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Today we are going to talk about Rumugong, but we have to start with another, more famous figure, Mozi.
Mozi was born in a declining aristocratic family, although he was a descendant of the Song Guo clan, but in the internal affairs of the Song Kingdom, the family was weakened and excluded, and Mozi's ancestors moved to the Lu country with their families, and by the time of Mozi, the family had declined. This identity with the blood of the nobility, so that Mozi from childhood to adulthood has a kind of self-respect, that is, to give up the so-called glory and wealth but also to realize their own ideals, and later the monarch of the Yue kingdom wanted to give Mozi five hundred miles of land, invited Mozi to the Yue kingdom as an official, Mozi also demanded that the Yue king must obey his own arrangements, Mozi is willing to become an official in the Yue kingdom.
People like Mozi, it is difficult to have a way to survive in the Lu Kingdom Court, because Mozi respects the rules of the jianghu. Moreover, the political structure of the State of Lu at that time was that although Duke Lu Mu had ambitions, his national strength was quite weak, and the monarch was powerless to change the situation. In the era of the former Lu Yuangong, the uncles of the Sanhuan family, the Sun clan and the Meng Sun clan, had been destroyed by the State of Qi, leaving only the Ji Sun clan. And the northern fiefdoms of the Jisun clan were also invaded by the State of Qi, leaving only the isolated city of Feiyi, it is estimated that the descendants of the Jisun clan believed that if they could no longer become the kings of a country, they would never have another chance, so they called themselves kings in Feidi, and their courtiers called themselves kings, and Feidi became a country within the state of Lu.
This pattern is actually not a bad thing for Lu Mugong, that is, the Sanhuan family that controlled the court for more than a hundred years has disappeared, and the monarch has once again had the opportunity to take power. Lu Mugong was also an ambitious figure, in order to curb the monopoly of the state by powerful families such as Sanhuan, Lu Mugong first abolished the system of hereditary relatives, the so-called "perverting the law, will be exempted", that is, if it violates the law, even the aristocratic class will suffer due punishment. And Lu Mugong also appointed the talented Gong yi Xiu as the prime minister to carry out a reform movement in the country of Lu, and developed a people's livelihood policy of "those who eat Lu must not compete with the people under the people".
The division and division of the State of Lu created a difficult problem for the new Duke Lu mu. In the face of the fierce external war day by day, in the face of the loss of every inch of luguo's land, the three huans have declined, and the monarch is even weaker, Lu Mugong desperately needs talents who respect the Luguo gongfu to promote the rejuvenation and rise of the country. And is Mozi such a person? Of course not, Mozi only has the existence of rivers and lakes in the Lu kingdom, and cannot do the affairs of the government, because Mozi can not only ask for the King of Yue from above, but also from above to ask for Lu Gong, then for Lu Mugong, who desperately wants to show the power of the public office, people like Mozi are "respectful and far away".
Duke Lu Mu launched an official reform in the country, selecting and appointing talents from the people, and at the same time dividing the civil and military power of the powerful ministers in the DPRK and the middle of the country, and promoting the "division of officials into civil and military forces" was promoted. At that time, the system of the Sanhuan family that could control both the government and the military was completely dismantled, and the final adjudication power was concentrated by the monarch. The appointment of Wu Qi as a general in the Era of Lu Yuangong and the appointment of Gong Yi Xiu as a Xiang in the Era of Lu Mu Gong may reveal a certain possibility, and the general phase system of the Lu Mu Gong era has been very mature. Gong YiXiu takes "Doctor Gao Di as Lu Xiang", which is to use the strength of the state to cultivate Confucian students, which is a good way for the state to reserve talents, and is a precedent for the training mechanism of the Warring States talent.
Lu Mugong's heart was to regard the State of Qi as the greatest enemy, because most of the inch of territory lost by the State of Lu in the past few decades was occupied by the Qi people, and the alliance courtiers who remained in the Sanhuan Family at that time also had a lingering feeling that the powerful and powerful family ministers such as Sanhuan were also attacked by the Qi people, so there was a very rare consensus between the monarchs and the courtiers, that is, to resist the attack of the State of Qi with the enemy, that is, the Feidi Jisun clan, which had established itself as a king, also formed a strategic alliance with the Duke of Lumu, and the capital of the State of Lu and the Feidi were at odds with each other, and the Duke of Lumu was even more so." Make the princes either eunuchs in Jin or eunuchs in Jing", with the help of Jin and Chu forces to resist the State of Qi.
Lu Mugong's various deeds brought a temporary state of prosperity to the State of Lu, but the decline of the State of Lu did not happen overnight, its weakness of national strength had penetrated deep into the marrow, and more importantly, Fang Dang entered the Warring States Era, and the State of Qi, which had accumulated several generations of military strength and wealth, was quite uneven in strength compared with the State of Lu. The Qi people attacked the State of Lu in the fourteenth year of Lu Mugong, and The Korean Army rescued each other; in the eighteenth year, Lu Mu Gong took advantage of the Qi Wei war to sneak into the State of Qi and win victory, these are the results of Lu Mugong's reforms, but they are only a drop in the bucket. Diplomatic relations between Qi and Lu became more and more tense, especially in the face of the victory of the Lu state's sneak attack, the Qi people were quite angry, and in the twenty-third year of the Lu Mu Gong, they sent a large army to attack the Lu state and directly broke through the capital of the Lu state, and the lu mu gong's achievements for several years came to naught, and the Lu state still became a vassal state of the State of Qi.