Chaoge City.
After Ji Fa's previous military approach beneath the city walls, the upper-tier nobility of Yin Shang had almost all fled.
From Di Xin's perspective, he was a massive failure both as a grand king and as a man, but for Yin Shang, which was now devoid of real-power nobility, it regained its vitality.
Resources were fixed, but distribution was not fixed, and this redistribution allowed ordinary people at this time to obtain immense benefits.
Yet, Yin Shang also fell into chaos after the absence of the real-power nobility.
Ruling a country came down to nothing more than two paths: human rule and rule by law.
In this era of knowledge monopoly, mud-legged peasants could not even recognize characters, so attempting to implement human rule was clearly unreliable.
Wang Ming had no choice but to set up Jixia training classes overnight, rapidly cultivating a group of officials who understood the laws and methods of management.
Along with the appearance of Legalist classics such as Han Feizi in the Jixia training class, Wang Ming's perspective expanded instantly.
In the subsequent period, there were always great sages popping up from who knew where.
Thus, in the place called Chaoge City, a phenomenon of an ideological explosion emerged.
Legalism, Confucianism, Militarism, the School of Names, the Mohist School...
All kinds of ideological schools of thought appeared in the process.
There were simply too many talents in Chaoge City, so many that the students of Jixia Academy could not possibly be exhausted.
How could scholars who had learned the arts of dragon-slaughtering be willing to remain obscure like this, unable to stretch their talents and realize the ambitions in their hearts?
Thus, a large number of scholars walked out of Chaoge and went to pledge allegiance to other vassal kings.
At first, everyone