The King of Chu didn't care about these subtle names. He had become accustomed to it. Many of the statements in the Mohist system were incompatible with the things from the old era. After listening to them for twenty years, he was used to them. There was really no need to talk nonsense about these etiquettes.

As for the Mohist school, it was not contradictory to the King of Chu to "relieve the enemy of Zheng and Han" by "either love, not to attack and stop the war"; it also said that it would send people to "reorganize the military", which was not contradictory to the King of Chu.

Others don’t know, but the King of Chu knows it.

When Mozi stopped Chu from attacking Song, he also used the truth to convince others with the "one-sided love but not attack". Of course, this truth also included the military game deduction with the Gongshu squad and the 400 Mo people stationed in Shangqiu, which made this "truth" convincing.

Later, the Battle of Qi and Lu were similarly convinced by the truth.

If you do not rectify your military equipment and have no defensive power, you will not be qualified to talk about non-aggressive and love.

Only when you are beaten and have the ability to fight back can you be qualified to be equal, and then talk about love and peace. The Mohist school has always advocated this.

Since he had achieved this, the King of Chu really believed in the Mohist spirit of resolute war and thought: Although the Mohist is cunning, after all, the Mohist family still has morality, and he is a giant, so he should not violate this meaning.

This trust originated from the position of Zheng State.

For the Mo family, Zheng State is now Wei and Han, and it is impossible for him to become a vassal and sphere of influence of the Mo family. He can only truly participate in Zheng State's defense for the sake of justice.

The Chu State recognized this point, and the Mo family could not form an alliance with Wei and Han. This was due to moral disputes, historical reasons and geographical factors.

If Zheng and Song were really able to achieve complete neutrality, it would actually be beneficial to Chu.

When Wei and Chu started a war, Chu State did not have to worry about Wei State's flanks: The Mo family valued righteousness and defied their promises, saying that ensuring absolute independence is to ensure absolute independence. It is impossible for Wei State to borrow a way around Zheng and Song to circumvent the back.

If Chu was on the offensive, it would definitely not be agreed, but since it was on the defensive, what else was more important and more advantageous than absolute safety on the flanks?

In order to verify this, the King of Chu asked again: "As Shizi said, I don't know how to borrow a way to violate neutrality?"

The Mohist envoy smiled and said, "Doesn't the story of rising up from borrowing a way?"

When the King of Chu heard this, he burst into laughter and nodded, "This can be called good."

This allusion that has come to mind certainly has a sarcastic meaning, but it also has a non-sarcastic meaning when interpreted in diplomatic occasions.

In the past, Wen Zizhou humiliated Duke Song during the Song-Chu alliance. Later, King Zhuang of Chu could not find an excuse for war and sent Wen Zizhou to borrow the road without negotiation. Sure enough, he was killed by the State of Song on the grounds that "the border crossing was considered invasion without borrowing the road". King Zhuang of Chu was very happy when he heard that the emotions of the Grand Duke Ferdinand were assassinated, so he rose up and finally found the excitement of the war.

By the way, the idiom "eating man and cooking bones" was left to describe the terrible battle of the siege of the city that year. Until the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Suiyang once again interpreted these four cruel words in Shangqiu.

But when you say it at this time, you can remove the irony meaning, which can be understood as "angry" throwing, rather than excited throwing.

Since neutral means even passing by is considered an invasion, that's easy to say, this is definitely a good thing for Chu State.

Zheng State is a buffer state that Chu State cannot give up, but it has nothing to do with the Mo family. This is equivalent to Chu and Mo jointly protecting Zheng State, and it is simply a big cake falling from the sky.

Of course, the King of Chu understood that there was no big cake in the world that could be eaten for nothing.

The Mohist country guaranteed independence from Zheng State, which required Chu State to pay a price, and this price was that Song State was independent of other countries and were not allowed to interfere.

Zheng is the core interest area for Chu to turn off the offense into defense; Song State is the core interest area for Chu to turn off the defense into offense; the strategic shrinking national policy determines that Chu can give up Song and focus on Zheng.

The King of Chu knew what the Mo family wanted, so he had to bargain at the place where the Mo family wanted the most.

"There's another thing."

"This Wei, Chu and Han alliance is mainly because you are worried that your Mo family has violated the righteousness of non-attack and brought dark clouds of war to the Central Plains."

"If the Song State is truly neutral and the Mo family retreats, this is not enough to show the Mo family's non-aggression."

"The Mo family has the name of punishing unrighteousness. Does the non-attack of the alliance include punishing unrighteousness?"

The Mohist envoy said solemnly: "Jun Zheng and Song are not Mohists. They can persuade them to do righteousness, but they cannot use Mohists' requirements to make them abide by discipline and do righteousness."

The King of Chu nodded and understood.

The meaning of this conversation is: If one day, your Mo family will attack other countries... Of course, there are many reasons for your Mo family to attack other countries, and there are some excuses such as punishing unrighteousness. So, when you punishing unrighteousness, what's the matter with the neutrality of Song State?

Sending troops is one aspect.

When the Mohist family took the initiative to attack, was it considered a violation of the non-attack and neutrality?

This must be asked clearly.

Since the troubled times of the Spring and Autumn Period, there are always things to tear up the covenant, and everyone is used to it.

But one thing is that the law of the Mohist school does not come from the emperor, but from their morality. Therefore, if the Mohist school publicly stated that the Mohist school would not borrow the road from the Song State if it took the initiative to attack, then according to the current experience, the Mohist school really would not borrow the road.

This is a moral issue and is no longer important to the princes. Anyway, all the faces have been torn apart. At the funeral of the Zhou emperor, the princes can curse the emperor's envoy "Your mother is a maid", but morality is very important to the Mo family.

Since the Mo family envoy said that Song Jun and Zheng Jun were not Mo, and they were not attacking the alliance or killing the unrighteous alliance, the Mo family meant that they were telling the King of Chu: Even if we start a war, we will not leave Song.

When the King of Chu got the answer he wanted, he praised: "The capital said that there were many gentlemen in Song land. In the battle of Qi and Mo in the past, the army of Si Shang did not enter Lu because the people of Lu were innocent. There were many people in the world who laughed at the Mo family with the legacy of Song Xiang, but I thought that Qinzi was the true gentleman."

That induce Qi to join the country through Lu was a strategy to lure the enemy into depth, but in the end, the Mohist school had defended the meaning of "non-attack alliance" and did not choose to enter the Shandong war. It had accumulated enough foundation in terms of credibility.

If we do not borrow the country of Song, then the chance of Mo Chu going to war is much smaller. The King of Chu never considered the possibility of the Mo family replicating the strategy of Wu Zixu and Sun Wuzi back then.

Because the external environment does not allow it.

Wu Zixu's plot back then was very risky. Not counting as the external environment, but even the situation back then was extremely dangerous.

Sun Wu's strange plan was that the elite troops broke through the three passes without caring about the rear of Chu State and penetrated into Jianghan, which was very dangerous for later generations Deng Ai to sneak through Yinping.

Because the main force of Chu was still there at that time, if the Wu army had directly cut off its retreat, it would not be a scheming of eternal strategies, but a turtle in a jar.

Besides, even if the plot was successful and he smuggled through the three levels, the father of the good dragon, suggested a big circumvention, attacking him from front and back, and completely destroying Wu Zixu.

However, the Chu State was severely divided at that time, and the nobles fought for power, and their troops belonged to the various nobles. It was really "fighting for labor and robbing the merits as fast as the wind, and surrounding Xu Rulin. Burning, killing, robbing, invading, like fire, and friendly troops remain as fast as mountains when they are in trouble."

When Shen Yinshu was surrounding his disciples, Zichang thought to himself that if you succeeded in encircling, wouldn’t the credit be yours? So he ignored the strategy and did not wait for the Right Army to compete for the credit, and he rushed to the main force of Chu State and killed the surrounding friendly forces.

Even Wu Zixu and Sun Wuzi won this battle, they were afraid of it. If they really followed Shen Yinshu's idea, the main force of the Wu army would be suffocated to death on the Jianghan Plain, and the Wu Kingdom would be destroyed.

But although the Chu State is still full of vassals, the King of Chu still has at least an elite army in his hands. Chen and Cai’s direct jurisdiction can easily go south to encircle the rear; Shenxi’s army is still a main field army of Chu State; Chu State moved south, and during the Chu Mo honeymoon period, Chu State also built the city defense of the capital, which made the King of Chu very confident in the internal situation: although the field battle cannot be won, he can choose to drag it until the troops gather and surround it.

The external environment was even more different. When Chu State was too dodged, it was the attacking side, and regarded itself as a barbarian. It fought with the Xia Dynasty and forced a second Zhaoling Alliance to participate in. Wu Jin was in the honeymoon period, and the main forces of Chu State were all fighting against Jin State, which allowed Wu State to enter the country in one fell swoop.

This is also the reason why the King of Chu never worried that the Mo family would replicate the strange strategy of Sun Wuzi: Can the Mo family and Wei form an alliance? Will the Wei dare to form an alliance with the Mo family? At that time, the Song State was still in Xiaoqiang, and it was a tribute state of Jin State. Now the Mo family is on Si, and may be stabbed by Wei Han at any time. The Mo family has no courage to make the three-level strange strategy.

In this way, the non-attack alliance actually included most of the three thousand cyclical countries except for the heroes. Wei State, as a vassal of Wei State, would not participate, and Song, Lu, and Zheng State would participate.

Without relying on the road, the King of Chu could easily judge the future strategic direction of the Mo family: go north instead of south.

First, the southwestern Qi area is full of fertile soil, with a large population, a rich land, and rich. Moreover, after the war in Qi and Mo, the Mo family had a strong foundation in the southwestern Qi area.

Secondly, the Mohist school has been conducting rumors that they went north to North Korea and Yan, and that they went out to sea to find the "Fusang Island" that was across the sea by Juli.

Third, the power of the Three Jin Dynasties is still strong, and there is a branch of the Mo family among the Gaoliuyun, and there is a figure of one of the seven enlightenment of the Mo family.

Fourth, the Mohist family needed horses. After the stirrups appeared, the Mohist cavalry was elite, and the southern swamps and rivers were densely spread and were not suitable for the cavalry to lose their advantages.

Fifth, Si Shang needed more plowing horses and oxen. Zhongshan was supported by the Mohist country to restore the country. The trade between the two sides has been continuous. The Mohist family is likely to open up the transportation lines of Gaoliu, Zhongshan, southwest of Qi and Si Shang, thereby connecting the northern horse-producing land with Si Shang, and preventing them from being cut off by the princes.

Sixth, if you attack Chu, you may be stabbed by Wei Han.

Seventh, if the northward strategy is successful, then the entire North China Plain and the plain area east of the Taihang Mountains will basically belong to the Mo family. With the dangers of the Taihang Mountains to defend against the princes, then the Mo family's hegemony can be achieved.

Eighth, Mo Qin had a common enemy of Wei and Han. The northward strategy could use the power of the Qin people to disperse the pressure of Wei, making it easier.

Ninety, after the Qi-Mo War, the Mo family had a broad foundation in Qi State, and the cedes Jucheng was obtained, which enabled the possibility of a two-line attack against Qi State...

All these made the King of Chu judge that the Mo family would go north instead of south. Then this non-attack and combat meeting would easily make the King of Chu think that the Mo family was preparing for the northward strategy: to go north to guard the rear, the State of Song must take it in his hands as a buffer.

Based on this judgment, this time the war would be greatly beneficial to the State of Chu. Give up the Song Dynasty and protect Zheng, even if they take the needs of each other with the Mo family, they could lead to the north, so that the State of Chu would have a more favorable external environment to complete changes.
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