"The world is chaotic, everyone has it! Alas! We don't provoke others, but we are often used by others and we don't know it! I! Anyway, I served the world! Zhenyi sighed.

Peng Zhou naturally felt the same way, so he lowered his head and didn't make a sound.

"Alas! There are too many people to blame for the troubled times! They don't care about others at all in order to achieve their own ends! I'm also serving this world! Lu Buwei replied.

At the time of saying this! But he also thought to himself: Is it? Am I not the kind of person who doesn't give up until I reach my goal? The difference! I, Lu Buwei, have no ill will towards others.

I, Lu Buwei, dare to swear to the sky: I, Lu Buwei, will never do bad things, and I will not do anything sorry for others! Otherwise! Heaven kills five thunders, and it is not easy to use.

If I, Lu Buwei, were the kind of person who had no moral bottom line, it would be impossible for me to become a rich man at a young age? At such a young age, there won't be so many brothers around me who are willing to die for me.

But! I can only represent me, Lu Buwei himself, but I can't represent the whole world! The world is so big, everyone has it. It's true! The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds!

"We, the Wei Kingdom! Once upon a time, it was powerful! But! It's no longer what it used to be! The power of the past did not come from the right path. So! Once it's going downhill, it's faster than anyone else! Alas! Zhenyi sighed.

"Wei was in the period of King Wei Hui, I heard that it was very good!" Lü Buwei responded and said.

"Yes! Cheng is also him! Defeat is also him! Alas! Zhenyi sighed.

"What do you mean by that?" Lü Buwei asked.

Zhenyi shook his head and sighed: "At the beginning! My ancestor went to the king of Wei and told him not to do that, as a result! King Wei didn't listen. Opposite! and to cure the sins of my fathers! Alas! There is no way! We are petty aristocrats, estranged from the royal family. So! I don't dare to admonish again! ”

"What the hell is going on?" Lü Buwei asked.

Zhenyi didn't want to say it, but in front of his sister's life-saving benefactor, he had to lower his voice and said: "During the period of King Wei Hui, war was the main thing, and the wealth of war was made. Isn't it? Defeat the opponent first, and then force the opponent to cede the land and pay compensation! That's it, during the period when the princes were fighting for hegemony, everyone did this, didn't they? But? He has offended the people! ……”

Speaking of which! Zhenyi looked around nervously, for fear of being heard by strangers or spies.

"How do you offend the people?"

"That's it! Didn't others cede the land to our Wei State after the defeat? To King Wei Hui? But King Wei Hui can't treat the residents of the land as natives of Wei State! He said! If you don't give some color to these people, people won't accept it. Outcome! The more he showed the color, the more the residents on the spot were dissatisfied with him. Although there is no way for him to be King Wei Hui, people are not convinced? Isn't it? ”

"This?"

"And!" Zhenyi continued: "When he occupies the territory of the defeated country, he will rob all the valuable things on the territory as the spoils of war for the victorious country. Outcome! As a result, the people in the occupied territory cannot survive. ”

"This?" Lu Buwei didn't understand for a while, but just responded.

"King Wei Hui said! Such! The people there would only resent their incompetence as king, not King Hui of Wei or the state of Wei. Outcome! The people of the land did not resent their king, but resented him, King Wei Hui, the invader......"

"Oh?" Under Zhenyi's interpretation, Lü Buwei understood.

During the reign of King Hui of Wei, because Wei was too powerful, the surrounding defeated countries had no choice but to endure and endure Wei. But in the later period of King Hui of Wei, the Qin State became strong under the Shang Dynasty reform, and the Wei State began to decline.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse! In the late period of King Wei Hui, he was still able to barely maintain the Wei state. But in the hands of the descendants, perhaps because of the limited ability of the descendants, the speed of decline has accelerated.

"The reason why we are so prosperous in Hongyi is not because of anything else, but because of the large population! During my grandfather's time, we started the policy of tax reduction, and we collected less taxes to give the people a way to live. So! People who know our Hongyi are willing to come to us to settle down, cultivate land, and have children.

After several generations of recuperation, we Hongyi! You saw it too! There is hardly much idle land on our territory! Isn't it? The population of our Hongyi is equivalent to the population of one other state. Therefore! We also pay the most taxes in Hongyi.

Because of the large population and the large amount of land cultivated, although we collected less taxes, our nobles actually received more tax income than the nobles in other places.

And the nobility of other places! Not only do they not reduce taxes, they increase them. And the result! The population of the land has run out. The end result is that they overtax and don't make much of their own tax revenue! ……”

"I know that!" Lü Buwei said: "Although Hongyi is not large in area and does not have much land, the land has been fully utilized. Taxes are levied on the amount of land cultivated. So! Hongyi's tax revenue is more.

In other towns, counties, and prefectures, although their fiefs are large, they have a small population and less cultivated land, so they have less tax revenue. ”

"Yes! Yes, too! Zhenyi nodded and said, "That's the truth!" But those nobles, knowing this mistake, are unwilling to change! In order to continue to live a luxurious life, they had to increase their taxes and collect taxes under different names in disguise. Although some taxes were collected for the time being, others had no way to live, so they had to choose to leave in the end. Alas! ”

"This is called killing chickens to take eggs and killing themselves!" Lü Buwei responded and said.

"We're Hongyi! It has been prosperous since the time of my grandfather. Passed down from generation to generation, today's Hongyi is one of the richest places in the Wei Kingdom! Isn't it? Because of the large number of people, our Hongyi army also has a lot of troops! Speaking of which, the town is not without pride.

In this troubled world, you have soldiers under your command to have a certain right to speak. You have soldiers under you, and no one dares to touch you!

"How many soldiers are there in Brother Hong's family?" Lü Buwei asked.

"Not a family soldier! It's the strength of the town! It is the army that protects Hongyi. Zhenyi corrected.

The strength of the family soldiers and the strength of the town cannot be confused, and the family soldiers are the private forces that protect the nobles. And the strength of the town belongs to the state.

Other words! The troops of Zhenyi, King Wei, can be deployed. And the family soldiers! Only to protect the home. But! The strength of the town, unless there are special circumstances, is under the direct leadership of the town. Only when Wei was in danger of war could it be transferred to the front.

"Yes, yes, yes! It's the strength of the town! Lu Buwei replied. But! immediately argued: "Isn't the strength of Zhenyi still under your control of Brother Hong?" Dispatch? Hehehe! ”

"Hehehe!" Zhenyi laughed too.