Gengchen year, spring.

The well-known 401 BC is only because of the early appearance of gunpowder and the reorganization of the Mo family, and it is unknown whether there was still the concept of the West Yuan after that.

At least in the eyes of the Mo family, this is the 1,600th year of the Yusheng calendar, and it is also the year of Gengchen.

This is the first year of Zhou Tianzi Ji Jiao's reform of the Yuan, and it is also half a year after the king of Chu besieged Shangqiu.

For the first time in the ancient city of Shangqiu, the sound of firecrackers sounded during the spring festival.

Although the once shocking sound is still rare and expensive, after all, someone has started to set off fireworks, and it is no longer so frightening.

Just as the horror of fire, which can destroy all things, fades away when it is mastered. Gunpowder finally began to fade into mystery and was accepted by the people of Shangqiu in the center of Kyushu.

The firecrackers were set off by the Craftsmen's Guild in Shangqiu, who were celebrating the profits of the Craftsmen's Guild last year, and the firecrackers were sent by the disciples of the Mo family, only saying that they could make people hear some thunder in the winter as a sign of a good day next year.

A lot happened in Shangqiu City last year, both fresh and old.

Coups, wars, aristocratic intrigues, and struggles for power, all of these things are so old and cheesy that the people of Shangqiu have no interest in discussing them.

Even if the Inquiry Council was established, those conspiracies and struggles for power and profit did not change, but changed their form and continued to exist.

The wisdom of the people has not yet been fully opened, but the propaganda and agitation of the Mo family have opened the minds of many ordinary people, and they no longer think of the aristocracy as mysterious.

After the siege of the Chu people was broken in June last year, the first meeting of the Inquiry Yuan was held in July, and the people were sensational, the nobles were noisy, and the duke had nothing to ......

When the Chu people officially withdrew from the army, it was just before the July meeting of the Consultation Yuan, and the Chu farmers looked forward to going back to harvest, after all, it would take time to walk.

Before leaving, Yin Zhaozhiai, the right of Chu, was ordered by the king of Chu to see the Mo family's people and their leaders, as well as the Mo family's giants, and asked the Mo family to help build Yuguan and the girder with masonry technology.

His reason was that building a fortress was like letting a soldier have a shield but no sword, and if the sword could not pierce the shield, the man with the sword would not easily move his army.

Moreover, the king of Chu had sworn an oath with the Mo family and abided by the covenant of the soldiers, so the salient that broke into the Central Plains became a city pass that the Chu people must vigorously manage.

At this time, it belonged to Chu and later served as the main beam of the capital of Wei, which was finally broken by Wang Ben by flooding, and the rammed earth city wall was most afraid of flooding.

Because the king of Chu had seen the masonry technology of the Mo family, and used lime to solve the problem of masonry bonding, the king of Chu had always hoped to strengthen the defense of the two cities of Daliang and Wuyang with masonry technology.

These two places are the bridgeheads that break into the Central Plains, and they must be strong enough.

In this regard, the people of the Mo family did not refuse, but relied on the craftsman association to organize a part of the masonry craftsmen and contract the repair work of Wuyang City and Daliang City.

Shi did not refuse, and even hoped that the Mo family would preside over the city defense repair of Wuyang City and Daliang City.

He didn't love the king of Chu and the Chu people, but he knew that there would be a big war in these two places within ten years, which was the bridgehead for the Chu people to attack the hegemony of the Central Plains, so he wanted to kill many nobles in these two cities, so he hoped that when repairing the city defenses, he would leave some "back doors" or "loopholes" that the Mo family knew.

When the nobles need to die in the battle between these two cities, the reserved back doors and loopholes will play a great role at this time.

Shi's sinister intentions were naturally said with high-sounding reasons within the Mo family, and they were also recognized and approved by the rest.

This is also a good thing for the craftsmen of Shangqiu, because they may be able to contract the repair of cities in various countries in the future, and the craftsmen's association has also changed from carpenters to stonemasons, coppersmiths and other craftsmen.

Subsequently, some members of the craftsman's association were also elected as representatives of the common people's yuan and participated in the first consultation meeting of the Consultation Yuan.

The process was very chaotic, many rules were incomplete, and each had its own loopholes, but fortunately, there was no fight, and in the end, many of the things proposed by the Mo family were basically accepted.

In itself, it is a clause of compromise and concession, while maintaining the old habit of Zhou Li, it adds something new.

The emperor's father, Zang, was elected by the People's Yuan as the ruler of the Song State and the government of the Yuan Yin, and the position of Sicheng was still retained.

Because of the previous coup d'état, the position of the six ministers will still hold the position of ministers, and it will not change for at least ten years.

The fiefdoms of the nobles did not move, the nobles still did not have to pay taxes for the time being, and the privileges of the nobles remained basically unchanged.

The only thing that has changed is a part of the power and interests of the people of Shangqiu, as well as a series of land system changes, tax reforms, and so on, which are limited to Shangqiu City.

The first thing the imperial father Zang did as the commander of the Imperial Court was to repay the Mo family who supported him to ascend to the throne, which can be regarded as fulfilling his political promise.

After all, he had to do it under the previous hype, otherwise he would be a faithless person.

In addition to paying a certain amount of taxes every year, Pei County is autonomous except for belonging to the Song State, except for the military obligation to defend the Song State.

Compared with the fiefdoms of the aristocracy, this power is still smaller, and the obligation is still more, but it is a precedent for the self-organization of the city, and it is also the first city where the nobles are not the rulers of the city.

The Yi Zai launched by the public election can be reported to the Song Gong to know that it is a formality, but whoever is the Song Gong of Pei Zai, the Inquiry Yuan, etc., does not have the right to appoint and dismiss.

Subsequently, Gongzaoye was awarded the formal Pengcheng Shou with the great merit of the Shuai army to break through the Chu battalion, and was fully responsible for the government affairs of Pengcheng, just like the power of Wu Qi and Xihe of Wei State.

Mozi did not accept sub-fiefs and fiefs, because he was a giant, and the giant son of the Mo family could not be someone else's courtier, unless the monarch used the righteousness of the Mo family.

However, the disciples of the Mo family can be promoted, as long as the Mo family is allowed after internal discussion.

Gongzaoye is only a name, and the real power is still the Mo family's Seven Enlightenment and Radical Meeting.

At the same time, more than 1,000 households who moved to Shangqiu and had no land or helped to cultivate for a living, went to Pengcheng.

Just after these two things were completed, Yin Zhaozhiai, who stayed in the Song Land to observe the ceremony, conveyed the order that the King of Chu had already drawn up, and once again reaffirmed the special status of Peidi, so as to inform the countries not to think of monopolizing this place.

At this point, the goal set by using the Chu people to go north, the Song people's civil strife, gunpowder weapons, and so on three years ago has been basically achieved.

Once the Yue people moved south, the Chu State once there was civil strife, the Song nobles because of the various means used by the Inquiry Yuan, the Qi Guotian clan fought for the head of the family, and the three Jin Dynasty because of the succession dispute caused by the land of Zhao Hou and the three Jin Dynasty turned their faces...... The entire future of Pengchengpei County will be high in the sky, and the sea will be wide and the fish will leap.

It can fly for at least twenty years.

As for the Inquiry Court in Shangqiu City, the Mo family no longer has much interest, or at least they don't have much interest, at least they won't spend too much energy on it.

What the Mo family had to do was to use the craftsman meeting and sacrificial preaching to gradually infiltrate the common people's court in Shangqiu City after the meeting of the Consultation Yuan, so as to ensure a smooth maintenance of influence.

In August, after the meeting of the Inquiry Yuan, the people also prepared enough wood, craftsmen came forward to make a large number of ink carts, and some people began to rest the roads.

The Mo family used the large amount of gold earned by ironware, spirits, wheat flour, etc., which was paid in advance to the artisan association, and then the people of Shangqiu repaid the price of the ink car in installments.

At the end of August, Shangqiu organized thousands of people to push carts to Pei County to deliver grain.

The children who were selected to study in Pei County, and the intelligent young people selected within the company, returned to Pei County with the ink car procession.

Peixian Yishi and some full-time armed ink warriors returned to Pei County first, suppressed two local aristocratic uprisings, and replaced some ink scholars who had presided over land surveying and other work in Pei County, and let them go to Shangqiu to organize the breaking of the well field and the opening of the Qianmo.

Immediately afterwards, the whole Shangqiu organized autumn plowing and winter wheat planting in the form of groups of five or ten people, so as to sow hope for next year.

At the beginning of September, Sanjin sent an envoy to Shangqiu to express his approval of the Inquiry Yuan, and then made an appointment with the high-level of the Mo family to discuss some matters.

The Mo family also sent a sufficient number of envoys led by Yu Huali to the Wei capital to discuss the matter of the military meeting.

Yu Huali is quite famous in the Wei State, and he is friends with Duan Ganmu, Tian Zifang and others, and is the next giant of the Mo family, so this weight is enough.

The Wei people wanted a lot of things, and the ink master could give a lot of things, and the only one who knew that the matter of the Soldier Killing Society could not succeed was Shi, so he proposed to let the bird slip be more careful.

He wanted to delay time, until the death of the king of Chu, until the soldiers would completely come to naught, and until everyone in the Mo family gave up their illusions of non-attack on the king.

It's just that others don't know what he thinks, so his statement sounds very reasonable: the battle of the soldiers will be a big event, and the reason why the three-year covenant was made at the beginning was because there were many things that needed to be discussed, so as a representative of the Mo family, Yu Huali must make it clear to the Wei people, the Han people, and the Zhao people.

If you make it clear, it will inevitably be slow, and it will inevitably drag on until the death of the king of Chu, resulting in the killing of soldiers becoming a joke.

Those who followed the bird slippery north to the Three Jin Dynasty also had some ink men who were very skilled in throwing gunpowder weapons, as well as the person who was going to fight with Lie Yukou and Yang Zhu.

At the beginning of October, the people of Shangqiu who transported grain from Pei County returned to Shangqiu, bringing back not only grain, but also a lot of iron tools, which were borrowed by the Mo family to the people of Shangqiu, still in the form of payment in installments, and the people of Shangqiu already owed a lot of money and grain to the Mo family.

In addition to these physical objects, there are many strange things in Pei County, as well as more hopes.

At the end of October, Emperor Yin's father, Zang, agreed to the decision of the Shumin Yuan to dig a canal in Shangqiu, which was supported by the people of Shangqiu.

In the next two months, there were no big changes and situations in Shangqiu City, everything was as usual, but everything was new.

For example, after July, it is the usual, and the new is the new of hundreds of years of old rules.

For example, the craftsmen who are celebrating with firecrackers put the money paid by the Mo family into the iron smelting workshop opened by the Mo family, and they can get dividends every year, which is a very new form.

In the end, the money was still transferred back to the hands of the Mo family, and the concentrated capital began to attract those cultivators, landless people, craftsmen, etc. in various countries to Peixian.

Amid the sound of firecrackers, the Artisans were about to celebrate with a few glasses of liquor and a meal of wheat flour, when suddenly there was a neighing of horses outside, and the two horses collapsed at the door from exhaustion, foaming at the mouth.

A sturdy middle-aged man, wearing a short brown and black scarf of the Mo family, holding a swarthy iron plate and a piece of paper with a seal, shouted loudly: "Please prepare a carriage and horse with me, I will go to Peiyi to see the giant immediately!" ”

The Craftsmen's Guild itself is a stronghold of the Mo family in Shangqiu, and the person in charge of the axe and Jin saw the person shouting clearly, and exclaimed: "Qu General? What happened to the State of Chu? ”