From the beginning of the Zhao State Inheritance Intervention War, the Mo family has been bargaining with Gongzizhang, revolving around a core: sharing the spoils.

The "stolen goods" are the slaves and serfs in the fiefs after the nobles of the Gongzi Dynasty were dealt with, as well as the Yunzhong, Jiuyuan, and even Hetao that could not be obtained until the Zhao State in the era of King Zhao Wuling.

These places are not owned by Zhao now, so there is no talk of dividing the land.

Lou Fu and Lin Hu are now very weak compared to the Central Plains, they have neither the organization nor the technology of the Central Plains, and the earlier appearance of iron tools and gunpowder has made these settlements completely without the slightest advantage.

With the Mo family's current strength in Gaoliu, it is not a problem to capture Yunzhong and Jiuyuan.

The problem is the population, without which the population cannot be held and does not have the slightest meaning.

Under feudalism, population was both wealth and power.

The aristocracy tied the peasants to the land, and the fiefdom of the land could be transferred along with the population, a fact engraved on some funerary bronzes.

Population meant that the nobility could have more levies, more power, and more bargaining capital with the king.

This is precisely the reason why the aristocracy restricts the development of the productive forces.

It is a sin to control exile and exile, which prevents the population from moving at will.

The Mohists wanted to maintain the dividing line between farming and nomadism along the Yinshan line, but it was not enough to emancipate the slaves of the grassland, and the cultural differences were large, and it would take time for the nomadic to change to farming, even if the climate and environment and new crops were suitable.

The rebellion of the Gongzi Dynasty and the interference of the Wei State were predictable.

And this foresight can also be turned into what the Mo family wants.

If you don't ruthlessly clean up a group of nobles of Zhao State, there will be no way for the population to migrate to Yunzhong, one radish and one pit, and you have to dig the radish to move the extra pit elsewhere.

This is too high to sell at a high price, so you have to plan in advance: if Wei is still a small tyrant, Gongzi Zhang will definitely be Wei Guo admit his throne and make peace, only by pitting Wei to a half-crippled can Gongzi Zhang decide to completely break with Wei, and with the trend of rupture, the Mo family immediately negotiated with Wei so that Wei can calmly mobilize troops to deal with Zhao.

The Wei State was forced out, Xihe, Zhongshan, Zhao, Sishang, Chen Cai, the Wei State could not be cleaned up on all sides, and could only choose one side. And in this circle, only Zhao is the weakest, at least at this time, Zhao is the most chaotic, and if he does not interfere with Zhao State, he will face a situation of being surrounded on all sides.

Now that the situation has emerged, Gongzi Zhang, who has just succeeded to the throne, can rely on the old minister Gongzhong who has just succeeded to the throne, and the people of Handan are obviously unpatriotic and can't help bargaining there, and when the Mo family comes to talk again, Gongzi Zhang is really helpless.

The position of Marquis of Zhao, there are too many people who can do it, Zhao Wugong's bones are not cold, is there any problem with someone's biological son being a marquis?

Therefore, the nobles can wait and see and watch the Wei State intervene, but his son Zhang cannot.

Because when the envoy of the Mo family came to Zhao Capital Zhongmu to put forward the conditions, Zhao Gongzizhang and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military everyone knew that this was taking advantage of the fire to rob, but they were helpless: the people of Handan and the merchants who provided war bonds in various places did not believe Zhao Hou, but only agreed to let the Mo family be the intermediary, they lent money and grain to the intermediary, and the intermediary would repay their interest and principal in the future, after all, they had no ability to punish the prince for breach of contract, and the things raised by the people were pinched in the hands of the Mo family.

In addition, except for an organized field army on Gao Liu's side, Zhao Gongzizhang could no longer pull out an army that could confront the Wei Xihe soldiers, the Gongzi Dynasty rebels, and the Ximen Leopard Yedi peasant soldiers.

This matter is not a simple internal affair of Zhao at all, to put it bluntly, it is a war between the Mo family and the Wei State to interfere with the inheritance of the Zhao State, and both sides are rolling up their sleeves and going directly to the field.

The conditions of the Mo family actually sound quite simple.

One is the land of several towns near Gaoliu, Zhao Gongzizhang granted to the people, the people were autonomous there, and the two sides swore that the people there would not participate in the unjust war, but they were still subordinate to the Zhao State, and Gongzizhang had no right to govern except for paying a certain amount of land tax every year - to understand the legal power of the feudal system, that is, Gongzizhang wanted to give a nobleman near Gaoliu, and the main body of this nobleman was the whole people.

The second was to reform the border system, open several ports of inter-market, and set up a department to collect customs duties, and the Mohists participated in the management and construction as a way to repay the war loans paid by the people and merchants.

Third, once the rebellion of the Gongzi Dynasty was eliminated, the Mo family needed at least 50,000 serfs and slaves originally owned by the rebellious nobles to enrich Yunzhong, Jiuyuan and other places.

It sounds like these three conditions are quite simple, and they can make Zhao rich and strong, without worrying about the intrusion of Lou Annoying Lin Hu in the north, and can also repay the people's loans, and by the way, they can also enrich the north.

Originally, in many places, Zhao Hou was not able to govern directly, and the feudal system was directly governed, and Zhao Hou, the territory of the aristocracy, could not collect taxes at all and was not qualified to manage.

However, if this is another loyal nobleman, it will be fine, but the Mo family has done it once in Sishang, this is to draw a gourd in the same way, where would Gongzi Zhang not know to learn from the experience of the Song Kingdom?

Besides, the granting of land to the people is a formality, but sometimes the form is far more important than the substance.

It's been more than 10 years! Zhao Guo has never received a copper coin tax from Gao Liu, nor has he received a person who has served in the military, and Zhao Gongzizhang does not know what the land system there is, but there is no formal recognition.

In later generations, Li Mu was stationed in northern Xinjiang, in fact, it was the same, the military endowments were all taken from the local area and used locally, but the form was completely different from now.

Now that it is formally admitted, what do the Zhao people in other places think? Why should the people of Takayanagi be able to own land, but we still have to be serfs for the nobles?

Therefore, the focus of this negotiation is not the focus of the governance of the north, nor is the mind of the Mo family, but the focus is the statement of the Gaoliu region.

If this nobleman is willing to reform and benefit the world, then whatever you want.

However, it is absolutely impossible to grant it to the people, and it must shake the foundation of the country.

The two sides tore apart for several days, and Gongzizhang proposed a compromise plan: Feng Qu would take Gao Liu, and then change as Gao Liujun, and Zhao Guo would not care.

But the Mo family gritted their teeth, claiming that this was a matter of principle and could not be compromised, and that the Mo family did not accept any fiefs and noble titles.

Gongzizhang compromised again, saying that if you don't do this, set up a county there and grant you the position of county guard, this is not a hereditary noble, you can toss it casually.

If Gongzizhang recognizes a country as a public, then the Mo family is willing to be a county guard on the basis of a country as a public rather than a private weapon for the benefit of the people; However, if Gongzizhang can't recognize the state as a public instrument and the general agreement of the monarch and subjects, then the Mo family will never accept this steward and retainer of private property.

Gongzi Zhang was also young, and he was furious at that time: "Righteous war, unrighteous war!" As long as there is a war, people will die, how can there be any such thing as a righteous war and an unjust war? Let Takayanagi's people only fight righteous wars? This righteousness and injustice all depend on the mouth of your Mo family! ”

"Your Mo family hasn't fought? Haven't taken the initiative to go to the grassland for expedition? No dead people in the conquest? Is that righteous or unrighteous? ”

The envoy of the Mo family immediately said: "Righteousness or injustice is not determined by the mouth of the Mo family, but by the rules of Zi Mozi's three tables. With the will of heaven first, what is in line with the interests of the people is righteousness, and what does not conform is unrighteousness. ”

"Of course, the Mo family has sent troops to the grassland, and they have fought battles, and that is because this is a righteous war."

"Why is it a righteous war? Because under the ninefold nature of the Promised Land, every progress is righteous. ”

"The grassland people do not cultivate, only graze, and often go south to plunder the border cities, and the plundering is not production but destroys production, so in order to prevent production from being destroyed, of course it must be fought."

"Secondly, there are also head slaves in the grassland settlements, and the herdsmen don't want to fight and only want to graze, and the main initiators of the raid are those settlement leaders, so every time the Mo family goes, they have to hack to death some grassland nobles who launched an unjust war, and punish the unrighteous for righteousness."

"Finally, Gaoliu and Yunzhong are suitable for farming, especially corn, potatoes and other crops can grow, and if you want to change the life of the Hu people to plunder, it is to promote agriculture there, so that the people have food and clothing. Some nobles of the steppe settlements hinder this progress, then they deserve to die, they should be exterminated, so they must fight, that is, for the benefit of the people of the world. ”

Debate is what the Mohists are good at, and the Mohists have their own theoretical system, talking less about virtue and more about profit, because the Mohist family is unified with righteousness, and talking about profit is talking about righteousness, as for whether this righteousness is recognized by Gongzizhang, it is not a problem for the Mohist envoy to consider: if you don't agree, you won't accept the conditions, everyone will break up, you flee abroad as an exiled son, and our Mohists continue to preach our doctrine that it is our business to fight back after Gongzi Dynasty is Zhao Hou, and it has nothing to do with you who are in exile when the time comes.

The courtiers around Gongzizhang also understood the meaning of the Mo family, that is to say, the military endowment in the Gaoliu region is self-retained, and the management of the grassland absolutely guarantees the security of the northern part of the Zhao State.

And if Zhao starts a war with the outside world, I'm sorry, don't think about mobilizing a single soldier in the Gaoyanagi region. If there were another coup d'état within the Zhao state, Takayanagi would not send troops unless there was a battle between change and counter-change caused by change in favor of the people.

It is quite a bit of a meaning to guard the Great Wall of flesh and blood in the north and not participate in the disputes in the Central Plains.

It's just that these people have forgotten one issue, or they have not considered one issue at all, that there is still one of the criteria for "righteous war" in this treaty that is brewing in Sishang.

It would have been a thunderclap, but now the thunder had not yet risen, and the clouds had not even spread.

If Zhao wants to become a strong country, there are several problems to be solved, the integration of Dai Guo and Zhao culture is one of them, the centralized reform is the second, and the capture of the nine plains in the clouds is the third, until the era of King Zhao Wuling relied on the Hu people to suppress the domestic aristocracy to complete these three things, so that it can compete with the Qin State to the end.

Although Shi is demolishing the Three Jins, although the biggest threat to Sishang is still the Wei State, but the Mo family does not raise tigers, and the only tiger they want to raise is the Qin State that was locked in the Bashu strategy of Southern Zheng and Hanzhong, forcing him to go west.

As for Zhao Guo, he still has to force him to find a way in the Central Plains. If you find a way in the Central Plains, you will inevitably have friction with Wei and Qi.

Although Zhongshan is suitable to use its restoration to weaken Wei and trick Zhao Hou into resolutely opposing Wei, it may not really be good for Zhongshan. With Zhongshan Country here, Yunzhong Gaoliu and other counties will be ranked behind the strategic center of gravity of Zhao State, and they will not turn their faces so early. The Zhongshan Kingdom card has run out and can be discarded.

The Three Jin Dynasty has already been dismantled, and they still have to prepare for the fact that they will never have the opportunity to form an alliance in the future, just like using the blockade of Southern Zheng Hanzhong to force the Qin State to seek the west, and blocking the northern Yunzhong, that is also forcing the Zhao State to make it impossible to break the conflict with Wei Hanqi in the future.

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