Chapter 23 Undercurrent
In troubled times, we can no longer be able to keep ourselves alone.
Under the impact of the capital and technology of the Mohist family, Guo Zong wanted to strengthen the big family, and only power was possible. To obtain power, he should participate in the dispute between the princes of Zhao State.
At that time, with the support of the Gongzi Dynasty, once the Gongzi Dynasty rises, he will need to be rewarded.
At that time, the Mohist family will not be allowed to move in Zhao State, and the Mohist family's iron ore workshop will be reserved for special operations. This is the only way to win.
Fortunately, there are many people who compete with the people for profit.
There are many people who are dissatisfied with the Mohist family. These people have great energy. It is time to get together to participate in this almost well-known event.
Guo Zong, wearing mourning clothes, gathered a number of people who revenge against the Mohist and Gongzi Zhang during the Handan reform. At this moment, he asked everyone a question.
"What is the greatest wealth today?"
The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit.
There is no hatred for no reason in the world. The root cause of these people gathered here today is that their interests are damaged.
Speaking of wealth, some of these people say it is gold and silver, some say it is pearls and jade, and some say it is land, but all of this was refuted by Guo Zong.
In the end, Guo Zong said: "The greatest wealth in the world is power. If you and I have power, even if the Mo family has money and many industries, you and I can't resist each other, what can we do?"
"Issuing a law to take back the Mo family's industries and divide them into us, and only allow us to do so. Does the Mo family have any other way to fight us?"
"You and I are both businessmen, and what you seek is the profit of gold and silver. Trafficking horses can make a profit; smelting copper and iron can make a profit of five times the profit; turning pearls and jade can make a profit of ten times the profit. But if you invest in power, you can get a hundred times the profit."
It is worthwhile that he has read many books from the Mohist school, and the existence of these books allows him to see a broader world at a young age.
Guo Zong, who could leave a name for himself in history books, had his own unique features.
Later generations once recorded that Guo Zong, who "lived in Handan, made a business through iron smelting, and became rich with the king."
It is precisely because of this huge wealth and the iron smelting industry that is closely related to military wars that the Guo clan, as a foreign surname, gradually entered the core decision-making level of Zhao State.
Then his descendants could become the person who decided to defeat Zhao State... The envoy behind the scenes who falsely accused Wu'an Jun Li Mu of being killed by King Zhao; the envoy bribed the envoy to tell if Lian Po could still eat or not was just a three-pointer in a flash, which was Guo Kai, a descendant of the Guo Zong clan.
During the Warring States Period, it was one of the few merchants who could participate in political disputes among the nations. The merchant's vision was better than that of ordinary civilians because of the lack of paper, printing and aristocratic knowledge monopoly.
Guo Zong was young and it was not easy to think of this. Or it was the only way he could think of a confrontation when facing the wave of Mohism transforming society according to the wishes of capital.
However, he did not think that if the monarchy and monarchy could support him and suppress the rest of the people with just saying goodbye, then what would he rely on to protect the interests of the entire industrial and commercial class from being suppressed by monarchy?
All the Mohist family did was ultimately for one purpose. One day in the future, the industrial and commercial class was strong enough to have class consciousness and did not want to smash the constraints hanging above the head when there was a royal power pressing on the head.
This requires material foundation, and more importantly, some theories and statements to let the bottom stand with them. The rich pay, the bottom contributes their efforts, and nominal equality and love replace natural inequality of bloodline.
In a sense, what Guo Zong wants to do is still too small after all.
However, from now on, Guo Zong can no longer think of a better way to fight against the monster on Si, unless he relies on power.
Others who gather here due to hatred or damage to interests cannot come up with more practical ideas than Guo Zong.
Everyone savored the words "Invest in power and make a hundred times profit" and felt the taste contained in it more and more.
Originally, they were not willing to devote themselves to such things, because no matter who became Zhao Hou, they would eventually need their help in some things, and would not easily provoke such rich people as them, but would treat them with courtesy.
However, now they have been unintentionally contested and suppressed by the Mo family, and have changed from wearing shoes to barefoot people. They need to fight to the death, otherwise they will have to wait to die slowly.
As his mentality changed, Guo Zong, the idea that many people present would be considered undesirable twenty years ago, was praised by the intersection at this time.
Everyone calmed down, listened to some of the opinions put forward by Guo Zong, considered the privileges they wanted after success, and calculated the servants, weapons, and money they could take out, and became more and more excited.
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Guo Zong’s invisible undercurrents are still considered to be the choice of people in Zhao, and it is the internal discrepancy within a country under the impact of the times.
In Handan City, with the obvious situation of the dispute between the princes of Zhao State, more foreigners appeared on the streets of Handan for their own different purposes.
More than ten days after Solusan came to Handan, there was a guest house in Handan City.
In the past few years, the Mohist style of lectures in Handan has been quite popular, and many people in Handan City go to listen to lectures when they are idle.
In the restaurant today, a Zhao Yin, who was traveling west with Solu Chan, who was clear and not very standard, was talking about Zhao Yin, who was mixed with Wei's accent, was spitting and telling the story of the journey westward.
This person is beautiful and has some practical things in his heart. After following Soluchan for ten years, he joined the Mo family and became a Mo master on the way. Now he returns to his hometown to talk to others, which is really fascinating.
At this moment, he was talking about Solusan's incident in Persia. When talking about a tribe near Persia, Solusan relied on gunpowder to make some tribes mistakenly think that he was the God of Thunder and Lightning, which attracted everyone's laughter.
Many young people thought to themselves, those people are so stupid, why don’t you even know gunpowder?
Some older people think that this is normal. When gunpowder just came to Handan, didn’t some people think it was thunder and lightning in the sky?
The winery was filled with a happy atmosphere, which was already quite Si Shang style. In the corner of the winery with seats and tables, two people held wine cups and listened to the stories told in the winery.
On the table of the two people, there was a pot of wine, a few wheat cakes, and a portion of mutton fried with pepper. There were no low-level nobles such as spoons and forks on the table, and only two pairs of wooden chopsticks.
The two of them were tall and short. When they heard the man in the restaurant talking about some cunning words that Solusan said, the tall man couldn't help but smile and said, "It has been twenty years since Shangqiu parted. Solusan's personality is still like this, and it really deserves to be the title of "Oriental Cunning."
The short man said, "Zhongni said that he should teach according to his aptitude. The giant said that people should be able to get their own strengths and do things in the world. When he chose Soluz to travel west, he naturally valued his character, and this matter was not something he could not do. He traveled tens of thousands of miles west and traveled for ten years. He could not do this matter without a wise and brave man."
When the short man talked about giants, it was so natural, as if he had already called him.
The tall man sighed and said, "Don't call me a giant. When his parents passed away, he passed on a letter to the world. He did not allow us to mourn. He had already cut off his name as a master and disciple. We are no longer Mozhe..."
As he was sighing, the person who was telling these experiences in the restaurant with a "task" turned his head inadvertently. He saw the tall and short person in the corner, with a hint of surprise on his face. Then he stopped talking and approached the low table to observe carefully.
When the two men, one tall and one short, were stunned when they saw this man staring at him, and subconsciously stroked the iron sword on the table.
The person who told the story asked with a hint of surprise: "It's... Mr. Gao and Mr. Ai? Haven't you returned to Qin with the young master?"
As soon as Mr. Gao and Mr. Qiu cried out, the palms placed on the scabbard were removed. After careful examination, they found that they did not recognize each other. But since they called it that way, they were obviously old-fashioned, so they asked, "Are you?"
The person who told the story said repeatedly: "I served Gongzi Lian back then. When the three of them came to see Gongzi Lian, they defeated the swordsman beside the young master with one sword technique, so that Gongzi Lian could see Shengchuo. At that time, I served the people."
"Ten years ago, Solusan met Shengchuo in Anyi and saw Prince Lian. When talking about the trip to the west, Prince Lian sent ten swordsmen to follow him, and I was among them."
Both of them also have names, but when they were around the young master, everyone called them tall and short, so they all knew that this was the old friend.
In order to attract the attention of Prince Lian, Shengchuo first called someone to Anyi and showed some skills to Prince Lian to hold a ceremony to burn the court. The two of them were among them.
The tall man heard that he called him Mr. Gao, but when he talked about Solusan, he called him his name. He knew the difference and asked with a smile: "Are you joining Mozhe? Are you calling each other comrades with them?"
While speaking, he asked someone to add a chair and smiled and said, "The Mo family is equal, everyone can sit down."
The man was not embarrassed and sat on the side and said, "That's right, I heard Solu Chan tell the Mo family about the meaning of the Mo family and become the Mo master. What are the two gentlemen here?"
When this man joined the Mo family, Mozi had already told the world that those rebels who were not allowed to follow Shengchuo to mourn him for his death, which was equivalent to completely severing the relationship between master and apprentice.
However, this person didn't know much about the grievances of the Mo family in the previous generation, but he knew that these two people were rebelling against Mo. If they did not rebel against Mo, they would have become one of the few old Mo people in the Mo family during the era of King Weilie of Zhou.
After he asked, he thought of some rumors after he came back, and said strangely: "Mr. Shengchuo has joined the Qin Dynasty with his son. Now he is the King of Qin, two gentlemen... If you are traveling, you should be a carriage and horse carriage."
Chapter completed!