When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 704

Yanshangdu, Jicheng
After receiving Zhang Ji's letter, the Six-Fingered Black Knight immediately led a group of Mohist leaders and the God-killing Swordsman back from the grassland to Jicheng at night to meet Zhang Ji in Jicheng.

The Yan defenders and civilians looked at the Suzaku machines flying the banner of civilian use and did not stop them.

Although the Mohists collectively withdrew from the State of Yan because of Yan Dan's attack on the Six-Fingered Black Knight, they also left behind many convenient tools and machinery for the people of Yan, as well as many bridges and roads that were only a few steps away from completion.

The people of Yan were not ungrateful. They all understood that the Mohists had done their utmost, and their attitude towards the Mohists did not change even after their withdrawal.

Moreover, given the character of the Mohist disciples, they would not carry out such a surprise attack under the banner of civilian affairs. The defenders on the city walls also knew that dozens of mechanical Suzakus alone could not break the defense of the Yan State. Ju Zhi, the son of Ju Wan, who was in charge of the defense of Jicheng, understood this point.

However, as a general entrusted by Yan Dan with the important task of guarding Jicheng, Ju Zhi still planned to go and check who these dozens of mechanical Suzaku planes were carrying so frequently, and also wanted to find out what the purpose of Mohist's sudden visit to Yan was.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he walked to the open space in the city specially designated for the docking of the Mechanical Suzaku, he saw a group of Mohist swordsmen carrying three familiar figures off the Mechanical Suzaku.

Ju Zhi rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had seen it wrong.

"That's the king, the tutor, and the imperial teacher!"

Ju Zhi's eyebrows and eyes twitched wildly. It was obvious that he knew very well what this situation meant, especially the hideous penetrating wound on Tian Guang's abdomen and his pale skin, which looked like that of a dead person.

"The king was defeated?"

Ju Zhi walked forward and wanted to take the bodies of Yan Dan, Ju Wu and Tian Guang from the hands of the Mohist God-killing Swordsman, but he heard a crisp sound of swords being drawn, and the long swords in the hands of the Mohist God-killing Swordsman were pointed at him and the more than ten royal city guards behind him.

"Don't get close, or I'll kill you with my sword."

Ju Zhi couldn't help but feel a little angry when he heard the cold warning from the leading Mohist swordsman. This was the Shangdu royal city of Yan State after all. He was about to say something when he saw more than twenty people walking down from the Suzaku mechanism.

The moment he saw these people, Ju Zhi stopped talking.

The six-fingered black hero, Jing Ke, Madam Xu and her husband, Master Ban, Master Xu, Qin Zhao, the leader of the Mohist Qin State, Han Shen, the leader of the Mohist Han State, the leader of the Mohist Wei State...all the leaders of the Mohist headquarters and the leaders stationed in the seven countries gathered in Jicheng.

Not only that, there is also Kong Qian, the head of the Confucian Confucius Temple, Meng Yu, the head of the Meng Mansion, the supervisor of the Great Qin Academy, Master Xun, the head of Xiaoshengxianzhuang, Fu Nian, the eldest disciple of Xiaoshengxianzhuang, and Yan Lu, the second disciple Yan Lu, Bai Yunzi, the chief elder of the Taoist Tianzong, Piaomiaozi, the second elder of the Tianzong, Xiaoyaozi, the head of the Renzong, and Muxuzi, the chief elder of the Renzong, Dongjun Feiyan, Yueshen, Da Siming, Shao Siming, and Madam Xiang of the Yin-Yang school, Gai Nie, the Guigu lineage of the diplomat school, Yang Qing, the new leader of the Fangji school and the imperial physician of Qin, Xia Wuqie, the chief elder of the Medical family, and the six sages of the Agricultural family: Li Shi, Bingzhu, Yu Tu, Xianzong, Yaowang, and Gushen… It is because of Ju Zhi, as the grandson of the great military sage Ju Xin, that he has the opportunity to appear in many high-end occasions of the Baijia school and recognize the faces of so many big figures. Otherwise, someone else would not be able to recognize them all!

Oh my God, is this a hole in the sky?

What virtue and ability does the State of Yan have!
Although Ju Zhi still doesn't know what happened, looking at Yan Dan, Ju Wu and Tian Guang, it is definitely not a good thing.

"General Juzhi, please calm the people in the city."

The six-fingered black hero glanced at the stunned Ju Zhi and said something in a calm tone that made Ju Zhi feel cold all over.

"The Mohists are going to hold a debate in Jicheng to publicly try King Yan Dan!"

Hearing this, Ju Zhi felt like his head was going to explode.

Mohist political discussion platform, public trial of Yan Dan?

During the Warring States Period, discussing war was the trend of the times. Regardless of whether one knew about military affairs or not, even merchants would discuss it in taverns and gambling houses.

In the past, before Zhang Yi entered Qin, he once participated in a debate with the wealthy businessman Yi Wei in Hexi. At that time, Gongsun Yan was fighting with the Wei general Long Jia. Zhang Yi defeated all the guests in the debate and determined that Qin would win.

For this reason, Zhang Yi's name reached the ears of King Huiwen of Qin. After hearing this, King Huiwen ordered his subordinates to inquire about Zhang Yi's past strategies and decided to go there in person to seek talents.

Therefore, debate became a platform for scholars to gain the attention of the emperor, and with debate, political discussion gradually emerged. With the advent of the era of a hundred schools of thought, the trend of political discussion gradually overshadowed the debate.

For all the famous scholars and masters, their beliefs and ideas cannot stand in the world, let alone be spread, without being tempered by debate. For an action or an idea to be accepted by the world, it cannot be established without repeated debate.

The State of Qi had the Jixia Academy for political discussions, and Confucianism also had political discussions organized by the Confucius Temple and the Mencius Mansion to select talents. However, the political discussion platform founded by Mozi attracted the most attention from the world.

Because whenever the Mohists discuss politics, rivers of blood will flow!
Those invited by the Mohist school to participate in the political discussion were not necessarily scholars, but could be officials, ministers, generals, or even the king of a country!
Like countless other famous scholars, Mozi himself emerged from the debate. As a banner of justice in the world, Mohism naturally cannot fail to give a frank answer to the world on major issues.

During the hundreds of years when the Mohists ruled the world, whenever they killed cruel tyrants and treacherous ministers, they would always set up a debate platform to list their misdeeds and crimes, and allow them to argue repeatedly until they were speechless and willing to surrender. Even if there were those who were speechless and still refused to admit their guilt, the Mohists would allow them to find eloquent people to debate on their behalf, so that they could die without regrets.

If he still refuses to plead guilty, the Mohists will mobilize their own forces and support the relatively benevolent princes to destroy him!

This is the confidence of the Mohists, and it is also the openness recognized by the world.

This is another reason why the Mohists are feared by the rulers of the world!
The knights-errant use force to break the law, and the Confucians use literature to disrupt the law. In fact, the Mohists have both of these points. It was also this political discussion platform that caused the relationship between Confucianism and Mohism to be extremely bad.

In Confucian thought, if the king does something wrong, his subjects should advise him and under no circumstances should they kill him.

But also because of the existence of the Mohist political discussion platform, from the late Spring and Autumn Period when Mozi founded the Mohist school until today, there have been very few princes who have gone too far, even if they have been indulging in wine and sex or have been cruel and tyrannical towards their people.

For example, King Kang of Song, who was known as the tyrant king of Song because he "cut open the back of a hunchback and carved the legs of a commoner", also suffered the demise of King Min of Qi due to the lobbying of the Mohist school.

However, the political forum is a place of reason, and not all people who go on the forum are wrong. For example, Qin Xiaogong Ying Quliang and Shang Yang, who were the first to initiate reforms, were considered tyrants and flatterers by the Mohists. The Mohists did not understand the true meaning of Qin law and thought that Qin Xiaogong and Shang Yang were abusing the people. They also debated with Qin Xiaogong on the Mohist political forum, and finally agreed with Qin Xiaogong's ideas, which led to the birth of the Qin-Mo lineage of Mohism.

However, the tolerance of the Mohists was quite high. If it were not for the princes like King Kang of Song who was dubbed "Jie Song" and took pleasure in killing the people, the Mohists would not easily start discussing politics. In recent years, they mainly targeted some officials and nobles, which could be regarded as forcibly using force to maintain a moral bottom line for the entire Warring States period.

But it is obvious that Yan Dan has touched the moral bottom line set by the Mohists.

And who were the guests that the Mohists invited to the political discussion forum?

All the schools of thought sent their own powerful people as guests, so there was no way this matter could be reduced to a small matter.

Seeing this, Ju Zhi stopped talking and did not try to dissuade them. Instead, he sent his chief secretary to arrange for food and lodging for the various schools of thought, and at the same time sent scouts to gather information from the front lines.

Ju Zhi no longer cared about what happened to the State of Yan. In this situation, the State of Yan was already destroyed and had no future. Could it be that he should invite Yan Chunjun, the only person in the world with royal blood of Yan besides Yan Dan and Ju Wu, to come back and ascend the throne?
Now he just wanted to know whether his father was alive or dead. As for Yan Dan... unless the God of Heaven appeared, he would definitely die for the bad things Yan Dan had done.

After all, if he were not a minister of Yan and Yan Dan was not the King of Yan, he would also hate a traitor who could even kill his own father in order to seize power.

The next day, battle reports came from the front line of Yan State. Zhang Ji personally led a battalion of 3,000 and defeated the 250,000-strong Yan army with 3,000 armored cavalry. He killed the national teacher Tian Guang in battle and captured Yan Wang Dan and Taifu Ju Wu alive.

For a time, the entire Yan State was in an uproar, and the Yan people's disgust towards Yan Dan reached its peak!
In addition to the fact that Yan Dan imposed high taxes on the people in order to go to war with Qin, there were other reasons why the Yan people were unwilling to go to war with Qin.

The Yan people were originally generous and heroic. During the 300 years of the Spring and Autumn Period, when they and the former Qi State of the Jiang Dynasty formed a barrier in the northern part of the Central Plains, they always had a strong sense of cosmopolitanism.

However, the Yan people, who were clear about gratitude and resentment, were most grateful to the Qin State, which was called a country of tigers and wolves by the Shandong princes.

Not to mention that Qin had never bullied Yan because it was thousands of miles away from Yan. Even when Yan was poor and weak, Qin had two marriages with Yan.

The State of Yan once advocated an alliance to attack the State of Qin. However, in fact, the State of Qin did not bother with the State of Yan. Instead, it formed an alliance with Yan and made peace with it. It even betrothed its princess to King Yi of Yan as queen, and strongly supported the Crown Prince Ji Ping of King Yi of Yan to fight against Zi Zhi's rebellion.

When the State of Yan was in a state of disrepair, King Huiwen of Qin sent Yingji, who was then a prince, and Mi Bazi, who was then a princess, to the State of Yan as hostages to show his desire to make peace with the weak Yan and his strong support.

The State of Yan did not take advantage of the situation and released the two hostages when Qin was in its most difficult time, which made the poor and weak State of Yan feel a rare sense of gratitude towards Qin.

When the State of Yan was preparing to take revenge on the State of Qi, Yingji, who was already the King of Qin at that time, did not want cities or money or food, but held a free alliance, sent out an army of hundreds of thousands, and lent a large number of siege equipment to the State of Yan.

Later, when King Zhaoxiang of Qin died, he did not hold it against the State of Yan for once again joining the coalition against Qin. Instead, he reconciled with the State of Yan during the year of mourning.

During the reign of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and the current reign of King Zheng of Qin, Qin has maintained a good alliance with Yan. To be honest, in the hearts of the Yan people, the Qin people are more magnanimous and are as passionate as the Yan people, who are clear about gratitude and resentment.

However, under the instigation of Prince Dan, the State of Yan repeatedly fought with the State of Qin.

The common people did not understand politics, they just felt that Yan was ungrateful to Qin. Morally speaking, most Yan people were opposed to going to war with Qin.

Especially when they learned that Yan Dan was going to lead his troops to attack the rebel Yan Chunjun in Wuyang City first, and then attack the flank of the Qin army which was at war with the grassland wolf tribe at this time, the war-weariness of the Yan people, who were deeply harassed by the grassland wolf tribe, reached an unimaginable height.

When the news of defeat came, the Yan people put all their dissatisfaction and resentment on Yan Dan, who attacked their mentor, killed his father and usurped the throne!

(End of this chapter)