warring states careerist

Chapter 297 Gold and jade are in ruins ([-])

In spring, the northern land is still cold, but the Chu land is already warm.

A large team can already see Mount Ji on the north side of Yingdu, and the scholars sent by the king of Chu are also here to welcome them.

Most of the vehicles are double-wheeled, and the leader is in his early 20s. It is the plenipotentiary representative of Chu State sent by the Mo family this time.

Beside him are Meng Sheng, who was also selected as a substitute this time, and Chu people who are good at fencing, such as Qu Jiang, are accompanying him as guards.

More than 20 ink practitioners who are proficient in swordsmanship accompanied them, and some children who were not too old followed in the vehicles behind.

These children are Shi's disciples, not disciples at the Mohist level, but disciples who Shi wants to pass on according to the education he has received since childhood.

Basically, few people can understand what Shihe said to these children, and these ten-year-old children are all extremely intelligent ones selected from Peiguo Township School.

I told the Mohists that I would teach these children some of what I had learned from the two gentlemen, and that the rest would not be able to learn because they were old.

Now that Pei County is stable, everything has stabilized. In the short term, there will be no wars, and there is really no possibility of improving the reputation under the step-by-step situation.

Mozi is getting old, so he must strive for all available opportunities to enhance his prestige within the Mohist school.

This time, he was sent to Chu State as an envoy, not only because he was able to win, but also because the Mohists trusted him, because some things just needed a person who could make decisions on the fly.Mo Zi is too old to come forward to shake things up in person; Qin Huali has to deal with the Sanjin affairs; Gong Zaoye and others are going to Pengcheng, everyone has their own business.

Shiben also had a heavy responsibility, and the reason why he delayed arriving in Yingdu until now was to arrange the work of the Xuanyi Department in advance, and to prepare in advance the strange articles to be published in the "newspaper" within a year. The organization has been formed, and naturally it is like a machine running on its own.

At the township school, he has been teaching for three years as a school guide, and the people who can read and write in the three-year church have also started teaching children, and the rest will have to wait until he comes back to learn.

As for the children who came with him, they were prepared to teach them according to the compulsory education they had received.After ten years of educating people, he is still young and has plenty of time.

Although he traveled quickly along the way, he also inspected Chu's system and people's livelihood as much as possible.The Mohists were related in the state of Chu. General Qu Meng Sheng and others were all from Chu, and Duke Lu Yang took care of them in Nanyang, and the king of Chu sent people to follow and greet them.

On the first carriage, he was playing with a very delicate copper pistol, made of matchlock instead of flint. It was not only for self-defense, but also as a gift for the king of Chu.

There is nothing to say about the technology of public casting, and the technology of sealing and preventing volatilization of zinc smelting in clay pots has been tried several times. Regardless of the cost, some zinc has been made into brass alloy. Overall, this batch of hand guns as gifts is expensive, far from ordinary people. It can be used, not to mention that it is delusional to equip an army.

Playing with the shaped grip, smiling, even if this shit is not easy to use, even if it is expensive now, at least I have brought gunpowder weapons to this troubled world, and I have given a way that will not be crooked. future.

The Warring States period is approaching, and this thing will shine very soon. If the Qin crossbow turns into a musket in a hundred years, even if the Mohists are defeated in the end, China will no longer be in danger of chaos.Now that the stirrups are out, by the time it spreads to the northern wilderness, I'm afraid the legion artillery will have become popular here.

Meng Sheng sat on Shi's side, looked at the pistol in Shi's hand, and joked with a slight smile: "Shi, you are good at everything, but your swordsmanship is too bad. If you give this thing to you, even if it is reliable according to what you said Flint and fire, do you think I use sword and bow, do you kill me? Or do I kill you?"

Shi smiled and said with a smile: "Not every farmer can have the sword skills like you, Meng Sheng. This time you and I come together, one is that you are familiar with the land, and the other is that I think everyone is also worried about those nobles ...treat us as you treat Yan Ying."

Meng Sheng smiled. On the way here, the son of Lord Yangcheng caught up and talked with Meng Sheng, Shi and others, and also talked about the hatred and disgust of the nobles of Chu State towards the Mohist family.

Duke Lu Yang only said that he wrote a letter and asked Shi and others to take it, and then send it to some families in Yingdu.

But even so, the resentment within the family would not be so easily dispelled after the Mo family killed the two nobles.

Meng Shengdao: "Since the king of Chu invited me, I would not do it directly if I thought about it. It is nothing more than trying to humiliate us in the market. Although my swordsmanship is not as good as Gong Zaoye, there are few opponents in Chu. They will not dare to do it when they see me. , why bother to humiliate yourself?"

"Furthermore, you and I, comrades, are of one heart and one mind, and we are a family. If someone really wants to invite you to fight, I will naturally come forward. Among the more than 20 masters who followed, which one has not followed the giant to defend the city for more than ten years? Chudi Young Master, even if you know swords, you may not have been on the battlefield. It is nothing more than Yunmengze shooting and hunting wild animals. What kind of skill is it? How can it compare to the Mozhe who came out of the city gate and counterattacked?"

"Wu, you don't have to worry, you won't lose the reputation of my Mohists. The matter of refutation depends on you. You are from the Propaganda Department, and they are looking for you to kill themselves."

While the two were chatting and laughing, the carriage stopped and was greeted by Chu scholars, who only said that the Mo family did not abide by the rules of Zhou etiquette, and all etiquette was kept simple.

Nothing happened along the way, I walked through the main entrance of Yingdu, and there were crowds of people watching along the way.

When approaching the palace gate in the northeast, someone sent an order: "The king grants a special permission to allow Mo Zhezheng to send the second officer to pass through the younger brother's gate."

Since the time of King Zhuang, there has been a rule that the crown prince is not allowed to drive past his disciples. This time, the King of Chu has given the Mo family enough face.

It's not impossible to use the words of fighting against courtesy.

After seeing the ceremony, Shi Shi presented a pair of beautiful brass matchlock pistols, saying: "The Mohists don't regard gold and jade as treasures, so they offer such a gift for self-defense."

"The person who cast this gift is also from Chu. He once cast guests for King Hui and congratulatory bells for Marquis Zeng."

Shi raised his head and took a sneak look at King Chu, and found that this man was also in his 30s and [-]s, tall and tall, and because it was not a sacrificial activity, he did not wear the Nine Crowns.

This is the so-called Mourning King of Chu in later generations. After his death, Wu Qi jumped on him and killed many princes, leading to the organized Mohist group's destruction in Yangcheng. The reformist monarch of Chu State.It's a pity that after his death, the government died, and the Chu State did not complete the centralization of power in the end.

Fighting with his younger brother's inheritance rights, which caused internal chaos in the Chu State, and the death of the king in battle, can be regarded as an opportunity for Chu State to centralize power, but it is a pity that the time has not yet come.

Xiong Yi also looked at Shi Shi on the opposite side, and said in his heart: "I heard that this person has learned a lot about Tianzhi, so that the Mohist school is prosperous today. Don't want to be so young?"

Seeing that Shi talked and laughed freely, the King of Chu had many guards around him, and he had no fear at all, as he had seen a lot already.

Xiong Yi nodded secretly, and wanted to hear that this man is only the son of a shoemaker, not a scholar or a doctor, but he can answer questions fluently, he is really very human.

Then he thought about the Mohist's so-called equality of all people, and sighed secretly, thinking that these knowledge of the Mohist is also the reason why he can stand up straight.

Looking at the gift that Shi was holding, Xiong Yi was secretly surprised, because it was brass that had never appeared in the world at this time, and the golden light was not the color of bronze, so it looked precious.

He also knew that there were people from Chu in the Mohist family. Hearing what Shi said, he asked, "Could it be that the person who cast this thing was the public made by the handsome Mohists in the first battle of Shangqiu?"

Shi nodded and said, "his brother."

The King of Chu looked at the gift and thought of the terms of the transaction he had sent before, and asked, "Is this the kind of gunpowder weapon you mentioned that farmers and soldiers can use?"

Xiong Yi felt more and more strange. He had never seen a gunpowder explosion, but he had heard many nobles who participated in the Battle of Shangqiu mentioned that the panic and fear brought about by that night were unprecedented. Many people still have lingering fears. Will tremble.

Naturally, he had never seen firearms, but after Zhao Zhi'ai finished talking about the defensive equipment provided by the Mohists, he had no doubts, and believed that the Mohists would be able to make them.

The Mohists did not observe etiquette, neither did they take Yuzhang as a gift, and the Mohists were not princes, which led to the lack of etiquette: Zhou Li never imagined that one day a group of people who were not formal princes, or even shoemakers, could meet the princes.

If you don't keep the etiquette, then you don't need to accept the politeness of Yuzhang returning it in the future, so he immediately got up and let Shi show it.

After seeing it, I was terrified and overjoyed in the smoke of gunpowder. I just felt that if it was this, the Luguan defense line could be defended. It seems that training is also easy. Farmers and soldiers can become shooters in a few months. This is simply unimaginable in the past. of.

After showing the gift, Xiong Yi accepted it happily, so he wanted to entertain Shi and others.

Meng Sheng, as the deputy mediator, can also attend the meeting.

During the banquet, singing and dancing, wine and dishes, chopsticks, knives and spoons are all available.

The aristocrats of the Chu Kingdom who were present were watching eagerly, knowing that these people were probably going to make trouble today, and they were thinking hard about possible countermeasures.

Coincidentally, there were a few oranges on the case table. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to speak first to preemptively suppress the possible objections of these people. He was really not interested in arguing with these nobles.

So he picked up an orange and stared at it as if he had never seen the world. Many nobles laughed secretly, and Chu Lingyin asked first, "I don't know what this is?"

Shi put down the orange and said solemnly, "I've never seen it before."

But I scolded in my heart, I have eaten this crap, I don't know how many times, but the transportation is inconvenient now, it is really rare to see this thing in Pei County.

Chu Lingyin smiled and said, "This is an orange."

Shi suddenly said: "Oranges born in Huainan are tangerines, and those born in Huaibei are oranges...Is this orange? Before I came, I happened to read the article by Yan Ying's envoy to Chu, and I was flustered."

"When I arrived in Yingdu, I didn't see the dog hole, so I felt a little bit at ease. But after a little bit of peace, I couldn't help but feel a little unhappy."

He frowns on purpose, everyone present knows about Yan Zi envoy to Chu, and Jian Shi said that he is unhappy about not being able to see the dog's door, so he can't help being curious.

Curious, there will be people who will cheer.

Zhao Zhi'ai first asked, "Why is the son unhappy?"

Shi Xing replied: "Yan Ying, Qi's speech learner, made an incident in Chu, and his words moved the world. I, the Mohist's speech learner, and the head of the Mohist Xuanyi radical, are the best at speech."

"Today, I envoy to Chu, I wanted to be like Yan Ying back then, to let you understand what the meaning of 'a sage is not what you want to be and Xi Ye', and to make my Mohist name shake the Chu country and make it a good story, but I don't want to see the dog's door I was at a loss as to what to do about being stolen and treated with courtesy."

"Today, my Mohists are famous all over the world in the first battle in Shangqiu, invited the central plains to shake the king, and rebelled against Moh to defend the north of Luoyin, and became famous... Only in Chu, the Mohist's reputation is not obvious. I am not good at defending the city, and I am not good at fighting. It’s a shame that I don’t have a chance now, so I’m sorry! It’s a pity that my Mohist ‘news’ is missing a story that can be spread all over the world!”

After the voice fell, everyone was speechless and did not dare to answer.

Appropriate said two meanings.I am the one Mohist can talk about the most, you should be careful not to provoke me with words.The Mohists are very powerful and well-known in the world now, and there must be no weak ones among them. Since you sent me here, you'd better not think of me in terms of words.

The second is that the Mohist Xuanyi Department's propaganda newspapers in the giant city of Dayi were too violent.It’s okay if you humiliate me today, but if you can’t humiliate me, you will be humiliated by me instead. I will write a newspaper when I go out, and I will tell you nobles who are thinking about humiliating me to be famous in the world for you. .

(End of this chapter)