After Wu Qi got to know the Huai Kingdom, he began to assist Wang Pu in governing the country according to the development of the Huai Kingdom. 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, and at the same time rewarded farming and fighting, and prohibited Ding people from being idle and not doing farming.
Those who produce a lot of grain and cloth can be exempted from labor and taxes, and are granted agricultural officers to guide others in farming, and are notified of rewards every year.
Encourage commerce, abolish tax cards set up in various places, and replace them with unified collection by the state. All goods must be traded in designated markets. If traded elsewhere, violators will be severely fined.
In the past, local governments would set up tax cards at various passes and water and land routes to collect taxes. This method of taxation could easily lead to corruption, and it would also lead to multiple tax collections. This was not good for 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 selling goods at designated places not only facilitates transactions, but also facilitates the country's tax collection.
Of course, this method is not foolproof. But after all, it is more advanced than before. At the same time, reducing the checkpoints will also promote the prosperity of business, thus bringing higher taxes to Huai State.
At the same time, farming was rewarded, a twenty-level knighthood system was promulgated based on military merit, and war was encouraged. At the same time, in order to curb land annexation, additional taxes were levied on those who owned more than 1,000 acres of land.
The county system was implemented in Huai State, with counties as local administrative units, and counties, townships, towns, and villages were established under the counties. Standardize the local administrative system of the former Huai State.
At the same time, after the county and township system was implemented, local recruitment was also carried out in accordance with this to improve the mobilization ability of Huai State.
Just as the Huai Kingdom was undergoing further reforms, waves appeared again in the Central Plains.
After South Korea and Zhao learned about Wu Qi's escape, the pressure on the two countries suddenly eased a lot, and they no longer felt the same fear as before.
Without Wu Qi's deterrence, Zhao State has also become stronger and stronger after more than ten years of reforms, and once again wants to intervene in the affairs of the Central Plains.
On the other side, the Marquis of Wei was dissatisfied with the delay in sending troops to Zhao last time and wanted to cause trouble for Zhao.
The State of Zhao wanted to go south to the Central Plains, and took advantage of the entanglement between the State of Wei and the State of Qin to send troops to attack the guards and defeat seven cities in a row. Originally, there was only a hundred miles of territory left in the Wei Kingdom. Seven cities were captured by the Zhao Kingdom. Almost all that was left in the Wei Kingdom was the capital and the cities close to the capital.
The Marquis of Wei asked the State of Wei for help.
When the Marquis of Wei learned that Zhao was attacking, he was furious and immediately led a large army to fight against Zhao. Although Wu Qi was gone from Wei, the soldiers of Wei were still there, and the Marquis of Wei was equally capable of commanding battles. The war between Zhao and Wei was huge. defeat.
In order to punish Zhao for delaying the march last time and with the intention of developing into the Central Plains, the Marquis of Wei found South Korea to join forces. Wei and South Korea jointly attacked Zhao. Not only did the land captured by Zhao from Wei be recovered by Wei, Even the Wei-Korean coalition crossed the Yellow River to attack Zhongmou, the old capital of Zhao.
Seeing this situation, Marquis Zhao quickly sent envoys to Qi and Chu for help. Because Qi State was defeated by Huai State and then drove away Yan State, its national power was greatly damaged, so it did not send many troops.
The King of Chu was overjoyed immediately after receiving Zhao's request for help. You must know that Wei State snatched a large amount of land from Chu State before. Now that Wei is attacking Zhao, the alliance of the three Jins has broken down, and they immediately agreed to send troops to 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. If we intervene too early, Zhao will suffer little loss. However, Wei's army is at its peak. If we rescue Zhao by then, our army will also suffer heavy losses."
"I once saw a snipe and a clam fighting by the river, but in the end a fisherman got all the snipe and clam. At this time, Wei and Zhao were fighting, just like the snipe and clam. I, the Chu State, can be a fisherman."
"After the fierce battle between Wei and Zhao, our army can dispatch a large army to the north to rescue Zhao, and at the same time seize the land occupied by Wei."
The King of Chu immediately agreed to Jing Mu's suggestion, and soon the army was ready to go out, but the troops remained stationary. It was not until Zhao State could no longer hold on that it sent troops to attack Wei State.
Jingmu personally led an army to attack Wei. Because Wei had a large army to attack Zhao, it did not expect Chu's attack. Therefore, it was caught off guard and suffered successive defeats. Several cities were taken away by Chu. The army that originally suppressed Zhao was also affected.
After learning that Chu had sent troops, the morale of the State of Zhao increased greatly. The army of the State of Zhao, which had been retreating continuously, regrouped and resisted the State of Wei.
After the Marquis of Wei learned that Qi State and Chu State had sent troops to rescue, he was worried that Wei State would suffer losses and wanted to lead a large army to rescue. However, Zhao State took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. Wei State suffered successive defeats under the attack of Chu State and Zhao State.
Chu State even reached the edge of the Yellow River.
Fortunately, the Marquis of Wei was not a mediocre person. After the initial panic, he quickly stabilized his position and commanded the soldiers of Wei to fight against the three kingdoms of 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, Wei State was stronger, and Wei's soldiers were still strong. After a confrontation for a period of time, they began to attack again and drove back the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.
Even though the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms retreated, they still occupied some lands of Wei.
A great battle between Wei and Zhao completely broke the alliance between the three Jin states. Zhao and Wei fell out.
After the alliance of the Three Jins was destroyed, Chu, Qi, and Qin all breathed a sigh of relief. It is true that after the three Jins united, the coalition forces were too powerful.
Neither Chu nor Qi were sure of dealing with the three Jin alliance.
After Wei Guo saw that Zhao Guo had completely turned against him, Wei Hou didn't care much and immediately used the secret hand left by Wen Hou. Support Zhao Guogongzi Sheng's fight for the position of Zhaohou.
Originally, after his predecessor Zhao Hou died of illness, he did not pass the throne to his son, but passed it to his brother's son as agreed, which made Zhao Sheng very dissatisfied.
After Zhao Hou ascended the throne, he wanted to raise troops, but was stopped by Wei Hou. Now that Zhao and Wei were fighting each other, and they were fighting each other, Wei Hou immediately no longer had any scruples and directly sent troops to help Zhao Sheng.
Because the State of Zhao moved its capital to Handan and carried out reforms, the interests of many nobles in the State of Zhao were harmed. Therefore, after Zhao Sheng launched a rebellion, many nobles of the State of Zhao immediately supported him. Coupled with the support of the Marquis of Wei, Zhao Sheng's strength Rapid improvement.
When the Marquis of Zhao learned about Zhao Sheng's rebellion, he was furious and immediately ordered the army to quell the rebellion.
The two armies fought in Handan. As a result, after Zhao Hou's reform, the army was stronger. Zhao Sheng was no match. He was defeated and had to flee to Wei overnight.
(End of chapter)
