It's just that this path that is right for the nobility has actually brought the Qi State to the brink of economic collapse.

It is impossible for the Qin state to adopt a change based on the great aristocracy such as the Qi state, nor can it adopt this kind of manor-lord economy that should have appeared on a large scale in the Tang Dynasty.

The essence is that the Qin State is too far away from Sishang, and the only most developed industrial and commercial area capable of absorbing a large amount of grain and raw materials is in Sishang, which is too close to the Qi State, and the geographical location of the Qin State determines that he cannot make such a change as the Qi State.

The main income of the Qi State was still agricultural income, and the strategy of establishing the country by industry and commerce had ceased to exist as early as after the death of the Duke of Qi Huan.

What's more critical is that Qi's currency has collapsed.

The Qi State tried to mint knife coins and use the value of copper itself as currency, but it didn't take long for a very extreme situation to occur.

With the rapid development of agricultural technology, the industry and commerce of Sishang produced more goods, and the coins of Qi State, which was closest to the place where the technology was spread, was in trouble.

Copper along with the price of military activities such as cannon casting, Qi has less copper, today copper may be this price, tomorrow may be that price, so even if there are copper coins in their hands, they are not willing to spend copper coins, but would rather take the way of bartering.

Copper coins are difficult to circulate, and if you spend money to buy a pound of grain today, you may be able to buy two pounds tomorrow, so why don't I just exchange things for them, and keep the copper coins for future purchases?

The nobles refused to mint money privately, and felt that it was better to use copper to trade directly with the Mo family; It is even more impossible for the monarch to be stupid enough to turn the copper that rises day by day into money.

It's not that you can't live without money, it has to be the era of stones, bronze farm tools, and a yield of 30 catties per mu.

Now, you can't do without money.

There are no coins in Qi, but there are special banknotes in Sishang.

Although the anti-counterfeiting technology is very general, Sishang, as the earliest place where papermaking appeared, relies on 20 years of technology accumulation such as simple special inks, thin skin lining of birch bark inner layer shipped from North Korea, and original embossing printing technology, which is not something that Qi can imitate.

Over time, Qi and Sishang first completed the "economic" unification, and Qi was essentially within the scope of the unified market centered on Sishang.

The purpose of those nobles in producing grain, cotton, and ore was to sell them in the cities and in exchange for goods in Sishang.

The original primitive economy under the feudal system has actually been destroyed.

Economic activities under the primitive system of sub-feudalism did not require much money.

Within the fiefdoms of the village community, the peasants worked for the feudal lords, and at most the peasants near some cities paid taxes in kind, and there were no large-scale transactions.

But now everything is different.

This deformed manor lord economy of the Qi State was not the same as the situation in the surrounding areas of the Song Kingdom.

Around Sishang, that was the Song nobles there at the beginning, they also understood that everything was fake in these years, money was real, Sishang did not fall for a day, and there was no need for them to have military strength.

Moreover, they were closer to Sishang and knew better the Mohist policy of the serfs to bind slaves and slaves.

Coupled with the fact that Sishang was nearby, the coercive physical confinement measures would only lead to mass escapes.

Therefore, the aristocracy of the Song State near Sishang adopted the following methods: encroaching on land, annexing land, improving technology, buying new equipment, and driving away the population that could not be used, and they liked to go wherever they liked.

They use the least amount of labor to manage their own land and rely on the progress of technology, and the superfluous people rush to Sishang to work as hired laborers or join a co-farming society, which has nothing to do with them.

Get the most profit with the least labor, the least cost, the least salary.

On the Qi side, a small amount of the farmer's native land was retained, and after the emergence of new crops, three or five acres of native land would not starve to death, and the rest continued to maintain the labor rent of the borrowed land, so that the farmer was trapped in the land and worked hard for the nobles.

Fleeing from the surrounding area of Surabaya to Sishang may only take a day to get there; And if the Qi State wants to escape to Sishang, it will not be so easy.

The stricter laws prohibiting flight and the implementation of the law of continuous sitting have made the cost of fleeing too high, and it is better to die than to live, as long as you do not starve to death, you can always persevere.

As a result, many cattle, sheep, wool, grain, wine, etc. can be produced, and they can be transported to Sishang through sea transportation.

The top three main goods exported by Qi are grain, spirits, and cotton.

The top three main goods imported by Qi are ironware, cotton cloth, and ceramic Xuanlin.

The basis of the Guanzi School's Guanshan and Hai policy was the material basis for the closure of the country and the most developed industry and commerce in the late Spring and Autumn Period.

The handicraft industry is far more developed than elsewhere, and the commercial policy can be played no matter how it is played; The handicraft industry is underdeveloped and it is in close proximity to highly developed regions, and if the commercial policy is not played well, the country may collapse.

Now that this is done, Guanshanhai has become an official tariff, and the Tian family monopolizes foreign import trade and collects taxes as military expenses; The nobles exported grain and paid export taxes as support for the Tian clan.

There was a sarcasm in Linzi before that it was a joke that the king's army, holding the musket of Sishang, wearing the cotton cloth of Sishang, and spending the paper money printed on Sishang, when the king and Sishang went to war, they would bring a group of naked soldiers.

There is still a salt industry left in the Qi country to support, and the remaining handicraft industry is basically finished, and this is caught in a vicious circle.

It's not that Qi can't fight now.

In the current situation in the Central Plains, the Zhao State is eliminated, and the three kingdoms of Wei, Han, and Qi are actually the Qi State that has been silent and dare not get involved in the war.

However, this economic situation can only be maintained, and once there is a defeat, it may be a catastrophe, and all internal and external contradictions may erupt.

It's not that the Qi State wants to go this way, but the ruling base of the Qi State is the aristocracy, and it is too close to Sishang, so it has to go this way.

The nobles needed money, because the handicrafts in Sishang had to be bought with money, but they had no gold mines at home, so they couldn't make money.

What to do? If you rely on the previous system of labor land rent and well fields, the nobles will have to eat, and they will have to live a life far inferior to that of a small workshop owner in Sishang.

The Tian family needs the support of the aristocracy, and no matter how much the farmers and businessmen are involved, it is not more in line with their needs and interests than the morality of the Mo family.

The Tian clan needs the army and centralizes power, so it needs money, military spending, the officer class, and the support of the aristocracy.

The Tian clan didn't want the nobles in the country to follow the path they had walked back then, so they had to envelop some big cities in their own hands, and those marginal areas might as well be completely controlled by the nobles.

It's not that the nobles don't have slave private soldiers, but this slave private soldiers are completely unable to confront the center; But on the other hand, the standing army officers and central officials in the center were all from noble backgrounds, and it was impossible for the Tian clan to take extremely drastic measures against the nobles.

This is the general strategy set by the previous Marquis of Qi during the Qimo War, and it has not changed, so it has developed into such a state.

Although it is deformed, it is enough to beat Yan Guo.

But the Qi State did not dare to move, because the Mo family would not allow the expansion of the Qi State if it was a war with a foreign country, which made the Qi State fall into a strange paradox: the Qi State could theoretically defeat Wei, Han, Yan, and Wei; But if Qi attacks any of these four countries, the Mo family will stab in the back; Wei Han Yanwei couldn't beat Qi State, and Qi State couldn't beat Sishang, so Qi State would never be able to defeat Wei Han Yanwei until he could beat Sishang, so in fact, no one in Qi State could win.

The attitude of merchants, workshop owners, and handicraftsmen towards Qi was also subtle.

The price of grain in Sishang was very low, which could support a large number of urban populations, and after the Wanmin Law vetoed the increase in tariffs on imported grain, in fact, the Mohists had turned their backs on the interests of small farmers, and the industrialists and businessmen were very happy.

However, the goods sold by Qi every year made the industrialists and merchants very unhappy, and a large number of farmers were imprisoned in the fiefdoms of the Qi nobles. As a result, a large number of people in Qi are still working for the nobles without compensation, and they are not even allowed to migrate and flee.

A large number of peasants were imprisoned in the fiefdoms of the nobility, and the peasants had no money, could not afford anything, and could have sold ten pieces of cotton cloth but could only sell three horses, which made the industrialists and merchants very dissatisfied, and the country of Qi was near, and the industrialists and merchants in Sishang clamored for war all day long.

The industrialists and merchants in Sishang grew up watching the morality of the Mo family after being properly revised, and they knew very well how much the market would expand once the land reform was carried out, and the farmers had to have their own surplus grain to buy things.

Therefore, this led to Si Shang often accusing the Qi State of injustice and demanding that the Qi State change; Qi was deeply afraid that the Mo family would go north next, because it could not be reformed.

The idealists with the heart of benefiting the world believe that the policy of Qi is harmful to the world.

Profit-seeking businessmen believed that Qi's policy was the root cause of their inability to sell more goods and hire more workers.

Farmers who are dissatisfied with low grain prices believe that Qi Guo's policies are the root cause of low grain prices.

can offend almost all the strata in Sishang, and the State of Qi can be regarded as the first among the princes, even the State of Chu is not so deep because of the economic ties with Sishang, so that everyone shouts and beats.

On the contrary, the Tian clan knew who was the enemy and who was the friend, and the reform was likely to be doomed, so it was better to continue to deepen the reactionary reform, strengthen the power of the aristocracy, unite with the outside world, expand armaments, and squeeze the peasants and industrialists.

As a result, the Mo family attacked Chu first, which made the Qi State even more nervous.

The situation before Sishang was that as long as they fought within 300 miles of Sishang, none of the vassal states could defeat the Mo family alone.

Even if it is a coalition of princes, as long as the Mo family insists on choosing to fight on the inside line, the coalition of princes is helpless.

Moreover, the princes are not monolithic, and the Mohists engage in vertical and horizontal techniques to expand the contradictions between the princes, making it difficult for the princes to work together. Just like the Qin State, the monarch of the Qin State is not a soldier of etiquette, he doesn't take the West River, but he sends tens of thousands of troops to fight Sishang for the sake of the righteousness of the world?

But now that the Mo family is at war with Chu, the Qi country, which has been trying not to provoke the Mo family, can't sit still.

If the Mo family occupies the Jianghan land and Wu Yue land, and gives the Mo family another ten years, even if the princes are monolithic, they are afraid that they will not be able to do anything.

And the Qi country is so close to Sishang, and has always been accused of injustice by the Mo family, and the Tian family, who has always tried to avoid war, understands that if he doesn't come out of this battle, he will be finished.

The state of Wei had been abolished, and the field corps had been drained by the bloodletting tactics of advancing from east to west; Zhao has the worries of the Hetao and the enemy of Zhongshan, and it is impossible to provoke the banner of anti-Mexico; It is better to expect the Qin State to be realistic than to expect the Yan State to be realistic; South Korea is not qualified to pick this banner.

It turned out that Tian wanted to pretend to be a grandson, avoid conflicts with the Mo family as much as possible, integrate the interior first, avoid war, and unwilling to bear the huge economic problems once the war started, and wanted to kill people with a knife.

I never thought that the huge Chu State would be destroyed in half a year, and the essence of the Jianghan Land had already reached the hands of the Mo family, and the Mo family stretched out their fangs to bite the old nobles to death, and the old nobles could not be killed, so they had to fight to the death.

When the situation comes, it is time to give in, and the banner of anti-ink can only be carried by the Qi country, taking advantage of the fact that the Mo family has not completely stabilized Jianghan and Wu Yue, and give it a go.

Anyway, if you don't fight, you will die ten years later. The Mo family completely gave up the morality of non-attack, claiming to have inherited the legal system of Dayu, and it was necessary to set Kyushu in one to end the troubled times, and it was all said that Qingzhou, one of the Kyushus, was naturally in Kyushu, and if the power of Wu Yue Jianghan was integrated ten years later, it would not be able to beat.

But carrying the banner is carrying the banner, but not sending it to death, Qi must negotiate with all countries to send troops together, otherwise Qi State feels that it is afraid that it will not be able to reverse it, and it will take time for countries to negotiate and send troops, which is the reason why the Mo family has been at war against Chu for half a year, and the countries have not sent troops to intervene.

At least, that's what the Sishang Mo family thinks, and that's how they guess the movements of the Qi State.

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