Chapter 71 Die Hard (Part 1)
Since you are a lobbyist, you may be visible or not.
Since the war has been going on, there is no doubt that the outcome will be won or lost. The Si Shang army has occupied a Hujiao Fort. As long as it can defend until evening and complete the simple defense system of Hujiao Fort before night comes, and then slowly plan to transport artillery to Hujiao Fort or the Yangdi Tu Mountain excavated by the engineers, the defense of the entire city will be completely disintegrated in one day.
The lobbyist came at this time and wanted to do nothing more than persuade him to surrender. However, in the eyes of the emperor's father Yue Ling, there was no way to persuade him to surrender.
Since he chose ambition or ambition, his ambition was too high, even if he was exempted from the death penalty, it was not something that the emperor's father Yue Ling could bear.
If he was executed, it would be fine. If he was afraid that the Mo family would not execute him, he would ask him to go to the streets to clean the fallen leaves, or go to a textile workshop to work, asking people to point fingers and say that this is a nobleman, and it is better to sweep the floor than a one-armed veteran.
That was a humiliation that he could not bear. Especially when he thought that he might have to work with some people of low origins, it was simply worse than death.
Just as he was about to disappear, he resisted stubbornly, or committed suicide in order to be relied on. Unexpectedly, a counselor next to him coughed lightly and said, "It may be visible."
The emperor's father Yue Ling glanced at the guest and asked coldly: "Learn to be a dog and shake his tail and ask for mercy? It's better to die."
The guest shouted: "A real man will die if he dies. I think the man is not afraid of death, and we are not afraid of death."
"No one knows when he died here. There may be rumors in the world that the Emperor's Father's clan committed suicide by defeating his army, or that the Emperor's Father Yue Ling knew his sins and committed suicide by harming the people."
"It would be better to just discuss surrender with the Mohist family, and to denounce the Mohist family under the gaze of envoys from various countries, and commit suicide in anger, so that the princes in the world know the truth that we are not afraid of death."
"Yu Yi, we will let the princes be pity for them, and may send troops."
"For personal gain, we are angry with the Mohist family's actions and will denounce them even when we die."
"Wouldn't it be better to die in obscurity here?"
When the emperor's father Yue Ling took a deep breath when he heard this, he suddenly realized that this statement seemed quite reasonable. If he died here, no one could know how before his death. Whether he died because of fear or because of defeat, he died because of incompetence, is it all unexplainable.
If you can pretend to stop the war and truce, and under the witness of the Mohist school and the envoys from various countries, you will commit suicide in anger, and angrily denounce the Mohist school's violent behavior before you die, and you will not distinguish between the noble and the humble, which may attract the sympathy of the princes of various countries.
Although death is certainly dead, it will attract sympathy from all countries before death and make its own contribution to the eradication of the Mohist school in the future.
Compared to dying in obscurity, it is really a death.
He knew that these scholars and servants who followed him and claimed to be dying might not die, nor would they choose to die, and he would not blame him.
After pondering for a moment, he spoke, "There must be death for living, and things must come; there are many wealthy people, poor and humble friends, and things are certainly true. Those who are interested in the market will enter the market, and they will be on the side of their shoulders and fight for the door; after the evening, those who pass by the market will drop their arms and ignore them. They do not like the morning and hate the evening, and forget the things they expect."
"Those who pass the market will receive goods, and we may seek righteousness, or seek birth, or seek profit, or seek name. Today I want to die and die for great righteousness. Those who seek righteousness can follow me; those who seek name, life, and benefit can disperse first."
"I have family wealth, which is mostly used to build military and prepare for military affairs. If you want to leave, you can get it all."
He was telling those servants that they were rushing into the market because they had the goods they wanted, and each person had different pursuits.
Some people pursue fame, some pursue righteousness, some pursue survival, and some pursue interests. If they are pursuing righteousness, then please die with him and die for martyrdom; if they are pursuing wealth, interests and reputation, if they leave now, they will not resent, and these people can take away the remaining money in their homes.
As soon as he finished speaking, six or seven people stood up at the same time and said, "We are willing to sacrifice ourselves for justice!"
The remaining people either bowed their heads or were ashamed, but in the end they chose not to stand up.
The emperor's father Yue Ling sighed and heard about the official affairs of Song Guozhao in the past.
When Duke Zhao of Song came out of his demise, he sighed and said, "I know why it is destroyed. Thousands of officials in the court have made government affairs and affairs, and they all said, "My lord is the saint!" hundreds of attendants were conquered and established, and they all said, "My lord is the beautiful one!" They did not hear of my mistakes inside and outside, so that they came to this!"
The strong wind knows the strong grass, the slander knows the sincere ministers, and without experiencing a failure that seems impossible to rise again, I will never know who is loyal and who is just shouting slogans on weekdays.
Among the six or seven people who stood up, three of them were not very popular on weekdays because they were too arrogant and sarcastic, and sometimes they would make him unable to get out of Taiwan at all.
But today when they were about to die, the three of them stood up.
He just proposed that he denounced the Mohist family and his envoys from various countries and then died again, and his expression was decisive.
The money fell on the tree and scattered. It was time for this time, so there was no need to scold those people. The emperor's father Yue Ling smiled faintly and threw out the key to his treasury, saying, "Let me take money and property, and we will treasure the righteousness."
Those people looked ashamed, and finally two people couldn't stand this shyness and chose to stand next to the emperor's father Yue Ling again.
Everyone may be a coward, everyone may be a... hero, sometimes only a moment of choice.
However, there are too few people who dare to sacrifice their lives for justice in the end. After these two people stood up, there was no one else.
The emperor's father Yue Ling no longer cared about those people and took these nine people to meet the lobbyist of the Mo family.
It’s all the time, and there’s nothing to say, because the negotiations have lost strength.
The emperor's father Yue Ling is a dead pig, and he is not afraid of boiling water. At this time, he can speak extremely gorgeously. He can't bear to the blood of his soldiers, and can't bear to the perishment of the summer.
The lobbyist of Mozhe cursed in his heart, "If you really have the will of benefit to the people, what would you do long ago? After doing many bad things, you can no longer struggle, but you have to say some decent words when you surrender in the end, which is really disgusting."
The lobbyist complained in his heart, but could only say yes in plain words. After all, if he could persuade him to surrender, not only would he die in the city, but he would also die at least a few dozen people.
This time, the Mo family prepared a lot of preparations and was close to Pengcheng. They exchanged gunpowder for life. One round of iron bullets and buckets of gunpowder accumulated with money resulted in less than a hundred casualties. The Mo family did not want these elite soldiers in a hundred battles to die in a situation where the overall situation was decided.
More importantly, the Mohist school hopes to judge the emperor's father Yue Ling, which is a political consideration.
We must bring these nobles, those who were seen by the common people, unconsciously inferior to others, to the street market, so that everyone can break their last dignity and pride, completely break the orderly and orderly, and never turn over.
Either cruel or ruthless, but not important. What is important is that if you do it so many times, no one will feel safe and soundly superior to others and orderly, and all the psychology of the old system will be smashed to pieces.
Just like when he was judging Tian Wu, all the senior officials of the Mo family knew that Tian Wu was fake, but it was not important. What was important was that the people knew that even if they were Prince Qi, they could still be tried by the public.
At this time, the Mohist school did not want procedural justice, but the utilitarian Mohist school pursued the result justice.
It is not Tian Wu, the emperor's father Yue Ling's dignity alone.
What the Mohist schools want to trample on is the dignity of the class they represent and pave the way for equality.
The premise of equality is not what is shouted out by the mouth, but sheep can kill tigers, and sheep can trample on the tiger's dignity, otherwise what is shouted out by the mouth is a joke.
Taking this as a strategy, the lobbyists who come this time need to pay great attention to speaking skills.
We must not talk about promises or say that we will not judge the emperor's father Yue Ling or the like; we must also persuade the surrender as much as possible, but it will be tonight at the latest. If we do not decide tonight, then the defense of the Hujiao Fort has been stable, and tomorrow we will just die and take down the whole city.
Therefore, even if the emperor's father Yue Ling said something about benefiting the people and lobbying the people, Mo, as a lobbyist, only agreed with his principles, but did not think that he was a good bird: even if it was Shang Zhou and Xia Jie, if Xia Jie said that the sun rose from the east and set to the west, it would not be possible to deny the sentence itself just because he was Xia Jie and Shang Zhou.
The lobbyist really didn't expect the negotiations to go so smoothly. The smooth emperor's father Yue Ling seemed to have become halfway through overnight.
A few days ago, a butcher who hanged the people suspected of Tongmo to the city wall. Today, if you fail, you can talk about the words "No bleeding between the Xia", which makes the lobbyist want to laugh.
But you can't laugh or scold the words you want to curse in your heart. This is the most basic quality of a lobbyist.
In the end, the details were finally settled.
Before this evening, the emperor's father Yue Ling gathered the remaining soldiers in the city, but it cannot be called surrender, but it should be called voluntarily giving up resistance for the sake of the lack of bloodshed in the Xia Dynasty.
If this is meaningless, at most, you can win a trial for him from the death penalty to lifelong exile to the Nanfu wasteland for labor reform and construction.
But after all, no matter what he thought, he could surrender in the end to incoming more than a hundred lives of the veterans of the Mohist wars, which was a contribution. He could not admit that he was "not bleeding for Zhu Xia" just because of his thoughts.
At that time, the emperor's father Yue Ling asked to surrender in front of envoys from various countries and the headmaster of the Mo family. The position would be on the city wall on the left side of the Huojiao Fort. The wall had a total of 300 steps, and it would be in the center of the city wall.
After the agreement, the Mo family lobbyist hurried back to report his life, and the emperor's father Yue Ling also began to plan his own death, how to die tragically, which made the princes feel compassion and tears, and made the gentlemen who were loyal to the old era think that he was a hero, and the people who have downplayed the moral dispute in the future think that he was a hero, and the Mo family forced the hero to death.
This is easy. I think the Mo family thinks he will surrender, and he won’t be too careful. Whether he is carrying a sharp blade or handing it in his confidant’s hands, before he dies, he makes a message to the nobles feel sad when they hear it, so that the scholars can hear it that this is the last noble speech, which will be passed down through the ages, and wait for the moral dispute to fade into a tragic hero, and that is completed.
As for the attempt to take advantage of the opportunity of surrendering, let’s forget it. One-third of the heroes in the world are Mo people, one-third are sympathetic to the morality of the Mo family, and the remaining one-third are self-reliant and want to save the world. But even one-third of them will come forward to help as long as the Mo family asks for help.
Chapter completed!