The king of Chu doesn't care about these trivial titles, he has also become accustomed to it, many of the sayings in the Mojia system are incompatible with the things of the old era, and he has been used to it for twenty years, so there is really no need to talk nonsense on these etiquettes.

As for the Mo family, they said that they wanted to "love and not attack the soldiers, and resolve the enmity of Zheng Han"; On the other hand, he said that he would send people to "reorganize the armament", which did not sound contradictory to the king of Chu.

Others don't know, but the king of Chu knows.

At that time, Mozi stopped Chu from attacking the Song Dynasty, and he also used the truth to persuade others with the "righteousness of both love and non-attack", of course, this truth also includes the war game deduction with the public loss class and the 400 Mo people stationed in Shangqiu, which made this "truth" convincing.

Later, the battle of Qilu was also similar, and the Qi Hou and Niu Zi who were persuaded by the truth.

If we do not reorganize our armaments and have no defensive strength, we are not qualified to talk about both offense and love.

If you are beaten and have the ability to fight back, you are qualified to be equal, and then talk about love and peace, which the Mo family has always advocated.

Since he had done this, the king of Chu really believed in the Mo family's non-offensive intentions, and thought: Although the Mo family is cunning, after all, the Mo family still has morality, and he is a giant, so he must not violate this righteousness.

This trust stems from Zheng Guo's position.

As far as the Mo family is concerned, Zheng Guo is now a Wei Han away from the Song State, and it is impossible for it to become a vassal and sphere of influence of the Mo family, so he can only participate in the defense of Zheng Guo for the sake of righteousness.

This point was recognized by the Chu State, and it was impossible for the Mohists to form an alliance with Wei and Han, which was not only due to moral disputes, but also to historical and geographical factors.

If Zheng Guo and Song Guo can really achieve complete neutrality, it will actually be beneficial to Chu State.

A war between Wei and Chu, Chu State does not have to worry about Wei State copying the flanks: the Mo family values righteousness and lives lightly, keeps its promises, and says that guaranteeing absolute independence is ensuring absolute independence, and it is impossible for Wei to borrow the road from Zheng and Song.

If the state of Chu is on the offensive, this will definitely not be agreed, but since it is on the defensive, is there anything more important and advantageous than the absolute security of the flanks?

In order to verify this, the king of Chu asked again: "As Shizi said, I don't know if borrowing the road can be regarded as a violation of neutrality?" ”

The envoy of the Mo family smiled: "Isn't the story of throwing yourself up from borrowing a road?" ”

The King of Chu also laughed loudly when he heard this, nodded and said, "In this way, it can be called good." ”

Of course, this allusion has a sarcastic meaning, but when interpreted in a diplomatic setting, it also has a non-ironic meaning.

In the past, Wen Zizhou humiliated the Duke of Song when he met with Song and Chu, and then the king of Chuzhuang later could not find an excuse for war and sent Wen Zizhou to borrow the Song State without consultation, and was indeed killed by the Song State on the grounds of "crossing the border without borrowing the road is considered an invasion".

By the way, the idiom of "cannibalism and cooking bones" was left to describe the horror of the siege of the year, until the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Suiyang once again performed these four cruel words in Shangqiu.

But if you say it at this time, you can remove those ironic meanings, and it can be understood as throwing yourself in "anger", rather than throwing in excitement.

Since neutrality means that even passing through is considered an invasion, it is easy to say, this is definitely a good thing for the state of Chu.

Zheng Guo is a buffer country that Chu State cannot give up, but it has nothing to do with the Mo family, which is equivalent to Chu Mo jointly protecting Zheng Guo, which is simply a big pie falling from the sky.

Of course, the king of Chu understood that there was no such thing as a baguette in the world.

The Mohist family needs to pay the price for the independence of Zheng State, and this price is that the independent countries of the Song State must not interfere.

Zheng is the core area of interests of Chu to turn from offensive to defensive; The Song State was the core area of interest for Chu to turn defense into offense; The national policy of strategic contraction dictated that the state of Chu could abandon Song and focus on Zheng.

The King of Chu knew what the Mo family wanted, so he also had to bargain where the Mo family wanted it most.

"One more thing."

"This time the Wei-Chu-Han alliance is mainly worried that your Mo family has violated the righteousness of non-aggression and brought the clouds of war to the Central Plains."

"If the Song Kingdom is truly neutral and the Mo family retreats, this is not enough to show the Mo family's non-offensive righteousness."

"The Mo family has the name of punishing injustice, does the non-attacking alliance include unrighteous things?"

The envoy of the Mo family said solemnly: "Zheng Jun and Song Jun are not Mo. You can persuade them to do righteousness, but you can't make them disciplined to do what is righteous. ”

King Chu nodded, knowing in his heart.

The meaning of this dialogue is: If one day, your Mohists attack other countries...... Of course, there are many reasons for your Mo family to attack other countries, and there are excuses such as what kind of punishment is unjust. So, when you are unjust, what is the neutrality of the Song Kingdom?

Sending troops is one thing.

When the Mo family took the initiative to attack, borrowed the road from the Song Dynasty, was it considered a violation of the neutrality of non-attacking soldiers?

This must be asked.

After the turmoil of the Spring and Autumn Period, the breaking of the covenant happened everywhere, and everyone was accustomed to it.

But there is one point, the legal principles of the Mo family do not come from the Son of Heaven, but from their morality, so if the Mo family openly states that the Mo family will not borrow the road from the Song State if they take the initiative to attack, then according to the current experience, the Mo family will really not borrow the road.

This is a moral issue, it is no longer important to the princes, anyway, the skin has been torn, and at the funeral of Zhou Tianzi, the princes can scold the messenger of the Son of Heaven, "Your mother and maid", but morality is very important to the Mo family.

Since the envoy of the Mo family said that Song Jun and Zheng Jun were not Mo people, and the non-offensive alliance was not an unjust alliance, the meaning of the Mo family was equivalent to telling the king of Chu: Even if we go to war, we will not go to Song.

The king of Chu got the answer he wanted, so he praised: "It is said that there are many gentlemen in the Song Dynasty, in the battle of Qi and Mo in the past, the Sishang army did not enter the Lu Yilu people innocently, and there are many ridicules in the world that the Mo family has the legacy of Song Xiang, but I think the poultry is a true gentleman." ”

That time to lure the Qi State into Lu was a strategy to lure the enemy into the depths, but after all, the Mo family could be regarded as holding the meaning of the "non-offensive alliance", and indeed did not choose to enter Lu to fight, and it really accumulated enough foundation in terms of credibility.

If you don't borrow the Song Kingdom, then the chances of Mo Chu going to war are much smaller, and the King of Chu has never considered the possibility of the Mo family replicating the strategy of Wu Zixu and Sun Wuzi.

Because the external environment does not allow it.

Wu Zixu's conspiracy back then was very risky, not counting the external environment, even the situation back then was extremely dangerous.

Sun Wu's conspiracy was that the elite troops would ignore the rear of the Chu State, break through the three passes, and insert themselves into the Jianghan Dynasty, which was very dangerous for Deng Ai to smuggle through Yinping in later generations.

Because the main force of Chu was still there at that time, if it directly cut off the back road of the Wu army, it would not be a trick through the ages, but a turtle in an urn.

Besides, even if the conspiracy was successful and he smuggled through the three levels, Ye Gong and his father of Haolong at that time suggested a big outflanking, flanking back and forth, and completely killing Wu Zixu.

However, at that time, the Chu State was seriously divided, the nobles fought for power, and the troops belonged to the various nobles. Burning, killing, plundering, and aggression are like fire, and friendly forces are as immobile as mountains when they are in difficulty."

At that time, when Shen Yinshu was outflanking the disciples, Zi Chang thought to himself, if this Nima succeeded, wouldn't the credit be yours? So regardless of the strategy, he did not wait for the right army, fought for his work and grabbed the credit, and sent the main force of Chu in a wave, and by the way, he killed the outflanked friendly army.

Even if Wu Zixu and Sun Wuzi won this battle, they were afraid that they would be afraid in their hearts, if they really followed Shen Yinshu's ideas, the main force of the Wu army would be suffocated to death in the Jianghan Plain, and the Wu State would die.

But now, although the state of Chu is still full of feudal monarchs, the king of Chu still has at least a standing army elite in his hands, and Chen Caidi can easily outflank the back road in the south; Shen Xi's division is still a main field army of the Chu State; The capital of Chu moved south, and during the honeymoon period of Chu and Mo, Chu also built the city defense of the capital, which made the king of Chu very confident internally: although the field battle could not be won, he could choose to drag it until the troops were assembled and outflanked.

The external environment is even more different, when the Chu State was too jumping, it was the attacker, and it regarded itself as a barbarian, and it competed with Zhuxia to force out a second Zhaoling Alliance in which Jin and Qi participated, and Wu Jin was in the honeymoon period, and the main forces of Chu were fighting against the Jin State, making Wu enter the country in one fell swoop.

This is also the reason why the King of Chu was never worried that the Mo family would replicate Sun Wuzi's conspiracy: can the Mo family and the Wei state form an alliance? Does Wei dare to form an alliance with the Mo family? At that time, the Song State was still in the Song State and Xiaoqiang, and it was the tributary state of the Jin State, and now the Mo family is in Sishang, and it may be stabbed in the back by Wei Han at any time, and the Mo family has no courage to engage in the three-level conspiracy.

In this way, the non-offensive alliance actually included most of the three thousand multiplier states except for Shuxiong, and Wei Guo, as a vassal state of Wei, would not participate, and Song, Lu, and Zheng would all participate.

On the premise of not borrowing the way, the king of Chu could easily judge the future strategic direction of the Mo family: to go north, not to the south.

First, the southwest of Qi is fertile soil, with a large population, land paste, and wealth, and the Mo family has a strong foundation in the southwest of Qi after the First World War.

Second, the Mohists have been carrying out the rumors of going north to Korea and Yanguo, as well as going to sea to find the "Fusang Island" across the sea from Juli.

Third, the power of the Three Jin Dynasty is still strong, and the Mo family still has one in Gao Liuyun, and there is one of the Mo family's seven enlightenment harms sitting there.

Fourth, the Mo family needed horses, and after the stirrup appeared, the cavalry of the Mo family was elite, and the swamps and rivers in the south were dense and unsuitable for the cavalry to play a loss of advantage.

Fifth, Sishang needs more ploughing horses and cattle, Zhongshan was supported by the Mo family to restore the country, the trade between the two sides has been continuous, the Mo family is likely to open up the communication lines of Gaoliu, Zhongshan, Qi southwest, and Sishang, so as to link the northern horse-producing land and Sishang together, to prevent being cut off by the princes.

Sixth, attacking Chu, it is likely to be stabbed in the back by Wei Han.

Seventh, if the northward strategy is successful, then the entire North China Plain and the plain area east of the Taihang Mountains will basically be owned by the Mohists. Defend the princes with the danger of Taihang Mountain, then the hegemony of the Mo family can be achieved.

Eighth, Mo and Qin had the common enemy of Wei and Han, and the northward strategy could use the power of the Qin people to disperse the pressure of Wei and make it easier.

Ninth, after the Qi-Mo War, the Mo family had a broad base in the Qi State, and ceded Jucheng, realizing the possibility of a two-front attack on the Qi State......

All of these made the King of Chu make the judgment that the Mo family would go north instead of the south next, so this time the non-attacking army meeting would also easily make the King of Chu think that the Mo family was preparing for the northward strategy: to guard against the rear in the north, the Song State must be grasped in the hands as a buffer.

Based on this judgment, this time the army will be greatly beneficial to the Chu State, abandoning the Song Dynasty and protecting the independence of Zheng, even if it is to take what the Mo family needs, and can lead the water to the north, so that the Chu State will have a more favorable external environment to complete the change.

The king of Chu thought to himself that the Mo family could take advantage of the battle of Daliang City to defeat Yue in the past; Borrowing the battle of Zhao's inheritance to defeat Qi, why can't I borrow Wei, Hanqi, and Zhao Mo to complete the reform today?