Chapter Twenty-Seven: Preemptive Strike (Part II)

If we talk about the interests and disadvantages, it is not just the Song Kingdom, if it is only the Song Kingdom, the preemptive strike is only beneficial and harmless.

Several people talked about some of the drawbacks, and after the leader recorded them one by one, he asked, "Now that you have talked about the drawbacks, let's talk about the advantages." ”

There are pros and cons, and there are many pros.

The agitated Mo Shi who had just opposed compromise and forbearance said: "If we talk about the advantages, the first point is whether we can succeed in preemptively? ”

"If you can succeed, then you can talk about the benefits. If you fail instead of succeeding, then there is no benefit at all. ”

"I still say the same thing, we and those old nobles are you living and dying. For in our paradise all men are equal, and there is no nobility; In the paradise of the aristocracy, there is no difference between the inferior and the inferior, and there is no equality. It's like a relationship between right and wrong, and you can only have one or the other. ”

"It's not that if we're so compromised, they'll respect us. Nowadays, the princes of various countries are more afraid of us than respect and trust, and they dare not touch us now, not because we are forbearing, but because we made the nobles frightened by the war in the Central Plains five years ago. ”

"So, the same is true of the Song Kingdom."

"It's done, it's done earth-shattering, and the princes of all countries may be afraid of us, at least for our comrades operating in the capitals of all countries, we don't dare to say that it must be so, but at least there is this possibility."

"But if I forbear, the princes of all countries will feel it...... We don't even care about the Song Kingdom, and give up in order not to fight, so if we deal with us elsewhere, we will at most protest and opposition, which will encourage us to deal with us. ”

"Four years ago, the war laws of the Heze Alliance, the reason why the princes of all countries obeyed it was not because we persuaded them, but because we shot Qi Gongziwu, and the princes and nobles of all countries had to consider what to do if they did something similar and were caught and executed by us."

"It would be ridiculous if anyone thinks that it is because of the doctrine of righteousness that the nobles believe that it is righteous not to kill."

There were several people who supported the preemptive strike, and when they heard this person say it, they all nodded their heads.

Four years ago, before and after the Heze Alliance, the Sishang Mo family said a lot of outrageous words, and even the envoy who came to canonize Zhou Tianzi disdained to contact it, and categorically refused to be a marquis.

If this was in the Spring and Autumn Period, it would have been a crime of the king of Chu to say the least, and all countries would send troops to intervene to maintain the old system.

The state of Chu could win the championship back then, it could call itself a barbarian view of China's politics, and it could call itself a king, but in the end it still relied on the battlefield to speak.

Four years ago, the Heze Alliance, the princes of various countries only scolded some verbally, but they didn't do much.

Without him, just because the Central Plains War benefited from the Sishang fishermen and suffered the least damage, all countries did not dare to fight it.

It's the same with Song Guo's side.

If it strikes preemptively in the Song Kingdom, it may cause the princes of various countries to slaughter the Moshi who are active in the open side, but there is also a possibility that it is a gift to leave the country.

This dialectical consideration is that the more fierce this side, the more polite that there is; The more forbearance there is, the more ferocious it is over there.

The disagreement with the old aristocracy, that's really your life and death. As this man said, there is no noble seat in the world planned by the Mo family; There was no equal place in the world planned by the aristocracy.

A big war is inevitable, this is something that the Heze Alliance has made clear four years ago, and it has been clearly stated from the moment when the Mo family never mentioned that it was not an offensive but formulated the law of war.

There are some things that don't need to be said too clearly and plainly.

The change in the propaganda slogan from "non-offensive" to "one day for great benefit, the solution of non-offensive is to have love, and the premise of both love is to eliminate the difference between Qilu and Yue Jin people", which could not be clearer.

The reason why there is no fight now is only because all countries, including Sishang, feel that time is on their side, and the more it drags on, the more advantageous it will be, and they are all seeking to change the law and centralize power.

The geographical location of the Song State determines that the Song State is not the Fei State, and once something happens to the Song State, the entire Central Plains will have to react.

The Song State decided on the most important route for the Three Jin Dynasty to go south; decided the most convenient passage for Chu to go north; It also determines the security around Sishang and the passage to seek the Central Plains.

Domino effect.

Everyone was silent for a moment, and the person in charge said: "Since it is said that we can only talk about the pros and cons if we win, then for now, regardless of the troops sent by Sishang, how likely are we to win?" ”

The ink man who supported the preemptive strike said confidently: "Seventy percent, at least." ”

"We have quite a few people in Shangqiu, and we can organize at least four companies of soldiers at any time."

"The private soldiers of the Imperial Father's family are still far away from Shangqiu, and in two days, we are enough to control the situation in Shangqiu."

"Shangqiu has vested, the Dai clan has been quite popular with the people, and after the coup d'Γ©tat twenty years ago, the people have always been armed, and the so-called non-offensive and defensive cities."

"Once the situation in Shangqiu is controlled, at least 30,000 soldiers can be armed. Although there is no cavalry, we have an advantage in artillery. ”

"Field battles, but they are not afraid, the decisive battle under Shangqiu City may not be lost to the imperial father's family."

"Even if we don't fight a decisive battle, we will stick to Shangqiu, and the emperor's father Yue Ling will not be able to attack it. When the time comes, whether Sishang sends troops or not, time is on our side. ”

"After the expansion of the army, three divisions will be in Surabaya, in case of changes in the Song State, and the six fingers will be the commander, and the situation in the Song State can be controlled with lightning speed."

"And Wei Chu and other countries, it is difficult to send troops."

"First, whether Wei sends troops or not, we need to consider the attitude of Qin and South Korea."

"Second, Chen Cai and other places, the king of Chu centralized power change, there is no real power of the feudal monarch there, if the Chu state wants to send troops, it must be allowed by the king of Chu, instead of having a feudal monarch's private soldiers, the county prince can directly use the county soldiers to go out first, and force the king of Chu to declare war."

"Sishang does not send troops, the matter of Shangqiu, it is the Dai rebellion in the mouth of the emperor's father."

"If the countries send troops in the name of the Dai Rebellion, they will certainly not dare to touch our comrades who are openly active in various countries, and if he dares to touch our people, it will not be to interfere in the Song State, but to start a war against Sishang. To start a war against Sishang, we can go straight to the east of the Wei State and the Chen Cai Land of the Chu State, and they are afraid that they will also have to consider it. ”

"So, as long as we can get things done, there's a lot of room for manoeuvre. Naturally, the central side of Sishang will respond. ”

"But if we compromise and forbear directly, then we lose the initiative, will it be difficult for us to give up Song Di?"

"If we don't give up Song Land, then we will have no ...... No old name. To wage war in the name of benefiting the world and harming the world is to declare war on all countries completely. As long as we can succeed, then we can also send troops in the name of helping Dai. ”

What this person said is very confident, and the reason for this confidence is because Shangqiu is the base camp of the Mo family outside of Sishang, which is where the Mo family started.

Twenty years ago, there was an action of installing all kinds of established ink soldiers in the carpentry factory, and now it is even more so, the Mo family's power in Shangqiu is far from what the emperor's father Yue Ling could imagine.

The control of the grassroots is a paradox. If the imperial father Yue Ling could centralize power, control thoughts and speech, control the activities of the Mohists, and accurately grasp the various situations in Shangqiu, then he would not even be able to solve the problem of those nobles who divided power now.

In the original history, from the beginning of Wu Qi's escape to the Chu State, the Chu State wanted to centralize power, and it was still not integrated after more than 100 years.

Although the emperor's father Yue Ling is talented, but after all, he is a person of the old era, and the situation in Shangqiu City is a great change that he has never faced with the aristocratic ruling technique that he has learned and inherited from his family, and he vaguely feels the change of the times, but he is still far from summing up the new ruling technique.

The situation in Shangqiu City is far more complicated than the imperial father and his family thought.

Mills, carpentry workshops, and large blacksmith workshops, in which there are many retired non-commissioned officers from the establishment system, who are often rotated, and who seem to be people on weekdays, can be restored directly together with officers and the like if needed.

He thought that those landless peasants were influenced by the Mohist rhetoric, but in fact they were truly egalitarian peasants, and there was a huge difference in the moral considerations of the two sides.

He thought that the local yeoman farmers and businessmen were like the pawns of the fallen chariot soldiers on the old battlefield after the arrival of their private soldiers, but in fact the organized Mo people were not only uncrowned hidden grassroots powers, but also ready to be converted into military organizations.

In addition, the Mo family has been active in Shangqiu for too long, the people are extremely recognized, and their reputation is high and good.

Although it is not as good as those full-time soldiers, it is still much stronger than the average peasant soldiers.

Not counting the private soldiers controlled by the emperor's father Yue Ling, it can be said that the power of the emperor's father Yue Ling in Shangqiu City is not too strong. And those organized private soldiers, as long as they succeed in preemptive strike before arriving in Shangqiu, then these private soldiers will be trapped under Shangqiu City.

The people of Shangqiu lacked regular cavalry, but there was no shortage of infantry, and they could soon pull up a national volunteer army of tens of thousands of people.

The probability of preemptive success in Shangqiu is extremely high, which also qualifies to talk about the pros and cons.

As for the aftermath, it will be necessary for the entire world to bear the consequences, but the consequences themselves must be borne, sooner or later, maybe just in advance.

Besides, what this person said was right, even if he forbeared, it made the princes feel that Sishang did not want to fight now, was extremely weak, and might form an alliance unanimously.

In addition to the "non-offensive" self-cultivators and craftsmen who could organize themselves to defend the city, there was a more radical force that could be borrowed.

That is, the landless farmers who poured into the city, and the previous aristocracy wanted to instigate the contradiction between the yeoman farmers, industrialists and merchants and the landless peasants, which was resolved by the Mo family, which made the resentment of these landless farmers grow day by day.

Shijia Dolphin came to Shangqiu that year and made a big deal of the conditions proposed. Sishang paid money to relocate these people to reclaim the wasteland, but it was precisely the imperial father Yue Ling and the nobles who opposed it, because he made a request that the nobles could not accept.

Now the outlet for this resentment is the nobles who occupy land by all means, and these people are also a force to be despised and extremely destructive in the national capital.

The true equality of the peasant family's propaganda of "the sage and the people plough and eat together", "the land is equally divided", and "the city is not the second price" is very influential among these people, and the relationship between the peasant family and the Mo family is very good, at least at this time they are completely cooperative partners.

The person in charge pondered for a moment, closed the small book that recorded the pros and cons, and had to consider the tremendous destructive power of these landless peasants.

If you forbear this time, it will only be the Mo family who will forbear, and those who are truly egalitarian people in the peasant family will definitely not forbear.

At that time, the situation in the Song Kingdom will be even more chaotic than expected, until it is completely out of control.

The Song State was a quagmire, and what was needed for Sishang was stability and continued neutrality, not complete chaos, and a completely uncontrollable "truly equal" Chinese rebellion led by the peasants.

There are drawbacks, but as the man said, strike first, grasp the initiative, and have more room for maneuver in the future; But if it is a preemptive strike, it is meaningless except to win the sympathy of the world.

After thinking about it for a long time, he thought of what Si Shang Shi Shi said to him.

"Today, Si has its own education, its own army, and its own talent training system. The sympathy of those people in the world does not matter, it is enough for them to support our morality and think that we can benefit the people of the world, including them. No matter how many scholars come to Sishang, they still need to learn the new system from scratch, and it is no longer the time when there were so many literate people in the world twenty years ago. ”

"Those who sympathized with our trip to benefit the world twenty years ago can be regarded as comrades of one heart and one mind; And now, it is enough to let them be our friends. ”