Since the beginning of the war of inheritance rights in Zhao State, the Mo family has been bargaining with Gongzizhang, and it is centered around one core: dividing the spoils.

The "stolen goods" that was divided was to deal with the slaves, serfs on the fiefs after the nobles of the Prince's Dynasty, as well as Yunzhong, Jiuyuan, and even Hetao that could not be obtained until the Zhao Kingdom's era of King Wuling.

These places are not from Zhao State now, so there is no question of dividing land.

Loufan and Lin Hu are now very weak compared to the Central Plains. They have neither the organization of the Central Plains nor the technology of the Central Plains. The earlier appearance of iron and gunpowder has left these settlements with no advantage at all.

With the power of the Mohist family now in Gaoliu, it is not a problem to capture the clouds.

The problem is that population, without population, it cannot be kept, and there is no meaning at all.

Under the feudal system, population is both wealth and strength.

The nobles bound the farmers to the land, and the enfeoffed land could be transferred together with the population, which is a fact carved on some burial bronze ware.

Population means that the nobles can have more recruitment, greater strength, and more capital to bargain with the king.

This is why the aristocratic system restricts the development of productivity.

Controlling exile, exile is a crime, which leads to the inability to migrate at will.

The Mohist family wanted to maintain the nomadic dividing line along the Yinshan line. It was not possible to have no population, but it was not enough to liberate grassland slaves and had large cultural differences. It took time for nomadic to turn to farming to be suitable for even the climate and environment and new crops.

The Prince rebelled independently and the Wei State interfered. This was foreseeable.

And this kind of foresight can also be transformed into what the Mohist school wants.

If a group of nobles from Zhao State were not dealt with seriously, the population would not be able to migrate to Yunzhong, one radish and one pit. You have to dig the radish before you can move the excess pits elsewhere.

This is too high for the price, so I have to plan in advance: If the Wei State is still a bully, Prince Zhang will definitely recognize his marquis as soon as possible. Only by pitting Wei State to half of the destruction can Prince Zhang decide to break with Wei State completely. With the momentum of breaking, the Mo family immediately negotiated with Wei State so that Wei State could calmly mobilize troops against Zhao State.

Wei was forced out, Xihe, Zhongshan, Zhao, Sishang, Chen Cai, and Wei could not deal with everything, and could only choose one side. In this circle, Zhao was the weakest, at least the country in Zhao was the most chaotic at this time. If he did not interfere with Zhao, he would face the situation of being surrounded on all sides.

Now the situation has emerged. The old minister Gong Zhonglian, who had just succeeded to the throne, passed away again. The people of Handan were obviously unpatriotic and bargaining. When the Mohist family came to talk again, Gong Zizhang was really helpless.

There are too many people who can do the position of Zhao Hou. Zhao Wugong's body is not cold. Is there any problem with his biological son becoming a marquis?

Therefore, the nobles could watch and watch Wei State interfere, but his son Zhang could not do it.

Because when the Mo family's envoy came to Zhongmu, Zhao's capital, Zhao Gongzizhang and all the civil and military officials knew that this was taking advantage of the situation to rob, but they could do nothing: the people in Handan and the merchants who provided war debts in various places did not believe in Zhao Hou, but just agreed to let the Mo family be intermediaries. They lend money and food to the intermediaries, and the intermediaries will repay their interest and principal in the future. After all, they are unable to punish the lord and marquis for breach of contract. The things raised by the people are in the hands of the Mo family. What kind of war will they fight without money or food in this year?

Besides, apart from a built-in field force on Gaoliu, Zhao Gongzizhang could no longer pull out a force that could fight against the Xihe soldiers of Wei State, Prince Chao rebels, and Ximen Baoye land peasants.

This matter is not simply Zhao's internal affairs. To put it bluntly, it is the war between the Mohist and Wei State interfering in the inheritance rights of Zhao State, and both sides rolled up their sleeves and went straight to the field.

The conditions of the Mohist school actually sound quite simple.

One is the land of several towns near Gaoliu. Zhao Gongzizhang granted it to the people, and the people were autonomous there. The two sides vowed that the people there would not participate in the unjust war, but they still belong to the State of Zhao. In addition to paying a certain amount of land tax every year, Gongzizhang has no right to govern. Understanding the legal authority of feudal system, Gongzizhang wanted to grant Gaoliu a noble near Gaoliu, and the main body of this noble is the entire people.

Second, reform the border system, open up several ports for trading, and establish departments to collect tariffs, and the Mohist school participated in management and construction, so as to repay the war loans paid by the people and merchants before.

The third is that once the rebellion of Gongzi Chao was eliminated, the Mo family needed at least 50,000 serfs and slaves originally owned by the rebel nobles to enrich Yunzhong, Jiuyuan and other places.

It sounds like these three conditions are quite simple, and it can make Zhao Guo strong. There is no need to worry about the intrusion of Loufan, Linhu in the north, and can also repay the people's loans, and by the way, it can also enrich the north.

Originally, Zhao Hou was unable to directly govern the feudal system, and Zhao Hou could not collect taxes at all, and was not qualified to manage it in many places. When the centralization of power was initially effective in later generations, Pingyuan Jun was dissatisfied with him when Pingyuan Jun asked him to collect taxes.

However, it would be fine if this was another loyal nobleman. But the Mo family had worked on Si Shang once, so they wanted to do the same thing. How could Gongzi Zhang not know how to learn from the experience of the Song Kingdom?

Besides, the issue of granting the land there to the people is a form, but sometimes form is far more important than substance.

It has been more than ten years! Zhao State has never received a tax on copper coins from Gao Liu, nor has a military service person. It is not that Zhao Gongzizhang doesn’t know what the land system is like, but he just doesn’t have a formal recognition.

In the later generations, Li Mu stationed in the northern border, it was actually the same. The military tax was taken from the local area and used in the local area, but the form was completely different from now.

Now, in form, what do the Zhao people in other places think? Why can Gaoliu people own land but we still have to be serfs for the nobles?

Therefore, the focus of this negotiation is that the rule of power in the north is not the focus, and the Mohist thoughts are not the focus. The focus is on the Gaoliu area.

If you grant a nobleman a title, everything is easy to say. If this nobleman is willing to reform and benefit the world, then you can do whatever you want.

However, it is absolutely impossible to grant it to the people, if it shakes the foundation of the country.

After several days of quarrel between the two sides, Gongzi Zhang proposed a compromise plan: to confer Qu generals as Gao Liu, and then to change as Gao Liujun, and Zhao State ignored it.

However, the Mohist family gritted their teeth and claimed that this was a matter of principle and could not be compromised. The Mohist family did not accept any fiefdoms or aristocratic titles.

Prince Zhang broke up again and said that if you don’t like this, you will set up a county there and grant you the position of county magistrate. This is not a hereditary nobleman, so you can do whatever you want.

The Mohist school said that it was not possible and it was necessary to clarify the very simple ownership issue. If Prince Zhang admitted that a country was public, then the Mohist school was willing to be a county magistrate on the basis of a country being public rather than a private weapon to benefit the people; however, if Prince Zhang could not recognize that the country was public weapon and the king and subjects were in agreement, then the Mohist school would never accept this steward or retainer of private property.

Prince Zhang was also young, and he was furious at that time: "A righteous war, an unjust war! As long as it is a war, people will die. How can there be any saying of unjust war? Let Gao Liu's people only fight a righteous war? This unjust war depends entirely on your Mo family's mouth!"

"You Mo family have never fought a war? Haven't you taken the initiative to go to the grassland to conquer? No one died in the conquest? Is that righteous or unrighteous?"

The envoy of the Mo family immediately said: "It is not determined by the Mo family's mouth, but by the rules of the three manifestations of Zi Mozi. Taking the will of heaven as the first priority, what is in line with the interests of the people is righteousness, and what is not in line with is unrighteousness."

"Of course, the Mo family sent troops to the grassland and fought wars, because this was a charity war."

"Why is a righteous war? Because under the nine levels of the Promised Land, every kind of progress is righteous."

"Prairie people do not farm and only grazed, and often went south to plunder border towns. Poaching is not production but destroying production. Therefore, in order to prevent production from being destroyed, of course we have to fight."

"Secondly, there are also head slaves in the grassland settlements. The herd slaves do not want to fight and only want to grazle. The main initiators of the looting are those heads of the settlements. Therefore, every time the Mo family goes, they will cut off some grassland nobles who launched an unjust war and punish unjustly for justice."

"In the end, Gaoliu and Yunzhong are suitable for cultivation, especially corn, potatoes and other crops that can grow. If you want to change the life of the Hu people robbed, you will promote farming there so that the people can have food and clothing. Some noble people in the grassland settlements hinder this progress, so they should die and be eliminated, so they have to be beaten, that is, to benefit the people of the world."

Debate is what the Mohist school is good at, and the Mohist school has its own theoretical system. It talks less about virtue and more about profit, because the Mohist school is unified in profit and righteousness, and talking about profit means talking about righteousness. As for whether this righteousness is the righteousness recognized by Gongzi Zhang, it is not a question that the Mohist school envoy needs to consider: if you don’t agree, you will not accept the conditions. If you flee abroad to become an exiled prince, our Mohist school continues to promote our doctrine, that is, whether you can beat the prince’s counterattack for the Queen of Zhao, it is our business, and it has nothing to do with you who are exiled to the country at that time.

The ministers around Gongzizhang also understood the meaning of the Mo family, which means that the military tax in Gaoliu area is kept by their own resources, and the operation of the grassland will definitely ensure the security of the northern part of Zhao. If a powerful Loufan Linhu appears on the grassland, people in Gaoliu area will definitely send troops to attack and fight to the end to defend their "progressive" life.

If Zhao launched a war abroad, I'm sorry, don't try to mobilize soldiers and soldiers from the Gaoliu area. If there is another coup in Zhao, unless there is a change caused by changes that benefit the people and fight against reform, Gaoliu will not send troops.

It is quite a bit like guarding the northern border to make the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood, and not participating in the disputes in the Central Plains.

But these people forgot one question, or did not consider one question at all, that the standard for the "charity war" in this treaty is brewing.

It would be a thunderclap, but now the thunderclap has not yet risen, and even dark clouds have not yet been spread all over.

If Zhao wants to become a strong country, it has to solve several problems. The integration of Dai and Zhao culture is one, the centralized reform is the second, and the capture of the Jiuyuan in Yunzhong is the third. It was not until the time of King Wuling of Zhao that he relied on the Hu people to suppress domestic aristocrats and completed these three items, and he could compete with Qin to the end.

Although he was demolishing the Three Jins, and although the biggest threat to Si was the Wei State, the Mo family did not raise tigers. The only tiger he wanted to raise was Qin State, which was locked down in the Nanzheng Hanzhong Bashu State, and forced him to go west.

As for Zhao State, he still has to force him to find a way out in the Central Plains. If he finds a way out in the Central Plains, he will inevitably have friction with Wei and Qi.

Although Zhongshan Kingdom is suitable for borrowing its restoration to weaken Wei and luring Zhao Hou to resolutely oppose Wei, it may not be really good to Zhongshan Kingdom. With Zhongshan Kingdom in it, Yunzhong Gaoliu and other counties must be ranked behind Zhao's strategic center of gravity, so it would not turn against each other so early. The card of Zhongshan Kingdom has been used up and can be discarded.
Chapter completed!