Since this matter started because of the Chu State, let the Chu State solve it by itself.

If it weren't for the nobles of Chu State who sent a signal hoping to unite Wei and Han to intervene in the Song State, the ten brave men of the current Wei State would not dare to issue a call for an alliance to interfere in the Song State with Qin behind them and Chu on the flanks, let alone give Korea an opportunity to swallow Zheng.

The king of Chu is now in Chendi, which is just the right time to hold a meeting between the two sides to discuss some issues clearly.

You can't solve all the problems at the negotiating table, but you can fix some corners and corners under the balance of strength.

Shi only knew that the Wei and Han coalition forces had attacked Zheng Guo now, but he didn't know that Xu Qiao and others could think of mobilizing the people to pile up the new city wall behind the old city wall, so his judgment on the fall of Xinzheng was within half a month.

Regarding Zheng Guo's attitude, the Mo family's high-level leaders had reached a consensus before he came to Shangqiu, and now several veteran Mo masters were temporarily presiding over the daily work, and unless there was an extreme situation, he didn't have to ask for an immediate meeting of the Seven Enlightenments.

Just a few days after the Wei-Han coalition sent troops to Zheng and the siege of Xinzheng began, the unofficial envoys of Chu immediately asked to see Shi.

Whether the coup d'état in Shangqiu will be recognized by various countries has not yet been decided, so the envoy of the Chu State in Shangqiu can only be an unofficial identity.

Shangqiu was busy holding various ceremonies, formulating the constitution and the like, and was busy and noisy, revealing a lot of fresh atmosphere.

When the envoy of the State of Chu asked for a meeting, he had just finished meeting with the leaders of the various schools in the Song State.

For Zheng Guo and Song Guo, these two things are actually fundamentally the same thing, and the Zheng Guo incident is a derivative of the coup d'état of Song State.

When the envoy of Chu came to see him, he was actually a little embarrassed in his heart.

Many nobles of the Chu State here detained and monitored the ink people who were active in the Ming Face of the Chu State; went north to participate in the alliance that was obviously aimed at the Mo family, and then hoped to use the power of the Mo family to also balance Wei Han to the south, but any gentleman who wanted face would be embarrassed.

It didn't matter, he took the initiative to avoid this topic and did not embarrass the envoy of Chu.

However, the envoy of the Chu State first wanted to make the matter of the Chu State meet this time reasonable, so he quibbled: "This time, my king went north, and he also had the intention of killing troops and making peace. Sishang has many soldiers, and Shizi is a disciple of Mo Zhai, so he naturally adheres to the will of non-attack, which is known to the world. ”

It's just that after the death of Zhongni, Confucianism was still divided into six, each with its own words. My king trusts Shizi, but he is afraid that after a hundred years, the Mo family will have people who do not talk about non-attacking and benefiting the people, so that disasters are rising in the world. ”

"The former Mozi once said that if the city wall is strong and the people trust, then the enemy country will not dare to attack easily. Shizi also said that if the covenant is to be obeyed, it needs to be of equal strength. ”

"Yes, the Chu people are just preparing to build a fortress in the Central Plains in the Central Plains for the sake of the future and peaceful non-attack, even if you are a hundred years later, the Mo family and others are giants, they may forget the meaning of non-attack, and they dare not attack blatantly, which is the same as the alliance of nations proposed by you to restrain the troops; It is the same reason as the Zhou metric system to make the three armies of a large country, a small country, and one army of the Son of Heaven Gyeonggi thousands of miles to maintain the chaos in the world. ”

Shi smiled secretly in his heart, thinking that this was obviously an anti-Mo alliance, but because the Mo family was getting stronger and stronger in public opinion, he didn't dare to shout anti-Mo directly, after all, the Mo family has gradually become a moral upper class among the people.

So they came up with a seemingly defensive treaty to hide the fact that they were against Mexico.

For this kind of means, there is a natural way to deal with it, and I thought that I didn't want to mention this matter, but you wanted to mention it, so I can't blame it.

He smiled faintly and asked rhetorically: "If Wei Chuhan is really fighting for the Central Plains, and Sishang is also in the Central Plains, why didn't the Alliance invite my Mo family this time?" ”

"Since it is for the purpose of killing soldiers, then this time the alliance will definitely be supported by our Mo family, we will immediately send people to participate in the alliance, and we will also fight together for the alliance......"

This is the easiest way to deal with public opinion.

Since you say that this is a defensive peace treaty and does not oppose Mexico, then the Mo family wants to take the initiative to participate in it, do you dare to ask for it?

If you don't dare to ask for it at that time, then why you will form an alliance will be revealed, and the people of the world will certainly understand your hypocrisy.

The envoy of the Chu people was scolded back by the head, and after a long pause, he said: "This time Wei Han attacked Zheng, in fact, I am afraid that it has something to do with the Mo family's attack on the Song Dynasty. The Mo family is still responsible for the suffering of the Zheng people. ”

"In the past, my Chu Zhi Luyang Gong wanted to attack Zheng, in the name of Zheng's crime for many generations of heaven and punishment, Mozi said that even if countries make mistakes, it is not up to other countries to teach them, this is like someone else's son made a mistake, you go to beat him and say that this is in line with his father's idea, this is ridiculous."

"Isn't the matter of the Song Kingdom the same? It was the Mo family who first violated their own morality, which caused Wei Han to attack Zheng ......"

Shi resolutely said: "This statement is ridiculous. Don't you hear that the people are gods? God is the Emperor of Heaven, since the countries exist, they are all the courtiers of the Emperor of Heaven, so the Emperor of Heaven is qualified to punish the kings of various countries, since the people are the gods, then the will of the people is the will of Heaven, the people of the Song Kingdom oppose the tyrannical government, just like the merchants who defected to Muye in the past, and cursed the Xia people of Xia Ji. ”

"Then the matter of Song Guo is obviously that the son made a mistake, and the father taught the son a lesson, but the son relied on his youth and strength to beat his father in turn, and the father couldn't beat him and had to call the neighbors to help, how can this be said to be the same as Zheng Guo's affairs?"

The coup d'état between the two sides is basically a chicken and a duck, and the definitions of who is the father and who are the sons are both opposite, and it is impossible to argue about anything.

The envoy of Chu was also helpless in his heart, secretly thinking that he was also stupid, the Mo family was already good at arguing, but he wanted to provoke the giant of the Mo family.

I wanted to use this to knock the Mo family so that the Mo family would not stay out of the matter, but I didn't think that I was forced to ask by the Mo family giant, so that there was no answer.

Shi is too lazy to argue with the other party, this kind of argument in the secret room is meaningless, if it is really reasonable, the Mo family still has the post of ink debate, and the Xuanyi Department is more to talk to the people about those simple truths, and strive to make the people understand, and the focus of the ink debate is completely different.

Chu Guo did not do this matter by himself, and now he wants the Mo family to come out to stand up for Chu State, and he has to tie his hands and feet to the Mo family, and Shi also understands what the King of Chu means.

It can be seen that the king of Chu does not want to fight, but pretends to fight, and wants to oppress Wei Han with the help of the power of the Mo family, but it is impossible for the Mo family to ignore it out of morality.

Even if Wei Han can't be allowed to spit out what he eats in his mouth, a still intact Zheng State, I am afraid that Wei Han will be forced to give up some land on the right bank of the Weishui River with deterrence, so that part of the Zheng State, a prominent part of the Chu State, which penetrates deep into the heart of the Chu State, belongs to the Chu State.

It is estimated that the king of Chu will definitely not be able to greet him, and nine times out of ten he wants to borrow the power of the Mo family to intervene in the negotiation with the Mo family, but the king of Chu went to talk to Wei Han in private, and when the time comes, he will unload the mill and kill the donkey.

Zheng Guo is the Chu State that must be managed out of interests, and Zheng Guo is the Mo family who should be managed out of morality, which is the fundamental reason why the two sides can sit down and talk.

Since the other party does not mention interests, but has to mention morality, it is naturally impossible to give the other party good words.

After being silent for a while, the envoy of the Chu State said: "My king sent me here to ask the Mo family's attitude towards the matter of Zheng Guo. ”

Shi Ye immediately said: "This matter is about punishing injustice and cutting injustice. Song Jun is not a Mo person, and he has no obligation to fight injustice. The Mo family is naturally in charge, but it is not easy to send troops. ”

"But the Mo family can't ignore it."

The envoy of Chu also said: "It should be like this, Fang does not live up to the Mo family's righteousness of helping the weak." When Shizi said this, I knew how to reply to the king. ”

His level is not enough, and it is impossible to discuss some substantive issues with Shi, and the most important thing is to inquire about Shi's attitude in order to determine the strategy of Chu State's future talks.

Saying those words with a gun and a stick before was nothing more than wanting to provoke the Mo family to take care of this matter, and he never thought that he would take care of it without saying a word, which made the envoy of Chu State feel a sense of powerlessness, but he was reprimanded in vain.

After the official statement, the envoy of Chu did not linger, and left Shangqiu in a hurry, and went to Chen Di to report first.

A few days later, news came from Xinzheng that the ink scholars of Xinzheng had been organized and defended by opening another city wall in the city.

This is not to be gratifying, but it is worth rejoicing that the person in charge over there adheres to the consistent attitude of Shishi: not attacking is a means rather than an end, not only cooperating with the nobles of the weak country, but also not cooperating without a bottom line, but taking advantage of the opportunity to defend the city to legally organize the people together, and taking advantage of the panic of the monarchs of the aristocratic small country to develop and strengthen the power of the people.

This can also be regarded as the main line of the internal struggle in Sishang over the years: take Zheng Guo's defense of the city as an example, is it out of the righteousness of not attacking and helping the weak, and he has no bottom line to be the helper of the nobles to defend the city? Or should we maintain the independent program of the Mohists while defending the city, not only defending the city but also mobilizing the masses to oppose the old system?

Of course, there is actually a third line, the third line is the faction that suffers from the extreme, the big country is a bastard, and the monarch of a small country is also unjust, go fucking cooperation, I am against both sides, so as not to use their contradictions, to be pure morality and pure organization.

This is also the reason why I am happy after receiving the resolution of the local organization in Xinzheng, at least in the organization of Xinzheng, my own line is implemented, and I can understand it without going astray on specific issues.

Whether Zheng Guo can hold it or not, it doesn't matter, Zheng Guo's future plan for Sishang is a country that can deliberately abandon the contradictions between Wei, Han and Chu.

It also made Shi extremely happy to think of abandoning the outer city and clearing the open space inside to reorganize the effective defense, which was a way of learning to think for oneself and proving that the thinking of the Si Shang Mo people had entered the age of gunpowder—with a gunpowder weapon in their hands and still thinking in the way of the Bronze Age, that was not enough progress.

The letter did not erase Xu Qiao's credit, and the plan was also proposed by Xu Qiao, Shi remembered this name a long time ago, and he knew this person even before Xu Miao joined the Mo family.