Xinzheng Chengzhong.

Several carriages carrying valuables such as silk, copper coins, and gold, escorted by a team of soldiers, arrived at the place where the Mo family planned to build a new city defense day and night.

The sound of artillery outside the city continued, but it could still last for a while, and the Wei-Han coalition army had just begun to fill the ditch, and the thick base of the city wall could still support at least six or seven days under the rudimentary bronze cannons of the Wei-Han coalition army.

Xinzheng City is very large, so big that after the construction of Chengdu City in South Korea in the original history, the circumference of the entire city wall is 45 miles, which is seriously transgressed.

It's just that when South Korea was building a large number of civil projects to expand Xinzheng, Zhou Tianzi no one cared anymore, and at that time, he could naturally exceed the rules - forty-five miles, no matter how he played the side ball, it was impossible for the side length of each city wall to be less than nine miles.

At this time, Xinzheng was smaller than the later Korean capital, but it still had a circumference of more than 20 miles, and there were places such as vegetable fields and gardens in the city, and the agricultural population still accounted for the majority.

Of course, there is a lot of open space, but if you want to build a new city defense, you can't choose a location too close to the original city wall, and you must have a certain amount of planning.

The carriages carrying Zheng Jun's belongings were to pay the Zheng people who were about to demolish their houses.

The Mozhi who were active in Xinzheng Mingmian had been effectively organized, except for the people who were defending the city on the front line, and in the direction of the Wei and Han artillery attacks, the people were first organized into Shiwu.

Fortunately, there is a basis for the preparation of Shiwu.

After the death of Zheng Yougong at the hands of the Koreans, Zheng and Han fought for decades, and although the militarization of grassroots organizations could not spread to the entire Zheng State, it was still possible to do some in the capital of Zheng State.

After Qin Mo entered Qin in later generations, the law of Qin to defend the city was so strict that the three armies were "one army of strong men, one army of strong women, and one army of old and weak", and the organization of the Mo family has always adhered to the attitude of all-out war with the participation of the whole people, and now if you really want to hold Xinzheng for a period of time, you have to use such a method.

The people of Xinzheng do not trust the monarch and the Si family, but they trust the Mo family enough, so the Mo family can easily act as a bridge between the princes and nobles and the common people.

After several truckloads of belongings arrived, they called the organized people together and talked about the importance of demolishing the houses and building a new city defense.

The people also know that if the princes and nobles fight, if they really want to demolish the house, they will directly demolish it, and where can they still pay compensation according to the price of the main coupon.

Xu Miao also knew that this kind of thing needed to start from the princes and nobles before he could convince the people, so the starting point for demolishing houses and building new city defenses in this key area started from a nobleman's house.

The Mo family didn't say much politeness, and with the power to mobilize all the forces in the city except for the nobles' private guards, they directly demolished a nobleman's courtyard.

The nobleman's family wanted to resist and refuse, but was forcibly demolished by the organized and endorsed Zheng Jun and the Mo family with the Si family as the backstage.

Zheng Guo has a developed economy, and it is also the first country to produce civil advocates and lawyers, and there have also been cases of civil law replacing the criminal Ding official method, so it is not difficult to find a person who can be evaluated.

After a rough estimate of the cost of the house, it was demolished, and the wood, earth and stone were either used as materials for repairing the city walls, or directly used as building materials.

This is similar to the routine of the later Shang Dynasty martingale standing wood, when the people lack the most basic trust in the princes, nobles and the government, they can only use those who the people think are the highest and unattainable.

Shang Ying moved the hand of the Qin government's words; Xu Qiao and the others moved the hands of the nobles of Zheng Guo.

After gaining basic trust, the Mohists began to do what they were best at incitement and agitation.

This kind of most basic trust is not between the people and the Mohists, because the two parties have enough trust before, and the Mohists often do some unofficial non-profit moves, which is the most cost-effective and labor-saving but the most describing way to absorb people's hearts - if there is an earth-shaking change like Sishang, too many financial, manpower and material resources need to be invested, and the world can raise a Sishang, but it can't afford to raise other places like Sishang.

However, even if the tongue is skillful, even if the people have enough trust in the Mo family, the effect of propaganda is not good.

It's not even bad, it's extremely bad, and there are very few responders.

Xu Miao and a few ink artists had a simple meeting in the back, and an ink artist with eloquence and ability to propagandize shook his head and said: "It's too difficult, timid, and cooperating with the nobles to defend the city, this can't be publicized at all, let alone let the people do their best." ”

"Our policy in Sishang can't be said, this is the rule of our activities outside, so how can this be promoted? I can't find an excuse to get people to fight to the death. ”

Xu Miao also listened to the propaganda just now, and the people really didn't care at all.

He knew very well that it was not that the people of Zheng Guo could not do it, but that the Mo family and the princes and nobles of Zheng were cooperating in the united front, so there were some things that could not be said.

The most fundamental thing cannot be said, so why mobilize the people?

The most fundamental thing can't be said, in the eyes of the people, the nobles are fighting between themselves, isn't it just fighting for power and profit, it doesn't matter to them if they win, maybe it's better if they lose......

Zheng Guo's situation is peculiar.

For example, in Zheng State, it was the Si clan, and their family's power basically controlled most of Shangxinzheng.

Over the years, there has been a constant war with South Korea, and the people have suffered a lot.

It's not that the bitterness of dying on the battlefield is dead, and when you die, you will die, and when you close your eyes, that's it.

The real suffering is how to live without dying.

For example, the farmers in the city, after the change of production in the year, many of them had their own private property and private land, and when iron tools and new crops and new technologies were passed on, if everything was normal, their lives would be good.

For example, the original only bone tools, wood tools, and stone tools could be used for farming, and there were no ridges or new crops, so the people of Zheng Guo could at least survive.

If you can survive on the original material basis, once the production technology has a cross-domain development, it is obviously possible to live a good life.

For example, it turned out that a family granted 100 acres of land, and after the sub-production was changed, it became private land, which will fill the stomach in the era of copper and stone. Once the new crops of iron tools came, the same 100 acres could produce several times as much grain, and life would definitely be better.

However...... Most of the people of Zheng did not enjoy the benefits of technological progress in production as Sishang.

After years of war, there was a lack of young and strong laborers in the family's land......

This matter can be ignored by the Qin State after the change of the law in later generations, because the Qin State centralizes power and changes the law, emphasizes agriculture and suppresses business, and prohibits the sale and purchase of land under the land granting system, and the entire Qin State is similar, and there are no big businessmen and aristocrats who take the opportunity to annex land, after all, there is no way to compete with the state violence machine after the reform of the law and the centralization of power.

Zheng Guo could not ignore it.

The monarch was incapable of centralizing power, and the private ownership and private land system appeared early in Zheng State, the earliest wealthy place in the Central Plains.

The peasants were at war at the front, and the family was struggling to maintain the family by paying heavy taxes, and the slightest famine caused the nobles and merchants to flock to the city and take away the last bit of what the peasants had.

This is also the reason why the ideological trend of the peasant family will easily have many believers in the Central Plains, and why the utopian theory of valuing agriculture and suppressing business, the price of the city and the public ownership of land will be respected by the people at the bottom.

For the bottom, compared with the state of the Central Plains where the new era was about to be born and the old era had collapsed, in fact, they would rather accept the Qin State's policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, curbing the aristocracy, and at least not taking away the land, which was a thing that would settle down and live.

This is the dilemma faced by the yeoman farmers in Xinzheng.

The price of iron tools is not low, the price of cattle and horses is not low, and it is difficult to accumulate wealth because they have to pay various armor levies.

On the one hand, the price of grain has been reduced year by year, money has begun to circulate on a large scale, and farmers have less money in their hands.

In a famine year, you need to borrow, and you need to pay high interest on borrowing, and part of the income of Meng Weijun's raises in later generations comes from the interest of usury.

If they couldn't afford it, they sold their private land, or became a fief serf of the nobility, or became a servant cultivator.

Wei Han did not come to liberate the people, the war between Wei Han and Zheng was a dog-eat-dog between nobles, but the reality was that once the Wei and Han coalition forces attacked, most of the Si clan would definitely be killed.

When a person dies, the usury does not have to be repaid, and the rest of the Liumu nobles brought by Wei Hanhe can inherit the original land and expand the fief, and they can't even inherit the usury.

In Sishang, this problem is actually very easy to solve: violent means, the elimination of the aristocracy, the reshuffling and distribution of wealth, so that the people can enjoy the dividends brought by the progress of productive forces, and sucking the blood of the countries of Kyushu will not make the people of Sishang too miserable.

Even if it is not in Sishang, if the Mo family is really in power, this problem is easy to solve: the aristocracy retains at most a part of the land stipulated under the Zhou Li system as private land, cancels personal dependence, distributes the excess land to the people according to the population, and the interest on usury is only recognized as one time of the principal, once the interest exceeds one time, it is regarded as having repaid the interest, and the excess part is used as the principal.

But here's the problem: the means to solve the problem are simple, and these simple means can't be implemented.

If it is implemented, then there is no need to defend the city with the nobles, there must be an uprising first.

This is also the most troublesome place for Xu Qiao and other ink scholars, they are all dying, and the nobles of Zheng Guo still have a little self-knowledge, and they are still talking nonsense in this matter, and they can't agree at all.

Being able to promise to defend the city and demolish the houses will be compensated according to the price, which is already the ultimate in the eyes of some nobles.

There are reservations about propaganda, and if it can stir up the people, it will be a ghost.

In the Zheng State Uprising, it was self-defeating, and there was no permission from above, and launching it privately was to be criticized for consuming strength and not conducive to long-term.

Even if this is the case, it is necessary to maintain a "compromise" with the nobles, but once this kind of thing is compromised, nothing will come of it.

As a result, it is like this, after shouting for a long time, it is not without trust, but it cannot reach what the people want most, and the people are still unwilling to contribute at all.

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