Chapter 398: Politics and Action (11)
The purpose of convening the ministers today is to agree on this matter. Wei Si is old, knowing that he may not have much time, if he dies, the country is unstable, the lord and young ministers are suspicious, at that time can not use Wu Qi, and dare not use Wu Qi, so only now can he use Wu Qi as the handsome, and strive to play the best effect of the prince before death.
If you get the big beam, then Zheng Guo's sour jujube and other cities can also be grabbed, carve up Zheng Guo with South Korea, use Zheng Guo's corpse to gain South Korea's support, and continue to suppress Zhao Guo.
As soon as Zhao Ji died, his younger brother had to get along with Wei in order to ensure that his son would ascend to the throne in the future.
Weiss thought to himself that in this way, he would leave his son with a perfect environment before he died. It is okay to go south and fight west, as long as it is not too dull, the situation of Wei can be regarded as open.
At this time, it is completely unnecessary to provoke the Sishang Mo family, who he has no power to touch. And the conditions given by the Mohists are already good enough, and they really seem to have a bit of idealism of "benefiting the world and fighting soldiers".
Of course, the most important thing is that the strength of the Mo family is strong enough to be qualified to ally with the Great Congress, and Yue Wang Peng gave the Mo family a big gift.
Now that Weiss looks at it, Li Kui is old, Tian Zifang and Duan Ganmu are also drooping, and he can support Gu, that is, his younger brother, Wu Qi, Ximen Leopard, and Beimen Ke, who are already in their fifties at this time.
The Wei State could not let the Gong clan become bigger, so that the dilemma of the Chu State appeared; And because he was born in the Three Jin Dynasty, he would not allow Wu Qi and Ximen Leopard to become big military heroes, because he started from this.
He also understands that Wu Qi is the prime minister, and Yu Wei is the best choice, but it is the most dangerous choice for his family.
Now that he is old, the last two things he can do before his death are to ensure that the Qi State does not have the way to develop in Sishang in the south, defeat the Chu State and split the Chu State, and pave everything for his son, counting on Wu Qi, Ximen Leopard, and Beimen Ke These old ministers will be stable within ten years of their rule, and he will not see it in the future, and he is not willing to think about it.
Children and grandchildren have their own affairs for their children and grandchildren, and he only needs to make plans for ten years.
At this time, the sages of the Wei State were still there, and the talented people gathered together to discuss the matter of the alliance with the Mo family, and Wei Si saw that everyone did not object, so he agreed.
If Wei participates, then South Korea will participate. Han Wei participated, and Qi Guo should participate. Han Weiqi participated, then Lu and Song participated.
In this way, the location of the alliance given by the Mo family was Meng Zhuze of the Song State.
Weiss was too old to participate in person, so he asked Zhai Huang to participate in this alliance.
In addition to the alliance, the Mo family also put forward a somewhat strange proposal, hoping that the Marquis of Wei could send ten brave men to the west to see how big the world really was.
In fact, Wei Si didn't have much interest in this matter, or even said that he was not interested in it at all, but it sounded a little strange, and everyone also felt that the Mo family was still a school after all, and it was normal to want to explore these meaningless things.
The ministers discussed for a long time, and they didn't know what the Mo family was going to do, they just thought that the Mo family was fighting with Yang Zhu, Lie Yukou and others.
The matters of the alliance had been agreed, and this matter was not bad, Weiss immediately decided, and selected twenty elite warriors to follow the Mohist mission to the west.
At the time of selection, he knew that the Mo family still had to contact Qin, Zhao and other countries, so he told these twenty elite warriors not to lose the reputation of Wei. All the warriors gladly received the order, and each had a reward, needless to say.
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Sishang, Tengcheng.
Yue Wang Peng has been captured for more than two months, and he has been imprisoned for these two months, although he has a lot of food and clothing, but the original kingly temperament has been exhausted by two months of detention.
In the past two months, he has not been in the dark, but he can meet with the captured ministers and nobles every day, let off fire together, and the food is gradually delicious...... Although it is necessary to keep accounts, Yue Wang Phong is happy to do so.
Within two months, the king of Sishang continued to send envoys to Tengdi Peidi to talk with the Mo family, everyone knew that the general trend of the Yue country had gone, and it was no longer able to maintain the hegemony of Sishang, and the slogan shouted by the Mo family was the Sishang non-offensive alliance, so they all wanted to know how the Mo family would treat these small countries.
At the end of October, when Yue Wang was having dinner with the ministers of the temple area, a piece of news came, and everyone was in an uproar.
Yue Wang's younger brother Yu, in the name of the king being captured and the country could not be without a king for a day, hoped that the countrymen and nobles would elect him as the monarch.
And in the name of "the king was captured, life and death are unknown, the Mo family is powerful, and the young monarch cannot govern the country", the inheritance rights of the prince of Yue Wang and the prince were abolished.
The external excuse is the sentence "the hope of the Mo family" that was used to intimidate Yue Wang at the beginning.
The coup was not too successful, the crown prince Zhu Zhi took advantage of the chaos to escape, Zhu Yao's two younger brothers were killed, but Zhu Zhi fled from Langya to the old land of Wuyue overnight to contact the tribe.
Yu proclaimed himself king in Langya, and the blame fled to the old land of Wuyue, and the Yue country had a tendency to split into South Vietnam and North Vietnam.
This kind of thing is expected, Yue Wang Peng is calmer than those noble ministers, hehe said twice, he thought that it should be so, if he was in the position of his younger brother, he would do the same, if he didn't do it, he would be stupid.
It's just that the younger brother's methods are too rough, and he can let his son escape, which is really incompetent. If he wants him to do it, he must first kill all those who have the right to inherit, and then take advantage of this opportunity for the Junzi Army to destroy everyone's panic to appease everyone, but he is afraid that the big thing has been accomplished.
It is ridiculous that if you want a coup d'état, you should find some reason first, but you don't know that the reason was found after the coup d'état, and wouldn't it be so that the political opponents would notice it first?
At this moment, an inkman shouted at him, "Puff, come out!" ”
Yue Wang Fei has long been accustomed to the title of the Mo family guard, no politeness, no etiquette, but the matter is already like this, and he can only accept it.
Several people watched him and came to a room, Yue Wang Fei looked at the people, his heart moved, in addition to the few people opposite, there were several high-level figures of the Mo family, he had seen two when he was a child.
His army was destroyed, and all the captives were escorted to Tengcheng, where they had food and drink every day, but some people needed to work.
In addition to labor, those Yue people who were born as apprentices had to listen to the propaganda of the Mojia Xuanyi Department every few days, and Yue Wang Peng didn't know what they were talking about.
He looked up, saw Shi Zheng sitting across from him, and asked, "What is going on today?" ”
Shi said indifferently: "The coup d'état in Yue is in civil strife, the nobles are fighting, the sons are all to blame and fled, and the uncle Yu is self-reliant." There is a great danger of war in the country, and the people will inevitably suffer from military disasters, which the Mo family does not want to see. ”
"Now you are the only one who can stabilize the situation in Vietnam. This is for the people of Yue to no longer be killed and injured, and it is also for the benefit of all the people of Yue country. ”
"After the Mo family gathered righteousness and discussed, I asked you if you are willing to redo the king of Yue for the benefit of the people of Yue country?"
This is exactly the pie falling from the sky, Yue Wang Fei barely reacted, and when he realized that it was not a joke, he nodded hurriedly.
In this situation, when his younger brother takes the throne, the first thing he wants to make peace with the Mo family is to make peace, I'm afraid what kind of deal will he make secretly...... For example, let the Mo family kill themselves and redeem those gentlemen, for which they can give up many interests and even the territory of the city, which is not to be considered.
But the Mo family chose to reset him at this juncture, can Yue Wang Yanyan be unhappy?
Shi Shi took out a stack of the contents of the treaty copied in Vietnamese, handed it over, and said: "If you really want to benefit the world, look at these, and if you can agree, the rest will be discussed." ”
Yue Wang Fei took it and glanced at a few pages in front of him, and was surprised by the generosity of the Mo family.
This time, as long as the Mo family is bounded by Shushui, Yue Wang Fei admitted that he was a tyrant before, recognized that the Mo family of the Nine Kingdoms was restored to act on his behalf, and recognized the Sishang Non-Offensive Alliance, and swore that he would not invade Sishang Yunyun before his lifetime.
These contents are too generous to the Yue Wang, the Mo family is too generous, with his understanding of the world, in fact, to this extent, with the strength of the Mo family, he can unite Lu, Qi, and Chu to carve up the Yue country.
According to his understanding, within a hundred miles, it is okay to divide a person as a nobleman.
But he didn't know that the Mo family had jurisdiction over a hundred miles, and what was needed was an organization of nearly 100 people, and it was impossible to adopt that kind of sub-feudal model, and at this time, the scope of jurisdiction was already the limit.
When Yue Wang Peng saw the next few pages, his face changed slightly.
It said that the Mo family would release the soldiers and gentlemen of the Yue Kingdom, as well as the Yue Wang and the nobles.
But before that, Yue Wang Fei needed to go to Meng Zhuze to meet with the princes, and the expenses, food, and consumption during this period were borrowed from the Mo family in the form of loans.
In addition, the nobles and weapons redeemed in the future, as well as the expenses required by the Mo family to appease everyone after the restoration of Yue Wang Peng, etc., all need to be borrowed from the Mo family.
And in order to maintain the rule of Yue Wang Phong and suppress those nobles who took advantage of this to make a living, the Mo family would send two brigades to be stationed near Langya to protect Yue Wang Phong and suppress Langya's aristocratic coup.
All this is equivalent to grain, a total of 3,500,000 small stones, to be repaid in 30 years, including interest, and a total of 6,000,000 stone of wheat will be paid in 30 years.
Among them, 800,000 stone was paid in wheat, which was the food consumption of the captured people of the Yue Kingdom and the Yue Wang.
The rest is the cost of ransom buying weapons, hiring sappers and artillery of the Mo family to help break the city and seize the throne, ransom the nobles and gentlemen, and stationing to help suppress the coup d'état of the nobles, etc., and the Mo family does not pay cash food.
In other words, the Mo family only needs to pay 800,000 stone of grain, as well as some of the captured weapons.
In terms of repayment, the Mo family did not want grain, but asked for copper.
When Gou Jian, Ji Ran once set a price for the grain of the Yue country, which was: A goods millet, stone seventy; B millet and stone sixty; C red beans, stone fifty; Ding goods rice millet, stone forty; Wu wheat, stone thirty; Soybeans have been stocked, stone twenty.
The 3.5 million stone grain was paid by the Mo family in the form of wheat goods, and the total amount of money was 180 million yuan after counting the interest and principal.
It seems to be a lot, but in fact, in the future generations, the principal and interest will be repaid in total, and if the productive forces are developing for thousands of years, with the Yangtze River estuary, Huai River, and northern and southern Jiangsu that Yue now controls, 180,000 guan may be affordable for a number of wealthy households.
It's just that now, for Yue Wang Peng, this is an astronomical amount.
In the calculation of half a tael per penny, Yue Guo needs to pay a total of 5 million catties of Mojia copper in 30 years, which is equivalent to 160,000 catties of copper per year, which is equivalent to the copper consumed by 200 cannons every year.
This is something that Yue Guo simply cannot afford, because the productive forces of Yue Guo are backward and there is too little grain for commodity exchange, so there is only a price of 70 yuan for a small stone millet.
At this time, the stone is a small stone, about twenty-seven or eight catties, which is equivalent to one catty of corn can be exchanged for two or three coins.
Pei County's personal production capacity is completely different from that of Yue Guo, and the exchange ratio of grain and copper also leads to the fact that Yue Wang Peng cannot afford to pay back this money. However, the Mo family doesn't want food at all, as long as copper, if they don't accept it, then they will go to contact Yu to see if he is willing to kill soldiers to eliminate grievances......
The Mo family also said very intimately that if all the payments were made in copper, it would lead to Yue Wang Peng exploiting the people, so that the people would suffer, which was something the Mo family did not want to see, so the Mo family gave the six million stone grain principal and interest payment method.