For Chu, going to war with Wei and Han is different from a full attack on Si Shang.

The war with Wei and Han is a controllable war that can be negotiated and controlled; but if the war with Si Shang is in full swing, and with the attitude of running to Shangqiu in person, it will be an uncontrollable and unending war.

The State of Chu is not ready yet.

The people behind the Mohist negotiations, who were in charge of intelligence, were also very clear about the bottom line of this negotiation, that is, to instigate Chu to send troops, at least it would have to make the relationship between Wei, Han and Chu tense.

Not only should we instigate the Chu State to send troops, we should not rely solely on some blank checks, but also some substantial things.

The State of Chu was not short of troops. Although the quality was not good, the ones who could really fight were those county corpses and the new army of the King of Chu. However, whenever the battle was held, the actual elite soldiers were only 30,000, so Wei and Han did not send much troops, so the State of Chu was enough to deal with it.

What Chu State lacked were some of the superior troops on the Si Shang Dynasty.

For example, cavalry, artillery and engineers are what the Chu State lacks.

The Chu State had few horses, and compared with the Central Plains, they were not good at fighting chariots, nor were they good at attacking and defending cities.

In the past era of chariot warfare, all countries in the Central Plains had one chariot with four chariots, plus a maximum of one hundred vassals.

The State of Chu was a chariot with two hundred disciples.

The Chu State's ability to attack and defend cities was also very average. It was not until the Wuqi reform that the defense system of the capital of Chu State improved, keeping up with the city defense systems of the Central Plains countries.

During the previous Prince Ding Rebellion, in order to eliminate the Wei State, the Mo family also sent engineers to cooperate with the King of Chu. Both sides had experience in cooperation.

Therefore, the bottom line conditions given by the Mohist school are to send an informal cavalry of a division, four artillery companies, an engineer brigade, and a part of infantry and knights as auxiliary forces to cooperate with the Chu State to fight against Wei and Han.

In addition, the Mo family could also launch an attack on Chengyang, which was an enclave of Wei and an open space next to Wei and Si.

In addition to Chengyang, it also includes a series of cities and towns of the former Qi State, including Linqiu, which became famous at that time.

Regarding those cities, the Mohist school did not have the idea of ​​invading and direct control, at least not for the time being.

Because the overall strategy is to defend the north and attack the south, land such as Chengyang is a very bad highlight for the Mohist school.

Behind it is Jishui, the left wing is Wei State, Wei State, the vassal state of Wei State, on the right is Qi State, which has hatred with the Mo family, and on the side is Onozawa. It can be said that if you do not have the intention to take the initiative to attack, it is unnecessary to occupy this place, but it is easy to be made into dumplings.

If the troops are insufficient, it is impossible to attack north while attacking Chu State while stabilizing the situation in Chu State. Then, such protruding parts should not be controlled in their hands as much as possible.

But since we have to deceive the State of Chu and induce the State of Chu to believe that the Mo family will develop northward in the next few years, rather than preparing to replicate the strange strategy of Sun Wuzi back then, then attacking Chengyang is also an attitude.

Under this background, the negotiations with the King of Chu were quite smooth.

The King of Chu must have made some sense first, and first talk about the matters such as Zheng State taking in Prince Ding and Si Ziyang's war against Chu, saying that a country like Zheng State was really self-destructive and laid the groundwork for himself to get a piece of the pie from Wei Han in the future.

In addition to those great principles, the Mohist school also talked about the words "the lips were lost and the teeth were cold" in the battle of Jinyang to divide Wei Hanzhi.

Time waits for no one, and there is no time to talk too much nonsense, and both sides quickly got to the point.

After some negotiations, the Mo family expressed their willingness to punish Wei Han together with Chu to punish Wei Han in order to punish Wei Han.

However, after the Mohist party was in charge of the negotiations, the Chu people were a little unhappy.

These two words come from "Song of Lu". The original text is "Rong Di is Ying, Jing Shu is punished", which means that the Marquis of Lu was so brave that he defeated the northern Rong Di in the north and the southern barbarians of Chu State...

The Chu people didn't like to listen to the word "文" because although the Chu people said that I was a barbarian, they were still very honest. They were extremely sensitive to the two words "文" and the various words they derived, and they jumped at once.

Originally, the word Ying punished was often used by later generations to have some connection with the Mohist school. For example, after Su Shi was demoted, he wrote a poem by Yao and Tao Yuanming, saying, "It should be separated from Yang Mo, and he wanted to punish Jing Shu." He regards Ying punishing the barbarians and criticizing Yang Mo as two equal things - one is to criticize heretics in culture, and the other is to attack the barbarians by force.

But now the world is not yet determined, and Confucianism has been defeated by Yang Modao's three families and has not yet become orthodox. It is still unclear who is orthodox and who is heretic. That is, the word "punishment" is just because of some historical reasons.

Now the Mohist family wants to grasp the right to speak. As the Mohist, who negotiated with the King of Chu, they still have this level of culture. The reason why they say this deliberately is that they want to say that the "morality" of the Mohist family is orthodox. It is just like the punishment of unjust things like attacking barbarians. They can be punished.

The Three Jins once punished Chu, but now Chu can punish the Three Jins.

Although the King of Chu did not want to start a full war, he also knew that if the Mo family sent troops, it would be best to obtain the benefits that Chu wanted in limited war.

This time the Mohist family is full of sincerity, which is different from when the King of Chu attacked Prince Ding and pacifying Chen Cai, and this time it was a big fanfare.

An informal cavalry of a division, a certain number of field artillery, engineers who specialize in siege and build camps, and a part of elite horse-riding infantry, are all the forces that the Chu State urgently needed.

The cavalry of Chu State was very poor. The artillery of Chu State was not strong. After the Battle of Chen and Cai, Chu State had a high evaluation of the engineers on Si Shang.

All these made the King of Chu believe that it was enough to launch a small-scale battle with Wei and Han to gain some benefits.

As for how far this battle will be fought, the King of Chu avoided talking about it.

Because the Mo family only sent a portion of the cavalry and field artillery to cover the flanks, if the King of Chu did not want to fight, the Mo family would have no choice but to retreat in shame.

Besides, the supplies of the Chu State need to be provided. Although the Mo family would give some money, the transportation logistics was not arranged by the Mo family.

In addition, the main force of the Mohist family would go north to attack Linqiu, Chengyang, in the eyes of the King of Chu, which was not only a support for the Chu State, but also a verification that the Mohist family would have the intention to go north in the future.

The Mohist school actually did not talk about how far this battle would be fought and what result would be achieved - is it to restore the territory of Zheng three months ago? Or does it to restore the territory of Zheng fifteen years ago? Or does it also promote the reform of Zheng on this basis?

No one talked about it, or pretended to be careless and avoided it.

Because the Mohist school does not want to participate in this matter too deeply.

If Chu wins and wins beautifully, then the territory of Zheng can be restored three months ago, and as a neutral country, the situation in the Central Plains will be even more chaotic.

If the State of Chu also wanted to divide Zheng State and did not want to continue fighting, then the Mo family would withdraw their troops angrily: It’s not that we don’t want to uphold justice, but because our teammates were too tricky and stopped fighting. The cavalry, artillery, engineers and engineers did not have infantry, so this battle could not be fought.

After the two sides had full exchange of opinions with their own purpose, the people in charge of the negotiations of the Mohists and those in charge of surveying and mapping were discussed by the way.

The premise of Chu-Mo cooperation is that Chu State recognizes that Shangqiu is a reasonable and legal coup, rather than an unreasonable coup that requires interference.

Under this premise, it is quite unreasonable that some nobles of Chu State seized and placed under house arrest for those who were Messengers and surveying personnel.

The King of Chu himself did not want to stimulate the Mo family too much, especially in recent years, the economy and Mo family of Chu have become increasingly deeper and deeper. In addition, the Chu country itself did not want to cause trouble and start a full war with the Mo family, which made the reforms go to waste.

Just like Qin State, when Qin State was reforming, it went west to war. With stirrups, firearms, bronze cannons, the Western Rong fled in a hurry, expanded the population, increased the authority of the king, and made the lower class gain military merits and loyal to the Qin Emperor, which was conducive to the reform.

But if the reform was the most critical and violent, he would even dispatch all his troops to fight with Wei and Han to seize the Xihe River, then he would have a problem with his brain.

The same is true for Chu State. A small-scale war is conducive to centralization and the authority of the monarch; a large-scale national war will not need to change.

So the King of Chu allowed a small-scale war, and now it seems that this war is doomed to be a big deal, it can only be a local war.

Nothing else, it is possible to fight the Second Central Plains War with the Mo family, which is essentially a battle between Wei, Han, Chu and Qi against Qin Mo and Song; while it is likely that between Wei and Han, Qin, Zhao, Mo and Song Chu against Wei, Han and Qi, and Wei and Han dare not fight into a full-scale war.

Of course, it would be best if we could not start a war and rely on diplomatic activities with the Mo family and Qin to force Wei and Han to give up some of the interests.

Therefore, the King of Chu happily agreed to the Mo family's request, and repeatedly stated that the detention of Chu Mo's master had nothing to do with him, and that it was all done by those nobles.

He also vomited bitterness with the Mozhe, saying that the Chu State was big but not strong and the people were not rich because of the power of the ministers and too many monarchs.

The Mo family had always supported the reform of Chu State, and in the early stage, the Wei State was too strong and had maintained close relations with Chu State. It can be said that without the Mo family's money, weapons, and talents who were consented by the Central Committee to serve in Chu State, the reform of Chu State would not have been carried out to this extent.

Now the Mohist school actually supports the reform of the Chu State. Only by reform can the bottom class be more powerful, the legal principles of the old system become looser, and the contradiction between the old aristocrats and the monarchy can be more profound.

The Chu State, which was completed, will of course be very powerful. However, the senior leaders of the Mo family never prepared to wait for the Chu State to complete reform before going to war with the Chu State. When the reform was about to be victorious but had not yet won, the old nobles counterattacked wildly, that was the weakest time for Chu State to come.

As long as you seize the opportunity, all the things you helped Chu State reform before were actually helping the Mo family itself.

The surface support is also a kind of support.

Therefore, the King of Chu would exclaim the power of ministers in front of the Mo family envoys and enfeoffed the king too much to establish a good relationship with the Mo family, thus ensuring that the Chu State's reforms did not have an external interference environment.
Chapter completed!