Xinzheng City.

Several carriages were escorted by valuable items such as silk, copper coins, gold, etc., and arrived at the place where the Mo family planned to build a new city defense day and night.

The sound of cannons outside the city continued, but it could still be supported for a while. The Wei and Han Allied Forces had just begun to fill the ditches, and the thick wall base could at least last for six or seven days under the simple copper cannons of the Wei and Han Allied Forces.

Xinzheng City is very large. After the construction of Chengdu City in South Korea in history, the entire city wall has a circumference of forty-five miles, which is seriously overwhelming.

However, when South Korea launched a large-scale construction and expanded Xinzheng, no one cared about the Zhou emperor. At that time, he could naturally surpass the rules - forty-five miles. No matter how he played the edge ball, it was impossible for each city wall to have a side length of less than nine miles.

At this time, Xinzheng was smaller than the later capital of South Korea, but it was still more than 20 miles in circumference. There were places such as vegetable gardens and gardens in the city, and the agricultural population still accounted for the majority.

Of course there are a lot of open spaces, but to build a new city defense, the selected location cannot be too close to the original city wall, and there must be a certain plan.

Those carriages containing Zheng Jun’s property were paid to the Zheng people who were about to be demolished.

The Mo people who were active in the Mingmeng of Xinzheng have effectively organized themselves. In addition to the people guarding the city on the front line, they first organized the people to form a troop in the direction of the Wei and Han artillery attacks.

Fortunately, there is a foundation for the establishment of the company.

After Zichan reform, he organized the country. After Duke You of Zheng died at the hands of the Koreans, Zheng and Han fought for decades. Although the militarization of grassroots organizations could not be popularized into the entire Zheng State, it could still be done in the capital of Zheng State.

After Qin Mo entered Qin, the laws of Qin defending the city were so strict that the three armies were "a strong man, a strong woman, and a weak woman." The organizational skills of the Mo family have always adhered to the attitude of participating in the whole nation in all wars. Now, if you really want to defend Xinzheng for a period of time, you have to use this method.

The people of Xinzheng did not trust the king and the Si family, but they trusted the Mo family enough, so the Mo family could easily act as a bridge between princes, nobles and common people.

After several trucks of property were transported, they called the organized people together and talked about the importance of demolishing houses and building new city defense.

The people also know that if the princes and nobles fight, they will demolish the house directly, so there is no need to pay the price of the main coupon.

Xu Ruo also knew that this kind of thing needed to start from the princes and nobles to convince the people. Therefore, the starting point for demolishing houses in this critical area to build a new city defense was from the aristocratic house.

The Mo family did not say much politely, and brought Huang Fu, who had the power to mobilize all the power except the noble private soldiers in the city, directly demolished a noble courtyard.

The noble family, the servants, wanted to resist, but they were organized, Zheng Jun, who had endorsed the letter, and the Mo family, who was backstage, led people to demolish them.

Zheng State had a developed economy and was also the first country to have private lawyers and lawyers. There was also a case where civil law replaced the official method of the Criminal Tripod. It was not difficult to find someone who could estimate the value.

After roughly estimating the cost of the house, he directly demolished it. Wood, earth and stone were either used as materials for repairing the city wall or as building materials.

This is similar to the routine of Shang Yang in later generations. When the people lack the most basic trust in princes and nobles and governments, they can only use the people who the people think are the most unattainable to do it first.

Shang Yang moved the Qin government's hands that did not keep their words; Xu Ruo and others moved the Zheng nobles.

After gaining basic trust, the Mohist school began to incite and agitation that they were best at.

This most basic trust is not between the people and the Mo people, because these two parties have already had enough trust before. The Mo family often makes unofficial non-profit actions. This is the most cost-effective and labor-saving but most described as absorbing people's hearts. If there is a huge change like Si Shang, it requires too much financial, manpower and material resources. The world can raise a Si Shang, but it cannot support other places like Si Shang.

However, even if the people have enough trust in the Mohist school, the effect of publicity is not good.

It’s not even bad, but extremely poor, with few respondents.

Xu Ruo and a few Mozhes held a simple meeting later. A Mozhe who was eloquent and able to promote shook his head and said, "It's too difficult. He is timid and cooperates with the nobles to defend the city. This cannot be promoted at all, let alone let the people do their best."

"We cannot say about our policy in Si Shang. This is the rule of our activities outside. So how can we promote this? I really can't find any statement that will make the people fight to the death."

Xu Ruo also listened to the propaganda just now, and the people really didn't care at all.

He knew that it was not that the people of Zheng State were not good, but that the Mohist family and the princes and nobles of Zheng State cooperated in united front, so some things could not be said.

The most fundamental thing cannot be said, why mobilize the people?

The most fundamental thing cannot be said. In the eyes of the people, fighting between nobles is just fighting for power and profit. If you win, it has nothing to do with them. If you lose, it may be better...

The situation in Zheng State is very special.

For example, the one who asked to fight to the death in Zheng State was the Si clan, and their family's power basically controlled most of Xinzheng.

In recent years, the people have been fighting with South Korea and have suffered a lot.

It’s not that the suffering of dying in the battlefield is like dying, and when you close your eyes, it’s just that.

Real suffering is how to survive without dying.

For example, farmers in the city, after the reform of the childbirth, many people had their own private property and private fields. When iron tools and new crops and new technologies were introduced, if everything was normal, their lives would be good.

For example, it turned out that only bone tools, wood tools, and stone tools could be used to cultivate, without ridges or new crops, so the people of Zheng State could at least survive.

If you can survive on the original material basis, once the production technology has developed across the domain, you will obviously be able to live a good life.

For example, it turned out that a family gave birth to a hundred acres of land, and after the reform of the child production, it would fill its stomach in the era when copper and stone were used together. Once new iron crops came, the same hundred acres could produce several times the original grain, and life would definitely be better.

However... most of the people in Zheng State did not enjoy the benefits brought by the progress of production technology like Sishang.

After years of fighting, the land at home lacks young and strong labor force cultivation...

This incident can be ignored by Qin State after the reform of later generations, because Qin State centralized power reform, emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, and granted land to be banned from buying and selling. The entire Qin State was similar, and there were no major merchants and nobles taking the opportunity to annex the land. After all, there was no way to compete with the violent state machines after the reform and centralization.

Zheng State cannot ignore it.

The monarch did not have the ability to centralize power, and the private ownership system appeared early in Zheng State, the earliest and wealthy place in the Central Plains region.

The farmer was fighting in front of him, and his family paid heavy taxes to maintain his family. If he suffered a little famine, the nobles and merchants would flock to take away the last thing of these farmers.

This is also the reason why the farmer's thoughts are easy to have many believers in the Central Plains, so why do they have to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, and the simplified theory of public ownership of land will be praised by the lower class people.

For the bottom, compared with the state where the new era of the Central Plains was not born and the old era had collapsed, they would rather accept the Qin State's policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, curbing aristocrats, and making the land, the thing that settled and made life not be taken away at least.

This is the dilemma faced by the self-cultivated farmers in Xinzheng.

The price of iron tools is not low, and the price of cattle and horses is not low. You have to pay various academies, making it difficult to accumulate wealth.

On the one hand, the price of grain has been lowered year by year, and the currency has begun to be circulated on a large scale, and farmers have less money.

When encountering a famine, you need to borrow money, and you need to pay high interest. Part of the income of Mengchangjun Yangshi in later generations comes from the interest of usury.

If you really can't afford it, you will sell your private land, either become a fiefdom serf of the nobles, or become a servant.

Wei and Han were not here to liberate the people. The war between Wei and Han and Zheng was a dog-biting dog between nobles. But the reality was that once the Wei and Han coalition forces invaded, most of the Si clans would be killed.

When a person dies, he doesn't have to pay back the loan shark. The other six Mu nobles brought by Wei Hanhe will inherit the original land at most and expand their fiefdoms. They will never inherit the loan shark.

In Si Shang, this problem is actually very easy to solve: violent means, eliminating the nobles, reshuffling the distribution of wealth, allowing the people to enjoy the dividends brought by the progress of productivity, and sucking the blood of various countries in Jiuzhou will not make the people of Si Shang too bitter.

Even if it is not in Si, if the Mo family really takes power, this problem is easy to solve: the nobles at most retain part of the land stipulated under the Zhouli system as private land, abolish personal dependence, and the excess land is allocated to the people according to the population. The interest on usury is only recognized as one double of the principal. Once the interest exceeds twice, it will be considered as the interest has been repaid, and the extra part is used as the principal.

But the problem lies in this: the means to solve are very simple, and these simple means cannot be implemented.

If it is implemented, there is no need to work with the nobles to defend the city, and an uprising will be first.

This is also the most troublesome thing about Mozhe and others. They are all dead to the forefront. The nobles of Zheng State do not have a little self-knowledge, and they are still nonsense about this matter and cannot agree at all.

In the eyes of some nobles, they have achieved the ultimate compensation for the demolition of houses in the city.

Propaganda is fearful and reserved, and this will only lead to a devil if it can motivate the people.

In Zheng State uprising, it was a desperate situation, and there was no permission from above. It would be criticized that it would be detrimental to long-term consumption.

Since this is the case, we have to maintain "compromise" with the nobles, but once such a thing is compromised, there will be no result.
Chapter completed!