The "Gongshu clan" that Qiu Liang, a master of the Mohist family, thought of, is the Gongshu clan that was once in charge of craftsmanship in Lu State. It is also the representative figure of its family after the Ji surname. The only one in the representative figure of its family is "Gongshu Ban", also known as Gongshu Pan, Banshu, Gongshuzi, which is the well-known "Lu Ban".

Gongshu squad was born in the Gongshu family of the craftsman. In his life, he invented many tools such as saws, curved rulers, ink buckets, stone mills, and other tools, and invented methods of digging wells in mountainous areas. He even invented war weapons such as cloud ladders and hooks. He is known as the founder of craftsmen.

When Gongshuban was born, the country of Lu was still controlled by the "Three Huans" - namely the Mengsun family, Shusun family and Jisun family. These three families originated from Duke Huan of Lu, Shuzi, and Jizi, the second, third and fourth sons, except for Duke Huan of Lu who could inherit the throne.

At that time, the Three Huans of Lu were dictatorial and manipulated state affairs, but the office had begun to counterattack: Duke Zhao of Lu attacked the Ji family and was defeated by the Three Huans and fled to other countries; Duke Ding of Lu used Confucius to fight against the Three Huans but drove Confucius out of the Lu State by the Three Huans; Duke Ai of Lu once again defeated the Three Huans again; Duke Dao of Lu's representative office defeated the Three Huans for the third time but failed again; Duke Yuan of Lu attacked again, and it was not until the Duke Mu of Lu that the office defeated the Three Huans again, and the power of the country was re-established.

The Gongshu Ban was born during the reign of Duke Zhao of Lu, and personally experienced the first half of the domestic office's struggle with the Three Huans for a hundred years.

When the Gongshu Ban was about 50 years old, his family could not bear the struggle between the office and the Three Huans, so he took his family away from Lu, defected to Chu, and defected to "King Hui of Chu, Xiong Zhang".

The father of King Hui of Chu, Xiong Zhang, was "King Zhao of Chu, Xiong Ren", and his ancestor was "King Ping of Chu".

King Ping of Chu was confused and killed the family of Wu She, who forced his son Wu Zixu to flee to Wu and assisted King Helu of Wu to retaliate against Chu. This led to the frequent attacks of Chu by the State of Wu after King Zhao Xiong Ren ascended the throne, and then Wu became the overlord country.

After King Zhao of Chu passed away, King Hui of Chu Xiong Zhang succeeded to the throne. He married the daughter of King Goujian of Yue and joined forces with Yue to fight against the Wu Kingdom. At that time, King Helu of Wu was dead and his son Fuchai succeeded to the throne.

It was during this period that the Gongshu Ban took his family to settle in Chu State.

At that time, Gongshu Ban invented a water war weapon called "Houjue" for Chu State, helping Chu State warships defeat Wu State warships.

Later, Wu was destroyed by King Goujian of Yue. As an ally of Yue, Chu finally got rid of the nightmare of Wu and launched an offensive against Song in the north.

At that time, Gongshu Ban invented the "cloud ladder" for Chu State, preparing to be used in the war to attack Song State.

However, at this moment, Mozi (Ji Mozi), the first generation of the Mo family, was in Chu State. When he learned that Chu State was preparing to attack Song State, which had not lost its virtue, he came forward to dissuade the King of Chu and told the King of Chu that even if there were strange things like Yun Ladder, it would not be easy for Chu State to attack Song State.

The King of Chu and Gongshu were not convinced, so Mozi and Gongshu squad practiced a siege outside the city, with Mozi leading his disciples to defend the city, while Gongshu squad used the ladder as the side of the siege.

During this exercise, Mozi defeated the Gongshu team, and finally made the King of Chu change his mind and give up attacking the State of Song.

From this moment on, Gongshu and the Mo family were considered to have a erectile squad.

Of course, Gongshuban himself had no grudges and conflicts with Mozi, because Gongshuban passed away a few years later, but his descendants could not bear the craftsmanship of the Gongshu family, and they were defeated by the Mo family.

What’s more important is that after Mozi’s death, the Mo family split into three factions, the best "Deng Ling’s Mo (Chu Mo)" among them, which was the best heroic and righteous, also remained in the State of Chu.

The Gongshu family was a family of scholars and officials in Chu at that time. Almost all the weapons of Chu were built by the family. Chu Mo's heroes often stopped Chu from attacking other countries, and sometimes they even had to face the siege weapons created by the Gongshu family. After a while, the conflict between the two families became increasingly fierce.

Later, they directly regarded each other as opponents. The Gongshu clan tried to create more powerful siege equipment to defeat the Mo family, while the Mo family studied more powerful weapons to defend the city to resist the weapons of the Gongshu clan. The two sides used the battle of Chu's attack on other countries as the battlefield and competed again and again.

It has to be said that in terms of craftsmanship, the Gongshu clan is comparable to the Mo family, but the former is a family of the same lineage, while the latter is a prominent scholar in the world and has many disciples. With the collective thinking, the Gongshu clan will inevitably gradually become no match for the Mo family, so it gradually loses the trust of the Chu State.

At this time, after the "Shang Yang Reform", Qin quickly rose and became a major concern for the Central Plains countries. Therefore, the Gongshu clan, who gradually lost power in the Chu State, moved to Qin one after another, causing the grievances between the Gongshu clan and the Mo family to come to an end for the time being.

Today, Qiu Liang, a master of the Mo family, saw the Song army's Jinglang car. This perfect siege weapon made him think of the old opponent of the Gongshu clan again, and was wary of it. After all, the Gongshu clan is a family that is very good at building offensive war weapons. If someone in the family really defected to the Song State, it would be a disaster for Tengcheng.

What's more important is that Qiu Liang couldn't think of how to restrain the Song army's "street car".

After thinking about it, he decided to discuss it with Teng Hu.

When Qiu Liang came to the Teng King Palace to see Teng Hu, Teng Hu had already pulled out the arrows on his body with the help of the palace servants. At this moment, he was naked and several young palace maids applied ointment to the wounds on his body.

I have to say that the palace servants let the arrows be removed from his body, but his face remained unchanged, and he was still drinking and chatting with the person sitting in the hall. He was truly a warrior.

And the object he talked about was his younger brother "Teng Qi (shì). [PS: The word Qi is pronounced qí now, but in ancient times, he pronounced shì, which belongs to the word Tongfa (essentially typo).]

Teng Hong, Duke of Teng Yuan, had three sons, the eldest son, Teng Hu, who was around thirty years old, and was a strong man.

The second son, Teng Qi, was four years younger than Teng Hu. He was not as powerful as his brother Teng Hu. He liked to read Confucian classics on weekdays.

The two brothers also have a younger brother named "Teng Hao", who is not yet satisfied with his twenties.

Since his father Teng Hong's death, Teng Hu inherited the country and devoted himself to uniting his subjects to fight against the Song army, while Teng Qi helped his brother deal with the country - to be precise, things in Tengcheng City, so that his brother could devote himself to the cause of fighting against the Song army.

Today, Teng Qi suddenly heard that his brother Teng Hu was caught in several arrows and was shocked. Therefore, he hurriedly ran to visit him until he saw his brother smiling calmly. While drinking, he asked the palace servants to remove the arrow clusters for him. Only then did he realize that it was a false alarm. But he still blamed the elder brother with words such as "The elder brother is the king of Teng Kingdom, so he doesn't care about himself?"

It is no wonder that Teng Hu is now the confidence of Teng’s country to resist the Song army. Most of the Teng people believe that their brave monarch will eventually lead them to repel the Song army. If Teng Hu dies, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Okay OK, I get it."

Faced with his younger brother's nagging, Teng Huhun waved his hand indifferently.

Seeing this, Teng Qi frowned and advised, "Brother, you are the monarch of my Teng Kingdom. All the people of Teng rely on you. I hope you will cherish yourself and don't take risks alone in the future... What if you have any accidents? What should I do if my brothers and the ministers of all over the country?"

Teng Hu smiled and said, "If I die, you will inherit the throne..."

Hearing this, Teng Qi glared at his brother angrily, and frightened Teng Hu quickly changed his words and said, "But don't worry, I don't die so easily... God will protect me."

Teng Qi wanted to say a few more words. At this time, a palace man came into the palace to report: "Mr. Teng, the master of the lord is asking for a meeting."

Teng Hu's expression turned right after hearing this and hurriedly said, "Fast forward."

Soon, Qiu Liang, a master of the Mo family, came to the palace. At this time, Teng Hu had put on his coat and stood up to greet him.

"Mr. Teng, the young master."

After raising his fists to Teng Hu and Teng Qi, Qiu Liang took out the cloth painted with the like of Song Jun from his arms and spread it flat on the low table in front of Teng Hu.

Seeing the well railing car on the cloth, Teng Hu asked in surprise: "This thing... is the car of the Song army today? Can the ink masters build it?"

Qiu Liang nodded and said, "Yes, it is not difficult to create this thing. If necessary, my Mo family disciple can start to create it, but this is not the purpose of my visit this time."

When Teng Hu heard this, he immediately put away the joy on his face and said quickly: "Please speak with me, please."

Seeing this, Qiu Liang said in a deep voice: "I have identified that the Song army's chariot should be improved by the invented by Mozi, the first generation of the Mo family. According to the "Mo Jing", Mozi invented this object as a movable arrow tower to assist in defending the city. But, you see, I don't know who improved the interior of the chariot so that the infantry could quickly climb the tower along the stairs inside it, and then attack the city wall with this hanging board... It has been transformed into a very terrible siege equipment. I suspect that a wise craftsman has defected to the Song State."

After a pause, he frowned and said, "Today, the Song army only used four such building cars and almost broke through the city wall. In time, the Song army will build dozens or hundreds of building cars, and then..."

"What if we also build such a building car?" Teng Qi asked in a while.

"It's not very meaningful." Qiu Liang glanced at Teng Qi and explained: "Teng City's military strength is far inferior to that of the Song army. After the moat outside the city was filled by the Song army, only the city walls left to stop the Song army. If the Song army used this object to cross the city wall, even if there were many such tower cars in the city, it would be difficult to stop the Song army. In the end, this is a better equipment than the siege."

Teng Hu was silent for a long time after hearing this, and suddenly asked, "What Juzi means is... can't he adopt the strategy of defending the dead?"

Qiu Liang nodded, but he wanted to speak but stopped.

In fact, in his opinion, it was a matter of time before the Song army mastered such a building car, Tengcheng was captured.

But he was not easy to say these words, so he said to Teng Hu tactfully: "My Mo family will do everything to help your country, but Teng Hou must make plans early."
Chapter completed!