Chapter 46: Temptation
The essence is the most difficult to find.
Wu Qi saw the difference, but because he was constrained by the times, it was difficult to think about the inner difference.
The only thing that comes to mind is: "Adapt to local conditions." Qin land is different from Sishang, although the government of Sishang is good, it cannot be used for Qin land. ”
Keep this thought firmly in mind, and think that if the Warring States is like today, the troubled times will compete for power, and it is necessary to be the same from top to bottom in order to be dominant.
But the Mo family is strangely tight, and the issue of food prices alone has attracted everyone's discussion. In the eyes of the Mo family, the discussion of politics by the people of the country is actually a good thing, and it does not hinder it, so that everyone can express their ideas in their own favor and form a party.
This discussion of politics should be the business of Shangqing, the people are ignorant, if they still discuss politics, will there be no chaos in Sishang? Don't the Mo family even understand this truth?
With this question in mind, Wu Qi led the topic to the issue of grain prices and talked about the duties of this representative of public opinion.
King Shuqing said: "There is nothing strange about this. Everyone needs to know their own interests in order to know what kind of world is in their own interests. ”
"Exactly, everyone knows that the world is changeable. Everyone knows the great benefit, and the world can be governed. Nowadays, there are many people who don't know their own interests, and it is far from the time for the world to rule. ”
"It is said that our Mo family has caused chaos in the world, and people are thinking about it, which is strange...... Isn't it a good thing that everyone benefits? It is nothing more than today's system, which makes the nobles of Shiqing benefit, but the people do not, so when they hear that the people also want to benefit, they exclaim that the world is going to be in chaos, which is really ridiculous. ”
King Shuqing thought about the things he had learned in the township or county over the years, and said it casually.
Wu Qi listened to the words that these exits were enough to cause a sensation elsewhere, and looked at what everyone was accustomed to saying here, and said in his heart: "In the past, the Zhou metric ceremony was passed down for hundreds of years, and there were no less than 100,000 people who died for the ceremony. Now that the 'rite' of the Mo family has been completed, there are no less than 100,000 people who can serve and die for it. ”
"Even if you say it's good, you want to come too. Shiqing observes the weekly etiquette and benefits; The people kept the rules and profited. If the two interests are contradictory, there will be death, and it depends only on who is more willing to die. ”
"Let's look at the future...... Whose rules are passed down to the world? ”
As the saying goes, read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles.
Wu Qi's trip to Sishang, although he traveled less than 10,000 miles, what he saw and heard far exceeded the times, and the impact can be imagined.
In this way, I said goodbye to this village community, with a lot of thinking and a stomach full of doubts, I stopped and stopped, and watched the customs of Sishang on the way.
After seeing a lot, the envoy had to stop and ask what it was, but when he arrived in Pengcheng, Wu Qi was no longer surprised, thinking that it was acceptable to see even strange things.
In Peiyi, he saw a hot cloth bag that could fly in the sky and carry people, both of which could fly for nine days, how could there be anything enough to cause shock?
Outside Pengcheng, there is a place shrouded in smoke and dust, where is the largest group of furnace and iron workshops in the world at this time, and it can be said that at this time.
Coke workshop, crushing workshop, pig iron farming tool casting workshop, wrought iron mixing furnace workshop, mold casting workshop, military workshop......
The entire Sishang, Chuyue along the Yangtze River, and even part of Qilu iron are produced from here, and the scale is expanding day by day by taking advantage of water transportation.
Just watching from a distance, Wu Qi estimated that with the people working in the mines, there were 20,000 people in this huge group of workshops.
Above the river, water is drained all over the place, either for crushing ore or for drawing water.
Thousands of sails raced, and the river boats carrying coal and iron passed back and forth, and I heard that the people in Pengchengyi used less wood and more coal, and the amount consumed every day was huge.
On a critical road, there is also a wooden road, which looks like two chopsticks side by side in Wu Qi's view, the wheels are stuck on the two logs, and the horses pull them several times as much as the goods that can be pulled on the flat ground.
Looking at Pengcheng from afar, Wu Qi and the people around him sighed: "The wealth of Dan and Si belongs to Pengcheng." ”
Danshui, Surabaya meet here, flow down to the Huai River, and can communicate the Yangtze River through the ditch, extremely close to the geographical advantage, and there is the abundance of coal and iron, the fertile soil is thousands of miles, the Yellow River has not been diverted, more than ten years, the prosperity here has been no less than the Central Plains city.
Even more than that, although Taoqiu is also prosperous, but most of them are transshipment goods, and in the end, ironware, glass, mirrors, gunpowder and other things still have to be purchased in Pengcheng and Peiyi.
Wu Qi said to a person: "In the past, Yan Zi made Chu, saying that the people of Linzi were sweating like rain. In the past ten years of Pengcheng, there has also been the elegance of Linzi. The Mohist government's talent is indeed difficult for ordinary people to reach. ”
Wu nodded and said: "Pengdi is close to Wuze through three rivers, and there are advantages of coal and iron." Linzi can become a big city in the world by taking advantage of fish and salt, and Pengcheng will be the capital of the world in the future. Just look at the group of workshops, those who can manage this workshop are doctors, and they can also make a big rule. ”
He knows that mining is the most difficult thing to manage. Being able to manage the operation of a group of workshops with more than 10,000 people or even more people is easy to be a doctor in the past.
But now, I'm afraid that within the Mo family, the people who govern this large workshop group may not be the highest level of the Mo family.
Wu Qi sighed as he saw that on the river, a shipload of merchant ships loaded with iron goods left, and a cargo ship loaded with grain and cotton arrived.
I thought, the prosperity is so good, is it just the geographical advantage of Pengcheng? Or is there really some kind of heavenly will that needs to be understood to be able to rule the world?
Qinchuan is thousands of miles, Weiluo intersects, will Qindi have such prosperity one day, and the people will live in peace?
After several sighs and a few moments of amazement, he finally entered Pengcheng, bypassed the people in the market in a hurry, and was arranged in the building.
Early the next morning, a member of the Mo family came to the building with a letter and made a straightforward invitation to these people to meet. And also said that he heard that Wei Zhixi River Shou Wu Qi was also there, and he had never seen the demeanor earlier, so he happened to go with him.
Wu Qi was not surprised, knowing his whereabouts, he was only afraid that he would not be able to hide the eyes of those Mo families, they all had a clear eye line of activity in the giant city and Dayi, and using the channels of merchants to and fro, the speed of news transmission was often several times faster than that of the monarch.
Now that his identity has been revealed, Wu Qi no longer hides it, changes into his gorgeous clothes, wears jade pendants and swords, and goes together.
Inside a heavily guarded place in Pengcheng, he sat there and waited for Wu Qi and the others to arrive.
When he came to this world, he had seen many big people, and he had also talked and laughed with princes, and he was just curious about Wu Qishi.
If 20 years ago, he would really like to ask, there are two rumors in the world, some say that Wu Qi killed his wife to seek generals, and some said that Wu Qi divorced his wife to be strict, which one is true?
However, twenty years ago, I was afraid that it was unlikely that Wu Qi would even look at him, and the two were not of the same class at all.
Twenty years have passed, and this curiosity may still be in my heart, but it is unlikely to be asked after all.
He and Wu Qi have never met, but they know each other's names, and they have been friends for a long time.
There is no doubt about Wu Qi's talent. It's just that the cornerstone of the Mo family is rules and discipline, and it is not suitable for the talent of a general, so the Mo family has no intention of recruiting Wu Qi, the first person in the world.
This time, the negotiation with the Qin people was presided over by Shi, but the content had been agreed before.
After Wu Qi and the others came in, the two sides greeted each other, each touted the reputation of the other party, and began to talk about business.
The main thing is naturally Qin Xiaoyi, north of Nanzheng, in exchange for the negotiation of Mojia iron smelting technical support. This matter is fully presided over by those rebels, and this side is suitable, and the two sides will inevitably be a little embarrassed.
At that time, it was the right thing to take advantage of the victory to reorganize the Mo family with Mozi and expel these people, and in the end, Mozi died and did not allow these people to mourn in the dress of disciples.
At that time, these people were all ink people who had followed Mozi for many years, but the appropriate year was just a few months after joining the Mo family. The stars have changed, and now he is the number two person in the Mo family, and these rebels have also gained a firm foothold in Qindi.
The former personal grievances and hatreds, after these embarrassments are resolved, they have to discuss the transaction from the perspective of their own interests.
Shi was not in a hurry, and looked at Wu Qi with a smile and said: "I have heard the name of the prince for a long time, and if I enter Qin today, I will be reused by Qin Jun." I just don't know, from a public point of view, where is Qin's way out? ”
Wu Qi was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "The public trains martial arts in Xihe, and the martial soldiers are completed, even if you leave Xihe, the martial arts system is still there, I'm afraid that Xihe will be difficult to capture, right?" ”
Wu nodded his head, and said with some confidence and emotion: "The strength of the martial arts is far from what the current Qin division can fight the enemy. The West River has the danger of mountains and rivers and the solidity of Cuihan, and if it is easily captured, it will damage morale. ”
This is not just Wu Qi's confidence in the martial arts he has cultivated, but the transformation of Qin Di involves many problems.
If you want to change, you have to have military power and prestige, and now at the beginning of the change, you can't lose the battle, you can only rely on victory to win the hearts of those people who grant land and subdue the nobles.
Wu Qi is very clear about this.
It is precisely because of this topic that the Qin State did not have the ability to recapture the West River for at least ten years.
Ten years is not too long, and the Mo family has been preparing in Sishang for twenty years before it can be able to rise with the princes of the world.
However, the Mo family waited for twenty years, and that was because he was only a teenager twenty years ago, and he could afford to wait.
But what about Wu Qi? From Wei to Qin, he has already made a sixtieth birthday, and he can't afford to wait for ten years.
Shi doesn't know much about Wu Qi, and Gongzaoye had a relationship when he was young, but he can't be regarded as a deep friend. So I don't know what Wu Qi wants, and the only direction that can be lured is the four words "meritorious service".
He only mentioned Xihe, and the implication was Nanzheng. The Qin State wants to develop and compete for power, and now it seems that there are only two ways to go.
One is to recapture the West River and coerce the Central Plains. The other is to enter Bashu in the south and continue to strength.
More than ten years ago, the Mo family was active in Bashu under the insistence of Shi, and now it has won Nanzheng, even if it is not clear, there are examples of the Mo family in recent years, and there are mountains and rivers separated by mountains, and it is no less difficult to capture Nanzheng than it is now to recapture Xihe.
Especially Wu Qi has seen the Sishang area where the Mo family is in power these days, and knows that once the Mo family takes root, it will be like a weed, unable to eradicate it, even if he tries his best to get more Nanzheng, I am afraid it will do more harm than good.
For a person who aspires to make a name for himself and make a name for himself in the world, but can only live for another ten years, the "Qin's way out" that he asked just now is a serious problem.
The road to the West River was his own legacy in the Wei State, and he blocked it himself. The road to Nanzheng has been blocked by the Mo family, and it involves the transaction of iron smelting.
So, where did Qin just go? I don't know where to go, and how to show my ambitions?
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