When the east was white, a team of Chu soldiers walked towards this side, as if they were about to prepare for a change of defense.

The deputy brigade coach took out the fuse from behind, lit it on the brazier fire lit near the city gate, and distributed it.

When the Chu soldiers didn't know what was going on, a few strong men lit up iron thunder and threw it over.

The explosion sounded the most obvious signal. The brigade that had long been lurking outside the city immediately rushed towards the city gate.

When the explosion sounded, the deputy brigade coach led the team to rush into the city and rushed to the chaos while changing to prevent chaos.

The defenders in the city didn't know how many people came, and they were far away from the front line, so they didn't expect that the Mo family would rush to attack Shangcai for hundreds of miles.

The more than forty people rushed from the city gate to the palace area in the city, but they did not receive any organized resistance. The team of dozens of people dispersed as soon as they rushed, and then they ran back with more people.

In the end, only more than 300 people were trapped in the palace area of ​​Cai State, and the more than 40 people who attacked and attacked stopped.

When the sun rose, this brigade had already penetrated into the city and controlled most of the city.

Several companies were stationed at the city walls and gates, while the remaining ones surrounded the remaining more than 300 Chu people.

Before the inner city was captured, the Mo family Shangcai County Government had already been established in the city. The Mo people who had originally lurked or had secret identity stood up one after another and soon organized the situation in the city in an orderly manner.

The people were neither panicked nor surprised, as if they had already expected it.

Many people even ran to the near army, not talking about food and slurry, but they skillfully sold things from their homes because they knew that the Mo family even registered compensation for demolition of the door when they were guarding the city. This had spread all over the world decades ago, let alone now.

People keep selling goods and collecting banknotes because banknotes here mean hard currency - you can buy three major items such as salt, iron and cloth. As for whether they can be exchanged for gold, the public does not care. That is what the big merchants in Si Shang need to pay attention to.

Some wood-trafficking wood sellers even suggested that the gates of the inner city were all made of wood, otherwise they would buy more firewood and pile up to set fire to the door of the inner city, and he could give the Mo family some discounts and cheaper.

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In the inner city, the nobles who were responsible for guarding the city wanted to make the final resistance with their subordinates. There were more than 300 people under their command, but more and more locals fled across the city and could not defend themselves anyway.

The Mo family army outside had already begun to prepare for an attack. Seeing the people under the city helping to pile up wood, firewood, grass, sand and gravel, the people were crowded, and the nobles in the inner city could only sigh.

As a nobleman who participated in the palace coup, he was named Duke of Shangcai County.

As early as the beginning of the coup, he suggested that we should read the Mo family's books carefully, and that we should distinguish who is a friend and who is an enemy.

In the current state of Chu, who is the enemy to the nobles? The common people, farmers, industry and commerce are all enemies, at least the group of people who cannot be trusted.

To win the hearts of the people, you can never fight for the Mohist school, which is righteous and righteous, and the key is that there is money.

Because nobility cannot give up the foundation of their existence. Without fiefdom, nobility with patriarchal system and public land labor is not aristocrats.

Instead of doing this, it is better to treat the nobles and give greater benefits. Whether you study Qi State or restore the etiquette, you must figure out where your butt is sitting.

Otherwise, the nobles can give the people three points of benefit, and the Mohist school can give them eight points, and they cannot use the benefits to tempt the people. Otherwise, if you have the benefits today, you will be in favor of you tomorrow, and if you don’t have the benefits tomorrow, that’s not OK.

Furthermore, if you can't compete for the common people, peasants and workers' hearts, then it's better to give up completely and truly build a paradise for a noble.

For example, Shangcai should not continue the original policy, but should forcefully reclaim the land, conquer it by force, and re-allocate it to the sect class. Only in this way can these newly gained sects know who to fight for and why.

As for possible resistance, it should be solved by massacre. After all, the people are weak and just need to kill the ones who take the lead, and the rest will be honest.

At this time, the trapped Shangcai County prince was born as a nobleman, who was only forty years old and had read a lot of books from the Mohist family since childhood.

Because many nobles in the Chu State have close relationships with the Mo family, such as Yangchengjun in nearby Yangcheng, who once had a very good relationship with Meng Sheng, one of the leaders of the Mo family; Mozi was a teacher and friend of the Duke of Luyang who died in Daliang City that year; Gongshu Ban and Mozi had an extraordinary relationship...

After he was a little older, paper and books on Si began to appear. At that time, he had already begun to master the Xuanyi tribe, and the Mohist school began to slowly rise in Si.

Various articles, through the monopoly of paper and printing, defeated the rest of the scholars who rely on the mouth to teach their hearts in the market; combined with the theories of many thoughts in later generations, defeated the wrong understanding of social development during this period of social transformation; technological progress and the excellent and high-yield crops that came from unknown origins have created a connection between the morality of the Mohist school and the fullness of food...

He also read a lot.

But it is different from some nobles and concubines.

After reading these books by the Mo family, some nobles and concubines became angry and didn't know where their butt was sitting. They really believed in words such as equality and love.

It is understandable that the noble and concubine son cannot figure out where his butt is sitting. After all, under the patriarchal system, the concubine son is also inferior to the legitimate son.

But what made him the most different was that some nobles who had the status of legitimate sons believed what the Mo family said and actually began to consider things like the common people's gains.

He is different.

He read many books from the Mo family. When he first read it, he felt enlightened. He immediately understood some things he had not figured out, and then used them to clear his butt where he sat. Then he accepted the Mo family's views on contradictory interests, and then used them in reverse, and the effect was significant.

For this reason, he even traveled to Si Shang, studied in Si Shang for a while, and saw some remote areas of Chu, and even went to the locations of primitive settlements such as Jiuyi Mountain.

Looking at the theory of the paradise summarized by the Mohist school and considering the statement that the production relations promoted by the Mohist school must adapt to the development of productivity, he made a great sense.

For example, in Jiuji and other places, according to the Mohist saying, it was a paradise of superiority and superiority. In remote tribes that used stone tools to plow and burn, the remnants of clan communes were extremely serious.

For example, in Sishang, industry and commerce are developed, and many villages and communities are farming and adjusting crops around the industry and commerce in Sishang. People communicate with each other very frequently, so there is no soil for aristocrats to exist in Sishang.

For example, some cities in the Chu State had a deep influence on the Mo family; while others had a low influence on the Mo family.

After investigation and research, he felt that what the Mohist school said was very reasonable.

However, the path he took was completely different.

As Taoism says, all things transform themselves, and the meaning is similar.

It’s just that the Mohist school is more radical.

The Mohist school believes that productivity is improving, so we must change the current situation of aristocratic rule, change everything in the old era, and use new rules, morality, and relationships between people to adapt to the arrival of the era of iron gunpowder workshop machinery.

And we must use rational knowledge to infer what kind of rules and morality and relationships between people are in line with each other in the new era, rather than relying on the long-term transformation of all things.

At that time, he was not the Duke of Shangcai County, and suddenly thought that if the progress of the times had given birth to all these changes, such as iron oxen plowing and equipment from Sishang workshops, they would have given birth to new relationships and rules between people.

So... why not destroy all this, thereby destroying productivity to adapt to backward production relations?

The truth in the Mohist letters is very clear, but the Mohist meaning is that the times must progress and the common people must benefit.

But on the other hand, why do you have to move forward? Why can’t you move backward?

He thought that the reason why Kong Zhongni's trick was not good was because of the progress and development of various technologies, so Kong Zhongni had no results for a lifetime. But what if all this was destroyed? Then wouldn't the rule of the nobles be able to last forever?

For example, the new textile machine in Si Shang is not necessary for the nobles. Even without this, the nobles can still dress and eat, and never have to do their own business.

For example, if there were no such things in the Si ironware, the common people would have no way to produce and work as a family, and could only choose to rely on the village and community fiefdom. The nobles did not need these things.

All these are all like this, so he thought for a long time and finally came up with a solution that could completely solve the influence of more and more people in Chu State being bewitched by the propaganda of the Mo people, and it was a solution from the root.

That is to keep the current system unchanged and destroy the progressive productivity, so that the level of productivity can be adapted to the rules and systems of the old era.

Destroy all technological progress from Si, block the border, prevent merchants from moving, and burn all paper books.

A group of original sects were re-established, enclosed as fiefs, and the sects were not allowed to engage in industry and commerce. They could only choose to train as samurai from childhood to train, re-create a group of sects and achieve grassroots rule.

People are not allowed to change their careers, and it is stipulated that farmers are farmers, and craftsmen are craftsmen. They cannot change their identities at will. The son inherits the father's business and the father and the son inherits the father's business.

People are not allowed to migrate, and those who migrate at will will be stationed in villages and communities.

The land of Chen and Cai, which had already changed the country, was re-enacted, and cattle and horses were collected, and banned from cultivating...

At least, he thought that doing so could completely solve the problem of chaos in the world. However, when he made this statement, someone asked with a smile: "How can you have the strength and force to fight Si Shang? After all, there is not only one Chu State in the world. Even if you do this, you can prevent the infiltration of Si Shang, can you let Zhao Wei, Han, Qin and Qi Yan do this? If you can't beat it, what's the point of what you said? What's the difference between winter being too cold? If you say you'll warm it up a little closer?"

He only felt that those who mocked him were ignorant and had no idea what the root cause of the chaos today, nor did he know that the world was so chaotic that the nobles of the world would end sooner or later.

After the coup, he was finally named Shangcai County Duke with his own talents and family power. He was preparing to try to promote it with all his revenge, but he did not expect that the Mo family had already invaded the city.

"Why……"

Standing on the inner city wall, he sighed and thought that all he thought was probably never going to implement. Those who laughed at him would eventually die in ignorance and stupidity in the future and do not know what the root cause of death is.
Chapter completed!