Just when those powerful businessmen found the loophole in the edict of the King of Chu and rushed to tell each other, preparing to urgently reclaim the farmland, Liang Liang, the patriarch of the Liang clan in Kuzhu City, was relieved in his heart, but at the same time, he fell into deep worry.

This time, the king of Chu issued an edict, although he once again protected their property and title, he Liang Liang, as the fifth doctor of the prince of Chu, was only one step away from the king, and the more than 50 hectares of land in the family did not reach the upper limit of the five doctors.

However, because of the newly announced law of succession to the title of King Chu, it made him very difficult.

This time, the king of Chu followed the example of the Qin State, divided the title into ten levels, added five new scholars, mixed the original doctors and lords of the Chu State, and made up ten titles.

According to the regulations, if there is no meritorious service, it will take a few generations for the eldest lord or even all the titles to be demoted to the rank of sergeant, so that their glory and wealth can not be preserved.

He is a fifth doctor, and owning more than fifty acres of land is naturally nothing, but if he has not made meritorious deeds, or his son has not made great achievements, he cannot inherit his title of five great doctors, but has been demoted by one level, and the inheritance is the lord of seven doctors.

That's a big deal.

The Seventh Doctor can only have forty hectares of land, so that his Liang family will have to lose more than ten hectares of land, which is definitely a great wealth for the Liang family.

You must know that according to the regulations of the King of Chu, wealth and even the rights enjoyed are linked to the title.

If there is no corresponding title, then their current land and people will be taken away by the king of Chu, and they will watch the wealth handed down by their ancestors slowly and slowly be taken away by the king of Chu step by step.

Not only that, if the king of Chu really intended to emulate the Qin State and link the title to the official position, then once they stepped down from the current title, it would be difficult for them to rise again.

The head of a county or even the head of a county wants to mix with a prince, but it is very difficult for the county Chenggong Cao to mix with a prince.

As soon as he thought of this, a heavy pressure suddenly pressed tightly on Liang Liang's heart, making him breathless.

The current situation is that he, the Liang clan, will either immediately raise an army to resist, or immediately decide to completely surrender to the state of Chu, serve the king of Chu, make meritorious achievements, and keep his glory and wealth.

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But if he wanted to resist, Liang Liang suddenly turned pale when he remembered the powerful businessmen who left happily after asking him and waiting for the arrival of the king of Chu.

Now that the king of Chu has just distributed the royal field to the people, and given the local heroes and strongmen knights, even those big businessmen can get knighthoods, and now they will raise troops to resist, and they may not need the king of Chu to make a move, and the people everywhere will not agree, and those powerful businessmen will not agree.

But if you don't resist, if you want to keep your current title, you have to make meritorious service desperately.

And as soon as he wanted to make meritorious contributions, Liang Liang felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

The Yue Kingdom has only been destroyed for two years, and the Yue King he was loyal to before is still alive, and the King of Chu has just killed a large group of his relatives and friends...

Now let him leave all kinds of prejudices, all kinds of burdens in his heart, and serve the king of Chu wholeheartedly!

The thought of this made him feel uncomfortable.

If you have taken refuge in the Chu State before, you can also comfort yourself that you are preserving your strength, you are temporarily dependent on the Chu State, and when the time comes in the future, you can also turn against you and set things right.

But now that he has completely fallen to the king of Chu, there is a hurdle in his heart that he can't get over!

What should I do? What to do?

At this time, the same troubles also plagued other nobles of the former Yue Kingdom who had titles in Jiangdong.

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Ten days later.

Tang Yu reported with a heavy face: "King, since the title was announced, Jiangdong has fallen into a state of joy, and many heroes who have just obtained the title have already expressed their gratitude. As far as the current situation is concerned, the method of bestowing knighthood can be said to have succeeded.

However, as the king expected, all the merchants with landed families dressed up as local tycoons, and did not recognize their identity as merchants.

Moreover, many Haoqiang are still taking advantage of the fact that my Chu State has not inventoried the cultivated land in Jiangdong, and are trying to reclaim the wasteland in their own homes, in order to obtain a higher title..."

Before Tang Yu finished speaking, Xiong Huai interrupted with a smile: "Xianqing, don't pay attention to this matter, they are willing to reclaim the land, and then pay taxes to the widows, which is not a good thing for the Chu State."

Moreover, the law of Jin Jue originally had the intention of encouraging the people to cultivate, so within this month, they can reclaim as much as they can. ”

"The king is benevolent!" Tang Yu nodded in response, and then pleaded guilty: "The king, the minister is guilty, the previous plan to recover the land of the noble merchant, because the merchant did not recognize his identity as a merchant, the amount of land recovered was not enough, so many people who were unwilling to move away have not been allocated the land so far. ”

"In addition!" Tang Mo pondered for a moment, and then arched his hand: "Great King, now those landless merchants in Huiji City, as well as many merchants who have land but are not arable land, because they cannot obtain the title, and the houses and living utensils in their homes all exceed the limits of ordinary people, so that they have no intention of doing business now, or take all the people in their families to cultivate.

At this time, many shops in Huiji City were closed, all industries withered, and the life of the people in the city was extremely inconvenient. Not only Huiji City, but also the surrounding cities of Huiji, the same news has also come out..."

Xiong Huai smiled when he heard this, this situation was also expected.

Under the guidance of the agriculture-oriented ideology in various countries, the status of businessmen is low, and now there is an opportunity to change their status, and those businessmen will naturally seize it.

As for the landless small merchants, their families are rich, but they have money but cannot spend it, so they can only live a poor life.

In this case, why should they work so hard to make money!

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai shook his head and said with a relaxed face: "Xianqing doesn't have to worry, isn't the current situation exactly what we expected?"

Now that this is the case, it is time to announce the way in which the merchant will be promoted. ”

Saying that, Xiong Huai's face turned straight and he said: "The edict, when the widow heard the edict, all industries in various places withered, and merchants closed their doors one after another, which caused great inconvenience to the cities.

The widow thought again and again, thinking that the farmer is the foundation of the country, but the hundred businessmen are also an indispensable part of the country, the cultivator is the widow of the people, the hundred businessmen are also the children of the widow, the widow is not willing to favor one over the other, so the law of the hundred businessmen and merchants is specially promulgated.

The cultivators were based on farming and paying grain, the merchants were based on doing business and paying taxes, and the craftsmen were based on making tools, so the widows decided to use the taxes paid by the merchants as the basis for the promotion of the merchants, the number of qualified and sophisticated tools built by hundreds of craftsmen, and the innovation of agriculture in the war as the basis for promotion.

However, the few people heard that the peasants were the foundation of the world, so it was decided to divide the people in the country, the cultivators into the agricultural register, the merchants into the merchant nationality, and the hundred workers into the labor register.

In order to make the cultivators cultivate with all their hearts and not to engage in business for profit, the widow decided that all merchants with peasant nationality should not do business beyond the county where they were located. At the same time, in order to ensure that local officials are dedicated to state affairs, all local officials are not allowed to participate in business.

In addition, in order to make the merchants do business with all their hearts, and to do their work with all their hearts, no one who has been registered as a merchant or worker shall have cultivated land..."