Faced with such a righteous and strict reason, the imperial father Yue Ling just smiled.

He believes that there must be a lot of righteous people within the Mo family who are interested in the world, and he also believes that the Mo family will not hesitate to go to the soup in order to benefit the world, but he feels that the Mo family's request to withdraw from the city this time is more of a show.

He knew that there were envoys of various nations outside the city. This time, I'm afraid it's just for the envoys of various countries.

So he taunted the Mo family envoy along this line of thought, but the ink man smiled and said: "If you have to say this, it is not unreasonable. ”

"It's just that the morality of my Mo family has not changed, and the princes of all countries will not be hostile to us because of our benevolence. The morality of our Mohists has been spread to the world with the help of paper and printing, and scholars who are interested in the world have already joined us. ”

"There must always be a precedent for everything, and the giant hopes that the battle of Dangshan is a precedent, a precedent for taking into account the people of the world in a war. Don't let them do it, as long as the world thinks it's not good if they don't do it. ”

"Tian Wu was shot four years ago, that is also a precedent, in the future Zhuxia dispute, those who dare to slaughter the city, kill him!"

"Today's Dangshan World War I is also a precedent, the old and weak, women and children are also people, we must consider their survival, this is the difference between us as humans and animals."

"In the battle of Dangshan, our army will win, you have sinned too much before, even if you don't shoot you, you will be sent to the South China Sea for labor reform. But the giant thinks that he can still convince you that a hundred years later, when people mention your imperial father, Yue Ling, they may forget the blood of the butcher's knife in your hand, but they will remember that you allowed the old and weak women and children to leave. ”

"There is no hope for you. Please cherish the name after your death. ”

Hearing the three words of his name behind him, the emperor's father Yue Ling laughed even more.

After laughing for a long time, the emperor's father Yue Ling suddenly asked: "Since you are for the benefit of the world, if I take these people hostage, if you attack the city, I will kill them, what can you do?" ”

The ink man was not in a hurry, and said indifferently: "Kill one person to benefit the world, you can kill it." My Mohists talk about utilitarianism, since everyone is equal, then only the pros and cons need to be calculated. I don't think we need to mention the difference between human and physical beings. This is not a difficult question for us to choose, but a simple question like asking where the sun rises. ”

"In three days' time, the gates of the western stronghold will be closed, and if the people have not withdrawn by then, you will bear all the consequences."

After speaking, the inkman solemnly handed in the official paperwork and left.

After the ink master left, several of the advisors advised: "The public must not agree. ”

"If the old and weak women and children withdraw, the young and strong people in the city will definitely refuse to defend it, this is the Mo family's poisonous plan to mess with me to defend the city."

"For example, if parents, sisters, wives and daughters are outside the city, how will the peasants in the city work hard to defend the city? When the hearts of the people are scattered, woe may be. ”

"Although these people are not needed in battle, they need manpower to transport food, plug the city walls, and repair gaps."

"The heart of the Mo family is extremely vicious, and when the time comes, there is no intention of fighting in the city, which is not good for me."

How could the imperial father Yue Ling not know this truth, he just stared at the document blankly, listened to the opinions of the strategists, and for a long time he suddenly asked without warning: "Do you know how the Mo family defines a hero?" ”

The original meaning of a hero is just a person who is superior to others in terms of warriors, intelligence and force, but over the years, the Mohists have given many new meanings to many words, and heroes are one of them.

The rest of the people didn't know why the emperor's father, Yue Ling, suddenly asked this, and didn't say anything.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, asked again: "If everything goes well, I will change the law, gather centralized power, prosper the Song State, reform the military system, and make the weak Song State in my hands, the south can control Chu, the north can cut Qi, the west can resist Wei Chu, and the east will seize the city, and restore the glory of Tang Zu in the past, can I be a hero?" ”

All the strategists and disciples said: "You can't be called a hero with the righteousness of the Mo family, but if you take the righteousness of the people of the world, you can be a hero." ”

This used to be a lofty ideal, and the first step of this lofty ideal must involve conspiracy and betrayal, because the imperial father family was only a distant relative of the Song dynasty, and in order to seek power, it was necessary to follow the rebellious road of the old morality of the Tian clan and the dynasty.

If there is no new morality brought by the Mo family, and heroes are judged by success or failure, the imperial father Yue Ling feels that he has done the right thing. The mainstream of the world is like this, the Tian family is in power, and the three families are divided, and it won't be long before this is a "heroic" move.

It's a pity that the Mo family was born, and the change of morality has replaced the old morality, and the new morality has gradually become the mainstream of the world.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, often felt that although he engaged in conspiracy, massacre, and conspiracy, he was all for a noble and great goal of restoring the prosperity of Yin Shang, so although he had done many unsightly things, he should still be a hero.

It's just that with the changes in the current situation over the years, everything he envisioned before has no chance to be implemented.

If everything he planned succeeds and the Song Kingdom is strong, he can proudly tell future generations that everything he does is for this purpose.

But now, it seems impossible to succeed in all this, and even if he tells others, others will only laugh at him.

In the bottom of his heart, the emperor's father Yue Ling may still have a little bit of heroism, or at least hope that others will be able to feel that he is not a villain in the future.

Looking at the document in front of him, the emperor's father Yue Ling suddenly laughed and said, "Tell those women and children to go out of the city." Don't let the Mo family think that all the heroes in the world are in Sishang, and there is no hero among the nobles such as us. As for victory or defeat, it is nothing more than life and death, and the world should not be made to think that the nobles are all silverfish and there are no heroes. ”

"There is no need to talk about this matter anymore, since the Mo family said so, they will abide by it, they will not attack the city within three days, and they will not take advantage of the chaos to attack, let them go."

After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and told everyone to do it.

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Three days later, at the west gate, thousands of old and weak women and children in the city flocked to the city gate, either waving goodbye to their families in the city, or weeping bitterly, wondering if they could see each other again.

This is something that has never happened in the world, and there has never been a time when we attack a city and think of women, children, old and weak.

At the moment when the city gate opened, I don't know who took the lead, and the crowd who was about to leave the city looked at the imperial father Yue Ling in the distance, knelt down in unison, and praised him for having the style of an ancient gentleman.

Looking at the old and weak people kneeling in the distance in front of him, the imperial father Yue Ling sighed.

"These men can kneel down to me and thank me today. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if the morality of the Mo family really becomes the mainstream of the world, they will only take it for granted, and it will be impossible to kneel down again. ”

A henchman next to him understood what the imperial father Yue Ling meant, and also sighed: "Even if one day in the future, the Mo family will be exterminated by the princes, but the hearts of the people in the world will be in chaos. I don't know how to be grateful, and I think that this is how it should be, and the means of the princes to rule the world will also change in the future. ”

"Those who take gratitude for granted and kneel are a form of pastoral governance; Those who feel that they should be able to resist if they can't do it want another way of governing. ”

"The world is in chaos, and there is no going back."

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, was silent, staring at the slowly opening city gate, watching the people who knelt down and got up to leave, until the city gate closed again.

The cronies and strategists followed the gaze of the imperial father Yue Ling, and asked for a long time: "Do you think that if we really keep the old and weak as hostages, if the Mo family attacks the city, we will kill it, will the Mo family really continue to attack the city?" ”

The imperial father Yue Ling didn't think about it, so he nodded.

"Yes."

"Although the Mo family has not often talked about killing one person for the benefit of the world over the years, I know that they will not be restrained."

"Besides...... We take the people as hostages, what is the matter? ”

The strategist thought that the emperor's father Yue Ling was talking about benevolence and righteousness, and was about to dissuade him from saying that there must be no woman's kindness, but the emperor's father Yue Ling asked rhetorically: "The Son of Heaven is rich in the world, and it is said that the Son of Heaven is a herdsman for the sky." When the two countries are hostage, they must be hostage to the son, and the flesh and blood can be close to each other. If we take the old and weak in the city as hostages, isn't that equivalent to telling the Mo family that we recognize that they are the ones who are close to the people for the heavens? ”

"Win or lose, I don't care about the thousands of old and weak people in this city, just like Tian Wu Tu Wucheng back then, I never felt wrong. This matter is not about benevolence, just looking at the righteousness of the world, if I leave the old and weak as a hostage, I have already lost. ”

"It's like I have a flock of sheep, and if someone wants to beat me, I say if you dare to beat me, I will kill the sheep, isn't that ridiculous?"

"Besides...... It is useless to stay, and the Mo family will not be restrained. ”

He looked at the breastwork of the camp outside the city, which had stretched for a long time, and the bronze cannons glittering in the sun on the high platform in the distance, and sighed bitterly.

The cronies thought for a while, nodded and said, "What the public said is extremely true. But I still don't understand what the Mo family is for, is it really for the benefit of the world? ”

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, asked rhetorically: "Back then, Tian Wu was shot after being tried, and regardless of the princes and princes of various countries, he was the doctor and the secretary, and then dared to slaughter the city easily?" ”

The cronie thought for a while and said, "If the Mo family is not eliminated, or if the countries have not formed an alliance to oppose Mexico, I am afraid that the slaughter of the city will not dare to do it again." ”

"A Mo family has tens of thousands of troops, and when they are forced by force, and each country has different intentions, it will inevitably hand over the people who slaughtered the city to avoid being besieged."

"Two rules...... There are many swordsmen and chivalrous warriors of the Mo family, and the market is all over the place, killing pigs and dogs, and most of them believe in the words of righteousness, and talk about Nie Zheng's assassination of Qin for righteousness in the past. If there are any more people who dare to slaughter the city, I am afraid that those who think that they will do great righteousness will definitely take this opportunity to become famous in the world. ”

"It's easy to stab someone and kill them."

"Stabbing people and killing them is a great righteousness, and it is difficult."

"Stabbing people and killing them is for the sake of righteousness, and it is even more difficult for the world to become famous."

"But difficult and dangerous things, there are often heroes who are willing to do it, if there is another massacre of the city, as soon as the Mo family's unjust order comes out, that person will be in fear all day."

The imperial father, Yue Ling, looked at the cronie and asked, "Is that all?" ”

The cronies nodded, and the imperial father Yue Ling shook his head and said, "You are wrong. ”

"After the Tian Wu incident, after a long time, the whole world will think that the slaughter of the city is wrong, and think that the slaughterer should be judged. The scary part is that this is a matter of course. ”

"In the past, the slaughter of the city, the Jingguan, the flooding, the burning of the prisoners, and the killing of prisoners were not different in the world."

"From now on, the world will be different."

"The Mo family has always said that they want to benefit the world and change the world. If it is just a military and civilian in Si, it is just one of the princes and princes in the world. ”

"But they have their own righteousness, and they have been making their righteousness the righteousness of the world, quietly changing, if the snow melts and moistens things silently, this is what is terrible about them."

"The rites have collapsed, the pleasures have been broken, and the princes do not obey the rites and pleasures, but they do not have their own righteousness. The old meaning has disappeared, the new meaning has not been decided, and the Mo family has seized the opportunity and has been doing it for 20 years, but the princes have ignored this matter. ”

"The five virtues of Qi and the law of Wei Zhijun are not that they can't win the Mo family, but that the common people won't like it, and the truth of the Mo family is not irrefutable, but the common people like it."

"What the princes of the world lack now is a righteousness that can fool the people and make the people believe, and that the upper can maintain the rule of the system and keep the country from chaos. Otherwise, the later it drags on, the more advantageous Sishang will be. ”

After the emperor's father Yue Ling said this, he pointed to several guards of the city with arquebuses on the city wall in the distance and said, "Times have changed. In the past, a gentleman could fight a hundred people with a car, but now a citizen can kill a gentleman with a musket, which is the basis for everyone to be equal in the Mo family. ”

His eyes froze for a long time before he said: "I only learned today that the Mo family's so-called winner of the hearts of the people wins the world, and the meaning of this people is different. ”

"King Wu is the one who wins the hearts of the people, and the minister of my Yin Shang."

"Qi Huan is the hegemon, the people of those who win the hearts of the people, and the people of Middle Earth who are divided into kings and lords."

"As soon as the gunpowder comes out, the people of those who win the hearts of the people ......"

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, stretched out his finger and laughed helplessly at himself: "As soon as the gunpowder comes out, anyone who does not lack fingers and can march can be counted as a citizen." ”