Gong Zhonglian has seen the general trend of the times.

He did not regard the civil strife in the Qin State and the chaos in the Chu State at this time as the same internal strife.

He also regarded this rebellion of the prince of Zhao as a clarion call for the change of Zhao State.

Times have changed.

Gone had passed the days when the princes fought for power with their own armor and fiefdoms, and the rise of the common people with iron and gunpowder had changed all that.

The original coups were replaced by some people under the premise that the system remained unchanged.

And now, hidden behind the coup rebellion, is the Turbulent Era.

Zhao Hou may not care about the suffering of the people, but he needs to use the power of the people.

Faced with the interference of Wei and the rebellion of Gongzi Dynasty, he felt that Gong Zhonglian's words were very reasonable.

The rift between Zhao and Wei is afraid that it will not be repaired.

The war broke out everywhere, the soldiers and books flew wildly, and Zhao Hou had already made up his mind, so there was no way out.

The battle of Zhao Wei, from Gangping to Zhongshan, from Que and to Handan, was carried out on the land of Zhao for thousands of miles.

Thousands of miles away.

Surabaya Basin.

The war thousands of miles away does not seem to have a direct impact on this place, but in fact it has a huge impact.

Fei Guo, Wucheng.

More than 100 years have passed since the 19th year of Lu Xianggong when the Lu State built a city here.

This city, which was once deeply influenced by Confucian culture, once gave birth to Confucius's Zengzi who supported his solitary sons, and gave birth to the Ming Dynasty of Xiangtai who judged people by their appearance and lost their sons......

It used to be an important border city in the southern part of the Lu State to defend Yue, Chu and Wu, and now it has become an important place in the north to defend the Lu State after the Fei State became independent.

More than ten years ago, in the Battle of Lushui, the Mo family briefly occupied this place, and with the siege technique far ahead of the times, the Yue Kingdom had lingering palpitations about the possibility of the Mo family going straight to the heart, which eventually led to the decisive battle of Lushui.

During that battle, for the sake of his family's reputation and continuity, the Zai of Wucheng committed suicide to avoid the order given by the Yue Wangyi to collect the grain sent by the Mo family to the people.

After the war, the grain that the people had bought with the paper money of the Mo family was quickly repaid through the merchants in Lu State, and all the paper money was recovered.

That was a starting point, since then the Mo family's activities in Wucheng have been increasing, with the establishment of the Sishang Non-Offensive Alliance, along with Ni, Zou and other countries have befriended the Mo family to protect themselves, plus the original legacy of the "teacher of benevolence and righteousness" glimpses, Wucheng has often had Mo scholars come here to give lectures.

Today, however, there is no such atmosphere, and the whole city is shrouded in a gloom.

In the market, more than a dozen people were tied with ropes, more than half of them were scarred, and several nobles' private soldiers were escorted with sharp blades.

In the middle of the market, several horse-drawn carriages were ready, and ropes were tied to the backs of the carriages.

Obviously, there is going to be a public execution here today, and it is a major "scene" of cars breaking through the city.

The dozen or so men were whipped with weapons by the armor, moving their hands and feet bound by heavy chains, and from time to time they looked up at the chariot splitting horses that had been prepared for them in the distance.

In the middle of a dozen or so people bound and strung together by rope was a child who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.

The young man had not yet tied his hair, and his messy hair was scattered and congealed into strands of blood from his face.

His legs kept shaking, and his scarred and somewhat immature face had tense muscles, and the corners of his mouth twitched, as if he was about to cry.

In the distance, the horses that were about to break them neighed, and the young man fell to the ground with a limp, and then a violent cry was heard.

The young man who fell to the ground tried to stand up, but he couldn't stand up, his legs kept shaking, and the armorer next to him picked up the wooden pole of the spear and whipped it hard.

A middle-aged man who was bound behind the young man stopped in front of the armorer, blocked the whip for the young man, bent down and stretched out his hand at the young man, trying to pull the young man up.

"Are you scared? Don't be afraid, death is fast......"

The middle-aged man just wanted to comfort the child whose legs were trembling in front of him, but when the young man heard these words, he cried even louder, and there was a little grievance in his crying.

"I ...... I'm not afraid...... But I don't know why my legs keep shaking! I wanted to be a warrior, I didn't want to be a coward in front of so many people, but my legs were shaking all the time, so I cried. I'm not afraid ......."

As if trying to prove something, the young man rejected the middle-aged man's outstretched hand that wanted to pull him up, and slammed his hands his uncontrollable trembling legs.

Probably, it hurts so much that your legs are numb, so you won't shake, right?

Probably to prove that he was really not afraid, it was really just that his legs were shaking uncontrollably, and the young man cried with grievances: "When we went to burn the granary a few days ago, we were surrounded by armor. At that time, they shouted and knelt to avoid death, and there were many of them, but I also fought you to the end! I'm not a coward! ”

The middle-aged man nodded hurriedly, he was about to die, and he should not die with some regrets.

So he said to the young man, "I saw it all that day, there are no cowards among us. ”

A month ago, negotiations between the government of the capital of Philadelphia and the feudal nobles outside the capital of Fei broke down completely, and the nobles refused to swear to recognize the capital's decree, and the nobles who remained in the capital created a chaos and tried to escape, only to be captured by the people of the capital.

After the trial, all the nobles trapped in the capital who had caused chaos and set fire to the capital in order to escape were executed, their land was declared nationalized, and the peasants on their fiefdoms were to be granted land according to their population.

Later, an army of peasants and laborers was formed, and it was announced that all the nobles who did not go to the capital and swore to abide by the new decree were deprived of their fiefs.

Soon after, the children of the Fei princes who had the right to inherit outside the capital were killed, and then the nobles announced that they would take refuge in Qi and Wei and no longer belong to the Fei state, so they did not obey the laws of the Fei country, and the laws of the Fei country could not control them.

The sons and families of the slain nobles raised their armies to besiege the capital on the grounds of personal vendettas, but the people on the other side of the capital immediately organized a counterattack and routed some of the nobles' private soldiers.

A large number of nobles retreated to Wucheng, hoping to use the city to wait for reinforcements from Qi and Wei.

After Wucheng was captured by the Mo family more than ten years ago, the local people often listened to the Mo family's lectures, and many people supported the revolution that broke out in Feiguo.

There is support for both self-interest.

There are also some small aristocrats and gentry who support them out of some romantic emotions and compassion.

In addition, some people who believe that the Mohist Tianzhi can explain everything in the universe rationally, and purely theoretically approve of the changes in the country.

On the one hand, they thought that Wucheng had been the front line of the Fei State against the Lu State before it was broken by the Mo family on the eve of the First Battle of Lushui more than ten years ago, and the city was strong; On the other hand, it is also backed by the Lu State, and if it fails, it can flee.

Since those nobles fled in the capital and were killed, the two sides have red eyes, and each has the other's blood feud on their backs.

Although many nobles were killed in the capital, the victorious places outside the capital also deprived the nobles of their fiefs, and the nobles also began to slaughter those farmers who had the possibility of rebellion in their own fiefs who had activities and "relied on the power of the Mo family" to repeatedly fail to fulfill their feudal obligations.

Blood was pouring and the skull was choppy.

Wucheng gathered a large number of Fei nobles to wait for the arrival of the Qi State Patriotic Intervention Army, and a large amount of grain was also collected here, forcing the people to continue to strengthen the city.

Under these circumstances, some of the people in the city who supported the edict of the capital of Fei spontaneously rallied and prepared to burn down the granaries of these nobles to make it difficult for them to defend them.

It's just that in the end, someone rebelled, the matter was leaked, and the conspiracy of more than 70 people was invited by the nobles to enter the urn, and dozens of them were killed, and all the rest were arrested and sentenced to the punishment of car splitting.

The young man who felt that he was ashamed, who was obviously not afraid of death, but whose legs were shaking unobediently, who looked like he was afraid of dying, and who cried out of grievances, finally stood up with his own strength.

He wiped the tears on his face with the back of his mud-covered hand, and asked the middle-aged man who was about to pull him in a childish, freshly changed voice, and in a voice that looked like a duck chirping, "You say...... Will the people here remember what we did? Do you think that we are warriors with the courage of a gentleman? ”

In their own textbooks, the Mohists tampered with the story of Ximen Leopard's rule of Ye, and ended with the sentence "Benefiting the people, how can you be famous before and after you", which elevated the lofty image of Ximen Leopard within the Mohist moral system.

Righteousness is very important, just like Nie Zheng, he finally chose to help Gongzilian instead of helping Han Yan Zhongzi, after all, it was because of the rhetoric of his old friend Gongye that he imperceptibly chose the righteousness when he was born for righteousness, which was different from what he thought was righteousness before.

The name is also very important, and not everyone doesn't care about the name before and after them.

Especially these people and people of Wucheng who spontaneously formed up, they think that what they want to do is, after all, it has been passed down through the ages, and it is for the courage of a gentleman to die without complaint.

After all, no one wants to do a lot for the people, but when they die, they are told by the people to live a good life, and they feel that if they are innocent, why are they killed?

In that case, there will always be unwillingness and resentment in the heart.

It's not that they don't believe in those "righteousness", but they don't believe that the people have such "righteousness", if the righteousness of the Mo family is the lower class in the world, and the righteousness that is loyal to the feudal king and does not make chaos is the upper class in the world, then they are a group of rebels, sinners, sinners, and rioters......

At a glance, the young man saw a silent crowd, no one said anything, no one sighed or cried for them, only endless silence.

So, he was afraid, he resented, he hated, he was worried.

Fearing that their corpses would be trampled on by the people, mentioning their names in the future would be spurned by all the people, just like merchants and evildoers.

The middle-aged man understood the young man's worries, and sighed: "The people will remember us." We are willing to die for the sake of the benefit of the people, and for the benefit of the people. A warrior must always be praised and remembered. ”

"It's like Nie Zheng, who assassinated Qin on the bank of the Weishui River in order to stop the martyrdom and sacrifice people, which is in line with righteousness, how can the people forget such a warrior?"

The middle-aged man paused, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Besides, didn't you say it?" The so-called revolution of the Tangwu Revolution was to impose the will of one part of the people on the body of another. This is righteousness, the success of the revolution, our righteousness is the righteousness accepted by the people of the world, our death is the death of a gentleman who died for the benefit of the people, why are you afraid that others will not remember us? Why worry that others will think that we are sinners who deserve it? ”

He didn't seem to feel the wooden pole whipped behind him, and laughed: "Don't forget, ten days ago, the Mo family's giant Yu Huali had already announced that he would recognize the new monarch of the Fei country, recognize the new law of the Fei country, and praise the law of the Fei country for benefiting all the people, recognize Gongziluan as the king of Fei, and warn the princes not to interfere in the affairs of the Fei country, otherwise the Mo family will fulfill the non-offensive alliance!" ”

"Those who are going to put us to death are afraid. They can't resist the rebel army in the capital, even if Qi Wei interferes, the Mo family will do what they say, and if they say that they want to fulfill the non-offensive alliance, they will definitely fulfill it! ”

"At that time, the five hundred miles up and down the country of Fei will all do our righteousness, and our righteousness will surely become the righteousness of the upper class of the five hundred miles of the country of Fei! How can we be forgotten? ”