Sishang is in the south, Handan is in the north.

Soon after Ximen Yu left Yedi and went south to Sishang, the peasant soldiers of Yedi finally gathered and went to Zhao to fight for the hegemony of Wei Hou.

At this time, Handan was not the capital of Zhao State, but it had become one of the most prosperous cities in Zhao State.

In this city, which was once denounced by those who rebelled against ink as "agriculture is not as good as work, industry is not as good as business, embroidery is not as good as leaning on the city gate, and everyone is not ashamed to seek profit", this local woman "dresses up beautifully, plays the piano, dances with long sleeves, steps on light dancing shoes, teases with her eyes, seduces with her heart, goes out thousands of miles, does not choose the old and young, attracts men, and rushes for financial gain", now it is also a depressing situation like a great enemy.

This is the foundation of the original Gongzi Zhang and the current Zhao Hou, and it is also the cornerstone of his desire to make Zhao Guo strong.

This is the basis for the current Marquis of Zhao to resist the intervention of the Wei State, raise military salaries, food and weapons, and move the capital for future changes to avoid the old aristocracy that are deeply rooted.

With the help of the Mo family, the Handan City rebuilt by employing the technical talents of the Mo family, how strong it is, always needs to go through the test of war to know, otherwise everything is speculation, and everything is stuck on paper "line wall system, cross corner front" These Mohist theories of defending the city.

The news that Wei sent troops to aid Gongzi Dynasty had already reached Handan, and it had already reached Zhongmu.

Hu Feizi, who has been in Handan for many days, now presides over the activities of the Mo family near Handan.

As a high-level member of the Mo family, Hu Feizi is very clear about the purpose of his coming to Handan, and the letter from Sishang not long ago is also very clear.

It is to "save Si in chaos", and Wei cannot ignore the affairs of Zhao State, so Sishang can free up his hands to do many things that could not be done because of the possible interference of Wei State.

Since the beginning of the Gongzi Dynasty, the middle concubine of Zhao Hou when he was the prince has come to visit Hu Feizi many times, hoping that the Mo family can help defend the city.

The art of defending the city, the Mo family was originally unparalleled. The combination of gunpowder, geometry and city defense was also made by the Mo family, and the construction of Handan City was also a talent hired by the Mo family, and Zhao Hou hoped to be able to use the power of the Mo family to defend Handan.

Handan couldn't hold it, and Zhao Hou lost his foundation. Zhao Hou lost his foundation, and some nobles who were still watching at this time were likely to defect to the Gongzi Dynasty, resulting in a series of chain reactions.

However, because the capital has just succeeded to the throne, there are too many things, and the funeral of the previous Zhao Hou who died of illness also needs to be presided over by Gongzi Zhang. It is impossible for Gongzizhang to come to Handan, so he can only send his cronies to come forward.

When the middle concubine came for the first time, the reason for the request was: when Zhao Hou was the son, he had always been friendly with the Mo family, and Che also learned the Mo family's Tianzhi knowledge, and the prince slandered the Mo family a lot, so he asked the Mo family to give Zhao Hou assistance.

Hu Feizi refused, saying, this is not a reason why the Mo family can help, please go back.

The second time, the reason of Zhongshuzi was: Gongzi Zhang had succeeded to the throne, and Gongzi Dynasty was in turmoil, which caused chaos in the Zhao State, so he asked the Mo family to help quell the rebellion.

Hu Feizi refused again, saying, this is not a reason why the Mo family can help, please go back.

If it is four times, it will not let go.

Today is the fifth time, this time the concubine finally changed his statement, saying: Shang Xian, regardless of blood relatives, to select talented people to become officials, so that for the benefit of the people and eliminate harm, rich and poor, safe and chaotic; They want to break down the wells and fields, and privately grant land, so that the people can have land to work on, food to eat, and clothes to shelter from the cold...... This is what Zhao Hou wants to do; And what the Childe Dynasty opposed. The Marquis of Zhao wanted to benefit the people of Zhao, and the Gongzi Dynasty wanted to harm the people of Zhao, so he asked the Mo family for assistance.

Hu Feizi began to say: Good, you can help. However, to guard Handan, it depends on the power of the people, please announce this to the people, Handan can be kept.

The middle concubine retreated with joy, and Hu Feizi passed on the order of the Mo family to recruit Zhao Dimo who served for the Mo family, except for those who defended the grassland in Gaoliu, to gather in Handan.

Among them, some ink writers asked Hu Feizi and asked: "The words of the princes and nobles cannot be believed. In the past, Zi Mozi wanted to kill soldiers in the Central Plains, but the Chu people were weak, so he swore an oath. Once Han Hou Zhao Hou Xu, Chu abandoned the alliance. ”

"Today's Handan incident, Gongzi Zhang is in danger, so he agreed. Is this what can be believed? Zhao Di does not have the law of Sishang to restrain the prince, so if he regrets it in the future, there is no way to punish and restrain him, and the law is still from the king, and a word is the law. ”

"If you don't make the law and ask the monarch and the prince, the righteousness of the people and the people to be the gods, I think privately, in terms of morality, if the Gongzi chapter and the Gongzi dynasty are used as war metaphors, fill in the drums, the blades are connected, abandon the armor and drag the soldiers, or stop after a hundred steps, or stop after fifty steps, and there is no difference between fifty steps and a hundred steps."

There is no shortage of such radical figures within the Mo family, either to formulate laws to restrain the king, or to allow the people to participate in politics, always thinking that other princely promises are all about changing the soup and not the medicine.

This idea is undoubtedly correct, and what is said is also true, but for the Mo family, the civil strife in Zhao and the turn of Wei and Zhao at this time are necessary.

This is just like the giant within the Mo family wants to grasp the righteousness, just like the incident in the original history when the Mo family was completely destroyed in Yangcheng, Xu Weak raised his doubts, and Meng Sheng, who was a giant at that time, needed to persuade Xu Weak with a reason that conformed to the righteousness of the Mo family, and Xu Weak asked to die first.

The Mo family has righteousness, heavenly will, and rules above their heads, and they go to "what is above must be everything; What is not, it will be not. If there is a fault, it will be admonished, and if there is a good one, it will be recommended".

The essence of this lies in the need for the ink to understand "righteousness", so that they can have their own judgment and their own rules to measure, so as to elect the giant to understand the harm.

It is not an absolute "monarchy", what is said above, must be observed below.

What is said above must conform to the rules, heavenly will, and righteousness, and the following can decide whether it can be respected, otherwise it will be collectively resisted.

At this time, Hu Feizi had to answer what the radical ink artist said, so he said: "You are right, but the example given is not appropriate. If we use the metaphor of war, this is the difference between filling in the drums, sounding the flutes, and some people marching fifty paces, and some people standing still. ”

"In the case of Zhao State, if Gongzizhang can really implement such a policy, can't the people of Zhao State benefit? If so, how can it be said that this is a fifty step back from the present? You only consider the Zhao State in the relationship with the monarchs and ministers and the people in the righteousness of the Mo family, so you will come up with the idea of taking fifty steps back. ”

"But at this time, my Mo family does not have the ability to make Zhao State implement that kind of politics, and the people of Zhao State have not fully woken up and have the intention to implement that kind of politics, in this case, shouldn't it be compared with now?"

"If there is any comparison, it must be relative. Choose the right thing. ”

"For example, now a cripple is racing against a man who has lost a leg, and you say that this is not as fast as the good runner Lieyukou, which is right. But is it right that you say that this cripple runs as fast as the man who lost his leg, because they are not as fast as the Ranks, so they run as fast? ”

The ink man came to his senses and knew that he had made a mistake in the logical debate, so he bowed his head and said, "Yours is right. But all of this is based on the inference that Gongzi Zhang said he would do and really do. What if he doesn't do it? ”

Hu Feizi nodded, indicating that he did not rule out this possibility.

In fact, this possibility is extremely high, and the Mohist ideas are too radical for the times, which is impossible for any monarch to accept in its entirety.

It's just that some things of the Mo family can indeed enrich the country and strengthen the army, so some monarchs have to cooperate with the Mo family.

The country is rich and the people are strong, this is only the first step for the Mohists to benefit the world, and the final solution is the country in the "wealth of the country", whose country is it, and this ultimate goal is impossible for the monarch to accept.

Hu Feizi is very clear about this, as a high-level of the Mo family, as those who were persuaded in the meeting, he knows very well that the current situation and activities of the Mo family in the Chu State are due to the fact that the high-level of the Mo family does not have the slightest trust in the princes and nobles.

And in Zhao Di, in fact, although he refused before facing Gongzi Zhang's middle concubine, he was quite nervous, but in fact, if no one came to ask in the end, Hu Feizi might have to take the initiative to find Zhao Hou.

Without him, it originated from the Mo family's strategy of "chaotic Jin to save Si".

What the Mo family wants to do this time is not to "send charcoal in the snow", let alone "icing on the cake", but to "rob while the fire is on".

This is for the present.

As for the future, Zhao is not comparable to Sishang, nor can it be compared with the situation of Fei Guo, so it is impossible to directly achieve a situation of popular revolution like Fei Guo in one step, which requires a long process to exert influence.

Every step is towards a set goal, and sometimes you can only take one step, but you can't stop taking it because it's just one step.

Exactly, there is no accumulation of steps to thousands of miles.

Zhao Hou must also have a request for the Mo family now, because this time the situation is much more serious than the original history, on the surface it seems to be the dispute between the sons of the Zhao State, but in fact it involves the change and the struggle between the old and the old, centralized and feudal under the waves of the times.

The spread of gunpowder began to dismantle the foundations of the feudal system even more violently.

The various theories of the Mohists added fuel to the fire and led to contradictions between nobles, scholars, monarchs, and commoners.

In the propaganda of the Mohists, the contradictions between the nobles and the monarch were clearly pointed out, which made these contents that were originally a secret between the nobles spread all over the world, and also made those nobles who were "muddy" and only relied on their own class instincts to wake up and begin to prepare to oppose centralization and oppose the monarch, and large-scale rebellions were in full swing.

Under the propaganda of killing, Zhao Hou rode a tiger and it was difficult; In the past ten years, extensive lectures and propaganda have also made the civilian class gradually rise to become an important force, which can be regarded as a temptation for Zhao Hou.

In this situation, rebellions broke out, and there were many nobles who were wary of Gongzizhang's ascendancy, and there were many ministers who supported Gongzizhang's ascendancy, and the entire Zhao State was in chaos.

The Mo family in Handan, like a fluttering reed catkins taking root on the river beach, soon spread all over the river and were difficult to remove. It's not that Zhao Hou doesn't want to clear it, but he doesn't have that ability.

The control of the grass-roots level, the ability of organization, the ability of public opinion propaganda, the cohesion of talents, the advanced nature of technology, and the relationship of trust between the workers of the crops...... Which point is not as good as the Mo family, and there are some grassroots things that Zhao Hou can not manage if he wants to.

In addition, the close relationship between the Mo family and the merchants, and the largest iron-smelting workshop group north of the Yellow River in Handan, among which there are more than 10,000 iron-smelting workers, plus a strong army in Gaoliu guarding the border to benefit the world, these are all forces that Zhao Hou believes can be relied upon.

In the letter to Hu Feizi, Sishang explained the situation in Zhao State, asked Hu Feizi to beware of radicalization, and could not let the Mo people in Zhao State turn their backs on the righteousness of the Mo family and become the Mo people of Zhao State, and at the same time clearly put forward the strategy of "taking advantage of the fire to rob", to reach some kind of alliance when Zhao Hou was the most difficult, and to prepare for future events.

This test is Hu Feizi's ability, not to be left and not radical, but also not to be right and not to surrender, but also to clearly grasp the direction: not to expand the contradictions between the people of Wei and Zhao, but to point the spearhead at the princes and nobles who started the war......