in goods, and the Limin Chamber of Commerce that lends ironware to the people...
All these things make Chu people no less familiar with the Mohists than Chu kings, especially in some grassroots areas. If there is any difficulty, find the local Mohists to uphold justice or borrow money or ask questions.
This is the basis for the future to be able to be determined by a single battle and stand firm.
But only the foundation is not enough, the Mohists are still waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity of civil strife in Chu.
In the original history, that is, in the past few years, the reform of the state of Chu presided over by Wu Qi was counterattacked. When the nobles were dying, they fought back wildly and even shot the dead body of the king of Chu with arrows. This has already driven the nobles crazy. Degree.
Although Wu Qi is far away from Qin State, the reform of Chu State is still going on. With the infiltration of Mohism and the help of "gold and silver loans", as well as the help of "trade tariff" and "mining share" besides tax exemption rights, Chu With the money in the hands of the king, there is a new army, and there are more literate class officials who have increased with the spread of paper printing.
Changes in the material base are sometimes greater and more chaotic than those brought about by one or two immortal geniuses.
According to the information collected over the years, the internal conflicts of the Chu State are basically under pressure, until the death of the King of Chu.
The king of Chu is not dead. With his prestige and ability, he can at least control the situation.
When the King of Chu dies, the situation will be out of control.
Is the new king of Chu a reformer or a conservative?This is a question that the nobles must consider, and it is also a question that the scholar class must consider.
This is not a stable era of great unification without real power and nobility, and there is no inertial succession mechanism for the throne.
Coups, fratricide, and usurpation happened from time to time.
The Wangziding incident is an example, as well as the earlier Baigong Sheng Rebellion, the real power aristocrats will not tolerate a monarch who continues to reform.
Because if the change continues, these nobles of the Chu Kingdom know that everything about themselves will be destroyed, even more than the Wu Qi Reform in the original history.
More literacy class, the advantage of the samurai destroyed by guns and powder, the people's desire for a better life brought about by new agricultural tools and high-yield crops...
This is doomed that Chu's regime transfer will be more shocking than the coup before Wu Qi's death in history.
Prince Zang was infertile, which was also a big problem, and his younger brother, Liangfu, had good friends with the nobles, which laid the groundwork for the coup.
Now the king of Chu's ambition and the firmness of the reform have made this contradiction more and more intensified.
The three clans of Qu, Jing, and Zhao firmly controlled the regime system of the Chu State, and the new army of the King of Chu and the loans and tariffs of the Mohist School opposed it, and they could barely be suppressed.
The dissemination of the theory of great benefits in the world by various schools of thought and the pervasive penetration of Mohism actually made the King of Chu understand a problem.
It is impossible to go all the way of the Mohist school so that the Mohist family has no way to go, but at least a few steps must be taken, otherwise the people of Chu State will be affected by this trend of thought sooner or later, bursting out with the power to turn the world around.
This is why the king of Chu was eager to reform. In fact, what he wanted to save was the Dukes of Chu and the blood of the nobles of Chu. Unfortunately, the people he wanted to save blocked all this: these nobles were full-time revolutionaries. Created the perfect foundation for the revolution, the role of one nobleman against two hundred members of the Proclamation Ministry.
In order for the nobles to be able to maintain a balance with the King of Chu, and to have the ability to raise troops when the King of Chu harmed their interests, Shi mainly wanted to convince everyone at the meeting about one thing: to increase smuggling to Chu.Sell guns, cannon, gunpowder, armor...
The reasons for persuasion, besides these issues about the balance of power and political direction, Shi also kept saying that the people who use weapons are not the weapons themselves but the people, the people who use muskets are not the nobles but the people, and the nobles should treat the people as animals that can shoot Driven, then they can be confident enough to fight against the centralized power of the King of Chu, and they can be swallowed by this group of "beasts" who can shoot when necessary.
Large-caliber copper cannons are definitely not for sale, but small-caliber hemp rope cannons and other cannons are sold as soon as they can be sold.
Muskets should not only sell matchlock guns, but also flint guns when necessary.
On the one hand, it will continue to stimulate the expansion of Sishang's military industry production capacity, and on the other hand, it can earn more money and increase its penetration into Chu State.
Every time the nobles of Chu State bought a musket, they had to exploit the people even more cruelly. The Mohists could use the profits to save a doctor in a witch costume in Chu, and a few catties of food would be saved. When the Chu State was in disaster, it was rescued.
By the way, it can stimulate the economy of Sishang. After all, the military industry involves coal, iron and supporting minerals, charcoal, agriculture, transportation and other industries.
Not only must they be sold, but they must be sold at a high price, until the people in many cities have the experience of using guns to serve in the army instead of spears, and they will be sold more fiercely than before.
At the same time, increase the funds for "subversive" activities in Chu State, continue to send Mohists into Chu State for activities, especially strengthen activities in Xiangyang, Xinyang, Dabie Mountains and other places.
The village community that does not recognize the king of Chu must recognize the Mohist; the people who hate the nobles must be close to the Mohist; the simplified horizontal and vertical characters that are more suitable for paper writing on Sishang must replace the city. Yi's Chu Zhuan...
Not only to infiltrate, but also to infiltrate from all directions.
From Nanzheng along the Han River; from Hongze along the Huaihe River; from Nanyang along the Jianghan; from Lingnan along the Xiangjiang River... These are the main external tasks of Mohism in the next few years.
(End of this chapter)