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Chapter 779 Dangshan Siege Battle ([-])

Faced with such a just and strict reason, the emperor's father Yueling just smiled.

He believed that there must be a lot of righteous men in the Mohist family who were interested in the world, and he also believed that the Mohist family would go through fire and water for the benefit of the world, but he felt that the Mohist family's request to evacuate the old and weak women and children this time was more of a show.

He knew that there were envoys from various countries outside the city.This time, I'm afraid it was for the envoys of various countries.

So he taunted the Mohist envoy along this line of thinking, but the Mohist laughed and said, "If you have to say that, it's not unreasonable."

"It's just that the morality of my Mohist school will not change, and the princes of various countries will not be hostile to us because of our benevolence and righteousness. The morality of our Mohist school is spread to the world through paper and printing, and scholars who are interested in the world have already joined us. "

"Everything must have a precedent. The giant hopes that the Battle of Dangshan is a precedent, a precedent that the people of the world must be taken into account when fighting a war. If they don't want them to do it, as long as the people of the world think they don't do it, it's not good."

"Tian Wu was shot four years ago. That is also a precedent. In the future disputes among the Xia, those who dare to massacre the city will be killed!"

"Today's Dangshan World War I is also a precedent. The old and the weak, women and children are also human beings, and their survival must be considered. This is the difference between us as humans and animals."

"In the battle of Dangshan, our army will win. You have committed too many crimes before. Even if you don't shoot, you will be sent to the South China Sea. But Juzi thinks he can still convince you. After a hundred years, when people mention your father Yueling, they may forget The blood of the butcher's knife on your hand will remember that you allowed the old and the weak, women and children to leave."

"There is no hope for you in the past. Please cherish the name after the death."

Hearing the three characters behind his name, the emperor's father Yueling laughed out loud.

After laughing for a long time, the emperor's father Yueling suddenly asked: "Since you are for the benefit of the world, if I take these people as hostages, if you attack the city, I will kill them, what can you do?"

The Mohist calmly said, "Killing one person to benefit the world can be done. My Mohists talk about utilitarianism. Since everyone is equal, we only need to calculate the pros and cons. I don't think we should consider the difference between a person and a person." Needs to be said again. This is not a difficult question for us, but a simple one like asking where the sun rises."

"Three days later, the gates of the west camp will be closed. If the people have not withdrawn by then, you will bear all the consequences."

After the Mohist finished speaking, he solemnly submitted the official document, and then left.

After the Mohist left, several counselors persuaded him, "You must absolutely not agree."

"If the old and the weak, women and children withdraw, the young and strong in the city will definitely refuse to stick to it. This is the poisonous plan of the Mo family to prevent me from defending the city."

"For example, if parents, sisters, wives and daughters are all outside the city, how can those farmers in the city be willing to defend the city with all their strength? When people's hearts are scattered, disaster may happen."

"Although these people are not needed for battle, they are needed to transport food, block the city walls, and repair gaps."

"The Mo family's heart is extremely vicious. When the time comes, the city will not want to fight, which will not be good for me."

How could the emperor Yueling not know this truth, he just stared blankly at the document and listened to the opinions of the counselors, after a long time he suddenly asked without warning: "Do you know how the Mohists define a hero?"

The original meaning of a hero is only a warrior, a person whose intelligence and force are superior to others, but over the years, the Mohism has given many new meanings to words, and hero is one of them.

The rest of the people didn't know why the emperor's father Yueling suddenly asked this question, and they didn't speak.

The emperor's father Yueling asked again: "If everything goes well, I will reform the law, gather power, prosper the Song State, and reform the military system so that the weak Song State will be in my hands. The south can control Chu, the north can attack Qi, and the west can conquer the country. Resisting Wei and Chu, taking the city of Yue in the east, and restoring the glory of Tang Zu in the past, can I be a hero?"

All the counselors and disciples said one after another: "You can't be called a hero with the righteousness of the Mohists, but you can be called a hero with the righteousness of the people of the world."

This used to be a lofty ideal, and the first step of this lofty ideal must involve conspiracy and betrayal, because the imperial father's family is only a distant relative of the Duke's family in the Song Dynasty, and if they want to seek power, they must follow the moral rules of the old era like the Tian family and the Qi dynasty. The road of rebellion.

Without the new morality brought by the Mohists, the emperor Yueling felt that he was doing the right thing.The mainstream of the world is like this, the Tian family replaces Qi, and the three families divide into Jin. It won't take long for this to be a "heroic" move.

It's a pity that the Mohist school was born. The reform of morality, replacing the old morality, and replacing it with the new morality will gradually become the mainstream of the world. Whether it is the division of the Jin Dynasty into the Jin Dynasty or the Tian family's generation of Qi, in their eyes, it is nothing more than a dog bites a dog.

The emperor's father Yueling often felt that although he was engaged in conspiracy, massacre, and conspiracy, he was all for a lofty goal of restoring the prosperity of Yin and Shang, so although he had done many shameful things, he should Still a hero.

It's just that with the changes in the current situation in these years, everything he envisioned before has no chance to be implemented.

People in the world will judge success or failure. If everything he planned succeeds and the Song Kingdom becomes stronger, he can proudly tell future generations that everything he does is for this purpose.

But now, all of this seemed impossible to succeed. Even if he told others, they would only laugh at him.

In his heart, Emperor Yueling might still have a bit of heroism, or at least hope that others will feel that he is not a villain in the future.

Looking at the document in front of him, the emperor's father Yueling suddenly laughed and said, "Tell those women, children, old and weak to leave the city. Don't let the Mo family think that all the heroes in the world are on Sishang. We and other nobles don't have a single hero. As for the outcome, it is nothing more than Life and death, don't let the world think that nobles are moths but have no heroes."

"There is no need to talk about this matter anymore. Since the Mohists say so, they will definitely abide by it. They will not attack the city within three days, nor will they take advantage of the chaos to attack. Let them go."

After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and asked everyone to do it.

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Three days later, at the city gate on the west side, thousands of old and weak women and children from the city flocked to the gate, either waving goodbye to their family members in the city, or crying bitterly, wondering if they could see each other again.

This is something that has never happened in the world, and it has never been thought of women, children, old and weak when attacking a city.

The moment the city gate opened, it was unknown who was leading the way. The crowd who were about to leave the city looked at the emperor Yueling in the distance, knelt down and praised him for his style of an ancient gentleman.

Looking at the old and weak people kneeling in front of him, the emperor's father Yueling sighed deeply.

"These people can kneel and thank me today. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if the morality of the Mohist school really becomes the mainstream of the world, they will only take it for granted, and it will be impossible to kneel down again."

A confidant next to him understood the meaning of the emperor's father Yueling, and sighed: "Even if one day in the future, the Mohist family is wiped out by the princes, the hearts of the world are already in chaos. I don't know how to be grateful and think it should be so. In the future, the princes will use the same means to govern the world It's about to change."

"Those who feel grateful and take it for granted are a pastoral governance method; those who feel that they should do so and resist if they can't do so need another governance method."

"The world is in chaos, and there is no going back."

The emperor's father Yueling remained silent, watching the slowly opened city gate, watching the people who knelt down and stood up to leave, until the city gate closed again.

The trusted counselor followed the eyes of the emperor's father Yue Ling and asked for a long time: "You think, if we really hold the old and the weak as hostages, and if the Mo family attacks the city, we will kill it, will the Mo family really continue to attack the city? "

The imperial father Yueling nodded without thinking about it.

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"Although the Mohists don't often talk about killing one person for the benefit of the world these years, I know they won't be restrained."

"Besides...we are taking the people as hostages, what is going on?"

The counselor thought that the emperor's father Yueling was talking about benevolence and righteousness, and was about to dissuade him by saying that there must be no benevolence of a woman, when the emperor's father Yueling asked back: "The emperor is rich in the world, and it is said that the emperor will herd the people for the sky. If we take the old and the weak in the city as hostages, isn’t that the same as telling the Mohists that we admit that they are the ones who will be close to the people on behalf of the sky?”

"Whether you win or lose, I don't care about thousands of old and weak people in this city. Just like when Tian Wu slaughtered Wucheng, I never thought it was wrong. This matter has nothing to do with benevolence, but only the righteousness of the world. , I've already lost."

"It's like I raised a flock of sheep. If someone wants to beat me, I say that if you dare to beat me, I will kill the sheep. Isn't that ridiculous?"

"Besides...it's useless to keep it, the Mo family won't let it go."

He looked at the parapets of the fortress that had stretched for a long time outside the city, and the bronze cannons gleaming in the sun on the high platform in the distance, and he sighed with bitterness on his face.

The confidant thought for a while, nodded and said: "What Gongzhi said is very true. But I still don't understand what the Mo family is for. Is it really for the benefit of the world?"

The emperor's father Yueling asked back: "Back then Tian Wu was shot after trial, regardless of the sons and princes of various countries, even the doctor Shangqing, would you dare to easily massacre the city after that?"

The confidant thought for a while and said, "If the Mohist school is not eradicated, or the countries have not formed an alliance against Mohism, I am afraid that we will not dare to do the massacre of the city again."

"One Mohist has tens of thousands of troops at Sishang, and they press each other with power. When each country has different ideas, they will inevitably hand over the people who slaughtered the city to avoid being besieged."

"Secondly...there are so many swordsmen and chivalrous men of the Mohist School, and the streets are full of people who kill pigs and dogs. Most of them believe in the words of righteousness, and they talk about Nie Zheng's assassination of Qin in the past for righteousness. If there are any people who dare to slaughter the city I'm afraid that those city knights who think they are going to do righteousness will definitely take this opportunity to become famous in the world."

"Assassinate and kill, simple."

"Assassinating people and killing them is a great righteousness, but it is difficult."

"Assassinating people and killing them is a great righteousness, and it is even more difficult to make people famous in the world."

"For difficult and dangerous things, there are often heroes who are willing to do it. If there is another massacre of the city, and the Mohist order to punish the injustice, that person will be in constant fear."

The emperor's father Yueling looked at the confidant and asked, "Is that all?"

The confidant nodded, and the emperor's father Yueling shook his head and said, "You are wrong."

"After Tian Wu's incident, after a long time, the whole world will think that massacring the city is wrong, and that it is only natural that the massacre should be judged. The scary thing is that this is taken for granted."

"In the past, the massacre of the city, the observation of the capital, the flooding, burning, and killing of captives were all the same in the world."

"From now on, the world will think differently."

"The Mohists have always said that they want to benefit the world and change the world. If it's just the soldiers and civilians of Sishang, it's just one of the world's great states and princes."

"But they have their own righteousness, and they have been making their own righteousness the righteousness of the world. It changes quietly. If it melts snow and moistens things without making a sound, this is what is scary about them."

"The etiquette has collapsed, and the music has been destroyed. The princes do not follow the rituals and music, but they have no righteousness. The old righteousness has disappeared, and the new righteousness has not yet been determined. The Mohists have seized the opportunity and have been doing it for 20 years, but the princes have ignored this matter."

"Qi's Five Virtues and Wei's Rule of Law, it's not that you can't win the Mohist debate, but that the common people won't like it. It's not that the principles of the Mohist school are irrefutable, but the common people like it."

"What the lords of the world lack now is a righteousness that can fool the people to make the people believe, and maintain the system and keep the country from chaos. Otherwise, the longer it is delayed, the more superior Sishang will be."

After the emperor's father Yueling finished speaking, he pointed to a few guards on the far wall holding matchlock guns and said, "Times have changed. In the past, a gentleman could fight a hundred people with a chariot, but now a citizen can kill a gentleman with a musket. It is the basis on which the Mohists can say that everyone is equal."

His eyes froze, and he said after a long time: "I just realized today that what the Mohists say is that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and the meaning of the people is different."

"King Wu defeated Zhou, the people who won the hearts of the people, I am the minister of the Yin and Shang Dynasties."

"Qi Huan dominates, the people who win the hearts of the people, and the people who entrust the middle land to respect the king and fight against the barbarians."

"As soon as the gunpowder comes out, the people who win the hearts of the people..."

The imperial father Yueling stretched out his finger, and laughed at himself helplessly: "As soon as the gunpowder comes out, anyone who does not lack fingers and can march can be counted as a citizen."

(End of this chapter)