The End of the Spring and Autumn Period: Chen Dominates the World

This story is purely fictitious and any similarity is purely coincidental. In 538 BC, the state of Chen. The Chu army pressed on the border, and the king of Chen prepared to surrender. Chen Wenjie said in the court: "Your problem is not that you can't defeat Chu, but that production relations restrict the development of productivity." All civil and military officials thought he was crazy. Three days later, he took out the "Outline of Chen Guo's Three Years of Reform" - granting land, establishing households, training troops, promoting commerce, and smelting iron. Five years later, Chu State no longer dared to look directly in the direction of Chen State.