In order to wait for the day when the internal contradictions of the Chu State broke out, the Mo family's infiltration of the Chu State over the years can be said to have spared no effort and invested a lot. Vertex X23US

This kind of infiltration and investment, in turn, intensified and gave birth to many contradictions within the Chu State.

Originally, the speed of technology spread was very slow, and it would normally not be implemented on a large scale until 200 years later.

The new progress of the productive forces catalyzes the disintegration of the old relations of production, and the ruling class can no longer rule in the same way as before, and this is a big problem.

The disintegration of the clan system, the disappearance of the distinction between the state and the wilderness, the lack of effective ruling ability caused by the excessive expansion of the Chu state, and the continued expansion of the aristocratic power caused by the progress of the productive forces actually made the Chu state face much more difficulties than the Wu Qi reform in the original history.

More than ten years ago, the Mo family began to gain the power to open mines in the Chu State and share accounts with the King of Chu, which was one of the economic bases for the King of Chu to form a new army, Wang Shi and Cheguang.

The iron smelting workshop was opened in Nanyang more than ten years ago, with the help of water transportation and upstream convenience, so that iron farming tools were quickly popularized in the Chu State, and there was still a period of time before it was popularized, but the homesteaders in some cities were already "only recognizing the Mo family and not the king".

In some cities, the banks opened by the Mo family sold iron tools by means of loans, and repaid them in installments, and a large number of farm tools were sold, which also made the people of Chu extremely familiar with the Mo family, and they were not unfamiliar with it at all.

The Mo family controls a lot of capital, but in some things it is not for short-term profits, although in the long run this monster is forcing the Mo family to transform the world, but at least a strong organization can not be too short-sighted in pursuit of short-term profits.

The artisan associations in several large cities are also well organized.

The ruling ability of the state of Chu is not enough to reach the grassroots level, because the king of Chu does not even have the ability to directly reduce the land of the feudal monarch directly under the feudal monarch, let alone those grassroots level?

The policy upheld by the Mohists in the state of Chu has always been the "uncrowned government".

For example, the princes' understanding of "government" today is basically still stuck in "taxation, levy, and conscription", and as for "benefiting the people", in the eyes of the princes, this is "benevolent government" rather than "obligation".

That is, I have done benevolent government, which is morally noble.

But I don't do it, and that's right, because it's not a regime's duty to benefit the people.

However, the doctrines that the Mohists have been propagating such as "benefiting the people, benefiting the world, and relieving the three difficulties of the people" have actually made many people take it for granted that the meaning of the government's existence is what the Mohists say, not what the monarch wants.

The monarch believed that collecting taxes and military taxes, and being able to organize soldiers, was all there was to a regime.

But the people don't see it that way, on the contrary, what the central government of Chu has not done, the Mo family is doing quietly.

This made the activities of the Mo family in the state of Chu like a fish in water.

The best way to deal with this kind of infiltration of the Mo family is to "follow the path of the Mo family, so that the Mo family has no way out".

For example, the Mo family shouts that the land belongs to the people all day long, so the king of Chu and the ruling class of the Chu State reform and reform their own lives, so will anyone still listen to the propaganda of the Mo family?

For example, when the middle reaches of the Huai River were affected by the disaster, if the Chu State could efficiently transport food to relieve the famine, would anyone still listen to the propaganda of the Mo family?

For example, there are many, but the idea of taking the path of the Mo family and leaving the Mo family with no way out cannot be implemented at all.

The aristocracy will not change their lives, even if the king of Chu wants to use the power of the people to suppress the nobles from the perspective of royal power, he has no money and no strength.

The Mo family is not the government of the Chu State, so for example, there are ten things that can benefit the people, and the Mo family has done one, then the Mo family is "good" in the eyes of the people of the Chu State, and the remaining nine things are obviously the "bad" of the King of Chu and the nobles of the Chu State.

The strategy of first south and then north formulated back then was not the same thing as Wu Zixu's extermination of Chu before.

Wu Zixu destroyed Chu, and the destruction of Chu did not hinder the restoration of Chu.

If the Mo family wants to destroy Chu, it means that Chu has no chance of recovering the country, so the military is supplemented and politics is the mainstay.

Twenty years of infiltration are all for the same purpose: to let the people of Chu know that the Mo family is good, so that the people of Chu will at least not oppose the Mo family from the perspective of "Chu people".

This is also the reason why Shi Shi has been delaying the start, this kind of infiltration is not done well, then it is meaningless.

After all, this is not the same as an uprising within a country, Chu is Chu, Sishang is Sishang, although it is a geographical difference, the ethnicity and language and even the ancestors who pushed up for thousands of years are the same, but there are still some people in Chu who recognize their identity as "Chu people".

This is also the reason why the Mohists have always promoted the "people of the world" and replaced the "vassal states" with Kyushu.

Nowadays, the Mohists have opened up Lingnan, separated by five mountains, and trade has made the economic exchanges between the people in the Chucangwu and Dongting areas and the Mohists closer and closer.

The Mo family occupied Nanzheng, and at the same time cultivated well salt in Bashu, so that the salt trade closely related to the Chu people in the areas along the Yangtze River was also a member of the Mo family.

The Mo family occupied the lower reaches of Huaishui, and through the disaster relief several years ago, the Chu people in the Huaishui area were extremely familiar with the Mo family.

The Mo family opened an iron ore and iron smelting industry in Nanyang, which made the Nanyang region of the Chu State inseparable from the goods produced by the Mo family.

Witch doctors dressed in witch costumes, artisan associations that organized handicraft cooperatives in the city, openly identified ink writers who gave lectures and disseminated writing, merchants who trafficked goods to and fro, and Limin chambers of commerce that lent iron tools to the people......

All these make the Chu people no less familiar with the Mo family than the king of Chu, especially in some grassroots places, if there is any difficulty in finding the local Mo people to administer justice or borrow money, ask questions, and so on.

This is the basis for being able to stand firm in the future.

But only the foundation is not enough, the Mo family is still waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for civil strife in Chu.

Originally, in history, that is, in the past few years, the reform of the Chu State presided over by Wu Qi was counterattacked, and when he was dying, the nobles frantically counterattacked and even shot the corpse of the King of Chu with arrows, which had driven the nobles crazy and forced to the point of desperate hysteria.

With the infiltration of the Mo family and the help of "gold and silver loans", as well as the help of "trade tariffs" and "mining shares" in addition to tax exemptions, the king of Chu had money in his hands, a new army, and more literate classes that increased with the spread of paper printing as officials.

The change in the material basis is sometimes greater and more chaotic than the change brought about by one or two unborn geniuses.

According to the information collected over the years, the internal contradictions of the Chu State are basically pressed until the death of the King of Chu.

The king of Chu is immortal, and with his prestige and ability, he can at least control the situation.

When the king of Chu dies, the situation will be uncontrollable.

Is the new King of Chu a reformist or an old-fashioned faction? This is a problem that the aristocracy must consider, and it is also a problem that the scholar class must consider.

This is not a stable era of great unification of the nobility without real power fiefs, and there is no inertial succession mechanism to the throne.

Coups, fratricidal killings, and usurpation of the throne have happened from time to time.

The Wang Ziding incident is an example, as well as the earlier Bai Gongsheng Rebellion, the powerful aristocracy will not tolerate a monarch who continues to change the law.

Because if it continues to change, these nobles of the Chu State will understand that everything about them will be destroyed, and it will even be more ruined than the original history of Wu Qi's reform.

A more literate class, the samurai predominance ruined by muskets and gunpowder, and the desire for a better life brought about by new farming tools and high-yielding crops......

This is destined to be more shocking than the coup d'état before Wu Qi's death in history.

Prince Zang's infertility was also a big problem, and his younger brother Liangfu was friendly with the nobles, which laid the groundwork for the coup.

Now the ambition of the king of Chu and the firmness of the law change have made this contradiction more and more intense.

The Qu, Jing, and Zhao clans firmly controlled the political system of the Chu State, and the new army of the King of Chu and the loans and customs duties of the Mo family could be suppressed against it.

The spread of the doctrine of the hundred schools of thought on the great benefit of the world and the pervasive penetration of the Mo family actually made the king of Chu understand a problem.

It is impossible to walk the road of the Mo family so that the Mo family has no way to go, but at least a few steps must be taken, otherwise the people of Chu State will be affected by this trend of thought sooner or later, and burst out with the power to destroy the world and turn the world upside down.

This is precisely the reason why the king of Chu is eager to change the law, in fact, what he wants to save is the princes of Chu and the noble bloodlines of Chu State, but it is a pity that the people he wants to save are blocking all this: these nobles are full-time revolutionaries, they have created the most perfect foundation for the revolution, and the role of a nobleman is to resist the members of the Xuanyi Department of 200.

In order to give the nobles the ability to maintain a balance with the king of Chu and raise troops when the king of Chu harmed their interests, the main hope of the meeting was to persuade everyone to do one thing: to increase the smuggling of the state of Chu. Selling guns, cannons, gunpowder, armor......

The reason for persuasion, in addition to these questions about the balance of power and political trends, Shi has always said that it is not the weapons themselves but the people who use weapons, and it is not the nobles but the people who use muskets, and the nobles should drive the people as animals that can shoot, so that they can not only be confident enough to resist the centralization of the Chu king, but also be devoured by this group of "cattle" who can shoot when necessary.

Large-caliber copper cannons are definitely not sold, but small-caliber hemp rope cannons and other cannons can be sold.

Muskets were to be sold not only for arquebuses, but also for flint guns when necessary.

On the one hand, it will continue to stimulate the expansion of the production capacity of the military industry in Sishang, and on the other hand, it can make more money and increase the penetration of the Chu State.

Every time the nobles of the Chu State bought a musket, they had to exploit the people more cruelly, and the Mo family could use the profits to save a person in Chu with an extra healer wearing a witch suit, and they could have a few extra catties of grain to help the Chu State when it was in a disaster.

By the way, it can stimulate the economy of Sishang, after all, the military industry involves coal and iron and supporting minerals, charcoal, agriculture, transportation and other industries.

Not only do they have to sell, but they also have to sell on a large scale, and they are sold to the point that many people in the cities and towns have the experience of using guns to join the army instead of spears, and they will sell more fiercely than before.

At the same time, it is necessary to increase the funds for "subversive" activities in Chu State, and continue to send Mo people into Chu State for activities, especially to strengthen activities in Xiangyang, Xinyang, Dabie Mountains, and other places.

If you don't recognize the village community of the King of Chu, you must recognize the ink; The people who have a grudge against the aristocracy should be close to the Mo; It is necessary to let the horizontal and vertical characters that are more suitable for paper writing replace the Chu seal of the city after Simplification......

Not only to penetrate, but also to penetrate from all directions.

from Nanzheng along the Han River; from Hongze along the Huai River; from Nanyang along Jianghan; From Lingnan along the Xiangjiang River...... This is the main external task of the Mohists in the next few years.