After talking about Tian Jia, Xiong Huai asked again: "Xianqing, in addition to Tian Jia's matter, does Qing have other things to tell the widow?" ”

Chen Zhen nodded and responded: "Great King, the news that Ling Yin sent back from Daliang is that in the Seven Kingdoms Alliance, the Zhao State united with Han Yan and Song, and actively wooed the Wei State, encircled our Chu State, isolated the Qi State, and basically achieved the leadership position of the Seven Kingdoms Alliance. At this time, on the side of Daliang, except for my Chu State, which made it clear that it would not send troops, the other six countries had agreed to send troops to attack Qin and recover Hedong for Wei. ”

Xiong Huai nodded when he heard this, now he knew why King Wei had invited Tian Wen to be prime minister three times and twice, this was to ensure that the Qi State would not sabotage the coalition forces behind his back, and at the same time, he could also get a strong reinforcement.

On the side of Qi, whether the king of Qi asked Tian Wen to go to Wei to serve as prime minister, or when he was obviously rejected by Zhao, he still agreed to send troops to recapture Hedong for Wei, this was all out of the need to win over Wei.

And Tian Wen refused King Wei's invitation three times in a row for the sake of Tian Jia, thinking that he would definitely anger King Qi in the future.

Come to think of it, King Qi is now very angry with Tian Wen's rejection of King Wei three times and twice.

At this time, Chen Zhen continued: "Great King, because the King of Qi is very passive in the alliance, under the influence of this, the communication between Yin and the King of Qi is very smooth, and the tone of strengthening cooperation between Qi and Chu has been confirmed to further deepen the alliance between Qi and Chu. ”

Hearing this, Xiong Huai immediately smiled: "Okay, great, as long as the Qi-Chu alliance does not collapse, then the Qi State wants to unite Chu and Wei after the war, and use the three kingdoms of Qi, Wei and Chu to fight against the four kingdoms of Zhao, Yan, Han and Song, and will not sit back and watch the countries attack the widows after the Qin attack." And in order to prevent the widows from falling to the Qi state, the Zhao State will not organize a coalition army to attack the widows.

In this way, the widow can rest easy. ”

Then, after Chen Zhen finished talking about foreign affairs, Xiong Huai muttered: "Xianqing, now that the general trend of the six foreign countries to attack Qin has been decided, the external troubles have been temporarily lifted, and the widow can just clean up the affairs of the country."

What is the situation on the Jianghuai side now? ”

As soon as Chen Zhen heard the king of Chu mention Jianghuai, he immediately responded: "Great King, although the Yingdu side ignored the affairs of the six monarchs before, but, because the divine power of the king is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is because the feudal monarchs on the Jianghuai side have not joined the six monarchs again during this period of time, and the other nobles are all waiting to see the situation in the court.

At the same time, according to our spies in Jianghuai, because the six monarchs wantonly recruited the people when the king announced that they would cultivate with the people, all the people under their rule were complaining.

Moreover, because a large number of the common people were separated from farming, the common people and the nobles all lost a major labor force and had to provide for a strong man, so that the common people and the feudal lords were increasingly poor.

Even, according to the report we should report from the feudal monarch, those nobles who recruited the people, after seeing that the king did not care about them, and the minister of Yingdu did not move, some people were already shaken. ”

"Huh!" Xiong Huai smiled mockingly, he had expected this situation as early as when they recruited the people, and now they wanted to disband the people and change the way to confront him...

It's too late!

The so-called difficulty in riding a tiger is talking about their situation.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai sneered: "Since you have already fought against the widow, it is not so easy to get through this section at no cost." ”

Saying that, Xiong Huai instructed Chen Zhen: "Chen Qing, you immediately let us continue to encourage them to persist in the feudal monarch's place." ”

"Yes, my lord."

"Also, isn't Zuo Yin back today! Before Ling Yin went to Daliang, Sima closed the door to thank the guests, Zuo Yin went to the Qin State, and the ministers and dragons had no leader, so they did not unite to put pressure on the widows.

Now that Zuo Yin has returned, and the feudal monarchs on the Jianghuai side have also been in turmoil, it is time for the widow to make the next move. ”

As he spoke, Xiong Huai twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Let the people who know Beiya's work in the minister's mansion encourage the ministers to speak to the widow and prevent the widow from changing the law." ”

"Yui."

After Chen Zhen left, Xiong Huai summoned Qu Yuan, who was busy changing the law, from his busy schedule.

"King!"

"Xianqing excuses me, sit."

"King Xie."

After Qu Yuan sat down, Xiong Huai asked with a smile, "Xianqing, how is the situation of the law change now?" ”

When Qu Yuan heard this, a smile immediately appeared on his face: "Great King, although it has only been half a year since the law was changed, the dilemma of the continuous loss of the people of my Chu State has been reversed.

According to the minister's statistics, in the past six months, more than 200,000 new households have been added to Jianghan. And most of these 200,000 households are the people who were originally hidden by themselves to avoid taxes. Because according to the new law, the land was not divided according to households, but according to heads, so many people did not hide in order to get enough royal land and also to get the opportunity to become nobles.

It's just..."

Qu Yuan sighed: "It's just that this part of the people, as well as the people who are good from the thieves in the wilderness, and even the people who have fled from the nobility, most of them are strong men alone, not a complete family. It will take an extremely long time to transform them into the heritage of my Chu State and let this part of the household registration be passed on. ”

Xiong Huai smiled when he heard this, he knew the way the people hid the population, most of them were their sons who announced that they had died but did not die, one could avoid taxes, and the other could create more wealth.

And this hidden son often gets married later than the son who is used to inherit the family business in the household registration and needs to participate in the war of conscription, and even after marriage, he needs to open up his own private land.

And because the black households who open up private fields in the wilderness and drag their families with them are all thieves in law, most of these thieves will be recruited by the nobility to avoid the scourge of killing or to avoid becoming slaves.

Therefore, most of the hidden population in the people's homes are bachelors who have made sacrifices.

Although he knew that this part of the people was easy to die, Xiong Huai did not regret it like Qu Yuan, but smiled with satisfaction: "Xianqing, in half a year of changing the law, there are more than 200,000 households in Jianghan alone, although it is only Ding Zhuang who is alone, but this also shows that the effect of the change is remarkable, and the widow is very satisfied."

As for not letting the hukou disappear, the widows believe that as long as they can work hard to farm, after three years, most of them will have enough wealth to marry and have children. ”

Qu Yuan laughed when he heard this, and then arched his hand and said: "Please rest assured, in addition to letting the people marry themselves, the ministers will also allocate wives to those single strong men as soon as possible, and these people will not be wiped out." ”

Xiong Huai smiled and nodded: "Okay, there is Lao Xianqing." ”

Then, Qu Yuan spoke again: "Great King, another good news is that according to the repeated reign of the ministers and the assassin Shi Ling, in the 200,000 households, more than 20,000 households, they fled from the homes of nobles from all over the country and returned to the rule of the imperial court.

Although the number of these people was small, before the comparison, the people continued to flee and relied on the aristocracy, and the ministers thought that the appearance of these 20,000 families had reversed the situation of the country's increasing poverty and weakness.

Moreover, there is still a steady stream of people fleeing from the nobility, and the minister believes that as long as he persists, the threat of the nobility to the country will be fundamentally reversed in three or five years. ”

Xiong Huai nodded thoughtfully, before the nobles in the country continued to absorb the population from the state, and now, the imperial court has made one move after another, and the people have begun to flow back from the nobles to the country, which not only prevents the nobles from continuing to suck blood from the country, on the contrary, the country also gets more nutrition from the nobles.

Until the end, the nobility will not endanger the country at all.

After a while, after talking about the situation on Jiang Han's side, Xiong Huai asked about Jiang Huai's situation again.

"King, the situation on the Jianghuai side is roughly the same as that on the Jianghan side, but the nobles on the Jianghuai side are powerful, and they have taken various measures to control the people.

"No more than 3,000 households!" Xiong Huai's face turned cold, and he said with a smile: "It seems that the methods of the nobles over there in Jianghuai are still very effective!" ”

Saying that, Xiong Huai said to Qu Yuan: "Xianqing, in order to get more population from the nobles on the Jianghuai side, the widow plans to beat them..."

At this time, Qu Yuan was slightly stunned when he heard the words of the King of Chu, and then without waiting for the King of Chu to finish speaking, he opened his mouth and objected: "The king, the minister thinks it is impossible!" ”