If this situation continues for a period of time, maybe it will not take ten years or eight years, and Wu Qi will carry out a second reform, and maybe all the private land in Chu will need to pay taxes at that time. The aristocracy, who had become accustomed to not paying taxes, could not bear the situation. But in the face of Wu Qi, who has never been defeated in his life, and the full support of King Chu Mourning, he can't bear it.

A year after the Wu Qi reform was in full swing, when Wu Qi sent troops to the Central Plains and fought against the overlord Wei, the king of Chu died suddenly.

I don't know why, Wu Qi, who has always sought advantages and avoided disadvantages, knew that returning to Chu and losing the support of King Chu would inevitably be a dead end, but this time he did not choose to escape, but chose to go back to the point of no return to die.

Maybe it's because he left Lu in his early years, he left Wei in the past, and now he doesn't want to change countries, or because he is old and has seen many things, or maybe it's because he wants to repay the trust of King Chu Mourning, anyway, Wu Qi, who has never been defeated in his life, returned to Chu to prepare for the last battle of his life.

The aristocratic forces who had long had a bitter hatred for Wu Qi's reform and planned to kill Wu Qi laid heavy troops in the Chu Palace, and when Wu Qi went back to worship the king of Chu, he took the opportunity to make a rebellion and besieged Wu Qi.

Wu Qi has never been defeated in his life, and this time is the same, in the face of the siege, he intends to die with the noble feudal monarch, and directly lay on the body of King Chu Mourning, and the nobles shot Wu Qi with random arrows, and also shot the body of King Chu Mourning.

After the king of Chu Su ascended the throne, according to the law of the state of Chu: "It is to order Yin to shoot Wu Qi and merge the body of the king, and sit up and shoot more than 70 families of the dead of Yizong." ”

After a military strike, the king of Chu Su won a complete victory, so far the nobles of Chu were dealt a heavy blow, and the king of Chu Su greatly strengthened the control of the king of Chu by recovering the feudal lords and noble territories.

And the serious social problems faced by the state of Chu have also been greatly alleviated with the destruction of these nobles.

But unfortunately, Wu Qi died, and the problems of Chu were improved, and as a result, Wu Qi's reform was ignored by King Chu Su, and Wu Qi's reform not only did not go deeper, but was abolished.

Xiong Huai was thinking about one thing at this time, that is, if Wu Qi hadn't died, would Wu Qi have carried out a second round of changes in the Chu State!

As for whether Wu Qi will have a second change, because Wu Qi died too early, it is naturally impossible to speculate, but the subsequent Shang Yang change can only be speculated. Maybe there is, maybe not, who knows, anyway, Wu Qi died, and his changes also failed.

After the Wu Qi reform, the Shang Yang reform had the content of drawing on the Li Kui reform of the Wei State and the Wu Qi reform of the Chu State.

Shang Ying's first reform was very similar to Wu Qi's reform, and it can be said that it was with Wu Qi's lessons and experience that he improved and strengthened.

The most important content of Shang Ying's second reform was to abolish the slave system of land state-ownership, implement feudal private ownership of land, and levy land tax on fields throughout the country. Then, the household registration was compiled throughout the country, with five households as a family and ten households as a family, stipulating that residents should register their household registrations, and began to levy military taxes according to the population of each household.

As a result, two tax systems were formed that had influenced China for thousands of years, the field tax on the land and the poll tax on the per capitation. This tax system was not until after the exploration of the Ming and Qing dynasties, on the basis of Zhang Juzheng's whip law, the first year of Yongzheng officially announced the apportionment of the mu into the mu, and the end of the poll tax was announced.

Of course, the matter of spreading into acres after 2,000 years has nothing to do with Xiong Huai, and the problem faced by Xiong Huai is still the problem of how to change the law.

After more than 60 years of changes, Xiong Huai is now facing the problems faced by the former King of Chu Mourning, the aristocratic feudal monarchs have begun to compete with the state again, and the development of slavery to the present is completely inapplicable to today's situation.

To put it in a lofty phrase, this means that the relations of production no longer meet the needs of the development of the productive forces, and the old relations of production are about to be replaced by new relations of production.

In the case that someone has already walked out of a path, either take the initiative to change to adapt, or passively change and be eliminated, anyway, it will not work without change.

But if you want to take the initiative to change, one of the biggest problems is the problem that Wu Qi encountered, the problem of the social environment.

Compared with the Wu Qi Reform Law and the Shang Yang Reform Law, there is a big difference in the social environment faced, that is, the nobles of the Chu State are in their heyday, while the nobles of the Qin State are almost wiped out because they were hit by the two generations of Wei Wenhou and Wei Wuhou of the Wei State, and the strength of the nobles has been greatly weakened by external forces.

If you want to weaken the nobles of Chu State, Xiong Huai's first thought is King Chu Su, his method is simple and crude, but if you lose the remains of Wu Qi and his father, God knows whether he will earn or lose.

Xiong Huai thought that his previous father had been buried for more than ten years, and immediately dispelled the idea of learning from King Chusu. If you really want to use his method, now only your own body can be used.

The next is the Qin State, as for how to learn from the experience of the Qin State, Xiong Huai suddenly thought of the nobles and feudal monarchs who followed the general Qu Kuo to the front line, and then thought of the fact that after the predecessor in history found out that he was deceived by Zhang Yi, he was furious and raised troops to attack Qin.

"Probably, maybe so, my predecessor thought so." Xiong Huai muttered.

"The King?"

Qu Yuan saw Xiong Huai muttering to himself in a low voice, and he didn't hear what Xiong Huai said for a while, so he asked puzzled.

Xiong Huai shook his head, regained his clarity, and said, "The widow is fine, but I feel a little emotional." ”

When Qu Yuan heard this, he realized the vacillation of the King of Chu, and immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Great King, the first king Su did not realize the seriousness of the feudal monarch and the nobles, and instead of continuing Wu Qi's reforms, he completely abolished the changes. ”

"However, because of the relationship between King Su and the nobles of the feudal monarch and the recovering of a large amount of land, the situation in Chu has been greatly improved, but this practice of treating the symptoms but not the root cause has not fundamentally solved the problem of the escape of the savages of the Chu State, nor has it dealt with the problem of private land."

"King Xuan and King Wei also did not clearly understand the problem of the savage's escape because of the good foundation left by King Su. After decades of recuperation, the state of Chu continued to divide the feudal monarchs, promote the titles, and promote the nobility within the state of Chu. ”

"These nobles were scattered in all corners of the Chu State, competing with the state for population and wealth. The appearance of every nobleman and feudal monarch meant the loss of population and wealth of the Chu State. Now our Chu State is once again facing the situation faced by the mourning king in the past, the savages have fled, the countrymen are overwhelmed, and the nobles are too heavy. ”

"Now our Chu State is once again facing the situation that Wu Zi said, the country has more land, and the population is seriously insufficient."

Qu Yuan bowed to the ground and said: "King, Weichen risked his life to speak and implore the king to change the law again." ”