There is not much sulfur, although the tactical system of the Chu army is not based on artillery, and gunpowder is mostly used for siege cities, but without sulfur, the divisions and brigades will not be able to allocate the planned artillery. Thirty divisions have 16 guns each, that is, 480 guns, and these guns are equipped with 200 rounds of ammunition per gun, which requires 480 tons of gunpowder, a gap of 330 tons.

In the case of foot soldiers, one fleet of seamen (five Chaos class) costs 280 tons of gunpowder, and two are 560 tons. Xiong's idea was to build three. Minus what was already equipped, there was a shortage of five hundred and sixty tons of gunpowder. In addition to infantry and sea soldiers, there are also workers, there are always some passes that need to be blasted, and the Armaments Department must reserve 1,000 tons of gunpowder, otherwise it will endanger national security.

It is extremely expensive to buy 120 tons of sulfur for 30 million drachmas, which is 120,000 gold when measured by the comparison of gold and silver in East Asia, but there is no guarantee that sulfur will be obtained by other means, and no one dares to joke about national security. Besides, the money was earned and robbed, and it was not distressing to spend it.

Compared with gold and silver, Xiong Jing was worried about time and the robbery of the Qin State. The Qin State had already occupied Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County, and as long as they sent cavalry, they could sweep the grasslands north of Yinshan Mountain and prevent the east from connecting with the west—the scribes of the Great Sima Mansion had finally read the slip on witch medicine, and since the Qin people knew that gunpowder contained sulfur, they would definitely think of preventing the Chu State from obtaining sulfur. Shen Jin, who was in charge of intelligence in Xizhou in the Operations Division, believed that Seleucus' seizure of the Chu State Sea Boat may have something to do with it.

The palace is sleeping, and the sale of arms and raw materials related to the security of Chu State is basically negotiated; In the Lantai Palace outside the city, the Taifu Kong Qian, who was dressed in court clothes, got out of the car tremblingly under the support of his son Kong Yan, and climbed the stairs into the Ming Hall. Song Yu in the Ming Hall saw him coming, and stepped forward with his son Song Yi, and the two pairs of father and son met each other with courtesy, and only after the ceremony did they retreat to speak.

The first to speak was Kong Qian, who said helplessly: "Ruzi...... Not teachable either. ”

Kong Qian had hope for Xiong Jing, and Song Yu, who knew Xiong Jing better, had already given up on treating him. Song Yu heard this: "The Chu people call themselves barbarians, and they have been fighting against the Zhou people for hundreds of years. However, due to the political turmoil, what Yingdu did was not done in all counties and towns across the country, so today's king ......"

The Song family is not the surname Mi, but the surname Ji, and the ancestor of Song Yu is Song, the son of Zheng Guo. Gongzi Song is very unfamiliar, but 'index finger moves' and 'dye in Ding' have been passed down to future generations. Gongzi Song was Zheng Guo's minister at that time, and Chu sent a turtle to Zheng Linggong, Zheng Linggong deliberately gave Gongzi Song a soup, and Gongzi Song was involved in Ding. The angry Zheng Linggong wanted to kill his son Song, and when the son Song heard the news, he killed Zheng Linggong first.

After this incident, Gongzi Song was killed, and his descendants left Zheng and moved into Chu, with Song as their clan. At this time, the state of Chu was in the reign of King Zhuang, and King Zhuang, who advocated the etiquette and music of the Zhou people, worshiped Song Lu, the son of his son Song, as a doctor, and the Song family was inherited from today.

In the 800th year of the Chu State, King Wu began to abandon the Ao system under the clan pattern, learn the Zhou system, implement the royal system, and improve the state machine; Zhuang Wangqi abandoned the clan culture and comprehensively studied the culture of the Zhou people, trying to get rid of the identity of barbarians. As a participant in the whole process, the Song family was clear about the Zhouhua of the Chu State. It was precisely because he understood the process of the Zhouhua of the Chu State that he not only couldn't understand Xiong Jing, but was completely disappointed. He didn't think that Kong Meng's ideals could be realized in Xiong Jing.

"The world is in turmoil, when will the people of Li be able to live in peace and enjoy their work?" Although Song Yu was consoling, his unslackening attitude made Kong Qian unhappy. "Jun is the Taifu, the king doesn't teach, and you and I are at fault."

"The king doesn't take the Taifu as the Taifu, the king doesn't believe in our childish words, and the king can make up a better deceptive reason casually......" Song Yu quoted Xiong Jing's words when he looked at the court today, and he felt that these two sentences were said to himself and Kong Qian. What can you and I do? Taifu wants to kill the king's ear? ”

"Killing a king is a disorderly ceremony, how can it be done." Kong Qian was shocked when he encountered a poisonous snake, and immediately refused.

"If we don't kill the king, what can we do?" Song Yu said with a smile. "The world is not one in Qin, but one in Chu. The Qin people already have Xunzi, but the king does not want to abandon the Chu State and go down for a day, even if it is a day, it is also heavy on martial arts and light on literature, and martial arts are respected. In such a world, there will be endless battles and attacks. According to my Confucianism, the king takes gifts instead of benevolence, and treats the people as slaves and dogs. ”

"Why don't you make people beat the drums again?" Kong Qian understood what Song Yu meant, so he asked.

"If you make someone beat the drums again, the king will beat them, what is the use?" Song Yu asked rhetorically. Seeing that Kong Qian was still unwilling, he said again: "The affairs of the royal court are indeed the affairs of the king's family, and they use this to beat the drum of the road gate and pass by." Do you really think that the king doesn't kill? ”

"If the king kills someone, the world knows that he is unkind, and he must abandon him." Kong Qian said to himself.

"It is indeed unkind for the king to kill people, but the king is a hundred times more benevolent and righteous than the Qin people, does the world abandon the Qin people?" Song Yu asked rhetorically. As he spoke, he looked at Kong Qian, worried that he was already old and confused. In ancient times, we competed in morality, in the Middle Ages, and in today's struggle. Force is the foundation of the world's belonging, rule or not, and benevolence and righteousness are just Confucianism's united front tools to the outside world. As a united front worker, it is necessary to clearly distinguish oneself from the tools, to know the essence of the tools of the united front, and not to believe what we want others to believe.

"So what?" Kong Qian is not old and confused, he is just unwilling.

"The king's wedding is coming." Song Yu talked about something that had nothing to do with it. "The king loves the princess very much, and will make the princess the queen, and the son born to the princess should be the prince......"

"Prince?" Kong Qian was stunned, starting from the crown prince is indeed a road, but this road is too long.

"Then there's the school house and the newspaper." Song Yu said, "If tens of millions of students know benevolence and inhumanity, the whole country should be benevolent." ”

"However, the power of the school is not in the Zhu clan but in the honor, how can the students know the benevolence? The literary attendant was no longer selected a few years ago, and the students were proud of martial arts and ashamed of literature. Kong Qian recounted the harsh reality.

The political system of Chu and the talent promotion and selection mechanism of Chu have been changed to be centered on martial arts rather than literature. The political system determines that there is no way for the literati to regain state power, and once the current group of civil servants dies of old age, the military generals who hold power will maintain the political tradition and selection mechanism of taking pride in martial arts, and this replacement process will take place during the period when Xiong Jing is king.

"And now Yang Zhuzhi is talking about Yingguo," Kong Qian's account is not over, "everyone does not pluck a hair and benefits the world, but only asks everyone to benefit themselves without losing a single hair." With such fallacy, how can a king rule the world?

Since this year, the school has opened a famous school class, saying that 'horses are not horses, and they are far from Jianbai', deceiving the fools, and I have asked the king to no avail. That Qi Wuzi has a huge amount of money from the king, and wants to run a newspaper of famous learning, and this newspaper will be published with Yang Zhu's newspaper next month......"

Unlike Song Yu, who cared about the future of the Song family, as the seventh grandson of Confucius, Kong Qian has always grasped the string of school struggle very tightly. The doctrine of the state of Chu is actually very chaotic, and there are also people in the Lantai Palace who hold the doctrine of Legalism (of course, this person claims that the purpose of studying Legalism is to study the Qin state), but in general, Confucianism and Taoism are still the mainstream, and the Mohists are mainly in the Song Dynasty.

And the whole world is still the world of Yang and Mo.

The war is fierce, the heavier the tax, and the propertied people believe in Yang Zhu - if the propertied people in the world do not pay taxes, then the nations will have no money and food to fight, and the world will be peaceful;

The war is fierce, the livelihood is more and more embarrassing, and the proletarians all believe in the Mohists - if the nations all believe in the Mohists and non-attack, then the world will be peaceful. And if the monarch and the propertied people know and love, then their livelihood will also be settled.

In the fiercely war-torn Sanjin region, there was no market for Confucius's rebuilding of Lile and Mencius's 'people are precious'. The former is obviously not credible, because Lile has always collapsed and has never improved; The latter is clearly impossible. Meat eaters despise, how can it be that 'the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light'? No matter how many common people die, the kings and nobles are still extravagant.

Originally, Confucianism and Taoism were the mainstream of the Chu State, because of Xiong Jing's words of 'don't have the whole body, rather than die', Yang Zhuzhi said that he immediately invaded the south, first the northern city of Daliang controlled by the Chu State, then Chen County, and then went deep into Yingdu along the Rushui;

In addition to Yang Zhu, there are also famous artists. Famous artists are mainly Gongsun Long, Yin Wen and others. Gongsun Long was once a disciple of Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, and his disciple Qi Wuzi was invited by Taibu Guan to live in Yingdu, but Qi Wuzi fell silent when he entered Yingdu. It wasn't until a few months ago, when a textbook on Mingxue was published to teach students how to sophistry, and it was rumored that Mingxue classes were offered in the fourth grade of schools across the country, that Kong Qian discovered that famous scholars wanted to compete with Confucianism for students. In the past few years, it was obscure, and that was because the famous family cultivated a group of famous students in the witchcraft.

Speaking of these things, Kong Qian even had a feeling that Confucianism was about to perish. Confucianism pays attention to 'monarchs, ministers, fathers, and sons', but Yang Zhu has no monarch; although famous scholars do not speak politics, famous scholars are sophistry. Confucianism is not meticulous, and the words of the sages can be understood only by famous scholars, or by loopholes. For example, the first chapter of the textbook of famous studies is "The Fallacy of 'Those Who Have Attained the Tao Have Many Helps, and Those Who Have Lost the Tao Have Little Help'", which is almost to hang Confucianism and beat it.

Kong Qian was worried about the survival of Confucianism, Song Yu was worried about the survival of the Song family, and the two Taifu were speechless for each other, only sighing.

"Father, there is nothing wrong with the king's courage and faith." After Kong Qian left, Song Yi, who had listened to it for a long time, didn't feel that what Kong Qian said was reasonable.

"Not fallacious?" Song Yu looked at his son, and then realized that his son had been united in the united front.

"Yes, yes." Song Yi was unconscious, and his words carried the inherent passion of young people. "My Chu country is brave and trustworthy, and the child thinks so. The world of great controversy ...... today"

"This is indeed a world of great contention, but can you stand in front of the battle, and become a scholar?" Song Yu had an expression of hatred that iron could not become steel. Since the Song family's son, Song, he has not been good at martial arts but at mental skills. "You will not become a famous man, but after the death of Nayon, you will be a common man, do you want to?"

Song Yi substituted himself into the Chu State, which was full of pride and longevity, but once he thought that he would become a commoner in the future, he was completely confused. He's young, but he's not stupid. With a blank face, he muttered, "So—What then? ”

"How?" Song Yu was also thinking about this 'how', but fortunately, he finally thought of some people, so he said: "There will be people ......"