Everyone present quickly reached an agreement, no matter from which point of view, relying on the elite infantry, taking advantage of the weakness of the Chu army's feudal nobles to camp chaotically, and using the deterrent power of gunpowder throwing weapons, penetrating the array to attack and force the Chu king to swear an oath, becoming the only way for the Mo people to make the Chu people retreat without relying on the three Jins.

Mozi's strength is still too weak, Mozi said that this is the method proposed by Shi, in fact, he is appreciating Shi's "purpose" and clarity, and understands that Moshi's defense of the city this time is not for Shangqiu, not for the Song Kingdom, but for the benefit of the world.

Soon, the inkers in the city began to organize their armies, prepare weapons, buy food, and register the supplies collected by each family.

The order that all the wheat within thirty miles outside the city should be eradicated, and the people of the Xuanyi Department began to propagate, only saying that even if they were not eradicated, the Chu people would cut off the grain for the place, and they would definitely not stay.

For the Shangqiu people who have experienced dozens of sieges, they can understand this matter, but it is only the Mo who makes it clear to them instead of directly issuing mandatory orders.

Outside the city, various methods began to be used to either burn, or cut off for horse feed, or trample on the spot, and the ink people used their strong organizational skills to mobilize all the men, women, and children of Shangqiu.

Outside the city, Gongsun Ze, who had debated with Shi at the beginning, was asking his servants to prepare leather armor, bows and arrows, chariots, and other weapons, and he was going to participate in the defense of the city.

On weekdays, he did not live outside the city, but outside the city there was a small piece of his fief and the private acres left by his ancestors, and several villages were either serfs in his fiefdom or farmers who rented his private acres.

In his own fiefdom, winter wheat was still not planted, which he insisted on.

Even though he was the closest to the village where winter wheat was first planted, and the nobleman who had the earliest contact with them, even if the farmers in his private acres had already planted winter wheat and showed results, he remained unmoved.

His idea was simple and quaint.

Planting in spring, mowing grass in summer, harvesting in autumn, and martial arts in winter.

If the whole Shangqiu is planted with winter wheat, where to go to practice the chariot in winter?

If the whole Shangqiu was planted with winter wheat, and the farmer was busy with his own fields, how could he be willing to practice in the winter?

Besides, wheat and soybean have always been cheap food, and if you have to eat cheap food as a nobleman, then the dignity and humility of the world will soon be destroyed.

This is something he cannot tolerate, and he also thinks that it will definitely cause chaos in the world.

It's just that the farmers who rent his private acres don't care about this, they are sluts, and they are not meat eaters, and they have no intention of thinking about meat eaters at all.

Gongsun Ze was dressed in a standard samurai suit, with a fur hat on his head, leather armor, a sword at his waist, and a bow in his hand.

Standing on top of a chariot, the farmers in the fiefdom gathered behind them, and they also had to follow the battle as apprentices, but at this time their task was not to fight, but to eradicate the crops in Gongsun Ze's fiefdom.

Gongsun Ze did not grow winter wheat, so at this time it was some spring crops such as millet that had just grown.

An old man persuaded: "Gentleman, these crops have not yet grown, and I heard the ink master say that eradication is to prevent the Chu people from eating them." Before it grows, is it also eradicated? ”

Gongsun Ze Zhengse said: "The general general order was granted to Mo Zhai, and Mo Zhai had an order to eradicate the grain crops within thirty miles outside Shangqiu City and fill in the wells within thirty miles. Aren't these millets crops? Could it be that this place is less than thirty miles away from Shangqiu? If there is an order, it must be followed, this is the king's order, and it is natural to obey it. ”

These fields were his fiefdoms and the basis for "Lu is enough to cultivate and practice martial arts on his behalf", but without blinking a brow, he ordered all the wells to be uprooted, the wells to be filled, and the timber from the houses to be demolished.

He made it very clear that this was the king's order, and Mo Zhai was only an order authorized by the king, so he obeyed it.

Seeing that the farmers were busy eradicating the crops that they had worked so hard to cultivate, Gongsun Ze looked into the distance, turned back to a young attendant with a bow, and said, "Shoot, keep your word." What is faith? The king and my fiefdom make me not have to do despicable things, so that I can practice chariots and horses, so when the king needs it, I will not hesitate to sacrifice my life. ”

"Shoot, be polite. If you meet a doctor of the Chu people in the battle array, you must draw the bowstring and salute first, and you must not secretly shoot. ”

"Shoot, be benevolent. If the Chu army is defeated and abandons the armor and drags the soldiers away, you pursue behind, and you must not shoot those who throw their weapons and flee. ”

"On that day, I had a ten-year covenant with Shi, and then you were trying to shoot with that six-fingered boy. The ink man has come to Shangqiu, and Shi has also come, so presumably the child has also arrived. ”

"The monarch ordered Mo Zhai, and Mo Zhai ordered all those who were good at shooting in Shangqiu to register and make a register in a centralized manner. Now that three years have passed, and your skills have been small, I can't let you not defend the city because of the ten-year covenant. If you are not allowed to go, it is not a gentleman's doing. ”

He knew that the rules of the Ink Scholar were strict, and he also knew that once the Ink Scholar defended the city, all the people in the Ink Scholar who went to Shangqiu would participate, which he admired, and even admired the Ink Maker's desire to stabilize the world without attacking.

What he refuses to accept is only the appalling morality of the ink man, which will surely confuse the world.

The young attendant with the bow bowed and said, "I have written down the words of the gentleman." I will fight to the death on the walls. ”

Gongsun Ze said with a smile: "Fighting to the death and not retreating, this is the most basic." There are a lot of rules for the Moshi to abide by the city, and they must abide by their rules. But you have to remember that you are not following the Mo, but the king who has entrusted the responsibility of defending the city to the Mo, and their orders are the king's orders after all. I ask you, if the king's command is contrary to the order of the Mo, who do you listen to? ”

The young attendant was puzzled: "Since the gentleman said that the ink man has the skill to defend the city, it should be whose order can defend the city, and he will listen to whom, right?" ”

Gongsun Ze laughed and said, "Will you defend the city?" ”

The attendant shook his head, and said in his heart, where will I defend the city? Don't you know?

Gongsun Ze smiled and said, "Since you don't know how to defend the city, how do you know whose order can defend the city?" But you just need to know the etiquette. ”

"The order comes from the Son of Heaven and the princes, but it cannot be from the doctors and the untouchables. If the order of the ink is contrary to the order of the king, the order of the king shall prevail, and this is the observance of etiquette. ”

Seeing that the attendants seemed to be a little puzzled, and were still immersed in the doubts about whether the king's order could hold the city, Gongsun Ze said coldly: "Let me ask you, if everyone in the world thinks like this, will there be disputes?" ”

"Untouchables plant, work, serve. Taxi driving, jurisdiction. Doctor governance. Shangqing shared the worries of the princes. The princes protect the Son of Heaven Zhou Li. Orders come from the Son of Heaven, those who disobey are requisitioned, those who do not respect the country are destroyed, and those who violate etiquette are killed...... Is there no instability in the world? ”

"You naturally wonder if the king's order can hold Shangqiu. But if you don't doubt, and the people of the world don't doubt either, as long as the monarch is polite, how can the Chu people have a reason to attack? The Son of Heaven has decreed that all the nations will crusade against those who violate the etiquette, and there will not even be such a thing as defending the city, and your doubts will no longer exist. ”

The attendant seemed to finally understand, said yes, and followed behind Gongsun Ze and went to Shangqiu together.

Outside the city, farmers within thirty miles were busy, using ink carts or horse-drawn carts collected by the inkers in the city to load their own grain, and were forcibly relocated to the city.

There are constantly inkmen in strange clothes to maintain order or register items, and many people are busy cutting down trees or eradicating the wheat.

Gongsun Ze sighed secretly in the car, looking at the ink carts, double-wheel carriages, mills, transformed Quyuan plows, and wheat fields full of traces of ink everywhere, his heart was dull.

The Inkman left the village, and the Inkman left, but the Inkman's thoughts burned like a wildfire in autumn.

With the help of these farm tools, vehicles, and planting methods that are indelible to the ink maker, the prestige of the ink artist is getting higher and higher, and more and more people are listening to those truths.

"It is difficult to observe etiquette, and it is easy to violate etiquette. The morality of the ink is to bring disaster to the world after all. If everyone competes for profit and everyone is equal, then ambitions are numerous, how can the world be stable? ”

"If there is chaos today, if everyone is equal, then the three marquis of Han, Zhao and Wei can be the marquis, how can the countries in the world be stable? I'm afraid of war. ”

sighed and shook his head, thinking about what kind of horror the world would become after believing in the statement that everyone was equal and the emperor was a minister.

The etiquette is broken, the world is already in chaos, if you add equality, I don't know how many people will die in this world.

In the distance, those farmers with children and old people, or pushing ink carts or carrying bags, looked back at the crops that had been eradicated from time to time, every step was so heavy, and the squeaking of ink carts brought out a bit of coldness.

On the side of the road, a man held a clay pot upside down in his hand and beat it with his hand; Another stood aside, playing an ocarina, mournful and desolate.

A few others sang to the beat of the mournful beat.

Susu bustard feathers, set in the bud. The king is in a hurry, and he can't be angry.

What is the parents? Hello sky! What do you know?

Susu bustard wings, gathered in the bud thorns. The king is in a state of affairs, and he cannot be reckless.

What do parents eat? Hello sky! What is it?

Su Su bustard line, set in bud mulberry. The king is in a hurry, and he can't eat rice.

What about parents? Hello sky! Is it constant?

Very simple tunes, very sad feelings, and very helpless feelings are all in this song "Bustard Feather".

The tune is wrong, this is Gongsun Ze's first reaction, this tune is more sad, more tearful, and more dissatisfied, but it is also simpler and easier to sing.

The war is raging, the crops are finished, what do parents eat? Oh my God, when is it a head......

Gongsun Ze recognized the beaters, the ocarinas, and the ones who led the singing, all of whom were ink makers.

Only the ink man had such a strange dress: a short brown for work, a bronze sword hanging from his waist that could buy a good dress, and a jet-black turban wrapped around his head.

Those farmers who were forced to burn their crops and forced to go to Shangqiu to defend the city, listening to this desolate tune, helpless mood, and sad artistic conception, where can they endure it.

The voices of several people aroused the feelings of the farmers on the road, accompanied by the smoke of burning wheat fields and trees, and singing was everywhere.

Gongsun Ze sighed, saw Shi's back, and drove past Shi, who was talking to the farmer about the truth that the ink writer should make the world stable in the future, and wanted to remind Shi, the tune of this song "Bustard Feather" is wrong, this is not in accordance with the rules.

But in the end, looking at those desolate farmers, there was no word. Shaking his head, he passed by Shi Shi and drove towards Shangqiu.