warring states careerist

chapter 171
At the beginning of April, the Chu army built beams with boats, and the whole army crossed the sand and water. The cities along the way closed their doors and did not fight. The Chu army's front was only a hundred miles away from Shangqiu.

In the same month, the Qin people mobilized peasants from Chongquan and Luoyin to lay siege to Linjin and Hequ of Wei.

Qin State tried to implement the initial mu tax in Chongquan and Luoyin, and recognized the rationality of private land, hoping to attract a large number of Qin people who fled to Wei State to return.

In the same year, Prince Chu appointed Zheng as envoy.Si Ziyang, the pro-Jin faction of Zheng Guo, was very dissatisfied, but the other "Qi Mu" families who really held the real power decided to have a secret business with Prince Chu for a wait-and-see.

The prince decided that this time the Chu army dispatched tens of thousands to punish Song for the crime of betraying the Chu Dynasty and Jin. Once Shangqiu was captured, they must continue to go north to crusade.

Si Ziyang, who is in charge of the state of Zheng, believes that the relationship between Zheng and Chu is too close, and he should be properly alienated from the state of Chu. In addition, he is a legalist figure in the early stage.

In Zheng State, like Song State, the pro-Jin and pro-Chu factions were already in dire straits. The two factions each occupied most of the cities of Zheng State. A civil war in Zheng State seemed inevitable.

The two brothers of the Tian family each hoped to change Qi's state affairs from a family republic to a patriarchal autocracy, regardless of the external situation.

The Zhongshan Kingdom is still unstable, and the aristocrats that have initially formed in the Wei Kingdom are very dissatisfied with the fact that the Marquis of Wei entrusted his son Wei Jian as the Zhongshan Lord. .

Zheng Guo had just defeated the Han army a few years ago. Han Jun knew that the prince was going to envoy Zheng, worried that Zheng Guo would attack South Korea, and was worried.

Marquis Wei had just defeated Qi State a few years ago, and the domestic power has not yet recovered. There are still the constraints of the public clan and the chaos in Zhongshan State. He hopes that Zhao State can send troops to fulfill the obligation of common development negotiated by the Sanjin Alliance.

However, when Gongsunhui rebelled in Linqiu, he clearly said that he wanted to join Zhao Hou, but he didn't want Wei Hou to take the lead and accept Linqiu as Wei soil, which caused great dissatisfaction in Zhao State.

At this time, Wei Ye defended Ximenbao and built water conservancy projects, cracked down on Wuzhu, and put an end to Hebo sacrifices. Yecheng began to enter a stage of rapid development.

Yecheng could block Zhao's southward route to Handan, and could threaten Zhongmou, the capital of Zhao at any time, so that Zhongmou and Handan, the two important cities of Zhao, could not see each other.

For this reason, Marquis Zhao only superficially agreed with Wei's request, but delayed the mobilization, saying that mobilization would affect farming at this time, and that the barbarians such as Lou Fan and Lin Hu in the north were about to move, so they could not send troops at this time.

The newly succeeded Emperor Zhou trembled, saying that you don't ask me about the matter between the princes, you can solve it yourself.My father died after entrusting the three families as marquises. I have to be busy with the funeral. Besides, my grandfather obtained the position of emperor through a coup. me.

There is still a half-dead state of Wei left in the Central Plains. It has been weakened and directly stated that its "a country of a thousand vehicles dare not compete with a country of ten thousand vehicles". stated before...

The eyes of the whole world are watching Shangqiu, and they all know that the Jin-Chu struggle for hegemony, which has been extinguished for nearly a hundred years due to the rebellion of Jin Liuqing and the dispute between Chu, Wuyue and Yue, is starting again.

Or, this time it should be called the Wei-Chu struggle for hegemony.

In Shangqiu City, the nursery rhyme that started to be sung two or three years ago, but gradually died out, was sung again.

"Yin business customs, brother succession."

"Wen Zhouli, inherited by the first son."

"After beheading and mourning, you will be buried."

"Those who know fate, please settle the dispute."

The period of decline is exactly three years, and it has not yet ended, which means that the result of this nursery rhyme is still within the shelf life.

Although the newly established Song Gongzi Tian changed the Yuan Dynasty when he succeeded to the throne, which greatly broke the rules and etiquette, but it still cannot change the fact that this nursery rhyme has not been more than three years old.

The first son is naturally the current son of the Song Dynasty, Tian, ​​and the elder brother is the last brother, and there is also an uncle Cenxi.

When Zitian went to Luoyi, the pilgrim was the emperor of Zhou, not the three Jin pilgrims at all, but in the eyes of outsiders, this was a betrayal of Chu and Jin, and the king of Chu had already ordered his teacher to question him.

Zang Yisan, the emperor's father of Sicheng, married Jiahe in the three Jin Dynasties, and made great efforts to facilitate the event of Duke Song's pilgrimage to the emperor of Zhou.

With strong support from the outside and great power from the inside, there is a tendency for the royal father's family to be replaced by the Duke of Song. After all, it is a family that was only separated when Duke Dai was born. "Take", this is not the same as Han, Zhao, Weitian and other families.

The other six ministers headed by Dayin Lingqi originally opposed Song Gong's alliance with Chu to fight against the royal family, but now because of a huge change in the form, they are uncharacteristically promoting the benefits of being close to Chu. It seems that if they are not close to Chu, it will lead to The Song Dynasty was in chaos.

In addition to the nursery rhyme, another rumor spread in Shangqiu City.

Rumors said: Song Gong insisted on going his own way, did not listen to the advice of his officials, flattered Jin and turned his back on Chu, which led to the siege of Chu people this time.

He also said, in fact, the king of Chu was just asking for an explanation, and it would not be detrimental to the people of Song Guoguo.

Besides, 20 years ago, it was Song Gong who took the initiative to go to Chu State, begging Chu people to send troops to fight against the emperor's family.For this reason, the Chu State and the Three Jins fought in Yongqiu and Huangchi, resulting in tens of thousands of casualties. This friendship should not be forgotten, so it is understandable for the King of Chu to ask the teacher for the crime.

The nursery rhyme that did not cause much disturbance three years ago, with the spread of this rumor, finally set off a shocking wave in Shangqiu.

Many people believe that it was because of the princes and nobles who fought blindly that the Chu people sent troops this time, and they criticized Song Gong for his behavior of flattering Jin and betraying Chu.

When rumors spread in Shangqiu City, the newly succeeded Song Gongzi Tian finally made an important decision.

The tiger talisman was given to Mo Zhai, and Mo Zi, who had been a doctor of the Song Dynasty for a short time and had hundreds of disciples all over the world, was in charge of the defense of Shangqiu. Zhai jurisdiction.

This is a forced decision.

Just when the Chu people sent troops, Zitian summoned a group of ministers to inquire about countermeasures, hoping to win the field battle with the Chu people.

However, the emperor's father Zang and his father Yueling didn't care about leaving the city for a decisive battle.

What they want to rely on is the San Jin. If the Chu people were defeated before besieging the city...then how can they show their family's contribution to Shangqiu?

We must wait until Shangqiu Yizi eats, breaks bones and cooks, and when he is about to be completely unable to survive, he will come forward to appease the people, saying that they will ask the three Jins to send troops.

At that time, the credit for defending Shangqiu will naturally fall on his own family, and his reputation will become great. As long as the people of Shangqiu can support it, then his family can replace it.

Although the people of Shangqiu supported the Mohist the most, the royal family believed that the Mohist did not have too high aristocratic blood after all, and they did not have the right to inherit. Therefore, even if the people of Shangqiu supported the Mohist, they still needed a person of blood to be the Mozhe. Sovereign, at that time, it must be their family.

After all, Mo Zhe was only defending the city, and according to the plan, it was the imperial father's family who invited the three Jins to send troops to send troops.

Therefore, the imperial father's family and the nobles behind them didn't care about going out of the city for a decisive battle, and they didn't want to go out for a decisive battle at all.

It seems that it is basically impossible to win, but what if it wins?At that time, the credit will belong to Duke Song, not to his own clan.

Without starving to death tens of thousands of people, how can you show the importance of your family asking the three Jins to send troops?
The nobles on the other side, not to mention going out to fight in the city, even the matter of carrying Chu Qinjin itself was extremely opposed.

It's not that they really think about the state of Song, but that the Sicheng family has already done the pro-Jin thing first, and they must be close to Chu, how can they beat Sicheng's father if they don't get close to Chu?

Even if the Chu people captured Shangqiu, they would not be able to annex the Song State, which is still half a country of ten thousand chariots after all.

You can change the king, you can set up a puppet, but if you dare to turn Song into a county of Chu and deprive the power of the local nobles, these nobles will definitely resist with all their strength. Chu people are not so stupid to do such a thing.

They were looking forward to the capture of Shangqiu by the state of Chu. Shangqiu was not their fief, but the capital of the state of Song, which was the circle of influence of Duke Song and the royal family.

Since their fief is not in Shangqiu, what does it have to do with them whether Shangqiu is captured?

Besides, if the Chu people win, they will be able to support Shu Cenxi more conveniently. This is a prince without much influence, and he is suitable for control.

Yesterday of Jin State and today of Zheng State are what the nobles of Song State are looking forward to the most. The six ministers should control the state affairs together, not the imperial father's family and one family.

And they had planned a long time ago, hoping that the Chu people would besiege Shangqiu.

At that time, the food stored in the city will be burned, and the people of Shangqiu will be killed and injured in the battle. If more than [-] people starve to death, the people in the city will definitely be angry.

When the time comes, raise your arms and ask the current Song Gong to let the virtuous, agree to the conditions of the Chu people, and then great things will be accomplished.

As for the Mohists defending the city, they don't care, the city still has to be defended.

If they directly rebelled and welcomed the Chu people to enter, it would not be good. The people in the city would feel that they were shameless and might not support them.

And if the Mohists help to defend the city until there are complaints in the city, then they will come forward and say that the Mohists will "benefit the world" and "benefit all the households in the city", and they may get the support of the Mohists to get rid of the current Song Gong.

Anyway, it is well known that the Mohists don't care about things like names, etiquette and laws.

They will not be willing to recruit private soldiers in their fief to fight the Chu people in the open field.

The result of this kind of discussion is also inevitable: you Song Gong is willing to fight the Chu people and use your own soldiers. We can participate in some form at most, but... the specific fight is not up to you Song Gong.

Although Song Gong was young and arrogant, he also knew that sending troops to the field at this time would inevitably fail.

After all, he still knew about Hua Yuan back then. Hua Yuan, who had led the Military Elimination Society to go to Zheng Guo, rewarded his servants before the battle, but he forgot his coachman Yang Chu.

During the battle the next day, Yang Zhen drove Hua Yuan straight to Zheng Ren's central army and delivered Hua Yuan to Zheng Ren: "Yesterday what you say counts, but on the battlefield I have what counts!"
It's the same with Song Gong.

What you say today is useless, the nobles can do it to betray you on the battlefield and kill you.

　For sheep to tell things, see "Zuo Zhuan, the second year of Xuan Gong".In the general battle, Hua Yuan killed the goat eater, but his imperial sheep would not pour it with him.As for the battle, he said: "In the past, the sheep were in charge of the government; today's affairs, I am in charge of the government." He joined Zheng's division, so he was defeated.A gentleman says that sheep pouring is not human, and because of his selfish regrets, he defeats the country and kills the people, so what is the most severe punishment? The "Poetry" calls "human beings are unscrupulous", what does the sheep pouring mean?! Disable the people to succeed.

　　
　
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