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Chapter 113 Selling Price

Seeing that there was no one around, the close minister whispered: "If it is most beneficial to the emperor, there is no way."

"If the Lord surrenders now, how will Wei Han treat you?"

Zheng Jun snorted: "Wei Han attacked me in the name of my three crimes. If he surrendered, it would be just an interrogation of me. Follow the story of Duke Cheng of Wei in the past, debated in court, accused me of guilt, and threw me into prison or killed me."

A close minister said: "Therefore, the king cannot surrender to Wei and Han at this time. But if he does not surrender, he needs to rely on the power of the common people. However, the common people are strong and the king is more valuable than the weak. The stories of Song, Si Shang, Xue, Teng, Fei and others are vivid in my mind and must be observed."

Zheng Jun asked back: "It is not good to surrender, nor is it good to not surrender, but what should we do?"

A close minister said, "As in the example just now, if a servant gets up and resists his neighbors, the neighbors cannot enter for the time being. If he wants to defeat his neighbors, he will be strong and will follow Xue and Fei's affairs in the future."

"But the neighbors cannot attack for the time being, and there are other families next to them, so they must be anxious."

"When the slaves resisted in front of us, and the neighbors were unable to advance and retreat, you had a secret talk with the neighbors, saying that you would open the back door and let the neighbors come in, but you must leave a part of your family property, or at least keep the ancestors' sacrifices and move them elsewhere to abandon the title of the lord and the lord of the lord. This is the most beneficial way for you."

Zheng Junyi's heart moved and thought for a while, it seemed that it was indeed the case.

Now the Wei and Han Allied Forces don’t care about Zheng Junyi at all. He has no capital for negotiation, because judging from the current situation, the Wei and Han Allied Forces can break the city in just ten days.

Since this is the case, why should we accept Zheng Junyi's surrender?

It would be better to attack the city and follow the story of Duke Wen of Jin in the name of regicide, sentence Zheng Junyi to serious crimes, and then divide the land, population and wealth of Zheng State.

In other words, Zheng Junyi wants to sell the country now, but he can't sell it. If he can get it directly without buying it, why should he buy and sell it?

The meaning of the close minister is to use the people of Zheng State to sell Zheng Junyi's family at a good price.

According to the intention of the close minister, if you pretend to promise the people to reform and reform in the future, so that the people can work hard to fight and block the Wei and Han coalition forces.

According to the plan of the Wei and Han Allied Forces, this must be a battle that requires quick battles. It is like Si Shang sending troops to Song State, and quickly resolve Zheng State before the countries have time to interfere.

So this cannot be delayed.

Once the people are organized by the Mo family and can last for a month, Wei and Han will be ugly.

I don’t know how long it will take to fight. If I can’t fight, if countries interfere in the future, it will be prone to accidents.

If you don’t fight, you have been fighting for so long. If you withdraw, you will definitely be unwilling to accept it. Not to mention the serious damage, it will cause dissatisfaction in the country.

Wei Han originally wanted to destroy Zheng State in ten days, but if the people of Zheng State could withstand a month, then they would sell them for a good price if they didn't need to buy or sell them.

At that time, Zheng Junyi will sell the people and reach a secret agreement with Wei Han, relegate himself to the lord, give up the title of Hou, and let Wei Han move him elsewhere, and have a fiefdom, which will be the most perfect ending.

Indeed, from the Hou Bo to the Doctor, from the king of a country to the prince of a country, this is going down.

But if they surrender now, or if they do not organize the people to be captured by Wei Han, not only will they not even be a doctor, but they may be sentenced to kill and imprisonment in the name of regicide.

If the people are completely handed over to the Mo family and let them organize them, then Xue, Fei, Teng and other princes of Si Shang are an example. When the people rise, they will ask for more and more things. What else can be left?

The close minister said again: "Master, my wealth and honor are all from your ministers, so I consider it for you."

"The Si family did not surrender because they knew that once the city was broken, the other six Mu people would have to kill them to restore the hatred of the coup that year. They did not love you and be loyal to the emperor."

"Although Zheng City is big, it's tens of thousands, how many people are really considering your interests?"

"The common people have wolfish ambitions and greed, and the people are unfamiliar wolfish."

"You promised the Mo family today that when you defend the city, you have to compensate for demolishing people's houses. Then tomorrow they will ask for land, power, and everything that the Mo family said about equality, virtuousness, constitutionalism, etc., where will there be an end?"

"If the punishment is not enough for the doctor, the courtesy is not enough for the common people. If the common people do not know etiquette, they only have profit in their hearts, but they have no righteousness. If they do not know gratitude or loyalty, they are your biggest enemy."

"You can still talk to Wei and Han, but at least you can still keep your politeness. You can't talk to the people, and the countries on Si are examples!"

"When the country is in danger and the ancestral temple will be in full swing, this is something we must consider."

These words are just in the heart of Zheng Junyi.

This is also the reason why Zheng State has not contacted the Mo family, which has a bad attack and a big one, and is not a bad one, for so many years after the Siziyang Rebellion.

As the close ministers said, was the Si family vowed to defend Zheng State to the death because they loved him and were loyal to the emperor?

No, the Si family is just for the benefit of their own clan and for their own lives.

Zheng Junyi was not the son of Mr. Luo who was killed, but the nephew of Mr. Luo. Originally, this throne was picked up, and it was considered half a puppet.

When Duke You fought against Han and was killed by the Koreans, Si Ziyang became the prime minister in the name of revenge and established Duke You's younger brother Duke Yu.

Later, Si Ziyang was killed, and Duke Suo was immediately killed by Si Ziyang's remnants, so he was appointed as Zheng Jun.

That time, the Zheng State coup killed too many people, and too many families were slaughtered. The other six Muslims of the seven Muslims were still very powerful and they were split. It can be said that the Si clan was the group of people who were the least likely to accept surrender in Wei and Han, so they fought to the death.

So when someone had discussed whether to open a city to surrender, the Si clan, who held great power, immediately killed some people who proposed to surrender under the name of "If you talk about surrender, you will be a traitor, and you can kill them."

Zheng Junyi did not participate in the coup that year, but in the end it was established because of the regicide. This was also the name of Wei and Han's attack. Zheng Junyi hoped to resist.

Everyone has their own benefits. Now the world is in chaos. The Mohist school has accelerated the chaos in the world. The original means of rule can no longer be ruled as usual.

Once the people begin to awaken and start to accept the principle of asking for everything they deserve, the vassal states on Si are an example: the country, the country, and the ancestral temples are ultimately destroyed.

The Shangqiu Incident twenty years ago was so close. How could Zheng Junyi not be nervous when he heard what his close minister said?

Moreover, Zheng State has been in full swing until now, and it is impossible to keep it.

Although the Mohist school was organizing the War Suppression Association and the non-aggression alliance, the additional conditions were too harsh and various changes were required, which was something that Zheng Jun and Si could not agree to.

According to the recent ministers, the more intense the people resisted, the more they could actually sell Zheng State at a good price.

After one month of resistance, you can sell a lord of fifty miles and become a vassal.

After two months of resistance, you can sell a hundred miles of kings, and there will even be a city along the Zheng State to worship.

If you resist for a longer time, the higher the selling price will be.

Zheng State is not all his, and some of them belong to Si family, so if they can resist for a longer time, they might really be able to sell for a high price.

But no matter what, it is impossible to accept surrendering to Wei Han now. Instead, it is very likely that he will use his head to buy people's hearts to prove the righteousness.

This kind of thought would not arise during the Shangqiu Incident twenty years ago.

First, there was no previous lesson at that time, and the old rulers had never been exposed to new ways of "rebellion". After all, they had combined various experiences to face aristocratic monarchs and ministers who had never even been exposed to religious uprisings of "the sky is dead and the yellow sky is still here", let alone the uprisings with simple programs such as "the farmer has his own land" in later generations.

If you don’t have experience, you won’t know the horror.

Second, it means that the times are easy.

In the past, when the Mohist family showed weakness, they needed to take advantage of the conflict between the nobles and the nobles. The conflict between the monarch and the nobles survived in the cracks and found ways to strengthen themselves. At that time, they needed to borrow all the power and contradictions that could be borrowed, and to fight against the other factions to strengthen themselves.

Now, the Mo family owned Si Shang and became the strongest nation in the world. Five years ago, the Heze Alliance was held. After the death of Qin Zi, the Mo family's fangs were revealed, and they opposed the nobles and monarchs. They were no longer as strong as when they were weak.

This has made the princes and nobles of various countries increasingly wary of the Mo family in recent years, but they are helpless. Unless the monarchs and nobles of various countries can abandon past grudges and unite, it is really hard to do anything.

As the times change, the contradiction between the primary and secondary also changes. Monarchs, especially those in small countries, need to consider more and begin to fear the power of the people.

Suddenly, Zheng Jun heard his close minister say the last thing, which made him completely firmly believe in treason.

"Your Majesty, not long ago, the Song State coup was in conflict, and Wei, Chu and Han fought for three hundred years, and they were still able to join forces to prevent Mo."

"If you borrow the power of the people and get close to the Mo family, how can you be tolerated by Wei, Chu and Han?"

"Even if you win, how could Sishi give up the power in his hands? Then they will deal with you first."

"Even if you win, the power of the people will rise, but here is too far from Si Shang, but it is in the double-team of Wei, Han and Chu. Even if you follow the Mohist wishes, change the system and formulate a constitution, Wei, Chu and Han must eliminate it quickly. Zheng State is intertwined between Wei, Han, how can you resist?"

"Now Wei Han attacked you for the sake of profit, land, population, and wealth. This is still something that can be discussed. As long as the guard lives, you can at least be a vassal."

"But if you are too close to Me and imitate the Song system here, then Wei Han will definitely not accept it. In the future, Wei Han will attack you for the sake of justice. At that time, not only will you not be able to enthrone the king, but you will be executed..."

"Zheng Boxiu, he will also be blamed. At that time, I'm afraid that this sentence will be said to you."

If Zheng Bo is effective, he will also be blamed. This sentence is to warn Yu You. It is because of Zheng Bo, but I am afraid that it will be effective in the future.

Zheng Junyi already understood that when the Mo family came to Zheng State, Zheng Jun imagined that he would rely on the Mo family to help improve the city defense. He understood that Zheng State's national strength was weak and he never thought of fighting against South Korea alone.

In the past, Si Ziyang had ambitions because Zheng State still had the power to attack Han at that time. Now it is divided into three parts, and Wei and Han have got the second one. At this time, Si Ziyang did not dare to have such fantasies even if he was resurrected.

The original intention of the Mohist family to welcome Zheng Jun was to improve Xinzheng's defense and to be able to hold on to the Korean invasion for a month to wait for Wei and Chu to intervene. He did not think about enriching the country and strengthening the army and relying on its own. That was unrealistic.

Who would have thought that this time Wei and Han jointly attacked Zheng, which made the situation suddenly exceed his expectations. He agreed to the Mo family's conditions in a panic, but now he thinks that he is already vaguely afraid.
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