Why can Guan Zhong Xiang Henggong make Qi strong

To put it simply: 1 Rich country has the art (tax is levied according to the quality of the land, brothels drive the economy, etc.) 2 There is a law to strengthen the army (military professionalization: order 15 townships to fight in the army to achieve the purpose of "the code is solid, and the war is strong").

3 Xingshi is famous (reverence for the king).

4 Woo the younger brother (every time there is a war, some countries are entangled in the war) 5 Economic war (the promotion of cash crops to neighboring countries so that their grain harvest is lost) is satisfied.

The result of Guan Zhong Xianghuan Gong was that Guan Zhong was the prime minister, assisting Qi Huan Gong, and Qi Huan Gong dominated the princes and excluded and attacked the Yi, Di and other ethnic minorities.

1. Source

Song Dynasty Su Xun "Guan Zhong Treatise".

2. Original text. Guan Zhong Xianghuan Gong, tyrannizing the princes, fighting Yidi, and ending his life Qi The country is rich and strong, and the princes do not rebel. Guan Zhong died, erected Diao, Yi Ya, and opened the prescription, Huan Gong was in chaos, the five sons contended, and the disaster spread, and the Jian Gong was ruined, and Qi Wuning was old.

3. Translation. When Guan Zhong was assisting Duke Qi Huan, Duke Qi Huan dominated the princes and excluded and attacked ethnic minorities such as Yi and Di. Guan Zhong has worked hard all his life to make the country of Qi rich and strong, and the princes dare not rebel again.

After Guan Zhong's death, erections, easy teeth, and prescriptions were successively reused. Duke Huan of Qi finally died in the court strife, and the five princes began to compete for the throne, and the trouble spread, until the time of Duke Jian of Qi, there was not a year of peace in the kingdom of Qi.

Appreciation of works:

This article is divided into five natural paragraphs. The first paragraph summarizes Guan Zhong's achievements in Qi Qiang and the disaster of Qi chaos before and after his death, the second paragraph directly states that the disaster of Qi Guo is actually caused by Guan Zhong, and the third paragraph accuses Guan Zhong of not understanding the foundation of governing the country.

In the fourth paragraph, the Duke of Jin Wen is compared with the Duke of Qi Huan to explain that Guan Zhong has no escapability in the defeat of the Qi State, and the fifth paragraph summarizes the lessons of Guan Zhong's dying inability to recommend the virtuous and self-represented, so as to warn future generations. The whole article is changeable, unpredictable, undulating, and full of eloquent and unbridled characteristics.

The result of "Guan Zhong Xianghuan Gong" was to make Qi Huan Gong the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Guan Zhong, surnamed Ji, Guan Shi, name Yiwu, Zizhong, Zhen Jing, Yingshang (now Yingshang County, Anhui Province) people. He was a famous economist, philosopher, politician and military strategist in ancient China. A representative figure of Legalism in the Spring and Autumn Period, a descendant of King Mu of Zhou.

In the thirty-third year of the reign of Duke Qi (698 BC), he began to assist Gongzi Jiao. In the first year of Qi Huan (685 BC), he was recommended by Bao Shuya to serve as the minister of state, and assisted Duke Qi Huan to become the head of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons. Internally, we will carry out reforms, enrich the country and strengthen the army; Respect the king of the outside world, the princes of Jiuhe, the world, and are respected as the "middle father".

Duke Qi Huan died of illness in forty-one years. Later generations revered him as "Guanzi", and was known as "the pioneer of legalism", "the teacher of the sage", "the protector of Chinese civilization" and "the first phase of China".

Qi Huangong, surnamed Jiang, Lu, named Xiaobai. Jiang is the sixteenth monarch of Qi, the head of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, the twelfth grandson of Jiang Taigong Lu Shang, the third son of Qi Duke, and his mother is Wei Ji.

In his early years, under the protection of Bao Shuya, he fled to the country of Ju for refuge. After the death of Duke Xiang of Qi and Gongsun Wuzhi one after another, he rushed back to China and seized the throne. During his term of office, he made great efforts to make the country prosperous, appointed the management of the middle government as the prime minister, carried out reforms, and implemented military and political cooperation.

First, the system of the integration of soldiers and the people has promoted the gradual strengthening of the Qi State. Playing the banner of "respecting the king and conquering the emperor", the princes of Jiuhe, pacified the civil strife in the Song Dynasty, attacked Shanrong in the north, invaded the Chu State in the south, destroyed the small countries such as Tan, Sui, and Yan, and became the first overlord of the Central Plains.