Late September.

The grass and trees in Pei County have just begun to wither and yellow, and the Mo family reunion, which lasted for a month and eight days, has finally ended.

In addition to the people who were far away in Bashu, Qisui and others did not participate, even the ink who planned activities in Wu also returned to participate in this gathering.

In fact, the 30-day meeting was divided into three parts.

At the beginning, the seven enlightenment and other responsible figures within the Mo family were selected, and after more than ten days, it was a high-level secret meeting, and then it was a conference attended by all the ink people.

At this point, everything is over, and those who can't know what happened in that secret meeting can't get any news.

In a liquor shop near the Mozhi Township School in Peiguo Township, many travelers who came from other places this spring were drinking, talking about what they had seen in Pei County, or inquiring about the "gossip" inside the Mo family.

Anyone can know what they can hear.

What cannot be heard, what cannot be known, but no one knows.

At a table, there were several people sitting around, who were not familiar with each other, but because they were all travelers and businessmen who came to Peiyi from other places, there was not much estrangement.

It's just that because there are so many people and there are not enough tables, these people all sit together and talk casually around this table.

There was no inker on the table.

The Qin Yue people who followed Changsang Jun to Pei County, the Wei people who were spies Ren Ke, and the ranger Sun Gao who was in the well of the Wei State ......

These people, who would never have met in the first place, gathered around this table for a variety of reasons.

Drinking and talking, the beginning is still happy.

There was only one ink man in the liquor shop, reading a book, some of whom were listening, some of whom were not.

In Pei County, the Mo family had just finished holding a big party, and the cause of the topic was naturally a lot of news surrounding the Mo family.

Wei Sun Gao, the market ranger from the Wei Kingdom, looked at the Mo man who was chanting some Mo family truths in the wine shop, and said to the rest of the people on the table: "I have been here for three or five months, what do the people selected for this Mo family gathering mean?" Can't the Mo family giants be decided in one word? ”

This is not a secret, Ren Ke said with a smile: "This time, in addition to the previous Seven Enlightenment Harms, three candidates were also selected. In addition to these people, there are also fifteen members, from whom the seven evils and alternates must be elected, and the vacancies will be filled at the next gathering. ”

The other person at the table nodded and said, "I heard that at a young age, he almost became a Seven Enlightenment Victim, and it seems that there is only one less person to support than Wu Mabo, so he is a candidate." What does this alternate mean? ”

Although Qin Yueren came here for a shorter time than Ren Ke, because of Changsangjun's reputation and his interest in it, he understood this, and sighed: "Under the Mo family's giants, he is already old. The meaning of the alternate means that if seven people are there, they can sit in and not decide. If the seven people are old, sick, and leave Pei County, if there is a major event, the alternate can directly do the seven enlightenments and have the right to decide. ”

"Just as the bird slippery is the next giant, if Mo Zhai dies, he will have the highest voice among the alternates, and he can be directly replaced as the Seven Enlightenment Harms."

"The fifteen people under the alternate have the right to decide when they meet and gather together. Seven evils and alternates, only during the period when these people cannot gather, take on the duties of these 25 committee members, including them. ”

Qin Yueren thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Just like the administration of the Duke of Zhou, it is the government of the king. When the king was young, the Duke of Zhou was administrative. When the king became an adult, the Duke of Zhou returned to power. The twenty-five members of the committee are King Cheng, and the seven and three alternates are Zhou Gong. ”

The rest of the people at the table suddenly realized, but Ren Ke thought, as long as there is a heart, anyone can know these things.

It's just that what did the twenty-five secret meeting after that big gathering say? There is no news in the entire Pei County, and no one can know.

Qin Yueren's explanation is the Mohist explanation, the so-called worry about getting sick and aging.

It's just that Ren Ke felt that something was wrong, Chu Youyin came to Pei County, this is not a secret, everyone knows it. The Mo family wants to enter Chu and discuss with the king of Chu about the benefit of the world, which is also known to everyone.

Ren Ke thought that Chu Pei was far away, and it was inconvenient for the Mo family to select these people, so he was afraid that he would have to send someone to Chudi, and he might also be a high-level figure such as Wu Yu.

After the gathering, the Mo family had the word alternate, not only with the seven enlightenment hazards of the alternate, but also with the alternate Mo.

This is the biggest change Ren Ke has ever noticed.

Many of the original industrial and commercial farmers in Pei County, as well as some people who followed the activities of the ink scholars very early, as well as those Pei County volunteers who were deeply influenced by the ink people, many of them joined the ink people.

The specific number of people is in the hands of the secretary and the giant, which ordinary people cannot know.

But Ren Ke guessed that there were six or seven hundred people who became alternate ink makers. And that's not even counting the Celestial Warriors who just arrived in Peiyi this year.

Many of them want to participate, but they don't even qualify to be alternates.

It's just that Ren Ke feels that these wanderers are only afraid that in two or three years, they will become ink masters, or alternate ink masters.

The ability of those people in the Xuanyi Department is too strong, Ren Ke thinks that he is proficient in poetry and etiquette, but he still often feels that what the Mo family preaches is very reasonable.

He knew his mission, but those travelers who came here simply came here after the Battle of Shangqiu with a heart to benefit the world.

Ren Ke guessed that there might be even more people, because the Mo family still had strongholds in various giant cities before, and there were already many people who were subject to the Mo family's moral propaganda.

In a year's time, it is estimated that the number of official ink artists will exceed 1,000, and this number will inevitably continue to increase.

This is a terrifying number, Ren Ke knows the ability of the Mo family, and also knows the Mo family's method of spreading knowledge, if there are really three or five thousand formal Mo people, I am afraid that the world will be crowned with a king, no one can compare.

Ren Ke didn't know about Pengcheng.

But as far as Pei County is concerned, the Mo family has truly become the uncrowned king.

Without the division of the Duke of Song, without the permission of the Son of Heaven, even Mo Zhai himself is not Peiyi Zai or Peiyi Doctor, but...... The Mo family is the real master of Pei County.

From food, clothing, housing and transportation to law and morality, everything is running according to the design of the Mohists.

Nominally, Pei County may elect any person to be the one who embodies public opinion and exercises public power...... Ren Ke, who has been here for a long time, has already known and is familiar with these words.

However, everyone who was elected was actually elected from within the Mo family, and others ...... There is no ability to do this, nor can it be convinced, nor does it have the prestige that the entire organization supports.

So after the gathering of the Mo family, in the second public meeting of Pei County, several laws and decrees from the public will of Pei County were actually internal decisions of the Mo family, and they may even have a great relationship with the secret meeting of twenty-five people.

These laws were not secret, but were quickly enacted.

What Ren Ke attaches the most importance to is the conscription order.

Since the beginning of this winter, one person from each group of families who work together with cattle and horses will be sent to join the righteous teacher.

This is equivalent to one person from every five households in Pei County to join the army for three years.

Starting from the first year, every year five households must select one person to enter the righteous teacher, which means that the real scale of the righteous teacher in Pei County will not reach its peak until three years later, and if the population does not increase, the number of righteous teachers will always remain at this number.

And in the event of war, those who return to their hometowns after three years of service to work in the fields can be quickly called up to take up arms.

The tradition of the integration of peasants and soldiers is a tradition left after the division of Zhou and Wu, but it was originally a winter military exercise, but this time it was directly reformed into full-time training, and the winter martial arts was abolished.

The people were accustomed to this, but they did not oppose it.

What's even more terrifying is that the Xuanyi Department has said too many truths, so that many people are happy to go, which makes Ren Ke a little shocked.

In addition to the propaganda of the Xuanyi Department, the Mohists also gave enough material benefits, and the Mohists were utilitarian and paid attention to mutual benefits.

These recruited volunteers will be trained for a long time from the winter, and the original volunteers will not leave, but will be promoted to officers such as Sima Chang, and will stay in the army directly, holding a fairly high "Yulu", which is enough to support their families.

Ren Ke felt that it was difficult to learn elsewhere, because the Mo family was very rich now.

Ironware, spirits, cotton cloth, these things, combined with the increasing output of agriculture, Ren Ke felt that it was not said that it was to raise such a righteous teacher, that is, to raise more people, I was afraid that the Mo family would also be able to bear it.

In last year's battle of Shangqiu, the number of the Mo family was too small, and they chose that shocking night attack, which is of course legendary and amazed the world.

In Ren Ke's opinion, I am afraid that this is also a helpless move by the Mo family.

Anyone who thinks that if they become a division in three years, and there will be a big war in the Central Plains, the Mo family wants to kill the army, but I am afraid that the world will be even more shaken by then.

In his opinion, the idea of the Mohists seems to be to maintain the balance and stability of the world.

Moreover, in Ren Ke's opinion, the Mo family really didn't seem to be aggressive, because he went all over Guanpei County and didn't find a single chariot of the Mo family.

In addition to his thoughts, Mo Zhai is also a world-famous carpenter, and the public loss class is also inferior, and it is still very easy for the Mo family to make a chariot or something.

Without chariots, you can't attack, you can only defend and defend the city, this is a truth that the whole world knows.

It was only after the defection of Duke Shen and Wuchen that Wu Guo learned to fight in chariots, and only then did he have the strength to fight with Chu State.

There are many workshops of the Mo family, but I have not heard of a place where bows and arrows are made, and I have not even heard of the Mo family buying strategic materials such as feathers from other places.

Infantry, it is impossible to be the master of the battlefield.

A righteous division without a chariot is bound to be only a defensive armament.

Ren Ke, a person who grew up in the era of the world and the invincibility of car battles, came to a conclusion that he thought was extremely correct.

Therefore, he speculated that the secret meeting of the Mo family was also about how to promote the balance and stability of the world, and how to promote the Central Plains soldiers that the Mo family talked about all day long......

But even so, Ren Ke was still thinking that if he became a division in three years, although he was only a foot soldier and could not attack the field, then he would use it to defend the ...... As long as there is enough food, who can break through a big city like Shangqiu? And how many troops are needed to break through?

You know, chariots can't take a city.

As for the grain...... Ren Ke knows that with Peixian as the center, the spread of various technical varieties is also being carried out with great fanfare. The Mo family does not hide these things that benefit the world, anyone can learn them, and even Ren Ke himself is learning.

He raised his head and looked at the wanderers around him who were discussing or listening intently to the preaching of the person from the Xuanyi Department, thinking about the truth that the Mo family had said to the grassroots Mo family and the people of the world after the gathering a month ago, Ren Ke thought to himself: "Didn't the secret society say anything?" Is it really as the Mo family said, all these slow changes will eventually lead to a new look in the world? ”