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Chapter fifty-one

The external environment is just to strive for more favorable conditions, and since it is a condition, it naturally has a purpose.

This time, borrowing Wu Qi's fame, the Mohist advantages in technology and knowledge, and the chaos in Zhao State will undoubtedly bring great oppression to Wei State.

The nations are in dispute, and the countries do not trust each other and suspicious of each other.

Especially there were already many conflicts between Wei and Zhao before, and the Marquis of Wei had been secretly celebrating the secrets with the Marquis of Zhao and the Prince Chao.

Zhao Hou was about to die of illness. In such a short time, Wei Ji and Zhao Zhang had no time to communicate. There was no other way to ensure the security of Wei except for armed interference.

Once this was created, the alliance between Zhao, Mo, Qin and Chu, which actually did not exist, was formed, and the Wei State would fall into a full passive state, which was unacceptable to Wei Hou.

Qin and Chu have been in marriage, Wei and Chu have fought for the Central Plains, and Qin has always instigated Chu to cause trouble in Xihe to help Chu share the pressure. Although Zhao's military power is not strong now, it has also been reformed by Gong Zhonglian. Once the Three Jins are reversed, the situation of Wei will be extremely ugly.

The Wei and Qi also lack trust. Although the Tian family of Qi had just asked for Wei's attack, they were thankful for their strength to get the title of marquis.

However, the three Jin Dynasty attacked Qi, demolished the Great Wall, and fought for the vassal state of Wei, the State of Qi sent troops to rescue the Daliang of Yuguan, and the Wei-Yue Alliance suppressed Qi, which would have caused many doubts about Wei: Once Zhao rebelled, will Qi take the opportunity to bite it instead of forming an alliance with it?

This suspicion and suspicion was left to Wei Qi and Han and other countries, and it won the time for a major event that it had always wanted to accomplish within itself.

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Fifty miles northwest of Tan State, where the Mohist school ruled, a small river meandered by.

On this side of the river is the Tan State that fully implements the Mohist policy. It is nominally a Tan State, but in fact it is a county under the Mohist rule.

Opposite the river, the country of Fei joined the non-aggressive alliance but maintained its independence and sovereignty.

After the Battle of Hanshui, Fei, Xue and other countries joined the non-aggressive alliance one after another. Compared with the hegemony that needed to pay tribute to Yue Kingdom, the Mohist school organized these small countries together in the form of non-aggressive alliance, and did not collect tribute silk or other tributes.

There is no reason for the internal affairs of various countries to "dominate their own affairs", because Fei, Xue and other countries have monarchs for the time being, while Tan, Liu and other countries were "liberated" by the Mohist country from the Yue Kingdom, and they "cannot find" direct heirs that can be inherited, so they dominate their own affairs.

Geographically, the power north of the Huai River in Yue was lost. The battle of the storm shocked the foundation of the Yue Kingdom. The scene of father and son slaughtering each other did not happen because the Mohist family needed to keep the Yue Kingdom and disgusted Qi Kingdom and sent troops to intervene. However, King Yi of Yue could no longer stay in the north.

The Mo family's righteous army stationed near Langya in the name of helping to suppress the rebellion. The King of Yue had already begun to repair the old capital in the former land of Wuyue in Jiangnan, and had the intention of giving up Huaibei and moving back to Jiangnan.

In this case, except for some cities, they basically became the territory of the Mo family, either moving people to reclaim wasteland and building cities, or building coastal cities to dry salt...

In this way, the situation of a small country like Fei, which still maintains sovereignty, became extremely closed. Except for having exchanges with Lu in the north, the rest of the direction was completely blocked by the Mohists and became a country among the "country".

Although the Mohist power rose sharply after the Battle of Hanshui, in order to prevent Qi and Wei from interfering, causing shock in the world, the problems of small vassal states such as the Fei Kingdom were not completely solved. Instead, they were waiting for the opportunity to accumulate strength, develop production, and reform the foundation.

Fei State also has a Yishi Division, and the composition of this Yishi Division was made by Fei State. The Mohist family provided weapons as a military force for non-aggression alliances. While ensuring that they do not interfere with Fei's internal affairs, they maintained the own systems of small countries such as Fei.

Most of the members of the Yishi Fei Guoyi master were self-cultivated farmers in the capital of Dayi. Because the money and equipment of this Yishi were all from the Mohist family and had nothing to do with the people of Si, the Mohist family sponsored some of these self-cultivated farmers, and at the same time vigorously promoted some radical remarks from the Mohist family.

A few years later, these self-cultivated farmers who returned to their hometowns began to organize under the leadership of Mozhe.

The Fei State system has undergone some changes early, such as the initial tax acre system, which has led to the emergence of many self-cultivated farmers.

However, the taxes are extremely high.

Originally, each family collected tithes taxes. After the system was formed, due to the low productivity, part of the "land" was needed, that is, the idle fields were fallow, and the fallow parts also needed to be tithes taxes.

Falling was originally necessary, which was equivalent to the May Day tax. As the rotation technology of soybean, corn, wheat and cotton was spread and developed from the farmers who returned from the righteous masters, these fallow fields began to be planted, and the nobles and rulers of the Federated Kingdom also rose, forming a system for the originally fixed "May Day tax".

In addition to the self-cultivated farmers who own the land, as the basis of the rule of the noble family, a large number of noble fiefs still exist.

These nobles still have the power to dominate the peasants in their fiefdoms, but due to the terrain, the changes here are completely different from the changes in some commercial manors along Danshui and Sishui in Song State.

A small nobles of the Song State were closer to Si Shang, and the incident of Chinese people intervening in politics broke out in Shangqiu, and they obtained certain political rights.

Second, transportation is difficult now, and roads are not built, and water transportation is still the best way to transport. The development of industrial and commercial cities such as Peiyi and Pengcheng has made grain and raw materials profitable commodities, but limited to transportation, this spontaneous transformation of production relations also occurred in the plains along the river in the Song Dynasty. Fei State is mountainous, and no river can reach Pengcheng Peiyi directly, so this reform occurred very slowly in Fei State.

After the Battle of Hanshui, the Mohist family bounded the Jiashui, a tributary of the Yishui River in the southeast, and did not explicitly interfere with the internal affairs of the Feishui country. However, the Mohist family could teach and promote, start mining and smelting, and sell salt and iron.

In addition, one of the most reluctant conditions for the nobles of Fei Kingdom was the identified boundary... Once a fleeing serf fled to the boundary, Fei Kingdom would not be able to pursue it, and the Mo family would organize them to cultivate farming.

Under this policy, a large number of people fled from Fei's country every year and entered the direct jurisdiction of the Mohist family on Sishang every year.

In addition, a large number of commodity luxury goods poured in, and the income of the nobles was obviously not enough to maintain their higher level of life, and strategies were urgently needed.

Under such circumstances, the country of Fei finally began to "force change", but this change was against the trend of history.

The nobles and Fei Jun issued the "Order of Death", announcing that the nobles had absolute control over the farmers on the land sealed fields, and they had to "find their business before they could do their own business", and they had to complete the "obligation" of public land for the land sealed family owner before they could manage their own land.

It is prohibited to hide and escape farmers. Once captured, they will help the hiding person to commit crimes with the fugitive.

Once a fugitive escapes, if he resists, the pursuer has the right to kill him.

Under the impact of Sishang commodities and in the comparison of Sishang system, the internal contradictions in Fei's country are becoming more and more serious.

Because it was a land seal system, the nobles obtained iron tools and purchased horses and continued to expand their land. Expand their land, and their income increased, but they also needed more labor. This also required the increase of the level of labor in "business" and doubled the burden on farmers on the fief.

The land system along the river in the Song Dynasty and the reclamation status were different from that in the Fei State.

Especially near Taoqiu, where the economy is developed, land private ownership has long appeared, and a large number of private fields are rented. The emergence of coal has also made Chaicao Mountain lack meaning. The textile industry in Si Shang mainly raises sheep without such a big profit, so there is nothing worth developing in the non-cultural lands of the small noble fiefs.

Therefore, some landlords and small nobles along the river of the Song State took back their rented land due to the development of productivity, drove away excess labor, and let them go to Si or cities to make a living.

The Fei Kingdom, due to the emergence of iron oxen plowing and ridges, led to another situation. The nobles used patriarchal relations and the dominance of farmers in fiefdoms to expand the amount of "exploitation of public fields" and increase their own land and farmers' working time on public fields, thereby making another way of profit to increase income.

This situation will inevitably lead to a large number of farmers on the sealed fields fleeing. The Mo family is eyeing them and cannot beat the Mo family, so they can only adopt more stringent laws to strictly prohibit farmers from fleeing, thereby safeguarding the interests of the nobles.

The time spent on "official work" is getting more and more, the less time spent on "private affairs", and the lower the income of farmers on the fields sealed. The Mohist family only redeemed ironware in installments and rented oxen and horses after carrying out land reform in Si. They only said that "no help" in the country, which led to the farmers on the fields sealed singing "The Rat" every day.

It's exactly:

A big rat and a big rat, I have no food for my millet! I am three years old and I am willing to take care of my daughter. My daughter is about to leave. I am here to live in that land of happiness. I am here to find my place.

A big rat and a big rat, I have no food for my wheat! I am a three-year-old girl, don’t I, Kendou. My deceased girl is about to leave, and I am happy country. My country is happy country, so I can’t help it?

A big rat and a big rat, I have no food for my seedlings! I am a three-year-old girl, so I don’t want to work hard. My daughter is about to leave, and I am happy in the suburbs. Who will be the last one?

Since he sang a big rat, "Perfect Land" naturally spread. For the serfs in the southeast, the Perfect Land is only separated by a river.

Escape is a paradise.

If you can't escape, you will be eaten by a rat for the rest of your life.

Being arrested during the escape may lead to death, being punished as slaves, and may increase labor.

But hopefully, the threat of death can always be overcome.

Every year, a large number of farmers on the fields fleeing across the river. Once they cross the river, the private nobles chasing behind them dare not cross the boundary, and there will be guards of the righteous army affiliated to the Mo family by the river.

Now stationed along the river near Tanyi is the expanded Sixth Division of the Yishi Division, which was expanded from the Sixth Brigade of the Battle of the Hanshui.

At least a few months ago, Tanyi was stationed in the First Division, mainly composed of wealthy self-cultivated farmers in Peiyi, but a few months ago, the First Division was transferred to the vicinity of Huling, and the majority of the personnel were composed of slaves from the original Yue people, fled serfs, and just obtained the sixth Division, composed of fugitive reclamators who had just obtained the land distribution.
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