Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

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If an official does not have a little awe, then this person will degenerate sooner or later.

On this day, the fleet led by Zhao Kuo arrived in the Yangtze River mightily.

From the perspective of civilization, the mother river of the Chinese nation is undoubtedly the Yellow River, but in a sense, the Yellow River is only a kind of breeding of Chinese civilization, while the Yangtze River represents the development of Chinese civilization .

When the Chinese civilization was limited to the surrounding areas of the Yellow River, the Chinese civilization was not yet considered a mature period, and when the Chinese civilization completely controlled the two rivers of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, its heyday really came at this time.

In the history of Chinese civilization, the center of gravity of China was also from the Yellow River Basin at the beginning, and then gradually moved southward to the Yangtze River Basin.

Therefore, for the place of the Yangtze River, the Han Kingdom should attach great importance to it.

Standing on the big boat, Zhao Kuo said to the Minister of Agriculture beside him, Lu Buwei said: Although it is true that the Han Kingdom is currently dominated by commercial economy, we must always remember that agriculture is what a country can rely on for survival fundamental.

What your Ministry of Agriculture needs to do next is to develop the agriculture in the Yangtze River Basin and make it another land of fish and rice, understand?

According to common sense, Lu Buwei was a big businessman before, and his best official position is obviously the minister or deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce.

However, Zhao Kuo chose Lu Buwei to be the Minister of Agriculture, and he obviously had his own considerations.

People like Lu Buwei can serve as prime ministers in the future, but if they don't know the importance of agriculture, that's absolutely impossible.

As long as Lu Buwei is placed in the position of Minister of Agriculture for a few years, we can consider whether to let Lu Buwei take over in the future.

Of course Lu Buwei didn't understand what Zhao Kuo was thinking at the moment, but Lu Buwei respectfully agreed to Zhao Kuo's order.

Lu Buwei said to Zhao Kuo very attentively: "Your Majesty, as our Great Han Kingdom has immigrated from the Central Plains to this Jiangnan area in recent years, the area of ​​cultivated land on the Jiangnan side has doubled by a full amount, and it can It is expected to expand at least 10 to 3 times within 5 years.

After Zhao Kuo heard Lu Buwei's words, he also nodded slightly. For the current Jiangnan, the arable land is absolutely sufficient, and the shortage is actually the population.

This is mainly because the current Yellow River has not yet flooded, and the Yellow River is not the river that would cause infinite suffering to the people of the Central Plains because of its embankments. Therefore, most of the population in the Central Plains is still concentrated in the Yellow River Plain, which is what people often say of the Central Plains.

As for the generation of the Yangtze River, for the present people, it is actually a very distant land of the Southern Barbarians, and the area south of the Yangtze River can be directly described as a barren land.

However, after the unification of the Han Kingdom, the promotion of the Yangtze River and other remote areas has also been carried out one after another. People with less land are willing to go to Jiangnan or other areas under the mobilization of the government.

There are also many policies invested in mobilizing people to immigrate to the Han Dynasty. If a labor force can get 100 acres of fertile land in the Central Plains, then as long as he is willing to move to the south of the Yangtze River, he can directly obtain 1000 acres of uncultivated land.

In addition, the government of the Han Dynasty will also subsidize these immigrants to help them build houses, water wells and other necessary living measures. At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture will send officials to guide them in local work, as well as their farm tools for the first year. It is also distributed free of charge.

It is foreseeable that with the continuous implementation of such subsidy measures, more people will slowly migrate out of the Central Plains and spread to every corner of the Han Kingdom in the future.

This is exactly what Zhao Kuo is most happy to see. After all, it is really easy for you to conquer the territory of a country, but if no one lives on it, it must be absolutely impossible.

Only by letting more immigrants come out of the Central Plains, to the frontiers, to the south of the Yangtze River, to Lingnan and other places, can the Chinese civilization truly come out of the Central Plains and spread to the whole world.

Zhao Kuo nodded, and said to Lu Buwei: You are also a person who does practical things. I hope you can maintain this tradition. The last thing our Han officials need is a pompous style. Do you understand?

To some extent, this is also a warning to Lu Buwei.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Lu Buwei immediately accepted the order, his eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

A few days later, the fleet traveled east along the Yangtze River and finally arrived in Suzhou, the capital of Kuaiji County.

Chapter 1201 Arriving in Suzhou City (No.30 [-]rd)

The original name of the city was Wu County, but Zhao Kuo obviously thought that the name Wu County was not satisfactory.

Therefore, the name Suzhou was born many years in advance.

"There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below." Looking at the city in front of him, Zhao Kuo couldn't help saying these eight words slowly.

Tian Wan who was standing beside Zhao Kuo was a little confused: "Your Majesty, is Suzhou and Hangzhou one city or two cities?"

Zhao Kuo was about to explain it with great interest, when he suddenly came to his senses, there was no Hangzhou at this time.

Zhao Kuo coughed, and said nonchalantly, "I'm also expressing my feelings, Queen, don't care about these details. By the way, there are many beautiful scenery in Suzhou. When the time comes

It is estimated that you will be very interested. "

Tian Wan was a little puzzled, and looked at Zhao Kuo with a pair of big eyes blinking. Relying on a woman's intuition, she always felt that Zhao Kuo seemed to be hiding something from her.

But after getting off the boat, Tian Wan's eyes were indeed attracted.

It's already summer, and the lush trees outside Suzhou City, all kinds of flowers that can't be named are in full bloom, and there is a faint fragrance of flowers in the air.

There are happy smiles on the faces of the people who go.

Looking into the distance, a city is looming, although its whole picture has not yet been seen clearly, but there is already a faint momentum rushing towards it.

This place is indeed worthy of being the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River in the Han Dynasty. Just a little observation, it already looks so different.

Zhao Kuo said to Tian Wan with a smile, "Let's go, let's go to the city to have a look."

Zhao Kuo's motorcade was mighty, surrounded by many army guards, and entered the city.

Many passers-by stopped and saluted Zhao Kuo on the side of the road. Zhao Kuo also waved with a smile, looking quite close to the people.

If possible, Zhao Kuo even wanted to get out of the car and chat with passers-by, but so many ministers behind him would definitely stop him desperately, so forget it.

All the way into Suzhou, unlike other cities, it used to be the capital of Wu and Yue, so there is a palace city in the city, which is Zhao Kuo's palace.

After entering Miyagi, Tian Wan was immediately attracted by the Wuyue architectural style, which was completely different from the Central Plains, and she obviously liked it very much.

Zhao Kuo smiled and waved his hand: "The empress likes it, come on, come and find the architectural drawings of these palaces. If there are no blueprints, find someone to draw them again.

It's time to restore this palace city in the imperial capital! "

Tian Wan was taken aback when she heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, absolutely not, it would be too much of a waste of time and money to do so!"

"It's a waste of money for the people?" Zhao Kuo laughed directly after hearing this sentence: "Queen, don't you understand? How can I build a palace for my women, so how can I need the country's money?"

Where is the money?This time, all the money for the palace came from my young mansion, and it has absolutely nothing to do with laboring people and wasting money! "

Shaofu, that is the emperor's private money, the emperor used the private money to build a palace, no one can fault it.

After hearing this, Tian Wan couldn't help but said in surprise: "Your Majesty, this must cost a lot of money. Does Shaofu really have so much money?"

Zhao Kuo laughed loudly: "Queen, you don't know anything about my wealth!"

Now Zhao Kuo is not ordinary rich.

You must know that Zhao Kuo's Shaofu now includes the largest shareholders and shareholders of at least ten companies including Dahanuo Textile Group, Dahanguo Arms Factory Group, Dahanuo Navigation Group, etc.

The actual controllers, the annual profits of these companies are astronomical.

Just relying on the profits of these listed companies attributable to Zhao Kuo every year, that is a figure that makes the big nobles and wealthy businessmen directly dumbfounded, and a part of it is used to repair it.

Building a palace is not easy at all.

Zhao Kuo was not like Qin Shihuang, who only knew how to scrape money from the common people, and finally made the common people intolerable, and Qin Shihuang directly rebelled as soon as he died.

For Zhao Kuo, we don't need to scrape even a penny from the common people, and we can still build this palace beautifully.

How many billion?That's all trivial.Dozens of billions?Not a big problem!

This is the benefit of business. Qin's suppression of business is actually wasting a very important opportunity to alleviate social conflicts.

The development of commerce can also attract a large number of employed people. As long as the common people have jobs and can eat enough, who will rebel?

Of course, the siphon effect on the population after commercial development is also obvious, so the Han Kingdom needs to continue to expand, so that it can get a lot of money from other countries.

The captives were added to agricultural production as labor force.

Finally, when the Han Dynasty develops mechanized agriculture, the agricultural population will not need too much. At that time, it doesn't matter how much business siphons the population.

This is the status quo of the country of later Midi.

In the final analysis, as long as the technology of Dahan Kingdom continues to develop, all problems can actually be solved.

This is where the advantages of the traversers lie. Can't the problems of this era be solved?It doesn't matter, I will directly use the method of the next era to reduce dimensionality.

Problems that cannot be solved by agricultural society cannot be easily solved by modern society!

Zhao Kuo withdrew his thoughts, and at the same time looked at Qiu'er and Yiquwei beside him.

These two concubines did come with Zhao Kuo, but Zhao Kuo thought it would be too eye-catching to bring three women at once during the private visit of Weifu, and the prince and princess

They also need someone to take care of them, so they didn't bring the two of them.

If you think about it this way, it is true that you have to express a little bit to these two little wives. As a man, the most important thing is to get even exposure to the rain and dew, so that everyone can be happy, right?

Zhao Kuo said with a smile: "At that time, let's build three palaces, one for each of you, and it will save the two of you from saying that I am partial, hahaha!"

As Zhao Kuo said before, whether it is one palace or three palaces, it is not a problem for Zhao Kuo now.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Qiu'er and Yi Quwei couldn't help being overjoyed.

Qiu'er said: "If possible, the concubine hopes to build a pink palace."

Zhao Kuo nodded with a smile: "This is absolutely no problem!"

Yiquwei hurriedly said: "The concubine wants to build a green palace, with the color and feel of the prairie!"

Zhao Kuo's body paused slightly, and his expression became a little subtle.

Green Prairie...

Forget it, Yiquwei is young and ignorant, and she is not a modern person, how would she know what this means?let her go.

What Zhao Kuo didn't notice was that just as his royal driver was marching into the city, several people were quietly watching all this from a distance.

A person whispered: "There was actually an opportunity just now, why didn't you let me try?"

Another person said with a calm expression: "What we want is a [-]% chance to kill Zhao Kuo. Now Zhao Kuo is surrounded by guards. If you act rashly, you will be killed."

You will be found out. It doesn't matter if you die when the time comes, you will destroy all the major events of the master, understand?Well, let's wait patiently, since Zhao Kuo has come

, then it will be a matter of time before he visits privately on Weibo! "

While speaking, this person also slightly shook a portrait in his hand, which depicted Zhao Kuo so realistically.

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The next day, Zhao Kuo summoned the officials of Kuaiji County in the temporary palace.

Perhaps it was because of awe of the majesty of Zhao Kuo's emperor, or perhaps because Zhao Kuo's murders in Juchao City really shocked the political arena of the Han Dynasty. In short, these officials

All of them were respectful, and it is no exaggeration to say that they did not dare to take a breath.

Zhao Kuo smiled lightly and said, "You don't need to be so restrained, just chat casually."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Kuo also began to ask about the local situation in Kuaiji County.

Why does Zhao Kuo pay so much attention to Kuaiji County?This is because in history, during the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Xiang family represented by Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang used Kuaiji County as their base.

starting price.

That's right, the "Jiangdong" in the sentence "I still think about Xiang Yu, and I don't want to cross Jiangdong", in a broad sense refers to the Yangtze River Delta area, but in a narrow sense it actually refers to this Kuaiji County.

This is why Zhao Kuo attaches great importance to Kuaiji County and came here for the first time on a parade. He doesn't want any rebellion against the Han Kingdom to appear here, which would be annoying

The.

Faced with Zhao Kuo's inquiries, these local officials naturally put up all their energy and answered them one by one very carefully, trying to leave a good impression on His Majesty the Emperor.

All in all, the situation in Kuaiji County is still very good. In just a few years, the arable land here has soared to more than five times that of before, and it is still increasing.

rise.

This is mainly because of large-scale immigration. Everyone has a psychological consideration for immigration. If you go to the north, you are not used to the grasslands.

Bashu has high mountains and dangerous roads, so Kuaiji County, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River, is relatively close to the Central Plains and has convenient transportation, has become the first choice for immigrants.

selected.

Zhao Kuo kept nodding when he heard the words, but he had another idea in his heart.

Judging from the current situation, Kuaiji County should soon become the most populous county in the south of the Yangtze River. In other words, various benefits and subsidies for immigrants in Kuaiji County

Time to stop too.

After all, the population of Kuaiji County will still increase naturally in the future, and it is necessary to give some land and hope to those babies who are born.

In addition, Zhao Kuo took the opportunity to test the local officials in Kuaiji County. Like some officials, he may not be capable enough, but what is wrong with the various reports on the memorial?

It’s not bad to ask someone to write it in a mess, but if you ask it on the spot, it will directly reveal the truth.

As for those who are really capable and really do things, all kinds of data are naturally familiar in their hearts, and they can give answers immediately when asked about the specific situation of the people.

It can be seen from the daily memorials, and even these people may not be qualified to write memorials for Zhao Kuo.

Generally speaking, mediocre officials still account for the majority, there are two or three relatively useless officials, and five or six relatively outstanding officials.

This was actually beyond Zhao Kuo's expectations. For Zhao Kuo, he thought it would be good to find two or three outstanding officials.

This also gave Zhao Kuo some comfort. Looking at it this way, the quality of the officials of the Han Dynasty is quite good. After all, corrupt officials like Zhang Xiaodong were not allowed to spread in the Han Dynasty on a large scale.