Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

When the state of Wu was carrying out some reforms and carried out welfare policies to benefit the people and win people's hearts, the northern countries were also intensively carrying out reforms and reforms.

It was Zhao Guo who first carried out the reform.

When King Wu Qingji was 20 years old, the newly established State of Zhao, under the impetus of Zhao Yang, carried out strict reforms.

Zhao Guo almost completely imitated Wu Guo's early reform policies. In politics, Zhao Yang abolished the privileges of hereditary nobles, selected talents and appointed talents, and strictly rewarded and punished them.

Economically, the best-effort and level-buying method are mainly implemented.

In terms of military affairs, Zhao Yang followed the same pattern, implementing the [-]th grade military title system, and forming a new army.

After a year, Zhao's reforms had achieved initial results, and South Korea and Wei followed closely behind, copying all kinds of policies related to the new law and vigorously implementing them.

The Three Kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei belonged to one of the Six Jin Dynasties. They were founded just now. The nobles in the country are all from their own family, almost all of them are uncles and brothers of the same clan.

They were also forced by the strength of the overlord Wu, so the reform of the "Three Jins" did not encounter much resistance.

The one who has carried out more thorough reforms is undoubtedly Zhao Yang.

Because Zhao Yang is a hero with iron and blood skills, he will do anything to achieve his goals. Some people who opposed his reform, or even obstructed it, have been executed by Zhao Yang as an example.

When the Three Jin Dynasty carried out vigorous reforms, Zheng Bojisheng was unwilling to lag behind, and re-appointed Si Si as the ruling minister to implement reforms.

Ji Sheng also wanted to reform like the Wu State, so as to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but Zheng State was different from Han, Zhao, and Wei, which were newly established states, and were full of vigor.

Zheng Guo, who has a kind of aging spirit from the inside to the outside, is difficult to reform.

When Ji Sheng wanted to take back the fiefs of the Qing officials and change them to Shiyi, he encountered strong opposition from the Han family and the Si family, as well as many old families.

After tossing and tossing for more than half a year in vain, Ji Sheng finally recognized the reality.

However, Ji Sheng didn't give up yet, so he deposed Sima, changed Yang Ziju from Wei to be the Shangqing, and presided over the reform.

Yangziju advocated the rule of law, carried out further reforms, and learned from Taoism's "the art of the emperor to the south" to transform it, and put forward a set of "art" governance strategies of cultivating art and Taoism, and internally cultivating politics and religion.

The first step of Yang Ziju's reform in the state of Zheng was to rectify the administration of officials and strengthen the centralized rule of the monarchy.

With Ji Sheng's support, Yangziju first attacked the two powerful clans of the Han family and the Si family who held their fiefdom in their hands.

Resolutely take back its privileges, destroy its castles, clean up its treasury wealth, and fill the treasury.

This not only stabilized the political situation of Zheng State, but also greatly increased the strength of Zheng State.

At the same time, Yangziju also practiced "skills" in governance, appointing, supervising, and assessing officials, and rectifying the administration of officials.

Later, he suggested to Ji Sheng to purge the army, and took the initiative to ask for orders. He appointed himself as the general of Zheng Guo, incorporated the private soldiers of the nobles into the national army, mixed them with the original national soldiers, and conducted rigorous military training. The combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.

Not only that, in order to enrich the country and strengthen the army, Yangziju also strongly advocated that Li Shu of Zheng State should open up more wasteland, grow more food, and encourage childbirth.

At the same time, he also attached importance to and encouraged the development of handicrafts, especially weapon manufacturing.

Other countries such as Qi, Qin, Song, Wei, Lu, etc., were forced by their own national conditions, did not dare to change their laws at will, and violated the interests of the old aristocrats, but they also carried out some reforms one after another.

Such as encouraging childbirth, developing production, training soldiers and horses, recruiting talents, etc., all more or less borrowed from Wu's previous reforms.

The people of Qin, like Wu and Jin, established a [-]-level military title system, and spared no expense to improve their weapons and equipment, which raised the combat effectiveness of the Qin army to more than one level.

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The capital of Wu State, Jinling.

At this time, in the Zide Hall, Qingji was sitting on the majesty's platform, sitting upright.

Prince Heng, Gong Zihong, Guowei Sun Wu, Yushi Dafu Fan Li, Dazai Jiran, Da Sima Wu Zixu, Zuo Chancellor Wenzhong, Right Chancellor Bo Tong, Da Xing Ling Yang Hu, and Yu Shi Zhong Cheng Bo Tong are the ten brachii of the Wu Kingdom The ministers were all sitting on both sides, with a more dignified look on their brows.

Now, all countries in the world, except for some small countries and vassal states of Wu, are basically carrying out reforms.

This is a predictable thing.

After all, the overlord Wu put too much pressure on the northern countries.

If the law does not change, the nations will one day be annexed by Wu.

If you don't change, you die!

Are Zhao Yang, Ji Sheng and others all idiots?

No, it's not!

That's why they will work hard to save the nation and survive!

"Second and third sons, who is this Yangziju? Why haven't I heard of this person before?"

Qingji was quite puzzled.

In the vigorous reforms of Han, Zhao, Wei, and Zheng, the Three Jins basically imitated Wu Guo in its entirety, without much innovation.

Only Zheng Guo's reform is different.

The reforms are extremely radical, so the rest of the countries can only be said to be "reforms", not reforms...

Fan Li replied: "Your Majesty, I have dealt with this Yangziju before."

"This man is a senior student of Laozi. He is proficient in the study of criminal names, Taoism and Confucianism, and his academics are quite mixed. He once studied in Jixia Academy and settled in Jinling for many years. He studied the studies of various schools and often kept his hands on the books."

"The minister talked with Yang Ziju and knew that he had hidden great ambitions. Although he had planned to recommend him as Xiaolian to serve as an official in Wu, he was unmoved and insisted on going to the countries of the Central Plains in order to gain fame. long."

"Your Majesty, it is my fault that I caused the country to lose a great talent. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Hearing this, Qingji smiled lightly and said, "Fan Li, why are you guilty?"

"Yang Ziju's heart is not in Wu, why make him work for the widow?"

Fan Li was indeed not to blame for this matter.

As the saying goes, everyone has his own ambitions.

Fan Li couldn't persuade Yang Ziju to serve in the Wu Kingdom, what could he do if he couldn't keep Yang Ziju?
In other words, Jixia Academy deserves to be the cradle for cultivating talents.

Talented!

It's just that some talents may not be able to be used by Wu.

Brain drain is understandable.

It's not that the monarchs and ministers of the state of Wu don't know people well, but that in the state of Wu right now, there are indeed not many vacant official positions.

Like Yang Ziju, with a heart as high as the sky, a person who pursues a country's honorary ministers can certainly stand out in Wu, but does he have a chance to become a nobleman?
Basically... nothing!
The court competition in the state of Wu is too fierce, and there are not many talents in the world.

Yangzi stayed in the state of Wu, and might not even get the official position of Jiuqing.

Qingji should be more fortunate that the Jixia Academy in Wu State did not become a "talent training base" for other countries like Wei State in the Warring States Period, and a "Wei Cai Qin Yong" came...

Yangziju is now in Zheng Guo to implement political governance and carry out reforms. In Qingji's view, it just happens at the right time.

For this, Qingji only felt a little regret.

Even Qingji could vaguely foresee the omen of Zheng's demise!