Chapter 117: Constraints
When people swing their heads that way, sometimes that's the truth.
Xu Miao glanced at the head, thinking that Gongzaoye was also so reasonable when he was in Pengcheng in the past, and sometimes it was really useful to reason like this.
It's just that this truth hasn't been explained clearly.
The nobles present agreed at least at this time, whether they were willing or not, because they all knew what kind of people the remnants of Si Ziyang were.
Don't talk about killing a nobleman in the name of Li Sheji.
After the coup d'Γ©tat that year, Zheng Xianggong was the monarch of the country, Dazai Xin was so powerful, and the remnants of Si Ziyang's party were all dressed in plains, and they entered the city from outside the city, killed Dazai Xin's whole family, and killed Dazai Xin's whole family by the way.
The nobleman of the Si clan held his head and said: "What the Mo family said is reasonable, and the society can be preserved, so it can't be implemented." β
"Those who defend the city should be rewarded, those who demolish houses should be accompanied, and those who are trapped in a fortified city need food...... All of this needs to be taken out of our part. β
"A portion of gold and silver, a portion of grain and corn, and some fields that will be rewarded to meritorious common people and slaves. Since it is a social organization, start with me. β
After all, the policy proposed by the Mo family this time was very compromised, and it only moved the ownership of the means of production, but did not move the property, and the wealth in the treasury of Zheng Guo was not enough at all.
The nobles must not be able to take out too much, not that they do not have it, but they really have to take out too much, and some of those who may not die after breaking the city may not be willing to resist sincerely.
The wealthy in the city, those with many fields, and big merchants all need to take out some financial and material resources to help defend the city, and the big nobles who are really in power need to be an "example" at this time.
Zheng Jun and the leader of the Yang Yu party signed the contract, set many rules, and came to the city with the people of the Mo family.
After reading out the promises of change and the rewards for meritorious work in front of the organized people, he pretended to apologize to the people.
The Mohists quickly organized the Ming people in Xinzheng and some progressive scholars in accordance with their organizational skills and many years of experience in defending the city, publicized the laws and morals, and clearly explained the precepts of defending the city and the content of future changes.
Four days later.
A new city defense that was beginning to take shape had been established behind the old city walls in the direction of Wei Han's main attack, which was an unprecedented speed.
There are not only organizational and technological advances, but also the spiritual strength of the people who are genuinely willing to work.
However, when Zheng Jun saw the city wall that had already been built on a large scale, looked at the people who were struggling to dig in order, looked at the Mo people who preached the morality of the Mo family at the same time as the people, and listened to some of the songs that were quite rebellious among the people, he began to panic at the power of the people.
The ministers who asked him to sell the resistance of the people of Zheng Guo at a good price listened to Zheng Jun's sigh, how could he not understand what it meant?
Faced with this, he said: "What the king sees is what his ministers worry about that day. β
"Do you remember the official affairs of the past? The Duke killed Ziyang, and the people did not move; The rest of the party in Ziyang entered the city to kill the princess, and the people did not move. β
"Have you ever seen the people work so one thing?"
"In the past, the city wall was built in fifteen days, and it was not as much earthwork as it was built in these four days. The righteousness of the Mo family, everyone is equal, there is no dignity and humility, and now the people only know the Mo family but do not know the king. β
"In the past, the people did not move. If there is something to do with the king today, how will the people be willing to move? If one day the Mohists say that the princes and princes are all guilty and do not conform to the will of heaven, what will happen to the people? β
Zheng Junyi sighed and said: "Si Shangyan said that the people are the water, the king is the boat, and the water can carry the boat or overturn the boat, which is true." The events of Song, Teng, Xue, and Fei are vividly remembered...... Ay. β
The minister said, "Do you know what the mouth of the river looks like?" It was not a huge gap all at once, but a small opening, and the flow of water gushed out because of the gap like an anthill, and it grew bigger and bigger until it became uncontrollable. β
"It is the same with the people, who are promised today that they need their consent to increase the citizenship tax, and tomorrow they will abolish the equality of princes and princes. Once the people are organized, the power is terrible. β
"Of course, they can stop Wei Han, but this Zheng Guo is no longer yours, so what good is it for you?"
"Moreover, the Ziyang Yu Party has a lot of wealth and vast land, and the people miss them. In the future, they will raise their arms and shout, such as the Tian family, what are you? β
"Therefore, when the ministers ask the monarch to consider, it is all for the sake of the monarch's interests."
"Once the people are instigated by the Mo family, Wei Han will inevitably be frightened, which is also what they don't want to see. If they attack the city unfavorably, they will be even more frightened and panicked. β
"The city was not single-minded in the first place, and now it is carrying out such a policy of taking advantage of the nobles and doctors, and there will be many people in the city when the time comes. If you're late, I'm afraid Wei Han won't need you. β
"Of course, I am for the sake of myself, but also for the Zheng family's temple! When the time comes, please be crowned as the king, and divide one place to worship the temple, this is the real filial piety! If Jiang Qi is now desolate because even the temple has no one to worship, what face will he have to see his ancestors in the future? β
Zheng Junyi said angrily: "How can I not be for the ancestors of the temple? If it was for myself, I would have died a long time ago! Ziyang Yu Dang killed the monarch and set me up, I just wanted to endure the humiliation and thought that I would be able to continue the sacrifice of the temple in the future. β
"Whoever does not know me is called despicable; Those who know me, I'm afraid that only Mo Zhai, who commented on the matter of Prince Lu in the Bai Gongsheng Rebellion back then......"
The ministers also knelt down and said: "The sage of the king and the forbearance of humiliation, this is incomprehensible to the world!" β
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Outside the city, the camp of the Wei and Han coalition forces.
After a few days of bombardment, the city wall of Xinzheng was already crumbling, and a small gap had appeared in the direction of the concentrated artillery bombardment, and it only took a few more days to break through the city wall.
In the past hundreds of years, as long as the city wall is breached, Shuai's army breaks into the gap, and the city collapses.
It's just that Wei Han's copper cannon can't be fired for a long time, and it takes a long time to cool down once fired, and the number is not too much.
The general of the Wei army sighed: "If there were so many artillery and sappers in Sishang, Xinzheng would have been taken long ago." In the past, Wu Qi broke the beam, which was to borrow the power of gunpowder, but after all, it was not faster than the Mo family's siege speed. β
The commander of the Han army said with a smile: "It's a pity that the princes met in the Heze Alliance, and agreed that the siege of the city should not dig the river embankment to wash the city wall and flood the three armies. Otherwise, just Xinzheng, adjacent to Weiqin, would have been broken. β
That is to say, the alliance was signed by the princes and made public to the world, and whether such a treaty can be observed is not a matter of morality, but whether one party has violence to maintain the continuation of this treaty.
Sishang is now more and more powerful, if it is really without the permission of the princes, the lord will dig up the river embankment or build a dam to flood the city, and then the Mo family really sends troops to fight, once the battle is not won, then it will be taken out for trial.
Back then, Qi Gongzi was shot at noon, thinking that the slaughter of the city was a trivial matter in the eyes of the nobles, and they must be inferior to the legitimate sons of a country when it comes to their identity.
And also take into account those chivalrous people who are very close to the Mo family and are influenced by the Mo family's "benefiting the world for the righteousness". If such a thing really happens, the knights who want to go to righteousness and become famous will really be able to kill their entire family.
The Mo family is better, and they don't like to use assassination very much, but those radical farmers, chivalrous, and some schools that pursue the anarchy of small countries and widows often do some assassinations and the like. Now that there is gunpowder again, no one wants a family to be blown up by a wagon of gunpowder as soon as they go out.
There is no control at the grassroots level, and there are often cases of running away when someone is killed, and no one dares to move easily.
Besides, even if it is an order of the princes, unless there is a written order, it is impossible for the generals who lead the troops outside to do things such as slaughtering the city and digging the river, which were prohibited by the Heze Huimeng back then: once there is no written order, they will still be afraid of taking the blame in the future.
This time the siege of the city could not be flooded, and Xinzheng City was a country with a high city wall, so it could only use artillery to break the gap in the city.
The city gate was originally the most vulnerable place when the artillery first came out, but with the spread of some of the Mo family's city defense techniques, Xinzheng not only built a wall and horse face on the northern city wall, but also built a second gate behind the city gate, which became the most difficult place to attack.
Even so, the rammed earth structure of the city wall itself could not withstand the artillery bombardment, and it did not rain for the past few days, otherwise the city wall might have collapsed by now in a heavy rain.
When the commanders of the Wei and Han armies were discussing the siege of the city, someone came to report that it was the city that the city had sent the news that the Mo family had helped defend the city and deployed a new city defense behind the city wall.
After listening to the return of the fine work, the commander of the Wei army shook his head and frowned: "What does the Mo family mean by this?" I've never seen a city so well guarded. As soon as the walls are broken, the city is broken, and it has always been. β
But they deployed a new city defense behind the wall...... This is unheard of, will it be useful? β
The commander of the Han army said: "Don't take it lightly. The Mo family is the best at defending the city, and it associates the defense of the city with the geometric nine numbers of Tianzhi, but I am afraid that there must be means. β
The commander of the Wei army nodded, he still couldn't understand the offensive and defensive battles of the city from the rational perspective of geometric nine numbers, everything was based on previous experience, so it was difficult to understand what the city was going to do, and he couldn't figure out how to repair it to withstand the panic caused by the collapse of the city wall.
But in addition to telling him the truth that the city wall is broken when the city is broken, it also tells him that the Mo family is good at defending and attacking cities, so that many seemingly inexperienced city defense tactics that are completely incomprehensible have a huge effect.
At least the Mo family can be regarded as an experience left to him in the matter of attacking the city and defending the city.
He had to frown and think about it, but there was no good solution.