In early April, the Chu army built beams with boats, and the entire army passed through the sand and water. The cities along the way were closed and the cities were not fighting. The Chu army's troops were only a hundred miles away from Shangqiu.

In the same month, the Qin people mobilized Chongquan and Luoyin farmers to siege Wei Linjin and Hequ. Wei Xihe guarded Wu Qi with military soldiers to prepare for the battle.

Qin State was in Chongquan, and Luoyin tried to implement the initial acre tax, acknowledging the rationality of private land, hoping to attract the large number of Qin people who fled to Wei State to return.

In the same year, the Prince of Chu decided to envoy Zheng. Si Ziyang, the ruling Zheng State of Zheng who was pro-Jin faction, was very dissatisfied. However, the remaining "Seven Mu" families who truly held real power decided to have a banquet with the Prince of Chu to serve as a wait-and-see.

Wang Ziding said that the Chu army dispatched tens of thousands of people to ask Song for the crime of the Chu Dynasty and Jin Dynasty. Once Shangqiu is captured, he will continue to attack north.

The ruling Zheng State of Zheng, Si Ziyang, believed that Zheng and Chu had too close relations and should be appropriately alienated from Chu State. In addition, he was a Legal figure in the early stage, undermining Zheng Jun and trying to reform in China, which touched a large number of noble interests.

Just like Song State, the two factions in Zheng are already in power, and the two factions occupy most of the cities of Zheng State. A civil war between Zheng State seems to be inevitable.

Just as they had just breathed out of the war and put down the Qi country, where the Xiang Ziniu Rebellion, the two brothers of the Tian family each hoped to change the Qi state's national politics from a family republic to a patriarch's autocracy, and did not care about the external situation.

Zhongshan Kingdom is still unstable. The nobles of the nobles who had already formed in Wei were very dissatisfied with the fact that Wei Hou had enthroned his son Wei Ji as Zhongshan Lord. Zhongshan Lord changed his title to others instead of his heir, which became the most concerned thing for the nobles in Wei.

Zheng State had just defeated the Han army a few years ago. The Han army knew that the prince had decided to envoy Zheng, and was worried that Zheng State would counterattack South Korea and were worried that the Marquis of Wei would abide by the oath of the joint efforts of the Three Jins.

The Marquis of Wei just defeated Qi a few years ago. The domestic strength has not yet been restored and the public is restrained. In the rebellion of Zhongshan, Zhao hopes that Zhao can send troops to fulfill the obligation of common development agreed upon by the Three Jins and Alliances.

However, when Gongsun Hui rebelled in Linqiu, he clearly said he wanted to surrender to Zhao Hou, but he did not expect that Wei Hou would take the lead and take Linqiu into Wei territory, which aroused extreme dissatisfaction in Zhao State.

At this time, Wei Yeshou Ximen Bao also built water conservancy, attacked Wu Zhu, and eliminated Hebo's sacrifices, and Yecheng began to enter a stage of rapid development.

Yecheng can block the way southward from Zhao Handan, and can threaten the capital of Zhao State at this time at any time, so that the two Zhao State major cities, Zhongmu and Handan, cannot take care of each other.

For this reason, Zhao Hou only agreed with Wei's request on the surface, but delayed the mobilization, saying that mobilization would affect farming at this time. Moreover, the barbarians such as Loufan, Linhu in the north were ready to move, so they could not send troops at this time.

The newly succeeded Zhou emperor trembled and said that if you princes don’t ask me about the matter between you princes, you can solve it yourself. My father enfeoffed three families and died, and I have to be busy with funerals. Besides, my grandfather got the position of emperor through coups back then. I don’t want to care about the coups and hegemony of your countries, so don’t ask me again.

There is still a half-dead Wei Kingdom in the Central Plains. He has weakened and directly expressed his "the country of Thousand Cycles dare not compete with the country of Ten Thousand Cycles", and clearly stated who the overlord is the support of whom, but he will never make a statement before deciding the overlord...

The whole world was staring at Shangqiu, and everyone knew that the struggle for the Jin and Chu, which had been quelled for nearly a hundred years, was once again unfolded.

Or, this time it should be called Wei and Chu's battle for hegemony.

The nursery rhyme that began to be sung two or three years ago, but later gradually faded was sung again.

"The customs of the Shang Dynasty, brothers follow."

"Wenzhou Li, the legitimate son Cheng."

"After beheading Ai, he will be buried."

"Those who know their destiny, please resolve the dispute."

The period of decline is three years and has not yet ended, which means that the result of this nursery rhyme is still within its shelf life.

Although the newly-anticipated Song Prince Tian changed the reign when he succeeded to the throne, which greatly violated the rules and etiquette, it could not change the fact that this nursery rhyme has not been more than three years.

The legitimate son is naturally the current Prince Tian of Song, and his brother and his uncle Cen Xi.

Zitian went to Luoyi and was the emperor of Zhou. He did not go to the Three Jins at all, but to outsiders, this was a rebellion against Chu and his relatives, and the King of Chu had already launched an army to punish him.

The emperor's father Zang of Sicheng made three pairs of Jiahe to make good friends with the Three Jins, and further promoted the Song Gong to pay homage to the Emperor Zhou.

The relationship between strong support outside and powerful inside is very popular, and there is a tendency to let the emperor's family replace him as Song Gong. After all, they were all separated by Duke Dai. Even if they seized the throne, they could not be considered "ushelmed", but they can only be said to be "taken", which is different from the families of Han, Zhao, Weitian and others.

The other six nobles led by the Great Yin Lingqi were originally opposed to the Song Gong who formed a favor with Chu against the imperial father's clan, but now they have undergone a huge change in form. They are abnormal and vigorously promote the benefits of being close to Chu. It seems that if they do not close to Chu, they will lead to chaos in the Song Kingdom.

In addition to that nursery rhyme, another rumor circulated in Shangqiu City.

Rumors say: Mr. Song insisted on his own actions, did not listen to the advice of his ministers, beautified by Jin and betrayed Chu, which led to this siege of the Chu people.

He also said that in fact, the King of Chu was just asking for an explanation and would not be detrimental to the people of Song State.

Besides, twenty years ago, Mr. Song took the initiative to go to Chu State and begged the Chu people to send troops to fight against the imperial father's clan. For this reason, Chu State and the Three Jins fought in Yongqiu and Huangchi, with tens of thousands of casualties and injuries. This friendship cannot be forgotten in terms of emotion and reason, so it is understandable that the King of Chu initiated his army to question him.

The nursery rhyme that did not cause much trouble three years ago finally caused a shocking wave in Shangqiu as this rumor spread.

Many people believe that it was because of the princes and nobles who fought against each other that the Chu people sent troops this time and blamed Song Gong for his behavior of beating Jin and beating against Chu.

When rumors spread in Shangqiu City, the newly succeeded Song Gongzitian finally made an important decision.

The tiger talisman was granted to Mo Di, and Mo Zi, who had been a doctor of the Song State for a short time, had hundreds of disciples all over the world, was responsible for the defense of Shangqiu, including the office. Before the Chu people retreated, all the affairs of all the big and small in the city were under Mo Di.

This is a decision that is forced to no avail.

Just when the Chu people were sending troops, Zitian summoned all the ministers to ask for countermeasures, hoping to win the field battle with the Chu people.

However, the emperor's father Zang and the emperor's father Yue Ling and his son did not care about the decisive battle when they left the city.

What they wanted to rely on was the Three Jins. If the Chu people were defeated before they could be besieged... Then how could they demonstrate the contributions made by their family to Shangqiu?

We must wait until Shangqiu changes his son and eats him, breaks his bones and cooks him, and when he is about to be unable to hold on, we will come forward to appease the people, saying that they will ask the Three Jins to send troops.

At that time, the contribution of defending Shangqiu will naturally fall on his family and become famous. As long as the people of Shangqiu can support him, his family will be replaced.

Although the people of Shangqiu support the Mo people the most, the Emperor's Father clan believed that the Mo people did not have very high aristocratic bloodline after all and they did not have the right to inherit. Therefore, even if the people of Shangqiu support the Mo people, they ultimately need a person of blood to be the monarch. At that time, it was naturally their family.

After all, the Mozhe was just guarding the city, and according to the plan, the Chu people finally retreated due to the emperor's clan's request for the Three Jins to send troops.

Therefore, the Emperor's Father clan and the nobles behind him did not care about the decisive battle from the city, and did not want to decisive battle from the city.

It seems that I can't win, but what if I win? The credit will be from Mr. Song, not from his own clan.

If you don’t starve to death, how can you show the importance of your family asking the Three Jins to send troops?

The nobles on the other side, not to mention the battle in the city, even the matter of betraying Chu and Jin is extremely opposed.

This is not because they really think about the Song State, but because the Sicheng faction has already done a matter of being close to Jin. They must be close to Chu. How could they fight against Sicheng's father if they don't?

Even if the Chu people conquered Shangqiu, they would not be able to annex the State of Song. After all, Song was a country of half a ten thousand chariots.

You can change the king and establish a puppet, but if you dare to turn Song into a county of Chu and deprive the local nobles of the power, these nobles will definitely resist with all their might. The Chu people would not have been so stupid to do such a thing.

They were looking forward to the capture of Shangqiu, which was not their fiefdom, but the capital of Song, and that was the power circle of the Duke of Song and the Emperor's Father clan.

Since their fiefdom is not in Shangqiu, what does it have to do with them whether Shangqiu was captured?

Moreover, if the Chu people win, they will be able to support Shu Cen Xi to the throne more easily. This is a public clan without much power and is suitable for control.

Yesterday of Jin State and today of Zheng State are the things that the nobles of Song State are most looking forward to. The six nobles should have jointly controlled the national affairs, rather than the emperor's family as the emperor.

Moreover, they had a plan long ago and were looking forward to the Chu people besieging Shangqiu.

At that time, the remaining grains in the city will be burned, causing the Shangqiu people to die, fight and be seriously injured, and more than 10,000 people will be starved to death. At that time, the people in the city will inevitably be angry.

At that time, he would raise his arms and ask the current Gong Song to give up the sages to the Chu people and make great achievements at that time.

As for Mozhe defending the city, they didn't care. This city still needs to be defended.

If they directly cause trouble and welcome the Chu people into it, it would be bad. The people in the city would feel that they are shameless and might not support them.

If the Mohist helps defend the city and hold on until the city is full of complaints, then they will come forward to persuade the Mohist to "benefit the world" and "benefit the ten thousand households in the city", and they may gain the support of the Mohist to destroy the current Song Gong.

Anyway, Mo people don’t care about things like name, etiquette, and law, which is well known to everyone in the world.

They would not be willing to recruit private soldiers from their fiefdoms to fight the Chu people in the wild.

The result of this negotiation is inevitable: if you, Mr. Song, are willing to fight against the Chu people, and use your own troops, we can only participate in the form of the situation, but... what is the specific battle, it is not something you, Mr. Song, can decide.

Although Mr. Song was young and arrogant, he knew that the field battle would inevitably fail at this time.

After all, he knew about Hua Yuan that year. Hua Yuan, who had led to the Binghui Association, went to Zheng State to reward his close servants before the battle, but he forgot his coachman Yang Chen.

During the battle the next day, Yang Zhen drove Hua Yuan straight to Zhengren's central army and sent Hua Yuan to Zhengren: You said the final word yesterday, but I said the final word on the battlefield!

The same is true if it was Song Duke.
Chapter completed!