Hearing this, Gongzi shouted angrily: "The Mo family has a synonymous saying, and its meaning is known to the whole world. Now that the state of Chu is dead, if it continues like this, everyone will have to finish. ”

"Since it is all over, cut the flesh of the Wei State, and the Wei State will die sooner or later, so what are you talking about with them?"

"Zhao Weiye and Fanyang, Qin wants Xihe Hangu, Qi wants Xiaqiu Chengyang, what does Han want in the future? The essence of Wei is the second time, after the cession, what is left of Wei? ”

If it weren't for the Mo family's attitude towards the nobles of the Chu State that completely frightened the princes and nobles, Gongzi would have stopped talking about it.

It's already like this, but they're still arguing with each other about these issues, the Mo family is strong, and the princes are all finished. Why can't we unite as one, not seek profit, and protect the gift wholeheartedly?

However, Gongzi Gang also understood that the matter had come to this point, and if he didn't talk about it, Wei would send others to talk about it, because the nobles of Wei were already nervous, as long as they didn't touch their fiefdoms, then what did it have to do with them if they ceded more?

Yecheng has always been the land directly under the jurisdiction of the Marquis of Wei, and Ximen Leopard has been operating there for a long time, not a noble fief; The Xihe region was taken from the Qin State, except for some fiefs belonging to the nobles, the rest belonged to the people of Xihe, and the law has been changed.

If the nobles want to oppose ink, they will definitely find a way to kill those who don't want to talk, and Gongzi understands his situation.

His henchman said: "Childe, you can't make the decision in this matter." This matter must be reported to Anyi, and it will be decided by the king, or the ministers can discuss it together. Otherwise, Childe would not be able to tell. ”

Up to now, the people around Gongzi Gang can only mend all this from small profits, and they can't solve these problems at all.

The intrigues and tricks left by the aristocratic era, under the general trend of being unreasonable, not licking the aristocracy, and having an overliterate population, are useless in the face of the general trend, and all they can do is to think of the rise and fall of a family on some small issues.

As for the interests of the country, the aristocracy has no country, only a home. Gongsun Hui defected from Qi to Wei, and Liqiu was still his Gongsun Hui family, which never changed, until these people in Sishang began to teach people to read and write like crazy, and the people also began to want to have a home where they could think about their own interests, and the concept of country and family changed.

However, now, there are no Wei people, only the Wei State and the Wei people of the Wei family, and Gongzi has nothing to rely on.

The universally applicable values of equality and love and the unification of Kyushu were robbed by the Mohists; The economic basis for the nation that did not yet appear in the Wei State; In fact, all that Gongzi could rely on was the support of the aristocracy and the old etiquette system.

He also did not want to give up all this real "being a servant of the people" and give up his rule for the benefit of the people, so naturally there was only one way to go by accepting these conditions.

In fact, there is another way, that is, to take refuge in the Mo family for the benefit of the people of Wei, but he refuses to do so.

Seeing that his henchman said this, Gongzi Gang could only say: "That's it, I can't make the decision on this matter, I can only send it back to Anyi to make a decision." ”

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In the capital of Wei, Gongzi was anxiously waiting for his father's death.

Wei Zhen's time is running out, but at this critical moment, he sent Gongzi Gang to Luoyi, how could he, a son, not know?

Now whoever goes to Luoyi will be able to hook up with the princes first and get the support of the princes.

Wei itself could no longer hold on, and without the support of the princes, it was impossible to inherit.

In the First Battle of the West River, the Wei state's military soldiers and phalanx system completely fell behind the times, and the Qin state transported and attacked along the river until it reached the vicinity of Hangu Pass.

Anyi was in danger of the river and finally blocked the offensive of the Qin army, but the Wei phalanx, which was famous for its large array and heavy infantry formation, was completely suppressed by the Qin army.

Just like the First Battle of Yinyang back then, the military formation of the Qin State also took the same route as it did twenty years ago, with a large number of musketeers replacing Qin's crossbows as the main output, foot soldiers as mobile city walls to cover the musketeers, and a large number of stirrup cavalry to cover on the flanks.

Qin's muskets were flint and heavy, and could not be used as short swords for short spears as some of the new guns in Sishang.

However, in order to counter the heavy infantry and chariots of the Wei state, the muskets of the Qin people abandoned their lightness and increased their power, and replaced the arquebuses that could not be densely arrayed with elaborate flint instruments.

Although it still needs the cover of the spearmen, whether it is the density of the muskets or the formation, they can be denser and more powerful.

The battle line was thinner and longer, and under the volley, the large phalanx of Wei suffered heavy casualties, and the cavalry rushed to break the formation.

Han and Zhao both sent troops to rescue Wei, but just after they sent troops, Sishang destroyed Chu, so that now Han and Zhao's armies are stationed along the Yellow River and confront the Qin army, which seems to have other ideas.

The rumor has already come that the Qi people are ready to take advantage of the Mo family's inability to go north to join forces with other countries to destroy Wei and divide the Wei land.

Zhao was extremely supportive, South Korea did not, and Qin's opinion was difficult to determine.

The reason why South Korea did not support the destruction of Wei was not because South Korea was Wei's staunchest ally, but because seven years ago, in the First Battle of Yinyang, South Korea ate a lot of Zheng land, and those Zheng lands were poisonous......

was influenced a lot by Mohist propaganda, and after the Xinzheng Defense War, the people of Zheng were extremely dissatisfied with the rule of the aristocracy.

It's a piece of meat stuffed with feces that can't be swallowed or spit out, and it can't be effectively ruled or managed at a low cost.

In addition, the Mo family attacked Chu, and South Korea was most worried, because the Mo family had almost driven the cannon to the gate of the Korean capital.

Therefore, Korea did not want to destroy Wei, but just wanted to divide a part of Wei to feed Qi, Zhao, and Qin, and begged them to send troops against Mexico.

Qin Guo's attitude is unclear, this is difficult to say.

Zhao State is fearless, the battle of succession that year, Zhao State was almost made out by Wei State of Zhao State and a representative country, the hatred of this matter Zhao Hou has always held a grudge and passed on to his descendants.

Moreover, the Mo family is not capable of hitting Zhao Guo now, and Zhao Guo has a lot of chips.

The Wei State is a rich land, Ximen Leopard operated the Ye land, and the Wei forces arrived at the gate of Handan, coupled with the patriotic incident of that year, so that the Zhao State completely withdrew from the Central Plains.

It's a good thing now, but Zhao Guo has a lot of choices, he can fight Zhongshan, he can attack Wei, and he can oppose Mexico, so Zhao Guo's attitude towards Qi Guo's suggestion is at least a statement.

There have long been envoys from various countries who have secretly contacted Gongzi, and Gongzi's fiefdoms and forces are basically in the Central Plains, Yedi is not his, and Xihe is not his.

Therefore, his attitude towards the princes is very clear: anti-Mexico is a great righteousness, and he supports it. For the sake of this great righteousness, Wei can cede Xihe, Yecheng, Fanyang, Liqiu, and Chengyang.

What worries him is that countries will not give him the opportunity to sell their country, because betraying the country also requires qualifications.

The first person to betray the throne was his brother Gongzi.

If Gongzi sells the country first, then he will have no chance, so he can only offer a higher condition than Gongzi's price - as long as I keep the place where my fiefdom power is located, the rest of the place can be cut.

The Xihe War also caused a lot of dissatisfaction in the Wei State, because the power of the old nobles was mostly in the old land of Wei, and Wu Qi in the Xihe area made the Wei Wushu's government recruitment policy, which made the nobles have few fiefdoms.

Although there were few, there was also a new group of military nobles who received "fiefs". In addition, some unconventional rewards, such as the land awarded after meritorious service, are also carried by farmers, nominally farmers are still free farmers, but in fact, because the land is rewarded to the military nobles, these farmers have to rely on these military nobles to survive.

For example, in history, Uncle Gong was rewarded with 1.4 million mu of land at one time, and these lands must not be wasteland, and there must be people cultivating them, otherwise wasteland will not be a reward.

But the strength of these people was not strong enough, and after a defeat through the West River, these people no longer had much power in the Wei State.

The people in the old aristocratic system were most worried about the Mo family going north after destroying Chu, because they had already felt the huge gap between the two sides.

It's not just the army, but Wei Han swallowed Zheng for seven or eight years and has not digested it, so that Korea lacks interest in carving up Wei; The Mo family can take root wherever they go, and they have verified the truth of the Mo family with practical actions in Kyushu - Nanzheng, Nanhai, Yunzhong, Gaoliu, and Sishang.

Wei was already panicking, because the feud between Wei and the Mo family was not for a day or two, but also because Sishang was too close to Wei, once the Mo family went north, Wei would bear the brunt of the same as South Korea.

If there is a crisis, they can give up some interests that are not theirs in the first place.

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Along the Yellow River, in the Wei military camp, after Wu Qi left the West River, some young talents also emerged in the Wei State.

Pang Juan is one of them.

Pang and Wei, which are considered close surnames, both originate from the fifteenth brother of King Wu of Zhou.

The ancestor of the Wei State was Pifu Biwan, who made a world in the Jin State by virtue of his own and aristocratic blood, and was enshrined in Wei.

Pang originally means "Pang people", Pang people, tall also, in the era of "the people do not change their karma", Pang people are a group of people who are responsible for building houses for the royal family, or a tribe, and the concubines of the descendants of Bi Gong Gao were enshrined in Pang Township, which is a Pang clan.

After Wei Zheng Pang, Pang Juan's family moved to Wei, because he was also a nobleman, so he had the opportunity to be rewarded for his meritorious service, Pang Juan gradually became famous in Xihe, and has become a leader among the young talents in the Xihe army.

The system of Xihe warriors is still there, and Pang Juan has also accumulated to become a general by virtue of his military exploits, and he did not participate in the previous battle with Qin, but deployed defenses on the north bank of the Yellow River after the Qin people went down the river.

In the past, Wei Wushu, who was quite advanced and could beat Western Qin to subdue Han Zhao, at this time the backlash and shortcomings have already appeared, or because Wei has lost more and won less, the shortcomings of this system have been prematurely reflected.

The so-called warriors are a group of cheap, disrespectful of the old bloodline, a new batch of taxis who cannot afford to play the six arts and chariots.

The number of the scholar class is basically fixed, and the eldest son inherits it, and the concubine becomes the common people, so it is difficult to expand the scholar class.

The military pawn is to select the good fighters among the common people, and give them a kind of "soldier" in essence, but they do not have the status of a soldier, once they are selected, they will be soldiers for the rest of their lives.

The advantage is that the family can be exempted from labor and taxes, and the war exploits and booty can be exchanged for land, and there can be subordinate farmers and slaves.

The peasant soldiers are idle training, and the military soldiers are professional soldiers, who train all day, and the state is responsible for food, clothing, armor, and weapons.

Therefore, a huge Wei state simply could not afford to raise too many military soldiers, and it was obvious that it needed to continue to expand the number of military soldiers in order to continuously expand the number of military soldiers, and with more taxes and more land, it could be exempt from tax and military service.

The yeoman peasants were not afraid of tithes, but of sudden increases in taxes by the monarch and almost endless servitude.

Wei Wushu took the benefit of exempting the rest of the family from labor for the benefit of tax exemption and obtained the first batch of professional soldiers in the entire Zhuxia, which had a great advantage in the early stage, but now problems have also appeared.

The first batch of military soldiers, who did not die in battle, have now basically become new military nobles, although it may be a group of corporals without the rank of corporal, but they have become the pillar of the Wei Xihe Army, and have become the first batch of official military landlords.

They also have their own interests, they are eager for military merit, land, and population, but the Wei State has been defeated all these years, which makes it difficult for their interests to be satisfied, not to mention, and the number of new soldiers has been sharply reduced.

Wei could not come up with enough money, land, and subordinate peasant population, so the military pawn system was extended throughout the country.

With the advent of the gunpowder age, the advantage of military soldiers has gradually decreased, and the standing army of all-day combat training in the era of cold weapons can be used as ten; And now, they shoot at musketeers from all countries, not because they have served in the army all their lives, and they can use one as ten, at most, one as two.

They have been training for a lifetime, more than ten years, but when they actually go to the battlefield, they may not be able to match the musketeers who have been trained for three years.

In the battle of Xihe, they suffered heavy losses, and they desperately wanted to participate in the battle between the princes of Wei and seek a spokesperson for their own interests.

They did not want to get involved in the war in the southeast, because they knew the strength of the Sishang army, and they did not want to fight an enemy who was clearly stronger than themselves. Only victory leads to military merit, land, and slaves, and defeat, nothing, including life.

The premise of the later generations is that the whole world and society are making steady progress.

Wu Qi created a precedent for recruiting soldiers and adding soldiers, based on the productivity and financial income of the Wei State, and was naturally brave and invincible in the early stage - a group of peasant soldiers who could eat enough to eat, a group of peasant soldiers who only trained in a year of winter, and the soldiers could really do it with one as five, and they would have military exploits if they dared to play with their lives.

And now, the world is changing dramatically, and these systems need to be repaired, but no one in the Wei State can stand up to repair these systems to make them conform to the current situation, and they are still the same, and more thoughts are spent on the dispute between the sons and the rebellion of the nobles.

The current Xihe warriors don't want to fight enemies stronger than them, and they don't want to go to the southeast to fight hard.

Fighting with the Qin State, it was for his own land, his family and interests in Xihe, and the Qin State did not look so invincible, at least not so terrifying now.

Fight with Sishang, what's the picture? There are rumors that someone in the capital is ready to cede the land where his home is located to the Qin people, so why are they fighting? Or, are the nobles in the capital willing to divide their land to repay these old soldiers who have been more than 30 years old? If they don't want to, why don't they fight the Qin people to regain the land, but they want to fight the army that has been undefeated for thirty years?

Now, they need someone to ask the ministers of the DPRK and China: If the West River is cut, where will they make up for the land they have missing? Are the nobles in the court, who often occupy an area of millions of acres and a fief of hundreds of miles, willing to take out their land to supply the new nobles of the military lineage?