When the east turned white, a group of Chu soldiers walked towards this side, looking like they were about to change their guards.

The deputy brigade commander took out the fire rope from behind him, lit it on the pot fire lit near the city gate, and distributed it.

When the group of Chu soldiers didn't know what the situation was, several strong men lit iron thunder and threw it over.

As soon as the explosion sounded, it was the most obvious signal, and the brigade that had already lurked outside the city immediately rushed to the city gate.

The deputy brigade commander led the team to rush to the city when the explosion sounded, and took advantage of the chaos of the change of defense to rush and kill.

The defenders in the city didn't know how many people came, and they were far away from the front line, so they didn't expect that the Mo family would run hundreds of miles to attack Shangcai directly.

These more than 40 people rushed from the city gate to the palace area in the city, but they did not encounter any organized resistance, and the team of dozens of people broke up as soon as they rushed, and then they fled backwards with more people.

In the end, only more than 300 people were trapped in the palace area of the original Cai State, and the more than 40 people who attacked and attacked only stopped.

By the time the sun had risen, the brigade had already broken into the city and taken control of most of it.

Several companies were stationed at the city walls and gates, and the rest surrounded the remaining more than 300 Chu people.

Before the inner city was captured, the government of Shangcai County of the Mo family had been established in the city, and the Mo people who had been lurking or whose identities were secret had come forward one after another, and soon organized the situation in the city in an orderly manner.

The people were neither alarmed nor surprised, as if they had expected it.

Many people even ran to the vicinity of the army, not to mention the pot pulp, but they were very skilled in selling the things in their homes, because they knew that the Mo family even demolished the door when defending the city, and they would register compensation for it, which had spread all over the world decades ago, let alone now.

The people kept selling goods and collecting paper money, because paper money here meant hard currency - you could buy salt, iron, and cloth, and as for whether it could be exchanged for gold, the people didn't care, that was the concern of the big merchants in Sishang.

There was even a woodcutter who took the initiative to suggest that the gates of the inner city were all wooden, otherwise he could buy more firewood and grass and pile it up and set fire to the gate of the inner city, and he could give the Mo family some discounts and cheaper.

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In the inner city, the nobles who were in charge of garrisoning the city and the slave retainers wanted to make a final resistance, and there were more than 300 people under their command, but more and more locals fled across the city, and they could not hold it anyway.

Outside, the army of the Mo family had begun to prepare to attack, and seeing that the people in the city were helping to pile up wood, firewood, grass and sand, the people were in a hurry, and the nobles in the inner city could only sigh.

As a nobleman who participated in the palace coup, he was named the Duke of Shangcai County.

As early as the beginning of the coup, he suggested that we should take a good look at the books of the Mo family, and distinguish who is a friend and who is an enemy.

The current state of Chu, who is the enemy to the nobles? Farmers and businessmen are all enemies, at least those who cannot be trusted.

To win the hearts and minds of the people, you can't fight for the Mo family who is righteous, Taoist, and crucial is rich.

Because it was impossible for the aristocracy to give up the basis of their existence, the nobility was not an aristocrat without fiefdoms, patriarchal systems, and servitude on the public land.

Instead of this, it is better to treat the nobles themselves well and give greater benefits. It doesn't matter if you learn Qi Guo or the Revenge Method, but you must figure out where your ass is sitting.

Otherwise, the nobles can give the people three points of profit, and the Mo family can give eight points, and they can't tempt the people with benefits, otherwise they will follow you if they are beneficial today, and they will oppose you if they are not profitable tomorrow, which is not good.

Moreover, if you can't compete for the Mo family in the hearts of the common people, peasants and workers, it is better to give up completely and truly establish a happy land for the nobility.

For example, Shang Cai should not continue the original policy, but should forcibly reclaim the land, conquer it by force, and redivide it into the taxi class, so that these new taxis will know who to fight for and why.

As for the possible resistance, it should be solved by massacre, after all, the people are weak, and they only need to kill the leader, and the rest will be honest.

At this time, the trapped Shangcai County Duke was born in the aristocracy, and he was only forty years old, and he read a lot of books of the Mo family since he was a child.

Because many nobles in Chu had a close relationship with the Mo family, such as Yangcheng Jun in nearby Yangcheng, who had a very good relationship with Meng Sheng, one of the leaders of the Mo family; Mozi was the mentor and friend of Duke Lu Yang, who died in the battle of Daliang City; The relationship between the public loss class and Mozi is extraordinary......

After he was a little older, paper books on Sishang had already begun to appear, and at that time, he had already begun to master the Xuanyi Department, and the Mo family began to slowly rise in Sishang.

All sorts of articles, through the monopoly of paper and printing, defeated the rest of the sons who relied on oral preaching in the market; The doctrine that integrated the many currents of thought of later generations has defeated those erroneous understandings of social development in this period of social transition; Technological progress and the availability of high-yielding crops from nowhere have forged a Mohist association of morality and well-fedness......

He also watched a lot.

But it's different from some aristocratic concubines.

After reading these Mojia books, some aristocratic concubines had a hot brain, and they didn't know where their buttocks were sitting, and they really believed in the words of equality and love.

It is understandable that the aristocratic concubine can't figure out where his ass is sitting, after all, under the patriarchal system, the concubine is also inferior to the concubine.

But what made him the most different was that some nobles who obviously had the status of concubines actually believed the words of the Mo family, and they really began to think about things like the benefit of the common people.

He's different.

He read a lot of books of the Mo family, and when he first read it, he suddenly felt enlightened, and some things that he didn't understand suddenly figured out, and then used it in reverse, sobering up where his ass was sitting, and then accepting the Mo family's views on contradictory interests, under the reverse use, the effect was remarkable.

For this reason, he even traveled to Sishang, studied in Sishang for a period of time, and saw some remote areas of Chu State, so much so that he also went to the location of primitive settlements such as Jiuzhi Mountain.

Looking at the Mohists' summing up of the Paradise of Paradise, and considering the Mohists' propaganda that the production relations should adapt to the development of the productive forces, he had a great understanding.

For example, in places such as Jiuzhi, according to the Mo family, it is a paradise of high and high quality, and in the remote tribes that use stone tools to cultivate and burn, the remnants of clan communes are extremely serious.

For example, in Sishang, industry and commerce are developed, and many villages and communities are cultivating and adjusting crops around the industry and commerce in Sishang, and people-to-people exchanges are extremely frequent, so there is no soil for the existence of nobles in Sishang.

For example, some cities in the Chu State have a deep influence on the Mo family; In other cities, the influence of the Mo family is shallow.

After investigation and research, he felt that what the Mo family said was very reasonable.

However, the path he took was completely different from that of the Mo family.

Taoism says that all things are self-transforming, and the meaning is similar.

It's just that the Mohists are more radical.

The Mohists believed that the productive forces were progressing, so it was necessary to change the status quo of aristocratic rule, change everything in the old era, and use new rules, morals, and relationships between people to adapt to the advent of the mechanical age of iron and gunpowder workshops.

And it is necessary to use the art of rational knowledge to infer what kind of rules and morals are in line with the relationship between people in the new era, rather than relying on the long-term self-transformation of all things.

At that time, he was not yet the prince of Shangcai County, and he suddenly thought that if the progress of the times gave birth to all these changes, such as iron cattle ploughing and the equipment of the Sishang workshop, etc., it would give birth to new relationships and rules between people.

So...... Why not destroy all this, and thus the productive forces, in order to adapt to backward relations of production?

The truth in the Mohist book is very clear, but the meaning of the Mohist is that the times must progress and the common people must benefit.

But on the other hand, why do we have to move forward? Why can't we go backwards?

He thought that the reason why Kong Zhongni's system did not work was because of the progress and development of various technologies, so Kong Zhongni ran around all his life without results. But what if you ruin it all? Wouldn't that be the rule of the aristocracy for eternity?

For example, the new loom in Sishang was not necessary for the aristocracy, and even without this thing, the nobles could still dress and eat, and never have to do their own business.

For example, if there were no such things, the common people would not have been able to produce and work as a family unit, and could only choose to attach themselves to the fiefdom of the village community. And the aristocracy did not need these things.

All of this is the case, so he thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a way that could completely solve the influence of more and more people in Chu State who were bewitched by the propaganda of the Mo, and it was a solution from the root.

That is, to keep the present system unchanged and destroy the progressive productive forces, so as to adapt the level of productive forces to the rules and systems of the old era.

Destroy all the technological advances that have come from Si, seal the borders, forbid the movement of merchants, and burn all the paper books.

Re-establish a group of the original scholar class, enclose the land as a fief, and do not allow the scholar class to engage in industry and commerce, so they can only choose to train as a samurai from a young age, recreate a group of the scholar class, and realize the rule of the grassroots.

The people are not allowed to change their careers, and it is stipulated that farmers are farmers and craftsmen are craftsmen, and they cannot change their identities at will, and the son inherits the father's business, and the father and son inherit each other.

People are not allowed to move, and those who flee at will will sit in the village community.

The land of Chen Cai, which has been transformed, was re-divided, cattle and horses were collected, and cattle and horses were forbidden to farm......

At least, he thought that this would completely solve the problem of chaos in the world, but when he put forward this statement, someone laughed and asked: "How can you have the strength and force to fight Sishang by doing this?" After all, there is not only one Chu State in the world, even if you do this to prevent the infiltration of Sishang, can you make Zhao Wei, Han, Qin, Qi Yan do this? If you can't beat it, what's the point of what you're talking about? How is this different from the fact that the winter is too cold, and you say that it will be warmer if you pull the sun closer? ”

He only felt that those who mocked him were ignorant and ignorant, and they didn't know what the root cause of today's chaos was, let alone that the world was so chaotic that the nobles of the world would end sooner or later.

After the coup d'état, he finally relied on his talent and the power of his family to be named the Duke of Shangcai County, and he was about to try to promote his revenge, but he didn't want the Mo family to have invaded the city.

"Hey......"

Standing on the inner city wall, he sighed, and said in his heart that all that he had thought about would never have a chance to be carried out again, and those who had laughed at him would eventually die in ignorance and stupidity, and he did not know what the root of death was.

"Sad husband!"