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Chapter 644 The Way of Qi Country ([-])

Tian Shan wanted to ask these questions.

It was too difficult and too complicated.

Tian He's position is not right, and Tian He has been immersed in the internal struggle with his brothers and relatives for the past 20 years, but it does not mean that he has never thought about this issue.

Sometimes, the ruling class can always understand the objective truths of the world earlier than the ruled class, because they need to use them in reverse to maintain their rule.

The real essence of the so-called dragon slaying technique is to solve the problem, not to follow the map.Show the cruel world after removing the hypocrisy and silent warmth in the rule, tell the world how the world works, and then find contradictions from these objective truths to solve all this.

The strength of a country, the rise and fall of a surname, the rise and fall of the world... There are too many explanations for all these.

destiny.

virtue.

reincarnation.

God willing.

There are too many, especially in this era of change, when the stars are shining and when China is young, there are too many explanations for everything in the world.

But in fact, Tian He didn't believe it.He doesn't believe in the destiny, reincarnation, and God's vows in virtue, otherwise he is not qualified to be the Qihou who is about to abdicate now.

Twenty years ago, the death of Gongsunsun completely broke out the internal contradictions of the Tian family that had been suppressed for a long time.

In the past 20 years, brothers and relatives fought each other. It is not that Tian He never thought of being Qi Huan and Jin Wen, but the disaster of Xiao Qiang could not be solved. Even though he thought a lot, he was afraid that he would be powerless and unable to implement it.

Tian He didn't want to talk too much with the debater, as there were some things that the debater couldn't understand.He felt that maybe the group of people from the Mohist family could understand, but those people were the biggest enemies in his eyes right now.

The only son who has become a weapon is missing. His current mentality is no longer a monarch, no longer a Marquis of Qi, but just the suzerain of the Tian family, at least for now.

Qi State is Tian's Qi State, and it is Tian's private property. How can he not cherish his own house and private property?
Under the feudal system, any monarch who wants to make a difference must be hostile to the nobles.

At this point, Tian He felt that he should tell Tian Shan this truth, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was unnecessary. Tian Shan was the heir chosen by his elder brother. He must have received such an education and understood how a monarch should deal with nobles. and the public.

Regarding the current chaos in Qi State, Tian Shan's doubtful question, and even regarding the future of Qi State, he had plans and plans.

But he couldn't talk to the debater.

If Tian Shan had the guts, he might be able to talk to Tian Shan, but now is not the time.

After a while of silence, Tian He just smiled, bypassed the topic, and talked about various details of the Zen position.

After the debater on the opposite side was startled, he couldn't help himself with euphoria. This is what the debater really wanted to talk about.

Tian He and the Mo family are considered female enemies, but looking at the debater's smile on the abdication, I can't help but think of those words that are very popular nowadays, and I can't help talking about them for three days after reading them.

"Summer worm, you can't speak ice."

It's not that Xia Chong can't talk about ice, but Xia Chong doesn't care about the crystal of ice and snow, because it's unnecessary.

Tian He felt that this debater was Xia Chong.

But Tian Yan, he can't be a summer worm, but does he think he is a summer worm?

I don't know all of this, because Tian He never thought that he would fail from the very beginning. If the people of Linzi were not organized by a third party, Tian He felt that it would be impossible for him to fail. How could a young man beat the experienced Own?

If the victory of this coup depends on Tian Yan's own means, Tian He feels that Tian Shan will do well without saying anything.

But because it wasn't, and because Tian Shan was negotiating peace with Tian He in such a panic to prevent the people from becoming bigger, Tian He was still a little worried that Tian Shan didn't know how to govern this huge state of Qi.

Tian He thought to himself that Qi State needs reform, and the reform of Qi State must take a completely different path, a path different from that of Wei, Qin, and Chu.

He had already thought about this way, but he just had no chance to implement it.

It's not because there is no time, but because there is no time for the Mo family to do such a big favor and wipe out the noble forces south of the Great Wall.

The reform of a country, the reform of a country, if it is supported by some ideological system and academic system, it will be the smoothest, and it is also a means to keep people from dying.

The reform of the Wei State relied on the legalist Confucianism of the Xihe School and the academic ideas derived from the Xihe School of Zixia.

The reform of the Qin State relied on the integration of France and Mohism, rebelling against Mohism, understanding the techniques of Mohism, and abandoning the righteousness of Mohism; It is the way of legalist centralization.Its essence is the debate between Solu and Rebel in Handan that year: Is land the only way to increase wealth?Or can industrial and commercial labor also increase wealth?
The reform of the Chu State, Wu Qi did not enter Chu as in history, but the Battle of Daliang City created a large number of nobles who were killed and captured, and the nobles weakened. With the infiltration of the Mohists into the Chu State, this is not sustainable, because the Chu State has no A complete theoretical system.

Qi is different.

Tian He understands the differences in Qi State, and also understands what Qi State should use and what it should not use.

The Qi State of the Tian family is not congenitally deficient, and cannot use the benevolence, righteousness and propriety of Confucian scholars, because the Tian family's succession to Qi is not right.

Therefore, Tian He respected the Yellow Emperor as the great ancestor, and used the "reincarnation of fate" in which the Yellow Emperor defeated Yan Emperor in the Battle of Banquan, trying to resolve the legitimacy of Tian's Dai Qi.

The ancestor of the Tian family can be traced back to the Yellow Emperor, while the ancestor of Jiang Qi's Taigongwang can be traced back to the Yan Emperor.

This kind of reincarnation cannot be explained by the principles of the world today.

King Wu destroyed Yin and asked about the destiny. He couldn't afford to be seriously ill and panicked, so the Zhou Gong system of rituals was established.

At this time, the existing "Mandate of Heaven" in the world cannot explain the legitimacy of the Tian family's replacement of Qi, and Tian He and his staff and advisers have actually found a clue to this extremely difficult problem.

What Tian He thought was perfect.

Since destiny cannot be explained, what if destiny is reincarnation?

Now that those ancient emperors have become gods, myths and stories have begun to spread among the people. Tian He wants to use the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor and the battle of Banquan to explain Tian's Daiqi, so some things can be explained clearly.

Virtue and fate are reincarnated, no dynasty can last forever, but it is in line with the destiny for one family to replace another.

For example, when the Yellow Emperor defeated Emperor Yan, for example, Shang Tang destroyed Xia, for example, after King Wu defeated Zhou, and for example, today's Tian clan replaces Qi.

The reason behind this, Tian He understands that it is just the effect of "force", and the life of force and life will eventually be defeated by force.

However, this principle cannot be propagated to the public like the Mohist school, and a ten-year "Liming" debate broke out with Yang Zhu, Lie Yukou and others in order to promote it.

The public cannot know, because once the family rule is known, it will be difficult to maintain it.

Therefore, Tian He felt that he needed to borrow the theory of "destiny reincarnation" to comprehensively advocate the legitimacy of his own replacement of Qi: his own replacement of Qi is the same as the Yellow Emperor's replacement of Yan Emperor. It is just a reincarnation, and China's future will never change It is possible to transcend this reincarnation, this is the fate of the world.

Now all of this, the people around him have sorted out the clues, and already have a set of theories that only need to be repaired in detail.

After solving the problem of legality, the remaining questions need to find answers from history.

What is history?

For Tian He, history is the enfeoffment of King Wu, the fusion of Qi State and Dongyi, and the strict observance of etiquette by Lu State, so Duke Zhou lamented that Lu State must become Qi State's subject in the future.

History is Qi Huan's hegemony, and Guan Zhong's various reforms borrowed the benefits of Qi's long-standing fish and salt, as well as various legends left behind and Guan Zhong's theory of governing the country.

Qi State has been a hegemon, has the background of a big country, and has enough experience to learn from. What Tian He needs is a complete theoretical system.

A complete system that supports its own coup d'etat to replace Qi is the reincarnation of Huang Yan's battle, and a complete system that supports Qi's prosperity and military strength.

This system must be based on the learning of the Yellow Emperor, because the Tian family pursued the Yellow Emperor as the great ancestor, and there are already many studies of the Yellow Emperor.
This system should integrate the Yellow Emperor's learning with the rich country and strong army in the history of Qi State, which can be justified and practical.

Rich countries and strong soldiers are divided into rich countries and strong soldiers.

The Mohists naturally have a book "Fuguo", which expounds the source and generation of wealth in the world. It sounds reasonable, but when you think about it carefully, it is actually a call to power for the peasants, businessmen and commerce.

Because according to the theory of the Mohist book "Fuguo", wealth comes from labor, so the existence of nobles who earn three hundred crops without farming or harvesting is very unreasonable.

As far as Tian He is concerned, the matter of enriching the country naturally wants to make the people rich at the macro level, but the key at the micro level is how to collect taxes, how to raise money, and how to enrich the treasury.

This issue was discussed in Qi Huan's time. Qi Huan asked Guan Zhong how to become rich, and Guan Zhong answered a very interesting sentence.

Therefore, renting a residence is what you want, and getting a proper registration is what you want.The dead king abolished what he deserved and suppressed what he wanted, so the subordinates complained and the superiors failed.The people are angry when they take it away, and they are happy when they are given it.People's sentiments, of course.The ancient kings knew this, so they saw what was given, but not the reason to take away.

In other words, normal taxation, such as the original tax, is the rule of the world and the common people accept it.Taxes are collected according to the rules, and the people are accustomed to taking it for granted.

However, abnormal special taxes, such as special war taxes such as Lu State's Qiujia tax, are opposed by the people and are forced.

Kings who have subjugated the country generally give up normal taxes and taxes, but impose more special taxes, which leads to public dissatisfaction. This is not actually what Guan Zhong said, but a set of theories developed by Tuo Zhong, an academic scholar in Qi State.

In the middle of the question, Guan Zhong believed that people, if you take away their things, they will be angry; if you give them something, they will be happy. This is a natural truth.

Therefore, when the former kings gave to the people with great fanfare, they had to pay attention to means and strategies when taking from the people, so that the people could not see it, and even voluntarily did it.

As the king of a country, if he wants to hold money, he has to find a way to turn taking into giving, so that the means can voluntarily hand over some of the wealth that the king needs, and feel that he has made a profit.

(End of this chapter)