warring states careerist

chapter 134
Xiong Dang knew about this incident 36 years ago, and so did many veteran officials present.

It's not that they don't know, but that they didn't think about it at the beginning.

Because this person is not an aristocrat, nor is he a person who hangs around the courts of various countries. Their habitual thinking makes these people not think of this military force independent of other countries for a while.

Thinking of the fact that this hero who retreated from the army of Ten Thousand Chengs by himself 36 years ago is still alive today, the words of Shen Gong Qu Yi also slightly changed the color of many nobles of Chu State present.

Shangqiu in the Song Dynasty was originally a great city in the world, and it was extremely difficult to capture.Once unable to attack for a long time, the rescuers from the Three Jins arrive, and the strength of the Chu people is weakened, how can they win?

The state of Chu is no longer the state of Chu when King Zhuang was fighting for hegemony. The state of Chu, which has experienced the destruction of the state by the Wu people and the rebellion by Baigong, looks strong, but it is actually difficult to defeat the state of Jin in the field.

The Song and Zheng countries were sandwiched between Jin and Chu. After experiencing countless wars involving Jin and Chu's hegemony, Shangqiu City was built extremely solidly.

Moreover, many people in Song Dynasty were just like their ancestor Xianggong, they were upright, even a little stunned, and they did not care about the consequences when they did things. This is something that everyone in the world knows.

When the King of Chu invited Zheng Bo and Duke Song to hunt in the field, Zuo Sima Wen Wuwei found fault with Duke Song, saying that the hunter had to bring his own fire tools, but Duke Song did not bring it, which obviously did not give Zuo Sima face.Immediately beat the guard who was driving Duke Song with thorns.

Later, the people of Chu sent Wen Wuwei to the state of Qi and deliberately did not inform the state of Song to borrow the way. The Chu army is powerful, and he must be killed by these two poles.On the contrary, the Zheng people are more tactful, able to analyze the situation and will not easily do reckless things.

Sure enough, the Chu people were obviously looking for faults and excuses to send troops, but the Song people still caught Wen Wuwei and said that he passed without an excuse, and killed him directly on the embankment of Yangliang, completely ignoring the possible consequences.

When the king of Chu heard the news that Wen Wuwei had been killed, he was overjoyed, and finally found the excuse he hadn't found, leaving an idiom of "rise up with all his strength", and sent troops to encircle Song Dynasty.

As a result, the Song people played the spirit of Leng.

The people of Jin were too frightened by the battle of Liangtang not long ago to send troops to rescue them, but the people of Song still did not surrender, and within nine months the city changed sons and food but did not surrender.

The Chu people are also feudal mobilization soldiers, and if they continue to siege, there will be a food shortage next year, but in the end they still failed to capture.

Because of such a memory, Mozi entered Ying alone 36 years ago, relying on the [-] disciples who stayed in Shangqiu and his own tongue, to convince the Chu people not to act rashly.

Now that Qu Qi mentioned that Mo Di was still alive, everyone present thought of the events surrounding the Song Dynasty, Mo Di's fight with Gongshu Ban, and the strength of the Jin people in the Battle of Huangchi 20 years ago...they felt lingering fears.

Without Mo Di, Shangqiu could still defend for a while, but if Mo Di led all the Mozi to Shangqiu, how could he possibly be able to capture Shangqiu City?

With the Mohists present, no matter Ling Yin, Sima, or the county officials dared to attack the city directly, they could only choose the method of besieging rather than fighting to force the Song people to surrender.

Can't fight.

The Gongshu Ban has passed away, the siege requires elites, whose elite private soldiers can be used?No one wants their elite private soldiers to die in the hands of Mohist, who is famous for defending the city.

Later generations "Baopuzi" once said: Ban and Zhai are both saints of machinery.

The term "machinery" existed at this time, and Ge Hong of later generations directly named Gongshuban and Mo Di as "sages of machinery". This is the original words.

Facing the only mechanical master left in the world today, the Chu people understood that if Mo Zhe was in Shangqiu, he would not be able to attack the city.

The twelve methods of siege, Mo Zhai dealt with all of them in the palace 36 years ago while chatting and laughing, now 36 years have passed, how can there be No. 13 methods?
Another mechanical sage, relying on ladders, hooks, battleships, etc., gave the Chu people an advantage in the Vietnam War, and thus became the king of Chu. How could the Chu people not know the usefulness of these machines? magic?

But this Mechanic Saint lost to another in the battle deduction 36 years ago, and what is even more frightening is that the other is not only alive but also in the Song Kingdom.

For the Chu army with peasant soldiers, private soldiers, and feudal conscripts as the main body, one year's siege is the limit, and any more will shake the foundation: non-professional soldiers have to go back to farm, otherwise they will starve, they are not Xihe pawns of Wei , not a half-time soldier.

In the silence of the nobles, Si Baijingzhishu said again: "It is rumored that the three ancestors of Han, Zhao and Wei won Jiahe and enshrined them as marquises in accordance with the destiny, but I heard that these Jiahe belonged to Mo Zhe. This is a friendship between the three families."

Sibai is a unique official position in Chu State, which is equivalent to Sikou in the Central Plains countries, but it has no law enforcement power, but is a change from the position of Sikou.The power of law enforcement is in the hands of Zuo Yin, and Sibai is in Chu State, just like Shangzhu State, and it is more of a title of a lord.

Jing Zhishu was actually called Shu, but it happened that there were other people named Shu at the same time, so in the Chu country, surname was added to the address, followed by the word Zi, to match the rest of the people named Shu. the difference.

Xiong Dangqi said: "In the old days when King Hui came to Chu, Mo Zhai used non-attacks to accuse King Hui. Could it be that our Chu people's conquests were unjust, and he, Han, Zhao and Wei's conquests were righteous? Mo Zhai still regards us as barbarians?"

Speaking of this, he glanced at Qu Yi quite dissatisfied.

As soon as this incident was brought up, everyone knew the joke in Shengong Quyi's family: the concubine Qujiang, a famous warrior in Chu, killed people at every turn, and if others looked at him sideways, he would kill the whole family... In the end, he went out and wandered around. A Mohist who is both attacking and loving.

Now that Si Baijingzhishu talked about where the Golden Harvest of the Three Jins came from, Xiong Dang was dissatisfied immediately. This was obviously a double standard when looking at the people of Chu and the Three Jins.

Shen Gong Qu Ji hurriedly said: "That's not the case... In the past, Duke Lu Yang talked with Mo Di and talked about the matter of Qiao Yi. Mo Di didn't laugh at the matter of Qiao Yi's eating children. How could he regard us as barbarians? I heard that there seems to be a Shangqiu shoemaker named Shi Shi among the Mohists, who got the biography of the hermit, the Mohist only said that this thing can benefit the world, and the Song Emperor's family got it from the Mohist, thinking that it was a treasure and gave it to the three sects."

Xiong Dang laughed when he heard the words: "That's right! I am unrighteous. Could it be that Han, Zhao, and Wei are righteous? No wonder I, only Song and Zheng are between Jin and Chu. I know Mohist's methods. Could it be that he can do it today?" If you keep me, will you still be able to keep the Three Jins tomorrow? If he can keep it, why would Duke Song go to pay homage to the Son of Heaven? Wouldn’t it be better if he didn’t rebel against Chu or reject Jin?”

"What does Jiahe look like, has anyone seen it?"

Xiong Dang was a little curious. Although he knew that the so-called Fenghou of Jiahe and obeying the destiny was a step for Zhou Tianzi from the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei, but he was still very curious about what it was like.

Chu people eat more rice, and the Mohists knew that they might have conflicts with Chu people, so they didn't go deep into the Chu capital.However, Chuzhibian County, which is closer to the Central Plains, knows a lot about these rumors.

Originally, there were quite a few contacts between Chu nobles and Mohists, such as Duke Luyang, Lord Wen of Luyang, Lord Yangcheng, Lord Shen and Qu Yi, etc., but those county officials are not around now, and those who heard about these things are only Only Shen Gong Qu Ji.

Relying on merchants, wheat flour food shops, spirits and other things, the Mohist sells and promotes at the same time, making people get used to the existence of the Mohist, and many deeds spread along with these shops and merchants.

Qu Yi only heard about it, and said: "I heard that it can produce several stones per mu, spread all over the world, and the world has no hunger. I heard that the Mohist thinks that Chu has a small population but a vast land, and it has the benefits of fish and shrimp, and vegetables and fruits in four seasons... Therefore, we spread it to the north first, and then spread it to Chu after the Central Plains are all over..."

He also told some rumors that he had heard. After all, he and Mo Zhe still have the same level of relationship as his own son. Apart from Duke Lu Yang and Lord Yang Cheng, he is probably the person who knows these things the most among the nobles of Chu State.

Xiong Dang was shocked when he heard the words, and asked repeatedly: "Is this really true?"

Qu Qi nodded in agreement, Xiong Dang's face changed suddenly.

I have to say, according to what these Mohists said, it actually makes sense.

Chudi is not like the Central Plains. There are few cold winters. Vegetables and fruits are available in all seasons, and there are many fish and shrimps.It is true that few people die from starvation.

But vegetables, fruits, fish and shrimp can only ensure that people will not starve to death, but cannot be used as military food and military gifts, and it is even more impossible to make civilians rich enough to go to war with the army.

In the battle of Huangchi 20 years ago, Chu's hegemony was suppressed by the Jin people. Now that Jin has been divided into three parts, the Rebellion of the Six Ministers has officially ended. If Chu wants to strive for hegemony, it must fight against the three Jins.

This kind of grain spread to the Three Jins but not to the Chu State. After a few years, the Three Jins will be rich but the Chu State will remain unchanged. The offensive and defensive will inevitably be different, and they will not even have the ability to maintain balance.

In the battle of Linqiu, the three Jins won [-] corpses and [-] chariots, which shocked the world.

However, Chu and Qin had been friends for many years, and the Qin people who were defended by Wei Zhixi and Wu Qi were powerless to fight back.

If the power of the Three Jins increases and the power of Chu remains the same, it will be difficult for the people of Chu to reach the Central Plains in a few decades.

At the very beginning, when Qu Yi said that the hero from 36 years ago was still alive, Xiong Dang was only a little surprised, thinking that he might need to use more troops, but after all, Song was a weak country, and as long as the Three Jins did not move, he would have a chance to force Song Gong surrendered.

But when he heard that the shoemaker named Shi got these things from some hermit, Xiongdang knew that the matter was very serious and had to be resolved.

The former may at most be a battle of Chengpu, and 20 years later there may be another battle of Liangtang to regain hegemony; while the latter is Qu Wuchen who taught chariot warfare to Wu, and Wu Zixu who taught Wu Zixu how to build a city!

Xiong Dang could tell the difference, and after thinking for a while, he said: "If this is true, you can arrange a car with a hundred rides and a car with gold and jade to get this thing."

The nobles present were all shocked, who would have thought that the King of Chu would offer a gift of hundreds of rides and a heavy hire of a car of gold and jade.

Or someone said: "Why does the king value this thing? I have never heard of it for a cart of gold and jade for rice and harvest."

Xiong Dang said seriously: "This is the sword of Chunjun! In the past, when Xue Zhu looked at Chunjun, he thought that there were three villages with cities, one thousand horses, and two capitals with thousands of households. They cannot be exchanged! How can things be the same? You also wear them. Sword, is there anyone willing to exchange thousands of horses and the capital of a thousand households?"

Jing Zhishu heard the words and said: "I'm only afraid that Mozi will know that we want to attack Song Dynasty and accuse us of being unjust. In the past, Zhu Gou hired Mo Di with a title of five hundred miles, but Mo Di thought it was unfair and refused. Five hundred A land feud is more valuable than a cart of gold and jade... I am afraid that Mo Di will not feel that it is so valuable that he can sell it for charity."

Xiong Dang laughed and said, "I'm unrighteous! What do I have to do with the people? If these Mohists think I'm unrighteous, they can do all kinds of tricks, blood splashing five steps to punish unrighteousness! Do I do unrighteous things?" Thousands of Chu people are required to take the blame for this matter? Mohists are not pedantic, and this matter is sure to happen. Mohist is not from Song Dynasty, isn’t Qu Yi’s son also Mohist? They can clearly distinguish between world affairs and state affairs. "

　King Chu Sheng died strangely.There are three theories: the sons had a coup d'état and hired assassins to kill them; the siege of October in the Song Dynasty caused the people of the Song Dynasty to change their sons and eat them, and the people of the Song Dynasty assassinated them;Stealing... This is a very strange way of death. Jin Yougong went out of the city in the middle of the night to meet his mistress, and was killed by an unknown assassin who robbed him of his wealth.But it is difficult to say whether the assassin had no political purpose.Well, according to the spring and autumn style of writing, Kennedy can be regarded as being stolen.Another: The term Mechanic Saint was really given by the ancients. When I think about this title, I suddenly feel quite emotional.Martial sages, literary sages, mechanical sages...it turns out that the ancients also love to play tricks so much.

　　
　
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