Chapter 223 Rumors
In the chaotic times, heroes have the desire to make achievements and help the king compete for the world.
Hero is a word closely related to values. Those who benefit the world are heroes in the hearts of those who recognize the world as righteousness, but heroes have another meaning in the eyes of those who do not recognize them.
Pang Juan recognizes himself as a hero and has his own ideas.
However, if these ideas are implemented, they must first assist the young master in the throne and gain enough reputation in negotiations with the princes, and then have the opportunity to implement the military system reform he conceived.
Now in the Xihe situation, there is no war and the Qin army confronts Henan. Because of the existence of the Mo family, there is a situation where no one takes the initiative to attack.
This provides conditions for the coup envisioned by Pang Juan.
The main force of the Wuzun was destroyed, but some people were still stationed near Anyi to prevent the Battle of Jinyang that year.
All three Jin Dynasty experienced that incident, and the memory of the sudden rebellion of allies was too deep and they had to be careful.
Under the conspiracy and undercurrents, Pang Juan quickly got the answer he wanted.
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In a military camp near Anyi, several young people were talking by the bonfire.
A young man named Zhuo. His father died in battle not long ago. His father was Wu Zu, so he replaced his father's position and entered the army to ensure their family's land and the right to be exempted from duty.
The turbid family is relatively rich because Wu Zu is the core of Xihe defense, so no one dared to move lightly since Wu Qi founded the Wu Zu system.
After his father wore a three-layer armor to pass the assessment of selecting martial arts soldiers, his family divided the land into 300 acres, and the family did not need to pay taxes or work.
His uncles did not choose to separate the family, but lived together. The father who had the highest status in the family was the father who exchanged blood tax for a better life outside.
Several battles and several natural disasters, the original village and community has undergone great changes in the past thirty years.
Most of the farmers who need to serve labor went bankrupt and sold land. Their families have sufficient labor and do not need to serve labor and pay taxes, which quickly accumulates enough wealth in their families.
Two horses, two cows, four servants and slaves in the family. The original 300 acres of land has now been expanded by more than 700 acres.
Therefore, the Mohist theory was difficult for them to accept by the Wuzhu of Xihe.
When the news of his father's death in battle came, he soon went to the army to replace him.
When he came, he took away a horse from his home as a war horse. If the horse was qualified, it could be used as a cavalry, otherwise he would be used as an infantryman.
The army would provide weapons, but before leaving, he went to the city to buy a set of leather armor, a set of stirrups, and a small and exquisite flint gun. These equipment were not provided by the army, but he could bring his own.
After joining the army, the person responsible for inspecting the horses was his father's comrade. The horse he brought was not qualified at first, but since they knew each other, they naturally got it through. He became the martial knight who was organized in the Wuzhu organization in recent years.
Wu Zu's spoils belonged to his own. When his father was fighting in Shangjun, he snatched back a lot of things and taught him the ability to survive in the army: which spoils can be snatched, which ones are own, which ones need to be divided with his comrades, what kind of villages to attack to get money and spoils, etc.
After joining the army, this kind of family background quickly merged into the army.
However, in the past few days, my colleagues have been in a bad mood and are asking for information about the cemetery.
In the battle of Linhe, the Wushu was defeated and the Qin people invaded and arrived here. There was news that the land in Hexi might be ceased to Qin.
Many people's land and homes are in Hexi, which is related to their lives.
I heard that Qin law was strict and forced to separate the family, so that such a large family would not be allowed to exist. Moreover, those slaves were also qualified to join the army. If they made military achievements, they could be converted into common people and thus they could be divided into their own land.
This is hope for those farmers who have lost their land and become slaves and hired farmers.
But for these people, it is tyranny.
The Mohist theory spread widely in Xihe, but there were very few martial soldiers who were willing to listen to and believe in the Mohist style. Once someone really rioted, they would be the most steadfast suppressors under the King of Marquis.
In the battle of Linhe, their fathers and comrades had already tried their best, but the Qin people had more cavalry and infantry, and the final failure also made Qin unable to advance straight.
But now, there are rumors that in order to gain power, Gongzi Yan was willing to cede Xihe's land to the Qin people to gain support from the Qin people, so that all countries can jointly fight against Mo.
This news has been circulating half a month ago, and someone has contributed to the fire, so it naturally spreads quickly.
Zhuo and his comrades were beside the bonfire, and one of them was there whispering: "Nobles, there is no good thing."
"What did they do during the war? Did they kill more people than us? No."
"But they were rewarded with tens of thousands of acres of land worth hundreds of thousands of acres. What about us? My father fought for a lifetime, but only had hundreds of acres of land. Is this fair?"
"Does the nobles eat more than we do with their mouths? Can they eat wheat and millet produced from tens of thousands of acres of land?"
While complaining, someone answered: "The meat eaters are despised, so it will always be like this."
Someone else cursed: "There are too many people who are not good things. Merchants are not good things. Salt is so expensive nowadays. It is necessary to transport salt from Hedong. Even if you want to make some money, it cannot be that expensive."
"There are those who sell armor. Before joining the army, I went to buy a pair of armor and actually asked for so much food. It's really... hey, they don't need to fight, they just hide at home to make armor and can eat enough."
The emerging military meritorious little landlords don’t like anyone else.
The nobles had no military merits and were born with so much land; merchants had great interests, wandering around, evading military service, and lending usury, which was not a good bird; the farmers were lazy and always wanted to be lazy, and they would never do more without urging them, which made them even more disgusted; the wool merchants and felt workshop owners that appeared in Xihe in recent years also made them feel disgusted. A group of people knew how to make money by profit, had a lot of wealth, and they curry favor with the nobles, but they looked down on them, and the martial soldiers naturally looked down on them.
As for the farmers they once were like them, they looked down on them. In their opinion, those people were poor because they were incompetent. If they had the ability to be selected as military soldiers, why would they be poor and sold their land to escape?
As for the next generation, their families can train one person to train themselves to inherit the career of martial arts, which is far better than those farmers who need to pay taxes and serve labor.
In fact, they are very similar to the scholar class, except that this group of scholar class is more numerous. Compared with the traditional scholar class that has been passed down since King Wu's attack on King Zhou, or gradually inherited by the sons of the great nobles, they are regarded by orthodox scholars as nouveau riche who relies on military merits.
Compared with the Six Arts of Gentlemen, in the eyes of traditional nobles with noble blood, these nouveau riche have no background and can only kill people and fight.
The education Zhuo received since childhood was war education. He didn't need to read or have no chance to read. He just needed to know how to use weapons, how to fight and sustain his body, how to grab the spoils of war, and how to escape and save his life. That's enough.
Now listening to his classmates talking about these dissatisfaction with the nobles, Zhuo was about to say a few words, someone coughed lightly and said in a low voice: "Sima is here."
All of these people stopped talking. After Sima Chang came over, these people stood up and let Sima Chang sit down. The military soldiers were extremely orderly and had a huge gap between veterans and new soldiers, officers and soldiers. Only in this way can they ensure combat effectiveness and obey orders.
Some people believe that when the firearms and bronze cannons are released, the poorest and most numb and numb fief farmers are the best soldiers; and the orderly atmosphere of respect and fear of the superiors and superiors in the army is the discipline that can fight to the death.
It is difficult for them to understand how Professor Si Shang teaches soldiers to read, making everyone involved in political activities a system similar to the previous Chinese people. How to ensure that soldiers with their own ideas can still fight when they face rows of comrades falling down.
If you don’t understand, you can’t learn it.
Zhuo looked at Sima Chang with some fear, and Sima Chang asked, "What were you just talking about?"
No one answered, and Sima Chang said again: "But let's talk about the matter of cutting the land of Xihe?"
Everyone was silent, and Sima Chang waved his hand and said, "Sit down. My home is also in Xihe, how can I not pay attention to this matter?"
"When talking about this, hum..."
Zhuo saw that Sima Chang was similar to what they thought, and whispered: "Sima Chang, I heard that Prince Yu believed that if he started a war with the Mo family, he must guarantee the land of Wu Zu. We also hate the Mo family. The Mo family believed that the land should be allocated with the serfs on the land. If he started a war with Mo, we would also strive for courage. But..."
"It's just that if the Xihe River is cut... I heard from the young master, if the Xihe land is cut, the nobles in the court will take out the land to compensate us so that we can have land to resettle our families so that we can fight bravely?"
This has not been passed down in the army for a day or two, but the rumors are actually more unpleasant than this one.
It is said that the young master Wang argued in Luoyi and did not cede Xihe, but the young master Yan contacted the princes in Anyi, saying that as long as I became the Marquis of Wei, it would be easy to discuss the matter of cede land.
Prince Hu, however, believed that even if he wanted to cede land and fight against Mo, he had to arrange the lives of these military soldiers first so that they could not worry about their families before they could go through hard battles.
In fact, these are nonsense, because the problems of Wei State are actually easy to solve. The nobles occupied a large amount of land population, not without land population. However, even if the people of the Gongzi and his sect spread rumors, they would not dare to lead the problem to this point. Otherwise, the nobles of the Wei State would have to be the first to kill Gongzi State.
Besides, if you talk about this kind of thing too much, it will be suspected of being open to Mo, and it is easy for the Mo family to have a dissatisfied with the world to breed in the army.
So, when the rumors were rumored, what should I do without mentioning what to do? Where did the land come from? Instead, I just made a promise: Young Master Hu is a good person and wanted to benefit Wu Zu, but Young Master Hu is a bad person and is not allowed.
Some people get it, some people always lose it. Who loses the land to compensate the military soldiers after the cemetery? No one said.
Chapter completed!