Chapter 59: The Stars Hold the Moon

The resentment that the nobles have exerted on the people over the years because of the contrast of being too close to Sishang, with the public opinion propaganda launched by the Mo family, has gradually swept away the haze in the capital of Feiguo, revealing a hope that the morning sun will rise and the night will disperse.

Since it is rare to use interest analysis to say the possibility and impossibility of this change; did not explain how harsh the proposal of "benefiting the people" put forward by the Mo family this time was impossible for the nobles to accept, and the propaganda of Xu Wan and others in the capital of Fei was unified into a caliber.

There is a conclusion that "under rational analysis, it is possible to draw a conclusion that there will be changes", but this rational basis is a kind of historical idealistic speculation, and this strange mixture has become a lot of hope brought by the people of the capital.

In the place where they gathered, the Mohists guided the mood of the people, and did not sing some obvious "anti" songs such as "Shuo Mouse" and "Paradise", but sang some "Song of the Five Sons" with a rather improved meaning.

It is "the emperor has training, the people can be approached, not down." The people are only Bangben, and Bengu Bangning. To see the foolish men and fools of the world, one can win, one person has three losses, how can the grievances be clear, and the picture is not seen. To Lin Zhaomin, if the six horses are driven by the decaying rope, why is it disrespectful? ”

This is a song of exhortation to the monarch, which was not tampered with or produced by the Mohists, but originated from the Book of Xia.

It is said that in the past, Taikang's corpse position, Yiyu to destroy the Turks, Li Min Xianer, is a wandering excess, in the table of Youluo, ten Fu anti. There is a poor Hou Yi because of the people's forbearance, far from the river, and the five younger brothers are the mother of the emperor, and they are in Luo. The five sons complained, and the ring of Dayu was used to compose a song.

What the Mohists value is the eight words "the people are the foundation of the state, and the country is solid".

And Xu Miao and others are preaching "the monarch, the boat; Those who are familiar with the people, the water is also. The water carries the boat, and the water capsits the boat."

This sentence should have been said by Xunzi, who was born decades later, but since Shi had already plagiarized the persuasion chapter, this sentence was naturally exceeded.

Whether it is "Song of the Five Sons" or Junzhou Minshui, from the perspective of "rational" inference, the monarch should practice good governance and benevolent government to prevent being overthrown by the people.

However, throughout the ages, the monarch has rarely practiced benevolent and good governance, and such things as being overthrown by the people often appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was not uncommon to kill the monarch or force the monarch to go abroad.

The root cause lies in the lack of an analysis of "interests", which the Mohists are good at, but this time they deliberately avoided this issue and used these statements to make rational inferences.

So the people heard that no matter how they look at the monarch, there will be a change, and there will be no possibility of not changing. After all, he is the water, the monarch is the boat, if the boat does not want to overturn, it should be stable.

As long as you are not a fool, you will make such a choice.

The question is, why is a boat a boat? And who is sitting on the boat? What kind of water does the person sitting in the boat need?

These root problems have been ignored by public opinion for the time being, creating a false impression that the people on the boat are naturally the ones who should benefit the water.

Under the overwhelming publicity, this incident, which has not yet happened, seems to have been predetermined in advance.

In the eyes of the people in the capital, as soon as Meng Sheng came, after persuasion, the monarch would inevitably reform, which was already a matter of reason and could not be changed.

Meng Sheng still has about half a month to arrive, so now he only has to endure the hard days for more than half a month.

The people all thought that when Meng Sheng arrived, they would be able to live the same life as Sishang.

The Mohists did not say whether the change would succeed, but they kept explaining the benefits of the various terms of the change to the people.

It seems that the haze of the past has been driven away, revealing a clear sky, and the people are eagerly looking forward to it, just like a long drought and rain.

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On the road outside the capital, Meng Sheng and other high-level envoys of the Mo family were slowly moving towards the country of Fei.

In the car, Meng Sheng was recalling the various arrangements at the previous high-level meeting of the Mo family.

Behind his mission to the Fei country, it is not just a Sishang activity, but the Mohist forces in all parts of the world are fully cooperating, trying to make it impossible for all countries to intervene in unity.

In order to achieve this, the Mo family's forces in all countries under the world have received different instructions, and they have used their strong organizational skills to instigate this matter with the same sense and one heart within the world.

Soon after Hu Feizi went north to Zhao, another Mojia team set out for Handan, where they were to prepare to defend Handan for the intervention of Wei, Han, and Qi in the succession of Zhao.

This is not for Gongzizhang, but to drag Wei Hanqi into a great war of civil strife in the Three Jin Dynasty, so that Wei Hanqi has no intention of interfering in the affairs of Sishang, which is a copy of the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao.

If Zhao rebelled against Wei, Wei would face the situation of being attacked from all sides.

Even if Sishang is rich and the Wei people have long been hot, but the three Jin Dynasty are uneven, Zhao Di is on fire, and Sishang is as stable as Mount Tai.

In order to cooperate with the rebellion of the succession of the Zhao State, the Xuanyi Department of the Mo family launched a full operation, and vigorously publicized the entry of Wu into Qin and the reform of the Qin people, all of which caused a silent pressure on the Wei State.

Not to mention that the communication between the monarchs of various countries was not smooth at this time, and the Mohists had no intention of calculating and having intentions, even if they communicated effectively, the countries were deceitful to each other......

Even if Qin wrote a blood letter saying that Wu Qi's entry into Qin and Qin's transformation were not delusional about Xihe, would Wei Hou believe it?

Even if the Qin State swore an oath to the heavens, saying that it would not interfere in the civil war between Wei and Zhao, and would not ally with the Zhao State with the same surname, would Wei State believe it?

Wei State can't believe it, and he doesn't dare to believe it, if the affairs of Zhao State are not resolved, the Wei people will have the worry of a fire behind them, which is one thing that Wei Hou does not dare to gamble on.

The Xuanyi Department of the Mo family analyzed the seriousness of this matter to the fullest, and it was impossible not for Wei to consider whether the policy of Zhao after the change of monarch would be beneficial to itself.

In addition to taking advantage of the contradictions within the Three Jin Dynasty, the first strong enemy outside the Three Jin Dynasty, the Chu State, the Mo family also began to go all out to cooperate with the various changes of the Mo family in Si this time.

More than ten years ago, after the first battle of Yuguan in Daliang, the state of Chu was divided, and the prince was set into Chen, calling himself the king of Chu, and the state of Chu was divided.

Because Chen, Xiang and other places were adjacent to the Song State, it was originally appropriate to use the Liang Yuguan to trap the King of Chu, so that the relationship between the Chu State and the Mo family was closer: the Chu State needed the former Chen and Xiang of the Mo family, especially after the loss of the Great Liang Yuguan, Chu was in internal turmoil and foreign troubles.

The Jin-Yue alliance has been going on for decades, and the Mo family took advantage of Chu's internal and external troubles to defeat the Yue State and split Chen Chu, which also allowed the Chu State to focus more on internal reform and the direction of Nanyang and Zhengguo.

It was the loss of Saiong that knew whether it was a blessing or not, and the contraction of the Chu State on the Eastern Front was exchanged for the strength that still had the spare strength in the direction of Nanyang and Zheng to occasionally interfere in the internal affairs of Zheng.

After the first battle of Lushui, the king of Chu sent an envoy to Sishang to ask the Mo family to help Chu change, unlike the previous Mo family who took the initiative to seek the change of Chu, this time it was the Mo family who took the initiative to find the king of Chu's position in a precarious situation, and all kinds of changes were also carried out in an extremely drastic way.

Cutting the feudal monarch and creating contradictions, which seems to be conducive to the centralization of power in the Chu State, is actually conducive to the civil strife in the Chu State.

The Mo family helped the king of Chu to carry out the reforms in the state of Chu, and some Chu ministers had been forced to defect, but the new army in Yanying and Yingdu had been established, and the power of the king of Chu was increasing day by day, and it was able to suppress those nobles.

The Mo family didn't believe in the King of Chu, and they also understood that the King of Chu was just borrowing a knife to kill people, and borrowing the knife of the Mo family to kill those nobles who shared power.

But the same, the Mo family is also secretly pit the king of Chu, and now the contradiction between the power of the king of Chu and the nobles has reached the limit, far from the time to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and once the king of Chu dies, a civil strife in the state of Chu is inevitable, and now it is just a strange balance.

The Mo family was borrowing the power of the nobility to prevent the king of Chu from reacting too early to expel the Mo family.

In the same way, some of the Mohists' reforms in the Chu State, the formation and training of new armies and other policies also brought certain benefits to the King of Chu.

With the help of the transportation of the Yangtze River, as well as the policy of "making the third prince of the prince Sun and receiving the lord" and "the land of the real border", the state of Chu now has Dongting and Cangwu.

The farthest border pass of the Chu State, which has reached the Guangdong of the later generations, and established a series of colonial cities such as "Limensai" and "Linwu City", with the Mohist interpretation of "spreading civilization to the benefit of the world in the barbarian Baiyue", with the help of the power of merchants to sell back and forth in the land of Baiyue to make a profit, and the generational advantage of weapon technology and culture, Linwu City and Limensai have become important cities of Chu in the south.

The activities of the Mohists on the Yue side of the country, using activities such as dumping textiles and iron tools, planting sugar cane, and selling southern spices in cooperation with merchants, had also established a colonial city along the coastline at the mouth of the Pearl River, and used the waterway to establish a connection with the Limensai of the Chu state.

A few hundred adventurers were able to establish a stronghold at the mouth of the river, relying on star forts and cannons and muskets to block the attacks of the primitive tribes of Baiyue, and at the same time to start trading, began to explore the south, and began to profit from the use of tropical spices, attracting more merchants and soldiers and adventurers who wanted to make a fortune.

In this case, the annual commercial tax obtained by the king of Chu is also a large amount of income, and he is more supportive of the policy of expanding the border fortress, and some weak nobles on the edge of the patriarchal system are also willing to take the initiative to seek a practical profit in the border area.

And now, the king of Chu is finally going to attack Chen.

The affairs of Chen, Xiang and other places are not only the internal affairs of the Chu State, but actually a continuation of the Jin and Chu struggle for hegemony.

Without Wei Han's support, Wang Ziding would not be able to support it at all. Wang Ziding's existence is because of the aggressiveness of the world in the more than ten years before the Wei State and Wu Qi's great victory in Yuguan in Daliang.

Now, the Mo family told the king of Chu about the possible chaos of the Three Jin Dynasty, and also supported the annexation and unification of Chen and Xiang by the king of Chu.

Both anti-dumping and anti-dumping have their own purposes.

The king of Chu really wanted to recapture those defected Chu cities, kill his younger brother or make his younger brother submit, so as to completely get rid of the biggest quagmire and rout of Chu in the past few decades of Jin and Chu hegemony, so as to increase his prestige and continue to reform.

Suitable...... It is hoped that the state of Chu will take action against Chen and Xiang, which will trigger a new round of dispute between Wei and Chu, and make the state of Wei even more powerless to get involved in Sishang. If you want to get involved in Sishang, Wei needs to control it and become a vassal, Chen Xiang needs to be small with Wei in the hands of Wang Ziding, and it needs a stable internal environment of the Three Jin Dynasty, and Qin is temporarily unable to compete for the Xihe, Qi and Wei form an alliance and are forced to cross the country and Lu to seek the situation of Sishang after the Mo family intervenes in the battle of the most.

Shi, on the other hand, is to disintegrate this situation from all directions, so that every direction of the Wei State is facing threats.

The Battle of Faji and the Battle of Huangshui made Qi unable to go south to get Si, and the contradictions between Wei and Qi were reduced, but the pressure from the direction of Qi was exchanged for pressure from the three directions of Qin, Chu, and Zhao to put pressure on Wei, and after all, there was still something to be earned.

Now, the king of Chu is ready to send troops to take Chen; Handan Zhongmu civil strife is imminent; The reform of the Qin State is ready to start, which is why this time Meng Sheng's trip to Fei Guo, and there is also the Sishang synonymous meeting held by the Mo family in Pengcheng for a long time and I don't know what amazing news will be obtained.