In the year of Gengchen, spring.

As we know in 401 BC, it is not known whether the concept of the Japanese will be in the future because of the early appearance of gunpowder and the reorganization of the Mohist school.

At least in the view of the Mohist school, this was the 1,600 years of Yu Sheng's calendar, and it was also the Gengchen year.

This was the first year when Emperor Ji Jiao of Zhou changed the reign, and it was also half a year after the King of Chu surrounded Shangqiu.

The ancient Shangqiu City had the sound of firecrackers during the spring sacrifice for the first time.

Although the once horrifying sounds were still vague and expensive, some people started to set off, and it was no longer so panicking.

Just as the horror that can destroy all things is controlled by people, the mystery is faded away. Gunpowder has finally begun to fade away the mystery and is accepted by the people of Shangqiu in the center of Jiuzhou.

The one who set off firecrackers was the Craftsman Association in Shangqiu. They were celebrating the profits of the Craftsman Association last year. The firecrackers were sent by Mohist disciples, and they only said that they could hear some thunder in winter to be a sign of a good day next year.

A lot of things happened in Shangqiu City last year, fresh and old.

Coups, wars, aristocratic conspiracies and power struggles, all of which are already a bit vulgar, so vulgar that the people of Shangqiu have no interest in discussing this.

Even though the Inquiry Yuan was established, the conspiracies and power struggles have not changed, but have only changed their form and continue to exist.

The people's wisdom has not yet been fully opened, but the propaganda and agitation of the Mohist school has opened the minds of many common people, and they no longer think of the nobles as mysterious.

After breaking the siege of Chu people in June last year, the first meeting of the Inquiry Yuan was held in July. The people were sensational, the nobles were noisy, and the duke had nowhere to go...

When the Chu people officially withdrew their troops, it was just before the meeting of the Council of the People's Court in July. The Chu people's farmers were looking forward to going back to harvest, after all, it took time to walk.

Before leaving, Zhaozhi's right Yin of Chu was ordered by the King of Chu to meet with the Mo family members, Wulai and radicals, as well as the Mo family's giants, and asked the Mo family to help build Yuguan and Daliang with brick and stone technology.

His reason was to build a pass city, just like letting soldiers have shields but no swords. If the sword cannot penetrate the shield, the person holding the sword would not easily move troops.

Moreover, the King of Chu had already vowed with the Mo family to abide by the agreement to stop the war, so he broke into the protruding part of the Central Plains and became a city gate that the Chu people had to vigorously manage.

At this time, Daliang, which belonged to Chu and later as the capital of Wei, was eventually breached by Wang Ben with the plan of flooding. What he feared the most was flooding of the rammed earth wall.

Because the King of Chu had seen the Mo family's brick and stone technology, he also used lime to solve the problem of brick and stone bonding. Therefore, the King of Chu always hoped to use brick and stone technology to strengthen the defense of the two cities of Daliang and Wuyang.

These two places are bridgeheads to break into the Central Plains and must be majestic enough.

The Mo family did not refuse this, but instead organized some brick and stone craftsmen based on the craftsman association to contract the renovation of Wuyang City and Daliang City.

Shi did not refuse, and even hoped that the Mo family would preside over the city defense repairs of Wuyang City and Daliang City.

He did not love the King of Chu, but knew that there would be a big battle in these two places within ten years. This was the bridgehead for the Chu people to attack the Central Plains to influence hegemony. Therefore, he wanted to kill many nobles in these two city pits. Therefore, he hoped to leave some "back doors" or "loops" that the Mohist family knew when repairing the city defense.

When the nobles are needed to die in the war in these two cities, the reserved back doors and loopholes will play a huge role.

The sinister intentions of the Mohist school were naturally expressed for a high-sounding reason, and were recognized and approved by others.

This is also a good thing for the craftsmen association in Shangqiu, because they told them that they might be able to contract the repairs of cities in various countries in the future, and the craftsmen association has also gone from carpenters to stonemasons and copper smiths.

Subsequently, some people in the Craftsman Association were also elected as representatives of the Commonwealth House and participated in the first Inquiry Council meeting of the Inquiry Council.

The process was very chaotic, many rules were incomplete, and each had loopholes. Fortunately, it was not fought, and many of the things proposed by the Mohist school were basically accepted.

It is a clause of compromise and concession. While maintaining the old habit of Zhou Li, it has added some new things.

The emperor's father Zang was elected as the ruler of the State of Song by the Common People's Court, and the position of Sicheng was still retained.

Because of the previous coup, the six ministers still held the positions of ministers and would not change for at least ten years.

The fiefs of the nobles remain unchanged, and the nobles still do not have to pay taxes for the time being, and the privileges of the nobles remain basically unchanged.

The only changes are part of the power and interests of the Shangqiu people, as well as a series of land system changes, tax changes, etc. limited to Shangqiu City.

The first thing the emperor's father Zang did as the chief magistrate of the Zhengyuan was to repay the Mohist school who supported him, which could be regarded as fulfilling his political promise.

After all, he had to do it after being widely publicized before, otherwise he would be a person without trust.

In addition to paying a certain amount of taxes every year, Pei County has all self-government, except for belonging to the State of Song, except for its military obligation to defend the State of Song.

Compared with the fiefs of nobles, the power is still smaller and the obligations are more, but it sets the precedent for self-organization of cities and towns, and it is also the first city where nobility is the priest.

The county priests who were elected and introduced to the Song Gong, it is enough to report to the Song Gong to take a form, but whoever is the Pei Gong, the founding of the Zhengyuan, etc., has no right to appoint and remove him.

Subsequently, Gong Zaiye made great contributions to defeating the Chu camp with his commander and was granted the title of Pengcheng Guard in form, and was fully responsible for Pengcheng's government affairs, just like the power of Wu Qi and Xihe in the Wei Kingdom.

Mozi did not accept the franchise and fiefdom because he was a giant. The giant of the Mo family could not be a minister of others unless the monarch used the Mo family's meaning.

However, Mohist disciples can become officials, as long as the Mohist disciples are allowed to discuss it internally.

Public school is just a name, and what is really in power is the Seven Wonders and Radical Conference of the Mohist School.

At the same time, more than a thousand households moved to Shangqiu without land or helped farm and livelihood, and went to Pengcheng.

Just after these two things were completed, the Chu Youyin Zhaozhi'e, who stayed in Songdi to watch the ceremony, conveyed the order that the King of Chu had already drafted, and once again reiterated the special status of Peidi, so as to inform all countries not to think about monopolizing this place.

At this point, the goals set by the Chu people three years ago, the Song people's civil strife, gunpowder and weapons were basically achieved.

Once the Yue people moved south, if the Chu State was in civil turmoil, the Song State nobles used various means to inquire about the political court, the Tian family in Qi State fought for the head of the family, and the Three Jins' disputes over the inheritance rights caused by the ascension of the Zhaohou and the Three Jins... The entire area of ​​Pei County in Pengcheng, the future Western Chu will be able to fly high in the sky, and the sea will be wide by the fish.

It can fly for at least twenty years.

As for the Xunzhengyuan in Shangqiucheng, the Mohist school has no more interest, or at least it has no more interest, at least it will not spend too much energy on it.

What the Mohist family had to do was to use craftsmen's associations and sacrificial preaching methods to gradually penetrate the common people's courtyard in Shangqiu City after inquiring about the Zhengyuan meeting to ensure a gentle influence.

In August, after the Inquiry Council meeting ended, the people also prepared enough wood, and the craftsmen came forward to make a large number of ink trucks, and some people had already started to rest and recuperate the road.

The Mohist family used iron tools, spirits, wheat flour, etc. to pay a lot of gold to the craftsman association in advance, and the Shangqiu people paid back the price of the ink car in installments.

At the end of August, Shangqiu organized thousands of people to push carts to Pei County to transport grain.

Those children who were selected to study in Pei County, smart young people selected in a row, followed the Moche team to return to Pei County.

The Yishi of Pei County and some full-time force Mo people returned to Pei County first, suppressed two local aristocratic turmoils, and replaced some Mo people who had presided over land measurement and other work in Pei County, and asked them to go to Shangqiu to organize the breaking of well fields and open up the roads.

Immediately afterwards, the entire Shangqiu organized autumn plowing and winter wheat planting in a group of five or ten to sow hope for next year.

In early September, the Sanjin sent an envoy to Shangqiu to express his approval of the Inquiry Yuan. He then made an appointment with senior officials of the Mo family to discuss some matters.

The Mohist school also sent envoys with sufficient weight headed by Qin Huali to Weidu to discuss the matter of the Suppression Conference.

Qin Huali was quite famous in the Wei Kingdom and was friends with Duan Ganmu, Tian Zifang and others. He was the next giant of the Mo family, so this was enough.

The Wei people wanted a lot of things, and the Moshe could give a lot of things. The only thing he knew was that the Mibinghui would not be successful, so he suggested that Qin Huali be more careful in discussion.

He wanted to delay time until the death of the King of Chu, and until the resurgence of the war would completely turn into a bubble, and to make everyone in the Mo family give up their fantasy of not attacking the king.

But others don’t know his ideas, so his statement sounds very reasonable: Stop war will be a big deal. The reason why we made a three-year agreement was because many things needed to be discussed. Therefore, as a representative of the Mohist school, Qin Huali must explain it clearly to the Wei, Han and Zhao people.

If you explain it clearly, you will inevitably be slow and will inevitably delay the death of the King of Chu, which will lead to the resolution of the war and become a joke.

Those who followed Qin Huali to the Three Jins, some Mo people who were very skilled in throwing gunpowder weapons, and those who were going to have a quarrel with Lie Yuko and Yang Zhu.

In early October, the Shangqiu people who transported grain from Pei County returned to Shangqiu. They not only brought back the grain, but also brought back a lot of iron tools, which were borrowed by the Mo family to the Shangqiu people, but were still paid in installments. The Shangqiu people already owed the Mo family a lot of money and grain.

In addition to these physical objects, there are many strange experiences and more hopes in Pei County.

At the end of October, the imperial father of the Inquiry Yuan, the Emperor's father, agreed to the decision of the Common People's Court to dig a canal in Shangqiu, which received support from the people of Shangqiu. At the same time, some Mo family figures in Pei County who had presided over the excavation of the canal came to Shangqiu and became the first group of affairs officers hired by the Inquiry Yuan.

In the next two months, there were no major changes or situations in Shangqiu City. Everything was as usual, but everything was brand new.

For example, it is the usual after July, and it is a new rule of hundreds of years.

For example, the craftsmen who were setting off firecrackers to celebrate would invest the fees paid by the Mohist family to the public ink carts they had paid to them before in the iron smelting workshops opened by the Mohist family, and they could receive dividends every year, which is an extremely new form.

In the end, the money was still transferred back to the Mo family, and the concentrated capital began to attract those who helped farm, landless people, craftsmen, etc. in various countries, and continued to travel to Pei County.

As the firecrackers were sounding, the craftsmen were preparing to drink a few glasses of strong wine and ate a meal of wheat flour to celebrate, suddenly there was a neighing sound of horses outside. The two horses fell at the door due to fatigue and foaming.

A strong middle-aged man, wearing a short brown scarf from the Mo family, held a black iron plate and a paper with a seal printed on it, shouted loudly: "Please prepare a carriage with me, I will go to Peiyi immediately to see the giant son!"
Chapter completed!