A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 200
After Wu Qi got to know the Huai state, he began to assist Wang Pu in governing the country according to the development of the Huai state.At the same time, Wu Qi was also trying to improve the system of Huai State.

Wu Qi reformed the military system of Huai State, strengthened military training, rewarded farming and warfare, and prohibited Ding people from idleness and farming.

For those who produce more grain and cloth, they can be exempted from labor and taxation, and they can be awarded to agricultural officials to guide others in farming, and they will be rewarded every year.

Encourage commerce, abolish the tax cards set up in various places, and instead collect them uniformly by the state. All goods must be traded in designated markets. If they are traded in other places, offenders will be fined heavily.

In the past, the local government would set up tax cards at various passes and water and land main roads to collect taxes. This method of tax collection is very easy to lead to corruption, and at the same time, there will be multiple tax collections.This is not conducive to the central government's control of finance and taxation, so Wu Qi ordered the closure of these private tax cards.

Let all merchants go to the markets in each city to sell goods.

This kind of sale of goods at designated places not only facilitates transactions, but also facilitates the collection of taxes by the state.

Of course, this method is not foolproof.But after all, it is more advanced than before.At the same time, the reduction of checkpoints will also promote the prosperity of commerce, thus bringing higher taxes to the Huai country.

At the same time, farming was rewarded, and a system of [-]th-class nobles rewarded according to military merits was promulgated to encourage combat.At the same time, in order to curb land mergers, taxes were imposed on those who owned more than a thousand acres of land.

The county system was implemented in the Huai State, with the county as the local administrative unit, and the counties were set up with euphemisms, townships, towns, and villages.Standardize the local administrative system of the former Huai State.

At the same time, after the implementation of the county and township system, the local conscription will also be carried out in accordance with this, so as to improve the mobilization ability of Kehuai country.

Just as the Huai country was further reforming, waves once again appeared in the Central Plains.

After Han and Zhao knew that Wu Qi had escaped, the pressure on the two countries suddenly eased a lot, and they no longer felt trembling like before.

Without the deterrence of Wu Qi, after more than ten years of political reforms, Zhao Guo also became stronger and stronger, and once again wanted to intervene in the affairs of the Central Plains.

On the other hand, Wei Hou was dissatisfied with the last time Zhao Hou sent troops to dawdle, and wanted to trouble Zhao Guo.

Zhao Guo wanted to go south to the Central Plains. Taking advantage of the entanglement between Wei Guo and Qin Guo, he sent troops to attack and destroy seven cities in a row.Originally, there were only a hundred miles of land left in Weiguo, and seven cities were captured by Zhao Guo. Almost only the capital and the cities close to the capital remained in Weiguo.

Marquis Wei asked Wei Guo for help.

Marquis Wei was furious when he learned that Zhao Guo was attacking Wei, and immediately led his army to fight against Zhao Guo. defeat.

In order to punish Zhao Guo for deliberately delaying the march last time, as well as the intention of developing into the Central Plains, Wei Hou found South Korea to join forces. Wei Guo and South Korea jointly attacked Zhao Guo. Not only did Zhao Guo take back all the land from Wei Guo Even the allied forces of Wei and Han crossed the Yellow River to attack Zhongmu, the old capital of Zhao State.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Hou quickly sent envoys to Qi and Chu for help.Because Qi State was defeated by Huai State, and then drove Yan State away, the national strength was not small, so it did not send many troops.

The King of Chu was overjoyed immediately after receiving Zhao Guo's request for help.You must know that Wei State had robbed a large amount of land from Chu State before.Now that the state of Wei is fighting against the state of Zhao, the alliance of the Three Jins has broken down, and they immediately agreed to send troops to the state of Zhao.

The King of Chu summoned Jing Mu and asked, "Jing Qing, the State of Zhao is asking for help. Should our army attack the State of Wei now?"

"Your Majesty, it is unwise to attack at this time. Zhao and Wei are fighting each other. If we join in too early, Zhao will suffer little loss. However, Wei's troops are in full swing. When the time comes to rescue Zhao, our army will also suffer heavy losses."

"I once saw snipe and clam fighting by the river, but in the end a fisherman got them all. At this time, Wei and Zhao are fighting, just like snipe and clam. We, Chu, can be a fisherman."

"After the fierce battle between Wei State and Zhao State, our army can dispatch a large army to the north to rescue Zhao, and at the same time seize the land occupied by Wei State."

The king of Chu immediately agreed to Jing Mu's suggestion, and soon the army was ready to go out, but the soldiers remained motionless.It was not until Zhao State could not hold on anymore that it sent troops to attack Wei State.

Jing Mu personally led the army to attack the State of Wei. The State of Wei did not expect that the State of Chu would attack because of the large army attacking Zhao State.And the army that originally suppressed Zhao Guo was also affected.

Zhao Guo's morale soared after learning that Chu State sent troops.

After Weihou learned that Qi State and Chu State sent troops to rescue, he was worried that Wei State would lose, and wanted to lead an army to rescue. As a result, Zhao State took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. Wei State was defeated repeatedly under the attack of Chu State and Zhao State.

Chu State even reached the edge of the Yellow River at one point.

Fortunately, Marquis Wei was not mediocre either. After the initial panic, he quickly stabilized his position and commanded Wei Wuzu to fight against Chu, Qi, and Zhao.

Blocked the armies of the Three Kingdoms, and even started to fight back.For a time, the Central Plains was raging with war.

But in the end, the Wei State was still strong, and the Wei soldiers were still strong. After a period of confrontation, they began to attack again and repelled the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms.

Even if the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms retreated, they still occupied some land of Wei State.

The great battle between Wei Guo and Zhao Guo completely tore up the covenant of the alliance of the three Jins.Zhao Guo and Wei Guo turned their faces.

After the three-Jin alliance was destroyed, Chu, Qi, and Qin all breathed a sigh of relief.It is true that after the alliance of the three Jin Dynasties, the coalition forces are too powerful.

Whether it is Chu or Qi, neither is sure to deal with the alliance of the three Jins.

After Wei Guo saw that Zhao Guo had completely turned his face, Wei Hou didn't care too much, and immediately used the dark hand left by Wen Hou.Support the son of Zhao Guosheng to compete for the position of Marquis Zhao.

Originally, after the death of the former Zhao Hou, he did not pass the throne to his son, but passed the throne to his elder brother's son according to the agreement, which made Zhao Sheng very dissatisfied.

After Zhao Hou came to the throne, he wanted to raise troops, but was stopped by Wei Hou. Now that Zhao and Wei are fighting each other, and they have met each other, Wei Hou immediately stopped his scruples and sent troops to help Zhao Sheng.

Because Zhao State moved its capital to Handan and carried out reforms, which caused the interests of many nobles in Zhao State to be damaged. Therefore, after Zhao Sheng raised his rebellion, many Zhao State nobles immediately supported him. Coupled with the support of Marquis Wei, Zhao Sheng's strength Rapid improvement.

After Zhao Hou learned of Zhao Sheng's rebellion, he was furious and immediately ordered the army to counter the rebellion.

The two armies fought in Handan. As a result, Zhao Hou's army was stronger after the reform, and Zhao Sheng was no match. He was defeated and had to flee to Wei State overnight.

(End of this chapter)