When Lü Pheasant arrived in the hometown of Zhou, the local people still spread the story of King Zhou's high debts. In the fifty-ninth year of his reign, the last monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Yun, united the six kingdoms to attack Qin. As a result, only the State of Chu and the State of Yan sent a few troops, and King Zhou was naturally defeated.

In order to fight, he borrowed grain and grass from the rich households in the city before, and after returning from defeat, he was blocked by the rich families collecting debts at the palace gate and scolded. In order to avoid debts, King Zhou had to hide on a high platform, out of sight, out of mind, deaf and distracted. Locals still call it "Debt Hideaway".

As the last king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Yu can be said to be the luckiest and the most unlucky. His luck was that he was the longest-reigning son of heaven in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the most unfortunate thing was that after the failure of the Qin invasion, he had to sacrifice the only territorial people under his name to Qin in order to appease the anger of King Zhaoxiang of Qin. After his death, he never succeeded the Son of Heaven, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty could be said to be extinct in his generation.

Seven years later, Lü Xiangbang led his troops to completely annex the Eastern Zhou Principality, and the Eastern Zhou no longer existed. Originally, the two principalities of the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty were located between the Qin and the Six Kingdoms, and the excellent geographical location allowed the local people to do business and earn a lot of transit benefits. This is the reason why King Zhou was able to borrow money and grain under his city.

Lu Pheasant and Li Si led a large group of carriages and horses, which made the people of Chengzhou, who had been silent for a long time, excited. Since the fall of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, their lives have become more and more difficult. The Qin State was heavy on agriculture, and all those who had servants and soldiers gave priority to sons-in-law and merchants. Putting aside the issue of son-in-law for the time being, the merchants of Cheng Zhou relied on the title of Weimo knighthood who donated grain from the natural disasters of the Qin State before to make a living.

While Lu Pheasant was sleeping peacefully at the post station in the city, the owners of several major merchant families were arguing in a palatial living room.

"Since Zhou entered Qin, it is difficult to do business, not to mention that he has to serve often, which is really miserable. At present, there are Qin soldiers guarding the frame, so it is better to ask for the lord and speak to the king of Qin for us. What do you think? The man who spoke was a middle-aged man sitting on the richest man, his face was fair, and his beard was extremely neatly groomed.

"I don't have a lot of money in my family, and my family is empty in order to change my title. Now why do you need to flatter the Qin envoys. A skinny man sitting at the end retorted.

"The virtuous brother was reluctant to work in the army at first, but was captured by the Qin army to serve. If you work with your brother, will there be no calamity? The person who spoke seemed to be the leader of the faction, and persuaded the old acquaintance who had been in a tight situation.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if the Qin army is strong today, if we don't have a good relationship with the Qin people, what else can we do? To plough the land? The man who was called Brother Wang at the head looked at the man at the end and was very dissatisfied with his ignorance.

He stood up and paced in the hall and said, "I will go to see the Qin envoy early tomorrow morning, hoping to be summoned, and those who are willing to go will come to my door early and wait, let's disperse." ”

When Lu Pheasant woke up and was eating breakfast, he saw Xi coming with a soldier guarding outside the post station. The soldier said that there was a group of people waiting outside the post station, wanting to see the envoy. Li Situi said that he couldn't see it, so he reported to her again.

Lu Pheasant smiled playfully and told the soldier: "After I finish eating, let the person who likes to call the leader come in, go down." ”

After the soldier pushed down, Xi couldn't help but ask: "The little master has no relatives and no reason in Chengzhou, how can there be visitors?" ”

"Although I have no relatives and no reason, I am the representative of the King of Qin, and they must have asked for me. Let them wait, and their purpose will be known in a moment. Lu Pheasant swallowed the food in his mouth to solve Xi's doubts.

By the time the merchants outside were summoned, nearly a moment had passed. The big merchants of the Wang clan, led by their followers, went in to meet the messenger, but found that the principal was a young girl. Some people thought they were teased and wanted to leave, but they were stopped by Wang Yi.

Lu Pheasant saw that the leader was dressed gorgeously, and it seemed that he still had some connections under Qin's rule, otherwise he would have been assigned to repair the city wall. There are a few people in the back who are already dressed in kudzu, obviously because the family business is not rich. Seeing the hesitation of the person in front of her, she spoke first, "I will be ordered by the king to send an envoy, and if there is nothing else to do, I will quickly disperse." ”

Wang Yi ignored the expensive clothes on his body, wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and bowed down to Lu Pheasant: "We are a businessman of Cheng Zhou, and I want to ask the king to ask for a way to live for us." ”

"Oh? I see that you are brightly dressed and ruddy, and you don't look like a dying man! Lu Pheasant pretended to be puzzled and mocked the people below.

Wang Yi had to talk about the oppression he suffered in the Qin State, hoping to make the people in front of him feel a little more pity. As everyone knows, Lu Pheasant doesn't really care too much about the life and death of businessmen, not to mention that businessmen have always been the last business, and the foundation of a country lies in agriculture. Now that Qin Law is strictly suppressing businessmen, how can he let them go?

She thought that she could improve the status of women in the future, and she hadn't figured out how to solve the problem of sons-in-law, but she was disturbed by Chengzhou businessmen.

Lu Pheasant looked at the crying person in front of him coldly, and there was no fluctuation in his heart, if they were allowed to serve and be disabled, what would the common people who fought for the Qin State say every year.

"Enough! If you can collect information from other countries and dedicate it to the king, the king will be able to promote you to the throne. If you hoard it every day, it is a dead end. ”

Lu Pheasant saw that Li Si was already waiting for her to leave for a while, so she hurriedly went out with joy and restarted on the road, leaving the group of merchants looking at each other behind.

Wang Yi saw that although the girl was cold, he finally pointed out a clear way, understood her meaning, and hurriedly returned home to give orders to his caravan. The rest of the merchants thought about it and understood that the room where they had gathered was empty in an instant, and they were afraid that their caravan would be left behind.

At lunch that day, Li Si couldn't help but ask why Lu Pheasant was instructing the group of merchants. Lu Pheasant looked at his disapproving appearance and said with a smile: "Wasn't the senior teacher also a businessman in the past? Now that the king wants to merge the world, there are soldiers and generals, workers and farmers, how can there be no businessmen outside?

Although the businessman is abandoned, he also communicates what he has and what he has. It is not a good idea to let merchants join the army or serve the city. The merchant has made a great profit, and the king should try to take it away and keep his talent. ”

Li Si originally thought that Lu Pheasant was sympathetic to the merchants, but he didn't want her to come up with such an idea, if the merchants in the world knew that she was going to come up with such an idea for the king, they would definitely hate it. Of course, what does this have to do with him, since she has this idea, the king will also ask her about it at that time.

Lu Pheasant originally thought that Li Si should ask her thoughts with great interest, but he was very surprised to find that he was not interested. She thought about it and probably guessed his thoughts, Li Si is really still Li Si, always putting himself first. Since he pretended not to be interested, she stopped talking about her thoughts.

In the future, Qin will merge the six countries, according to Qin Zheng's temperament, he will definitely be in high spirits, if he can use the money of merchants to pay for the construction of Qin Zheng, then they will be allowed to use Chidao for free. Not to mention the fact that a penny flowed from the hands of the merchants to the hands of Qin Zheng, and finally to the hands of the requisitioned servants, who would definitely spend the coins.

Since those merchants are sitting on their wealth, it should be good to have a property tax like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but it doesn't need to be too complicated, let the rich pay a part of their money every year, and then divide the big merchants and small merchants according to their total amount of wealth, as well as the street hawkers, and collect taxes according to different amounts.

Lu Pheasant took her thoughts back to the present, now that the Qin State has not even conquered Korea, she thinks long enough to be the time to serve as a Xiangbang.

After Cheng Zhou, the envoy team was not far from entering Korea. Lu Pheasant planned to make a detour in the old land of Wei, so he was going to separate from Li Si.

Li Si also said a bunch of things before parting to express his gratitude for being taken care of on the road. Lu Pheasant also had to pretend to be reluctant on his face. After watching Li Si and his small team go away, she breathed a sigh of relief, Li Si is an old fox, is it ordinary to be able to serve Qin Zheng for so many years?

When Lu Pheasant was leisurely and leisurely on his way to Daliang, the Xianyang Sinology of Qin State was officially established, and Qin Zheng personally received the sacrificial wine but was not allowed to hold a teaching position.

Lu Gong also took his two sons to teach at the Chinese Academy in the west of Xianyang City, and Lezi planned to accompany him, but Lu Gong said: "I have to have a vacation in half a month, so there is no need for this." "That's why Lezi stayed at home.

Lu Changjiao looked at his father and brother who were leaving happily and asked the farewell musician on the side: "Why can't I go to study Chinese culture?" ”

Le Zi thought of Lu Pheasant, who didn't know whether he was in Han or Wei at this time, and muttered: "Probably because it's a man's world today!" If you want to be like a man, you have to put in more energy and suffer more injustices in order to achieve the same achievements as a man. ”

Lu Changjiao was actually not interested in the texts of those saints, since her sister had made a rocker for her to play with, she had been very interested in the principles inside. Her father and brother found her some delicate wooden toys, and she didn't know the sun and the moon when she studied them. And at the beginning, she still remembered the flying man that Lu Pheasant talked about, and always wanted to go to the sky to take a look.

Although it is not that no one has imagined that humans can grow feathers and fly to the sky, how can that kind of birdman be what Lu Changjiao yearns for.

The words were divided into two sides, Lu Gong took Lu Ze, and Lu Shizhi went to the palace where the Chinese culture was set up, which was originally the palace used by the King of Qin for hunting on weekdays, and Qin Zheng asked people to clean up the utensils in the palace and replace them with suitable for teaching. Buildings were also built for the students who were staying in the dormitory. It took a while to get to this point.

Qin Zheng originally wanted to set up the national school into two subjects of the art of war, but he didn't want the peasant children under Lu Buwei's sect to suggest to him that he should open an agricultural school there. King Qin saw that the subjects to be set up had increased, but the palace room was not enough, so he had to prepare to let them take turns in class.

Lu Gong saw there that not only the descendants of Meng, Xi, and Bai came to Le, but also Feng Ting's descendants, Feng Quji's son, Meng Wu's two sons, and Li Si even sent his son Li You over. Before the class started, they were messily comparing their ancestors' achievements with each other.