The wealth of Qi is second only to Huai, and it can even be said that if it were not for the larger land and population of Huai, it would not be certain who would pay more taxes in Qi and Huai.

In addition to the basic land endowment, mouth endowment, salt and iron tax in the Qi country, there is also a female lu, what is a female lu, simply put, it is a female branch.

At that time, the management of the middle of the law to encourage commerce and increase taxes, the most important of which was the establishment of women's lu. In the Qi Kingdom, when there were the most women, there were 7,500 families. The number is so large that it is the best in all summers.

These women provided a large amount of money to the Qi State, almost half of the Qi State's tax revenue.

When the king of Qi Min had just died, the king of Qi Min was arrogant and lascivious, and he was so happy that he had fought wars with neighboring countries many times and spent a lot of money, so he collected a lot of miscellaneous taxes.

On the surface, the taxes collected by Qi are not high, and the agricultural tax is only one-tenth, but the taxes and miscellaneous taxes add up to twice as high as the regular tax.

It was precisely because King Min of Qi levied high taxes that after the Huai State occupied these cities, the tax standards of the Qi State were abolished and changed to the tax standards of the Huai States, and these cities were quickly pacified.

The tax revenue of Huai State is not less than that of Qi State, but the tax collection and miscellaneous taxes are less. More importantly, the credibility of the Huai royal family is far higher than that of the Qi royal family. This is also the reason why the people believe in Huaiguo more.

After occupying these cities, the Huai State carried out reforms and digested the spoils of war. On the other side, the battle between Yan and Qi continued.

After the boundary between Huai and Yan, Yan continued to attack Qi. Le Yi led a large army to attack Linzi, because the Qi army was defeated in successive battles, and there were almost no troops in the country, and it was not at all the opponent of the morale-boosting Yan State.

Le Yi drove straight in, directly besieged the city of Linzi, and then spent more than a month to conquer Linzi, the capital of Qi. The remnants of the Qi army escorted the king of Qi to flee for his life, but was ambushed by Le Yi in advance, the king of Qi died in the chaos, and the rest of the Qi army fled to Jimo under the leadership of Gongzi Zhang and Tian Dan.

Le Yi led the army into the city, and after ordering that after entering the city, it was forbidden to commit adultery, plunder, or kill, and sent soldiers to maintain order, and sent soldiers to occupy the treasury of Qi to close the palace, and to carry out Huairou to the people of Qi.

Le Yi has served as the prime minister of Yan State for more than ten years, with a high position and great prestige, coupled with the successive victories in the conquest of Qi State, the soldiers are in awe and dare not overstep.

The army entered the city, and sure enough, there was no riot, and Le Yi also ordered people to take advantage of the opportunity to make a rebellion and rob the rebellious people to kill in order to win the trust of the people of Qi. After occupying Qidu, he opened a warehouse for the people to release grain.

After stabilizing Linzi, Le Yi transported all the gold, silver and jewelry, palace beauties, and grain and cloth in the treasury and palace of Qi and transported them back to Yan Kingdom.

King Yan, who was far away in Jicheng, was overjoyed after learning that Le Yi had broken Linzi in a battle, and immediately took out a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, wine, cattle and sheep to reward the soldiers.

When Le Yi led the army back to Jidu, King Yan saw a murderous army of a hundred battles.

Seeing such a majestic army, King Yan was very happy, and immediately stepped forward to stop Le Yi, who was about to salute: "Xiangguo, you are enough to assist the ancient holy king, the widow has to be protected by the heavens, and it is the luck of the widow to be assisted by the Qing, and the widow really doesn't know how to repay you, so he takes the land of two hundred miles as your fiefdom, and the king of Chang is the king, which means that my Yan country is prosperous!" ”

Le Yi was also very moved: "Since ancient times, there have been countless talented people, but most of them have been buried. Just as Maxima often exists, but Bole does not often have. This is the first Ming Jun, and then there are virtuous ministers! ”

After King Yan rewarded Le Yi and the army, Le Yi once again commanded the army to return to the Qi State. Last time, after capturing Linzi, the capital of Qi State, Le Yi did not attack the cities all over Qi State, and this time Le Yi began to attack these cities.

In the next few years, Le Yi showed his might, leading the Yan army to break through one Qi city after another. Seeing that the soldiers of the Yan State were so sharp, even Gongzi Ji was very wary of the Yan State, and tens of thousands of Huai troops had been stationed in the Qi State.

In just one year, Le Yi broke through seventy-two cities in Qi State, and there was only one Jimo City left in Qi State.

After completing the capture of those cities in the Qi State, Le Yi then personally led a large army to attack Jimo. It's just that when conquering other cities, Jimo has gained a lot of time to strengthen his defenses.

By the time the Yan army attacked Jimo, Jimo City had been built by the Qi people. Le Yi led the army to besiege Jimo for more than two months, but he was unable to capture the city.

If the attack continues, the soldiers of the Yan State will inevitably lose a lot, and the Yan State is a relatively weak country among the Bangzhou countries, so Le Yi is unwilling to lose too much national strength.

In addition, the Yan State had already occupied all the remaining cities of the Qi State, and Le Yi was not in a hurry to capture Jimo, so he sent people to besiege Jimo.

At the same time, Le Yi divided the cities that captured the Qi State and redivided all the cities into counties. He wrote to the king of Yan and implemented benevolent governance in the state of Qi to subdue the hearts of the people. Reduced taxes on the cities in the area occupied by Qi, abolished Qi's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, respected local customs, and gave preferential treatment to local officials, wanting to occupy Qi in this way.

If Le Yi can always govern the Qi State, after twenty years of benevolent government, the Qi State will completely become the land of the Yan State. But just two or three years after Le Yi implemented benevolent government, King Yan suddenly passed away.

The strength of the Yan Kingdom was completely supported by Yan Wang Zhao and Le Yi and other virtuous ministers, and the sudden death of Yan Wang Zhao caused Le Yi to lose his strongest support. And what's even more strange is that Yan Wangzhao's health has always been good, but this time he died very suddenly, and he didn't even leave his last words, but the country's prime minister Le Yi was leading the army outside, and he didn't know the situation at all.

This made a haze rise in Le Yi's heart.

This kind of thing has been staged several times in the Bangzhou countries. Less than a hundred years have passed since the events of Wei Wu Wu Qi and Chu King Jingmu, and this kind of thing happened again in Yan State.

The king of Yan who had just ascended the throne did not trust Le Yi, coupled with the slander of the old nobles of Yan who escaped in the palace of Yan back then, this king of Yan was very wary of Le Yi, of course, there was no lack of credit for the secret guard of Huaiguo.

Even the death of Yan Wang Zhao was involved in the secret guards.

Gongzi Ji was very worried after seeing that the monarchs and ministers of Yan Kingdom were virtuous and complemented each other, so he reported the situation to Wang Xu, so Wang Xu asked the secret guard to help the old nobles of Yan Kingdom to contact.

It's just that what the secret guards didn't expect was that the old nobles of Yan Kingdom actually took advantage of King Yan's serious illness to isolate themselves from inside and outside, and let King Yan die of illness. Sure enough, the temptation of power can make people ignore family affection, and he can do anything for the position of the king of a country.

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