The state is always the product of irreconcilable class contradictions. All administrative systems and leaders are tools to be able to balance and properly suppress this contradiction. As for the law and the army, they are the organs of violence that the ruling class has built and created in order to realize and satisfy its own needs. Throughout the ages, this has been the case, and the Qi country will certainly be no exception.

In 697 B.C., Duke Xiang of Qi succeeded to the throne, and it is clear that the ideals and needs of this king were not the same as those of most of the countrymen. He used power to satisfy his desire for beauty, and the army to maintain control of the country. However, when his indiscriminate conquests and fornications with his cousin Wen Jiang continued to erode the foundation of the Qi State, he did not expect that when his own interests conflicted with the interests of the vast majority of people, there would always be one party who could not bear it and finally resorted to violent means to regain his own interests.

In 686 BC, Gongsun Wuzhi, a cousin of Qi Xianggong, finally chose to use the most direct means to regain his interests. After reaching a common interest goal with the Qi State Doctor Guan Zhifu, Lian Cheng and others, he prepared to launch a palace coup.

In December of that year, Qi Xianggong was hunting in Beiqiu (Yizuo Peiqiu), and was frightened and injured in a car that he didn't even know where to throw his shoes. After returning to the palace, he ordered the palace guards to look for shoes, but they did not find them. Qi Xianggong, who felt a big loss of face, immediately ordered Fei to be whipped for 300 years.

However, the news of the king's injury was soon learned by Gongsun Wuzhi and Lian Cheng, Guan Zhifu and others. Gongsun Wuzhi and others, who thought that the time was ripe, immediately decided to launch a coup d'état. When he rushed to the palace gate, he met the fee who was tortured out of the palace. Fearing that the coup would fail due to leaking information, Fei was subdued on the spot.

Fei said that he had just been punished by the king, and he had a grudge, so he would not escort him, and untied his clothes, and asked Gongsun Wuzhi and others to check the whipping wound on his back, and Gongsun Wuzhi and others were overjoyed and released Fei. The guard then asked to participate in the coup d'état, and was willing to enter the palace first and respond inside.

Unexpectedly, after Fei entered the palace, he hid Qi Xianggong behind the door and arranged for Meng Yang to disguise himself as Qi Xianggong and sleep on the bed. After not seeing any movement for a long time, Gongsun Wuzhi and others found out that they had been deceived and immediately led the crowd to rush in. Fei and the palace guards, Qi Xianggong's favored ministers and others began a battle with Gongsun Wuzhi's department. Defeated, all dead. Gongsun Wuzhi and others rushed into the palace, recognized and killed Meng Yang, who was disguised as Qi Xianggong, and then found the king hiding behind the door, killed him, and established himself as king.

In winter and December, the Marquis of Qi traveled to Gudi, and then the field was in the shell hill. Seeing the big pig, the servant said: "Gongzi Peng Shengye." Gong angrily said: "Peng Sheng dares to see it!" "Shoot it, and the pig will cry immediately. The public was afraid, fell into the car, and lost his feet. On the contrary, it is punished by the cost of apprenticeship. Verde, whip, see blood. walked out, encountered a thief at the door, robbed and restrained. Fei said: "I'm ridiculous! "Betray it and believe it. Fei please enter first, go out, fight, and die in the door. The stone is like dying at the bottom of the stairs. Then he entered and killed Meng Yang in bed. He said: "It's not a gentleman, it's not a class." "Seeing that the public is enough to be under the household, he kills him, and stands ignorant.

- "Left Biography"

However, Gongsun Wuzhi was not a wise man who could meet the needs of most people. With his killing, he rose to the pinnacle of power in a pool of blood, and he was always used to treating his subordinates in a brutal way. Finally, the officials of the Qi State, who were constantly humiliated and abused, found that this new monarch seemed to be even more hateful.

So, in the second year of Gongsun Wuzhi's succession, Yongxiao, the doctor of the State of Qi, assassinated him.

At the beginning, Gongsun was ignorant and abused Yongxiao, and in the spring of the ninth year, Yongxiao killed ignorance.

- "Left Biography"

The state of Qi was thrown into chaos, and everyone hoped that the person sitting on the throne would be able to meet their needs, and once the king who controlled the power and institutional power could not do so, he would lash out and even wield knives and guns. It seems that not all the people who sit on the throne are willing to take on this responsibility. After all, when you have enough ability to meet your needs, you may not be able to guarantee that your needs can live in harmony with your desires.

The assassination of Gongsun's ignorant Yongli did not consider what to do in the future, in short, this guy who died under him and only served as a king for a year violated his interests and ideals. Although he thinks that he is doing harm to the country, it may still be just revenge for the king's mistreatment.

The throne is full of blood, and although most people do not have the courage and qualifications to take on the responsibilities of the empire, there is not only one person with qualifications and ambitions in the vast system of the royal family. The two princes who went to a foreign country and took political refuge are ready to return to China and take the throne.

Gongzi took his auxiliary ministers Guan Yiwu and Zhaohu to return from Lu State, and Gongzi Xiaobai also got the information of the nobles of the domestic family and rushed back with Uncle Bao.

For Guan Yiwu, if Gongzi can win in this battle for the throne, then his future will be bright. He decided to act right away. Lead the troops to an ambush on the road to Gongzi Xiaobai's return to China. If you can attack and kill Gongzi Xiaobai, then there will be no suspense in this race. Draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, so as to solve the problem fundamentally.

Guan Yiwu, who led the troops in pursuit all the way, successfully blocked Gongzi Xiaobai, and at this time, he did not plan to talk about his old feelings and life with his friend Uncle Bao, who had helped him. Open the bow, release the arrows!

Xiaobai fell in response, and Guan Yiwu walked away. As everyone knows, this arrow did not really hit Xiaobai's body, but was blocked by the decorations on his clothes. Of course, Guan Yiwu didn't find out. Xiaobai also had excellent improvisation ability, and immediately pretended to be killed by an arrow and deceived Guan Yiwu.

Guan Yiwu, who felt that he had completed the task, reported this matter to Gongzi Jiao, and Gongzi was overjoyed, and then slowed down the pace of returning to China, and even had the leisure to play in the mountains and rivers on the road, eating and drinking. And Xiaobai, the son who cheated to death, hid in the car tent and rushed back to Qi State.

Gongzi Xiaobai, who was supported by a domestic aristocratic family, successfully ascended the throne and borrowed the hand of Lu Guo to kill Gongzi. When the dust of the battle for the throne settled and the Qi country was in ruins, Xiaobai consulted the auxiliary politician Bao Shuya and asked who could be the hegemon of Anbang, and Bao Shuya still insisted on recommending Guan Yiwu.

Guan Yiwu, who was ceremoniously welcomed back by Duke Qi Huan Xiaobai, was grateful, and after the monarch and ministers released their previous suspicions, Duke Qi Huan respected him as the "middle father" and granted him great power. Since then, a generation of legendary Guan Zhong has officially stepped onto the stage of history.

It's not just that Duke Qi Huan is open-minded and ignores past suspicions, it's not just Uncle Bao's discerning eyes, and it's not that Guan Zhongjing is talented and strategic, and the world is unparalleled enough to make the king surrender his identity and not remember the revenge of the original attack and killing. It's just that at this time, the three parties all have common ideals and value orientations, and driven by sufficient interests, they have naturally formed a rolling trend that can overcome all obstacles. For Guan Zhong, with the help of this unstoppable force, he soared into the sky and showed his talents; And for Qi Huan Gong Xiaobai and Bao Shuya, they also got what they needed the most.

However, for a country and a government, what cannot be avoided is to smoothly and continuously satisfy the needs and desires of the ruled class, and to obtain from it the wealth and resources that keep the state apparatus running. The first thing they had to solve was the issue of taxation.

Taxes are the milk that feeds the government.

- Marx

Obviously, Guan Zhong and Qi Huan Gong are not as popular as later generations said, but now the Qi country needs to be revived, and revival requires a lot of wealth, and the question of how to smoothly obtain wealth from the people is in front of the rulers. They need to solve this problem smoothly and efficiently, otherwise, there will be more Assassins sharpening their knives in the dark, waiting to be heroes who petition for the people.

How exactly do you pluck goose feathers perfectly?

Guan Zhong, who struggled at the bottom of society, obviously understands that it may be possible to amass wealth in a short period of time with violence and blood alone, but as a manager of the country, he cannot only know how to wield a butcher's knife, and if he can create the best environment for the growth of goose feathers, so that the plucked geese are not only not painful, but comfortable, this is the best policy.

The people live on food. Allowing the people to eat and eat well is obviously the most important first step. It is obviously not a good idea to take food directly from the common people, and it is more acceptable to trade the means of production and living materials with the common people. The exchange provided by the government is naturally better adapted to local conditions. Qi is bordered by the sea, the salt industry is developed, and salt, as a necessity of life, is extremely suitable to serve as a medium for this public-private transaction.

The materials that can be recognized by the market can naturally regulate the entire market, so the Qi State began to control the salt industry by the government, and after the original natural salt resources were artificially given the responsibility of balancing the economic order, the direction of the entire economic market of Qi State quietly returned to the hands of the government, and did not cause any resistance and turmoil.

It is not that the transaction itself is reasonable, nor that the salt really belongs to the state, but that in this economic adjustment, the state has rationally used the executive power of violent organs and the control power of administrative decrees, so as to smoothly concentrate the control of wealth in the hands of those in power while satisfying the first needs of the majority of people's lives.

There will not be so many "aliens" to think about why the natural resources endowed by heaven and earth to human beings belong to the rulers of the court, and it is far better to be able to meet the basic living conditions with their own labor than to work hard but be unconditionally plundered. The powerful violence of the state apparatus to make and maintain rules, rather than competing with the people, has been accepted by most people, but no one has wondered whether the rules themselves are justified.

After satisfying the needs of the majority of the people for survival, Guan Zhong continued to formulate the rules for the management and distribution of mineral resources by the state. The tools needed for production, the right to control and distribute the raw means of production, also smoothly became the basis for the further control of the economy by the state organs.

Immediately afterwards, Guan Zhong further proposed the pacification policy of "requisition and decline due to the land", and the state stepped in to take care of and protect the production units with insufficient productivity, so that the majority of the people could recognize the concept that "the level of output determines the amount of taxes". Since then, the concept of conflict in which the state collects the fruits of labor without compensation has been continuously diluted, laying the groundwork for the state to take over and regulate the economy at a deeper and more stable level.

When the regime can satisfy the needs of the majority of the people and has sufficient capacity to regulate and control the entire economic market, the interest group can designate any material that has no real value and has its own abundance as a medium of exchange. As a result, the monetary control agency came into being.

Under the auspices of Guan Zhong, the State of Qi established the "Light and Heavy Nine Mansions". The government uniformly mints money, and this standardized currency is in the shape of a knife, called "Qi Fa Hua" or "Mo Saving Law", commonly known as "Qi Dao".

When a regime is able to control the military and other executive organs of the state, it seems powerful, but it is not terrible. And when a regime is able to control money, the medium of commodity exchange, it has the capital to control the entire country with soft power.

The entire Qi country, under the design and planning of Guan Zhong, is running at a high speed, with political communication and vitality. It's not that Qi's tax policy is really so benevolent and beautiful, but the means of accumulating capital by implicitly implicit the wealth needed by the rulers in the price of commodities is gentle and gentle, and it also satisfies the needs of most groups.