Chapter 2 Qi Gong launched a commercial war to attract the nation Lu Zhuang Gong, who was repeatedly attacked and eventually served Qi

There are two relatively large countries in the east of the country of Qi, one of which is the border country and the other is the border country. due to geographical reasons such as the peninsula, there are few exchanges with countries in the Central Plains, therefore, we rarely see records of these two countries in historical materials. In fact, although they are not top-notch, they are not weak in strength, its own strength is not inferior to those of the central plains powers Zheng and Wei.
Qi zhenggong's dream of hegemony is to put all the countries in the Qi's camp. Therefore, he is also considering how to bring the two countries together to the Qi's camp, however, the accounts of Qi are not the same in the two countries, especially the LAI state. During the jiangtaigong period, Qi people once competed for camp Qiu (that is, the later country ), later, the two sides began to confront each other and no one else could eat them. The country is a country that has a lot to do with Qi Gong. When Qi Gong was in the middle of the country, he took refuge in the country. The country even sent troops to guard Qi Gong back to China, so Qi has always been fond of the country. Some historical literature files mentioned that Qi Gong had a love affair with Princess Zang Guo, but it lacked the historical basis. However, Qi Gong has always been a good friend of his country because of his original support, however, just like the country, the country is a feature of the Eastern countries and does not want to surrender to a certain country. They even ignore the Zhou royal family, naturally, he is not willing to surrender to a vassal state at the same level as himself. Therefore, these two countries have a headache for Qi Gong. He wants to be the overlord, it is necessary to deploy a large number of troops in the western and southern parts of the land to deal with the possible rebellion of various large countries. Therefore, it is impossible to mobilize a large number of troops to carry out military operations on the two countries, namely, the United Arab Emirates and the border, he then asked Guan zhong's opinion to see if he could conquer the two countries without dispatching troops.
Qi zhenggong said to Guan Zhong, "the two countries have farmland and rich grass (a cash crop used for dyes). What should they do if they have a strong national strength ?" Guan Zhong has been opposed to solving the problem by force for a long time. This time, he suggested a commercial war with Qi Gong. He said, "The two countries are rich in grass, while China is rich in copper, the Lord, you can send people to make a lot of copper, cast it into a currency, and then buy the grass of both countries at a high price." Guan Zhong did not finish his speech, but Qi zhenggong had understood his idea. He also thought that the solution was good and ordered the implementation.
The people of the two countries are very happy to hear that Qi has purchased the grass at a high price. The country's King said, "copper coins are precious, while the grass is a specialty of China, we can generate a large number of copper coins to earn the copper coins of Qi, so that we can eventually merge Qi." As a result, the people of the laiguo and zhuguo gave up agricultural production and made full efforts to produce the grass. When Qi saw this situation, he ordered all the copper miners to stop smelting and farming, by the second year of the purple grass harvest, Qi zhenggong made a special order to prohibit the import of the purple grass from the two countries. Now, the two countries are miserable, grass cannot be sold for income, because people are rushing to plant grass, and no one is planting food, leading to abnormal shortage of food supply, with a grain price of up to three hundred and seventy RMB per minute, with a large amount of encouragement to food production, the country's food cost is only 10 yuan per minute. As a result, the people of the two countries depend on the country, and the countries of the two countries are greatly damaged, there is no capital to compete with Qi Guo, and it has to be served by Qi Guo (see "• ").
In the era of more than two thousand six hundred years ago, it was unimaginable that Qi had used economic leverage to deal with tasks between countries, the adoption of such economic measures seems to be deviated from the mainstream in China's history, but it does indeed promote the development of the nation and achieve political and military purposes through economic measures, qi zhenggong and Guan Zhong may not be the first, but they are at least pioneers.
The Soviet Union fell to the Qi camp, leading to the bankruptcy of the plan of the U. S. United Nations. The U. S. became more isolated, but Qi, who had tasted the sweetness in the business war, did not stop, qi zhenggong has always wanted to completely conquer Lu because Lu is a great power and his sister Wen Jiang is the mother of Lu, so he cannot take large-scale military operations, qi zhenggong realized that it was the best way to fight against opponents through the economic war through the battle of the grass between the two countries, and the Qi did not need to take a single soldier, they can greatly lose their national strength and expand their own national strength. This is exactly what Qi zhenggong dreamed of. Therefore, after dealing with the two countries, qi zhenggong switched his target to the US (Lu) and the US (Lu)'s ally, Liang Guo. A business war aimed at cracking down the economy of the two countries also opened the curtain.
At that time, the people of ruliang and other countries were good at weaving a kind of silk fabric called Silk. Qi Gong took the lead in wearing clothes woven from this kind of high-grade silk fabric, and ordered the ministers of the Chinese government and the Left and Right attendants to wear such clothes. The Chinese people in Qi soon began to wear this fabric. Qi's demand for growth soared and prices soared, at this time, Guan Zhong, in charge of the Chinese economy, ordered that the native countries that are good at textiles not be allowed to produce silk fabrics such as silk fabrics, but to organize imports from the two countries. In order to convince ruliang and his country that Qi zhenggong love this kind of silk, Qi zhenggong also takes a vacation in the Taishan area at the border between Qi and ruliang, by taking the opportunity to show the two countries how he liked this kind of silk fabric, Guan zhongalso specifically said to the merchants of the two countries in ruliang, "I will give you three hundred jin of copper If you weave ten slaves, if you weave three hundred yuan of copper, I will give you three thousand jin of copper, so that even if your two countries do not levy taxes like the people, it will be enough." People in ruliang do not know what it is about. When they see profit, they have abandoned agricultural production and switched to textile production. The Guojun of the two countries also specifically encouraged the people of the two countries to weave the border below, because the people do not engage in agricultural production, agricultural affairs are deserted, food prices soar, and hunger fall into the power of the people. At this time, Qi sees that agriculture in both countries is in trouble, so they ordered the closure of import channels with the two countries and banned imports from the two countries. This led to a major economic disaster in the two countries, and the flood of victims poured into the country with ample food supply, this has injected fresh blood into the country which lacks the labor force. The field in the country has been developed in large quantities to promote the development of the agricultural economy, while the field in the two countries is deserted due to the outflow of labor, the country's national strength rapidly declined, especially in the early spring and autumn periods. After this attack, the country that joined qi can no longer compete with Qi, qi's business war once again achieved good results (see • ).
We have analyzed the two commercial battles of Qi Guo. On the one hand, we can conclude that Qi Gong and Guan Zhong are two masters of high IQ, and on the other hand, we can see the importance of agriculture to an ancient regime, although Qi is a businessman, this does not mean that they do not pay attention to agriculture. In fact, Qi zhengzheng is using his own agricultural development to combat agriculture in other countries, attracting the labor forces of other countries to the Qi country and rapidly expanding the Qi country's strength. In the era of man-sea and tactical cold weapons, the two heaviest material conditions of population and food were met, it is difficult for a country to be weak.
Although Lu Zhuanggong is a aggressive man, his diplomatic isolation, national strength weakening, and the threat of a strong military make him no longer brave enough to compete with Qi, under the mediation of her mother Wen Jiang, she began to fall to Qi. In the autumn of June 14th, Qi Gong died. Both Qi Gong and Lu Zhuang Gong lost their loved ones, and Lu Zhuang Gong, who lost his mother's support, lost his backbone, since then, alignment has never been able to make the same nation a little trouble. On October 18, July 672 BC, Zhao zhenggong sent shangqing Gao's ambassador to luguo to the anti-land (now northwest of Shandong Fei county) Union in luguo. This winter, Lu Zhuanggong ignored his face as a king of a country, in person, I ran to Qi Guo, and asked Qi to marry Qi xianggong's daughter to mourn Jiang. Li said that Lu Zhuanggong's mother, Wen Jiang, had been dead for less than two years. He should not marry him, but be the king of a country, to marry his wife, he only needs to send the Minister to the coin. It is obvious that he is rude to do so. However, considering the circumstances at the time when Lu Zhuanggong was still understandable, his mother died, without a person who has provided mediation between Qilu, there will be no affinity between the two countries, and the economy of the country and its allies will suffer a severe decline in the commercial war of the Soviet Union, lu has no capital to confront QI. Lu Zhuanggong wants to please Qi in this form to bridge the differences between the two countries and to fix it with Qi through political marriage, eliminate the imminent pressure and threat from Qi to Lu.
In general, Lu Zhuanggong's history is regarded as a successful monarch. As a aggressive person, he has always refused to bow his head. However, when he understands that he no longer has the capital to compete with Qi, his spirit will collapse, and he will not have the fighting spirit, or even care about his dignity. While Wen Jiang was still in existence, he still relied on it. Wen Jiang was always Qi's sister, and Qi's father hated him again, and he would not take him as a nephew, therefore, he dared to engage in a small confrontation with Qi on the premise that his national strength was inferior to that of Qi. When Jiang died, Lu Zhuanggong lost his final reliance, immediately completely reversed to this side of Qi. Therefore, we can see from the history book that Lu Zhuanggong had already arrived in Qi Guo in winter, and he had stayed until the next year (671 BC) and went back to Lu Guo only after he married Jiang in the spring, in the summer, Qi Gong held a grand sacrifice of Social God and a military parade. In order to consolidate the shock to Lu, Qi Gong invited Lu Zhuang to participate, regardless of the opposition of the Chinese Minister, Lu Zhuanggong rushed to the Qi State in the dust of the son of heaven and waited for him to return from the Qi State, and Qi zhenggong asked him to meet him at the land of Qi State Valley, in the winter, Qi zhenggong again asked him to join the alliance in Zheng Guo's region. During these meetings, Lu Zhuanggong did not actively participate, it's not like sending representatives or not attending any of these meetings, we can find out that the person Qi zhenggong may not be able to completely escape from his own disrespect before Lu Zhuanggong, and go back and forth to fight Lu Zhuanggong, he finally gained psychological relief and no longer worried about Lu Guo. For lu Zhuanggong, we can see that, the times when the country was once a powerful one that could confront the country, the country was gone forever. From then on, the country began to embark on a downward sinking Road.
Lu Zhuanggong, on the one hand, is tired of coping with the Alliance of Qi Gong, on the other hand, he is addicted to the sorrow of the young wife, he loves this young wife very much, however, as with other women in the history of Qi, Ji Jiang has a very special personality, because she is not satisfied with Lu Zhuanggong's mother Meng Ren, so when Lu Zhuanggong came to Qi to marry her, she refused to return home with Lu Zhuanggong, but Lu Zhuanggong had no way, so she had to go back to China first. A few months later, she came with sorrow. Lu Zhuanggong, on the one hand, used her to favor Qi Guo. On the other hand, he really liked this young lady. So he ordered Lu Guo's doctor and his surname zongfu to treat her with coins as a gift, in addition, this violates the etiquette at that time (gifts for men and women are different), and should not be scolded as indecent by the later historian.
In any case, we can set a tone for Lu Guo here. After several battles with Qi Guo, And the surrender that we are not convinced, this great power in the ancient Shandong Province abandoned its confrontation with the Qi after 24 years in luzhuanggong, joined the Qi camp, and became another great power completely conquered by Qi Gong.
After conquering countries like luguo through two large business battles, Qi Gong no longer has to worry about the threats to the south and south-east, so I began to take some actions to conquer other neighboring countries that have not yet completely surrendered to QI. This time, I switched to Zheng and Chen. As mentioned above, Zheng is not convinced by the hegemony of Qi. In 669 BC, Qi invaded Cai, which caused oppression on Zheng, zheng chose an alliance with the Southern Power of Chu to deal with Qi. Qi zhenggong certainly cannot tolerate the violation of the Covenant by Zheng and decides to take action, qi zhenggong then sent a final dish to Zheng Guo, asking Zheng to make a thorough choice between the two great powers in Qi and Chu. Zheng Guojun is a wise man, after carefully analyzing the strength of the two countries, Zheng switched to Qi and joined the Qi camp again.
Regarding CHEN Guo, Chen xuangong was related to a civil chaos. In July 14, Qi Gong (672 BC), Chen xuangong planned to set up a sister-in-law's son as the prince, so he killed the Prince Yu, A friend of Yu yukou, Chen Duan (also known as Chen Quan), worried that he was killed. So he ran to QI for refuge. Qi zhenggong knew that Chen was a sage and planned to worship him as Qing, chen finally gave up his words, so Qi Gong appointed him as Qi Gong Zheng, who is in charge of handicrafts. In ancient times, Chen communicated with Tian, So Chen was also called Tian. Later, Chen's descendants started to develop in Qi Guo and became a great family. At the beginning of the Warring States Period, Chen finally replaced Jiang and became the King of Qi, this is the historical "Tian's generation Qi. If qi was able to predict that Chen's loss would replace Jiang's regime several hundred years later, I'm afraid he will not take him in, but who can predict the history, qi zhenggong, the man of the Communist Party of China, once made a few regrets by Jiang's descendants. This is one of them.
Qi zhenggong once asked all countries to sign the "no easy Tree" Covenant at the meeting in kuiqiu, that is, to maintain the dignity of the clan and not to change the established prince, now Chen xuangong killed the prince. Qi zhenggong, the Overlord, felt it necessary to ask questions. So he put pressure on Chen xuangong. Chen xuangong knew that he was willing to identify the mistake according to Qi's meaning.
Qi zhenggong, who is full of ambition, began to experience the majesty of the overlord of God at this time. So in the summer of 667 BC (QI zhenggong for the 19th year, convenes Lu, song, Zheng, and Chen Guojun to join the alliance in the quiet land. Zhou Huiwang, the emperor of the Zhou royal family, saw Qi zhenggong do some practical work in restoring Zhou Li, which is not the overlord who never put Zhou tianzi in his eyes, therefore, the monk of the Zhou royal family called berliao "Yi qihou" and officially admitted that Qi zhenggong was the overlord of the princes, and asked Qi zhenggong to fight for the defender who helped the prince.
Wei Guo originally followed Qi Guo. Qi zhenggong's mother was the princess of Wei Guo, and Wei huigong was the son of Qi zhenggong's sister Xuan Jiang, that is, Qi zhenggong's nephew, he was reset only with the support of Qi zhenggong. Therefore, Wei huigong participated in the Association of Qi Gong for many times, and sent troops to participate in the operations of Qi Zhengguo, however, after Wei huigong's death, Wei weigong, the successor, never participated in the alliance and expedition of Qi. Qi weigong was dissatisfied with this long ago. However, considering that Wei is the country of his mother, wei zhenggong is also the son of his nephew. Therefore, he has been unable to perform the expedition. After obtaining Zhou Huiwang's request for expedition, Qi zhenggong readily accepted the request. In the spring of the second year (666 BC, qi zhenggong cut down Wei under the banner of Zhou tianzi. Wei zhenggong was unwilling to show weakness, leading the army to resist, but he was quickly defeated by the Qi army, in the name of Zhou tianzi, Qi zhenggong severely condemned Wei Guozhu's prince for chaos. Wei zhenggong had to bow his head and admit his mistake in the face of Qi Guojun. Qi zhenggong left Wei with confidence.
So far, only a few Western countries, including the kingdom, have all been gathered under the banner of the nation. Qi zhenggong's dream of Overlord has finally been substantially recognized. However, in such an era of spring and autumn, overlord is not just an act that can be carried out with great pressure. Next, qi zhenggong will assume his obligations for his overlord. How will the first formal overlord recognized in the Spring and Autumn Era fulfill his overlord obligations? Let's wait and see.