Jiaozhou Bay, which once belonged to Qi State, is now a typical colonial city.

Colonization is not a very long term. King Wu attacked Zhou and divided the feudal world in the east, and established cities to divide the country and fields, which is a classical colonial method.

At the narrowest jaw of Jiaozhou Bay, two stone fortress buildings control the waterways entering and leaving Jiaozhou Bay, with heavy cast iron cannons densely covered.

The fortress is the core area of ​​the city, which is a military area. Once it is besieged, it can be used to maintain the supply from the sea.

With enough iron cannons and strong city walls, as long as more than a thousand troops are stationed, it will be enough to support half a year or even longer.

Outside the fortress is a city developed due to trade.

After the Battle of Qi and Mo, the Mo family was ruled by the Mo family within 30 miles of Jiaozhou Bay, as an exchange for many cities and towns in southwest Qi that year.

Because the Mohist school did not recognize the law that all the kings were under the heavens, it did not recognize that the land in Jiaozhou Bay belonged to the Duke of Qi, but belonged to the people of the Jiuzhou Xia, so after the ceasing, the Duke of Qi was not given the loan fee.

However, the principle of law belongs to the principle of law, and the real interests still need to be discussed. After the Qi-Mo War, the Mo family's strength was not enough to completely challenge the old order, so for stability, the Duke of Qi would be given a sum of money every year.

This is not a rental fee, but a sponsorship fee for purchasing iron tools for the people of Qi to benefit the people's livelihood. In essence, it is actually giving some money so that the Duke of Qi will not strongly oppose it, but the statement is very different.

The rule within thirty miles has long been localized. The people allocated land, immigrated and formed villages to facilitate rule, popularized village and community elections, improved military service reading, and improved the simplest education system.

Every year, a large number of people fled here.

Some of them came from land, some came by boat, and some were traffickers.

The center of the city is in the city of Qingdao in later generations, where there was originally a fishing village.

In recent years, with the reactionary reforms of Qi State and the development of industry and commerce in Sishang, Jiaozhou Bay has become a very busy port.

The cotton, grain, silk, etc. of the nobles of Qi were transported along the river to the port, and then loaded at the port to Si.

Then the cotton cloth, silk, purlin, ironware, sugar, ceramics and even arms on the Si were transported to Jiaozhou Bay for trade.

From Jiaozhou Bay to Huaihekou is a very busy sea transportation route at this time.

The complementarity of the economic policies of the two parties has given rise to the prosperity of Jiaozhou Bay, and more and more people fled here, either doing things on the boat or doing small businesses.

In more than ten years, a group of emerging urban residents have emerged.

There is no difference in races, and the dialects are quite similar. The Mohist culture on Si quickly became the mainstream within 30 miles of Jiaozhou Bay.

The Jiaozhou Bay area now has no garrison formed by Sishang, but an army consists of local military personnel.

A standard infantry brigade, a cavalry company, and a boat division composed of five hundred seamen.

At this time, the war was shrouded in the darkness, and there were many preaching and agitation words in the newspapers in the city every day. However, Jiaozhou Bay had not yet started full mobilization, and retired veterans were still at home. They had just registered but did not start calling.

One day in July, somewhere in the city was very lively, and the local powerful Lin Jing was holding a banquet to celebrate a big event.

Lin Jing was also a person who fled, but at first he did not flee to Jiaozhou Bay, but later migrated.

The direction he first escaped was Penglai, which was also a port controlled by the Mohist family and an important port to Yan State, Jizi North Korea and the Korean Peninsula tribes.

When he fled to Penglai, he was so poor that he didn't even have clothes.

There are very few people who know his background, but if they know his background, it is similar to the experiences of many powerful and wealthy families in Jiaozhou.

In fact, he was originally from Yeyi, with a name and a surname, and was a down-and-out scholar.

When I was young, I learned swordsmanship and was a famous chivalrous man in the market. Later, I killed someone and was chased by my enemies. I ran to the port occupied by the Mo family in Laidi and became a seaman, mainly to trade from Laidi to Liaodong.

After working for a year, something happened. When I encountered a strong wind, the ship sank.

He and seven drifted to the coast.

He has been a market player and a ranger, and has prestige among the crowd.

They were also lucky. When they encountered something like waiting for a rabbit, the eight of them actually encountered a stranded short-limbed pilot whale on the coast, weighing five or six thousand pounds.

In those years, whale oil was urgently needed for the development of Sishang industry and commerce. Whale oil was common in Penglai and other places, and whales were in the offshore area. The whaling industry occupied many refining workshops in Lai land occupied by the Mohist family.

At that time, it was said that if you were lucky enough to catch a whaler, you would not have to worry about food and drink for several years. Although the risk was high, there were many brave people doing it.

Lin Jing and the eight people were really lucky. The eight people cut the whale oil and made it with earthenware. Finally, they encountered a passing boat and returned to Lai Land.

After getting rich overnight, Lin Jing took a surname and gave himself such a name.

With his first pot of gold, he returned to Yeyi, killed his enemies, and gathered more than 30 market figures who were not good at production in the market.

After returning to Lai Land, he bought some goods and went to Jizi to sell them in North Korea.

It is called "sale", but in fact, it sells if there are too many people, and grabs if there are too few people.

More than 30 people recommended him as the leader, formed a feud with each other as brothers, and did a great job in the deep mountains of Liaodong.

There was once a small fishing and hunting tribe with more than fifty people. More than thirty people pretended to sell iron tools, but secretly killed all the people in the tribe, leaving no women, children and children, and snatched the tribe's fur and gold.

Some are cheating, robbing, or robbing. In three or five years, these thirty of them have become quite wealthy.

It was also his mind that some trade stations were established in Liaodong seven or eight years ago, and robbery was already at risk.

He dissuaded everyone from doing it again, it would be better to whitewash it. Most of them supported him, but there were still five or six people who wanted to go out and continue doing it.

Lin Jing exerted his democratic spirit, and after discussing with his confidant partners, the minority obeyed the majority and sentenced the six brothers to death.

He pretended to go out to sea to kill all the six people, pretended to be shipwrecked, and destroyed the lives of six former brothers at the cost of a small boat.

After the storm passed, he packed up his wealth of gold and silver, left Penglai, and headed for Jiaozhou Bay.

The original accumulation was completed in Liaodong, and the already developed trading port in Jiaozhou Bay is naturally like a fish in water.

He has invested in shipping, trade, opened two workshops for tussah silk, organized people to trade "long-term workers" on the Korean Peninsula, and worked on sugar futures...

Reformed and obeyed the law, he has invested in education in recent years, established a village school, and donated funds to help the poor...

Now that you have a successful career, a high reputation and a lot of wealth, you will think of a higher level of spiritual needs after meeting your material needs.

Today's big banquet is to celebrate becoming a "viscount".

After the Mohist school and the old system completely turned against each other, many names were changed to disgust the Zhou Li feudal system and to make Zhu Xia completely lose the so-called aristocratic spirit.

For example, the representatives of the public opinion at the township level are commonly known as the Baron.

Representatives at the county level are commonly known as Viscount.

And so on.

Because to destroy an existence that sounds high-sounding, the best way is not to ban it, but to make it popular. It is common to everyone, so it is easy to destroy the feeling of being high-ranking.

The State of Chu was not convinced by Zhou, so he called the county magistrate the Duke, and there were a lot of Dukes in the State of Chu.

Si Shang went further than Chu State. Since Mo Zi said that in ancient times, the emperor was chosen, and the princes were also chosen.

Well, then all the selected people use traditional names.

After the name change, there were more than 600 marquises on Si Shang, countless counts and more viscounts. If a baron was shit in the toilet in the village, he might be letting water in the corner.

Moreover, the number of these titles increases every few years, because the public opinion representatives are not hereditary, but are elected.

This leads to the public not fearing a certain man and a certain marquis: for example, the village chief of a village in Si Shang was chosen as a marquis because of his excellent work, and the villagers often talk nonsense with the marquis at the entrance of the village.

This made the names of princess, princesses, counts, viscounts, and marquis become a kind of street-wide existence in places controlled by the Mo family. The village chief's son may be the Count's son, and the blacksmith in the military workshop may be the viscount. The beautiful fantasy and fear of the nobles due to distance disappeared immediately.

Jiaozhou Bay area is at the county level. Lin Jing completed the original accumulation by killing, setting fire and robbery, and transformed himself into a good person who funded education and donated to help the poor. This time, he was elected as the representative of the people at the county level, and he changed from Lin Jing, a name that sounded vulgar and smelly, to Lin Zivien.

The banquet is held today to celebrate this event.

The banquet was about to begin, and someone suddenly rushed in and attached himself to Lin Jing's ear and whispered: "Suddenly there were warships approaching the port, and there were many sails, so it should be a ship for transporting troops."

Lin Jing was shocked and understood that if other countries' ships were really hard to enter the port, the troops on Si would die. Could it be that they would have to fight in aligned manner?

Thinking about it again, I couldn't get the news before, and I was even more confused.

Soon, everyone present learned the news, and soon someone came to inform him that he would go to the county center for a meeting a few days ago.

At the banquet, people were discussing this matter, and someone asked, "Do you know about this matter if you don't know about the Viscount?"

In the banquet venue, there were seven or eight Viscounts sitting there, but everyone knew that this sentence was about Lin Jing.

"I don't know either. I'm afraid the war will start?"

He thought for a while, understood the strict rules and the various prohibitions of the Mohist school in the state of war, so he had to come forward and say a few words at this time.

So he said, "The people who are invited to the banquet today are all talented people in Jiaozhou. The war is to benefit the people of the world. How should we support this matter?"

"The bonds have been bought and the children have served, so there is no need to say that. But I am afraid that some people will hoard food when the war begins, or do the work of the Qi army for money... I have to warn you, absolutely not."

He was not interested in benefiting the world and the people, but he knew the depth of the Mohist school. Once a war broke out, there were a few things he could never do.
Chapter completed!