When did the State of Qin become stronger during the Warring States Period?

Shang Yang's political reform in Qin Xiaogong era.

In 362 BC, Qin Xiaogong ascended the throne, saddened by the decline of the Qin Dynasty, and ordered to recruit talents from all over the world. Wei Yang, a patriotic man, entered Qin and taught Xiao Gong to be overbearing. He was very satisfied with Xiao Gong, pushed through public opinion, and took Wei Yang as a big example to implement political reform.

In 356 BC and 350 BC, Qin Xiaogong appointed Shang Yang to carry out the most thorough reform. Shang Yang's political reform encouraged population proliferation, emphasized agriculture and restrained business, abolished the system of "being an expensive official", rewarded military service, compiled household registration and implemented the law of "tongzhi".

At that time, Qin was vast and sparsely populated, Sanjin was vast and sparsely populated, and the people lacked fields. Therefore, Shang Yang suggested that Qin Xiaogong should adopt preferential policies for foreign immigrants to attract Sanjin people to reclaim wasteland in Qin.

In 350 BC, in order to deepen the reform and get rid of the interference of the old aristocratic forces, Qin Daliangzao (Shang Yang) proposed to move the capital from Yongcheng (now Baoji Fengxiang) to the newly-built Xianyang City, which was supported by Qin Xiaogong.

Wei Yang completely abolished the old stone-clearing system, established a new autocratic centralization of authority, promoted the county system to strengthen centralization, attached importance to agricultural products, and appeared a prosperous scene of "giving enough to the people".

People all over the country are ashamed of private wars, thinking that the country is proud of its own achievements, and its fighting capacity is constantly increasing. Wei Jun has been defeated in many wars, and Qin, a rich country, became the most powerful country at the end of the Warring States Period.

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Shang Yang's reform:

In 359 BC, Qin Xiaogong ordered Shang Yang to issue the Order of Qin Reclamation, which started the comprehensive political reform.

Its main contents include: stimulating agricultural production, restraining commercial development, remolding social values, improving agricultural social consciousness, weakening the privileges of nobles and officials, allowing domestic nobles to join agricultural production, and implementing a unified tax and rent system.

In 356 BC, Qin Xiaogong appointed Shang Yang as the governor of Zuo Shu and carried out the first political reform in Qin.

Its main contents are:

(1) Promulgating and implementing the Classic of Law, increasing the provisions of imprisonment and using heavy penalties for minor crimes;

(2) Abolish the old stone-clearing system, reward military service, prohibit private fighting, and promulgate a 20-level jazz system that rewards military service;

(3) emphasizing agriculture and restraining commerce, rewarding agriculture and weaving, and especially rewarding land reclamation; It is stipulated that those who produce more grain and cloth can be exempted from their own labor and taxes, take agriculture as the "industry" and commerce as the "last industry", limit the business scope of businessmen, and levy business tax again.

(4) Burning Confucian classics and prohibiting people from wandering around the government.

(5) Compulsory implementation of the individual small family system. It expanded the source of national tax revenue and military corvee, and laid a solid foundation for the growth of Qin's economic strength and military strength.

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