Qu Yuan was stunned, his face was pale, and he looked at King Chu in horror.

What did you do wrong?

The king of Chu actually wants to expel me?

Qu Yuan was shocked in his heart, and all kinds of thoughts came out.

In the end, Qu Yuan bowed and said: "Only the king's order is obeyed." ”

Xiong Huai nodded and said: "Lao Ziyun: If the ruler of a large country cooks small fresh, there is no victory, quiet is better than movement, and it is better to keep the middle." ”

"The state of Chu, a big country, has internal and external troubles, and few people often suffer from it, so they want to change the law. However, with Wu Zi's ability, the law will be changed for years, people will die and the government will rest, and few people will worry about it. ”

"The matter of changing the law affects the whole body. For example, today's situation is very different, and the destruction of Yan by Qi is the first among all countries to embark on a path that is completely different from that of hegemony. Although Qi failed, it does not mean that this path is wrong. ”

"Therefore, the widow is worried that if the tragedy like Wu Zi 60 years ago happens again in my Chu country, I am afraid that my Chu country will have the worry of losing the country."

"And the difficult things in the world must be done in the easy, and the big things in the world must be done in the details, so the widow decided to start with the easy things and start with the small things."

Qu Yuan, who was originally a little cold-hearted, suddenly became enthusiastic when he heard this.

The meaning of King Chu's words is that he is going to start changing the law again.

And after absorbing the mistakes of the last change, this time it is necessary to take it step by step.

Qu Yuan bowed and said: "I am willing to drive for the king, and I will never give up." ”

Xiong Huai bowed his head slightly and said:

"The widow intends to carry out two kinds of changes at the same time in the Chu State, one is to abolish the distinction between the country and the wild, but there are four kinds of savages, in addition to the savages directly under the Chu State, the second is the majority of the savages who are feudal kings in various places, the third is the savages collected by the nobles, and finally the number of fugitive savages."

"The objects of this abolition of the distinction between the country and the wild are the savages directly under the Chu State and the savages who have fled."

Speaking of this, Xiong Huai paused and said: "The matter of Fang Cai Chen Di has given the widow a great inspiration, and this change is not to directly abolish the difference between the country and the field, but to adopt the recruitment system. ”

"The objects of recruitment are the countrymen and savages from all over the counties and counties of Chu State, and the specific thing to recruit is to build Xiangyang City."

When Qu Yuan heard this, he immediately knew the purpose of the King of Chu for letting him build Xiangyang City.

The reform of the state of Chu is about to begin in Xiangyang City.

Xiong Huai continued: "According to Chen Di's lesson, this recruitment is not to let the people automatically gather in Xiangyang, but to directly set up recruitment officers in various counties and counties to recruit adult men who have reached the age of 20. ”

Qu Yuan asked, "Your Majesty, the recruiter is either concurrently served by the magistrate, or directly sent by Yingdu. ”

Xiong Huai said directly: "Of course, it was directly sent by Yingdu, as for the specific candidates, the widow decided to select from the soldiers who made meritorious contributions in this war." ”

"The main task of the recruiter is different from the previous recruitment in various places, but like the recruitment of Wei Wushu, anyone who has reached the age of eighteen, as long as he is in good health, whether he is a countryman or a savage, can participate in the recruitment."

"After the completion of Xiangyang, anyone who participates in the construction of the city can get 100 acres of land in Xiangyang, and in Xiangyang, there will be no longer a distinction between the country and the wild."

And this second change is the division of fields, and the widow decided to no longer adopt the previous collective farming system in Xiangyang, but to open up the land. The large pieces of royal land were divided into small fields and handed over to the people for cultivation, and all of them adopted the 11th tax system of the people. ”

"There are only these two changes in content, only in Xiangyang, and the specific reasons are all handed over to Xianqing, and the widow is only responsible for providing support, asking people to give people, and asking for food to give food."

"After the success of Xiangyang, Xianqing came back and began to fully preside over the reform activities of the Chu State!"

Qu Yuan knew that Xiangyang City was an experimental point for changing the law.

Moreover, this time the recruits were all the people directly under the Chu State, and they did not directly target the nobles and feudal monarchs, and the resistance they received would definitely not be the same as last time.

Qu Yuan bowed his head and said: "Weichen takes the order." ”

After Xiong Huai finished talking about Xiangyang's question, he thought of another question about people again, that is, the problem of the lack of people in the Chu country, and then said to Qu Yuan: "Xianqing, you said to the widow before, there is no shortage of land in the Chu country, what is lacking is people, the widow thinks it is true, the husband wants to achieve great things, he must be people-oriented, there are few people in the Chu country, the widow decided to increase the population, encourage fertility in the Chu country, I don't know what Xianqing suggests." ”

Qu Yuan thought for a while and said, "King, there are two ways to increase the population, one is to obtain the population from other countries, and the other is to encourage fertility as the king said. ”

Xiong Huai asked, "How do you get people from other countries?" ”

Qu Yuan replied: "There are two ways to return to the king, one is war, plundering the population of other countries through war, and the other is to attract the people of other countries to vote. ”

Xiong Huai shook his head, the current situation in the Chu State, attracting the people to vote, it is impossible to do it in a short period of time, as for the war...

Xiong Huai suddenly remembered one thing, that is, the newly occupied Huaibei Land of Qi State by Chu State, which is the territory that he intends to give up in the future.

Although the land can't be packed and taken away, the people of Huaibei can!

Thinking of this, Xiong Huai smiled.

Perhaps in the future, the army will also need to have a task attached to it, to plunder the local population as much as possible.

The matter of war is put aside for the time being.

Xiong Huai then asked, "So how to encourage childbearing?" ”

Xiong Huai's methods for later generations include direct money rewards, direct house gifts, government support, tax reductions, and honorary rewards.

Xiong Huai directly ignored the first three.

It is still more than 2,000 years ago, and the state of Chu is very poor, and it is a great progress for the people to be able to eat three meals a day, and they can't be so luxurious.

If the state of Chu is the same as the state of Qin, it can be granted, but unfortunately the state of Chu is not the state of Qin.

Qu Yuan thought for a while and said: "King, there are three ways to encourage childbearing, one is to reward, the second is to punish, and the third is to encourage marriage to lower the age of marriage. ”

"How to award? How to penalize? How to Encourage Marriage? Xiong Huai asked.

As for lowering the age of marriage, Xiong Huai directly ignored it.

In order to meet the needs of the population during the war, the age of marriage has been lowered again and again, and the women in civilian families have been reduced from the latest 23 years old to the latest 15 years old, and then lowered, that is, the latest 13 years old.

Thirteen at the latest, then the normal age of marriage is already inhumane.

Qu Yuan thought for a while and said: "Great King, the most direct reward is the method of King Goujian, which gives rewards to the families who give birth, but this method is only suitable for countries with small populations, and with the size of the Chu State, this method is difficult to implement. ”

"If we in Chu encourage childbearing, we can be exempted from forced labor and reduced taxes. If a couple has three children, they can be exempted from forced labor, and if they have four, they can reduce taxes. ”

"If the king is worried about labor and the reduction of taxes, he can learn from the Qin method and double the tax on all families with more than two adult males, so as to encourage the people to divide their families, and these newly separated families will still use the normal tax, so as to avoid the loss of taxes."