Song Gongzitian is a tragic monarch.

His tragedy lies in his ambition.

Han Fei Youyun: The country is small but not humble, the strength is small but not afraid of the strong, the rude and insults the neighbors, and the greedy and clumsy friends can die.

These four died, and the Song Kingdom of Zitian occupied them all. If you add what kind of country is small but big, and the power is light and the ministers are heavy, etc., the Song State is still a miracle of the Warring States Period.

Zi Buyyou died on the way to the alliance with the Jin people, and Zitian relied on the support of Emperor Sicheng to ascend to the throne, so he could not understand the importance of his father's policy of wandering between Jin and Chu when he was not old and faint.

I thought that I would take advantage of the civil strife in Qi to get a piece of the pie and take Guanqiu from the hands of the Qi people, but I never thought that when the alliance was met again, the Sanjin had already won.

The plan at the beginning of the succession to the throne was not realized, not to mention the treacherous aristocratic political situation in Shangqiu City, and the siege of the Chu people, Zitian could no longer rely on others except for the Mo people.

He was ambitious, so it was impossible to surrender.

And Emperor Sicheng had ambitions, so it was impossible to surrender before the arrival of reinforcements from the Three Jins.

The two of them had the same interests in resisting the Chu State, but the Mo Scholar was trying to find a way to weaken Zitian's strength.

Shi is not a pure person, so he needs a monarch in the Song State who has no prestige, no military power, no wealth, and is bullied by the nobles of the two factions all day long.

As for the Song Kingdom, Shi never regarded himself as a Song person.

Long before the Chu people besieged the city, Zitian asked the Emperor Sicheng to send people to the Three Jin Dynasty to ask for help, but he didn't want to agree to any conditions of the Jin people at all: such as garrisoning troops in the Song land, eating in the Song land, and so on.

Originally, he wanted to restore the glory of Xianggong, but when he really needed to resist the Chu State, Zitian realized that this matter was simply a dream, and he couldn't even gather a sufficient army.

Rumors, nursery rhymes, etc. in the city are spreading day by day, and Zitian is also worried. The civil strife in the Song Dynasty is a tradition, the so-called Ninth Rebellion, where sons, fathers, and brothers kill each other, I don't know how many times it happened.

Coups, alliances, and borrowing foreign power, Zitian is not familiar with them, and it is destined that he can only rely on the Sicheng Emperor family now.

At least, it seems that Emperor Si Cheng is supporting his monarch, and the rest of the people know if they will decide whether they will die and such a thing.

As for the ink man who defended the city, Zitian was full of trust, and felt that the ink man, who did not hesitate to benefit the world, was simply tailor-made for the Song Kingdom.

After Mo Zhai came forward and asked him to personally reward those taxis who went out of the city to attack at night, Zitian came forward and took out the gold and treasure jade of the office to give a reward, but he did not reward Gongsun Ze.

Because some of the words that Gongsun Ze said during the night attack have become a laughing stock, even Zitian feels that this kind of person should live in the era of Xianggong, not now.

In addition, when Ziyu of the Chu clan was captured, Gongsun Ze did not contribute, so Gongsun Ze was the most neglected among all the scholars.

However, Zitian also remembered the person Gongsun Ze, thinking of the history of his ancestors who had been killed many times because of their humble mouths, he finally couldn't help but didn't joke, but praised a sentence like "It's a pity that he was not born in Xianggong", which was obviously a bit of a mockery but made Gongsun Ze quite moved.

A few days later, the Chu people beat drums during the day, prepared wood, and built siege tools, and there seemed to be signs of a large-scale siege, so Zitian found Mozi again and asked how to deal with it.

After Mozi returned, he asked a dry ink person, and said conveniently: "The Chu people may not want to attack the city, Mr. The art of defending the city, the king of Chu knows, if he can't attack the Jin people, the king of Chu can't go north for a few years." There was no other way for the Chu people to do anything other than besiege the city. ”

"The Chu people are approaching the city wall, just enough to deal with the strategy of virtual and real, the straw man mentioned before has already been prepared, beating the drum at night, it seems that he is going to go out of the city to attack at night, the Chu people have the experience of the last time, and they will shoot with a bow and crossbow."

Two days later, after the Chu people pretended to challenge under the city, they repeatedly made a posture of attacking the city, and the head of the city was only heavily defended.

It was night, and the moon was no longer so bright, so he led some straw men down the city wall, lit some torches, and then let the city head beat the drums.

After the Chu people approached the city wall, they were already worried about the last night attack, so they raised fire outside the camp and prepared bows and crossbows early.

When it was quiet at night, there was a sudden sound of drums, and Chu Ying immediately panicked, only to see the shadows under the city wall, and there seemed to be more than 100 people.

The night watchman immediately shouted: "Song people night attack!" ”

The Chu army who was keeping vigil at night was immediately on alert, and the Chu general ordered: "The king has already ordered that if the Song people attack at night again, they should not fight in waves, but only shoot with bows and crossbows!" ”

The order went down, and the torches were lit, and the drums were beaten, and the archers and crossbowmen were thrown at the walls behind the fortress.

The drums at the head of the city were even louder, and the Chu people didn't know how many arrows they had shot, but they didn't see the night attackers approaching, so they only shouted: "The Song people have retreated!" ”

At this point, the feather arrow stopped.

General Chu thought to himself, although the feather arrow is expensive, it is not worth it to be able to curb the night attack of the Song people.

The production cycle of a bow is about three years, while feather arrows need wood, feathers, fish gelatin, arrowheads, etc., the production cycle is not short, and the price is expensive, and it is not easy to make.

Those who draw bows and shoot arrows will have a sore back if they put a few dozen arrows at most, and the number of those who have been trained since childhood is not large, so they can only be supplemented by crossbows with a shorter range.

At the head of the city, after the drumming of the Chu people stopped, he asked someone to pull the straw man up, only to see that the straw man was covered with feather arrows, and everyone at the head of the city couldn't stop praising it.

Mozi said: "Whoever guards the city, with the bow and crossbow as the first soldier, it is not easy to make feather arrows. Your more than 100 grass marquis are comparable to the work of more than 100 craftsmen. ”

At this time, there was no story of the Three Kingdoms, and there was no martyrdom of Zhang Suiyang, so the method of Caohou borrowing arrows can be called a miracle skill, and all the ink people also worshipped.

Gongzao Ye said: "It is suitable to defend the city, but this ingenious skill is endless. When it comes to miracles, no one can match them. If the night attack on the Chu army is completed in a few days, he will really be the first merit, and after that, when it comes to military affairs, no one in the ink is unconvinced. ”

It was inconvenient to say this at this time, so he took people to check the feather arrows shot by the Chu people, and collected them one by one for the purpose of defending the city.

Early the next morning, Mozi summoned everyone: "Now that the Chu people are approaching, it is right to say that I don't think the Chu people want to attack the city, but it is so imminent, there must be a reason." ”

"I'm just afraid that something will happen in the city. The inside should be combined with the outside. ”

Shixin was not worried, but said: "I am also worried about this." The situation in the city seems to be calm, but in fact there is an undercurrent. In the past few days, nursery rhymes have risen again, but I am afraid that everyone can see these thoughts clearly. ”

Mozi asked, "What do you think?" ”

Shi replied: "Sir, snakes have rat nests. He who is good at catching snakes will not chase snakes into the rat's nest, lest the snake stretch out its fangs and bite it. The best way is to lure the snake out of the hole so that when the snake is just showing its head, it will kill the snake in one fell swoop. ”

Everyone recalled the four words of leading the snake out of the hole, and knew that the matter had come to this point and could no longer be hidden, so they said: "Now there are three factions in the city except for the ink. ”

"The prince of the country, the prince Tian, the Sicheng Emperor and his family are pro-Jin, and those who incite nursery rhymes must be pro-Chu. These three factions are now unbalanced, the monarch is powerless, and the Sicheng Emperor and the Qinchu faction are incompatible. ”

"Since we ink scholars are not guarding Shangqiu for the sake of guarding Shangqiu, this is an opportunity. Once those people who are close to Chu make a rebellion, and there are Chu people from outside to help, Emperor Sicheng will not be able to fight. Song Gongzi Tian ...... Even if you want to stop it, you can't stop it, when Sicheng and Da Yin fought against each other, the monarch couldn't do anything except kneel and beg the two ministers to stop the army. Today's situation is not as good as it was back then. ”

Shi Shi looked around and said, "In this way, we can take this opportunity...... Charcoal in the snow. Let the Duke of Song recognize the request of the people of Pei County, follow the example of Xiao State in that year, and become a vassal instead of a county. ”

"If the matter of the oath cannot be supervised, it will be difficult to last for a long time, so we can't let the Sicheng Emperor win, nor can we let the pro-Chu faction win, but we can't let the monarch win."

"The king has no power, so we will take advantage of his power and make a three-legged success, but if we leave the king, we will still be powerless, so this can make the king keep the oath for a long time."

His remarks that he couldn't let Sicheng Huangsheng or pro-Chu faction win made a group of ink scholars feel a different taste, and Mozi asked with a smile: "So can they all win?" ”

Shi shook his head and said: "The specific situation still needs to be discussed, but this principle cannot be changed." Once something really happens, the ink artist must have his own purpose in order to know what decision should be made. ”

The story of the Xiao State is not the Xiao State before the Spring and Autumn Period, but the vassal state of the Song Dynasty after the Xiao State was destroyed.

Originally, it was a yi, because the Song Duke was cheap at that time, and his neck was broken, which caused a large number of Song princes to flee to Xiaoyi, and relied on the support of Xiao Yi's doctor to successfully counterattack and regain the position of duke, so Xiao Yi became Xiao State, not within the Zhou Tianzi system, but subordinate to the status of a vassal state of Song.

Now the ink is not Peiyi Zai, and he is also famous in Pei County, and he cannot be recognized by the sub-feudal system that has not completely collapsed today, and such a name is urgently needed.

This is the same as the previous idea of the Mo Scholar, but at the beginning, the Mo Scholar thought of a more idealistic idea: to use the Pei County Righteous Master to help defend the city, so that the Song Duke would reward the oath and recognize it.

From the very beginning, when he tried to reorganize the Mo family, tried some rules and regulations, and tried to deny the theory of rewards and punishments of ghosts and gods, he was always looking for a means to maintain the oath instead of rewards and punishments of ghosts and gods.

He didn't believe the nobles at all, even though they still had the spirit of nobility.

Therefore, he was ready to take advantage of the contradiction between the distribution of nobles and the young and powerless monarch to ensure the transcendent status of the Mo in the Song State in the future.

No matter which side of these nobles dominates, it is not a good thing for the ink people in Pei County.

Song Gongzi Tian originally had some power, and he tried to weaken him, but now that Song Gong's power is weak, then help Song Gong fight against the nobles on both sides, and it is best to make a tripartite treaty: Song Gong has no support from the Mo people, and it is difficult to suppress the nobles, and in turn, no matter who is more powerful on both sides, the Mo people will try their best to weaken it.

He doesn't believe in things like oaths, let alone rewards and punishments from ghosts and gods, so he thinks that the only way to maintain the stability of the treaty is for the three forces to balance each other, and no one dares to break this balance easily.

And time is in favor of the inker.

The current balance also means the extreme imbalance after the development of Pei County.