"Everyone come in!" Yan Chunjun shouted loudly, and the generals who were blocking the door and eavesdropping accidentally opened the door and fell to the ground.
But they all quickly stood still, looking at Lejian and Yan Chunjun in the room, and finally their eyes focused on Yan Chunjun.
"You are all from Yan and Zhao, and you have been following me for a long time!" Lord Yan Chun glanced over each general.
"Everyone wants to leave, but I won't stop you. Pass on my order to open the city gate. If you want to leave, leave now!" Lord Yan Chun threw down a token and asked the city gate order to open the city gate.
Many generals were moved and looked at Lejian, hesitating.
There were also many generals and commanders looking at Yan Chunjun with firm eyes.
"Today, I am here to explain things clearly." Seeing that no one was leaving, Mr. Yan Chun motioned for everyone to sit down.
Le Jian frowned, did not speak, did not overshadow the guest, and wanted to know what Yan Chunjun was thinking. It is true that he can take away most of the soldiers, but if Yan Chunjun does not leave, these departing generals will not be able to join the battlefield immediately.
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"In these days, or rather in these years, Zhao State's decrees and Zhao State's courtesy have ever treated us differently. You don't need to answer. You can answer according to your own conscience."
"Compared with Yan State, please think carefully, is Zhao State more suitable for our Yan people's life, or can Yan State give us a better and give Yan people a better future?" Yan Chunjun asked, looking at all the generals.
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"This..." All the generals hesitated.
They have been in the Zhao Kingdom for several years, and they all know what the life of the Zhao people has been like since the Zhao Kingdom's political reform. With large-scale construction projects, water conservancy projects, and people's livelihood, it is indeed better than the former Yan Kingdom.
The Zhao people did not treat them differently and allowed them to bring their families into Zhao's life. Fields, farm tools, and grain seeds were all provided free of charge, and taxes and corvee were the lightest among other countries.
"How could Mr. Yanchun know that since the king succeeded to the throne, the Yan State has also been working hard to govern, recuperate, and provide convenience to the people?" Lejian knew that he could not let Mr. Yanchun say any more, otherwise, these generals would be shaken.
"Patricide, regicide, regicide, how can such a person be qualified to become a king?" Yan Chunjun sneered, no matter what Yan Dan does now, it cannot change this fact.
"Those who achieve great things don't stick to trivial matters, but none of this can be denied. After the king succeeded to the throne, the Yan Kingdom has indeed become stronger!" Lejian said.
"Really, then besides annexing Donghu and going militarily, what else did he do? Has the system of the Yan State changed? How many policies to benefit the people, how many large-scale water conservancy projects, large-scale projects, and how many frivolous labors are there in the Yan State?" Yan
Chunjun asked rhetorically.
Le Jian did not answer, but Yan Chunjun did.
"No, what did Ji Dan do after he took over? He increased the corvee, raised taxes, increased military expenditures, and expanded the army. All of this was based on the Yan people. Nothing that really benefited the Yan people.
No!" Yan Chunjun said coldly.
"If Zhao State wasn't so strong, how could your Majesty be like this?" Lejian retorted.
Ji Dan may have also wanted to reduce military expenditures and return troops to the people. However, the rise of Zhao State forced Yan State to increase the number of troops. In order to maintain the number and combat effectiveness of the army, it had to increase taxes and corvee services.
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"Can Zhao Guoqiang be as strong as Qin Guoqiang? Why can't Yan people do what Zhao can do? What Zhao can do, Yan can't do? Are Zhao people more tenacious or more able to endure hardships, or Yan people?
Are all people lazy?" Yan Chunjun sneered.
Le Jian was silent again. Not everyone has the courage of Emperor Yao, who dares to reform the country and kill the powerful. The Yan Kingdom has been entrenched for hundreds of years and the nobility is difficult to shake. It is impossible to imitate the methods of the Zhao Kingdom.
It's possible.
"Jueying!" Yan Chunjun suddenly called Jueying.
Jueying also appeared next to Yan Chunjun, and at the same time presented a tray filled with bamboo slips to Yan Chunjun.
Yan Chunjun casually pulled out a scroll of bamboo slips and showed it to everyone, "This is the record of Fangcheng's population migration in May of the third year of Emperor Yao's reign!" After that, Yan Chunjun opened the bamboo slips in front of everyone.
"On one day, there were twelve households with thirty-four people who settled in the city from Yan; on the second day, there were fifteen households with forty-six people who came from Yan and settled in the city; on the third day, there were nineteen households who settled in the city from Yan.
Sixty people... On the 30th, 76 households settled in the city from Yan, totaling 537 people. In May, 539 households settled in the city, totaling 3821 people.
People!" Yan Chunjun read word by word, none of the data was fake, they were all statistics from Fangcheng Hucao.
"This is just a random month. In just one month, there are as many as 539 Ding households, nearly 4,000 people, who fled from Yan State to Zhao. What is this concept? Lord Chang Guo should be very clear.
!" Lord Yan Chun threw the bamboo slips in front of Lejian.
Le Jian couldn't believe his ears, let alone the fact. He picked up the bamboo slips on the ground with trembling hands, and traced the Zhao inscriptions carved with a carving knife word by word with his fingers until he finally saw Handan on it.
, after reporting the seal retained by the Prime Minister's Office, I had to admit that this was true data.
In one month, the number of people who fled from Yan State to Zhao State reached nearly 600 households, which is equivalent to a small township. And this is only Fangcheng, not counting Wu Sui and other cities bordering Yan.
On average, nearly ten thousand people would have fled into Zhao State in one month!
"If the Yan State is really as Lord Chang said, and Ji Dan is working hard to govern and live a prosperous life for the people, why do the Yan people spontaneously move into the Zhao State on a large scale?" Yan Chunjun looked at Lejian and asked.
"The people cannot understand national policies and decrees, but they know best where they can survive!"
"Pang Nuan, why didn't General Li Mu encounter any decent resistance when he conquered the city? Don't you understand, Lord Chang?" Lord Yan Chun looked at Lejian with a sigh.
This is the tragedy of the Yan State. He also hopes that Ji Dan can make a difference and that the Yan State can be strong. In this way, even if he is in the Zhao State, he can still feel happy and even die this time.
Defeat Yan and Zhao.
But Yan State finally let him down, and the choices made by the people of Yan State allowed him to see more clearly what the general trend was.
"Jueying, sound the general's drum and gather the troops on the battlefield!" Yan Chunjun ordered again, summoning the entire Fangcheng army to the battlefield.
The war drums were beating, and all the soldiers in Fangcheng rushed towards the school field in the city. Then they saw their Shangguan, Lord Yanchun and Lord Changguo Lejian standing on the general stage.
The soldiers all had an ominous premonition and looked hesitantly at the general's platform.
"If Lord Yanchun and Lord Changguo make us rebel, what should we do?" The soldiers were whispering to each other and testing the thoughts of Paoze around them.