But Qi has had a very bad time in the past few years, with internal and external troubles.

The Mohists' policy towards Qi was economic plunder, and because of the feudal system of Qi State, there was a situation of "wealth to Mo and black pots to Qi".

After the Qi-Mo War, the Qi State was actually divided into two parts from an economic basis.

One is the southwestern region of Qi south of Jishui, which was occupied by the Mo family, and the feudal system here was destroyed by the violent means of sweeping the leaves in the autumn wind, and the land was divided among the farmers and rehearsed in advance for the violent land reform that followed.

In the negotiations after the war, Tian pinched his nose and recognized all the new land deeds at the cost of the Mo family's withdrawal from the southwestern region of Qi south of Jishui.

In this case, the southwestern region of Qi south of Jishui is itself suitable for farming, thus making smallholder farming the mainstream.

It existed as a "market" in Sishang, and the consumption power of yeoman farmers was several times or even dozens of times that of fiefdom serfs.

The state of Qi wants to return here, but it only has nominal power, and in fact, the original old ruling foundation has been shattered, making the state of Qi speaking here completely less effective than the grassroots organizations of the Mo family that are densely packed in the cities and villages.

If you want a loan, find the Mo family; If you want iron tools, find the Mo family; To resolve disputes, find a Mohist organization......

The existence of Qi State here is extremely embarrassing, and there is only one thing left to collect taxes.

However, the state of Qi collects a tax of ten yuan here, and the industry and commerce of Sishang can earn a profit of thirty yuan here.

But profit buying and selling is voluntary, but tax collection is not voluntary, and the Mo family has been talking about the use of taxes, but Qi Guo has not done it, which makes Qi Guo carry infamy here.

In the north of Jishui and the central area of Qi State, and the southwest region of Qi are completely two modes of economy.

The southwest region of Qi was originally the territory of Lu State, and Qi State did not trust the people here, so it was to let them pay more taxes and serve less in the military.

The aristocratic system in the central area of the Qi State was extremely strong, and the Tian family relied on the family flow of having more children to occupy the fiefdom to replace Jiang Qi, and it was impossible for so many relatives not to fight among themselves.

The brothers Tian and Tian Hao killed the rest of the brothers, and the two eventually fell out, but the ruling foundation of the Qi State did not change.

After the Qimo War, the first problem facing the Tian clan was to figure out who were enemies, who were friends, who were trustworthy, who were untrustworthy, and who could support their rule.

In terms of change and benefiting the people, Tian understood that he could not do anything more radical than what the Mo family did.

And the performance of the southwest region of Qi after made them convinced that the more they changed and changed, the more shameless these people became, and the more they wanted.

After the Qi-Mo War, the southwest region of Qi can be said to be the place where the changes in Qi were the most drastic, and the people benefited the most, but it was also the place where the people demanded the most in-depth reform.

On the contrary, the central areas were still under the rule of the old system, and the peasants and serfs there were much more miserable than those in the southwestern part of Qi, but they were quieter and easier to rule.

Tian understood that he had to govern the country with the aristocracy, because if he took another path, he would not be able to compete with the Mo family at all, and in the end he offended the nobles and did not gain the support of the new intellectuals and merchants, which was not conducive to the rule.

The legal principle that Tian Dai Qi found for himself was the theory of the Five Elements and Five Virtues, which made a lot of embarrassing choices.

In the Battle of Yan and Huang, the Yellow Emperor defeated the Yan Emperor because Jiang Qi was the descendant of the Yan Emperor; Chen Tian is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, so Tian's generation of Qi is the mandate of heaven.

This kind of Mandate of Heaven made it necessary for the Qi State to rely on the nobles to rule and continue to maintain an orderly order of respect and inferiority, and the aggressive attitude of the Mo family and the situation in the southwest region of Qi made the Qi State have no other choice.

In order to unite the nobility and make it approve of the rule of the Qi State, it was necessary to give the nobility sufficient benefits.

The monarchy of Qi needs to be centralized, but it is not possible to recognize Shang Xian's theory, because Shang Xian pushes it back, and the concentration of Mohist doctrine is too close to Qi State, and it is not right for Shang Xian to reason again to launch the hereditary monarchy.

Originally, in history, the Qi State held the Jixia School Palace, so that the travelers from all over the world were concentrated in the Qi State, and talents could be selected, so as to gradually replace the hereditary aristocracy with bureaucrats in order to seek change.

But now that the academic center of the world is in Pengcheng, the travelers are of course willing to choose the Mohist doctrine that sounds more reasonable, more equal, and has more opportunities, and go to Pengcheng to study or learn knowledge or find a way to become a scholar.

This also cut off the possibility of Qi relying on travelers to strengthen centralized power.

In the end, the path chosen by the Qi State was to reach a compromise with the nobles: the Qi State collected a certain amount of taxes and fees from the nobles, gave the nobles more rights in the fiefdoms in the eastern lands, Tian Qi established a standing army, and the concubines who could not be inherited by the nobles under the patriarchal system could go to serve in the army or become officials in the central government.

The Guanzi school tended to allow the sale of virtual lords, and some merchants lacked the status of nobility, so that in order to develop industry and commerce, Tian Qi allowed merchants to spend money to buy the status of virtual lords, or allowed merchants to open mines, run salt farms, etc., and allowed these merchants who bought the status of virtual lords and nobles to drive the power of some fiefdom farmers.

Tian Qi also thought very clearly, let the farmers and industry and commerce benefit, they would still choose the more radical Mojia, and the more they benefited, the stronger the power, but it was not conducive to rule.

In the matter of fighting against the Mo family, the Tian family and the Qi nobles have a wide range of interests, and most of the nobles are actually branches of the Tian family, and they can compromise on the general interests.

In order to strengthen the legal rationality, after moving out of the dispute between Yan and Huang of the Five Virtues, the Tian family ordered the nobles who were separated to take "Xuanyuan" as their surname.

At the same time, the education of the children of the nobility was strengthened, especially a large number of noble concubines served as officers of the new army, and most of the officers of the newly built standing army of Qi were basically named "Xuanyuan".

It also began to expand eastward into the lands of the Ley, dividing the fiefs and allowing the nobles to strengthen the rights of the people who used the fiefs.

The development of industry and commerce in Sishang urgently needed a large amount of food and raw materials, the nobles of Qi also needed a large number of handicrafts, and the army of Qi needed a large number of weapons, which gave birth to a deformed agricultural economic development.

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At a time when the whole world began to ponder the direction of change in opening up the fields and breaking the well fields to form a wide range of homesteaders, the Qi State came to a reactionary change, and from the current point of view, this reactionary change was quite successful.

Originally, the farmer also had a certain share of the land in the fief, and he needed to pay the public land to the fief nobles, and if it continued to develop, the struggle between the nobility and the royal power would lead to the situation that the royal power would use the farmer against the nobles.

But after the Mo family was born, this kind of struggle began to change, farmers were unreliable, merchants were unreliable, craftsmen were unreliable, but it was the aristocracy that was reliable.

Those who have no home have no country, those who have no permanent property have no country, those who have a family and permanent property are nobles, and those who have the will and ability to protect the system of dignity and inferiority are also nobles.

The demand for grain and raw materials in Sishang, the introduction of high-yield crops, and the development of shipping from Langya to Gaomi all led the Qi State to a path of reactionary change in the manor economy.

With the acquiescence of the nobles who owned the fiefs, they seized the farmers' land and enclosed the land, so that the farmers kept a small share of the land under the appearance of high-yield crops to plant some sweet potatoes and potatoes, and then the nobles used the farmers' labor obligations to manage the land.

Every year, you can sell a large amount of grain, cotton, spirits, etc., and then buy cotton cloth, gunpowder, ironware, muskets, ceramics, etc. from Sishang.

The eldest son inherits the manor, and the concubine enters the army to study, and if he can make military achievements, he can continue to obtain fiefs.

Relying on the export tax levied on the export of grain and cotton as military spending every year, and collecting a certain amount of poll tax as military expenditure every year, Qi finally raised a new army.

The officers are basically called Xuanyuan, and the soldiers are all recruited from all over the country.

For more than ten years, the state of Qi avoided war, developed in a boring manner, and used this new system to expand rapidly without touching the interests of the aristocracy.

Although Laiyi had been defeated more than a hundred years ago, the Eastern Qi State did not actually have enough effective rule; The same is true in the north, near the Yan Kingdom. As a result, this obvious reactionary change was accompanied by the noble concubines of the Qi army, who fought bravely to obtain the land.

The Tian clan took the power of some large cities into their own hands, and the large amount of grain and raw materials exported every year also made the central economy of Qi better, and prompted some nobles to begin to transform: such as using the population of the fief to mine, dry salt, cultivate land, make wine, and so on.

Qi Guo chose a path of law change that was different from Qin and Sanjin, because Qi had to choose this way.

The Qin State could use foreign talents to take officials as teachers, rely on a good external environment, and do not hesitate to break with the old domestic aristocracy to force changes, forming a country of military merit that everyone can advance.

Qi Guo can't do this, Qi Guo is likely to be seized by the Mo family if he does this, and the talents will run to Sishang.

The state of Qi could only choose to recognize the status of the nobles, and at the same time bind the military merit to the nobility, recognize the greater power of the nobles to squeeze the people of the fiefdom in exchange for the support of the nobles, use the threat of the Mo family as a link between the royal power and the nobility, and develop large-scale agricultural exports to accumulate wealth with the geographical advantage of being close to the developed industry and commerce of Sishang.

After the merchants chose to obtain the status of nobility and obtain a certain number of farmers at their disposal, they began to develop handicrafts, so that the merchants obtained a way to rise and became a member of the nobility.

The nobles with the surname Xuanyuan in front of their names began to receive more advanced education, and began to connect the nobility and the royal power from the grassroots officers, and through everyone to be the beneficiaries of the doctrine of "the five virtues of the Yanhuang Controversy", the Qi State became a different country.

This also made the nobles of Qi State, large and small, the most afraid of the Mohist doctrine and land reform, and the most stubborn group of people in the event of war.

Because they know their fate, if the Mo family is defeated, all the privileges and wealth they have obtained will be wiped out. Because their wealth comes from the system, and this system is something that the Mohists will inevitably choose to destroy.

The Qi State chose a correct path, the most correct path for the nobles and the Tian clan after facing up to the situation that there were too many nobles in the country, the strength was strong, the Tian clan was unstable, and the distance from Sishang was too close.