The king of Chu intended to accept the appeasement of those wanderers, and it was precisely out of the consideration of royal power.

If you can meet the alliance three points of Songdi, that would be the best.

If not, you might as well let the Song land out and let the Mo family annex it, so that the Mo family will choke on it for a while, and face the counterattack of the Song nobles, and at the same time make the princes of the world full of vigilance against the Mo family.

Inside, the stable environment and the Mo family attracted Wei Han's attention, and he could continue to change the law, strengthen the centralization of power, clean up the feudal monarch before he died, and pave the way for his son.

Outside, the Song State returned to Mexico, then Qi, Yue, Wei, Han and other countries should panic, the Wei State has declined, Wei Zhao turned his face, and then the Chu State is the leader of the vassal states, and the leader of the anti-Mexico alliance can be recognized.

Time is not on the side of the Mo family, Sishang can reform the land and make a large number of yeoman farmers as the main force of the Sishang righteous master, so as to confuse those people who want land.

But countries are not necessarily impossible, as long as they can clean up the nobility.

The longer it drags on, the more favorable it will be for the countries, and the benefits obtained by the Chu State are precisely the greatest: the Song State was lost to the Mo family, and the Chu State still had Nanyang. But Wei Han needs to always garrison troops in the direction of the Central Plains, and the Qin State will at least exert a little force, and the Wei State will be completely finished.

At that time, it will be able to balance the Mo family's anti-Mexico alliance, and non-Chu countries cannot be the leader of the alliance, and the king of Chu estimates that the law has been changed by then, and the resistance of the domestic nobles is basically stable.

However, all this is not what the feudal nobles of Chu want.

If the Song State does not fight, the contradiction between the royal power and the feudal monarch cannot be suppressed; If the Song Kingdom does not fight, the king will not give the nobles and feudal lords a good face; If the Song State did not fight, there would be no way to continue to expand the power of the feudal monarch and control more population and land.

Lin Wujun didn't expect that Yingdu had become like this, and he didn't expect that the king of Chu would rather give up the Song Kingdom in order to clean up the noble feudal monarch.

Most of the words that Prince Liangfu said were not secrets, and behind these high-sounding reasons, Linwu Jun could see the noose that the King of Chu stretched out to them.

Lin Wujun asked: "Could it be that the Chu people have no great talent and can see what will happen more than ten years later?" ”

Prince Yoshio was also loyal to what he wanted to say at this time.

"Yangcheng Jun, Lu Yang Jun, Pingye Jun, Ejun, Di Yang Jun, Xiangling Jun, Wuyang Jun, Xiang Jun and other 54 Feng Jun are all in unison. It is said that the policy of appeasement will inevitably lead the country and cannot be followed, and those who are arrogant and arrogant should be expelled, and the relatives should be appeased internally and humiliated externally. ”

Lin Wujun exclaimed: "This is the true loyal and far-sighted minister. The king reuses those scholars, don't you know that the scholars seek profit and fame, and if it is advantageous to return to Chu today, and if it is beneficial to return to Wei tomorrow, it will be Shiwei, and it cannot be compared with the nobles who have families and fiefs. ”

"This matter is for the governor of the country, and I cannot be left alone, and I cannot fail to advise. When you return to Yingdu, please bring my letter of advice to the king. ”

"If you really start a war with the Mo family, Linwu will be worry-free."

Having said that, Lin Wujun also has his own plans.

In his opinion, it was impossible for the Mo family to attack Linwu, because Linwu was really not a rich place, and it was useless to occupy it.

The real battlefield must revolve around the Song State, and if the Chu State expresses its intention to intervene to save the Song, then Wei Han Qi will definitely join the more bitter it has been for a long time.

At that time, the Mo family will definitely not have the military strength to attack Linwu, one is useless, and the other is that the soldiers of the South China Sea will not dare to move lightly.

Moreover, he also saw that the Mo family's appetite was not so big, otherwise they would have occupied Qi Southwest and not leave, anyway, there was no one to interfere with at that time, but the Mo family gave up the essence of Qi Southwest, in the final analysis, I am afraid that it is still not enough.

If they really want to interfere with the Song State, the Mo family will inevitably start a fight around the Song State, even if they want to break each one, it must be to break Yue, Qi, Wei, and Han first, and finally it will be the turn of Chu.

It is even very likely that the Mo family wanted to control the war within the Song State, after all, the princes were sure that they could not attack Sishang, and Sishang might not be able to withstand the counterattack of the princes' coalition forces, and they did not dare to drive straight in.

In addition, he himself can also reach a secret agreement with the Mo family through the caravan, and continue to do business by himself, sell deerskins, buy gunpowder and muskets, and expand his strength.

After all, he had also heard about the chaos in the Song Kingdom before, but the Mo family's caravan still agreed to sell him muskets, and even repeatedly said that the South China Sea was undecided, hoping that Lin Wujun would also be able to educate the local people so that they could return to Zhuxia.

Anyway, he doesn't need to send troops to fight the Song Kingdom, and those real big families want to persecute the King of Chu with this, and he always has to make a statement.

The law does not blame the public, if the responsibility is really pursued in the future, then most of the feudal monarchs of the entire Chu State will be involved, and the king of Chu will have no way to deal with it unless he completely turns his face.

In the future, if the king of Chu dies and the prince supported by the nobles takes the throne, if he does not express his position today, then I am afraid that the Linwu fief will not be able to keep it in the future: when the time comes, it will not be because of the change of law to collect the land, but because the wrong place to take the land, and the rest of the feudal monarchs will definitely not collectively oppose the matter of land resumption as they do now.

Lin Wujun's statement also made Xiong Liangfu very excited, and praised again and again: "Lin Wujun is also the heart of the country, and he has no selfish schemes, this is the long-term view." ”

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After Linwujun returned to the city and said goodbye to the prince and Liangfu, those private henchmen told the story of the South China Sea caravan coming to Linwu.

The muskets and gunpowder have been inspected and there is no shortage of them, and there is no shortage of these chambers of commerce to do business.

Within Linwujun's own territory, there were special monopoly merchants, all of whom were attached to him, and relied on power to prohibit the rest of the merchants from distributing, so the caravan had to leave a lot of goods in Linwu.

Monopoly and salt monopoly are all important incomes for Linwu Jun, so that he can maintain his own power and be qualified to have a place among the many feudal lords of Chu State.

At the beginning, many people were reluctant to come to the frontier, but Lin Wujun had a foresight, and there was a lot less restraint and surveillance in the frontier area, which was not necessarily a bad thing.

At that time, he showed infinite loyalty to the king of Chu, in exchange for his own fief, when loyalty can no longer protect his fief, it can naturally be discarded.

The doorman who was in charge of liaising with the caravan said that the Chamber of Commerce wanted to trade rice again, and Lin Wujun didn't think much about it, and said happily: "It is not easy to transfer rice, and the profit is low, so those people in the Chamber of Commerce have never accepted it. If you can use rice, you can save a lot of gold and copper. ”

Since he had a fief, he naturally had a large amount of rent for labor and rent in kind, part of the military levy required those newly conquered villages to pay deerskins and the like, and the rest was mainly grain.

The progress of iron ox farming technology has allowed him to accumulate a lot of grain, which can only be sold on weekdays by transporting it to the cities in the lower reaches of Xiangshui through the generation along the river, in exchange for gold, silver and copper coins, so as to trade with the Mo family.

However, in recent years, the price of grain has become cheaper, and I can only rely on the small gold mines in the territory and the trade of deerskin herbs and the Mo family, which is really a bit painful.

The doorman also explained to Lin Wujun: "The people of the caravan said that one is that there was a wind disaster in the South China Sea last year, and the other is that the Lechang Gorge was built and the population gathered. If rice is transported from Yangyu and other places, it will take hundreds of miles and cost a lot. It was to buy it from Linwu and transfer it directly to Lechang Gorge to supply the construction there. ”

Lin Wujun nodded and said: "Lechang is too far away from Yangyu and other places, and it is against the water, it is indeed too far." There are tens of thousands of people working there, and even though the Mo family is rich, it is also painful. ”

Thinking of some of the things Xiong Liangfu said to him today, he suddenly thought of a good idea, so he asked again: "When will the people of the caravan come to see me?" ”

The doorman said: "I can see it tonight, but I don't know if the prince is here, is there something for us to discuss?" ”

Lin Wujun shook his head, these things can't be talked about by these guests.

The construction of Lechang Gorge is a major event, which is related to the wealth and trade of Linwu, but it is also equivalent to the Mohists opening up the passage from the Pearl River to the Xiangjiang River system.

At this time, the construction had just been completed, and it would take at least several years to transfer a large number of troops.

Tens of thousands of people work, and eating and drinking is a big problem.

The local area is a poor and remote area, the Nanling Mountain is high and the water is dangerous, and there are many people who are not satisfied, and they need a lot of food to maintain a project there.

Lin Wujun thought about it for a while, and then asked, "How much grain can be stored in the warehouse?" ”

The doorman was in charge of these things, and replied: "There is a lot of grain in stock, but there are still a lot of loans to the people, and it is time to repay them this year, but many families are afraid that they will not be able to repay it." In addition, I am afraid that when the new year comes, some people will need to borrow grain, and I am afraid that all the stored grain will not be able to be sold. ”

"Caravans buy grain, and the price of grain is high, but it is not as good as lending. Lending doubled in three years, or lending more profits. ”

The average feudal lord must have been the largest usurer in the area, and the peasants paid all kinds of taxes, plus the need to pay labor rent, in fact, there was not much grain left.

The more they borrowed, the more they could control the farmers, so that they had no surplus food to buy more tools to reclaim the wasteland, or even flee.

The land is all owned by Linwujun, and it is not necessary to annex the land, but the population needs to be tied to the land.

The doorman is also considering the most profitable method, doubling in three years, the annual rate of return is 30%, and selling to the caravan, even if it can be negotiated, it will not sell much more.

Lin Wujun thought about it more far-reaching, and said with a smile: "Whether you benefit or not, you have to look at it in the long run." I have my own plan, so you should go and take inventory, save the unusable part in advance, and keep a small part of the loan needs, and report the remaining amount to me. ”

Lin Wujun felt that since Lechang Gorge was very close to Linwu, and tens of thousands of people were gathered there to build, this project could not be easily stopped.

If he can pass the caravan and say that the food needed for this year on the Lechang construction site will be provided by himself, it will be a good way to curb the Mo family from attacking Linwu in case.

It must be extremely difficult to transport from Yangyu along the Pearl River system, and there may be only one catty of grain left in four catties when you arrive at the place.

At such an expensive price, I sold it a little lower, and first convinced the people of the caravan that there was enough stock in their treasury, which was enough to support the Lechang Gorge project for a year.

Since they chose to buy grain from here, it proves that the Mo family really has no intention of making a move in Linwu, and there will be no symbolic temptation.

Moreover, he can contain the lifeblood of Lechang Gorge, and he will sell what he needs for a month every time, and the merchants will not transport it from Yangyu if they are not profitable, and tens of thousands of people in Lechang Gorge will have to rely on their own grain.

Once Mo Chu really goes to war, he can use this grain to negotiate with the Mo family: you can fight casually in the Song Kingdom, but don't fight Linwu, it is unnecessary, and as long as you make military transfers in the South China Sea, I will run out of food, and tens of thousands of peasants and workers in Lechang Gorge will not be able to eat at that time, which will be a big mess.

If the north fights the north, the two sides can continue to trade. When the Lechang Gorge is repaired, the war should also be over, and when the time comes, there will be more trade in Linwu, which can be profitable and expand its strength.

Linwujun was first Linwujun, then a bloodline noble, and finally a vassal of the king of Chu.

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