Qi is a great country. In the eyes of Xiang Yan and Luyang, as long as Qi and Chu and Zhao join forces to fight against Qin together, there will be great things in the world. Only the Grand Tutor Kong Qian remained silent, as if he had not heard of the Three Kingdoms Alliance. When King Tian Jian of Qi went back to rest, Xiong Jing asked him how to view the Three Kingdoms Alliance.

"The king doesn't know anything," Kong Qian was the prime minister of Wei after all, not that he did not know how to govern the country or politics. "Qi is a country of merchants. After Tian Dan restored the country, the people of industrial and commercial in Qi were more than 20%, and the people of industrial and commercial in Chu were only 40%. During the war in Chu and Qin, all the goods were purchased in Qi. It is said that every household in Qi was a worker and everyone was a businessman.

Such a country can be fought with few soldiers. If you join an alliance with him, you cannot get his army. You can only get his place, food and fodder, and department stores. In addition, Zhao State will not be able to win."

"Ah?" Knowing that although the English Secretary had investigated Qi State, the main ones were the government, the powerful, and the military of Qi State, and had never understood the social hierarchy of Qi State. Kong Qian's words surprised Xiong Jing. The business and civilians in a country were more than four levels, which was an incomprehensible high proportion.

"Don't you know?" Kong Qian was a little confused. He thought Xiong Jing should know everything.

"Great tutor, although the students know that there are many merchants in Qi, they don't expect that there are so many." Xiong Jing said distressedly: "It has exceeded 40%. Isn't there only more than 200,000 soldiers who can fight in Qi, similar to Chu?"

"However." Under normal circumstances, the people of industrial and commercial are not recruited, so the people of industrial and commercial cannot be accepted. It is better for a hundred workers. Merchants, who have city ranks, have only higher status than those of exiled officials (criminal officials), and have lower status than son-in-law and Lu Zuo. Although they are rich, they are also "businessmen are not allowed to wear silk to ride on cars." All countries restrict industry and commerce, especially Qin, which is the most prosperous. Qi's business is also restricted, but it also restricted industry and commerce. Until Tian Dan restored the country and supported King Xiang of Qi, the Qi court gradually lost control of industry and commerce.

"I thought the king should not expect too much to Qi State. Qi, there are many poor people, and the rich people will not be summoned. The so-called 'one and two hearts are heavy, the front is heavy, the back is light, so heavy but not firm' has been there for a long time." Kong Qian said in a vague manner, and soon he changed his subject and turned to the State of Chu. "Chu State implemented the Ao system, and counties and towns seek armor and soldiers, and the taxes of the farmer are getting heavier. Farmers have less than enough months and more than the year, and they have more loans at the turn of spring and summer, but many people cannot pay interest. If they are anxious, they can only flee to donate themselves. Farmers in Jiangdong are mostly fleeing."

When Kong Qian mentioned the farming in Jiangdong, Xiong Jing's face was not very good-looking. He was a king and had never contacted the common people on weekdays, and he rarely understood the poor. Because of his vast territory and few military affairs, the common people in Chu did live better than other countries, but what was the life of the common people was extremely limited. After the Chu State implemented the Ao system, the common people fled suddenly.

In the past, Chu was a country, and it was useless to escape to other counties unless it was fleeing to another country. Now all counties and towns are unified. In order to seek military and armor, they all value the people who are strong and strong. In order to increase the population, they do not mention the people who are owed loans, but even sinners dare to take them in.

The same is true for immigrants in Jiangdong. Huai is familiar land, and most of the people who immigrate voluntarily are poor and borrowers who cannot afford interest. The people who farm on Chen County are not the Chen people, but Xiang people, Yangling people, Yangxia people, etc. It is equivalent to everyone digging each other's corners. The bankrupt farmers in Chen County fled to Xiang County, but Chen Bu is generally unable to investigate; the bankrupt farmers in Xiang County fled to Chen County, even if Xiang Yan is already waiting, they cannot be investigated.

"The Grand Tutor thought what should I do?" Xiong Jing couldn't see the joy and anger, so he only asked Kong Qian for advice.

"Please ask the king to restrict the loans of merchants and send ministers to inspect the counties and towns." Kong Qian said, "We should also order all counties and towns not to increase taxes."

"This..." Xiong Jing's smile was a little dry, because he couldn't do any of these three things, and even if he did it, he wouldn't listen to it.

"Nothing is possible." Xiong Jing said. "If you have no bad habits, why should you borrow money from the current tax burden of Chu? Since you have borrowed money, even if you sell your son and daughter, you will lose your money, you should return it."

"The king said this is a bad thing. If the people destroy their families, how can the country survive?" Kong Qian did not talk about benevolence and righteousness, but only said utilitarianism. "Or the people are attached to the powerful..."

"The Grand Tutor is Miu." Xiong Jing shook his head. "The Ao system's policy is to force the common people to rely on the vassals and powerful people. It is like forging a huge amount. It requires a heavy hammer to make it close. Only when it is close can it become a talent. If it is not attached to the vassals and powerful people, and they have bad habits and cannot control themselves, what is the purpose of the country?"

"Oh!" Kong Qian sighed. He understood the logic of Xiong Jing's rule of the country: first, he killed all the officials (actually, he did not kill them, only the officials), thus turning the entire country into a land of floods and beasts rampant. The people did not get any sense of security, and had to rely on the vassals and clans, and then recast the entire country with the vassals as the backbone.

This country has no equality, only hierarchy, no kindness, but only advocates courage and faith. To get rid of the status of common people, one can only rely on fighting to fight. However, fewer and fewer people have become famous scholars because the seal of the country is limited.

This is also the reason why Xiong Jing worshipped him as the Taifu and asked him to teach etiquette to honorary scholars. Confucianism emphasizes harmony but differences, while Mohism advocates harmony in the world. Harmony refers to harmony among all levels; homogeneity refers to equality among all levels. The reason why Chu suppressed Mohism and advocated Confucianism was self-evident.

"I heard that the king once said, 'Don't live forever, rather than die.' Now the common people are attached to their vassals, which is a forced birth." Kong Qian said after sighing. He really lamented that he did not use his spear to attack his shield.

"The Taifu is a misunderstanding." Xiong Jing also sighed. "If the common people are soldiers, they can recommend people who trust to be established in the outer court, which has not been found for thousands of years. The Taifu should know that the people in the past dynasty were not common people."

"However, the common people of Chu are controlled by vassals everywhere, and they can get it when they move, and there is no freedom to speak of." Freedom is a new word created by Xiong Jing, but because of semantic relationships, many people easily have deviations in their understanding of it.

"Why does the Taifu think it is freedom?" Xiong Jing had to ask. "Doing whatever he wants is one's own business? Unrestrained is freedom? Leaving without marriage is freedom? Loving men is better than loving women is freedom? Is it all? Freedom is the freedom that all men can participate in national affairs, it is the freedom that cannot be violated by private officials, and it is the freedom that cannot be borrowed by others without permission.

Freedom does not refer to one person’s freedom, freedom refers to the freedom to unite with everyone and participate in all things.

A person can have the freedom to do whatever he wants, and can have the freedom to love men more than to love women; and although no one has the common people who depend on the vassals, they have the freedom to participate in all things among the people. If a person has the freedom to participate in all things and wants to do whatever he wants, and wants to seek the freedom of one person, everyone may abandon it or punish it. In the past, he was killed by Shao Zhengmao, so it would be like this."

Since he was appointed as the Grand Tutor, Xiong Jing has always respected Kong Qian, but today he heard Kong Qian confuse his original intention of freedom, so he had to ask and correct him. After saying this, he suddenly realized that his actions were not respectful to his teachers, so he immediately bowed and apologized.

Kong Qian was not angry because he was also excited just now. Confucius' Confucianism was based on etiquette, followed by Mencius, and later Xunzi, followed by king. Society continued to evolve and times continued to change. Even descendants of Confucius would involuntarily break away from etiquette and fall into the mortality of Mencius's benevolence (people-oriented)ism, which was exactly what Confucius did not advocate back then. In Confucius' thoughts, kings and people were insignificant. If they did not abide by etiquette, the country would not be in a country.

The mutual push from teachers and students finally made the atmosphere relax. Xiong Jing said: "You cannot force merchants to reduce the loans twice. Only by allowing witches from various counties to borrow money from the common people with low money. In this way, the common people can have a breather."

"Can those who do not believe in ghosts and gods also borrow it?" Kong Qian smiled.

"If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, you can't borrow them." Xiong Jing said. "If a person does not believe in ghosts and gods, and does not fear the heaven and earth, how can he repay the loan? If a person does not have a witch, the believers will help and punish them, how can he abandon bad habits?"

"A gentleman should respect ghosts and gods and stay away from them." Kong Qian's smile remained unabated.

"If he were a gentleman, he would not have fallen into a loan." Xiong Jing had no choice. He knew that Wu Shi was mostly stingy, so he would eventually pay the loan, which was another big money.

"I heard that the king summoned all the witches and eloquent people, but I don't know what it means?" Kong Qian asked again, and his smile was restrained at this time.

"Students wanted to rebuild the spiritual religion so that the people of Chu would not be invaded by foreign races and pagans." Xiong Jing told. He knew what Kong Qian said, so he took the initiative to say, "Students do not want to be the emperor."

Only Kong Qian understood what Xiong Jing was saying. He said seriously: "How can the king rule the country if he is not the emperor? I think that today's world is unified, and it is either Qin or Chu. How can the king rule the world if he is not the king? Do he want to do business?"

The business and Zhou governments were both the same and different. The same thing was to borrow God or the heaven to endorse one's rule. In short, it was the legal system or orthodox. King Zhuang of Chu was arranged south of the Luo River to win the tripod, but the legal system was in Zhou and could only retreat; King Wu of Qin raised the tripod, but the father system was only to retreat because the heaven was favored by the Zhou people, so he died.

Although they all borrowed the gods and employed the heavens to show the legitimacy of their rule, the king of Shangzheng was originally a god. It was not as Confucius said, "Zhou Zheng was so depressed." King Wu of Zhou also used Shangzheng at the beginning, and continued to use the Shangzheng name and the emperor's name, and was revered as the "Emperor Riding".

It was just that the merchants despised the Zhou people, and they were dissatisfied with the rule and launched the Three Prison Rebellion. Although King Wu of Zhou occupied Chaoge, as a god, he had no magical tools. All the magical tools (jade artifacts) representing the gods were placed on the terrace by King Zhou and burned them. The rebels took out more magical tools from the tomb of the former king than King Zhou burned them, resulting in the complete failure of the ideological efforts of the Zhou people.

The angry Zhou people dug all the tombs of Shang kings that they knew in all dynasties, and abandoned the Dharma system of the Shang king, that is, the gods, and promoted the "God of the Emperor and Heaven, and changed the decree of the great power of Jue Yuanzi, and established a new Dharma system, which was the Emperor.
Chapter completed!