In the Qi army camp under Dai city, the red flag of Qi territory was flying.

After the Tian family reigned on Qi, in order to find the legal rationality of Qi, Tian family carried forward the theory of the Five Virtues and Reincarnation.

As the saying goes, whenever an emperor is about to rise, heaven must first see the auspiciousness in the lower people. At the time of Huangdi, heaven saw the great horns and the great horns. Huangdi said: Earth energy is better! Earth energy is better, so its color is more yellow, and its affairs will be earth. At the time of Yu, heaven saw plants and trees not killed in autumn and winter. Yu said: Wood energy is better! Wood energy is better, so its color is more green, and its affairs will be wood. At the time of Tang, heaven saw the golden blade born in water. Tang said that the metal energy is better! Metal energy is better, so its color is more white, and its affairs will be gold. At the time of Wen, heaven saw fire first, and the red bird held a elixir book to collect it in Zhoushe. King Wen said: Fire energy is better! Fire energy is better, so its color is more red, and its affairs will be fire. Those who replace fire must have water.

At this time, the Emperor of Zhou was still there, and the struggle between countries had not been completed. Therefore, except for the Mohist school who was qualified to use water virtue regardless of the old rules, the princes did not publicly claim that they were water virtue at this time.

However, the Mohist family itself did not believe in this thing, so the world is still dominated by the derivative color of fire virtue. The main color of the Mohist family is black, not because the five virtues water extinguishes fire, but because the Mohist family's ink and black dye are civilian clothing.

The legal principles developed by Tian’s own believe that he is mainly fire virtue and gold virtue as the auxiliary, so according to this deduction, the color of the Tian clan should be purple.

The theory is like this, but reality requires material support. Qi State has no money to let all soldiers wear purple clothes.

At this time, it was extremely difficult to refine purple fuel. In the past, Qi Huan liked purple. If he had something to do with the upper part, he would have to be effective. As a result, the nobles in Linzi City all wore purple.

But purple is too expensive, and it is too wasteful to refine it. The extravagant style is really unbearable, so Guan Zhong came up with an idea.

He asked Qi Huan to say to his left and right: "I hate the smell of purple very much."

So when someone was wearing purple clothes on the left and right, the Duke would say, "Don't let it go! I hate the smell of purple."

Around that time, the purple dye from Qi was also made with rotten conchs, which did have a scent of urine. It may also be that the extraction technology of purplish grass would cause the purple dye to have a special smell.

But the general idea is that some nobles are wearing purple clothes and approaching Duke Huan of Qi. Duke Huan of Qi said, stay away from me, I hate the strange smell of purple, so fewer and fewer nobles wear purple.

But now that Tian’s family had to use the theory of the Five Virtues to explain their rationality after replacing Qi, they had to take out purple again, because purple is the color of the fire master and gold auxiliary.

However, the theory of the feudal theory of the Five Virtues must be succumbed to reality.

Qi was so poor that it was impossible for every soldier to have a set of noble purple clothes. If he could really afford it, the world would be unified by Qi.

So the sorcerers made a sudden inspiration and came up with a theory that purple was the color of the Tian family, but the essence of the Tian family's reign was that the descendants of Huangdi continued the cycle of the Battle of Banquan. Chen Tian, ​​a descendant of the Huangdi clan, replaced the great virtue of Jiang, a descendant of Yandi. Therefore, Qi should lean towards Tude.

The earth virtue is yellow, and yellow is too expensive, and the Zhou emperor is still there, so it must be supplemented with the fire virtue.

Of course, the main reason is that madder dye is cheaper than the expensive gardenia yellow and purple, so Qi State used the earth-red dye of madder, and the earth-red virtue of fire and earth.

This is to look for a shot and then a target. The theory of the Five Virtues must also bow to reality. If you don’t bow your head, you will have to make tens of thousands of noble purple clothes to make military uniforms. Not to mention the entire military expenses, even the military uniform dyeing expenses will force the Duke of Qi to hang.

At that time, there were many people who mocked Tian Qi's actions in some large cities and cities. "Stinky purple" means similar to sour grapes; "Color is precious and virtue becomes virtue" gradually became a popular saying for mockery.

Where the earth-red flags fluttered, it was the camp that the State of Qi besieged Daicheng, and five thousand soldiers set up three camps.

They did not attack because the previous few attacks suffered huge losses, and it was obviously difficult to capture them with only these 5,000 people, so they just dug soil to build soil bases for surveillance, and they were not even considered siege.

This place is not far from the important logistics supply line of the coalition forces, and it is necessary to monitor it. It is difficult to fight for a short period of time and cannot be defeated. This method can only be used.

The Qi army in the camp has been tortured by the defenders in the city these days. There are always sneak attacks and counterattacks at night. At night, there will be sounds of cannons or explosions, making it difficult for the camp to sleep.

I tried digging tunnels before, but the Mohist master who guarded the city was the best at digging pits and had professional books like "Preparing the Caves". Half of the tunnels dug were blocked and then blew the ignition of sulfur with the skin inside. The elite soldiers who died inside were terrible.

The morale of the besieged city is high, but the morale of the besieged city is low.

In addition, there were bronze cannons in the city, so the camping position was retreated again and again, and it had already retreated two miles away. After digging the camp, it was here to stay.

At this time, three miles away, a team of scouts were observing the Qi army's camp in the tree.

The horse was flat here, and the Qi army opposite also discovered them and sent some scouts to try to drive them away.

These days, the Mo family's scouts were like smelling rotten flies, often surrounding the camp. The Qi army also became accustomed to it. There were also many scouts and detectives in the Mo family.

The two sides have an extremely tacit understanding.

When the Mo family's scouts approached, Qi sent cavalry to drive them away, and the Mo family's scouts retreated, and Qi's cavalry did not pursue them.

This is true every day, four or five times a day.

But at this time, a scout officer from the Mo family on the tree did not want to withdraw just like this. He did not know the rules within these three miles, so he could not think of obeying them.

Jumped out of the tree, there were twelve of their team, and only a dozen cavalrymen on the opposite side came out.

The officers led by the Mo family scouts were from standard wealthy peasants, which were different from the previous major soldiers of the Mo family's infantry, and most of them were from this kind of background.

Scouts or light cavalry at his age have similar experiences.

My fathers shed blood when the Mohist family rose in Si Shang. They had their surnames soon after they were born, and then they went to villages or village schools to go to school for education step by step.

The family paid back the money for plowing oxen and iron tools when they first went to school. The service period of their parents was also up, and they worked at home.

The family formed a cooperative with several families. On average, the family has more than 100 acres of land, and several raise several horses together. The horses are cultivated faster. Moreover, they plant less rice here, so they use heavy horse plows more often.

They may have had a complete grassroots organization and education system since childhood. When they were twelve or thirteen years old, they were in the vigorous tiger hunting and turtle hunting movement, and they were exposed to muskets at that time.

Knowing that the earth is round and thinking that it is natural and not questioning; believing that people should be equal and thinking that it is natural and not thinking about questioning.

When they were fourteen or five years old, those who did not get into a rare middle school should be prepared to serve. During this period, training will be organized during the slack season. The male hormones on the valley floor of the village began to encourage these newly-haired children to fight bravely to win the hearts of girls.

When you start serving at the age of seventeen or eighteen, you either join the cavalry or become an infantryman. If you do well, you can choose to postpone your service and regard it as a profession or be promoted to a grassroots officer.

The popularity of horse farming in Sishang and Huaibei made them come into contact with horse riding at a very young age, with a large area of ​​land and a large number of rare land. In addition, the horse trade in Zhongshan and north of Gaoliu, and the development of horse breeding improvement techniques in Sishang has made the number of horses in Huaibei, Sishang, which is the most suitable place for horse raising north of the Yellow River.

At this time, being a farmer is a profession that many urban employees envied. The great development of industry and commerce and the development of workshop handicraft employment will inevitably be accompanied by the bankruptcy of a large number of small farmers.

It was nothing more than that in order to ensure that the soldiers of Si Shang did not go bankrupt, people from Song, Qi and other places went bankrupt and exile to this point. If the world is regarded as a whole, there will always be someone going bankrupt. The difference between disputes and chaotic countries is one of the reasons that makes Si Shang seem rich and like heaven, which is actually a kind of variant colonial expansion and economic plunder.

Now that we have plundered enough, and after completing technical accumulation and capital accumulation, we will naturally bring the world back together.

This new generation of young people who enjoyed this wealth and life like heaven in the opposite place would shed blood for everything they had enjoyed.

Using blood to repay the debts of economic colonial exploitation under the concept of the world, they owe Song, Qi, Chu, Yue, Han and other lower classes to the suffering of dual exploitation of nobles and colonials.

This is the experience of most of the light cavalry scouts who are about twenty years old now, and they are almost the same.

The father of the young officer who jumped out of the tree was a famous crocodile hunting hero in the village. He had fought tigers and killed crocodiles, and had certificates and medals at home.

When he was in service, he became a cavalryman, and soon became a professional soldier who served over the age and became a grassroots officer of the scout and scout cavalry in the division.

Now the army is twenty miles away, and they arrive in advance to reconnaise the situation of the enemy.

Seeing the Qi people opposite sent cavalry to drive them away, the young officer said to his comrades: "Do it, I see that the Qi army is very relaxed. After they finish, how about rushing to the camp to grab a few flags? I dare not say that if there are too many, I don't think a third-class merit will be a problem."

He found that the camp of Qi was very slack. If he defeated the cavalry who wanted to drive them away, it would be no problem to seize the flag after getting close. He would first shock the Qi army to seize its morale.

Military merit is not only honor, but also economic benefits. Although military merit does not distinguish between land, it is divided into some public shares, which is related to subsidies after retirement.

The professional soldiers on Si Shang were piled up with the righteousness of benefiting the world and real gold and silver, so they were as rich as Si Shang, and they could only raise about 15,000 professional soldiers and professional grassroots officers. If there were too many, they could not afford to support them.

These more than a dozen scouts were all young people, active-minded and passionate. After discussing this, they all thought it was feasible.
Chapter completed!