Chapter Seventy-Three: Manipulation
These ridiculous and serious and somewhat magical words only attracted the silence of the people, but no one stood up and exclaimed that this statement was contrary to heaven.
It's just that many people can't accept such fierce rhetoric.
It is human nature to seek survival and profit, and the silence brought by this nature did not last long, and several carriages approached.
Wei Rang, a sage who has not shown up these days, pushed aside the crowd and climbed onto the high platform.
Wei Rang has been quite virtuous over the years, just like Mozi said that the selection of sages as the Son of Heaven said, if you don't have great wisdom and genius, you don't have family wealth, it is difficult to become a "virtuous talent" under the election system, people don't understand how can you have the opportunity to become a virtuous person?
Wei Rang has money and the secret support of the Mo family, so he is considered a "virtuous talent" outside of the Mo people who are organized by Feidu.
Everyone knows that he is good friends with Gongziluan, and Gongziluan's words before the palace that day are enough to arouse the favor of the people.
But Wei Rang understands that it is not enough to have a good feeling, and what the people need is real profit.
And the Mojia group behind him has already written a complete reform system, and when everyone is just lamenting anger and looking forward to the future system, the Mohist family has taken the first step.
What is important is not to explain the world, it is to change the world, and to explain the world is to change the world, not just to explain the world.
When Wei Rang ascended to the high platform, he spoke out, expressing his support for the people's pursuit of profit, and also said that Gongziluan supported the people's pursuit of profit, and even believed that the current monarch's behavior was really treason.
After the reprimand, Wei Rang made several suggestions.
First, once Gongziluan came to power, all the public land was distributed according to the share that had been cultivated by the people.
Wei Rang said that the world comes from nature, and after nature, human labor creates wealth, and as long as human labor is applied, then those lands should be owned by laborers.
Second, once Gongzi Lianluan takes power, these public lands will be granted to the people according to a 20-year redemption period, and they can be bought and sold. In addition, it is necessary to clear the fields, and only set aside the land that the nobles in various places should have according to the etiquette law, and the rest is distributed according to the population.
Third, it is necessary to stabilize prices, stipulate that the maximum price of grain cannot exceed a certain amount, and organize the people of the country to strictly investigate the merchants who hoarded goods and raised prices in the chaos in the capital. But within the normal price, the merchant is free to buy and sell.
Fourth, the people of the country should make laws and regulations, and all people, including Gongziluan, must swear to abide by the laws. According to the Mohists, law-making, ruling and law enforcement are separated, because the law itself cannot be enforced without hands, feet and mouths, so the sages elected by the people will enforce it, and even if the monarch violates the law, it must be punished.
Fifth, the people of the country elected sages to govern and govern, Gongziluan is only as a monarch, in order to protect the sacrifice of ancestors, all policies to benefit the people first.
Sixth, the military obligation of industry and commerce in the city was abolished, taxes were collected instead, and commercial taxes were unified.
Seventh, open the treasury to help the poor in the city, exempt this year's taxes, and do not collect taxes until the people of the country formulate a policy.
Eighth, the privileges of the nobility were abolished, all people were allowed to pay taxes and migrate, and any feudal obligations were abolished, and the nobility no longer had the right to transfer labor to the peasants within the scope of their fiefdoms. Instead of adopting the Song Dynasty's policy of separating the nobles and commoners, the sages were selected according to the country's population distribution as the highest authority in the country.
Ninth, the excess fiefs of the nobles other than the land distributed according to the population were auctioned at a clearly marked price, and the highest price was awarded. The money obtained is used for state distribution and is not attributed to private ......
There are nearly 20 commitments in total, which basically cover all aspects of the country and take care of the interests of most of the bottom.
In essence, this is a revolution secretly initiated by the Mohists, not by the new aristocracy, and the ultimate purpose is to provide technological innovation and initial accumulation, open up the market, and use a long time to complete land annexation under the premise of allowing private ownership of land.
Before the large-scale land annexation, they relied on the self-confidence of the Mohists to complete technological innovation, handicraft development, market development, etc.
In this way, the main force must be the craftsmen and farmers of the city, and some merchants. harmed, that is, the interests of some speculators and aristocrats who hoarded goods.
In order to be able to kidnap Ji Sunluan in this revolution, Ji Sunluan actually obtained a lot of benefits, and the redemption income after the distribution of the public land belonged to him, the monarch, but the redemption price must be extremely low, because the redemption price will be set by a wide range of people - at this point, if you want to become a "sage" supported by the people, you must lower the redemption price.
This is actually a revolutionary program prepared by the Mohists for the country, and an uprising often needs to shout out policies such as "free grain in the field", and only with the program can it succeed, and the essence of the program is interests. Whoever benefits will support it.
The Mohists, as the richest non-landed group in the world at this time, did not need to take care of the interests of those speculators who hoarded goods.
This kind of change, which is regarded as the overthrow of the old system, often requires the support of merchants, new aristocrats, and nobles who want to curb the royal power.
But there is no need at this time, because the big merchants, new nobles and big nobles in history, with money, weapons, and years of accumulated experience in warfare, need to use the people. And now, when it comes to money, guns, and war experience, the Mohists lack nothing.
Compared with the empty anger and slogans, this well-crafted concrete system is more in line with the taste of the people.
Almost every time Tian Rang finished speaking, there were shouts of support from the people.
Seeing that the people's emotions were becoming more and more excited, Tian Rang raised his arms and shouted: "In the past, Xia Ji was in power, thinking that he was the sun and the moon, and if the sun and the moon did not die, he would not die. The people are bitter about the politics of Xia Ji, and they taste: time is mourning, and it is like dying! β
"The sun will not perish, and Xia Ji is not the sun. Even if it is, the people can be their own to illuminate themselves and spread the warm sun! β
"Farmers and businessmen, people! Assemble and elect what you think are the sages, and if someone else wants to kill us, why don't we kill the tyrant first? β
After he finished shouting, dozens of carriages galloped in from a distance, and the carriages were full of weapons, which were the same batch of weapons that had been secretly transported to the Mo family in the Fei country.
Many of the people present had the experience of serving as a volunteer teacher, and this experience was not just for them to have weapons.
In the crowd, Aoi followed the crowd to receive the muskets, gunpowder, and bullets that she had put down for a long time but were still familiar with, and soon together with her neighbors, according to the rules and experience she had learned in the righteous teachers, she elected the "sages" they recognized, and then selected a higher level of sages among these sages.
Soon, an armed force of more than 2,000 people was organized, and more than 40 sages were elected to represent the people of the country.
Among them, there are more than ten secret ink masters, and many of the rest are very close to the ink masters, or have been greatly influenced by the Mo family.
The armed forces of more than 2,000 people were also quickly elected to the brigade commander, and the brigade commander was held by Wei Rang, because these guns and weapons were provided by Wei Rang, and there were some "cavalry" around him.
These cavalrymen, nominally all of Ji Sunluan's "private soldiers", were actually organized by Ji Sunluan's Fengtian after the Mo family controlled them over the years.
Among the more than 2,000 people in the armed forces, there are many who have served in the army, but there is no officer above the company commander, and people elect the person who has served as the commander of the Sima in the righteous division as the company commander, and the overall structure is basically the same as that of the righteous division, except that the missing is the representative of the ink in the righteous division.
The more than forty sages who were elected took less than half an hour to conduct a trial in absentia.
As representatives of public opinion, they theoretically have the supreme power of this riot and the capital of Fei after the insurrection, and the first thing this nominal supreme power does is to pronounce a verdict: the monarch of Fei Guo is convicted of treason, and immediately invades the palace and interrogates him.
Amid the jubilation of the people, Wei Rang took a complete map of the national capital, and asked a few people to elect a few people, and led a few companies to the city gate first and closed the city gate.
At the same time, he went to the head of the city, announced the crimes of the king and the establishment of a new government, and drew the gunners who defended the city, all of whom had been trained in Sishang, and who had already been blackened in their bones.
More than 2,000 people divided into two teams, one group gathered near the palace room, and the other team immediately besieged the treasury.
This was a "long-planned" uprising, which had been secretly planned and waited for from the day the Non-Offensive Alliance was formed.
More than 2,000 Chinese people with military experience, artillerymen who had secretly influenced for a long time, private soldiers and horsemen who secretly trained in Ji Sunluan's fiefdom, a large number of propaganda speeches, enough talents to organize an uprising, and a detailed offensive plan......
All this was done, and when several people came to the city and announced the news of the formation of a new government, the gunners of the four cannons at the head of the city immediately declared their loyalty to the common decision of the people.
A large number of people spontaneously came to the city to help guard the city gates, and carried the four cannons that were originally used to "guard foreign enemies" from the city head.
Those who have served have been assembled into a phalanx, and those who have served as flute players and drummers in the army have even received a set of waist drums and flutes for battle, which can be said to be extremely well prepared.
When the gates were sealed, the cannons were transported to the streets, and the treasury was occupied, and the men went to count them, the armed men of more than 1,000 men marched to the road to the palace, and there was little resistance along the way.
Under the feudal system, resistance rarely occurs in the national capital, and it is often relied on the private soldiers of the aristocratic fiefs to complete the restoration and restoration, and the political situation in the national capital was only a game within the rules of the nobles with fiefs, but now once this game is broken, the situation in the national capital is very different.
Taking control of the national capital is not necessarily the same as a successful coup d'Γ©tat, and before that, the rebellion of the prince of Chu and the dispute between the princes of Qi and the prince of Qi, the side that controlled the national capital was finally defeated by the political opponents who owned the fiefdom.
If it were a spontaneous uprising of anger among the people, perhaps it would not have been so far-reaching. But this time, after all, it was the Mo family behind the back, and they had considered the follow-up situation, at least they would not make this kind of mistake that needed to be watered with blood.