In the year of Xin Chou, the Marquis of Wei, the Marquis of Han, the King of Chu, and the giants of the Mo family will meet in Fengchi, and Qi, Wei, Song, Zhao, and Qin will send Shangqing or envoys to attend the meeting.

After the Battle of Yinyang, the state of Chu did not continue the offensive.

If the attack continues, it is likely that Wei Han will be cut off from the back because he is too far forward, and he will camp along the Weishui River to confront Wei Han, and it will inevitably lead to a confrontation on the entire front, which is not what Wei Chuhan wants.

The Mo family shouted slogans and asked for the Northern Expedition several times, but Chu did not allow it, and Zheng Di was in an uproar.

Since the fight has reached such a point, none of the three parties wants to fight, and the Mo family, who shouted the most ferocious to the Northern Expedition to punish and restore the neutrality of Zheng Guo, does not want to fight, and an alliance that seems to rely on the negotiating table to solve the problem is inevitable.

The location of the alliance, the four sides want to hold it on their own territory.

The location of the alliance given by the Mohists was Shangqiu, which was considered a neutral country by the Song Dynasty, and the previous two successful military meetings were held in Shangqiu. In addition, the alliance platform of the Soldier Suppression Association was still being built before, so it was the most suitable to be prepared.

Wei Han gave the location of the alliance is Xingyang, thinking that it is closer to Luoyang, and the Son of Heaven can also send people to participate, and by the way, after the alliance, he can also go to the court to meet the Son of Heaven.

The location of the alliance given by the state of Chu is Chen, because Chen is the capital, and the king of Wu had the princes of the alliance in Chen, although this Chen is not Chen, but Chen Chengyu worships, where to move is Chen, this place is suitable for the alliance.

Wei Chuhan and the Mojia Quartet sang the leading role, and the rest of the princes were only supporting roles, Zheng Guo had descended, and the Quartet talked nonsense about the location of the alliance for half a month, and finally chose Fengchi outside Daliang City.

After all, when Jin Wen was the hegemon, the slogan of the alliance was "invite the Son of Heaven to shoot and hunt", and Daze Dachi was the most suitable place for hunting.

The second is that the ownership of Daliang City is that the State of Chu thinks that Daliang is still the State of Chu, but it was forcibly occupied by the State of Wei, so it can be agreed to meet the alliance in Fengchi.

The third is that Daliang City is the most marginal area that the military forces of the four sides can radiate, and if something really happens, no one can take advantage.

At this time, Fengchi is still owned by the public, which is part of the public land, and the people are not allowed to cultivate and fish at will, and the harvest is all the subordinate people belonging to the public in this place.

In history, it was not until the Wei State moved the capital to Daliang that Fengchi was allowed to reclaim for fishing and hunting. ”

The sender, the waste also; The serval, innumerable grass, is a metaphor for a swampy lake overgrown with reeds.

At this time, the mountains and rivers were basically owned by the princes and nobles, and the people could not go there casually to make a living, and they would be severely punished if they were caught.

It was monopolized in the hands of the princes and nobles, and they could use slave serfs for profit; The second is that once this kind of place is opened, now that iron tools have begun to spread, people rush to flee and hide in Daze, and there will be fewer tax-paying population soldiers.

At this time, it was a cold winter, and it was not enough for thousands of birds to fly away, but the reeds were already yellow, covered with a layer of snow.

Countless ruts, horses' hooves, and human footprints left their mark on the snow, and some birds flew around the fallen horse manure in search of undigested corn kernels.

The meeting has not yet begun, and the venue is already being set up.

Fengchi is not far from the city of Daliang.

At this time, it is said to be the most idle time, there is nothing to do in winter, it was originally the month of sacrifice, and it was occasionally a winter martial arts hunt before, maintaining the military system of the original feudal system.

But now there are not many people on the streets, and the clouds of war are still looming, and many people are being drafted to serve, not only as soldiers, but also to repair the walls and transport food and grass.

It has always been the people of the world who suffer in war.

In a very simple liquor shop in Daliang City, some of the older people have long forgotten their identity as Chu people, because it doesn't matter. Count up a few more years, has Daliang always been from the Chu State?

At this time, the people who can still be in the wine shop are naturally not the hardest and most tired farmers, but the new citizen class in the cities over the years, either engaged in handicrafts or commerce, and have broken away from the identity of farmers and the original state-owned handicraftsmen.

The weather is cold, so it's perfect to drink a few sips of spirits, and you don't need any good dishes, and the peanuts and broad beans that have been planted in recent years can be drunk.

The liquor shop has a strong Sishang charm, selling spirits, sitting on chairs, leaning on tables, pasting window paper on the windows, and hanging peach charms with some auspicious words on the doors, which lacks a lot of traditional taste, but it quickly became popular in the Central Plains.

It is not necessarily the ink person who opens the wine shop, but there must be the owner of so many wine shops in Daliang City who is the ink person, and the rest are inextricably linked with the Mo family even if they don't.

or because they have no money to borrow money from the gold bank as share capital; or have joined an organization such as an artisan association and learned some crafts; Or I have listened to lectures and learned a few horizontal and vertical official scripts.

In recent years, tea shops and wine shops have gradually replaced the role of Zheng Guo's "village school" and become a place for Chinese people to complain and discuss politics.

At a small table, a man asked, "Did you listen?" ”

He didn't say anything, but it seemed as if he didn't need to mention the subject, and everyone would know.

Sure enough, someone replied, "Naturally, I listened." If it is really as said in the "Book of Reporting the World", it is really good to fight peace, not attack and love, each has its own gains, and the world is the same. ”

It can be seen that this so-called "Book of Reporting the World" is very demagogic, or it is very suitable for their needs, and many people nodded and gathered around.

Not long ago, the contents of the "Book of Reporting the World" written by the Mo family were circulated in the big cities and giants of the Central Plains, and they were quickly circulated through various secret or public channels.

For the princes, perhaps the people's will is useless; But for the Mohists, it is necessary to win the hearts of the people, because the Mohists are not princes, and their legal principles are derived from the will of the people rather than the feudal system and the rules that have lasted for thousands of years.

The content in it is easy to understand, and of course most of it is a kind of strong argument from a certain point of view.

For example, countries have liberalized the system of personal restraints, countries have allowed people to migrate and reclaim land spontaneously, countries have recognized the system of private ownership and property rights of the people, the legal subjects of countries should be people rather than families, countries have unified tax rates, countries have issued switches, countries have allowed merchants to set up mineral workshops, countries have unified writing, and countries have unified weights and measures...... All sorts of things.

From the perspective of Wei Han and other princes and nobles, this is of course unreasonable, and it is as unreasonable as digging graves.

These things are not something that can be obtained by lip service at this time, and there is no great change in the world that can be accomplished by compromising with each other and taking a step back.

But at the very least, it is not impossible, but a clear, well-known and acceptable program.

If the countries can't do it, then the Mohists can only use violence to solve the problem: the princes and nobles are not willing to give up the feudal rights of land and personal dependence, and they are unwilling to take the initiative to surrender to reunify, so they have to use violence.

This is also the first time that the Mo family has "tried to see the poor dagger" in front of the world.

Most people in the liquor store do not know the saying that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Disappointment is sometimes a strength, a force of rebellion and tyranny, and this power bursts out with the moment of disappointment.

And now, they are still discussing a bright future that will intoxicate them.

But there is also an indescribable mockery in this intoxication.

"Have you heard about Xinzheng? The people of Xinzheng went to Wei Han with the contract signed by the nobles of Zheng State, but they were regarded as rebellion. ”

It has been a while since Xinzheng was breached, but the contract signed when defending the city in exchange for freedom and land has resulted in a result that makes the people of Xinzheng angry but feels reasonable.

Korea rejected the "reasonable" demands of the people of Xinzheng, arguing that the contract was invalid because it was signed with the nobles of the Si clan of Zheng Guo.

And the nobles of the Si clan have been slaughtered, and Zheng Jun has also surrendered to Wei Han, so the land of Zheng should belong to the victor.

At the very beginning, the ink practitioners in Xinzheng had already expected this result.

But just like the conversation between Xinzheng's Mo and Xu Qiao that day, this result was beneficial to the Mo family.

If it is said that whoever has the biggest fist then the land belongs to whom, wouldn't that prove that the rebellion is not guilty and the division of land is justified?

Since it is the truth that the fist is big, then since the aristocracy could snatch away "the land that should belong to the people of the world" with their fists, and it is the truth that the land belongs to the nobility, then wouldn't it still be reasonable for the people to snatch it back with their fists?

When it comes to this incident, the people in the wine store inevitably have relatives, or some people: "At that time, the people of Xinzheng said that the crows in the world were as black as the world, and they changed their surnames, but they were actually still the same." I look at this alliance, I'm afraid it will be difficult to have a result. ”

"What the Mo family thinks is what we want. Don't you hear that the people of the world are divided into classes by the nobles, and each class has the benefits of each class, and there is no virtue that is applicable to the whole world, and there is no benefit that is applicable to the whole world. Someone gains, someone loses. ”

They could not understand what the morality of the Mohists was, but because of the reconciliation between the Mohists and Yang Zhu in the matter of anti-feudalism, humanism was rampant.

Excessive humanism will inevitably lead to the expansion of personal desires, the proliferation and social upheaval, which is again an acceptable manifestation of overcorrection against centuries of patriarchal law.

The people of various countries, especially those in the Central Plains, began to think about their own selfish interests, and began to think about whose country and whose home they were.

The wars of the Spring and Autumn Period for hundreds of years have created war-weariness, anti-war, anti-etiquette, and anti-restraints imposed on them.

The people in the liquor store may not stand up because of the demands of the people in Xinzheng and support the demands of the people of Xinzheng with the morality of the Mohists who will not hesitate to die for the benefit of the world, but it does not mean that they think that South Korea's opposition and violation of the contract are reasonable.

For the time being, they would not oppose Wei Han for the sake of the Zheng people, who were hundreds of miles away from them, but they hoped that the Mo family could fight for them what they wanted in this four-party meeting.