Now, Qingji's prestige in Wu is in full swing, and few people dare to blatantly disobey his will.

Qingji was able to vigorously implement the historical Shang Dynasty reform in Wu State, so that Wu State quickly became strong!

However, Qingji did not do that, and the measures of reform did not completely follow the Shang Yang reform.

Why?

Because Qingji knew very well that the later Qin State Shang Ying's reform method had a certain degree of advancement and success, but it was not applicable to today's Wu State.

The Shang Dynasty Transformation Method was like a fierce medicine, which could make the precarious and almost disease-ridden Qin State glow with vitality and quickly become powerful.

There is no doubt about that.

However, the current state of Wu is still a rising and militarily strong country!

It is like a vigorous young man, at this time, the next dose of fierce medicine will only backfire.

Therefore, Qingji dared to determine that the historical Shang Dynasty reform law did not apply to the state of Wu.

The good policies he promoted such as arranging households and gathering the people, monopolizing salt and iron, and encouraging childbirth were generally not Legalist techniques, but belonged to the category of Taoist rule by inaction.

Huang Lao's technique is more suitable for the Wu Kingdom at this time, but it is only a transitional period!

If Wu continues to grow in the future and its national strength reaches a bottleneck, the second round of reform is imperative.

"The king, according to the views of the concubines, if the doctors want to resist the new law, it is very likely to start from many places."

"The county system, the law of leveling, the system of state grain storage, and the monopoly of salt and iron implemented in the new law are not conducive to the old clans, and they will certainly be vigorously attacked by them, so as to force the king to repeal the new law, or revise the new law!"

Ji Ko frowned and said softly.

"Queen, your thoughts coincide with those of the widow."

Qingji chuckled lightly and said, "The world is bustling, all for profit!" How can the widows not know what the old clans and merchants have done in the past? ”

"However, the widow will not give them another chance. They will either comply with the implementation of the new law, or they will become a stepping stone to the new law! ”

Qingji's determination is very firm, there is no doubt!

Anyone who dares to stop him from implementing the new law and enriching the country and strengthening the people is his enemy, and must be eliminated, all of them!

At this moment, Ji Ko looked at Qingji with a resolute look on his face, and secretly praised it in his heart, but he had to speak: "King, please refrain from it." ”

"Even if the old family is not, they are all the pillars of the country and the foundation of the Wu country. The king must not destroy the pillar stone because of the momentary anger, so that the Wu Kingdom will regenerate and become chaotic. ”

"The few know."

Qingji just laughed it off!

What Ji Ko said is not unreasonable.

The old clan is just too selfish, not without the spirit of disloyalty and patriotism!

If Qingji does not harm the interests of the old clan, they will definitely be able to do their best to be loyal to Qingji.

However, Qingji is still not satisfied with this!

Compared with outsiders, Qingji, as the king of Wu, should indeed trust and respect the local old family.

It's just that a talented outsider (Keqing) and an old family who is mediocre and almost a vegetarian eater, relatively speaking, what choice can Qingji make as a superior?

If Qingji just wants to be a king of Wu and maintain the status quo, he can rule by hanging the arch and slowly accumulate national strength like the kings of Wu State.

However, Qingji is not willing to do nothing like this for a lifetime, to be an ordinary promising king!

Qingji's ambition is to be like the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Jin Wen, and the King of Chuzhuang, to make the Wu State strong and dominate the world!

He is not willing to be mediocre, and he is unwilling to let Wu have been cowering in the southeast.

Therefore, appointing talents and using their abilities and changing the law and reforming have become something that Qingji must do!

Qingji's heart knew very well that the aristocratic class of Wu needed to inject some fresh blood in order to refresh themselves.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to fight the country, and it is even more difficult to defend the country!

The kings of Zhongxing in all dynasties are not easy.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the ministers and doctors canonized by the king were indeed able to do their best to govern the country and the people, and take it as their responsibility to enrich the country and strengthen the army.

But often in the middle and late stages, because of the Shilu Shiqing system, the ministers and doctors who have obtained hereditary power often rely on the shadow of their ancestors to suck the blood and bones of the country like vampires, but they are corpses and vegetarians, and they do nothing!

This is something that Qingji hates.

It is true that their ancestors have contributed to the state of Wu, but their power has been hereditary for so many generations, and the kindness repaid by the kings of the state of Wu is enough!

……

The sun is rising.

In a quiet and peaceful mountain village, a group of people of all kinds drove ox carts or horse-drawn carts straight into the entrance of the village.

The leader is a wealthy middle-aged man in luxurious clothes.

Without waiting for the middle-aged man to speak, the man who followed him shouted loudly!

"Buying a lot of grain and rice! Buy Grain and Rice! Whether it is new rice or old rice, my master will buy it for ten knife coins and one stone! ”

A group of people shouted for a while, and after a while, many villagers heard the news and rushed over to join in the fun.

An old man with gray temples asked puzzledly, "Really? Ten knife coins and one stone of grain and rice, it is really rare! ”

"In the past, it was a bumper harvest year, even in a famine year, rice was rarely sold for ten knife coins!"

"That's it! Normally, a stone of grain and rice is only sold at the price of six or seven knife coins, and the market is like this, and the price of your purchase is so high, are you not afraid of losing money? ”

Strange!

The onlookers all thought that the sun was coming out in the west!

As the so-called businessman is profitable, no business is not treacherous.

How could they do such a loss-making business?

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

Therefore, even if the villagers are relatively simple, they have already realized that there is something wrong with this!

The merchant chuckled and said, "How can I deceive you?" Grain and rice are said to be ten knife coins and one stone, which is ten knife coins and one stone! No bullying! ”

With a wave of his hand, the merchant asked his attendant to carry out a box, and when he opened it, it was all strung together, piles of knife coins!

At this moment, the onlookers couldn't help but believe it.

At the instigation of the merchant and his entourage, the villagers immediately ran home, carrying out the surplus grain they had stored earlier and bartering them for their possessions.

It didn't take long for the merchant's ox cart and carriage to be full of rice bags, and the chests that had originally placed a large number of sword coins were gradually running out.

Something like this happened in the villages of Wu and everywhere.

Even if the villagers knew that these merchants had bad intentions, they were tempted by money, and they tried their best to exchange the surplus food at home for money!

The villagers knew that the government was implementing the Equalization Law and establishing a national grain storage system, which was about to purchase a large amount of surplus grain from their homes.

However, the government is buying at a low price, which is really dwarfed by the high price offered by the merchants.

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