After the New Year, it is the spring plowing season. At this time, there is generally no war between countries. Even if there is a war, it must be stopped as soon as possible and the soldiers must be withdrawn to cultivate the land at home, otherwise there will be famine next year. Accordingly, this period has become a time for diplomatic exchanges between envoys from various countries.
The biggest diplomatic incident was naturally the return of the Chu princess to Lord An the previous autumn. An Guojun was nearly forty years old, and the Chu prince's daughter Fang Shaoai exuded the freshness and vivacity of a southern girl, which made An Guojun fall in love with her and almost occupied him. Not only An Guojun loved her, but the Queen Mother, Ranghou and Huayang Jun also loved her very much.
The prince of Chu married the princess of Qin, and Lord An Guo married the princess of Chu. Prince Chu and Princess Qin also gave birth to a big baby. If nothing else happens, this baby will be the future King of Chu! After the beginning of spring, there were frequent exchanges between Qin and Chu. On the surface, the relationship between Qin and Chu was extremely close.
Since the Qin army occupied Xingqiu and Huai and extended its power into Nanyang, there have been frequent exchanges of envoys between the three Jin Dynasties. There are rumors that the three Jin Dynasties are coordinating actions to drive the Qin army back beyond Zhiguan, preferably to the east of Hedong.
Mr. Guo gradually placed many informants in Hedong. This was not difficult because Hedong is still recruiting talents. Anyone who is willing to settle in Hedong will be given a first-level title. Taking this opportunity, it is very convenient to arrange for a few people to enter Hedong.
Of course, the people of the princes did not have the title of Qin. When they arrived in Hedong, they could only become first-class public servants. They had 150 acres of land, a homestead of 45 steps, and could have one more person as a servant. People who were servants were not counted as registered residents, and they did not have to pay taxes or serve in the military service.
Under Li Bing's governance, Qiuli have been built in various places in Hedong. Among them, the Shangzao, Hairpin and Bugeng are all from within the Qin State, because it is impossible for people from other countries to have these titles. The houses of the public servants were empty, and the acres of land had been demarcated. The immigrants almost only needed to move in with their bags, and they were naturally incorporated into the army, and immediately began production labor and military training, and of course legal training.
After Mr. Guo's informant entered Hedong, the biggest difficulty was that he could not pass on the information, and it was inconvenient for the liaison officer to enter. Liaison officers can only use their identities as merchants to enter and leave Hedong, but merchants can only deal with local merchants, even government officials, and cannot contact ordinary farmers.
Despite all the difficulties, Mr. Guo still found out that the current Hedong Shou was Wu'an Jun Bai Qi, which was completely consistent with Hou Ying's speculation. This also made Lord Xinling's retainers take a look at Hou Yinggao.
It is not difficult to find out the governance situation in Nanyang. After the war, there were almost no obstacles in the exchanges between there and the three Jin Dynasties. The spy network in Nanyang was able to convey reliable news: the Qin people converted low-level officers who entered Nanyang to fight into Qiuli Shifu on the spot, and many of them were He had just been recruited from Nanyang to Hedong a few years ago. Now that he is back, it is equivalent to returning to his hometown in glory, which has made his friends envious for a while.
Qin's bureaucracy operated efficiently, and the residents of the occupied areas were quickly reorganized into Shwuchuli, the land was remeasured, and distributed according to titles. Those high-ranking families wanted to escape, but they couldn't bring much money with them. Once the escape was discovered, neither the people nor the property would be official.
Each registered resident has a name register, which is usually not used. However, if you want to go out, you must take the name register with you, and you need a chakra issued by Qiuli to explain the reason and time of going out. If a resident finds an unknown person and submits it to the official, if it is found to be true, he can get a reward of 20 taels if he is a foreigner, and a bounty of 14 taels if he is a Qin national. Therefore, the fleeing people are simply moving mountains of gold, watched by countless vigilant eyes. However, since the Qin people only occupied a strip of Nanyang, surrounded by the lands of South Korea and Zhao, it was relatively convenient to escape in Nanyang compared to other areas, as long as they did not bring too much money.
During spring plowing, the land has been allocated and everyone works on their newly allocated land. The animal husbandry industry in Hedong has also developed greatly. Hundreds of cattle were directly transferred from the Yi family and rented to farmers. However, few people in Nanyang know how to use cattle to assist farming, and only a few people rent cattle. But if there is profit, there will be a way. In addition to studying, paying for the help of people who know how to farm cattle is also very popular in Nanyang. After all, it is a commercially developed area!
The Qin people only occupied the land of Wei, and the lands of South Korea and Zhao remained as they were. Seeing that the same land was well cultivated in the past, the eyes of the Korean and Zhao people showed envy.
Military training is also carried out under the eyes of the Korean and Zhao people. When sowing is completed and daily field management begins, military training must be held every ten days, and each hill is followed in sequence; if there is emergency farm work, such as heavy rain or strong winds, and field management needs to be strengthened, it can be suspended once. When it comes to the harvest season, the Wei people's formation changes, advance, retreat, and charge are already in shape.
The popularization of Qin law also began at the same time. Lieutenants and judges in the county hold trainings from time to time and call those with titles to the county for rotational training. At the same time, misfits, pavilion chiefs, and robbers are obliged to explain Qin's laws at every gathering. Of course, every crime scene is a good opportunity for legal education. Witnessing with one's own eyes the toes of their former companions, their noses cut off... even just shaving off their beards or hair, and them and their family members being locked up and sent to the government as servants, everyone will cherish their current peaceful life even more.
Maybe Bai Qi, a Qin man, thought that the continuous military exercises every day had frightened the three Jins. After losing Nanyang, the three Jins did not take any action. But the actual situation was that King Zhao suddenly became seriously ill and could not afford it.
The father of Zhao Wanghe was the famous Zhao Wuling King who promoted Hufu riding and archery. When King He of Zhao was ten years old, King Wuling of Zhao personally led troops to attack Zhongshan. In order to avoid leaving the country without a master after an accident, King Zhao Wuling passed the throne to King Zhao He. But King Zhao Wuling came back unscathed, and so did the former Prince Zhang. The adult Prince Zhang followed his father in the war and made great contributions; but after returning home, he had to pay homage to his young brother! This scene hurt King Zhao Wuling's heart. So the young King Zhao witnessed a thrilling scene: his loving father became very strict, and the eldest brother who always held his hand in the past suddenly changed his face and led troops to kill him! The final ending is also chilling: the brother is killed, and the father is imprisoned in an empty palace and starves to death. His father did not give up until the last moment. He ate rats, cockroaches, ants...everything that could satisfy his hunger. He firmly believed that as long as he lived, someone would come to rescue him. He did not believe that he would fall into the position of betrayal and alienation from his relatives. ...However, no one came, and all King Zhao Wuling's efforts only prolonged his pain without any change in the result. More than a hundred days later, King Zhao Wuling died in the sand dunes. There, King Zhou of Shang built wine pools and meat forests, which were extremely luxurious. That year, King Zhao was only fourteen years old.
We don’t know how King Zhao was feeling at that time. In the following years, the people in charge of the Zhao State were all close relatives and powerful officials, such as Li Dui, Gong Zicheng and others. In the next ten years, there will be a group of virtuous ministers and generals such as Leyi, Lian Po, Lin Xiangru, Pingyuan Jun, Zhao She, etc. that we are familiar with. Moreover, it is said that Zhao Wanghe was also a fencing enthusiast and often held fencing competitions in the palace. More than a hundred swordsmen died due to fencing every year. I always carry a sword, and from time to time I will pull it out to spar with others, so my martial arts skills should still be good.
In the fifteenth year of King He of Zhao, a major event occurred when the Five Kingdoms attacked Qi, and Qi was almost destroyed. But Queen Zhao happened to be the daughter of the Prince of Qi. I don’t know whether she married her before or after the conquest of Qi. Dan, the eldest son born to the queen, was established as the crown prince in the 22nd year. Before this, there seems to have been a crown prince in the State of Zhao. He might have been born to the previous queen. He later died or was deposed and has no trace in history.
The battle between Yan and Yu four years ago (twenty-nine years ago) left a deep shadow on King Zhao's psychology. The Qin army suddenly appeared outside Handan City, but Zhao was helpless. Relying on Zhao She's delaying tactics and a bit of luck, he managed to organize a defensive force a month later; and the reason why Zhao She's army formed an army was completely An accident, a mistake!
From then on, King Zhao focused all his energy on how to prevent this from happening again. First of all, he emphasized the victory of the battle between Yan Yu and boosted the morale of the whole country; Zhao She, who had seized the command of Yan Yu, was given a high status, so he made Ma Fujun and handed over the entire Wu'an to his management. King Zhao also strengthened diplomacy with South Korea, trying to ensure that the Shangdang Party was not lost.
Transforming and strengthening Handan is naturally the key point. Handan City is a twin-city structure, with the commercial city in the north and the royal city in the south. In the past, Zhao State focused on the royal city and did not pay enough attention to the northern city where the common people lived. Now, King Zhao wants to make up for this shortcoming. Handan spent the entire four years building a city or preparing to build a city.
When the New Year came, Handan City had been fortified and fortified, and King Zhao felt a little relieved. After a night of celebrating with the ministers, the royal maiden went to bed and was found to have suffered a stroke in bed the next day. After a lot of medicine and acupuncture, King Zhao regained consciousness, but his speech was no longer slurred, and it was difficult to move one limb, which had become a symptom of partial atrophy. The queen and the prince would wait in front of the bed every day, directing all the concubines to serve; the prince would go back and forth in the front and back halls, communicating between the king and the ministers. King Zhao's two younger brothers, Pingyuan Junsheng and Pingyang Junbao, took turns guarding the front hall. Therefore, when the King of Wei sent an envoy to Zhao later that year, he could only see the Prime Minister of Zhao Pingyuan Jun and the Assistant Minister Pingyang Jun, but not the King of Zhao. King Zhao obviously had no intention of causing any more trouble. He was content to keep Handan safe as long as he was fighting for Nanyang with Qin.
Without the support of Zhao, the military power of Wei and Han alone would be unable to confront Qin and regain Nanyang. A major event was delayed like this.
After entering summer, the state of Wei saw that there was no hope of uniting with the three Jins to regain Nanyang, so it could only hope to reconcile with Qin and sent Dr. Xu Jia to envoy Qin!
