Chapter 44: Diplomatic Alliance
Regarding the debate between profit and righteousness in war, Mencius once had a saying in later generations.
Mencius thought that Mohist's rhetoric to stop the war was too utilitarian, especially when Mozi stopped the Qilu War, in addition to talking about righteousness, he also carefully talked about the pros and cons from the perspective of Qi, believing that Qi's war in Qi's war would not benefit, but might be subjected to diplomatic pressure and isolation from Wei, Chu, Han and Yue.
But Mencius thought that this was wrong, and that it was not possible to talk about profit, because if you talk about profit, the war will never end: if there is no profit today, there will be no war, and what if tomorrow is advantageous? Therefore, we must talk about righteousness and charity, and only in this way can we end the war.
Although the Sishang Mojia has undergone appropriate revisions, in the matter of righteousness and benefit, especially under the premise that war is about to break out, in addition to talking about righteousness, it is more about benefit.
Whether the Qin State is allied or not, Sishang doesn't care and doesn't want to form an alliance with the Qin State at all.
It is impossible to anger the Qin State with the words in the newspapers, and it can be seen from the policies of the Qin State that Qin Jun, Wu Qi and others understand very well that the more the truth is debated, the clearer it becomes, they will not choose to debate, and they will not even fight back in words, but only prohibit the spread of the doctrines of the Mohists, Zonghengjia, Confucianism, and Yang Zhu in the west of Weishui.
Since it was about interests, Qin was well aware of his position in the possible outbreak of the Second Central Plains War.
In the affairs of the Central Plains, the Qin State at this time was not qualified to participate, and the geographical location determined that the Qin State would always be trapped in the West and far away from the Central Plains before it could not get the West River.
The envoys of the Qin State already knew the meaning of Sishang, and also understood the purpose of Sishang's general mobilization: to surrender the army without a fight.
If you want not to fight, you must be prepared to win in battle, which is a point that the envoy of the Qin State admires very much.
After observing the armament situation in Sishang, he was even more sure that if the war only revolved around the Song State, he was afraid that Wei and Han would be dragged down, it would undoubtedly be the most favorable situation for the Qin State.
Soon after, he will return to Qin, there is still a lot of time, if Wei Chuhan really decides to start a war in the Song State, he will have to prepare for at least a year, which is enough time for the Qin State to adjust its strategic direction.
But whether it is fought or not, it is good news for the Qin State, it is nothing more than the difference between big profits and small profits.
Fighting, needless to say.
If you don't fight, after the Song Dynasty, Wei and Han need to deploy a large number of troops on the Eastern Front and involve a lot of energy.
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After talking with the envoys of Chu and Qin, Sishang's long-sleeved foreign policy also continued to focus on another country.
A few days later, when the written documents of the Song Duke and the Song people requesting the Mo family to send troops to quell the rebellion arrived in Sishang, a team of Sishang traveled to the already declining Zheng State with great fanfare.
On the same day, Sishang made an appointment with a long-term Korean envoy here to talk about Sishang's attitude towards Song state affairs, and the affairs of Song were decided by the people of Song, just like the people who were burdened with the army chose to return to Korea and save them from the suffering of war.
After the meeting, Sishang's diplomatic direction was to continue to dismantle the possible alliance of Wei, Chu and Han.
Bypassing the Wei State, Sishang directly sent an envoy to Zheng State, that is, to Zheng State, which Korea considered to be his own plate meal, to stimulate Korea with the largest battle.
Since the coup d'état of Si Ziyang was killed more than ten years ago, the remnants of Si Ziyang killed Zheng Gong, Wei and Chu were defeated in the struggle for hegemony of Chu State, and Zheng Guo was divided into three, Zheng Guo is a fishbone that cannot be taken out in the relationship between Wei and Han.
In the war against Chu, the war between Qi and Moxi, and the war of succession of Zhao, Wei acquiesced in Korea's encroachment on Zheng in order to gain the support of Korea and continue to maintain the Shuangjin Alliance.
Divided into three, the state of Zheng ate a part of it, and broke through the corridor of Daliang and Hedongdi.
The rest of the part, South Korea has eaten most of it, and the remaining Zheng State land is still in the cracks between Wei, Han and Chu, in which Wei does not want to directly annex Zheng Guo because then the relationship between Wei and South Korea will be extremely tense, and of course he does not want South Korea to annex Zheng Guo.
Zheng Guo and Korea have a mortal enemy, Zheng Gong died under the sword of Han Hou, and Si Ziyang stood out from the Seven Mu, just because he was a staunch main battle faction, inciting the emotions of the domestic people, gaining support, and thus always controlling the national government.
Si Ziyang's death was precisely because he wanted to seek Zheng Guo's independent status, and finally died under the joint strangulation of domestic opponents and foreign forces.
Zheng Gong was killed by the remnants of Ziyang, and after the Zheng division was divided by Wei and Han, the remaining Zheng land still insisted on fighting against Korea.
For more than ten years, several wars broke out between Zheng and Han, and several times changed hands, relying on the foundation left by the Yang Change, Zheng Guo won and lost, coupled with the tension caused by the northward advance of Chu State and Sishang's westward advance in recent years, which shared great pressure on Zheng State.
Not long ago, the local people in the country rebelled against Zheng at the instigation of South Korea, because the people there did not want to fight anymore because of the continuous war for more than ten years.
Zheng Guo has declined to the point of no return, there is no point in fighting, South Korea is powerful, and too many people have died around the negative millet in the past few years, South Korea has used this mentality of the people to incite defection to get the negative millet, and it has also made South Korea get an important bridgehead on the north bank of Yingshui.
Wei was very dissatisfied with South Korea's actions, and did not want South Korea to encroach on Zheng step by step, because if South Korea was strong, the Three Jin Alliance would no longer be possible, and the basis of the Three Jin Alliance must and could only be that Wei was strong and Han was weak, and the Second Jin Dynasty pressed Zhao to form the Three Jin Alliance.
Because Wei and Han needed to face the threat of Chu and Sishang together, Zhao hid behind, did not contribute to the work, and squeezed out Zhao in the Central Plains every time the benefits were distributed, which made the Sanjin Alliance essentially the Wei-Han Alliance.
South Korea has also begun to change its laws in recent years, and because of the existence of Zheng Guo, South Korea has enough room for development.
Wei saw Zheng as a buffer and some bait to maintain the Wei-Korean alliance.
If Wei directly annexed Zheng's remaining land, or carved it up with Korea, then there would be a lack of sufficient buffer between Wei and Han, and the contradictions between the two sides would intensify, and a situation of Han-Zhao alliance would likely occur.
In fact, the collapse of the Wei-Han alliance in the original history also happened after Zheng was annexed by Korea, and in the original history, ten years later, the princes of Wei competed for the throne, the inheritance war broke out, Han Zhao sent troops to intervene, and even prepared to directly abolish the Wei State, dividing the Wei State into Hedong and Hexi, and divided into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, so that the two princes each got a country and completely destroyed the Wei State.
Wei has always been wary of Zheng Guo's direction, both fishing for South Korea's appetite and using Zheng Guo's power to suppress South Korea, which has led to an extremely interesting situation.
On the one hand, in the overall situation of Sishang and Chu and Zhao Qin, Wei and Han were allied. On the other hand, in the matter of Zheng Guo, Wei Guo tempted South Korea and said that if you make some efforts, I will give Zheng Guo to you, and on the other hand, he quietly supported Zheng Guo against South Korea.
South Korea has really made a lot of efforts for this big pie, but Zheng Guo still exists and has not been completely annexed by South Korea.
It's not that South Korea can't defeat Zheng Guo, if it really has the intention of destroying the country, South Korea will only need a few days to destroy Zheng Guo, but because of the existence of Wei State, Zheng Guo's affairs are the same as those of Song State, which can not be decided by the country, but by the outside.
Zheng Guo's affairs, the Mo family has not been involved, or has not been involved in the face, for Zheng Guo's three points, Si Ziyang was killed, and Zheng Gong was killed, Si Shang's official attitude has always been "dog eats dog".
But secretly sold a lot of weapons, and has always maintained contact with Xin Zheng Gong.
Zheng Guo is the weakness of South Korea, and it is also the breaking point that can dismantle the Wei-Han alliance through diplomatic mediation.
Wei was very dissatisfied with the fact that Zheng Guo was against Zheng and returned to Han at the beginning, believing that this incident was instigated by South Korea behind the scenes, especially when Zheng Guo had already surrendered to Wei, and the negative Huang incident occurred, and the relationship between Wei and Han was a little tense.
Sishang has not expressed his position on this matter, but took the opportunity to sigh that all the people in the world have been fighting hard for a long time, and by the way, he launched a call for all countries to fight against the army.
At that time, the call for soldiers was as follows: The people of each country should elect the sages of each place, and the nobles would be deprived of their military rights.
This is obviously impossible for all countries to accept, but the Mo family shouted the most happily, although the Mo family didn't want to do this at all, because it would leave a huge remnant of the nobility, but because they knew that all countries would not agree, they could shout slogans high and far.
This kind of disgusting method of various countries, the Mo family has used it more than once, South Korea does not care about the attitude of the Mo family, but it cares about the attitude of the Wei country.
The negative millet incident is not national self-determination, because most of the negative millet are Zheng people. The essence of the negative millet incident is that the people who are negative are tired of fighting and do not want to fight anymore, so they choose the enemy country to surrender.
Zheng Guo's national strength is weakened, the law change is interrupted, the people are troubled, and South Korea is not a good bird, since it is all the same, it is better to choose a big country to stand over, at least there is no need to fight.
Because of the fact that the children did not destroy the township school and Deng Xi's law in the people, the people of Zheng Guo had a high degree of participation in politics, and it was precisely because of this that Zheng Chu went to war more than ten years ago, and the people of Zheng Guo collectively defected and did not resist to protest against Chu.
Negative millet is not the place where the Mo family in Sishang really wants to disgust South Korea, the whole Zheng Guo is the place where the Mo family wants to disgust South Korea.
The envoy sent to Jeongguo with great fanfare was actually for South Korea to see.
Regarding the Han-Zheng War, the Mo family has not yet expressed its position, but it is not that it cannot express its position.
If Korea joins the Wei-Han-Chu alliance and goes to war around the Song state, then Sishang can support Zheng Guo against Korea.
On the other hand, if South Korea does not join the Wei-Chu-Han Alliance, then Zheng Guo's negative incident is the self-determination of the people, which is legal and supported by the Mohists.
The strategy of the Mo family is to first go south and then to the north, which dooms the Song State to be the limit of the northern sphere of influence, and the position of the Zheng State is more prone to accidents than the Song State: Zhou Tianzi in the west, Wei in the north, Han in the southwest, and Chu in the south, which is where the Mo family cannot and is not interested in interfering for the time being.
Abandoning Zheng Guo, who was already not very related, and using Zheng Guo as a sacrifice to induce more tension between Wei and Han is the purpose of this time. induce Korea to take the opportunity to swallow Zheng for personal gain, thus completely disintegrating the Sanjin Alliance.
Song Guo is the side of Sishang's couch, and Zheng Guo is also the backyard of South Korea, if South Korea has the intention of sending troops, even if Sishang cannot send troops to support, but the ability to send some people to help defend the city, support some loans, and weapons is still there.
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