The situation of Qi is different from that of other countries, and the Tian clan relied on the feudal system to obtain most of the cities of Qi, so they have power.

But compared to Jiang Qi, Tian is a foreign surname after all, which is usurpation.

On the other hand, it is the state of Chu.

The feudal monarchs of the Chu State are very extensive, and the power of the feudal monarchs is very great, but the feudal monarchs of the Chu State are at least their own relatives, and they will not fall into the hands of outsiders.

But relatives with the same surname, is it really reliable?

Chu State, Yingdu.

The situation of Chu in recent years can be attributed to a joke:

The king of Chu thought that he had a great advantage, the king of Chu gave up the alliance of the Mo family's soldiers and attacked, the king of Chu attacked the state of Zheng, the king of Chu counterattacked the three Jins, and the state of Chu was wiped out by Wu Qi......

The current situation in the state of Chu is not very good now.

The strategy of the state of Chu can be roughly divided into three lines: left, center, and right.

On the right line, it competed with the Yue State for Huaibei and Sishang, but at this time it was not the main direction of attack of the Chu State.

Now the Mo family is in Huaibei Sishang, and the Yue country is under a special military alliance, plus the feudal monarch Chu King over there can't command at all, and he is too far away from the political center to develop.

On the middle line, on the old land of Chen State, relying on the two bridgeheads of Daliang and Yuguan, the advance can attack the Three Jins, and the retreat can suppress the Zheng State and the Song State, forcing them to become allies.

In the first battle of Daliang City, Wu Qi killed four Fengjun and one right Yin, and broke through Daliang and Yuguan. The prince settled into Chen, proclaimed himself the king of Chu, and concurrently served as the Duke of Chen, and there were many defectors in Chu City, and the middle line had completely lost the ability to attack, and it was also difficult to defend.

On the left line, with the Nanyang Plain in hand, it can attack Bashu, Luoyang, and Korea...... In turn, Bashu and Sanjin can also attack Nanyang.

After this defeat, the state of Chu could only give up the middle line and the right line and make every effort to maintain the left line.

Fortunately, in the big war three years ago, Wei Sixu and Wu Qi retreated, otherwise the king of Chu would not be able to sit on the throne at that time.

Now that the Wei State is still recuperating, the Chu State has suffered even greater losses, and it is simply unable to forge ahead.

The inheritance rights of feudal monarchs, powerful ministers, foreign troubles, and younger brothers...... All the problems erupted after the military defeat.

It seemed to be stable before, but it was just an illusion under the advantage.

Duke Luyang, Yang Chengjun, Pingye Jun, Zhao Zhiai, and Shaoliang Jun were killed or captured in battle, and many low-ranking nobles of Chu were also extinct in the Great Liang War.

Wu Qi used the most shameless means, and fought a defeat battle in the previous field battle, allowing the Chu people to flee to Daliang City to hold on, and after defeating Ye Gong's reinforcements, he blew up the city wall with gunpowder and completely annihilated the power of Chu in Daliang.

The rout of Ye Gong's reinforcements actually meant the loss of the last living force of the King of Chu outside Fangcheng, and Wu Qi could easily break through the Great Wall and enter Nanyang at that time.

However, fortunately, Weiss died, and Gongzi took the throne.

But that's all there is to it.

For the king of Chu, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so many feudal lords have died in battle, relatives have died, and nobles have lost their heirs, it is the time to concentrate the royal power and gather power.

However, there are many problems involved in doing so. Now that there are two kings of Chu, they dare to touch the interests of the nobles, so the nobles can ask the prince to be the king of Chu, why should they support themselves, the king who wants to take power?

The treasury was empty, the people were angry, and the feudal monarch cried, but fortunately, the loan treaty signed with the Mo family that year allowed the king of Chu to breathe.

The iron ore in Nanyang, the Mo family has begun to mine and smelt, and two-tenths of the annual dividends will be transported along the river to Yingdu and handed over directly to the king of Chu.

I have money in my hand, and I don't panic in my heart.

With the help of this money, he appeased the families who died in battle, and borrowed a sum of money from the Mo family, and finally stabilized the situation.

The nobles of Yingdu launched a rebellion, relying on the weapons and loans provided by the Mo family, and sold part of the benefits to the people of Yingdu to suppress the rebellion, but the king of Chu finally regretted it.

The so-called regret is always accompanied by overestimating one's prospects.

Compared with the current situation in the Chu State, the King of Chu really regrets that he did not abide by the covenant with the Mo family back then, otherwise, the Mo family would help guard Daliang and Yuguan, how could there be such a situation now?

I thought that the Mo family's military alliance was a bondage, but now it seems that it is clearly a pestle and shield, but there is no regret medicine in the world.

The Qin State was forced by Wu Qi to not even be able to pass Luoshui, recuperating for five years, the battle of Wang was beaten back to its original form, even if Wu Qi left the West River, the military soldier Yu Wei was still there, and the Qin people still could not cross Luoshui.

South Korea is now stammering with the Wei State, with the fat of Zheng Guo, they are busy eating this piece of fat, the contradiction between Han and Wei has become invisible, and South Korea has the meaning of serving Wei as the mainstay.

Zhao State is not involved in the affairs of the Central Plains at all, but the relationship between the Three Jin Dynasty is there, although each has its own ghosts, but it is impossible to let Zhao State attack Wei State.

The definition of the battle between Wei and Chu is "dog eats dog", accusing Wei and Chu of violating the righteousness of the world, but they turned around and signed an alliance with Wei to maintain the situation in Sishang.

Qi didn't dare to attack Sanjin, and took Lu Guo to try Sanjin's attitude, but Sanjin didn't make a statement, but the Mo family rushed up and beat Qi Guo first, maintained the border of Lu State, and retreated leisurely, and Qi Guo didn't dare to provoke Sanjin.

The hegemony of Wei has been achieved, and the last round of Jin-Chu hegemony has actually come to an end at this time.

The king of Chu had nothing to do, the domestic political situation was chaotic, and his younger brother was shouting in Chen Shaoqi, and the condition given was that if he was the king, he would definitely ensure that the interests of the nobles would not be shaken in the slightest. If it weren't for the fact that Da Liang killed too many nobles in the first battle, this hatred could also be counted on Wang Ziding, and now I am afraid that the Chu State would have changed its master long ago.

It also relied on a part of the Mo family's mining income to be directly transported to the treasury of the king of Chu, a large amount of loans provided by the Mo family, and the hearts of the people who bought Yingdu with iron tools, so that the king of Chu could still control the situation in Yingdu.

If the country is weak, we expect the people to be strong.

If the people are strong, they will awaken all kinds of dissatisfaction.

This is like a glass of wine, but the king of Chu has to drink it. If you don't drink, you won't be able to sit firmly in the position of the king of Chu, and you won't be a martyr of the etiquette system of "difference between high and low".

Moreover, borrowing money from the Mo family...... There are too many of them, and according to the current situation, if they are not reformed, they will not be able to pay them back at all. What if you can't afford it? If you can't afford it, the Mo family said, whoever can afford it is the king of Chu, and if you can't afford it, the Mo family doesn't admit it. Because of this money, the Mo family only made a guarantee, borrowed from the hands of the "Sishang people", if it is not repaid, with the Mo family's "public opinion" way of governance, it is likely to be a war to force the repayment of the money.

What will happen if the Mo family doesn't admit it? The consequences of this are unimaginable, in short, it is impossible to repay the debt, and the king of Chu would rather face the rebellion of the feudal monarch than the Mo family to unite the countries to support a king of Chu who can repay debts in the name of debt collection.

In this situation, the king of Chu finally remembered the good alliance between the soldiers and the secret conversation between the Mo family and himself.

"The Mo family helped to train the new army and held it in the hands of the king."

"Control Yingdu and Yanying, don't be the king, but be the strongest feudal monarch of the Chu State, so as to be qualified to be the king and centralize power."

"Reform the system, Shang Xian is the appointment, and private land is granted."

"Migrating the feudal lord to a vast and sparsely populated place on the frontier."

"Make a decree and make it public."

It has been many years since the Mo family last had a secret conversation with the king of Chu, and these reform methods will obviously cause a shock in the political situation of the Chu state, and the king of Chu will not use it unless it is a last resort.

After the secret business, Han Zhao died and Zheng was in turmoil, and the king of Chu saw hope, and under the advantage, he naturally would not use the radical changes of the Mo family that might "break the muscles and bones".

Now after several wars, the Huaibei Yingshui has been lost, the fertile soil of the Central Plains has been lost, the country is chaotic, and public opinion is boiling.

He is both the king of Chu and the suspicious.

As the king of Chu, he needs to reform and revitalize the state of Chu.

As a bear, he needs to reform and suppress his brothers who founded a state in the east to prevent him from getting on the throne.

Reform requires meritocracy.

Reform needed external help to suppress the domestic aristocracy.

Reform requires borrowing.

All the things needed for reform can be provided by the Mohists.

If you want people, you want money.

Nowadays, some people of the Mo family are boiling salt in Bashu, and they are going down the river, and the salt in many cities in Chu is monopolized by the Mo family. The rest of the salt boilers in Bashu could not make a profit at all, because in the loan treaty of that year, the Mo family had a tax exemption certificate and did not need to pay taxes, while the rest of the other families needed to pay taxes.

The iron-smelting workshop in Wancheng, Nanyang, has gathered 10,000 people, and a large number of iron tools are continuously flowing down the Han River every day, and some yeoman farmers near Yingdu have benefited, but they need to repay the loan for several years to be able to repay the iron money.

A series of simple technological changes carried out there opened up a grain production area, and the grain there was continuously purchased by the Mo family and transported to the downstream Yuedi Lingyang to supply the Mo family's copper mines there. And from Yuedi, containing sugar, ironware, wine, cotton cloth, dehumidifying spicy spices, porcelain pottery, glass and other things, have become the hot-selling commodities sought after by nobles and feudal monarchs.

The change in Hubei was heard by the King of Chu. Ejun took back all the fiefs on his Lu field, and no longer implemented the public land system, but used the farmers on Lu Tian as serfs, let them cultivate their own Lu fields, and the profits were all to themselves.

In addition, each serf divided a small plot of land to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes to subsidize the family, and a certain commission was paid every year to the farmers who cultivated the fields to maintain a state of starvation.

Because...... Profitable. In particular, the Mo family opened a mine in Lingyang, Yuedi, and urgently needed a large amount of food, and the Mo family's goods also made Ejun need more money in exchange. Grain is no longer what Ejun needs, and grain is turned into money for commercialization, which is what Ejun needs.

In recent years, although the King of Chu has reneged on the alliance with the Mo family, the Mo family has not cooperated with the King of Chu. Because the Mo family's cargo ships were vertical and horizontal, there were many profits and taxes that the feudal monarchs coveted and collected, and the Mo family showed the tax exemption festival, but still collected taxes, so they sued the king of Chu.

The king of Chu used this as an excuse for the Mo family to provide artillery and engineer support and recover the fief of the feudal monarch, and the king of Chu was overjoyed.

The huge state of Chu is actually not a vast country, but a collection of small feudal monarchs and feudal states. The range that the king of Chu can control is actually very small, only hundreds of li, and there are a bunch of special Lutian where the feudal monarch is an official in the center.

Under such circumstances, the commercial policy of the Mo family was like a fish in water: because of the guarantee of force, the goods of the Mo family could be guaranteed to be exempt from taxes, and the goods of the Mo family were exactly what the feudal lords needed - luxury goods, condiments, arms, farm tools, armor, cotton cloth, ......

The Mo family is no longer the Mo family of ten years ago, and the king of Chu wants to change now, and the first thing that comes to mind is to use the power of the Mo family.

However, after violating the covenant before, and now in turmoil but asking the Mo family again, will the Mo family agree?

The king of Chu thought, will the Mo family be angry: You are an unrighteous king, when you were strong, you disdained our conditions, and you had no intention of benefiting the world at all, but now that the throne is unstable and the country is in turmoil, but you think of us?

When I think about it, I feel a little shy. But in the face of political interests, shyness and face, that is the least important thing.