"Your Majesty, I have invited a total of twenty-three people. They have all arrived in Handan and no one has declined." Kong Chuan said proudly.
This is the strength of the Kong family!
"Where are you here?" Zhao Kuo looked at Liu Ping again.
For some old monsters in the mountains, the Kong family's reputation is greater than that of the Zhao family, but for most normal people, the Zhao family's reputation is far greater than that of the Kong family.
"Except for Qin State's Shu County Li Bing who has not yet arrived, everyone else has arrived in Handan." Liu Ping said.
Zhao Kuo nodded. Li Bing just wanted to try it on a whim to see if he could dig it out. He had no hope in the first place.
After all, Li Bing was also the governor of a county in the Qin State. He was like a feudal official and was not a minor official.
"Let's make some arrangements. I will hold a banquet in the evening to welcome everyone." Zhao Kuo said to the eunuch on the side.
By the way, Zhao Kuo only later found out that not all the eunuchs these days were expelled. Many of them were selected from good families, just like bodyguards.
However, the eunuchs in the harem were all castrated, and they were no different from the later eunuchs.
"No." The eunuch said respectfully.
"Is there anything else?" Zhao Kuo looked around.
"Your Majesty." Xunzi stood up, cupped his hands and said, "I suggest that some of the academy places be allocated to Lou Fan, Lin Hu, Dai and other clans."
"Since King Wuling, Loufan, Linhu and other tribes have returned to Zhao for decades. King Wuling made Zhao people wear Hu clothes and wear He crowns, which to a certain extent weakened the contradiction between Zhao people and Hu people.
But in essence, Zhao people and Hu people are still distinct."
"Previously, Zhao State had been fighting for years and was unable to worry about northern Xinjiang. Loufan and other Hu people joined forces with the Xiongnu to plunder the Zhao State's borders and invaded most of our Hetao area. They have not been able to fully recover it so far. This shows that the Hu people do not accept enlightenment and do not know how to recover.
Enyi, but he surrendered to Zhao State because he was afraid of Zhao State's strength."
"I think that we can invite some of the descendants of the Hu people who are close to our Zhao country to join the academy, so that they can learn our Zhao country's writing and speak our Zhao country's language, and then send them back to educate their people, so that the Hu people can slowly join our Zhao country.
"
After King Wuling of Zhao became a Hu-clad cavalry-shooter, he carried out reforms while wooing Loufan Linhu and other tribal leaders. He relied on the method of wooing one faction to suppress the other, and continued to encroach on the Hu people.
Lou Sui, Lou Chang and others all came from Loufan, and it was at that time that they took refuge in Zhao State.
After annexing Zhongshan, King Wuling of Zhao concentrated all the power of Zhao State to annex Loufan and Linhu, and established the three counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen and Dai.
However, King Zhao Wuling died before he had time to deal with the ethnic conflicts. Although King Zhao Huiwen took some measures afterwards, they were far behind King Zhao Wuling.
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"Xunzi's method is too slow. Your Majesty, I think that as long as we cut off its customs, destroy its language, burn its ancestral temples, destroy its residences, move away from its ancestral land, and change our surname in Zhao, in less than twenty years, there will be no more Zhao.
Hu people, this method can be solved once and for all, and there will be no future troubles." Tian Dan clasped his fists and said with murderous intent.
"Although this method is effective quickly, it will take twenty years. During this period, it will continue to contain part of the power of Zhao State." Xunzi shook his head.
"I heard that in order to govern Bashu, the Qin State granted Bashu kings a title of nobility, exempted and exempted them from paying taxes, and vigorously immigrated to Bashu and Shu. It encouraged Bashu kings to marry Qin girls, and Qin soldiers who were exiled married Bashu girls. female."
"It is also stipulated that as long as one of the parents is from Qin, the remaining child will be from Qin. Only if both parents are from Ba or Shu, the child will be from Bashu. Now decades have passed, the real Bashu people There are fewer and fewer people in Qin, and there are more and more people in Qin. I think that our country, Zhao, can imitate Qin." Lin Xiangru said.
"The State of Qin still has such regulations!" Zhao Kuo was surprised. In comparison, the system of the State of Qin was at least a dozen times ahead of a certain system of later generations. It not only used gentle strategies to regain the hearts of the Bashu tribes, but also moisturized things. He quietly assimilated the Bashu people into Qin people.
Let’s look at a certain system, using a little favor in exchange for... Well, let’s not mention it.
"No wonder the territory of China has grown in size and size over the past two thousand years, but the territory of the Qin Dynasty has always been the basis. I'm afraid it is inseparable from this policy." Zhao Kuo thought in his mind.
"What was the previous system like in our Zhao country?" Zhao Kuo asked.
"We, the State of Zhao, did not have much control over the Hu people before. They were all managed by themselves. We only collected cattle, sheep, horses and furs as taxes." Chulong said.
"No registered household registration?" Zhao Kuo looked at Lin Xiangru.
"No." Lin Xiangru shook his head.
"Registration of household registration will begin immediately. All persons must be registered. Whether they are Zhao people or Hu people, those who dare to resist will be demoted as slaves and sent to Taiyuan to mine coal." Zhao Kuo said in a deep voice.
"Nuo." Lin Xiangru said with a shiver in his heart and cupped his hands.
"I would like to pardon non-important criminals and some slaves, move them to the three counties in northern Xinjiang, and encourage intermarriage between Zhao and Hu people. At the same time, I will select some Hu people tribes who are close to our Zhao country, grant them places, and invite their children to enter our Handan Academy. Study. In addition, move about one-third of the Hu tribes into the interior of our Zhao country and give them farmland so that they can feel the prosperity of our Zhao country."
Zhao Kuo planned to use a multi-pronged approach to win over, suppress and educate at the same time, dividing the Hu people into several parts so that they could not be united together, and then gradually assimilated.
Zhao State has more advantages against the Hu people than Qin State against the Bashu people. As long as the Bashu people crawl into the mountains, Qin will not be able to find them.
But no matter where the Hu people ran, as long as they did not cross the Yin Mountains, Zhao would be able to find them.
"No." Everyone said with fists in their hands.
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Luo Fu is the leader of the Aries tribe. He has just bought ten bags of snow salt from Jiuyuan City and returned to the tribe. It only costs 100 yuan per stone. He has never bought such cheap and white salt.
I heard from the salt seller that it was brought from a distant seaside. Luo Fu had never been to the seaside and didn't understand why there was salt on the seaside. It might be the same as the salt lake of the Quyan tribe in the south.
He learned from the merchants that such salt had been sold for several months. He was the last to know that the current king of Zhao had stipulated that the price of salt should not exceed one hundred yuan per stone. Anyone who violated the regulations would be disqualified from selling salt and their homes would be ransacked.
He didn't know whether what the merchant said was true or false. Previous experience told him that if you don't take advantage of the bargains, it will be too late to regret it. So he bought ten full bags of sheepskin bags of snow salt at once, intending to keep them and go home slowly.
Eat slowly. If the price of salt increases in the future, you can still make some money by selling it.
There are not a few people who hold this plan, especially the Hu people in Yunzhong. The place is remote, the price of salt is usually several times that of the Central Plains, and all of it is unpurified green salt.
As for the best snow salt, even the big tribes can't buy it.
In the past few months, the salt merchants in Zhao State have made a lot of money.
However, such good times will not last long. After everyone has 'stored' salt, they will not be able to sell it for a long time.
"Grandpa." As soon as Luo Fu returned to the tribe, an eight or nine-year-old child ran out of the tent and threw himself into his arms.
"Look, what grandpa bought you." Luo Fu hugged the child with a smile on his face, took out a short bone knife from his arms, and shook it in front of the child's face.
"Bone knife! Grandpa, give it to me quickly." When the child saw the bone knife, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he stretched out his hand to grab the bone knife.
Rover raised the bone knife high and did not let the child catch it. After doing this several times, Rover smiled with satisfaction and put the bone knife into the child's hand.
"Thank you, grandpa." The child held the bone knife tightly in his arms and ran to the side, ready to show off his new bone knife with his friends.
"Deng Deng Deng!"
At this time, a rapid sound of horse hooves came from a distance, and a cavalryman quickly approached here.