The views on wealth between the Qi school of economics and the Mohist school have both similarities and difficulties in compatible.

The class interests represented by the two sides are also fundamentally different from the idea of a "rich country".

After all, theoretical morality is only theoretical morality, and the path of Qi needs to be in line with reality.

An important reality that the Qi State had to face, or a completely different situation from the Sishang Mo family, was the deep-rooted aristocracy of the Qi State.

This is an existence that cannot be ignored, and in the great era of change, change will inevitably damage the interests of the aristocracy.

The Mohists' methods were simple and crude, completely eliminating the nobles in Sishang, or physically exterminating them, or forcing them to become investors in industry and commerce, and disintegrating the basis of the aristocracy's existence by means of land reform.

But the Qi State can't use such simple and crude means, not because of Tian He Renyi, but because his ruling base is aristocracy, unlike the Mo family's ruling base is agriculture and industry.

How strong is the power of the aristocracy in the Qi Kingdom? You don't need to look at others, just look at Tian's own family to know that they are big nobles conspiring to seize power in a coup d'état, and the Tian family couldn't help but be a guest back then, resulting in a large number of heirs, and under the feudal system, a family controlled seventy percent of the fiefdom of Qi, which was the factor for the success of Tian's generation of Qi.

After the rich country, it is necessary to strengthen the army, these two very realistic dreams, and we have to consider the reality of the Qi country.

Before this coup d'état, Tian He had already begun to think about the road to a rich country and a strong army in Qi State, and he could also discuss it many times with the strategists and staff around him, and he absorbed many people from the Guan Zi School in the name of Guan Zhong entrusted by Qi State.

If you want to use the theory of the pipe school to complete the rich country and strengthen the army, you have to consider the attitude of the aristocracy.

How to make the nobles obey the orders of the Marquis of Qi?

How can you collect money from the nobility?

How can the interests of the nobility and the monarch be tied together?

This is the difficulty of the Qi State, and it is also the fundamental reason why the Qi State cannot borrow the experience of the Mo family in Sishang - there are no nobles in Sishang.

Looking at the world, the richest place is now Sishang.

The experience of Sishang cannot be learned, so the richest places besides Sishang are the places around Sishang in the Song Kingdom.

It's rich there.

There is a different system than Sishang.

That seems to be something that can be learned.

Where the Song Kingdom is close to Sishang, how did the nobles get rich?

Tian He had heard of this, and in simple terms, the minor nobles there no longer relied on the labor rent of their fiefs to live, but ran their own fiefs.

For example, if the fiefdom of the original 20 wells relied on labor rent, only 3 of the 20 wells would be used as their own income, and the farmers on the remaining 17 wells would be relied on to carry out the feudal obligatory cultivation - the system of daring to govern private affairs after official work was completed, and obtain the income of Mitsui.

But now, the small nobles of the land near Sishang in the Song State adopted a different method: they took back their fiefs and drove the surplus farmers out of their fiefs, so that a large number of farmers went to Sishang to enter the iron-smelting, handicraft, glass and other industries.

However, it was still the land of the twenty wells, but the owners of the land bought cattle and horses, used ridges, bought ploughshares, and hired farmers to grow grain.

The vigorous development of industry and commerce in Sishang was in need of a large amount of grain, wine, indigo and many other agricultural products, and the small nobles of the Song Kingdom, who could only earn from Mitsui, operated the land of Twenty Wells, and according to the market price purchased in Sishang, they either planted potatoes to open a brewing workshop, or planted wheat and corn to transport them to Sishang along the river, or planted indigo cotton.

A large number of farmers lost their land, but it did not cause unrest, because the development of Sishang industry and commerce urgently needed a large number of people, and the development of Sishang industry and commerce also required a large amount of grain as a commodity in the Song Kingdom, and the handicrafts of Sishang were not only sold in the Song Kingdom, so it caused a kind of stability.

That is, hundreds of farmers are driven out of their own land every year, and hundreds of Song people are accepted into the workshops or south to reclaim the land every year, and then a large amount of grain and raw materials are purchased from the Song State, and the goods made are sold all over the world.

It seems that the wealth of the Song Kingdom can be learned by the Qi State, but after Tian He discussed it with the people of the Guanzi School before, he thought that it was not possible to learn.

First, the issue of the military system.

After the coup d'état of Shangqiu twenty years ago in the Song Kingdom, Shangqiu had a semi-standing army that could crush the nobles. According to the covenant of that year, if there was internal turmoil in the Song State, the Mo family's military strength would support the country's co-governance as it did against Chu.

The reality of the decline of the Song State and the rise of the Mo family and the decline of Wei, Han and Chu made it impossible for any prince to provoke the Song State before they could exterminate the Mo family in one fell swoop.

The existence of the small nobles of the Song State was different from the original military system of the feudal system, and there was no longer a need to recruit the private soldiers of the nobles when fighting, and the semi-standing army and the power of the Mo family were enough to maintain the stability of the Song State.

With the exception of the nobles, who strictly adhered to the courtesy of gentlemen and considered it "unkind" to expel the peasants from their lands, the remaining minor nobles were deeply influenced by the development of industry and commerce in Sishang, and gradually turned their fiefdoms into means of production for goods.

Qi is different.

The state of Qi did not have a sufficient number of standing troops, and followed the system of integrating peasants and soldiers, and the soldiers in the Linzi area were the main force that the monarch could recruit.

During the war, the peasants and soldiers in the Linzi region were the main force, and each nobleman needed to fulfill his feudal obligations and provide the monarch with chariots, pawns, and private soldiers that fit his fiefdom.

For example, the Pingyin Legion that was annihilated in the First Battle of Nanjishui was not a standing legion, but a peasant soldier near Pingyin and the private soldiers of various nobles who were recruited during the war.

For example, a sergeant, as a sergeant, needs to take out one chariot, three baggage wagons for carriage, and a sufficient number of soldiers in his fiefdom in wartime.

In the orthodox weekly system, the brigade was 500 men, and a doctor actually held the position of brigade commander in the army, and when they went out on the expedition, they had to send a brigade of divisions.

With the increase in population, the sergeant of Qi is basically the doctor of the Zhou system, but because of the reform of the Qi system, the brigade of Qi is a brigade of 2,000 people, so the doctor of Qi is still the brigade commander, but the number of sergeants can command is equal to the number of doctors before the Spring and Autumn Period.

If you want to change the military system, it will be turned upside down, Qi does not have such conditions, and Tian He believes that he does not have the ability to completely centralize power, which is likely to backfire: especially when Tian He is in power, he has to face a situation where he has to compete with the aristocratic forces left by his brother, and he dares to move the nobles, and the nobles of Qi who have not completed the centralization of power and have just been in civil strife will get rid of him.

The Song State can do that, because of the existence of the Mo family and the existence of the covenant twenty years ago, so that the Song State had a standing army at that time when it was in foreign wars, that is, the righteous teacher of the Mo family; At the same time, because of the existence of the covenant twenty years ago, the nobles of the Song State were divided, but none of them was enough to resist the Mo family's righteous teacher.

Qi State can't do this, because Tian He doesn't have a standing army in his hands, and because the treasury of the civil strife is empty, the "technical fighters" who are full-time mercenaries can't hire much, and the war still relies on the power of the nobility.

With money, it was possible to maintain a standing army under the orders of the monarch, and then oppress the nobility to gradually take power.

Instead of offending the nobility first, and then thinking that in this way you will be able to get money, and then you can form a standing army: the order is reversed, and the result speaks for itself.

Since the military system cannot be changed first, the peasants must be tied to the land.

Regardless of the problem of turmoil, if the Qi State adopted the methods of the Song State, then the peasants would move freely, and the free movement of the peasants meant that the nobles could not effectively control the fiefdoms, which meant that the nobles could not pull enough feudal conscripts during the war.

The Song Kingdom and Sishang, because they did not need the nobles to rule, nor did they need the feudal compulsory soldiers in the nobles' fiefs, and they could also have a standing army of about 40,000 people, so they could engage in aristocracy.

Qi State is not good, because the number of scholars and officials in Qi State is not as good as the entire Sishang, and there may not even be a single Peiyi, Qi State needs nobles to maintain their rule, and they also need noble fiefs to maintain stability, so that they can pull out enough soldiers to fight.

Technicians originated from the developed industry and commerce of the Qi Kingdom, but although the number of technicians as mercenaries was elite, there were not many of them, and relying on mercenaries to fight wars was extremely problematic, and it was difficult to maintain a sufficient number.

Especially since the Spring and Autumn Period has ended, if the princes are competing today, an army of 30,000 or 50,000 people can't just rely on that elite technical warrior.

Historically, the Qin State changed the law to do a **** strong army that did not need the feudal obligations of the aristocracy, which originated from the fact that Qin Mo entered Qin after the Mo family was divided into three points, and organized a large number of grassroots officials were trained with officials as teachers, so it led to the murder of the son of Qin Mo Giant, and the King of Qin needed to seek the opinion of Qin Mo Giant and recommend forgiveness, because he was not facing a person, but an organizational leader who monopolized the education of Qin and grassroots officials. Therefore, Qin Law is strict, and the Taifu has to cut his nose, but Qin Jun still has to ask about the murder of Qin Mo's son.

Sishang can now pull up a standing army of tens of thousands of people and does not need nobles, because half of the annual income of Sishang's developed industry and commerce is invested in education, a large number of grassroots cadres who have jumped out of the Zhou official school system have been trained, and a grassroots ruling system that can be controlled to the township level has been built. Not only do you not want nobles, but also people from other schools of the Mohist family, including Confucianism, because the Mohists now have their own system.

Now the Qi State can't do this in terms of military system, and it can't do it.

The military system is one thing, and stability is the other.

In the troubled times of the Warring States Period, the doctrines that can be valued by the monarch and favored by the monarch are all aimed at "enriching the country" and "strengthening the army".

However, the premise of a rich country and a strong army is stability, and "the people are changing" can be regarded as unstable in this era, which is also unacceptable to the monarch.