Qi is a big country, in the eyes of Xiang Yan and Lu Yangjun, as long as Qi and Chu and Zhao join forces to resist Qin, there will be a lot to be done in the world. Only Taifu Kong Qian remained silent, as if he hadn't heard the Three Kingdoms Alliance. When Qi Wang Tianjian went back to rest, Xiong Jing asked him for advice on how to view the Triple Alliance.

"The king doesn't know anything," Kong Qian has been Wei Xiang after all, and it is not that he does not know how to govern the country and politics. "Qi, the country of merchants. After the restoration of Tiandan, the people of Qi industry and commerce are more than prosperous, the people of Chu industry and commerce are only two percent, and the people of Qi industry and commerce have exceeded forty percent.

Such a country is a country with few soldiers to fight. With the alliance, they can't get their army, they can only get their geographical advantages, grain, and department stores, and Zhao State can't win. ”

"Huh?" Although Zhibisi has explored the Qi State, the main exploration is the government, magnates, and military of the Qi State, and he has never understood the social hierarchy of the Qi State. Kong Qian's words surprised Xiong Jing very much, a country has more than four layers of industrial and commercial people, which is an incomprehensible high proportion.

"The king doesn't know?" Kong Qian was a little puzzled, he thought that Xiong Jing should know everything.

"Master, although the student knows that there are many businessmen in the Qi country, he doesn't want to have so many." Xiong Jing said bitterly: "It's more than forty percent, isn't there only more than 200,000 soldiers in the Qi State who can fight, similar to the Chu State?" ”

"Yes." Under normal circumstances, the people of industry and commerce are not conscripted, so the people of industry and commerce cannot be knighted. Baigong is better, the status of merchants and people with city registration is only higher than that of the officials (guilty officials), and the status is lower than that of the son-in-law and Lu Zuo. The countries restricted industry and commerce, especially the Qin state, the Qi country prospered in commerce, but also restricted industry and commerce, until Tiandan returned to the country and established the king of Qi Xiang, and the Qi court gradually lost control of industry and commerce.

"I thought the king should not expect too much from the kingdom. Qi, there are many poor people, and the rich people are not called. The so-called 'two hearts for a while, the front is heavy and the back is light, so it is heavy but not strong', has long existed. Kong Qian said vaguely, and soon he changed his words and turned to the state of Chu. The state of Chu practiced the Ao system, and the counties and towns sought armor soldiers, and the cultivators' taxes became heavier. Farmers, the months are less than the years and the years are more than enough, and the spring and summer are many times the loan, but the people are too many to pay interest. If you are in a hurry, you can only flee to donate yourself. Many farmers in Jiangdong fled. ”

As soon as Kong Qian mentioned the peasants of Jiangdong, Xiong Jing's face was not very good-looking. He was a great king, and he had never been in contact with the common people, and he had little understanding of the poor. Because of the vast land and the seldom of military affairs, the common people of Chu State are indeed better off than other countries, but he knows very little about the lives of the common people. After the Chu State implemented the Ao system, the number of people fleeing increased dramatically for a while.

In the past, the state of Chu was a country, and it was useless to flee to other counties, unless it was to flee to another country. Now the counties and towns are unified by themselves, and in order to seek soldiers and armor, they all attach importance to Ding Zhuang, and in order to increase the population, not to mention the people who owe loans, even sinners dare to take them in.

The same is true for Jiangdong immigrants. Huaishang is familiar land, and most of the voluntary immigrants are poor people and borrowers who cannot pay interest, and it is not the Chen people who cultivate the land in Chen County, but the Xiang people, Yangling people, Yangxia people, and so on. It is equivalent to that everyone is digging into each other's corners, and the bankrupt farmers in Chen County fled to Xiang County, and Chen Bu generally cannot be held accountable; The bankrupt peasants in Xiang County fled to Chen County, even if Xiang Yan was already waiting, they could not be held accountable.

"What do you think?" Xiong Jing couldn't see his joy or anger, and only asked Kong Qian for advice.

"Please ask the king to limit the double loan of the merchants, and then send the ministers to inspect the counties." Kong Qian said, "It should also be decreed that all counties should not increase taxes. ”

"This ......" Xiong Jing's smile was a little dry, because he couldn't do any of these three, and even if he did, he wouldn't listen to it.

"Neither." Xiong Jing Road. "I am willing to borrow money, if there is no vice, with the current tax burden of Chu State, why do you need to borrow? If you have borrowed money, even if you sell your children and daughters and go bankrupt, you should return it. ”

"The king's words are not right. If the people are ruined, how can the country exist? "Kong Qian does not speak of benevolence and righteousness, but only utilitarianism." Or the people are attached to the powerful ......"

"It's too much." Xiong Jing shook his head. "The government of the Ao system is to force the common people to attach themselves to the vassals and the powerful, which is like forging a huge hammer, and it needs a heavy hammer to make it tight, and only close can it be successful. What is the use of not being attached to the vassals and being powerful, but also suffering from bad habits and not being able to control themselves? ”

"Hey!" Kong Qian let out a long sigh. He understands the logic of Xiong Jing's governance: first, kill all the officials (the actual officials are not killed, only the officials), so that the whole country becomes a flooded place and fierce beasts are rampant, and the people do not have the slightest sense of security, so they have to rely on the vassals and the clans, and then use the vassals and clans as the backbone to recast the entire country.

There is no equality in this country, only hierarchy, and there is no benevolence, only courage and faith. To get rid of the identity of the common people, you can only rely on fighting in battle, but there are fewer and fewer people who become honored scholars, because the Feng Lu is limited.

This is also the reason why Xiong Jing worships him as a master and asks him to give a lecture for the honorable scholars. Confucianism emphasizes harmony and difference, while Mohism advocates universal harmony. Harmony refers to the harmony of all levels; Tong, refers to the equality of all classes, and the reason why Chu suppressed Mojia and advocated Confucianism is self-evident.

"I heard that the king once said, 'Don't live all, don't die', and now the common people are attached to the vassals, and this is forced to live." After sighing, Kong Qian said. He really sighed, not attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son.

"It's too much." Xiong Jing also sighed. "If the common people are the armor soldiers, they can choose people they trust to stand in the outer courts, which has not been done for thousands of years. Taifu should know that in the past, he was a foreigner, not a common man. ”

"However, the common people of Chu are subject to vassals everywhere, and they can get away at every turn, and there is no freedom at all." Freedom is a new word coined by Xiongjing, but because of the semantic relationship, many people are prone to misunderstanding it.

"Why does Taifu think he is free?" Xiong Jing had to ask. "Do whatever you want to be your own? Unfettered is freedom? Is it freedom to marry and have children? Is it freedom to love a man more than a woman? Neither. Freedom is the freedom of all soldiers to participate in the affairs of the state, the freedom not to infringe on private subjects, and the freedom not to be borrowed by others without permission.

Freedom does not refer to the freedom of one person, but to the freedom of one person to join all and participate in all things.

A man can have the freedom to do whatever he wants, and he can have the freedom to love a man more than a woman; And the common people who are dependent on the vassals, although none of them have their own, they have the freedom to participate in all things among the people. If a person has the freedom to participate in all things, and wants to do whatever he wants, and desires the freedom of one person, they will either abandon him or punish him. In the past, he was punished as a young man, and it was like this. ”

Since worshipping Taifu, Xiong Jing has always respected Kong Qian, but today, when he heard Kong Qian confusing the original meaning of freedom, he had to ask rhetorically to correct it. After saying this, he suddenly realized that he did not respect the teacher in this move, and immediately bowed and apologized.

Kong Qian was not angry, because he was also excited. Confucius's Confucianism was based on etiquette, followed by Mencius based on benevolence, and then Xunzi after him based on Jun. As society continues to evolve and times change, even the descendants of Confucius can't help but break away from the doctrine of propriety and fall into the nest of Mencius's benevolence (people-oriented), which is exactly what Confucius did not advocate back then. In Confucius's thought, the monarch and the people are insignificant, and if they do not abide by etiquette, the country will not be a country.

The mutual promotion of teachers and students made the atmosphere finally relaxed, Xiong Jing said: "You can't force the merchants to lower the loan, only to make the witches of the counties and towns borrow from the common people with low money, so that the common people can have a respite." ”

"If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, you can borrow it?" Kong Qian smiled.

"If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, you can't borrow them." Xiong Jing Road. "If a person does not believe in spirits and gods, and does not fear heaven and earth, how can he make him repay his loan? If a person has no witchcraft and believers help and punish him, how can he get rid of bad habits? ”

"A gentleman should respect ghosts and gods and stay away." Kong Qian's smile did not decrease.

"If you are a gentleman, you will not be reduced to borrowing to survive." Xiong Jing was helpless. He knew that most of the witches were stingy, and the loan was finally paid by him, which was another big amount of money.

"I heard that the king is summoning witches and good debaters, but I don't know what it is?" Kong Qian asked again, and then his smile retracted.

"The students want to rebuild the spiritual religion so that the Chu people will not be invaded by foreign religions." Xiong Jing said. He knew what Kong Qian was talking about, so he took the initiative to say: "Students don't want to be the Son of Heaven. ”

Only Kong Qian understood what Xiong Jing said, and he said very seriously: "The king is not the Son of Heaven, how can he govern the country?" I look at the world today, and the one who is unified in one is bound to be achieved, either Qin or Chu. If the king is not for the world, how can he rule the world? The king wants to do business? ”

Shang Zheng and Zhou Zheng are both the same and different. The similarities are all to borrow God or heaven to endorse their rule, in short, the rule of law, or orthodoxy. The king of Chuzhuang lined up in the south of Luoshui and won the championship, but the legal system was in Zhou, so he could only retreat; King Wu of Qin raised the crown, only because of the people of the Zhou Dynasty, so he died of extinction.

Although they all use gods and heavens to flaunt the legitimacy of their rule, the king of Shang Zheng is originally a god. It's not like Confucius said, 'Zhou Zheng, depressed and depressed', King Wu of Zhou also used Shang Zheng at the beginning, continued to use the day name of the Shang King and the emperor name, and was respected as 'Emperor Riding'.

It's just that the merchants despised the Zhou people, and they did not accept the rule and launched the Three Prisons Rebellion. Although King Wu of Zhou occupied Chaoge, as a god, he did not have a magic weapon, and all the magic weapons (jade) representing the gods were placed on the terrace by the king of Zhou and burned. However, the rebels took out more magic weapons from the tomb of the former king than the one burned by the king of Zhou, resulting in the complete failure of the Zhou people's ideological efforts.

The enraged Zhou people dug up all the tombs of the Shang kings of the past dynasties, and abandoned the legal system of the Shang kings, that is, the gods, and preached the "Emperor God and the Emperor of the Emperor, and changed the order of the Yuan Zi Zi Da Yin", and established a new legal system, which was the Son of Heaven.

"Students don't want to do business." Xiong Jing had to compromise. He didn't want to be a god in the world, that was something that only Egyptians and Japanese people did. When he became a god in this world, he had to marry his own sister-in-law or sister-in-law, so as to ensure the purity of the god's bloodline.