After Shi left Mozi, a smile that had long been uncontrollable appeared on his face.

In tonight's battle, although the Mo family is famous all over the world, gunpowder can also spread all over the world.

He would not hide gunpowder as a secret for the rest of his life, but would like to spread it and spread it in Kyushu.

The Warring States period has come, and the war will always continue, and this thing will always come in handy, and with the bronze smelting technology at this time, if the two technologies of brass and wrought iron are spread out, the gunpowder age will come within a few decades.

Rows of infantry and flickering bronze cannons will smash the last living soil of the nobles: the nobles who have been training for twenty years, and the powerful horse chariots, can they stop the roar of gunpowder?

If not, how can a nobleman maintain his privileges when he is on a par with ten soldiers who have been trained for three months?

The people don't need nobles, and the monarch doesn't need nobles, so the explosion of gunpowder tonight is an elegy for the nobility and the noble spirit.

After going down the city tower, without waiting for the right person to speak, there were already apprentices guarding the city, peasants, soldiers, and countrymen asking loudly.

"Is it that the Chu people have already been defeated?"

"Peiyi's people captured the King of Chu, is it true?"

"There are too many rumors, suitable, we only believe the words of your Xuanyi Department!"

"yes, let's say something!"

Many people held spears in their hands, standing next to Shi with their spears, and those who followed Shi came out of the ink were very accustomed to naturally building some stones and the like defending the city into a high platform, so that Shi could stand up.

Before Shi arrived, the people had been informed of the outcome of the night's battle by the messenger.

The two nobles of the Chu people were killed in battle, and the king of Chu was captured and promised to form an alliance.

Behind this news, there is also the feat of Pei County's righteous master capturing the king of Chu, which has spread all over Shangqiu.

Up to now, Mo said that he was the king of Chu, and even Zhou Tianzi was shot.

However, such a thing as relying on the common people to penetrate the formation and capture the king of a large country has not yet happened - those little viscounts who can take a city with a hundred and ten men, and the king himself cultivates the land and the monarch's wife personally weaves cloth, are not counted.

The people of Shangqiu have experienced several huge psychological twists and turns since the beginning of the defense of the city.

At first, because of the faithfulness of the Mo family and the natural obligation to defend the city, they chose to defend the city.

Then the Xuanyi Ministry said that the Chu people would increase taxes and labor if they broke the city, and they firmly defended the city.

After the granary was burned and there was a risk that they would eat their bones and cook them, they hesitated to defend the city.

Before the coup d'état in the city, the propaganda of the Xuanyi Ministry made them understand their rights and obligations, and they continued to defend the city after the Song Gong agreed to the change.

But this kind of defense of the city has a prerequisite: within three months, if the Chu people do not retreat, they will choose to give up defending the city.

Under this kind of psychological twist and turn, the news that Peixian Yishi captured the King of Chu and forced him to form an alliance was even more important and shocking.

Since they have accepted the propaganda of the Mo family about rights and obligations, they have to think, why did the people of Pei County, who were far away in Surabaya, come to defend the city? Why do this?

Under the feudal system, don't say that Peiyi is the fief of the rest of the nobles of the Song State, and the monarch cannot be moved.

If the Chu people really broke the city and reached any conditions such as hard labor, they could only be harmed by the people of Shangqiu, and they had nothing to do with the Peixian righteous teachers who were far away in Surabaya.

Many people may think that the Peixian Yishi came with the Mo people, and they are also the Mo family, so benefiting the world is the reason.

But there are also many people who know that the people of the Mo family have been propagating that the Yishi of Pei County are not the Mo family, they are just the people, not the Mo people, so they will not use the benefit of the world as a reason to go on the expedition.

Even if the news came from the ink man, these people still didn't believe it, and they were still a little skeptical, after all, this happiness came too suddenly.

When the right thing appears, the people habitually feel that if it is appropriate, it can be used as the direction when they are confused.

So when they habitually climbed to the heights, the noisy people quickly quieted down.

They were still holding their spears, and they still wanted to squeeze forward, to get closer, to hear more clearly.

Shi tore off the ink-colored scarf on his head, waved it, and said, "What you hear is true!" ”

"My Mo family disciples and Peixian Yishi worked together to penetrate the formation, and in the end, Peixian Yishi had better luck and captured the King of Chu!"

"You don't have to worry about Yi Zi eating in three months now, and you don't have to worry about our Mo family can only defend the city but can't let you not starve!"

Bursts of cheers erupted from under the walls, and the defenders of the city cheered not only that the risk of starvation would disappear after three months, but also that there was hope and a new life.

The few months of defending the city were not only the years of defending the city, but also the months when the people who organized themselves to listen to the propaganda of the Xuanyi Department.

In the future, for the first time, it will be displayed in front of them like a picture scroll, and they only hate that the Chu people will not be able to besiege the city for the time being.

Those techniques of fertilizing the fields and crops, those methods of cotton cloth to cool and warm, those rights and obligations only say, everything has become unattainable because of the siege.

When the siege finally ended, it all seemed to be close at hand.

But in addition to being excited, he calmed down and asked: "Suitable, but now that the granary has been burned and the cultivation period has been missed, even if the Chu people retreat now, how will we live?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the people who were originally cheering instantly became cold.

Yes, the Chu people are gone, and life has to go on, but how should life continue?

The grain was concentrated in the Mo family, and the grain of the Song Duke was also burned a lot, even if he wrote the contract to defend the city and repaid it, but the new taxes have not been paid, where is the food in the palace to repay?

Even if the Chu people retreated, the wheat fields that were burned to stop the Chu people could not come back. There are still a few months left in winter, and what to do before next year's harvest?

Shi was silent, waiting for everyone to change from ecstatic excitement to calm despair, until the scene was once again depressed and silent, and Shi finally spoke.

"Peiyi has used the method of crop rotation and double cropping, and last year was a good year, and the wheat and beans were harvested."

"It's just that Pei County has its own benefits for the people of Pei County, and it is impossible to give it to you in vain. Although my Mo family has cultivated land, but the amount is not enough for the entire Shangqiu, even if we can benefit the world without caring about ourselves, let alone profit, but after all, it is too little, like a drop of water to save the car! ”

When he said that when Peiyi had a bumper harvest, the people suddenly found a floating wooden board from their despair, and couldn't help but think: "Yes, the Mo family is in Pei County, Peiyi is the Mo family, they have a bumper harvest there, and the Mo family wants to benefit the world, isn't it possible to mobilize food from there?" ”

It was like the hope of a plank in a flood that was shattered by the right words, and everyone fell into despair again.

Peixian Yishi has already helped Shangqiu defeat the Chu people and capture the king of Chu, and they are not ink scholars, can they be expected to benefit the world without seeking profit and relieving themselves?

Duke Song did not have the ability to collect taxes so far away, let alone adjust, otherwise he would not have been forced by the nobles to this extent.

After the crowd fell into despair again, Shi was like charcoal in the fire that had not yet burned out, and after being blown by the wind through the dust on the surface, it once again revealed a flickering light of hope.

However, the Mo family's righteousness in Pei County has always been trusted by the people. The Mo family can be a guarantee to let Pei County lend you grain. ”

"Peiyi is not far from here, and the transportation is organized by ink cars, and Shangqiu will be dispatched throughout the whole process, and it will be completed soon."

"Even if it's not much, it can support the harvest until next year, and it's okay. Before that, I'm afraid we still need to be responsible for distributing food in the Mo family, and I think you can trust us, right? ”

After he finished speaking, everyone shouted: "Naturally you can trust it!" ”

"Who can't trust your Mo family?"

"If it is distributed by the king, we can't believe it, but we can trust it if you distribute it!"

Everyone shouted loudly, and thought of the ink cart, which was used in the Huaisi land of Yima Pingchuan, which was suitable for transportation.

As long as you have the strength and spend more than ten days, you can always transport grain from Pei County.

There aren't that many ink cars, but there are craftsmen who can do it.

As for strength, who doesn't have it?

Seeing that everyone was happy, and he got the opportunity to gradually dye Shangqiu ink with the distribution power he wanted, he pressed his hand and let everyone calm down first.

The hearts of all the people have gone through the cycle of hope, despair and hope, and their hearts can't help but worry, is there anything wrong with the heart?

They were right, not only was there something wrong, but it was also the topic that they really wanted to talk about.

Shi stretched out his finger, pointed to the mansion of a nobleman somewhere in the city, and said with a smile: "There is a way, borrowing money must have interest, and the nobleman can get 30,000 yuan a year for lending." ”

"The people of Peixian are naturally different from the nobles, everyone is digging in the soil, even if they are in Peiyi, you are in Shangqiu, but you are always closer to the nobles than you. You're right? ”

Seeing that everyone nodded, Shi said again: "Speaking of which, I think that the people of Pei County came to Shangqiu to help in the war, and they also have this idea: everyone is a common farmer, which is naturally close, and the Chu people break the city, what harm does the nobles have?" It is only because you peasants will be damaged that the young men of Peixian will break through the enemy formation and capture the king of Chu. ”

This is what our Mo family calls love. Who do you love? Naturally, I love people like you. The peasants love the peasants, and the nobles love the nobles, this is the principle of love. ”

"It's like, when you see someone killed, you feel soft-hearted. But when they saw the cattle and sheep being killed, they were much less soft-hearted. People can't always love cattle and sheep first, so of course the farmers must love the farmers first. ”

"Are you close to the peasants and soldiers of the Chu people outside the city? Or are you closer to Song Company City Liuqing? Think about it. ”

"Those people outside the city, although they speak Chu language that you don't understand, but what is the difference between them and you?"

"When you cultivate in spring, you must first cultivate the gentleman's fields and public fields before you can cultivate your own. Summer, like you, will be called up to repair the walls of the palace and take on the labor. In the autumn harvest, you have to be busy with the public field and the gentleman's private field before you can be busy with yourself. In winter, the cold wind is cold, and the chariot is in the field. ”

"Except that they speak Chu, how are they different from you? Will they get your land? Even if Shangqiu is breached, will they be the ones who collect taxes and food? ”