All ten people got on the horse, took out the shorter muskets for the scout from under the saddle bag, checked the flint, and rushed towards the Qi army's scout with a roar.

When the six people were on the front, approaching about fifty or sixty steps, they took out their muskets and pointed them at the opposite rider Qi Ren, and quickly retreated after a blow.

The two Qi people's detective cavalry were knocked off the horse. The Qi people were very dissatisfied with the scouts on the Mo family's side's behavior that violated the unspoken rules of these days, and the remaining people chased them.

After a little circle, the four people who were going to the flank seized the opportunity and rushed into the climax. The six people who were going around in front also turned their horses back to fight.

After rushing and killing, four more people of Qi were caught off guard, and the rest fled in a hurry.

The young officer from the Mo family scout followed a Qi rider. Just as the Qi rider approached the camp, he suddenly changed direction, whistled a few times, and rushed into a corner of the Qi camp he had just noticed.

The Qi army there was not enough reaction. The three of them rushed in and jumped over the simple earthen base by equestrianism.

For a moment, the Qi army here was in chaos. Three people killed several people in panic, seized two flags and quickly fled.

Only when these scouts fled to the distance of guns and arrows did the Qi army react and felt that their morale was taken away and sent more than fifty cavalry to pursue them.

The little nobleman from Qi who led the team to pursue was named Xuanyuan Lie. From this name alone, you can tell that his origin was the concubine of the Yuanzhi family of the Tian family of Qi State.

After the Qi-Mo War, Qi carried out a series of reforms, moving against the times.

While the Central Plains were trying to change the well-field system, Qi took it out of context from the Guanzi School and strengthened the constraints of "people do not change their careers."

A major feature of the feudal era is the so-called "craftsman spirit". In other words, the father-son inheritance caused by the unchanging career of the people. To count three generations upwards are the same industry.

The more feudal remnants, the more obvious it will be.

Just like the old people before the Mohist family, such as Gong Zaiye and Zhumeiqisui, their families are taxis in the era when the people remain unchanged.

Most of the people who made the surnames were craftsmen who cast bronze ware for princes and nobles; most of the people who made the surnames were weaving straw mats under the jurisdiction of Gongyin.

Father and son will be inherited from generation to generation. Only in this way can those who are noble will always be noble, and those who are low will always be humble, so that it will be difficult for generations.

Farmers should farm, scholars should be scholars, and industrialists should be businessmen, because the princes had previously discovered that once the people were turned into business, there were many situations that were difficult for them to deal with.

For example, if you cannot recruit soldiers, if you cannot receive food, if you cannot recruit enough civilians, etc.

In the past, Guan Zhong's reform began to try to solve this problem. His solution was to use public handicrafts. Five industrial and commercial towns did not send troops but only taxes and weapons; ten agricultural towns sent grain and troops to send troops.

As soon as Qi Huan died, Qi State was caught in a dispute between the five princes, and then the Tian family replaced Qi. By the end of the civil war between the Tian family, the Mo family had already established itself in Si Shang.

At this time, Tian looked outside again, iron tools, ox plowing, new crops, and the development of industry and commerce... It seemed that it was no longer possible to do that.

So they changed for a while, thought about who is the enemy, who is the friend, who is the reliable person, and who is the unreliable person, and then they made such a strange reactionary change, and the result was very effective.

Because they were very close to Si Shang, the nobles who completely dominated the farmers in the fiefdom were becoming richer, growing grain, making wine, mining and drying salt.

Because they gave enough benefits to the nobles and reached a compromise with each other, the nobles paid a fixed amount of military tax and provided enough soldiers.

Because of taxes, some newly promoted merchants provided money for the nobles, and the smugglers in Si Shang, the Duke of Qi had a standing army in his hands.

Because of such a standing army, the little force in the noble fiefs was not enough to fight against the central government, so the nobles became more obedient.

Because most of the officers in this standing army are nobles or noble sons, the interests of the army are the interests of the nobles, and the army and nobles are the pillars of Qi's rule, so the interests of Qi are the interests of the nobles, which are realized by relying on the army.

Most surnames like Xuanyuan are the concubines of the Tian clan or other clan nobles, or are the surnames obtained by some merchants who contributed to the Duke of Qi for money.

This kind of person is not a genuine aristocrat, or a genuine direct aristocrat. The genuine direct aristocrat still retains their surnames and basically despise these new aristocrats. There is also a chain of contempt within the nobles.

Because Tian regards himself as the descendants of Huangdi, he believes that his generation of Qi is to continue the cycle of the Battle of Banquan and the continuation of Huangdi's victory over Yandi, so he created such a surname - in fact, whether it is Gongsun or Xuanyuan, it is impossible for Huangdi's clan and name, but Tian pretends that Huangdi is called Gongsun Xuanyuan.

These orthodox nobles who were not the eldest son and clan law formed the grassroots pillars of the Standing Army of Qi, and the experiences of many noble and concubines were mostly similar.

They are not the legitimate sons of the family, so they have no right to inherit. They received a certain education when they were young and their military qualities are acceptable.

If you grow up a little, you will recommend "to make up for the number of black clothes" in the palace. Starting from being an imperial guard in the palace, you will be familiar with the Duke of Qi.

Then they were selected from the black-clothed guards by a special institution and sent to the special aristocratic and concubine's school for study, mainly to learn some new knowledge, tactics, science, etc. from Si Shang.

After completing his studies, he first became a low-level officer and made military achievements and was enfeoffed with some lands in Jiaodong that were originally difficult for Laiyi to effectively rule. He obtained the surname Xuanyuan and became a group of new nobles in Qi State.

The nobles of the Xuanyuan clan were the most important ones as palace nobles, as a restraining force used by the Duke of Qi to fight against other old-fashioned nobles such as Rutian, Gao, Sun, and Guo.

If you can't achieve the greatest success, you will usually just be low-level and intermediate officers, who will probably start as company commanders and then obtain fiefs of about a hundred and ten households.

These 100 households are completely dominated by these new nobles, including and not limited to opening manors, mining minerals, organizing industry and commerce, etc.

Not far from Qi State is Si Shang, and Jiaozhou Bay, Laideng and other places were ceded to the Mo family as a port. In addition, Qi State's original industrial and commercial foundation has actually made Qi State develop well over the years.

For example, Xuanyuan Lie, who is now chasing the Mo family scout with more than 50 people, has basically had such a life experience.

Born as a concubine's son, he received aristocratic education in the family school. At the age of twelve, he joined the palace as a black-clothed guard. At the age of 14, he began to learn scientific wars and other knowledge from Si Shang as a black-clothed guard.

Guan Li was eighteen years old and entered the Standing Army as Sima Commander or Company Commander.

Then he made some military achievements in some small-scale wars and the reconquest of the non-effective ruling areas of Laiyi. At about twenty years old, he obtained Xuanyuan's surname and left his family, which was exactly the only independent family.

Xuanyuan Lie was granted a village with about 130 households, not far from Jiaozhou Bay.

The farmers in the village community were completely controlled by him according to the new reform laws. He had friends like the clerks and others, and they ruled the village community.

The farmer's land in the fief was taken back, and only about five or six acres of land were given to each farmer for planting crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes to make a living. At the other time, he had to work for his public fields.

Most of the time, some grain crops are planted, because the development of industry and commerce in Sishang and the emergence of some emerging industrial and commercial cities require a large amount of grain.

Later, another winemaking workshop was built in his fiefdom.

It can be said that the development of these village fiefs in Qi State severely hit the winemaking industry in Sishang. The labor costs and taxes of the winemaking industry in Sishang are much higher than those in Qi State. In addition, there is no tariff at all, so the winemaking industry in Sishang is quickly defeated by Qi State after its peak.

But apart from the brewing industry, Qi State has no other industry to compete with Si Shang.

A large amount of grain, spirits, raw materials, cattle and sheep are transported to Si Shang through Jiaozhou Bay, or to Lideng through Laideng to North Korea and Yan.

Then I exchanged for money, textiles, ironware, luxury goods, glass, mirrors, guns, etc.

Each new nobleman who was granted a title pays a certain amount of military taxes based on his fiefdom every year. When conscription is made, his village and community needs to produce ten people.

But it is different from the previous real feudal system. Under the past patriarchal feudal system under the Zhou Li, the number of fiefs he had to be released as large as his fiefs and as many people as his number, he would have to be released several chariots and several vassals. The fief nobles directly acted as commanders of these chariots and joined the monarch's army.

Now the fiefdom is distributed to military taxes and soldiers, and the training is left to special officers. After the chaos and reorganization, these noble sons of the Xuanyuan clan were grassroots officers, rather than recruiting troops from the fiefdom to join the monarch's troops.

The old nobles still had their own private soldiers, but these new nobles had almost no private soldiers of their own. Such a standing army could crush the private military background of the old noble families.

In addition, in the battle between Qi and Mo, the Mo family "shot" Gongziwu, which made the disputes within the Tian family turn to Gongzishan. Gongzishan's reforms were also slightly effective, with at least one standing army in hand and a certain amount of military expenditure.

An officer like Xuanyuan Lie is basically the cornerstone of the Qi State's standing army, so they initially opposed the war with the Mo family.

Because... the Mohist family is difficult to fight, and if they win, they suffer heavy losses and no new land; the chance of losing is still so high.

But when the Mohist family landed in Jiaozhou Bay to capture Zhucheng, Jimo and Gaomi, and after the land reform was implemented in Jiaodong, new nobles like Xuanyuan Lie immediately became full of fighting spirit, which was an irreconcilable hatred.

The soldiers of the Standing Army of Qi were mainly village serfs, and basically did not recruit urban citizens.

The original pillar power of the State of Qi, the Linzi people and martial artists, were bewitched by the theories of the Mohist and Yang Zhu, and pursued equality, freedom, and loved both of these things, so the Duke of Qi simply did not use it.

Most of the 70,000 permanent troops were summoned by villages, and a small number of officers were new nobles with the Xuanyuan surname.

Cavalry is also trained by recruited soldiers, and its riding skills are poor, but they are also available.

As a professional army, artillery officers are basically all nobles and concubines or scholars.

In addition, after the Qi-Mo War, Qi State did not really fight a heavy battle for many years, which made Qi State, which was forced by the Three Jins to surrender thirty years ago, and was forced by Yue State to be a driver to join the guard, actually became the main force on the eastern front that is now a decisive battle with Si Shang.
Chapter completed!