When Mozi said this, he laughed unconsciously and said: "This is also suitable for what you said, take advantage of the contradiction between the monarch and the nobles." Your contradiction is very useful. ”

Everyone laughed, and said quite complacently: "If you only do things like Peidi, Song Gong is happy to do so." But no matter what, sir, it is impossible for you to be a consul, a minister, a minister, or a commander, so that you can become a spear, and let the prince and the nobles join hands as a shield. ”

Mozi thought of some of his previous thoughts, and thought of the illusions he had been holding for decades, and sighed.

"Suitable, I originally thought that your ability to use a sword and shoot a bow is not strong. Even if you make gunpowder, when you throw it, you're just a middleman. I thought that you and your grandson Wu Mabo would stay in Peidi and lead the affairs of Peidi......"

"But I thought about it for a while, you better go to Shangqiu with you. Before you go, do everything you can think of in Peidi. ”

"Guarding Shangqiu is not just a question of whether we can defend it, but the feud between the people, nobles, Liuqing, and Song Gong in Shangqiu City. You, the head of the Xuanyi Ministry, can do a lot of things in Shangqiu. ”

With a sigh, he knew that the fact that he used a sword was sparse, and I am afraid that it may not be as good as the six fingers that he had learned from Gongzao for two or three years.

He also knew that war was eyeless and dangerous, and even a high-ranking official like the King of Chu had been shot blind, and high-ranking officials such as Ling Yin were forced to form an alliance by touching the tent in the middle of the night.

But he still hopes to be able to participate in this battle to defend the city, and he must find a way to make enough meritorious deeds, so that many ink scholars know that even if he is not good, he is not a coward, and he hopes to make some military merits.

Shi also knows that now the ink man has defaulted to Pei County as the last lair of the ink man, so he must manage it well.

From Mozi's words, he felt that Mozi recognized his governance talent very much, otherwise he would not have thought of letting him, Wu Mabo, and Gao Sun stay in Pei County.

At the same time, I can also feel that Mozi has gradually realized the importance of propaganda and agitation, and sometimes these things are no less than thousands of elite soldiers, so I hope that Shiye will go to Shangqiu together.

The siege of Shangqiu is expected to last for a long time.

Shangqiu, as an ancient city that can be called a thousand years at this time, has its own majesty. The Chu people knew about the existence of the Mo Scholars, and they might not choose to besiege it, maybe it really lasted for ten months or even longer, triggering a new round of Jin and Chu hegemony.

It's been almost a year, and the iron-smelting workshop in Pei County has just been established, and the seeds of those new crops can also be promoted on a small scale, so it can be said that everything is thriving.

And the seedlings are the most vulnerable, and if the ink artist wants to maintain this "nest", he must manage it carefully.

This time in the battle to defend the city, he would only lead the three hundred righteous divisions in Pei County, plus some basic ink people, adding up to only more than 600 people.

Even if the iron smelting work needs to be carried out in the form of semi-conscripted labor, it is still far from the maximum mobilization force of Peixian.

The iron smelting matter is one of the five households, not one of the five dings, this is not the Qin State after the reform, there is no forced separation, so there is more potential power.

How to use these potential forces to consolidate the Mozi's foothold in Peixian is something that Mozi, the Seven Enlightenments, and the Appropriate Ministry of Capital must carefully consider.

A year is too long, and many things must be set in advance.

This is the meaning of this meeting to convene the high-level of the Moshi, and judging from the number of participants, it can be regarded as an expanded meeting.

Shi had thought about it a lot before, and there had been discussions within the Moji, so he didn't hide it at this time.

"I think this year, there are two main things."

"One is digging irrigation ditches; The other is the title deed of private land and the reform of Peidi well field. ”

"Digging ditches, now the conditions are ripe. Iron tools give priority to meeting the needs of Peidi, which can be said to be twice the result with half the effort, and it is easier to dig than elsewhere. ”

"Back then, the husband could make people dig a ditch, but at that time, it was estimated that copper, bone, and stone were still used, but now there is iron, and there is no need to dig a river as long as a ditch, which is not difficult."

"It doesn't have to be done in a year, but you have to start digging as soon as possible, even if it's in three, five, or even ten years, but you can't stop doing it just because it looks difficult."

"We have destroyed Wu Zhu, and we always need an existence that is not worried about drought and flood."

Mozi nodded in agreement and said: "You once said that the Ximen Leopard in Yedi once said, 'The people can be happy, but they can't know the beginning', whether this is right or not depends on this ditch in Pei County." ”

At this time, Ximen Leopard was operating in the north of the Wei State to insert the wedge of Zhao Handan and Zhongmu, and the matter of repairing water conservancy Ximen Leopard did feel like this: the people are ignorant, they are happy to see success, but they can't think about the beginning before success.

Judging from the fact that Peidi operates an iron-smelting workshop, this may not be true.

Shi smiled at this: "What Simon Leopard said may not be wrong, our method can't be used in Yedi; But in the same way, his method will not be used in today's Peidi. ”

"That's the role of the Propaganda Ministry, to let people know why they want to do it and what the benefits will be when they do it. And the words of the Xuanyi Department can be believed by the people, because the Mo people have indeed done many things that are beneficial to them. These are mutually reinforcing. ”

"The Xuanyi Department has made preparations for digging the canal, so there is no need to worry about this. The specific number of river squares and the direction of the canal have also been prepared in advance. ”

"Before the summer harvest and after the summer harvest, you can mobilize the people to do this. However, I still feel that this should be done before the summer harvest and before the ink master goes to Shangqiu. ”

"Because this thing and the second thing have to be done together."

Some people already know why they want to do it together, and some people don't know it at this time.

But soon, Shi clarified what he meant.

The second thing is to privately divide public land, recognize private acres, levy taxes on private acres, change military levies into taxes, and change conscription into compulsory conscription, which involves the interests of a large part of the people.

Touching interests, such as killing parents.

The Inkers need to have an armed arm, ready to respond to the counterattack of the local nobles who have been invaded.

It's not that the land of the nobles should be divided, which is not necessary, but the personal dependence between the serfs and the nobles will be cut off, which is enough to make those minor nobles desperate.

Originally, the public land and the endowment land were owned by the nobles, and the serfs above belonged to the land, and they needed to fulfill feudal obligations for the nobles: planting, harvesting, reclamation, hunting, ice mining, charcoal burning, building, and so on.

The monarch gave these public fields and endowments to the nobles in exchange for the nobles fulfilling their military obligations to the monarch, because under the conditions of chariot warfare, the owners of the horses and chariots were actually similar to the feudal knights.

Not everyone can shoot arrows on a chariot, and not everyone can drive a chariot to attack, which requires off-duty military aristocrats.

And before the infantry is fully rising, there is no military power without chariots. It was extremely necessary to feed a corporal with the labor of a hundred apprentices. A chariot, when used well, can rush away more than a hundred low-trained apprentices.

Once the private land system is changed, iron tools appear again, and the ink people have money and the heart of benefiting the world, those serfs who were originally attached to the land will definitely find a way to escape, and the ink people dare to retract, then it will be regarded as an official turn against the local small nobles.

A man can only be a serf all his life, bound to the land; Another can become a homesteader, and there are large meadow wastelands to cultivate...... You don't need to think too much to know the consequences.

The old aristocracy wanted to maintain their original personal dependency and get the most out of it.

This has nothing to do with the fact that the Ink Scholars covet their land, what the Ink Scholars covet is only that kind of personal dependency.

With the advent of iron, this personal attachment could be broken. It seems that it is only to break this personal dependence, but in fact it is a large-scale flight of serfs, and land without serfs cannot be profitable.

It's very simple, you liberate the serfs into yeoman farmers, and you ink people provide iron tools and loans for them to cultivate, so even if our nobles still have land, have an egg? Do we go and farm the land ourselves?

You Mo's people admit private land, reform feudal obligations, provide loans and iron tools to support large and small yeoman farmers, serfs have fled to those wastelands, no one has given us nobles to farm, is our land still valuable?

The serfs were freed from personal attachment, and there were no vains behind the horses and chariots, so we took a chariot to fulfill our feudal obligations to the prince? Without military superiority, on what basis do we get privileges?

This is an irreconcilable contradiction.

The Moshi can be very resolute, because the Moji do not need the feudal military obligations of these minor nobles.

The Wei state has begun to change the military system, and the infantry phalanx has begun to gradually become the main force of the war.

What the Inkman can do is bloody, because the Inkman doesn't need these petty nobles as grassroots managers.

Although the Mozhi school was newly established, the small Pei County has already concentrated a large number of talents who can be called "scholars".

It is necessary to be resolute and bloody, and it is not allowed to interfere with external forces, and the best time is when the Chu people besiege the Song Dynasty and the great nobles of the Song State have no time to take care of Peixian.

And this foundation requires that the ink man has an armed force in his hands that can be suppressed at any time.

Three or four hundred ink scholars, plus more than three hundred strictly trained Peixian volunteers, can completely deal with those Peixian minor nobles.

But once a large number of ink scholars leave and the righteous master goes to Shangqiu to gain the autonomous status of a Pei County, the minor nobles may find an opportunity to fight back.

The peasants who were conscripted to work to smelt iron were a force, and if the mobilized forces of Pei County could be brought to the limit in the name of digging aqueducts, absolute superiority could be guaranteed to extinguish any counterattack.

According to the basis of the Peixian Civil Law, the de jure Momo was not qualified to govern the nobles of Peiyi, because they did not sign to recognize the Twelve Grass Silk Law.

But now that the power is enough and the timing is good enough, if you still ponder those ridiculous legal principles and rationality, the ink can be disbanded now.

The Mo scholar said that the feudal rights of the nobles were unreasonable, and after explaining the reason, the nobles were asked to sign and acknowledge it...... This is patently ridiculous. If the aristocracy does not admit it and does not sign, then there is no legitimacy...... The ink artist doesn't have to think about benefiting the world.

Let's do it first.

This is an appropriate idea, and it is also an idea that the top brass of the Mo people basically agrees with, so that without alarming those minor nobles, the people can be gathered in the name of digging water canals, and then weapons can be distributed to force those nobles to give up their feudal rights in the fiefdoms of the public land.

If they are sober-minded, they can not toss them, let them evolve into operational landlords, and let them transform into the exploiting class under the new relations of production.

If the mind is not clear, the ink man has ten thousand ways to encourage the serfs in the fiefdoms of the public land to flee.

As in the debate between the proper Chu and Renke, can the land produce wealth without human cultivation?