By building plank roads, opening up roads, and using work-for-relief methods, the Huai State not only repaired the roads in Hanzhong, but also provided relief to the people in Hanzhong. It also allowed the Huai State to take the opportunity to win over the people of Hanzhong.
At the same time, the construction of plank roads also allowed Huai State to firmly control Jiangdu and Hanzhong.
Jiangzhou City is the bridgehead for attacking Bashu, while Hanzhong is the bridgehead for attacking Qin's Wei River Plain. With these two important places in hand, it is much easier for Huai State to attack Qin.
Qin State, Xianyang.
After Qin sent protons to sue for peace with Zhao and defeated Han and Wei, it finally began to deal with Yiqu. Yiqu State made a sneak attack on Qin State and obtained a large amount of loot. Relying on mobility and flexibility, Qin was helpless against it.
However, after the Qin State concentrated its superior forces, cooperated with the cities, and pressed forward step by step against the Yiqu State, the Yiqu State's army's activity area in the Qin State became smaller and smaller.
Seeing this situation, King Yiqu finally did not dare to stay any longer. The army took advantage of the fact that the Qin army had not completed the encirclement, forcibly broke through one of the defense lines and fled from the Qin State. However, this forced breakout also caused the Yiqu Army to suffer heavy losses. Small.
With the escape of Yiqu State, the war in Qin State finally ended.
This time the Qin State launched a war to attack Western Chu, but only captured the land of Brazil, and ceded Shangjun itself. At the same time, it was besieged by the five countries, which can be said to have suffered heavy losses.
However, the Huai State, who had agreed with him to attack Western Chu together, took the whole land of Hanzhong and Jiangzhou, and all the treasures accumulated by the Western Chu State over the past century fell into the hands of the Huai State. Qin The country is very dissatisfied.
Just when Qin was wondering if it could get some benefits from Huai, the envoy from Huai came to Xianyang.
In Xianyang Palace, King Qin Si was summoning the envoys from Huai State.
"What's the purpose of your visit?" King Qin asked directly.
The envoy from Huai State bowed to him, and then said: "Since the King of Qin signed an alliance with Huai State, why did he go back on his word and lure Qi State to attack Huai State?"
King Si of Qin's face changed slightly, and then he laughed dryly and said: "Your envoy, the Qin State has absolutely no intention of tempting Qi State to attack Huaihe. Where did your envoy hear this? This is definitely a rumor, and it is to damage the relationship between Qin and Huaiguo! "
"If you dare to damage the friendly relations between Qin and Huai, I suggest that this person be killed directly!"
"King Qin, our great king sent his son Ji to attack Qi and greatly defeated the Qi army. All the officials of Qi said that it was Qin who tempted Qi to attack Huai. Is this also a rumor?" The envoy from Huai sneered.
Other ministers in the main hall spoke one after another: "Qi people are cunning, this must be Qi people's trick."
"Really? King Qin, what can you do with all your calculations?" The envoy from Huai State mocked: "Shangjun exchanged for Brazil, it can be considered a profit."
"Does the King of Qin recognize this covenant?" the Huai envoy took out a piece of brocade and silk and asked.
Seeing the brocade silk, everyone's claws suddenly became numb. He even got the covenant, how could he deny it? Thinking of this, King Qin couldn't help but glare at Zhang Yi.
"Your Majesty, there is some misunderstanding here. This covenant is made by the people below. I don't know!"
King Qin opened his eyes and told lies, completely denying it.
Regarding this situation, the Huai State envoy had already expected it, and immediately said: "Sure enough, they are Rong Di's people. They don't care about credibility. What happened to the Qin State today will be remembered by the Huai State."
After saying that, he bowed his hands and left directly.
The King of Qin was furious when he saw the Huai envoy being so rude, but there was nothing he could do.
When the envoy from Huai State returned to Jinling, Wang Xu learned that Qin State had tolerated Huai State's humiliation and ridicule. This made Wang Xu's plan to anger the King of Qin and make him angry and raise troops failed.
However, Wang Xu was not disappointed. Originally, this matter was just a casual move. It would be best if it succeeded. If it failed, nothing would be lost.
Since Qin was not angry and raised troops, Wang Xu asked the soldiers to continue to be on guard. The Qin State occupied a dangerous pass and it was difficult to attack. Wang Xu wanted to lure the Qin State out, and after defeating it, he took advantage of the situation and invaded it.
After the negotiation with Yan State was completed, Prince Ji began to lead the army to conquer the remaining cities of Qi State. These cities in Qi State mobilized elite troops to attack Huaihe River. There are not many soldiers in the remaining cities.
Huai State besieged these cities to prevent them from uniting, and then began to conquer them one by one.
Huai State surrounded more than 30 cities this time, and Gongzi Ji was not in a hurry to attack. Although Huai State's siege equipment was powerful, the losses would not be small if so many cities were captured consecutively.
After besieging them, Gongzi Ji adopted a strategy of attacking people's hearts and minds. He informed these people of the fall of Qi and the death of King Qi, and used various methods to undermine their morale and so on. In the end, it took three years to conquer all these thirty cities.
All the southern cities of Qi were captured.
Next, the Huai State implemented reforms in these newly occupied areas. Since the Qi King came to the throne, the Qi State has increased taxes several times in a row. Moreover, because Qi State did not abolish the system of ministers and nobles, many ministers and nobles in Qi State occupied large amounts of land.
The life of ordinary people was difficult. After Huai State conquered these cities, it directly confiscated all the fiefs and fields of the nobles and nobles, and then reorganized the people in the city into households. Then the land is distributed to the people for farming according to the population.
At the same time, Huai State also abolished a large number of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and implemented Huai State's new tax law.
The system of registering households to equalize the people was implemented very early in the Huai State. The household registration system provides great convenience for the management of the country. Through statistics of name, age, identity, appearance, place of origin, land wealth, etc., the Huai State can know the population of the country.
It is very helpful for catching spies and prisoners. At the same time, the biggest role of household registration is to help the country collect taxes.
In order to limit the emergence of large households, the Huai State forcibly divided households with more than five adults. At the same time, in order to restrain large households from annexing land, the Huai State collected taxes based on household registration and land holdings.
When the farmland of each household does not exceed 200 acres, the tax is 20%. If it exceeds 200 acres and less than 500 acres, the tax is 25%. If the land exceeds 500 acres and is less than 1,000 acres, the tax is 30%. If the land exceeds 1,000 acres, the tax is 40%. , 50% for more than 2,000 acres.
This tax system was used to force the common people and the powerful to separate their families. Although some large and powerful households evade taxes through the operation of false household division, this kind of tax evasion can only exist for a while. After all, people are greedy, and it will not take long for the false household division to become real household division.
The Huai State also implemented household registration for the Baiyue and barbarians in the south, but the operations were somewhat different. The household registration system also made it much easier for the Huai State to recruit soldiers and perform labor.
(End of chapter)
