Chapter 408: The Ruthlessness of Time and Heaven and Earth (9)
All this is an attempt, Qu Jiang has not done it, and those young people who go with enthusiasm have not done it, but if you uphold the morality of the Mo family, there will always be a general direction.
It is difficult to say whether the success or failure will be determined, but as long as morality exists and policies are formulated on this basis, there will always be no separation of heads and hips, nor will it be crooked to the sky.
The layout in Zhao is divided into light and dark, and the bright line is to Qu Jiang, which will have enough influence on the Gaoliu frontier, so as to prompt Zhao to carry out a series of reforms, and let Wei Zhao turn his face as soon as possible.
The dark line is Gongzi Zhang's side, and six secret ink artists who have not revealed their identities have been installed, recommended by the Mo family friends in Zhao Di, and with Xun Xin's approval, it is also to make Wei uncomfortable when Wei Zhao turns his face in the future.
Wei will definitely interfere in Zhao's internal affairs, and the elder brother and the brother's son will also have prestige and reputation, which will inevitably lead to big problems. The Wei State relied on the prince to take advantage of the prince in the Chu State, and the current Wei Marquis Wei Zheng naturally thought of taking advantage of the internal strife in the Zhao State to do something.
All this is for the activities of the Mo family in Surabaya.
The state of Chu has been pitted by the Mojia family, and the dead corners left by the construction of Daliang City, the sale of gunpowder, new siege techniques, and stirrups have all caused Chu to suffer great losses in the battle of Daliang.
Not only did a lot of soldiers die, but also because so many feudal kings died, the king of Chu saw the opportunity to centralize power. Although the prince must have divided the state of Chu, if he can centralize power and succeed in the reform, it will be far better than these losses, after all, the king of Chu in those places could not be directly governed in the first place.
But if you want to change, there will definitely be chaos in the country for a while, and the southern line of Sishang can ensure stability for more than ten years, and the king of Chu has to pull down his face and invite the Mo family to enter Chu to help train the new army and so on.
The danger of Sishang is in the north, and the road south of Qi is locked by the Mo family. In last year's battle, the Mo family intervened shirtless, and the Qi country returned in vain.
If you can't beat the Three Jins, it is likely to be good with the Three Jins, the Tian family needs the support of the princes, if you put down your body and become the younger brother of the Wei State, you may be able to mix a justifiable position as the Marquis of Qi.
Qi and Sanjin reconciled, which the Mo family definitely didn't want to see.
On the issue of non-attack, the Mo family actually betrayed Zheng Guo morally, and using Zheng Guo as a bait can make South Korea unintentional, and Zheng Guo's corpse is enough for South Korea to eat for a few years.
This point is turbulent within the Mo family, and some idealists believe that the morality of the Mo family should be implemented throughout, and when they are pants, they should also support non-offense to help Zheng Guo defend.
But those who are suitable for that faction think that if Sishang is gone, the Mo family will be finished, not to mention that there is nothing to benefit the world, so they can't take care of Zheng Guo's bad things, and they can't afford it.
In fact, this is a continuation of the disagreement between the Central Plains and the eastward advance to Sishang, but Shi still won the majority of support after all.
This support must come at the cost of Sishang's radical policies, otherwise it will be impossible to justify morality.
The current policy is too soft, except for the few countries that have restored the country and acted on their behalf, the remaining small countries in Sishang can only infiltrate and encircle, deepening internal contradictions, but they are not yet able to make too radical slogans and actions.
It cannot be said that the internal policy of the Mo family is to oppose the shackles of the Shiqing aristocracy and land on the serfs, but let Sishang continue to maintain the old policy, then the internal Mo family will inevitably explode.
However, in order to do so, we must have a stable external environment, otherwise the interference of various countries will not be sustainable.
After more than ten years of planning, it finally made the Chu State temporarily powerless.
The State of Qi is alone, it has not yet been reformed, the Tian family has not yet replaced Qi, and it is not capable, and the only threat is the State of Wei.
If Wei Qi reconciles with the alliance, and the Chu State is now half-dead, the Mo family needs the rise of the Zhao State very much, stabbing the back of the Wei State, or attracting the attention of the Wei State.
Once the Sanjin Dynasty turned its face, the Mo family would immediately be able to implement a more radical policy in Si, and the Mo family was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to do things in the Chu State, to be radical in Si, but the countries were powerless to interfere.
And this, you can only rely on Zhao Guo.
It's an amazing thing, and it seems to have no connection.
For example, if the Marquis of Zhao dies, the princes of Sishang will suffer.
For example, when the Wei State was besieged, the old nobles of Sishang would suffer.
But there is a connection.
Qu Jiang understood that the things he did when he went north were not for the current Zhao Hou, but for Gongzi Zhang.
Not only to find a way out for the Zhao State, but also to find a way out for the future when Zhao was in turmoil, Gongzizhang had to admit some of the Mo family's established policies in the Northland.
Civil unrest, need support. Even if Gongzizhang won a coup d'état in the capital in the future, he would have to gain the support of more nobles and local powers in order to counter the possible interference of the Wei state.
As for whether Wei interfered with Zhao's inheritance, it is difficult to say now, but what Qu Jiang and others did in the north was to force Wei to interfere.
The increase in the strength of Zhao and the emergence of stirrups led to the possible reform of Zhao's military system, all of which would force Wei to intervene, which was a move to death.
If you don't interfere, Zhao Guo is strong, and Zhao Guo will also take the initiative to turn her face in the future; Interference, the Mo family really let go of their hands and feet in Surabaya, and they could force the Yue State to retreat south, take over all the forces of the Yue State north of Huaishui, and confront the Qi State.
Therefore, the better Qu will do in the north, then in the future, the succession crisis of Zhao, the greater the chance of Wei interfering, and the better the situation of the Mo family in Sishang.
Wei...... Or is it true that Wei Zhen likes to see the allies of the Sanjin Dynasty become bigger, and would rather be stabbed in the back himself, but also desperately suppress the "internationalist" spirit of the Sishang Mo family?
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The state has the interests of the state, the monarch has the interests of the monarch, and the monarch is not equal to the state, let alone the nobles under the monarch.
For example, Qi State.
After a hundred years of hard work, the Tian family fled to Qi after the fall of the country, and finally became the first family to control most of the situation in the Qi country.
The descendants of Jiang Taigong basically have no fiefdom, and the Lu family is weak.
The Guo and Gao clans sent by Zhou Tianzi to monitor back then were still able to lead five divisions and Qi Huan as the left, middle and right armies in the Qi Huan era, but now they are basically gone.
The Tian family took advantage of the contradictions between the various nobles, joined forces and staged a coup d'état that was no less than the six secretaries of the Jin State, relying on the number of Tian Chengzi's bloodline to let the guests sleep with concubines and give birth to sons to divide the city, relying on the small bucket to borrow the big bucket to win the hearts of the people, and relying on the abolition of Qi Huan's "Guanshan Hai" policy in the fief to obtain the support of the wealthy merchants, the Tian family has become dominant.
Now the situation is clearer.
Originally, there was also civil strife within the Tian family, Tian Mourning Zi, Gongsun Sun, Gongsun Hui, Xiang Ziniu, Tian He, Tian Hao...... These brothers, who were all qualified to be the head of the family, fought a civil war.
Through this civil war, Tian He and Tian Hao killed Xiang Ziniu, Gongsun Sun, and Tian Mourningzi, and the two brothers could finally sit down and have a good talk.
With the continuation of this civil war, relying on the same cooperation as the Wei State, the charge of not recovering the 30,000 corpses of the Three Jin Dynasty and Qi was placed on the head of the Marquis of Qi; The Marquis of Qufu Qi served as a guard for the King of Yue, and he lost face.
Three years ago, Meng Zhuze joined the alliance, and the Mo family gave Tian a big gift: the Yue Kingdom returned the two cities of Jianyang and Juling, and gave 5,000 slaves to the Qi State, and vowed not to invade Qi again.
For a time, the whole country of Qi was boiling and singing, praising the sages of the Tian family.
Last year, when he attacked Lu, the basin was buckled on Qi Hou's head again: if it was a victory, it would naturally be Tian's wisdom. But since the Mo family sent troops to maintain the covenant of the year, then this is the fault of the Marquis of Qi.
Not only is it wrong, but it is also a big mistake, and the people of Qi don't want to fight, and they also want to kill soldiers. As a result, the Marquis of Qi not only did not comply, but also took the initiative to violate the covenant and attack the Lu State. If he wins, he can also suppress the contradictions, but he was defeated by the Mojia family, the allied forces of South Korea and Lu, and the anger in the country was even stronger.
Things have come to this point, the Lu clan no longer has much fiefdom and power, the official Shanhai policy has been shattered, Qi Hou has long been out of money, his face has been lost more than ten years ago, and the domestic mood has boiled over because of the failure of the battle of the best.
In this case, in fact, all that is needed is a "well-directed political farce", and the Mo family has provided Tian with a good reason in recent years: to choose sages as princes and sons of heaven to benefit the people.
At this time, the Tian clan needed such a reason, because he was still Qi Xiang, not Qi Hou.
When the Tian clan became the Marquis of Qi, it was natural to give up or even suppress these ideas, but now they are extremely needed.
The Jixia School Palace has not yet been established, and the theory of the Five Virtues has not yet appeared, and the Tian clan needs a "justification" and legitimacy to replace the Lu clan.
Hu Feizi, an ink artist in the Qi Kingdom, witnessed the occurrence of this farce with his own eyes, and then recorded it with ink and paper, watched coldly, and sneered silently.
The Mo family has developed well in Qi in recent years, and many people listen to it when they give lectures, and the economy of Qi is developed and there is enough apprenticeship base.
Tian acquiesced to the Mo family's propaganda of "choosing the sage as the princes of the Son of Heaven" in the Qi State, because Tian had already achieved enough fame before.
But this alone is not enough, but also needs an opportunity to arouse the anger of the Chinese people.
After the defeat of the last year's battle, all this has begun to be carried out quietly.
First of all, Qi Hou likes wine, especially in recent years, he likes the Mo family's spirits the most.
So in the spring of this year, a group of people pulled some of the most expensive liquor in horse-drawn carts along the main road in Linzi to the palace.
On the way, he accidentally collided with Tian's carriage, causing many wine jars to shatter and attracting many onlookers.
The person who escorted the wine sat on the ground and cried, saying that a jar of high-quality wine needed a thousand stone of grain, and Qi Hou liked it the most, but now it was broken, and he couldn't afford to compensate at all, so he would not be whipped to death by Qi Hou.
When the people heard that a jar of wine was so expensive, their hearts were already angry. And when he saw that the man who was carrying the wine weeping, he felt more pity, and when he had mercy, he became angry.
A person got out of Tian's carriage who was hit and immediately said that it was his own sin and that he should compensate himself, so that this person would not cry.
The people of Linzi all shouted long live, and they all sang the ballad when Tian Chengzi was a child: "The old woman picks the herbs and dedicates the field to become a son." ”
Soon after this incident, the "Marquis of Qi" issued another order: because of the failure of the expedition, it is necessary to increase the military endowment and re-implement the policy of officials, mountains and seas.
Then the Tian clan was "forced" to carry out the order of the Marquis of Qi, and the price of salt in Linzi increased from 400 yuan per kettle to 1,000 yuan within a month, and the people's resentment boiled.
Many Chinese people sing: "Light, why is there no salt?" Bitter, how can Qi be virtuous? ”