People are always like this. When it is most difficult to drown, a piece of wooden board is enough to be happy.

But when the risk of drowning disappears, you will sigh that there are many pricks on the wooden board, which would be great if it was a boat.

Song Gongzitian had this kind of mentality at this time.

When the coup came and the Chu people besieged the city, Zitian was looking forward to keeping his throne as the Duke and not being expelled by the people.

And when all these dangers were lifted, Song Gong was full of vigilance and panic about the growing popular movement in Shangqiu.

The Mohist people used funeral rituals to delay time. In order to protect his basic foundation, Song Gong had to be the one who maintained the Zhou rituals, so that enough taxis could be used for him.

Even though he attended the funeral ceremony and was busy accompanying the Chu people, Duke Song was still concerned about the situation in the city.

Because this matter is too important, Zitian feels that his interests are seriously threatened.

Originally, as a monarch, he also had his own fiefdom. The land of Song State was not just from Duke Song. If he could achieve that all the territory of Song State was the king, there would not have been so many coups.

According to the Zhou Li, scholars have a fief and salary, and the officials are twice as much as the officials, the officials are twice as much as the officials, and the superiors are twice as much as the superiors, and the monarch is twice as much as the superiors.

This is different from the taxes commonly imposed.

The name of tax is subject to public, and tax is for sacrifices and some daily ritual expenses. Tax is military obligations and military expenses. Even according to the Zhou ritual, this is not something that the monarch can use privately.

The monarch's personal fief is a completely different situation. The taxes in the fief belong to the monarch himself, and some daily expenses are also obtained from the fief.

Some of the public land belongs to the Song State, not to the Song State. The Mohist masters seized this point and tried to inquire about the power of the Political Court to discuss the use of these tax expenditures.

The distinction between public and private has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts, but this matter is easy to achieve and it is easy to explain clearly.

This is what Mr. Song was dissatisfied with.

Nowadays, the policies within the fiefs of the nobles and monarchs remain unchanged. The basic foundation of the Mo family is the free common people in Shangqiu, rather than the serfs in the fiefs of the nobles and monarchs.

After hearing some rumors in the city, Song Gong heard the closest servants telling some rumors in the city, he sighed with the closest officials who had clearly stood on his side: "I originally thought that the Mohist method of farming ox farms could be levied more taxes. Originally, the two were not enough. I thought that the current reform of farms could be levied more, but the Mohist people clamored for the people to agree on the tax amount."

A close minister said, "Your Majesty, this matter is probably no longer easier. The people are villains, and the Mohist school of thought of profit, will the people not follow it? If you do not agree, what can you do? If you do not agree, the people will expel you. Besides, if you do not agree, you are afraid that your uncle will agree..."

Zitian patted his legs and sighed, "Why didn't I agree to this matter? How could I not agree to this matter?"

"The Mo family has already told the truth: the wealth of a king is the sum of the wealth of the people of a country. So if I am the king of Song, I will only have one or two taels of gold, and I still have all the wealth of Song."

"This is the reason. Even if I don't want to accept it, the people cannot agree."

"But what should I do if I am above my fiefdom and salary? The people of Shangqiu all use their private acres and set taxes. If I collect too much of my fiefdom and salary, the common people above will be dissatisfied. Wouldn't they be dissatisfied with the competition? Or would they flee?"

The close minister hurriedly said, "I heard about this matter in the street market yesterday, but I told me a solution."

"It is said that the land of the lord can be rented to the Enquiry Council. The Enquiry Council will send someone to the jurisdiction to provide the wealth and food that the lord can accept every year, and these wealth and food will be used by the palace."

"He also said that the payment of these lands will definitely be more than what the Lord had previously earned!"

After the close minister finished speaking what seemed perfect, Zitian said angrily: "Can we believe this person's words?"

"Does he think about us 'priests and nobles'? Everyone knows that all day long, wealth comes from labor, and princes and nobles are all worms, so he cannot believe his words!"

The close minister hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, I heard that the people of Pei County are rich in wealth, and I think the Mo family also has a way to manage them. Modi is very talented and his disciples are very talented. They said that you can rent the land to the Inquiry Yuan to pay more wealth and food to support the office, which is possible."

Zitian smiled bitterly and said, "What else do I have left? Money? Food? If there is any coup to seize the throne, where will my soldiers come from? Those fiefs and salary areas are not just money, food, but also soldiers."

"If those lands do not belong to me, where can I have my own soldiers?"

The close minister said, "It is said that Shangqiu and Liyishi. If there is a national war, the Yishi will have to fulfill its obligations. If someone violates the Constitution, the Yishi will also maintain the Constitution. Sicheng, Dayin and others will not be able to do anything to usurpate."

"You have seen the methods of the Mo family. The Chu army can run through the formation and join forces. Dayin, is Sicheng more majestic than the Chu army?"

Zitian gritted his teeth and said, "What Yi Master is maintaining is the law of law. Whoever respects the law of law is Song Gong, then what is left of me, Song Gong? What if I violate the law of law?"

"Even if I have money, grain and silk, what can I do? Daily wine, pond, meat forest?"

The close minister was speechless, knowing that this was an unavoidable problem and an unsolvable knot.

If a monarch can abide by the law, it sounds good, but what is the monarch if that is the case? Just a rich man? A symbol of the Song Dynasty?

But if the monarch does not want to do this, the aristocratic conflicts and the organized people will make this Duke Song even the name of Duke Song disappear.

Moreover, with the size of the State of Song, it seems that it can't be done: it's a dead end to external expansion.

This kind of thing happened to small countries such as Song Zhengwei and Wei, and many exiled monarchs are living examples.

If it were three hundred years ago, if you asked the Zhou emperor for such a matter, the Zhou emperor would naturally inform the world and all the princes would send troops to maintain the etiquette and law system.

But now the Zhou emperor cannot protect himself. The Three Jins, who nominally respected the Zhou emperor, was because the Chu people formed an alliance this time and could not easily interfere in the affairs of the Song State.

After Zitian considered it, he also understood the pros and cons of this matter.

Yu You, as long as he abides by the law and asks for the matter agreed upon by the Zhengyuan, his position as Song Gong is unshakable.

The Chinese people originally had the power to abolish the monarch. Although the inheritance rights can only be found within the public clan, it is still easy to find someone who is willing to be a law-abiding within the public clan.

The advantage is that the other nobles cannot get involved, and there is no possibility of being involved: the coup must be recognized by the Shangqiu people, and now the people of Shangqiu have been clamored by the Mohists and will only recognize the law.

In the worst case, it means that you can only be a symbol of the Song Kingdom, and you can't do anything you want. You cannot easily increase taxes, you cannot start a war easily, and even in the future, you need to spend money from your own salary to hire the people.

This is almost impossible for a great king.

But at this time, Song Gong was resentful and dissatisfied, but he was not unacceptable.

When the war broke out, Zitian, who was originally ambitious, was thoroughly educated and awakened by the Chu people: the surrounding Zheng, Chu, Sanjin and other countries could not defeat any of them.

Before ascending the throne, Zitian despised his father and thought it would be impossible to restore the dominance of Duke Xiang.

When he truly ascended the throne, faced the conspiracy of the nobles, the people were dissatisfied, and the great country besieged the city, Zitian realized that what he could do might not be better than his father.

After thinking for a long time with dissatisfaction, Zitian finally shook his head and thought to himself how to bargain with the Xunzhengyuan and the Mo family, let his fiefdom and salary be rented out, and provide more wealth and grain every year.

At least the land near Shangqiu must do this, otherwise it would be impossible for the people on the fief to see the common people of Shangqiu like this, without resentment.

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In the Sicheng Imperial Mansion, the Emperor's Fathers, who had experienced this siege, were even more dissatisfied.

Originally, the emperor's father Yue Ling hoped to take advantage of the opportunity of the Chu people siege the city and invite the Three Jins to help, use this merit to gain recognition from the people, and then seize judicial power from Zitian to prepare for usurpation of the throne.

However, the emergence of the Mo family made the Emperor's father Yue Ling's plan completely bankrupt: the people of Chu were defeated before the Three Jins sent troops. Now the people in the city only know the Mo family, but they have no chance to know that the Emperor's father's clan can invite the Three Jins to help.

Now the journey has been completed. Even if the alliance has been completed, the nobles' fiefs remain unchanged within ten years and the nobles' official responsibilities are not lightly moved. However, compared with the dreams of the Sicheng clan, it is much worse.

Once the agreement is successful, the Sicheng Emperor clan knows that unless the inheritance rights are changed, there is no possibility of his own clan ascending to the throne again.

Although my own branch was separated from Dai Gong, since he had a family, he was divided and had no connection with the office.

According to the inheritance law at this time, even if the Chinese expelled Duke of Song, they could only elect one person from the office to ascend the throne, and foreign tribes of other surnames were not qualified to intervene.

The emperor's father Zang looked sad and laughed at himself for a while: "Now it seems that the method of choosing the emperor of the Mo family may not be bad. If the emperor is allowed, why can't Song Jun choose?"

"If you choose, you will be a famous person, and our clan is still possible. Now that the matter of the investigation by the Zhengyuan is successful, it is unlikely to achieve success."

The emperor's father Yue Ling was looking through some papers from the Mo family. After hearing what his father said, he stood up and said, "It's not the case. I look at the Mo family's principles, but I am afraid that the major affairs of the Song State belong to the Inquiry Yuan, but the political affairs must always belong to the Ordination of the Inquiry Yuan elected by the Inquiry Yuan."

"And the choice of the imperial court can only be chosen from the gentleman's courtyard, and no one is allowed to take responsibility unless he is a noble. Can my father know about the affairs of Zhou Gong at that time? Can I know about the affairs of the Republican Bo at that time?"

The emperor's father Zang nodded and said, "Naturally, I know. I take charge of the king's politics and live under the king, but the government orders are all from Duke Zhou and Gongbohe."

The emperor's father Yue Ling waved his hand and said, "That's right. Duke Zhou became the king and the founding of the Song Xun Zhengyuan was just like this. The Zitian year name was called, but the government orders all came from the prime minister of the Xun Zhengyuan. Who is the real Duke of Song?"

After he finished speaking, the emperor's father Zang thought for a while, and as soon as he realized something, the emperor's father Yue Ling said again: "Da Yin and others, I am afraid that they will not agree to our clan as the Minister of the Political Court. We cannot compare with them in the Gentleman Courtyard. But what about the common people's court? This is a power that can be borrowed."
Chapter completed!