Mythology and the Warring States Period: I am Zhao Kuo Chapter 732: Give money when you need money, give food when you need food, give people when you need people
Chapter 732: Give money when you need money, give food when you need food, give people when you need people
"As the king of Zhao State, it is my fault that I did not protect you. People cannot be resurrected after death. What I can do is to avenge you. I hope your souls in heaven can rest in peace."
In Xi Township, Jixi County, Zhao Kuo personally placed Fan Ju's head in front of the deceased's tomb and bowed deeply.
"This incident is a shame for our country, Zhao. I hope that each of you will keep it in mind and never let this happen again." Zhao Kuo turned around and said to everyone.
"I will remember it," Xunzi and others lowered their heads and said.
"As a monarch, the most basic requirement is to protect the people under your rule. If you can't even guarantee the safety of your people, then why should they support you? Are you born nobles? In terms of nobles, you are better than last week
The royal family? Where is the Zhou royal family now?"
"You remember, the power of kings is not given by God, nor by heaven, but by the people. If the people support you, you are the king. If the people do not support you, you are the king of the country. A king is like a boat, and the people are like water. Water can carry a boat.
It can also capsize the boat." Zhao Kuo looked at the four little guys and said solemnly.
The so-called divine right of kings and the divine right of kings are just fake tricks played by rulers in order to maintain their rule and promote their orthodoxy.
And it was soon discovered that this method didn't work. When everyone is not full and about to starve to death, who the hell cares whether you are a god or not. If you are a god standing in front of you, I will cut you with a knife.
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So later those dynasties began to adopt strategies to fool the people, so that the bottom class lost the power to compete with the top class. However, history has proved that this strategy is also unworkable.
An uprising cannot overthrow you, and foreign ships and cannons will bombard your door.
Instead of thinking that you are fooling me and I am fooling you, it is better to think about how to make the people at the bottom have enough to eat and make the seats under their butts stable.
"We remember it." The four little guys still don't understand what Zhao Kuo means, but they all keep these words in their hearts.
"You have grown up, and it's time to learn some things that are not in the textbooks." Zhao Kuo stroked Po Nu's little head and said to Lin Xiangru, "I hope the Prime Minister can teach you more in the future."
"I obey," Lin Xiangru leaned over and said.
"In addition to class time, you must study hard with Xiang Guo at other times. Remember?" Zhao Kuo said to the four little guys.
"Remember." The four little children said reluctantly with sad faces. They had a premonition that they might not have a good life in the future.
After offering sacrifices to the deceased, Zhao Kuo did not stay in Jixi County for too long and returned to Handan the next day.
"Your Majesty, Fan Zeng and Wei Liao have arrived outside the palace." Guo Kai reported.
"Let them come in." Zhao Kuo said.
Guo Kai stood nearby with a tangled expression on his face and did not move.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Kuo asked.
"Um...Gande and Shi Shen heard that the king was back and came here with them. I really had no choice..." Guo Kai lowered his head and said. He almost knelt down and kowtowed, asking Gan De and Shi Shen to come back at another time.
But the two old guys didn't listen.
But Guo Kai still had no way to deal with them. Whether it was Gan De or Shi Shen, they were both older than his grandfather. If he couldn't get up from lying on the ground, his life would be ruined.
Guo Kai cherishes the opportunity to stay with Zhao Kuo very much. He knows very well that there are countless pairs of eyes in the country staring at this position. As long as he makes mistakes, countless people will inevitably impeach him.
As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Guo Kai did not dare to relax for a moment.
This time Zhao Kuo only asked him to call Fan Zeng and Wei Liao, but he also brought Gan De and Shi Shen. In Guo Kai's view, this was already a mistake.
"Let them come in too." Zhao Kuo didn't care about such trivial matters.
Soon, Guo Kai led four people into the hall. Compared to Fan Zeng and Wei Liao, who were a little more reserved, Gan De and Shi Shen were much more casual.
At their age, as long as they don't rebel, the king will not punish them even if they make any mistakes.
"You guys sit down and wait for a while." Zhao Kuo said to Fan Zeng and Wei Liao, then looked at Gan De and Shi Shen, "Two old gentlemen, please sit down. Why do you come to see me?"
"Your Majesty, have you ever wanted to go to the sky and have a look?" Gan De said eagerly with his eyes shining, looking like a MLM expert.
"Your Majesty, I and Old Man Gan have made a rough estimate. The area of the moon may be larger than our entire Zhao country. Think about it, if we can fly to the moon and occupy it, how can we annex those countries in the Central Plains?"
"?" Shi Shen said excitedly.
Guo Kai, Fan Zeng, and Wei Liao were stunned for a moment. They could understand every word. Why couldn't they understand anything even if they were connected together?
"...Is this what you have been doing during this period of research?" Zhao Kuo said in shock. He heard Guo Kai report this matter a few days ago and thought Gan and De were just having a whim and would forget about it after a while.
Now it seems that these two old men obviously regard this matter as their goal. When they heard that he was back, they couldn't wait to come over to ask for financial support.
But is this something that Zhao Guo can accomplish?
Don't talk about Zhao State, just smash all the seven countries into it without even splashing.
"Yes, the two of us have decided to move to the moon in the future." Gan De and Shi Shen said proudly.
Guo Kai, Fan Zeng, and Wei Liao looked at the two old men with admiration.
Especially Guo Kai, who had previously regarded Gan De and Shi Shen's ideas as a joke, but now it seems that he is too small.
I am still cautious, fearing that when I make a mistake, others are already thinking about emigrating to the moon.
"It's a very good idea. I support you mentally." Zhao Kuo nodded and gave the two old men a thumbs up in his heart.
"No... Your Majesty, spiritual support alone is not enough. We don't have enough research funds now." Gan De said quickly.
The two of them worked so hard to come here because they wanted money, not Zhao Kuo's spiritual support.
"You two also know that our country, Zhao, has just finished a war and its treasury is empty. Up to now, we have not even paid out rewards and pensions to our soldiers. It's not that I don't want to support your research, but I really don't have the money. Wait for me, Zhao
When the country becomes rich, we will definitely support you two." Zhao Kuo said awkwardly.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If Gan De and Shi Shen were studying other things, he would more or less allocate some money to support them. After all, it is not easy for these two old men.
But let’s forget about studying how to get to heaven.
Nor did his money come from strong winds.
"Your Majesty, please think about it again. If we can land on the moon, we will gain a territory larger than the entire Central Plains." Gan De said hurriedly.
"It's not that I don't want to support your research, it's because I really don't have the money." Zhao Kuo winked at Guo Kai, "I have something to do now, why don't you two go back first?"
After sending the two old men away, Zhao Kuo rubbed his head, put the matter behind him, and looked at Fan Zeng and Wei Liao: "I heard that when the Qin army surrounded Handan, you organized students from the college to go to the front
Come to support?”
"Your Majesty, as soon as we arrived at Handan, the Qin army retreated. We did not play any role." Wei Liao came back to his senses and said in a neither humble nor overbearing manner. He did not take this opportunity to claim credit.
"Are you two willing to serve as officials?" Zhao Kuo asked. Although Wei Liao is still a little young, genius has never been restricted.
As long as you have enough ability, age doesn't matter.
"We are willing." Fan Zeng and Wei Liao looked at each other and nodded solemnly.
Wei Liao himself had a good impression of the State of Zhao. As for Fan Zeng, he originally did not want to serve in the State of Zhao, but after staying in the State of Zhao for several years, he desperately found that only the State of Zhao could unify the world.
If he refuses to become an official, his talent may end up in the mountains and forests.
How could Fan Zeng be so willing?
"Do you want to go somewhere else, or do you plan to stay in the court?" Zhao Kuo asked.
Fan Zeng and Wei Liao did not expect that Zhao Kuo would give them a chance to choose. They thought for a while and said in unison: "Place."
"With the talents of the two of you, it would be a bit unqualified to serve as a county magistrate in a local area, but if you serve as a county guard, your qualifications are somewhat insufficient. But if you are a county guard in some remote place, others will not say anything. Nowadays, Liaodong and
There is still a shortage of county governors in western Liaoning. Fan Zeng should be the governor of Liaodong and Wei Liao should be the governor of western Liaoning." Zhao Kuo said.
"No." Fan Zeng and Wei Liao said in surprise.
They thought it would be good to serve as county magistrates, but they never thought that Zhao Kuo would directly let them govern a county.
"One of the national policies of our Zhao State in the next few years is to manage the Liaohe Plain. After you take office, you must cooperate with Zheng State to manage the Liaohe River. This is related to the future strategic direction of our Zhao State." Zhao Kuo said.
"I have remembered it," Fan Zeng and Wei Liao said solemnly.
"You go back first." Zhao Kuo waved his hand.
"I'll take your leave." Fan Zeng and Wei Liao leaned over and said.
"Your Majesty, take a look." At this time, Lin Xiangru came in from outside and handed a letter to Zhao Kuo.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Kuo took the letter and his expression changed slightly when he saw the signature. It turned out to be the Zheng Guo he had just mentioned.
After Zhao State annexed Yan State, it began to plan the management of the Liaohe Plain. Since Yan State did not have a water conservancy master who could take the lead, Zhao State transferred Zheng State from Hetao to Liaohe River.
After arriving at the Liaohe River, Zheng Guo spent nearly a year traveling throughout the Liaohe Plain.
He found that the Liaohe Plain was completely different from the Hetao. The Hetao was a grassland that could be cultivated to grow crops. What he had to do was to build canals to irrigate the crops.
But the Liaohe River Basin is different. There are large swamps there, covering hundreds of miles in radius. The lower reaches are similar to the Yellow River. The river course is unstable and often swings around. There are many estuaries. If you want to turn it into fertile farmland, you need a little water.
, consolidating soil, building embankments, and fixing river channels are several times more difficult than developing the Hetao.
Even if all the people in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning are recruited, it will take more than twenty years to see results. Not every country is willing to spend such a high price to govern a place, and the Liaohe Plain is located in the northeast, so in this era
It is a bitter cold place and far away from the center of Zhao country.
From any point of view, Zhao State's development of the Liaohe Plain is of little significance.
In Zheng Guo's view, Zhao State had no shortage of land, so it did not need to spend so much manpower and material resources to regulate the Liaohe Plain.
He could not decide on such a large project, so he could only write to the court and explain the situation. As for the court's choice, it was not something he could decide.
Zhao Kuo frowned. Liaoze was a large swamp in the northeast. He didn't know how big it was, but it was definitely not small. Historically, the Sui and Tang Dynasties attacked Goguryeo and were defeated because of Liaoze's obstruction.
According to the course of history, Liaoze will not disappear until the end of the Qing Dynasty due to the gradual increase in population, and the population of Zhao State is far from being comparable to that of the late Qing Dynasty. If the government does not promote it, even if it takes another hundred years, the Liaohe Plain will still be
A swamp.
If there was only one Liaohe Plain, Zhao Kuo might give up. After all, the center of the world has always been in the Central Plains, and the value of any piece of land in the Central Plains far exceeds that of the Liaohe Plain.
However, the Liaohe Plain is the springboard for Zhao's future development of the Northeast. Giving up the Liaohe Plain means giving up the entire Northeast.
How could Zhao Kuo give up the Northeast? Even if Zhao did not have enough power to develop the Northeast, he still wanted to occupy it.
You don’t have to eat the meat, but it must rot in the pot.
"Tell Zheng Guo to go all out to develop the Liaohe Plain. You need money to give money, food to food, and people to people. Isn't it because there are not enough manpower? In addition to the 200,000 Qin soldiers who stayed in Guanzhong, the remaining more than 20
Ten thousand Qin army prisoners, Qiang prisoners, and 50,000 Yan army prisoners were all sent to develop the Liao River. As before, they will be released after five years, and those who escape without authorization will be implicated." Zhao Kuo said firmly.
The Liaohe Plain must be managed, and the sooner it is managed, the sooner Zhao will be able to advance into the Northeast.
"Your Majesty, I think that if so much manpower and material resources are used elsewhere, it will be enough to raise our Zhao country to a higher level. It is just a waste to spend it on Liaoze." Lin Xiangru leaned over and said.
He had heard Zhao Kuo talk about the Liaohe Plain before, and thought that the Liaohe Plain was really just a plain, just like the Hetao Plain, so he didn't say anything.
Now I know that this is not a plain, this is a swamp, it is a sinkhole.
If Zhao falls into this sinkhole, he will not be able to climb out in the next few years.
"You guys go out first." Zhao Kuo said to Guo Kai and several guards.
After Guo Kai and others all left the hall, Zhao Kuo walked to Lin Xiangru and sat down next to him. He looked at Lin Xiangru with both eyes and said in a deep voice: "If I say that in the north of the Liaohe Plain, there is a great plain that is no less than the entire Central Plains.
And the soil is very fertile, and the yield per mu can reach more than five stones, or even more. And the Liaohe Plain is the passage from Zhao State to the northeastern plains, does the Prime Minister still think that there is no need to develop the Liaohe Plain?"
"What?" Lin Xiangru looked at Zhao Kuo in shock, his lips trembling slightly, and asked in disbelief, "The king is not joking?"
"The Prime Minister thinks that I will make a joke about this kind of thing? Besides, this kind of thing can be easily verified. Is it necessary for me to deceive the Prime Minister?" Zhao Kuo said.
"If what the king says is true, I will fully support the development of the Liaohe Plain." Lin Xiangru said solemnly, "But I will send someone to verify it."
"The number of people cannot be too large, and don't tell other people about this. Our country, Zhao, is not yet capable of developing such a large area of land." Zhao Kuo said.