Chapter 266: Going to Righteousness, Going to My Righteousness (Part 2)
"The common farmers, industry and commerce have their own meanings. Righteousness means profit. It's just that the farmers' righteousness only cares about farmers, and the merchants' righteousness only cares about business, but there is no only one of the common farmers, industry and commerce in the world."
"The four four groups of the common people, farmers, industry and commerce have the same meaning and can give in to each other. Only the righteousness of the princes and nobles is different from that of the bitch and cannot be reconciled."
In Handan City, Hu Feizi was writing some words, which were not written for Si Shang, but for the Mozhe in Handan and the upcoming Gaoliu. He was going to preside over the meeting of the Mozhe north of the Yellow River.
He had known Qu Jiangzi, the head of Gao Liu's Mo family's righteous teacher. When Qu Jiangzi wanted to compete with him, Hu Feizi used the theory of five courages to make Qu Jiang abandon the previous chivalrous spirit of killing and revenge, and devoted himself to the Mo family to think that it was a gentleman's courage.
The two have not seen each other for many years. After all, they still have some expectations in their hearts when they think that the siege of Handan will be resolved and that they will meet again.
The two of them can be regarded as a relationship between a husband and a disciple, and their longing is deeply rooted.
But compared to the speech that the Mohist school had to prepare in the entire north, and compared to the hundreds of comrades who had the same heart and virtue and devote themselves to this huge cause, they had to be ranked behind.
The door was pushed open, Hu Feizi stopped writing, and after several contact personnel who had entered the city outside the city came in, Hu Feizi signaled them to sit down first.
After sorting it out, he asked first: "It is a foregone conclusion that Ximen Bao retreats. After Qu enters the city, he still has to look at Ximen Bao's actions. If he does not retreat but waits nearby, he is afraid that this battle will continue. Zhao Chao will not give up so easily. If Wei and Zhao want to stop the war, we have to come forward to preside over the leadership, but mediation is not just based on words and reason."
The messenger contacted nodded and said, "That's right, but if we join forces, Ximen Bao is also powerless."
Hu Feizi knew something and knew that the resolution between Wei and Zhao was a foregone conclusion, but because of this, he had to be prepared for the fight.
The Si Shang side would put pressure on the Wei State, and the Chu side would also put forward the request of Wei State to return to Daliang and Yu Pass, so as to force Wei State to focus on the southern front. If necessary, the Mo family might put pressure on the Wei State by engaging in arms trade with Chu State.
The siege in Zhongmu has not been lifted yet, and the Wei army could only have a decisive battle unless they join forces to Handan. However, the Mo family did not need to fight to the decisive battle, because Handan cannot be lost to Mr. Zhang Zhao, but it may not be able to give up for the Mo family.
Even if Wei and Zhao reconcile, the young masters would need to defeat the other side quickly and not give them a chance to surrender. Otherwise, the fiefs of the nobles and the peasant slaves in the fiefs would not be redistributed.
The Mohist family's layout north of the Yellow River must be mainly Gaoliu, Yunzhong, and Jiuyuan. Hu Feizi came to preside over the entire Zhao area this time, and this is precisely to do this.
It will definitely be difficult to complete it with him alone. Si Shang will definitely continue to send people to enrich the north.
Once the goal is achieved, it will be difficult for Qu Jiang to preside over such a big situation. Hu Feizi doesn't know who will be sent to Si Shang to preside over the presidency. However, some of the previous statements may be sent to Meng Sheng. This is a suitable candidate and is worthy of weight. Of course, Hu Feizi himself may also stay and partner with Meng Sheng.
After talking about the incident in the army with those people, Hu Feizi said again: "Tell Qu General that before entering the city, we should sort out the military appearance and military discipline. We don't have many opportunities left to us. We should take advantage of the fact that we should do as much publicity as possible to make the public recognize and believe it, and also make some people... think we can be a choice."
What he said was naturally unlikely to be on the same mind as them.
There are actually quite a lot of choices for merchants, and relying on aristocrats is also a choice. But once merchants feel that they have another kind of reliance, they will be the first group of people to rebel, because they do not have much land fixed property, and they prefer some of the Mohist qualities about "people" and "property".
But they are also weak and weak, and they are not strong enough, so they can only choose to rely on a kind of power, and this power must be realized enough to rely on.
Of course, this power is not limited to the Mo family. Just as the merchants of Wei State could fund the restoration of Zhongshan State, if the power on the grassland is strong enough, they will also choose to rely on them, as long as they can get enough benefits.
The most suitable thing for the Mohist propaganda to organize the people is the stage of defending the city. At that time, the external ties were cut off, and the Mohist can organize people together with legitimate reasons, and the publicity effect was excellent.
Now that the siege has ended, Gongzizhang's power is still the owner of Handan, which is legitimate, and the entire propaganda and development strategy of the Mohist school must be changed.
In fact, it is just an exchange. The Mohist school gave up anti-noble propaganda in Handan and obtained Jiuyuan in Gaoliu Clouds. This is the bottom line of negotiations with Gongzizhang.
In the future, the Mohist development in Handan should be based on the chamber of commerce, rather than adopting measures to promote the people, and the overall situation should be put first.
The envoys who entered the city first did not think about this. One said, "When entering the city, the army will prepare for its might. First, let the people see it, and second, it will shock those merchants who are willing to smuggle various goods for the sake of their interests."
"Didn't Shi say that if there are three times the profit, the merchants will not care about the Xia and the barbarians. Five times the profit is enough for them to risk being cracked by the car."
"Every year, people secretly transport some iron tools, swords and other things into the grassland. It's too difficult to control it."
Hu Feizi smiled and waved his hand and said, "This is not a problem. There must be people who seek profit like this. People die for profit, birds are caught for food, and fish are caught for bait. This is natural."
"But even if you transport some iron swords and swords, it's useless. If you need to fight in the field, how can the Hu people arrange the array? If you don't arrange the array, even if they have iron swords and bronze swords in their hands, they can't beat us."
"The Hu people have been riding sheep since they were young and rode horses. They just have discipline and military formations, but they don't have them. Five thousand martial knights arranged in the array can always defeat ten thousand Hu people riders, even these Hu people have iron swords and stirrups."
"The Hu people need to plunder to get money, so that they cannot plunder, and they will soon be unable to hold on. Besides, if they don't plunder, they will not have gold, copper coins? It is indeed difficult to prevent transporting some iron tools into the Hu area, but when they come back, they are easy to prevent."
"At that time, there will be border forts in Gaoliu, Yunzhong and other places. Five hundred people stationed to support the siege of tens of thousands of Hu people. How could they attack the city? If they can't capture it, they will not be able to grab gold, silver, copper, coins, pearls and jade. If they can't grab these, they can only exchange horses, cattle and sheep, and horses, cattle and sheep... Haha, how many merchants can bring them back?"
"So, the key is whether we can fight. If we can't defend the high and Liuyun, and the Hu people come and go freely to plunder food, gold, silver, pearls and jade, then there will naturally be merchants to buy and sell. If we keep it, there will be no big merchants to do that. They will be caught and executed when transporting horses, and how can they not be caught when the journey is long?"
After a rough analysis, these people also felt that this was true and they would eventually solve it on the battlefield.
Hu Feizi asked again: "How many people are you in Gaoliu, a border fort?"
The envoy said: "It is hard to say that one or two companies are usually stationed, and more than a thousand households are living around the border fort."
Speaking of Gao Liu's affairs, the messenger couldn't help but show some pride on his face and said, "Even if there are only two companies of the border fortresses and the farmers on the borders of the fortress, it is difficult for thousands of Hu people to defeat them. Not to mention that their methods of siege are comparable to us, they are far from the countries in the Central Plains."
Hu Feizi nodded and said, "Donald Zhou used similar methods to divide the feudal system back then. Dukes, Marquis and Bozi all built cities according to the rules. The people of the country were soldiers and the savages paid taxes. What did they rely on?"
He clenched his fists and said, "It is up to the Chinese to attack in a formation. Relying on the bronze sword, spear, chariot, it can defeat more than a thousand Chinese people. It is said that this is called armed colonization. We use similar methods in the South China Sea. They cannot be used on the grassland, but they can be used in places where they can be cultivated."
"The problem here of Gao Liu is ultimately a matter of profit."
"The common peasants, industry and commerce have their own righteousness and their own interests. The customs of the Hu people are completely different from ours. They also have their own righteousness, but their righteousness... In our opinion, it is a bit unrighteous."
"Zi Mozi said that it was just a custom, just like the people of Tongyiqu burned the bodies to bury them."
"As far as customs are concerned, there are still many favorable factors. To solve the profit problem, it can be easier to change customs. You must be good at finding what is hidden behind customs."
"The Hu land is bitter and cold, and there is no food stored. A heavy snow or plague will make the Hu people unable to eat. Now the industry and commerce of the Xia Xia are developing again, salt, tea, iron, silk, and cloth. Where can the Hu people get it by robbing?"
"So, if you want to solve the problem in the North... you either solve all the Hu people, or you have to solve the basis of their righteousness."
"The meaning of "suitable means that where you can cultivate, you will arm your colonization and let those Hu people farm. Where you cannot cultivate, you will strictly guard against it and divide it. From time to time, you will go out to fight against the big ones and support the small ones."
Seeing the envoys nodded, Hu Feizi added: "Look, the Confucian principles and the Yang and Zhu's principles can be spread in various countries in the Central Plains to form a prominent scholar. But the Hu people are also human beings, why can't they accept the Confucian principles? Why did the Dongyi in Qi accept the rituals of Duke Zhou?"
"The Mo family's righteousness is the righteousness of the common people of the people of the people of the country, industry and commerce. It does not distinguish between people of the Zhao, Qi, or Chu, but only the common people of the country. The same is true for the Hu people. Where they can cultivate, they will become common people of the country, industry and commerce, and then they can accept our righteousness. Otherwise, our righteousness is empty talk, and the grassland tribes will not accept or recognize it."
"You must remember that the basis of righteousness is profit. You talk about plundering with a group of people who cannot survive without plundering, which is wrong. It will be difficult to work."
This is a complete system that cannot be finished for a while. Hu Feizi just tried whether these people could understand it so that he could make it clear when he entered the city to preside over the Zhao Guomozhe Conference.
Chapter completed!