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Chapter Thirty-Four

That being said, it made everyone feel at ease, but in fact, I was a little nervous in my heart.

Now the Si Shang Tianxia Sect is the mainstream. He used the Tianxia Sect to suppress the non-aggressive and founding factions and incited the fanaticism of benefiting the world.

This matter is good in the long run, but in the short run, there will inevitably be a backlash, that is, no matter what happens, you have to take action.

Otherwise, if the public opinion is boiling and suppressing it again, it will be a chaotic trend of thought, and the public opinion shift in the past few years is meaningless; the future war of unity will also be affected.

Even in order to completely suppress the non-aggressive faction, this battle must be fought.

The situation in Song State is a very embarrassing existence for Si Shang. If Song State can ensure complete neutrality and not be controlled by the other princes, it will actually be the most favorable situation for Si Shang.

In that case, the State of Song is nominally independent, but in fact it is the market, raw material base and reserve population supplementary land, and a very perfect buffer country.

Five years ago, he gave up the southwest Qi area and returned all the occupied land and the prosperous Wenshui original area in Qi, in order not to want the Mohist family to get involved in the chaos in the Central Plains too early.

The terrain of Song State is more sensitive than that of southwest Qi.

The various policies and alliances after the Song State coup twenty years ago were actually for one purpose: to let the Song State do their own affairs and become a nominal country, but in fact they were independent fiefs and cities one after another.

The conflict between the Emperor's Father clan and other nobles about centralization or decentralization, but now both sides abandon past grudges and work together in front of the enemy, which makes it difficult for the Mohist family to do.

The State of Song is too close to Si Shang, which is both because of the inadequate development of industry and commerce, and because of the development of industry and commerce.

The pain of the old era has not been erased, and the pain of the new era has also come. In terms of equality, farmers are much more radical than the Mohist families. They claim to be truly equal, both against the old nobles and against the new nobles who have transformed into business landlords.

The large number of landless farmers in the State of Song have greatly increased the influence of more radical farmers in the State of Song in recent years.

The Mo family has been controlling the situation in Si, but the actions of those nobles have made the Mo family unable to control it.

In a state of rage, if the peasant family rebelled, it would be much more radical than the Mo family, and the nobles were still trying to die. In this situation, if they did not send troops to quickly pacify the situation in the Song State, then the world would be shocked.

Hatred can be accumulated and in both directions. Nobles can kill common people, and common people can also kill nobles in reverse.

Of course it is OK to kill, but now if you kill too much now, the Song State is too chaotic, it is not good, at least it is not good for Si Shang.

After saying the words that made everyone feel at ease, he said: "If we can control the situation in Song State within one month, the situation can be said to be completely beneficial to us."

"After Prince Bao took the Song Dynasty, all countries also wanted to send troops to interfere, but once the political situation of Song Dynasty was stable, all countries had to hesitate to give up."

"We are still standing behind the Song State. In a month, it is impossible for Wei, Chu and Han countries to prepare for war."

"The emperor's father Yue Ling dared to call for opposition to Mo, so we asked him to die as soon as he finished calling. After controlling the situation in the State of Song, we will rely on envoys to solve the subsequent problems."

Gong Zaoye, who is already old, said: "If the emperor's family and the other nobles of the Song State join forces, there will be about 50,000, which is impossible to add more."

"But they are scattered everywhere, and we can defeat them one by one. In fact, what we have to face is the private soldiers of the Emperor's Father clan and some nobles in the western part of the Song State, with a maximum of 30,000."

"Six Fingers have been waiting in the Song Realm. Three infantry divisions and one cavalry division should be enough to quickly defeat them."

"But the general mobilization is still necessary."

"Our current regular charity teacher deals with Song and Qi, and it is better than the problem, but it is not enough to quickly make all countries give up their minds of starting a war against us."

"When fighting or not is not about us. We can only reason according to the art of knowledge, Wei, Chu and Han may not send troops, but people's hearts are unpredictable, so we must also prepare for them if they send troops."

Everyone also agreed with this view, and being prepared is better than not.

Shi Jiatong smiled bitterly and said, "This is equivalent to spending money to stop the war. A total mobilization consumes countless costs. Even if it is not fought, the mobilization must at least be maintained until the situation in the Song State is stable. All countries are sure that they cannot send troops. After the diplomatic mediation is over."

"It will take three months at least. Food, military supplies, horses, summer harvest...all kinds of these will be affected."

"But if we fight and mobilize again, we may suffer greater losses. I agree to mobilize to scare Wei Chuhan."

Shi looked at others again, and everyone nodded in agreement. Everyone voted and approved the opinions of sending troops to the State of Song and General Si Shang to mobilize.

Everyone present understood that war is for politics.

To fight or not, you must think clearly before starting how to end.

If countries send troops regardless of their concern, there is no need to consider that a protracted war may continue until either the countries are tired of fighting or the world is united.

But if all countries do not send troops, the future situation of Song State will be something that everyone should consider clearly.

The vassal states under the Zhou rites were ruling methods based on patriarchal system, rituals, blood ties, and feudal system.

But the old methods of rule have failed, and the new methods of rule are not yet mature.

For example, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system in later generations, there were actually many differences. The Western Han Dynasty was considered a civilian emperor, and relied on self-cultivation and farmers to maintain the system of governance. The heroes, wealthy families and large families were always suppressed. Huangdi used the power of civilians to suppress the powerful people until the end of the Han Dynasty could not be suppressed.

This is the first choice for most monarchical countries after the demise of the patriarchal system and feudal system. If this is the case, it is impossible to completely suppress the noble family. Massive self-cultivation farmers are the solid foundation of the imperial system and can also be regarded as a means of applying makeup.

With the rise of Si Shang and the spread of new technologies, most of the changes in various countries have this tendency to be the monarch of the people, rather than the princes of the emperor and the king of the officials.

This kind of change is what Shi Su has always been vigilant about.

Because this makes it easy to have thoughts like the Qi and Zhao clans.

As for the State of Song, it is even more impossible to allow them to succeed in centralizing power. They can only find ways to continue mixing sand and muddy water.

Si Shang needed a powerful Song State as its neighbor, nor did a centralized Song State as its neighbor. It only needed a loose, chaotic, and independent rule, and could only protect oneself but not attacking Song State as its neighbor.

The emperor's father Yue Ling was ambitious, but he was too wary of the people's riots and the power of Si Shang, so he had to choose to make peace with the nobles.

Dai Cong had ambitions, and he was not the biggest noble, so he might as well give up his own things and turn to be the "spokesman of civilians" to seize power.

Si Shang had a consensus on this point, and Shi had long scolded Dai Cong for dressing up his own prostitute as Si Shang liked. He could please Si Shang today and Wei Chuhan tomorrow.

However, the Mohist school started out as a spokesperson for the civilians, so it cannot explicitly oppose Dai Cong's changes, and must also support it.

Once troops were sent, it would definitely be clearing out the old nobles of the Song State.

Either choose to give up the fiefdom and redeem it by almost robbing it, and redeem new large acres with a yield of 20 years from the old era. This is actually similar to robbing it, but it sounds nicer; either flee to other countries and confiscate the fiefdom and divide it.

Because Dai Cong could not seize power under the rules of the nobles, since he could not get it, he would destroy what others might get.

Therefore, he borrowed the meaning of equality of the Mohist school and advocated the people to elect wise men as the chief minister of the Zhengyuan in the State of Song Dynasty, which means he jumped away from the restraint of the gentleman's courtyard and borrowed the power of the civilians to come to power.

He also saw that the Mo family did not have the intention to annex the Song State for the time being, so he could use the power of self-cultivation farmers to become the Grand Principal of the Inquiry Yuan, reorganize the original Gentleman's Court and the Common People's Court, and then slowly gather power.

The Mo family needed Dai Cong to stabilize the situation of Song State and to turn the matter into a noble coup, at least it was a noble coup that covered his ears and stole the bells: if he didn't even hide his ears, even if Chu Wei didn't want to care, it would be difficult to find a reason; Dai Cong also knew that the Mo family needed him, so he did his best to promote the righteousness of the common people.

Once the matter is successful, a large number of nobles will either be finished or flee, and a large number of land will be spared, and the internal conflicts in the State of Song will be resolved immediately. It is a foregone conclusion that Dai Cong becomes the first real elected yin of the State of Song.

The strange system after the Song Dynasty coup twenty years ago was a natural result.

The rituals and music were broken, the patriarchal system collapsed, and a feudal vassal state needed a new political system to bridge and integrate a country.

All under the heavens is the king's land. The emperor grants the princes to guard their land. Therefore, the princes have a country and the officials have families. Now the patriarchal system has collapsed, the rituals have a collapse and the music has been destroyed. What is the legal principle of the country?

Before the rituals and music were broken, the nobles were nobles, and the monarchs were monarchs. Apart from tribute and feudal military obligations, the monarch had no right to manage the fiefs of the nobles, nor did he have the right to collect taxes on the land of the nobles.

Just like the coups in Lu State and the reactions of various nobles and noble retainers in the Sandu incident: the noble retainers are not the vassals of the king.

However, as the rituals collapsed and the music broke out, the patriarchal system disintegrated, the vassal states were in an embarrassing situation.

The royal power has not been concentrated yet, and the aristocratic power is still great. It is actually divided into pieces when it is said that it is not a country, but it is regarded as a country outside.

Originally, the etiquette and law were subject to the patriarchal system, and the monarch only needed to govern the nobles directly under the aristocrats and the nobles governed their retainers, so that the country could effectively exist as a whole.

The disintegration of the patriarchal system created the situation where the three families divided Jin, the Tian family replaced Qi, the Qi Mu rebelled Zheng, and the Song people shared the political power.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, the original patriarchal feudal system changed to a situation where the monarch and the nobles of the great surname were republic, which restricted each other and decentralized their powers.

The monarch is not good at speaking, and there are conflicts within the nobles, and it is necessary to maintain the existence of a monarch.

The clan system before the Spring and Autumn Period, the difference between the country and the country, and the tradition of the Chinese people interfering in politics gave the people of the capital a voice in political affairs.

For example, in the Zheng-Chu War twenty years ago, the people of Zheng-Ku oppose the war against Chu, and flee at the last minute and were all captured; for example, the acts of expelling the monarch by the people because of foreign policy.

So twenty years ago, based on the basis of "Little Situ asked all the people to move the capital, establish a monarch, and join the alliance", the Gentleman Court and the Common People's Court were created based on the original Song Dynasty's aristocratic oligarch who had the three surnames in common politics.

When it was done, it was just for the Gentleman Court and the Common People's Court to fight one day in the future. Because the aristocrats were still very powerful at that time, the people did not know what kind of power they should have. They controlled them with one hand and found that there would inevitably be a situation in which someone in the court sued the official in the future.
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