Chapter 309
Sword Fighting Conference, including food and accommodation, come and participate quickly.
It takes a lot of time to prepare for a meeting in this era, after all, it takes a long time to go by. And the swordsmen and swordsman who can become famous in this era of backward information dissemination have some tricks.
Although the technology is backward, rumors about swordsmen's magicality have never disappeared. The times are progressing, society is inclined, the old profession cannot accommodate so many people, and a new profession is being born.
In the past, no matter how many children a person gave birth, they had enough land. But now the land is not enough. Whether it is aristocrat, scholar, Chinese or savage, they all need to find a new way out.
The short-lived Han Feizi raised this question: Couples will have children, and children will have children. It only takes a few decades for a couple to become a big family with a population of 20 or 30 people. So will the management costs of society and land resources be enough?
Han Feizi believed that it was useless to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality. The objective condition was that the more people there were, the less land there were. In the era of Yao, Shun and Yu, there were fewer people and more land, so everyone was polite, but by the end of the Warring States Period, where he was in, there were more people and less land, so everyone could not be polite.
Han Feizi believed that Confucianism wanted to imitate Yao, Shun and Yu, but it was useless to ignore objective conditions. Unfortunately, he did not propose a solution to the contradiction between population and land, but only proposed how to rule many populations. That is the usage. If there are few people and more land, you can talk about benevolence and righteousness. If there are many people and few land, you must look at the scholars.
Before Han Feizi came up with more ideas, he was killed by Qin Shihuang because of Li Si's frame-up.
In fact, there were many people and few lands, but it was not found in the Warring States Period. It was found in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, productivity was still developing. In the process of the development of bronzes and irons, deep cultivation of fine seeds was promoted, and the land yield was still increasing, so the population became more. Han Feizi only found that the population was increasing, but did not find that productivity was also changing, there was no increase in productivity, nor did the population in the Warring States Period.
After more than three hundred years of development from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Spring and Autumn Period, the population has increased and the output has increased. There have been more scholars who have finished their profession, so there have been more swordsmen.
Swordsmen are usually scholars. Because the land is already cultivated by someone, they can only leave the land and wander around, either rely on others or sell some strength when they do odd jobs. They can call themselves swordsmen even if they have a sword in their hand.
With more idle people, fighting is inevitable. Those with weapons are naturally more powerful than those without weapons. If those with weapons continue to fight, the winner will naturally become famous and become famous swordsmen.
After a swordsman becomes famous, he can acquire disciples and make money. He no longer has to rely on others or do odd jobs. So everyone knows the benefits of fame. Since fame is so useful, it is naturally not an exaggeration to say that the fame of the sword saint is the leader of the swordsman of the princes and countries.
With the title of Sword Saint, you will no longer be afraid of being hungry, let alone the king of Qi will reward treasures. The swordsmen are ready to embark on the journey of fame and fortune.
Half a year later, the news reached Qin State, and a gust of wind blew from east to west. Qin State swordsmen prepared food and set off, and it would take at least half a year to arrive in Qi State.
So it took a whole year to wait from the decision to the holding of the Sword Fighting Conference.
Linzi is full of foreigners with various accents, but the similarity is that they all carry their own weapons and are all swordsmen.
In order to manage these swordsmen who arrived first, Guan Zhong stipulated that private fights were not allowed, and private fights would lose the qualification to participate in the sword fighting conference. This order was still very effective.
But some reckless guys would take the initiative to raise trouble, so a swordsman security brigade organized by Guan Zhong made a brilliant debut, specifically to suppress swordsmen who caused trouble.
Actually, Yun Yao didn’t understand a little, that is, why did Guan Zhong have a political purpose to do such a big battle? Is it to promote the strength of Qi, or to reassure his friends?
Even if you want to deal with Jiuyi, it seems that you can't use the level of gathering swordsmen from all over the world. It seems like an idea suddenly popped up in Guan Zhong's mind and asked him to do this.
In fact, when I think back, Guan Zhong himself felt that he had made things worse. At that time, he had a flash of inspiration and didn't think too much about it. Although the sword fighting conference has many benefits, it is really a test of his strength to do it well.
But since the bow has been drawn, there is no turning back, and we can only hold the sword fighting conference well and exciting.
Qi has this national strength, and with the arrival of swordsmen, sword-making masters from various countries have also come. If they are willing to stay in Qi, they can greatly strengthen the military strength of Qi.
The sword-casting master is the weapon designer of this era. The more sword-casting masters, the more weapons the Qi Kingdom produces, the more advanced it will be.
So when the sword-casting master comes, Guan Zhong tries every means to hope that they will stay.
For a time, the kings of various countries said that Qi was bullying too much, and this was simply openly poaching. There was no such thing. Is it great if there was too much money? Qi was originally just a small country in the East, living with the Jiuyi people. How many pure blood people in Qi are there? Are they all bastards? Now, when you have money, you start poaching? Is it tolerable? Is it unbearable?
But it seems that there is no way to be able to bear it. Qi’s current strength really cannot be offended. Who can beat Qi?
Originally, the Chu State in the south was very large and could barely get along with Qi State. However, since Chu State bought the deer, Chu State has withered and did not dare to look north at Qi State. It could only restrain its ambitions and continue to advance south.
The act of Qi State poaching sword-casting masters is indeed annoying, but the countries can only strongly condemn them.
As for the countries that the Qi people’s bloodlines are not pure, Qi is too lazy to fight back. Whose country’s bloodlines are pure? Even the Zhou Kingdom is not integrated with the Western Rong in the west? There is no country in the four directions of southeast, west and north.
"The founding king of Qi, Taigong, took the national policy of 'being simple and etiquette', and stabilized the East after half a year of voting, and even Zhou Gongdan praised it. Moreover, our Qi Kingdom is indeed as predicted by Zhou Gongdan, and it is indeed the best country in the East as Zhou Gongdan predicted. How could they get nonsense? "Xiaobai was a little angry, but he said that the blame was not his, but started with Jiang Taigong.
"For three hundred years, the Jiuyi was invincible and rebelled. Our Qi State did not forget the Taigong national policy, and we could not let them gain a slight advantage. Taking advantage of this sword fighting conference, we must accept sword-making masters from all over the world, so that we can be powerful in military affairs and will definitely resolve the Jiuyi Rebellion in one fell swoop, so that they will no longer dare to disobey Qi State." Bao Shuya said.
Xiaobai likes to hear this, and he nodded and said, "I didn't expect that the sword fighting conference would have such benefits. I will pass on my will. I want to build a sword forging hall so that all sword-making masters in the world can see the sincerity of our Qi State."
Guan Zhong said: "We must protect the safety of the sword-casting master to prevent any person with ill-hearted intentions from being unfavorable to the sword-casting master."
Xiaobai immediately agreed: "Yes, there should be more protection outside the Sword Forging Hall, and the sword forging masters must not be in danger. There will definitely be jealous people who can't stand our Qi recruiting talents. If they cannot defeat Qi, they will definitely take a wrong path. We must be careful. Zhongfu will consider it carefully."
Chapter completed!