By building plank roads and opening up roads, Huaiguo not only repaired the roads in Hanzhong, but also relieved the people of Hanzhong, and at the same time allowed Huaiguo to take the opportunity to collect the hearts of the people in Hanzhong.

At the same time, the construction of plank roads also allowed Huaiguo to firmly control Jiangdu and Hanzhong.

Jiangzhou City is the bridgehead for attacking the land of Bashu, and Hanzhong is the bridgehead for attacking the Wei Pingyuan of Qin.

Qin State, Xianyang.

After sending Proton to sue for peace with Zhao and defeating Han and Wei, Qin finally began to deal with Yiqu. The Yiqu State attacked the Qin State and obtained a large amount of booty. Relying on mobility and flexibility, the Qin State was helpless against it.

It's just that after the Qin State concentrated its superior forces, cooperated with the cities, and pressed on the Yiqu State step by step, the army of the Yiqu State became smaller and smaller in the area of activity of the Qin State.

Seeing this situation, the king of Yiqu finally did not dare to stay any longer, and the army took advantage of the fact that the Qin army had not yet completed the siege, forcibly broke through one of the defense lines, and fled from the Qin State.

With the escape of Yiqu State, the war of Qin State is finally over.

This time, the Qin State launched a war to attack Western Chu, but only took the land of Brazil, and ceded Shangjun himself, and was also besieged by the five countries, which can be described as a heavy loss.

However, the Huai State, which agreed with him to attack Western Chu together, ate a mouth full of oil, and took all the lands of Hanzhong and Jiangzhou, and all the treasures accumulated by the Western Chu State for a hundred years also fell into the hands of the Huai State, and the Qin State was very dissatisfied.

Just when Qin was thinking about whether he could get some benefits from Huai, the envoy of Huai came to Xianyang.

In the Xianyang Palace, Qin Wangsi was summoning the envoy of Huai.

"What is the reason why your envoy is here?" Qin Wangsi asked bluntly.

The envoy of Huai State saluted him, and then said: "Since the King of Qin has signed an alliance with my Huai State, why did he go back on his word and lure Qi State to attack my Huai State?" ”

Qin Wangsi's face changed slightly, and then he said with a dry smile: "Your envoy, the Qin State has definitely not lured the Qi State to attack Huai, where did the noble envoy hear about it, this is definitely a rumor, it is to destroy the relationship between the Qin State and the Huai State!" ”

"Dare to destroy the friendly relationship between Qin and Huai, and the widow suggests that this person be directly killed!"

"King Qin, the king of my family sent his son Ji to attack Qi and break the Qi army, and the doctors of Qi all said that it was Qin that tempted Qi to attack Huai, is this also a rumor?" The envoy of Huaiguo sneered.

The other ministers in the hall spoke one after another: "The Qi people are cunning, this time it must be the trick of the Qi people." ”

"Really? King Qin, what can you do with your thousand calculations? The envoy of Huaiguo mocked: "Shangjun for Brazil can be regarded as earning a little." ”

"Does King Qin recognize this covenant?" The envoy of Huaiguo took out a brocade silk and said.

Seeing the brocade silk, everyone suddenly became numb. Even this covenant has been obtained, how can this be denied, thinking of this, King Qin couldn't help but glare at Zhang Yi.

"Your honor, there is some misunderstanding in this, this covenant is made by the people below, and the few people don't know it!"

King Qin opened his eyes and said nonsense, completely denying it.

For this situation, the envoy of Huai State had already expected it, and immediately said: "Sure enough, it is Rong Di's generation, not talking about credibility, and the events of Qin State today are remembered by Huai State." ”

After saying that, he bowed and left directly.

When King Qin saw that the envoy of Huai was so rude, he was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

When the envoy of Huai returned to Jinling, Wang Xu learned that Qin had endured this kind of humiliation and ridicule of Huai, which made Wang Xu want to provoke the king of Qin and make his plan to raise troops in anger fail.

However, Wang Xu was not disappointed, this matter was originally an idle move, if it succeeded, it was the best, and if it did not succeed, it would not lose anything.

Since the Qin State did not raise troops in anger, Wang Xu asked the soldiers to continue to be on guard. The Qin State occupies a dangerous pass, and if it is difficult to attack, Wang Xu just wants to lure the Qin State out, and after defeating it, he will attack it.

After Gongzi Ji finished discussing with Yan Guo, he began to lead a large army to conquer the remaining cities of Qi Kingdom. These cities of Qi were defeated by elite troops. In the remaining cities, there were not many soldiers.

The Huai Kingdom besieged these cities to prevent them from uniting, and then began to conquer them one by one.

Huai Guo surrounded more than 30 cities this time, Gongzi Ji was not in a hurry to attack, although Huai Guo siege equipment was strong, but the continuous capture of so many cities, the loss will not be small.

After Gongzi Ji besieged it, he adopted a strategy to attack the heart, informing these people of the news of the fall of the Qi State and the death of the King of Qi, and disintegrating their morale through various means. In the end, it took three years to conquer all these more than 30 cities.

All the southern cities of Qi were occupied.

Then the Huai State implemented changes to these newly occupied areas, and the Qi State has increased taxes several times in a row since the accession of the Qi king. And because the Qi State did not abolish the Shiqing system, there were many nobles and nobles in the Qi State who occupied a large number of acres of land.

After conquering these cities, Huai directly confiscated all the fiefs and fields of those nobles and nobles, and then organized the people in the city to gather the people. The land was then distributed to the people according to the size of the population for cultivation.

At the same time, Huaiguo will also abolish a large number of exorbitant taxes and implement a new tax law in Huaiguo.

The system of compiling households and people was implemented very early in Huaiguo. The household registration system provides great convenience for the management of the country, and through the statistics of name, age, identity, appearance, place of origin, and land wealth, Huaiguo knows the population of the country.

It is very helpful for catching spies and criminals. At the same time, the biggest role of the people is to help the state collect taxes.

In order to limit the appearance of large households, Huai forced the division of households with a population of more than five adults. At the same time, in order to curb the annexation of land by large households, the Huai State collected taxes according to household registration and land property.

When the land does not exceed 200 mu, the tax is 20%, if it exceeds 200 mu, less than 500 mu is 20% 50%, more than 500 mu is less than 1,000 mu is 30%, more than 1,000 mu is levied 40%, and more than 2,000 mu is 50%.

This kind of tax system is used to force the common people and the big families to divide their families. Although there are some big households that are strong and strong, they evade taxes through the operation of fake subdivisions, but this kind of tax evasion can only exist for a while, after all, people are greedy, and it will not be long before the false subdivisions become real subdivisions.

Huaiguo also implemented the organization of households and people for the Baiyue and barbarians in the south, but there were some differences in the operation. It is also a household registration system, and it is much more convenient for Huaiguo to recruit soldiers and serve as laborers.

(End of chapter)