The king of Chu thought about it again and again, and finally sent an envoy to Pei County.

This time it was very different from the situation a few years ago, the Mo family took the initiative to stick to the Chu State at first, but with the sudden change in the situation of the previous Three Jin Dynasty, the Chu State rejected the most basic conditions of the Mo family.

But in the current situation, active and passive have changed hands.

After the contact many years ago, the Chu State had just shown a little arrogance, and the Mo family immediately gave up contact with the Chu State, precisely for the sake of holding the initiative in their hands on this day.

Meng Zhuze will join the alliance, which can be regarded as a military meeting, but the Mo family bypassed the Chu State and did not even notify the Chu State, which made the King of Chu feel great pressure.

Take the initiative to post it, and the king of Chu will not cherish it. After losing it, he can't regret it now, but the initiative has changed hands, this time he invited the Mo family to enter Chu, so he could only pull down his face and say some like "Li Wanmin" that he didn't believe at all.

The messenger went out from Ying, and if he wanted to go to Peiyi, he needed to go east. The restoration of the Chen people led to the Chu state cutting off the route connecting the northern route with the Mohists. The road taken by the envoy this time was far from the previous land route, but to go down the river, through Hubei to Haiyang, and then cross the ditch from Haiyang to enter the hinterland of the Mo family.

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When the Chu envoy traveled east, another group of people went west from Ying, straight into Shu.

This road, the Mo family on this side has already walked skillfully, and the ink man who traveled west for the first time looked at the twists and turns of the surging river, and sighed.

More than ten years ago, the Mo family's creation of Qi Sui has taken people deep into Shu, starting from businessmen, with the help of the funds, personnel, and technical support provided by the Mo family, mining salt ore and mercury in Bashu, and there is a duty-free passage in Chu, and temporarily does not participate in the internal affairs of Shu, and has already gained a firm foothold in Shu.

After more than ten years of operation, the reputation of the Mo family has been famous in Shu by relying on iron, mercury, salt and other things, known as "great wealth", and many nobles have made friends.

What the Mo family does, the nobles of Shu don't know much, and the Mo people here don't have the same radical policies as Peixian, or they don't have the ability to implement radical policies, and they are extremely gentle in the eyes of the nobles.

As far as the policy of the Mo family in Peixian County is concerned, it can only be said that "the Mo family who is gentle on the old system of the aristocracy" must be the Mo family who has not yet ruled and has an unstable foothold.

After more than ten years of operation here, the relationship between the Mo family and Shu State, out of a delicate cooperative relationship, even began to meddle in some military affairs of Shu.

Beginning a few decades ago, the Shu and Qin states launched a series of repeated battles around Nanzheng, which belonged to Hanzhong and was in a dangerous position.

From Qin to Nanzheng, Nanzheng rebelled and returned to Shu, Shu sent troops again, and Qin recaptured ...... changed hands many times, Nanzheng did not lose, and it was delusional for Qin to go south to Hanzhong Bashu.

At this time, the Shiniu Road had not yet been excavated, and it was not easy for Shu to maintain Nanzheng. The Mo family contributed money and organized strength, and when the Qin people had rumors of going south, they helped transport grain and salt several times, and won the trust of the king of Shu.

Shu is not a wild land, when King Wu fell, Shu participated in the alliance, and then gradually migrated from Hanzhong to the Sichuan, Shu and Minjiang rivers.

At this time, the capital of Shu was within the scope of Chengdu in later generations, and the prototype of Dujiangyan had appeared at this time, but it was not perfect.

Before the Qin people got Shu, during the period of King Wei Hui in later generations, there was a record in the history books: "People returned from the Qingyi River in Minshan Mountain, Qin Dao", that is to say, within 30 years at most, the King of Wei sent people to Shu to inspect the local water conservancy projects.

It's just that the prototype of Dujiangyan is a prototype, and the overall perfection has not yet begun, and more than 100 ink writers who borrowed Chu to enter Shu are for this matter.

After more than ten years of business base, the prestige has been established, the young ink people have also begun to flow, the situation in Chu has become clear, the relationship with the king of Shu "trust", the iron tools of Nanyang iron mine, and the accumulation of gunpowder explosive technology, all of which have been made by the Mo family into Shu to make this "benefit the world" water conservancy project.

Moreover, this time the Mo family has a rare opportunity.

The development of the Mo family's commercial handicraft industry in Shu, coupled with Shu's involvement in Shu's competition for Nanzheng, as well as the praise of the Shu people brought by a large number of new tools and seed crops, made Du Bei, the king of Shu, make a move to win over.

Du Bei didn't know the organizational model of the Mo family, and thought that the Mo family was the "big man" of the Mo family, so he wanted Princess Shang to win over and marry according to the feudal model, so as to make the Qi Sui a nobleman of Shu, integrate with the Shu royal family, and strengthen the rule.

It's just that the organizational model of the Mo family determines that this kind of decision can not be made, there is an organization, the strict organizational structure at the bottom, and the Mo family's opposition to things such as aristocratic marriages, all of which made the Mo family immediately report this matter to the person in charge of the Mo family who was in charge of Chu and Shu affairs in Nanyang Wancheng, and immediately reported to Sishang.

After the high-level discussion within the Mo family, there was a matter of more than 100 ink scholars entering Shu this time.

Since more than ten years ago, the Mo family began to lay out in Shu, but the situation of Shu is special, and only another method can be adopted.

This time, the decision was to marry the princess of Shu in order to gain the trust of the king of Shu and organize the construction of Dujiangyan in a similar form.

In the long run, this is naturally for the benefit of the world.

But in the short term, in fact, this is for Nanzheng, Hanzhong, and also to make final preparations for entering Shu in the future.

Sishang's position is dangerous, and once it has a firm foothold in the future, when war is officially declared on the old system, it may cause the nations to besiege it.

The matter of Sishang cannot be resolved in Sishang, but must be resolved in the state of Chu.

In the future, if you really want to do something big that shakes the world, Xiangyang Yan Ying, this is the support point of the Mo family in the Chu State.

If you want Xiangyang and Yanying to be safe, Shu must not be in the hands of others, and the situation of Shu is special and it is difficult to make such a plan as Chu State, so you must hold Nan Zheng Hanzhong in your hands, no matter what way you use.

Blocking the way south of the Qin State, Shu will not be lost, and when the Mo family does big things in the future, the western front will be safe. The security of the western front, the Mohists are equivalent to occupying the strategic initiative: the two lines of Nanyang and Sishang can support each other.

On the offensive side, it marched from Nanyang to the north, threatening the hinterland of Yiluo and Han Wei; Attacking Xiangyang, it will go north from Sishang and break up the alliance of the vassal states.

Within this strategy, Hanzhong's location becomes extremely important. defending, which can prevent the Qin State from occupying the upper reaches of the Han River, can only choose to attack from the direction of Shangluo; Attack, once there is an opportunity, you can enter Shu again, so that the Mo family can connect the upstream and downstream of the layout of the Yangtze River and the Huai River.

Once the slogan of a complete break with the old system and rules is clearly shouted, what needs to be considered is the crazy reaction of the princes and monarchs, and when the time comes, they are likely to give up some contradictions and go all out to encircle and suppress the Mo family.

For this reason, more than ten years ago, Shi was preparing, and now it is finally time for Shu to expand.

This time, the Mo people who went to Shu brought instructions from the Mo family center: to promote the marriage of the Mo family and the Shu princess, and to promote the Mo family to preside over the construction of Dujiangyan.

The facilitation and determination of this event have both practical factors, future goals, and historical factors.

Controlling water in Shu is a somewhat sensitive matter, especially if the governance is very good and Dujiangyan is completed, even more so.

Because in ancient times, when Du Yu, the king of Shu, his Xiang Ling, started by controlling the water, which won the support of the people, and there was a coup d'état of "Zen Rang", and the royal power of Shu fell.

As a descendant of the turtle spirit, Du Bei, the king of Shu, will definitely be very worried about this matter.

Now the Mo family is operating in Shu, and in the eyes of the King of Shu, he needs to be wooed, because he doesn't know the Mo family's style and organizational structure, so he wants to use the model of feudal in-laws to make the Mo family available to him.

However, once the construction of Dujiangyan is completed, the activities of the Mo family in Shu will inevitably attract the attention of the king of Shu, and how to reward it will be a serious problem at that time.

At that time, the reputation is high, the people are dependent, although there are still hundreds of years of tradition to recognize the legitimacy of the King of Shu, but if you can't reward and kill the Mo family, it will inevitably cause chaos in Shu.

No, the Mo family has already shown its ability by then, and with the emergence of stirrups and iron tools to spread westward, if the Qin State can't open the situation in the West River at that time, it will definitely choose to go south to try, and Shu needs talents.

In this way, it is logical to take this opportunity to please seal Nanzheng and defend the northern frontier. Nanzheng is far away from the hinterland of Shu, and the Shiniu Road has not yet been built, so it is extremely difficult to transport troops and grain, and it is not easy to defend.

However, Nanzheng is an important city to suppress Ba, Qin, and Chu, and Qin and Shu have been fighting around Nanzheng for decades, and the king of Shu will not give up.

At this time, there will be people who have made great achievements, and they are willing to stay away from the capital and go to the land of the four battles in Nanzheng, and the king of Shu will inevitably agree.

In this way, the Mo family could continue to run business and accumulate popular support in Bashu, and some sensitive figures could leave the political center of Shu and avoid unnecessary coups.

At the same time, Hanzhong is regarded as "the emperor is far away", how to do it there, Shu can't control it, and then you can let go of your hands and feet, according to the model of Peixian Sishang, carry out reform and construction, and become an important place for the Mo family to do big things in the future.

With Hanzhong in hand, the Qin State could not go south, or choose to fight to the death with the Wei State; Either in the case of stirrups and other westward transmissions, they will turn to the west to attack Yiqu and Wushi to expand their space.

With Hanzhong in hand, taking advantage of the danger of ending the Nanshan Mountain, he could defend the Qin State and develop along the Han River to Ba at the same time. Once the situation is opened, if the Mo family takes advantage of the death of the king of Chu and the chaos of the reformers and conservatives of the Chu State to make a move in Yan Ying, or support a certain prince of the Chu State, then the upstream of Yan Ying can guarantee safety.

The upstream is guaranteed to be safe, and Xiangyang can divide the Nanyang hinterland of Chu into two, hold Yanying, control the Chu capital, and occupy the upstream advantage, if the countries intervene, then Hanzhong can support.

If there is only Sishang, Yue, and Huaibei, the situation of the Mo family will be very dangerous at that time, and they will be in a passive state in an all-round way. As for Hanzhong and Yanying, this is the most important thing in seizing the strategic initiative.

Moreover, Shi still has a historical fear of Qin, and no matter what, he can't let Qin follow the correct strategy in history: get stuck in Nanzheng, and never let Qin have a chance to get involved in Bashu.