Chapter Thirty-Eight

The last words of the guard were also the strangest and most difficult thing for Wu Qi to figure out.

The ink man not only said that he wanted to profit, but also said that he would die for the benefit of the world, how could this make people willing to join the ink man? If you don't die and suffer from it, and it is contrary to the pursuit of profit, you can't figure it out.

However, he didn't ask directly, so he said: "I heard that if the Mo family giants have an order to fight for the benefit of the world, those who become Mo must be ordered to return to the army even if they retreat to their homes?" ”

The guard nodded, "That's not all. Not only the inkers, but also the people in Sishang, have this obligation. Once approved by the general assembly, all those who serve in the army must be able to join the army without delay. ”

"Lian said that there is no right without obligations, and there is no obligation without rights. It is the duty of the people of Sishang to join the army, and the right is to ensure that the people of Sishang are prosperous and not to be slaughtered, and those who have no land to survive organize common farming, etc......"

This man spoke very well, if twenty years ago, these few words alone would have been enough to resound in one party, enough to be a celebrity.

It's just that now it's just an ordinary guard, and Wu Qi can't help but be shocked.

The evaluation of the Mo family in my heart can't help but be higher, this Mo family actually wants to "become a scholar"?

Not to mention whether the guard understood those words, it was not easy to say them.

Who could have read a few words these 20 years ago was not a scholar?

Nowadays, those who have retired from the righteous teachers can write their own names, they can be regarded as literate, and everyone can have a few new words in Mohist books such as what obligation in their mouths.

When this Qilu opened the country, the sergeant was only three hundred, and the corporal was only half a thousand.

Wu Qi sighed secretly, thinking that he had been running Xihe for many years, how many people could write?

Seeing Wu Qi pondering there, the guard said, "However, I am from Taoqiu, and I have not participated in the joint farming or worked in the workshop after retiring, so I am not subject to this obligation. Taoqiu is not under the control of the Mo family. ”

"But if one day there is really a big war that benefits the world, I will also return to the army. The affairs of the Mo family are always right, and they can also benefit us, which can be seen. Although I can't become an inkman who dies for the benefit of the world, if I really have to be called, then I can't retreat. ”

"It is the benefit of the world that everyone benefits. Since I am one of the people in the world, benefiting the world is benefiting myself. When the time really comes when we need to join the army, I think that those ink people who don't spin their heels will all die, and if they die, there will be no one to save the world and save us, so we have to go on our own. ”

"Now......"

The guard showed a mischievous smile on his face, and laughed to himself: "Isn't there still an ink man who is dedicated to benefiting the world to save the world, and it is not our turn yet." ”

"But I don't need us. If there is really any big thing, Sishang Yishi has existed for nearly twenty years. Every three or four years, seventeen or eighteen have to serve in the army for three years, and every year young people come in and veterans retreat, and they really want to fight...... Not to mention going to the outside world to conquest those unrighteous kings, if there are really unrighteous kings who want to occupy Sishang, let them know what it means to be a hundred thousand heroes. ”

Wu Qi echoed a few words, and felt more and more the horror of the Sishang military system in his heart.

Xihe soldiers are heavy infantry, many armor to fight to the death, training is not easy, and selection is extremely difficult, and because it involves privileges such as tax exemption, the number of people cannot be too much.

An armored warrior needs to be able to fight with a crossbow and can charge with a spear, and once he is selected, he must join the army to fifty.

He has been running Xihe for many years, and his military soldiers are only 350,000. However, these 350,000 soldiers were enough to make the Qin people dare not look east and subdue Han Zhao to serve Wei.

However, the righteous teacher in Sishang is completely different from the military pawn, and this military system of three or four years in the army can only be used in Sishang now.

If other countries use it, there are many reasons why it will not work.

For example, although the rate of fire is not as fast as that of a crossbow and the range of a musket is not as good as that of a bow, it takes seven or eight years to train an archer who can shoot in melee rage. However, the musketeers in Sishang had to learn to line up, raise their guns, fire volleys, and march, and they could form an army in half a year, and their counter-shooting was not weaker than those archers who had been trained for seven or eight years.

The Sishang army formation was neat and clumsy, and the pursuit relied on cavalry in a roundabout way. And the stirrup originated from Sishang, when all countries were using chariots, Sishang began to have cavalry, far superior to other countries. After three years of training, even if you return home for a few years, once you are recruited, you can be familiar with it for half a year, and you can fight in formation and fight no weaker than the strong armies of other countries.

In addition, the Mo army propagated morality, everyone knew why they were fighting, and there were those Mo people who did not spin their heels as the backbone...... If there is really any "warlike king" who wants to win Sishang, then I am afraid that the Mo family can really pull out tens of thousands of soldiers in Sishang. Even if you can't fight in the field, you can defend the city, with the ability of the Mo people to defend the city and build the city, and with the benefits of artillery, when the Mo family's field divisions are patrolling, who dares to say victory?

He also thought about how to fight against the Mo family, but after thinking about it, if the Mo family was a tortoise and defended to the death, it seemed that there was really no way to break it.

The Mo family volunteers did not fight many battles, the first battle of the water was a regular field battle, and the later battle of aid was that the Mo family first sent people to help Lu defend the city, and when the Qi division was tired, the righteous division marched again, and the Qi people were defeated, and it was not a field battle.

In terms of the battle of the water, Wu Qi thought about many tactics to break through the Mo family's defense, but all he could think of to win the possibility was ultimately due to the Mo family's right flank taking the initiative to pursue and pull out the formation, and there was no other chance of winning.

Wu Qi is not a person who attributes all the possibility of victory to the mistakes of his opponent, so he knows that the Mo family is difficult to beat.

If you want to break through, unless the artillery and cavalry are stronger than the Mo family's righteous division, but the artillery and cavalry are stronger than the righteous division, as long as the Mo family doesn't want to attack, then it is really invincible.

Originally, when the battle of Lushui was held, there was actually a chance, but now, the Mo family may not be able to annex countries, but if countries want to join forces to attack Sishang, it is impossible.

Wu Qi said secretly: "The land of Sishang has completely belonged to the Mo family. If Wei strikes and takes Sishang, Wei is in danger. It's just that he didn't listen to my words to suppress the Qin people first, and he was greedy for the wealth of Sishang, and now I have entered the Qin ...... Wenhou hegemony, ruined here! ”

Thinking of this, Wu Qi finally asked the question he wanted to know the most.

"When you were in the service, were there any people in the company who joined the ink?"

The man nodded, "Yes." I have been a musketeer for more than three years, and there are a total of seven people in the company who have become ink masters, or alternate ink players. ”

Wu Qi smiled and said: "Then the Mo family said that everyone should seek profit, and said that if you want to be an ink person, you must die for the benefit of the world, isn't this just like a person saying that I like white and hate white?" ”

The guard glared and said, "You are ...... That's not right. ”

"That's what Representative Lian told us. First, as I just said, benefiting the world is benefiting the people of the world, and everyone is one of the people in the world, so benefiting the world is benefiting oneself. This is the same as the Mohist saying of love. ”

"Didn't Mozi say that benevolence is love, and only by loving oneself can we know how to love others. For example, we even said that I like horses for the sake of riding horses, but that is not a love for horses. If you don't even know how to love yourself, how can you love others? ”

"It's the same with the benefit of the world. You have to know that you want to benefit, and then you have to know how the world can make you profitable, and then you have to know what to do to make the world profitable, so that you have the opportunity to benefit. ”

"In the past, the peasants, on the land, felt that they had paid rent and served the nobles for their labor, and that was the case. The Mo family has to teach people to seek profit first, and then they know that this is unreasonable, and then they have to do something for profit, right? ”

"Second, have you heard the story of Zi Han not being jade back then? Some people take gold and jade as treasures, some people take righteousness as treasures, and some people think that they can be people who benefit the world is what they seek in their lives...... Not less. Though they suffer hardship, they rejoice. ”

"It's like there is a faction in the Mo family, and that's really self-suffering. They feel that they can be satisfied by enduring hardships, benefiting others, and dying for the benefit of the world, close to Mo Zhai Yusheng, and happy in their hearts, there are really many such people. ”

Speaking of this, the guard couldn't help but smile and said, "We have one in our company." As far as our chief Sima is concerned, he is the one who admires his grandson the most. Oh, this guy...... Anyway, we feel that it is very bitter, and he enjoys it, and he thinks that if he doesn't do it, he will be considered a bad person. ”

After half-smiling and half-admiring the self-suffering man, he was about to say the third, when a businessman walked out of the exchange next to him, and the man choked on the third and said, "If we can see each other again in the future, let's talk again." I'll go first. ”

After that, he picked up the musket and walked to the carriage, Wu Qi got up and finally asked, "How many people like you can hold guns in Taoqiu City?" ”

The guard said casually, "Let me say four or five thousand people." ”

Wu Qi's heart suddenly moved...... The military system of the Mo family, once it spreads all over the world with muskets and gunpowder, I am afraid that all countries will have to learn it.

But once learned, the people can fight, and once someone instigates it, such as the country's chaos and riots, it will emerge one after another.

In terms of the world, who can incite the Chinese people the most? Who can talk about morality? I'm afraid that in addition to the Mo family, I don't think about the second family.

However, if you don't learn the military system of the Mo family, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive in the troubled times in the future.

Chariot warfare had fallen behind with the advent of stirrups, and the advent of firearms had also made the aristocracy no longer have an overwhelming advantage over the farmer.

If you don't learn this kind of military system and can't change, do you still rely on the chariot soldiers and apprentices to attack the guns of the Mo family and collapse in a battle?

After learning the Mohist military system, if the moral ideas of the Mohist are spread, the people will easily perceive those unreasonableness, and everyone can fight, and the nobles of Shiqing can no longer rely on chariots to defeat a hundred, and then all countries will riot.

If you don't learn the military system, the army is weak, and the troubled times are competing, if you don't learn from others, you have to learn, and you will die early.

After learning the military system, the people are strong, and the morality of the Mohists is the easiest to convince the people, and if it is spread a little, it can be incited, and it can die later.

Can die early and die late...... The nobles of this world are all dead.

Now an ordinary righteous teacher in Taoqiu has retired from the people of the market, all have such insight...... Wu Qi shook his head and smiled, saying in his heart that Song Guo was only afraid that it would be finished.

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it was not right, Wu Qi thought to himself, according to what the Mo family said, it was the Shiqing nobles of the Song State who wanted to finish, but the Song Kingdom could not be finished.