"Your Majesty, a letter from Helan County." Zhao Kuo had just returned to the city. Upon seeing this, a knight quickly came over and said with cupped fists.
"Where did you come from?" Zhao Kuo took the letter and looked up at the knight.
"Reporting to your Majesty, Governor Lifu sent two teams to deliver the message, one to Handan and one to the King. The Governor said that the King should be near Yunzhong or Yanmen. His subordinates rushed to Yunzhong and Yanmen, but they did not see him.
When the king arrived, he went all the way south to Taiyuan, and the governor of Taiyuan asked his subordinates to come to Hexi." The knight leaned over and said.
It is no secret that Zhao Kuo went on patrol, but Li Fu didn't know that Zhao Kuo came to Hexi first, thinking that Zhao Kuo would follow the normal route and go north to Yanmen and Yunzhong.
"Thank you for your hard work. You can go down and rest first." Zhao Kuo nodded.
"promise."
"Master of water conservancy?" Zhao Kuo opened the letter and looked at it, his face immediately showed joy.
In this era, water conservancy experts are a rare species. No one country has many. Unexpectedly, South Korea and Wei have reserves.
We all belong to the Three Jin Dynasties, and it is the unshirkable responsibility of Zhao State to help Han and Wei share the pressure of too many water conservancy talents.
Besides, the Wei State had even given up its territory to the Zhao State, so it was useless to keep so many water conservancy masters.
"Send an order to Handan and ask Zongzheng to send someone with Zheng Guo's letter to invite. No matter what, these people on the list must be invited. Anyone who is not on the list can be invited as long as they know water conservancy." Zhao Kuo
He immediately ordered.
"No." Liu Ping raised his hand and said, "By the way, Your Majesty, the Prime Minister has summarized the recent major events in the country and sent them over. Do you want to send them over now?"
"Send it over." Zhao Kuo thought for a moment and realized that he had nothing to do now and just wanted to take care of things.
Although all major national affairs are left in the hands of ministers, they cannot really be hands-off managers, at least they must be aware of them.
"Huh? Yuan Hua landed on the Korean Peninsula? There was a conflict with the local indigenous people, and one person died?" Zhao Kuo frowned slightly, and then relaxed.
The Korean Peninsula is due east of the Yellow and Bohai Seas. Zhao State had to take a detour to go to Yingzhou, but there was no need to take a detour to go to the Korean Peninsula. It was normal for Yuan Hua to go there.
However, this place is still a wild land and there are no large-scale minerals. After development, it can be cultivated. The problem is that Zhao State is not short of land. If you want to develop it, there is plenty of black land in the Northeast.
Compared with Northeast China, the development value of the Korean Peninsula is infinitely close to zero.
So Zhao Kuo never mentioned it before, but Yuan Hua ran over by himself.
"A transfer station has also been built, hoping to transport some people from Zhao Guo?" Zhao Kuo frowned again. This matter is not easy to handle. The Korean Peninsula is a hellish place these days, only better than Ying.
Zhou is stronger.
Not to mention transporting some people there, even if it is granted to nobles as fiefs, not many people can take it seriously.
Moreover, there are many indigenous people in that place, and even safety cannot be guaranteed.
Although this group of indigenous people are still in the Stone Age and are no match for Zhao Jun, they can still pose a serious threat to ordinary civilians.
Unless the slaves are pardoned, it is impossible for normal civilians to be willing to go there.
Zhao Kuo saw the end and found that the matter had been dealt with. After Wei Wuji and others discussed it, they rejected Yuan Hua's request and replied that if Yuan Hua could find a place where he did not face indigenous threats, such as Da Dao, Zhao could pardon his son-in-law and his wife.
Prisoners, go to build a transfer station.
"All the grain dealers in Hengshan County united and secretly increased the price. The price has already doubled the price set by the state?"
Zhao Kuo was not angry this time. It was normal for officials and businessmen to collude and take risks for the sake of profit.
Although this situation is rare in Zhao State, it cannot be completely eliminated, and Lin Xiangru has already dealt with it.
All county-level officials were arrested and examined, and all businessmen were also arrested and imprisoned, and their business qualifications were revoked.
Zhao Kuo silently wrote down the name of the county and went over to see how the situation was being handled when he passed by.
There were some other things, but they were not big things. Zhao Kuo looked at them once and put them aside.
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Yue State, Kuaiji.
The King of Yue, who had never enjoyed much happiness in his life, finally lived in the palace, lived a life of fine clothes and fine food, and even took in three concubines in just six months.
However, the King of Yue eventually came through the difficult times step by step. Although the luxurious life blurred his eyes, it did not completely corrupt him.
"Now, although our country of Yue has been restored, there are many internal conflicts. I wonder if the Prime Minister can teach me?" The King of Yue leaned over and said.
The Yue State came out of the mountains, and it brought its people out of the mountains.
These people need land if they want to survive. Where does the land come from? One is to open up wasteland, and the other is to snatch it from people who have land.
The Yue Kingdom chose the latter, but instead of robbing the common people, they robbing the Chu Kingdom's lords and nobles in Jiangdong.
After losing the platform of the Chu State, the nobles of the Chu State were no match for the Yue State. They could only curse and give the land to the Yue State and return to the Chu State with their tribesmen.
Although the land has been lost, the inheritance of family knowledge and relationships are still there, and there will be opportunities for success in the future.
But this land is far from enough for 100,000 Yue people.
As a result, some people set their sights on wealthy households and common people, and relying on their status, began to occupy other people's land.
The State of Yue reacted quickly and immediately banned this behavior, encouraged everyone to open up wasteland, and exempted them from taxes within three years.
But everyone did not buy into the war. The easy-to-develop areas in Jiangdong had already been developed, so it was their turn. The rest were either barren land, or areas that were too small and rugged for farming.
Besides, if there is ready-made land, why should we open up wasteland?
The king said that he would lead everyone to regain the country of Yue and live a good life, so everyone followed the king regardless of life and death. Now that the country has finally been restored, the king turns to outsiders.
In desperation, the King of Yue could only allocate part of the land from the original hands of the local people and distribute it to everyone, so that everyone could have land to cultivate, and then find ways to cultivate more land.
Now it's better, the locals are not happy anymore.
Our ancestors are also Yue people. We were abandoned by you once, and now we are still oppressed by you?
Damn it, give it a try!
Countless people rushed to the fields carrying farm tools and started fighting with the Yue people who came from the mountains.
The Yue government is completely unable to control it and has no way to control it. Anyone who helps is wrong, and it is even more wrong not to help.
From the spring plowing to the present, news of conflicts breaking out somewhere in Yue Kingdom comes almost every day.
"Tax-free, everyone is tax-free. Although the locals have lost some land, they will have agricultural taxes as compensation, so they will not lose too much." Wenzi thought for a while and said.
"What about the taxes of my country of Yue?" asked the King of Yue.
"It's just a three-year exemption from agricultural taxes, and it will return to normal after three years. With these three years as a buffer, it's enough for us to reclaim land in Vietnam," Wenzi said.
"With the exemption of agricultural taxes, there will be no food. What if Chu comes to attack?" asked the King of Yue.
Since receiving the reminder from Zhao Guo, the King of Yue did not dare to let down his guard for a moment. After all, the King of Yue also knew in his heart that unless the King of Chu was a good man who met once in a thousand years or a brainless silkworm, it would be impossible to really give Jiangdong to Yue.
There must be a conspiracy here.
However, there had been no movement in Chu State for such a long time, and the King of Yue could not help but doubt whether Zhao Guo's reminder and his own judgment were correct.
Maybe the King of Chu is really a good man who comes once in a thousand years!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the State of Chu has raised its troops to attack the State of Lu." At this time, Chang Yang quickly walked in holding a piece of information.