When the State of Qi asked the State of Song to send troops to attack the State of Yan, the entire Song State was immediately stunned by such a request! Soon, the whole Song Kingdom began to quickly divide into two factions, the main and the main station, for the matter of sending troops!

The main and faction, headed by Xiang Guo Huishi, supplemented by the bureaucrats represented by the famous school, the Mohist school and the peasant school behind him, strongly opposed the dispatch of troops to attack Yan!

In the eyes of the Lord and the faction, Yan and Song have no grievances in the past, and there is no enmity in recent days, the two countries are thousands of miles apart, and wanton conquest will not only make Yan and Song become enemies from now on, but also a harm to Song itself!

Yan and Song do not border, even if the Song State follows the Qi State and the Zhongshan State and wins the battle, the Song State will not have the benefit of expanding the territory, but will disturb the people! This is consuming the wealth of the Song State, and doing things for the Qi State is really worth the loss!

Speaking of which, since the Mo family and the peasant family broke away from academia and began to actually intervene in the governance of the Song State, they have a new understanding of war. Now they are no longer opposed to wars that can bring benefits to the Song State, such as the scholars and rangers in the Song State who opened up overseas on their own and brought benefits to the Song State, and the Mo family and the peasants even praised it!

Dai Yan didn't understand it at first, but then he figured it out. The Mo family and the farmer, to go deeper, are actually engineers and water conservancy experts, they are all doers, not pacifists who blindly pursue the "Virgin". They can't see any practical benefits for the matter of cutting down Yan, so they naturally want to oppose this war!

Of course, they are doers after all, and what they say about opposing participating in the war is not that they don't send any soldiers and horses, so it would be too bad to give the big brother of Qi Guo face! In their opinion, the Song State should be like the small country of Sishang, and send a thousand eight hundred people to deal with the Qi State at will, and it will be over!

For their suggestion, the main battle faction of the Song State strongly opposed it! The main station faction of the Song State was mainly based on the Yang Zhu school and the Taoqiu merchants behind it. There is actually no deep reason why these people support the war, it is nothing more than that the war can bring them benefits!

As long as the Song State sent a large army to the war, then Taoqiu's arsenal would be able to get a large number of orders, and Taoqiu's major financial institutions would be able to obtain a large amount of profits from the sale of war bonds! Although this war can't bring any benefits to the Song Kingdom, it can bring them benefits, which is enough for them to advocate war!

It can be said that the merchants of Taoqiu are now the biggest warmongers in the entire Song Kingdom! They need war for profit, and for this they don't care where it breaks out! In the past few years, the Song State has been suppressed by the Qi State, and the honest farming and development in the country have made these merchants unable to make a fortune, but they have really suffocated these people!

And in the Song Kingdom, there are still a group of people who are fighting the main battle, and this is the soldiers of the Song Kingdom. After the military reform of the Song State and the reorganization of the military system of the Song State, Dai Yan imitated the military merit system of the Qin State and set up the Song version of the military merit system. In Dai Yan's view, the military merit system of the Qin State is the original version of the military rank system of later generations!

In order to adapt to this era and not let it be too disjointed, Dai Yan almost copied the military duke of the Qin State to set up the Song State version of the military merit lord!

After having the incentive of the title, the entire army of the Song Kingdom was permeated with a belligerent atmosphere! They were eager to elevate their titles, and thus their status in the Song Kingdom!

The forces of the main peace faction and the main battle faction in the Song State have always been at odds with each other. And at such a time, it is up to Dai Yan, the monarch of the Song Kingdom, to decide!

Since Dai Yan became the monarch of the Song Dynasty and completed many reforms in the Song Kingdom, he has been able to understand more and more clearly how to be a qualified monarch! A monarch, at any time, should not easily express his opinion, so that his subordinates can see through it. And the monarch must be on the side of the majority at all times, so that he can get the support of the greatest number of people!

To be honest, Dai Yan is extremely disappointed with the main battle faction and the main peace faction in the Song Kingdom today! Because they didn't see the situation of the entire Song Kingdom clearly at all, and they couldn't stand on the overall situation of the whole world to plan for the Song Kingdom!

In Dai Yan's opinion, in this battle of cutting Yan, the Song State must participate in the war, and it is to send the main force to participate in the battle of cutting Yan! From an external point of view, in the current situation that the Song State is subject to the Qi State, if the Song State blindly preserves its strength and plays the practice of "smart people", it will make the Qi State jealous, which is actually not conducive to the continued development and growth of the Song State!

After all, now that the Qichu Alliance is unbreakable, in the face of this general trend of the world, the Song State must take the initiative to adapt, and cannot in turn let this general trend adapt to itself!

And from the point of view of the Song State itself, the Song State does need a war now. Dai Yan knew very well that the reform he implemented in the Song Kingdom was not fundamentally different from the reform of Shang Ying. The Shang Dynasty Reform Law was to build the Qin State into a war machine with the bureaucratic class as the core of rule! And Dai Yan's reform of the law was to build the Song State into a war machine with the bourgeoisie as the core of rule!

A war machine, if not involved in war for a long time, is extremely easy to rust and decay! And the war machine, only by constantly drinking the blood of the weak, can it continue to strengthen itself!

Moreover, in Dai Yan's view, although participating in the battle of Fayan could not bring practical benefits such as territory to the Song State itself, it still had great benefits for the merchant class of the Song State! The interests of the people are also part of the interests of the country.

And more importantly, in today's battle against Yan, the Song State has a moral advantage!

In any case, Dai Yan, and even his brother Zixi, are actually out-and-out usurpers! They all used conspiracy to seize the throne of the king! From this point of view, there is actually no difference between Zixi, Dai Yan and even Zizhi, who has now seized the throne of King Yan!

For Zizhi, who is also a rebel with him, Dai Yan does not have any good feelings! This may seem incredible, but it is indeed Dai Yan's true thoughts. When Dai Yan became the monarch of a country, he deeply felt this feeling of being overwhelmed by the height of the place, so it was intolerable for any possible rebellion!

At some point, he was also laughing at himself, did he count himself as evolving from a dragon slayer boy who killed a giant dragon to a new evil dragon?

The only difference between Dai Yan and Zizhi is that Dai Yan has been operating in the Song State for a long enough time, has enough strength to control the entire Song State, and Dai Yan can get the support of great powers such as Qin, Zhao, and Qi through diplomatic efforts! Zizhi's policy of concession seems to be trendy, and Confucianism touted him, but no foreign power is willing to recognize his throne, which shows that he failed in diplomacy!

Now he is an out-and-out rebel! And to deal with the rebels, if they can send troops to conscript, they can actually gain huge international prestige! For this point, Mencius has made it very clear that at such a time, sending troops to conquer Yan is indeed a good time for King Wu to conquer the Yan Kingdom!

If you can establish a reputation through the incident of cutting down Yan, it can be regarded as establishing another line of defense for the Song Kingdom!

However, as for the specific details of Fa Yan, Dai Yan, as a traveler familiar with history, although he can't know everything, but the result of it Dai Yan is extremely clear! The attack on Yan by the State of Qi must have failed, otherwise in the late Warring States period, how could King Yan Zhao restore the country and let Le Yi lead the alliance of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qi and even the major event of more than 70 cities in the Qi State?

However, the defeat of the war is actually really beneficial to the Song State! After all, the Qi State is already so powerful, if the Qi State annexes the Yan State again, and annexes the land and population of the Yan State, Dai Yan can't imagine how powerful the Qi State will be! When it really comes to that time, the Song State has such a powerful neighbor, and that is the disaster of the Song Kingdom!

Therefore, how to really get the actual benefits for the merchant class from the matter of cutting down swallows still needs to be carefully planned!

After Dai Yan had his own ideas, he began to promote his views through various channels - the Song State should participate in the battle of Yan!

And after Dai Yan deliberately walked the Song State to participate in the war against Yan, he was able to get a period of strategic opportunities, and even to obtain huge moral prestige, the voice of the entire Song State began to gradually turn to the main battle faction!

In particular, Dai Yan's so-called theory of strategic opportunity period made some famous people in the Song Kingdom feel like they were enlightened, and they realized that the situation in the Song Kingdom was so sinister, and they, as planners, could not even think of this layer! In vain, they usually boast of Zhang Yi's talent, but they can't be reused like Zhang Yi and lament. Now they really understand, it's not that Song Jun doesn't want to use them, but they are indeed mediocre people, and they can't plan for a country from the perspective of the overall situation like Zhang Yi!

This even includes the young Su Qin. As an important person in charge of diplomacy in the Ministry of Rites of the Song Kingdom, and a disciple of Guiguzi, his sources are deeper than others! He clearly knows that the conclusion of the international environment of the Song Kingdom today is actually the definition made by Song Jun himself! And the specific diplomatic plan of the Song State is directly from the hands of Song Jun!

A monarch's strategic vision is farther than his subordinates, isn't this courtier unqualified? As a result, he fell into a deep sense of guilt, so he began to study the study of vertical and horizontal science more and more, and personally referred to the game theory that Dai Yan had participated in compiling, to cultivate his strategic vision!

When the rumors in the country were completely inclined to the main faction, Dai Yan informed the King of Qi through the envoy that the Song State agreed to the request of the Qi State to participate in the battle of the Yan State, and promised that the Song State would send 50,000 troops to join the ranks of the Qi State to defeat the Yan State! It's just that a few small conditions have been added to the specific war.

First of all, it is the army of Yan, and the Qi State has the right to co-ordinate, but the specific command should be decided by the Song State itself. Secondly, the Song State participated in the Battle of Cutting Yan, and it was possible to do without an inch of land, but in the Battle of Cutting Yan, the grain, grass and ordnance materials of the entire Cutting Yan Coalition Army must open an opening for the merchants of the Song State, so that the merchants can make money from it! In the end, the State of Qi must ensure that when the State of Song is threatened by the State of Chu, it will be able to stand behind itself and contribute to itself!

For these three articles, King Qi only thought about it a little and agreed to them one by one. Since the decision to kill Yan was made by the State of Qi, the King of Qi counted the specific strength gap between the State of Qi and the State of Yan, and finally came to the conclusion that the State of Qi itself does not have the strength to destroy Yan! At such a time, the Song State, a loyal subject country, was willing to assist the 50,000 army, which was undoubtedly a huge help to the Qi State!

Therefore, after the outbreak of the Yan Civil War and the killing of Zizhi by the city of just one month, under the leadership of the King of Qi, the Qi State sent 150,000 troops, the Zhongshan State sent 80,000 troops, the Song State sent 50,000 troops, plus the 20,000 troops sent by the Sishang States, a total of 300,000 troops, under the leadership of the Qi general Kuang Zhang, began to march towards the Yan State under the banner of "setting things right and rebuilding the Yan State"!