During the reign of King Kang of the Song Dynasty, due to repression, Zhuangzi was ridiculed by them not only once for no reason, but many times. Eight? 一Chinese (一).

Most of these people who ridiculed Zhuangzi were specially here at the behest of King Song Kang.

Since the Song Kingdom increased taxes and readjusted taxes, due to the large population, there was more land to cultivate, and there were also more commercial aspects, so! The tax income is quite large. How big is it? It was so big that King Song Kang thought that his financial resources could dominate the world.

Of course! King Song Kang still knew that in his lifetime, it would be impossible to dominate the world. But! After consulting with his subordinates, he still discussed a "Qin Xiaogong-like generational inheritance method", so that his descendants could complete the great cause of hegemony.

The State of Qin is a good example! During the period of Qin Xiaogong, the law was changed by Shang Ying to make the Qin State strong, and then! and then recover the lost territory of the Qin State. And then! In the period of his descendants, he sent a letter to Guguan in the east and ruled the world.

So! Our Song Kingdom can also take such a hegemonic route. First of all, King Song Kang himself will expand the territory, and first expand the territory appropriately. And then! Fixed site. And then! Annexation of small surrounding vassal states. And then! You can compete with other surrounding vassal states.

With the increase in taxes, the treasury of King Song Kang, the king of the Song Kingdom, was full, but! The lives of the people have worsened poverty. Because with the increase in population, almost every family has a new population and a population that has not yet reached adulthood, and the burden of living is already heavy, and the extra taxes are even more unbearable.

In the past, in order to encourage people to have children, they deliberately reduced taxes so that people could afford to support their children and were willing to have children. But now! Taxes are heavier, and! It's not just aggravated, it's increased for no reason.

Because! In the past! As long as it is newly reclaimed, it is exempt from taxation. Right now! It is that all land is taxed. All land, that is, the land that has been newly reclaimed and has not been taxed.

In the Song Kingdom! This policy has been implemented for twenty years since the beginning of the lacquer garden model. As you can imagine! How much new land has the Song State reclaimed in twenty years?

King Kang of Song taxed all these lands, which was able to increase countless taxes. But? This means that many families have gone from farming without taxes to suddenly having taxed farming. So! Some families are acceptable, while countless are not.

Because! They have been living without taxes. So! Ability to have children and offspring. It's not that they don't pay taxes, but! They put all their taxes into having children. Right now! If you make them pay taxes suddenly, they will inevitably break the previous pattern of life and fall into poverty.

The Song country was poor, the people around him were poor, and Zhuangzi could only live the life of a poor man.

Taoism is about integrating into the circle of life and living the same life as the people around you. So! Zhuangzi could only live the life of a poor man. Unless! He emigrates!

But? Can he emigrate?

Now him! It's no longer possible to immigrate!

Because! King Song Kang, like Song Kecheng back then, set his sights on him.

Because! The Song Kingdom entered a stage of poverty, and those who had previously accepted the ideas of Taoism began to act again, and decided to rebel and commit treason to overthrow the regime of King Song Kang.

Zhuangzi, as the inheritor of the Taoist doctrine, naturally some people will come to him and ask him to come forward, overthrow King Kang of Song, and "Zhuang's take Song" again.

Although Zhuangzi was not involved in this matter, he tried to avoid these people as much as possible. But? King Song Kang was not at ease. So! King Kang of Song, like the Emperor of Song, sent people to secretly monitor the Zhuangzi family. As soon as there are signs of rebellion, you're welcome, I'm going to kill you!

Other words! Since the Song Kingdom entered chaos again, King Song Kang had the intention of killing Zhuangzi.

In 325 BC, King Xian of Zhou was 44 years old, Song Junyan was 4 years old, King Huiwen of Qin was 13 years old, and Zhuangzi was 45 years old.

There was a man named Cao Shang in the Song State who sent an envoy to the Qin State for King Song Kang.

When he went to Qin, King Song Kang rewarded him with several cars in order to motivate him to do things well, plus to save face.

The mission went smoothly, and everything was done according to the will of King Song Kang.

King Huiwen of Qin listened to the plan of Qin Prime Minister Zhang Yi: to protect and friendly with the princes from afar, and attack the vassal states that blocked the way. This is also known as the "long-range close-attack" strategy.

So! The king of Qin pretended to be very happy, and gave another hundred cars.

In fact! The Qin State is the same for show. If you are such a small country as the Song Kingdom, you will reward an envoy with a few carriages, and our Great Qin will reward you with a hundred carriages.

On the surface, it was an affirmation of Cao Shang, indicating that he would do things. It actually smacks of sarcasm and contempt. But Cao Shang and King Song Kang didn't see this, on the contrary! I thought that this diplomatic action was a success.

Cao Shang returned to the Song Kingdom, saw Zhuangzi, and said, "Are you mixing yarn?" You? Living in a remote and narrow alley, he is so poor that he weaves straw sandals for a living. You see that you have a slender neck and thin yellow muscles, which is what I am inferior to you. Anyway! I'm not going to live like this.

Look at me! As soon as the opportunity came, I sent an envoy to the Qin State, and the King of the Qin State felt that what I said made sense, and rewarded him with a hundred chariots. I'm not bragging! That's where I lived with you. ”

Zhuangzi said: "I heard that the king of Qin was sick and summoned his subordinate doctors to break the abscesses, and those who dissipated the boils could get one vehicle, and those who licked and cured hemorrhoids could get five vehicles. Have you ever licked the hemorrhoids of King Qin? How do you have so many award-winning vehicles? Go away! Your mouth stinks! ”

I don't know how I got so many vehicles, and you're still bragging about it?

Cao Shang didn't know why he was able to get so many vehicles, and he thought that his mouth could speak, so he was rewarded by the king.

So! Zhuangzi looked down on him at all!

If King Qin Huiwen hadn't listened to Zhang Yi's strategy and adopted the policy of "distant friendship and close attack", it would have been impossible for him to reward Cao Shang with a hundred chariots. The role of chariots and horses in military affairs is very important. Especially horses! Whether it is a war horse or a horse for ordinary transportation, it is very important. If it weren't for the sake of stabilizing the Song Kingdom, he would not have been willing to do so at all.

King Song Kang thought that he had reached a backer, and he was even more ambitious. Later, King Song Kang even dared to attack the Qi State, which was really blind. He couldn't see through the current situation and future development trend of the Great Zhou Dynasty at all.

The state of Qin is right, but attacking the state of Qi, the state of Wei, the state of Chu and other big countries is a foolish behavior.

If you don't die, you won't die, King Kang of Song consumed the comprehensive national strength accumulated during the Song Dynasty. Therefore! It hastened the demise of the Song Kingdom.

The top 10 of the creation history collection list, the blind writing of the great god "The New Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty", will be updated on the 2o of this month, so stay tuned!

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