Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 104 The Calculation of Attacking Ju

After seeing off Bian Zhuangzi and Yang Hu, Zaiyu looked up at the sky.

The weather was too hot in the afternoon, anyway, the news materials were available, and the preparations for printing were almost done, so today I just drank Physalis in the official residence to cool off the heat.

Zaiyu went back to the table that belonged to him and sat down. While drinking the syrup with caramel, he flipped through the various orders issued by the Duke of Lu on the table.

At the top is the reply from the State of Lu about the internal turmoil in the Zhou royal family.

Zhou Tianzi was unable to resist the rebel army jointly formed by Dan Pian and Zheng Guo, so he called on all the vassal states to enter Jingqin King.

In this regard, after a long discussion with Yang Hu, Sanhuan and other domestic real power officials, Lu Jun gave a reply that he drew a red cross on the fate slip with cinnabar.

When Zaiyu saw the red cross, he immediately understood.

Although he has just been in charge of the palm for a short time, but because he is too smart, he has already understood all the ways in it.

The red circle means that the State of Lu will be a firm ally of the other party. If the other party needs it, the State of Lu will spare no effort to support it from both spiritual and material levels.

The red cross, on behalf of the state of Lu, decided to give high spiritual support from the perspective of Zhou Li, expressed sympathy for the victims, and strongly condemned the persecutors.

The black circle represents that Lu Guo is inconvenient to express his opinion on this matter, but if the other party needs it, he can provide some practical assistance.

The meaning of black cross is the simplest, smelly barbarians, come to our Qufu to beg for food?What are you crazy about!

Therefore, when Zaiyu saw the red cross, he immediately understood how to respond to the Zhou royal family's request for help.

He pondered for a while, then smiled and picked up a pen to dip some ink, and began to write official documents.

The ancestor Zhou Gong, assisted Yi Chengwang, discussed and managed the second uncle Cai, pacified the chaos of the third prison, reorganized the world and the society, and made rituals and music to transform the people.

Now Dan Pian is in chaos, acting against the law, wanting to defeat rituals and music, and promote his own system, against the order of Duke Zhou, and disrupt the laws of the world.

The Son of Heaven wants to revive righteous teachers, correct the world, and defeat Dan Pian.The great righteousness raised, the princes of the world will gather to respond to it.

The emperor begged for thieves, and Lu was a follower, so he donated a certain amount of money to prepare for military resources.

To sum up, Duke Zhou, the ancestor of our state of Lu, helped the Zhou royal family create the rule of Chengkang.

The emperor wants to attack Dan Pian, and we are not unwilling.

It's just that our country of Lu has done so much for the royal family, we can't let the country of Lu take the lead in everything, right?

In this way, everyone takes a step back.

Let's give some money to show off, my son, don't go too far, everyone save each other some face.

Zaiyu admired the calligraphy in his hand, feeling extremely satisfied.

He was about to go into details about Zi Gong for him, but found that Zi Gong beside him was worrying about an order letter.

Zai Yu got up and walked to him and asked, "What's wrong with you? You look dejected."

Zigong shook his head and sighed: "The palace asked me to draft a campaign against Ju, which will be used to denounce Ju during the swearing-in and inspire our army's morale. I'm worried."

After hearing this, Zai Yu said contemptuously, "Isn't it just a call for thieves? Can't you even write such things? I'll teach you!"

You first enumerate the faults of Ju State's administration, and scold them for not caring for the people.

Then find out their disrespect to the emperor and accuse them of violating the mandate of heaven.

Then take stock of the conflicts between Ju State and Lu State in the past, and use it to inspire the fighting spirit of our soldiers.

Isn't it simple? "

Zigong replied: "It's not that I don't know how to write a call to action, but I think this battle shouldn't be fought?"

"Why shouldn't you fight?"

Zigong turned his head to look at Zaiyu and said: "I have been studying "Guanzi" every day during this period of time. I read that "Guanzi" said that if one hundred thousand armored soldiers are mobilized in a war, the daily consumption of firewood and vegetables can be used for more than [-] yuan. Lose ten miles of plain income.

To start a war, the daily expenses can use up the savings of thousands of gold.

The price of ordinary grain is about [-] yuan per pot, while the price of gold is [-] yuan per catty.

And a farmer plows a hundred acres of land every year, and the harvest of a hundred acres is only twenty minutes.

According to the Qi system, ten cauldrons make up one bell.

In other words, a farmer's income from farming for a year is only worth two catties of gold.

Therefore, starting a war with 10 men consumes the annual income of [-] farmers in one day.

Although our country's attack on Ju requires at most two armies, the upper and lower armies, but if we add the civilians accompanying the army, there will be 4 to [-] people.

Just for a small Yundi, from departure to arrival, plus fighting, it takes a total of one month to spend thousands of people's annual income. I'm afraid this is not a wise move, is it? "

After hearing this, Zai Yu couldn't help but praise him.

"It seems that you haven't read "Guanzi" in vain during this time, and you can already see the essence through the phenomenon.

Frequent wars are indeed not beneficial to the country. If you win the battle and get the land, it is not too bad. If you cannot defeat the enemy, you will lose the whole situation.

But you can't just think about monetary gain.If there is only money to gain from fighting, why do countries fight each other? "

Zi Gong said disapprovingly, "Don't you just want to say that Yang Hu's foundation in Lu State is not stable, so he wants to turn the situation around by attacking Ju? I still understand the truth of this."

Zai Yu shook his head and said, "It's not just that."

Zi Gong frowned and said, "Is there any other interest?"

Zai Yu said: "Attacking Ju was a decision made by the State of Lu. Although it was Yang Hu's idea, without the support of the monarch, other officials, and even the people of the country, this proposal would not have passed so smoothly."

"I can understand that the monarch and other ministers support Yang Hu. After all, they all have the idea of ​​leaving a name in the history books, but why do Chinese people support Yang Hu?"

Zai Yu said: "Isn't this a very simple matter? Ju and our country have been hostile for a long time. The two countries have conquered each other for hundreds of years, and the people hate each other. Therefore, there is a public opinion basis for attacking Ju.

And most of the Chinese joined the army. If the attack on Ju was successful, they would of course be rewarded for their merits, and the land obtained by taking down the land of Yun would naturally be distributed to the meritorious Chinese.

So in the matter of attacking Ju, Yang Hu and others eat meat, and the people of the country can also drink soup, so why not do it?

Think about Bian Zhuangzi who came to look for Yang Hu just now, he wanted to go out with the army so anxiously, didn't he just want to follow behind and share the leftovers? "

Hearing this, Zigong was still uneasy and asked, "Then Master won't object to this matter?"

Zaiyu pondered for a while: "Based on what I know about Master, even if he doesn't like it, he probably won't jump out to object."

"Why is this?"

Zaiyu said: "Have you forgotten? The master said: if the name is not right, the words will not go well, and if the words don't go well, things will fail.

Strictly speaking, the attack on Ju is not a war of aggression, but a retake of the land that originally belonged to our country.

Therefore, this battle is famous and cannot be regarded as an unjust war.

Secondly, the master also said a word: If you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government.

If everyone does their part well, the world will naturally be governed.

If you go overboard and intervene in other people's affairs, it is tantamount to disrupting the duties stipulated for each official position in "Zhou Li", which is disrupting the etiquette.

Master is now serving as Xiao Zongbo, and war is not his duty.

Would the Master still go against his own ideals and intervene in affairs that should be in charge of the Sima? "

　The three conditions for the update, vote, vote, or fucking vote!

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)