"Father Zhong, those merchants who returned from Lu and Liang said that now mulberry trees are planted everywhere in the fields of Lu and Liang. On the way from Qufu to Linzi, there are merchants and chariots and horses selling Lu white clothes. In the past three years, almost every household in the Lu country has been weaving white flowers, and mulberry trees are planting everywhere in the world. And mulberry trees have grown, and everything is as Zhong father expected..." Duke Heng of Qi said this, his expression on his face could no longer help but dance, and he was completely impressed by Xia Ping'an's judgment.

"Congratulations to the king, the time has come to conquer Lu and Liang!" Xia Ping'an looked at the teacup in front of him quietly, his tone was calm, neither happy nor angry, because everything was planned and history was followed step by step.

In this world bead, Xia Ping'an once again became Guan Zhong, the "No. 1 Prime Minister of China", directed the first food war in human history. He conquered Lu and Liang without any soldiers.

"Hey, my father asked me to wear a garment made of Lu silk to court, and allowed all the civil and military officials of the dynasty to imitate Lu silk and the people of Qi to follow the example of Lu silk and encouraged merchants to come to Qi from Lu, but also prohibited the people of our Qi from planting mulberry and silk. In recent years, the price of Lu silk has increased, and it has increased several times. The whole country has spent countless money on this Lu silk and silk. I have also heard some ministers complain in private, but those people, how can they have Zhongfu's vision and Qiu's strategy? The whole world is in Zhongfu's heart. Today's situation was expected by Zhongfu a few years ago. Since Zhongfu said that the time has come, what should I do in Qi?" Duke Heng of Qi asked modestly.

"Your Majesty will no longer wear clothes, but silk clothes, and at the same time ask Your Majesty to order the checkpoints with Lu and Liang, and not allow Lu Liang and Liang to enter Qi again. However, if the people of two countries come to join us, you can come in. Before, we will let Lu and Liang return all the money we spent on buying Lu silk flowers, so we will let Lu and Liang return the king with the principal and profit..."

"Okay, everything is as Zhongfu said. But the grain prices of these two countries can really rise to more than 1,000 yuan per stone? You should know that the current grain prices in Linzi are only ten yuan per stone..." Duke Heng of Qi was still a little confused, because Xia Ping'an had said before that the grain prices of Lu and Liang could rise to more than 1,000 yuan per stone. This is crazy, because this pair is equivalent to a hundred times higher than the price of grain. In the past two years, there were not many other countries in Qi, but there was a lot of grain. Guan Zhong did not allow the people of Qi to grow mulberry and silkworms, so everyone could only grow grain. Many granaries have been built in various parts of Qi, and the grain in the official warehouses has been piled up. If the price of grain can really rise by a hundred times, then Qi will make a fortune.

"No one will die without wearing clerk clothes, and people cannot eat mulberry leaves when hungry. The king can wait and see. This time, the king will definitely make the two countries of Lu and Liang surrender obediently!"

"Okay!" Duke Heng of Qi nodded happily.

...

Xia Ping'an then left the palace and returned to his mansion in a carriage.

Sitting in the car, Xia Ping'an looked at the prosperous Linzi City, and his awe of Guan Zhong still remained unabated. He has been Guan Zhong in the world of Jiezhu for three years. Guan Zhong has created and dominated the hegemony of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. Guan Zhong’s main means to establish hegemony is food warfare, which is capital means. China is the first country in human history to play food warfare and economic warfare. Guan Zhong is the founder of food warfare and economic warfare.

This time, Guan Zhong used Lu and Liang countries' parties to conquer the two countries. When the two countries turned the "party" into the pillar industry of the country from top to bottom and abandoned grain production because the "party" could make money, it was when Qi used grain to harvest Lu and Liang countries. After the price of Qi's food increased by a hundred times, there was only one way between starvation and surrender between the two countries.

After Lu and Liang, Hengshan was the Kingdom of Henshan.

Hengshan Kingdom was a major military ordnance power in the Spring and Autumn Period. Because Hengshan made domestic metals and was good at smelting weapons, they made great money by selling weapons among the princes. Guan Zhong's method of subduing Hengshan Kingdom was also a grain war, which was exactly the same as subduing Lu and Liang Kingdoms. Qi first bought the weapons imported from Hengshan Kingdom at a high price, and at the same time led the surrounding vassal states to buy weapons from Hengshan Kingdom at a high price, directly increasing the prices of weapons produced by Hengshan Kingdom by twenty times, allowing Hengshan Kingdom to completely turn smelting weapons into a pillar industry of the country and abandoning farming.

Then Qi went to various countries to buy grain, raising the grain prices of various countries by tripling, and almost bought the food that could be bought on the market. After everything was ready, Qi cut off contact with Hengshan and no longer purchased weapons. The entire Hengshan country guarded a bunch of weapons, guarded countless workshops and iron ore that expanded production, but could not buy grain. Hengshan country wanted to cry without tears, so the whole country was in chaos, and Qi took over Hengshan again.

The same food warfare method is used to buy deer from Chu when it is used to buy firewood from Cai, and to deal with Dai, to buy fox white from Dai, that is, the white hair under the fox's armpit.

These countries were all settled by Qi's food war, and Qi's hegemony came out like this.

Qi State blows up the asset bubbles of these countries, and then pierces the bubbles and uses grain to harvest them. This method was already well-versed by Guan Zhong thousands of years ago.

The carriage was swaying on the street, Xia Ping'an's thoughts were flying, thinking about what would happen thousands of years later. If the Lu and Liang Guofa were turned into real estate in later generations, then it was already foreseeable what would happen next...

A nation and country that had emerged thousands of years ago was dealt with by Guan Zhong's means thousands of years later. It is a tragedy.

There is nothing new under the sun. History will repeat, but it will not be simply repeated, the rules will not change, but the appearances will be different.

Perhaps, this is the real meaning of learning history.

...

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 clothes for three consecutive years, went to court today, but did not wear clothes, but silk clothes from Qi State.

"I am tired of the clothes of the country, and found that the texture of the silk clothes of our country is better and more comfortable..." Under the gaze of the ministers wearing clothes of the country, Duke Heng of Qi said expressionlessly on the throne, "I say that from today on, the checkpoints of Lu and Liang will not be allowed to enter the country from all over the country. People from these two countries can surrender to our country, but the silk clothes of Lu are not allowed to enter the country..."

"yes!"

...

The wind direction in Linzi City changed, but when I went to court the next day, no other minister in the hall was wearing clothes and orders were passed to the border. When Qi State went into seclusion, all the merchants loaded with cemeteries and waiting to pass the pass and enter Qi State were stunned.

The silk fabrics of the Liang Kingdom of Lu began to pile up everywhere, and the price of thousands of pieces of gold became more and more cheap.

At the same time, without the income from exporting silk fabrics, the country's arable land has grown a large amount of mulberry planting, and grain production has been severely reduced. It takes time to change it again. However, the people of the Liang Kingdom of Lu have to eat. For a time, the grain prices in various parts of the two countries have changed three times a day, rising a lot, and even with no market prices. The little money that ordinary people earned in the past three years was used to buy rice in the blink of an eye, which was not enough.

In just one month, there were incidents of starving people to death in Lu and Liang countries. The people of the two countries could not stand it anymore. Between starving, rebellion, and escape, most of them chose a third party because everyone heard that as long as they fled to Qi, they would have food to eat.

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

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

...

In the secret room, Xia Ping'an opened his eyes.

This divine world bead from the Qi and Lu countries was subdued without moving, and he was the last one he fused from all the world beads he obtained from the God Tomb Sect this time. Before this world bead, Xia Ping'an had already fused more than ten world beads.

This realm bead added a full 36 points of divine power limit to Xia Ping'an. At this moment, the divine power limit in Xia Ping'an's secret mandala has reached 10,511 points, and it has made another big step away from 10,920 points in the Eight Yang Realm. The upper limit of divine power is only 409 points away. Xia Ping'an's overall strength has unknowingly advanced one step and reached the advanced level of the Seven Yang Realm.

For Xia Ping'an, the integration of these realm beads that he had just obtained was just a day passed.

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

After Xia Ping'an rested in Xuanji Villa for two days, on the third day, the deputy sect leader of the Shen Tomb Sect indeed brought the two disciples to Xuanji Villa and asked Xia Ping'an to go to Wanbao Hall to cash in the Eight Yang Realm Divine Spring of the Shen Tomb Sect.

Several people soon arrived at Wanbaotang in Xuanji City.

Just as the deputy sect leader of the Lou was about to bring Xia Ping'an into Wanbao Hall, a hoarse and gloomy voice suddenly came to the sky, "Is this Mr. Mei who avenged my son..."
Chapter completed!