warring states careerist

Chapter 326 Is it as good as before to restore the country with strength ([-])
Shi Shi helped him up, and Teng Shuyu beside him was also overjoyed. He didn't know what the Mo family's real plan was, but he just felt that if the country was restored in the future, he would definitely be able to get an official position in the court, and his life was worthwhile.

I don't care about leaking the news, anyway, it doesn't matter if there is internal support or not when Tengcheng is captured.

In fact, he was eager to leak the news and use the hands of the Yue people to kill a wave of these remaining nobles, lest they form a group to make trouble in the future, and want to return to their own fiefs, and want to oppose the Mohist reform in Teng and change back to the enfeoffment system etc.

So he said to Teng Shuyu: "Now the Mohists make a decision to expel the Yue people for the benefit of the people of Teng. You can do more activities here and make friends with those who are interested in restoring the country..."

Teng Shuyu said repeatedly, "I've been doing this all these years."

In fact, he also has his own plans.If he really wants to restore the country, he hates those real Teng nobles who are in exile in Lu and Chu.

Once those people came back, it would be impossible for them to do anything according to their origins, not to mention him in terms of seniority, even Kit was not qualified enough, and the bloodline branch was not noble enough.

But Teng Shuyu is not very supportive of the Mohist statement that everyone is equal, because he is in the part of the people who expect equality and meritorious devotion to the superiors, and desire the distinction of classes and common people from the inferiors.

There is still no country in the world that "selects the emperor" and "selects the princes". Teng Shuyu can't imagine what kind of country the Mohists want to build in Teng, and he can't imagine it without seeing it.

The customs of Yue people cutting off their hair and tattoos are really different from the customs of Tengdi, and Yue people have violated the interests of many local nobles, especially some scholars.

He was quite concerned about this, and worried that those who fled to Lu, Chu and other places would get the fruit in the future, so he said to Shi: "The Mohists say that they should be virtuous, and they say that those who have meritorious deeds should be rewarded if they have no merit. Those who fled to Lu and Chu Gongsun, who couldn’t hold the city walls many years ago, can’t drive away the Yue people now... Could it be that the Mo family wants to contact them?”

Shi shook his head and said: "This is not possible. If they can restore the country, even if they want to come, they need to re-evaluate their merits and rewards. How can they directly get fief rewards because of their noble blood?"

Teng Shuyu was overjoyed, and said repeatedly: "That's right. Those Gongsun who fled to Luchu really can't be appointed."

He said again: "Don't worry, I will keep in touch, but... I don't know when the Mo family will prepare?"

Shi frowned and said: "It's hard to say. Besides, the teacher needs to be famous, and the affairs of Tengdi must be done by Teng people after all. Are you worried about the Yue people here? No, you are just worried about those Yue kings. The Yue people in the city are not enough to fear."

"So... if you succeed in restoring the country, the Mohists will naturally help you defend for the sake of 'righteousness'. Or even if you can't expel the Yue people, you can turn to the Mohism for help..."

Teng Shuyu hummed, what the remaining nobles of the Teng Kingdom feared was not the garrison troops in the city of Yue, but the main force of the mighty Yue Kingdom.

In the absence of foreign aid, even if the country is restored, it will certainly not be able to last for a long time in the future.The Mo family's city defense skills are the best in the world. If they can get the help of the Mo family, maybe they can really hold on and force the Yue people back.

Furthermore, even if the Mohist family is invited to dispatch, it is necessary to contact the people in the city, contact the time of the incident, or use it as an insider to seize the city gate and assassinate the generals of the Yue people after the Mohist family approaches.

Shi also warned: "This kind of thing requires everyone to make an oath. You have to prepare a list, which can be regarded as...for future merit evaluation. If you don't make an oath, everyone will not be in harmony. It may be difficult to get things done."

Teng Shuyu also hastily agreed.

Shixin said, with regard to the organizational ability of these down-and-out nobles and old nobles, it is difficult to get things done, and the news must be leaked.

Under the temptation of meritorious deeds, they may have to get up early, and then either use the hands of Yue people to kill a wave of these nobles, or wait until the list is confirmed in the future, and then slowly clear it.

The Mohists wanted to capture Teng Kingdom, so they did some calculations. They didn't need to rely on internal support at all, and they could easily open the city walls and gates.

Getting ten is easy.

What is difficult is the governance in the future, the rhetoric with the princes of the world in the future, and how to use the hands of the Yue people to clean up the existing old nobles who want to get the privilege of restoring the country.

These old aristocrats did not dare to engage in the Yue Kingdom because of the powerful military power of the Yue Kingdom. It is not sure whether these nobles will find out that they are not in harmony with the Mohists in the future and will engage in the Mohism.

At that time, I will come up with some arguments, and it is not impossible to go to Chu State and Lu State to join those original Teng State Dukes, and come back with the help of foreign intervention forces. It is always good to prepare early.

After dinner, it was convenient for someone to come forward and talk to the owner who hired Ji Te, and asked them to bring Ji Te back first.

In the next few days, he stayed in Tengcheng again, observed the city wall and defense, the morale and equipment of the Yue people, carefully measured the soil quality near the city wall, drew a map, and secretly put it away.

Before leaving, he asked Teng Shuyu to go back to Pei County with him to collect some spears and weapons, and hide them in the city for use in future incidents.

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It was already September when I returned to Pei County after all this work.

Hu Feizi has already led people to set off, first went to Langya to pay homage to the King of Yue, and then went to Linzi on the Great Wall of Qi State in front of the King of Yue, so as to use the deterrence of the State of Qi to prevent the State of Yue from attacking the future Teng with all its strength.

Before leaving, in addition to some materials and jade, he also brought a sufficient amount of ironware and some gunpowder as arguments to persuade Tian.

Sometimes words are really not as useful as weapons, and even to persuade others, a swing of a weapon to show its power is more than a thousand words.

Just a few days after returning to Peixian County, news came from Zheng Guo that the situation in the Central Plains has indeed developed as Shisuo "speculated", and the situation in the world is becoming more and more favorable for the Mohist family's recent development in Surabaya. Something happened.

At the end of last year, Weiss came forward to reconcile the conflicts between Zheng and Han. Zheng Guo withdrew from Yangzhai, South Korea, and the two sides signed an armistice agreement.

The State of Wei sent envoys to congratulate the new rulers of Han and Zhao, and at the same time hoped to discuss the Sanjin Alliance, but the State of Zhao was not very interested in this.

The king of Qin was changed, and the Wei people also sent people to mourn and celebrate. Wu Qi stopped attacking Qin in Xihe, and the two sides seemed to have won a short-term peace for the time being.

It's just that the contradiction between the old nobles and the nobles with foreign surnames in Qin is getting bigger and bigger. The new king is too young to control the state affairs at all, and the internal chaos in Qin is imminent.

By May of this year, Marquis Wei sent people to Pei County to discuss the purchase of a large number of weapons and gunpowder. The righteousness of the world, I hope that the Mohists clearly expect that the elimination of soldiers in the world will benefit the world and there will be no conflict.

Almost at the same time, Si Ziyang, who was in charge of the state of Zheng, also sent people to Peixian County with sincere words, hoping that the Mohists would act as envoys to communicate with the state of Chu.

At the same time, for future considerations, a batch of defensive firearms was ordered with a part of copper, hoping that the Mohists could come forward to help repair the city walls of Zhengdu and the important cities of Siziyang fiefdom, in order to be able to defend the counterattack of Chu State.

In June, the king of Chu won the support of some of the vassals of Chu's wall-riding faction to make the decision to join the prince with the help of the battle in Niu Lanyi. The covenant of soldiers in the world is just that Chu cannot fight back after being beaten, and at the beginning the Mohists promised that the three Jins would also join the Alliance of Soldiers, but now the Three Jins are reluctant to join. The country will also withdraw.

Afterwards, Nanliang Junshuai [-] Chu masters went north to question Zheng.

In July, he entered the state of Zheng from the south of Yuguan and crossed the Xiasi River.

Si Ziyang recruited [-] Zheng troops from Zhengdu, led by Zima, Zichi, Zifeng and other Bamu nobles, to face the Chu people.

Si Ziyang personally wrote a letter, asking Nanliang Jun to fight in a dignified and upright formation, Nanliang Jun accepted, and the handsome army approached Zheng Ren.

However, before they lined up, the party members of Zheng Guodazai Xin and others were clamoring and instigating in Zheng Jun.

Dazai Xin and Si Ziyang are political enemies. This time, the situation in Zheng State was completely caused by Si Ziyang. Zheng himself was extremely dissatisfied with the war with Chu State.

Originally, Si Ziyang's plan was to use the conflict between Jin and Chu and the prince's card to open up the situation on both sides, solve the threat to South Korea, and at the same time expand the land in the eastern state of Chu.

However, Han Hou died strangely in the first battle of Yangzhai, and the situation suddenly became ugly.

After the death of Marquis Zhao and Hanhou, South Korea announced a three-year truce, and temporarily withdrew from the war against Chu, and continued to wait and see. All the anger of Chu would be vented on Zheng Guo.Wei Guo can only take a defensive position for the time being, and Zheng Guo's situation is getting worse.

However, Si Ziyang's ruling is harsh and the punishment is too heavy, which also makes Zheng people miserable.

After years of fighting, he has always been friendly with Chu to resist South Korea, and suddenly declared war on Chu, and now he is about to suffer revenge from Chu, and the people of the country are extremely dissatisfied.

If Si Ziyang's previous plan can be successful, the status of Si Ziyang's family in Zheng State will be unshakable.

However, the situation changed, and the political opponents immediately united and prepared to take this opportunity to completely kill Si Ziyang, including the current Zheng Gong.

So with the joint efforts of Zheng Gong, Dazai Xin, and the rest of Bamu who had a dispute with Si Ziyang, Zheng Jun and Chu went abroad before forming an array, and began to mutiny and defect.

Dazai Xinmi let people know Chu people, as long as Si Ziyang is killed, he is willing to cede the city to Chu State, and at the same time he will expel Prince Ding.Zheng Chu can sign a covenant, and Zheng Guo will no longer be close to the three Jins.

Under the instigation of "refusing to fight against Chu", the [-] Zheng Jun fled directly to Qicheng under the leadership of some Dazai Xin and Zheng Gong's followers, and the acquiescence of Zheng Guo's leading generals.

The city of Nai is the ancient state of Nai, a feudal state that existed in the Shang Dynasty, after Zhu Rong, and was later destroyed by the state of Zheng.

The city of Qi was only [-] miles away from the capital of the state of Zheng. The [-] Zheng troops did not fight for a single battle.

There were signs of internal turmoil in Zheng, and the prince decided that the situation was not good, so he led his retainers to avoid Si Ziyang's eyeliner, fled from Zheng, and rushed to Wei.

The State of Wei accepted Prince Ding and declared to the outside world that Prince Ding was the legal heir of Chu State.

Although so far, the city of Qi has not been breached by the Chu people and is only besieged, but Zheng Guo's withdrawal from the war is inevitable.

Wei Guo accepted Wang Ziding, which means that Wei Guo will use all his energy to seek to solve Chu's problems in the First World War.

After Chu's victory, those lords of the wall-riding faction stood firmly on the side of King Chu for the time being. It seemed that Chu still had the strength to fight against Wei.

South Korea's temporary truce, Wei State seems to be weak, and it is even more impossible for Chu State to withdraw its troops at this time. The long-term war around Zheng, Daliang and other rich places in the Central Plains is inevitable.

It is impossible for Jin and Chu to take care of the affairs of the Sishui River within a few years, and the opportunity for Mohist expansion finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)