warring states careerist

Chapter 767 Zheng Guoce
The various princes seem to be powerful, but in fact their weaknesses are also obvious.

They do not and cannot have a common ideal, nor do they have a spirit of sacrificing for this common ideal. The so-called etiquette system is nothing but a tool, a means for ruling.

They will not dedicate their lives to this ideal, but those who can do it for this ideal are some small nobles and scholars.

This is the basis on which Sishang can use the contradictions of the nobles to divide and disintegrate.

The disintegration of the Sanjin Alliance originated from Zheng and Zhongshan in geopolitics.

As long as Zhongshan restores the country, Wei State will not be surrounded by Zhao State on three sides, and Zhao State can get rid of Wei State's control.

As long as Zheng Guo is swallowed by Han and the buffer between Wei and Han disappears, the conflict between Wei and Han will be just around the corner.

During the first Central Plains war five years ago, Wei and Zhao turned their backs because Wei Guo interfered in the civil war of Zhao's succession.

But because King Zhongshan returned to the country, Zhao State completely got rid of the situation surrounded by Wei State on three sides. For Zhao State, Wei State was just an obstacle and competitor going south, and could even unite with Chu State to attack Wei State if necessary.

This time, for the disintegration of the Wei Han alliance, Shi also wanted to use Zheng Guo.

In history, South Korea used blitzkrieg to destroy Zheng. Zheng was destroyed on the [-]th. It was the time when Wei Chu launched a war against the vassals of the Wei Nationalist Alliance. Soon the state of Zheng was destroyed.

Originally, in that year in history, Wei and Zhao had turned their backs, and even the Zhao and Chu alliance once attacked the Wei State together. Soon after, Zhao Han interfered in the Wei State's succession civil war and wanted to divide the Wei State into two.

At that time, Wei State urgently needed South Korea's support, and South Korea also took a fancy to this. On the grounds that "I don't beat you, it is the greatest support for you", they blitzed Zheng Guo to destroy Zheng, which made Wei Guo pinch his nose and admit that South Korea was against South Korea. Zheng Guo's occupation.

Since South Korea can do [-], Shi naturally feels that he can do the first grade of junior high school.

Zheng Guo has no interest in the Mohists for the time being, but can provoke conflicts between Wei Han and Han Chu.

Zhongshan Kingdom had been restored five years ago. If Zheng Kingdom were annexed by South Korea, the Sanjin Alliance would never exist in the world.

Because of the morality of the Mohists, it is not possible to conspire with South Korea nakedly in Pengcheng or Yangdi, at the cost of acquiescing to South Korea's annexation of Zheng, so that South Korea will not participate in Wei Chuhan's possible intervention war against Song Dynasty.

Therefore, this requires the use of forced methods.

How to force it backwards, this is naturally to make South Korea feel that the Mohist family may vigorously assist Zheng Guo, so that the annexation will increase the pressure later, forcing him to do it earlier.

Because Zheng Guo is meaningless to Sishang at this time, it is necessary to make a big effort to assist Zheng Guo.

Because Sishang made a gesture to vigorously assist Zheng Guo, South Korea must annex Zheng Guo early.

It seems that Zheng Guo, which was assisted by Sishang, suffered a lot from being annexed, but in fact it made a lot of money. It is equivalent to using a blank check to disintegrate the Wei-Han alliance and destroy the possibility of the three-nation alliance of Song State intervening in the war.

But even if it's a blank check, it still costs a piece of paper. This piece of paper is the envoys sent to Zheng Guo this time, some of the weapons they brought, and the follow-up negotiations on continued assistance.

As long as South Korea takes advantage of the chaos to swallow Zheng, Wei, Chu and Han will lose South Korea's alliance, leaving only Wei, who is worried about being stabbed by Qin's back, and Chu, who is devastated by the domestic centralization reform, and the situation is much better.

If the three parties of Wei, Chu, and South Korea cannot form an alliance and work together, Qi will inevitably continue to remain neutral and dare not speak.Wei, Han, Qi and Chu can only shout slogans to express their condemnation, and then the country of Yue will keep its law and order.

Being able to use the strategist method of diplomatic mediation to avoid Song's intervention in the war will buy Sishang a few more years to make full preparations for war.

Moreover, if it is possible, the conflict between Wei and Han may be detonated in advance. If a civil war between the three Jins can be provoked, it will be more beneficial in the future.

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months later.

Zheng Du.

The Siziyang Rebellion nearly 20 years ago has completely destroyed the state of Zheng. The state of Zheng, which once dominated and shot Zhou Tianzi, now has only about one-third of the territory it had 20 years ago.

After Si Ziyang's death, the localities split up and Qi Mu became independent. Si Ziyang's remnant party finally killed Zheng Gong and supported Yi, the son of You Gong who was killed by Han Hou, as the king.

Wei Chu's several battles around Daliang, Yuguan, and Chencai finally won Zheng Guo a chance to breathe.

The reason why Si Ziyang came to power was because of the blood feud between Zheng and Han, so his foreign policy has always been tough on Han and flattering to Wei.

Wei Guo is happy to do this, and Wei Guo doesn't want South Korea to become bigger. He wishes Zheng Guo could fight South Korea all day long.

The jurisprudence of Si Ziyang's party members to rule is also based on the blood feud of the Zheng Han family. Whoever opposes the war against South Korea is a rebel, so as to maintain the unity of Zheng Guo under high pressure.

However, Si Ziyang used the power of Wei to destroy Chu and Han in order to make friends with Wei, and took in Prince Chu to flee, which made the relationship between Zheng and Chu very bad.

Si Ziyang is ambitious, but his mistake is that he overestimated Zheng Guo's national strength: Indeed, Zheng Guo was a country that reformed relatively early, relying on the hearts of the people at the beginning of the reform, it was very small and big, and it was beaten several times South Korea.

However, as all countries began to reform their laws, the national power that was increased due to the first reforms was quickly equalized and overtaken. Zheng Guo could not be regarded as self-defeating.

Back then, if South Korea sent troops from Chu to attack Luyang during the battle between Wei and Chu, it might not have been a turnaround, and Si Ziyang could also take advantage of this "revenge" to completely defeat the remaining six families of Qimu. Completely control Zheng Guo's state affairs.

However, man is not as good as God. When Zheng Guo raided South Korea and besieged Handu, Han Hou died, and Wei attacked and guarded Luyang Niu Lan, who had to retreat, which made the Mo family famous, but Zheng Guo had another one for no reason. Kill Han Hou's hatred.

Now that the negative millet has defected and returned to South Korea, South Korea has a bridgehead in Yingshui. As long as South Korea is willing, it can reach the capital of Zheng State in two days of rapid march.

After all, the distance from Dengfeng to Xinzheng is less than a hundred miles.

Song Guo and Zheng Guo can be regarded as sympathetic to each other. Their ancestors were once rich, but now they are both sandwiched by big powers. After the news of Song Guo's coup came, Zheng Guo was the most nervous one.

They were not nervous about the result of the coup in Song Dynasty, nor about the spread of those ideas of equality and freedom. What the rulers of Zheng State were nervous about was the re-easing of the relationship between Wei and South Korea.

Every time Wei State needs help from South Korea, it will use Zheng State's land as a reward. This is not a year or two, it has always been like this.

Once the state of Chu is strong, the state of Wei will need South Korea's help, and will allow South Korea to attack Zheng State to gain benefits.At that time, Si Ziyang was thinking about once and for all, accepting Prince Ding, splitting Chu, and drawing Wei to form an alliance to fight against Chu. After weakening Chu, the conflict between Wei and Han could be intensified, and thus swing and grow in the conflict between great powers.

But I never thought that Chu State was unable to advance northward in the past few years, and there was an extra Sishang, which made Wei Han have to face a strong enemy again.

There are many rumors in the world that this time Wei, Chu and Han will interfere with the Song State, and send troops together to maintain the feudal system and put out the flames of the people's riots. This is why Zheng Guo is nervous: Wei Guo is afraid that this time he will tempt South Korea with Zheng Guo's flesh cooperate.

Therefore, when the envoys from Sishang came to the State of Zheng, the State of Zheng welcomed the envoys from Sishang with an unprecedented grand ceremony, as if a drowning man had grasped a life-saving straw.

The remaining party of Siziyang is now in control of Zheng Guo's state affairs. Sishang has praised Siziyang's reform from the perspective of historical limitations. The relationship between Sishang and Zheng Guo is not too bad.

Among the envoys who came to Zheng Guo this time, there was a second disciple of Deng Xi School, although he later joined the Mohist School.

The Deng Xi School is a famous school, and Hui Shi, the master of the famous schools, is still a little kid who goes to school in Shangqiu City. The differences between the famous schools and the Mohists are not big in politics, and the main difference is in some debates.

Most of the time, the differences between famous scholars and Mohists in terms of dialectics are more like "contests between the best and the best", such as the dispute between volume and area; the dispute between relative height and absolute height.

It’s just that famous scholars in the later period fell into the fallacy of relativism: there is no absolute right or wrong, only relative right or wrong, everything in the world is constantly changing, so there is no absolute truth-the definition of this theory itself is contradictory , if there is no absolute truth in the world, then is the view that there is no absolute truth in the world itself the truth?
Deng Xi turned the world upside down in the state of Zheng. With a lawyer's mouth, he reversed the official law of the state of Zheng. His sophistry was unparalleled in the world. The assimilation of the "system" made the logic of the debate take shape, and the debate no longer fell into the situation of talking about chickens and ducks. This also gradually absorbed and assimilated some of the reintroduced disciples of Deng Xi School.

After the disciples of the Deng Xi School brought Yitou, most of them worked in the public security department, and a small number of them worked in the diplomatic system.

Revisiting the old place, the original Zheng people, whose way of thinking is completely superseded, did not feel the sorrow of leaving. The most emotional thing is that the people have fought hard for a long time and the people are in trouble. These things have broken away from the ignorant Zheng people and Korean people.

Zheng people's grand welcome to the Mohist envoy has both a realistic purpose and a sense of past events.

There was an old affair between the Mohists and Zheng Guo 40 years ago, especially with Sishang becoming stronger and monopolizing the culture and discourse power, this past matter is known to everyone in Zheng Guo.

It's just that because of the turn of Mohism's propaganda and public opinion since four or five years ago, very few people have mentioned this old matter at this time, and it is not the original taste to bring it up again.

But this time, when King Zheng and his ministers met the Mohist envoy, they brought up that old incident, hoping to use this old incident to lead to a conversation about the fate of Zheng Guo.

(End of this chapter)