The Great Wall of Qi starts from the Yellow Sea in the east, passes through the foot of Mount Tai along the undulating mountains, and finally connects to the Jishui that flows into the sea in the east. This is the defense of the south of the Qi country, the Great Wall is not built because the Qi army is not good at fighting, but the Qi country is only two thousand miles, the depth of the defense is too small, not to fortify in the south, once the enemy army enters the hinterland of the Qi realm, the consequences are out of control.

However, after the Five Kingdoms attacked Qi, the Qi army, which was completely broken, no longer had the courage of its predecessors, and could only defend the Great Wall to the south, and the Qi water to the west.

The Chu army was strong, and the Qin army won three battles and three victories, and the world was shocked, and now the Chu people are determined to attack Qi, a large number of Qi soldiers were transferred to the north of Muling Pass, and the Qi army inside and outside the city totaled 200,000. He was also worried that the Chu army would bypass Muling Pass with boat divisions, the north of Langya Port, Anling and Buqi on both sides of Qingdao Bay, Jiegen at the bottom of Qingdao Bay, and Jimo were heavily equipped to prevent the Chu army from attacking Qi by sea.

Gou Jian moved the capital to Langya, with 300 ships and 8,000 dead soldiers, which made the Qi people fearful like tigers, although they died to survive; There are nearly 1,000 warships in the Chu State, and the Chu soldiers are all ten with one, which is more tiger than the tiger. Thinking that he was facing such an army, even Qi Xiang Housheng, who took it as his mission to provoke the battle of Qi and Chu, was a little afraid.

If Mu Lingguan is not defended and 200,000 Chu troops are killed into the Qi realm, then he, the prime minister, will be able to do it. He has hidden so much gold in his mansion, but once he loses his position, he may be killed alive by thieves like Ziji, the minister of Wei State, who has lost power. With this in mind, a small meeting was held at the Prime Minister's Office, and the focus of the meeting was on military affairs.

"500,000 armor soldiers of the Qi country, why is the general afraid of Chu?" The big dustpan shook for a while, disapproving with the attitude of the general Tian Luo.

"500,000 armor soldiers in the Qi country, how many people can fight?" Tian Luo, who was dressed in huge armor, looked at the big dustpan angrily. Of course, he knew how the war was provoked, originally the Chu people just retreated, and the two countries still abided by the original oath, but now it is good, and they want to cut down Qi. "The armor of Jimo and Gaotang have not fought for many years, and the armor of Mu Chu in the library has been defeated. Last year, the price of millet rose sharply, the common people were hungry, and there were many people who ate wild taro. ”

"Last year, there was a great drought in the world, and the price of corn was naturally high." Hou Sheng, who has a monopoly on power, has his own supporters, and a minister wearing a small dustpan hurriedly helps Hou Sheng speak. "I heard that the common people were fighting cocks and dogs, and they took the fight as fun, so naturally they had no money to buy millet ......"

"The price of corn is as high as 150 yuan, who can eat this kind of corn?!" Everyone knows why the price of corn is so expensive, Tian Luo is a general, and what he hates the most is to open his eyes and talk nonsense.

"General, please tell me how many soldiers there are in this prime minister, why do you need to talk more about the price." Hou Sheng innocently pouted, "Then the skill of light and heavy is the foundation of governing the country, the price of millet is high, if this year is a good year, it is not too late to fall." ”

"You!" Thinking of those armor soldiers who ate wild taro and bean leaf soup, Tian Luo was very similar to beating Hou Sheng flat with a punch, but thinking of the reality of Qi State, he still endured it after all.

In the kingdom of the world, only the grain official camp of Qin and Qi countries. When the millet seedlings are young, the government will send people to order millet, and the price of millet at this time is naturally low and low, many times only ten or ten dollars, and when the millet is finished, the price of millet will rise to forty yuan, fifty yuan, sixty yuan, and different places. The reason for this is that the Gaine government controls the logistics sales channel.

This is true of grain, and so is salt and iron, but more ingeniously. For example, in the iron mines, 'if you do it now, you will flee and not defend it; If there are soldiers on the border, they will have old grudges and do not fight, and they will not see the benefits of the mountain and iron and will be defeated internally. ’

If the iron mountain is mined by the state, the slaves will often flee, and the people will resent, and the result of resentment will be that the soldiers on the border will stop without fighting. Therefore, the best way is to let the private people run it, and the profits obtained by the private individuals are divided into 73 with the government, and the private individuals are only responsible for production, and the goods are purchased and sold by the government.

But even so, there are businessmen who will get rich because of it. Can the government make the merchants, the common people, and the slaves who depend on the merchants rich? Of course not. Absolutely not! When these people are really rich, they will have political demands, and they will overthrow the original rule.

Therefore, it is like planting millet, sowing seeds in the spring, growing seedlings in the summer, and in the fall, it is time to harvest. If you don't harvest, after this winter, the merchants will become fine. And the so-called harvest is 'to raise the level, divide and merge the wealth, and scatter and accumulate', that is, 'to kill the profits of the righteous businessmen and benefit the farmers', and that is to 'collect and disperse the power of the light and heavy'. Specifically, by manipulating prices and currency prices, and using the king's orders to steal the wealth of the rich, they will become poor again.

This is the ruling technique of the Qi country, because the characteristics of the Qi land of 'less grains and suitable mulberry hemp' are completely different from the kingdom under the heavens. In the words of later generations, it seems appropriate to call it state capitalism. Although its name has the word 'capitalism', this 'capitalism' is 'capitalism' in captivity. At a certain time, this 'capitalism' will be slaughtered and slaughtered, and if it is not slaughtered, it will become free capitalism. Once it becomes liberal capitalism, the original ruling class will be overthrown.

Let go - slaughter - let go again - slaughter again - in the ......

This is a cycle that will never be derailed, as long as the ruler does not miss the 'agricultural time', but the attack of the five kingdoms made the Qi country delay the 'agricultural time'. The role of the Jixia School should not be underestimated, the memory of the original common people will not exceed a quarter of an hour, and when they are released, they often forget the previous slaughter, and when they are slaughtered, they may not know that they are just animals raised by the government.

Under the reminder of some people, the common people gradually understood the tricks of the government. The so-called Qi army's 'two hearts for a while, the front is heavy and the back is light' is the difference between the will to fight between the elite soldiers of the government and the soldiers of the common people - since they are just animals raised by the government, it is enough to fight and do their duty, and they don't even have a piece of land (the land of Qi is the same as that of Qin, and there is no private property), so they can't work hard.

As a Qi person, the general Tian Luo naturally understands that the problem of Qi is between the ointment, and the corruption of the powerful is even deeper into the bone marrow, and the Qi State can only fight a small war, and it can never be a big war. Small wars can produce elites, and they can fight a dozen, but if the whole country fights and mobilizes the pawns of the common people who 'have old grudges and do not fight', then the whole country will collapse. What he hopes most now is that the Qin State will not break its promise: when the Chu army attacks Qi in a big way, 100,000 Qin troops can help him resist Chu.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion of Linzi City, the highest-level combat meeting discussed diplomacy, war preparations, corn price reduction, and benefit the common people; At the post station outside Linzi City, the Jixia Society sacrificed wine Chun Yu Yue and others were saying goodbye to Qu Guang.

Qi and Chu are at odds with each other, and now they are facing a war, and although Quguang has tried his best to ease relations between the two countries, it has achieved little success. Today, after receiving the instructions of Yingdu, he is finally going to return to China.

"Qu Zi is gone, I don't know when I will see you again." After a few years of getting along, Chun Yuyue and Refractive have a deep relationship, and today they are very reluctant to say goodbye.

"The world is about to fall, and Chu Qi will not fight for long even if they fight each other." Refractive was also reluctant, but he smiled. "After the war, the king should also send me to meet freely."

"The heart of the Qin people swallowing the world is known to women and children, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance is the policy of preserving the country. How could the king ......, alas! Speaking of the war, Han Zhong, who saw him off together, couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Chu is the left arm of Qi, and Zhao is the right arm of Qi, although this right arm is not very obedient, but the left arm is strong and can suppress the right arm. The Three Kingdoms Alliance is to equip the Qi State with two arms, so that the body lives in the east, watching those two arms fight to the death with the Qin people. If you don't do such a good thing, you have to marry the Qin people.

"The king was confused by the victory, so he did this act of cutting off his arm." Another gentleman from the school lamented.

"The sons think it's a pity, but I think it's a please." A gentleman who is not like a gentleman is not worried but laughs. "I saw that Chu was discussing foreign courts, and the feelings of the common people reached the court, and the Chu people attacked me, which is a great benefit."

"Soldiers, fierce also." Chun Yuyue looked at this gentleman in Ge Yi and grass shoes, and understood what he meant, so he did not refute it directly. "If Qi and Chu are undefeated and undefeated in the war for three years, what will Song Zi do?"

Song Zi is Song Yi, right different from his ancestor Song Yu, with the weakening of the Qi State, the common people are gradually awakening, vaguely, he feels that the common people should not be satisfied with the status quo, as for the status quo and what kind of state should be satisfied with, he has not understood it for the time being. The prosperity of the Jixia School Palace has passed, and the hundred schools that were fighting at the beginning have been the dominant Legalists, and the sons who thought that there was no repetition of the world's doctrine were surprised to find that the Chu State was actually reinstated.

The strength of the country must be relied on by doctrine, that is, the so-called reform of the law. Although no one in the Chu State wrote books and said, and no student said that the Chu State used its own doctrine, and those who were pro-Qin and praised Qi were even more likely to scold the Chu government for being cruel and unkind, but the political system of the Chu State still attracted the attention of the Jixia Society. Song Yi once went to Yingdu in person and personally met the Chu foreign court.

In the Qi State, the common people had no power, they lived only by continuous labor, and most of the wealth created was plundered by the merchants, and the wealth obtained by the merchants would be seized by the government every once in a while, and most of them actually went into the private pockets of the powerful. The common people of Chu are different, they elect their trusted armor soldiers, and these armor soldiers speak to themselves in the outside court.

If the State of Chu destroys Qi, wouldn't it be a good thing that the common people of the State of Qi can stand outside and speak to themselves like the State of Chu? But it is also possible that it is like what Chun Yuyue said: Qi Chu fought for several years without winning or losing, and the common people were unlucky.

The sun had risen very high, and Refractive had no intention of witnessing another argument from the gentlemen at the time of parting, and he said to the gentlemen: "After returning to China, I will definitely meet the widow and relay the words of the princes. ”

"There's a laborer." Chun Yuyue took the lead in returning the salute.

"If the king of Chu can defeat the Qi army, I hope Qu Zi will speak, and ask the Qi country to also carry out Chu politics." Song Yi also returned the salute.

"Only." Qu Guang smiled when he heard this, and then said goodbye to everyone again and boarded the car.