The State of Song was tragic to its geographical location and the national conditions of the powerful aristocratic power in China.

If the State of Song was a little smaller and had never been rich, he would have chosen a great country as a vassal in this chaotic era. Just like the State of Wei, he would at least survive.

However, the State of Song was neither a vassal nor a special geographical location in the world, the State of Song was both an important place that could not be given up for all countries and a hot potato, and no one dared to move.

In history, the fall of the Song Kingdom was the result of the cooperation between Qi, Chu, Wei and Qin. The country was small but not humble. When it was strong, it attacked Chu and captured Qi and invaded Wei, but was finally divided.

The Song State was full of fertile land. For the Mohist family on Si, it was like the southwest of Qi: they didn't want it for the time being, but they could not allow it to be controlled by Chu and Wei.

The fate of Song State is now unavailable to the nobles of Song State.

The current situation in the Song State is as chaotic as that in all countries today.

In the civil strife twenty years ago, the people and the Mohist families took advantage of the conflict between the nobles and turned the Song State into a nominal state and a loose aristocratic alliance.

Sicheng Huang, Le family, Dai family, Xiao family, Shi family, Hua family... many nobles do not want any expansion of royal power. They themselves have their own power and have always had the tradition of aristocratic coup.

Twenty years ago, the Mo family defended Shangqiu and caused the turmoil in the Song Dynasty was because the Sicheng Emperor's clan could not monopolize the power, and was jealous of other nobles.

Earlier, there was a foundation for a republic of the aristocratic republic of the three surnames. After the Emperor's family was dominant, he had the opportunity to learn from the three families to divide the Jintian clan into Qi and gain the country of Song in one fell swoop. However, the coup twenty years ago was mixed up, which completely lost the possibility of centralization of the Song Dynasty.

The differences between the Gentleman Court and the Civilian Court were forced by the Mo family to swear to stop attacking each other. These were explosives laid down at the beginning, in order to make it impossible for Song State to unify and centralize power.

The emperor's father Zang is already old, and his son, the emperor's father Yue Ling is the current prime minister of the Xunzhengyuan of the Song State. Song Gong has no power at all, but it is difficult for the emperor's father Yue Ling to centralize power.

After the coup twenty years ago, all parts of the Song State were in charge of their own affairs. The nobles had been quarreling in the so-called gentleman's courtyard, putting some conspiracies on the surface. The Mo family's force was standing by the harmless alliance, which made it impossible for the emperor's father Yue Ling to centralize power.

The side close to Si Shang was the most influenced by Si Shang and was also the first place where many changes occurred.

Si Shang's demand for food and raw materials made it very profitable for the local little nobles to manage their land. They gave up their personal control over the farmers in exchange for huge wealth, and also lost the power base within the nobles - the farmers bound to the fiefdom were their basis of force, and the nobles without the basis of force had no say.

Taoqiu and other places with more developed industry and commerce are simply the autonomy of industrial and commercial workers, and are nominally belonging to the fiefdoms of the Emperor's Father clan. In fact, it is enough to pay enough taxes every year, and the Emperor's Father clan cannot reach out at all.

In other places, the nobles such as the Le family, Xiao family, and Dai family continued to maintain their rule on the fiefdom with difficulty to ensure their military strength and did not dare to allow the peasants to flee to other places.

Some nobles made some appropriate changes, such as granting land to the people in exchange for their loyalty, but in fact... it was difficult.

Grain prices are falling day by day, and a large amount of precious metals flow into Sishang. The handicraft products in Sishang are dumped outward. The leapfrog improvement in planting technology has made the nobles who have made appropriate changes miserable.

According to the rules, tithes taxes are collected, and according to the amount twenty years ago, the nobles will be starved to death, which is simply difficult to maintain their current life.

The little kindness of the tax rate was increased and the people who gave the land to the people was immediately forgotten. Next to it was Si Shang, which was a comparison, and the farmer was dissatisfied.

Seeing the little nobles near Si Shang abandoning their personal control over the farmers and making a fortune by hoarding land and operating the property, these ambitious nobles could only be envious: having money means no one, and having no one means no status and power within the nobles.

Everything costs money.

Arms, silk, cotton, ironware, luxury goods...

The food price is too low.

The tithing taxes are all in kind. When they are paid, they are immediately harvested by the Mo family. When the extra tax is collected every year, the price of grain will plummet. All the arms and handicrafts are needed to buy, and the money can only be sold to the Mo family for exchange. The pricing power is on Si, and the old orthodox nobles are all poor and miserable.

He controlled his fiefdom but had no management foundation at all. He could only choose to sell the franchise to some merchants with rent-seeking powers, use his power to protect the monopoly of these merchants, and obtain enough rent from the merchants, but the local people were in the end.

Some merchants in Si Shang and Song State were inevitably angry when they saw that their goods could not be sold to the entire Song State, and many fiefs formed their own systems, and their goods could not be sold and were monopolized by local merchants who depended on the nobles.

Merchants hate, farmers complain, handicraftsmen themselves have close ties with the Mohist family, and the petty citizens are enthusiastic and fanatical. They have a special recognition of the concept of equality, valuing virtuousness and not attacking. The internal fiefs are already chaotic, but there are still people outside looking at them.

The emperor's family always wanted to gather the power of various fiefs, but when they were in a coup in Song State, they didn't think that Song State was good.

The gentleman's courtyard was created, and a group of nobles restricted each other. Want to centralize power? Voting to oppose it.

Want to centralize power by force? The harmless alliance that the Mohist family participated in twenty years ago forced the emperor's family to dare not take action.

The richer businessmen became small nobles who ran the farmers, handicraftsmen and self-cultivated farmers in Shangqiu. They were bewitched by the equal morality of the Mohists and were even more dissatisfied.

The common people's court that was created back then had the right to petition, which was the power that the people already had. The original Little Situ was in charge of this. Anyone who moved the capital, established a monarch, or formed an alliance would need to be recognized by the Chinese people. This is the tradition of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the common people's court just continued this power.

However... the representatives of the common people's court who thought they could finally be "equal" with the nobles found that they were useless because when they handled the coup in the Song Dynasty twenty years ago, they left a deep pit: the gentleman's court had the power to veto it.

The situation of who was suing me in the court was staged in the Inquiry Yuan of Song State all day long.

On the one hand, Si Shang is booming, and the rights of industry and businessmen are protected by the Law on the People's Government.

On the other hand, those people in Shangqiu are rich and powerful but have no power, and the resentment and dissatisfaction in their hearts have long been accumulated.

Twenty years of development and leapfrog development have led to an unprecedented increase in the speed of land annexation.

Some nobles and little nobles used their power and their accumulations for hundreds of years to frantically drive away the people who were surplus because of the development of agricultural tools.

The ones close to Si Shang come into Si Shang, and the ones close to Shangqiu come into Shangqiu.

This group of landless farmers had no land and could only work with others in the city, farming, or work as servants. They belonged to the most miserable class in the city, longing for land in their hearts and were full of hatred for the nobles.

The theory of "true equality", "the wise men are farming together with the people", "focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce", and "businessmen are cunning" is widely circulated in the circles of landless peasants in Shangqiu.

The theory of the peasant family is to divide the land equally and curb merchants. This is a fantasy equality school, but it is full of temptation to the bottom of Shangqiu City.

The merchants who depended on the developed aristocrats monopolized various trades, the nobles placed usury loans, and speculators bought low and sold high. All of these have accumulated conflicts within the Song Dynasty to a critical point where they were about to break out.

The State of Song had a chance, and the Emperor's Father Yue Ling had a chance to complete centralization, and even had the opportunity to be the elected "Song Gong" to replace the current Duke of Song, but... the State of Song was too close to Si Shang.

Since the Si Shang became a giant, the policies of the State of Song were adapted to the State of Song, with only one purpose: not to give the State of Song any chance of preparation and slow change, to extinguish every opportunity for change, and to suppress the contradictions by force and hostility between the nobles until the external pressure is withdrawn, it will immediately explode.

The Emperor's Father Yue Ling slightly expressed his intention to change and centralize power. The Mo family incited the industrialists and businessmen in Shangqiu and self-cultivated farmers to demand more radical changes, and scared the Emperor's Father Yue Ling back: It's okay to change, give up all the noble power, and truly select wise men as the emperor.

The emperor's father Yue Ling wanted to centralize power, but not to be the flag bearer of free guidance of the people. He was far inferior to the Mohist family to the influence of street politics and in the common people's market.

As soon as he retreated, the balanced nobles immediately jumped out, indicating that change and centralization were impossible, and all members of our Gentleman Academy opposed it.

Every time some of the original small conflicts were solved, Si Shang's black hand would reach out to block them. The small conflicts became big conflicts, and it could not be resolved at all until now.

The emperor's father Yue Ling wanted power, to become Duke of Song, to replace him, and to have a complete Song State.

The other nobles wanted power, aristocrats republic, divided the feudal and ruled, and each had their own policies, firmly opposed a complete and centralized Song State.

Landless farmers want land, want a share of land that can cultivate their own, oppose the aristocrats' possession of land, and even want to return to the original feudal system of land granting, which is full of panic about the new era.

The big merchants wanted private ownership and sale of land, and wanted their own money to obtain land and continue to make profits. They were extremely dissatisfied with the aristocrats occupying the land and population.

Handicraftsmen and small businessmen want low taxes, at least they require themselves to propose taxes, and are extremely dissatisfied with suppressing a large amount of taxes on them.

The transformed nobles wanted power, and they gave up their fiefdom control over the farmers in exchange for income from land management, but they also lost the power of the nobles. Without force support, it would be easy to become the least powerless businessman.

The merchants selling goods hope that the fiefs of each nobleman will be liberalized and that the merchants who rely on the noble will monopolize them. If they sell them themselves, they will either be troubled or have high taxes and fees.

The fief continues to be rigorously protected from escape policies by fief farmers long for freedom, land, and can leave the fief.

The self-cultivated farmers and handicraftsmen who lived in the city devoutly believed in the Mohist morality of equality for everyone, out of their desire for equality and love for both synonyms and love, were angry at the existence of the nobles and the common people's houses that were like jokes.
Chapter completed!