The Chu people withdrew their troops due to defeat, and the city also counterattacked as a routine until the Chu army pressed the position with archers and elites before returning.

Mozi isolated the head of the city, looking at the corpses and wounded people who had not had time to take away from the Chu people under the city, and was saddened.

He was not afraid of killing, nor was he afraid of death and injury, but he never understood why the monarch of the world had to start a war?

According to the words of Shang Xian in the festival and funeral festival he mentioned, coupled with the familiar Tianzhi machinery and those wonderful crops, twenty years of development and gathering are higher than the benefits of war.

Perhaps, he thought, it is really difficult to explain all the things in the world with reason.

When the inkers and warriors who fought back under the city returned, the city also came to bring good news.

"Giant, Gongzao Ye and Shi are already preparing the Song Gong Oath, but they need you to come forward in person. After all, the oath between the monarch and the doctor of the six kings always needs a person with sufficient status. ”

The disciples who returned to the palace looked happy, and the battle near the palace did not take place, and when Shi and others brought people forward, the two sides quickly stopped fighting.

Because the ink artist clearly wanted to help the weak Song Duke at that time, and compared with those nobles, the people also believed that the Mo family children who had quietly influenced Shangqiu for several years.

All kinds of treaties and covenants, that is what Mozi knows, he is not worried about the content, and he should indeed come forward in terms of identity.

Mozi looked outside the city and said for a long time: "The elite of the Chu people retreated, and it would take at least an hour to organize another siege, and it would be late by then." Today, the Chu people can't attack the city. ”

After carefully observing for a while, Mozi called the disciple: "Tell the disciples on the city wall to rest quickly, eat a full meal, and if they can sleep, they can fall asleep now, and only the people who patrol will be left." ”

The disciple didn't ask anything else, took the order and went to inform, Mozi glanced at the movements of the Chu people a few more times, confirmed his judgment, and went down to the city tower with a few disciples who accompanied him.

Outside the palace, preparations for the oath are already underway.

White horses, black bulls and other sacrifices to the Emperor of Heaven were ready, the people stood around them, and the rest of the armor soldiers were also separated.

Gongzaoye held his sword and vigilantly stared at the movements around him, very uneasy about this bloodless "Tangwu Revolution".

Shi had told him before that this was no different from the Tangwu Revolution, and the reason why there would be no blood at this time was only because it was not over yet, and more blood would be shed in the future.

Gongzaoye didn't know how long it would take to do this, so he was worried that these people would regret it.

Shi is not worried that these people will repent, and at the same time curbing the royal power and forcing the royal power to use the commoners against the nobles, for the Song State, which has not had an external war within ten years, it can only be regarded as seemingly peaceful.

Today's covenant is not the end at all, but a truce that lasts for ten years.

Ten years later, when all parties know how to fight for their own interests, this paper pact will be meaningless, and then it will be a real "coup".

As before, the coup d'état, in which only the nobles and the armor were involved, was really a change of soup.

When everything is ready, these people present need to take two oaths.

One was a ten-year covenant with the ink as a mediator.

The other is the people's interest needs and political change.

Just like the Second Warrior Society, it is not only the monarch who participates in the oath, but also the fiefdom doctors of various countries, and those who have the power and fiefdom can maintain the stability of the alliance.

Whether the Song State would be destroyed, or whether it would survive in the normal Warring States Period, was not a question to consider.

The Song Kingdom is too small to shake the world.

However, the Song Kingdom is in the middle of the world, with Jin in the north and Chu in the south, Qi and Lu in the east and Zheng Han in the west, but it is convenient to spread some things to the world.

After the arrival of Mozi and his attendant disciples, the nobles and the monarch first swore an oath to mediate the three articles of Mozi, and they would not fight again for ten years, and they would not harm each other.

This kind of thing is played by the nobles of the Song Kingdom, and many coups, three surnames co-government, Sicheng about the office, etc., are basically similar to this matter.

The only difference is that before, it was only an oath, and the Ghost God Heavenly Emperor supervised it.

This time, there is an additional Mo who belongs to the mediator as an overseer, and the Mo family guarantees that no matter who violates these three covenants, they will help the counterattack that is not violated.

The ink can defend the city, and it can also incite the people at this time, as for how strong the ink man's field battle power is, no one knows for the time being.

Once known, the covenant will be strengthened.

These three covenants can be regarded as a compromise, and they can be regarded as helplessness against the aristocratic feudal system at this time, and they are also the only conditions that can be accepted by the three noble clans.

More importantly, the power of Si Cheng Huang and Liuqing has not been reduced, and the power of Song Gong has not been strengthened, and this strange and stable balance can be maintained after the Mo Shi has demonstrated his field combat ability.

If it was to strengthen the Song Kingdom, Shi would definitely find a way to help Song Gong suppress the nobles, but he had no interest in it, and he had no obligation to Song Gong, let alone the slightest personal feelings.

Now it is just for a balance, a balance between monarchs, nobles, and commoners, and once this balance is created, a part of the down-and-out class of the Song Kingdom will not be able to rely on the nobles and monarchs because they have another way to rise.

As for the other oath with the people, it is reasonable, but it is unexpected.

The people of the capital have the right to participate in politics, at least in the past.

At that time, Wu was hegemonic, and the princes of various countries were convened to meet the alliance, and the Marquis of Wei waited and watched the situation, and did not go to the alliance until the hegemony of Wu was irreversible.

Dazai Yao, who had accepted bribes to offer slander and let Gou Jian go and persecuted Wu Zixu, once asked why Wei Hou was late, and even prepared to detain Wei Hou.

But Wei Hou's reason is: "Seek from the people, and the people want or not, but to slow down." In other words, he consulted the people of the national capital on whether to come or not, which was an act approved by the nobles, and it also meant that the people of the patriotic capital took responsibility for the guards: the seizure was useless, and it would only provoke the resistance of the patriotic people.

This reason persuaded Dazai to give up the idea of detaining the marquis.

It's just that before today's Shangqiu Alliance, even if the people of the national capital could participate in politics, there were restrictions on the content of their political participation.

Basically, there are only three points that can be involved.

Wars and alliances, moving the capital, and ceding the throne to the rest of the princes.

Other than these three points, there seems to be no precedent for participating in politics, especially in matters such as the formulation of laws and taxes.

However, because of the previous three points, the matter of participating in politics itself is reasonable, but the content of the discussion does not conform to the previous conventions.

After all, it is not a precedent in form, but only in content, and there are not too many unacceptable objections.

The representatives of the people who were pushed out, with a little excitement and uneasiness, with the help of the ink who was familiar with the oath process, completed the oath with the monarch and nobles at the next head, and formed an alliance with the emperor.

In this oath, the appropriate people are not qualified to participate, standing behind.

Gong Zaoye asked in a low voice, "Is this the end?" ”

Shi shook his head with a smile and whispered, "This is just the beginning. How is it taxed? How to do it? How to make the method? That's the end of it. ”

"But, how much tax? How much is the line? What kind of system? That's where the real benefits lie. ”

"Where is the end? This is just the beginning. Once the siege is over, trouble is still to come. ”

Gong Zaoye nodded and asked in a low voice: "Then the people are naturally unwilling to levy more taxes, and the monarch must want to levy more." Were the fiefs of the nobility taxed? Isn't all this fruitless no matter how much you negotiate? ”

Shi smiled: "It's better to have results, if there is no result, it's nothing more than to see whose strength is great." Does the monarch have the strength? I don't think so. ”

Gong Zaoye said: "That's what I'm worried about, when we discussed it before, we said that we should agree on how to collect taxes, so as not to recognize the princes and nobles as soon as the siege is over." ”

Shi quietly pointed to those people: "Even if it is agreed in advance, once the siege is over, they should not recognize it or not." Could it be that if it is agreed in advance, the oath is made, and the ghost god and heavenly emperor supervises it, then it will definitely not be violated? ”

"Besides, there are so many things, where can it be so easy to agree? The people should slowly understand what they want, so that what they have won will know how valuable it is, and they will spend their efforts to protect it. ”

Gong Zaoye thought for a while and asked, "For example, people by the river don't cherish water. People in the mountains and forests do not cherish wood. But those who dig wells in dry land and produce water will always cherish water; People in cities where there is no firewood and grass will always cherish firewood. Is it the same thing? ”

Shi nodded and shook his head, only saying that it was about the same, and Gongzao Ye didn't ask more.

Looking at the open space, the people are already swearing with the monarch and nobles that as long as the monarch does not violate these conditions, they will firmly support the Duke of Song at this time.

On the other hand, that is, if the Duke of Song does not keep these oaths, then it will be nothing more than another coup d'état like today, and a monarch who can abide by it will be.

Even though according to the customary customs, the people are not qualified to touch the throne, and the theory of the Mo Lord's choice of the Son of Heaven has not yet prevailed in the world. However, it is still possible to choose a suitable successor from the office.

Even if countries want to intervene, they lack an excuse and are afraid that this is a matter of "public conspiracy", so they will probably not send troops.

The Song State has not changed monarchs, as long as it is within the office, basically the major powers are recognized.

Originally, if the nobles and six secretaries were involved, they might be attacked by various countries to maintain the Zhou rites. But now there is a trick of dividing the marquis of the three families within the Sanjin, the first big country, in fact, the Zhou rites are broken, and the nobles of the Song State also have a chance to climb to the throne.

The so-called election of the Son of Heaven by the Mo Scholar does not sound like there will be too many objections at this time, because the nobility monopolizes culture and knowledge at this time, so the sage must be a nobleman, and the person who can be elected as the Son of Heaven seems to mean that everyone in the world has a chance, but in fact, it is within the aristocracy and the duke, so it did not make too many waves.

When these people have made their vows, the seemingly simple and bloodless transformation has been completed, but in fact this is only the beginning.

More blood and greater chaos is the follow-up to this seemingly bloodless change, and this is just the beginning, not the end.