No...

After listening to Li He's words, Tian Ying couldn't help feeling a little depressed.

Since the Battle of Sui County, the whole world has been making jokes about the army of the two major countries of Chu, which was so vulnerable. More than 100,000 and 200,000 people were defeated and fled in just one day by Pang Juan. But in fact, the battle was all because Gongsun Cang of the Wei Kingdom and his troops were dragged down. Otherwise, Tian and Jingshe would not have been defeated like that.

Nowadays, even a small country like Shaoliang is secretly laughing at him for the weakness of the Qin army.

A mere Shaoliang Xiaoguo...

Before this, Tian Ying always believed that Shaoliang was at most a small country that was slightly stronger than the twelve vassal states of Si. However, when he saw Li He’s banquet at Tian Ji and him, he felt something was wrong, because the dishes at this banquet were very rich, including poultry, fish and shrimp, sauce, fresh meat, and a whole stewed lamb. He cooked it slowly with a big cauldron, and the whole house could smell the milky fragrance.

It was also reminded by this stewed lamb that Tian Ji smiled and congratulated: "... Speaking of which, I forgot to congratulate Shaoliang on defeating the grassland and promoting the power of the summers in the Central Plains."

It has to be said that at this time, the incident of Li He defeating the grassland coalition in Shangjun had already spread throughout the Central Plains. On this matter, the Central Plains countries unanimously congratulated each other, including the Qin State, which had a little unhappy quarrel with Shaoliang due to the "Missy Three Jin Alliance".

However, the participants in the Battle of Shangjun were mainly Shaoliang and Wei coalition forces. Therefore, most countries in the world mistakenly believed that Wei was the main force, and only a few people knew that Shaoliang's army was the founder of that victory.

"Doctor Ziqi praised it." Li He smiled and replied: "In fact, Shangjun has not yet completely defeated the grassland. In the next few years, most of my Shaoliang's energy will probably still be built on the construction of Shangjun..."

Although his original intention was to tell the King of Qi through Tian Ji that I, Shaoliang, are not interested in the confrontation between you and Qi, I have to say that it is really difficult for him to connect Shaoliang with the small country with a tone of vowing to defeat the grassland completely.

After thirty years of drinking, Wang Yi came hurriedly and greeted Tian Ji and Tian Ying with a smile on his face.

Shaoliang has always been in Wei and Qin. Because Dongliang Jun is slightly biased towards Wei, Li He is slightly biased towards Qin. However, Wang Yi has a good impression of Qi because he has been on mission to Qi. He is one of the few officials in Shaoliang who prefer Qi.

Because of this, Tian Ji, after the banquet, privately begged Wang Yi to help: "...The eldest son must help this time."

Wang Yi nodded repeatedly and agreed: "Doctor Ziqi, don't worry, His Majesty the King of Qi was staying well in the past, and he would do his best to do his best... In fact, Doctor Ziqi actually doesn't need to worry. Since Ziliang has promised not to use all his strength, even if I, Shaoliang, will not be enemies of your country's army in the future..."

However, Tian Ji was still not satisfied and asked, "Can you dissuade Wei State? Or will you refuse Wei State's request to send troops?"

Wang Yi shook his head and said to the truth: "This may be difficult. Doctor Ziqi also knew that my Shaoliang had signed the Little Three Jin alliance with Wei State. The leader issued an order. I, Shaoliang, must comply with it, at least not disobey the Wei State."

"……All right."

Tian Ji thought for a moment and nodded slightly.

The next day, Wang Yi took Tian Ji and Tian Ying to Shaoliang City to pay homage to his father Dongliang Jun.

Although Dongliang Jun also had a good impression of Qi because of the loan of Qi, it is undeniable that in the old man's mind, the first one was Liang Ji, the second one was Shao Liang, and then the King of Wei and Wei. He would never turn to Qi because of a loan, even if Tian Ji had to talk hard.

Being able to convince Shaoliang to work but not work hard is the best result Tian Ji can achieve.

Seeing this, Tian Ji and Tian Ying stayed in Shaoliang City for a few days before preparing to return to Qi in the cold.

No wonder they braved the severe cold of the twelfth lunar month and rushed to return to Qi. After all, Wei was aggressive this time. It seemed that he would attack Wei, but actually challenge Qi's position in the east. In this case, Qi must give a strong response - since Wei demanded a war, even if Qi knew it was not capable of the enemy, he had to face the battle.

The beginning of next spring is when Qi leads the alliance army to fight, so Tian Ji and Tian Ying will return to Qi before this to make their troops ready for the war.

Just as the uncle and nephew hurriedly returned to Qi State, Shaoliang welcomed the New Year.

The fifth year of Shangtong was the first day of the first lunar month, Dongliang Jun officially issued a new order to completely ban the rationing system and change it to the salary system.

On the second day of the first lunar month, Li He, Sima Zhuo, Fan Hu, Miao Shan, Yin Qi and other officials from various towns informed the people in the town at the same time.

For a time, countless people from Shaoliang County cheered for it.

To be fair, the rationing system is not bad. In the most difficult years of Shaoliang, it was barely survived by the rationing system. But it is undeniable that as Shaoliang gradually became stronger, the people of Shaoliang gradually became unsatisfied with the rationing system. After all, the premise of the rationing system is that the country has mastered all the resources of the country, and the grain harvest of the fields belongs to the state. In order to overcome the national crisis, the people of the country can still tolerate it, but after a long period of time, some people will definitely be dissatisfied.

Fortunately, Shaoliang had already made preparations in advance. He tried to adopt the salary system last year and completely banned the ratio system this year, which also means that Shaoliang came out of that most difficult period.

Under the salary system, Shaoliang stipulates that the "twelve stones per year" is the minimum income standard for Chinese people. Whether it is a soldier, farmer, craftsman or other profession, as long as he is employed by the state, he enjoys a year's income of twelve stones of grain. Calculated by an adult man's average annual consumption of four stones of rice, the twelve stone standard is barely enough to support a family of four in his family with only one middle-aged man.

If there are two adult men in the family, their income will double.

By the way, in fact, even women can get jobs. For example, Wang Zheng, who also served as Siko and Sijia, responsible for the supervision of the armor of the Shaoliang army. Last year, he negotiated with the Mo Zhuan Bureau, and the Mozhe organized women from several cities including Dongliang, Laoliang, Shaoliang, Fanpang, etc., and organized them to sew armor for the army, with an annual salary of twelve stones.

In this way, even if it is a family of three or four with a couple, the income of at least twenty-four stones a year is enough to support a few children.

What's more, people employed by the state also enjoy additional subsidies and can get extra income every year according to their working years. Therefore, although the "base salary" is low, most people in the country are willing to be employed by the state and are assigned to work by institutions similar to trade unions organized by the state entrusted by the Mexicans. After all, this model does not require worrying about natural disasters and man-made disasters.

In addition, there are also some people who are particularly confident in themselves who are willing to make a living by themselves, such as contracting a piece of land and taking on the profits and losses alone.

Let’s talk about the ‘minimum annual salary’ of 12 stones that year. Although all professions such as soldiers, farmers, craftsmen, etc. are like this, in terms of room for improvement, the army is naturally the highest.

Under the standards and framework discussed by Li He and Dongliang Jun, you can get additional allowances from the position of the sergeant commander. The sergeant is five stones a year, ten stones a year, fifty stones a hundred people, one hundred stones a hundred stones a hundred stones a hundred stones a thousand people, four hundred stones a thousand people, and six hundred stones a thousand people. In addition to Zhai Zhang and Sima Cuo, the new army that has not yet been tested, whether it is the Dongliang Army, the Yuanli Army, or Yang Yu's five thousand people will be incorporated into the Dongliang Army this year, but now the reclamation and construction soldiers who are responsible for building the Liangding Straight Road can enjoy this treatment.

The only two exceptions are Shao Liang's surprise soldiers and the soldiers who have their positions ten times that of ordinary troops, with their positions as high as 100 generals, while the positions of 100 generals are more than 100 generals.

Because of this, when the new system was released, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Shaoliang celebrated it. After all, under the new law, the income of each household has increased several times compared with previous years. There is no need to live a life of rations distributed according to people's hair, especially those who are still able to work and have reached adulthood. The annual income is guaranteed to be about 50 stones, which is no less than the after-tax income of a hundred acres of land. The advantage is that there is no need to bear natural disasters and man-made disasters.

For this reason, Wang Yi, the second son of Dongliang Jun, who has served as the inner history, is under great pressure.

After all, with him and his subordinates, under the implementation of the new law, he and his subordinates have to pay three million stones of military and civilian salaries in a year under the implementation of the new law, except for the three counties, Heyang County and Pi County. According to the most optimistic estimate, Shaoliang would have to spend three million stones of military and civilian salaries in a year, which is a considerable burden for Shaoliang's current finances. Therefore, expanding domestic fields and organizing more people to farm have become the most urgent event for Shaoliang this year.

Wang Yi issued an order to the various towns in the name of Shaoliang's inner historian, ordering the old Liang, Zhiyang, Heyang, and Pi's towns to expand the land this year. The Zhangben camp of Dongliangjun was also sent to the Yuanli to reclaim the land in the local area.

There is no way, after all, Shaoliang cannot transfer the fiscal deficit by plundering other countries, so he can only expand the scale of arable land and organize more people to farm.

Fortunately, the Qin State was also carrying out the second reform. Compared with Shaoliang's gentle reform, Wei Yang forcibly promoted the new law with torture, causing a large number of Qin people to flee to Shaoliang in panic, especially the small clans with a large number of more than a dozen or dozens of people who lost the most in this reform, fled to Heyang County, Shaoliang with wealth, on the condition of giving out their property, hoping to get a piece of land to settle in Shaoliang.

Yin Qi, a doctor from Heyangyi, told them that all the land in Shaoliang belongs to state-owned, but contracting is allowed, as long as a sum of grain is paid to the city in the area every year.

In view of Heyang and the large amount of unreclaimed wasteland around Yuanli, Yin Qi asked Shaoliang to use the lower "land rent" to attract the fleeing Qin people. This was a huge profit of a wave of population while taking advantage of the turbulent period of Qin's secondary reforms. In just a few months, a new population of 20,000 to 30,000 people were added, which led to a big step towards 500,000.

Although Wei Yang was a little unhappy, he could not blame Shaoliang. After all, the Qin people took the initiative to escape Shaoliang.

Therefore, under the default of Qin State, more and more Qin people fled to Shaoliang, including many small and medium-sized clans in the local area.

At this time, in Wei State, except for Puyang, the entire territory of Wei State had been occupied by Wei and Zhao states, and even Song State had taken advantage of the situation and occupied a city of Wei State. At present, Pang Juan was also stationed in the Wei State's borders, and confronted the two armies of Tian and Lu on the other side of the national border. As long as there were soldiers from either side crossing this national border, I believe that Wei and Qi states would fight undeclaredly.

Just as the atmosphere of war became increasingly strong, Qi State secretly contacted Chu, Song State and the twelve vassal states on Si, intending to severely slash the arrogance of Wei State.
Chapter completed!