However, this right path for the nobles has actually brought Qi to the brink of economic collapse.

It was impossible for Qin State to adopt reforms based on great nobles like Qi State, nor could it adopt such a manor owner economy that should have appeared on a large scale in the Tang Dynasty.

The essence is because Qin State is too far away from Si Shang, and the only most developed industrial and commercial area that has the ability to absorb a large amount of grain and raw materials is Si Shang, which is too close to Qi State. The geographical location of Qin State determines that he cannot come up with such reforms as Qi State.

The main income of Qi State was still agricultural income. The strategy of establishing a country in industry and commerce no longer existed after the dispute between the princes after Duke Huan of Qi's death.

What's more important is that the currency of Qi has collapsed.

Qi State tried to cast knife coins and use the value of copper itself as currency, but soon there was a very extreme situation.

With the rapid development of agricultural technology, Sishang industry and commerce have produced more goods, and there is a problem with the coins in Qi, the closest place of technology dissemination in Sishang.

Copper is rising with the rising prices of military activities such as stolen cannons. The price of copper in Qi is originally small. Today's copper may be this price, and tomorrow's price. In this way, even those who have copper coins in their hands are unwilling to spend the copper coins, but rather barter them.

It is difficult to circulate copper coins. I spent today to buy a pound of grain, but I might be able to buy two pounds tomorrow. So why don’t I just exchange the things and save the copper coins for the future to buy things?

The nobles refused to mint money privately, thinking that it was better to trade it directly with the Mo family with copper; the monarch was even more foolish enough to turn all the copper that was rising every day into money.

It’s not impossible to live a life without money, it’s an era when stones, bronze farm tools, and thirty kilograms per mu.

Now, it's not OK to have no money.

There are no coins in Qi State, but there are special paper money on Si.

Although the anti-counterfeiting technology is very ordinary, Sishang, as the earliest place where papermaking appeared, relied on simple special ink, the thin leather lining of the inner layer of birch bark transported from North Korea, the original concave and relief printing technology, and other twenty years of technical accumulation, which were not something that Qi State could imitate.

Over time, Qi and Si Shang first completed the unification of "economics", and Qi was essentially within the scope of a unified market centered on Si Shang.

The purpose of those nobles producing grain, cotton ore was to sell it to cities and Si for goods on Si.

The original economy under the feudal system has actually been destroyed.

Economic activities under the original feudal system do not require much money.

In the village fiefdom, farmers work for feudal lords, at most, some farmers near cities pay in-kind taxes, without large-scale transactions.

But now everything is different.

The abnormal economy of the owners of the Qi State is different from the situation around the Si Shang State of Song State.

The surrounding areas of Si Shang, which was the beginning, the nobles of Song Dynasty there also understood that everything is fake these days, and money is real. Si Shang will not fall for a day, so there is no need for them to have military power.

Moreover, they were closer to Si Shang, and they were more clear about the Mohist policy of serfs to bind slaves and slaves.

In addition, Si Shang is right next to him, and forced personal imprisonment measures will only lead to large-scale escape.

Therefore, the aristocrats near Si Shang in Song State adopted the approach: occupying land, annexing land, improving technology, purchasing new equipment, driving away the unused population, and going wherever they like.

I rely on the progress of technology to manage my own land with the least amount of labor. Whether the excess people go to Si Shang to work as a hiring worker or join the Communist Farm, it has nothing to do with them.

Get the most profit with the least labor, the least cost, and the least salary.

The country of Qi retained a small amount of farmer's land. After the new crops appeared, three or five acres of land would not starve to death. The rest continued to maintain the rent of labor-service land for the land, causing the farmers to be trapped on the land and work hard for the nobles.

It may only take one day to escape to Sishang around Sishui; but it is not so easy to escape to Sishang in Qi.

The more stringent laws that prohibit escape, and even the implementation of the law of plagiarism, make the cost of escape too high. It is better to live without dying. As long as you don’t starve to death, you can still persist.

Therefore, many cattle, sheep, wool, grain, alcohol, etc. can be produced, and they are continuously transported to Si Shang by sea.

The top three major goods exported by Qi State are grain, liquor and cotton.

The top three main goods imported by Qi State are ironware, cotton cloth and ceramics.

The basis of the Guanzi School's official and sea policy was the most developed material basis for the domestic closure and the Qi State's industry and commerce in the late Spring and Autumn Period.

The development of handicraft industry is far better than elsewhere. You can play any business policy. The handicraft industry is underdeveloped and is close to highly developed areas. If the business policy is not well played, the country may collapse.

Now that this is the case, the officials and mountains and seas have become official tariffs. The Tian family monopolized foreign import trade and collected taxes as military expenses; the nobles paid export taxes to the Tian family as support for the Tian family.

A satirist in Linzi had previously told a joke, saying that it was the king's army, holding muskets on Si, wearing cotton cloth on Si, and flowering paper money printed on Si. One day, the king and Si would go to war with a group of bare soldiers.

The country of Qi has only the salt industry that can still be supported, and the remaining handicrafts are basically over, and this is in a vicious circle.

It’s not that Qi cannot fight now.

In the current situation in the Central Plains, the State of Zhao was eliminated. The most powerful thing in the three countries of Wei, Han and Qi was actually Qi, which had been silent and did not dare to get involved in the war.

But this economic situation can only be maintained. Once one defeat is defeated, it may be doomed and internal and external contradictions may all erupt.

It was not that Qi wanted to go like this, but that Qi's rule was based on aristocrats and was too close to Si Shang, so he had to go like this.

The nobles needed money because the handicrafts in Si Shang had to be bought with money, but their family had no gold mines and they could not afford money.

What should I do? I can only choose to start with fiefdom, and I can only choose to merge land to manage exports of grain and cotton, etc. If I rely on the previous system of labor-labor renting well fields, the nobles would have to eat shit and live a life far less than a small workshop owner in Si.

The Tian family needs the support of the nobles. No matter how much the farmers, industry and commerce win over it, it can't be more in line with their needs and interests than the Mo family's morality. Since it's still won over it, it's better to spend your energy on your own interests alliance.

The Tian family needs the army and centralization, so it requires money, military expenditure, military class, and noble support.

The Tian family did not want the nobles in the country to follow the path they had taken back then, so they had to win over some big cities and towns into their own hands. Those marginal areas were better than to completely control the nobles.

It is not that the nobles did not have private soldiers, but this private soldiers could no longer confront the center; but in turn, the officers and central officials of the center were both nobles, so the Tian family could not take extremely fierce measures against the nobles.

This was the general idea that the previous Duke of Qi was decided during the Qi-Mo War, and it remained unchanged, so it developed into this way.

Although it is deformed, it is enough to beat Yan State.

But Qi did not dare to move around because the Mohist country would not allow Qi to expand when fighting abroad, which made Qi fall into a strange paradox: Qi could theoretically defeat Wei, Han, Yan, and Wei; but Qi would attack any of these four countries. The Mohist country would back-stop; Wei, Han and Yan Wei could not defeat Qi, and Qi could not defeat Si Shang, so Qi would never defeat Wei, Han and Yan Wei before he could defeat Si Shang, so in fact, no one in Qi could win.

The merchants, workshop owners, and handicraftsmen in Si Shang also had a subtle attitude towards Qi State.

The grain prices in Si Shang are very low and can support a large number of urban population. After the People's Law rejected the increase in tariffs on imported grain, the Mohist school actually turned against the interests of small farmers, and the industry and businessmen were very happy.

However, the goods sold in Qi State every year made the industry and businessmen very unhappy. A large number of farmers were imprisoned on the fiefs of the nobles of Qi State. Si was short of people all day long, and the lack of railway tracks, steam water lifters, etc. would be used as long as they appeared. As a result, a large number of people in Qi State were still working for the nobles for free, and they were not allowed to migrate and flee.

A large number of farmers were imprisoned on the fiefs of the nobles. The farmers had no money and could not afford anything. They could have sold ten pieces of cotton cloth, but they could only sell three pieces, which made the industrialists and businessmen very dissatisfied. Moreover, Qi was approaching, and the industrialists and businessmen on Si were clamoring to fight together all day long.

The industrialists and businessmen in Si Shang grew up watching the Mo family’s morality after being revised. Under the influence of their eyes, they knew very well how much market would be expanded once the land reform was, and farmers would have to have their own surplus grain to buy things.

Therefore, this led to Si Shang often accusing Qi of being unrighteous and demanding change from Qi; Qi was deeply afraid that the Mohist school of thought would go north next because it could not reform.

Idealists with the heart of benefiting the world believe that Qi's policies are harmful to the world.

Industry and businessmen with a desire to seek profit believe that Qi State's policy is the root cause of their goods not being sold more and not hiring more workers.

Farmers who are dissatisfied with the low grain prices, they believe that Qi's policy is the root cause of the low grain prices.

If almost all the classes in Si Shang were able to offend Qi, the State of Qi was the first among the princes. Even Chu would not say that everyone would beat him because his economic ties with Si Shang were not so deep.

On the contrary, the Tian family knew who was the enemy and who was the friend. The reform was likely to be over. It would be better to continue to deepen reactionary reforms and strengthen the aristocratic forces to the outside world, expand their military facilities, and exploit the common peasants, industry and commerce.

As a result, the Mo family first attacked Chu, which made Qi even more nervous.

The situation before Si Shang was that as long as we fought within 300 miles of Si Shang, no vassal state could defeat the Mo family alone.

Even if it is the coalition of princes, as long as the Mo family sticks to the inside, the coalition of princes will be helpless.

Moreover, the princes are not a solid piece of iron. The Mohist school uses the technique of pervasiveness to expand the conflicts between the princes, making it difficult for the princes to unite. Just like Qin, the king of Qin is not a ritual and legal warrior. He left Xihe to not take it away, but sent tens of thousands of soldiers to fight Si Shang for the sake of justice in the world?

But now the Mo family has started a war against Chu, and Qi, which has tried its best to not provoke the Mo family, can no longer sit still.

If the Mo family occupied the land of Jianghan and Wuyue, and given the Mo family another ten years, even if the princes were a piece of iron, they would probably be powerless.

The State of Qi is so close to Si Shang, and has always been accused of being unrighteous by the Mo family. Tian, ​​who had tried his best to avoid war before, understood that if he didn't make a move, he would be over.

The Wei State was abolished, and the field army was shined by the bloodletting tactics of east-west striking; Zhao State had the worries of Hetao, and the enemy of Zhongshan could not raise the banner of anti-Mo; it was better to expect Qin State to be more realistic than Yan State; South Korea was not qualified to pick this banner.

It turned out that Tian wanted to pretend to be a grandson, avoid conflicts with the Mo family as much as possible, integrate the internal situation first, avoid war, and be unwilling to bear the huge economic problems after the war begins, and want to use a knife to kill people.

But I never thought that the huge Chu State was destroyed in half a year, and the essence of Jianghan land had already reached the hands of the Mo family. The Mo family stretched out their fangs to bite the old nobles to death. The old nobles could not kill them, and they had to fight to the death.

As the times come, we should be the only way to take over the banner of anti-Mo. The State of Qi can only take over the banner of anti-Mo. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Mo family has not completely stabilized Jianghan and Wu and Yue, we should take advantage of it.

Anyway, no matter how hard he fights, he will die ten years later. The Mo family completely gave up the morality of non-aggression and claimed to have inherited the legal system of Dayu. It was necessary to set the Jiuzhou in one place to end the troubled times. In this way, Qingzhou, one of the Jiuzhou, is naturally within Jiuzhou. If the power of Wu Yue and Jianghan is integrated ten years later, it will be even more impossible to defeat it.

But carrying the big banner is to carry the big banner, but it is not to die by itself. Qi must negotiate with other countries to send troops together. Otherwise, Qi will feel that it is impossible to reverse it. It will take time for various countries to negotiate and send troops. This is the reason why the Mohist family has started a war against Chu for half a year and the countries have not sent troops to interfere.
Chapter completed!