Zhao Kuo couldn't help but think that when he was marching, no matter whether in the Hetao or through the Taihang Mountains, he encountered no wild beasts rushing into the army, but incidents of wild beasts hurting people occurred frequently.
The wild beasts also bully the weak and fear the strong.
Unless Zhao State sends hundreds of thousands of troops to plow Zhao State like a field, but this is impossible.
Not to mention whether it can be done, even if it can be done, it is impossible to do it, because the existence of beasts is necessary. Once the number of certain beasts suddenly decreases, causing ecological imbalance, humans will also be affected.
It is difficult to control this using military encirclement and suppression.
It is much more convenient to put a bounty with money. You only need to issue a bounty order when the beasts are overrun, and cancel it when the beasts are suppressed. A strong man only needs to hand over a pair of ears as proof to receive the bounty, and the rest can be kept for improvement.
Eat or sell.
And compared to the cost of dispatching an army, the cost of a bounty order is lower.
Zhao Kuo looked at the files one by one. These files had all been processed and he only needed to look at them, but there were a lot of types.
"Brother Wang, Zheng Guo has arrived outside the palace." At this time, Zhao Mu walked in and said with cupped hands.
"Bring it to the side hall." Zhao Kuo stood up and walked towards the side hall.
"Cao...Cao people Zheng Guo pays homage to the king."
Zheng Guomao is about 20 years old, with a thin face, dark skin and piercing eyes.
"My younger brother recommended you to me, saying that you are good at water conservancy and road construction?" Zhao Kuo asked.
"Your Majesty, Cao Min's ancestors helped the Wei and Song dynasties build divides and deep ditches. Cao Min's grandfather participated in the construction of Heze, Putianze and river embankments. Cao Min's father helped Zheng Guo build the Xingze embankment and presided over the excavation of ditches.
Irrigating farmland. Although grassroots people have not really presided over large-scale water conservancy construction, they are still relatively confident in this aspect."
Zheng Guogang was a little nervous when he saw Zhao Kuo at first. After a few breaths, he adjusted his mentality and said in a neither humble nor overbearing tone.
At this point, Zhao Kuo was basically sure that the Zheng State in front of him was the Zheng State that built the Zheng Guo Canal in history. There should not be many people with this name, and they were proficient in water conservancy. Except for the Zheng State in history, they should not
There is someone else.
"I am going to let you take full responsibility for the water conservancy construction in the Hetao. What do you think?" Zhao Kuo asked.
Today, the only one who can rival Li Bing in terms of water conservancy is Zheng Guo.
However, there is still a certain gap between Zheng Guo and Li Bing. After all, Li Bing's Dujiangyan Irrigation System is about to be completed, turning the flood-prone Shu land into thousands of hectares of fertile land, but Zheng Guo has not yet had any impressive achievements.
"Your Majesty, the common people need to go to the Hetao before they can make a decision." Zheng Guo said with clasped fists.
"Okay, then I will appoint you as the water officer of my country, Zhao. You go back and take care of things at home first, and then set off for Hetao in a few days." Zhao Kuo said.
"Grass people... I will not let the king down." Zheng Guo said with some excitement. When Zhao Mu told him that he was going to meet with King Zhao, he had a hunch that he might be reused. After all, Zhao Guo has been working for the past two years.
To build water conservancy, otherwise he would not have come to Zhao from South Korea, but he did not expect to get such great power when he first entered Zhao.
"I believe in you." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.
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On the other side, Li Si is facing the biggest decision in his life, even more difficult than his original decision to leave Chu.
This matter started about half a month ago, when he was ordered to handle loan matters from various places. This matter was very troublesome. Not many families were clean in this regard, and many people would be offended if they were not careful.
But these are not problems for Li Si. He handled it very well, neither letting those evildoers go, nor causing too much killing.
As for those who hated him, Li Si didn't care. A group of families that were only influential in this county were eventually swept into the dust of history.
The only reason to let them go now is because the Loop needs people to develop it. If he doesn't have a long memory, then he will have no choice but to kill him.
So these days have been going smoothly. According to the progress, he will be able to return to Handan in about a month.
Until three days ago, when he passed by Linhe County, a half-clothed woman rushed out of a village on the roadside, knelt in front of the carriage, and begged to be taken away. Two men with sticks chased behind her, further away.
There is a group of people approaching here.
If it was before, Li Si would turn around and leave without saying a word, and would never care about such nonsense.
However, under the guidance of Lin Xiangru and Xunzi during this period, he could not do such a thing.
Moreover, when he came to Zhao State with nothing, it was Zhao Kuo who paid great attention to training him, and he became what he is today. Zhao Kuo was as kind as a mountain to him, and he could not live up to Zhao Kuo's trust.
So, he rescued the woman.
This is a big deal!
According to the woman, she was abducted and trafficked to Yanghu, and she escaped today when the guards were not paying attention. Fortunately, she met Li Si, otherwise she would have been dragged back and beaten severely in the end.
If the matter was just that simple, Li Si wouldn't have to be embarrassed, he could just rescue the woman and then kill the trafficker according to law.
Although there are slaves in every country, the sale and purchase of civilians is prohibited. Once discovered, all slaves will be beheaded.
Whether it is Li Si or the local county magistrate, it can be dealt with, and it is not a big deal.
But there's more to it than that.
Linhe County is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Wei. It used to be the junction of the four kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, Qi and Wei. In the Zhao Kingdom, it was also at the junction of Ye County, Jixi County and Handan County.
Center of Three Kingdoms and Three Counties!
The Sangui area is already chaotic enough, and Linhe County is even more so. The level of chaos can be imagined, with smog everywhere and rogue bandits running rampant.
Yanghuli is located at the junction of Zhao State and Wei State. It is a famous poor village in Linhe County. It has a bad reputation. No women will marry here. Men who cannot marry a wife will find human traffickers or directly engage in trafficking themselves.
Once a person is no longer bound by the law, the ugliness in his heart will be magnified countless times in an instant.
After one person made a profit, others rushed to follow suit. Over time, many people in Yanghu started the business of human traffickers.
Moreover, Yanghuli is close to Wei State and has a strategic geographical location. Because Zhao State is strong and Wei State is weak, even if Chinese people are trafficked into Zhao State, Wei State does not dare to enter Zhao State to arrest people.
So Yanghu became more and more rampant.
Later, when the State of Zhao heard about this, he sent people to arrest people in Yanghu, but only a few irrelevant people were captured, and the rest all fled to the States of Qi and Wei.
As for the joint arrest by the four countries, it is simply impossible.
For Qi and Wei, whether they are the perpetrators or the victims, they have nothing to do with them, so why should they care about these nonsense?
Zhao Guo had no choice but to let it go.
As a result, Yanghuli grew bigger and bigger, and was no longer satisfied with trafficking people from the Wei Kingdom, and began to traffic people among the four countries.
When Zhao State sent people to arrest, they went to Wei State; when Wei State arrested people, they went to Wei State; when Wei State arrested people, they went to Qi State; when Qi State sent people to arrest people, they went to Zhao State.
Over time, no country was willing to take care of it, and Yanghuli and even Linhe County became a place harboring filth and evil.