Chapter 132: The Enemy Is Inside Xiao Qiang (1)
This is the case in the chaotic times. Fortunately, Zhuxia, who was in chaos and chaotic at this time, did not have a sufficient foreign enemy.
The reform of stirrups and infantry military system and the innovation of new crop agricultural technology have made Zhuxia somehow connected, and the war between the countries is no longer a matter between the two countries.
A small country cannot survive or even lead to a country that can't be attacked.
In Xinzheng City, the 27th day of the besiege of the city.
Wei Han once again increased his troops and mobilized more artillery, which made the speed of military and civilians in the city repairing the city walls unable to keep up with the speed of destruction.
But the cities are still persisting, and the people are looking forward to a hope that if Wei Han is driven away, the hope that the monarch and nobles can fulfill their contracts and have their own new life.
Northwest of Xinzheng City.
This is the palace area of Zheng State and the location of the palace city. The nobles live in the northwest of the city, and there is a wall of inner city between the civilians and the nobles.
The city walls of Xinzheng only have a structure with a horse-sided wall on the north side. Because building such a structure, especially a defense system formed with gunpowder, is expensive, and facing the palace city on the north side, so the protection is very strict.
The qishui and qishui form a crossing land similar to "Y". The three sides of Zheng State are built on the qishui River, which is much easier to defend.
This time, the main attack direction of the Wei and Han Allied Forces was in the northeast corner, and the northwest side was not attacked so fiercely.
At the city gate on the west side, several yawning soldiers finally came to take over the people who replaced them. After verification, a team of elite warriors replaced the defense near the city gate.
This is not the main attack direction of the Wei and Han Allied Forces, but there are still many Wei and Han soldiers stationed outside.
Outside is the tomb area, the tomb area of the nobles. The Wei and Han Allied Forces were not the Yan army that captured Linzi City decades later, and no one made any suggestions such as "high ideas" such as "digging ancestral tombs in the city to intimidate the city to promote surrender."
This is not because the Wei and Han coalition forces are of higher quality, but because there are also some of the Liu Mu nobles who fled after the Xinzheng coup, and the tomb areas are also their ancestral tombs.
On the city wall, Zheng soldiers who handed over the defense were waiting for an opportunity.
They are Zheng Jun’s confidant and vassal of Zheng Jun. This is also the capital that Zheng Junyi has been able to compete with the Si family over the years.
In the previous few counterattacks to defend the city, Zheng Jun's private elite did not participate fully, but the private soldiers of the nobles suffered a lot.
Now most of the city gates on this side are already Zheng Jun’s confidant, and the soldiers may not be, but most of the officers are.
Outside the palace, Zheng Junyi looked at the ancestral temple not far from the south of the palace, and the reason he found for him to open a city to welcome Wei Han seemed to make more sense.
The initial fiefdom of Zheng State was not here. After the Qin Dynasty was filled with beacons, Zheng State moved to the Central Plains and finally chose the most favorable real Central Plains, and once dominated it with this.
All of them have gone, and Zheng Junyi understands that Xinzheng's ancestral temple may also be moved away again. Wei Han has already agreed to grant him a town to continue the sacrifices of Zheng.
Che Ziwei, Ma Xiaoxiao, and Zheng Junyi took their elite forces to approach the west gate where they had deployed their own strength in the name of patrolling the city defense.
The confidant in charge of contacting Wei Han whispered: "Your Majesty, can you start?"
Zheng Junyi looked outside worriedly, wondering if Wei Han was ready to respond, and whether Wei Han believed him or not.
I am afraid that if Wei Han feels that there is a fraud here and he is exposed again, that would be a bad thing. It would be fine if he can escape from the city. If he fails and escape from the city does not go smoothly, he will be smashed by the extremely angry people and nobles.
But Zheng Junyi had no choice. There is news that the State of Chu had sent troops and the Mo family had also sent troops.
The most popular people in the city are the Siziyang remnants who are facing the threat of death.
They understood that all they could rely on was the people in the city, and that Wei Han would not accept their surrender.
Because... one of the reasons why Wei Han sent troops was to kill the king.
The reason for regicide determines that the coup that Zheng Yugong was killed, expelled the other six Mu, and killed Dazai Xin and the others.
Otherwise, Wei Han, who was fighting to kill the monarchist and demonstrating the way of heaven, accepted the surrender of the remaining party of Siziyang, this would be the biggest joke.
Moreover, after the Zheng State was three points, Wei and Han each obtained part of the land. The legal principle of this part of the land was that the fleeing Zheng State nobles took their fiefdoms to Wei and Han.
Just like the coup in Qi that year, Gongsun Hui established himself in Linqiu, and Linqiu's fief belonged to Gongsun's family. Therefore, the treaty after the Three Jins attacked Qi stipulated that "Qi State shall not attack Linqiu", rather than that Qi State shall not go to war with Wei and Han again.
The situation is the same now. If Wei Han accepted the surrender of the remaining party of Siziyang, then the part of the land of Zheng State obtained based on this legal principle is likely to have rebellion.
Some were controlled by Wei Han, and some were still in the hands of the fugitive nobles of Zheng State. In contrast, once the city was broken, the remnants of Siziyang were left to die.
It was precisely because of this threat of death that the remnants of Siziyang followed the Mo family's opinions that day and immediately killed the nobles who raised their opposition.
Then he "buyed" the people, not only giving more money to those who defended the city and made meritorious service, but also made bold statements that they should truly love the people and grant fiefs to the people...
I don’t know whether it is true or not, but for now, Zheng Junyi understands that his puppet’s position is probably about to come to an end.
Qi State created a good start for the Tian family to replace Qi, and the nobles of various countries naturally had some learning: if it were in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were also regicides, but the regicides were basically killed by the various countries. Now the Tian family has not only not attacked Qi, but Wei State came forward to ask the Emperor of Zhou to get a title for the Tian family. What else is there to scare the nobles?
What Tian did, but I, Si, could not do it?
Furthermore, Si Ziyang was indeed anti-Chu back then, and even led to the collective passive confrontation between the people of Zheng before the war broke out. Before the war started, they all ran away to the city to wait for surrender.
But then the Chu State was defeated in the Battle of Daliang City, killing a large number of kings holding Gui, and even the central ministers. The Chu State chose to retreat and lick the wound.
After the Zheng State coup, the other six Mus, who were originally pro-Chu faction, rebelled out of the capital. At that time, it was impossible for them to surrender to the weak Chu State, which was injured, and could only surrender to Wei Han.
When Liu Mu was close to Chu, he was just to fight against Si Ziyang. Si Ziyang was to find a chance to rise for Zheng State. He was not a pro-Jin faction. You should know that the legitimacy of his coming to power was due to his always advocacy of "revengeism" to start a war against Han, and he used the contradictions between Wei, Chu and Han to find a way to revival.
If the Chu people enter the city now, the remaining parties of Siziyang will definitely surrender to the Chu people, Zheng Junyi knows this.
After joining the Chu people, the remaining party of Siziyang became more powerful and the people were calling for it, so it was not difficult to replace it.
If the Mohist school leads the leadership of Zheng, let alone.
Zheng Junyi felt a little guilty, especially when he was facing the ancestral temple just now, he couldn't help but wonder whether he was sorry for his ancestors when he did this.
But when I thought about it, I felt that I had come to this point today, and it was forced by the Mo family and the remaining members of Siziyang.
If the Mohist school did not promote the strange morals of Si, such as equality, rights, etc., why should he worry about the people's rebellion in the future?
If the remaining party of Siziyang did not invite people to buy the hearts of the people and wanted to collude with Chu, and the offenders made him a puppet, why should he worry about the Tian family's substitution in Zheng State in the future?
The more I think this way, the more I feel that I am doing it right, doing it with great righteousness, being helpless, and doing it with openness.
Finally, after talking about his helplessness in his heart, Zheng Junyi came to the city and delivered his speech in a place where most of his confidants were.
The speech was just a few words.
It was nothing more than the coupon of the Siziyang party in that time, and he was despaired and was called the king. He originally wanted to learn from the Prince Luning who refused to obey during the Bai Gongsheng Rebellion of Chu State and sacrificed his life for justice.
But when I thought of Mo Zi's words, Mo Zi said that what Wang Zilu did was not benevolent and righteous, and if he had the ability, he would be able to help all the people; if he didn't have the ability, he would endure it and think that he would be in power in the future and get rid of Bai Gongsheng.
So he endured for twenty years, just to wait for this day to kill the remnants of the real rioter, Siziyang.
After being passionate, relying solely on these righteousness is definitely not enough to impress everyone, so he talked about more specific interests.
Everyone didn't know what he planned, except for some confidants.
There are also some "gentlemen" who really think that Wei Han came to attack because of Zheng's monarchy, so they believe that once the king and the lords uprising and kill the remaining party of Siziyang, Wei Han will withdraw and continue to retain the existence of Zheng.
With this foundation, Zheng Junyi said that anyone who makes contributions can be promoted to senior officials, lower officials and sergeants will be promoted to sergeants, and sergeants will be promoted to sergeants, and common people can be promoted to sergeants.
After these words, his confidants were cheering, but some of them were puzzled by the peasant soldiers promoted by the Mohist school.
According to their thoughts, for every rank of a scholar, someone will have to work for this scholar.
Aristocrats are nobles, and landlords are landlords, which is not the same thing. The nobles of aristocrats originate from the feudal obligations and labor rents of the people with fiefdoms. Those who run their own land to get rich are called nouveau riche, and even scholars are the lowest-level nobles, who have fiefdom jurisdiction and control of common people.
Since this is the case, since the land has been distributed to the people, where will there be scholars and doctors? Besides, even if there is land, who will work on the land?
The brave man just started to question him, but he was killed by Zheng Junyi's confidant and nobles who had long been dissatisfied with the propaganda policies of the Mohist family, and convicted him of disturbing the morale of the army.
Chapter completed!