warring states careerist

Chapter 843 Coping

In history, when Meng Shengzhong was loyal to Xiaoyi and decided to die, Xu Ruo was the first to object. However, after being persuaded by Meng Sheng, Xu Ruo committed suicide to preserve the authority of the giant.

During Fei Di's change, Xu Ruo also made a lot of contributions, and Shi knew this person in the first place, so he valued him very much.

After reading the letter, he picked up his pen and wrote a reply letter in the name of the giant.

One is to solemnly praise the local organization in Xinzheng for being able to comprehend the spirit of the superiors and to maintain the correct line in emergencies.

Neither was it radical enough to oppose both Wei Han and Zheng Guo nobles; nor did it have no bottom line to cooperate with Zheng Guo nobles and use various coercive means to make the people defend the city.

Instead, let the people know the power they have and learn to use contradictions to "take advantage of the fire". This is the most important thing.

The second is to put forward some of my own opinions. It is difficult to defend an isolated city. Few people win the entire battle by defense. In the end, they have to rely on external troops to rescue.

With Xu Ruo's method, he believes that if he makes good use of the nobles' dead soldiers and private soldiers in the city, as well as the few bronze cannons in Xinzheng City, it will be no problem to stick to it for a period of time.

But it's unlikely to stick around for too long.

One is that the incident happened suddenly. If it had been known a month in advance, then Xinzheng could have deployed a real line of defense inside the city wall.

But there is not enough time now, so we can only repair one place at a time. Once Wei Han increases his troops, he will definitely be unable to defend at that time.

The second is that Wei Han has long been prepared. Once he chooses to increase his troops, he will send troops soon, but the Mo family is slow to send troops now, and the Chu country does not know what the situation is.

Therefore, he hoped that the local Mohist organization would be ready to destroy the city. Once the city is broken, they must not die with the city.

After experiencing it once, the people have already awakened partly. The Wei and Han coalition forces are too powerful to succeed in the riot, and Sishang has no way to support it for the time being.

But even if the city is broken, the Wei and Han coalition forces will not dare to easily hurt the Mohist on the bright side. The Mohist who are moving around now are a bit like foreign missionaries in the saddest era of Zhu Xia. Unless they are preparing for a complete war, Wei Han dare not move ——Since Wei and Han dare not send troops to interfere with Song, it can prove that they have no courage to go to war, so don't die in the city, but wait for rescue and negotiation here.

Finally, the active people must find a way to protect them. If there is a great danger, you can directly give them the identity of a Mohist. The formalities will be handled here, so that the Wei Han coalition army and Zheng Guo are not qualified to deal with them. .If there is not too much danger, let them continue to live in the local area, record their names, and Sishang will provide them with money in the future.

Thinking of what Meng Sheng said in history that moved Xu Ruo to the point that Xu Ruo committed suicide, he solemnly expressed his opinion, which can be regarded as a precautionary measure.

Originally in history, after Xu Ruo expressed his opposition, Meng Sheng, a giant, believed that the Mohism must rely on the trust of the ruler if it wants to develop and grow. To be the last one.

In addition to the elite, there are also a series of Mohists who did not participate in the defense of the city, such as Tian Xiangzi. As long as the Mohism's reputation of trustworthiness remains, it will definitely be carried forward in the future.

In fact, this is exactly the case, but the part of the Mohists who carried forward relied on the organizational skills and techniques of the Mohist School to carry forward in Qin, but it lost its flavor.

Shibi wrote in his heart, now times have changed, the Mohists do not need to rely on the trust of the nobles, but to mobilize the people and have their own armed forces, so there is no need for the nobles to see the loyalty of the Mohists like a dog, as long as they agree We will not go back on our word, and tell the world: We defend the city for righteousness, and we fight against nobles for righteousness.

To survive, to accumulate strength, do not seek death easily.

In addition, since the people who only rely on Xinzheng can't hold it, and it is impossible to send troops to Sishang for the time being, Shi Shi repeatedly urged not to have illusions about the nobles of Zheng.

If it is said that Xinzheng City can be defended, then it must be that Chu State sent troops, and once Chu State sent troops, the nobles of Zheng State will find another father, and they will no longer face the threat of being destroyed and killed by the Wei and Han coalition forces, so when the time comes They will certainly not recognize the contracts signed with the people.

At that time, it was wrong to easily mobilize the people to resist, and it would cause a great blow to the strength and confidence of the people. It was impossible to send troops immediately in Sishang, and it would cause unpredictable consequences.

If you can't keep it, then those contracts will be meaningless, and Wei Han will never allow this kind of aboveboard folk association activities. At that time, some people who are active in defending the city must be transferred to underground activities as soon as possible.

In short, it is just one sentence: the spontaneous uprising of the people relying on Xinzheng will definitely fail under the suppression of the three kingdoms of Wei, Chu and South Korea.

The success of Sishang stems from the special environment of princes fighting for hegemony, which cannot be replicated. Therefore, the correct route is to preserve strength, awaken the people, strengthen Sishang’s power, and rely on separatist regimes to finally seize power by violence. Don’t try to learn from Sishang to launch uprisings everywhere or directly seize power.

After finishing writing, Shi handed over the letter to the communications department, and they would simply encrypt it. There are several books in Xinzheng's ink writers, and the people in the communications and intelligence department can decipher them as long as they are there.

A few absolutely loyal and capable people were selected and told to find an opportunity to enter the city and deliver this letter to the people in the city.

As for the means of entering the city, that is not his business.

After getting the new situation of the Xinzheng defensive battle, Shi immediately sent people to pass the news back to Pengcheng, and at the same time sent people to tell the news to King Chu day and night.

The Song State is both in the world, and Shangqiu is in the Song State. The location of Shangqiu is very close to Xuzhou and Zhengzhou.It is not far from Zhoukou where King Chu is staying now.

The Mohist school always has its own rules, and some things cannot be decided by one person. He is very clear that the reason for the development and growth of the Mohist school is not because of the peak of talent, but because of the powerful and cumbersome and strict rules at this time.

Two days later, news came from Pengcheng. After the discussion, they agreed to Shi's views on Zheng Guo's affairs and clarified the route. The rest of the details will be handled here.

After receiving the news from Pengcheng, he asked the person in charge of intelligence here to preside over the negotiations with Chu, and sent someone who was considered important in the Mohist family to Chendi, at least at the same level. Enough to talk directly with the King of Chu.

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Chen Di, the King of Chu has experienced the four emotions of surprise, anger, joy, and worry these days.

Hearing that Wei Han suddenly sent troops to Zheng Guo, he was shocked.

Knowing that Wei and Han carve up the weak chicken Zheng Guo did not call him, but hurriedly invited the Chu people to form an alliance when he wanted to fight against the stubborn Mo family, he was angry.

I heard that the Mohists organized a defense in Xinzheng, preventing Wei and Han from breaching the city for the time being, making it more likely for Chu to intervene and benefit, happy.

More than a hundred Mohists could make the chaotic, frightened and heartless Xinzheng stabilize quickly, and they could find a way to defend the city in a desperate situation, making it difficult for Wei and Han's [-] troops and [-] soldiers to break through the city, worrying.

Wei Han is the enemy of Chu, and so is the Sishang Mo family.

What the king of Chu saw was that Wei Han Zhi Jin perishes Chu and his heart is not dead; he also saw the terrifying power of the rising Mohists mobilizing the people.

In the past few days, the envoys of the Mohist came frequently and proposed several solutions, which Chu State could not accept.

These days, the two sides have frequent contacts, but after all, the level is not enough, so we can only talk about general issues.

On this day, the Mo family finally sent people of sufficient level, and it could be seen that the Mo family really wanted to solve this problem.

Time is running out, and King Chu understands that once Xinzheng is breached, it will not be easy for Chu to intervene.

The bottom line of the king of Chu is that the state of Zheng can destroy the country, but the cities in the south must be given to the state of Chu.

Relying on Chu's own strength will definitely not work, so the King of Chu urgently needs the Mohist's statement: what he wants is the Mohist's statement, in order to deter Wei Han, so that Wei Han spits out several cities that are crucial to Chu's defense Yi, not really going to war with Wei Han.

The first unofficial envoy sent to Shangqiu deliberately used words such as morality to stimulate Shi, that is, to use morality to force Shi to express his position and interfere with Zheng Guo.

The king of Chu understands the reason why the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit, and he also understands that the Mo family is looking forward to the war between Wei, Chu and Han?

The more so, the less he wants to go to war; but the more he doesn't want to go to war, the more he wants to go to war.Otherwise, you can't get benefits from Wei Han through negotiation; otherwise, you can't deter Wei Han.

Deceive each other, take advantage of each other, intrigue each other, and each take what he needs. This is the world after the collapse of ritual and music.It’s not like there were no rituals before the rituals collapsed and the music was not broken, but it was necessary to do superficial work before, but now there is no need to do it at all.

Now that the city of Xinzheng was temporarily defended and the Wei and Han coalition forces failed to attack the city, the King of Chu could no longer accuse the Mohists of occupying the moral high ground.

At this time, it is no longer possible to accuse the Mohist family of revising after Qinzi's death, just calling for non-offensive but not doing non-offensive things.

Now that the Mohists have sent people of sufficient level to negotiate, the king of Chu must also set the bottom line and response methods for his own negotiations.

That is to shout slogans loudly, to show the attitude of sending troops, to talk with the Mohists with great fanfare and to make a gesture of interfering, but it is absolutely impossible to fight Wei Han and let the Mohists watch the fun.

It is necessary to use the illusion of pretending to go to war with Wei and Han and get the support of the Mohist Qin State to force Wei Han to spit out the intersection of Yingshui and Weishui that Chu must hold in his hands.

As for the jurisprudence, it is also very simple.After the Prince Ding incident, Si Ziyang went to war against Chu, and some nobles who were pro-Chu were liquidated and fled to Chu, so it is possible to establish a Chu county still named Zheng.

The state of Chu has always done this. Before the state of Chu, it was to be the Xiaoxi Zhou Dynasty. After the state was destroyed, the county was not set up, but the county and the state were paralleled. The titles of some countries still retain sacrifices and inheritance, but at the same time, there are people from Chu as counties. public county.

In this way, some nobles and scholars of Zheng State will choose to side with Chu State if they show favor to the old nobles of Zheng State. frontline.

(End of this chapter)