Type-Moon, a human love simulator.

Chapter 161 No One Understands Me

"What I mean is, you can't save the country like this..."

Su Kai shook his head: "You two have different positions, and if you can't make the King of Chu change his position, even if you give up the King of Chu's idea of ​​invading Song today, in a few years, when you are entangled in other affairs, the King of Chu will definitely take this opportunity to attack Song."

"As for the King of Chu, if you can't change Mozi's mind, that is to say, you can't crack Mozi's city defense mechanism, then even if you talk about your aggressive behavior, it will be meaningless nonsense!"

Hearing such words, the King of Chu was not angry at all. Instead, he nodded repeatedly to agree with Su Kai's statement. It can only be said that the monarchs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were all like this. What's wrong with being criticized by a wise man?
You don't have the qualifications to be criticized!
"Su Zi is a man of great talent. Do you have any policy ideas to teach me?"

The King of Chu climbed up the ladder by following the pole. This is also a legacy of the Spring and Autumn Period. It is okay to criticize the princes and monarchs, but after criticizing them you have to give them a way out, no matter it is good or bad, you have to speak out your thoughts.

"Don't be in a hurry. Why don't you wait until Gongshuzi and Mozi have finished their discussion before asking me?"

Su Kai turned sideways, revealing Gongshu Ban, who looked dissatisfied behind him: "If I answer your question now, King Chu, then you and Gongshu Ban are both taking chances, and you might even have a problem with me."

"Why don't you wait until you are truly helpless against Mozi before asking me."

Su Kai is truly genuine and unpretentious, or in other words, he is like this no matter who he faces, and he speaks openly and honestly about his plans, but this is already an open conspiracy.

I'm not afraid that you know what I think, because even if you know it, you still have to do what I say in the end.

The key to an open conspiracy is that the other party is unable to solve the problem at hand. Even if they know everything, they can do nothing.

For example, Su Kai was very sure that Gongshuzi's mechanical skills were no match for Mozi's.

Gongshu Ban, also known as Lu Ban, is the ancestor of craftsmen who later left their names in history. He could even make lifelike dolls that looked as lifelike as real people. The saying "showing off one's axe skills in front of a master" means that showing off one's axe skills in front of Lu Ban is an act of overestimating one's own abilities.

However, Mo Di, Mo Zi, his understanding and innovation of craftsmanship are even better than Gongshu Ban. However, in addition to technology, he is also a thinker. Compared with these skills, the ideological achievements proposed by Mo Zi are more suitable to represent Mo Zi.

Gongshuzi's greatest advantage is not even ranked in Mozi's opinion, but even with this ability that is not ranked, Mozi is still better than Gongshuzi.

In today's world, it's either Mo or Yang. Is this a joke?

When it comes to the world's most prominent schools of thought, Confucianism, which would unify China's ideological and educational circles in the future, is still just a minor school compared to these two prominent schools of thought today.

However, Gongshu Ban had never competed with Mo Di before. He did not think that the mechanical engineering he had studied all his life would be surpassed by others. When he heard about Mo Di's Ten Commandments and Nine Distances mechanical engineering for defending the city, he was eager to try it out.

"My lord, why don't you let me try out Mozi's world-famous Mohist mechanical art!"

Gongshu Ban said confidently: "I have prepared a siege weapon for you, Your Majesty. I named it 'Cloud Ladder'. No matter how tall the city wall is, it cannot withstand the attack of the Cloud Ladder."

Of course he was full of confidence. The siege ladder was the first siege weapon in ancient times. It was used until the Ming Dynasty. Although there were improvements during this period, the idea of ​​Gongshu Ban's siege ladder was basically the same. It was not until the rise of artillery in the Ming Dynasty that it was completely eliminated because it could not resist artillery.

If something can be used for nearly two thousand years, you can imagine how practical it is.

But Mozi said nothing. He took off his belt and threw it lightly. It turned into a huge wall, as high as the wall of Song. He said, "Gongshuzi, please."

Mozi's mechanical device was indeed ingenious. The Ten Commandments and Nine Distances could resist all attacks, and he brought the reputation of non-attack and good defense to the extreme. In the end, Gongshu Ban was at his wit's end, but he said: "I have another way, but I won't tell you."

"I know you have another way, but my disciple has already brought my mechanical art to the Song Kingdom, and I have cracked this method as well."

Mozi's wisdom is far superior to Gongshuzi's. How can a technical geek play tricks on a leader who is in charge of administrative management?

Only the King of Chu, whether he was abiding by the rules or really had never thought of killing a sage in the country, asked in confusion: "What method?"

Su Kai explained: "The body was destroyed. Gongshuzi thought that killing Mozi would prevent his ladder from being cracked. But let's not talk about the huge impact of killing Mozi. Can a few cities of Song compensate for this loss?"

"Even Mozi himself is smarter than him. It would be strange if he didn't notice such a simple loophole."

In fact, even if Mozi came to Chu alone to criticize the King of Chu, and the King of Chu had not sent his eldest disciple Qin Huali with three hundred disciples to defend the city of Song, the King of Chu would not have killed Mozi.

Gongshu Ban was just a technical geek, so it was difficult for him to consider how great the impact would be if he killed the leader of a famous school of thought, but the King of Chu was not that stupid.

The King of Chu glanced at Su Kai and for the first time felt that Su Zi's poisonous mouth was exactly what he wanted.

If swearing loudly would not damage the image of the princes and kings, he really wanted to curse.

How deep is the hatred? Is it necessary to kill Mozi just for the destruction of a few cities?

The King of Yue once said that if Mozi was willing to serve in Yue, he would directly allocate 500 miles of land to Mozi. The King of Chu was also willing to allocate a piece of land from Chu to make Mozi a feudal lord.

This is the influence of the sage Mozi, who is a famous school of thought in the world. Even if one has not made any achievements, one can become a nobleman just by virtue of his name.

After Gongshuzi admitted defeat, Mozi did not stop there. Instead, he looked at Su Kai again. After all, Su Kai had said before that he had a way to deal with him.

Mozi thought that he had thought it through in detail. Even if Su Kai was the founder of the technique, he would not be able to crack the mechanical technique he left behind.

"Su Zi is a great talent, and now Gongshu Zi is at his wit's end. I wonder what advice Su Zi has for me?"

Mozi had a strong temper. He was a tough guy who dared to call for restraining the nobles and saving money and burials in this era. Confucius said that the one who first made clay figurines would have no descendants. He believed that it was unfilial to fool ancestors with clay figurines. Wasn't he afraid that his descendants would fool him?
But Mozi dared to persuade the nobles that it was too wasteful to bury people with the dead, so he was very disgusted with Confucianism and even wrote "Anti-Confucianism" to criticize the Confucian idea of ​​lavish burials.

"Your mechanical skills are indeed ingenious, but have you forgotten that diplomatic negotiations are the real mainstream in this era?"

If diplomacy was not so important, there would not be strategists who maneuvered among the nations, manipulated the era with the strategy of forming alliances and making the princes fearful.

Su Kai asked: "King of Chu, your Chu is a barbarian country, right?"

"..." The King of Chu blushed. Although they always called themselves a barbarian country, if anyone dared to say so, the Chu people would not let him go. But Su Kai had this attitude from the beginning. He looked down on everyone equally.

The King of Chu endured it again and again, but finally gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, I am a barbarian, I don't deserve the title of China!"

"That's it!" Su Kai pointed at Mozi and said, "You can detain him and ask Song to exchange him for a city. Mozi's value should be enough to exchange for a few cities, right?"

Seeing that the King of Chu was hesitant, Su Kai said, "Are you still dreaming that Mozi might serve as an official in Chu in the future?"

"Have you read Mohist doctrine of universal love and non-aggression? Can you nobles with barbaric ideas of frugality in spending and burials accept it? King of Chu, you and the Mohists don't get along!" Mozi was from the State of Song, so it would be strange if he was willing to work for the State of Chu.

Although the saints and wise men of various countries today go abroad to spread their doctrines and do things for other countries, they are actually very loyal to their motherland. They are not like the people of the Warring States Period who believed that a scholar would die for his friend. They would work for whoever valued their talents, even if it meant killing their own motherland.

"You are barbarians anyway, just follow their customs!"

Su Kai said lightly: "You, the King of Chu, won't have to lose troops and generals by then, which is in line with Mozi's advice to you. You won't have to use the newly-made cloud ladder to be defeated by Mozi's mechanical devices, and you can save Gongshuzi's face."

"The most important thing is that apart from Mozi being detained, no one else suffered any loss. And you, King Chu, will treat Mozi with good wine and good food, right?"

"..."

After Su Kai finished speaking, everyone looked at him strangely, as if they had seen a deus ex machina.

It is indeed a deus ex machina. Su Kai does not take the rules of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period seriously, so he does not have the knowledge and views of this era, and the form of his expression is more arbitrary.

"Su Zi's method... is indeed ingenious and impeccable. I will consider it."

The King of Chu smiled awkwardly, and then said, "I am tired, so I will take my leave first. The three gentlemen are free to do as they please."

If he really did that, wouldn't he become a barbarian?
It's not worth it for a few cities, so just pretend you know nothing and let Mozi go on his own! ——
There was indeed a mixture of humans and demons in Yingdu. The barbarians who were almost never seen in the Central Plains countries were all over the streets here. They had strange appearances, and even the most human-like barbarians did not have pure black hair.

Compared with the difference between the Anglo-Romans in Europe, both are at least human beings.

But these barbarians don't look like human beings at all.

Yes, can the things that were called barbarians in the Age of Gods be the same as the barbarians who entered the Age of Humans later?

Yu Ji, who had been watching silently, asked, "Now that the King of Chu said this, Mo Di will definitely run away..."

"The King of Chu deliberately let him run away." Su Kai glanced at her and asked, "You look like you have something to say?"

"You are different from the 'sons' of other schools?"

Yu Ji pursed her lips, thought for a moment and then said, "You are freer and more at will. You are not bound by any rules and can see through the phenomenon to the essence..."

"Yu, you have to remember that rules and regulations are used to restrain others. They are used to maintain the stability of vested interests. This is the greatest truth in the world."

Su Kai said as a matter of course: "I don't need any rules, I don't need any 'etiquette', I am the biggest rule."

"..." Yu Ji was silent. Su Kai was far more evil than Huangdi. In that era when it was natural for immortals to eat humans, Huangdi's overthrow of the immortals was a great disrespect, and he also broke the rules.

But Huangdi also abided by the new rules, unlike Su Kai, who had no rules, which made people even more frightened.

However, the freedom to have no rules at all and not care about any rules at all is a spiritual state that only the demons can achieve.

Looking at Su Kai, Yu Ji breathed a sigh of relief, and her heart inexplicably became much calmer.

Outlier. There is no doubt that Su Kai is also an indisputable outlier, an outlier that will not be accepted by others.

Although he is not an immortal yet, for Su Kai, whether to become an immortal is just a matter of thought.

Yu Ji hates loneliness and has a natural affinity for the opposite sex. Now that she follows Su Kai, it is not just a matter of blood-sucking impulse.

She couldn't help but want to know what Su Kai was thinking and what his future course of action would be.

"Su Zi, your theory is almost complete, so why haven't you finished your study tour yet?"

"Almost there!" Su Kai's eyes were filled with compassion. He said, "I think I already know how to achieve relief."

Yes, from the very beginning, he knew that there was a way to save the world, to stop the war in this world, and for everyone to live and work in peace.

"But before that, I still don't want to admit that it is the only way, so next, I will continue my research route and meet Mencius in Lu and Yang Zhu in Wei."

"Once I have seen and heard everything along the way, including the slaves, barbarians, countrymen, nobles, and the famous schools of thought in this world, I will naturally know what to do."

In other words, he always knew what to do, but was still unwilling to do it.

It's not like what Yu Ji said, Su Kai is a purely free demon, he has actually been restraining himself all the time.

After all, no one in the world understands me.
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After passing through the State of Chu, Su Kai brought Yu Ji to the State of Yue. The previous King Yi of Yue had died and was killed by his son, Crown Prince Zhu Ju, who became the new King of Yue.

But Su Kai knew that the new King of Yue would not live long.

After Zhu Ju, the State of Yue fell into civil strife for a full forty years, known as the Zhu Ju Rebellion, which caused the State of Yue to decline from its dominant position to become a second-rate small country, and was eventually annexed by the State of Chu.

Su Kai had no interest in saving the Kingdom of Yue. He didn't even care about his own country, so naturally he wouldn't care about other countries.

He came to Yue State not to meet the King of Yue, but to observe the barbarians in the territory of Yue State.

In the territory of Yue State, or the former territory of Wu State, there were a large number of barbarians called "Huai Yi". They had lived around the Huai River for generations, so they were called Huai Yi.

In the early Spring and Autumn Period, the Huaiyi people were a great enemy of the State of Wu. Later, after successive governance by successive monarchs of the State of Wu, the number of the Huaiyi people was finally controlled within a certain range.

But after the demise of the Wu State, the Yue State no longer took the Huaiyi seriously. Over the years, the number of Huaiyi people began to gradually increase.

Su Kai wanted to try whether he could still subdue the barbarians.

If it is really impossible, then Su Kai can only admit that the barbarians and the Chinese are indeed not creatures of the same species.

(End of this chapter)