Xiong Su understands that all this can not be done in a hurry, but fortunately, he is still young and has a lot of opportunities and time.

All of this is needed, and what is needed is the word "slow". And the plan that the Mo family wants to infiltrate cannot be impatient, and can only aim for ten or even twenty years.

If there is no accident, he knows that the person in front of him still has eighteen or nineteen years to live, and after his death, his son will just become an adult, and the last two sons will go through the power transfer of brother to brother.

In history, Wu rose too late, and only three or five years after the late change was the death of the people, so that in the end, the nobles fought back, and the Chu State could not even beat the Shu State, and finally built a fortress in Yiling, lost Luyang in the north, and completely lost the opportunity to centralize the development of the world.

The more contradictions and the more serious the problems, the more comfortable the Mo family can be and survive in the contradiction between the monarchy and the aristocracy.

Meng Sheng on the side peeked at the expression of the King of Chu, and appreciated the suitable plan even more in his heart.

Today's matter seems to have moved the king of Chu very easily, in fact, Meng Sheng understood after listening to the analysis before coming that all this has actually been prepared for five years.

The Mo family has done too many major things that have shaken the world in the past five years, and the city of Shangqiu has made the King of Chu firmly remember the Mo family, a group with the ability to interfere in the internal affairs of various countries.

With fame and facts to rely on, he was able to speak of the King of Chu today.

As for the talent who recommends the county Yin, there is no need to worry for the time being, this is a matter of a year or two.

If you talk about your background, your suitable background is still a little lowly after all.

However, there are many nobles with slightly higher backgrounds within the Mo family, and they come forward as county yin, but in fact, the power is still at the top of the Mo family, and the nobles of the Chu State may not be unacceptable.

After listening to everything that Shi had planned, the king of Chu said abruptly: "The words outside the golden jade are the state of Chu." This time, the Mo family entered Chu to help the widow and benefit the world, and told such a truth, which made me clear and clear. Can the gentleman stay in Yingdu? ”

Shi shook his head and said, "As soon as this matter is over, we will go to Luyang." If the king's conditions can be agreed, the Mo family's city defense equipment can almost be transported. Lu Yang Gong has an old relationship with the giant, and he thinks that coming there can quickly strengthen the defense of the Luguan area. ”

"If the king wants to change, he must first have clear rewards and punishments. The Mo family is now useless in Chu, and if they get the position of county Yin, they are afraid that they will be dissatisfied. This time, Zheng Han wants to enter the prince's determination, and he must attack Lu Pass, although the Mo family does not fight back, but it is still possible to defend the city, which is the opportunity for the king to take advantage of this change. ”

King Chu nodded, also understanding that the situation was not clear.

Shi is more clear that the field ability of the Chu State is too far from the Wei State after the slight change. Seventy or eighty years ago, it was possible to draw, but now it is basically more defeats and fewer wins.

The Mo family has the ideas of the Mo family, and there are suitable ideas, under all kinds of seemingly obvious rules and insurmountable guidelines, the Chu State can only continue to defend, and there is no way to fight back without field ability - if it were not for the civil strife in Zheng and the people were tired of the war and surrendered directly, I was afraid that the battle to counterattack and punish Zheng Guo would fail.

The worse the defeat, the weaker the power of the nobles, and the more urgent the King of Chu is to change. This is forced, and compared to the promise of the king of Chu, he believes in the helplessness of the situation.

The King of Chu asked again: "In this case, then the repayment conditions of the Mo family's loan this time can be negotiated." ”

"The Mo family can mine and smelt iron, and I will receive eleven for all income. This is the principal. ”

"The Mohist goods pass through Chu and are exempt from tax, which is interest."

"The defense of Luyang and the construction of the city by Yan Ying, these are all the rhetoric of the Mo family to make meritorious contributions in Chu and order the county Yin."

Shi nodded and said: "Some can be said clearly, some can't be said clearly, some can be urgent, and some must be delayed." If you can, then take the oath to prepare the deed as soon as possible, and time waits for no one. After spring ploughing, the Wei people will definitely send troops, at most half a year, there will be a battle in Luguan, and we also need to do it as soon as possible. ”

Shi never mentioned the purpose of the Mo family, and his words were full of urgency and thoughts of the king of Chu, and the king of Chu no longer hesitated, and agreed after thinking about it.

Three days later, the ministers of Chu arrived, and Xiong Su, the king of Chu, signed a deed with the Mo family.

The loans of the Mo family were paid for by the equipment used to defend the city, and the king of Chu also repaid them with the right to open mines and tax exemptions.

The rest of the contents of the conversation in the secret room were unknown to the nobles of the Chu State.

The Mo family did things vigorously, and after this matter was done and the purpose had been achieved, they said goodbye to the king of Chu with Meng Sheng and others, and went north along the road to Luguan.

Before coming here from Peixian, after discussing this matter, it had been determined that the King of Chu would agree, so the weapons had been prepared in advance on the Peixian side and were being transported to the Luyang area, and the number in the early stage was not much.

Another group of ink scholars who followed Shi to Yingdu stayed, and after settling in Yingdu, they went to Pakistan to pick up those who had left Pei County for three years.

Shi did not go fast along the way, and gradually figured out some of the current situation and situation in the Chu State.

From Yingdu to Luguan, the Nanyang Basin plus the Yingchuan area of Luyang, there are 17 feudal monarchs.

Take Hemozi as the old Luyang Gong, at the beginning, because of the rebellion of Bai Gongsheng, Ye Pingping, the good dragon, determined the rebellion of Bai Gongsheng and gave Sima the position to the sub-period.

Gongsun Kuan, the son of the child, was enshrined in King Hui.

The original fief was going to be sealed in Daliang, but Gongsun Kuan said: "Daliang is a major county in the north, close to the Sanjin Dynasty, and I am worried that my descendants will betray the King of Chu and take refuge in the Sanjin Dynasty, so that I will cut off my sacrifice." It's better to seal Lu Yang to me. ”

So Gongsun Kuan began to seal Luyang.

Before Wu Qi changed the law, the politics of Chu had been turbulent, so nominally the king of Chu had the right to withdraw the title of feudal monarch, but in fact it was hereditary. Today's Luyang Gong is a descendant of Gongsun Kuan.

Mozi saw Gongsun Kuan on the occasion of Gongsun Kuan, who once said: "Within the four realms of Lu, there are all widowed ministers." Now most of the capital attacks its small capital, everyone cuts down its small family, and robs the goods and wealth, and the widow will be punished heavily."

He called both the widow and the four realms as ministers, so the feudal status of the Chu State before the reform was basically equivalent to the vassal states of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Except for some counties, in order to gather power, the king of Chu was divided into fiefdoms and counties directly under the central government, counties like Luyang were all county dukes and counties Yin one, mastering the county soldiers, and in addition to autonomy, they also had the right to go to war.

Therefore, later Wu Qicai said that these feudal monarchs were "forced to go up and abused", and the several rebellions of Chu were also caused by the county and the county was fair.

For example, the Duke of Luyang, he has his own fiefdom and mining in Luyang, as a Yulu. These are not handed over, and they have nothing to do with the local county soldiers, so he can rely on them to support his private soldiers.

At the same time, he also had the power to govern the vast land outside the fiefdom and govern as a local magistrate, including the county Sima who governed the county, and could recruit local county soldiers.

It's just that the local county soldiers are endowed from Luyang, but not from the fiefdom of Luyang Gong. When fighting, the king of Chu can mobilize some county soldiers, but sometimes it can only be controlled by the county prince himself.

In addition to his fiefdom in Luyang, the first Duke of Luyang also served as the post of Chu Sima for a period of time.

And Sima's position is not derived from Luyang's fiefdom, Luyang's fief is only different from the official position.

On the plains near Yingdu, there are also many "prefectures", one level lower than the county, and just near the capital, these prefectures are also divided into county officials who serve in the central government as income.

The seventeen feudal monarchs near the Nanyang Basin were only part of the many feudal monarchs of the Chu State, and in the later period, they developed to the largest feudal monarch with the "Fourteen Yi", and Wu Qi changed the legal person to the death of the government, and finally the feudal monarch was too big to fall - this was also feudal enough, so that it was easy for the Chu State to destroy the country and restore the country, and it became the main force in the late Qin Dynasty who wanted to reverse history.

It can be said that the king of Chu actually does not have absolute control even near Yingdu, because some nobles still have "food state" near Yingdu, not to mention Luyang in Yingshui.

Later, one of the measures of Wu Qi's reform was to divide the land of the feudal lord into some "frontier areas" and let them expand outward.

This was originally a good move, but it died too early, and those dissatisfied feudal monarchs fought back frantically, and there was even a situation where the county prince of Xixian County defected to the Wei State.

That is, Wu Qi can fight, and the rest of the feudal monarchs dare not do it while he is alive, otherwise this change will not even last until Xiong is suspected of death.

The Nanyang Plain and the Jianghan Plain were originally the essence of the Chu State, but under the condition that the feudal fiefdoms were intertwined and had governing power and military power, the foreign war capability of the Chu State can be imagined.

It was not until the end of the Warring States Period that the King of Chu took back the judicial power from the hands of some weak feudal monarchs, but it was only a soft persimmon pinch, and the really strong feudal monarch King Chu still did not dare to move.

Along the way, the productivity level of the Chu State was also very low, and the technology of cattle farming did not spread to this point, which was completely different from the situation in Peixian, which had already launched an agricultural reform.

The feudal lord had economic privileges and many powers, and the income from the food was either to raise private soldiers, or to lend money in the feudal county that was not his own food estate, and constantly obtain income.

The private land system has not yet been developed on a large scale in the Chu State, but in the Nanyang Basin, where the development is better and earlier, there are also some private fields.

In terms of the military system, the original peasant and soldier system was still adopted, and the farmers needed to fulfill various feudal obligations for planting on weekdays. Including serving as a soldier, going on expeditions, building palaces, and so on.

In particular, the peasants on the feudal king's food estate, their status is basically equal to that of serfs, and while they have to work for the feudal monarch, the feudal monarch also has enough control over them and exploits the labor of these farmers.

In some of the larger cities, the handicraftsmen developed well, and a part of the leisure class gradually appeared, which was the main audience of the Mohists' propaganda direction at this time.

Although the productivity is low, but fortunately, there is no cold winter in Chu, and the population is not large at this time, and the famine year can always rely on some messy things to pass through, but this situation coupled with the peasant conscription system, this will inevitably lead to the Chu State besieging the city for more than half a year is the limit - if the war cannot be resolved within a year, with the current situation of the Chu State, it will inevitably lead to a large-scale food shortage in a certain county due to the forced labor force in the future.

This is also the reason why the former king of Chu favored the Mo family, not only because of the rhetoric of centralization, but also because of the war potential brought about by the change of agricultural technology.

The territory of Chu is vast, and it seems to be thousands of miles long, but even the Nanyang Jianghan Plain, the essence of the land, is a scene full of feudal monarchs, and it really lives up to the evaluation of "gold and jade are ruined outside".