Si Shang is in the south, Handan is in the north.

Shortly after Ximen Tiao left Ye and went south to Si Shang, the peasants and soldiers from Ye finally gathered together and went to Zhao, believing that Wei Hou's hegemony was the hegemony.

At this time, Handan was not the capital of Zhao State, but it had become one of the most prosperous cities in Zhao State.

This city that was once denounced by those rebels as "agricultural is not as good as labor, labor is not as good as businessman, embroidery is not as good as relying on the city gate, and people are not ashamed of seeking profit." This place where the local woman "dressed beautifully, playing the piano, dancing long sleeves, stepping on light dance shoes, teasing with her eyes, seducing with her heart, going thousands of miles away, and attracting men to work hard for money and profit." Now she looks like a strong enemy.

This is the original Prince Zhang, the foundation of Zhao Hou, and the foundation for him to make Zhao State reform stronger.

This is the basis for Zhao Hou to resist the interference of Wei State, raise military funds, food and weapons, and to avoid those deeply rooted old nobles for future changes and changes.

With the help of the Mohist school, how solid the Handan City, which was rebuilt with the Mohist technicians, always needs to be tested by the war to know. Otherwise, everything is speculation, and everything is the theory of defending the city by the Mohist school that is "wall system, cross-angle front" that stays on paper.

The news of Wei sending troops to aid the Prince's Dynasty has reached Handan and has long since reached Zhongmu.

Hu Feizi, who has been in Handan for many days, is now hosting a Mohist event near Handan.

As a senior executive of the Mohist school, Hu Feizi knew very well about the purpose of coming to Handan. The letters from Si Shang not long ago also made it clear.

It is to "disrupt Jin and save Si". Wei must not ignore Zhao's affairs, so Si can free up his hands to do many things that were originally unable to do due to the possible interference of Wei.

Since the rebellion of the Prince's rebellion, the son of Zhao Hou was the prince, who had visited Hu Feizi many times, hoping that the Mo family could help defend the city.

The Mohist art of defending the city was originally unparalleled. The combination of gunpowder, geometry and city-guarding art was also created by the Mohist school. The construction of Handan City was also hired by the Mohist school. Zhao Hou hoped to use the power of the Mohist school to defend Handan.

If Handan cannot defend, Zhao Hou lost its foundation. Zhao Hou lost its foundation, and some nobles who were still watching at this time were likely to surrender to Gongzi Chao, causing a series of chain reactions.

However, because the capital had just succeeded to the throne, there were too many things to do, and the funeral of the previous Zhao Hou who died of illness also needed to be hosted by Gongzi Zhang. Gongzi Zhang could not come to Handan, so he could only send his confidant son to come forward.

When the son of the Zhongshu came for the first time, the reason for his request was: when Zhao Hou was the prince, he had always had a good relationship with the Mo family and had also learned the knowledge of the Mo family. The prince often slandered the Mo family, so he asked the Mo family to provide assistance to Zhao Hou.

Hu Feizi refused and said that this is not a reason why the Mohist family can help, please go back.

The second time, the reason for the son of Zhongshu was that Prince Zhang had succeeded to the throne, and Prince Chao made rebellious, which made Zhao State chaotic, so he asked the Mo family to help quell the rebellion.

Hu Feizi refused again and said that this is not a reason why the Mo family can help, please go back.

If this happens four times, no one will let go.

Today is the fifth time. This time, the son of the Zhongsha finally changed his statement and said: "Prefer to the virtuous and the responsibility, regardless of the relatives of blood, select talented people to become officials, so that the people can benefit and eliminate harm for the people, wealth and poverty, safety and danger; if they want to destroy the well fields, they can give private land so that the people can have land to work, food to fill their stomachs, and clothes to avoid the cold... This is what Zhao Hou wanted to do; and the Prince Chao opposed it. Zhao Hou wanted to benefit the people of Zhao, and Gongzi Chao wanted to harm the people of Zhao, so he asked the Mo family for assistance.

Hu Feizi said first: Good can help. However, guarding Handan requires the people's strength. Please inform the people of this statement, so Handan can be guarded.

The son of the Central Concubine retreated with great joy. Hu Feizi passed the order of the Mo family and summoned Zhao Dimo ​​who served the Mo family to gather in Handan, except in Gaoliu defending the grassland.

Among them, Mo asked Hu Feizi and asked: "The words of princes and nobles cannot be believed. In the past, Mozi wanted to stop the war in the Central Plains, but the Chu people were weak, so they swear. Once the Han Marquis Zhao Hou passed away, Chu would abandon the alliance."

"Today, the incident in Handan is in danger, so I promised. Could it be that this is something that can be believed? There is no law in the Si Shang to restrain the king, so if he regrets in the future, there is no way to punish or restrain him. The law will still come out of the king, and one word will be the law."

"If you do not control the law and make appointments with the king and the prince, and the people are the gods, you will think of it privately. In terms of morality, if you use war, you will fill it with the drums, and once the weapons are connected, you will abandon your armor and drag your troops and walk, or stop a hundred steps, or stop a fifty steps, and there is no difference between fifty steps and a hundred steps."

There are many such radical figures in the Mohist school nowadays. They either have to formulate laws to restrain the king or let the people participate in politics. They always want to achieve it overnight, believing that the other kings and princes promise to change the soup and not change the medicine.

This idea is undoubtedly correct, and what is said is also true, but for the Mohist school, it is necessary for Wei and Zhao to turn against each other in the civil strife in Zhao at this time.

This is just like the giants within the Mo family who wanted to master the great power, just like the fact that the Mo family was completely destroyed in Yangcheng in history, Xu Ruo raised his own doubts. At that time, Meng Sheng, as a giant, needed to convince Xu Ruo with a principle that conforms to the Mo family's meaning, and Xu Ruo asked to die first.

The Mohist school has great righteousness, ambition and rules on its head, and it also follows a democratic centralism system of "what the superior is bound to be it; what is wrong must be it. If the superior has mistakes, the rules will be advised, and if the subordinate has goodness, the subordinate has recommended it."

The essence of this is that the ink master needs to understand "meaning", so that he can judge and measure it by his own rules, and thus select the giants to realize the harm.

It is not an absolute "monarchy". Whatever it says above must be followed below.

What the above said must comply with the rules, will, and the great righteousness, so that the following can decide whether you can respect it, otherwise you will boycott it collectively.

At this time, Hu Feizi had to answer what the radical Mohist said, so he said, "You are right, but the examples you gave are not appropriate. If you use war metaphors, this is the difference between filling the drums, and all flutes are ringing, and some people are fighting for fifty steps, and some people are still in place."

"In terms of Zhao State, if Prince Zhang really could implement such a policy, wouldn't the people of Zhao State benefit? If so, how could they say that this is a fifty step back compared to now? You are just considering Zhao State's relationship with the monarch and ministers in the Mohist sense, so you have the idea of ​​fifty steps back."

"But at this time, our Mohist family was unable to make Zhao implement such politics, and the people of Zhao did not fully realize and had the intention to implement such politics. In this case, shouldn't we compare it with the present?"

"If you make comparisons, you must choose the right thing in a relative way."

"For example, now a lame man races with a man who has lost one leg. You say that it is not as fast as Lie Yuko who is good at running. This is right. But you say that this lame man runs as fast as the man who has lost his leg, because none of them runs faster than Lie Yuko, so they runs as fast as they run. Is this right?"

The Mozhe woke up and knew that he had made a mistake in logical debate, so he lowered his head and said, "You are right. But all this is based on Gongzi Zhang's words and doing it really does this inference. What if he doesn't do it?"

Hu Feizi nodded, saying that this possibility is not ruled out.

In fact, this possibility is extremely high. The Mohist thoughts are too radical compared to the times, which cannot be fully accepted by any monarch.

However, some things from the Mo family can indeed enrich the country and strengthen the army, so some monarchs have to cooperate with the Mo family.

The country is rich and the people are strong. This is just the first step for the Mohist family to benefit the world. The ultimate goal is to solve the problem of the country in "rich country" and whose country is. This ultimate goal is that the monarch cannot accept.

Hu Feizi knew very well about this. As a senior leader of the Mo family and those who were persuaded at the meeting, he knew very well that the current situation and activities of the Mo family in Chu State were due to the fact that the senior leaders of the Mo family had no trust in the princes and nobles.

In Zhao, in fact, although he was quite cautious about the rejection of Gongzi Zhang's son, if no one came to ask for it in the end, Hu Feizi might have to take the initiative to find Zhao Hou.

There is nothing else, it originated from the Mohist strategy of "disrupting Jin and rescuing Si".

What the Mohist family wants to do this time is not to "sent to timely help", let alone "adding icing on the cake", but to "take advantage of the situation".

This is for the present.

For the future, Zhao State is not as good as Si Shang, nor can it be compared with Fei State's situation, so it is impossible to achieve a civil revolution like Fei State in one step, which requires a long process to exert influence.

Every step is to move towards a set goal. Sometimes you can only take one step, but you cannot stop taking it just because you are just one step.

That is, you can't reach a thousand miles without taking a single step.

Zhao Hou must have sought the Mo family now, because this time the situation is much more serious than in history. On the surface, it seems to be a dispute between the princes of Zhao, but in fact it involves the reform and conservatism under the waves of the times, the struggle between centralization and feudalism.

The spread of iron ox-plowing gunpowder began to more violently disintegrate the foundation of the feudal system.

The various theories of the Mohist school have added fuel to the fire to induce conflicts between nobles, scholars, monarchs and civilians.

The Mohist propaganda clearly pointed out the contradiction between the nobles and the monarchs, which made these contents that were originally not passed on to the nobles spread throughout the world, and also made those nobles who were "messy" and acted only on their own class instincts wake up and began to prepare to oppose centralized power and oppose the monarchs. Large-scale rebellion was in full swing.

Under the propaganda of praise, it is difficult for Zhao Hou to ride a tiger; this more than ten years of extensive lectures and publicity have also made the civilian class gradually rise and become an important force, which is also a temptation for Zhao Hou.

In this situation, rebellions broke out everywhere, and there were many nobles who came to the throne, and many ministers who supported Prince Zhang's advance, and the entire Zhao State became in chaos.

The Mohist family was in Handan, like floating reeds taking root on the river beach, and it was soon spread all over and difficult to remove. It was not that Zhao Hou didn't want to remove it, but that he didn't have the ability.

The control, organizational ability, public opinion propaganda ability, talent cohesion, technological advancement, and trust relationship between the Jiarong and the hundreds of workers... are not as good as the Mohist school at all. Some grassroots affairs are not something that Zhao Hou can manage as long as he wants.

Furthermore, the Mohist family and the merchants had a close relationship. Handan also had the largest group of iron smelting workshops north of the Yellow River, including more than 10,000 iron smelting workers. In addition, a strong army in Gaoliu that guarded the frontier to benefit the world, these were all the power that Zhao Hou believed could be used.

The letter from Si Shang to Hu Feizi clearly explained the situation in Zhao State, allowing Hu Feizi to be wary of radicalism, and could not allow the Mo people in Zhao State to betray the Mo family's meaning and become the Mo people in Zhao State. At the same time, it clearly proposed the strategy of "taking advantage of the situation" to reach a certain alliance in the most difficult time of Zhao Hou and prepare for future things.

What this tests is Hu Feizi's ability. He must not be left or radical, but also do not surrender. He must also clearly grasp the direction: do not expand the conflict between the people of Wei and Zhao, but point the finger at the princes and nobles who launched the war...
Chapter completed!