Mo Zi said this and smiled unconsciously: "This is what you said. Take advantage of the conflict between the king and the powerful ministers and nobles. Your conflict is very useful."

Everyone laughed and said with satisfaction: "If you only do things in Peidi, Mr. Song would be happy to do this. But no matter what, sir, you cannot be a ruling, prime minister, minister or imperial court. That is how you can make a spear, and let the lord and nobles join hands as a shield."

Mo Zi sighed when he thought about some of his previous thoughts and the fantasies he had had for decades of righteousness.

"Shi, I originally thought that you are not strong in using swords and shooting bows. Even if the gunpowder you made is just a mediocre person when throwing it. I thought that you, Gao Sunzi, Wu Mabo, stayed in Peidi and dominate the affairs of Peidi..."

"But I thought about it for a while, you should go to Shangqiu with me. Before going, do as much as possible in Peidi's affairs as possible."

"The guarding Shangqiu is not just a question of whether we Mo people can defend it, but the conflicts between the people, nobles, six nobles, and Song Duke in Shangqiu City. You, the radical of Xuanyi, can do many things in Shangqiu."

After a huh, he knew that the fact that he used a sword was loose, and he might not be as good as Liu Finger who had been studying with Gong Zaoye for two or three years.

He also knew that war had no eyes and was very dangerous. Even high positions like the King of Chu were shot blinded, and senior officials like Ling Yin were touched into a tent in the middle of the night to force an alliance.

But he still hopes to participate in this battle to defend the city, and must find ways to make enough contributions to let many Mohists know that even if he is not capable, he is not a coward, and he hopes to make some military contributions.

Shi also knew that Mozhe has now agreed that Peixian is Mozhe’s last nest, so it must be managed well.

From Mozi's words, Shi felt that Mozi recognized his governance talent, otherwise he would not have thought of letting him and Wu Ma Bo and Gao Sunzi stay in Pei County.

At the same time, we can also feel that Mozi has gradually realized the importance of propaganda and agitation. Sometimes these things are no less than thousands of elite soldiers, so I hope Shi will also go to Shangqiu together.

The siege of Shangqiu City can be predicted to last for a long time.

Shangqiu, as an ancient city that can be called a thousand-year-old at this time, has its own majesty. The Chu people knew the existence of the Mo people, and they might not choose to siege it. Perhaps it would have to last ten months or even longer, triggering a new round of Jin and Chu battle for hegemony.

This is nearly a year. The iron smelting workshop in Pei County has just been established. The seeds of those new crops can also be promoted on a small scale. It can be said that everything is thriving.

The seedlings are the most fragile. If the ink master wants to maintain this "nest", they must operate it carefully.

This battle to defend the city will only lead the 300 righteous troops in Pei County, plus some basic ink masters, to a total of only more than 600 people.

Even if the iron smelting process requires half-collecting labor, it is still far from the extreme mobilization force of Pei County.

The iron smelting matter is to draw one for five households, not one for five Dings. This is not the Qin State after the reform. There was no forced division, so there is more potential power.

How to use these potential powers to consolidate the Mozhe's foothold in Pei County is something that Mozi, Qiwuhao, and Shi and other tribes must carefully consider.

A year is too long, and many things must be set in advance.

This is what it means to convene a senior meeting of Mozhe. Judging from the number of participants, it is an enlarged meeting.

I have considered a lot before, and the ink master also discussed it internally, so I did not cover it up at this time.

"I think there are two main things this year."

"One is to dig irrigation ditches; the other is the land deeds of private fields and the transformation of the well fields."

"The conditions for digging ditches are now ripe. Iron tools are preferred to meet the needs of the land, which can be said to be twice the result with half the effort, and it is easier to dig than elsewhere."

"At that time, Fuchai was able to dig Hang Ditch. At that time, it was probably still made of copper, bone, and stone. Now there is iron, and it is not difficult to dig a river as long as Hang Ditch."

"It is not necessary to complete it within one year, but you must start digging as soon as possible, even if it is divided into three, five, or even ten years, but you can't just not do it just because it seems difficult."

"We ruined Wu Zhu, and we always need an existence that is not worried about water and drought."

Mo Zi nodded in agreement and said, "You once said that Ximen Bao from Ye once said, 'The people can succeed, but they cannot know the beginning'. Whether this is right depends on this ditch in Pei County."

At this time, Ximen Bao was operating in the north where Wei State inserted into Zhao Handan and Zhongmu. The two cities of Ximen Bao was really moved by the fact that the people were ignorant. They were willing to see success, but they could not think about the beginning before success.

Judging from the fact that Peidi operates an iron smelting workshop, this may not be true.

Shi smiled at this and said, "What Ximen Bao said is not necessarily wrong. He cannot use our method in Yedi; but the same way, his method cannot be used in Peidi today."

"This is the role of the Xuanyi Ministry, so that the people know why they should do it and what benefits will be after doing it. The Xuanyi Ministry's words can be believed by the people, and because the Mozhe did do many things that benefit them. This is complementary and indispensable."

"The Xuanyi Ministry has made preparations for digging the canal, so there is no need to worry about this. The specific number of rivers and the direction of the canal have also been prepared in advance."

"Before summer harvest and after summer harvest, people can be mobilized to do this. However, I still think that this thing should be done before summer harvest and before Mozhe goes to Shangqiu."

"Because this thing and the second thing must be done together."

Some people already know why they should be connected, while others still don’t know.

But soon, Shi explained his meaning.

The second thing is to privately divide public land, recognize private acres, collect private acres tax, change military taxes to taxes, and change recruitment of soldiers to voluntary recruitment system, which involves the interests of a large number of people.

Touching interests, such as killing parents.

The Mozhe needs to have an armed force in his hands and be ready to deal with the counterattack of local aristocrats.

It is not that we want to divide the land of the nobles, but that it is unnecessary, but that the personal dependence between the serfs and the nobles is enough to make those little nobles fight to the death.

Originally, the public land and the serfs were owned by the nobles, and the serfs on them belonged to the land. They needed to fulfill their feudal obligations for the nobles: planting, harvesting, reclamation, hunting, ice gathering, charcoal burning, construction, etc.

The monarch gave these public fields and fields to the nobles in exchange for the nobles to fulfill their military obligations to the monarch, because under the conditions of chariot war, the owners of four-horse chariots were actually similar to those of feudal knights.

Not everyone can shoot arrows on a chariot, not everyone can drive a chariot to attack. This requires full-time military aristocrats.

Before the infantry fully rises, there will be no military force without a chariot. It is extremely necessary to use the labor of one hundred slaughtermen to support a corporal. If a chariot is used well, it can rush out more than one hundred slaughtermen with low training.

Once the private land system is changed, iron tools appear again, and the Mo people have the intention of wealth and benefiting the world. Those serfs who were originally attached to the land will definitely find a way to escape. If the Mo people dare to gather them, they will be considered as formally turning against the local little nobles.

One can only be a serf for the rest of his life and is bound to the land; the other can become a self-cultivated farmer, and there are also large areas of grassland and wasteland that can be reclaimed... This does not require too much effort to understand the consequences.

The old nobles hoped to continue to maintain their original personal dependence and get the most profits.

This has nothing to do with the Mozhe coveting their land. What Mozhe coveted is the kind of personal dependence relationship.

With the emergence of iron tools, this kind of personal dependence relationship can be broken. It seems that it is just breaking this kind of personal dependence relationship, but in fact it is a large-scale escape of serfs, and land without serfs cannot obtain profits.

It’s very simple. If you liberate the serfs into self-cultivated farmers, you metropolitans provide iron tools and loans for them to cultivate. Even if we nobles still have land, they will have a use for eggs? Should we go to farm ourselves?

You Meghan admitted private land, reformed feudal obligations, provided loans and iron tools to support large and small self-cultivated farmers. Serfs fled to those wastelands, and no one gave us aristocrats land. Is our land still valuable?

The serfs were separated from their personal dependence, and there were no disciples behind the four-horse chariots. We took a car to fulfill our feudal obligations to the kings. Without military advantages, why should we obtain privileges?

This is an irreconcilable contradiction.

The Mo people can do very resolutely because the Mo people do not need the feudal military obligations of these little nobles.

The Wei State had begun to change the military system, and the infantry phalanx had gradually become the main force of war.

The Mozhe can do very bloody because the Mozhe does not need these little nobles as grassroots managers.

Although the Mozhe School was first established, the small Pei County has gathered a large number of talents that can be called "scholars".

We must be determined and bloody, and we must not let external forces interfere. The best time is when the Chu people surrounded Song, and the great nobles of Song had no time to take care of Pei County.

And this foundation requires the Mozhe to have an armed force that can be suppressed at any time.

Three or four hundred Mo people, plus more than three hundred rigorously trained Peixian Yishi, can deal with the little nobles in Peixian.

However, once a large number of Mo people left and the Yishi went to Shangqiubo to gain the autonomous status of Pei County, the little nobles might find an opportunity to counterattack.

The recruitment of farmers who are used for iron smelting is a force, and if the mobilization force of Pei County can reach its limit in the name of digging canals, it can ensure an absolute advantage to extinguish any counterattack.

According to the basis of the People's Law of Pei County, the Mo people were not qualified to govern the nobles of Peiyi because they did not sign and recognize the Twelve Grass and Silk Laws.

But now the strength is enough and the time is good enough. If you still think about the ridiculous principles and rationality, the Mozhe can disband now.

Mo said that the feudal rights of the nobles were unreasonable. After explaining the truth clearly, ask the nobles to sign and admit it... This is obviously ridiculous. If you believe that the nobles do not admit it and do not sign it, then there is no legality... Mo said he doesn't have to think about benefiting the world.

Let's do it first.

This is a suitable idea, and it is also an idea that the top leaders of the Mohist leaders basically agree. Therefore, without disturbing the small nobles, the people can be gathered together in the name of digging canals, and then distributed weapons to force those nobles to give up their feudal rights on the public land fiefs.

If you are more clear-headed, the Mozhe can not mess with them, let them evolve into commercial landlords, and transform them into exploiting classes under the new production relations.

Those who are not clear-headed have ten thousand ways to encourage the serfs on the public land and fiefs to escape.
Chapter completed!