Chapter 154: Meeting the Pool (3)
Shi Xiao was extremely happy, and felt that after sweeping away the forbearance of the past twenty years, he finally no longer had to look at the faces of the princes and find ways to survive from their contradictions.
Now that the Mohist family has come to an end, all the preparations they should make have been completed.
To take the initiative to attack and pacify the world, the troops are still insufficient, and we still need to wait for the world to change and the Chu State to have a chance of chaos. However, if the defensive counterattack severely hits all countries, it is more than enough to ensure that Si Shang will not lose it.
Now the Mohist family does not care about Hanzhong, Gaoliu, Hetao and other places. Si Shang alone is a bit like the situation of the Western Chu King during the Chu-Han dispute.
The capital was established in Pengcheng, and the troops reached Ju in the north, controlled the Song territory, and reached the Huai River in the south.
However, compared with the Battle of Gaixia, the Mo family had three great advantages. One was that the dispute between Qin and Wei was inevitable, the second was that the rebellion of Chu was close to us, and the third was that the Mo family had a deliberate plan and had no intention. Before the main forces of Wei and Han gathered together, they could first fight to cut off one of their fingers, and switch to a defensive counterattack, waiting for the completion of the Chu State.
Because the existence of Qin and the hatred of Xihe were equivalent to the critical moment when the Western Chu King and Emperor Gaozu of Han fought in Xingyang, Xiao He rebelled as king in Qinchuan in Hanzhong...
So this time, he could leave the scene unscrupulously and angrily, and then go back and start public opinion to shatter the final trust of the princes and nobles, complete the last blow to the internal fantasy faction, and make aggressive preparations for war.
A few days later.
In a newly built "travel platform", the fire is circling.
A huge round table was placed in the middle of the room.
Originally, there were differences in alliances, and there was a saying for whoever sat in any position, but today it was not possible and had to be counter-traditional.
The Mo family did not recognize the difference between superiority and inferiority. Besides, the Mo family rejected the title of Emperor Zhou back then. What is this?
In theory, this is considered a "son". The so-called barbarians are all sons, lower than the Duke and Marquis. However, Wu was also king at that time. In the end, Huang Chi would be transformed into the Xia system before he became an earl. Chu State was still alive when he played the second king and was not the King's side. The Mo family did not even have a title, but it was impossible for them to really treat them as barbarian viscounts.
And this time it is similar to the Bings Conference that year, but it is not very different.
The participants in the Second War Suppression Conference were not the princes, but the various powerful officials under the princes.
But more than a hundred years have passed, and the powerful princes of various countries have either divided the Jintian clan into the Jin Dynasty to replace Qi, or have been gradually weakened by the royal power, and they are no longer astonished as the officials' alliance back then.
In this chaotic situation, we can only follow the Mohist concept that "all ministers of heaven and all countries are equal" and center on this round table. Regardless of high and low, they are only equal with the "sovereignty" of all countries reflected by each representative.
Otherwise, there would be no way.
As if he was a good man, he was not even an orthodox scholar, let alone a minister and a prince.
But now he is not allowed to sit on the same position as Wei Chu and Han Jun, I am afraid that Wei Chu and Han himself will not agree.
If he is on par with Wei, Chu, Han, then the doctors of all countries will be dissatisfied: As for us, we are at least a doctor, and he is still a commoner, why should he sit on our heads?
Just like at the Mianchi meeting, beating drums and beats all involves national humiliation. Today, this strange alliance can only be mixed with methods, otherwise this matter would not be discussed today.
After sitting around, the performances of various countries began, and they all wanted to strive for the best interests.
The second time that year, the war would be a pattern of two super-large and strong, and the situation was that Jin and Chu would sit back and forth to compete for the sphere of influence. The State of Chu was at a disadvantage at that time and was ready to wear a dagger and wear leather armor to lift the table.
This time, the pattern of the world's "Shibition Meeting" has changed. It is no longer a two-super-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand-
Although Wei Chu fought in Yinyang, it was just to compete for priority on the negotiating table. After all, the two sides tacitly ceased to fight, and tacitly chose a war of not too large.
The only thing that exceeded Wei Han's expectations was that more than 40,000 mobile troops were wiped out, which completely caused Wei Han to completely lose the ability to attack strategically in the Central Plains and could only choose to defend.
It is not that Wei Han had only a few troops left in the Central Plains, but that there were only so many field mobile troops in the Central Plains. It would be impossible to fight and demolish the east wall and repair the west wall.
Chu took advantage, but if the Chu reforms were completed, the King of Chu would definitely seize the opportunity to annihilate the field mobile legion of Wei and Han, and once again headed to Luoyang to station in the Yellow River.
However, all Chu State wanted was a good external environment to complete reforms in order to accumulate strength under strategic contraction.
Moreover, the King of Chu also had his own judgment.
If we take this opportunity to regain Daliang, Chu State is equivalent to standing on the front line of the Mohist family going west to eastern Henan. Song State has been abandoned by Chu State, and obtaining Daliang means that if we want to stabilize Daliang, Song State must become a vassal of Chu State. If Chu State cannot do this this year, then naturally there will be no hope of regaining Daliang to block the expansion of the Mo family for Wei and Han.
Wei Han was actually panicked. First, he didn't expect that the soldiers would be treated with admiration for three days. After more than ten years of forbearance and training in the Chu State, which was suppressed by the Three Jins, the new army was so powerful; second, he didn't expect that the Chu State would fight an annihilation battle, which made Wei Han in an extremely unfavorable situation at the negotiating table.
The bottom line of Chu must be to want Xu and Yanling, so that the defense line of Chu in Zheng will be connected to the left and right, and will not be divided by Wei and Han.
Wei Han knew the bottom line of Chu, but he didn't know if Chu would increase the price after winning this big victory.
The Mohist family showed the confidence of Si Shangyishi defeating the Qi Kingdom of Yue in Chengyang, and also intimidated Qi Wei and other countries. What Wei and Han don’t know about is the true attitude of the Mohist family.
The Mohist school’s "Letter to the World" clearly states it, but Wei Han absolutely does not believe that this is the Mohist school’s true attitude.
Because it is impossible to agree now, Wei Jihan You and Gongshu Zhuo and others all believed that the Mo family was asking for a lot of money to pay it back locally.
First, he said so big, and then made a smaller request to force Wei Han to agree.
But the problem is that Wei Ji and Gongshu Zhuo have been thinking about it for half a month, but they haven't figured out what they can give to the Mo family.
It is definitely impossible for Linqiu in Chengyang to give it to the Mo family. If it is given there, the situation of Wei State in the Central Plains will be completely destroyed and it is easy for the Mo family to penetrate directly into the Yellow River.
Chengyang area is a prosperous city and the best place to gather troops to organize defenses based on the Jishui River. Giving up Chengyang Linqiu is equivalent to the Mo family who can fight if they want to fight Wei Qi at any time. It is the best place for the Mo family to gather northward.
Therefore, before this alliance was held, some consensus had been reached between Wei and Qi, and it was impossible to put pressure on the Mo family Chengyang Linqiu, and the two countries jointly used "righteousness" to put pressure on the Mo family.
The rest were no longer bordered by the Mo family. The affairs of the State of Song could have been used as a bargaining chip: to recognize the State of Song in exchange for both sides to stop the war.
But the problem is that after Wei and Han fought in Yinyang, he was no longer qualified to use Song to threaten the Mo family. Song State is already a Mo family's thing, so how can he bargain?
The current situation of Wei and Han has laid the root of disaster in the Battle of Yuguan more than ten years ago, or it has laid the root of disaster since the Wu Qi first and then the east strategy.
During the reign of Wenhou, the Wei Kingdom was strong and fought east and west. The Three Jins attacked Qi as if they were unstoppable. Yue Kingdom could still beat Qi Kingdom behind.
At that time, what Wei State wanted was the hegemony of Si Shang. Therefore, it rejected the strategy of first west and then east, and was ready to take down Daliang and take advantage of the opportunity of the prince's rebellion to get involved in Si Shang.
At that time, the Mo family had not shown the power to fight against Wei. In Wei Han's view, the enemies that the hegemony of Si Shang had to face were Qi, Yue, and Chu.
When the Three Jins attacked Qi, the combat effectiveness of Qi made Wei determine that to seek hegemony on Si Shang, Qi was a scumbag enemy.
As a result, Wu Qi's army faithfully implemented the strategy, and the Chu State was killed and injured in the battle of Daliang City.
However... Wen Hou passed away, Wu Qi's army was recalled outside, giving up the opportunity to seize the victory, which only made the prince restore the country.
The Mo family took advantage of the opportunity of Wei and Chu to fight, defeated Yue and regained the hegemony of Si Shang from Yue. At that time, Qi was still licking the wounds of the Three Jins attacking Qi, and at the same time dealing with a series of problems that the Tian family used to replace Qi.
Once the opportunity is missed, it is hard to get it again. The Mo family took advantage of the war between Wei and Chu to drive away Yue and gained hegemony in Si. Chu was beaten up by Wei and quickly turned into an alliance with the Mo family.
The opportunity of Wei State was lost. Zhao State was dissatisfied with the fact that Wei State had many difficulties at the beginning and took Zhao State as a gun envoy. Zhao State did not send troops in the battle of Daliang City: I charged forward in the war, and when I was sharing the spoils, I was not allowed to enter the Central Plains. When Wenhou was there, I had to obey. If Wenhou died, you Wei strike was what?
Wu Qi retreated, while the Wu people on the other side made abnormal movements, and the Yue Kingdom could not stand the entire contraction and retreat southward. After filling the hegemony vacuum in Si Shang, the Mo family quickly formed an alliance with the defeated Chu Kingdom.
The State of Chu was a blessing in disguise. In the battle of Daliang City, it killed so many nobles that the King of Chu had always wanted to kill, giving the State of Chu a chance to centralize reform.
Then Wei Zhao turned against him, Zhongshan restored the country, Chu pacified Chen Cai, and the Mo family took the opportunity to stab Wei.
Until now, Daliang City is in the hands of Wei, and Song State is really a place where Chu State, which is determined to strategically shrink and reform first. If Daliang is still in the hands of Chu State, Chu State would definitely interfere in this time of Song State coup, but the root of disaster was buried more than ten years ago. At this time, Chu State could not do its best for Song State.
Then the Mo family forced South Korea to attack Zheng State. Wei State thought that South Korea's ally was more reliable than Chu State, so they also divided Zheng State together. The Mo family made a battle of Yinyang for Yunqi and Yu, which completely lost the initiative in the Central Plains.
Now I can't even get the chips on the negotiating table.
The only bargaining chip in his hand was the ones under house arrest in Xinzheng, so they dared not kill or move, and they served them with delicious food and drink.
That's not necessarily enough. Wei State was already wondering whether to "return" several cities south of Xiangling to the Song State in exchange for the Mo family handing over Chengyang Linqiu, and by the way, the Chu State was nervous about the expansion of the Mo family in the Central Plains.
Chapter completed!