During the reign of King Kang of the Song Dynasty, due to repression, Zhuangzi was ridiculed by them not more than once for no reason, but many times.
Most of these people who ridiculed Zhuangzi were specially here at the behest of King Song Kang.
Since the Song State increased taxes and readjusted taxes, due to the large population, more cultivated land, and correspondingly more commerce, the tax income was quite large.
How big is it, so big that King Song Kang thought that his financial resources could dominate the world.
Of course, King Song Kang still knew that in his lifetime, it was impossible to dominate the world.
However, after consulting with his subordinates, he still discussed a "Qin Xiaogong-like generational inheritance method", so that his descendants could complete the great cause of hegemony.
The state of Qin is a good example of this, during the reign of Emperor Xiaogong of Qin, the Shang Dynasty changed the law to make the Qin state strong, and then recovered the lost territory of the Qin state.
Then to the period of the descendants, the east out of the letter Guguan, to dominate the world.
Therefore, our Song State can also take such a hegemonic route.
First of all, King Song Kang himself will expand the territory, and first expand the territory appropriately.
Then fix the site.
Then it annexes the smaller vassal states in the surrounding area.
Then you can compete with the other big vassal states in the surrounding area.
With the increase in taxes, the treasury of King Song Kang, the king of the Song Kingdom, was full, but the people's lives were aggravated by poverty.
Because with the increase in population, almost every family has a new population and a population that has not yet reached adulthood, and the burden of living is already heavy, and the extra taxes are even more unbearable.
In the past, in order to encourage people to have children, they deliberately reduced taxes so that people could afford to support their children and were willing to have children.
But now the taxes have increased, and not just more, but for no reason.
In the past, as long as it was newly reclaimed, it was exempt from taxation.
Now all land is taxed.
All land, that is, the land that has been newly reclaimed and has not been taxed.
In the Song Kingdom, this policy has been implemented since the Qiyuan model, and it has been twenty years.
One can imagine how much new land was reclaimed by the Song State in 20 years King Kang of Song taxed all these lands, which was able to increase countless taxes.
However, when this is done, it means that many families go from farming without taxes to suddenly having taxable farming.
So some families can accept it, while countless families can't.
Because they have been living without taxes.
Therefore they have the ability to have children and offspring.
It's not that they don't pay taxes, it's that they put all the taxes they pay into having children.
Now if you make them pay taxes all of a sudden, they will inevitably break the previous pattern of life and fall into poverty.
The Song country was poor, the people around him were poor, and Zhuangzi could only live the life of a poor man.
Taoism is about integrating into the circle of life and living the same life as the people around you.
So Zhuangzi could only live the life of a poor man.
Unless he emigrates But can he emigrate?
Now he is no longer able to immigrate Because King Song Kang was the same as Song Juecheng back then, he was eyeing him.
Because the Song Kingdom entered the stage of poverty, those who had accepted the Taoist doctrine and ideas began to act again, and decided to rebel and commit treason to overthrow the regime of King Song Kang.
Zhuangzi, as the inheritor of the Taoist doctrine, naturally some people will come to him and ask him to come forward, overthrow King Kang of Song, and "Zhuang's take Song" again.
Although Zhuangzi was not involved in this matter, he tried to avoid these people as much as possible.
But King Song Kang was not at ease.
Therefore, King Kang of Song, like the Song Dynasty Chengjun, sent people to secretly monitor the Zhuangzi family.
Once I find signs of rebellion, you're welcome, I'm going to kill you In other words, since the Song Kingdom entered chaos again, King Song Kang had the intention of killing Zhuangzi.
In 325 BC, King Xian of Zhou was 44 years old, Song Junyan was 4 years old, King Huiwen of Qin was 13 years old, and Zhuangzi was 45 years old.
There was a man named Cao Shang in the Song State who sent an envoy to the Qin State for King Song Kang.
When he went to Qin, King Song Kang rewarded him with several cars in order to motivate him to do things well, plus to save face.
The mission went smoothly, and everything was done according to the will of King Song Kang.
King Huiwen of Qin listened to the plan of Qin Prime Minister Zhang Yi: to protect and friendly with the princes from afar, and attack the vassal states that blocked the way.
This is also known as the "long-range close-attack" strategy.
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Therefore, the king of Qin pretended to be very happy and gave him another hundred chariots.
In fact, the Qin State is the same for show.
If you are such a small country as the Song Kingdom, you will reward an envoy with a few carriages, and our Great Qin will reward you with a hundred carriages.
On the surface, it was an affirmation of Cao Shang, indicating that he would do things.
It actually smacks of sarcasm and contempt.
But Cao Shang and King Song Kang did not see this, on the contrary, they thought that this diplomatic operation was very successful.
Cao Shang returned to the Song Kingdom, saw Zhuangzi, and said: "You are mixed with wool, you live in a remote and narrow alley, and you are so poor that you make a living by weaving straw sandals."
You see that you have a slender neck and thin yellow muscles, which is what I am inferior to you.
I'm not going to live this kind of life anyway.
You see, once I had the opportunity, I sent an envoy to the Qin State, and the King of the Qin State felt that what I said made sense, and rewarded him with a hundred cars.
I'm not bragging, and that's where I surpass you. ” Zhuangzi said: "I heard that the king of Qin was sick and summoned his subordinate doctors to break the abscesses, and those who dissipated the boils could get one vehicle, and those who licked and cured hemorrhoids could get five vehicles.
Have you licked the hemorrhoids for King Qin, why are there so many award-winning vehicles, go away, your mouth, it stinks."
I don't know how I got so many vehicles, and you're still bragging about it Cao Shang didn't know why he was able to get so many vehicles, and he thought that his mouth could speak, so he was rewarded by the king.
So Zhuangzi looked down on him at all If King Qin Huiwen hadn't listened to Zhang Yi's strategy and adopted the policy of "distant friendship and close attack", it would have been impossible for him to reward Cao Shang with a hundred chariots.
The role of chariots and horses in military affairs is very important.
In particular, horses, whether they are war horses or horses for ordinary transportation, are very important.
If it weren't for the sake of stabilizing the Song Kingdom, he would not have been willing to do so at all.
King Song Kang thought that he had reached a backer, and he was even more ambitious.
Later, King Song Kang even dared to attack the Qi State, which was really blind.
He couldn't see through the current situation and future development trend of the Great Zhou Dynasty at all.
The state of Qin is right, but attacking the state of Qi, the state of Wei, the state of Chu and other big countries is a foolish behavior.
If you don't die, you won't die, King Kang of Song consumed the comprehensive national strength accumulated during the Song Dynasty.
Thus, the speed of the fall of the Song State was accelerated. aa2705221: