Chapter 835
Selling Price
Chapter 835 Selling Price
Seeing that there was no one around, the near minister whispered: "If it is the most beneficial to your majesty, it is not impossible."
"If Your Majesty surrenders now, what will Wei Han do to you?"
Zheng Jun snorted and said: "Wei and Han attacked me in the name of my three crimes. If they surrendered, they would only interrogate me. Following the story of Wei Chenggong in the past, they would argue in court and accuse me of guilt, and then they would be thrown into prison or killed. I."
The close minister said: "That's why the king can't surrender to Wei and Han at this time. But if he doesn't surrender, he needs to rely on the power of the common people. It's just that the common people are strong and the monarch is weak. The stories of Song Di, Sishang, Xue, Teng, Fei and so on It’s so vivid, it’s impossible not to notice it.”
Zheng Jun asked: "It's not good to surrender, and it's not good to not surrender, but what should I do?"
The courtier said: "As in the example just now, if the servant stands up to resist the neighbor, so that the neighbor cannot enter temporarily. If he wants to defeat the neighbor, the servant must be strong, and in the future he will follow the example of Xue and Fei."
"But the neighbors can't attack for the time being, and there are other houses watching over them, so they must be impatient."
"When the house slaves are resisting and the neighbors can't advance or retreat, you have a secret talk with the neighbors, saying that you will open the back door to let the neighbors come in, but you must leave a part of the family property to you, or at least keep the ancestors and sacrifices to move to other places for the king. Abandoning the Earl of the Marquis, this is the most beneficial way for you."
Zheng Junyi's heart moved, and after thinking for a while, it seemed that it was true.
Now the Wei and Han coalition forces don't care about Zheng Junyi at all, he doesn't have any capital to negotiate, because judging from the current situation, the Wei and Han coalition forces can break through the city in just ten days.
That being the case, why accept Zheng Junyi's surrender?
It's better to invade the city, in the name of regicide, imitate the story of Jin Wengong's trial of Wei Chenggong, and sentence Zheng Junyi to a major crime, and then divide up Zheng's land, population and wealth.
In other words, Zheng Junyi wants to sell the country now, but he can't sell it. If he can grab it directly without buying it, why should he buy or sell it?
The meaning of the close ministers is to use the people of Zheng State and use their blood to sell a good price for Zheng Junyi's family.
According to my close ministers, if I first pretend to promise that the people will reform in the future, so that the people can fight hard and stop the Wei and Han coalition forces.
According to the plan of the Wei and Han coalition forces, this must be a battle that requires a quick battle. It is necessary to learn from Sishang to send troops to the Song State, and quickly solve the Zheng State before it is too late for other countries to intervene.
So this cannot be delayed.
Once the people are organized by the Mohists and they can persist for a month, then Wei Han will be ugly.
I don't know how long the fight will last. If the fight fails, once countries interfere in the future, accidents will easily happen.
If you don't fight, you have been fighting for so long, and you will definitely not be reconciled if you withdraw. Not to mention the serious wear and tear, it will even cause domestic dissatisfaction.
Wei Han originally wanted to destroy Zheng State in ten days, but if the people of Zheng State could resist for a month, then Ming Qiang, who didn't need to buy and sell originally, could sell it for a good price.
At that time, Zheng Junyi sold the people, reached a secret agreement with Wei Han, surrendered his status as a king, gave up the title of Earl Marquis, and let Wei Han move him to another place, with a fief, that would be the perfect ending.
Indeed, from uncle Hou to doctor, from the king of a country to the king of a country, this is going down.
But if he surrenders now, or if he doesn't organize the people to be captured by Wei and Han, not only will he not be able to become a doctor, but he may be tried and imprisoned in the name of regicide.
If the people are completely handed over to the Mohists for them to organize, then the Sishang princes such as Xue, Fei, and Teng are examples. When the people rise up, they will ask for more and more things. What will be left?
The close minister said again: "Your Majesty, I am your subject, and all the wealth and honor come from your Majesty, so I think about you."
"The Si clan didn't surrender because they knew that once the city was broken, the rest of the Six Mus would kill them to avenge the coup. They didn't love you and be loyal to the emperor."
"Although Zhengcheng is big and has tens of thousands, how many people are really considering your interests?"
"The people of the common people are ambitious and greedy. The people are wolves who don't know how to raise them."
"You promised the Mohists today that they would pay for the demolition of people's houses when defending the city. Then tomorrow they will ask for land, power, and everything the Mohists say about equality, meritorious service, and constitutionalism. Where will there be an end?"
"You can't punish a doctor, and you can't be polite to a common man. The common people don't know how to be polite. They only have profit in their hearts, but they have no righteousness. They don't know gratitude, don't know loyalty, they are your worst enemies."
"With Wei Han, you can still talk, at least you should respect the etiquette. With the people, you can't talk about it. Sishang Kingdom is an example!"
"At that time, the country will be in danger and the ancestral temple will collapse. This must be considered."
These words were right in Zheng Junyi's heart.
This is also the reason why Zheng Guo has not been in contact with the Mohist organization for so many years after the Siziyang Rebellion.
Just as the ministers said, the Si clan vowed to defend Zheng Guo to the death because they loved him and were loyal to the king?
No, the Si clan is only for the benefit of the clan, for their own lives.
Zheng Junyi is not the son of Duke Su who was killed, but the nephew of Duke Su. Originally, this throne was also picked up, and he can be regarded as a half puppet.
Back then, Duke You fought against South Korea and was killed by the Koreans. Si Ziyang ascended to the prime minister in the name of revenge and appointed Duke You's younger brother, Duke Su.
Later, Si Ziyang was killed, and Su Gong was also killed by Si Ziyang's remnant party immediately, so he was appointed as Zheng Jun.
In that Zheng Guo coup, too many people died, too many families were slaughtered, and the remaining six of the seven mus were still very powerful, so they split off. It can be said that the Si clan is the least likely to accept surrender by Wei and Han. Batch of people, so they fight to the death.
So much so that when someone was discussing whether to surrender in Kaesong, the powerful Si clan immediately killed some people who proposed to surrender under the righteous name of "talking about surrender is a national traitor, and anyone can be killed".
Zheng Junyi did not participate in the coup that year, but in the end it was established because of the regicide. Wei Han also had this in the name of the crusade, and Zheng Junyi hoped to resist.
Everyone has everyone's interests. Now the world is in chaos, and the Mohists have accelerated the chaos in the world. The original ruling methods can no longer be ruled as usual.
Once the people start to wake up, once they start to accept that it is natural to ask for everything they deserve, those vassal states on Sishang are an example: in the end, the country, the community, and the ancestral temple are destroyed.
The changes in Shangqiu 20 years ago were just around the corner. How could Zheng Junyi not be nervous when he heard what the minister said?
What's more, Zheng Guo's support until now is exhausted, and there is no way to keep it going.
Although the Mohists are organizing the Bingjiuhui and the non-offensive covenant, the additional conditions are too harsh, and various changes must be implemented, which is impossible for Zheng Jun and the Si family to agree to.
According to what this close minister said, the more intense the people's resistance, the more he can actually sell Zheng Guo at a good price.
After resisting for a month, you can sell a prince of fifty miles and become a vassal.
After two months of resistance, you can sell a king of hundreds of miles, and even a city will inherit the sacrifices of Zheng Guo.
If the resistance is longer, the selling price will be higher.
Not all Zheng Guo belongs to him, but part of it belongs to the Si family, so if he can resist for a longer time, maybe he can really sell it for a high price.
But no matter what, it is impossible to accept Wei Han's surrender now. Instead, it is very likely to use his head to invite people's hearts to prove righteousness.
This kind of mentality would not have occurred in the Shangqiu incident 20 years ago.
One is that there was no precedent at that time, and the old rulers had not been exposed to new ways of "rebellion". The aristocratic monarchs and ministers who have never been in contact with it, let alone uprisings with simple programs such as "land to the tiller" in later generations.
If you don't have experience, you don't know how terrible it is.
The second is that the times are changing.
In the past, the Mohists showed weakness and needed to use the contradictions between the nobles and the nobles, and the contradictions between the monarch and the nobles to survive in the cracks and find ways to strengthen themselves. At that time, they needed to borrow all the strength and contradictions that could be borrowed to strengthen themselves.
Now, the Mohist family owns Sishang, and has become one of the most powerful nations in the world. After Heze Huimeng and Qinzi passed away five years ago, the Mohisthist fangs have been exposed. They are anti-nobility and anti-monarchy. It is no longer what it used to be. When you are weak, use your strength to fight.
This has made the princes and nobles of various countries more and more vigilant against the Mohist family in the past few years, but there is nothing they can do about it. Unless the monarchs and nobles of various countries can abandon their previous suspicions and unite as one, there is really nothing they can do.
Times have changed, and the primary and secondary contradictions have also changed. Monarchs, especially those of small countries, need to consider more things and start to fear the power of the people.
Suddenly, Zheng Jun heard the last words from the minister again, words that made him completely firm in his traitorous heart.
"Your Majesty, not long ago, the Song Dynasty coup, Wei Chuhan and Han fought for 300 years, and they were still able to form an alliance to defend against ink."
"Now if you use the power of the people to get close to the Mohists, how can you be tolerated by Wei Chuhan?"
"Even if you win, how can Mrs. Si be willing to give up the power in your hands? Then they will deal with you first."
"Even if you win, the power of the people rises, but this place is too far away from Sishang, but it is surrounded by Wei, Han and Chu. Even if you follow the wishes of the Mohists in everything, change the system, and formulate a great constitution, Wei Chu and Han must get rid of them and hurry up." , Zheng Guo is sandwiched between Wei and Han, how to resist?"
"Wei and Han are attacking you now, but for profit, land, population, wealth, this can still be discussed, as long as the guards live, at least you can be a feudal monarch."
"But if you are so close to ink that you imitate the system of the Song Dynasty, then Wei Han must not accept it. In the future, Wei Han will attack you, it will be for the sake of righteousness. At that time, not only will you not be able to become the king, but you will also be punished. put to death..."
"Zheng Boxiaoyou, he will also be to blame. At that time, I'm afraid that this sentence is meant for you."
Zheng Boxiaoyou, he will also be to blame.This sentence is intended to serve as a warning to others. It originated from Zheng Bo, and I am afraid that it will be used by Zheng Bo again in the future.
Zheng Junyi already understood that when the Mo family came to Zheng State, Zheng Jun imagined relying on the Mo family to help improve the city defense. He knew that Zheng State's national strength was weak, and he never thought of fighting South Korea alone.
In the past, Si Ziyang had great ambitions. That was because Zheng Guo still had the strength to attack South Korea at that time. Now it is divided into three, and Wei and Han have got the second. At this time, Si Ziyang would not dare to return to life. make such fantasies.
The original intention of the Mohists to come to Zheng Jun to welcome them was to improve the defense of Xinzheng, and to be able to make South Korea invade and hold on for a month, waiting for Wei Chu to intervene. They didn't even think about making the country rich and strong and self-reliant, that's unrealistic.
Who would have thought that this time Wei and Han joined forces to attack Zheng, making the situation suddenly beyond his imagination. He agreed to the conditions of the Mohist family in a panic before, but now thinking about it, he is already faintly afraid.
After the minister tried to persuade him again, his mind became sober and calm, and he thought to himself: "If it wasn't for this person, I would be dead."
(End of this chapter)
Seeing that there was no one around, the near minister whispered: "If it is the most beneficial to your majesty, it is not impossible."
"If Your Majesty surrenders now, what will Wei Han do to you?"
Zheng Jun snorted and said: "Wei and Han attacked me in the name of my three crimes. If they surrendered, they would only interrogate me. Following the story of Wei Chenggong in the past, they would argue in court and accuse me of guilt, and then they would be thrown into prison or killed. I."
The close minister said: "That's why the king can't surrender to Wei and Han at this time. But if he doesn't surrender, he needs to rely on the power of the common people. It's just that the common people are strong and the monarch is weak. The stories of Song Di, Sishang, Xue, Teng, Fei and so on It’s so vivid, it’s impossible not to notice it.”
Zheng Jun asked: "It's not good to surrender, and it's not good to not surrender, but what should I do?"
The courtier said: "As in the example just now, if the servant stands up to resist the neighbor, so that the neighbor cannot enter temporarily. If he wants to defeat the neighbor, the servant must be strong, and in the future he will follow the example of Xue and Fei."
"But the neighbors can't attack for the time being, and there are other houses watching over them, so they must be impatient."
"When the house slaves are resisting and the neighbors can't advance or retreat, you have a secret talk with the neighbors, saying that you will open the back door to let the neighbors come in, but you must leave a part of the family property to you, or at least keep the ancestors and sacrifices to move to other places for the king. Abandoning the Earl of the Marquis, this is the most beneficial way for you."
Zheng Junyi's heart moved, and after thinking for a while, it seemed that it was true.
Now the Wei and Han coalition forces don't care about Zheng Junyi at all, he doesn't have any capital to negotiate, because judging from the current situation, the Wei and Han coalition forces can break through the city in just ten days.
That being the case, why accept Zheng Junyi's surrender?
It's better to invade the city, in the name of regicide, imitate the story of Jin Wengong's trial of Wei Chenggong, and sentence Zheng Junyi to a major crime, and then divide up Zheng's land, population and wealth.
In other words, Zheng Junyi wants to sell the country now, but he can't sell it. If he can grab it directly without buying it, why should he buy or sell it?
The meaning of the close ministers is to use the people of Zheng State and use their blood to sell a good price for Zheng Junyi's family.
According to my close ministers, if I first pretend to promise that the people will reform in the future, so that the people can fight hard and stop the Wei and Han coalition forces.
According to the plan of the Wei and Han coalition forces, this must be a battle that requires a quick battle. It is necessary to learn from Sishang to send troops to the Song State, and quickly solve the Zheng State before it is too late for other countries to intervene.
So this cannot be delayed.
Once the people are organized by the Mohists and they can persist for a month, then Wei Han will be ugly.
I don't know how long the fight will last. If the fight fails, once countries interfere in the future, accidents will easily happen.
If you don't fight, you have been fighting for so long, and you will definitely not be reconciled if you withdraw. Not to mention the serious wear and tear, it will even cause domestic dissatisfaction.
Wei Han originally wanted to destroy Zheng State in ten days, but if the people of Zheng State could resist for a month, then Ming Qiang, who didn't need to buy and sell originally, could sell it for a good price.
At that time, Zheng Junyi sold the people, reached a secret agreement with Wei Han, surrendered his status as a king, gave up the title of Earl Marquis, and let Wei Han move him to another place, with a fief, that would be the perfect ending.
Indeed, from uncle Hou to doctor, from the king of a country to the king of a country, this is going down.
But if he surrenders now, or if he doesn't organize the people to be captured by Wei and Han, not only will he not be able to become a doctor, but he may be tried and imprisoned in the name of regicide.
If the people are completely handed over to the Mohists for them to organize, then the Sishang princes such as Xue, Fei, and Teng are examples. When the people rise up, they will ask for more and more things. What will be left?
The close minister said again: "Your Majesty, I am your subject, and all the wealth and honor come from your Majesty, so I think about you."
"The Si clan didn't surrender because they knew that once the city was broken, the rest of the Six Mus would kill them to avenge the coup. They didn't love you and be loyal to the emperor."
"Although Zhengcheng is big and has tens of thousands, how many people are really considering your interests?"
"The people of the common people are ambitious and greedy. The people are wolves who don't know how to raise them."
"You promised the Mohists today that they would pay for the demolition of people's houses when defending the city. Then tomorrow they will ask for land, power, and everything the Mohists say about equality, meritorious service, and constitutionalism. Where will there be an end?"
"You can't punish a doctor, and you can't be polite to a common man. The common people don't know how to be polite. They only have profit in their hearts, but they have no righteousness. They don't know gratitude, don't know loyalty, they are your worst enemies."
"With Wei Han, you can still talk, at least you should respect the etiquette. With the people, you can't talk about it. Sishang Kingdom is an example!"
"At that time, the country will be in danger and the ancestral temple will collapse. This must be considered."
These words were right in Zheng Junyi's heart.
This is also the reason why Zheng Guo has not been in contact with the Mohist organization for so many years after the Siziyang Rebellion.
Just as the ministers said, the Si clan vowed to defend Zheng Guo to the death because they loved him and were loyal to the king?
No, the Si clan is only for the benefit of the clan, for their own lives.
Zheng Junyi is not the son of Duke Su who was killed, but the nephew of Duke Su. Originally, this throne was also picked up, and he can be regarded as a half puppet.
Back then, Duke You fought against South Korea and was killed by the Koreans. Si Ziyang ascended to the prime minister in the name of revenge and appointed Duke You's younger brother, Duke Su.
Later, Si Ziyang was killed, and Su Gong was also killed by Si Ziyang's remnant party immediately, so he was appointed as Zheng Jun.
In that Zheng Guo coup, too many people died, too many families were slaughtered, and the remaining six of the seven mus were still very powerful, so they split off. It can be said that the Si clan is the least likely to accept surrender by Wei and Han. Batch of people, so they fight to the death.
So much so that when someone was discussing whether to surrender in Kaesong, the powerful Si clan immediately killed some people who proposed to surrender under the righteous name of "talking about surrender is a national traitor, and anyone can be killed".
Zheng Junyi did not participate in the coup that year, but in the end it was established because of the regicide. Wei Han also had this in the name of the crusade, and Zheng Junyi hoped to resist.
Everyone has everyone's interests. Now the world is in chaos, and the Mohists have accelerated the chaos in the world. The original ruling methods can no longer be ruled as usual.
Once the people start to wake up, once they start to accept that it is natural to ask for everything they deserve, those vassal states on Sishang are an example: in the end, the country, the community, and the ancestral temple are destroyed.
The changes in Shangqiu 20 years ago were just around the corner. How could Zheng Junyi not be nervous when he heard what the minister said?
What's more, Zheng Guo's support until now is exhausted, and there is no way to keep it going.
Although the Mohists are organizing the Bingjiuhui and the non-offensive covenant, the additional conditions are too harsh, and various changes must be implemented, which is impossible for Zheng Jun and the Si family to agree to.
According to what this close minister said, the more intense the people's resistance, the more he can actually sell Zheng Guo at a good price.
After resisting for a month, you can sell a prince of fifty miles and become a vassal.
After two months of resistance, you can sell a king of hundreds of miles, and even a city will inherit the sacrifices of Zheng Guo.
If the resistance is longer, the selling price will be higher.
Not all Zheng Guo belongs to him, but part of it belongs to the Si family, so if he can resist for a longer time, maybe he can really sell it for a high price.
But no matter what, it is impossible to accept Wei Han's surrender now. Instead, it is very likely to use his head to invite people's hearts to prove righteousness.
This kind of mentality would not have occurred in the Shangqiu incident 20 years ago.
One is that there was no precedent at that time, and the old rulers had not been exposed to new ways of "rebellion". The aristocratic monarchs and ministers who have never been in contact with it, let alone uprisings with simple programs such as "land to the tiller" in later generations.
If you don't have experience, you don't know how terrible it is.
The second is that the times are changing.
In the past, the Mohists showed weakness and needed to use the contradictions between the nobles and the nobles, and the contradictions between the monarch and the nobles to survive in the cracks and find ways to strengthen themselves. At that time, they needed to borrow all the strength and contradictions that could be borrowed to strengthen themselves.
Now, the Mohist family owns Sishang, and has become one of the most powerful nations in the world. After Heze Huimeng and Qinzi passed away five years ago, the Mohisthist fangs have been exposed. They are anti-nobility and anti-monarchy. It is no longer what it used to be. When you are weak, use your strength to fight.
This has made the princes and nobles of various countries more and more vigilant against the Mohist family in the past few years, but there is nothing they can do about it. Unless the monarchs and nobles of various countries can abandon their previous suspicions and unite as one, there is really nothing they can do.
Times have changed, and the primary and secondary contradictions have also changed. Monarchs, especially those of small countries, need to consider more things and start to fear the power of the people.
Suddenly, Zheng Jun heard the last words from the minister again, words that made him completely firm in his traitorous heart.
"Your Majesty, not long ago, the Song Dynasty coup, Wei Chuhan and Han fought for 300 years, and they were still able to form an alliance to defend against ink."
"Now if you use the power of the people to get close to the Mohists, how can you be tolerated by Wei Chuhan?"
"Even if you win, how can Mrs. Si be willing to give up the power in your hands? Then they will deal with you first."
"Even if you win, the power of the people rises, but this place is too far away from Sishang, but it is surrounded by Wei, Han and Chu. Even if you follow the wishes of the Mohists in everything, change the system, and formulate a great constitution, Wei Chu and Han must get rid of them and hurry up." , Zheng Guo is sandwiched between Wei and Han, how to resist?"
"Wei and Han are attacking you now, but for profit, land, population, wealth, this can still be discussed, as long as the guards live, at least you can be a feudal monarch."
"But if you are so close to ink that you imitate the system of the Song Dynasty, then Wei Han must not accept it. In the future, Wei Han will attack you, it will be for the sake of righteousness. At that time, not only will you not be able to become the king, but you will also be punished. put to death..."
"Zheng Boxiaoyou, he will also be to blame. At that time, I'm afraid that this sentence is meant for you."
Zheng Boxiaoyou, he will also be to blame.This sentence is intended to serve as a warning to others. It originated from Zheng Bo, and I am afraid that it will be used by Zheng Bo again in the future.
Zheng Junyi already understood that when the Mo family came to Zheng State, Zheng Jun imagined relying on the Mo family to help improve the city defense. He knew that Zheng State's national strength was weak, and he never thought of fighting South Korea alone.
In the past, Si Ziyang had great ambitions. That was because Zheng Guo still had the strength to attack South Korea at that time. Now it is divided into three, and Wei and Han have got the second. At this time, Si Ziyang would not dare to return to life. make such fantasies.
The original intention of the Mohists to come to Zheng Jun to welcome them was to improve the defense of Xinzheng, and to be able to make South Korea invade and hold on for a month, waiting for Wei Chu to intervene. They didn't even think about making the country rich and strong and self-reliant, that's unrealistic.
Who would have thought that this time Wei and Han joined forces to attack Zheng, making the situation suddenly beyond his imagination. He agreed to the conditions of the Mohist family in a panic before, but now thinking about it, he is already faintly afraid.
After the minister tried to persuade him again, his mind became sober and calm, and he thought to himself: "If it wasn't for this person, I would be dead."
(End of this chapter)