Early the next morning, the news that Qu Yuan, who proposed the policy of donating grain to get the knighthood, donated the title of five doctors to his two sisters-in-law immediately caused a sensation in the entire Yingdu.

"Unexpected... Unexpectedly, I thought that Qu Yuan was a person who was dedicated to the country and did not care about personal gains and losses, but I didn't want to, Qu Yuan, this guy, had already announced that he was going to destroy his family and relieve the difficulties, and he also divided the servants and vassals in the family into two, and handed them over to his two sisters-in-law, and then let them go to the front line to mix military merits in order to turn the title into a regular one, which is not what a loyal minister did. ”

"Zuo Tu Qu Yuan is also too calculating, just with one mouth, he mixed up two five masters for his two sons who could not inherit the title.

Hey, Zuotu Qu Yuan is worthy of being the most calculating person in the Chu State. ”

"The ancients said: Meat eaters despise and can't plan far. This is a good point, even Qu Yuan, who is known as the most selfless, at a critical moment, he still inevitably has to plan for himself, let alone other nobles?

Tsk, the nobles are really all raccoon dogs, all of them are good at making a living, and they are short of seeking a country. If you want to strengthen the Chu State and relieve the Chu State from the embarrassment, it depends on us, and those big nobles are not reliable at all. ”

As soon as the news of Qu Yuan's donation of the title to his son-in-law came out, he immediately lost his reputation among the wanderers and scholars.

But at the same time, among the aristocracy, Qu Yuan's reputation skyrocketed.

Some people who are still hesitating, as well as many people who have not thought of the loopholes in the grain donation policy, after seeing Qu Yuan's behavior, have come to their senses, it turns out that the most beneficial strategy offered by Qu Yuan is not those businessmen in the country, but their nobles.

As far as merchants are concerned, most of them have money but no food, and in order to donate titles and form private armies, their expenses must be extremely staggering, and they cannot afford it.

In the same way, for the local tycoons, they may have some food in their hands, but the people in their hands are not expensive to them. Therefore, the price they have to pay to raise an army is also extremely staggering.

What's more, whether it is a merchant or a powerful person, if they want to form an army, they all need to spend a lot of time and recruit from all over the place.

This is not the case with these nobles, who want food and food, and people, and they are not owned by the state, but all belong to their own vassals.

In this way, they only need to give an order, and they can immediately gather enough troops and then go to the front to make meritorious contributions.

Therefore, when Qu Yuan disregarded his face and personally donated his knighthood to his son, they almost all thought that Qu Yuan had changed his temper and had begun to become a qualified nobleman.

In the exclamation of the nobles, Chen Zhen's figure appeared in Taifu, and then donated a fifth doctor to his second son.

Soon, news came from the palace of Chu that the king of Chu summoned all the sons-in-law of Zuo Yin Zhaochang Xian Yin Fan Huan, and on the grounds that Zuo Yin Xianyin was not in Yingdu, he lamented their loyalty, and specially gave the two of them the concubines who could not inherit the title with the five great masters, and promised them that as long as they could make meritorious contributions on the front line, they could be converted into official five major masters.

Then, the appearance of these eight newly promoted titles of the five great doctors immediately shocked all the nobles in Yingdu.

Then, many children of the nobility who could not inherit the title, not only sons-in-law, but even many concubines, also started the road of fierce lobbying for their parents.

In the afternoon, in the Chu Palace.

"The king, the assassin asks to see you."

When Xiong Huai heard that Chen Zhen, whom he had been waiting for for a long time, finally came, he suddenly perked up, and immediately responded: "Please." ”

"Yui."

Soon, Xiong Huai saw Chen Zhen walking into the hall, and after the salute, he immediately looked at Chen Zhen and asked, "Xianqing, what is the current situation of the nobles in Yingdu?" ”

Chen Zhen knew that the King of Chu was extremely concerned about this matter, and before he left yesterday, he also asked him to deliberately pay attention to the movements of the nobles in the city, so that as soon as he heard the King of Chu's inquiry, he immediately responded:

"The king, after the news of the donation of the knighthood by the ministers and the Zuo disciples for their sons came out, it immediately caused a sensation on the side of the nobles in the city. When Zuo Sima, Si Luo, Tingli and others heard the news of the Wei State, the important ministers who had already begun to reorganize their clansmen immediately followed suit, took out all the grain in the clan, and donated the five major princes to their sons-in-law.

In just half a day, the number of new five doctors today has reached nearly 30, more than three times that of yesterday, and there are other people who are ready to donate five doctors on their way to Taifu.

At this moment, Taifu is already overcrowded, and the people of Taifu alone are no longer enough to receive those who go to donate the knighthood, so that Zuotu is now unable to get out of Taifu and is leading the officials of Yingdu to deal with the donation of the knighthood. ”

Xiong Huai laughed when he heard this: "The donation of the knight is so popular, it seems that there are many people who are ready to kill the enemy and serve the country!" ”

When Chen Zhen heard this, he smiled and said: "My lord, not only that, but after the news that the ministers got from all over the city, and the news that the important ministers of the court had donated titles to their sons, most of the other noble children in the city were envious, and they had begun to lobby their parents to let them donate a five doctors to themselves as well.

Even not only the powerful families are like this, but also the minister also got some news that it is said that many nobles who do not have enough strength to go into battle to kill the enemy and earn meritorious awards and titles are also ready to raise their titles to the top.

This morning, there was a man with the title of Upper Lord, who emptied his family's granary, borrowed some grain from other nobles who had been friends, and then donated himself a fellow fifth duke. However, he did not recruit troops to the battlefield, and it seems that he was only satisfied with the five major lords, and did not intend to turn into a regular man. ”

Xiong Huai was stunned, this fellow five lords was originally just to attract those businessmen who did not have a title, and they didn't want to, even the original low-level nobles were not exempt from vulgarity, even if they were bankrupt, they had to live the addiction of middle-to-upper nobles.

Thinking of this, Xiong Huai didn't know what to say, so he had to scold: "Loser, no interest, if you are a widow, you have already emptied the granary, why not go bankrupt to get a real five doctors, in case you succeed?" ”

Chen Zhen: "···"

Then, Xiong Huai asked for some news about the nobles in the city, and then let Chen Zhen leave.

At this time, Xiong Huai sat alone on the throne, looking into the distance with his whole body relaxed, and the corners of his mouth showed a hint of joy.

The plan worked!

Many people think that the matter of donating the knight is to resist the countries, but in fact, it is not, since the beginning of the fight, the target of this plan is not the five countries, but the important ministers of the court and other ministers and nobles in Yingdu. As for resisting the invasion of the Five Kingdoms, it was only incidental and incidental, and it was only used as a backup and auxiliary to Zhaoju's battle plan.

Ever since he knew about Zhao Ju's plan, he had already begun to plan for a nationwide change in the face of the war.

Zhao Ju can defeat the alliance of the three kingdoms of Qi, Wei and Song, which will provide a very favorable external condition for the development of the law, and as long as Zhao Ju wins, it will also greatly enhance the prestige of him, the king of Chu and the central government, so as to deter many people and prevent them from taking risks.

Of course, it is not enough to just deter, and there is still a lot of resistance to changing the law. Among them, the main resistance in the country came from two sides, one was the ministers of the court, and the other was the nobility of various places.

And the main purpose of this donation is to win over the nobles in the court and the country.

It is already March, and according to past experience, the rainy season in the Jianghuai region will come around June, and as soon as the rainy season arrives, the time has come for Zhaoju to break the alliance of the Qi, Wei and Song Kingdoms.

And on the Yingdu side, those newly promoted five doctors and seven doctors, it takes some time to gather private troops, and it also takes a certain amount of time to rush to the front line, plus they take turns to fight.

In this way, there will be too little time for them to make meritorious contributions and become regulars.

According to Xiong Huai's estimate, after these new nobles who want to make urgent meritorious contributions go to the battlefield, there should be a very small number of people who can make enough meritorious deeds to become regulars, and a considerable part of them are the result of the deliberate favoritism of the lord after the important ministers.

Then the question is, those who urgently need to become regulars but have not made enough meritorious contributions, and after becoming nobles, they have been separated from the original family, and the support they can get from the original family has been greatly reduced, what can they do except rely on the court and rely on him, the king of Chu.

Want their brother to inherit the title, at the expense of their own fundamental interests, and once again agree to their father and family selfless support for them?

It's simply not possible.

From the moment they became nobles with titles, they had already broken away from their original family, removed their names from the genealogy, and established a new family of their own.

Therefore, after they received the knighthood, although their father-son relationship with the original family was still there, and even the brotherhood was still there. But in fact, they have changed from vassals of the original family to vassals of him, the king of Chu.

And this is also a fundamental change, but they are now blinded by the title, and they haven't seen this for the time being, maybe even if they do, they pretend not to see it.

And the nobles who have no inheritance right are just vassals of the king of Chu, without the support of him, the king of Chu, then they are nothing, and even after their death, their family will change from nobles to commoners.

Of course, they can also avoid being reduced from nobles to commoners, and the solution is very simple, that is, to unite around him, the king of Chu, and hope that he, the king of Chu, will give them a plan to make meritorious service again.

And once they all revolve around him, the king of Chu, and obey him, the king of Chu, then what else can they do with their fathers, as important ministers in the court, and as nobles of the Chu State?

Ruthlessly abandon his son, abandon his beloved son, abandon his son who spent a great deal of money to donate to them?

Xiong Huai smiled and shook his head, they are ruthless, as long as they are ruthless, then what position do they have against him, the king of Chu?

The knighthood, a poison coated with honey, as long as you eat it, you can't solve it.

As long as the courtiers do not object, then the remaining local nobles...

Perennial war, the people and even the nobles are all determined, the sergeants of the country are attracted by him, the king of Chu, and most of the travelers in the Chu country are also on the side of him, the king of Chu, and even the big businessmen and heroes in the country are attracted by him, the king of Chu, and the ministers in the court do not object.

With only the scattered feudal lords everywhere, they no longer have the strength to resist.

In this way, the external and internal conditions for the reform of the law are about to mature, and the general trend of the reform has been formed and is irreversible.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai let out a long breath: "Careful like thin ice for decades, until now, the widow has really seen the dawn." ”