[Comprehensive] Number of Merry

After Shang Yang's reform, the Qin State implemented a policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business—"Those who work hard on their own business and cultivate and weave a lot of millet and silk will recover their bodies. Those who are profitable at the end of the day and those who are lazy and poor will be raised as a child."

Translated into modern Chinese, the main idea is: Those who devote themselves to farming and weaving production, so as to increase the harvest of grain and increase the production of cloth and silk, will be exempted from labor or taxation.Those who gave up farming and weaving, engaged in industry and commerce, and were poor because of laziness, all their wives and children were confiscated as official slaves.

Why emphasize agriculture and suppress business?

Because agriculture is the most labor-intensive and the least profitable, the people can be confined to their homeland and guard the territory for the monarch.Furthermore, Shang Yang advocated enriching the country but not enriching the people, and strived to concentrate all the surplus wealth created by the people in the hands of the state to ensure the needs of the country's politics and war, as well as the supreme authority of the supreme ruler.

And what about businessmen?

With less effort, more profits, and more energy, you can use various means to control prices and hoard them; you can also flee with money and relocate abroad when the country is in trouble.Moreover, it is not easy to manage with a shrewd mind, and the pursuit of interests may trample on the law. No matter how you look at it, they are the type of people who adore the legalists who advocate the high degree of centralization of the king.

Since ancient times, the era with the most powerful kings was often the era when the status of merchants was the lowest, and it was also the era when the state had the greatest control over profiteering industries such as salt and iron, as well as various social wealth.

But this is not to say that there is no industry and commerce in Qin.

A more accurate definition is that most of the channels that may obtain high wealth are in the hands of the state, such as aggressive wars, feudal territories, and industry and commerce, which are a hundred times more profitable than farming, are no exception. One of the Nine Ministers, in charge of the income of mountains, seas and lands and the manufacture of royal handicrafts - not only to meet the needs of the royal family, but also to control the local economy, crack down on business and wealth, and strengthen centralization.

The cargo ship Wang Lang was on board entered Chu from Qin, and the main cargo was produced by Qin's official handicraft industry and seized in the war against Wei.This day the cargo ship was moored at a ferry a hundred miles outside Yingdu, the capital of Chu State. The merchants on board escorted their cargo to Yingdu. Wang Lang also planned to disembark to see what the capital of Chu State looked like in its prosperous period.

By nature, Zhuang Zhou prefers to live alone, but he also has the characteristic of being content with whatever happens, and his curiosity about everything is stronger than ordinary people. Wang Lang bought a Chudi robe from the Chu people on the same boat, and compared it with his stature. He changed it with a needle and thread, asked him to change it, and took advantage of this time to go back to the room to pack his luggage.The Supreme Concubine, the Arrogant Fifth Miss

Ever since he condensed his air into form in this era, Wang Lang has often been able to condense some small objects with his imperial energy, such as the Go game she gave to Xie An, the feather fan given to Zhuge Liang, the pipa given to her by Cai Yan, and the pipa given to her by Huang Yueying. Give her the hand crossbow.

Back in the house, for the sake of convenience and trouble, Wang Lang directly scattered the chess pieces on the desk to relieve boredom and turned them into qi, and then condensed out the saber that he was used to in the Eastern Jin Dynasty with the technique of controlling qi and hung it on his body.The epiphany at the bow of the ship three days ago gave her a new level of understanding of the art of controlling qi, but she simply did it with her hands, and the effect was actually a bit better than the effect she had performed after entering into meditation for a long time.

Wang Lang felt that it was unexpected, but also emotionally reasonable. Suddenly, he had a whim and used his spiritual thoughts to invoke Jiang Shang's spell when he helped her condense her energy and transform her form that day.

In the next second, she met Jiang Shang's slightly startled eyes.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

After being stunned for a long time, Wang Lang belatedly waved to him, the surprise still in his eyes.

"I only saw it seventeen months ago, so it's not too long."

It was still so unfathomably calm, like the boundless East China Sea, never able to clearly see the hidden waves below, and the frosty white hair was half curled and half scattered, just like Wang Lang's appearance when he first saw him.

"The total time I have been able to see you in 11 years is less than one day. It is not wrong to say that it has been a long time."

Wang Lang had come back to his senses at this time, and turned his head slightly to look at his white hair that was as crystal as ice and snow under the sun.It is said that dreams and reality are indistinguishable, but from Wang Lang's personal experience, there is still a big difference between getting along in dreams and getting along in reality.Looking up and down the person in front of her carefully, she thought of a question: "Since it can condense into form, wouldn't it be much faster for you to restore the list of gods than to borrow my hands?"

"It's a long story." Putting away the half-calculated scroll in his hand, Jiang Shang described a mysterious and strange historical river for her with a calmness that was completely out of the way. It is a boundary, in ancient times, there was a chaotic glow, the two qis of yin and yang flowed around the six voids and were harmonious and peaceful, the gods separated and reunited with the chaotic qi and were always with the three lights, and all things were indifferent and inactive, but they were one with the heaven and the earth, which is called the ultimate one. "Catching the decline of morality, there will be saints who will govern and transform the people and escape from ignorance. The land of Kyushu is also a place where ghosts and gods come and go. This is called governing the world."

Wang Lang thought for a while, then raised his head and asked, "The age of mythology and the age of sages?" Seeing Jiang Shang nodding his head slightly, he asked again, "You said before that since the clean air rose and the turbid air sank, the human world is gradually no longer suitable for performing magic arts. , since the Qin Dynasty, the vitality that can be mobilized is even less. So at the end of the Eastern Jin and Han Dynasties, you still can't condense your energy into form, but you can do it in the pre-Qin and Warring States?"

"It's roughly like this."

"What's the matter with the one who turned into three cleansers? Didn't you say that I have seen him more than once without knowing it? How did you communicate with me before?"

Throwing out a bunch of questions in one breath, Wang Lang stared at the other side without blinking, waiting for his answer.

"It is a support. After the separation of the three realms, if the gods want to enter the world, they must have a support in the world." Methodically, Jiang Shang replied carefully, "Have you read "Miscellaneous Talks"? The breath of the dragon forms clouds. Clouds are no more magical than dragons, but dragons ride With this cloud, you can travel around in the vast space, approach the sun and the moon, block the light, shake the thunder and lightning, change magically, make rain fall on the earth, and valleys sink into the ocean. The cloud is the dragon's ability to make it supernatural. As for the supernatural power of the dragon, it is not the ability of the cloud that makes it so. But the dragon cannot show its supernatural power without the cloud. What the dragon relies on is precisely the cloud it spits out."

Does that mean that ordinary gods cannot descend to the world, only gods with a mortal support can?

Wang Lang blinked: "Then what is your possession?"

The look in Jiang Shang's eyes became more silent, and he said indifferently: "War."

No wonder he always sent her to the war-torn era, presumably he was more comfortable controlling the troubled times than influencing them.

Coming to this conclusion sensibly, Wang Lang felt somewhat complicated.

What kind of person would be recognized by the Dao of Heaven to use war as a support in the world...

With a feeling that he didn't understand, Wang Lang leaned over and was held by him when his right hand was about to touch his face.Wang Lang was slightly taken aback, and raised his eyes to meet a pair of calm black eyes with a questioning look.Reborn Superstar Rising

"Uh..." Wang Lang didn't know how to explain his actions, so he apologized directly, "I'm sorry."

While withdrawing his right hand that was being held.

Jiang Shang didn't let it go, but took advantage of the situation and held it forward slightly, with his index finger covering hers: "The end of ruling the world is the battle of conferring gods in the heaven, and the battle of Muye in the human world. I will be in charge of both times. Do you know how the word 'seal' is written in bronze?"

Most of Wang Lang's attention was focused on the hand being held, and the rest of his thoughts subconsciously worked and replied: "I don't know."

Jiang Shang came behind her, held her hand, mobilized spiritual power in the void, and wrote the pictographically curved ancient bronze inscription stroke by stroke: "What is it like?"

There is no need to meet face to face, the feeling of strangeness fades immediately, and Wang Lang’s attention is shifted to the inscription in front of him where every time he writes a stroke, a ray of light flashes along the strokes: "On the left is like a tree growing on the land, Is the right... a pictographic 'again'?"

Xu Shen's "Shuowen" contains, and, hand, pictogram.Wang Lang saw some pre-Qin bronzes in the late Han Dynasty, and the word "you" appeared in the inscriptions on them, so he knew them.

Jiang Shang's voice came from behind: "Yes."

"The original meaning of You is the right hand, and when connected together, it means gathering soil and cultivating trees." After receiving an affirmative answer, Wang Lang continued to guess, and suddenly he understood Jiang Shang's meaning, "Planting trees to define boundaries..."

She opened her mouth with difficulty, her black eyes filled with disbelief.

"That's right. The original meaning of the word seal is to plant trees as a boundary between clans. In the human world, it is a symbol of glory, 'feudal princes, granting the people and land'. Conferring the gods means enclosing the gods and demons who participated in the battle of conferring the gods together in the new heaven, isolating them from the world."

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