Seeing that there was no one around, the ministers whispered: "If it is most beneficial to the king, it is not impossible. ”

"If the monarch surrenders now, what will Wei Han do to you?"

Zheng Jun snorted and said: "Wei Han attacked me in the name of my three crimes, if he surrendered, it would only be to interrogate me, follow the story of Wei Chenggong in the past, debate in court, identify me as guilty, and put me in prison or kill me." ”

The minister said: "It is the old monarch who cannot surrender to Wei Han at this time. But if you don't descend, you need to rely on the power of the common people, but if the common people are strong, the monarch is weak, and the stories of Song Di, Sishang, Xue, Teng, Fei and so on are vivid and must be observed. ”

Zheng Jun asked rhetorically: "It's not good to fall, it's not good to drop, but what should I do?" ”

The minister said: "Another example is the example just now, if the slave and maid rise up against the neighbor, so that the neighbor cannot enter for the time being. If you want to defeat your neighbor, then your slave and maid will be strong, and you will do what Xue and Fei do in the future. ”

"But the neighbors can't attack for the time being, and there are other families eyeing them, so they must be anxious."

"When the house slaves are resisting in front and the neighbors are unable to advance or retreat, you have a secret conversation with the neighbors, saying that you will open the back door and let the neighbors in, but you must leave a part of the family property, or at least keep the ancestral sacrifice and move elsewhere to become the king and abandon the lord of the Marquis, this is the best way for you."

Zheng Junyi's heart moved, and after thinking for a while, it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Now the Wei-Han coalition army doesn't care about Zheng Junyi at all, he doesn't have any capital to negotiate, because judging from the current situation, the Wei-Han coalition army can break the city in just ten days.

If this is the case, why should Zheng Junyi's surrender be accepted?

It is better to invade the city, in the name of killing the king, follow the story of the trial of Wei Chenggong by Duke Wen of Jin, sentence Zheng Junyi to a major crime, and then divide the land and population wealth of Zheng State.

In other words, Zheng Junyi wants to sell the country now, but he can't sell it, if he doesn't need to buy it and can grab it directly, then why should he buy and sell?

The meaning of the ministers is to use the people of Zheng Guo and use their blood to sell Zheng Junyi's family at a good price.

According to the intention of the close ministers, if they first pretended to promise the people that they would reform and change the law in the future, so that the people could fight hard and block the Wei and Han coalition forces.

According to the plan of the Wei-Han coalition army, this must be a battle that requires a quick victory, and it is necessary to follow the example of Sishang to send troops to the Song State, and quickly solve the Zheng State before the countries have time to intervene.

So it can't be delayed.

Once the people were organized by the Mo family and could hold out for a month, then Wei Han would be ugly.

I don't know how long I will fight, and if we can't fight it, once countries interfere in the future, it will be easy for accidents to happen.

If you don't fight, you have been fighting for so long, and if you withdraw, you will definitely not be reconciled, not to mention the serious attrition, it will cause domestic dissatisfaction.

Wei Han originally wanted to destroy Zheng Guo in ten days, but if the people of Zheng Guo could resist for a month, then Ming Bao, which did not need to be bought and sold, could be sold for a good price.

When the time comes, Zheng Junyi will sell the people, reach a secret agreement with Wei Han, surrender himself as the king, give up the title of Marquis, and let Wei Han move him to other places, and have a fief, that is the most perfect ending.

Indeed, from Uncle Hou to a doctor, from the king of a country to the king of a country, this is going down.

But if you surrender now, or if you don't organize the people to be captured by Wei Han, not only will you not even be able to be a doctor, but you will probably be killed and imprisoned in the name of killing the king.

If the people are completely handed over to the Mo family for them to organize, then Xue, Fei, Teng and other Sishang princes are an example, when the people rise, they will ask for more and more things, what else will be left?

The minister said: "Your Majesty, I am your courtier, and all the wealth and wealth are from the king, so I think about you." ”

"The Si clan will not surrender, it is because they know that once the city is broken, the rest of the six Mu people will kill them to avenge the coup d'état, they don't love you and be loyal to the monarch."

"Although Zheng Cheng is big, there are tens of thousands, but how many people are really considered for your benefit?"

"The common people, the wolf is ambitious, greedy and insatiable, and the people are wolves who can't be raised."

"You promised the Mo family today that they would be compensated for demolishing the people's houses when they defended the city, so tomorrow they will ask for land, power, and everything that the Mo family said about equality, virtue, constitution, etc., where will there be an end?"

"The punishment is not good for the doctor, the courtesy is not inferior to the common people, the common people do not know the etiquette, there is only profit in the heart, but there is no righteousness. Ungrateful and faithful, they are your worst enemies. ”

"With Wei Han, it is still possible to talk, at least to be polite. With the people, do not talk, the Sishang States are an example! ”

"When the time comes, the society will be in danger and the temple will collapse, this can't be ignored."

These words are spoken in Zheng Junyi's heart.

This is also the reason why for so many years after the Siziyang Rebellion, Zheng Guo has not been in contact with the Mo family, an organization that has the righteousness of not attacking and not invading the small.

As the close minister said, did the Si clan swear to defend Zheng Guo to the death because they love him and are loyal to the king?

No, the Si clan is only for the benefit of their own clan and for their own lives.

Zheng Junyi is not the son of the killed Gong, but the nephew of the Gong, and this throne was originally picked up, and he can be regarded as a half-puppet.

Back then, Yougong fought with South Korea and was killed by the Koreans, Si Ziyang ascended to the throne in the name of revenge and established Yougong's younger brother.

Later, Si Ziyang was killed, and Gong was immediately killed by Si Ziyang's remnants, so he was appointed Zheng Jun.

That Zheng Guo coup d'état killed too many people, too many families were slaughtered, and the power of the remaining six Mu of the Seven Mu was still very strong, and they split out, so it can be said that the Si clan was the group of people who were the least likely to accept surrender in Wei Han, so they fought to the death.

So much so that when some people discussed whether to surrender in Kaecheng before, the Si clan, who held the power, immediately killed some of the people who proposed to surrender in the name of "if you talk about surrender, you will be a national thief, and you can kill them".

Zheng Junyi did not participate in the coup d'état that year, but in the end, it was established because of the murderer of the king, and there was also this article in the name of the Wei and Han crusades, and Zheng Junyi hoped to resist.

Everyone has everyone's interests, and now that the world is in chaos, the Mo family has accelerated the chaos in the world, and the original means of ruling can no longer rule as usual.

Once the people began to wake up, once they began to accept that it was a matter of course to demand everything they deserved, the vassal states of Sishang were an example: in the end, the kingdom was lost, the society was destroyed, and the temple was destroyed.

Twenty years ago, the change in Shangqiu was close at hand, how could Zheng Junyi not be nervous when he heard what his ministers said?

What's more, Zheng Guo's support has run out of oil until now, and he can't hold it anymore.

Although the Mo family was organizing the Soldier Guild and the Non-Offensive Alliance, the additional conditions were too harsh, and various changes had to be implemented, which was impossible for Zheng Jun and the Si clan to agree.

According to this close minister, the more fierce the resistance of the people, the more he can actually sell Zheng Guo for a good price.

If you resist for a month, you can sell a king of fifty miles and become a vassal.

After resisting for two months, you can sell a king of a hundred miles, and there will even be a city along the Zheng State for sacrifice.

The longer the resistance, the higher the selling price.

Zheng Guo is not all his, and some of them belong to the Si family, so if he can resist for a longer time, maybe he can really sell it for a high price.

But no matter what, it is impossible to accept the surrender of Wei Han now, but it is very likely to use his head to invite people to buy people's hearts in order to prove righteousness.

This kind of thinking would not have arisen in the Shangqiu Revolution twenty years ago.

One is that there was no precedent at that time, and the old rulers had not been exposed to the new methods of "rebellion", after all, the combination of various experiences was suitable for the aristocracy and ministers who had not even been exposed to the religious uprising of "the sky is dead and the yellow sky is local", let alone the uprising with a simple program such as "the tiller has his land" in later generations.

Without experience, you don't know what is terrible.

Second, the times are easy.

In the past, the Mohists showed weakness, and needed to take advantage of the contradictions between the nobles and the nobles, the contradictions between the monarch and the nobles to survive in the cracks, and find ways to strengthen themselves.

Now, the Mo family has Sishang, has become one of the strongest countries in the world, five years ago after the death of the Heze Alliance, the fowl, the Mo family's fangs have been exposed, anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchy, no longer as weak as when they were weak.

This has made the princes and nobles of various countries more and more vigilant against the Mo family in recent years, but they are helpless, unless the monarchs and nobles of various countries can abandon their previous suspicions and unite as one, it is really helpless.

As the times changed, so did the contradictions between primary and secondary, and monarchs, especially those of small countries, needed to think about more things and began to fear the power of the people.

Suddenly, Zheng Jun listened to the last words of his ministers, and some words that made him completely firm in his heart of betraying the country.

"Your Majesty, not long ago the coup d'état of the Song Kingdom, Wei, Chu and Han fought each other for three hundred years, and they were still able to meet in order to prevent ink."

"Now if you borrow the power of the people and get close to the Mo family, how can you be tolerated by Wei Chuhan?"

"Even if he wins, how can he give up the power in his hands? Then they'll have to deal with you first. ”

"Even if you win, the power of the people rises, but this is too far away from Sishang, but it is in the middle of Wei, Han and Chu, even if you obey the will of the Mo family in everything, change the system and formulate the Great Constitution, but Wei Chuhan must be eliminated quickly, Zheng Guo is sandwiched between Wei and Han, how to resist?"

"Now Wei Han is attacking you, but it is just for profit, land, population, wealth, this can still be discussed, as long as the guards live, at least you can be a feudal king."

"But if you are too pro-Mo, so that you follow the Song system here, then Wei Han must be unacceptable, and in the future, Wei Han will attack you, it will be for the sake of righteousness, and then you will not only be unable to do it, but I am afraid that you will be executed......"

"Zheng Bo is especially good, and he will also be to blame. I'm afraid that's what I'm saying to you. ”

Zheng Bo will follow suit, and he will also be to blame. This sentence is to set an example, out of Uncle Zheng, and I am only afraid that I will respond to Uncle Zheng in the future.

Zheng Junyi already understood that when the Mo family came to Zheng Guo, Zheng Jun imagined relying on the Mo family to help improve the city defense, he understood that Zheng Guo's national strength was weak, and he never thought of fighting against South Korea alone.

In the past, Si Ziyang had ambitions, that was because Zheng Guo still had the strength to attack South Korea at that time, but now it is divided into three, and Wei Han has won the second, and at this time, even Si Ziyang did not dare to make such fantasies.

The original intention of the Mo family to welcome Zheng Jun was to improve the defense of Xinzheng, and to be able to achieve a Korean invasion and hold on for a month to wait for Wei Chu to intervene, without thinking about anything to enrich the country and strengthen the army to be self-reliant, which was unrealistic.

Who would have thought that this time Wei Han joined forces to attack Zheng, making the situation suddenly exceed his imagination, and he agreed to the conditions of the Mo family when he was in a panic before, but now he is faintly afraid when he thinks about it.

When the minister persuaded him again, his mind was also sober and calm, and he secretly said in his heart: "If it weren't for this person, I would be dead." ”