Chapter Seventy-Two: The Monarch's Treason
Hearing such a suggestion, Zheyangzi, who was accompanying him on the side, did not say a word.
He decided that the affairs of the country of Fei could not be solved by the country of Fei itself, so it was necessary to rely on the reason of mobilizing the princes of the world to "respect the courtesy and protect the rules", drag the whole world into the land of the country of Fei, and completely turn the country of Fei into a battlefield for the princes of the world and the Mo family, otherwise it is impossible to solve it.
But Fei Jun had already denied his idea before, he was afraid of the wolf and the tiger, and he didn't dare or was unwilling to flee to wait for the future reset.
When Fei Jun made a decision that day, Zheyangzi was already ready, once the countrymen rebelled successfully, he would "Shouyi" punish the tyrant in order to seek wealth under the new righteousness.
So today, the ministers and nobles said that they would mobilize the armor to quell the chaos, and Zheyangzi did not say a word.
Some things are too bloody to be said in front of everyone, just like the words that persuaded Fei Jun that day, they could only be talked about privately, and they could not be said directly when the ministers were discussing politics - the nobles would oppose Fei Guo becoming a battlefield, and the Mo family was next to them, and they would bear the brunt of it, and they might destroy their fiefdom system.
Perhaps these nobles present just wanted their fiefdoms not to be consumed by the Mo family's anger, but if they heard Zheyangzi's suggestion, they would definitely give many high-sounding reasons to oppose it. Zheyangzi, who is familiar with the Mohist classics, is convinced of the theory of interest analysis, and he is not willing to put forward the idea of slaughtering the people in the capital riot in front of the public at such a time, and if things go wrong, he will be dragged out and divided into corpses to appease the anger of the people.
At this moment, Zheyangzi, along with the advice of agreeing with these nobles, asked the doctors to gather private soldiers and send henchmen back to their fiefdoms to recruit subordinates to fight against the people. Of course, there was no objection, just silently listening.
Acquiescence is not an open mouth to agree, and once you fail in the future, you will have a chance to do it anyway.
Fei Guo was too small to be ambitious and dare not be ambitious, so he created a group of degenerate aristocrats who only knew how to oppress the people.
Now these nobles are surprisingly united: they don't want to lure Wei Qi's troops into the country, and they don't dare to anger the Mo family as martyrs of etiquette, so they want to rely on private soldiers to solve the problems of the capital.
At least, it sounds like there's no chaos anywhere else except a few big cities. People elsewhere may have heard the name of the Mo family, and some may have fled to the Paradise of Sishang, but they still don't understand when asked what the law is, what is benefit, and what is the king.
Relying on the nobles' private soldiers to solve the chaos in the capital is the only way.
However, these nobles will not send troops to this point, if the capital is in chaos, they need to get what they want from it.
Several nobles said in unison: "There is no fault in the past, and the law is immutable. Today, please also ask the king to swear that from now on, there will be no change in the law, all ethnic groups will go on a blind date, and there will be no invasion. If this oath is violated, the gods will be in dire need! ”
"Ji Sunluan took advantage of the people's rebellion to change the law of his ancestors, which made the people's selfishness too heavy and would harm the country. If you change the law in the future, how is it different from Ji Sunluan? ”
"Gu Yun, the name is not right. The use of private soldiers this time is not only for the country, but also for the community, and it is also for the rules of etiquette. ”
Fei Jun was helpless, so he could only say: "Good! ”
The Mohists' reform proposals were not only aimed at the people, but also weakened the rights and interests of the nobles and required the nobles to pay taxes.
For the great powers, this is a very tempting suggestion for the monarchs of the great powers.
But for a small country like Fei, it is tantamount to giving the nobles a precaution in advance, and the monarch ...... It doesn't have to be with the aristocracy.
If it weren't for the fact that this Mohist's request contained a lot of content that weakened the monarch's power, wealth, and fiefdom interests, it was just some suggestions for the nobles, and the monarch might not be unacceptable.
When the nobles saw Fei Jun's agreement, they said: "At this time, the city is too chaotic, if you go with chariots and horses, I am afraid that the mob in the city will be on guard." ”
"It's better to send people out of the city privately and stabilize the people first, because the matter of change is already being discussed. In the future, when the armor gathers, they will repent again. ”
These ministers and nobles in the court are in the capital, but their fiefs are in the field, and their roots are also in the field, and it takes time to mobilize private soldiers.
Meng Sheng came forward to mediate a few days ago, so that the conflict between the two anti-dumpers did not break out in front of the palace gate, and these nobles also felt that they could use the stupidity of the Mo family to get the time they needed most.
After discussion, Fei Jun and the nobles sacrificed and swore an oath with blood: they would not invade each other in the future, the monarch would not change the law, and if policies such as taxation were implemented, they needed to discuss with the nobles and the six nobles, and they would not deprive the nobles of their fiefs and levy taxes on the nobles' private land.
In turn, the nobles would swear to protect the monarch to the death and not allow rebellions and the like.
After the oath was completed, he selected a few confidential henchmen or close attendants, told them to change their clothes, leave the palace at night, and go out of the city to deliver the news to the doctors and nobles in the various fiefdoms, or the heirs of the nobles in the court, and asked them to light the private soldiers and soldiers, and quickly come to the capital to fight the chaos.
Fei Jun is not a person who can do great things, what he thinks is that if it really doesn't work, he will ask Wei Qi and other countries to send troops to crusade against the Mo family.
As for now, it is difficult to make such a decision, because Fei Guo is too close to Sishang, and once such a decision is made, it is easy to become a fugitive king.
He also had the illusion of putting the nobles in turmoil.
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A few days later, there was chaos in the capital of Fei Guo.
Different stakeholders speak their thoughts on change on the streets, appealing to different people.
The price of grain in the city was rising day by day, and the merchants seized the opportunity to hoard food and raise the price of food in preparation for profit.
Some people on the street have vigorously disseminated the new work of the Mohists, "On Politics", which puts forward the contents of the common righteousness as the law, the law cannot be implemented by itself, and the executor must be separated from the power to make the law, which has aroused more people's thinking.
The chaos that followed the tea shop brawl in those days was still not resolved, and different supporters from each other gathered together to discuss what they supported and improve the system they supported.
This chaotic situation was finally broken by a brass bell, a rider with a brass bell in his hand, galloping through the streets of the capital of Philadelphia, shouting every time he passed by some gathered crowd.
"The king secretly ordered the doctors and nobles to send armor and private soldiers to the capital to slaughter us! Are you still arguing about these things here? Farmers and businessmen, assemble and stop arguing! ”
The rider did not know who belonged or who it was, but he shook the brass bell and shouted afterwards, which immediately attracted the attention of the people in the capital.
At a gathering place where land policy was being discussed, Aoi heard the rider's words and shouted, "What are you talking about?" What the hell is going on? ”
The rider said in a loud voice, "Monarch...... Bah! The tyrant told his servants to quietly go out of the city, and he was captured, and he heard that he was going to gather the private soldiers of the doctors and nobles to quell our 'rebellion'. And yet you are still here arguing about those things! ”
Aoi scolded when he heard this: "I said a long time ago that the nobles and monarchs are unreliable! Now look at it, how can they have the heart of change? On that day, he said that he would postpone it again, but he only said that he would discuss the change again, but he was discussing how to slaughter us all! ”
The crowd suddenly became uproaring, some were nervous, some were afraid, some were angry, and some in the crowd shouted, "Go to the market!" Go to the bazaar! Everything that has served in the volunteer teacher goes to the bazaar, and the skills we learned, didn't they just say that we should have the strength to protect ourselves? ”
"That's right! Go to the bazaar! ”
"Don't be afraid! If we want to slaughter us, we must first drain his blood! ”
Even the faintest of these people, who were coerced by the crowd, moved towards the wide bazaar.
In another place, Ximen Tu and the others were listening to a person preaching the content that no government can return to nature, and after hearing the rider's words, Ximen Tu sneered and said in his heart: "In this world...... Where is there any benevolence? There are kings, and all are evil! I will kill him, in the name of the righteous man!" ”
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More and more people gathered towards the bazaar, and in the center of the bazaar, a high platform had been erected, several people were tied to the wood on it, and a few people were holding a few letters, and some people were reading the contents of the letters, which was exactly what Fei Jun hoped that the nobles would bring private soldiers into the capital to quell the rebellion.
After the anger of the people was ignited, a young man jumped onto the stage and shouted: "Farmers and businessmen! In the past, the doctor Ji Liang said: The husband is also the lord of God. It is the Holy King who first becomes a people and then devotes himself to God! ”
"Thai Oath" said: What the people want, the sky will follow! There is nothing wrong with the people's desire for profit, the nature of the people is what the emperor likes in heaven. ”
"We are the people, and our desire is for profit. What do we want, heaven will follow, and what is wrong with us? ”
"The Book of Summer" also said that the people are the foundation of the state, and the country is solid! The people are the foundation of the country, and today, our 'king' wants to slaughter us because we seek profit! ”
"From this point of view, the monarch is treason! Be punished! ”
This was an appalling remark, and for a moment the scene was chaotic, and many people were taken aback.
Treason of the monarch?
This sentence that sounded so ridiculous, as if it were crazy, was so reasonable after a few short foreshadowings that there was no loophole.
Husband, Lord of God. It is the Holy King who first becomes a people and then devotes himself to God! It follows from this that God dwells after the people.
Whatever the people want, the heavens will follow. This proves the legitimacy of the people's reform and profit-seeking, which is what God likes and will surely follow the people's desires. In addition, the Mohists' rhetoric of advocating self-interest and benevolence over the years makes these words sound reasonable.
Perhaps originally, when people seek profit, they will feel guilty, they will be embarrassed, and they will feel that they are seeking profit because they have desires, which is not a good person. But over the years, the Mohists have been agitating: release their desires and seek profit, as long as they formulate laws to stipulate how to seek profit without harming others, and what kind of laws can give everyone the opportunity to seek profit.
This ideological ascetic confinement has been broken, and people like to listen to what they want to hear, and these self-interested contents have smashed the shackles that have been imposed on people's minds for hundreds of years.
And the rest is the same lineage: the people are the state, and the people are the country. The king wants to slaughter the people, but because the people seek profit, it must be regarded as a rebellion, which must be disliked by the emperor, and it is also "treason".
The key point is what kind of definition this country is. Is it the kingdom of kings? Or is it the people's state?
If the people were only the "resources" of the king, the laborers who cultivated the land, and the pawns who went to war, then the king would never have committed treason. I don't like my own things, so I kill them, what's wrong? Is it a sin to kill one's own chickens and one's own pigs?
However, the Mohists said that labor creates wealth, and land is worthless if it is not cultivated, and it is the people who feed the monarch and nobles, not the other way around. This is the basis of the economy.
For the rest, the ridiculous but serious conclusion of "treason" can be reasonably introduced.
The monarch's treason is really ridiculous, but it is also really serious.
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