Tian Dan was over sixty years old when he came to Huaiguo, and although his health was still very good, his spirit was not very good. After all, he had been working hard all his life to strengthen the Qi Kingdom, but in the end he was forced away by the King of Qi. His current state resembles a collapse of faith.

insisted on the concept for a lifetime, but in the end it was just a fart, and anyone would not be able to stand it. After Tiandan came to Huaiguo, for Wang Chong, who had some collecting habits, he just spent some money to support himself, and he was not expected to lead troops to fight.

However, after Le Yi knew that Tian Dan was coming, he went to meet him, after all, in a sense, the two of them are old rivals.

In that year, Le Yi led the army to win successive battles, and in two years broke through the seventy-two cities of Qi State, under the attack of Yan State and Huai State, Qi State was left with only one lonely city. If Le Yi is given a few more years, King Yan Zhao will die of illness later, and maybe the Qi Kingdom will be destroyed.

And Tian Dan was the one who guarded the last lonely city of Qi back then, and after Leyi fled, he broke Yan in a battle and regained the lost territory. The two opponents want to meet in this situation, and I have to say that history is really ironic.

The two old men in their sixties became friends after a few encounters. Because Le Yi is old, although he still holds the position of Xiangguo, he doesn't care much about things anymore.

After Zhao entered the Central Plains, his national strength soared, and the relationship between Qin and Zhao became closer and closer in order to resist the pressure of Huai. Both Qin and Zhao were aware of the threat posed by Huai. Fan Ju, the prime minister of the Qin State, personally admonished the abolition of the policy of distant friendship and close attack that he had previously advocated. It was changed to Lian Zhao Kanghuai.

Originally, Zhao wanted to bring Wei and Korea together, but because of the relationship between Qin and Han Wei, it never succeeded. Of course, there are also a lot of dark guards in this.

Wei and Korea had fallen into decay because of Qin's encroachment on a large amount of land, and since they were unwilling to participate, Qin didn't care too much, but began to dissolve the alliance with Yan and Qi to fight against Huai. Yan finally agreed, while Qi was reluctant to join because of the conflict with Zhao.

Wang Chong was very clear about the alliance between the three kingdoms, and he had sent secret guards several times before to provoke a relationship between the two, but he was discovered by Qin and Zhao. Fan Ju, the prime minister of the Qin State, and Lin Xiangru, the secretary of the Zhao State, successively advised the monarch to crack down on the spies of the Huai State at home.

This made it very difficult for Huai to carry out activities in Qin and Zhao, but fortunately, Huai had been in the two countries for hundreds of years, and it can be said that it was deeply rooted in the two countries. What Qin and Zhao cleaned up was only the most superficial layer.

Even some of the secret guards of the Huai State have already held some grassroots official positions in the two countries. Although the actions of the two countries caused some trouble to Huaiguo, they did not hurt the foundation of Huaiguo's secret guards.

After Wang Chong annexed Bangzhou, he began to open his mouth to Korea. Korea had already been annexed by the Huai and Qin states before a large amount of land, and now only half of the land in Korea is left.

This Han king could only survive in the cracks, and in order to prevent Qin from advancing eastward, Korea sent Zheng Guo to Qin. It was suggested that the Qin state dig a ditch to irrigate the Guanzhong plain of the Qin state.

Qin Guo saw through the Korean plan, but he willingly entered the trap and invited Zheng Guo to build a ditch in Guanzhong to divert water. After the loss of Shuzhong, Qin was about to recuperate, and he was ignorant of Korea's plans, and fully supported Zheng Guo's ditch plan.

So ten years later, the excavation of the Zhengguo Canal was completed, the Guanzhong Plain was irrigated by the Zhengguo Canal, and a large number of grain fields were harvested. The Qin State fed the entire Qin State with the land of Guanzhong alone.

On the other hand, South Korea's strategy has succeeded and failed.

King Han sent Han Fei as an envoy to Huaiguo, and after Wang Chong and Han Fei exchanged some ideas, he felt that Han Fei was a great talent. Han Fei is also a great talent of the Legalist, although Han Fei studied the knowledge of the Han Legalist Shen Buxian, but the talented and intelligent Han Fei innovated, and his talent far surpassed Shen Buharm.

Seeing such a great talent, Wang Chong naturally wanted to leave him behind. Han Fei's doctrine was very different from the Legalists of Huaiguo, and Wang Chong asked him to stay in the palace to write books, and at the same time prepared to incorporate his doctrine into the hundred schools of thought.

Han Fei's doctrine absorbed the ideas of Legalist sages such as Shang Jun and Shen Buxian, and was inclusive and combined, combining Legalism's law, technique, and potential. Law refers to the sound rule of law, and power refers to the power of the county lord, and the king must have sole control over the military and political power. Technique refers to the strategy and means of controlling the ministers, grasping the political power, and enforcing the laws and regulations.

In this way, the position of the king can be maintained, and the rebellion of those below will be prevented.

This set of doctrines can be said to be the culmination of Legalism, which can not only be used for reform, but also a complete imperial technique, a method for teaching the monarch how to govern and how to control the politics and army of the court.

Wang Chong agreed with him to this set of doctrines, but he also found the shortcomings in this doctrine, that is, this doctrine has high requirements for the qualifications of the monarch, and if you want to learn all of these and integrate them, you must also be a good person. Otherwise, even if you learn this imperial technique, it will be useless.

In other words, if you want to learn and flexibly use this imperial technique, you must have more than 85 points of power and internal affairs qualifications. People below this number will also learn in vain, and they will not learn at all.

Of course, in addition to these, Han Fei's doctrine clearly stated for the first time that 'the law is not expensive', which means that 'the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people'. Of course, although Han Fei didn't say it so bluntly, Wang Chong could see what he meant. Huaiguo has not fully implemented the rule of law in recent years.

Han Fei advocated that 'punishment does not avoid the minister, and rewards the good do not spare the husband.' This has always been practiced by Huaiguo. These doctrines of Han Fei immediately aroused fierce debate among Confucian scholars after he came to the Huaiguo Academy. Han Fei took the stage to debate with Confucian students one by one, refuting one Confucian student after another, and the grand occasion of decades ago once again appeared in the Huaiguo Academy.

Over the years, Confucianism has been promoting the principle of 'punishing the doctor, and not punishing the people.' Over the years, other Confucian doctrines have not been promoted much by the elites, but this one has almost been endorsed by the elites.

However, whether it is Huai or Qin, this article will not be implemented. Wang Chong has read many books left by his ancestors since he was a child, which clearly records what those powerful people did.

If you really agree to be a doctor, these noble doctors are really unscrupulous.

For Han Fei's doctrine, Huai Guo drew useful parts from it. Since the day of the establishment of Huaiguo, Huaiguo has always been very good at learning, learning to partially, and then integrating into the Huaiguo system, which can be said to keep pace with the times.

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