In spring, the north is still steep, but the Chu land is already warm.

A large team could already see Jishan on the north side of Yingdu, and the scholars sent by the king of Chu were also greeted here.

Most of the vehicles are double-wheeled, and the first person is in his early twenties, and it is the plenipotentiary representative of the Chu State sent by the Mo family this time.

On his side, Meng Sheng, who was also selected as an alternate this time, was ranked lower than suitable, and there were also Chu people who were good at fencing such as Qu Jiang to follow the guard.

More than twenty ink masters who were proficient in swordsmanship accompanied him, and some children who were not too old were followed by the vehicles behind.

These children are Shi disciples, not disciples at the Mohist level, but Shi Shi disciples who have been taught according to the education he has received since childhood.

Basically, very few people can understand what Shihe and these children are talking about, and these children who are about ten years old are also the most intelligent ones selected from the Peiguo Township School.

He told the Mows that he would teach these children some of what he had learned from the two gentlemen, and that the rest could not learn because they were too old.

Now that Pei County is stable, everything is stable, there is no war in the short term, and there is really no possibility of improving its reputation in a step-by-step situation.

Mozi is old, and he must fight for all the opportunities available to him to increase his prestige within the Mo family.

This envoy to the Chu State is not only suitable for gain, but also the trust of the Mo family in him, because some things need a person who makes a decision on the spot. Mozi is too old to come forward in person; Bird Slippery has to deal with the affairs of Sanjin; Gongzaoye and others are going to Pengcheng, and everyone has their own business.

The reason why Shi Yuan also had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and the reason why he delayed arriving in Yingdu until now was to arrange the work of the Xuanyi Department in advance, and also to prepare in advance the strange articles to be published in the "newspaper" within a year.

He has been teaching at the village school for three years, and the people who can read and write in the church for three years have also started teaching children, and the rest will have to wait until he comes back to learn again.

As for the children who came with him, they were supposed to be taught according to the compulsory education they had received. Ten years of educating people, he is still young, and there is time.

Although he traveled quickly along the way, Shi also investigated the system and people's livelihood of Chu as much as possible. The Mo family is related to the state of Chu, Qu General Meng Sheng and others are all Chu people, and there is Lu Yang Gong to take care of them in Nanyang, and the king of Chu is sending people to follow and greet them.

On the first carriage, he played with a very delicate copper handcuff, a fire rope instead of a flint one, which was not only used for self-defense, but also as a gift to the king of Chu.

The technology of public casting is not to say, the technology of sealing to prevent volatile mud tank zinc smelting is suitable for several attempts to make some zinc as brass alloy regardless of the cost, on the whole, this batch of handcuffs as a gift is expensive, far from being used by ordinary people, not to mention equipping an army is delusional.

Shi played with the already shaped grip and smiled, even if this broken thing is not easy to use, even if this thing is expensive now, but at least he can be regarded as bringing gunpowder weapons to this troubled world, giving a future that will not be crooked.

The Warring States period is coming, this thing will soon shine, if the Qin crossbow turns into a musket a hundred years later, even if the Mo family is defeated in the end, there is no risk of chaos in Huaxia. The stirrups are out now, and by the time they reach the Northlands Wasteland, I'm afraid that the legion cannons here will already be popularized.

Meng Sheng sat on Shi's side, looked at the handcuff in Shi's hand, and joked with a slight smile: "Shi, you are good at everything, but your swordsmanship is too bad." This thing is given to you, even if you can use flint to make fire according to what you say, do you think that if I use a sword and a bow, you will kill me? Or shall I kill you? ”

Shi smiled and said with a smile: "Not every farmer can have swordsmanship like your Meng Sheng. This time, you and I came together, one is that you are familiar with Chudi, and the other is that I think maybe everyone is also worried about those nobles...... Treat us as you would a baby. ”

Meng Sheng smiled, along the way, the son of Yangcheng Jun caught up and talked with Meng Sheng, Shi and others, and also said that the nobles of the Chu State hated and disliked the Mo family.

Lu Yanggong only said that he would write a letter and ask the appropriate people to bring it to some families in Yingdu when the time came.

But even so, the Mo family killed the two nobles, and the resentment within the family would not be so easily dissolved.

Meng Sheng said: "Since it is invited by the King of Chu, I will not do it directly if I want to." It's nothing more than trying to find a way to insult us in the market. Although my swordsmanship is not as good as Gongzaoye, but there are few opponents in Chudi, they will not dare to do it when they see me, why should they take their own humiliation? ”

"Moreover, you and I comrades, with one heart and one mind, are one family. If someone really wants to fight with you, I will naturally come forward. Of the more than 20 good players who followed, which one didn't follow the giant to defend the city and fight for more than ten years? The prince of Chudi, even if he understands swords, he may not have been on the battlefield, it is nothing more than Yun Mengze shooting a few wild animals, what kind of ability is it? Where is the time to go to the city gate to fight back and kill the inker? ”

"Wu, you don't have to worry, you won't fall into the reputation of my Mo family. It's up to you to argue. You, the Xuanyi Ministry, they are also asking for your own death. ”

While the two were talking and laughing, the carriage stopped, and Chu Shi had already greeted him, only saying that the Mo family did not abide by the rules of Zhou etiquette, and all etiquette was simple.

There was nothing to do all the way, and it was the main gate of Yingdu, and there were onlookers along the way.

When he was about to reach the palace gate in the northeast, someone sent an order: "The king has granted permission to allow the ink master to make the second deputy pass through the younger brother's gate in a car." ”

Since the time of King Zhuang, he has made a rule that the prince cannot ride through his brother's door, and this time the king of Chu has given the Mo family enough face.

If you use the words of the court, it is not impossible.

After seeing the ceremony, Shi Shi gave a pair of very beautiful brass arquebuses and said: "The Mo family does not regard gold and jade as treasures, so they offer such gifts for self-defense." ”

"The ancestor who cast this gift was also a Chu person, who had cast a guest for King Hui and a congratulatory bell for Marquis Zeng."

Shi raised his head and quietly glanced at the King of Chu, and found that this person was also twenty or thirty years old, tall, and because it was not a sacrificial activity, he did not wear the crown of Jiuhan.

This is the so-called King of Chu in later generations, and after his death, Wu Qi pounced on him to kill many feudal monarchs, resulting in the destruction of the organized Mo family in Yangcheng. It's a pity that after his death, people died in government, and in the end, the Chu State did not complete the centralization of power.

The battle for the inheritance with his younger brother led to the internal chaos of the Chu State and the death of the feudal monarch, which can be regarded as giving the Chu State an opportunity to centralize power, but unfortunately the time has not yet come.

Xiong Su also looked at the Shi on the other side, and said in his heart: "I heard that this person has learned a lot of Tianzhi, so that the Mo family is prosperous today. Don't want to be so young? ”

Looking at it again, he talked and laughed freely, there were many guards around the King of Chu, and he was not afraid at all, and he had already seen a lot.

Xiong nodded secretly, and wanted to hear that this person was just the son of a shoemaker, not a scholar or a doctor, but he could answer like a fluent, and he was really very human.

Thinking about the Mo family's so-called equality of all people, he sighed secretly, and he was only afraid of these studies of the Mo family, which was also the reason why he was able to stand straight.

Looking at the gift that he was holding, Xiong was secretly surprised, because this was brass that had not yet appeared in the world at this time, and the gold was shining not the color of bronze, and it was precious to look at.

He also knew that there were Chu people in the Mo family, and when he heard what Shi said, he asked: "Could it be that the one who cast this thing, is it the Gongzai of Shangqiu's handsome Mo who formed an alliance through the formation?" ”

Shi nodded and said, "His brother." ”

The King of Chu looked at the gift, thought of the terms of the transaction that had been delivered before, and asked, "This is the kind of gunpowder weapon you said could be used by the peasant soldiers?" ”

Xiong Su felt more and more strange, he had never seen the explosion of gunpowder, but he had heard many nobles who had participated in the Battle of Shangqiu mention that the panic and fear brought by that night were unprecedented, and many people still have palpitations in their hearts, and they will tremble when they hear the thunder.

Naturally, he had never seen a firearm, but after Zhao Zhiai finished talking about the equipment provided by the Mo family to defend the city, he had no doubts, believing that the Mo family would be able to make it if he said it.

The Mo family did not observe etiquette, neither took jade as a gift, nor was the Mo family a prince, so the etiquette could not be done: Zhou Li never imagined that one day a group of people who were not formal princes, or even shoemakers, could meet the princes.

If you are not polite, then you don't need to accept politeness such as returning Yuzhang in the future, so you can immediately rise up and let Shi show it.

After seeing it, my heart was shocked, and I was overjoyed in the smoke of gunpowder, I only felt that if it was this thing, the defense line of Luguan would be able to hold it, and it seemed that the training was easy, and the peasant soldiers could become archers in a few months, which was unimaginable in the past.

After showing the gift, Xiong Su happily accepted it, and then he wanted to feast on the right person.

Meng Sheng is the deputy and can also be seated.

During the banquet, singing and dancing, wine and food, chopsticks, knives and spoons are all available.

The nobles of the Chu State who were present were eyeing each other, knowing that eighty percent of these people were going to make trouble today, and they were thinking hard about possible responses.

Coincidentally, there were a few oranges on the case, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to speak first and preemptively suppress the possible criticism of these people, and he really had no interest in arguing with these nobles.

So he picked up an orange and stared at it as if he had never seen the world, many nobles laughed secretly, and Chu Lingyin asked first: "I don't know what this is?" ”

Shi put down the orange and said solemnly, "I haven't seen it." ”

I scolded in my heart, I don't know how many of these things I have eaten, but now the transportation is inconvenient, and it is really difficult to see this thing in Peixian.

Chu Lingyin smiled: "This is an orange." ”

Shi suddenly said: "If the orange is born in Huainan, it is orange, and if it is born in Huaibei, it is orange...... This is an orange? Before I came, I happened to read Yan Ying's article about Chu Yi, and his heart was flustered. ”

"When I stay in Yingdu, I don't see the dog hole, and I feel a little at ease. But after a while, it was inevitable that there was some unhappiness in my heart. ”

He deliberately frowned, Yan Zi made Chu, everyone present knew about it, and when he saw that he was unhappy not to see the dog door, he couldn't help but be curious.

Curious, there will be people who will praise it.

Zhao Zhiai first asked: "Without the humiliation of the dog gate, why is the son unhappy?" ”

He replied: "Yan Ying, the one who is accustomed to Qi Zhi, makes Chu a matter and the history of words moves the world." I, the writer of the Mohist rhetoric, and the radical of the Mohist Xuanyi, are the best at words. ”

"Today's envoy Chu, I thought that Yan Ying would let you experience what 'the saint is not with Xiye', and it also made my Mo family's name shake the Chu country and spread it as a good story, but I didn't want to see the dog door and steal, and treat each other with courtesy, which made me a little overwhelmed."

"Today, my Mo family is famous in the first battle of Shangqiu, inviting the Central Plains to shake the king, and rebelling against the Mo to defend Luoyin and becoming famous...... Only in Chudi, the reputation of the Mo family is not obvious. I am not good at defending the city, nor am I good at attacking wars, but I have only one tongue, and now I have no chance, and I have regrets and unhappiness! I regret the 'newspaper' of my Mojia market, but there is one less story that can be spread all over the world! ”

As soon as the voice fell, everyone was speechless and did not dare to answer.

It means two things. I am the one that the Mo family can say best, you should be careful of humiliating yourself, and it is best not to provoke me verbally. The Mo family is very powerful now, famous all over the world, there will be no weak among them, even if you send me, you'd better not beat my idea in words.

The second is that the propaganda and newspapers of the Xuanyi Department of the Mo family in the giant city of Dayi are too violent. If you humiliate me today, it is fine, if you can't humiliate me, but I humiliate me, I will write a newspaper when I go out, and call you nobles who are thinking about humiliating me "famous all over the world" and make a name for you in the market.