Chapter 43: A Gloomy Story

The written covenant is a joke.

The covenant was signed from the beginning for the sake of the future.

In a world of strife and great strife, some countries can be natural allies without an alliance, and even if some countries sign an alliance, it may only be to cover up their true purpose.

Qin Jun is a smart person, although Sheng Qi betrayed the Mo family, he has talent, and Wu Qi is a figure who can enter the picture.

Shi was very relieved about the possible reaction of the Qin State.

Just like five years ago, when the Zhao State inherited the war, just in time to catch up with Sishang and Lu without fighting the world, thinking that Sishang was going to learn from Song Xianggong, Zhao Gongzi was forced by the pressure of Wei State and just revealed that he wanted to negotiate peace, Qin Jun immediately asked Wu Qi to go around the Weishui coast, forcing the Xihe pawns who were originally going to quickly transfer into Zhao State and divide Zhao State into Zhao and Dai to quickly return to defense, and held out until the end of the Nanjishui War, which also made Zhao Gongzi's attitude immediately change and rejected Wei's peace talks.

It's the same now.

A written covenant doesn't matter.

If Wei is defeated, Qin will be pressed into the West River even if there is no alliance; If Wei's victory has the possibility of regaining hegemony, Qin will definitely not stupidly watch Wei become strong.

Qin's mind was too cunning, and he obviously wanted to make a big news, and the Lian Heng Alliance forced the Central Plains to fight.

He won the clan cat in eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, the Hanzhong defense line has the Mo family in Nanzheng to help him guard, through Kyushu Lianheng axis was established, if you want to fight the Qin State, you can only take the West River to cross Weishui and Beiluoshui.

On the other hand, Sishang is surrounded by Qi, Yue, Wei, Chu, Han, and Wei countries, and as soon as the Lian Heng Alliance is established, his side will have to share the pressure of the alliance.

Qin Guo has a good calculation, but Sishang is not stupid here, anyway, it is just a trick to me, you want to use my strength, I want to use your strength.

Four years ago, the Heze Alliance, Qin used gunpowder to make it seem as if Sishang and Qin had formed an alliance, so that Wei did not dare to friction with Qin at all, and also gave Qin enough time to complete the reform under the premise of less external pressure.

I feel that it is time for the old Qin people to repay their debts.

The envoy of the Qin State also wanted to continue to talk about the Song State, but he kept his mouth shut, and instead tried to turn the topic to the development of the Western Regions.

For example, the mountains and rivers that Solu Shen knew when he returned, for example, how much Qin Guo, a disciple of the Western Regions who was trained in Sishang Zhenxu University, needed it, and what kind of cooperation was needed.

It is not that the messenger said that these things could not be discussed, but they were not appropriate for the present time.

However, he is the master, he is the guest, and he really can't avoid this topic, so he can only continue to talk.

talked about the evening, and asked someone to prepare dinner, and some of the high-level officials of the Mo family talked about the Western Regions with the envoys of the Qin State, and Suo Lushen even came forward to say that he hoped to go to the extreme west again in his lifetime, or start a second trip to the extreme west.

When the lights were turned on at night, the envoy was allowed to leave, and when he left, he passed by the embassy of the envoy of Chu with great fanfare, and by the way, he let the various countries hidden in Si see it clearly.

Just when Shi and the envoys of the Qin State were talking about some interesting things about the Western Regions, in the printing office of the Xuanyi Ministry, several typesetting craftsmen were selecting the printed characters fired from the clay.

The smell of melted pine resin, which is used as a binder, is very fragrant, and the smell of ink with some sticky agent is also pleasant, but when you smell it too much, you are a little disgusted.

The banquet for the envoys of the Qin State has not yet ended, but the headlines of the newspapers have begun to be printed tomorrow, and it has a great relationship with the Qin State.

The commentary was written appropriately, and the person in charge of the printing was correcting it, while reading, "It's like Xia Wei must have walked south, and Shang Tang must have walked south, but just because both of them are facing south, you can't say that Xia Wei and Shang Tang are the same." For example, Dayu also eats, and Shang Xun also eats, but it cannot be said that Dayu and Shang are the same. ”

"If the people of the Song State choose Wei, Chu and Han tribes not to recognize it and send troops to intervene, and the Mo family fights against the Wei State, it is because the Mo family is fulfilling the covenant of the year and abiding by its own righteousness."

"If Qin took the opportunity to fight against Wei and seize the West River, it could not be said that Qin had reached an alliance with Sishang. The Tao is different, and there is no conspiracy; Righteousness is different, and there is no alliance. Qin fought against Wei, and Sishang also fought against Wei, just like Dayu also eats, and Shang also eats, you can't think that Dayu and Shang are the same......"

After reading the text, the craftsmen also select the words and put them in a wooden frame that will be used for printing for a while, check the layout, and publish them tomorrow.

He didn't tell a single lie, because he was preaching, not about something specific.

He used the "envoy" hypothesis in Mohist dialectics, and under the premise of this assumption, what he said was leaky.

Indeed, if Sishang and Wei were to go to war because of the Song State, and if the Qin State sent troops to attack Xihe, then the significance of the two sending troops would not be the same.

But the problem lies in the word "envoy".

The envoy of the Qin State did talk with Shi for an afternoon, and even talked about it all the time, but the problem was that the two sides had been talking about the Western Regions for the rest of the time, except for a few words related to the Song State at the beginning.

In the newspaper article, it is true that it is not said that the Qin people have reached some covenants with Sishang, and it must not be said that the Mo family is lying.

The content of the article is not even part of the truth, because the whole article is about hypothetical envoys, and not a single sentence says reality.

Moreover, this article had already been written before the envoy of the Qin State met Shi.

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Early the next morning, the envoy of the Qin State looked at the headline comments in the official newspaper of Sishang and was silent.

Last night, all the countries that were staring at him in Sishang saw him enter the core area of Sishang with their own eyes, and they all knew that he had been talking with him for a whole afternoon.

Now, even if a detail of the Wei Kingdom appeared in front of him, he swore to the sky that he had not talked about anything else yesterday except for the interesting story of the Western Regions, and in the evening he talked about the Sphinx of the Kingdom of the Western Queen Mother in the Far West...... I'm afraid that Wei Guo will not believe it.

Besides, even if you believe it, it's useless.

Will Wei Hou believe it?

Even if Qin Jun wrote a handwritten letter now, saying to Wei Zheng that you can rest assured and boldly fight in the Song Kingdom, if I take advantage of the danger of others to seek Xihe, I am my grandson, will Wei Zheng believe it?

The newspaper not only wrote about the envoys, but also wrote about the geographical form of the mountains and rivers of the West River, as well as the importance of the West River, and a series of other issues, and analyzed the reform of the Qin State.

Of course, it is criticized with critical strokes, and the reform of the Qin State without leaving every sentence can not make the world benefit, but the reform of the Qin State without leaving the Qin State can make the people fight for their own interests and serve the death, and the sharp soldiers of the Qin State are different from the weak Qin army in the past.

When the envoy of the Qin State was silent, someone came in outside, and it was an ink master who gave him something.

The ink man was just a messenger, holding a piece of paper in his hand and said, "This is the recipe for gunpowder, and now I heard that the Qin State is building Weishui for irrigation, and gunpowder is needed, this is a matter that is beneficial to the people, and the Mo family must of course support it." ”

"Now that the war is about to break out, it is inconvenient to transfer gunpowder to Qin."

"In the past, the giant made gunpowder for the benefit of the world."

"However, Zi Mozi said, like a sword, it can save people, it can kill people, the king of the world is unjust, gunpowder is like a sword, and it cannot fall into the hands of the unrighteous king."

"Therefore, the giant has always hidden the formula of gunpowder in case the unrighteous king takes it and uses it in an unjust war."

"Therefore, the formula of gunpowder has never been leaked."

"If war breaks out again today, many people either realize themselves or study and know the formula of gunpowder, but the ratio may not be correct."

"If the ratio is incorrect, it can also kill, but when the ratio is incorrect, when the canal is excavated and the stone is blown up, it is not good, so I heard that the Qin State wants to repair Weishui for irrigation, and I am worried that it will not be easy to transport, so I took out the gunpowder formula, hoping that the people of Qin will profit."

"In the past, when the great witch of Tu Mountain, he realized the will of heaven, and obtained gunpowder to help Tu Shan Nujiao to dedicate to Dayu, so that the rivers of the world could be governed, and the people no longer had the disaster of fish and turtles. The thing of gunpowder is the thing that benefits the people, and today it is necessary to control the water, and it is still necessary to ...... from the ambition of Dayu."

The last episode of Tushan Nujiao and Dawu and Dayu's things were made up by the Mo family a long time ago, and they have been circulated for more than ten years, so that the world thinks that this is the correct version of Tushan Nujiao and Dayu, and why Dayu's son is famous for the "historical facts".

This is a story that was fabricated after the advent of gunpowder.

The envoy of the Qin State couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the carefully sealed and wax-sealed creed.

Heart Dao, these people in Sishang are some wonderful people, extremely interesting.

The whole world knows about the gunpowder formula of the Qin Congress, and after verifying it according to the method and criterion of "test first" in Sishang, it is determined that it is the correct formula, and there is no mistake.

If this gunpowder formula had been taken out five years ago, it would have been worth several cities, but now it is worthless to the Qin State.

Si Shang knew that the people of Qin Guo knew, and Qin Guo also knew that Si Shang knew that Si Shang did not give Qin Guo a formula, and then thought of the newspaper he saw today, and the envoy of Qin State immediately understood what Si Shang meant.

The debt of gunpowder four years ago is being repaid today.

Four years ago, under the pretext of gunpowder, Wei did not dare to rub against Qin, so that Qin changed the law without external interference.

Now it's time for you Qin people to repay their debts, so Sishang took out the gunpowder formula today, because he knew that this gunpowder formula was worthless to the Qin State now, but the story behind the gunpowder formula was a priceless thing that was worth the entire Qin State smoothly changing the law without external interference.

This worthless thing used to be priceless, and now it is meaningless whether it is valuable or not, it is just a way to tell the winning master, I spray me, what should you do, you just do what you think is most beneficial to the Qin State.

As for the covenant, forget it, and make the most advantageous choice between each other, it will be more effective than the covenant, and today's things should be paid off the debt of gunpowder back then.

There was no alliance back then, and there is still no alliance today.