Chapter 23: Undercurrents
In troubled times, it is no longer possible to be alone.
Under the impact of the Mo family's capital and technology, Guo Zong wants to strengthen the family, and only power is possible. And if you want to gain power, you should participate in the battle for the son of Zhao State.
When the time comes, with the support of the Gongzi Dynasty, once the Gongzi Dynasty ascends to the throne, he needs to repay him.
At that time, the Mo family was not allowed to operate in the Zhao State, and the Mo family's iron ore workshop was recovered, and the monopoly was permitted, which was the only possible means to win.
Fortunately, there are many people who compete with the people for profit.
There are many people who are dissatisfied with the Mo family, and these people have great energy, and it is time to get together and participate in this important event that almost everyone knows.
Guo Zong, who was dressed in filial piety clothes, gathered a lot of people who hated the Mo family and Gongzi Zhang in the Handan reform, and at this moment, he asked everyone a word.
"For example, what is the greatest wealth today?"
The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.
There is no hatred in the world for no reason, and the root cause of the hatred of these people gathered here today for Gongzizhang and the Mo family is the damage to their own interests.
Speaking of wealth, some of these people say that it is gold and silver, some say it is pearl and jade, and some say it is land, but all of this is refuted by Guo Zong.
In the end, Guo Zong said: "The greatest wealth in the world is power." If you and I have power, even if the Mo family is rich and has many properties, you and I can't fight each other, what can we do? ”
"Issued a decree to take back the Mo family's property, share it with us, and only allow us to monopolize it, is there any way for the Mo family to fight against us?"
"You and I are both men of commerce and commerce, and those who seek the benefit of gold and silver. Trafficking in horses, Beili; smelting copper and iron, five times the profit; Go around the pearl and jade, ten times the benefit. But if you invest in power, you can get a hundredfold profit. ”
It is not in vain that he has read many Mohist books, and because of the existence of these books, he can see the wider world at a young age.
If this inappropriate appearance, Guo Zong, who can leave a name in the history books, has his own advantages.
Later generations once recorded that Guo Zong "lived in Handan, made a career in iron smelting, and became rich with the king".
It is precisely because of this huge wealth, and because they are engaged in the iron-smelting industry, which is very related to military wars, that the Guo family, as a foreign surname, gradually entered the core decision-making level of the Zhao State.
And then his descendants can already become the figures who decided the defeat of the Zhao State...... framed the mastermind behind the murder of Wu Anjun Li Mu by King Zhao; The bribe envoy to let the envoy say whether Lian Po is still able to eat is just a person who has left three in an instant, and that is Guo Kai, the descendant of Guo Zong's family.
During the Warring States Period, there were few merchants who could participate in the political strife of other countries, and because of the lack of paper, printing, and aristocratic knowledge monopoly, the merchants' vision was better than that of ordinary commoners.
Guo Zong is young, and it is not easy to think of this, or this is the only way he can think of to fight against the tide of the Mohists' transformation of society according to the will of capital.
It's just that he didn't think that if the monarchy and the royal power could support him and suppress the rest of the people on the spot, then what could he rely on to ensure that the interests of the entire industrial and commercial class were not suppressed by the royal power?
All this done by the Mo family is ultimately for one purpose, a day when the industrial and commercial class is strong enough and strong enough to have class consciousness, and does not want to have a royal power on their heads, they will smash the restraints hanging above their heads.
This requires a material foundation, and more importantly, some theories and arguments to make the bottom stand with them. The rich pay, the bottom contributes, and nominal equality and love replace the natural inequality of blood.
In a sense, what Guo Zong wants to do, his vision is still too small after all.
However, judging from the current situation, Guo Zong can't think of a better way to fight against this monster in Sishang, unless he relies on power.
The rest of the people who gathered here because of hatred or loss of interests could not have come up with a more suitable and practical idea than Guo Zong.
Everyone smacked the words of "invest in power and make a hundred times the profit", and felt the taste contained in it more and more.
Originally, they were reluctant to devote themselves to such a thing, because no matter who became Zhao Hou, they would need their help in some things after all, and they would not easily provoke their huge riches, but would treat each other with courtesy.
However, now they have been unintentionally suppressed by the Mo family, and they have changed from wearing shoes to being barefoot, and they need to fight to the death, otherwise they can only wait for death slowly.
Under the change of mentality, Guo Zong's idea, which would have been considered undesirable by many people present twenty years ago, was praised at this time.
Everyone calmed down, listened to some of Guo Zong's opinions, considered the privileges they wanted after success, and calculated the servants, weapons, and money that they could take out in their hands, and became more and more excited.
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Guo Zong's invisible undercurrent can still be regarded as the choice of the people in Zhao State, and it is the internal disagreement within a country under the impact of the times.
In Handan City, as the dispute between the princes of Zhao Guo became obvious, more foreigners appeared on the streets of Handan, all for their own different purposes.
More than ten days after Suo Lushen came to Handan, he was in a guest house wine shop in Handan City.
In recent years, the style of Mohist lectures in Handan has been quite popular, and many people in Handan City have come to listen to the lectures.
In today's wine shop, a person who had traveled west with Suo Lushen, with a clear tongue and a non-standard Zhao accent, mixed with a Wei accent, was spitting and telling what he had seen and heard along the way to the west.
This man has a clear mouth and a good heart, and he has dry goods in his chest, followed Suo Lu Shen for ten years, and joined the Mo family on the way to become a Mo scholar, and now he has returned to his hometown to talk to people, which is really fascinating.
At this moment, he was talking about Solushen in Persia, about a tribe close to Persia, and Solushen relied on gunpowder to make some tribesmen mistakenly think that he was the god of thunder and lightning, which caused everyone to laugh.
Many young people thought to themselves, those people are so stupid, why don't they even know gunpowder?
And some older people think, this is normal, when gunpowder was just introduced to Handan, didn't some people think that it was thunder and lightning in the sky?
The restaurant is full of a cheerful atmosphere, and in the corner of the restaurant, which has a Sishang style, with chairs and tables, two people hold wine cups and listen to the stories told in the restaurant.
On the table of two people, there was a pot of wine, a few wheat cakes, a piece of lamb fried with chili, and there were no spoons and forks and other tools used by low-ranking nobles to eat, only two pairs of wooden chopsticks.
The two of them were tall and short, and when they heard the man in the wine shop say some cunning words from Suo Lushen, the tall man couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's been twenty years since Shangqiu said goodbye. Suo Lushen's temperament is still like this, and he really lives up to the title of Oriental Giant Cunning. ”
The short man said, "Jonny said, teach students according to their aptitude." The giant said, let everyone get their own strengths, and the world should be done. When he chose Solu Shen to go west, he naturally valued his temperament, and it was not that he couldn't do it. Traveling tens of thousands of miles to the west and traveling for ten years, people who are not wise and brave cannot do this. ”
When the short man talked about the giant, it was so natural, as if he had already been in the habit of calling.
The tall man sighed and said, "Don't call it a giant." When his old man's parents died, he spread the word to the world, and we were not allowed to mourn, and the name of master and apprentice had already been severed, and we were no longer ink scholars......"
Just as he was sighing, the person who was telling these things with a "mission" in the wine shop inadvertently turned his head, and when he saw this tall and short person in the corner, his face showed a hint of surprise, and then he stopped the words in his mouth and approached the low table to take a closer look.
Seeing this person staring at him, the two couldn't help but be stunned, and their palms subconsciously stroked the iron sword on the table.
The speaker asked, with a hint of surprise, "Yes...... Mr. Tall and Mr. Short? Didn't you go back to Qin with Gongzi? ”
As soon as the names of Mr. Gao and Mr. Dwarf came out, the palms of the two people on the scabbard were removed, and after careful inspection, they found that they did not recognize them, but since they were called so, they were obviously old, so they asked, "Who are you?" ”
The person who told the story said in a loud voice: "When I served Gongzi Lian, the three of them came to see Gongzi Lian, and they defeated the swordsmen around Gongzi with one swordsmanship, so that Gongzi Lian could win. At that time, I was serving left and right. ”
"Ten years ago, Suo Lushen saw victory in Anyi and saw Gongzi Lian, and when it came to the westward journey, Gongzi Lian sent ten swordsmen to follow, and I was among them."
The two also have names and surnames, but when Gongzilian was around, everyone called him Mr. Tall and Short, and they both knew that this was the old one.
In order to attract the attention of Gongzilian, Shenghui first asked someone to go to Anyi, and showed some skills by Gongzilian's side, so that Gongzilian could raise a fire to the court, and these two people were among them.
When the tall man heard this person call himself Mr. Gao, but when he talked about Suo Lu Shen, he called him by his first name, knew the difference, and asked with a smile, "You also joined the ink master?" Calling each other comrades? ”
While speaking, he asked someone to add a chair, and said with a smile: "The righteousness of the Mo family, everyone is equal, you sit down." ”
The man didn't squirm, sat down on the side and said, "Exactly, on the way back from Persia, I listened to Solushen talk about the righteousness of the Mo family and became a Mo scholar. What are you doing here? ”
When this person joined the Mo family, Mozi had already ordered the world not to follow those who rebelled against Mo to mourn for his death, which was equivalent to completely severing the master-apprentice relationship.
It's just that this person doesn't know much about the grievances of the previous generation of the Mo family, but he only knows that these two people are rebelling against Mo, and if they don't rebel against Mo, they are already one of the few old Moists in the Mo family's era of King Zhou Weilie.
After he asked, he thought of some rumors after he came back, and said strangely: "Mr. Shengxuan has entered Qin with Gongzilian, and Gongzilian is now Qin Jun, two gentlemen...... If you are traveling, you should be in a hundred cars. ”
The tall man shook his head and smiled: "Hundreds of carriages and horses, that is the king's order." I came to Handan today to meet a few old people in my private capacity. ”
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