Winter has not yet passed, but Pei County is terrible.

Before the New Year, the Mozhe fulfilled his original promise. The farmers who completed their share of the task ahead of schedule, covered the red and green space and toured the six townships, attracting many people in Peixian to watch.

I don’t know how many girls’ voices have been hoarse, and how many village ladies have touched the hearts of many village ladies. The “heroes” under a new value have received all the spiritual rewards they deserve.

Before returning, the Mozhe also fulfilled the material reward for them, and dozens of brand new cast iron tools returned to their homes with the glorious people.

The iron tools they took back were naturally annealed and naturally cold.

But the iron tools they took back seemed to be still burning red, scalding countless boiling water in this pool of different ponds in Peixian.

In fact, the people of Pei County have seen a lot of things that once existed in the Proverbs of the Proverbs of the Path of the Land.

But like iron tools, it seems to be the basis of everything, and is closely related to farming. Without it, there would be no important things in the life of a farmer in the paradise. However, this is the first time that it has entered the village community in large quantities.

After the second recruitment of labor, Mozhe seemed to be on track for the time being, not as busy as before.

In the largest house in Peiguo Township, the public cast was holding a few newly completed iron tools and talking to a group of ink masters.

The established iron smelting furnace has achieved normal operation. The annealing method and the iron pattern method ensure a steady supply of subway equipment, and the quality after inspection is acceptable.

After he finished speaking, everyone looked at Shi. As the radical of the Xuanyi Department, the importance of the Xuanyi Department gradually emerged, and the people's emotions were closely related to the actions of the Xuanyi Department.

"The second batch of people recruited labor service are in high spirits. After all, we are not not not giving money. Besides, we can buy iron tools if we give money."

"Modeling, molding, and smelting still requires more people. This must be collected as soon as possible in various cities and towns. These people must do one thing for a long time, so that they can become more proficient and do it faster."

After thinking about it for a while, I said some secret and dark truths.

"Why do we have to recruit people from other places? After local farmers have iron tools, they reclaim land and plant food. They are not willing to become iron smelting craftsmen for the time being. We can't do it for the time being if we give more money."

"With locals, they don't want to do it, so they will force it to come. It's not good. Pei County is a cave for Mozhe, so the people here should not be consumed in such matters. Besides, if we are too anxious, we can hide in the mountains and forests with iron tools, we can't do anything."

"The people who use the big cities and giants to help others with farming, one has no land, two has labor, and three has not been familiar with the neighborhood even if they don't want to work and run away."

"It's not that we don't give enough money, and putting the money we give elsewhere is already considered very high. But compared to the life of farmers in Pei County, it's still a little worse. Three years ago, we could use the same money to recruit local farmers, and they would come happily; but now, if we use the same money to recruit local farmers, they may not be willing."

"As it said, this kind of thing is not worth consuming the people's trust in us. Our Xuanyi Ministry has done its best and finally gained this trust and must not be consumed."

The most troublesome thing now is this problem. Pei County has developed, and a large number of wastelands and co-cultivation groups organized by Mozhe have sharply reduced the number of refugees in the local area and also made the local labor force expect commissions to increase.

The group of people that the Mohists will rely on in the future should be industrialists and businessmen and the increasing number of citizens as the agricultural revolution gradually formed.

But now, we have to rely on self-cultivated farmers, and we do not have the conditions to give up their support to fully represent the urban citizen class.

Therefore, the Mozhe has not yet collected excess taxes, and there has not been flood or drought in recent years, so the farmers have lived a pretty good life.

Fortunately, the Mo people look at the world, not just a land of fertile land, so the policy of recruiting refugees and small cities and towns as craftsmen can still be maintained.

Mo Zi agreed with Shi's view. Although the words that followed were straightforward and ugly, this was just a fact and a criterion that Mo people who are united in profit and righteousness must abide by.

After considering the appropriate statement, Mo Zi asked Gong Cai again: "Where are the iron smelting furnaces we used to dig tunnels and canals for the city, how are we preparing for?"

Gong Cai took out a piece of paper, and knew that the Mozhe was about to gather some of the Mozhe Jigan and the Peixian Yishi to go to Shangqiu. After careful calculation, he said: "If you defend the city, it should be enough, so that you can save some copper-made weapons."

Mo Zi asked again: "The kind that Shi said is iron on the outside and filled with gunpowder. Are those iron shells ready enough?"

Gong Zaizhu said no, he was only responsible for iron smelting, not caring about gunpowder, and said, "That kind of shell is also being produced, and there is no need to anneale. It is not done slowly. He has accumulated a lot."

Everyone present is a person who is qualified to know these secret things, so these things are not hidden.

The righteous army in Pei County has begun to promote and mobilize and explain why they fought clearly: it is very simple, in exchange for Song Duke's recognition of Pei County's semi-autonomous status, because the Mozhe did not have the ability to turn against him directly and refuse to recognize the entire aristocratic system.

When Pei County was struggling with iron, he was also paying close attention to the situation in the world.

This time the Chu people sent troops north to fight for hegemony was something that Shi knew about, and it was either this year or next year. Now the King of Chu will be assassinated and the State of Chu will fall into civil strife in inheritance rights.

The Chu County Public Officials Group has also begun to recruit local garrison troops. This time, it is not only to offend the Song people, but more importantly, to give Zheng, Song and Wei a signal: Don’t get too close to the Three Jins.

Zheng Bo and Han Hou had blood relatives, and Zheng Bo and the King of Chu were in-laws. Wei State was hidden in the north of Song State, and the one who could beat him after thinking about it was Song State.

Originally, defending the city and stopping the unjust war was an important creed of the Mohist. Although he did not accept it, since he became the Mohist, he had to obey the orders.

It is not difficult to defend the city, but the difficult thing is how to achieve the goal that the Mozhe wants through this time.

Two purposes.

One is the semi-autonomous status of Pei County. Duke Song can only have nominal sovereignty, but the governance power, taxation and policies are independent to ensure that the status of Duke Song and if attacked by the Three Jin and Chu, there will be a duty of defense.

Another is that Mozi hopes to use new weapons such as gunpowder to create a shocking battle in the city, so that Mo people can interfere in the major internal affairs to a higher level.

When the Qi and Lu battled, Mozi convinced the Duke of Qi to retreat with his powerful ability to defend the city, which indirectly led to Wu Qi going to Lu to Wei.

Mo Zi hopes that this time, Chu will be better at attacking Song. It has been too long since he persuaded the King of Chu more than thirty years ago. Many kings in the world seem to have forgotten the horror of Mozhe's art of defending the city. This time, Mo Zi hopes to give the world a clear lesson.

If it were in the past, it might be just a defense of the city, so it would be better if it could be defended.

But now, new weapons, iron tools, etc. are equivalent to directly destroying seven of the twelve siege techniques.

The most threatening ant siege will be more easily cracked in front of gunpowder weapons.

The new weapon is an iron can filled with gunpowder, with leads outside, ignited and thrown down from the city wall.

It may be poor in field combat, but it may be very effective in defending the city.

In field throwing, you need to have the strength of public smelting to prevent yourself from blowing up and breaking the opposite military formation.

When defending the city, as long as you can throw it a little further and stand on the high city wall in Shangqiu and throw it down, the effect will definitely be significant.

After I got out the gunpowder, the ink master thought about using stone as the shell, and also thought about using bronze.

But bronze is too expensive, especially this gunpowder weapon is completely disposable. If you throw one out, the surplus grains of several self-cultivated farmers in Pei County may be gone for a year.

Now that we have cast iron, we naturally think of using cast iron shells, which can at least be much cheaper.

As for how to defend it then, it depends on the specific situation.

Mozi believed that the "upper guard" in the city was to go out of the city to fight against the enemy in the field, and if you win the field, you don't need to defend the city.

But the military strength of Song State, let alone Chu State, may not even be able to defeat county garrison troops like the Shenxi Division of Chu State.

Both of these ideas are understood and clear. Since Mozi hopes to make the gunpowder weapon appear in the war for the first time in this battle, he must fully cooperate.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "Sir, although I am not proficient in defending the city, since the Chu people know that the teacher is still there, they may not choose to attack. If the Chu people choose to siege but not attack, how long can Shangqiu support it?"

Mo Zi stretched out his hands and smiled bitterly, "Ten months? Don't the meat eaters in Shangqiu know that the Chu people are coming? They just have their own constraints and plans, and have not yet prepared."

"The Chu people did not destroy Song, nor did they ced the city, but just asked the Song Dynasty to hire Chu. This kind of thing... some people don't want it, some people want it, and it's hard to work together."

Shi thought about it and said, "The Chu people may have to support it for up to ten months."

Mo Zi shook his head and said, "You are right, but not right. Although the Chu people delayed planting in October, the same is true for Shangqiu. After eating the food stored, Shangqiu will inevitably have a great famine next year. How can the princes and nobles take out food relief?"

"In the end, more than 10,000 people will be famined. The war outside the city has gone through, and planting next year is also a problem. So we can keep it for ten months, but we can't think about keeping it for ten months."

He felt a little smell, but he didn't know whether he was thinking right. He couldn't know the specific military deployment for the time being, and asked again: "Now the news from Shangqiu is that someone will object to the Mozhe going back to defend the city, right?"

After hearing this, Mo Zi smiled and said, "It's useless to oppose it. No matter whether it is Sicheng or the other six nobles, Huang, Le, Zi and other tribes of the Song State, it is impossible for us to directly oppose Mo people, which will arouse our resentment."

"What can they do? Send people to assassinate me? Not to mention whether they can find an assassin who can approach me, what can they do if they kill me? Qin Huali is still there, and Qin Huali is not there, there are many Mo people who will defend the city. Can they still kill the Mo people?"

"Besides, once the assassin is exposed, the ink master will be angry. Who dares to bear it?"
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