Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

  Chapter 272 Choice and Mire (two chapters in one)

  When Mr. Mo walked into the military tent, he saw a group of generals arguing and spitting all over the place, and there was a hint of surprise on his face.

"What's going on here?"

   "You came at the right time, come quickly and help the old man to give advice. In your opinion, how should we choose in this battle?"

Seeing Mo Jun's arrival, Wang Jian, who was frowning because the generals in the tent were arguing endlessly, suddenly lit up, called Mo Jun over, and told Mo Jun all about Li Mu's "war-free letter" .

  After Wang Jian finished speaking, the rest of the generals also turned their attention to Mo Jun.

  In order to fight against the coalition forces of Zhao and Wei in the future, many generals in the account have been arguing for a long time about whether Qin should avoid the war or seize the opportunity.

   Many generals are divided into two factions, and no one can convince the other.

   At this time, Mo Jun's decision will play a crucial role, because firstly, he is an outsider, and secondly, his status is extremely high, so the right to speak is naturally important.

do not forget.

  Although Mr. Mo was like an invisible man in the army these days, he basically never participated in any major strategic decision-making.

   But that's only because he has self-knowledge and knows that professional matters should be handled by professionals. He is consciously unwilling to participate, not because he has no right to participate.

  Mr. Mo is now an official censor doctor, and he is the Marquis of Jin.

  This time, he replaced King Yingzheng of Qin and drove his own conquest, so he naturally enjoys the right to supervise the army.

  If he intends to take power, the power he now has in the army is not inferior to the coach Wang Jian.

Of course.

  The greater the ability, the greater the power.

  With great power comes great responsibility.

  Mr. Mo now has such great power in the army, if the army wins the battle, his share of the credit will naturally be indispensable. But also if the army is defeated, he will inevitably bear the corresponding consequences.

To put it bluntly, now Wang Jian seems to have given him a decision-making power, but in fact, I don't know how many people in this account are looking at him with the intention of letting him bear a "black pot" !

   It's not that the generals in these military tents have enmity with Mr. Mo, it can only be said to be human nature.

  After all, the more people take off the water, the smaller the punishment will be distributed to everyone if something happens. After all, the law does not blame everyone!

   This is also a kind of wisdom to survive in the court.

  Civil officials have the way of survival of civil officials, and military commanders have the way of survival of military commanders.

   This unspoken rule in the officialdom is basically not likely to change in a short period of time, and Mo Jun has no intention of changing this unspoken rule in the past.

  Mr. Mo is a human being, not a god.

  Although the outside world is now rumoring that Mo Jun has the name of a "sage", but Mo Jun himself knows very well that he is not a real saint.

  From the beginning to the end, Mr. Mo was just an ordinary person.

  He likes to have fun, so there are many good things in [Mo Mansion] for Mo Jun to eat, drink and have fun.

  He occasionally has a little ideal.

  So under the premise of ensuring his own interests and safety, Mo Jun created [improved rice seeds], [cement], [quyuanli]... these items.

  He couldn't see the suffering in the world, so he thought that at least he could use these things to feed and clothe the people of Qin State so that they wouldn't go hungry or cold.

  Because he was displeased with those high-ranking officials and nobles who always like to offend him when they have nothing to do, he built more than one hundred academies in Hanzhong, and made a [blank paper], recruiting hundreds of disciples as academy teachers.

  The purpose is to break the monopoly of the aristocrats on knowledge, so that more common people at the bottom have a chance to leap into the dragon's gate, and it can also pose a huge threat to those nobles who Mo Jun looks unhappy.

   But other than that.

  Actually, Mr. Mo did not do anything that really violated the rules of this era.

  The concept of 'everyone is equal', 'world harmony', 'democracy and freedom'...from the very beginning, Mr. Mo never thought of bringing it up.

  Because he knows very well that these ideas have no possibility to be realized today. Even if there is a chance to realize it, it will definitely consume Mo Jun's life's hard work. For Mo Jun, it is completely thankless.

   "In my humble opinion, we shouldn't fight this battle." Mo Jun said.

"Oh why?"

  Wang Jian's eyes moved.

  The eyes of the other generals in the camp also brightened. Although they looked at Mo Jun with admiration as usual, they felt a little more recognition now.

  Is Mo Jun’s choice important?

important.

   But it's not that important either.

  For many generals in the camp today, what choice Mo Jun makes this time is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Mo Jun must make a choice.

  The 'War Free Letter' sent by Li Mu seems to be taking the initiative to put Zhao Guo at a disadvantage, but in fact, if it is not handled properly, it will not be a good thing for many generals of Qin State.

  Li Mu sent this 'War Free Letter'. It seems that in the next war, the Qin army will gain a good reputation if they don't fight, and they will get good results if they fight.

   But the same goes for the other way around, in the next battle, Qin will lose a good reputation if it fights, and it will lose a good opportunity if it doesn't fight.

   This is a double-edged sword.

  If the generals headed by Wang Jian mishandled them a little bit, they would easily plunge themselves into the quagmire and cause dirty water.

  Do you really think that the generals in the camp had been arguing for so long before, and they were arguing about war?

No.

   What they are arguing about is worldliness.

As for Mo Jun, he didn't need to participate in this debate, because as the supervising army who replaced Ying Zheng in this "royal conquest", Mo Jun only needs to say "I am not good at military affairs" to get himself out out.

  Afterwards, no matter what kind of accidents occurred in the choices made by Wang Jian and others, it had nothing to do with him.

   But in this way.

  Mr. Mo will also be completely excluded from the circle of generals.

   Everyone is not a fool.

  I want to stay out of the matter, but also want to share the results of the battle, and also want to have a good relationship with everyone.

  Even if the pie fell from the sky, it didn't fall like this.

  People who can't even share adversity will naturally not be trusted by others, so Mo Jun took the initiative to step into the current quagmire.

   This can also be regarded as a vote of honor handed over by Mo Jun.

  Before in Hanzhong, Wang Jian and Meng Ao had introduced a group of people from the circle of military generals for Mo Jun in [Feixue Pavilion].

  Because of various reasons before, Mr. Mo has almost cut himself off from the circle of civil servants in the Qin Dynasty.

  If Mo Jun is rejected by the military circle of the Qin Dynasty again, although Mo Jun is not unable to survive in the court, but in this case, he will completely become a lonely minister.

  If there is no choice, Mo Jun doesn’t mind being a ‘big devil’ who is an enemy of the world.

   But since he has a choice, why does he have to live so 'hard'?

   "You generals think, why did your majesty attack Zhao and Wei?" Faced with Wang Jian's question, Mo Jun did not respond directly, but instead asked a rhetorical question.

   "The king has great ambitions in his chest. The purpose of attacking Zhao and Wei countries this time is naturally to sweep away the eight wastelands, unify the Liuhe, and establish an unprecedented foundation for the ages."

  A general whom Mo Jun had never met before hesitated for a moment, and then replied.

  His answer was actually a bit reserved. Although his words were full of courage, he actually didn't express Ying Zheng's specific thoughts at all.

  Actually, the generals of the entire army now know that the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei are just the beginning of the war that Yingzheng started this time. The real goal of Yingzheng is to destroy the six countries and establish a unified dynasty.

   It's just that before this, the concept of 'great unification' has never been proposed. At the same time, if this arrogant idea is spread, it will inevitably make the rest of the three kingdoms of Yan, Qi, and Chu feel jealous.

  So although many people have already speculated about Yingzheng's idea of ​​"unifying the six countries", it has not been officially recognized by the Qin government so far.

  And since others said it so implicitly, Mo Jun naturally followed his words.

   "What the general said is right. Our purpose of starting the war is to help the king establish a legacy for eternity. In other words, our real goal in this war is not to destroy the enemy army, but to conquer the enemy country."

   "As the saying goes, 'Siege the city is the bottom, and attack the heart is the top'. Now that our army has gained the upper hand on the battlefield, then we should think more about what happens after defeating the enemy."

"Furthermore, wars must be justified. If we attack Zhao's army while Zhao is defending against foreign enemies in northern Xinjiang, even if we win this battle, the reputation of the Great Qin warriors will probably be damaged. In this way, even if we can capture Zhao country, then in the face of other enemies, this matter will definitely become an indelible stain on the battlefield for our Daqin warriors."

   These words are from Mo Jun's heart.

  If you look at it from the perspective of future generations, in fact, the seven countries in the Central Plains, even including the Huns in the north, can be said to be all civil wars between the descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

   From the perspective of the predecessors, the current seven countries in the Central Plains were all subordinate to the Zhou royal family five hundred years ago, and the people of the seven countries were all one family five hundred years ago.

Therefore, the war between the seven countries in the Central Plains can only be regarded as a conflict between their own families. For example, Qin State destroyed South Korea before. Although it was out of consideration for the interests of all countries, the other five countries sent envoys to "remonstrate" Qin State. Behavior.

  But at that time, Qin Guo defeated South Korea openly on the battlefield, and after the victory of the war, he did not slaughter the Korean people, but also gave enough respect to the members of the Korean royal family.

  At least on the surface, there is nothing wrong with Qin's destruction of South Korea.

  But if Qin State suddenly attacked Zhao State while Zhao State was defending against foreign enemies this time, then Qin State’s reputation would really be stink.

   Fame stuff.

  Sometimes it is useless, but sometimes it is very important.

  If there is no choice, then Mr. Mo doesn't mind Qin's unscrupulous methods. But now that there is a new choice, it is very important to preserve Qin's reputation.

   What Mr. Mo said was not much different from what the generals who opposed the faction of "taking advantage of others" said, but the same words were spoken from different people, but the weight was completely different.

  For generals like Wang Jian, it would be a piece of cake for them to conquer a city, but if they were asked to manage the people's livelihood in a certain area, they might not have done a bad job, but they would definitely not have done a good job either.

   But Mr. Mo is different.

Many people here have seen the current prosperity of the land of Hanzhong with their own eyes. In less than two years, the barren land sandwiched between the mountains in Hanzhong has been governed into what it is today. Vice-like 'Xanadu'-like place.

   With such a management ability, at least in the current camp, no one is qualified to question Mo Jun.

  So when Mo Jun said that he should consider the management after the war, even Wang Jian must listen to Mo Jun's advice seriously.

"Sheng Pingjun's words are reasonable. Today, my Great Qin is no longer what it used to be. At that time, natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred frequently in the territory of Qin State, and the people of Li people were in constant trouble. Therefore, in order to survive at that time, we had to win the war by all means and grab more. Food, so that the people in the country can live..."

  When Wang Jian said this, he paused for a moment, as if thinking of all the hardships that the Qin State had experienced before, he couldn't help showing a trace of emotion in his eyes.

  Then the topic changed, and he continued: "But now the people of our country of Qin live and work in peace and contentment, and the grain production has increased continuously. Now that we have the bearing of a big country, naturally we can't do such small things as usual."

"Furthermore, my Daqin, like Zhao Guo, is a citizen of Zhongyuan. Now the northern border is taking advantage of the war between my Daqin and Zhao Guo to carry out sneak attacks. If Zhao Guo resists the northern wolves, we will also take advantage of it." Isn't the danger of human beings no different from those savage wolves in the north?"

   "In addition, our Central Plains people are threatened by wolves. As one of the Central Plains people, we can't just stand by..."

   Speaking of this, Wang Jian's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he suddenly said loudly: "Where is Meng Tian?"

   "The subordinate is here."

   "I will allocate 30,000 elite soldiers to you, and order you to bring sufficient food and grass, and set off for the northern border today to resist the northern wolves. Be sure not to let the wolves step into our Central Plains."

   "Meng Tian took orders."

  Meng Tian looked serious, clasped his fists and said.

  Seeing Wang Jian issue such a decisive order, Mo Jun also looked at Wang Jian with a little surprise, as if he didn't expect the other party's decision to be so decisive.

  Although Wang Jian had followed his suggestion just now, Mo Junke never mentioned the fact that he sent troops to support the Northland in the second half.

  By making such a decisive decision, it seems that Wang Jian may have already made a decision in his mind before, and he was just waiting for Mo Jun to open his mouth to make a decision.

   "Worthy of being one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, you really act resolutely!"

  Thinking of this, Mo Jun also felt a little bit emotional, but soon he retracted his thoughts and focused on another matter.

Slowly said: "Speaking of which, I just brought a batch of new equipment when I came here this time. Unfortunately, the quantity is not much. Since General Meng is about to carry on his back to fight against the wolves, why not take this opportunity to bring this batch of equipment with you?" Equipment, so I can do a test for me.”

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  (end of this chapter)