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In early October, when the Mongols had finished harvesting crops in the fields in the family towns and were preparing to hold a sausage ceremony with several major families such as Ge, Le, and Hua, the sect leader of the Mongols, received a call from Shangqiu and ordered the latter to go to Shangqiu immediately.

Shangqiu is the old capital of the Song State, not far from Jingbo, about fifty miles away. Previously, all the monarchs of the Song State lived there. Until the time of the Song Dynasty, when South Korea invaded Song State, Song State moved the capital to "Pengcheng". After that, two Song monarchs who had expelled the throne, "Song Tichengjun" and "Song Wang Yan" who both established their capitals in Pengcheng and were no longer changed.

Although Shangqiu is no longer the capital of the Song State, it is used as a supporter for the "Song Wang Yan Pengcheng regime" to govern the capital of the Song State. Therefore, whenever Song Wang Yan issued any decrees, they often issued them to the cities in the western part of the Song State through Shangqiu. Therefore, Meng Yan did not dare to delay, and immediately took a carriage to Shangqiu after receiving the news.

About the hour of Xu, Meng Qi returned to the township in a carriage.

After returning to the township, he immediately summoned several elders from the clan, including Meng Jian, Meng Hu, and Meng Fei. In addition to participating in the meeting, his second son Meng Wu and Meng Hu's eldest son, Sima Mengqing, the family of the Meng family.

After everyone arrived, Meng Yi sat in the main seat and looked around, then said in a deep voice: "Today I went to Shangqiu and met "Master Wei (qī) Guan". It was only then that Master Wei (qī) had not only summoned me, but also summoned the sect leader of the nearby families such as Ge, Hua, and Le..."

The Lord Weiguan he mentioned was the current head of the Weiguan family and the current county magistrate of Shangqiu City, with the accumulation of Weiguan.

The surname Wei Guan can be traced back to the official who managed the "hailing ceremony". His descendants were therefore named the surname Wei Guan.

The wife whom the Confucian sage, Confucius, married at the age of nineteen, was from the Weiguan family of the Song Dynasty. [PS: The hairpin ceremony, which is the "coming-coming ceremony" of a young woman at the age of fifteen, corresponds to the "crown ceremony" of a man.]

When everyone present heard Meng Zhi's words, they couldn't help but feel that this was unusual.

Sure enough, Meng Yi looked at everyone present after pondering for a while and said in a deep voice: "Master Wei Guan told me that the king wanted to launch an army to attack the country, and asked me to summon the clans and follow the royal army to fight..."

When everyone in the room changed their expressions.

You should know that since the Song Wang Yan was called king nearly twenty years ago, in the following years, the Song State launched several wars against Qi, Chu and Wei State. Although all three wars were won, the Song State also paid a considerable price for it.

Later, a wise minister named Hui'an (àng) appeared, and the nephew of the same clan of Huizi (Hui Shi), persuaded Song Wangyan to give up the attack of military force and instead govern the country by the king's way, and the Song State gradually stabilized.

Hui Ang has therefore become a counselor in governing the country of Song State, and is still a confidant of Song Wang Yan.

But unexpectedly, after only a dozen years, Song Wang Yan decided to attack other countries again, which made everyone present, including Meng Qi, feel worried.

After a long silence, Meng Hu's grandfather, Sima Meng Hu, the former family of the Meng family, asked in a deep voice: "Which country do you want to attack?"

Meng Zhi replied: "Tengguo."

"Tengguo?"

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

What they were most worried about was that Wang Yan of Song was in a desperate manner as before, and powerful countries such as Wei and Chu went to war.

In the Central Plains, there were only strong bullying the weak, that is, strong countries attacking weak countries. However, in Song, there were many deeds of using weak to attack strong countries. For example, during the reign of Duke Xiang of Song, Song had dominated the Chu State, and for example, during the reign of Wang Yan of Song, Song State, attacking Qi State, Chu State, and Wei State, and the limelight was unparalleled.

It is no exaggeration to say that except for the State of Song, there is no country in contemporary times that dares to engage in evil with the three major powers of Qi, Chu and Wei at the same time.

Even the extremely powerful Qin State in Xique at this time still had to use Zhang Yi to implement a series of "connecting with Qin" strategies to differentiate the alliances of the Central Plains, especially the "Qi, Chu and Wei" three-nation alliance.

"Teng State is the descendant of Ji's surname? Now the monarch wants to attack Teng State, don't he worry about... Is the population achievable? As far as I know, Teng State has no morals and has not offended our Song State."

After a while of silence, the elder Meng Fei frowned and said.

Yes, the Zhou royal family divided the princes into vassals, and a total of 71 countries were divided into vassals, among which the descendants of the Ji surname had the most vassals, including fifty-three countries.

But as time goes by, these vassal states are destroyed and destroyed, and there are few left. The most heard of are more than a dozen countries including Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Qin, Wei, Lu, and Song.

Among these vassal states, Song has the most special and embarrassing status, because although it was a vassal state enthroned by the Zhou royal family, it was a country that was destroyed by the Zhou royal family after the Shang Dynasty.

Teng Kingdom is also the descendant of the Ji surname. Its ancestor was the 14th son of King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, and the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa, and was posthumously named Duke Wen of Teng.

Nowadays, when King Yan of Song wanted to launch an army to attack Teng, this was tantamount to the Yin people attacking the Zhou people, it was easy to make a statement.

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

But in fact, this is different.

Zheng State, since Duke Zhuang of Zheng, has had a bad relationship with the Zhou royal family. During the "Jin and Chu battle for hegemony", Zheng State was swaying between Jin and Chu. Therefore, it took more than a hundred years to win Jin and Chu, and even later Duke Mu of Zheng simply gave up and formulated a fence-bearing strategy of "only follow the strong, Jin comes from Jin and Chu comes from Chu". Finally, he survived the battle for hegemony between Jin and Chu, and the country's destiny was also difficult.

To put it bluntly, Zheng State was a scoundrel at that time, and because Zheng State "illegalizes the previous kings and disrespects the Zhou Dynasty", its attack was simply awesome to the eyes of Confucian children - isn't this the end of "disrespect to the etiquette system"?

As for Cao State, it is because it is committed suicide.

During the reign of Duke Cao Dao, Jin, as the overlord of the Central Plains, gradually weakened, and Cao became increasingly interested in getting rid of Jin's control.

At that time, Duke Cao Dao trusted a minister named "Gongsun Qi" - it is said that Gongsun Qi was very good at catching birds, so he was respected by Duke Cao Dao and was named "Sicheng (Sikong)".

Gongsun Qi proposed a so-called dominance strategy to Duke Cao Dao, which was recognized and supported by Duke Cao Dao.

Then, Cao State cut off its relations with Jin State and sent troops to attack Song State. As a result, the troops sent were defeated by Song State, and Song State also sent troops to counterattack Cao State.

Originally, in the conflict between Song and Cao, Jin was favored by Song. After all, since Duke Xiang of Song failed to dominate the Central Plains, Song turned to support Jin and resisted Chu. He was a solid ally of Jin to suppress Chu. Unlike Cao, who surrendered to Chu several times.

This time, Cao State was killed by himself, and Jin State simply stopped sending messengers to mediate, allowing Song State to annex Cao State.

Therefore, when Song State attacked Zheng State and Cao State, they were actually supported by Jin State, the overlord of the Central Plains at that time, and they were also legitimate, so of course they would not be criticized by the world.

But this time, Wang Yan of Song was preparing to attack Teng. Teng had neither lost his morality nor offended Song. It was morally untenable to attack Teng without any righteousness.

What's even more terrible is that the Teng Kingdom is a test country where the Confucian sage "Mencius" tried to restore the "well-field system" and is also the only country among the princes of the Central Plains that still use the "well-field system". The Song Kingdom attacked Teng Kingdom for no reason and would inevitably offend Confucianism.

In addition, there was no strong country like the "Jin State" to support the Song State. In short, the consequences of Song State attacking Teng State were unimaginable.

"How could Hui'en sit back and watch the monarch make such a decision?" Meng Jian said in disbelief.

In his opinion, Hui Ann, who advocates "kingdom" and advocates "virtue governance", should not sit idly by and watch Song Wangyan make such a confused decision.

Hearing this, Meng Qi frowned and said, "I have also asked Lord Qi Guan about this. As far as Lord Qi Guan knows, Hui Ann has been removed from the position of prime minister for some reason. Now the person who serves as the prime minister is a man named "Qiu He". Lord Qi Guan guessed that it might be this Qiu He who instigated the king to attack Teng Kingdom."

"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 should not be violated. Unless the Meng clan attempted to rebel, they must obey the orders of Wang Yan of Song and send their clan members to fight with the royal army.

After thinking about it, Sima Mengjun, the former family asked: "Sect Master, I wonder how many troops Pengcheng asked my family to send?"

"Ten soldiers!" Meng Zhi said expressionlessly.

Hearing this, the people in the room suddenly changed their expressions.

Cheng is a modern military system.

The commonly known as "one-car soldier" is an infantry organization with a chariot as the core, including three "armors" standing on the chariot and seventy-two ordinary infantrymen, a total of 75 people - among the three chariots, one of them served as the "car officer" to command the battle. Meng Zhong's grandfather Meng Shu and his father Meng Qu served as "car officer" during their lifetime.

There are seventy-five soldiers in one vehicle, and then there are seven hundred and fifty soldiers in ten vehicle vehicles. No wonder the faces of the people in the house changed drastically.

Of course, although Pengcheng requires each big family like the Montessori tribe to send ten hordes of troops, it should not be a real number. If the Montessori tribe sends seven or eight hordes of troops, it will not be punished.

Moreover, not all of these sent soldiers require the children of the Meng family. For example, they are allowed to use domestic slaves and refugees. Otherwise, there would be less than 750 male soldiers in the Meng family. How could they send out ten soldiers?

However, on the other hand, the Montessori clan cannot use all domestic slaves and refugees to make up for their numbers. At least half of them must be children of the Montessori clan, otherwise the clan soldiers would have almost no combat power.

"Let's get all the families in the clan to get a share of at least two hundred clan members. The rest will be filled with slaves and refugees."

After the explanation, Meng Qi sighed and said, "Meng Qing, you are Sima, you will be responsible for this matter."

"Yes, the sect leader." Meng Qing replied with his fists.

A moment later, the elder Meng Jian slowly walked out of the clan's ancestral house with a cane, his face full of sorrow.

The Meng family now has only more than 200 family members. The sect leader now requires two hundred people to gather and spread them out equally, which means that one person in each household must join the army, including his family, Mengbo and Mengzhong brothers...
Chapter completed!