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In early October, when the Mongol people had finished harvesting their crops in the fields in the family's township and were preparing to hold a salute with the Ge, Le, and Hua families, Meng Qi, the suzerain of the Mongol clan, received a call from Shangqiu and ordered the latter to go to Shangqiu immediately.

Shangqiu is the old capital of the Song Kingdom, not far from Jingbo, about fifty miles or so, before the Song Dynasty monarchs lived there, until the Song Pigong period, Korea invaded the Song State, the Song Pigong moved the capital to "Pengcheng", and then successively two Song monarchs who usurped the throne "Song Cuichengjun" and "Song Wangyan", all set the capital Pengcheng, no longer change.

Although Shangqiu is no longer the capital of the Song State, it is used as an auxiliary "Song Wang Yan Pengcheng regime" to govern the Song State, so whenever the Song Wangyan has any decree issued, it is often issued to the city in the west of the Song State through Shangqiu, so Meng Qi did not dare to delay, and immediately took a carriage to Shangqiu after getting the news.

Around the end of the day, Meng Qi returned to the countryside in a carriage.

Upon his return to the township, he immediately summoned several elders from the clan, including Meng Jian, Meng Yi, and Meng Yu (fēi), as well as his second son, Meng Ji, and Meng Yan's eldest son, Sima Mengqing, who was the head of the Meng clan.

After everyone arrived, Meng Qi sat on the main seat and looked around, and then said in a deep voice: "Today I went to Shangqiu and met the '丌 (qī) Guan, and I only learned at that time that the Lord Piguan not only summoned me, but also summoned the suzerains of the nearby families such as the Ge family, the Hua family, and the Le family......

The Lord Piguan in his mouth is the current head of the Piguan clan and the current county magistrate of Shangqiu City.

The surname Piguan can be traced back to the official "Piguan" who managed the "Luli", and his descendants took it as a surname and called the name of Piguan.

The wife whom the Confucian sage Confucius married at the age of nineteen was from the Song dynasty. [PS: The "rite of passage" for young women at the age of fifteen, corresponds to the "crown ceremony" for men. 】

Hearing Meng Qi's words, everyone present couldn't help but feel nervous, and they also faintly felt that this matter was unusual.

Sure enough, I saw that after Meng Qi was silent for a while, he looked at everyone present and said in a deep voice: "Lord Piguan told me that the king wants to raise troops to invade the country, and ask my families to gather their clansmen and follow the king to conquer ......."

As soon as they heard this, the faces of everyone in the room suddenly changed.

You must know that since the Song Dynasty became the king nearly 20 years ago, and in the following years, he Song launched several wars against Qi, Chu, and Wei, although these three wars were all victorious, but the Song State also paid a lot of price for it.

Later, a virtuous minister named "Hui An" (àng) appeared, that is, the nephew of Hui Zi (Hui Shi), who persuaded the Song Dynasty to abandon the military attack and rule the country with royal roads, and the Song state gradually stabilized.

And Hui Ang also became the ruler of the Song State, and is still a confidant of Song Wangyan to this day.

Unexpectedly, only more than ten years later, Song Wangyan decided to attack other countries again, which made everyone present, including Meng Qi, worried.

After a moment of silence, Meng Hu's grandfather and former member of the Meng clan, Sima Mengyi, asked in a deep voice, "What country do you want to destroy?" ”

Meng Qi replied, "Teng Guo." ”

"Teng Guo?"

Everyone in the room glanced at each other, and they all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

What they were most worried about was that Song Wangyan was as desperate as he had been at the beginning to wage war against the powerful countries such as Qi, Wei, and Chuna.

The Central Plains has always only bullied the weak with the strong, that is, the strong country attacked the weak country, but in the Song State, there was no lack of deeds of the weak to defeat the strong, such as the Song State and the Chu State during the Song Xianggong period, and then for example, the current Song Dynasty Wang Yan period, the Song State attacked the Qi State, the Chu State, and the Wei State one after another, and the limelight can be said to be unique for a while.

It is no exaggeration to say that except for the Song State, there is no contemporary country that dares to make enemies with the three great powers of Qi, Chu, and Wei at the same time.

Even the extremely powerful Western Qin State at this time still had to use Zhang Yi to implement a series of strategies of "connecting horizontal and pro-Qin" to divide the alliance of the Central Plains countries, especially the "Qi, Chu, Wei" Triple Alliance.

"Teng Guo, after the surname Ji, right? Now that the monarch wants to destroy the Teng country, isn't he worried...... Is it true? As far as I know, Teng Guo has nothing to do with his virtues, and he has not offended my Song State. ”

After being silent for a while, Elder Meng said with a frown.

Yes, the Zhou royal family divided the princes that year, and a total of 71 countries were divided, of which the descendants surnamed Ji had the most feudal states, with 53 kingdoms.

But with the changes of the years, the death of these vassal states, the destruction of the extinction, there is very little left, the most heard of is Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Qin, Wei, Lu, Song and other more than a dozen countries.

Among these vassal states, the status of the Song State is the most special and embarrassing, because although it is a vassal state canonized by the Zhou royal family, it is after Yin Shang, Yin Shang, which is a country that was destroyed by the Zhou royal family.

And Teng State, it is also the surname Ji, its ancestor is the fourteenth son of Zhou Wen King Ji Chang "Ji Xiu", the younger brother of Zhou Wu King Ji Fa, nicknamed Teng Wen Gong.

Nowadays, the king of the Song Dynasty wants to raise an army to fight Teng, which is tantamount to the Yin people attacking the Zhou people, which is easy to fall into the truth.

Some people may say that the Song State not only attacked the Zheng State, but even annexed the Cao State, and the Zheng State and the Cao State were both princes surnamed Ji.

But in fact it's different.

Zheng Guo, since the Duke of Zheng Zhuang, has had a bad relationship with the Zhou royal family, and Zheng Guo vacillated between the Jin State and the Chu State during the "Jin and Chu Hegemony" period, so it was beaten by Chu and Chu by Jin for more than 100 years, so that later Zheng Mugong simply broke the jar and made a "only strong from, Jin from Jin, Chu from Chu" The wall grass strategy, finally barely survived in the Jin and Chu hegemony, and this national fortune is also difficult.

To put it mildly, Zheng Guo was a puffed up bag at that time, and because Zheng Guo "did not lawfully respect the king and did not respect the Zhou family", it was simply very happy in the eyes of Confucian disciples - isn't this the end of "disrespecting the etiquette system"?

As for Cao Guo, it died because of himself.

During the reign of Cao Mourning Gong, the Jin state, as the overlord of the Central Plains, gradually weakened, and the Cao state wanted to get rid of the control of the Jin state more and more.

At that time, Cao Mourning Gong trusted a courtier named "Gongsun Yi" - it is said that this Gongsun Yi was very good at catching birds, so he was valued by Cao Mourning Gong and was named "Sicheng (Sikong)".

Gongsun Yi proposed a so-called hegemonic strategy to Cao Mourning Gong, which was recognized and supported by Cao Mourning Gong.

Then, Cao broke off relations with Jin and sent troops to attack Song, only to be defeated by Song, and Song also sent troops to counterattack Cao.

Originally, in the contradiction between the Song State and the Cao State, the Jin State originally favored the Song State, after all, the Song State turned to support the Jin State and resist the Chu State after the Song Xianggong failed to dominate the Central Plains, and was a solid ally of the Jin State to suppress the Chu State, unlike the Cao State that surrendered to the Chu State several times.

And this time Cao Guo died by himself, and Jin Guo simply did not even send a mediation envoy, and allowed Song to annex Cao State.

Therefore, the Song State's attack on Zheng State and Cao State actually had the support of the Jin State, the overlord of the Central Plains at that time, and it was also justified, of course, it would not be criticized by the world.

But this time Song Wangyan prepared to attack Teng, Teng did not lose his morality, nor offended Song, and rashly attacked Teng without any righteousness, which was morally untenable.

What's more, Teng is the experimental country of Confucianism's current sage "Mencius" trying to restore the "Jingtian system", and it is also the only country among the princes of the Central Plains who is still using the "Jingtian system".

Coupled with the fact that there was no powerful country like the "Jin State" to support the Song State, all in all, the Song State attacked the Teng State, and the consequences were unimaginable.

"How could Hui Ang sit idly by and watch the monarch make such a decision?" Meng Zhi said incredulously.

In his opinion, Hui An, who advocates "royal road" and advocates "rule by virtue", should not sit back and watch Song Wangyan make such a foolish decision.

Hearing this, Meng Qi frowned and said: "I also asked Lord Qiguan about this matter, as far as Lord Qiguan knows, for some reason, Hui Ang has been removed from the phase, and now the minister of state is a person named "Qiu He". Lord Qiguan guessed that it might be this Qiu He who instigated the king to attack Tengguo. ”

"Qiu He?"

Everyone in the room looked at each other, because they had never heard of the name.

Although they were reluctant in their hearts, the king's order could not be violated, unless the Meng clan tried to rebel, otherwise, they must obey the royal order of Song Wangyan and send their clansmen to fight with the king's division.

After thinking about it, Sima Mengyi of the former family asked, "Sect Master, I don't know how much Pengcheng asked my families to send troops?" ”

"Ten times the soldiers!" Meng Qi said expressionlessly.

Hearing this, the faces of everyone in the room suddenly changed greatly.

Multiplication is a kind of contemporary military system.

The so-called "one-ride soldier" is an infantry formation with a chariot as the core, including three "armor soldiers" standing on the chariot and seventy-two ordinary foot soldiers, a total of seventy-five people - among the three armor soldiers, one of them served as a "chariot officer" to command the battle, Meng Zhong's grandfather Meng Shu and father Meng Qu, who had been serving as "chariot officers" during their lifetimes.

If the soldiers of one vehicle are seventy-five, then the soldiers of ten vehicles are seven hundred and fifty people, and it is no wonder that the faces of everyone in the room have changed drastically.

Of course, although Peng Cheng asked a big family like the Mengshi clan to send ten times the troops, it should not be a real number, and if the Monte clan sent seven or eight times the army, in fact, it would not be punished.

Moreover, not all of these clan soldiers sent out require Montessori children, such as using domestic slaves and homeless people, in fact, it is also allowed, otherwise, there are less than 750 males in the Mongol clan, how can they send ten times of soldiers?

However, on the other hand, the Montessori clan cannot all be filled with domestic slaves and homeless people, at least half of them must be Montessori children, otherwise this clan soldier will hardly have the slightest combat effectiveness.

"Let's apportionment it among each household in the clan, at least 200 clansmen, and the rest will be filled with domestic slaves and homeless people."

After explaining, Meng Qi sighed and said, "Meng Qing, you are the family Sima, and you are responsible for this matter." ”

"Yes, Sect Master." Meng Qing responded with a fist.

After a few moments, the elder walked out of the clan's ancestral house on crutches with a sad look on his face.

His Mengshi clan now has only more than 200 clansmen in total, and now the sect master asks to gather 200 clansmen, which means that each household must have one person to join the army, including his family, as well as the families of the brothers Meng Bo and Meng Zhong......