It's just that when I thought that my friend who had known each other for many years would go to Chu State, I suddenly showed a sense of loneliness.

Seeing this, Jiezi smiled and said: "Why should Ji Zi be like this, I want to go to Chu, but it is just to complete the extravagant strategy, Ji Zi is in Qi, can't I complete the extravagant strategy?" Why don't you and I make a ten-year covenant, each complete the rest of the extravagant strategy, and then combine it into a book after ten years. ”

Ji Zhen sighed when he heard this: "If this is the case, then it is a word, and ten years later, we will compile a book of extravagance." ”

Soon after, King Qi Xuan got the news that Ji Zhen wanted to see him.

"Jizi?"

King Qi Xuan has been very disappointed recently, there are so many gentlemen in the Jixia School Palace, and there are more than a dozen of them, but none of them can satisfy him, let alone give corresponding solutions.

Now that Ji Zi has come to speak, does Ji Zi want to talk about his extravagance?

King Qi Xuan sighed, sorted out his mood, and said, "Let Ji Zi come in." ”

After the ceremony.

King Qi Xuan looked at Ji Zhen and asked, "Ji Zi, I don't know how to teach widows. ”

Ji Zhen said seriously: "The king, the minister wants to try to discuss the flour strategy of the Chu State. ”

Although he didn't think much of Ji Zhen's set, when Ji Zhen made a statement, King Qi Xuan still sat upright, and said with a solemn face: "I want to hear about it." ”

Ji Zhen was quite instructive: "King, when the countries today, the Qin State and the Chu State have the heaviest exploitation of the people, just the land tax has reached the level of one out of five or even higher, plus the poll tax and other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so the people of these two countries are very poor. However, the wealth of every country or every place has a certain amount, and the poverty of the people in these two countries does not mean that Qin and Chu are equally poor, on the contrary, these two countries are very rich. ”

"The difference between Qin and Chu is that after the Qin State passed the Shang Emperor's reform, all the wealth of the whole country was concentrated in the King of Qin, from the princes and nobles to the common people of Li, and the only way to obtain wealth and power from the King of Qin was to fight. Therefore, everyone in the Qin State is willing to fight, if there is no war after two or three years, from the king of Qin to the common people, they are all uncomfortable. ”

This is not the case with the state of Chu, which is not only different from the state of Qin, but also different from other countries, with many feudal kings in the country, and occupies a large amount of land and people, which accumulates a lot of wealth for them. Perhaps the strength of a single feudal monarch is far inferior to that of the King of Chu, but the sum of the wealth of all the feudal monarchs of the Chu State is incomparable to that of the King of Chu. ”

"Therefore, the country of Chu, the wealth of the country is divided between the king of Chu and the nobles, if the people want to gain wealth and power, they can take refuge in the king of Chu or the nobles of the feudal monarchs, a scattered Chu country, after all, is only a country with foreign power and middle cadres, even if the land exceeds the land of the five kingdoms of the three Jin and Qi and Qin combined, but the state of Chu is not much stronger than our Qi country."

King Qi Xuan nodded, the gentleman of the Jixia School Palace has analyzed all other countries, although the entry point of the perspective is different, but after all, the same goal, that is, the threat of the Qin State far exceeds that of other countries.

As for the harm of the feudal monarch, King Qi Xuan himself was deeply touched, there were only a few feudal monarchs in the Qi State, but a single Jing Guo Jun had become his own confidant, and he really couldn't figure out how the Chu State, which had hundreds of feudal monarchs, was maintained.

But now King Qi Xuan didn't want to hear the reason why the Qin State was strong, nor did he want to know why the Chu State was still so strong, and now he wanted to know what the purpose of the Chu State was doing this.

"Dare to ask Ji Zi, what does this have to do with the promotion of edible flour in the Chu State." King Qi Xuan asked.

Ji Zhen said: "King, the current situation of the Chu State is the reason why Qu Zijin offered flour and the King of Chu vigorously promoted flour. ”

"Huh?" King Qi Xuan leaned forward slightly and said, "I want to hear it!" ”

Ji Zhen continued: "Great King, there are two kinds of people who can't govern the country, once there are more of these two kinds of people, then the country will be poor and weak, and it is precisely these two kinds of people who have the most people in Chu State. ”

"Dare to ask what two kinds of people Jizi is?" King Qi Xuan had a guess in his heart, but he didn't say it, but cooperated.

Ji Zhen touched his gray beard and said: "King, this first type of person is for extremely poor people, these people can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes every day, and even the four walls of the house are a luxury. If you work hard every day, but even have a high hope, this is the reason why you have been taken too much, and this kind of person will be full of resentment towards the country and the king. No matter what princes and nobles will not put in their eyes, they will not take any courtesy, righteousness and shame to heart, since the country and the monarch cannot give him anything, then he will not care about all the edicts of the state. ”

"This kind of person will flee to the wilderness or other countries at worst, and it is not impossible to fight back, and the people with the most people in Chu are precisely this kind of extremely poor people."

King Qi Xuan thought so.

Although there was no Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in this era, and the slogan of "the prince will have a kind of Xiangning" has not yet been shouted, the fleeing thieves are not only the patent of Chu, but all other countries.

Even just two hundred years ago, the thieves of the Lu country gathered 9,000 thieves and flowed in the upper and lower reaches of the river.

Extreme poverty and thieves, in this day and age, is even just the difference between day and night, the people by day and the thieves by night.

Faced with this situation, countries have tried to reduce the number of poor people, and even turned a blind eye to the fact that people fled to other countries, for fear that the thieves would gather again, leading to another thief.

This information turned in King Qi Xuan's mind for a moment, and he thought of a possibility.

"Ji Zi is saying that this move of the King of Chu intends to reduce the extremely poor people in the Chu State."

At this time, the relationship between wheat and flour is instantly connected into a line.

Wheat is a cheap thing, even the poor will store some of it, and even if they don't have it now, then they can grow it, but the flour made from wheat rice is a precious thing.

As long as the people spend some time in the slack time, then they can make a small amount of flour, and if they do not eat it themselves, and sell all the flour, it is a fortune.

Thinking of this, King Qi Xuan sighed with emotion: "Qu Zi was appreciated by the King of Chu when he was weak, and he was promoted to the high position of Zuo disciple in just a few years. ”

Ji Zhen nodded: "What the king said is extremely true, how can Qu Zi, who can write "Lisao", be able to flatter the king of Chu with his offering of flour, but it has a deep meaning, and its purpose is not only to reduce the poor people, but also to reduce the second type of people who are difficult to govern, so as to achieve the goal of the great governance of Chu with the method of inaction." ”

"Alas, Qu Zi has won the essence of Taoism!"