Under the feudal system, many things cannot be prohibited, and even domestic centralization cannot be done, how can it be possible to control the entire country and not do business with Sishang?

If you can't even control the feudal monarch, how can you control smuggling?

The Mo family is already regarded as "the ambition of the wolf is clearly revealed", but the countries are divided, and who can organize a coalition army?

Each country has its own small calculations, and under the deterrence of Sishang's military force, even if they are dissatisfied with Sishang's remarks, they are helpless.

The king has the idea of a king, the feudal monarch has the idea of a feudal king, a hundred years ago, the second military meeting, it was already a peace treaty signed by various doctors and signed by various doctors, and now how many monarchs can achieve the same sense of the upper and lower levels?

Four years ago, Zhou Tianzi sent people to participate, but the Mo family directly rejected Zhou Tianzi's canonization, and never mentioned that the army was not attacking, but instead hyped up "the world is set on one side for the great benefit of the world".

In addition to arranging the land exchange of the Three Jin Dynasty and the Wei-Chu Peace Treaty, the biggest achievement of the entire Heze Alliance was that the princes of various countries signed the "Law of War" together.

Because the Mohists have clearly said that in the world of great strife, only one side can be stable in the world, but if one is fixed, it must be beneficial to the world in order to be just, which is equivalent to saying that war is inevitable.

Since it is inevitable that the troubled times of the Warring States have come, it is better to formulate the rules of war between countries.

It's not a courtesy.

It's the laws of war.

The spring and autumn of fighting with etiquette has come to an end.

The Warring States that fought by law had arrived.

Treaties such as not digging the embankments of the Yellow River, flooding the cities, slaughtering the cities, and building the Jingguan Temple were all approved by the monarchs of various countries.

If the monarch does not sign, the Mo family will let the world know, and then make the people dissatisfied.

At that time, the situation also forced countries to sign.

In order to get Yuguan, the State of Chu needed the help of the Mo family, so he took the lead in signing. Qi Guo was beaten and half disabled, and even handed over the "Gongzi Wu", and even had to sign it.

The restoration of Zhongshan relied on the Mo family to help a lot, and in return, he also signed; The Qin State had not participated in the alliance of countries for many years, but this time it still sent an envoy, and the Mo family proposed that the Qin State sign it immediately, and then the news broke that they already had gunpowder, which made Wei Zhen convinced that Qin Mo had been allied, and in the end, Wei Han and others also signed.

As for whether it was complied with, it is difficult to say. If the Mo family wins, then they will be punished according to this method in the future, and a series of people such as "Qi Gongziwu" who was shot in public in Heze are examples.

Zhou Tianzi's envoy could only scold, but he was helpless, not only the Mo family did not respect Zhou Tianzi, but all countries did not respect it. It was also the Wei State that coerced the Son of Heaven to seek his own interests, and showed a little respect on the face.

The era of chaos has come, and even the Mo family has completely stopped mentioning non-attack, but thinks that the world is set to be one, and it will not be attacked? All countries are seizing the time to reform and reform their armed forces and prepare for the coming big war.

Everyone knows that the Heze Alliance four years ago did not bring peace without offensive, but only peace before the storm.

It's just that no one knows how big the Mo family's mind is, and who they are going to do it first.

Some people in the caravan knew some clues.

The leader of the caravan with the severed finger was originally from a volunteer officer, and he also knew that there were a few people in the caravan who were not from the caravan this time, and their purpose could only be known by the people at the top.

That night, the caravan did not reach Linwu and camped outside.

In accordance with the custom of going deep into remote areas, the convoy was formed in a circle, and the caravan attendants of retired non-commissioned officers armed with muskets were responsible for the guard.

From time to time, there will be people here to loot, there is no grassroots control, many villages will choose to rob and kill merchants to seize property, during the day is a normal villager, but if you encounter a big fat sheep will do it.

This has been the case since ancient times.

After the deployment was completed, the gentleman took his disciples to look at the stars, observe the trajectory of the moon to make notes, and explain some principles about measuring position from time to time.

At this time, there was no light pollution, and a telescope with a slight magnification could see the largest moon of Jupiter, and even some people with excellent eyesight could see it with the naked eye, and this time they also carried a telescope, which was the only way to map the latitude and longitude.

At the edge of the convoy, there were a few people with serious expressions, and the people of the caravan did not talk much, but a few people gathered together.

These people are the extra people in the caravan, and the leader of the caravan doesn't know the origin of the other party, but the chamber of commerce only says that these people will follow.

It seems that these people are twenty-five or sixteen years old, and they are the first children who grew up after the Mo family occupied Sishang, and now many children of this generation are already six or seven years old.

The caravan took the lead and was larger than them, not from Sishang, but from Luyang to Sishang. Under the policy of compulsory service, almost everyone has the temperament of being a righteous teacher, and there is nothing to see from this alone.

There were some things that should not be asked, but the leader of the caravan couldn't help his curiosity and walked up to the people and said hello.

The men quickly got up, responded, and sat down by the campfire.

"Comrades, do you have anything to do with Linwu this time?"

After asking, the obvious leader of these people shook his head and said: "It's nothing, we are all carpenters, isn't this our shipyard downstream of Linwu, we are here to help." ”

Linwu special geographical location, officially the upper reaches of the Hunan River, there are many timbers here, in order to facilitate the transportation of goods, a shipyard was opened under Linwu.

Every year, you have to pay taxes and fees to the local feudal monarchs, Linwujun himself also has an industry, and the doormen are also engaged in business, the shipbuilding skills of the Mo family are very good, and the taxes at this time are levied on the number of ships, so there are a lot of orders in this shipyard, and it is quite prosperous.

However, the leader of the Chamber of Commerce did not believe this, these people did not behave like carpenters along the way, and they would stay for a while wherever there were mountains, rivers, paths, and places where they could wade through water.

The leader of the caravan guessed something in his heart, and couldn't contain his curiosity, and sighed seemingly unintentionally: "In the future, once the Lechang Gorge is completed, it will be more convenient to transfer goods." Although Linwu is a remote place, it is a dangerous place. ”

He had something to say, once the Lechang Gorge is completed, it will be naturally convenient to transfer goods, and it will be equally convenient to transfer people.

The person on the other side did not show the landscape, and said with a smile: "Yes, once it is repaired, it can communicate with the north and the south, and benefit the world." ”

After a few more conversations, he shifted the topic elsewhere, and his tone was extremely strict, and he did not leak a single word.

The leader of the caravan asked a few more questions, very unsatisfied with his curiosity, but there was nothing to be done.

The people on the other side naturally knew what they were here for, they were all young officers of the General Staff, and this time they followed the caravan to Linwu for other purposes.

Two years ago, with the collapse of many states such as Lou and Yangyu in the South China Sea, after the Mo family gained a firm foothold in the land reform in the South China Sea, the situation of the Chu State has formed a three-sided encirclement.

Linwu is located in a steep position, the first emperor of later generations conquered Baiyue, it is Linwu that walked, as the watershed of the Xiangjiang River water system and the Pearl River water system, this remote place has extremely high military value.

These people came to Linwu, which can be regarded as the same purpose as the gentleman and others, observing the terrain.

It's just that the gentleman and the others belong to the normal surveying and mapping map, the location of the standard city and the trend of the mountains and rivers, and they are observing the local tactical terrain.

It is not necessarily for the purpose of fighting a war with the state of Chu, the responsibility of the General Staff itself is to be prepared.

Including observing the thickness of Linwu's city wall, collecting some hydrological data, and investigating the people's hearts and minds of Linwujun here, etc.

Now the relationship between Chu and Mo is very delicate, and with the defeat of Chu and Wei in the struggle for hegemony and the rise of Sishang, the originally intimate relationship between Chu and Mo has now become confusing.

The Song State has been in turmoil recently, and the contradictions that have been forcibly suppressed by the Mo family have begun to brew and erupt, and the Song State is the real powder keg in the Central Plains.

Wei and Han went south, the Chu people went north, and the Mo family went west, all of which all revolved around the Song State.

The accumulated contradictions were deliberately loosened and suppressed, and the Song State was already in chaos.

National chaos is dangerous, just like Zheng Guo back then, it is likely to become fat in the mouths of the princes.

However, everyone in the world knows whether the Song State can eat a bite, not in the Song State, but in the attitude of the Wei, Chu, Han, and Mo families.

The Great War five years ago left a deep impression on all countries, all of which are changing their laws to catch up, trying to centralize power and reform the military system, and the later the time drags on, the more advantageous it will be; But the later the time drags on, once the Song State is completely controlled by the Mo family, the situation in the entire Central Plains will completely collapse.

It's always a hard choice.

Regarding the affairs of the Song Kingdom, the Mo and Chu families were the first time to openly contradict each other.

The Song State was too close to Sishang, and the tossing of the national republic, city autonomy and other things led to chaos within the Song State, if it were not for the Mo family on the side, the Song State would have been destroyed long ago.

This time, the Song State once again broke out in the Chinese rebellion, and the old nobles of the Song State immediately asked Wei, Chu, Han and other countries for help, and the Mo family said that the affairs of the Song State should be decided by the people of the Song State themselves. Because the power of the old aristocracy was obviously not enough to suppress it, of course the Mo family would say so; If the old aristocracy was powerful, the Mo family would naturally say that this was not the internal affairs of the Song Dynasty, but the injustice that harmed the world, and everyone would be punished for it.

The relationship between Chu and Mo originated from the strength of Wei Han and the aggressiveness of the Yue State, but now that the situation has changed, the only remaining intimacy between the two has been greatly reversed with the situation of civil unrest in the Song Dynasty.

As a result, it was already very difficult for some openly identified Mohist figures to enter the Chu State, and they could only rely on caravans as a cover for various activities.

The relationship within the caravan is complicated, and many feudal lords of Chu have shares in it, and they can also make a lot of profits every year, involving the interests of many parties, and it is not that the king of Chu can put an end to trade with a word.

Before, the leader of the caravan said that Lechangxia was overly spoken, where could these young people not hear it?

Once the Lechang Gorge is completed, in the event of a war with the Chu State in the future, the Mo family will have a great advantage.

Sending a part of the troops from Lingnan, occupying Linwu is equivalent to occupying the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River, from top to bottom, you can go directly to Dongting Yunmeng, even if you don't do the main force, you can harass and cut off the north-south and east-west connections of Chu State.

There are only more than 400 Chu troops stationed near Linwu Pass, and Linwu City is also an old-style city, from now they have observed the situation all the way, the whole Linwu is like a dustpan, the essence of the area is sunken, as long as the Linwu Pass is broken, along the upper reaches of the Xiangshui to take Pangyi, that is, Hengyang in later generations, then the connection between the Chu State and the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River will be cut off.

Their task was to follow the caravan along the way to investigate the route from Linwu to Pangyi. The so-called carpenter is just a cover-up.