In the camp of the Qi army under Dai City, the red flag of the Qi land is fluttering.

After Tian's dynasty, in order to find the legal rationality of Daiqi, Tian carried forward the theory of reincarnation of five virtues.

As the saying goes, where the emperor will prosper, the sky will see the people first. At the time of the Yellow Emperor, the sky saw the big mole and the big mole. The Yellow Emperor said: Rustic wins! The rustic atmosphere wins, so its color is still yellow, and its things are earthy. At the time of Yu, the sage saw that the grass and trees would not be killed in autumn and winter. Yu said: Mu Qi wins! The wood is victorious, so its color is still green, and its things are wood. At the time of the soup, the heavenly seer saw that the golden blade was born of water. Tang said, Jin Qi wins! Gold wins, so its color is still white, and its things are golden. At the time of King Wen, the sky saw the fire, and the red bird title Dan book was collected in the Zhou Society. King Wen said; Anger wins! The fire wins, so its color is still red, and its things are fire. He who replaces the fire will bring water.

At this time, Zhou Tianzi was still there, and the wrestling between the countries had not yet been completed, so except for the Mo family, who was qualified to use water virtue regardless of the old rules, the princes did not publicly declare themselves to be water virtues at this time.

However, the Mo family itself does not believe in this thing, so the world is still dominated by the derivative color of fire virtue, and the main color of the Mo family is black not because of the five virtues of water extinguishing the fire week, but because the ink of the Mo family, and the black dye is the reason for civilian clothing.

The legal theory that the Tian family came up with is that they believe that their fire virtue is the main thing and gold virtue is the supplement, so according to this deduction, the color of the Tian family should be purple.

The theory is this, but the reality needs to be supported by materials, and the Qi State does not have the money to make all the soldiers wear purple clothes.

At this time, it was extremely difficult to refine purple fuel, in the past, Qi Huan liked purple, and the top was good, and the bottom must be effective, causing the nobles in Linzi City to wear purple.

But purple is too expensive, it is too wasteful to refine, and the extravagance is really unbearable, so Guan Zhong came up with an idea.

Let Qi Huan say left and right: "I hate the smell of purple."

So those who are dressed in purple on the left and right will say: "Less!" I smell purple".

Around that time, the purple dye of the Qi country was also made from rotten conch, and it did have a smell of urine, or it could be that the extraction technology of comfrey would cause the purple dye to have a special taste.

But in the final analysis, there are nobles wearing purple clothes and approaching Duke Qi Huan, and Duke Qi Huan said You stay away from me, I hate the strange smell of purple, so the nobles wear purple less and less.

But now that the Tian clan wants to use the theory of five virtues to explain his reasonableness, he has to take out purple again, because purple is the color of the fire lord Jinfu.

However, for the feudal doctrine of the five virtues, theory has to be subordinated to reality.

It is impossible for the poor Qi country to match each soldier with a set of noble purple clothes, if it can match it, the world will be unified by the Qi country.

So the warlocks moved and came up with a theory, thinking that purple is the color of the Tian clan, but the essence of the Tian clan is that the descendants of the Yellow Emperor continued the reincarnation of the Battle of Hanquan, and it was Chen Tian, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, who replaced the great virtue of the Jiang clan, the descendant of the Yan Emperor, so the Qi country should lean on the side of Tude.

Tude is still yellow, yellow is too expensive, and Zhou Tianzi is still there, so it should be supplemented by fire virtue.

Of course, the main reason is that madder dye is cheaper than the expensive gardenia yellow and purple, so the Qi State used the earthy red dye of madder, and the earthy red virtue of fire and earth.

This is to find an arrow first and then find a target, the Five Virtues Doctrine also has to bow to reality, if you don't bow your head, Qi Guo will have to make tens of thousands of sets of noble purple costumes to make military uniforms, not to mention all military expenses, that is, the cost of dyeing military uniforms will force Qi Hou to hang.

At that time, there were also many people who ridiculed Tian Qi's actions in some large cities and markets, and the meaning of "stinky purple" was similar to that of sour grapes; "Lust is a change of virtue" has gradually become a popular phrase for mockery.

The place where the earthy red flag fluttered was the big camp of the Qi State besieging Daicheng, and 5,000 soldiers set up three camps.

They did not attack, because the previous attacks had suffered great losses, and it was obviously difficult to capture them with only these five thousand men, so they only dug up earth and built earth ramparts for surveillance, and they did not even count as a siege.

This is not far from the important logistical supply lines of the coalition forces, and it is impossible not to monitor it, and it is impossible to fight in a short time, so this method can only be used.

The Qi army in the camp has been tossed by the defenders in the city these days, and there are always sneak attacks and counterattacks at night, and there will be cannons or explosions at every turn at night, and it is difficult for the camp to sleep peacefully.

I tried to dig tunnels before, but the defenders of the city were the Mojia who were the best at digging pits and had specialized books such as "Preparing Holes".

The morale of the besieged city is high, but the morale of the besieging side is low.

In addition, there were copper cannons in the city, so the camping position was withdrawn again and again, and it was withdrawn to a distance of two miles, and after digging the camp, they settled here.

At this time, three miles away, a group of scouts was observing the Qi army's camp from the trees.

Here is a flat river, and the Qi army on the opposite side also discovered them and sent some scouts to try to drive them away.

These days, the scouts of the Mo family are like flies that smell carrion, often circling around the camp, and the Qi army is also accustomed to it, and there are many scouts and scouts of the Mo family.

The two sides have a tacit understanding.

When the scouts of the Mo family approached, the Qi State sent cavalry to drive them away, and the scouts of the Mo family withdrew, and the cavalry of the Qi State did not pursue.

Do this every day, four or five times a day.

But at this time, a scout officer of the Mo family on the tree didn't want to just leave, he didn't know the rules within three miles, so he couldn't think of complying with them.

Jumping from the tree, there were twelve of them in this squad, and only a dozen or so cavalrymen came out on the opposite side.

The officers leading the team on the side of the Mo family scouts are standard wealthy farmers, which are different from the bitter and bitter enemies of the main force of the Mo family's infantry before, and the cavalry and scouts are mainly from this background.

Scouts or light riders of his age have similar experiences.

The fathers shed blood when the Mo family rose to power in Sishang, and soon after they were born, they all had surnames, and then they went to school in the village community or village school to receive education.

The family had repaid the money for ploughing cattle and iron tools when they were just starting school, and their fathers had reached the end of their term of service, and they were working in the family farm.

The family and several families formed a cooperative, on average, a family of more than 100 acres of land, several horses together, the speed of horse farming is faster, and they grow less rice here, so they use heavy horse ploughs.

Their generation may have had a well-established grassroots organization and education system since childhood, and at the age of twelve or thirteen, just in time for the vigorous tiger hunting campaign, they were exposed to muskets.

Knowing that the earth is round and taking it for granted rather than questioning it; I believe that people should be equal, and I also think that this is a matter of course, and I don't want to question it.

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, those who did not enter a scarce number of secondary schools had to prepare for the service, and during this period, training was organized during the slack time, and the male hormones in the grain field of the village community began to encourage these newly haired children to wrestle and fight bravely to win the hearts of the girls.

He began to serve at the age of seventeen or eighteen, either into the cavalry or as an infantryman, and if he did well, he could choose to postpone his service and regard being a soldier as a profession, or be promoted to a junior officer.

The popularity of horse farming in Huaibei in Sishang made them contact with horse riding at a very young age, and there were many rare earth lands with vast land, coupled with the horse trade in Zhongshan and Gaoliu to the north, and the development of horse breed improvement in Sishang, Huaibei, which can be said to be the most suitable place to raise horses north of the Yellow River, has a very large number of horses.

At this time, being a peasant was an envy of many urban workers, and the great development of industry and commerce and the development of the handicraft system of workshops and handicrafts inevitably accompanied the bankruptcy of a large number of small peasants.

It's nothing more than Sishang in order to ensure that the soldiers Sishang does not go bankrupt, but let the people of Song, Qi and other places go bankrupt and go into exile here, if the world is regarded as a whole, someone will always go bankrupt; One of the reasons why Sishang seems to be rich and heavenly is one of the reasons why it is a variant of colonial expansion and economic plunder.

Now that we have plundered enough, we have completed the accumulation of technology and capital, and we will naturally make the world unified.

This new generation of young people, who have enjoyed this affluence and a life of paradise relative to other places, will shed their blood for all that they have enjoyed.

Use blood to repay the debts of economic colonial exploitation that they owe to the lower classes of the Song, Qi, Chu, Yue, and Han under the concept of the world, which suffered from the dual exploitation of the aristocracy and colonialism.

That's what most of today's light cavalry scouts in their twenties have experienced, not much the same, not much different.

The father of the young officer, who jumped from the tree, was a well-known hunter hero in the township, who had fought tigers and killed crocodiles, and had a certificate and medal in his family.

When he was in the service, he became a cavalryman, and soon became a professional soldier with an overage service, becoming a junior officer of the scout cavalry in the division.

Now that the army was twenty miles away, they had arrived in advance to reconnoiter the enemy's situation.

Seeing that the Qi people on the opposite side sent cavalry to drive them away, the young officer said to his comrades: "Let's do it, I see that the Qi army is very lax, after killing them, how about rushing to the camp with me to grab a few flags?" I don't dare to say more, I don't think a third-class merit is a problem. ”

He found that the camp of the Qi State was very lax, and if the cavalry that wanted to drive them away was defeated, it would not be a problem to seize the banner after approaching, and first shock the Qi army and seize its morale.

Military merit is not only an honor, but also an economic benefit. Although military merit is not divided into land, it is divided into some public shares, which is related to subsidies after retirement.

The professional soldiers in Sishang are piled up by the righteousness of the world and real money, so they are as rich as Sishang, and they can only support about 15,000 professional soldiers and professional grass-roots officers, and they really can't afford to raise more.

These dozen detectives are all young people, active and enthusiastic, and after hearing the words and discussing them, they all think it is feasible.

So two people were selected by lot to report the reconnaissance situation, and the remaining people quickly formed a common squad formation, with six people attacking head-on, and the remaining four going around the flank.