Before Shi could answer, Mozi said, "Don't be impatient. There's so much they can probably do. Not only burning the granary, but also poisoning the well, launching a mutiny, assassinating me, colluding with the Chu people, and besieging the Song Duke...... All these are sinister things, and they all involve thousands of lives and deaths.

"Shi just thought of this possibility, but there may be so many, how can we prevent it in advance?"

"Just as a great river is raging, when a torrential rain pours, millions of people can be drowned. You said that as long as you raise the embankment of the river by 100 feet in advance, you will be worry-free! Can it be done? ”

Gongzaoye gritted his teeth and thought for a moment, and said to Shi Shi: "It's me who is wrong, I shouldn't have asked you like this." ”

After the apology, Gongzaoye suddenly asked Mozi: "Sir, you said before that you wanted to lure the snake out of the hole. If the argents could have been caught tonight, but the granaries had already been burned...... You say maybe too much to cover them all...... The disciple has a question for him. ”

Mozi nodded, and said: "If we can know in advance that we are going to set fire to the granary, but maybe the person who set the fire will be caught and really lure the snake out of the hole, should we choose to do this?" Even if the end result is good for the world. ”

After he finished asking Mozi, he looked at Shi again and asked, "Shi, what do you think?" ”

Mozi Zhengse said: "If you can know in advance, you will naturally stop it!" Even if it may end up being better for the world, we still have to stop it! ”

Gongzaoye raised his eyes to see suitability, but he avoided this question and said with a haha: "I think that if those newly planted sweet potatoes and other crops have enough seeds, even if the granary is burned, there will be no famine, and they can always survive." Therefore, if I have enough seeds to prepare for the waste, then whether to burn or not will not involve the lives of 10,000 people, so I don't think it is okay not to stop it. Of course, if you don't have the ability to stop the famine that follows, you have to stop it. ”

Gong Zaoye nodded and sighed.

Mozi waved his hand and said: "There is no need to mention this matter, the granary is not an ordinary place, immediately send someone to put out the fire, and you will bring a team of people to prevent regeneration!" If you can catch one or two, it's the best! ”

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In the early morning of the next day, just after dawn, the Chu people outside the city once again shook the sky with drums, as if they were going to attack the city more violently.

In order to share the thoughts of the ink man, he not only attacked the city openly, but also dug the crypt tunnels openly, showing all the siege tactics that could be used.

Someone took advantage of the chaos to go out of the city last night, and the Chu people may not really want to break through Shangqiu, but they just have to make a good gesture.

Really digging a crypt, digging a fake crypt, or really digging but not really attacking with this method, the defending side must be distracted to deal with it, this is the purpose of the Chu people.

The losses during the night have paid off, and part of the granary has been burned, and the grain storage has been lost so much that it can no longer be sustained for long.

This news cannot be blocked, because before dawn, people with intentions have already spread it widely.

After Gong Zaoye came back with those who were on guard, his face was full of anger, but he was helpless.

He could guess that someone from inside the city had done it, and he could even guess who it was, but there was not the slightest evidence.

When he arrived, he left behind a few corpses, but these corpses had already disfigured themselves before they died, and they were not recognizable at all.

The sword he wore was a very Chudi characteristic waist short sword, but there were many people in the hands of this kind of short sword inkman, which could not deceive those who wanted to explore the truth, but it was enough to deceive those people.

From those who have disfigured their faces, they know that these must be dead soldiers raised by the nobility, and in order to prevent them from being traced after doing something, they often resort to such methods.

Because the person who left the scar on Gongzaoye's face once talked to Gongzaoye about the actions of the dead man, and also said that before the rangers in the market did some big things, in order not to implicate their families, they would use such methods.

However, even if he knew, he could not accuse the nobles in the city without evidence, and Gongzaoye was angry that these nobles would do such evil deeds for their own benefit, which would cause a famine in Shangqiu a year later.

He was past the age of relying on his own martial arts to settle the injustices in the world, so he could only report this matter to Mozi and ask what to do and how to punish those people.

Mozi asked: "Punishment is to make people stop doing such things, so the Mozi punishes those who harm the world, never conceals their purpose, and will also tell the world about their actions that harm the world." But now you're just guessing who did it, and you can't do it at this time! ”

"Wait, there's a chance. Have you forgotten how long it took to deal with those witch wishes, those officials, and those big clans in Pei County? ”

Speaking of Peixian's matter, Gong Zaoye finally restrained his anger, thinking that in order to deal with those people, Mo Shi had been preparing for two years before he started, and he knew that even if he wanted to punish this matter today, he could only wait.

Mozi said again: "Today, the Chu people are attacking the city again, and the people in the city are only afraid of panic. The things on the walls depend on you and me; What is under the city wall still depends on the people of the Ministry of Righteousness. That's what people do. You go and rest for a while, don't worry. ”

Gongzaoye was ordered to retreat, and the Chu people outside the city were beating like thunder, and Gongzaoye was not worried, because there were still many methods that had not yet been used.

And before, Shi also said things like luring snakes out of holes, and Gong Zaoye also knew that Mozi must have a backhand, but it was only because this thing really made him angry that he couldn't calm down.

Now that Mozi is indifferent, he also knows his husband's temperament, and knows that it will not be so simple, so he can rest with peace of mind to reserve his strength and prepare for a possible fight in the future.

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Inside the city, among the people who didn't have their turn to guard the walls, they were all discussing what had happened last night.

The Mohist did not try to stop or capture those who spoke of these things, for it was only a fact, not an exaggeration of the power of the enemy or a disruptive distraction, and did not violate the prohibition.

The so-called non-prohibition and only harmlessness is the foundation of the Mo's law.

People who have the heart to spread the logic are very smooth.

A few days ago, the Chu people attacked the city, obviously preparing to attack the city and break the city, but the Mo people were stubbornly defending and the Chu people could not break through.

So the Chu people used the fine work in the city and burned down the granary in the city.

Therefore, this morning the Chu people hurried to attack the city again, obviously last night's fire was to cooperate with today's siege.

The logic is extremely smooth.

But the people didn't care about this seemingly logical story.

All they cared about was that the granary was burned and the Chu people were attacking the city...... Will there be a tragedy when the Chu people besieged the city and changed their children and ate them?

As for who burned the granaries, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that they could starve, or even starve to death!

Those who lived through that tragic siege are now dead.

As their descendants, they still have the stories and memories of the beginning.

So this morning, there was a strange situation in Shangqiu City.

The drums of the Chu people outside the city shook the sky, and the people in the city were panicked.

The people in the city were not worried about the Chu people breaking the city.

What they were worried about was that Song Gong would not surrender and continue to resist.

Most of the people are thinking, what does the Chu people have to do with them? Why did he help Song Gong defend the city?

Meat eaters seek it, this is the majority of the people's mind.

It is both a habit and a kind of naturalness, because the meat eaters will naturally seek it if they benefit.

The Shangqiu people guarded the city many times, and the most tragic time was because when the Song Duke was a son, he was kind and charitable, so that the old and poor in the city did not die of hunger and cold.

The current Duke of Song, as well as the dead Duke of Mourning, have never done such a thing, so it is impossible for the people in the city to support themselves to the point of breaking bones and cooking, because there is not enough reason.

The ink man said that when the Chu people came, they would levy labor, which made sense, so they had to defend the city.

But this reason is not enough to the point of keeping it to the point of eating it.

This reason seems to be enough to defend until exhaustion.

The people in the city thought a lot: Now that the granary in the city has been burned, if the ink people hold the siege of the Chu people again, and then the Chu people choose to besiege the city, what should they do?

No one wants to starve to death, and the large areas of farmland outside the city cannot be cultivated, and many people have begun to hope that the ink people will not be able to hold it, so they will simply let the Chu people capture Shangqiu.

In fact, the Xuanyi Department of the Moshi has been talking about "why defend the city".

But none of the truths he talked about were like "this is your own national capital, so you must keep it", but only to tell the people that the Chu people may be conscripted for labor when they come.

This is a strange propaganda, and it is better to defend the city than not to have propaganda at all, but the direction of the propaganda is extremely problematic.

This kind of propaganda hides a doubt: if the price paid to defend the city is greater than that of the Chu people, is there no reason to defend the city?

Before last night, no one thought about this doubt.

But this morning, more than one person was thinking about it.

With the tragedy of the siege of the city that those nobles had to mention, there are more and more people who think like this, and the way they think is precisely the "benefit" that the ink has been silently promoting.

Those seeds that were quietly planted years ago began to germinate, along with the fire of last night and the rumors of this morning.

Just like a tree, it can grow straight or curved.

But at the time of germination, whether it is a curved or straight one, it will be full of joy for the bud itself.

Shi visited many people in the city, and after hearing their doubts, he laughed out loud in no one's place, and the way of thinking of these people was gradually being influenced by the Mo, and the people's hearts were available.

Xiao Sikou's eyeliners, after hearing the doubts of the people, they reported, Da Yin and other nobles gathered and laughed, these people's ideas were in line with their purposes, and the people's hearts were available.

What is suitable for thinking is a lifetime, and what the nobles want is a time, but a life includes this time after all, and this time will not include a lifetime.

Whether it is suitable or those nobles, they all have their own purposes.

Since both sides believe that the will of the people is available, and the people seem to be the same people, it can only be seen who can make good use of these people's hearts.