Since the siege of Hangu Pass, the international status of Lord Mengchang has been greatly improved. When talking about Qi, people only know about Lord Mengchang, but not King Qi Min. This made King Qi Min feel very uncomfortable. Out of jealousy and fear, King Qi Min decided to

Rectify Lord Mengchang.

Not long after, someone told King Qi Min that Lord Mengchang was going to rebel. This made King Qi Min even more afraid and at the same time strengthened his determination to get rid of Lord Mengchang.

It just so happened that King Qi Min was kidnapped by a man named Tian Jia. There were many diners at Lord Mengchang's house, including all kinds of people. King Qi Min firmly believed that the mastermind behind his kidnapping was Lord Mengchang.

When things got to this point, even though he was not the mastermind behind the kidnapping of King Qi Min, Lord Mengchang had to run away from home. And running away from home was basically "there is no three hundred taels of silver here", and Lord Mengchang was even more unable to defend himself.

Just when Lord Mengchang didn't know what to do, a wise man stepped forward to intercede for Lord Mengchang.

It turned out that when Lord Mengchang was still the prime minister, this wise man once lived in his fief. Once, Lord Mengchang asked Wei Zi to collect rent and taxes. After going back and forth three times, Wei Zi didn't even get back a penny.

Lord Mengchang asked Wei Zi why he came back empty-handed several times. Wei Zi said that he saw a wise man living in Lord Mengchang's fief, and privately donated all the rent and taxes to the wise man in the name of Lord Mengchang.

The wise man had always been grateful to Lord Mengchang. When he saw Lord Mengchang was in trouble this time, he stepped forward to defend him. He guaranteed with his life that Lord Mengchang would never cause trouble. As soon as he finished speaking, he drew his sword and committed suicide.

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King Qi Min was deeply shocked that someone was willing to die for Lord Mengchang, so he began to seriously investigate the actual situation of the person who kidnapped him, and finally concluded that Lord Mengchang was not the mastermind behind the scenes.

Although the grievances had been washed away, a rift had already arisen between Lord Mengchang and King Qi Min. Therefore, when King Qi Min summoned Lord Mengchang back to serve as an official, he claimed to be ill and only begged to return to the fiefdom to take care of his old age. As long as Lord Mengchang does not serve as an official, Qi Qi

The threat from King Min was not great, so King Min of Qi followed the trend and allowed Lord Mengchang to return to his fief for retirement.

After Lord Mengchang left the court, King Qi Min prepared to launch a strategy to unite Qin. At this time, Qin's fugitive general Lu Li happened to be in Qi. King Qi Min followed the advice of his relatives and appointed Lu Li as the prime minister of Qi.

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In order to win favor, Lu Li repeatedly made things difficult for Su Dai, so Su Dai went to Lord Mengchang to lobby, hoping to provoke Lord Mengchang to come out.

Su Dai told Lord Mengchang that in order to unite the Qin Kingdom, King Qi Min even drove away Zhou Zui, who was most loyal to him, and blindly obeyed his relatives and appointed Lu Li as the prime minister. From this point of view, Qi and Qin

The alliance will be realized. If Qi and Qin really form an alliance, Mengchang, who had an old relationship with Qin, will definitely be despised.

The Su Dynasty suggested that Lord Mengchang go north to make peace between Zhao, Qin and Wei, and recall Zhou Zui back. This

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In this way, it can not only reflect the kindness of Lord Mengchang, but also restore the credibility of King Min of Qi. Furthermore, if Qi does not join forces with Qin, other small countries will definitely rely on Qi. In this way, Qi will still be the overlord in the east, except for Lord Mengchang.

Then there was no one worthy of ruling the country with King Qi Min.

Lord Mengchang followed Su Dai's advice and came out again, but his behavior offended Lu Li, who was very jealous and made up his mind to murder Lord Mengchang.

Mengchangjun came out this time, but because he did not have the status of the state minister, his affairs were not smooth. At that time, King Qi Min wanted to punish him, and Lu Li tried to murder him. In order to ensure his own safety, Mengchangjun wrote to Wei Ran, the state minister of Qin, urging him to send troops

Attack Qi.

The letter said that if Lu Li realizes Qin and Qi Lianheng's plan, Lu Li will definitely be taken seriously, and Wei Ran will definitely be despised. If Wei Ran puts himself in his own shoes, he should persuade Qin to attack Qi, and

It is not an alliance with Qi. If Qin captures Qi, Lord Mengchang will try to persuade King Zhaoxiang of Qin to enfeoff the captured land to Wei Ran.

Wei Ran was very greedy for land and power, so he followed the advice of Lord Mengchang and persuaded King Zhaoxiang of Qin to send troops to attack Qi. After hearing about this, Lu Li was very worried about his future, so he fled Qi.

In 286 BC, after the Qi State destroyed the Song State, King Qi Min became increasingly arrogant. King Qi Min, who was already dissatisfied with Lord Mengchang, decided to get rid of Lord Mengchang.

In recent years, although Lord Mengchang's power has been declining day by day, and there are fewer and fewer diners in his house, there is still Feng Chen.

Because of Tian Jia's kidnapping of King Min of Qi, Lord Mengchang was demoted. On his way back to his fiefdom to take care of his old age, more than 3,000 guests of Lord Mengchang's house left one after another with excuses, and some even left without saying hello. Lord Mengchang felt deeply in his heart.

Desolately, he sighed: "When the guests saw that the writing was useless, they all left with the writing on their backs, and no one cared about the writing." (Sima Qian's "Historical Records: Biography of Meng Changjun")

Feeling the indifference of human feelings, Wu Qian of the Song Dynasty once wrote: "I was ashamed of Meng Chang's support for one day, and I sighed three thousand times, and the guest's sweat turned into rain" (Wu Qian's "Congratulations to the Bridegroom·Bao Fan to Drive away the Slender Heat"). This means that Meng Changjun's

With three thousand diners, not many are reliable.

At the beginning, Feng Chen also admired Mengchang's reputation for recruiting talented people, so he went to seek refuge. Feng Chen came to seek refuge wearing a pair of straw sandals, which was looked down upon by many people.

At that time, there were already many famous people in the diners at Mengchangjun's house. Feng Chen was unknown and had only a broken sword. Mengchangjun asked him: "You have come all the way, do you have any advice for me?"

"I heard that you are willing to support scholars. I am too poor to open the pot and just want to make a living."

After the conversation was like this, Mengchangjun said no more and arranged for Feng Chen to live in a place where lower-class people lived. Due to the large number of people, and to facilitate management and to stimulate the enterprising spirit of diners, the treatment of scholars in Mengchangjun's house was divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower. Feng Xuan

Xuan lives in low-class housing, and the treatment he receives is naturally that of a low-class person, such as eating

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No fish.

A few days later, Lord Mengchang asked the person in charge what Feng Chen had done recently.

Feng Xuan had a sword, but there was no scabbard. Instead, a straw rope was wrapped around the handle. After dinner every day, Feng Xuan sang while fencing:

"Chang Chai is back, but there is no fish to eat!" It means, Chang Sword, we should go home, there is no fish to eat.

After hearing this, Lord Mengchang ordered Feng Xuan to be moved to the residence of a middle-class diner, so that he could have food. However, Feng Xuan still played the sword and sang loudly: "The Changchai is back, and he is out of Wuyu!"

Mengchangjun also arranged for Feng Xuan to go to the residence of the top diners, and there would be carriages to transport him in and out. However, Feng Xuan still played the sword and sang loudly: "Chang Chai is back, and he has no home to call home!"

Feng Chen sang wildly every day. Not only were the other diners tired of hearing this, but even Lord Mengchang was upset and no longer managed him.

More than a year later, Lord Mengchang wanted to see how capable Feng Xuan, the bad old man, was. Lord Mengchang had more than 3,000 people in his house. Although he had ten thousand households, the taxes collected were still not enough to support so many people.

So they started lending money at high interest rates.

This year, the crops failed and the people could not pay back the money. Thinking of the food and clothing for more than 3,000 people, Mengchangjun was very worried. Someone told Mengchangjun that Feng Xuan in the superior guest room was an elder, shrewd and steady, and the best candidate for debt collection.

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After receiving the mission, Feng Chen didn't say much, said goodbye to Mengchangjun and went straight to Xue County. He paid back what he could, and collected a total of 100,000 yuan in interest.

With the money, Feng Chen brewed a lot of good wine, bought fat cattle, called all the people who owed money to Lord Mengchang, asked them to bring IOUs, and held a grand banquet.

After drinking, Feng Xuan told everyone that the reason why Lord Mengchang made usury was to lend money to people who had no funds to engage in life and production. The main reason why Lord Mengchang asked for debts was because there were too many diners in the house and he had no money to support him. Now the days have passed

When it is due, those who can repay have already repaid. As for those who cannot repay, they will be exempted. Finally, Feng Chen emphasized, "If you have such a king, how can you bear it?"

After hearing this, everyone was deeply moved and knelt down one after another and worshiped twice.

After hearing about this, Lord Mengchang was furious and scolded Feng Xuan. Feng Xuan said that he held a big banquet to see who was able to repay the debt and who was not. For those who were able, as long as they were given a time limit, they would definitely pay off the debt.

Still. For those who are incapable, even if you give them ten years, they still can't make it.

If the people can't come up, and the boss presses them, they have no choice but to flee. If the people flee one after another, people in the world will say that the boss is mean and can't tolerate the people, which will harm the reputation of the boss. Since the people can't come up, why not

Forgive them their debt? It also builds reputation.

After Feng Xuan's analysis, Mengchangjun agreed very much and expressed his gratitude to Feng Xuan repeatedly.
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