Externally, Guan Zhong relied on the power of wealth to play the princes in the palm of his hand. Of course, if you just rely on controlling the hearts of the enemy country, you can't completely make the Qi country strong. If you want to direct a wonderful currency war drama, you must first have enough currency.

Mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, mineral veins, salt and iron can provide wealth for the Qi country in a steady stream, but just such a crude development cannot fully satisfy the Qi people's tactics of using the power of money to slap the enemy's head into confusion. However, if the private wealth is expropriated too much, it will inevitably lead to the boiling of public resentment.

No pay, no return. Everyone understands this, but everyone is not very happy to give. This is true for the enemy as well as for its own people. Therefore, Guan Zhong put forward a new concept of government wealth distribution and the use of political power to obtain taxes: taking the dark and the light.

What is given is visible to all; Ask for it, try to hide it in the dark. After reassuring the people, Guan Zhong immediately promulgated a new policy to make the industry concentrate.

Speaking of which, the officials and adults of the Qi State are not bad to the people, and this decree can allow all people in the same industry to live together, reduce the influence, and promote each other. The solid foundation of the lower layer has laid a peaceful and solidified life pattern for Qi people. No carpenter would have been a neighbor with a blacksmith, and no cook would have had such an intensive association with a farmer.

It would be nice for everyone to do their own thing with peace of mind.

There will no longer be a blacksmith who thinks about why the minerals given by nature should be intercepted by the people controlled by the regime in the mining, transportation, processing, and trafficking, and there will be no more carpenter's son who thinks about the relationship between the trees formed for thousands of years and the government. Together, they discussed more about how they could save wood to make better and more furniture, rather than discovering the wealth that the government had quietly taken away in the process.

Integrated production makes management more convenient, and the dense production area solidifies not only Zhang Blacksmith will not have nothing to do, and when he runs to Wang Carpenter's house to talk about why the price of the iron in front of the hoe has risen a little this year. More people at the bottom are beginning to be familiar with and recognize their own platform and starting point, they don't need to understand too much, as long as they do a good job in their social division of labor, they will not starve, and if they work hard, they can live a better life.

However, no industry is made of officials, and every politician in the court is promoted by local recommendations and higher-ranking officials. The officials who promoted them are not bad, at least they are all very knowledgeable and love the Qi country, and this group of selectors is quite reasonable from the perspective of national interests.

In the stable life of the common people, no one studies the way of governing the country anymore, and no one will understand how the power of the country should function without completing the work in their hands, and every official and monarch clearly understands the work that should be done in their own link, and the largest part of the country's population has quietly moved away from this world.

The work of selecting officials and running the affairs of the regime remained in the hands of the first group of people who reached the pinnacle of power, but fortunately they were conscientious and diligent. Gradually, however, there are fewer and fewer young and energetic new generation of officials, because they live in a stable and backwater-like environment.

Guan Zhong opened up the mode of collaboration and integration of socialized mass production, but consciously or unintentionally neglected the important process of opening up people's wisdom to maintain and promote the country's ideological level. He doesn't need too clever assistants, and he doesn't need a well-established selection system, because it is enough for everyone to do their job well, and he and the interest groups he represents, beyond the popular base, directly govern the country.

It is true that knowing what should be known, doing what should be done well, not understanding what should not be understood, not trying what should not be tried, is definitely a weapon for the ruling class to maintain stability in governing the country. It is enough for every person in charge of the state apparatus to dedicate himself diligently and without expecting anything in return, and in the spring and autumn era, when there was a wild and war-torn era, nothing was more important than stability.

The hopelessly solid lower foundation was gradually fixed, providing the rulers high up with enough wealth to satisfy their desires. The power of the whole country was highly concentrated in the hands of a few bureaucrats and kings by a peaceful and gentle means. They guided the giant ship of Qi to cut through the waves and move forward bravely in the era of war and chaos with undercurrents, and created a hegemony that can go down in history.

Subsequently, Guan Zhong began to personally guide the high and extravagant consumption. This is the smartest helmsman in the history of the Qi State, while directing the country and strategizing, while opening a brothel and guiding extravagance.

Guan Zhong understands that it is no longer enough to satisfy the public just by allowing the people to eat and wear warm clothes. Years of hard and tenacious production work have made most people no longer worry about food and clothing. The wealth accumulated by the people is increasing, and it is no longer enough to simply ask for it secretly. On the one hand, he advocated "knowing etiquette in a practical manner", but on the other hand, he did not completely spread the wisdom of running the political power and managing the people to the masses. On the contrary, they began to encourage the common people and businessmen to take out their own money to enjoy the material life.

No one can easily resist the enchanting face of the drunken gold fans in the gentle township, and no one is born with a dislike of elegant and comfortable clothes inlaid with gold and jade. These physiologically pleasing products are obviously more acceptable than hard reading and brain-racking thinking in the cold window, and everyone likes to enjoy a comfortable and enjoyable material life, and is willing to pay for it without affecting life.

The prosperous country of Qi has the most memorable place to consume, with enough brocade clothes and food to make the ladies blush. The common people praised the exploits of the officials and lords:

What a prosperous era!

As for those foreign enemies who are eyeing each other, there are naturally adults who shelter from the wind and rain, and the powerful Chu State has fallen under the power of money like that, and no public cares about how Guan Zhong used the power of wealth, and there are not too many people who like to explore how to wield the sword of human nature hidden in the shadows.

Under the guidance of Guan Zhong, the state of Qi is clean and peaceful. The courtiers above the court, for the sake of the motherland, countless wind, rain and dark arrows fluttered on the magnificent palace, without a single ripple.

However, people can never escape the sharp butcher's knife of time, and every official and king will not be exempt from the judgment of time because of their noble status. Guan Zhong gradually became a little tired, because his aging arms under his wide official robe were still on the wolf-smoked earth, resisting heavy pressure from all sides; He continued to wield, pointing the way for a glittering ship.

When King Qi came to the aging Guan Zhong to inquire about the future of the country, Guan Zhong recommended Bao Shuya and others who were cleaving the waves with him. However, they are also no longer young.

Although there seems to be nothing wrong with the system of recommending and selecting talents at all levels, this kind of system that has strict requirements for the quality of the selectors and the selected ones is obviously not suitable for the development and promotion of a large-scale system.

This vigorous battle seems to be coming to an end.

The perfect statecraft made Qi Huan stand in the position of the overlord of the world, calling for wind and rain, and the diligent ministers were dedicating their strength to the development of the country all the time. Unfortunately, sometimes, perfection means despair.

No one can be like Guan Zhong anymore, he has not carried forward his talent and wisdom of controlling people's hearts and calculating human nature, because there is no qualified and loyal enough successor who can properly use this power while still allowing the King of Qi to have proper control over him. Not all officials can maintain the original intention of the country, and the lower foundation solidified from generation to generation cannot really provide the country with outstanding talents like their predecessors. And the gradually decreasing selection level has also weakened the foundation of the Qi State.

The reform and development guided by the rule of man gradually died out with the departure of the guide without forming a perfect system. Because not everyone can control their desires and overcome the darkness of their own humanity out of loyalty to the country.

In 645 B.C., this genius who calculated the hearts of the people and guided the situation closed his eyes under the butcher's knife of time. Soon after, the state of Qi was in turmoil, and the overlord of Qi Huan, a generation of overlords, was placed under house arrest and starved to death in the magnificent palace because of the power struggle of his four sons.

Since then, people have died, and politics have been extinguished.