For this reason, Gao Sun said: "Current affairs are changing, the situation is changing, and your thoughts are suspected of carving a boat to seek a sword." ”

"If we take Wenshui and Surabaya, we can get 300,000 people. The state of Qi has been defeated, Wei, Han and Zhao are intriguing, and the Chu people are weak. For a few years, they will not dare to be our enemies. ”

A few years later, the people organized and crossed the Yellow River to the Central Plains, swallowing Wei and Han, and the Son of Heaven tied his hands. If the original is determined, then the four realms will be served, and great things can be accomplished. At that time, we can use the vast population of the Central Plains and the fertile land to cut down Qin, Yan and Chu, and follow the example of the martial kings in the past. ”

"In this way, the decisive battle for the great cause of benefiting the world will be possible in only ten years."

"Wei and Chu are different, the Wei people have already centralized power, once the capital is broken, there will be no one to resist in the Wei realm. The Chu people are very divided, unlike Wei Han, who broke the Chu capital, but they still have to face those Chu people who are feudal. With the momentum of the Central Plains, things will be done. ”

That sounds like a good thing.

As long as they can get Qi land, the Mo family will continue to grow, but they will rely on quick victory to turbulent the Central Plains, and then rely on the manpower and material resources of the Central Plains to slowly benefit the whole world.

In particular, the Mohists fought a battle together, won both battles, and the people's support was not opposed, which gave many people confidence: since we are so capable of fighting, why do we have to slowly try to do it? Why can't you change your strategy, level the Central Plains in one fell swoop, and fight a decisive battle in the field, as long as you can react to Chu, Qin, etc., and kill the main field force of Wei, this matter will become the majority.

Of course, it's not about now, but about five or ten years from now. When the time comes, the Qi State will be weakened, with less land and more nobles, and the people will inevitably be oppressed very deeply at that time, and the Qi State can not consider it; The consequence of the centralization of power by Wei and Han is that one or two field battles will solve the main force of Wei and Han's field battles and break through the capital, so it will be difficult for the entire Wei and Han to have large-scale resistance.

Seeing that many people have some support for this, Shi took advantage of his grandson's words of "carving a boat to seek a sword", and said: "Your idea, although it is not a carving boat to seek a sword, is a little guarded. ”

"It's true that Shouzhu can wait for rabbits, but that takes chance. What if you don't have that opportunity? ”

Shixin said, you are opportunistic, but he held it in his mouth and asked, "This kind of strategy is easy to go wrong." ”

"To put it simply, once we don't immediately defeat Wei Han's main field force and make the princes of various countries interfere, then we are in danger. The Qi people to the west, the Chu people to the north, and the Wei and Han dragged us, and Zhou Tianzi took this opportunity to call on the princes, and our cause was about to be in danger. ”

"It's true that your idea sounds like a chance, but it doesn't take into account the contradictions of reality."

Shi looked at his grandson and said solemnly: "You said that the situation is changing, but aren't you also using the current situation to think about what will happen in five or ten years?" Aren't you carving a boat for a sword? ”

"If we occupy Qidi, it must be the panic of the Sanjin and the panic of the Chu people. When the time comes, the contradictions within Sanjin will be given to Sanjin's contradictions against us. Will the Zhao people watch us occupy Qi and continue to fight to the death with Wei Han? ”

"Seeing that we are so ambitious, the Chu people will definitely clean up our forces in Chu in advance, and even prompt various countries to plot to occupy Sishang Huaibei."

"You can't use the current situation to extrapolate the future situation."

In fact, if the two people are familiar with each other, that is, Gao Sun Tzu thinks that Gao Sun Tzu is right-leaning opportunism, and Gao Sun Tzu thinks that Gao Sun Tzu is left-leaning opportunism.

Gao Sun thought that he was overestimating the enemy's strength, and might even be creating opportunities and time for countries to increase their strength.

Shi thinks that Gao Sun Tzu underestimated the strength of the enemy, and it may even cause the situation of the entire Mo family to become extremely difficult.

On the occasion of this season of great victory, the Mo family was full of contempt for the princes of various countries, and felt that since they could win two battles and destroy the Qi State in one fell swoop, then Wei, Han, Zhao and Chu were in a great chaos now, so it was better to enrich their strength and directly attack the fertile soil of the Central Plains in a few years.

Shi stared at his grandson, then looked at everyone and said, "Comrades, this time we can defeat the Qi State, in addition to the righteous master's good fighting and strength, what is the most important factor?" It's a contradiction between the princes. ”

"Wei, Han, Zhao, Chu, Zhongshan, and Zheng are all fighting fiercely, and they are powerless. But if we occupy Qi land and do not return it, it will unite the princes again. ”

"In the past 20 years, we have demolished the Three Jins, forced Wei Chu, plotted Wu Yue, and helped Western Qin, all in order to let the princes eat dogs and make Sishang develop."

"The current situation in Sishang stems from the fact that the princes have their own ghosts and have enmity against each other. As soon as the princes are alert to us and confront us in unison, our situation will be ugly. ”

"Not to mention anything else, the entire industry and commerce in Sishang is going to have a big event, the industry and commerce in Sishang is absolutely excessive, and Sishang can't consume so much cloth and ironware Xuanlin ceramics, and when the princes are not in chaos, we will be in chaos first."

"So we must first ensure that when there is a real war in the future, we will not mess up, at least we will not break our bones, so that we can plan bigger things."

"We naturally want to benefit the world, the whole world from Kunlun to the East China Sea, from prudence to restraint, so we must work hard for the same goal with one heart, one mind, one comrade."

"It's not just us, it's the whole of Sishang."

"Taxation, industry and commerce, Xuanyi, and public opinion in the whole of Sishang...... You need to make adjustments, be prepared for that event, be prepared. But now, not the time. ”

"My thoughts, still the same sentence. Weaken the state of Qi, but keep the state of Qi intact, and do not overly irritate the princes of the world. Let go of Qilu Southwest, don't touch the powder keg, and leave it to Zhao, Han, Wei, and Qi to fight. ”

Gao Sun Tzu has always recognized Shi's judgment of the situation, and in Tengdi back then, Shi had already argued with him in private a few times.

The two of them have been arguing endlessly, since Mozi was alive, when the two of them could fight red-faced, and it is still like this.

There are some things that can be discussed in private, but there are some things that cannot be discussed in private.

In particular, now that the entire policy of Sishang must be adjusted, it is appropriate to win over the self-suffering part of the Gaosun faction, and this part of the people will become the main force in the future.

It is precisely because of this that Shicai can't back down or choose to talk to his grandson in private, and if he wants to talk, he will talk openly in front of everyone.

The grandson is not selfish, he understands it very well, but he is too upright and too sympathetic to the difficulties of the world.

If it weren't for Geng's uprightness, he would not have reported the various performances of the unjustly unjustified Shengxuan following Xiang Ziniu's attack on Lu, nor would he be considered by Mozi to be the best candidate for the head of the supervision and inspection department, and Mozi thought that the grandson could not become a giant because the grandson would definitely have problems if he became a giant.

The method of talking about "non-offensive" as soon as he became a giant is not applicable to the new situation, this is to reach a consensus with Gao Sun Tzu and others, and win the support of those who suffer from themselves and think that it will benefit the world as soon as possible and kill the aristocracy as soon as possible.

In the same way, there was a disagreement immediately after reaching a consensus with the high grandson, and it was precisely in order to really make the high grandson support his decision, and to press the high grandson in front of everyone, so that after the idea of the high grandson was completely refuted, everyone voted in favor of reaching an unchangeable plan.

With this lawful, reasonable, and most authoritative voting result in accordance with the rules, it is an insurmountable bottom line to suppress the overly agitated young people of the self-suffering faction: it is okay to form a faction and have different ideas, but it is not possible to directly confront the collective decision of the giants, the people, and the committee members.

And although Gao Sun Tzu is radical, but the organizational discipline is very observed, the most important thing is the rules, as long as a resolution is reached, with Gao Sun Zi abiding by the rules, with him one day, those who suffer from the extreme will be stable for a day.

What is needed is just to set the cornerstone wind direction first, stabilize the situation, and solve the current matter first.

The current thing is how to retreat from the joy of a great victory from the Qi country without causing many young people to be unwilling. This requires tall grandchildren.

The grandson is old, and I'm afraid he won't be able to last a few years.

In the past few years, he can take advantage of the prestige of his grandson, and as long as he solves the seemingly weak act of retreating after the great victory and maintaining the integrity of the Qi state, he can support the self-suffering extremist faction to suppress those who are in the Sishang faction, without worrying about some overly radical behavior caused by the lack of faction leaders among young people.

When the situation is over, Sishang should also be ready for war, and at that time, he will naturally have the strong support of the self-suffering faction that has lost the highest prestige - he will be the one who is most anxious to start an unjust war.

Now the two of them are once again red-faced, just like when Mozi was still arguing about morality, and even criticized each other for the serious evaluation of "waiting for the rabbit" and "carving the boat for the sword".

The high grandson was silent for a long time, and asked in a loud voice: "Since you said that you weakened the Qi State. can all retire the army, maintain the basic integrity of the Qi State, and help the Qi State to reform the land and water, and clean up the nobles, how can this be considered a weakening? On the contrary, I think that this will make the Qi country strong and more difficult to deal with. ”

"The dispute between the two lines of the Tian clan within the Qi State has been completely resolved. The nobles who can't get rid of the tail of Qi have been cleaned up by us. This makes it possible for the Qi State to be completely centralized by the rich country and the strong army. ”

Originally, the original intention of the Mo family was to take this opportunity to weaken Tian Wu and Tian He's strength, so that the contradiction between Tian and Tian Wu and Tian Yan became sharper: if Tian He was weakened, then Tian Yan would have to consider cleaning up Tian Wu, and Tian He had to prepare to clean up Tian Yan for the sake of his son.

But Tian Wu found out about the Wucheng massacre, the entire Sishang was holding a political conference, and the slogan of the Mo family has always been to punish injustice, which led to the Mo family having to sign an order to punish injustice.

This was an accident, and the situation at that time was that whoever did not agree to the unjust order would be blamed. It is impossible to convince, it is impossible to reason, and even if you don't sign it, it will disappoint some really reliable young people.

After the power of the people's participation in politics is stimulated, there will inevitably be a certain backlash, which is a good thing to prove that the people have awakened, and in the long run, the wisdom of the people of Sishang has gradually accepted the new standard of right and wrong, and they are invincible; But in the short term, it is a little difficult to say about the complicated situation of the Warring States in terms of temporary planning.

An accident of the Wucheng massacre directly led to the situation of the Qi State being completely different from what the Mo family had planned before. Tian Yan completely overthrew Tian He, Tian Wu was gone, and the Tian civil strife that lasted for 20 years came to an end.

It seems that Qi really has the possibility of a rich country and a strong army, strengthening centralization and becoming strong. At least, Gao Sunzi's words drew thoughts and nods from many people present.

But when everyone nodded and thought about it, he said with a reassuring laugh: "The country of Qi is not Sishang, and the country of Qi cannot be strong." I mean, to keep the country of Qi basically intact, but I didn't say that I didn't say anything about the treaty. Not only will the Qi State not become stronger, but it will become weaker and weaker, and even the people's grievances will boil and the people will awaken. ”