The Song State was tragic not only because of its geographical location, but also because of the strong national situation of the domestic aristocracy.

If the Song State was a little smaller and had never been wider, it would have chosen a big country to be a vassal state in this troubled era, just like the country, at least it would survive.

But the Song State is not a vassal, and because of the special geographical location in the world, the Song State is not only an important land that cannot be given up for all countries, but also a hot potato, and no one dares to move.

Historically, the Song State fell to the country, which was the result of the cooperation of Qi, Chu, Wei, and Qin.

The Song Kingdom is full of ointment, and for the Sishang Mo family, it is like Qi Southwest: they don't want it for the time being, but they can't allow it to be controlled by Chu Wei.

Now the fate of the Song State is not up to the nobles of the Song State.

The current situation of the Song Kingdom is the most chaotic in all countries today.

Twenty years ago, during the civil strife, the people and the Mohists took advantage of the contradictions between the nobility to turn the Song State into a nominal state and a loose alliance of nobles.

Si Cheng Huang, Le's, Dai's, Shaw's, Shi's, Fahrenheit...... Many nobles did not want any expansion of royal power, they themselves had their own power, and there has always been a tradition of aristocratic coups.

Twenty years ago, when the Mo family's Shoushang Qiu caused turmoil in the Song Kingdom, it was because the Sicheng Emperor's father and his family could not monopolize power, and they were hated by the rest of the nobles.

Earlier, there was the foundation of the aristocratic republic of the three surnames, and after the imperial father's family became dominant, he had the opportunity to learn from the three families to divide the Jin Tian clan and obtain the social power of the Song State in one fell swoop, but the coup d'état twenty years ago was mixed in, which made the Song State completely lose the possibility of centralization.

The disagreement between the Junziyuan and the Commoners' Court, and the nobles being forced by the Mo family to swear not to attack each other again, were all dynamite planted at the beginning of the suitability, in order to make it impossible for the Song State to unify and centralize power.

The imperial father Zang has grown old, and his son the imperial father Yue Ling is now the Song State's Inquiry Yuan Ling Yin, and the Song Duke has no power at all, but it is also difficult for the imperial father Yue Ling to centralize power.

After the coup d'état twenty years ago, all parts of the Song Kingdom went their separate ways, and the nobles fought all day long in the so-called Gentlemen's Court, putting some conspiracies on the surface, and the force of the Mo family maintained the original covenant of no harm, making it impossible for the emperor's father Yue Ling to centralize power.

The side close to Sishang was the most influenced by Sishang, and it was also the first place where many changes occurred.

The demand for food and raw materials in Sishang made it very profitable for the local nobles to manage the land, and they gave up their personal control over the peasants in exchange for huge wealth, and also lost their power base within the nobility - the peasants who were bound to the fiefdom were their military base, and the nobles without the military base had no right to speak.

Taoqiu and other places where industry and commerce were more developed were basically self-governing and nominally belonged to the fiefdom of the imperial father's family, but in fact they only had to pay enough taxes every year, and the emperor's family's hand could not reach out at all.

In the rest of the world, the nobles of the Le, Xiao, and Dai clans continued to struggle to maintain their rule in the fiefdoms to ensure their military strength, and did not dare to let the peasants flee to other places.

Some nobles made some appropriate changes, such as granting land to the populace in exchange for the loyalty of the populace, but in reality...... But it's hard.

The low price of grain, the inflow of a large amount of precious metals into Sishang, the dumping of handicrafts in Sishang, and the leapfrog improvement of planting technology have all made those nobles who have made appropriate changes miserable.

According to the rules of tithing, according to the amount of twenty years ago, the nobles would have starved to death, and it would be difficult to maintain the life they have today.

The tax rate was raised, and the kindness of the people was immediately forgotten, and next to it was Sishang, who made a comparison, and the farmer was dissatisfied.

Seeing that the small nobles close to Sishang gave up their personal control over the peasants and hoarded land to make a lot of money, these ambitious nobles could only look at it: rich means no one, and no one means no status and power within the nobility.

Everything costs money.

Arms, silk, cotton, ironware, luxury goods......

Food prices are too low.

Tithes are taxes in kind, paid up, immediately harvested by the Mo family, every year when the price of grain will plummet when three or five buckets are overcharged, all kinds of arms and handicrafts all need money to buy, and the money can only sell grain to the Mo family in exchange, the pricing power is in Sishang, the old orthodox nobles are poor and miserable.

Holding his own fiefdoms, but there is no basis for management at all, he can only choose to sell the franchise to some merchants who seek rent-seeking power, use the power to guarantee the monopoly of these merchants, and get enough rent from the merchants, but in the end it is the local people who suffer.

Some merchants in Sishang and the Song Kingdom saw that their goods could not be sold to the entire Song Kingdom, and many fiefdoms were self-contained, and their goods could not be sold and were monopolized by local merchants who depended on the aristocracy, and they were inevitably resentful.

The merchants hated the peasants, the craftsmen themselves had a close relationship with the Mohists, the small citizens were enthusiastic and fanatical, and there was a special identity with the idea that everyone was equal and virtuous and not attacking.

The imperial father's family always wanted to rein in the power of various fiefdoms, but when the Song State was engaged in a coup d'état, they didn't think about the good of the Song State.

The gentleman's court that came out, a group of nobles restrain each other and want to centralize power? Vote against it.

Want to centralize power by force? The harmless alliance that the Mo family participated in twenty years ago forced the imperial father family to dare not make a move.

The increasingly wealthy merchants, the petty aristocrats who became farmers, the craftsmen, and the yeoman farmers of the merchant hills, were even more dissatisfied by the egalitarian morality of the Mohists.

At that time, the common people's court only had the right to petition, which was the original power of the people, and the original Xiao Situ was in charge of this, and all the relocation of the capital, the establishment of the monarch, and the formation of alliances all needed to be recognized by the people, which was the Spring and Autumn tradition, and the common people's court only continued this power.

But...... These representatives of the Commoners' Court, who thought that they could finally be "equal" with the nobles, found that they were useless, because when they were dealing with the coup d'état of the Song State twenty years ago, they left a deep hole: the Junziyuan had the right of veto.

The situation of who in the hall sued the official was staged in the Song State's Inquiry Yuan all day long.

On the one hand, Sishang is thriving, and the rights of industrialists and businessmen are protected by the People's Law.

On the other side, those people in Shangqiu have money and power, but they have no power, and the resentment and dissatisfaction in their hearts have long been backlogged.

Twenty years of development and leapfrog development have made the speed of land annexation unprecedented.

Some aristocrats and petty aristocrats used the power in their hands and the accumulation of hundreds of years before them to frantically merge land in some places where land was allowed to be sold, driving out the people who were redundant due to the development of agricultural tools.

The influx of people close to Sishang and the influx of Shangqiu near Shangqiu.

These landless peasants had no land, and could only work in the city as laborers or servants, or as servants of the city, and belonged to the most miserable class in the city, and their hearts were full of hatred for the land, and they were also full of hatred for the nobility.

The doctrines of "true equality" of the peasants, "the sage cultivating the people together", "valuing agriculture and suppressing business", and "the cunning of merchants" were widely circulated in the circles of landless peasants in Shangqiu.

The doctrine of the peasant family was to divide the land equally and curb the merchants, which was a utopian egalitarian, but it was full of temptation for the lowest level in Shangqiu City.

The merchants who depended on the nobles monopolized all kinds of trade, the nobles put usury, and the speculators bought low and sold high, all of which made the contradictions within the Song State accumulate to a critical point that is about to erupt.

The Song State had a chance, and the imperial father Yue Ling also had a chance to complete the centralization of power, and even had the opportunity to replace the current Song Duke as the democratically elected "Song Duke", but ...... The Song Kingdom was too close to Sishang.

Ever since Sishang became a giant, his policies towards the Song State were all out of suitability, with only one purpose: not to give the Song State any opportunity to take precautions and change slowly, to extinguish every opportunity for change, and to suppress the contradictions by force and hostility between the nobles, until this external pressure would explode immediately once it was withdrawn.

The emperor's father Yue Ling showed a little intention of wanting to change the centralization of power, and the Mo family instigated those businessmen and yeoman farmers in Shangqiu to demand more radical changes, and scared the imperial father Yue Ling back: it is okay to change, give up all aristocratic power, and truly choose the sage as the Son of Heaven.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, wanted to centralize power, but he didn't want to be the standard-bearer of freedom to guide the people, and the Mo family was far from street politics and influence in the common people's market.

As soon as he flinched, the nobles who were balanced in themselves immediately jumped out, saying that change and centralization of power were impossible, and that all of us in the Gentleman's Court were against it.

Originally, some small contradictions, every time I wanted to solve them, the black hand of Sishang stretched out to hinder them, accumulating small contradictions into big contradictions, until now they can not be solved at all.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, wanted power, wanted to become the Duke of Song, wanted to replace him, and wanted to have a complete Song State.

The rest of the nobles wanted power, a republic of the aristocracy, a feudal rule, each with its own government, and resolutely opposed a complete centralized Song state.

The landless peasants wanted land, wanted a piece of land that they could cultivate themselves, opposed the aristocracy's possession of land, and even wanted to return to the original feudal system of granting land, and were full of panic about the new era.

The big merchants wanted to buy and sell land privately, and wanted their own money to be able to get land so that they could continue to make profits, and they were extremely dissatisfied with the aristocracy's occupation of land and population.

Craftsmen and small merchants wanted low taxes, or at least demanded that they have the right to propose taxes, and were extremely unhappy with putting large amounts of taxes on them.

The transformed petty aristocrats wanted power, and they gave up their fiefdom over the peasants in exchange for the income from land management, but they also lost their aristocratic power, and without the support of force, they could easily make themselves the most powerless merchants.

The merchants who sold the goods hoped that the fiefs of the various nobles would be opened to the market, and that the merchants who were dependent on the nobility would not be monopolized, and that they would either be harassed or levy high taxes and fees if they sold themselves.

The fiefdom peasants in the fiefdom who continued to be subjected to a more stringent anti-escape policy longed for freedom, for the land, for being able to leave the fiefdom.

The yeoman farmers and craftsmen who lived in the city believed in the Mohist morality of equality for all, and out of a desire for equality and love, they were angry at the existence of aristocracy and the common people's houses like a joke.

Each has its own demands, and the entire Song Kingdom is in chaos.

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