When he said this, the hearts of the people came alive.

I thought to myself, the giant son's order was a feint, and on the premise of achieving this big goal, it was possible to make some small moves.

If you can't win it, it won't affect the overall situation, and if you win it, it's a great achievement, and it must be reported to be honored.

Several backbones discussed it and studied the information brought back by the scouts, and they all felt that it was extremely feasible.

After deciding, on the one hand, he immediately sent someone to report to the above, and on the other hand, he transferred more than 40 backbone elites, most of whom were ink people, led by the deputy brigade commander, to sneak attack Shangcai.

The whole brigade would set out at night and wait until dawn to open the city gates.

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At this time, Shang Cai did not feel the danger of approaching.

The city was a bit depressed compared to before, and many men were either taken to serve in the army or to be requisitioned to transport grain and grass.

The terrain here is flat, a plain, and there are almost no rocks, and before the catastrophe of the Yellow River bursting into the sea, this place, like Sishang, was extremely suitable for the development of agriculture.

As long as the technology is right, the population is not too much, and the Yellow River is endless, and this is the best basic commodity grain base.

After the spread of wheat, ironware, ridge crops, and new crops, the city near Chen and Song became more and more prosperous.

Shang Cai cultivated a large amount of sesame seeds, and many people in the city had set up oil mills to trade with Si Shang.

The yield of wheat is very high, and it can also be regarded as the granary of the Huaixi region of the Chu State.

After the Wang Ziding rebellion was put down, it became the place where the law was changed most deeply and earliest in the non-capital of Chu State.

A large number of local nobles were purged because they participated in the rebellion, and the king of Chu was murderous, and he was much more ruthless than the Mo family, because the Mo family also paid attention to morality and law, and the royal power was not needed for the rebellion.

After slaughtering the nobles, the land was given to the people, and the people did not have much sympathy for the heads of the nobles who were killed, and the joys and sorrows of the people were always not connected.

At the time of granting the land, it was the honeymoon period between the Chu State and the Mo family, as well as the common enemy of the Sanjin Dynasty, as well as the existence of the Yue State, which blocked the guns for the Chu State, and the large amount of loans and agricultural equipment and technical support that the King of Chu needed, made the Mo family's activities here extremely extensive.

In addition to not having the power to collect taxes, levy soldiers, and enforce the law, the people will directly choose to solve anything with the Mo family.

With the change of law, the king of Chu reorganized Chen Cai's division, and also made the Chen Cai region richer and richer.

However, the morality of the Mohists is destined to be more popular in the richer places, and the depth of Mohist penetration is directly related to the wealth of the vassal states.

Shang Cai's wealth and changes also created the popularity of Shang Cai's Mojia moral lectures.

Although the king of Chu began to sense the danger after a few years, the penetration was deep and it was difficult to pull it out.

After the coup d'état of Prince Liangfu, the Tran Cai region has undergone great changes.

Before the coup, Shang Cai's officials were appointed by liuguan, not official nobles, nor fiefs, but received the Chu king's fortunes, which were either derived from taxes or loans from the Mo family.

The spread of paper and simple writing enabled more down-and-out scholars to learn knowledge, possess the ability to rule, and break the monopoly of the great aristocracy - under the wooden tablets and Chu seals, the cost of literacy was extremely high, making the nobles monopolize this knowledge.

The down-and-out scholars have basically been reduced to the status of commoners, with no fiefs and no big families, and as officials, their power base comes from the king of Chu, not their own family.

Therefore, these scholars of the Fa-changing faction promoted by the king of Chu are loyal to the king of Chu and are also loyal to the official prince, even if the prince Zang is infertile, this does not prevent them from obeying the orders of the king of Chu.

As the saying goes, if the scholar dies as a confidant, the king of Chu gives them the opportunity to go from the common people to the officials of one party or even the county officials, and they will naturally choose to serve.

The basic force of the reform faction of the Chu State was only the new army of Wang Shi directly under the jurisdiction of the king of Chu, and the yeoman peasant army in the Chen Cai area after the change of Chen Cai.

After the nobles got rid of the king of the capital, of course, the Chen Cai region could not escape the fate of purging.

One of the mistakes made by the King of Chu was that he was worried about the infiltration of the Mo family into the army, so that the chief officers of Chen Cai's division were all royal nobles.

After all, the purpose of King Chu's change of law was not to be a servant of the people, but to use the power of the common people to suppress the nobles and maintain the rule of his direct family.

The infiltration of the Mo family in the people, the king of Chu can't control it, and he can't manage it; But the infiltration in the army, the king of Chu was extremely uneasy, so he could only cultivate a new group of nobles and enter the army.

Immediately after the coup d'état, these military nobles joined their true allies, the prince Yoshio and the old nobles.

Because if they want to rebel, they will make rebellion, and none of them are qualified to inherit, so why should they rebel?

On the contrary, some officials loyal to the king of Chu either committed suicide, rebelled privately and were executed, or were demoted to commoners.

Now that the land in the Shangcai area has not been recovered, the nobles also understand that it is impossible to get back what has been divided, after all, the nobles of the old forces who really have interests here have been killed by the king of Chu.

The new county duke is no longer a liuguan, but a nobleman, and he is sealed here, which is basically equivalent to semi-hereditary.

Although the policy has not changed much, the people's lives have been greatly affected by Chu Mo's war.

It is difficult for industrialists and merchants to do business, and the salt, cloth, iron and other materials in Chen Cai and other places are basically derived from Sishang, and at the same time, sesame oil and other workshops in Chen Cai area also earn money from Sishang.

Although the farmer is not engaged in business and commerce, not to mention the rising price of salt, he has to bear more taxes.

If you want to fight, you have to have money, food, people, and people.

Chen Cai is rich, so of course Chen Cai has to contribute more money, more people, and more food.

Conscription, servitude, grain transport, city building...... In just a few months, there was a lot of resentment in the hearts of the people.

The most ruthless group of people who were angry found the county party committee of the Mo family who had lurked in Shangcai and transferred to underground activities early, and the rest of the people could only accept their anger after they were angry.

The propaganda of the Mo family is not forbidden at all, and it is rumored in the market all day long that when it was time to go to Yingdu, the king of Chu had a secret conversation with him, saying that it was a harmful move for future generations to harm the people, and he asked the Mo family to eliminate the harm.

This kind of rumor is highly lethal, not because the people are loyal to the king of Chu, but because the people have increasingly recognized the theory of harming the people and benefiting the people.

The richer the place, the easier it is to breed the soil for Mohist activities, and the more clear the Mohist morality will be.

On the contrary, when it was dark, people had never seen the light, so there was no need to resist; And what I look forward to the most is not a dark night, but when the East is already able to see the light faintly.

Rumors, nursery rhymes, are circulating every day.

People are panicked, people are uneasy.

A while ago, some people chose to flee in order to escape to become a people's husband, and after being caught, they were punished with ink, that is, tattooing words on their faces, which was one of the five punishments.

It not only punishes the prisoner as a warning to others, but also does not affect the soldier's role as a citizen.

However, in the city, the arrested man shouted and asked: "I am not surnamed Mi, I am a person from Zhuxia in Kyushu, the princes have a country, the doctor has a family, what does the rise and fall of the Chu State have to do with me?" ”

When the street was executed, the puppet-like characters could actually say such things, and the nobles were not only frightened, but also hated the Mo family even more, feeling that the morality of the Mo family and the spread of words and paper were too demagogic, and even the puppet could say such a rebellious thing.

So in order to set an example, he changed the ink punishment to a slashing punishment and cut off his nose.

As a result, there were rumors the next day, saying that this was what the aristocratic law did not know, and whatever punishment was what it was, there was no specific law as a standard, and it was better to have the law of the Mo family.

The nobles immediately sent people to refute the rumors, explaining that if the law was too clear, then the unscrupulous common people would take advantage of the loopholes in the law and do illegal things. The reason why there is no written law is used is precisely to protect the common people, and the common people should believe in the true gentleman, so that those who commit adultery and criminals cannot find loopholes to exploit.

At that time, everyone in the city laughed, and said that these truths had been debated more than 100 times in the market seven or eight years ago, and it was really ridiculous that you people still talked nonsense that they couldn't win seven or eight years ago.

Although the people complained, the order of the rule was still there, and no one raised their arms and shouted.

Because the people who really want to raise their arms and shout, have the ability to organize, and have prestige have basically become local ink masters or peripheral members, obeying the orders of their superiors, and lurking and not moving.

After all, it turns out that there are two governments in Shangcai.

One is clear, responsible for taxation, levy, servitude, and punishment.

The other is the dark one, which is responsible for associations, handouts, education, medical care, and industry and commerce. Although medical treatment is really rudimentary, at most it is some local means, but it is better than nothing.

This was supposed to be two sides of the government, but it was divided by the Mo family in the vassal states.

Handouts, medical care, industry and commerce, and technology, these are all lowly industries, which are also ignored by the aristocracy, and the real ruling class is the blood aristocracy.

Now this split situation is more obvious, which has led to Shangcai's temporary stability: the government on the surface is collecting taxes and taxes, and the government on the dark is motionless, so naturally there is no third-party force to stand up and incite and organize.

Because of the means of communication, the Mo people in the city did not know the Mo family's sneak attack plan this time, and the order they received at the beginning of Chu Mo's war was to hide and wait for the opportunity.

Therefore, even the ink people in the city did not know that an army of the Mo family had lurked within thirty miles of the city.

It's night, and the moon is shining.

More than forty elites are already lurking under the city.

The city walls of Shang Cai are not high, only six or seven meters, and they are also old-style rammed earth walls.

The small shovels and ropes in the hands of these sneak attacking elites, with short swords and flint short guns, are all elite forces in the brigade, and they are brave and daring.

In the middle of the night, the deputy brigade commander took the lead and quietly came to the city wall, and quietly cut a small hole in the city wall with a small shovel.

He was an officer, and he was also the representative of the dying organization of this squad, and he had to take the lead in this kind of thing.

The six- or seven-meter-high wall has a certain slope, and it can be climbed after digging a few small pits.

Climbing the city wall, several Chu soldiers who were guarding the city according to the usual practice were already asleep, because the war seemed to be far away from Shangcai, and they were not too vigilant.

The first four men stabbed two Chu soldiers to death, put down the rope, and the rest of the people also climbed up along the rope.

The men huddled on the city walls until they saw a few flashes of light coming from outside, and knew that the main force had arrived outside the city.

The signal for the message was a simple signal made of mirrors and bronze and whale oil candles.

At this time, there was still some time before dawn, and they had to wait until it was almost dawn before they started, because there were not many organized defenders in the city, so there was no need to take advantage of the night to rush and kill and cause chaos, and it was indeed inconvenient to sneak attack at night.

By the time dawn came, the forty-odd men had divided into small groups and reached the vicinity of the city gate.

There were only a few soldiers guarding the door, and they were all sleepy, waiting for dawn.

Suddenly, a few black shadows flashed, and several soldiers guarding the gate fell to the ground silently, leaving two live mouths to gag their mouths, and the deputy brigade commander took the lead and quietly opened the city gate.