Golden Summoner

"Father Zhong, the merchants who came back from Lu and Liang said that mulberry trees are planted everywhere in the fields of Lu and Liang, and Lu silk clothes are sold everywhere on the road from Qufu to Linzi. Merchants, carriages and horses, in the past three years, almost every household in the entire Lu State has been weaving silk and silk tapestry, mulberry trees are being planted everywhere, and the mulberry trees have grown, everything is as Father Zhong expected..." Qi Henggong said this , the expression on his face couldn't help but be beaming, and he was completely impressed by Xia Pingan's judgment.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, the time has come to conquer Lu and Liang!" Xia Pingan looked at the tea cup in front of him calmly, his tone was calm, neither happy nor angry, because everything was planned and history went according to plan.

In this world pearl, Xia Ping'an once again became the "First Prime Minister of China" Guan Zhong, directing the first food war in human history, and conquered the Lu and Liang states without spending a single soldier.

"Hey, when Father Zhong let me wear silk clothes made of Lu silk to go to court, he allowed the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of Qi to imitate wearing Lu silk. He also encouraged merchants to traffic Lu silk to Qi, but he banned us. The people of Qi State are cultivating mulberry and making silk. Over the years, the price of Lu Silk has increased several times. Everyone in the Qi State has spent countless money on this Lu Silk. I have also heard some ministers complain privately. Those people don't have Zhongfu's vision and Qiu's strategy. The whole world is in Zhongfu's mind. Today's situation was anticipated by Zhongfu several years ago. Since Zhongfu said that the time has come, then our Qi State should How to do it?" Qi Henggong asked humbly.

"Your Majesty will no longer wear silk clothes when he goes to court tomorrow, but will wear silk clothes. At the same time, I also ask your Majesty to order to close the border with Lu and Liang, and do not allow Lu, Liang and Liang's silk clothes and Lu Zhen to enter Qi again. But if people from the two countries come to defect, we can let people come in. All the money that Qi State spent to buy Lu Zhen, we will let Lu State and Liang State return to the king with interest..."

"Okay, everything is as Father Zhong said. It's just that the price of food in these two countries can really rise to more than a thousand yuan per stone. You must know that the current price of food in Linzi is only ten yuan per stone..." Qi Henggong still has some questions. Doubtful, because Xia Pingan said before that he could increase the price of food in Lu and Liang to more than a thousand yuan per stone. This is crazy, because this is equivalent to a hundred times increase in food prices, and in the past two years, Qi There are not many countries, but there is a lot of food. Guan Zhong did not allow the people of Qi to plant mulberry and raise silkworms. Everyone could only grow food. Many granaries were built in various parts of Qi, and the official warehouses were full of food. If the price of food can really If it rises a hundred times, Qi will make a lot of money.

"People will not die if they don't wear silk clothes, and people can't eat mulberry leaves when they are hungry. Your Majesty, you can wait and see. This time, Your Majesty, you will definitely make the two countries of Lu and Liang surrender obediently!"

"Okay!" Qi Henggong nodded happily.

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Xia Pingan then left the palace and returned to his house by carriage and horse.

Sitting in the car, Xia Pingan looked at the prosperous Linzi City, and his awe for Guan Zhong remained undiminished. It had been three years since he became Guan Zhong in the world of Jie Zhu. Guan Zhong single-handedly created and dominated the hegemony of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. , and Guan Zhong’s main means of creating hegemony was food war, which was capital means. China was the first country in human history to engage in food war and economic war, and Guan Zhong was the founder of food war and economic war.

This time, Guan Zhong used the glutinous rice produced by Lu and Liang to conquer the two countries. When the two countries, from top to bottom, turned "绨" into a pillar industry of the country and wasted food because "绨" could make money. At the time of production, this is the time when Qi State has used grain to harvest Lu State and Liang State. After the price of Qi State's grain has increased a hundred times, there is only one way for the two countries between starvation and surrender.

After the State of Lu and the State of Liang, there was the State of Hengshan.

Hengshan State was a major ordnance power in the Spring and Autumn Period. Because Hengshan produced metals and was good at smelting weapons, he made a lot of money selling ordnance and weapons among the princes. Guan Zhong's method of conquering Hengshan State was also a food war, which was the same as conquering Lu and Liang. The Qi State first bought the weapons and weapons imported from the Hengshan Kingdom at high prices. At the same time, it also led the surrounding vassal states to also buy the weapons and weapons from the Hengshan Kingdom at a high price, directly raising the price of the weapons and weapons produced by the Hengshan Kingdom by twenty times. The price allowed Hengshan Kingdom to completely turn weapon smelting into the country's pillar industry, and farming was abandoned.

Then Qi State went to various countries to buy grain, and raised the price of grain three times in various countries, buying almost all the grain available on the market. After everything was ready, Qi State cut off all contacts with Hengshan State and stopped purchasing weapons and weapons. The entire Hengshan State was guarding a pile of weapons and countless workshops and iron mines to expand production, but it could not buy food. Hengshan State wanted to There were no tears, so the whole country was in chaos, and Qi State captured Hengshan State again.

The same method of food war was used in Chu State to buy Chu State's deer. To defeat Cai State, they bought Cai State's firewood. To defeat Dai State, they bought Dai State's fox white, which is the white hair under the fox's armpit. .

These countries were defeated one by one by Qi State through food wars, and Qi State's hegemony came out like this.

The State of Qi inflated the asset bubbles of these countries, and then burst the bubbles to harvest them with grain. This method had been mastered by Guan Zhong thousands of years ago.

As the carriage swayed on the street, Xia Pingan's thoughts were wandering, thinking about what would happen thousands of years later. If the silk made in Lu and Liang were turned into real estate for future generations, it was already foreseeable what would happen next...

It is a tragedy that a nation and country that gave birth to Guan Zhong thousands of years ago were wiped out by Guan Zhong's methods thousands of years later.

There is nothing new under the sun. History will repeat itself, but it will not simply repeat itself. The rules will not change, but the appearance can be different.

Perhaps this is what learning history really means.

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As Xia Ping'an said, on the next day, when Duke Heng of Qi went to court, all the ministers in the court discovered that Duke Heng of Qi, who had been wearing silk clothes for three consecutive years, went to court today. silk clothes.

"I am tired of silk clothes, and I find that our Qi silk clothes are of better quality and more comfortable..." Under the gaze of ministers wearing silk clothes, Duke Heng of Qi said expressionlessly on the throne, "I have ordered , starting from today, the checkpoints in various places in Qi State are no longer allowed to allow the entry of Lu Guo and Liang Guo. People from these two countries can seek refuge in our Qi State, but Lu Guo’s clothes are not allowed to enter..."

"yes!"

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The wind direction in Linzi City changed. However, when they went to court the next day, there was not a single minister in the entire hall who was still wearing silk robes. The order was sent to the border pass. As soon as Qi State retreated, those who were loaded with silk robes were waiting to pass the customs. All the merchants who entered Qi were dumbfounded.

Silk fabrics from the Lu and Liang states began to pile up in various places, and their price went from three hundred gold per thousand pieces to becoming increasingly cheap.

At the same time, without the income from exporting silk fabrics, a large amount of the country's cultivated land was planted with mulberry, and grain production was severely reduced. It would take time to replant the crops, but the people of Lu and Liang had to eat. For a time, all parts of the two countries The price of food in China changes three times a day, spiraling upward, and even becomes more expensive than marketable. The little money ordinary families have earned from weaving silk tapestry in the past three years has been used to buy rice in the blink of an eye, which is not enough.

In just one month, people starved to death occurred in various places in Lu and Liang. The people of the two countries couldn't bear it. Between starving to death, rebelling, and fleeing, most people chose the third option, because everyone I heard that as long as you escape to Qi State, you will have food to eat.

In the end, fifty-six out of ten people from the two countries came to Qi and became citizens of Qi. The weak Lu and Liang finally had to surrender to Qi.

When the envoys from the two countries arrived in Linzi, the world of this world bead was shattered.

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In the secret room, Xia Pingan opened his eyes.

This divine world bead that Guan Zhong conquered Qi and Lu without even a single soldier was the last one to fuse among all the world beads he obtained from the Tomb Sect this time. Before this world bead, Xia Pingan had already fused Got more than ten world beads.

This world bead has increased Xia Pingan's upper limit of divine power by a full 36 points. At this moment, the upper limit of divine power in Xia Pingan's secret mandala has reached 10511 points, which is another big step forward from the 10920 points of the Eight Yang Realm. The upper limit of divine power is only Just shy of 409 points, Xia Pingan's overall strength has unknowingly taken a step forward, reaching the high level of the Seven Suns Realm.

For Xia Pingan, it only took a day after fusing the world beads he had just obtained.

In fact, in the past two days, the news that Xia Ping'an received the reward from the Divine Tomb Sect had already spread throughout Xuanji City, causing a huge sensation.

After Xia Pingan rested at Xuanji Villa for two days, on the third day, the deputy sect leader of the Divine Tomb Sect came to Xuanji Villa with the two disciples and asked Xia Pingan to go to Wanbao Hall to redeem the Eight Suns of the Divine Tomb Sect. Jing Shenquan.

Several people soon arrived at Wanbao Hall in Xuanji City.

And just when the deputy sect master Lou was about to take Xia Pingan into the Wanbao Hall, a hoarse and gloomy voice suddenly came to mind in the sky, "Is this... Mr. Mei who avenged my son..."

Upon hearing this voice, the expressions of the deputy sect leader Lou and the other two people from the Tomb Sect who were present changed. They stopped quickly and saluted in the air, "Greetings, sect leader!"